All Hallows’ Eve
October 31, 2021
Tonight may you find warmth and light and hope in the midst of the darkness. And may you feel comforted in your mind and know peace in your heart. It does look much more magical in the dark!
A Year of Reading Frugally: Months Nine and Ten
September 4, 2021
One thing I am learning from this challenge is that my purchase of physical books and audiobooks are far less impulsive than my e-book buying. As such I’m finding that The List is mostly populated with e-books and when I look through I now cannot quite fathom what the initial attraction was. This lack of … More A Year of Reading Frugally: Months Nine and Ten
Pausing All Posts
August 8, 2021
If you follow my Twitter you may have seen me make reference to the fact that life is coming at me fast and from every conceivable angle right now. I don’t want to go into details – because a) it isn’t just my own life that’s affected and b) despite what most social media apps … More Pausing All Posts
A Year of Reading Frugally: Months Seven & Eight
July 24, 2021
I’m still finding the challenge fulfilling and, delightfully, the fear I had of missing out on books if I don’t buy them immediately seems to have gone away for good. The List isn’t being ticked off as fast as I’d like (more on that later) but it continues to provide me with one excellent reading … More A Year of Reading Frugally: Months Seven & Eight
This Sparks Joy! July 2021
July 20, 2021
As I type this the sun is spliting the stones from a powder blue sky and the few clouds that are visible are the shining white of freshly fallen snow. It’s also rather hot (at least as far as the UK goes) so my time in the garden is limited to the early mornings when … More This Sparks Joy! July 2021
That was the month that was: June 2021
July 17, 2021
For me June ended in a week of quiet contemplation. That small retreat from the world brought a lot of different things into sharp focus and resulted in a significant reset of both my priorities and how I spend my time. Sometimes you don’t realise how much stress something is bringing into your life until … More That was the month that was: June 2021
A Year in the Woods: June
July 14, 2021
June is the month where I see quite a lot of 4 o’clock in the morning thanks to a body which really likes waking up with the sun. Not that I’m complaining since it means that I pretty much get the woods to myself and, if I’m quiet, see the young rabbits and foxes and … More A Year in the Woods: June
Kizzia Crafts: May & June 2021
June 30, 2021
My “footsteps in the sand” rectangular shawl from my mystery yarn box is almost complete but, frustratingly, I reached the end of my yarn cake before I finished the last 3 rows of the edging. So I’m 23,120 stitches down with 1,020 stitches waiting for the additional yarn which thankfully is on the way from … More Kizzia Crafts: May & June 2021
Onwards into Silence
June 22, 2021
Having celebrated the summer solstice by greeting the almost invisible dawn in woods so wet with rain that I didn’t dare get my camera out to record any of it, I’m taking myself away on a retreat. This is not the retreat I had hoped to be taking (that I spoke about in an earlier … More Onwards into Silence
This Sparks Joy! June 2021
June 20, 2021
June has, up until the past few days, been almost too warm for comfort but I’ve done my best not to complain because bright sunshine really does make me feel so much better about everything. It also generates a profusion of flowers and ensures my early morning walks are accompanied by the most fervent dawn … More This Sparks Joy! June 2021
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