This is what my and my wife's souls need.

I hope you know how much you inspire everyone who watches to be more grounded, appreciate the nature around us and take value from simple pleasures. We live on the edge of Cannock Chase and being there at 7am this morning with my husband and our dog was truly uplifting. Thank you for your videos Athena.

Such a beautifully made video. Stunning! Loved it!

@RambleFamily

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Nigel 😃

Such a beautiful film. Totally agree about 2020 being a year that local areas got discovered more.

@WoodsideWalker

3 жыл бұрын

The ending was lovely and choked me up a bit. We should still make plans and have dreams

I first got the feeling of 2020, you are talking about in this video, way back in 2018 when I moved to my home town (a rural area in Ukraine) and started working online. I discovered local sites more profoundly, slowed down, started reading, doing more yoga and cooking, bought a camera to capture nature I admire. I listened, observed. And these are the things I came up with: 1) Being present is like shooting in slow-motion mode: you see something you like and make a movie with your own eyes prolonging this moment. So experience with a camera taught me HOW to enjoy every moment and see the beauty of it (especially, when my digital friend is not around). 2) Due to this lockdown situation all the planet was able to see and feel what I've already experienced. I feel like I got hundreds of soulmates less than in one year :) I think any place on this planet is worth admiring and I'm happy to see people awakening to this fact and idea to live in line with nature. Thank you so much for this heartwarming movie. I especially love these small details of nature you film (10:37-10:50), because I myself pay attention to these when taking a walk. A charming house you have inside and out! 4:49 is an amazing shot (colors!), great for a huge desktop background :) P. S: I would love to hear your reviews on books you read (maybe even reading out loud some passages to us).

You have Wuthering Heights deep within your soul, your atmospheric photography perfectly captures winter slumber.

I love all your videos Athena, make me long for the simple life in the country I have always craved.

Great video , and great words of wisdom, beautiful

Like a book I couldn't put down, yearning for more...........so bitter cold......so warm in words..so very beautiful........so delicate you are........inspirational...........music chosen compliments you, the scenery, the video. I too look for a better year.

Nature settles the mind, the soul, its quite simply the source. During these dystopian times, we need to find inner peace., whilst immersing ourselves in the great outdoors.

Breathtaking photography Athena, thank you for sharing the snowscape and those beautiful sunsets.

I always feel blessed watching your videos. Holding thoughts of prosperity for you and the world going forward. Many blessings.

You videos always inspire me to think about what I truly want out of life. Thank you for sharing some of your life with us. Any chance you would share your reading list with us? I am always on the lookout for book suggestions!

@RambleFamily

3 жыл бұрын

Yes definitely! I made an account on bookshop.org recently (they’re a great site that gives money back to independent bookshops). I’ll update it throughout the year 😊 uk.bookshop.org/shop/athenamellor

Your videos are so special. Beautiful and intentional, they put me so at ease. Thank you!

@RambleFamily

3 жыл бұрын

So pleased to hear that 😊

I always find your videos an escape, I have and will always love North Yorkshire (all my family are based there) and watching these videos just excites me for when I finally move there too. I feel similarly about this year, I spent a lot of time alone in nature, thinking about what sort of person I want to be and what I value in my life. Lockdown has been amazing for reading and I have found myself reading so much more of late. Thank you as always for this wonderful corner of the internet, I hope this year is amazing for you and that you are able to do more of what you want!

@RambleFamily

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like we had similar experiences this year 😊 feeling very positive for this year 🤞🏼🙏🏼

wow the colours of the scenery at 4.34 are just magical ✨ Your best video yet

Thanks for sharing the beautiful scenery and hopeful thoughts. I love snow but we've missed it at the moment here in Cardiff. I've started journal after watching your previous videos, and it does help me to process my thoughts. Here's to a new year, new creativity, better health for everyone, but not forgetting the many blessings we all have and can share with eachother. Happy new year ❤

