Little Delights, overrated early mornings and Women Behind Wool returns.
Hasn't it been such a delight (or a 'daily delight' - you'll understand soon) seeing social media feeds filled with images of families and friends gathering around bonfires in the paddock, with non fashionable camping chairs, eating snags and just being happy?! So overdue and please can I get some more?
This week, there are some robust reads to get your head into, a few good listens on hacks for life and HEAPS ABOUT WOOL. Penny Ashby and I are knee deep in prep for our upcoming launch of Women Behind Wool 2022 (subscribe so you don’t miss it) on 27th April - yup like in a matter of days.
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There are so many things to be said for wool right now - not least that it should be number one on the list of sustainable fashion buys - booming everywhere but not so much with wool, except for this from HRH Prince Charles.
Women Behind Wool is a library of podcasts on brilliant women doing brilliant things in the industry - it aims to educate and give deeper context so that you can tell others about wool and how we should all be wearing it - so I encourage you to help spread the word in the hope that more Australian women, who are so effortlessly stylish, can know and love wool too. @womenbehindwool
Podcast Playlist
My early morning routine, that I have become so proud of, has gone to s*&t in the school holidays so - “Does the early bird really get the worm?” was suitable listening.
Not a podcast but a film - Woolscapes - about farmers connection to the fibre they grow and how its wonderful for the environment. Invited to Australian by Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), Livia Firth experienced the landscape, the way of life and farming first hand as she met a range of woolgrowers. Some were trapped in a boom-bust-cycle of increasing flock patterns and trying to produce through drought and floods before they made a decisive shift. Now they have embarked on an ambitious conservation arc, pledging to help restore the landscape and preserve both the environment and the fibre for future generations.
Oliver Burkeman about the delusion of productivity.
Do you know about Howdowns for Country Towns?
Lay your eyes on these new instagram accounts
@a_darling_find || @thewildpotager || @alicemacprints ||
This pile of things to read;
The most beautiful read on one man’s quest to record moments of daily delights every day for a year. Much better than a gratitude journal! Via The Marginalian
Trying out the slow life in a Welsh BnB. For anyone after an Easter re-set. Much better than a New Year one don’t you think?
On dreams - and trying to harvest them. This is long, and weird, but I am fascinated by dreams.
Further to the dream I mentioned last week of one day owing a shop in Gunning which can be both a bookshop and a recording studio and a place for anyone to come and be - I sighed with inspiration at this latest iteration of Annabelle Hickson and Sarah Barrett’s Galah Magazine. My idea of heaven girls!