Yangon Post
We want to help you cheer somebody up!
The whole world feels a bit topsy-turvy doesn't it? We're finding it helpful to focus on doing small, kind things. So we've put together a list of things you can send somebody for under £30. Maybe to your granny, to a friend who's a doctor or a nurse, or to a new mother caring for their baby without the support of friends and family.
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From Sophie: Reflections and Resolutions
Well here we are in the Roaring Twenties! I’m still Happy-New-Year-sing all over the shop. It’s so fun to say. And while we’ve been hard at work planning 2020, I’ve been musing over what I learnt in 2019. One of my new year’s resolutions is to not plan my life away, so in the spirit of preserving the moments, here’s my distilled list...
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It's Our 3rd Birthday!
Three years ago today, we launched Kalinko at a big Christmas Fair in London's Olympia. It was the culmination of a year of working out how to start a company, how to sell things, how much to stock. How could we get the things we'd been working on in tiny villages across Burma delivered to customers in Europe, in perfect condition? How would we spread the word?
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From Sophie: In Praise of the Tiny Details
I had a baby in June, which is wonderful for a million reasons. But one which I hadn't seen coming was the way it makes you slow right down. We spend hours looking at plants in the garden, really studying a raindrop slip down its leafy slide and plop off the end. Or watching a starling busying around, carefully choosing its twigs from a patch of scrub, like a chef perusing peaches in the market...
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From Sophie: It's our 2nd Birthday!
We’re now two years in to our journey, which means it's two years since I almost toppled our first lovely customer from an extreme reaction to somebody ACTUALLY wanting to buy something...
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From Sophie: Why don't we live in black boxes?
Why don’t we choose to live in black boxes? Why do care that our houses look cared for? Why do we feel calmer when its tidy? Why are we so concerned about making a house a home?
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