Return of the Light - EASTER SPECIAL

Join us for our Easter Special episode of Small Ways to Live Well, the podcast from The Simple Things magazine

Released on Good Friday, Team TST are recording live from a Blackdown Shepherd Hut in Somerset where they’ll enjoy cake and decorate an Ostereierbaum (Easter tree) before trying a sauna and cold plunge and warming up with rival hot chocolate recipes. Plus the signs that spring proper is here, stories of cute spring animals and making the most of April showers. Oh and we’re learning how ducks quack in other languages.

Co-hosted by The Simple Things Editor, Lisa Sykes; wellbeing editor Rebecca Frank and author of The Slow Traveller, Jo Tinsley

Our Easter Special and Season 5: Return of the light is supported by Blackdown Shepherd Huts.

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Editing and music by Arthur Cosslett.

To read:

Play spring bingo – signs that spring is really here

Speak like a duck abroad

To bake:

Simnel cake recipe & history

Hot cross buns recipe

Gugelhupf – Austrian Easter cakes

To make:

Ostereierbaum (Easter tree)

Dyed eggs

Hot chocolate
Tangerine & nutmeg
Sea salt
Spiced
With pink peppercorns
Orangey tipple

To buy:

M&S Simnel cake

Blackdown sauna & cold plunge deck

Beautiful mugs in the Blackdown hut for hot chocolate were by Florence Ceramics

From The Simple Things:

In the April JAUNT issue

Rain gardens

Easter buns of Europe

Magical Creatures – mallards

In our new anthology&