Yass to the poetry and photography book! Would so love you to make it a print, I have one of your poems written in my journal I always read it ‘tell your secrets to the skies and your worries to the moon, let the cold brisk air embrace you and know that there is nothing so beautiful and pure as being right here, on a hilltop, somewhere, wandering, aimless present. You are exactly where you are supposed to be’. Can’t tell you how much that has helped me the last part of this year so thank you. I hope you have an amazing year x

Your videos have been such a source of calm in a turbulent year. Thank you 🙏🏼

Thanks so much for this lovely long video!!! It gives me so much energy and I loved to hear about the course your are taking this new year. Lots of luck and love!! Xx

Happy new year to you all so love your videos I find them so relaxing keep up your great work on your site think is so good 👍

Another great video Athena! Here’s to a heathy & prosperous new year for you & Harvey! Oh, and to Oslo too!

Thank you for the reflections, the snow clips in this vlog (love a snow scene), and for your regular videos. Happy New Year and best wishes for 2021

This was absolutely stunning ❤️

Happy New Year Athena, Harvey and Oslo! So wonderful to end your year with some lovely wintry walks in the snow. Beautiful video. ❤️

Athena this was absolutely beautiful - thank you xx

Happy and healthy new year to you, Harvey, Oslo and your family🥳

Happy New Year. A lovely video, beautifully filmed, and comforting words. I hope 2021 will be better for us all x

Happy New year 🎆 Thank you for all the great videos last year.

Happy New Year to you Athena, Harvey and Oslo. Another outstanding video and an inspiration to us all to be more thoughtful and reflective - thank you.

So relaxing and full of feeling enlightened! Thank you so much for sharing!! ! ❤

You're always shining the light Athena. Beautiful. A happy healthy prosperous New Year to you both.

That was lovely! Listening to you sharing your thoughts made me reflect on 2020 and look forward to 2021. Thanks for sharing.

Lovely 💚 your reflections and intentions resonate so much with me.

Wow! Thank you for another spectacular video!

Lovely - such good therapy! Thank you 😊

Absolutely beautiful video. Love the honesty of you journalism and the film sequences are superb. Thank you and happy new year.

By far the best video that you guys have done to date... happy new year

Thank YOU - your videos have been a huge part and inspiration of our year - many more walks and adventures in the hills happened thanks to you (and Oslo)

I really enjoy watching your videos. Such a breath of fresh air especially at the moment.

Happy and healthy new year to you Harvey and not forgetting Oslo

Absolute brilliant video. A real warmth and energy came out of it. All the best to you, Harvey and Oslo.

Happy New Year! Love the scenes of snow. I'm from the north of Scotland but I live in the south of England at the moment and have missed the wintery weather that I'm used to up north. Hope you have a good year, I really enjoy your videos. :)

Happy new year and thanks for sharing.

Thank you Athena, as always comforting, gracious and powerfully life-affirming. I believe you can move mountains. Happy New Year xx

Love your beautiful videos. Inspiring and calming!

Beautifully shot video. Happy new year to you and yours.

another beautiful, peaceful video. thank-you so much. Happy Trails!

Such calming episode! ..and just listening to you and your beautiful English make me have a cozy evening :)

Happy New Year to you both and Oslo. Your video was very inspiring and beautiful. 😊

Happy New Year to the 3 of you! Thanks for sharing such a beautiful video. Photography and scenery are stunning! Enjoy the snow, it's cold here in Munich and look forward to some snow soon.

Thanks Athena, fantastic photography always, the music really went well, it was so calming , Happy New Year to one +all💕

You are such a spiritual person, one with nature! Fantastic video diary Athena. Wishing you Harvey and family a smashing 2021!

Wow, after such a tough year this year the start of this video made me so so emotional. How beautiful are the outdoors, they always deliver. I f***ing love nature!!

Great video, again! I really liked how open and honest you were with your viewers when you read out your notes from your journal. I think its important to be honest with yourself and you clearly reflected that. Thanks and all the best for 2021!

Beautiful video 👌 .. Happy New Year to both you and Harvey and of course not forgetting Oslo 🐶 👍

Absolutely beautiful start to the video and the music was a perfect choice . Thank you for your videos they have been a big help through 2020 .

2021 looking bright and beautiful already(sunsets/sunrises were amazing)!!!

