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Vicki Lesley's avatar

Delighted to be the first ♥️ here today! Thanks for all your fabulous Substack goodness this past year. Enjoy your festive break and here’s to bigger & better in 2025. Relentless marketing all the way 🤩

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Kate Darracott's avatar

Hee hee, I was going to say, you even managed to beat me to the ❤️! 👏

I will of course be lurking around Substack as a reader over the following month, so I'm sure I'll see you around.

Have a lovely Christmas, it was an absolute pleasure meeting you this year! 😘

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Vicki Lesley's avatar

Back atcha 🤗

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Sonya Mallett's avatar

Great post Kate, so simple, yet effective! I always make a point of clicking the ❤️ if I read a post I enjoy as it goes a long way.

Enjoy the Christmas break, I’ve also decided to take a break over Christmas, fully switching off for a couple of weeks makes the world of difference (I also do the same in the summer).

Looking forward to seeing what you have to share in 2025. xx

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Kate Darracott's avatar

Have a lovely break, I assume you will just be relaxing in your new bathroom! 🥰 x x

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Chitra Eder's avatar

Just found you! Now I have to wait?! Oh the agony! I just binged on your posts they are fabulous. Now I feel like I'm waiting on the next Netlflix season of Bridgerton. 😭😭

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Kate Darracott's avatar

Such amazing feedback, thank you so much!

Can I quote you on that? 😉👏

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Shelby Tutty, MHA's avatar

What?! Christmas month without Kate. Now I'm bah humbug. Enjoy your time away - good for you for taking what you need.

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Kate Darracott's avatar

Aaah, thanks Shelby! I’m sure I will see you around here over the festive period, I just won’t be posting as much. 😘

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Cindy Martindale's avatar

I tried to give you multiple ❤s (10 was what I wanted to do! You deserve them for the "liking" advice.), but it wouldn't let me do more than 1. If it can be done on Medium, why not here? Anyway, consider mentally adding nine more ❤s to what will probably be a massive field of hearts, proving how glad we are to have the reminder out there. Why didn't I think of that?

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Kate Darracott's avatar

Awwww, thanks Cindy, much appreciated! 😘

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Yara's avatar

Like the tip on liking your own post and asking them to restack or comment at the end.

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Becky Butler's avatar

This is so helpful! Thank you for posting!!

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Hannah Swierstra's avatar

Happy festiveness - see you on the other side!

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Kate Darracott's avatar

Have a fab Christmas, see you in January! 😘

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Shelly Roberts's avatar

Thanks for the tips Kate and have a wonderful Christmas 🎄

P.S. I’m a Christmas lover 😍🎄🎅🏻🎁

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Kate Darracott's avatar

Have a great Christmas Shelly! 🎉

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Prajna O'Hara's avatar

Hey Kate, generous advice on all levels and it might be just the nudge. I need to give myself permission to take some time off.

I love Substack and I heart in many places. Wintering is calling me.

I’ll see you around 🌹💙🌹

Have a restful reset .

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Kate Darracott's avatar

Go for it and take some time out! 👏

I find it helps me really appreciate what my 'usual' is to have a change, as I'm always missing my day-to-day after about 10 days out... which I found the optimum length of time to have a holiday.

So after a whole month I will be craving the 'self-imposed time pressures' of my Substack commitments. 😂 😂

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Patsy Day's avatar

Hi Kate. What a great decision to take a break although we'll miss you but it's empowering for all of us.

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Kate Darracott's avatar

Thanks Patsy! Have a fab festive season, and I'll see you in the New Year if not before! 😘

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Evolet Yvaine's avatar

How do I add emojis to my posts?

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Kate Darracott's avatar

If you’re on a Mac, just press control-command-spacebar all at the same time when your cursor is in a text field in any Application (including this note) and it will bring up the emoji picker panel.

Or if in Chrome, in a Substack Draft go to Edit => Emoji & Symbols.

If you’re on a PC, you’re on your own, I’ve no idea! 😂

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Sarah Frison's avatar

And if, like me, you're seeing the comments here quite a while later, you right-click in a text field and select 'emoji' from the little menu that pops up or press the windows key and the '.' key🙂.

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In-Her-Words's avatar

Appreciate the tips! Merry Christmas and a Very Happy 2025 to you as well!💓🎉✨️🎄🎆

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Kate Darracott's avatar

Thank you! Have a lovely festive season! 🎉

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Jana's avatar

Great post! I always felt hesitant to ❤️ my own post, but you're right. We have got to break the ice.

I'm delighted to see we are on the same wave-length when it comes to ‘taking break’. Good on you Kate and enjoy the Christmas! I took forward to more from you in January 👏

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Kate Darracott's avatar

Thanks Jana, you too, have a lovely, well deserved break! 😃🥳

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Jeanine Kitchel's avatar

Great post! Thanks for the refresher course!

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Kate Darracott's avatar

Thanks so much for saying so! 😃 👏

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Jeanine Kitchel's avatar

My pleasure. I started initiating your reminders immediately this a.m. Thanks!

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Ann Richardson's avatar

I liked and restacked. Have a well deserved break and I hope to meet you IRL next week.

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Kate Darracott's avatar

Thanks so much Ann!

See you next week at the Substack Writers Meet-up London! 🎉

Here's the link, in case anyone missed it:

https://lu.ma/3th6moqb?tk=ZDABGa

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