Compost

Compost | December

Solo train journeys and jackdaws, patterns and cycles, winter sunshine and long dark nights

Dec 14, 2025 • Ellen Chapman

Compost | November

Literal and metaphorical compost, wild geese, choices and transformation, rituals to remember, and stories about the dead

Nov 9, 2025 • Ellen Chapman

Compost | October

Autumn fire, a chatter of acorns, language loss, aging parents and growing up.

Oct 12, 2025 • Ellen Chapman

Compost | September

Autumn treasures, in-between spaces, a mini-memoir in barn owl sightings, constructed memories and a dash of back to school energy.

Sep 14, 2025 • Ellen Chapman

Compost | August

On trying to be the Fool, some holiday snapshots from Northern Ireland, family history, flags and murals, wood piegons and St Columba, and my ongoing…

Aug 17, 2025 • Ellen Chapman

Fireweed, permission slips,and herring gull appreciation, plus some flash memoir pieces inspired by my family history and Durham Miners Gala.

Jul 13, 2025 • Ellen Chapman

Reflecting on a significant birthday at the hinge of the year, plus hospice gardens, skylarks, 1000 words of summer, Celtic saints and Arthurian…

Jun 15, 2025 • Ellen Chapman

A cornucopia of swifts and Self Esteem, internal seasons that don't always align with the external season, mothering as a verb and as a container…

May 11, 2025 • Ellen Chapman

Compost | April

This month’s instalment is brought to you by my chaotic brain, the wrong branch of the family tree, cave dwellers, tree knowers, and the number 9.

Apr 13, 2025 • Ellen Chapman

Compost | March

Leaning into the dualities of early spring: blossoms and birds, Pisces season, Welsh mythology, the Moon and the mystery

Mar 16, 2025 • Ellen Chapman

Compost | February

red kites / the eternal to read pile / all fours / valentine’s tarot reading

Feb 14, 2025 • Ellen Chapman

Compost | January

a new approach / journaling / cold snap / hermit energy / full moon tarot reading / bird of the month

Jan 13, 2025 • Ellen Chapman

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