Post Comment Love 7-9 October

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After the relative shock of autumn arriving last week it’s been a week adapting to the changed season and darker evenings and settling into a different routine. Like many people we’re watching our energy use, and we don’t yet have our heating on so the sunny days have been most welcome. The reports yesterday of potential scheduled power cuts in worse case scenarios is worrying, and I don’t understand why there is such resistance from government to encourage people to use less. Instead there is misinformation on the energy price cap - it’s staggeringly unbelievable, perhaps even more so as my work life was predominantly spent in communications, getting messages across to people clearly.

But anyway, I can’t fix that so instead let me share more about my photo this week - the most glorious dahlia - enjoying the sun, and which is about the size of a dinner plate too!

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Post Comment Love 30 September - 2 October

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 week it’s felt more autumnal and I’ve been embracing that, well most of it - the darker evenings are less good, but on the plus side autumn food is a winner in my books. We’ve currently got scaffolding up at the front of our house as we’re having the outside repainted, and that’s not helping with the darker evenings. But it will be great to have the outside freshened up, and yes we are still selling our house but are of the opinion that it’s ours til its sold, and that means keeping up with its upkeep too.

I’ve remembered that I have these two tiny ceramic pumpkins, and as it’s rolling into October this weekend it must be about time to get those out again!

two small ceramic pumpkins on my table - one white, one duck egg blue (naturally!)

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Post Comment Love 23-25 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.

The Queen’s funeral on Monday was full of pomp and ceremony as we expected, and we watched most of it before heading out for a walk in the afternoon. It was quiet locally even though there were people about, and it was good to get out and stretch our legs. That’s something I’ve been doing more of recently and it’s really good for the soul, as well as physically and thankfully the troublesome toe doesn’t prevent that happening either.

We’ve definitely been having more autumnal weather here in South London, but yesterday the sun was shining and warm so wanting to make the most of it I headed off to Greenwich Park for a walk. I didn’t have plans much more than though, though when I’m out walking on my own I enjoy popping on a podcast to keep my company. One of the more recent ones I’ve discovered is Stompcast with Dr Alex George who speaks to guests while walking around a park - yesterday I listed to his conversation with Scarlett Moffatt as they walked around Regents Park - and the idea of the recording is to encourage more people to get outside for an hour a week (the podcast is broken into three episodes so you can listen to them to match your walk, or stomp).

As I headed to Greenwich Park they were in the Rose Garden at Regents Park and so, I thought I can do that too. It’s not a part of the park I visit regularly, and on the way I spotted a statue out of the corner of my eye, one I don’t remember seeing before. On closer inspection it’s a Henry Moore and has been on display in the park between 1979 and 2007 and then again since 2011, so there’s every chance it’s been there when we have, but until now I hadn’t spotted it. It always amazes me how we may not see things until we’re ready to do so.

Have a great week!

The Henry Moore statue in Greenwich Park with the observatory and trees in the background

STANDING FIGURE: KNIFE EDGE, HENRY MOORE

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