Post Comment Love 9-11 September

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While I’m keen to hang onto the summer for as long as I can and continue to wear my shorts there’s been a distinct cooling in the temperatures here, and a lot more rain. The rain is mostly arriving overnight and we’ve had a couple of the most fantastic storms too, with lightening so bright it has lit up the room. It’s been quite the spectacle. But we’ve had good weather too, on Sunday when we headed down to the Kent coast it was in the mid-twenties and I definitely have some strap marks from my walking sandals that weren’t there before.

We don’t get to be beside the sea very often, and Sandwich is a place I’ve not been too before but it was well worth the visit. I mean just look at those colours.

Since I wrote this post we’ve learnt of the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday 8 September. She truly was a remarkable lady who has spent her life in service, and was held in deep affection by so many people across the world. May our Queen rest in peace.

The stony beach, green sea and blue sky at Sandwich Bay, Kent

SANDWICH BAY

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Post Comment Love 2-4 September

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.

We had a glorious bank holiday weekend, meeting up with former work colleagues on the Friday, went out for a late lunch on the Sunday and caught up with gardening on the Monday - all very relaxed and worthwhile. Our grass appears to be getting greener each day, slowly recovering from the heatwaves though it’s still got a long way to go.

Like elsewhere our garden is confused. Yes, it’s September, but it’s not autumn yet is it? The trees aren’t yet shedding their leaves - though thankfully there will be a lot less to collect this year after all that tree work, and I’ve spotted some pale pink cyclamen flowering again, as well as a lone colchicum, the autumn crocus. It’s beautiful, but much earlier than we expected it.

An autumn crocus

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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.

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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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