Bonus Meander: A to Z of my favourite things
Zesty afternoons, unruly notebooks & okapis in the moonlight
This weekend I came across
and her Substack and was completely taken with her latest post, offering up an A-Z of her favourite things – and inviting others to compile a list of their own. Challenge duly accepted!Here's the original post if you'd like to go check it out.
And here's my list - very much a stream of consciousness, free-flowing, totally non-definitive and subject to change, but utterly heart-driven, affair 😊
Maybe you'll be inspired to write one of your own – it's such a fun little exercise. And if you do, of course I'd love to see it! Just hit reply to this email or leave a comment if you're reading online or in the app.
So without further ado, let's go.
A – afternoons, athletics, animation, asparagus, apple pie & custard
B – big skies, board games, balconies, bookshelves, Berlin, Brighton, Bluey
C – coffee, cooking, cycling, cricket, conversation, community
D – dark chocolate, documentaries, dancing, Doctor Who
E – eggs, energy, ear plugs, espresso martinis
F – friends, fig rolls, fizzy water
G – galleries, goal-setting, gifts, gel pens, gardens
H – hedgehogs, harissa, hugs, history
I – ideas, ice cream, Ireland, Italy
J – jigsaws, jazz, jeans, jellybeans
K – keepsakes, kisses, kitsch
L – laughter, learning, lavendar, lychees, London Review of Books
M – mountains, moonlight, metaphor, macaroni cheese
N- notebooks, novels, neighbours, Neighbours
O – Olympics, okapis, origami, Octonauts
P – pale ale, picnics, podcasts, pebbles, purple
Q – quiet, quizzes
R – reading, rest, raindrops, rhubarb
S – stories, singing in the shower, silk pillowcases
T – trees, train travel, theatre, tiramisu
U – underdogs, unruliness, Ursula K Leguin
V – vegetables, velodromes
W – walking, wild flowers, waves
X - XXL week at Lidl (!)
Y – yoga, yannoh, yoghurt, Yorkshire
Z - za'atar, Zen, zest
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100% borrowing (aka stealing) this idea.
I LOVE THIS! So much more to add to my list! And dang, I need some gel pens. But can we talk about velodromes? Do you get to ride in a velodrome? Do you get to race in a velodrome?