Day-before-yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Jog along the Liffey beyond Four Courts, catching late autumn sun

Porridge at Queen of Tarts

Walk around Rathescar lake, Co. Louth - found by chance. I fixed the dodgy sign at the nearest crossroads after.

Carlingford - Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Family gathering at Bernadette's including first meeting with the delightful Aoife and chucking a ball/lads' talk out front with Des and the Enfants Terribles

Jog from pier to pier (cancelled out by breakfast at Dan's)

Coffee and chat over at Pierre McDonagh's in Greenore

Dublin - Day-before-yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Walk along Clontarf river-front with Bernadette (including Hot Press photographer's [Nixon] and posh food - best cappy I've had in Ireland)

Down to the Liffey by the Winding Stair in the low autumnal sun

Dinner with Orla and Meabh in Temple Bar

Little Jerusalem - Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Finding Leopold Bloom's birthplace, Chaim Herzog's family home and hanging out in Little Jerusalem (Dublin 8)

Getting into the Irish-Jewish Museum by chance (thanks to Howard) in the heart of that bit of Dublin I'd want to live in - red brick, tree-lined streets, suburban tranquillity

Fresh Italian lunch at the Bernard Shaw, home of Dublin graffiti

Leopold Bloom's birthplace

52, Upper Clanbrassil Street, Dublin 8

Back in the Old Country - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Buying a mag for hols (all about David Bowie)

Having a laugh with the Enfants Terribles in McKevitt's after dinner

Being in Joe McKevitt's house on the 10th anniversary of his death

Friday's Happiness Experiment entry

Doing admin on the Brighton train on the way to creative meeting at Ricochet

Picking up some old green Penguins, a record recycled as a dish and other bits and pieces in the North Laines

Watching the original Arthur en famille

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Catching low autumn rays on a Kenwood slope with U

Reading Robert Harris' The Fear Index in bed in the afternoon

Hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit by Paul Anka played by Chewy in Stokey Record Club with U, Sara, Wayne and Ben

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Playing Secret & Obvious with D at Ed's Diner after Tintin screening

Approaching Wembley in low autumn sun with the Enfants Terribles for Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Chicago Bears NFL game

Listening to Word podcast about Bowie on an afternoon jog

Creative Accounting #433

On The Waterfront (1954) = A View from the Bridge (1955) + 0.3 X West Side Story

Starspot #212

David Morrissey reading Waugh's A Handful of Dust yesterday afternoon coming home on the Northern Line

Starspots #211

30.ix.11 Feargal Sharkey (The Undertones) - East Finchley tube, he caught my wife's Northern Irish tones on the air

29.ix.11 Robert Harris (author) - Hatchards (wish I'd have had my copy of The Hitler Diaries for him to sign)

28.ix.11 Anna Richardson (The Sex Education Show) - chat out back on the terrace at C4

Recently:
Jamie Oliver - in the office
Kirstie Allsop - in the office
Mariella Frostrup - in Pret near BBC Broadcasting House
Stephen Fry - in a warehouse in Hackney (100 Greatest Gadgets shoot)
Jon Snow - brief exchange outside QE2 Conference Hall, Westminster
Paul Brady (musician) - brief exchange in Khan's restaurant, Westbourne Grove
Leon Russell - ditto
Morgan Spurlock - quick chat in Showroom cinema in Sheffield
George Clarke - chat at Soho Square
Jeremy Hardy - chat in Showroom cinema in Sheffield
Neil Morrisey - chat on Parkway Walk, Finsbury Park
Boo Hewerdine (musician) - behind Feis in Finsbury Park
Michael Portillo - Horseferry Road

Helsinki - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

My speech going down so well at YLE

FotoFlaneur trip across Helsinki culminating in watching my much-needed capuccino being made in the Citroen van

Buying apples in the market by the port (where I probably landed on the SS Uganda all those years ago)

Eastwards Ho! - Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Getting a bunch of developments signed off and the paperwork done

Worky lunch with Katie Boyd in the revamped C4 caff

Overview time (work) on the plane to Helsinki

Day-before-yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Ireland beating Australia at Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand crowning BOD's and ROG's careers

Phone chat with Katherine in Aspen

Hitting 91.5 pm

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Walk along the Lea Navigation Canal from The Castle Bridge to Olympic Stadium with U and D in the autumn sunshine

Spurs beating Liverpool 4-0 with Adebayor scoring 2 on his home debut

Sunday night viewing - Jane Eyre at the Phoenix with U

Networks

Hierarchies have been under attack from networks for 20 years now.

Ben Hammersley

from here

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Listening to Heather Rabbatts' Desert Island Discs during my jog - fond memories of early days at 4Learning with Jonathan, James, George, Sally et al (many now at Royal Opera House with Heather)

Reading a vintage Penguin in the garden at sunset - Roger Casement's trial by H. Mongomery Hyde

Watching Harry Brown with N - the recent riots throw a new light on it (remarkably prescient)

Innovation quote

Innovation comes from creating environments where ideas connect.

— Steven Johnson in 2011

Source

from Quotables

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Working with designer Neville Brody on a project to create a new London building

Reading through a selection of multiplatform ideas from Mint Digital

Watching 24 (season 5) with the Enfants Terribles