Happy New Year Athena!! This, like all your videos, has inspired me to get more creative again and hopefully 2021 will allow me to get out to explore and go camping more. I love how hiking and being in wild places forces you to slow down and really take notice of your surroundings. Thank you for sharing your amazing talents and inspiring me. So glad I found this channel during lockdown!!

I'm looking forward so much to more videos in 2021! You are one of the most inspiring persons to me :) I hope all your intentions or goals or wishes or whatever you wanna call them will come true this year. Sending warm hugs from cold Germany to the cold UK!

The snow looks great. ❄️🎊

Beautiful as ever, the colours and sounds of your videos are always so calming. I agree with your words so much and they have given me much to think about. I would also add that I’m stuck in a flat in a city which I can’t leave so your walks are my connection with the countryside ....thank you x All the best for 2021 and hope some of your intentions materialise for you 🙏🏻

Gorgeous video. I love your attitude about life and the beauty of it if we just take the time to really look.

A lovely peaceful video, Happy New Year.

Loved this video. So calming and peaceful. Beautiful scenery and loved your intentions you shared from your journal. Agree that slow living is definitely something to aspire more to.💙❄️

This was truly beautiful! I really enjoyed your reflections about your year and your hopes for 2021. Wishing you, Harvey and Oslo a wonderful year which brings all that you dream and hope for 😊

Happy New Year to you all, best wishes for your goals in 2021. Hugh

I love your videos ❤️ thanks for sharing 😊

Nature more important than ever for me too after my heartbreak of separation 5 years ago. Beautiful video from a beautiful soul. And of course the fabulous Oslo - loving the snow bless him. Happy & healthy New Year to the 3 of you xx

Beautiful images (the snow on the milk bottle!) and such lovely, heartfelt and powerful reflections. Thank you for inspiring and comforting us, and giving us Southern Hemisphereans a little escape from the heat of summer! Wishing you - and all the Europeans impacted by Covid - a more peaceful and happy 2021.

Fantastic video, like being in a dream that you don’t want to wake up from.. loved it

Hi.. i'm new... The title of this video sprang up on my recommendations, and as a nice refreshing change in our manly household, i put up something a little special, and there you were. I really enjoyed the nature shots and your walk, and i found it a bit confusing when you began to talk more on your diary/journal, but that's fine, each to their own, and you spoke honestly from your heart, thats for sure, you certainly were not offensive in anyway and i'm sure many people find you moments of self-reflection, a real helping hand to resonate with their own healing. One thing i was stunned by was how beautiful your house was. You sitting in the sun writing, and then inside against that gorgeous window, the colour of your jumper brought so much warmth into your home. I spotted this, mainly due to my facination with peoples faces, bone structures, tones and colour, i paint animals, wildlife, but my main passion is people and form and colour. Your face in that dim light really gave me a sense of wanting to paint you, just for fun and practice, there are only so many positions one can sit in before they become boring, and i have overdone painting myself now. My husband thinks im mad, yet my children are picking up the artist vibes in our home. What do you think? It would be just head and shoulders? Am i a bit weird asking you? If so just let me know, i appreciate creative feedback. Cheers!!

Wow, loved this so much. Such a beautiful video, and such lovely and inspiring and wise words and reflections. Thank you so much for your openness and authenticity.

What a beautiful video, stunning snow filled vistas, lovely calming background music. Homelife and baking, Country walks with Harvey and Oslo. Plus thoughts on the past year and the year ahead, all perfectly edited and put together. Athena, I wish yourself Harvey and Oslo a very happy new year 😊😊

Beautiful video. Your honesty when chatting about your journal is so inspiring. PS I got your book for christmas and it gorgeous.

Hi Athena, another lovely video. Totally understand on the self-desire to focus and consider quality rather than quantity but do not wait for perfection, just take time for yourself and enjoy what you do. Wishing you the best for 2021.

Happy New Year to you, Harvey and Onslo. looks so beautiful there.

Brilliant Athena!

Thanks for the info (in the Questions section) about Oslo,!

