Sun & Shade • sitting in the sun, with bottle 2 in the shade • post brunch snack #chocolatebrownie #cafe #mudchutefarm #isleofdogs #londondocklands #eastlondon #london #england #greatbritain #unitedkingdom #postbrunch #dietcoke #bottles #bench #thesundaytimes #newspaper #supplements #culturemagazine #thesundaytimesmagazine #richlist2013 #stylemagazine #alfresco #spring #afternoon #21stApril #2013 #mayfair #lux #st #thest (at Mudchute Kitchens)
Brunched Alfresco • #cafe #mudchutefarm #isleofdogs #londondocklands #eastlondon #london #england #greatbritain #unitedkingdom #brunch #eggs #hashbrowns #bakedbeans #mushroom #tomato #toast #coke #bottle #bench #thesundaytimes #magazines #alfresco #spring #afternoon #14thApril #2013 #lofi #lux #st #thest (at Mudchute City Farm)
259 Notes
![fastcompany:
Why You Should Work From A Coffee Shop, Even When You Have An Office
Fast Company contributor and founder of Family Records and GNTLMN.com Wesley Verhoeve makes a good case for working in coffee shops.
Why:
A change of environment stimulates creativity.
Even in the most awesome of offices we can fall into a routine, and a routine is the enemy of creativity.
Fewer distractions.
Being surrounded by awesome team and officemates means being interrupted for water cooler chats and work questions. Being interrupted kills productivity. The coffee shop environment combines the benefit of anonymity with the dull buzz of exciting activity.
Community and meeting new people.
Meeting new people always provides me with new ideas, a different perspective at existing problems, or an interesting connection to a new person doing something awesome that inspires me.
Tips:
Rotate coffee shops.
Avoid the stifling feeling of routine you were trying to avoid in the first place.
Buy something.
Coffee shop workers are awesome, and they’ll be awesome to you if you are a good customer. That hidden power plug will be revealed, an extra free refill will be given, an introduction will be made.
Placement.
Don’t sit near the door or the register, if you can avoid it.
Power up.
Come with a full charge.
[Image: Flickr user Kyle Hale]
Where will you work today?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/3dea1f0968fec9560c220136bc9f752c/tumblr_mhrkn8BAXY1qzt7h7o1_500.jpg)
Why You Should Work From A Coffee Shop, Even When You Have An Office
Fast Company contributor and founder of Family Records and GNTLMN.com Wesley Verhoeve makes a good case for working in coffee shops.
Why:
A change of environment stimulates creativity.
Even in the most awesome of offices we can fall into a routine, and a routine is the enemy of creativity.
Fewer distractions.
Being surrounded by awesome team and officemates means being interrupted for water cooler chats and work questions. Being interrupted kills productivity. The coffee shop environment combines the benefit of anonymity with the dull buzz of exciting activity.
Community and meeting new people.
Meeting new people always provides me with new ideas, a different perspective at existing problems, or an interesting connection to a new person doing something awesome that inspires me.
Tips:
Rotate coffee shops.
Avoid the stifling feeling of routine you were trying to avoid in the first place.
Buy something.
Coffee shop workers are awesome, and they’ll be awesome to you if you are a good customer. That hidden power plug will be revealed, an extra free refill will be given, an introduction will be made.
Placement.
Don’t sit near the door or the register, if you can avoid it.
Power up.
Come with a full charge.
[Image: Flickr user Kyle Hale]
Where will you work today?
Not Festive • #red #cafe #chairs #tables #customers #cups #saucers #shirts #suits #glass #cabotsquare #canarywharf #eastlondon #londondocklands #london #greatbritain #unitedkingdom #thenorthface #backpack #widescreen #autumn #evening #19thNovember #november #2012 #valencia #lux #st #thest (at Cabot Square)
1 Notes
‘mocha iced’
with tonight’s Evening Standard & ES magazine.
And my new NorthFace backpack which I have needed for months.
My spine already feels the difference.
Last weekend was all about resting.
GameFace on, it’s Back to Business.
& hello, September.
2 Notes
‘hot chocolate’
it’s Winter outside.
Please note:
Hot chocolate;
Milk froth;
Chocolate flakes;
a drizzle of Chocolate syrup;
&
a chocolate coffee bean.
Heavenly.
1 Notes
‘peroni pair’
Epic!
1 day to go, London!
2 Notes
‘now bring on the Olympics’
My Oakleys with
my fizzy orange &
tonight’s Evening Standard.
London : you are awesome
2 Notes
3rd June 2012 & 31st May 1953
1pm Sunday
Mocha Iced with today’s issue of The Sunday Times from 1953 - A Coronation Supplement.
With 2012’s Sunday Times Culture magazine featuring Kylie Minogue.
I’m pretty sure they didnt have Mocha’s Iced in 1953.
And I’m very sure that Kylie wasn’t even a twinkle in her fathers eyes in 1953.
So don’t expect any news.
Unless you want the news from 1953 which I have.
Ty.
1 Notes
‘mochaiced’
2nd June 2012
315pm Saturday
Today’s issue of The Times with the Saturday Magazine.
At the wharf for Yoga, Gym, Massage, Acupuncture, all completed before 3pm.
The 4 Day Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday Weekend
It starts here.
5 Notes
Interesting read and comments. I am by no means anti-change or development but Londoners really need to wake up and start engaging with the city they live in. So much of London is losing its soul! Many of the city’s great spaces are being sanitised and commercialised and becoming “this could be anywhere” type places. The proliferation of chains like cafe rouge, starbucks, tesco, all saints with their “cookie cutter” approach is killing what once made the city stand out from the crowd.
Soho is London’s bohemian heart. Britain’s pop industry was born there, the film industry was run from it, and Foyles led the bookshops filling Charing Cross Road. Prostitutes lined the streets until the 1990s, when it became London’s gay thoroughfare. Late-night drinking dens and cafés served them all in a sometimes sleazy but potent atmosphere. But now, in a pattern repeated in similarly cherished neighbourhoods across Britain, the independent businesses which dominate its warren of streets are suffering. Blander public taste, corporate encroachment and pre-Olympics paranoia have put Soho under siege.
#b017e8
#7b36c9
#b0cfed
#c21ce3
#e803fc
