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Happy birthday, The Earthworm! 🥳🪱

EPIC cake choice! I'll take a raw brassica over actual cake any day (and I'm not even joking)!

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Congrats on your first year! Here’s to many more!!

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Happy Birthday Earthworm 🪱🥬💫

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Congratulations on a worm-tastic first year! It's been a joy following along and I'm looking forward to many more posts (and hopefully collabs)!

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Happy, happy birthday! 🎉 Here's to many more years of the Earthworm

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Happy day, Dan.

I've been on Substack about the same amount of time as your earthworm and it's thanks to you and Jo Thompson and others that my reading has widened into a broad panorama of enjoyment and learning every time I open the emails.

Thank you for you clarity, wit and engagement and here's to much more!

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“… allowing nostalgia to morph into melancholy and sometimes descend deeper still into something much darker.”

Wow, that’s my Tuesday.

“Why was I being so binary in my thinking? Why did I feel the need to make a choice between writing or gardening? ”

Great insight. Thanks for sharing and Happy Birthday! Still getting to know your newsletter but excited to delve in as spring approaches.

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Happy Birthday, Earthworm!!

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Hau'oli la hanau! (That's happy birthday in Hawaiian, from my dot on the globe.) I'm excited to read your Encanto article! I love all the plants in it.

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Feliz cumple gusanito! I love everything you write but then I would, wouldn’t I?

🥂🎂😘

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Congratulations, Dan. My gardening expertise is more or less non-existent but I really appreciate good writing. My subscription is justified in many ways, not least reading the following in this first birthday post: "fulfilling fusion of personal passion and professional expression". Keep up the great work :-)

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Many happy returns to YOU! Well done on all your wonderful work which brings joy to so many inboxes up and down the land. I thoroughly enjoy following your adventures which are told with such honesty and good humour. Appreciating your support right back at ya :)

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Congratulations! Ever since I've subscribed (will upgrade when I can afford it 😍) I enjoyed your posts. Thanks for the links to some older ones, I'll check them out. Looking forward to the next fabulous year!

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Did you get inspiration from V's Mum for the celebratory cabbage? 🤢🤢🤢🤢

Congratulations, I love reading it. I may even put my money where my mouth is, but you know, self-employed and all that.... see how the season goes...

I know a fair few journos who have seen their careers falter and wither. Well done for the inspiration and perseverance to combing the old and new careers.

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