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Journey through the Seasons

Emma Wise and Sue Wood

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Frequency: 1 episode/43d. Total Eps: 18

Join Sue and Emma as they journey through the seasons. With lots of original content created to help forge a sense of connection to the rhythm of the year and cyclical living, Sue and Emma share seasonal poems, self-care ideas, recipes and more

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Journey through the Seasons - Season 3 - Prepare

Season 3 · Episode 2

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 • Duration 01:06:16

Edited by: Adam Bailey

Music Credit: Reiki Healing from Purple Planet Music (https://www.purple-planet.com/home)

Podcast artwork: Karen Ingall

Opening words: Sue reads Late October by Maya Angelou

Seasonal living:

Black History Month
https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk
Sue reads from Black and British a forgotten history by David Olusoga

More info on Orionids meteor shower
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c64gr18jrvx3o

For a deeper delve into Halloween, have a look at:
https://resobscura.substack.com/p/a-very-deep-history-of-halloween?r=36rfh7&utm_medium=ios

For info on the Northamptonshire based World conker championships, have a look here:

https://worldconkerchampionships.com/about/the-world-conker-championships-is-on/

Seasonal Recipes:

Emma's pumpkin bread recipe:

Ingredients: 250g plain flous/ 250g wholemeal flour/ 1 tsp salt/ 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda/ 150g grated butternut squash/ 75g chopped walnuts and pumpkin seeds/ leaves from 2 sprigs of thyme/ 300ml plain yogurt with a squeeze of lemon in it/ 125ml whole milk [NB: make it vegan by substituting the yoghurt and milk for 400ml plant milk with a good squeeze of lemon plus 30g of a neutral tasting oil such as rapeseed)

Method: Pre-heat oven to 220 degrees. Prepare a baking sheet with baking parchment or a thin sprinkling of flour. Combine dry ingredients, then mix in the butternut squash, walnuts, pumpkin seeds and thyme before adding wet ingredients. Give it all a really good mix, then turn out onto the baking sheet and shape into a rough ball. Using a sharp knife, make a deep cross in the top of the loaf to help your bread cook more evenly. Dust with a little extra wholemeal flour. Put into the hot oven for 15 minutes before reducing the oven temperature to 200 degrees. Bake for a further 20-25 minutes until the bread feels hollow if you tap it. Allow to cool a little before slicing and eating if you have the patience for it.

Emma's sloe-gin recipe is based on this recipe from BBC Good Food:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/sloegin_7722

Self care:

Sue spoke about the 10-30 method/ the 3/3/3 method/ the kitchen fork method. You can read more about these in the links below:

Declutter ideas
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/house-and-home/household-advice/a73959328/the-1030-decluttering-method/
Marie Kondo
https://konmari.com/?srsltid=AU7gw4WFyUvJinwvLoJa3IfO3pQZq8OTvk_5p9FZ42onVv6jvE-WjD8w
The kitchen fork method
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/house-and-home/household-advice/a70734400/the-fork-decluttering-method/

Seasonal Words:

Emma reads the poem Conker by Robert MacFarlane taken from the Lost Words collection, an extract from Polly Vernon's column in Grazia magazine dated 12 October 2026 and some words taken from Kate Mosse's Autumn memoir.

What's on Our Book Shelf?:

Sue is listening to The Doctors Kitchen podcast. She's been reading poems from Donna Ashworth's To the Women, reading Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy and following @thebarefootforager on instagram

Emma recommends the remake of Sense & Sensibility and has loved the audio versions of Meg Mason's Sophie Standing There and Ripeness by Sarah Moss and enjoyed Kate Mosse's memoir Autumn. She has really enjoyed series 3 of Colin from Accounts (not Colin the Accountant!)

