What are you taking with you?

A post-vacation postcard

Today is my first official day back in the office after a few weeks off. And I’m asking myself: what do I want to take with me from the summer, from my time off? Which routines, patterns, habits, experiments? Which feelings or activities do I want more of?

For me, this is more of a recalibration than a radical change: mostly I want to hold on to the spaciousness that the sea and big horizons make me feel, the focus and attention I get in the garden. I want to sow, grow and harvest more. I want to find even more non-structured time (more on that in August’s paid subscriber post). I want more writing, more creating, more experimenting.

I’m sharing a few snippets of my summer below, and would love to hear from you too: what are you taking with you from the summer, whether you took time off or not?

An update 🦔

A while back I mentioned our resident garden hedgehog Erik, and some of you requested pictures 😅 We finally got our act together and invested in a wildlife camera, which then captured many, many, many cats.

Until this week, when we finally saw Erik in all his glory—and discovered that if the internet is to be trusted, Erik is most probably biologically female.

For all things hedgehog and (sub)urban gardens, I can’t recommend

Kate Bradbury

and her newsletter (and book!) One Garden Against the World enough.

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Thank you as always for inviting me into your inbox. If you’re returning back to work this week too, I hope you can hold on to that summer-feeling bit longer too. xx

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