Hello friends,
It's been a while, hasn't it? The start of this year was a very strange one for my household as I exited an exceedingly busy work period over Christmas and hopped straight into a long period of quarantine and personal crisis as my partner was ill with Covid.
I hope that the start of your 2022 was far more jolly - and if it wasn't I hope that there have been little pockets of joy and peace, as there have been for me.
Because our summer plans were so cruelly interrupted, we postponed them until now. I'm glad to be writing this to you from the comfort of a bed which is not my own in a very charming guest house in Goolwa. We're on a summer holiday which
always makes me think of this song. We're spending time with sandy toes, salty skin, and reading and playing board games when we aren't napping in the sun like cats. When Instagram models tell me I should follow my bliss, is this what they imagine I'd be doing? Because I can think of nothing more blissful right now.
Below I'll spill the beans on a few things which have been happening lately. Some of it is entirely unextraordinary, and how lovely is that? To be able to be slow and to savour the smallness of this getaway is something I treasure. I find myself more and more being drawn to that which is unextraordinary.
What have you been up to? What books, shows, conversations, foods, have brought you joy? What small things? I'd love to know.