"If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjo..." — Tom Hodgkinson

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.