306: 25 British Petit Plaisirs (and a new category for all of TSLL's Simple Pleasures)
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The French define le Petit Plaisir as a simple indulgence that brings great pleasure and enjoyment. In English, the translation is easy to note - small pleasures, yet significant in their ability to elevate the everyday.
This week on the blog is TSLL's 3rd Annual British Week, and while yes, the term Petit Plaisirs is notably French, my affinity for the British culture is grounded in so many of the Brits' daily rituals, appreciation for nature which surrounds each waking day, and the dogged determination to keep calm and carry on coined and released to the public in 1939 in an effort to steel the nerves and assuage the fears of the impeding war.
As I sat down this past Saturday, savoring a weekend to spent entirely at home, I took a moment and glanced about. So much of how I structure my own everydays welcomes British influences. Most seemingly simple, but others which have come about intentionally, with patience and clear-eyed understanding of the comfort they would bring into my life and sanctuary.
Today I would like to share with you 25 British-inspired Petit Plaisirs, and please do share in the comments, rituals or routines you welcome into your own life which are inspired by your Anglophile predilections.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for tuning in to the Simple Sophisticate Podcast, the show that is part of the Simply Luxurious Life online destination. |
| 0:08.0 | Visit the blog The Simply LuxuriousLife.com to find the show notes for each podcast episode as well as much more weekly content |
| 0:15.2 | to elevate your everyday and deepen your contentment from recipes motivational |
| 0:20.0 | posts videos of the cooking show series, style and decor inspiration, French and British inspired |
| 0:26.0 | content, and the reader's favorite regular weekly post, This and That, which goes live on the blog every |
| 0:32.0 | Friday. Now to today's episode. Welcome to the simple Sophisticate podcast where intelligent living is paired with |
| 0:49.8 | signature style. I'm your host Shannon Ables and whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a cafe or a |
| 1:00.8 | cafe au lé. thank you for tuning in. |
| 1:02.6 | Let's get started. Welcome to the 306 sixth episode of the simple |
| 1:23.7 | sophisticated and welcome to the third annual British week on the |
| 1:27.9 | simply luxurious life blog and this episode is inspired by our focus on all things British. |
| 1:35.0 | We're going to talk about petite piziers, but we're going to talk about it entirely |
| 1:40.0 | through the lens of the British culture and where I've found I incorporate British |
| 1:46.4 | ways of life into my routine and things that I thoroughly enjoyed when I was over in |
| 1:52.1 | Britain three years ago now four years ago far too long but |
| 1:57.3 | before we get to that speaking of Petit Plaziers we will still have a |
| 2:00.9 | Petit Plazier that is unique and what I think you're going to thoroughly look forward to or have already |
| 2:09.7 | enjoyed or didn't know about and we'll be able to dive into. This will all make more sense at the end of today's episode. So stay tuned. But what are Batipaziers, first of all? |
| 2:22.0 | Batipaziers are defined by the French as a simple indulgence that brings great pleasure and enjoyment. |
| 2:28.0 | And in English, the translation is an easy one. It's small pleasures yet significant in their ability |
| 2:34.8 | to elevate the everyday. This week on the blog as I mentioned is the |
| 2:40.2 | simply luxurious life's third annual British week, always the third full week in May, and while |
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