Post Comment Love 26-29 August

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.

It’s a bank holiday here, so this week the linky will remain open until 11pm on Monday.

Yesterday we finally had what I call proper rain here in South London, the first since mid-June, and it was glorious and much needed. I’m glad it stopped though, but I’m also hoping it’s not such a stranger for the foreseeable. I’m hoping that it will be like a well-behaved guest and know when to arrive and depart causing the minimum of fuss - well I can hope, can’t I?

In other news, the new coffee machine arrived ahead of schedule - so that was good news too. The troublesome toe continues, and yesterday I headed off to our local hospital for an x-ray, and the doctor’s prescribed another batch of antibiotics. The same ones as before, as it has improved with that but it’s still not where it should be - they agree with me that it’s not right, so it’s a case of understanding more about what’s going on and why it’s taking such resistance to being fixed. Hopefully the x-ray results will help shed some light on what’s going on.

It’s also noticeable that there’s a shift in seasons taking place, sunset is now nearing to 8.30pm (if we’re lucky) than 9.30pm and we’ve had some glorious sunsets in the garden, though we’re needing to add garden light to the patio table to prolong the evenings, and enjoy the calm and twinkling of the lights strung across the garden. For how much longer though, I’m not sure - hopefully for at least another month, if we’re lucky.

A pink/yellow sunset over the cottage at the end of our garden

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Post Comment Love 19-21 August

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.

It’s been one of those weeks - another doctor’s appointment for my troublesome toe resulting in more antibiotics, but not penicillin based ones as I’m reacting to those in a way I shouldn’t, and our coffee machine broke. Never rains, but it pours hey? A new one is on order and should be with us early next week. To be fair it’s had quite a good workout since and during the pandemic and in use every day.

I’m hopeful that my toe is on the way to being fixed now, it’s much less red and the swelling seems to be going down - it’s been playing up since 21 July, so it will be good to have a normal toe back.

Talking of rain - we’ve still had very little here, and I’m disappointed that none of the forecast thunderstorms arrived. We’ve a hosepipe ban starting on Wednesday, and like much of the country more rain is definitely needed.

A blister pack of six yellow tablets

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Post Comment Love 12-14 August

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.

It’s turned warm again hasn’t it, which is not what our gardens or countryside needed. Thankfully though while it’s warm it’s not the record breaking temperatures we saw last month. I hope you’re coping with the heat, traditionally as it’s the summer school holidays it should be raining shouldn’t it?! As I’m writing this next door’s cat is making his way slowly through our garden looking for shade and a vantage point - he’s finally settled on the earth under the fatsia, close to his bolt hole back through the fence to home. He uses our garden as his own, and mostly tolerates our presence in our own garden, but isn’t the most sociable cat so if we get too close, he’s off. Though increasingly in this weather if we can reassure him as we walk past - keeping a suitable distance of course - he’ll tolerate that, and has even deigned to lap from the occasional saucer of water that’s offered - I feel honoured!

Last week we had a couple of days away, and you can read more in the post I’ve linked up this week. But let me tell you about this week’s photo - yes, it’s a proud peacock perched on the wooden gates of where we were staying. We were staying in an annexe in the host’s garden, and it’s clear that the peacock came by to survey the newcomers and let us know he was there - the noise!!

We’d heard him that morning, but never having seen a peacock like this before were none the wiser. I called to MOH and we both stood in our doorway marvelling at the creature - truly magnificent (and knew it) but also aware that keeping our distance was the way to go. The dog, and the house owners took no special notice of him as he waddled through the yard, so from that we took it not to be an unusual event.

For us Londoners it was quite the sight to behold.

A peacock casually sitting on top of the garden gates

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