Post Comment Love 3 - 5 November

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 can’t believe it’s November already though.

I am enjoying and embracing the autumnal food, less so the darker evenings though the lighter mornings are welcome, but I’m sure it won’t be too long before they disappear again. We’ve been hitting the local markets and farm shops for our veg, most recently buying some fantastic looking celery, carrots, cauliflower and cavolo nero from a stall in the market at Newark. You could tell that they hadn’t long been cut/harvested from the fields - partly because of the amount of mud that came with them, but also because they just looked so fresh and inviting.

The celery and the carrots were the muddiest, and neither were going in my fridge without a wash. I couldn’t believe the amount of mud that came off them, and then quite quickly couldn’t believe the amount of mud they left in the sink either!

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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.

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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?

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