Journey through Winter: Late January: Savour
We find ourselves approaching the festival of Imbolc, which for Emma and Sue signals the beginings of the end of winter. In wistful mood, we’re savouring each winter’s day and continuing to embrace the magic the season has to offer us all, if we choose to look for it
Show Notes:
Edited by Dan Lange
Music Credit Purple Planet (Reiki Healing)
Opening Poem: Sue reads Joy Chose You by Donna Ashworth from her Wild Hope collection
Sue is making candles using this kit:https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0D8J6CTP2?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
Emma talks about Wassailing - you can find our more about the tradition here: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/whats-on/join-in-with-the-annual-wassail Emma and Sue have loved listening to Kate's Rusby's Cornish Wassailling this January: https://open.spotify.com/track/0nCKoUiUAveyAJOy1t1ecB
Lunar Living: Sue's moon wisdom is taken from Enchantment by Katherine May and Moonology by Yasmin Boland
Recipes: Spiced apple (Wassail punch) - warm 1.5 litres of apple juice in a heavy based pan with a selection of warming spices (cinnamon sticks, cloves, peppercorns, cardamom pods, star anise...) and orange slices. Add a dash of liqueur if you like, and some sugar if needed. Serve in mugs and be sure to share some of your punch with the trees.
Recipes: Twelfth Night Cake (serves 8, recipe taken from Lucy Brazier's A River Cottage Christmas) - Ingredients - 150g unsalted butter, softened/ 150g caster sugar/ 1 orange zested and juiced/ 3 medium eggs/ 50g plain flour/ 200g ground almonds/ 150ml plain yoghurt Method - 1) Grease and line a 20cm round baking tin and put the oven on to warm at 160 degrees fan (180 degrees for non-fan oven) 2) Cream the butter and sugar (use electric mixer/ food processor) 3) add the orange zest, one egg and tablespoon of flour, mix. Then repeat with the other two eggs 4) add any remaining flour and the ground almonds and mix, gently 5) finally, fold in the orange juice and yoghurt 6) add the mix to the prepared tin and put in the oven for 25 mins or so until baked through 7) leave to cool in the tin for 10 mins, then turn out onto a wire rack 8) dust with icing sugar to serve, if you like
Wintery Words: Sue reads extracts from Incandescence by Ted Walter, Night by John Haines and Dawn by Andrea Hollander Budy, all taken from the Earth Songs anthology Peter Abbs, and Dusk by Peter Meighan. Sue learnt about the three phases of dawn and dusk from the book The Outrun by Amy Liptrot.
Poetry Task: Try Sue's poetry task by starting the day with a poem from A Poem for Every Winter's Day by Allie Esiri or later in the day try the Poems for A Winter Afternoon collection, edited by Peter Meighan
Bulb task: Here's a link for those seeking snowdrops: https://www.greatbritishgardens.co.uk/seasonal/snowdrops.html
Intention setting task: Emma downloaded her intention setting template from Beth Kempton's website: https://bethkempton.com/calmchristmas/templates/
Imbolc: you can read more about Imbolc here: https://glastonburyinformationcentre.co.uk/2024/01/29/what-is-imbolc/
Sue draws a card from Louise Hay's Wisdom Cards pack
Podcast Timings: Lunar living 12.15/ Recipes 15.55/ Wintery Words 23.58/ Breathwork 28.45/ Tasks 36.15 / Wisdom Card 45.28
