Post Comment Love 2 - 4 February 2018

Hello there and welcome to our weekly link up for Post Comment Love - or #PoCoLo - if you were here last week, it was great to see you and if you're new here this week then you're very welcome. Both Morgan and I pleased to see you all each week and we're sure you're going to find some great posts to read.

This week has once again been dominated by work, but as I said on Monday it's one I've been ready to face head on. That said, I'm very glad it's Friday. And we've a bit of a weekend planned and I'm very much looking forward to that. I did manage to book a spa hotel but it seems very much in demand, so after much to-ing and fro-ing which they insisted on doing by text until it transpires there were no longer any massage appointments left.  Grrr.  

I will still use the spa, but it's unlikely to include a massage which if I'm honest I could do with. But it's not all bad, I've decided to upgrade my spa visit to an afternoon tea. I think that's fair don't you?

There have been some lovely days though this week, and there's been some rubbish ones too. I'm much more of a fan of the frosty, crisp days and that's what my photo this week shows. It's Greenwich Park on a frosty morning, it really is my best commute ever.

Blogger Showcase: Sophie from Sophie Roxanne

Sophie loves to write about how she feels, and that often is in poetry and rhyme, on her blog, and admits to being a bit of a huge foodie, loving the freedom to write about anything she wants.  She has some great posts linked up over at Morgan's this week so do pop over and discover the signs you grew up in Wales and more.

Even in Sophie's answers to our questions her personality shines through, as you'd expect from anyone that uses Head-case as one of the words to describe herself.  You'll have to pop over and find out why there's a long red dress and Star Wars pyjamas though.

Thanks for being our Blogger Showcase this week Sophie.  Before you head over to Morgan's to read more, give Sophie a follow or two, we all know how happy that makes us:  Twitter  -   Facebook  -  Instagram  

If you'd like to be featured in a future bloggers showcase then please get in touch with Morgan or I - we'd love to share more about you, so send us your answers and we can sort out a date.

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Post Comment Love & Blogger Showcase 26 - 28 January 2018

Hello there and welcome to #PoCoLo where you can share any post from the past week that needs a bit more love. If you were here last week it was great to see you, and if you're new here then you're very welcome, and both Morgan and I are sure you'll find some great posts to read.

The good news this week is that I've done way better than last week on leaving work on time, there's still plenty of work to do but I've realised stressing about it isn't helping and as such have made more progress, small but progress nonetheless. I know that being tired isn't helping anything, but it's so easy to feel like being at your desk will help isn't it? 

In fact there is more good news, I completed my tax return too. I'd been stressing that I was leaving it late, even for me, but in the end it turned out to be two days earlier than last year.  Plenty of time.  Maybe this (calendar) year I really will do it much earlier.  I know I should, but I'm sure I also think there's something more exciting I could be doing.

I'm feeling super organised right now as I'm writing this post much earlier than normal as I'm off to a blog event with Houzz on Thursday evening to take a look at the Houzz of 2018 launch party - I'm sure I'll be sharing more!

I had been hoping to get out into the garden at the weekend but the rain, sleet and snow scuppered that idea and I was more than happy to stay inside. I've spotted snowdrops in the garden - amongst the very wet snow - and hopefully I'll have pictures of my own from the garden soon.

But in the meantime I'm continuing to raid my archives, and this week's photo is of a periwinkle basking in the sun. There has been glimpses in our continuing crazy weather, but the wind and rain hasn't been far away either.

Blogger Showcase: Ray from Industry Me

1. Who are you?

Hi all my name is Ray and I am a music and lifestyle blogger from London and my blog is Industry Me.

2. How did you discover blogs/blogging?

During university blogs started becoming very popular and quite a few of my friends had them.

3. Why did you start blogging?

I wanted to share the music that was close to my heart. The music made by those who I felt were incredibly talented but often being overlooked by the industry.

4. What is your favourite topic to write about?

I love writing song reviews, especially when I really connect with the song.

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

When I first started it was definitely just for fun, but I've grown to see the need for platforms like mine and there are certainly a few milestones that I hope to reach.

6. What is your favourite thing about blogging?

I feel like blogging helps to give others a voice and that's an incredible feeling.

7. Have you ever attended a blogging conference and if so, what did you think?

I attended the black British social earlier this year where I met many amazing bloggers and creatives, many of whom I'm still in regular contact with. It was an amazing event, incredibly insightful and I learnt so much that day!

8. What are your 3 best posts?

My three best posts are my interview with Risa Binder, my post on the impact of culture on the UK music scene and finally my interview with designer Frances Bradley.

9. Describe yourself in three words!

Funny, courageous and intelligent.

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

Neither lol I'm a tea and cakes kinda gal.

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

Anything that involves great food and a restaurant with great lighting I am all about the ambience.

12. Your perfect night in?

Netflix (most likely the Gilmore girls) a nice cuppa and some almond slices.

13. What would your friends say is your best quality?

I think my friends would say it's the fact that I'm honest. I suppose it's my best and worst trait. But they know that no matter how hard some things are to hear it always comes from a good place with me.

Thanks Ray, it's great to learn more about you and your blog.  If you'd like to be featured in a future Blogger Showcase then please get in touch with either Morgan and I.

And before you link up, please take some time to connect with Ray on her social channels:  Twitter  -  Instagram.

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Post Comment Love 19 - 21 January 2018

Hello there and welcome to another Friday and another #PoCoLo and already I'm wondering how we're over halfway through January.  I've a feeling this year is going to whizz by just as the more recent ones have, but as I can't do much to stop that - just eek!  If you were here last week, it was great to see you, if you're new here this week then you're equally as welcome. 

Work has once again been busy and i've not managed to meet my leave on time ambition but I am making the most of my walk to work, thanks to some snazzy new trainers.  I'm also pleased to see the back of the grey, damp weather and while now there's colder blue skied days, I think on balance I prefer them. Not the wind quite so much though, I hope you didn't experience fences blown down - I don't think we have, and if we have I haven't spotted it yet. 

If I'm honest I was half expecting the cover on our patio table to have escaped, but it was still there this morning so that was a pleasant surprise.  I think it'll need securing this weekend though.

My photo seems much more calm and serene than the weather has been doesn't it? It's another from the beautiful garden, Compton Acres in Poole - I will share more from our visit there last March at some point, and you'll see just what I mean about it being beautiful.

Blogger Showcase: Jazmin from All That Jazmin

Jazz is an amateur pop culture journalist with a passion for writing and is a huge Disney fan and one of the things she loves about blogging is to discover life through other people's eyes. You can find out more about Jazmin on Morgan's blog, but before you go, don't forget to connect with Jazz on her social channels:  Instagram  -  Twitter 

If you'd like to be featured in a future Blogger Showcase then please get in touch with either Morgan and I, we've a waiting list until Easter, but we'd love to add your name to it.  

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