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I don’t usually take my macro lens with me on my

I don’t usually take my macro lens with me on my travels but my zoom lens needs to be repaired, so this time I brought the macro along. I’m glad I did because I met this pretty bee today 🐝

Autumn days 🍁☀️♥️

Autumn days 🍁☀️♥️

Got these beauties at the market today. Excited fo

Got these beauties at the market today. Excited for mangosteen season! 😋

Can’t visit my parents this Easter weekend becau

Can’t visit my parents this Easter weekend because my dad’s down with Covid 😔 Hope he recovers fully and doesn’t end up with long-term symptoms. Meanwhile, to bring them some cheer, I did surprise them with homemade chocolate hot cross buns as well as wholegrain carrot and oat rolls. It’s not the same as spending time together but it’s something at least 💛

Got a distinct ear, good rise and beautifully even

Got a distinct ear, good rise and beautifully even boule shape for today’s mixed spelt bread loaf! The @emilehenryfrance potato/bread pot evidently is a great addition to any kitchen 🤗

Ingredients:
- 245g bread flour
- 175g spelt flour
- 295ml water
- ½ tsp instant yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp honey
- 1 tbsp rice bran oil (or any vegetable oil with a high smoke point)

Instructions:
1. Whisk together the dry ingredients.
2. Add water, oil and honey to the dry ingredients. Mix together either by hand or in a stand mixer until the ingredients come together to form a shaggy dough.
3. Rest for 30 mins. Fold the dough. Repeat twice.
4. Let the dough rise in a covered bowl in the fridge overnight or 12 hours.
5. Deflate the dough. Rest 15 mins. Shape into a boule. Place into 8" or 9" banneton/bowl seasoned with rice flour. Cover with a tea towel. Let rise until double in size about 1 to 1.5 hours.
6. 30 mins before bread dough is done rising, preheat oven at 230°C. Place bread pot/bread cloche/Dutch oven into the oven to preheat.
7. Turn out risen bread dough into the bread pot. Score with a sharp knife or lame.
8. Bake bread covered 35 mins, the 5-10 mins uncovered until crust turns into desired colour. When the bread reaches an internal temperature of 90°C or more, it is fully baked.
9. Let bread cool down for at least an hour before cutting into it. I know it’s difficult but it’ll be worth the wait!

There’s this melancholy that sets in for me when

There’s this melancholy that sets in for me whenever it’s time to move. Growing up, I resented every time we packed up and left. I hated uprooting just as we had settled in somewhere. When my family bought this place, I thought this was it. This was finally a permanent home.

Turns out, it isn’t. It’s time to move again but this time is different. I’m excited. Even though this is the home we most made our own, the only place we ever renovated, I look forward to what’s next.

I’m excited that this time it’s my choice to move. I’ll miss this space and I’ll miss my family but I’m looking forward to the next chapter as my fiancé and I look towards marriage soon ♥️
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#SeasonsPoetry #UOHome #StillsWithStories #Bookshelfie #ASecondOfWhimsey #GoWildAndSlow #SimpleAndStill #BookLoversOfInstagram

I’m so scared of heights that my hands and feet

I’m so scared of heights that my hands and feet tingle when I cross narrow bridges, when winding round steep hills and mountains, when looking down waterfalls, or when edging near the end of cliffs. Just two years ago, I wouldn’t even have considered going up the Cloud Forest dome. Slowly but surely chipping away at this fear feels liberating, although my mind still clings to self-preservation.
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#CloudForest #CloudForestDome #GardensByTheBay #Calmversation #AtHomeInTheWorld #SeasonsPoetry #ASlowMoment #SlowSimpleWild #DiscoverSingapore

Even though I admired bullet journals from afar fo

Even though I admired bullet journals from afar for years, I was too intimidated to start my own. The creativity and artistry in the #bujo community is amazing 🤩 But I never thought I could live up to that.

Recently however, I came across @elsarhae's Youtube video from early 2020 "Minimalist BULLET JOURNAL Guide // How to Begin a Bullet Journal" where she shared her set-up. I loved her approach to trackers, how easy it is to figure out correlations between sleep, mood, stress, health, etc over time. That's something I think would be very useful for me. That and simply taking pen to paper to reduce my phone screen time to slow down on the whole.

So, I'm finally giving this thing a go, albeit with caution, telling myself not to get caught up in trying to make each page look perfect. What matters more is the function and the time I take to reflect.

What encouraged you to try (bullet) journalling?

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