Writing From Here

A year of letter writing. ‘Writing from here’, in a garden in the Welsh borders. 

Once a month I’ll send out a real letter in the post to anyone who signs up.   It won’t be just a ramble on what I’ve been up to and it certainly won’t be a list of jobs for the month - there’s plenty of those living online already. I don’t quite *know* what I will write about but I want to think about this garden, the things I notice, about flowers and land and how difficult the practice of slowing down can be but why it really is important. 

It won’t be on exquisite seed embedded, handmade paper and tied with a silk ribbon because that will make it too expensive to send but I will try and make it a lovely thing to receive. A nicer paper, one of the good picture stamps to send it through the mail, some considered words. Something to anticipate and open with a cup of tea when you have a moment to yourself. Perhaps you have a fire to sit next to. A moment when you might usually fire up your screen. 

It will cost £5 a month and you can sign up at any point between now and December 2026. I am not promising this experiment will run for longer than a year but I am excited to try 12 letters. The first will be sent in the third week of January when we tend to all need a bit of a boost. The deadline to sign up for that one will be Friday 16 January. I should mutter something about this making a good Christmas present for the flower and garden lover in your life but you’ll probably make that connection yourself. 

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