A heads up
There's going to be some changes here next month
For the last few months I’ve been reviewing Company on Sundays mostly to try and give each of my subscribers the most appropriate level of value. Thank you so much to all of you that took the time to fill out our survey recently.
I learnt some happy things……
56% of you love the writings and blurbs here.
You don’t mind receiving x 2 emails per week.
Many of you want to see more links to rural news stories - hence the ‘News From The Middle of Nowhere’ section on Sundays.
You also wanted to see more Q&A’s, short form audio or video and a return of the Daily Routines (podcast).
Why the review?
I absolutely love creating this newsletter. It’s my favourite work job of the week.
I spend hours and hours reading, researching, rabbit-hole diving and curating so I can the perfect mix of things for you to scroll through. You might be surprised to hear that not everything I read makes the cut here - it has to ‘fit’ with the lovely, cosy, female-friendly, rural-australia-celebrating tone that I have been perfecting here and on all our podcasts for years.
I really value my time and I really love what I give to you here and I think you do too.
So I’m confident you will be happy to support my work financially. If not now, then hopefully sometime in the future when it works for you.
I’m feeling really good about these changes.
This new offering will, I believe, put me in closer contact with you all and solidify this really special, supportive community.
What will change?
Company on Sundays will be delivered once a fortnight from the beginning April 2025
Unless
You are a paying subscriber. The cost is $10/month or $120/year.
I’m not going to go into the conversion comparisons here but a coffee in town costs about $5.50 these days so let that be your yardstick.
Paying subscribers will receive:
- Company on Sundays email newsletter each week.
- The Mid-Week Missive email each Wednesday.
- Early alerts to upcoming events, Q&A’s, podcast extras
Some other things I am considering:
More longform essays
Newsletters in audio form
Online meet-up’s and live interviews
Next week in the newsy*, I’m going to run you through How I Work here - what I subscribe to, what websites I frequent, how I store my notes and my ideas and basically just the routine that I go through to write Company on Sundays. It’s going to be fun, see you then, Sxxx
*I’m inspired by
an Australian journalist doing really great things in the newsletter space - she publishes on Substack weekly, talking news and current affairs with nuance, she is fun and supportive and seems to be really open to connecting with her readers. I highly recommend subscribing to her. This is her recent post about how she pulls together her newsletter.
Podcast playlist
Fashion Neurosis (new one for me) with Cate Blanchett apart from her sultry deep voice, she speaks so much sense for someone so celebrity. Someone recommended this recently, I can’t remember who but thank you!
How to survive this absurd life with We Can Do Hard Things
If your routine a strait jacket? How to enact change via Happy Place
Lay your eyes on these Instagram accounts
@polly__in_wonderland || @yourhomediary || @paris.explore
This pile of things to read
Pooft - A great recommendation by
: ‘The Insanity that can be ‘Wellness’‘focus on protein, no focus on fibre, focus on meditation, no wait exercise is your focus, but are you getting enough magnesium, iron, zinc, and taking all the other supplements (sea moss is so hot right now) and are you doing strength training many times a week for bone density, and getting 10,000 steps in a day, but also yoga for mind body balancing, as well as drinking the highest grade water, and sleeping a solid 8-10 hours, and not checking your phone 90 mins on waking while you get direct sunlight into your retina - but early enough in the morning that you don’t damage them (and also how is this possible in a northern Winter?) and are you doing acupuncture and kinesiology and the like, watch those heavy metals, and EMFs - dear god what type of sauna are you using, as the science keeps shifting. Cold showers or ice baths, and how many times a week and wait, are you in perimenopause or do you have a disrupted nervous system as there are wildly differing thought schools on what works and on and on. Get your blood work done, get your hormones balanced. Oh, and don’t forget to hold down your fulfilling career, have wildly sexy sex, parent your children in the latest way, and listen to all the podcasts so you can Do All Of This In Even More Optimised Ways. Oh wait, and you also now have to be fulfilled BUT you have no space and time to breathe because you are so busy Doing All The Things.’
Trains are amongst the list of odd things I love (along with lighthouses) if your also that way inclined check out the new fit out of Europe’s TGV trains.
OMG this greenhouse is actually a house.
On dopamine fasting, Dr Rangan Chattergee says this is such important work and research as we all navigate an increasingly complex digital world - on switching off, unplugging, stepping away from the screen.
Magazine junkies; you will loooove this:
News from the middle of nowhere (as in rural Australia)
This round up of rural getaways that are good for the girls (or boys) group.
Everyone’s doing it. Starting egg farms.
The girls of the shearing industry are sticking together, they’re calling it a ‘shearing sistahood’ which I love!
Anywhere but Canberra is a new Guardian segment in the lead up to the Federal Election: ‘The Ballarat Food Entrepreneur; It just doesn’t make sense for us to be miserable.’
And Graziher has a new segment called ‘Dollar Diaries’ which is pretty awesome.
Happy Sunday all, Sxx
Brilliant- old ducks perfect! Thank you.