Timings:

Opening words: 0.54

Prepare Chat: 01.44

Seasonal Living: 16.28

Recipe: 27.18

Self Care: 36.35

Seasonal words: 42.02

What's on our Bookshelf: 48.04

Tasks: 58.52

Farewell: 1.03.29

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Journey through the Seasons - Season 3 - Abundance

Season 3 · Episode 1

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 • Duration 50:18

Edited by: Adam Bailey

Music Credit: Reiki Healing from Purple Planet Music (https://www.purple-planet.com/home)

Podcast artwork: Karen Ingall

Opening words: Sue reads Abundace by Louise Gluck

Seasonal Living: Sue references to Lia Leendertz's The Almanac. You can read more about the Harvest moon here: https://bookishseasons.com/what-is-the-harvest-moon/ and about Michaelmas here: https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/st-michaels-day-and-michaelmas-traditions

Recipe: Emma's Sourdough Apple Cake recipe is as follows. For the starter: 460g plain flour, 500ml milk, 230g caster sugar, 2tsps yeast (mix in a large bowl, cover with a tea towel). Feed on day 4 and day 9 - 120g plain flour, 225g caster sugar, 225ml milk. Stir daily. The starter is ready to bake with on day 10. For the cake: take 1/4 of your starter (gift or start again with any portions you don't use to make a cake) and add to a large bowl, add 150ml sunflower oil, 2 eggs, 2 tsps vanilla extract, stir well. Then add dry ingredients; 255g soft brown sugar, 240g plain flour, 2 heaped tsps baking powder, a little salt, a generous teaspoon of cinnamon and mix well. Add 2 cooking apples, peeled and diced into approx 1cm squares and stir in along with an optional 100-150g raisins or sultanas. Add to a lined tin (it'll fill a 20cm round tin), sprinkle with demerera sugar and put into an oven pre-heated to 170 degrees. The cakes take roughly 45 minutes to cook - check, it may need a little longer, and then allow to cool in the tin before truning out and eating or storing.

Self-Care: To read more about gratitude practices and gratitude in general please visit: https://grateful.org

Seasonal words: Sue reads poems this month: Warm Apple Crumble by Gervase Gordon (instagram @lit_service_dept ), Ted Hughes' Harvest Moon and On the Hill Late at Night by Wendell Berry

Journey through the Seasons - Season 4 - Blossom

Season 4 · Episode 7

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 • Duration 59:54

Edited by: Adam Bailey

Music Credit: Reiki Healing from Purple Planet Music (https://www.purple-planet.com/home)

Podcast artwork: Karen Ingall

Opening words: Sue reads "May" by Donna Ash worth

Blossoming chat: Sue mentions a change in the blossoming time of trees associated with climate change here- you can read about that here: https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/why-are-blossoms-early

Seasonal Living: Sue references to Lia Leendertz's The Almanac and found her Shakespeare quotes here: https://nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/categories/flowers/

Recipe: The spring shakshuka recipe is based on a recipe from the BBC website; https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/green_baked_eggs_with_98845

Self-Care: You can read more about the benefits of microsdosing mindfulness here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2502370-too-busy-to-meditate-microdosing-mindfulness-has-big-health-benefits/ . Sue discovered the idea of microdosing mindfulness at a retreat run by OptimumYou Yoga at Kelmash Hall: https://www.facebook.com/KelmarshHall/videos/ground-grow-%EF%B8%8F-last-friday-optimumyouyogastudio-hosted-a-wonderful-wellbeing-expe/2248353469236792/

Seasonal words: Sue reads from Chasing Fog by Laura Pashby and from the Substack account @MidnightCrumbs on romantisising April: https://open.substack.com/pub/midnightcrumbs/p/your-pocket-guide-to-a-gentle-joyful?r=36rfh7&utm_medium=ios

Journey through the Seasons - Season 3 - Emerge

Season 4 · Episode 6

Tuesday, March 24, 2026 • Duration

Edited by: Adam Bailey

Music Credit: Reiki Healing from Purple Planet Music (https://www.purple-planet.com/home)

Podcast artwork: Karen Ingall

Opening words: Sue reads words from LR Knost

Seasonal Living: Sue references to Lia Leendertz's The Almanac

Recipes: The spiced Easter biscuits recipe is from Honeywell Bake's book, *Planet Friendly Baking*. You can find the recipe here: https://honeywellbakes.com/spiced-easter-biscuit-recipe/

