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This is a newsletter about the things I most enjoy, a sort of cross between my diary and my Notes app. It is a place of enthusiasms - books, food, home life, interiors, gardens, interesting things I’ve come across and liked, plus chatting.
Writing my posts feels intimate and personal, and so most of them are for paid subscribers. My occasional free posts get auto-paywalled after 6 weeks. But! If you’re curious, the posts below are all unlocked and free to read.
Here is an example of a post full of interesting (to me) links - I try and do one a week.
Here is a list of things I’m too old for.
Too old
As someone who says ‘I am simply too old for this’ several times a week, I laughed with recognition at this post by Lou Blaser ↓ (I concurred with all of hers except the one about expensive face creams,
Here is a piece about procrastination.
Procrastination
Actually, it isn’t. My superpower is making a room, any room, feel cosy in record time. I am currently writing about exactly this. There is a deadline. Time is ticking. And yet.
And here is a little light shopping.
12 smallish treats
It’s still February. So short, and also SO UNBELIEVABLY LONG. Mind you, I’m typing this with the door ajar and I can hear birdsong - and a tractor doing the sugar beet - so that’s not nothing. Except that yesterday when I walked round the garden to see if spring was on the way, I a) froze my balls off and b) became despondent at the amount of Gothic-looking, very dead brown stuff that needs cutting down. We leave everything over winter for the birds but at a certain point it just starts looking really ugly, and that point is now.
I hope that gives you the flavour. When I first thought of writing this newsletter, I was going to call it Things I’d Tell You About If We Knew Each Other, and that’s very much the general idea.
Subscribe using the button below if you’d like to, and whether you click it or not, thanks for stopping by and have an excellent day.
Happy Birthday 🎉, spotting one of these posts in the inbox makes my day. I usually don’t open them straight away but savour the anticipation, do the boring life stuff and jobs and sit down in the afternoon with a cup of tea and have a read. It’s rather like opening a present from a really good friend who knows exactly the best thing to get you. Much joy and many purchases later thank you
India, I agree with everything your other readers have written about HOME. It’s worth so much more than the sum of its parts, not least because your postings are always bang on the money in terms of content, timing, and insight. I marvel at your knack of knowing what I’m thinking, even more so when it’s quite often before I’ve thought it! If you lived closer, I’d invite you round for a drink and some decent salted crisps to go with the olives. Then, after a good glug of vino - Botivo for you if you’re off the pop - I'd scoff that cake. Congratulations, and thank you for the most entertaining, interesting, and thought-provoking substack of the week.