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
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
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
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
May was another good month despite starting with the finale of Line of Duty, which was being far too close a reflection of the real world than I generally look for in my “I’m watching this because I want the bad guys to get what’s coming to them” shows. It wasn’t a bad ending at … More That was the month that was: May 2021
I know that May is supposed to be the beginning of summer but to me it is the pinnacle of spring. This is the month where the trees don their gowns of blossom to dance with the breeze and the meadows fill with flowers. It is the month of bees, birdsong, and the bright joy … More A Year in the Woods: May
… reasonably priced love, and a hard boiled egg; those were the stated aims of The People’s Republic of Treacle Mine Road on May 25th when the Glorious Revolution was at hand. Given the nature of revolutions they didn’t actually get any of them. Not even the egg. If you understood those sentences then you’ve … More Truth, Justice, Freedom …
Earlier in the month I participated in an online poetry workshop run by Alice Tarbuck, whose book A Spell in the Wild I recommended in my last A Year of Reading Frugally post. It was titled “Waking Your Inner Witch: Spell-Poem Workshop” and it absolutely sparked joy for me. Spending an hour and a half … More This Sparks Joy! May 2021
When I decided to start this challenge, six months ago, one of the things that seemed obvious to me (and one of the main reasons I created it in the first place) was that my TBR pile would be smaller at the end of it than it was at the beginning. The logic was sound … More A Year of Reading Frugally: Months Five and Six
My birthday month feels as if it were several months rolled into one and also as if there was not enough time in it to do all that I needed to do. I spent the very start of the month fighting with the ivy that had snuck down the side of my garden and was … More That Was The Month That Was: April 2021
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