Draft · not sent · 1 September 2026
Camphill’s September newsletter
Hannah’s seven articles, built into the newsletter tool and ready to send. Below is the email exactly as it will arrive, then what changed and what still stands in the way.
- Subject
- Spring is blooming, and the market is this Sunday
- Preheader
- Sunday 6 September, 10am to 3pm. Bring a blanket. Plus a KFM Top 5, 1,692 kg of leeks, and an invitation for October.
- From
- Camphill Village West Coast
- Stories
- Seven, with nine photographs
- Weight
- 16 kB of HTML, 956 kB of images — well under Gmail’s clipping limit
- Source
content/newsletters/2026-09-spring.mdonclaude/camphill-newsletter-sep2026
It cannot send yet, and that is not about the newsletter
Two things are still in the way, both of them upstream of this draft:
- The sending domain needs the Xneelo DNS records, then verification in Resend. That is the call with James and his one-time code.
- The subscriber list still has to be imported, and the 1,585 suppressions seeded first.
Until both land, this is a draft that can be reviewed and edited but not delivered.
The email, as it will arrive
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Shown in its real colours in both light and dark mode, because an inbox does not follow your system theme.
FixedThree things in the copy
Spelling was mixed. “Favourite” in the opening article, “favorite” twice in the dairy list. Now British throughout.
A space before a comma, four times — “about spring , it’s”, “a Sunday with us , THANK YOU”. Small, but it reads as a typo in a polished newsletter.
Legacy of Lights had no price, venue, time or dress code in the words. All four were only in the poster image. Anyone with images turned off, and every screen reader, would have been invited to an event with no idea what it cost or where it was. They are in the text now: Eensgezind Function Village, 18h00, smart, R750 a head.
Checked17 October is a Saturday
Neither the copy nor the poster says which day it falls on. I nearly wrote Friday. Worth checking rather than assuming, because a wrong day of the week in a fundraiser invitation is the kind of error people notice and remember.
BuiltThe email tool could not show a photograph
It accepted paragraphs, headings, bold, bullets and links, and nothing else. A newsletter about a market in spring, a leek harvest and two volunteers going home does not survive as prose alone, and Hannah sent nineteen photographs with the copy.
Photos now work, written as  on a line of its own. The description is required rather than optional: a good third of people read email with images blocked, and for them that sentence is the photograph.
One other thing turned up while testing. An email address written as a link was leaking into the message as raw brackets, because the tool only recognised web links. A charity newsletter points at an address constantly, so that is fixed too — it is why the Legacy of Lights booking address is now clickable.
ChosenNine photographs of nineteen
One per story, two for the leeks because the harvest and the team are different pictures. Left out: the Inside Guide screenshot (the article is linked instead), three more leek fields, two more picnic shots, three more of the massage training, and the second dairy photograph.
They are all in _client-docs/camphill/newsletter-images/ if Hannah wants any of them back. Each one is resized to about 100 kB, which is roughly twice the width it renders at, so it stays sharp on a phone without costing a megabyte and a half of somebody’s data.
NextTo put it live
Sign in at camphill.lumanaire.co.za/admin, open Campaigns, make a draft, and paste the markdown from the branch. The subject and preheader above are ready to use. Send a test to yourself first — the tool has a button for it.
The photographs need the branch deployed before they load, since they are served from the site.