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Don’t worry everyone, no April Fools jokes here today this is a safe space… or is it?

March has been a trying month for some but I was elated to see nuggets in the inbox nonetheless - THANK YOU!

Fellow Encouragemailers, daytime is now 2 hours longer than it was at the beginning of March with over 12 hours of sunlight a day. By the end of April our day will be almost 15 hours long, go outside and get some photon exposure!!

I hope you’ve all had a wonderfully, indulgent Easter and that April is starting off overflowing with nuggets.

My March nugget is that I’ve been going into the office more and have been really enjoying meeting new people and making friends :)

Over to you!

Lewis

Here’s my nugget, Ralph’s first day at doggy day care 🥺

Oh my goodness, I hope he makes good choices and falls in with a good boy crowd!

Neelam

Here’s my first nugget!!
Me and Olly on holiday in Lanzerote. Went for a tasting menu with a wine pairing and the views (and food) were delicious! X

Long time reader, first time nuggeter. This submission made me quite hungry! The views look stunning, hoping for more PARADISIACAL holidays for you!

Daisy

this month visited four new countries, me and nav discovered our love 0.5 zoom, and i finally got my wisdom tooth surgery !! no more infected teeth for me x and to make everyone jelly arman surprised me at the airport to 7.30am to pick me up 🥺

I’m so pleased your surgery went well! I bet your holidays were packed with debauchery, loud laughing and amazing food. Also, Arman is setting the bar high, pay attention people!!

Jodie

Back once again with my nuggets. It's not been the best month but I've endeavoured to find the little nuggets in life. One big nugget I've been enjoying is the weather - sunshine is sooo back rn. The theme of the month for me is definitely manifestation. I don't know if it really exists but I've had a lot of weird instances of having premonitions about things that later come true. My month started off badly when I got a parking ticket from Lambeth council for forgetting to renew my permit, so I challenged it and willed it to be cancelled. I hadn't heard anything for weeks but yesterday I got an email to say they had cancelled the fine! Thanks Lambeth, thanks to my brain, and big up the Labour party (I'm not sure if they're involved but I like to think they are). My final nugget is that I've been doing really well at work - I've been given a lot more responsibility with writing proposals for new projects and I've had two separate instances where I've had a dream about winning the project, only to then get the news that we've won it the following day! We're now even talking about hiring an entire new team to cover the extra project load. Will update all of the encouragemail community with my manifestation journey - fingers crossed for a lottery win next month. Manifesting all of you to have a fun-filled April and beyond 🙂

Best wishes

Jodie

Some serious tic-tac-toe wins!! I think we should send traffic wardens this newsletter to Encourage them to be more sympathetic. I’ve officially been persuaded to embrace the power of manifestation, what’s the harm in seeing the glass half full? Thanks for the kind words Jodie, April is going to be a blast!!

Maisie

No specific nuggets this month; however, it is almost half term! In fact when this is sent out I will be enjoying a luxurious break from trying to get the attention of children that just won’t listen 🙃

I’m going to be spring cleaning, which I’m insanely excited about! 

This months overheard in the classroom comes from year 1:

(It’s important to imagine how exasperated I was throughout) 

Me: *shows picture of a Thistle and explains how it’s the Scottish National Flower*

Child: ‘miss Ellis is that a picture of a fake flower?’

Me: ‘no, it’s a real Thistle’

Child: ‘yeah but that one’s not real’

Me: ‘yes, it’s a picture of a very real flower’

Child: ‘but the picture is not real’

Me: ‘it is a real picture of a real thistle, taken with a real camera’

Child: ‘but something isn’t real’

Me: ‘IT’S ALL REAL’

Child: *stares and walks away*

Milo enjoying the first bit of sunshine over the weekend. He “helped” us tidy the garden ready for his new play area to be set up! 

I think they were asking the right questions… have they considered a career in Philosophy? We are big Spring cleaning fans here at Encouragemail. We must get pics of Milo hanging out in his new play area next month! A thought from me, what is an adult play area?

Naveen

Hello chicken nuggets, HAPPY EASTER! Praise be to this long weekend, it was needed! Idk about you girlies, but mine has been wholesome and calming and has made me feel like a grown up??? My nuggets are below:

• Had a lovely catch-up with the girls from work! We got incredibly drunk and my boob kept falling out my top but luckily no one saw lmao

• Aneesha, Neelam and I hit the rave and it was super fun to have a boogie to some oonts oonts #ravegirlies

• Daisy and I were allowed to leave the country together again (!!) and headed to Vienna and Bratislava. Ofc chaos ensued and we were drunkenly screeching around Austria/Slovakia, but what else did you expect??? 

