Small Ways To Live Well from The Simple Things
Small Ways to Live Well is a podcast from The Simple Things, a monthly magazine about slowing down, remembering what’s important and making the most of where you live.
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Christmas is coming and how much do we love the build up?
Our Merry Midwinter podcast season will be at your side at the excitement of Advent, the welcome quiet and calm of the winter solstice and the feasting and traditions of the Christmas holidays right through new year to the twelfth night. We’ll be sharing recipes and ideas for decorations and homemade gifts as well as taking time to simply enjoy midwinter – a season of long views and frosty mornings, twinkling lights and cosy evenings. It’s six weeks of gathering, giving and everyday magic that can pass us by in a whirl of stress and socialising if we don’t slow down now and again to appreciate it. It’s also a chance to reflect on the year just gone and look ahead to the one to come. We’re here to help with all of the above.
Co-hosted by the Editor, Lisa Sykes, wellbeing editor Rebecca Frank and regular contributor Jo Tinsley.
Small Ways To Live Well from The Simple Things
Merry Midwinter - Episode 1 - MERRY
Join The Simple Things’ Editor Lisa Sykes and author of The Slow Traveller and regular contributor Jo Tinsley in the first episode of our Merry Midwinter season, where we are doing our best to find calm and contentment in the run up to Christmas. This episode we will be chatting about alternative approaches to advent calendars, the people working hard to preserve much-loved customs, the joy of a Christmas market and how to fill your home with festive scents.
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Editing & music by Arthur Cosslett.
In the December issue (162) on sale now
Weekend project advent candle
Alternative advent calendar ideas
Keeping up traditions
On the blog
Natural Advent Calendar of Promises
From A Year of Celebrations anthology
Weekend project: make your own advent calendar
Learn more
Window Wonderland in Shepton Mallet, Somerset
A Winter Dictionary: A collection of words for the festive season by Paul Anthony Jones (Elliott & Thompson)
In previous issues available to buy at picsandink.com
Looking back: Mid-century Christmas traditions (138)
Finding the fairytale for free(ish) (138)
Weekend project: Scents of the season: Use natural finds to fill your home with some favourite smells of winter (150)
Christmassy Cities: Nuremberg (150), Bruges (Issue 126), Prague (162)
Easy Giving: simple ways you can help spread cheer (150)
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Thanks to our partner for the Merry Midwinter season, the Marine Stewardship Council, which sets certification standards for sustainable fisheries and awards the blue ecolabel on fish products. Find out more at msc.org and follow them on instagram @mscintheuk