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evening sitdown

Your evening longread: How to look at your hometown differently

We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.

EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday.

And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle. 

We’ll be keeping an eye on new longreads and digging back into the archives for some classics.

Look at your hometown differently

We’re all living in smaller worlds right now. Here are some great tips (from pre-pandemic) for noticing the spaces around you in a new way.

(The Guardian, approx 7 mins reading time)

A few suggestions to build your attention muscles in any city, new or familiar, follow. Just remember that real engagement with your environment also means noticing things that are not necessarily charming at all: security cameras, potholes, weeds, ruins, irritating strangers hollering into their phones. But sometimes these deserve attention too. Maybe you’ll notice problems that could be fixed, and have ideas about how that might happen.

Read all the Evening Longreads here> 

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