HeyJaredA Village Year
Stories, seasonality and life in a rural village, from my cottage in the Sussex countryside
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London days, house updates & new beginnings (opens the original)
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Hello & welcome. I’m Lauren, a freelance social media manager for authors, podcasters, broadcasters and brands. someplace. is my online journal, where I carve out a little time everyday to write about everything I love, thoughts, inspiration & the ordinary things worth noticing. How wonderful to be here.If you like what you read here, please do consider a free subscription. I’ll be in your inbox once a week, sometimes more, sometimes less, always with joy.<a class="button primary" href="https://
Summer in review (opens the original)
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Change is afoot in the Sussex countryside. This land has basked in sunshine long enough, and now Autumn is making herself known. She is everywhere, in the chill of the morning air, the burnt orange edges of the trees as if they have caught in a hot oven, the sudden thundery downpours that have brought everything back to life as the seasons turn.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oO4H!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsu
Bonne vacances in southwest France (opens the original)
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Hello, lovely readers! Or should I say bonjour, for as I write this, it is the very last day of our holiday in the Dordogne in southwest France. James’ parents and sister have taken a drive out to Brive-la-Gaillarde; James is sunbathing by the pool, and I have just made a cup of tea and sat down to write to you.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oPGZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com
Selling our cottage (opens the original)
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I have been itching to write this post for months. It was supposed to be the story of how we sold our cottage and bought our new home. But the story is far from finished, and now it’s spilling over the edges, yearning to be told in some form. So, without neat endings or satisfying conclusions, I am publishing it anyway.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QjS2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazo
Weekend glimmers (opens the original)
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Would you describe yourself as a person who appreciates the small joys in life? If you are here, perhaps even subscribed to this newsletter (thank you so much), I can hazard a guess that you probably are. You find pleasure in the things most people decide are not worth paying attention to - the way sunlight catches on coloured glass, receiving a hand-written card in the post, nabbing the last M&S Thai box and realising it’s been yellow stickered (iykyk).I am, too, dear reader. Welcome to the clu
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