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Soo yet again I’ve left this blog quite a long time over the summer! Quite a lot has happened, a lot that I am thankful for. It’s a miserable rainy day so I’m enjoying taking the time to feel grateful today. We got the house! It took a few weeks but we’ve officially found a […]

“Welcome back” said Vinnett last night in our summer solstice evening yoga class. We did 108 sun salutations and waved the longest day goodbye in a whirl of sweat, fire-breath and vinyasa. As we meditated towards the end I felt so grateful to be back in Bristol. We moved back almost two weeks ago and […]

Things that make me happy today:   Eating Grasshoppers   Today’s snack #grasshoppers #crunchy A photo posted by Holly Vandizzle (@hollyvandizzle) on Feb 7, 2017 at 10:55pm PST Bamboo bridges Seeing monks everywhere Lao Lao Garden Ice Coffee Making plans Emails from Mum Having time to be creative Beerlao    

So I just spent a long weekend in Rome. It was quite a last minute thing – I heard about a conference via the AAA’s environmental anthropology listserv and although I was a little apprehensive, I was so glad I went for it. I went alone – Dave didn’t have the holiday days – and it […]

Soo I love autumn. I love the word autumnal as well and at this time of year I get to say it allll the time. (sound familiar?) I never update this blog in the summer, I’ve noticed. I think that’s because I’m usually too busy and not spending a lot of time on my computer, […]

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 […]