A Simple Beautiful Life
Letters
Honest writing for women in the middle of everything.
7th July 2026
What I Borrowed from the Buddhists
I am not a Buddhist. I’m a woman who has spent years on a yoga mat, mostly for my back and my sanity, and who kept catching fragments of something older drifting through those rooms…
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Four Old Words
At the centre of it all sit four old words. The Stoics called them the virtues, and everything else hangs off them…
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Before it was Aesthetic
I found minimalism more than ten years ago, back when it was still a slightly eccentric thing to be interested in — before the beige linen photoshoots, before it became a look you could buy…
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Notes from the Scenic Route
Everyone in my family found their thing. You know the thing I mean — the calling, the lane, the answer to ‘and what do you do?’ that comes out in one confident sentence…
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The tea I reheated three times
I made a cup of tea this morning. A good one — proper leaves, the nice cup, thirty seconds of genuine optimism…
Read this letter →16th March 2026
You forgot the fork again
It was just an ordinary morning. School run done, coffee in hand, back home before 8am. Already running the day in my head — the lifts, the extra sports, the guests, the shopping…
Read this letter →14th March 2026
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