Thanks for reading my Fifty from Fifty Newsletter, this isn’t one of the regular numbered posts, and all will become clear momentarily. A regular post should be out tomorrow.
We are clattering our way towards post no 50 and if you remember back to the welcome email I said that this would be a limited run. 50ish posts reminiscing on 50 years of my life. I still intend that to be the case but I have had some push back on stopping at post number 50. I also however feel a contract with you who read my ramblings so would appreciate your views.
I think there are five basic options:
Stop as advertised. Email addresses deleted, posts will remain as an archive.
Keep going as I am. Roughly a post a week along the same lines. I realise that you may be signed up thinking this was going to end, so there’s always the unsubscribe button or let me know and I’ll remove you from the list.
Start another separate newsletter. This is likely to be on the new garden and getting it into shape, growing stuff and cooking the produce. This would require a new sign-up, I wouldn’t just port your email details across.
I also have a blog. I’ve been writing much less there this year because of this newsletter, but could switch my attention back there. You can subscribe by email, but the content is more varied and would likely include content from idea 3, if I don’t do that separately. Again I wouldn’t port your email details over.
Keep going as is but look forward at the next fifty years and things that might happen (this was something
of suggested when I mentioned this to him - Thanks Mason!)
There are of course probably other options that I haven’t considered so if you have a bright idea that you’d like to share, do leave me a comment.
As I said I’d like to know what you think, so if you have a favourite from the above please vote in the poll below. Realistically I think I only have the time to do one of them, as much as I would like to do them all, so ultimately the final decision rests with me. I would also consider the paid tier, although again, not sure how that would work in practice, but that would only be after the 50 posts. I do not intend to make any change along those lines with the current format.
So let me know your thoughts below or via the comments.
As always, thanks for reading.
Life After Fifty
I really like these. We have a lot in common (although I am 10 years older than you) and I really enjoy the reminders of my past. (Just in passing, I also owned a mother of pearl pen knife like the one you lost.) However, I also enjoy your posts about gardening and am excited to see what you are going to do in your new garden. I voted for point four, on the promise (?) that you will include the odd “I remember when…” post. However, I also feel that you are torn about what to do. Can I suggest the coin toss method? If you cannot decide which you want, toss a coin. When the result occurs, if you are happy, then that’s the one. If however, when you get a result and your first thought is “best of three”, that is not really the one you want. I hope that you get the result that brings you the most happiness. You’ll enjoy it more and therefore your readers will enjoy it more.