Post Comment Love 10 - 12 November

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This week has been a week of excursions starting last Friday evening when we popped into Newark to view a light and sound installation at the church just off the market square. It was good to see the event, put together by local students and art group Newark Creates, well supported - and another example of how churches can be used by local communities.

Then this week we went into Nottingham on the bus, which was eventful. It was only a small mini-bus and we were the last ones the driver let on - clearly a popular service, which needs a bigger vehicle. On the way back we got on the hourly bus and got a seat, but once again it was pretty full.

In Nottingham itself there was plenty to see, and plenty more to explore on future visits, though if truth be told I think I’ll be going in the car next time!

Yesterday evening we went to a wine tasting in Newark, once again travelling by bus - I’m writing this post before we go, so fingers crossed it all goes well!

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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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