Beautiful video, I'll probably watch this a few times

Happy new year Athena! I'm willing to incorporate more family time in nature, more slow living and gratitude practice into 2021! Thank you for the inspirational video and the book recommendations! Also, I'm really looking forward to try and bake these yummy cinnamon buns! Hugs!

Such a beautiful video - thanks for making this. I relate to a lot of your reflections on 2020, having come to the decision to move from London to Sheffield this year to be nearer to nature and fill my life with more of the things I have come to realise make me happy. Your videos contributed to bringing texture to what this might look like for me and I’m very grateful for that. Happy new year to you all and I look forward to seeing what you get up to in 2021!

I am crying when I watching it...it reminds me the days of living Sheffield that I can go to Peak District whenever I want. sooooo beautiful! Hope you will have an amazing 2021❤️

Such a lovely video - the snow is so beautiful ❄️❄️❄️ very happy I found your channel in 2020. Btw - the braids are a very cute look!

Happy New Year to you Athena ,Harvey and Oslo. And remeber if someone is pulling you to pieces they are leaving someone else alone, somebody who may not be able to cope with it.

Really nice, thanks for sharing. First piece of music and the accompanying shots were fantastic

Wonderful video thank you Happy New Year kind regards from Ireland.

The cinematography is outstanding.

Loved this video, Athena! Your videos always make me feel so at peace and inspired to get out in nature too🌿I also only read 12 books last year but this year I want to read at least 26 (1 a fortnight) and hopefully even more, as I’ve been reading a lot more recently and I really love it😊

Beautiful video, very relaxing and made me think about my future, thank you and Happy New Year

That was lovely Athena. Here in New Zealand it is the middle of summer time to sit by the lake with one of our cats.

Happy New Year Athena, wishing you , Harvey and Oslo all the best in 2021. I have to say, this video was my favorite video you have ever made. The videography and pictures were overwhelmingly, breathtakingly , beautiful!! I would love to see you do a book of photography, a coffee table book, as we say in America. You are quite an amazing writer too. Would love to have a book of your photography with your insights written alongside the photographs. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and reflections of 2020 and for sharing your intentions for 2021. So generous of you to share your journal with us. I must say, your words gave me much to think about and reflect upon. Living and working in the heart of NYC, your videos of your lovely home, bring me so much peace and joy and really help me bring down the high stress and anxiety I feel on a daily basis. This global pandemic has really taught us that we really are all one and interconnected. Mother Earth has so much to teach us and being out in Nature is truly the best medicine for us all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you do and share with this Community. ❤✨🎆

Happy New Year! The lock down has its silver lining in that it forces us to slow down to the speed of wisdom and reflect, stand still and be in the precious present, to let go. Nature is a blessing and teacher if we can slow down enough to take in what it has to offer. It will reveal its mystical magic in its own quiet way. Thanks for sharing your own reflections for 2021. Take good care. Jenny

Absolutely Beautiful 🤗 stunning views were not too far from the Peaks , ussualy go up ever weekend but with lockdown were not able , so your videos are ideal . Thank You to you both 🥰 xx

Just subscribed to your channel. Really enjoying all of them Thank you

A beautiful vlog with great music.

Happy new year Athena! I’d love to hear about what you are reading and what books inspire you, in future vlogs.

Magnifique video. Merci pour ces belles images .

This video is so beautiful Athena ! I discovered your channel a year ago and seeing your videography evolve is very graceful ! I also write all the good things that happened to me at the end of each year, to remind myself of all the positive memories and project that I received and created during the past 365 days. I've been doing this for three years and it is a very sweet and warming tradition, I highly recommend it. I also write my intentions and this year it's mainly continuing the ones I started in 2020 (meditating daily, eating more fruits, trying to drink more water, going outside in nature more frequently) Thank you for sharing such positive, calming and nature focused content. It really helped me slow down this year, focus on what's really important to me and escape a little bit of the urban madness. Sending much love from France xx

Beautiful scenery especially in the snow! We saw Roe deer for the first time in Edinburgh a few days ago. A family of 4 or 5. We were just exploring random woods off the beaten path. Places we'd never had even considered going but for covid and lockdown!