Thanks so much for the reply. I do remember something happening with the platform and thought I’d done the necessary to continue at the slightly higher rate (on Substack? - their repeated sign-in requirements regularly put my head in a spin, I’m afraid). But as long as everything’s fine.
By the way, I really like your autumn-merging-into-winter photos. The damp, the fog, skeletal trees, colours of decay, the sense of quiet. It’s a beautiful time and exciting with buds for next year already peeping up on plants given up for dead in the hot summer.
I take slight exception with you on a non-gardening matter - ‘ghastly fleeces’. We never get on top of our clothes moth problem here. In our big, warm apartment block they are to the indoors areas what Mrs Vine Weevil is to the outside ones. I don’t have an intact woollen jumper, but those cosy fleeces made from plastic bottles resist everything!
Haha ok I think you win about the fleeces, to be fair from now until April I’ll be wearing mine every day so perhaps I should give them more credit 😄
It was a shame I had to move the newsletter to Substack, I preferred running it off my site too, to have everything in one place. But running a paid newsletter is more complicated than it seems because I had to have a system for the newsletter, a system for the membership subscription and another one for payments. In the end the linking of those was too difficult and Substack offers the lot in one and more security. Hopefully you can remain logged in, giving you access to the archive - that element is the same as on my site. The one thing I don’t like about Substack is that the minimum annual price I’m allowed to set is £20, I thought £10 -15 made it more accessible to people. But I’ve increased my effort to match that.
Thanks for another set of beautiful snaps and info.
My message tonight isn’t actually a comment. Apologies in advance if I should have used a different contact method. I looked for one.
I had an odd email at 10.08 today saying that I’ve cancelled my subscription with you. I can’t find any other way of contacting you about it apart from clicking on mail links in the email itself, which I’m loathe to do in case it’s a scam. I certainly don’t want to cancel my subscription!
Below is a copy of the text I received (I’ve asterisked out my own email address).
Regards,
Ian.
« Your membership at Jack Wallington Garden Design Ltd. has been CANCELLED
Dear ianrusper,
Your membership at Jack Wallington Garden Design Ltd. has been cancelled.
Account: ianrusper (************************)
Membership Level: Annual subscription
If you did not request this cancellation and would like more information please contact us at contact@jackwallington.com
Thanks for getting in touch about it - that is actually a real email, although the default text is awful! It's because I had to move the newsletter across from one platform to this new one. I could move the emails but not the subscription info, so unfortunately it means signing up again on here. Though you should have access to the newsletter on here until some point early next year. You should receive another email in 2023 telling you that your paid for subscription has expired on here.
Thanks for supporting the newsletter and still wanting to read it! :)
Jack,
Thanks so much for the reply. I do remember something happening with the platform and thought I’d done the necessary to continue at the slightly higher rate (on Substack? - their repeated sign-in requirements regularly put my head in a spin, I’m afraid). But as long as everything’s fine.
By the way, I really like your autumn-merging-into-winter photos. The damp, the fog, skeletal trees, colours of decay, the sense of quiet. It’s a beautiful time and exciting with buds for next year already peeping up on plants given up for dead in the hot summer.
I take slight exception with you on a non-gardening matter - ‘ghastly fleeces’. We never get on top of our clothes moth problem here. In our big, warm apartment block they are to the indoors areas what Mrs Vine Weevil is to the outside ones. I don’t have an intact woollen jumper, but those cosy fleeces made from plastic bottles resist everything!
Regards,
Ian
Haha ok I think you win about the fleeces, to be fair from now until April I’ll be wearing mine every day so perhaps I should give them more credit 😄
It was a shame I had to move the newsletter to Substack, I preferred running it off my site too, to have everything in one place. But running a paid newsletter is more complicated than it seems because I had to have a system for the newsletter, a system for the membership subscription and another one for payments. In the end the linking of those was too difficult and Substack offers the lot in one and more security. Hopefully you can remain logged in, giving you access to the archive - that element is the same as on my site. The one thing I don’t like about Substack is that the minimum annual price I’m allowed to set is £20, I thought £10 -15 made it more accessible to people. But I’ve increased my effort to match that.
Thanks for asking about it all.
Jack
Jack,
Thanks for another set of beautiful snaps and info.
My message tonight isn’t actually a comment. Apologies in advance if I should have used a different contact method. I looked for one.
I had an odd email at 10.08 today saying that I’ve cancelled my subscription with you. I can’t find any other way of contacting you about it apart from clicking on mail links in the email itself, which I’m loathe to do in case it’s a scam. I certainly don’t want to cancel my subscription!
Below is a copy of the text I received (I’ve asterisked out my own email address).
Regards,
Ian.
« Your membership at Jack Wallington Garden Design Ltd. has been CANCELLED
Dear ianrusper,
Your membership at Jack Wallington Garden Design Ltd. has been cancelled.
Account: ianrusper (************************)
Membership Level: Annual subscription
If you did not request this cancellation and would like more information please contact us at contact@jackwallington.com
Respectfully,
Jack Wallington Garden Design Ltd. »
Hi Ian,
Thanks for getting in touch about it - that is actually a real email, although the default text is awful! It's because I had to move the newsletter across from one platform to this new one. I could move the emails but not the subscription info, so unfortunately it means signing up again on here. Though you should have access to the newsletter on here until some point early next year. You should receive another email in 2023 telling you that your paid for subscription has expired on here.
Thanks for supporting the newsletter and still wanting to read it! :)
Jack