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. Ominous sky to start the week! Playing with leaves. Just missed squashing this lil’ guy while I was weeding! If you’re not sure what’s a newt and what’s a lizard, […]
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What a strange November it is. The garden should be starting to look positively wintry by now. Yet we’re still waiting for the first proper frosts, autumn flowers are still blooming away, summer flowers are coming back for another go, and a few plants seem to think it’s spring again. The berberis darwinii is flowering
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I love my daily to-do lists and my bullet journal, which help keep me productive. But when we’re pushing ourselves to lead productive lives, it’s often easy to go too far, and we need to remind ourselves to rest and keep things in perspective. When life gets busy and my brain gets cluttered, and overwhelm
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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. What a magnificent earthworm! Radiant rosebush. Calendula, still flowering away. It’s a great plant for any garden – it attracts so many beneficial insects, and just keeps resowing itself and
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I love my bullet journal – it has really changed my life for the better as I try to live more intentionally. (To see how, read this post.) And when something’s that important in your life, I think it’s really important that your tools are fit for the job. A bad notebook could make bullet
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I’ve never been great at knowing what to wear. I buy clothes that I think will look good on me and they don’t. And I buy clothes that DO look good on me, and still don’t wear them. I never know what to put with what and whether what I’m wearing truly suits me. I
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