little joys and little sorrows #22

reflecting on february: finally saying thank you next to winter, embracing my inner matilda at the library, healthy recipes and allergies do not go hand in hand, sending snail mail to subscribers

please note: this newsletter was formerly called finding quiet

it’s march. we made it. but i have to confess, i’ve already started daydreaming about spring. i just couldn’t wait. there are spring-themed tea towels hanging beneath my kitchen counter as we speak. and that one random warm day we had in the uk this week didn’t help. but i have no regrets.

february has been a strange month, equally nourishing and depleting. this was the month i downloaded tiktok and heavily regretted it, the month i introverted too close to the sun and realised i hadn’t seen any of my friends in well over a month. but also the month i discovered my love for stationery all over again and allowed myself to soften a little. i posted this note a while ago about how i feel like there are two versions of myself and how i can never choose one. but maybe i don’t need to choose one, perhaps i can just oscillate between the two. and just in time for spring, i’m feeling to embrace my love for soft colours again.

what about you? what are you reflecting on? how excited are you for spring or will you deeply miss those cosy, misty mornings. if you’re comfortable, feel free to drop your own little joys and sorrows in the comments, and let’s shake the frost off our shoulders and prepare for warmth once more.

okay, let’s get into the lists.

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little joys

• that one day in the uk where it was 17 degrees and we got a quick taste of what’s right around the corner. serotonin.

• and being in our garden that day, for more than three minutes just to hang the washing, and taking it in that this is ours, that we’ll be sitting out here for hours in just a couple of months, that we’ll eat lunches out here, read books together out here, watch the trains go by together, watch the clouds go by, watch our flowers grow and our vegetables wilt, fall in love all over again out here, wonder how we came this far from sitting in cemeteries to avoid neighbours to having our own uninterrupted patch of land to call ours. god i can’t wait.

• trips to the library and taking out way too many books, feeding my inner matilda

• changing the name of this newsletter and finally feeling like it’s perfect since starting it back in 2023! and your lovely support of the change <3

• sending snail mail to my lovely readers! i loved filling up little envelopes with a zine and some stickers and sending them off in a postbox to soon arrive in someone else’s hands. i’m so excited to do it again for spring!

• becoming a regular at one of the market stalls in town that sells the Cutest earrings and washi tapes (pink gummy bear earrings are currently my fave)

• the stationery crawl i went on earlier this month to equally acquaint myself with my new hometown and feed my insatiable stationery and sticker collecting habit

• seeing my best friend in london for a day, rejuvenating the soul, exercising my stomach muscles with belly laughs, defining my laugh lines, filling my cup back up

• my pinterest feed (the only feed i care about) is top tier at the moment, reminding me i have free will and that my house can look exactly how i want it to with the power of a hot glue gun, paint and some self-confidence

• reading the 12 week year with my other bestie and having weekly “meetings” with her to discuss the book and prepare our plans together. the only type of work meeting i want on my calendar tbh

little sorrows

• 2026 is doing me dirty so far with two periods a month. please choose another soldier

• looking up healthy recipes as a person with allergies and intolerances to nuts, eggs, cow’s milk and raw fruit and veg is a quickfire route to a depressive episode i’ve found

• seriously though what do i eat

• leaving the master copy of my zine in the copier at the library, rookie mistake come on candice

• there’s a cool thing happening with the planets on saturday and i probably won’t be able to see it because i live in the land of clouds (edit 01/26: i saw it!! it was radiant!!)

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hello quiet readers, thank you for reading this week’s post, i hope you enjoyed. as always, feel free to drop your little joys and little sorrows in the comments. i always love to read your favourite moments of the past month :’)

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