Club updates

A subscriber sent me a photograph of all 61 cards laid out on a table in order. Seeing five years of the same view at once is a strange thing and I have not entirely recovered.

Still £4. Still the same bit of sea.

I type these individually, which caps the whole thing at about 90 subscribers before it stops being sustainable. The waitlist is currently 140 people.

I am not going to solve this by photocopying. Places open as people leave, roughly six or seven a month, and it moves faster than the number suggests.

Fibre paper in the sizes I use has become genuinely hard to get, and what is available has doubled in price. I have enough for two more rounds.

Rather than switch to resin-coated and pretend nothing changed, I am pausing new subscriptions until I have secured stock. Existing subscribers are unaffected.

A few people have asked, so: nothing is picked from SSSIs, nothing from protected species lists, and nothing in quantity. Most of what I press comes from verges, ditches and my own overgrown allotment.

The grid reference on each card is deliberately coarse — a 1km square, not a spot. Rare plants get dug up when you tell people exactly where they are.

I am moving studio and the kiln takes three months to relocate, rewire and recertify. Petites Choses is paused until it is running again — probably October.

Nobody is being charged in the meantime. Subscriptions resume automatically when I restart, and everyone gets the missed quarter added on.