Looking back and onward | Summer 2025

Looking back to Summer 2025: our “web guy” reflects on what matters in the fast pace of modern life. This newsletter was bundled with all purchases made in the last few months of 2025. Shop now if you want our latest musings bundled with your purchase 🙂

Words by Craig Harding

Time moves swiftly. A few months ago, my youngest daughter, Farrah, could not utter a word. And then a few days ago, she encountered a Lego mishap and turned to me with a serious expression and said: “Oh ****.” Three things struck me at that moment. The first is that I clearly need to curb my profanity; the second is how swiftly everything seems to move these days; and the third, I agree: Farrah, sometimes life is filled with moments that the phrase so succinctly sums up.

It’s November 2025 and Christmas decorations have been up for two weeks. We’re into the final months of 2025, and there’s so much still to do. We’re furiously trying to catch up on tasks gone awry, putting our metaphorical Lego bricks in order while simultaneously trying to plan our tasks for the new year. We’re eleven months into 2025, and I, for one, cannot believe it.

Illustrations by Craig Harding

It’s been a year of amazing happenings, happiness, and joy. But there have also been complex problems, big decisions, and nail-biting moments. Together, as a team at Mungo, we’ve experienced the inevitable trials and tribulations of running a weaving business from production right through to sales. There have been shipping dilemmas, yarn concerns, looming issues, and loom breakdowns. There have been birthdays and births, new product launches, additional team members, exciting collaborations, and interesting changes. There has been loss and heartache. And there has been love and elation, laughter, and jubilation.

And sometimes, with all that’s going on, good and bad, it’s just so much. So much that we get overwhelmed. We want to say: “Oh ****.” After her Lego tower toppled and she surprised me with her cursing, Farrah put a smile back on her face and started again. In a minute or two, she had built a new tower to be proud of.

So may I humbly suggest to all of us that we take a leaf out of her book. When our metaphorical Lego towers topple. When life moves so swiftly that we feel dragged along. When we find ourselves cursing. Let’s take a moment; take a breath. Savour the good, acknowledge the bad, and move forward. Build the next thing.

Do your best. Stack your Lego as best you can. Stop. Smell the roses. Enjoy.

And lastly, we just want to thank you all for your support throughout 2025. We’re looking forward to whatever Lego 2026 may throw at us.