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Edited by Dan Lange
Music Credit: Purple Planet Music: Reiki Healing - https://www.purple-planet.com/home
Opening words - Sue reads words from Adam Maxwell Martin
Immerse chat: Sue had been meditating at her local Buddhist centre: https://meditateinnorthants.com and Emma attended an Aga cooking demo at Aga Oundle: https://www.agaliving.com/store-locator/aga-oundle
Seasonal Living: The moment of winter solstice 2025 is 3.03pm on 21 December. Sue shares words from The Almanac 2026, by Lia Leendertz
Recipes: To make fire honey, mix a small (225ml) jar of honey with the the finely chopped peel from a lemon and an orange, a c5cm chunk of ginger, grated, one finely chopped red chilli, a teaspoon of turmeric and a teaspoon of cinnamon. You'll need one teaspoon of fire honey in one cup of hot water for an immune boosting drink.
You can find the recipes for frangipane mincemeat squares here: http://www.daffodilkitchen.com/christmas-frangipane-mincemeat-squares/
Self-Care: you can read more about Jolabokaflod here: https://jolabokaflod.org/about/founding-story/
Seasonal words - Emma shares Robert Frost's Dust of Snow and reads words from Nina McLaughlin's Winter Solstice essay collection
What's on our Bookshelves: Sue is reading The Ladies Midnight Swimming Club by Faith Hogan and This Way Up by Jay Forman and Mark Cooper Jones and watching videos by Ed Pratt, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuNy42Y5egf07cSiHbF23wg . Emma is reading Nancy Mitford's Christmas Pudding and about to read Freya North's Christmas at Flora's House. She has been to see Nuremburg and was recently interviewed for the podcast Gathering Garden Ghosts, hosted by Melanie Hicks: https://open.substack.com/pub/melaniehick?r=1l6l79&utm_medium=ios
This month's blessing card was drawn from Pippa Best's Sea Soul Blessings pack.
Timings: Opening Words -0.55/ Immerse Chat - 01.58 / Seasonal Living - 15.56/ Recipes - 21.06/ Self-Care - 27.54/ Seasonal Words - 30.43 / What's on Our Bookshelf - 35.36 /Tasks - 42.10/ Blessing - 46.07/ Goodbyes - 46.57
By Emma Wise and Sue WoodEdited by Dan Lange
Music Credit: Purple Planet Music: Reiki Healing - https://www.purple-planet.com/home
Opening words - Sue reads words from Adam Maxwell Martin
Immerse chat: Sue had been meditating at her local Buddhist centre: https://meditateinnorthants.com and Emma attended an Aga cooking demo at Aga Oundle: https://www.agaliving.com/store-locator/aga-oundle
Seasonal Living: The moment of winter solstice 2025 is 3.03pm on 21 December. Sue shares words from The Almanac 2026, by Lia Leendertz
Recipes: To make fire honey, mix a small (225ml) jar of honey with the the finely chopped peel from a lemon and an orange, a c5cm chunk of ginger, grated, one finely chopped red chilli, a teaspoon of turmeric and a teaspoon of cinnamon. You'll need one teaspoon of fire honey in one cup of hot water for an immune boosting drink.
You can find the recipes for frangipane mincemeat squares here: http://www.daffodilkitchen.com/christmas-frangipane-mincemeat-squares/
Self-Care: you can read more about Jolabokaflod here: https://jolabokaflod.org/about/founding-story/
Seasonal words - Emma shares Robert Frost's Dust of Snow and reads words from Nina McLaughlin's Winter Solstice essay collection
What's on our Bookshelves: Sue is reading The Ladies Midnight Swimming Club by Faith Hogan and This Way Up by Jay Forman and Mark Cooper Jones and watching videos by Ed Pratt, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuNy42Y5egf07cSiHbF23wg . Emma is reading Nancy Mitford's Christmas Pudding and about to read Freya North's Christmas at Flora's House. She has been to see Nuremburg and was recently interviewed for the podcast Gathering Garden Ghosts, hosted by Melanie Hicks: https://open.substack.com/pub/melaniehick?r=1l6l79&utm_medium=ios
This month's blessing card was drawn from Pippa Best's Sea Soul Blessings pack.
Timings: Opening Words -0.55/ Immerse Chat - 01.58 / Seasonal Living - 15.56/ Recipes - 21.06/ Self-Care - 27.54/ Seasonal Words - 30.43 / What's on Our Bookshelf - 35.36 /Tasks - 42.10/ Blessing - 46.07/ Goodbyes - 46.57