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 4 - FEAST
Join The Simple Things’ Editor Lisa Sykes and Wellbeing Editor Rebecca Frank as we get stuck into festive feasting. We’ll be talking turkey, side dishes, tipples and nibbles, how to explain Christmas Eve to kids with science and just why we love Boxing Day so much.
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Editing & music by Arthur Cosslett.
On the blog
Which Christmas character are you?
In the December issue (162) on sale now
Boxing day buffet – roast cranberry and mustard gammon, winter goat’s cheese salad, meringue nests with fruit and boozy cream
Grow your own Christmas Day veg
Sprout slaw
Homemade blinis
In previous issues available at picsandink.com
Kitschmas – snowball, devilled eggs, mozzarella and pineapple sticks (Issue 150)
Why we love Boxing Day (Issue 150)
In our A Year of Celebrations Anthology
Side dishes as celebratory as the roast they surround
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 and fish products. Find out more about the best fish to choose at msc.org and follow them on instagram @mscintheuk