Five minute lovely list

~ Time to write - lists, musings, letters, thank you notes, blog posts. It's felt lacking recently. I've missed it.

~ Mobile phone Apps - oh my goodness, these little wonders really do make life (especially when on the road) easier and more fun. Some of my favourites of the moment are: Passbook (electronic tickets, boarding passes etc.), TripAdvisor and TripAdvisor City Guide (access to good travel info and recommendations on the move), Pixlromatic+ (fun for photographs), Genius Scan (enhances and creates pdf documents out of anything you photograph - especially useful for receipts, recipes and other text records you might like to make), SimpleMind+ (an uncomplicated but great little mind-mapping tool - I love it for quickly capturing ideas), Audible (Audiobooks. Something I've apparently never outgrown is the pleasure of having someone read to me. In the absence of a real someone to do this, audible brings me people like Stephen Fry, Richard Attenborough and a host of lovely narrators to do so. Love it!). If you have any App faves you'd like to share, please do... I'd love to try them out.

~ The White Company candles - delicious fragrances, beautiful, simple but luxurious packaging and very clean and long-burning. I have them at home and take a little one with me when I travel - it's like a sensory anchor. They make me very happy and there's one for every mood. My favourites are Seychelles, Wild Mint and Pine Cone but there really isn't a bad one.

~ Creative stash. More specifically... using it. In my mission to declutter and lighten my world of all the stuff that weighs me down, as well as to deliberately carve out more creative playtime, I've been sorting through my stash and am planning to have great fun using it up. I probably have enough to keep me going until about 2025!

~ Kindness - when it's aimed at me, it always takes me by surprise and manages to undo me.