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Day 21

This rose of the Winter Solstice is Rosa ‘Mary Rose’ - so pink and right wherever she goes.

When the French fleet arrived, Henry watched from Southsea Castle. The lack of wind gave the French the advantage, the oared French galleys able to advance while the large sailing ships were immobile. Towards the afternoon, however, the wind…

One of our finest music writers, Eugene Holley, Jr., is now on Substack.

A few favourite photographs I’ve taken on walks this year.

My latest piece:

A Newsletter Where I Write In A Fairly Chaotic Way About Several Ostensibly Unrelated Things, Some Of Which Are Depressing And Worrying, Some Of Which Are Thankfully Not

For the deep Substack nerds, here is a 2,000-word report on what we did in 2024 and where we’re going in 2025. (This is a letter we have just sent to investors from last year’s community round.)

"I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness."

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Happy Ben Cohen day to those who celebrate

Happy 2nd edition of “it’s the day before Substack shuts down for the year and I’m basically out of real work so I turn to notes”!

Any small bugs that have been driving you crazy? I will see how many I can get patched up today.

As with last time, happy to pass along new feature requests to the right folks, but want to focus on minor bugs …

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