The School of Life is a new social enterprise offering good ideas for everyday living and the more cerebral Chap can certainly find something to tickle the fancy including thoughts on breaking up for the holidays, classes on how to have better conversations and Grayson Perry lecturing on kinky sex! The School is based in a small shop in Central London where a variety of programmes and services are offered and are concerned with how to live wisely and well. Should you need ideas on why work is often unfulfilling, why relationships can be so challenging, why it’s ever harder to stay calm and what one could do to try to change the world for the better, try the chaps and chapesses at the School. They also have an intelligently stocked bookshop, which is worth a browse.
Particularly diverting is their contributions to the website ‘Carpe Diem’ where a suggestion to do something lovely is made every day. The kind of little to do's that get our imaginations going, make some memories and get us learning a bit more about ourselves and the world around us. Suggestions range from ‘finish this sentence’, ‘write the first line of a novel’ and Savvy Row’s favourite of ‘put as many layers on as possible and take a photo’. Savvy suggestions for carpe diem include growing a moustache, drinking a cup of tea at a game of cricket and to wear an item of tweed daily!
More enlightenment at www.theschooloflife.com and www.carpediemdaily.com
