Other Work
In his classes at The School of Life Flintoff frequently emphasizes the importance of recognising that we all capable of much more than whatever it happens to say on our business cards. In Sew Your Own, he claimed to have worked as, among other things, a bin man, executive PA, scuba diver, poet, taxi driver, tailor, gardener, ice-cream salesman, film-maker, assistant undertaker, bit-part player in pantomime, waiter, illustrator, high-wire window cleaner, photographer, very amateur boxer, karaoke singer and rat catcher.
Along with Alexis Rowell, Flintoff was a founder of Transition Belsize, one of the earliest examples of the Transition Movement in big cities. Flintoff has said he was inspired to set it up after meeting Duncan Law of Transition Brixton.
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“It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion—to rid God of His Maggots.”
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