Torrington
04 August 2005
To my disappointment, Barnstaple has already been nominated. But my Devonian colleagues have so far overlooked Torrington… Most of the peope who live there can actually bite there own elbows (try it).
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The Idler's Diary 2009
With recipes, drawings, arcana, poems and other pearls of wisdom - the "Idler Diary" will help you gently float down river in 2009.
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The Book of Idle Pleasures
A sumptuous compendium of one hundred pleasures, each lovingly described and illustrated.
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How to be Free by Tom Hodgkinson
"Packed with wit, anecdotes and ideas ..." Word Magazine
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How to be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson
Take control of your life and reclaim your right to be idle.
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I Fought the Law by Dan Kieran
"Very funny...should be at the top of Tony Blair's reading
list." The Times
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How to Fish by Chris Yates
Recommended to anyone interested in either angling or doing nothing.
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The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
"Read this eye-opening and amusingly written book" Daily Mail
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"The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live." Damien Hirst: Idler 10
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