Our Journal
Spotting an Opportunity to Turn Waste into Worth.
So, You’ve Got a Good Idea and You Want to Start a Business?
Holly Tucker on the Importance of Independent Shopping.
6 Chefs Answer: What’s Your Most Used Kitchen Item?
Gill Meller’s Thoughts on Cooking Over Fire.
100 Dog Breeds and Their Terrific Traits.
Five Books I Loved That I Think You’ll Love Too.
My Weekend Managing The Some Good Ideas Stage At Camp Good Life.
The Some Good Ideas stage at Camp Good Life was a melting pot of, well, good ideas, and it was my job all weekend to manage the stage.
It’s a great job. I have done it for a number of years now and I think I am starting to get the hang of it - I'd call myself a semi-professional at this point on the basis that there is still about half I don’t know.
The 10 Best Things About Camp Good Life.
The Folklore and Mythology of the Rowan Tree
Charlie Recommends… August 2021.
Three Talks Not To Miss at Camp Good Life (Autumn).
Ideas are at the root of what we do here at The Good Life Society. and each year writers, thinkers, movers and shakers come along to share theirs.
From Michael Morpurgo to Michael Rosen and Helen Sharman to Dr John Cooper-Clarke (all previous Good Life Experience speakers) we’ve long punched above our weight when it comes to inspirational speakers and ideas.
This year, at Camp Good Life (Autumn), will be no different.
Fungi And Foraging By Roger Phillips.
Roger Phillips is a mushroom maestro and one of the most respected foragers in Great Britain.
In 1975 he began his life’s major work, photographing an encyclopaedic collection of world plants and he has since written 20 additional volumes with combined sales of 4.5 million copies worldwide.
What Does Music Mean To Me?
Charlie Gladstone is co-founder of Some Good Ideas, The Good Life Society, Glen Dye Cabins & Cottages, Hawarden Estate Farm Shop, The Glynne Arms and much more.
He is a serially optimistic entrepreneur. And a man who describes music as his main thing. Here, in an article originally published by Guitar School, Charlie tells us what music means to him.
10 Reasons Why Summer Camp Was Perfect.
In Praise of: Trees
Tree-watching is a very under-rated hobby.
We tend to pass trees by, acknowledging them as part of the landscape, and paying more attention to wildflowers or wildlife. But once you start to recognise trees and to really observe them, they are every bit as fascinating and rewarding.
Charlie Recommends… July 2021.
In Praise of: Chickens.
Chickens. They’re everywhere. No, seriously!
As least twice a day I get up from my desk and head outside to wave my arms around in a fashion similar to tai-chi in attempt to usher chickens safely back into The Walled Garden.
Good Sustainable Floral Ideas.
Kathryn Cronin is a floral artisan, gardener and writer.
Her business, Fierceblooms, next to bridge 14 of the Shropshire Union canal, is rooted in florals that are as ethical as they are aesthetically beautiful.
What grows sustainably in the wild hedgerows and her Cheshire canalside cutting garden is her fierce inspiration.
She can be found often with her face close to the earth.
