Post Comment Love 27 - 29 October

Hello there, and welcome back 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, posts which are older will be removed from the linky. 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, comment 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.

I’ve another weather-related post this week, this time relating to Storm Babet which hit us last Friday. It was raining from very early on, and continued to rain the whole day depositing, as we later found out, a month’s worth of rain in a day. The River Trent had flood alerts and the next village along to us, which appears to be relatively used to flooding, flooded. The Riverside pub became very much its name, and its car park became river - but they appeared to be open again the next day. Following the weather, and the various updates became addictive, with it happening so close by, although we weren’t in the flood alert zone. The river peaked at around 2 metres 48, way above the top of its 1 metre 70 normal zone. Thankfully for everyone affected it’s back to 85 centimetres and normal, and the water has receded, though I expect it’s never quite that simple for those directly affected.

For us it meant a change in travel plans; we were due to travel south last Friday but didn’t. Seeing pictures of the A1 flooded made that decision for us and we delayed our journey until the following morning. When we drove alongside the fields just up the road from us, it was quite sobering to see the river flooded the fields and almost up to the road.

My picture this week is of our small Rowan tree, which is looking distinctly autumnal now.

autumn leaves and berries on our small rowan tree

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Post Comment Love 20 - 22 October

Hello there, and welcome back 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, posts which are older will be removed from the linky. 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, comment 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.

It’s been another week here where the weather determines what we do; on the dry days MOH has been out in the garden continuing to paint the trellis around the heat pump. I’ve left him to it this week, but one day he was out there it was on the cold side and the heat pump was blowing cold air on him too for good measure. I’m glad I stayed inside busying myself!

We walked to the pub on Sunday for a huge roast dinner ahead of the rugby game, which we stayed to watch. Then it was a 30 minute walk home along the bridleway which wasn’t as dark as we expected - we had torches at the ready. It was pretty chilly, but not so bad really though I’m glad the brief cold snap was brief.

This photo I snapped out of the window, not quite believing the colour of the sky, even though we are treated to quite a few red skies up here. Isn’t it beautiful?

a red sky at night sunset over our garden earlier this week

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Post Comment Love 13 - 15 October

Hello there, and welcome back 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, posts which are older will be removed from the linky. 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, comment 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 we’ve been making the most of the unseasonal October weather while it lasted. We’ve been painting the trellis around our heat pump, which in my photo this week looks like it’s shaping up like a 1980s tracksuit! Don’t worry, it’s all ‘black ash’ now and it’s made such a difference. It’s been a lot of work too, as what you can’t see from here is that the trellis diagonals are ridged.

MOH started while I caught up with some gardening, and this was how far he’d got when I joined him. He has done most of it but over three days we’ve got the three trellis outsides done, the four posts and part of one panel inside. And then we ran out of paint, so later we’re off to replenish our supplies.

The nicer weather also saw me join MOH on a bike ride to our local farm shop for lunch and a more scenic route home, it wasn’t as sunny as it had been the days before, but that was probably a good thing!

Yesterday there was a much more autumnal feel to the day, which reminds us we’ll need to contact the developers to have our lesson on how to work our heating - when we moved in in the summer, they rightly said we’d probably forget it all! Now that the weather looks to be turning I think I’d like to have that knowledge for when we need it.

Part way through painting the trellis in our garden which surrounds our heat pump

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter