Author: holly

Pheew, it’s been quite a while since I’ve updated here, and so much has happened… So here is a little happy list from Ghana, where I spent the last January, February and March doing fieldwork for my MA in anthropology at Leiden University.   Red-red makes me happy… especially when it’s made to look like […]

Well my newsfeed is currently full of anger at the government, air strikes and impending war. Not much to be happy about. It makes me feel very sad/angry/hopeless when I read these things. I actually read an article recently that using Facebook makes you more depressed (not that this is news, but it’s interesting to […]

As my nicotine addiction has crept back in the last week I came across this article at the exact right time… I’ve thrown out the tobacco and I’m not looking back! Pow pow!   My happy list today consists of First Aid Kit Soft socks rooibos tea x  

Well it’s been a while but here is another happy list: Living in the Hague Working in nice cafes Making new friends (human and non-human) Schlumphina 🙂 Wearing red lipstick This song Autumn days and misty mornings Bryony blimmin’ Hayes! This one Hash (sometimes) wine (often) Ghana! This sign -Other music I’ve been listening to […]

I came across rupi kaur’s now infamous instagram and I was so moved by her beautiful words I bought her book, milk and honey, on a whim. It turned out to be one of the best impulse buys I’ve made this year! I used to write poetry before I became too self conscious about it […]

So today when I was stumbling around the internet, I somehow went from an article on how to tell if your cat is ignoring you (spoiler alert: it usually is) to this interesting piece about the Danish concept of ‘hygge’. I love words that don’t directly translate into English (another favourite is mamihlapinatapai – try saying […]

Hello!! In classic me style I have left this blog for months and months but I feel like I need a creative outlet sometimes (particularly inbetween job applications and writing complaint letters to recruitment websites… I may have used the phrase ‘vortex of insanity’ at one point…) So here goes, a list of things I […]

…but one of my New Year’s resolutions is to write more so here goes. In no particular order:   Booking Flights Woodlands in the Sunshine Cycling Driving Ridiculous Words Pie Free Stuff Making Plans     – Short but sweet, but that’s it!

I’ve had this domain for a while (thanks to Dave, cheers Dave!) but I couldn’t figure out what to do with it. I hate writing in a prosey way, and my life isn’t that interesting really, but I like to write happy lists and I thought I would share some of them with the world, […]