Emma also suggests using leftover egg whites from the biscuit recipe to make Riverford's Rhubarb Meringue Pie: https://www.riverford.co.uk/recipes/rhubarb-meringue-pie and experimenting with a wild garlic houmous: https://www.farmersgirlkitchen.co.uk/wild-garlic-hummus-wild-garlic-pesto/

Seasonal words: Emma shares the opening words from Kenneth Graeme's *Wind in the Willows* and an extract from the collection *The English Landscape* collated by Kathleen Conyngham Greene, The Beech Trees in Spring by Richard Jefferies,

What's On Our Bookshelf: Sue is reading *The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding* by Holly Ringland and loving her poetry book, *Finding Joy*, from Dervla Miscal. She is enjoying *Cacophony of

Bone* by Kerri ní Dochartaigh and for some light relief watching Married at First Sight Australia. She has enjoyed a village screening of *Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy* and listening to The Plodcast with Mandy Stark and Ellie Williams. Emma recommends *You be Mother* by Meg Mason and Mary Oliver's essay collection *Upstream*. She is working her way through the books of Thich Nhat Hanh and has enjoyed watching the films *Philomena* and *Little Miss Sunshine*.

Journey through the Seasons - Season 2 - Awaken

Season 4 · Episode 5

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 • Duration 54:25

Edited by: Adam Bailey (huge thanks!)

Music Credit: Reiki Healing from Purple Planet Music (https://www.purple-planet.com/home)

Opening words: Sue reads A Light Exists in Spring, by Emily Dickinson

In their awaken chat, Sue mentions the writing course she's doing with Beth Kempton (dowhatyouloveforlife.com) and a walking tour of Oxford she enjoyed with her boys run by Mystery Guides (https://www.mysteryguides.co.uk/products/oxford)

You can read Emma's blog about her panchakarma detox here: https://www.breathe4good.co.uk/panchakarma

Seasonal Living: Sue refers to Lia Leendertz's The Almanac

Recipes: Banana oatmeal bars - you can find the recipe here: https://cookidoo.com.au/recipes/recipe/en-AU/r154151

Emma's detox tea recipe, to make 1l: Roughly chop a thumb size piece of ginger and add to a saucepan with a teaspoon of fennel seeds (and some corainder seeds if you like). Add your water and bring to the boil. Boil for 3-4 minutes and decant into a thermos to sip through the day.

Seasonal words: Sue reads an article titled Slowly Does It from the spring issue of the National Trust Magazine (read it here: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/media/rembrandt-slow-looking-tour), and she shares a poem by Adam Maxwell Martin Winter Hasn't Finished With Us Yet

What's On Our Bookshelf: Sue is reading Tin Man by Sarah Winman and enjoyed The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex. She's looking forward to reading The BBQ at No 9 by Jenny Godfrey and The Names by Florence Knapp. Emma recommends the book Connie by Charotte Duckworth, and Marianne Williamson's Midlife Awakening. She has been enjoying enneogram quizzes, as recommended on the Postcards from Midlife podcast and bingeing Bridgerton series 4.

Journey through Winter S2 -Gratitude

Season 4 · Episode 5

Tuesday, January 27, 2026 • Duration 54:25

Edited by: Dan Lange (thanks Dan, it was a toughie!)

Music Credit: Reiki Healing from Purple Planet Music (https://www.purple-planet.com/home)

Opening words: Sue reads Mindful by Mary Oliver

In their gratitude chat, Sue mentions Beth Kempton (dowhatyouloveforlife.com) as an inspiration

Wassailing - Emma mentions Kate Rusby's song Cornish Wassailing

Recipes: Emma's carrot cake porridge recipe: Mix 1/4 cup oats, heaped tsp chia seeds, 1/4tsp mixed spice, grated zest of a clementine, a small carrot - grated, a small handful of raisins, a generous cup of plant milk (I like cashew or almond) in a small saucepan and warm gently on the hob. When the liquid is absorbed and porridge is nice and hot, transfer to a bowl and top with a handful of walnuts and some maple syrup if you like. Emma's warm smoothie recipe: Add to a food processor a cooked sweet potato, dried ginger, cinnamon, a scoop of protein powder, a small handful of almonds, some warm plant milk. Blitz until smooth then enjoy.

