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Friends,
I’ll be extremely offline this month as I usually migrate like a bird to sunnier climes during December. The online shop is open for orders and I’ll send those out the first week of January.
Have a beautiful December!
Here’s 10 Useful Things that found me this past month.
A list of useful Resources for Gaza.
Cooking and crying, a recipe for grief.
The Long Table’s aim is to make locally sourced and lovingly prepared food available to everyone, regardless of their social or financial background.
“The Long Table sets out to find delicious answers to some of these food issues. As a team, we put food at the centre of the community. We want to make sure that everyone has access to great food and people to eat it with, that’s the basics.”
I learnt a new word this month (and I’ll be doing this all winter.)
I’m revisiting Japan in 2024 so this came in handy - a website listing all sento in Japan. 🛁
I am out with lanterns, looking for myself. Also related.
The best posters ever designed for the London Tube.
Test yourself - how well do you know the London Underground? I scored alarmingly low for someone who lived in London 27 years 😬
Are you missing the sun too? A wonderful reminder of her from Mary Oliver. 🌞
…
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure
that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you
…
PS: a playlist.
Love the playlist.
May I be nosy and enquire where you migrate to to find the sun? 😊. Jo