Post Comment Love 27-29 May

May 27, 2022

Welcome to this week’s #PoCoLo - a friendly linky which I co-host with Suzanne, where you can link any blog post published in the last week. We know you’ll find some great posts to read, and maybe some new-to-you blogs too, so do pop over and visit some of the posts linked and share some of that love. If you were here last week it was great to have you along, if you’re new here this week we’re pleased you’re here.

This has been my view for most of this week, and it’s been very relaxing!

We’ve spent the week in beautiful Northumberland and while the weather hasn’t been the best - we’ve had everything from hail, torrential rain and driving winds to glorious sunshine and slightly less winds, all on the same day. But we’ve been made to feel very welcome by everyone we’ve met, and even the cows have been curious but also completely unbothered. Our daily spa visit - there’s one on site where we’re staying - has become quite the welcome routine, though it’s the first time I think I’ve worn a waterproof over a bikini!

We’re travelling home today, so I’m looking forward to catching up on your posts - and to sharing what we’ve been up to.

Post Comment Love 20-22 May

May 20, 2022

Welcome to this week’s #PoCoLo - a friendly linky which I co-host with Suzanne, where you can link any blog post published in the last week. We know you’ll find some great posts to read, and maybe some new-to-you blogs too, so do pop over and visit and comment on some of the posts linked sharing some blog love. If you were here last week it was great to have you along, if you’re new here this week we’re pleased you’re here.

This week the much anticipated and forecast good weather arrived in South London, and it’s been lovely. On days it’s been so warm the air feels warm relatively early in the morning, which isn’t always the case. There’s been time for pottering around in the garden, a trip to the garden centre to get new plants and it’s my first full week not working. I’m still working out what my new routine might be, and this week it’s included planning for some time away at a family wedding.

A family wedding that should have taken place in 2020 but for reasons we all know very well about it didn’t. I am doing a reading as part of the service and I probably need to read it out loud at least a few more times yet. But it is quite apt that my photo this week is of cake, and chocolate cake as that’s included in the poem I’ll be reading. The cakes are actually how I marked stopping work, with my actual last day working remotely, MOH and I enjoyed a cake from a local bakery - how lucky are we to have these almost on our doorstep? Though thankfully, I quite often forget they’re there, which really is a good thing.

Two cakes in a box, one round wrapped with chocolate and chocolate flakes on top along with a milk chocolate 'straw' and the other a very fancy vanilla slice, stacked high with cream and icing

Post Comment Love 13-15 May

May 13, 2022

I have pretty much spent the last week saying goodbye to friends and colleagues in my former workplace, it’s felt a bit like the longest goodbye (in a good way) and yet still a surprise for some to learn I was leaving. It’s been great to catch up with people in person, and as I warned them, I’m not far away and was back there last night attending an awards night and for drinks. I’ve only been away a few days, but it was good to see everyone.

Thank you for the comments about the photo on last week’s post, the tulips are all but done now - but at each stage their beauty has shone through. They seemed an obvious photo for this week, and quite often - and definitely in this case - obvious is good, so here’s their last hurrah:

Orange and yellow tulips which are 'going over' but still beautiful