Seasonal Living - Sue refers to Lia Leendertz's The Almanac

Seasonal words - Emma reads David Whyte's words from his book Consolations, on gratitude, which she found on the website Grateful.org

What's On Our Bookshelf - Sue is watching Top Gear and Friends series 2 and reading When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman. She is listening to Small Ways to Live Well (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2280335/follow). Emma recommends the books Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby and Circle of Grace by Jan Stevens. She has watched the film Train Dreams and listened to Bill Nighy's podcast Ill Advised.

Journey through Winter S2 -Appreciate

Season 4 · Episode 4

Tuesday, January 6, 2026 • Duration 45:31

Edited by Dan Lange

Music - Reiki Healing from Purple Planet Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/home

Opening words: Sue reads Winter's Cloak by Joyce Rupp

Seasonal Living - you can find more info on Twelfth Night here: https://www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-about/twelfth-night-what-it-is-when-it-falls-and-why-its-the-biggest-celebration-we-no-longer-enjoy-251278/https://www.discoverbritain.com/history/traditions/british-twelfth-night-traditions/

Seasonal Recipes: To make mulled apple - simply heat some good cloudy apple juice in a heavy bottomed pan with some mulling spices - cinnamon sticks, cardamon pods, star anise and cloves, for example.

Nigel's Slater's new year's lentil soup recipe: 175g red lentils/ 3 tbsps oil/ 1 tsp yellow mustard seeds/ 1 tsp cumin seeds/ 8 cardamom pods/ 35g ginger/ 3 cloves garlic/ 1tsp turmeric powder/ 2 small chillies/ 1 tbsp tomato puree/ 250g chopped tomatoes/ 3 tsp tamarind pastes/ 750ml water/ 1/2tsp salt. Make a start by rinsing lentils thoroughly. Use a pestle and mortar to grind the cumin seeds and the seeds from the cardamon pods. In a food processor, blitz the ginger and garlic (both peeled) with the turmeric and chillies and ground spices, plus 1 tbsp of the oil to make a smooth paste. Add the remaining oil to a heavy based pan and fry the mustard seeds for a minute or two, then add the spice paste and cook for a further minute until fragrant/ Stir in the tomato puree and the chopped tomatoes and cook for a few minutes to allow the tomatoes to soften and collapse a little. Then add the drained lentils, tamarind paste, water and salt, bring to a simmer and allow to simmer gently for 25 minutes before serving (ideally with Nigel Slater's treacle and rye bread!)

Seasonal Words: Sue read The Year's Midnight from Gillian Clarke () and Surrounded by Treasure from Donna Ashworth's Wild Hope.

Journey through Winter S2 -Immerse

Season 4 · Episode 3

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 • Duration 49:33

Edited by Dan Lange

Music Credit: Purple Planet Music: Reiki Healing - https://www.purple-planet.com/home

Opening words - Sue reads words from Adam Maxwell Martin

Immerse chat: Sue had been meditating at her local Buddhist centre: https://meditateinnorthants.com and Emma attended an Aga cooking demo at Aga Oundle: https://www.agaliving.com/store-locator/aga-oundle

Seasonal Living: The moment of winter solstice 2025 is 3.03pm on 21 December. Sue shares words from The Almanac 2026, by Lia Leendertz

Recipes: To make fire honey, mix a small (225ml) jar of honey with the the finely chopped peel from a lemon and an orange, a c5cm chunk of ginger, grated, one finely chopped red chilli, a teaspoon of turmeric and a teaspoon of cinnamon. You'll need one teaspoon of fire honey in one cup of hot water for an immune boosting drink.

