Small Ways To Live Well from The Simple Things

This week in The Hibernacle, Editor of The Simple Things magazine, Lisa Sykes shares tea and cake with Wellbeing Editor Becs Frank as they seek out crumbs of comfort and ways to feel better in winter. Join them as they talk hot drinks and warm places for cold days, discuss the merits of saunas and which old fashioned remedies really work. There will time to out the kettle on and pause for a moment with an original short story.
The Hibernacle is supported by Charnwood Stoves

Wellbeing Editor of The Simple Things magazine, Becs Frank and regular contributor, Jo Tinsley discuss our fascination with fire, spicy foods for eating and healing, mending winter woollens and ways to make an autumn walk more ‘awe’ inspiring. Plus a short short on creative autumn pastimes.
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.
To subscribe or order a copy of the magazine visit thesimplethings.com
Music and editing by Arthur Cosslett
To go:
Somerset carnivals
https://www.somersetcountycarnivals.com
To read:
Enchantment Reawakening wonder in an exhausted age by Katherine May (Faber & Faber)
Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder by Dacher Keltner (Penguin)
To make:
Pumpkin projects
https://www.thesimplethings.com/blog/pumpkin-beer-keg?rq=beer%20keghttps://www.thesimplethings.com/blog/pumpkin-bird-feeder?rq=beer%20kegDip dye candles:
https://www.thesimplethings.com/blog/make-dip-dye-candles
From The Simple Things
October WEAVE issue -
https://picsandink.com/products/the-simple-things-issue-148-october?_pos=1&_psq=The+Simple+Things&_ss=e&_v=1.0November JEWEL issue –
https://picsandink.com/products/the-simple-things-issue-149-november?_pos=2&_psq=The+Simple+Things&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Flourish – volume 3 of our wellbeing bookazine
https://picsandink.com/products/flourish-volume-3?_pos=1&_sid=45c0aa519&_ss=rOn the blog:
Turmeric balls
https://www.thesimplethings.com/blog/turmeric-balls?rq=turmeric
Hot cranberry toddy
https://www.thesimplethings.com/blog/cranberrytoddy?rq=cranberry%20toddy
Revamp your woollens
https://www.thesimplethings.com/blog/revamp-woollies
Feature references
The Christmas Craft Gathering and Know a Thing or Two Spices features appeared in November 2023 (issue 137)
Looking up feature appeared in October 2023 (issue 136)
Know a Thing or Two Wool appeared in November 2021 (issue 113)
Know a Thing or Two Fungi appeared in November 2020 (issue 101)
Back issues are available to buy at https://picsandink.com/collections/the-simple-things
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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 Season 1 she’ll be sharing tea & cake with colleagues and contributors in The Hibernacle – a winter retreat where you can pretend for a time that the outside world doesn’t exist. Each episode offers a different take on thriving in winter.

It’s a tonic for the coldest and darkest months that encourages you to put real life on hold for a while and adjust to a slower pace to reset and re-energise for the year to come. Released weekly from 21 January this six-week companion will take you from Twelfth Night through to the first day of spring.
To find out more about the magazine visit thesimplethings.com

This week in The Hibernacle, Editor of The Simple Things magazine, Lisa Sykes shares tea and crumpets with Wellbeing Editor Becs Frank as they talk about how to literally keep calm and carry on through the whole of winter. From quiet pastimes and absorbing hobbies to how we look after ourselves and keep our stresses at bay. There will time to out the kettle on and pause for a moment with an original short story.
The Hibernacle is supported by Charnwood Stoves

This week in The Hibernacle, Editor of The Simple Things magazine, Lisa Sykes and Wellbeing Editor Becs Frank don their jolliest jumpers and share good cake as they discover small ways to make winter a bit more merry. Think good mood foods and gatherings, seasonal celebrations and the urge to grow things. And why wearing bright things can help. Put the kettle on and pause for a moment with an original short story.
The Hibernacle is supported by Charnwood Stoves