Post Comment Love 9-11 June 2017

Hello there and welcome to another #PoCoLo and another Friday again, so soon. If you were here last week it was great to see you, if you're new here this week, welcome, I'm sure we'll have some pretty fabulous posts linked up for you to read again this week.

For me this week has been all about our to do list - and notice it's a shared one - we're about a week away from our 110th party (that's two big birthdays and our tenth wedding anniversary which we celebrated yesterday) and we still have a fair bit to do. That's meant we've adopted shock tactics, which for anyone that knows me will be a shock too, we've been getting up about an hour earlier in the hope of getting through our to do lists.  It seems to be working but the payoff is that my usual blogging time is suffering as that hour or so really catches up with me.

My photo this week is one from our wedding day in 2007, and despite what it might look like I'm pretty sure I didn't clock my new husband with my bouquet...

Blogger Showcase: Kaiden from The Habitual Blogger

This week you can read all about our Blogger Showcase, Kaiden over on Morgan's blog - but before you go let me share a little about him here. He loves to write about his gorgeous boy, who is also refers to as his tiny tornado and I'm with him about ticking things off a to do list. it's the *best* feeling, and I need to do more of that before next Saturday! And it sounds as if he could do with a big night out, now go on, pop over to Morgan's blog and find out more.

Connect with Kaiden on Twitter and Instagram.

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Post Comment Love & Blogger Showcase 2-4 June 2017

Hello there and welcome to another Friday and another #PoCoLo - if you were here last week it was great to see you again. If you're new here this week, then welcome, both Morgan and I are sure you'll find some great posts to read and we encourage you to read and comment on the posts that resonate with you, as it's nice to have some love for our posts isn't it?

It's been a tiring - and aching - week for me, as this week I learnt I'm not cut out to be a labourer. Two days of carrying rubble and other heavy items have left me with tired, aching arms and the 30 day press up challenge I started is quite rightly on hold while my arms recover, which is a shame as I was doing so well. I'd started at twenty press ups and had increased that to around forty within a ten or so days, something I never thought I'd manage.

I celebrated my birthday - thank you for all your kind wishes - and there's a new loo series on the way from the Tandoor Chop House near Charing Cross where we went for dinner.  It was a busy weekend and we had some real successes as well as some challenges, I'm hoping to write another post on that and publish that later today, so I'll save that for then.

The garden is coming on well and we're currently on Cherry-watch, and your guess is as good as mine as to whether or not we'll get to the ripened cherries before the pigeons will - wish us luck! 

Blogger Showcase: Clair from Crohn's in the City

1. Who are you?

I am Clair, a 24 year old from Scotland who is battling with Crohn's Disease, and I blog at Crohn's in the City.

2. How did you discover blogging?

I discovered blogging when trying to learn more about my illness and looking for places to eat (I am a bit of a foodie!)

3. Why did you start blogging?

I started to try and raise awareness about Crohn's. I have also started blogging about experiences to push my own self to venture out and not let Crohn's hold me back.

4. What do you find most challenging?

Getting my blog out there and learning the blogging jargon!

5. What is your favourite topic to write about?

That's the embarrassing situations I end up getting into. I think this would be helpful to other people with Crohn's or Colitis - a bit of light heartedness between all the doom and gloom of the disease.

6. What's your blogging goal?

My main goal for blogging is to raise awareness about IBD.

7. What's your favourite thing about blogging?

Blogging has been great fun for me. My favourite part of it has to be interacting with readers who have Crohn's or know someone affected by it. I have learnt a lot more about the disease through blogging!

8. Have you been to a blogging conference?

Sadly I haven't, but I would love to.

9. What are your 3 best posts?

These would have to be:

1. Crohns & Colitis Awareness week 
2. Feeling the love 
3. Domino's is a no no

10. Describe yourself in three words

Hmmm... happy, sensitive and ill.

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

Can I be awkward and go for coffee with biscuits?

12. What's your perfect night out?

A perfect night out for me (when not flaring) would be a few cocktails, a little bit of dancing and ending the night with a take away for the walk home - simple pleasures!

13. Your perfect night in?

That would have to include fresh jammies, a Netflix account and the biggest pizza I could find.

14. What would your OH say is your best quality?

I think my best quality would be that I am funny, but not sure my other half would 100% agree.

Thanks Clair, coffee and biscuits is fine - please do grab your "I was featured on #PoCoLo" badge.  If you're reading this wondering how you can be featured, please get in touch.

Connect with Clair here:

Facebook  -  Instagram  -  Twitter  -  

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Post Comment Love: 26 - 29 May 2017

Hello there and welcome to this week's #PoCoLo. If you were here last week, thank you it was great to see you and it was great to have Morgan back too, I'd missed her as my co-host.  If you're new here then welcome, I'm sure that you'll find some great blog posts, and blogs, to read and both Morgan and I hope you become a regular linker.

I've had the best kind of week; not only have I had a couple of days off with the sun shining, but I've been able to satisfy my planning needs! And thrift, that's featured too. Before I went to work Monday I'd ordered, paid for and arranged delivery of the sleepers for another of my garden projects, and our gabion baskets arrived Wednesday as well. I love it when companies deliver on what they say, on time and without fuss, it makes such a difference.

I've also had some gumtree success finding two people locally who have rubble to give away. Yesterday we collected twelve sacks and later today we're collecting twelve more from someone else.  This is great news for us, as we have a cubic metre gabion basket to fill pretty quickly so the new pizza oven - which is due to arrive later today - has somewhere to go.  

I may still buy some bricks to add a decorative touch to the baskets, but the advice I received from ITV's Love Your Garden presenter, Katie Rushworth has been a big factor in getting myself sorted and ready to sort out the problem areas in our garden once and for all. That's the post I've linked this week, so you can read more about my chat with her.

She really is lovely and clearly knows her stuff. She started in fashion design but moved to designing gardens as she loved being outside and surrounded by nature, and that enables her to use her creativity in a different way, although there are similarities with the use of shape, form and texture.

My photo this week is of the helicoils, spring-like fixings, which we'll use to bind our gabion baskets together. Already I've learnt a new language, having laced the baskets together on Thursday assembling them. Later today there'll be some bracing, to add strength and well who knows. But everything is starting to come together!

This week Morgan and I care keeping the linky open until 11pm on Bank Holiday Monday, so there's a bit more time to link up if you're out and about this weekend. Monday is my birthday, quite a significant one, and I'm hoping there'll be some treats along the way.  Have a great Bank Holiday weekend, and don't forget to check out some of the other posts linked up.

Blogger Showcase: Sir Leprechaun Rabbit from multiple blogs

Well, this week's Blogger Showcase is quite a character and has many blogs including , he says he's everywhere and that definitely seems the case. He was discovered by blogging rather than the other way round and with three blogs, he writes for fun and says blogging is a lot like gossip, in that you can control how much (or how little) of a secret you can tell.

Wise words indeed, pop over and take a look at the full set of answers on Morgan's blog, I'm pretty sure you'll find out more about Sir Leprechaun Rabbit who says he's much more than just a long-eared wordsmith!

And don't forget to connect with him on social too:

Twitter   -  Google+  -  Pinterest  - Instagram

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