LITTLE JOYS! February 2025


Because it’s not the big goals and successes in life that bring true happiness, but the little joys that you choose to notice each day…

I often struggle with February, but this one went very quickly and I felt quite content! The result of just the right work/life balance perhaps, and seeing some friends, and making the most of the few sunny days. Here’s what I got up to:

Planning ahead.

Ferbruay 2025 monthly spread in my bullet journal. A pinkish theme, naturally (pink washi tape, pink title, pink stickers).


Steak and mushroom pasta for one. With mustard and cream. Yum!

Little Joys: a bowl of fusilli with chunks of steak and sliced mushrooms.


Alder tree. Catkins and cones.

Little Joys: striking silhouette of alder branches overhanging (and some other trees in the distance) against a perfect blue sky.


Walking.

Shadows on a footpath of me and my man holding hands.


Visited a nature reserve on a perfect winter day.

Little Joys: view across a reed bed and pond. The sky is blue and the sun lights the reeds up bright green. Two slender trees to one side, in silhouette.


Impressive silver birch.

Little Joys: an impressive white-barked tree against a brilliant blue sky.


Bottoms up.

Another view of the pond. In the foreground and to the left, lots of ducks are dipping in the water, beak down, tail up.


That light!

Another view of the pond. Mist on the water far off. The sun shining brightly through the trees top right, lighting up green reeds and glaring across the photo.


Hazel catkins.

Little Joys: yellow catkins hanging in pairs throughout a tangle of bare branches.


Euphorbia about to flower in the garden.

Little Joys: close-up of euphorbia amygdaloides tops in glossy green health, drooping flower buds just beginning to open.


Beautiful bud.

Little Joys: a pink and yellow rhododendron bud, sculptural and regal in appearance.


End of day.

Little Joys: the sun glows deep yellow through a veil of grey cloud, a grand but bare tree silhouetted against the drama.


Frosty scenes.

A garden by a river, with plants in shades of green, orange, gold and rusty brown - all with a bright dusting of frost.


Robin’s pincushion.

Little Joys: a robin's pincuchion (the gall of a type of wasp, on a rosebush) topped with sharp needles of frost.


Frosty moss.

Little joys: Close-up of frosty moss.


I know it might just look like a rotten grub-filled conker to you, but I’m fascinated. If I put conkers in all my pots, will the vine weevil grubs leave my plants alone…?

A rotten, grub-filled conker...


Another beautiful moss-forest.

Little Joys: cushions of moss on brickwork, with lime-green florescences held high on bright red filaments like tiny lamps on sticks.


Pretty much the perfect love-day card.

Little Joys: a card on my desk, depicting two pigeons on branches, one each side of the picture. The entire picture is made of real pressed leaves and flowers.


First crocuses spotted on a verge near the house.

Little Joys: pale purple crocuses with orange centres, growing in grass in the sunshine.


Date night! Beer and chicken wings before some live music.

Beer, chips and chicken wings in a pub.


Oh wow.

Little Joys: a picture on a wall that says 'oh wow, look at the time' with a drawing of a digital watch. The time on the watch reads BEER.


Beer with friends and a cosy fireplace.

Little Joys: a beer can 'Apocalyse Then' and two beer glasses with some in. In the background, a cosy firepace and a tabby cat curled up on a footstool.


I liked their glasses. And their plant.

Little joys: A wineglass with a stylised Eiffel Tower on it, in front of a houseplant.


Good read for writers. (Biscuit crumbs writer’s own.)

Little Joys: 'Refuse to be Done' by Matt Bell - a book on bedding.


Beautiful evening sky.

Little Joys: The sky over maisonette blocks and trees - it's vivid blue and darkening, with an undefined bright pink cloud in the middle.

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