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Just a quick note to thank you for sharing your blog, which I just discovered while searching for... Obsidian!
Lots of inspiring stuff. I'm actually thinking about starting a BuJo (I took the first step this week by buying a fountain pen :-)) and your article that came out this week is perfect timing.
All the best,
Kind regards,

Hey there! Fun site! I love the garden section 🙂

Dear Alice,

I've been really enjoying your writings over the years.
Now I was looking online to find something to help me track my period cycle, as I've been experiencing very bad PMS all my life and I want to gain insights. I came across your website and saw you had a very nice sheet. I was trying to make the same but I'm not so handy with this. Would you be up for sharing yours perhaps...?
I think you have my e-mail by writing this entry. Thanks so much + for your nice articles

(I couldnt comment on your post without logging in, but I am not sure how to “log in”. I am already logged into my Wordpress account, You might want to fix this because I think you are missing out on interactions.)

Thank you for a wonderful post. I’ve just read Piranesi again for the second time, and decided to do a Google search to see where the name ‘Piranesi’ came from. Like you, I thought it might be from an ancient Greek or Roman myth. Then I found your post. Very interesting, thank you.

After I wrote WAY too much about nothing, inspired by your thoughts on The Expanse books, I read about you. This made me laugh, because I started gardening in 2019 after I finally bought my first house (vs a lifetime of renting) and I make jewelry for fun and to relax. It's faster than drawing and painting (I drew and illustrated about 100 years ago). We all need these escapes! I taught German and literature for about 20 years, before switching careers. Now I love my work as an academic advisor for university students, and it gives me more free time for my own pursuits than I ever had when I was teaching. I used to travel, but haven't been abroad since 2015, my last time in the UK (Litchfield, London, all between the two; Ireland) and I live in Washington state. Since I adore many English, Scottish, and Irish authors, I can't wait to get some new names from you. (Do you like Martin Millar? Scottish writer who lives in London, I think his Kalix, the Lonely Werewolf Girl series; other novels are brilliant.) Okay, way too long again! It's Saturday morning and I'm enjoying relaxing with our two cats, Levon & Oscar, and reading & writing on my mobile a little too much! You inspired me today, Alice! cheers, Tatum

Hi!

love your book reviews and your floral embroidery. I was also into crafts a year earlier, specifically in stationery crafts. Good to hear you are also involved in nature (gardening). Love Flowers? Don't tell me. 🙂 which one's your favourite?

I reached out to you on Instagram but didn't received a response. I couldn't find your email as well. Anyways, would like to get connected. I also started blogging. Setting up my blog for now.

Thank

Your blog post/book review made me fall out of my chair laughing. You have a refreshing writing style!

Hello! You already found my blog, but I thought I'd say hi and tell you a few more things you might not know about me.

I am a terrible gardener. I get overenthusiastic and plant lots of things, then it rains every day for a month and I ignore the garden, and when I get back it's been overrun by weeds. I'm currently trying to grow kale because I eat a lot of kale, but it's midwinter so the kake is basically looking at me, not growing, and saying "what?"

I like to grow feijoas, but feijoas do not like to grow for me. I have lots of bushes, and all my research tells me nothing eats feijoa bushes, but something decidedly eats my feijoa bushes as soon as they grow leaves. This means they never get bigger, and will never get big enough to fruit.

The thing I can grow is New Zealand cranberries, which have another name, but NZ decided to claim them so someone renamed them. The plants are ugly and the berries taste a bit like socks, but they fruit like mad in our soil even if you do absolutely nothing to them, so I have several and I'm getting more.

Like you, I'm an introvert. Currently I work in an office one day a week, and I find that amount of human contact is exactly right.

I've been working in the same job for 11 years, and the world is telling me I need to do something different, maybe something entirely different. It's scary, but also exciting, and I have no idea what it might be.

I never have time to read as many books as I want to, but when I read books often I have a hard time connecting with the characters. I can't tell if the books are just not the right ones for me, or if burnout broke my reading brain. I'm still hoping it will magically fix on its own.

I'm also a terrible cook, which matters more now that I've tried to go plant-based. One day I may blog about some of my recipes, but no one should every try them. Sometimes I still eat pizza.