Post Comment Love 22-24 July 2016

July 22, 2016

Hello and welcome to another Friday and another Post Comment Love. The place to be on Fridays for any post you've written in the past week that could do with some extra love. This week I've linked up a foray into poetry, which is quite an unusual post for me.

I've spent a lot of this week outside - on the allotment, in the garden, in the greenhouse, lunches outside and evenings eating from the barbecue and it's been great. When I've not been outside I've been trying to spend as much time as I can in the air conditioned office or in front of the fan at the end of our bed.

The downside though of all this time outdoors is a blip in my blogging routine, so I'll be spending time this weekend catching up, whatever the weather!

As I wandered up the garden one morning I saw this bee going about its work on the cosmos and as luck would had it my camera was to hand. So this week's photo is of that.

Newbie Showcase: Cécile from The Frenchie Mummy Blog

Cécile is the Frenchie Mummy, and as you might imagine is originally from France. She now lives in South East London with Grumpy Boyfriend and Baba, her baby boy who arrived in January.

She says her blog is not about being a super maman but where she shares all her adventures dans le monde des mamans.

Pop over to Morgan's blog to find out more about Cécile and to find out what her top five posts are.

Connect with Cécile here

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Also, Cécile has asked for your vote in the "Best New Blogger on the Block" category in the Bloggers Blog Awards.

Please do pop over and connect with Cécile, we all know how nice it is to get new followers.

If your blog is under a year old and you'd like to feature in a future Newbie Showcase then please do get in touch - Morgan and I would love to feature you.

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Post Comment Love & Newbie Showcase 15 July 2016

July 15, 2016

Hello there! Guess what? Yes it's Friday again, so welcome to this week's Post Comment Love. You might be wondering why I'm sharing what is a rather pretty of rain. Or you might be fed up with the rain, but that's not why. This week I think the rain's had it in for me. No honestly.

Do you know how many times this week it's rained at 1pm and 5pm?

Lots I tell you. It even prevented a bike ride to a local office on Tuesday, hammering it down it was. I guess that's "summer" for you! Let's hope the weather becomes more summer like soon, or sunnier at least.

Newbie Showcase: Jacqui from Recipes made easy

I have been a cookery writer and food stylist ( a fancy word for someone who cooks food to be photographed) for over 25 years and have written recipes for both weekly and monthly magazines here in the UK, as well as having written over 15 cookery books but I have only just started blogging my recipes.

I started my blog Recipes Made Easy at the end of last year, when my two boys had moved away from home and started

asking for recipes that they could cook. I had been thinking about writing a blog for a couple of years but just hadn't got around to it. They needed easy reliable recipes so this was the nudge I needed.

I love blogging and wish I had started earlier. The recipes on the blog are the recipes that I cook at home for family and friends and I love sharing them. All my recipes are well tested and I always try to explain each recipe clearly so even a beginner can understand.

I’ve learnt so much over the last few months as writing is just the beginning. There is the technical side to learn, social media to keep up to date, and not forgetting photographing the food. Before I started the blog I had only had to worry about how the food looked when shooting, now I am busy learning about exposure, lighting and post shoot editing as well. But luckily I soon discovered the food blogging world is a large and friendly community who are so free with their help and advice and for which I am very grateful.

When I’m not in the kitchen or at my computer I can be found at my tiny city allotment where I grow soft fruit and herbs or by the coast in Suffolk where I have a holiday cottage. I also like to crochet and love the theatre.

My favourite posts are:

Connect with Jacqui here

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Thanks Jacqui, you've inspired me to get started again with my sourdough. I've missed eating it and it really isn't as tricky as you first think.

If your blog is under a year old and you'd like to be featured in a future Newbie Showcase then please get in touch with Morgan or I, at the moment we have a very short list so you could be featured sooner than you think!

An InLinkz Link-up

Post Comment Love 8 July 2016

July 8, 2016

Hello there and welcome to this Friday's Post Comment Love. And hasn't it been nice to see the sun?! Long may it continue, although my evenings need some readjusting to find time for blogging and everything else that I need to fit in. This week we've cooked on the barbeque whenever we can, even if that means just cooking outside and eating indoors.

MOH was luck with the weather last Sunday for his mega-Essex cycle, completing 102 miles in under seven hours and he was still smiling at the end of it. I headed off to explore the gardens at Hyde Hall before returning to laze around on my picnic blanket in the field where he'd started and would finish. Lucky it was nice weather then, hey?