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The guilt-free joy of doing nothing

Visiting museums is fun on holidays, but so is surrendering to days with no real purpose

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The idle mind can be a devilishly creative workshop, and daydreaming sparks invention and stirs ideas.

The idle mind can be a devilishly creative workshop, and daydreaming sparks invention and stirs ideas.

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In a quaint Scottish town, inside an exquisite church whose ceiling appeared as high as heaven, an organist was practising. Music filled every stone cranny and human pore. This was years ago – I was on a whisky tour and possibly in an altered state of consciousness – and I’m telling you this only to laboriously make a point.

I enjoy visiting churches.

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