Despite what I might have claimed to contrary in blogs gone by, I have now come to accept that whilst I might love the colours of autumn and the platonic ideal of that season, Spring is really my favourite time of year. Thus the things that are delighting me most at the moment are bud … More This Sparks Joy! Spring 2023 edition
So, what has made me smile the smiliest of smiles since my last sparking joy post? TV wise I have two things to talk about: Leverage Redemption. Yes, I know I mentioned it last time but Season 2 is still appearing an episode a week and remains a weekly delight both for the quality of … More This Sparks Joy! Winter 22/23 edition
I sat down to draft this post and my mind went entirely blank. I could have spent the last three months alone in prairie country for the amount of tumbleweed blowing through my brain. Thoughts? Memories? Anything? Nope. All I got was the human equivalent of ++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.* Having … More This Sparks Joy! Autumn 22 edition
Starting with the last of the summer joys first because Netflix released Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman on 5 August and as of the date of posting I have watched the main series three times and the bonus episode twice times. It is wonderful. Dreamy* even. I cried multiple times, with episode 6 using the most … More This Sparks Joy! Summer 22 edition
Spring really is my favourite season; the gloriousness of the woods and fields and garden blossoming into life lifts my spirits in a way nothing else can manage. To that end you’ll find a selection of photos from my last visit to Sissinghurst Gardens at the bottom of this post but before I wow you … More This Sparks Joy! Spring 22 edition
New format, who dis? Which basically means I’m changing this up and now there will be one post per season rather one per month. And having thought about the sorts of things I want to share I shall now try and include at least three things that have made me happy from the following categories; … More This Sparks Joy! Winter 21/22 edition
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
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
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
After everything that has happened over the last week I found myself struggling to make a post about happy things. So much so that the first draft of this post was titled “This Does Not Spark Joy!” and discussed Sarah Everard’s murder and the experiences of so many women, myself included, who have been on … More This Sparks Joy! Monthly Musings for March 2021
Kizzia Mildmay 