You can find the recipes for frangipane mincemeat squares here: http://www.daffodilkitchen.com/christmas-frangipane-mincemeat-squares/

Self-Care: you can read more about Jolabokaflod here: https://jolabokaflod.org/about/founding-story/

Seasonal words - Emma shares Robert Frost's Dust of Snow and reads words from Nina McLaughlin's Winter Solstice essay collection

Journey through Winter S2 -Embrace

Season 4 · Episode 1

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 • Duration 58:26

Edited by Dan Lange

Music Credit - Purple Planet - Reiki Healing

Opening poem - Sue reads Winter Dark by Lilian Moore

You can read more about the micro-season of winter in Vermont here: https://www.boston.com/culture/wickedpedia/2023/12/01/noah-kahan-stick-season-vermont/

Sue's Wrap around earphone headphone was bought from Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/d9aDfW3

In Lunar Living, Sue references star gazing apps - both Stellarium and Star Walk 2 are favourites of hers. She talks about St Lucia’s Day - you can read more about it here: https://www.britannica.com/topic/St-Lucias-Day. Sue shares some words about the Leonids meteor shower taken from Enchantment by Katherine May. You can find out more about the Leonids meteor shower here: https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/space-astronomy/leonid-meteor-shower-when-and-where-see-it-uk Harriet Powers story of stitching quilts can be found in Stitching Stars: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/851725.Stitching_Stars

In the Recipe section, Emma mentions Jolabokaflod which we will talk about in our next episode. For a sneak preview check out this website: https://jolabokaflod.org/about/founding-story/

This month's Quincemeat recipe is taken from Winter in the Highlands by Flora Shedden. Ingredients: 1kg quince/ zest and juice of a lemon/ 500ml cider/ 350g light soft brown sugar/ 200g suet/ 200g raisins/ 100g golden raisins/ 200g sultanas/ 100g pitted prunes/ 100g dried apricots/ 100g dried mixed peel/ 75g flaked almonds/ 1/2tsp ground mixed spice/ 1/2tsp ground cinnamon/ 1/2 tsp ground ginger// 1/2 nutmeg finely grated / 100ml brandy// Method: 1. Sterilise jars 2. Put grated quince, lemon zest and juice, cider, sugar and suet into a large pan and cook over medium heat until simmering. 3. Add fruit and nuts and simmer gently for 15-20 mins until the fruit is swollen and the mixture thickened. 4. Take off the heat. Stir in the brandy then spoon into jarsIn Seasonal Self Care, Emma talks about her daily morning practice based around . Sue mentions her Mindfulness calendar - In Seasonal Words, Sue shares Nikita Gill's from her new poetry collectionand an extract from by NigelSlater

Journey through Winter S2 -Prepare

Season 4 · Episode 1

Tuesday, October 21, 2025 • Duration 58:26

Edited by: Dan Lange

Music: Reiki Healing from Purple Planet

Opening Words: Sue reads from Anne of Green Gables, by LM Montgomery

Podcast Developments: You can now follow the show and access bonus content on Substack: https://journeythroughtheseasons.substack.com - where you can also buy a subscription to help support the podcast, or you can buy us a coffee - at https://buymeacoffee.com/journeythroughtheseasons

Seasonal Living: Sue and Emma discuss the Pagan festival of Samhain

Recipes: Emma's Butternut Squash Galette is adapted from a recipe by Lazy Cat Kitchen: https://www.lazycatkitchen.com/vegan-pumpkin-galette/ and the mulled cider recipe is taken from BBC Good Foods: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/mulled-cider

Self-Care: You can find information on Pratyahara and the breathwork practices Sue suggests at:

https://ekotexyoga.co.uk/blogs/yoga/what-is-pratyahara

https://www.artofliving.org/in-en/yoga/pranayama/ujjayi-breathing

Seasonal Words: Sue reads Rainbow Bridge by Donna Ashworth and Emma shares an article by Katherine May from the beginning October issue of the Ocado Magazine, Indoorphins Boost

What's on Our Bookshelf: This month, Sue recommends poetry books The Works by Pam Ayres, by Donna Ashworth and a collection of poetry from Radio 4's Sue is watching and has plans to watch and Emma Thompson's new film. Emma mentions by Janice Hallett, ( Sue mentions by the same author), Ian McEwan's , Netflix series' and and the podcast

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