Image from canva.com Happy New Year everyone! How are we all doing? Now I know many of us are pleased to be in 2021, and perhaps this year we can be more eco-friendly. As the saying goes: "We don't need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly." [...]
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The Year by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Image from canva.com The Year. What can be said in New Year rhymes, That’s not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. [...]
Happy New Year!
Image from canva.com HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here's to 2021, and to all of you! I wish you all the very best. Love Charlotte xxx
Notes on 2020 and THANK YOU!!
Image from canva.com Well hello everyone! We have nearly made it to the end of 2020. What a year?! This year was meant to be the year I ticked off so many things on my ever growing to do list. Sadly, like many others, I didn't get all of them done. But I didn't expect [...]
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Image from canva.com MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!! I hope you are all well and are taking care of yourself. This is possibly one of the strangest Christmases we'll ever have (hopefully anyway). Whatever you may be doing, cherish the little things and look forward to brighter days ahead. Thank you for all of your support so far [...]
Make you own Decorations – Dried Orange Slices.
Decorate your presents with eco-friendly options. If you are looking for craft ideas to keep you occupied over Christmas, look no further than the humble orange. These dried oranges look lovely on trees and garlands, as well as to use when wrapping gifts - and they're plastic free and smell AMAZING!! Here's how you make [...]
Poetry Mondays – The Reminder by Thomas Hardy.
The Reminder. While I watch the Christmas blazePaint the room with ruddy rays,Something makes my vision glideTo the frosty scene outside. There, to reach a rotting berry,Toils a thrush, — constrained to veryDregs of food by sharp distress,Taking such with thankfulness. Why, O starving bird, when IOne day's joy would justify,And put misery out [...]
Charlotte’s Ramblings.
Hello everyone. Sorry for the silence; I have had a busy week with work and university, but I am starting to wind down for Christmas - finally! What a tumultuous week it has been?! I am thinking of you all at this awful time with the most recent announcement from the PM. Christmas won't be [...]
Poetry Mondays – Winter-Time by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Winter-Time Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an hour or two; and then, A blood-red orange, sets again. Before the stars have left the skies, At morning in the dark I rise; And shivering in my nakedness, By the cold candle, bathe and dress. Close by the jolly fire [...]
Easy Nature Crafts – Number 3 – Popcorn Garland for Birds.
Hello, I'm back with another super quick and simple craft idea, that is plastic free and also provides food for the birds. Of course, using popcorn as Christmas decoration isn't anything new, it has been done for decades. Whilst it may not be the shiniest or the glitziest, it is very effective and it has [...]
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