Simply..twenty ways....

15/11/2019

..to make the most of my winter.

Sixteen

Keep garedening. Pruning, tdying, weeding, raking, pottering - not leaving it all till spring.

Seventeen

Keep moving. The gardening eill help. It's all too easy for me to hibernate and barely move!

Eighteen

Make candles.

Nneteen

Travel (big plans afoot!)

Twenty

Think up a really good word for 2020.

Poppy

16 Comments

Julia

15/11/2019 05:06:06 pm

One of the things i have done this fall is similar to making candles, Freda. I have made soap balls out of left-over soap chips...call me frugal, call me silly...but these small ways of honoring the earth and not being wasteful feel very good to me.

Grace

16/11/2019 03:20:42 am

You are not alone Julia! I do this too!

Susan (Dorset)

16/11/2019 04:03:12 am

And me!

Freda

16/11/2019 02:22:55 pm

I put left over soap around favourite plants to keep the deer off. It works!

Sheena

15/11/2019 11:56:06 pm

Your list fills me with delight and has made me notice a big gap in my life. I love my lists and was so happy one day Iast week when I managed to put a tick at every task. Make a list of things I want to do, hmmm? Well the gardening (16) I can certainly do and I would enjoy many other things on your list but making up a list for myself has me at a bit of a standstill. So much easier to find things that must be done. Maybe first thing on my list is to make a list. I hope you manage to do lots of yours and enjoy every one and will think of you in the hammock on starry nights.

Freda

16/11/2019 02:25:25 pm

What about a list of just four or five this year Sheena? And perhaps you'd share them here? I have found if I write them down they are very likely to happen!

Susan (Dorset)

16/11/2019 04:06:27 am

Thank you for your invigorating & encouraging lists for the Winter, Freda.
As my 'try something new', I took part in a sauerkraut fermenting workshop, with a lovely group, in Wells.

Freda

16/11/2019 02:29:53 pm

Well(s) that is certainly very different! Said to have great health benefits too. Look forward to seeing what else you get up to..

Grace

16/11/2019 04:10:46 am

Can't wait to hear about your big travel plans!

Freda

16/11/2019 02:31:13 pm

Tantalise you a bit longer......

Mary

16/11/2019 04:54:12 am

Enjoy reading your list. My list is progressing pretty slowly---only a couple of things so far.

Freda

16/11/2019 02:32:26 pm

No need for speed of course - winter is long!

MaryB

16/11/2019 07:39:27 am

Think your 20 ideas are a wonderful mix of small scale achievable and grander things. Looking forward to hearing about each as you tick them off your list. I would like to try your suggestions for night sky watching and for gardening (but I am still wary of making lists!!!) Love the photo of Poppy .Has she been reading your new Log Fires book?!

Freda

16/11/2019 02:34:55 pm

Yes she's a great reader. She's going to make the recipes too!

Susan

17/11/2019 01:39:02 am

Is Poppy yours, Freda? Or on holiday with you?
I haven't seen her before.

Freda

17/11/2019 07:58:52 am

She is my daughter’s lovely dog Susan.

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