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Quick note: I launched this newsletter exactly one year ago. It was going to be a vague side hustle, but it very quickly became my favourite thing to write. It’s now the main focus of my week, which I really did not see coming and which is total heaven for me. I am so grateful to everyone who subscribes (there are 38,000 of you!). So today I’ve unlocked some paywalled posts to say thank you.
Paid subscribers and founder members: it’s only because of you that I can spend so much time writing Home, thinking about Home, sketching ideas out in my head, leaving myself notes about it that make no sense when I read them back, and finding appropriate images of birthday cake (which takes longer than you’d think, weirdly). This newsletter is never far from my mind, and that is entirely thanks to you. Thank you for being here, and thank you extra much if you are active in the comments. You are wise and clever and hilarious and you feel like old friends. Happy birthday to all of us! Here is our cake.
Everyone else: hello and welcome
You know when you sit down in a restaurant and the waiter brings you good bread, butter and maybe even some olives before you order? This is my attempt at an equivalent. I’ve unlocked a few paid posts below, so that you can try them and see if they’re your sort of thing.
A roundup of things I’d enjoyed that week
And an example of general pottering
I hope that gives you the flavour. Subscribe using the button below if you’d like to, and no problem if not - sometimes people just aren’t for each other, in which case thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day. *snatches olives away*
(not really! eat them! they’re all yours)
One last thing - if you enjoyed this post, do please really kindly give it a ❤️ - it makes it more visible. Thank you! I’ll be back in the next couple of days with part 2 of cosifying for autumn. It is pouring with rain here this morning.
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.