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I recently discovered that my iPhone has a limit of 500 tabs. I don’t know if this is a new limit or my new personal record for opening tabs and not closing them down. Flowers to plant, blogs to read, things to buy, recipes to make, music, films, games, places. I’ve got them all.

These days I’m often interrupted during the cycle of thought → research → idea. Over time these forgotten rabbit holes add up.

When I was sick over Christmas I got curious about what all those tabs were holding. I had to keep my mind busy while my body healed so over 48 hours I opened every tab and made a list of all the interested links & topics in my Notion app.

I created this list an archive for myself, but perhaps you’ll find something that sparks your curiosity as well. Enjoy a nosey peek into my neurodivergent mind. It’s crowded in here.

When I was curating this post I remembered I used to something similar on Patreon (with links I’d already read or made a note of somewhere). Maybe this is my way of returning to that.

My creative process is fueled by inquiry so there’s always a connection between my random musings and the work I end up creating. I love documenting this part of the process and sending these little curiosity sparks out into the world.

The Data

Out of 500 total tabs there were 203 useful links and topics (if I counted right). The rest were duplicates, duds, and dead shopping carts. There were also a fair number of links to do with physical and mental health which I didn’t include here.

Recipes

Anzac Biscuits via @emsie_kins

Sourdough Pancakes

Broccoli Rubble Farro Salad*

No Knead Sourdough Bread

Smitten Kitchen Shortbread Biscuits

5 Minute Peanut Noodles

Puy Lentil Salad & Picnic Recipes

Lentil & Chickpea Salad

Mature Cheddar Mac & Cheese

Apple Cake Recipe

Black Bean Spread

Strawberry Summer Sheetcake**

Biryani

Chicken Mulligatawny Soup via @peternhorton

Parkin

Christmas Jam via Jen

Patrick Stewart Beans on Toast

Apple Cider Donuts

*Ah, so this is why I bought farro! For what it’s worth I found this one twice.

**I actually baked this one, but I accidentally made it upside down.

Books

The Listening Path The Creative Art of Attention (A 6-Week Artist's Way Program) Author: Julia Cameron

A Life Made by Hand (The Story of Ruth Asawa) Picture Book

Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew

The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson

Tim Gun: The Natty Professor by Tim Gunn

The Complete Book of Flower Fairies

Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race

No Great Mischief by Alastair MacLeod 🇨🇦

Murder for Christmas by Francis Duncan

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom Harvest in Translation by bell hooks

Unearthing The Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett Marta McDowell

Plants to Research

“tetrapanax”

“euphorbia spurge”

“delphinium elatum”

“tree heather”

“amelanchier” via Laetitia Maklouf

“white agapanthus”

“stipa gigantea”

“viburnum plicatum mariesii”

“hardy geranium the lovely weed”

“crambe cordifolia zone”

“group 3 clematis”

“giant hyssop”

“globe thistle”

“astrantia”

“jamaica primrose”

“salvia involucrata”

“grow flax”

“gwendoline sweet pea”

“purple hyacinth beans”

“coreopsis moonbeam”

“trachystemon orientalis”

“stipa gigantea”

“bears breeches”

“red stem bush”

“winged everlasting”

“rudbeckia butterscotch biscuit”

“spicebush”

“species tulips”

“basket willow”

“wiggy wig bush”

Lady of Shalott Rose

Climbing Roses

Quaking Grass

Honorine Jobert Japanese Anemone

Cosmos 'Rubinato’

Poetical Liz Rose

Echinops & Knifophia

Gardening

What to Plant Each Month

“chelsea flower show 2013 treehouse”

“harrods british eccentrics garden”

“chelsea yorkshire garden 2018”

“chatsworth laurent perrier garden”

“hazelwood landscapes”

“chelsea rotating trellis panels 2021”

“chelsea flower show treehouse slide”

“monty don writing garden”

“seed tray hollyhock prick out”

“oxygenating pond plants weed”

“haws watering can”

“mexican fleabane steps”

“pinto bean plant support”

“grape vine trellis”

“cucumber beetles”

Episode 6 Gardeners' World, 2017 (Monty presents an hour of gardening for the Easter weekend. Nick Bailey gives tips on how achieve a luscious lawn, and Adam Frost starts to transform a herbaceous border.)

Charles Dowding's No Dig Gardening

Hampton Court Dry Gardens

“farmers nightmare seed mix”

Andy Gladman

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