• I saw one of my school friends get married!!! Absolutely bonkers that we are of marriage age, so anyone that knows of any potential husbands, please share the below picture because its TOUGH out there ladies

And finally I want to give a shoutout to our newest Encouragemailer SARAH MARSH!!! I hope this email brings you some joy, and buzzing to see all the exciting things you have planned IN YOUR NEW HOUSE #YearoftheSmarsh

Big shoutout to the clocks going forward, summer is officially ON!!!!

Love Naveen xxx

It has truly been the most wholesome bank holz I’ve had in a while! Is this… growing up? Does anyone have any eligible bachelors for Naveen? Email me, I’ll vet. What a month you’ve had, let’s keep this energy going through the Summer before hibernation! Oonts oonts.

Year of the Smarsh indeed! Welcome to all the newly subscribed folk, we hope you enjoy reading and are feeling encouraged!

Dylan

We had a lovely family meal celebrating Euan’s 18th birthday!!

I very much enjoyed muddy walks on Cannock chase with the K9’s this month

What more could you ask from life? Good food with great company and dog walks with a view. We are thriving!!

Davina

My lil Quorn chicken nuggets for the month

• Glasto line up FINALLY being released!!!

• Reunion with the gsend girlies and our lil Milo

• Arsenal beating Porto on penalties, BRAP BRAP

• Partying it up for St Paddy’s day and meeting lots of fun Irish people (alas my search for a Paul Mescal/Cillian Murphy looking Irish man continues)

• Clocks going forward, summer is in the air my friends!!

Veggie nuggets are always welcome! Glasto is going to be the best time of our lives so far, I’m sweating with excitement. Up the Gunners (sorry Dylan)!! Anyone know of an Irishman fit for Davina? Summer is just around the corner, the Sun is here to play!

Rhianne

Hellooooooo

James and I had an offer accepted on a house - very exciting times! Fingers crossed it all goes through this time. We have will have no furniture or other house wear, but we have a ninja creami which is arguably the most important thing (if you don’t know I would highly recommend you get to know, especially my dairy free friends). 

Highly enjoyed watching finding nemo with the girlies and Milo. Then I saw this beach hut a week later and it made me smile (warning specifically for Davina: shark jump scare below). 

New house prospects are SO exciting!!! We’re keeping our fingers crossed for you! Watching Finding Nemo with a 1 year old who was sincerely engrossed was truly a healing experience. TW!!! Davina do not look over here.

Liv

INCOMING NUGGET!!!!

New kitchen who dis!! 2 months of no kitchen and airfryer dindins we've got a kitchen :p 

The kitchen is looking FRESH and homely, I cannot wait to drink wine and gossip in there. Congrats<3

Annareet

Hello

March has been a very strange month filled with high highs and low lows. I feel so appreciative for all my friends and family around me. Nuggets include Belgium with my whole group of uni buddies - almost as rare as getting all of Appateizing together which we also managed to do in March! 

Finished all my Australia interviews and now time to make some big decisions - eeeeek

Love you all. Love myself. Peace out 

Getting the 8 of us together in one room for more than a minute is like seeing Halley’s Comet, rare and beautiful. Rare beauty. Not sponsored by Selena. So much exciting stuff coming up I cannot WAIT to have an excuse to visit Strayyaaaaaarhhhh!

Daisy

I’ve been obsessing over this mushroom recipe X

Drooling, I need some

Shrea

We made microwave smores this month, please try it: marshmallows between digestive biscuits in the microwave. Shoutout Kate and Paddy for introducing me to this<3

Davina

Yes another dog pic but my Bibi knitting Freddie a jumper did in fact make me cry 

Unbelievably adorable jumper. Bibi, I want one to match!

David

A snap of Peachy out on a walk around central london.
You can see the smile on her face and happiness in her eyes.
Here's a haiku from chat-gpt about how undeserving we are of dogs:

In dogs' loyal eyes,

Undeserving humans see,

Unconditional love

Peachy suffered an injury last week, we’re hoping for a speedy recovery so she can go back to bunny hopping everywhere!

Just a round-up of some of the memes that made me breathe a bit heavier through my nose

Click here to see Gingerbread fridge man

Hat-ocide

Thanks for this one Jodie - a truly good boy

As I write this, I’m hungry so I’ll keep this brief.

Appreciated as always, we LOVE to read about the good times, the breaking through the bad times to get to the other side, and, we love your pets. The inbox is open and we want more (but no pressure) (some pressure) (no, I’m joking, no pressure).

A special shoutout to Annareet who is turning «redacted» years old today! (We never spill the age without consent). Happy birthday you little rascal!

I hope your Aprils are sun-filled, fun-filled, wholesome and abundant with nuggets!

Nuggets, pet pics, recipes, memes to » encouragemail1@gmail.com

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