Post Comment Love 10 - 12 February

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’ve joined us.

Over the last week we’ve had an influx of house viewings, which is of course good news - hopefully we’ll soon find someone who’s keen to buy our house again. We had a buyer and things were progressing however, as is so often the case at the moment, our chain broke and we were back to square one. The downside of the house viewings is keeping everything cleaner and tidier than we normally would, so that it’s ready to welcome anyone even at short notice. I should say, we’re naturally clean and tidy, but this is a super level of clean and tidy!

We've slipped back into colder weather again, with fog and mist in the mornings. MOH took himself off for a morning cycle this week but wasn’t out for long thanks to the freezing fog. I was able to be a bit more tactical about things, and headed out once the sun was out and the skies had cleared somewhat. Walking back over the heath I snapped this week’s photo of some gorse against the chillier than it looks blue sky. I’m hopeful that spring isn’t too far away!

Flowering gorse against a blue sky

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Post Comment Love 3 - 5 February

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’ve joined us.

Happy February - we made it! Part of me thinks it’s crazy that we’re already into the second month of the year, though I know for many people January is one of those long, long months. We’ve had a fair bit going on so while it’s not been the best month, it hasn’t felt as long as perhaps it has done previously.

The gas works that turned out to be more complicated and therefore take longer than expected have now completed and the various crews have turned their attention further down the street, so life in our part of the street is returning to normal which can only be a good thing.

I spent an afternoon this week putting some old board games onto eBay - and there were some gems there. Anyone remember Headache with its pop-o-matic, or ‘Don’t let the leaves drop’ - a game which one the Magpie/Thames TV games competition back in 1972? These are just two of the ones I’ve listed this week, which have clearly been around for a while - I’m hoping that they’ll find new homes soon. I’ve also got an ‘Operation’ game - the one that buzzed, not sure if that still works, but I did discover that I’m missing two of the pieces - the pencil for writer’s cramp, and the spare ribs - which is a shame.

In one of the boxes I did find some old doodles of mine, which I suspect were made with the help of a shaped stencil. They’re quite striking though aren’t they? Though they are both in the recycling now!

Two pieces of paper with repeating shapes drawn in black pen, likely drawn with a stencil by teenager me

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Post Comment Love 27 - 29 January

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’ve joined us.

This week I’m feeling incredibly lucky. My phone took an unexpected and unplanned dunk in the toilet - I’d forgotten it was in my pocket - sigh! Thankfully though it wasn’t in the water for long and spent a good twelve hours in silica gel jail - it probably should have spent longer there, but I was chancing it. I didn’t charge it for a good twenty four hours more and it seems none the worse for its adventure. Phew.

I think it knew that I’d been looking at newer models, it might not have realised though I hadn’t found one at a price I liked. So I’m glad I haven’t been forced into an upgrade before I was ready to make the jump. But definitely lesson learnt this week.

I hope your week has been much less eventful!

My iPhone in a sandwich box with silica gel, placed on a bookcase so the phone is upright

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