Le Post Comment Love 28-30 April 2017

Hello there and welcome to another #PoCoLo where you can link any post you've shared in the last week. That makes for lots of good reads for everyone, so if you're new here welcome and if you were here last week, welcome back - it's great to have you here.

I've had a fun week this week, lots of things going on as usual and cramming work into three days so I can enjoy an extra-long weekend with some time off this week and next too. There's been new stuff: I received and cooked my first ever Gousto box and I'll share more here over the weekend and some new storage for our spare bedroom, old stuff: we've been taking more things to the charity shop and finally found somewhere to recycle small electrical items after a bit of a wild goose chase. I mean it's easy to see why so much stuff gets dumped if it's that hard to get rid of things isn't it?

There's been more gardening, I finally got to potter in my greenhouse and we're making real headway adding edges to our circles, which is just as well really as the date for our 110th party is looming, and I'm hoping we'll be spending the day celebrating in the garden especially after all the work we've put in.

I've been in my element there too, with lots of planning and even some doing going on. We're in France today - hence Le Post Comment Love - so if you tweet me today my retweets might be a little slower than normal. We've lots planned for our time off, but I'm also hoping that before I go back to work next Thursday, there'll have been some crafting too. 

My picture this week is another from Greenwich Park, and looking at it now, it looks as if it should have been taken on a warm sunny day. Now doesn't that just go to show how pictures can lie? The sun probably was out, but this week has been far from warm. There was thunder and hail one afternoon, and as I'm typing this the heating is on. Let's hope the weather remembers it's the end of April soon and sorts itself out!

ACID GREEN EUPHORBIAS IN GREENWICH PARK

ACID GREEN EUPHORBIAS IN GREENWICH PARK

Blogger Showcase: Natalie from UpYourVlog

Natalie's UpYourVlog blog covers beauty, fashion and fitness, and was something she started to appease her parents and explain to them what she got up to! And a perfect night out would be cocktails, and more cocktails - or prosecco - and lots of dancing. You'll have to pop over to Morgan's blog to find out more though, and be sure to check out Natalie's best posts. I'll tell you now one of them's about fly fishing, which Natalie says "I know, fly fishing. But it was such a great experience!"

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Post Comment Love and Blogger Showcase 21-23 April 2017

Hello and welcome to another Friday and another #PoCoLo - if you were here last week, thank you and if you're new here welcome. Both Morgan and I hope you find plenty of good reads in our friendly Post Comment Love community.  

It's been a funny week hasn't it, I think short weeks always are. We had a good, but chilly Easter, and the weather has been tricking me this week since we've been home too. Tuesday morning it looked nice out and so I left home without a cardy, I almost came home again to find one but decided against it and later wished I hadn't. Although the skies were blue, so was the temperature.

It has warmed up a little as the week's gone on, but generally let's just say it's been brrrrrr! The wind has been showing its hand in other ways too, just look at the blossom on my walking commute.  There's much more on the ground now, although I kind of like the idea of pink flower beds, don't you?

Blogger Showcase: Pam from Pam's Bake and Baby blog

1. Who are you? 

My name's Pam and I'm a 32 year old mum of two - Fraser 3yrs and Hannah 1yr. I'm wife to a mountain biker-surveyor-whisky-drinker, Ross. We've been together 15 years, married for eight and I've worked in the rail industry for over 10 years.

2. How did you discover blogs/blogging?

I have been reading baking blogs for about 5 years since I really got into cake making. It opened up a whole new world for me, moving onto parenting and lifestyle blogs as well.

3. Why did you start blogging?

I started blogging - at Pam's Bake and Baby - because friends badgered me to. Since having kids I have been posting funny anecdotes and pictures on Facebook and everybody told me I should be blogging. Having taken fiction writing courses and writing only fiction since I was younger I wasn't sure how I would get on, but I'm really enjoying it.

4. What do you find most challenging?

Writing content I think will engage people. Sometimes I try too hard to write what I think others will want rather than what I enjoy.

5. What is your favourite topic to write about?

Definitely mishaps with the kids. I love the humour and the camaraderie from fellow mums.

6. Are you blogging for fun or do you have goals?

I've only been blogging for 5 months so at the moment it's just for fun but I'm keen to see what I can do with it.

7. What is your favourite thing about blogging?

It has to be the feedback and support from other mums, bakers and bloggers.

8. Have you ever attended a blogging conference?

I haven't yet attended any conferences.

9. What are your 3 best posts?

My 3 best posts are 

  1. Harder, Better, Stronger, Faster

  2. Things I've learnt today 

  3. Bakes and Blushes

10. Describe yourself in three words...

I'm a continually harassed individual that sets herself constant goals and puts herself under more pressure than she needs to. I work full-time, shift work in the rail industry and juggle this with a husband who works away a lot, two kids and a growing list of cake making requests.

...Oops!

11. Are you a tea and biscuits or coffee and cake person?

Tea and biscuits all the way. Have been known to finish a whole pack of chocolate hobnobs and hide the wrapper like a guilty child!

12. What's your idea of a perfect night out?

That would be a very luxurious meal with good wine, then cocktails, followed by a night in a hotel so I didnt have to get up with the kids.

13. Your perfect night in?

A takeaway slob night with a good box set and no housework!

14. What would your best friend/OH/mum or kids say is your best quality?

My mum would say I work too hard and don't take enough time for myself. My husband would hopefully say I'm a fun person to be around and make our home a place he can't wait to come back to.

 

Thanks Pam, it's lovely to read more about you and your blog and thank you for letting us know you enjoy our PoCoLo linky, please do grab your "I was featured" badge.

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Post Comment Love 14-16 April 2017

Hello there and welcome to another Friday and another #PoCoLo - if you were here last week, thanks for linking up with us, we loved reading your posts. If you're linking for the first time this week, then welcome, I expect you'll find some cracking posts linked up, but don't just take my word for it.

Wasn't the weather great at the weekend? And so different during the week! Despite the change in temperature I've still been braving the walk to work without a coat, I find them cumbersome, so as soon as I can ditch my coat I'm a happy girl. I'm prepared to brave the colder mornings so I don't have to carry a coat home each evening, my plan is only scuppered when it's cold in the evening too. But that's a good reason to walk more quickly!

Greenwich Park is still as beautiful and the pink blossom still in full swing. One of the trees in the flower garden has been gaining lots of attention from Asian visitors who are queuing to have their photo taken underneath it. Deciding to (almost) get in on the act, one evening i stood under another of the trees, and that's the photo I'm sharing this week. I've had some fun editing what was a dark photo, but I think I'm allowed some photographic licence at times.

Blogger Showcase: Sam from Dove Cottage 

Sam is a new house owner and spends all of her spare time transforming it into her dream vintage style home, you can read more about her progress on her Dove Cottage blog.

I think you'll find her blog friendly and approachable, which are just two of the words Sam uses to describe herself, so pop over to Morgan's blog and find out more about Sam, her blog and her favourite posts.

And don't forget to connect with Sam on social media, we all know just how nice it is to find new followers:

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