Post Comment Love: A half birthday!

Welcome to this week's #PoCoLo. I know, Friday already and not only that it's the first of July!  Which means Morgan and I have been hosting this fab linky for six whole months now - so we're celebrating our half birthday this week!  Hasn't it gone quick?  As ever we're glad to have you along, but before we get to that...

It's been quite a week hasn't it? One where I'll freely admit I've struggled with the result of the referendum and been saddened by what seems to be an increase in racial incidents. That's never ok and I like the idea of wearing a safety pin to show solidarity with our foreign-born population. Going to Brit Mums Live on Saturday couldn't have been timed better for me and it was uplifting to be in a room stuffed full of positivity.

It was great to meet up with Vicky and to meet Morgan and for me there was no other photo to share in this week's post, so here you have us #PoCoLo's hosts past and present.

ME, VICKY AND MORGAN AT #BML16

ME, VICKY AND MORGAN AT #BML16

Newbie Showcase

Well today to celebrate our half birthday - and because we don't have a newbie to showcase this week - we're doing something different, we're celebrating all of our fantastic newbie showcase bloggers so far, so this week we're giving a *wave* to:

Nikki at Someplace Strange  |  Emily at Lost in Lyon  |  Poppy at A Sunny Island  |  Niki at Play Travel Life  |  Miranda at Drops of Learning  |  Sacha at Visualize Authenticity  |  Franca at A Moment with Franca  |  Sarah at Admissions of a Working Mother  |  Jenna at Jenna Michelle Pink  |   Katie at Mummy in a Tutu  |  Sarah at Craft Invaders  |  Kate at Refined Prose  |   Jessica at Babi A Fi  |  Lindsay at Crazy Organized Blog  | Michaela at The Mummy Diaries  |  Mainy at My Real Fairy  |  Katie at So this is Mrs T  |  Karen at Two Tiny Hands  |  Polly at Right Royal Mother  |  Sophie at Mama Mei  |  Rebecca at Taylor Made Ramblings  |  Gemma at Tiddlers Art Studio  |  Bethany at Simply Said Seven  |   Sam at Memories and Mayhem and Jennifer at Living with Layla-Rose.

It's fab that lots of you are still linking up each week, it's been a pleasure to share each and every one of your blogs.

If your blog is under a year old and you'd like to be featured in a future Newbie Showcase then please do get in touch with either Morgan or myself.

Post Comment Love 24-26 June 2016

I'm writing this post ahead of the EU referendum is taking place, let alone before the results have come in.  No doubt like all of you, I'm hoping the result went the way I voted. I know we can't all be right, but I hope we all used our vote.

And putting that aside, welcome to another edition of PoCoLo!  If you're new here please link up any post you've written in the last week and comment on at least a couple of other posts. If you've been here before, then welcome back and either way Morgan and I are pleased to have you along.  This week I received a lovely comment on Twitter about our Post Comment Love community and that was "it had consistently good contributors" and I couldn't agree more! So thank you.

This week's photo is one from our trip to France and is the best starter I had there - not that I had that many. It's a goats cheese apple tatin and it was fantastic. If I'd mastered the sweet kind of tart tatin (I haven't), I'd be tempted to try and recreate this.

GOATS CHEESE APPLE TATIN AND A HUGE PILE OF LETTUCE

GOATS CHEESE APPLE TATIN AND A HUGE PILE OF LETTUCE

Newbie Showcase: Jennifer from Living with Layla-Rose

Jennifer and Layla-Rose

Jennifer is a newbie mum and a newbie blogger at Living with Layla-Rose and when she's not on maternity leave she's a full time teacher.

To find out more about Jennifer and to see her favourite posts, pop over to Morgan's blog.

Connect with Jennifer here

Please do pop over to Jennifer's blog and social accounts.

 

 

Post Comment Love & Newbie Showcase 17-19 June 2016

Hello and welcome back to #PoCoLo - I'm still in France and will be back on the ferry overnight.

Thank you to Jayne for joining Morgan as co-host last week.

So what's been going on? What did I miss?  I'm looking forward to catching up with your posts to find out.  Today's image from Unsplash has no significance other than being a calming and very blue picture.  As I'm rushing around doing the post-holiday washing mountain I'll remember this image...

Blue wall blue table

Newbie Showcase: Sam from Memories and Mayhem

Memories and Mayhem blog header
Sam from Memories and Mayhem blog

I’m Sam a 30-something, married to Mark, another 30-something, and we have two kids. Last year we bought what we hope will become the house of our dreams, but at the moment it’s a bit of a wreck and we are slowly renovating it in our spare time.

We also love to travel, although most of our money is tied up in plastering and painting at the moment so there’s not many funds in the travel budget right now, but we are all looking forward to a trip to Hawaii this summer!

I started blogging a few years ago but lost my way with it and gave up when the words stopped flowing. After a very stressful year I knew that I needed to start a new blog to give me a creative outlet and let the words flow. I’ve been blogging at Memories and Mayhem for about 6 months and I love having my little corner of the internet back! I blog as often as I can, but there can be breaks between posts as I suffer from Fibromyalgia and after a full day at work sometimes there is simply no energy left to blog.

I hope you’ll enjoy reading Memories and Mayhem and following our renovating mayhem and the memories we make on our travels. My favourite posts are:

Connect with Sam here

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