analogue at heart

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curator of tiny adventures

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armchair expeditionist

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cold tea & warm ideas

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plotter of small delights

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cookbook romantic

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kindred spirit

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analogue at heart ✶ curator of tiny adventures ✶ armchair expeditionist ✶ cold tea & warm ideas ✶ plotter of small delights ✶ cookbook romantic ✶ kindred spirit ✶

Hey darling!

meet the curator

Hey darling, I’m Hana: chronic book-buyer, kindred spirit, and your lead explorer.

After years of navigating the loud, lovely chaos of family life, I realised something: magic isn't just for children, and the "wonder" shouldn't be something we only curate for others. We deserve our own expeditions, too.

I spent a long time prioritising the urgent over the wonderful - tackling whatever popped up in the day while leaving the things that actually delight me for a later that never quite arrived. I wanted more of the things that make me feel like me: the moments that make your heart flutter, the rituals that connect you to the people you love, and the tiny adventures that stop the weeks from blurring together.

As Annie Dillard famously wrote, ‘How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

I eventually discovered that the best adventures don’t require a passport; they just require a kitchen table and a bit of enthusiasm. I’m here to help you weave delight and adventure back into the fabric of your week, moving from just getting through the week to intentionally inhabiting your days.

🖋️ analogue at heart: choosing the real world over the infinite scroll
📍 plotter of small delights: because if it isn’t on the list, it usually doesn’t happen.
🗺️ curator of tiny adventures: making room for the delight-filled, cosiest of dreams

Your home shouldn't just be the place where the laundry lives—it should be the place where your own adventures come to life. Let’s get back to the things that actually delight you.

Join the Society

**Dust off your ‘One Day’ drawer**

We all have one. It’s where the fancy stationery, the ‘good’ candles, and the slightly ambitious travel guides go to hibernate. We have the curiosity (and the desire), but the days have a habit of disappearing into a blur of school runs and cold tea.

It’s easy to get stuck in a loop - watching someone else’s curated adventure on a screen while your own interests sit on the shelf gathering dust.

That’s exactly why I created Kitchen Table Darling: because I’m done not indulging my own delight, and I wonder if you might be too…

Think of this as your field guide for the ‘here and now’. I provide the prompts, the plans, and the gentle nudges you need to stop saving the good stuff for a ‘later’ that never quite arrives.

You’re much closer to a life of tiny adventures than you think. You’re in the right place to start experimenting - no passport or ‘new year, new you’ nonsense required.

Open the drawer

3 ways to start your QUEST

the compendium

read the field notes

the itinerary

download the map

digital blueprints and curated tools for the cosy homebody. everything you need to bring the adventure home.

the supply shop

browse the shop

the manifesto

the kitchen table is our headquarters

it’s the place where the best plans are hatched, the messiest lists are made, and all our tiny adventures begin

the homebody deserves adventure

we believe that adventure isn’t defined by the distance travelled, but by the depth of our curiosity. A kitchen table in a cosy corner of the world is a perfectly valid place to begin a quest, and the best journeys usually start right where we are.

delight is a choice we make on purpose

joy isn’t a destination we eventually reach; it’s a practice we protect. We use the Darling Itinerary to stop waiting for the ‘right time’ and start making room for the wonderful right now.

we have an analogue heart

we love the digital tools that connect us, but we refuse to let them rule our attention. We believe the best adventures happen off-screen

we are recklessly enthusiastic

we have no time for ‘cool’ indifference. Lukewarm is not a temperature we recognise. We’re here for the deep dives, the rabbit holes, and the unapologetic joy of being a bit "too excited" about the things we love.

perfection is a digital hallucination

we have no interest in the airbrushed or doing it for the ‘gram. We value the genuine spark of a moment over how it might look to a stranger. We’re here for adventures that feel meaningful on the inside, regardless of how they look on the outside.

we are the Society of Tiny Adventures

we believe in trading ‘one day’ for ‘today’. We are a community of kindred spirits who know that a life well-lived is built on adventure and delight.

these are a few of my favourite things

the view from here

my cosy headquarters: a look at the table where the plans are currently being hatched
current quest

trading ‘one day’ for ‘today’. My latest ‘tiny adventure’ in the wild: the cookbook crusade - cooking my way through my immense cookbook collection
podcast playlist

Deep diving and following my curiosity with the current podcasts: Off Menu, She’s My Cherry Pie, and Something to Eat and Something to Read
the mixtape

the repeat list. these are the tracks that are currently providing the soundtrack to my brain. Best played loud : Spirits, by the Strumbellas, I am a Paleontologist, by They Might be Giants, and anything on Reputation, by Taylor Swift
watchlist

OBSESSED WITH … Hail Project Mary COMFORT WATCHING … Beyond Paradise CANT WAIT TO SEE … The Sheep Detectives!!!
recommended reading

LISTENING TO … The Impossible Fortune, by Richard Osman BEDSIDE READING … The Ending Writes Itself, by Evelyn Clarke CAN’T WAIT TO READ … The Last Mandarin, by Louise Penny & Mellissa Fung