Ed Sandys lives in the Lake District, in Cumbria, in the north of England, with his wife, Lucy, and their three children. Sandys runs the family estate, Graythwaite, which he took over from his parents almost three years ago. Graythwaite Estate is set over 5,000 acres of land, alongside the shores of Lake Windermere, near to where Beatrix Potter lived. The Sandys family have lived here for more than 500 years. Today, the estate has 38 holiday cottages that can be rented, including Silverholme, a Georgian manor house overlooking the lake that you can hire for stays or weddings, and activities from off-road driving to clay-pigeon shooting on offer, too. These enterprises help Sandys fund his other passion: nature preservation and land sustainability. The ambition is to repair the damage caused by the agriculture of yesteryear – intensive sheep farming, for example – and to work with local organisations to promote social responsibility in order to create a better and long-lasting future for the estate, wildlife and the people that come to enjoy it.

“When something bad happens, when it seems like the world is ending… people are like, ‘Fuck it, I’m gonna get a dog,’” Elias Weiss Friedman recently told the podcast The Happiness Lab. “‘What am I waiting for? Why am I delaying happiness?’” Weiss Friedman is the man behind The Dogist, the wildly successful Instagram account that takes a street-style lens to man’s best friend. His new book, This Dog Will Change Your Life, goes further, documenting the many ways a pet pooch can boost your health and wellbeing. And there is scientific evidence to back up his claims.

I only drank three nights a week, but that was enough to do it. I first stopped drinking five years ago. I don’t drink alcohol because I can’t. Well, I can, but if I do, an infinite mass of possibilities unravels in front of me, only I do not get to choose my destiny. I drank because I was anxious. I drank to experience absolutely everything all at once, to create an exciting, phantasmagorical world on top of reality that was ultimately destructive and selfish. In this pursuit, bad things would inevitably happen, often in blackout, operating quite proficiently in an unconscious sleepwalk.

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Ed Sandys lives in the Lake District, in Cumbria, in the north of England, with his wife, Lucy, and their three children. Sandys runs the family estate, Graythwaite, which he took over from his parents almost three years ago. Graythwaite Estate is set over 5,000 acres of land, alongside the shores of Lake Windermere, near to where Beatrix Potter lived. The Sandys family have lived here for more than 500 years. Today, the estate has 38 holiday cottages that can be rented, including Silverholme, a Georgian manor house overlooking the lake that you can hire for stays or weddings, and activities from off-road driving to clay-pigeon shooting on offer, too. These enterprises help Sandys fund his other passion: nature preservation and land sustainability. The ambition is to repair the damage caused by the agriculture of yesteryear – intensive sheep farming, for example – and to work with local organisations to promote social responsibility in order to create a better and long-lasting future for the estate, wildlife and the people that come to enjoy it.

“When something bad happens, when it seems like the world is ending… people are like, ‘Fuck it, I’m gonna get a dog,’” Elias Weiss Friedman recently told the podcast The Happiness Lab. “‘What am I waiting for? Why am I delaying happiness?’” Weiss Friedman is the man behind The Dogist, the wildly successful Instagram account that takes a street-style lens to man’s best friend. His new book, This Dog Will Change Your Life, goes further, documenting the many ways a pet pooch can boost your health and wellbeing. And there is scientific evidence to back up his claims.