Wendy Padley

SAD

On seasonal affective disorder and how it's normal.

Oct 29 • 

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The decline of reading.

We are apparently reading less over the last two decades.

Oct 1 • 

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September 2025

Anxiety and a broken society

Apparently anxiety is going up and up for younger people. Maybe it's not surprising.

Sep 3 • 

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August 2025

Summer 20 things

The last of my seasonal best things.

Aug 6 • 

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June 2025

How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell

And it's not about how to do nothing.

Jun 11 • 

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May 2025

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

This is as astonishing novel of renaissance Italy, of cruelty and of how we know that powerful families have always worked.

May 7 • 

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April 2025

Authority

Some thoughts on our relationship with authority.

Apr 30 • 

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Antidote

To world events, but whatever you need, really.

Apr 16 • 

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March 2025

Spring 20 things - March

20 favourite things about Spring - add your own!

Mar 19 • 

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All I Mean

A poem on being held.

Mar 5 • 

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February 2025

Stitching and making

Why do we sew or knit and what are we doing when we do it?

Feb 19 • 

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A different look into February

How are things going?

Feb 5 • 

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