Tag : slow living
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01/11/2016This whole house speaks. It creaks and yawns around me as I move, tiptoeing across the floor from the softly curled apostrophe of my daughter's sleeping form. A comma, a pause, she never quite hits [...]
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12/31/2015Happy twenty-sixteen! No doubt I'll continue to write 2015 for at least another three or four months yet - some days I still think it's 1997 - but for context, there it is. Last year I leapt into [...]
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12/19/2015Whenever Orla is grumpy or sad, I throw her in the bath. It's like my fallback parenting skill, coming just before chocolate and the iPad, & it never fails to lift her mood. It occurs to me now [...]
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12/14/2015I have come to a reluctant acceptance that it is impossible to plan a quiet Christmas Day . No matter how much I swear to be steadfast & stubborn, defending our wish to stay home [...]
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12/12/2015A few weeks back Emily & Harrison visited as part of our stay project, and we made a video. I say 'we', but really it was all Emily, of course. I just made the tea, & got on with my [...]
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11/05/2015Lately I'm all about the slouchy, comfy, anti-fit. It would be easy to say its due to my hectic toddler life, or post-partum body issues, but since neither is really a fact or even a thing, I [...]
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10/20/2015One of the main reasons we're tempted to keep & hoard is the belief that things will be 'useful someday'. I've had endless examples: the dusty kitchen appliance I'd stopped using, the [...]
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10/16/2015Technically it's still a month or so off traditional British bonfire season, but this time of year it's still warm enough to be tempted outdoors for an early sunset. What is it about a bonfire that [...]
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10/07/2015One of my rules for living simply is to try and stick to possessions that work hard for us - multifunctional things that earn their space in our home by being practical and useful, as well as [...]
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09/27/2015I've been phasing out coffee. Not out entirely, because that would be grim, but I'm reducing my dependence down to weekends and sleepy emergencies; my anxiety just can't take it any more. [...]
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09/04/2015Julia passed a topic my way a few weeks ago: What does slow living mean to me? It was a question posed by Emma, and pretty timely: slow living is my aim for 2015, and seems to be pretty du jour [...]
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07/22/2015I shared this simple summer wreath on Instagram and got a few requests for a tutorial, so here it is. It's really easy to make; something about weaving the flowers through is really [...]
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