Spring 2025
It’s Not Just Clothes: How What We Wear Shapes Our Mind, Mood, and Meaning
Every morning, we engage in a quiet ritual, often rushed, sometimes overlooked, but powerful all the same: we get dressed. Befor…
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The Dawn Chorus: Blackbirds, Thrushes and the Humble Heroes of the Garden
The Dawn Chorus: Blackbirds, Thrushes and the Humble Heroes of the Garden
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The seasons
Every entry sits in the season it was written in.
This season: Spring
Springs gone by, drawn from across the archive.
Spring 2025
Savoring the Small Things: How Rituals Help Us Find Joy in the Everyday
In a world that moves at lightning speed, we often chase the next milestone, the next task, or the next achievement – rarely paus…
Spring 2024
No buy year: final month
little extra post for December 1st as it marks the final month of my no-buy year. I’ll be completely transparent- I failed. B…
Spring 2024
Spring and the practice of contentment
As I spoke about in the previous post, we are on the back of an exceptionally busy and full week, so I am bursting with gratitud…
Spring 2023
Black Friday and consumerism, and the strength to pull away
The media and retail have been amping it up weeks before the actual 'event', with marketing that hooks you in, catch phrases the…
Spring 2023
Allowing yourself to listen to your own advice
The wind is buffeting though the open window I sit by and I am enjoying every gust bring freshness and clarity to my tired fuggy…
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Self care, little indulgences and a wholistic approach
The Luxury of Looking After Yourself There is something wonderfully indulgent about climbing into freshly washed bed linen with…
The Quiet Luxury of a Nap
For most of my life, I have regarded napping with a certain suspicion. A nap felt like wasted time. An indulgence. Perhaps eve…
An Evening of Mystery, Memories and the Simple Joy of Going to the Theatre
There is something rather wonderful about getting dressed up, heading out for the evening, meeting friends for good food, and th…
The Courage to Believe Before It's Proven
think you have to have faith in people before they earn it, otherwise it's not faith, right?" – Daisy Jones & The Six by Tay…
Shopping Without Shopping: The Little Ritual That's Changing My Mindset
I've stumbled into a new little ritual lately, and it's quietly becoming one of the healthiest habits I've picked up in a long t…
Homemaking, and our increasingly disposable culture
Buying Once: A Nineteen-Year-Old, Le Creuset, and the Lost Art of Investing in Quality This week I received one of those phone…
Tiny rituals that quietly outlive the people who taught them to us. Grannie
The other day, I caught myself with my hands framing my face, my pinky fingers gently tapping the outer corners of my eyes. It w…
Petit Plaisirs in an Age of Plenty
Yesterday morning I did something I don't do as often as I used to. I went for a long walk without listening to anything. No podcast. No audiobook. No music. Ju…
In Septembers past
The same month, in the years before this one.
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Small pleasures and everyday moments, gathered as the days unfold.
Have you stopped by the new, beautiful blog? everydaycontentment.com
So excited to introduce the new, beautiful Everyday Contentment website! My clever husband has created a new place for us to come to feel grounded, inspired, grateful and content.…
One of my favourite sounds in the world. We have a plethora of birdlife here but the humble blackbird still makes my heart sing. Spring is definitely making an appearance now with…
Perfect weather for napping
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