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.
Hosted by the Editor, Lisa Sykes, in this season, DAWN: spring mornings and new life, she’ll be seeking out glimpses of spring, shrugging off winter and embracing some self-care, alongside co-hosts wellbeing editor Rebecca Frank and regular contributor and slow traveller Jo Tinsley.
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This can be one of the hardest months in which to thrive, when the dog end of winter seems to go on forever, but there are glimpses of spring to see us through. It’s this glimmer our DAWN podcast season will explore. We’ll find ways to make our own sunshine, borrow from celebrations, carnivals and festivals to help us see off winter and find time to start acting on those new year hopes, plans and dreams.
The first days of spring bring new life, and with it the urge to grow, sort, clean and refresh. It’s a good time to take stock of you too; with it can come a dawning of understanding, a chance to try fresh approaches and new ways of looking at things. Spring mornings bring a daily clean slate and tempt us to larks and adventures as we come out of hibernation. And by the time the equinox holds light and dark in balance we’re ready to rise ‘n’ shine, step into spring proper and embrace the extra hour of daylight we’re offered.
Join us for the most uplifting time of the year in these six episodes, released weekly from Valentines Day to the Spring Equinox. Season 9: DAWN is supported by Friends of Glass
Small Ways To Live Well from The Simple Things
Dawn - Episode 5 - SPRING MORNINGS
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Join The Simple Things’ Editor Lisa Sykes and Author of The Slow Traveller and regular contributor Jo Tinsley. We’ll be capturing that feeling you get when larks and adventures (or even just the possibility of them) beckons you from your bed. We’re getting out and about, doing a spot of foraging, discussing what makes a good walk and because it’s Mothers Day, there are a few mum stories too
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Thanks to our partner for Season 9, Friends of Glass, an organisation that celebrates and supports glass packaging for food, drink and cosmetics. Find out more about why glass is better for health, taste and the environment and follow them on instagram @friendsofglassuk
Editing & music by Arthur Cosslett.
On the blog
In the March issue (165) on sale now, available to buy here
Could do list
Outing – follow-your-nose trails
How to drink magnolia
The fine art of mothering – artist Caroline Walker
In the new April issue on sale from 27 March. Order at picsandink.com from 23 March
Blossom foraging
In previous issues available at picsandink.com.
Climbing a Small Hill (Issue 67)
Taking a train to the sea (Issue 61)
Sketching (Issue 39)
Lost gardens (Issue 153)
Wisdom: daughters learning from their mothers (153)
In our new Homebird bookazine
Outing - Reading the landscape when you are on a walk
Foraging – Hawthorn and elderflower in spring hedgerows
Learn more
Hawkstone Park Follies, Shropshire
The walker’s guide to clues and signs by Tristan Gooley
Britain’s Best Small Hills by Phoebe Smith
The Monsal Trail, Peak District
Slow ways – connecting rural and urban spaces
Make ways – Places you’d like to be able to walk