Next week is the Winter Solstice and Yule – the first day of winter. One of the best parts about celebrating the winter solstice is knowing that each day after it, the sun climbs just a little bit higher…
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I can’t believe it is time for my ABCs of Winter post already. It feels as though I just wrote the autumn post. And like I mentioned in my autumn post, I missed out on writing a list for…
Dark Academia took the world of social media by storm. There is some worthwhile criticism which I am absolutely not ignoring but as an aesthetic, personally, I love it. Especially when it walks that fine line of romanticising learning…
It’s almost Samhain and there’s a lot I am looking forward to this year. Especially my Persephone and Hades tarot card pull from Holly. A brief background (because you know I love a bit of trivia and history): The Celtic…
This type of post used to be a Rhyme & Ribbons regular, but I’ve realised that it has been almost a year since I have written a post like this – last October in fact! You can read the…
I had the absolute delight of seeing Soak, Ethel Cain, MUNA and Boygenuis in Gunnersbury Park in London. It was the largest event that I have been to since the pandemic – around 25,000 fans were spread throughout the…
Josh Ritter is one of my all-time favourite musicians. This marks the forth time that I have seen him live (the first being in Birmingham Alabama way back in 2009!) When Ritter announced that he was touring, I immediately…
I had the most glorious, sunny, fantastic birthday on the Cornish coast that then extended to a quick trip to York. I’m very fortunate that my birthday falls during the half-term as a teacher so that I always have…
It is not often that I take an absolutely random punt and book gig tickets for a band that I know nothing about. But the gig was reasonably priced and it sounded fun so… along I went. I also…
I met my Goodreads goal of 75 books last year, but I am slightly behind schedule this year already. Follow me on Goodreads for other suggestions. Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri ManiscalcoWhen Emilia’s twin sister is murdered, the…