Let’s Fall in Love with November

Nastya:

November is the most under-appreciated month 😀 Let’s re-discover how to love it anew, here are 10 things to do while November 2020 still lasts.

– find and buy some seriously beautiful postcards and mail them to friends.

– re-read Eugene Onegin.

– keep on travelling and creating mini-holidays for yourself (eco, foodie, photo, cinema tourism into neighbouring regions, countrysides and city districts is our everything right now).

– start preparing for the winter festive season at a leisurely pace: take a look at the new garlands, candles, advent calendars, wreaths and other decorations, then draft a list of gifts.

– do a digital detox and spend several days without screens.

– try new board games: our current favourites are Klask and Riding Europe.

– see a new film by François Ozon.

– give your close ones some unforgettable moments: dive into mounds of fallen leaves with the kids, listen to the husband who’s suggested to listen to Bach :))), go with friends to an online theater performance, for example, ‘UFO’ by Ivan Vyrypaev (he’s a genius!)

– add soul to your kitchen: bring order to your spices, put them into nice jars, place those in a clear view and start using often.

– do some simple kind deeds, for example, set up a recurring payment to a charity.

Lena:

Take the cozy winter pajamas out of the closet.

Keep a small volume of Bashō next to your bed to open at random pages and read haiku whenever you feel like it. How about this one:
On a withered branch
A crow is perched
Autumn evening

Find time to contemplate nature… it’s ok to do it from the window, yet coming to a park to sit by the pond feels so much better.

Once in a while don’t just read haiku. Write them too, at least in your head.

That will help to turn the gloomy time of the year into a very poetic season:)

Arrange or come to a heart-warming party that offers oeuvres of the Russian cuisine, for example, borscht 🙂

Buy a bunch of chrysanthemums. Their scent and beauty are so autumn’s.

Dedicate a rainier-than-usual evening to a game of Scrabble and fight till the last letter.

Keep riding a bicycle until snow covers everything.

Go with all the girls to a steam sauna and use all of our inventory of masks and scrubbs in a single visit.

Escape to the countryside where the best friend lives. Warm house, soulful talks, watercolour monochrome views – everything to bring you peace with the coming winter.