Nik, in the comments, wasn’t far off, you know. This whole "rest stop" thing really has legs.
I’ve just been pointed in the direction of a piece by Kevin Anderson on BBC News Online last week, all about a conference in Oxford where they were talking about slowing things down, taking our time, enjoying life, laying down that damned Blackberry.
"Journalist Carl Honoré told attendees of the TED conference in Oxford they should unplug and slow down in a world that was stuck in fast- forward.
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We live in a world where instant gratification is not fast enough, in a world of not only speed dating, but even of speed yoga, said Mr Honoré.
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"In our society, time is a scarce resource," he said. "We turn everything in race with the finish line but we never reach that finish line."
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Across the world, people are slowing down, and they are finding that they "eat better, make love better, exercise better, work better". And Mr Honoré told a crowd flush with technology that they needed to rediscover the off button.
Speed yoga? I’m sure that’s on Sky Sports this summer…
Now if only I could take the advice in the article I wrote. I guess that visit to Borough Market this weekend was meant to do that.