Post Comment Love 29 - 31 May

May 29, 2026

Hello there, welcome to this week’s #PoCoLo - a relaxed, 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, comment and share some of that love.

Please don’t link up posts which are older as they will be removed, and if you see older posts are linked then please don’t feel that it’s necessary to comment on those. If you were here last week it was great to have you along, if you’re new here we’re pleased you’ve joined us.

Well in shocking news it didn’t rain on the bank holiday, and the forecasts were correct. It was hot, record breakingly hot. We spent the weekend hosting family, and being in the garden using the barbecue was absolutely fabulous. It was warm but not uncomfortably so, that came as the bank holiday drew on and the following day, which was unbearably warm even indoors.

And then came the storm, which I’m sure at some point included hailstones. It rumbled on for a bit, the new road through the village seemed to foam a bit at its first introduction to heavy rain, but thankfully the gutters were able to deal with the deluge.

It’s a strange old world though isn’t it, today as I write this it’s 10 degrees cooler than it has been - and yet, that temperature is what we’d usually refer to as hot!

Have a great week.

MY GERTRUDE JEKYLL ROSES HAVE SUDDENLY BLOOMED — MY ROSES ARE MAKING THE MOST OF THE WARMER WEATHER THOUGH

Post Comment Love 22 - 25 May

May 22, 2026

It’s another bank holiday weekend here in the UK, so the linky will stay open until Monday evening so there’s more time to link up - and if the weather forecast is correct, it’s going to be a scorcher.

There’s been a lot more gardening, and with MOH on what he’s calling ‘light duties’ the grass cutting has fallen to me. It’s been a long time since I last cut the grass, in fact it was before MOH and I got together. But I have now cut the grass twice and apparently I’ve passed my ‘beginner’s grass cutting’ qualification. I think this meant that I was allowed to progress to strimming the edges, though had I known then maybe I’d have failed on purpose!

So it seems appropriate for my picture this week to be our garden wheelie bin full of mostly grass, and approximately the third that isn’t grass is weeds that were growing in the grass and needed to be weeded out before any grass cutting could take place.

Have a great week, and don’t forget the sunscreen.

A very full garden wheelie bin - mostly grass cuttings, but about a third of it is weeds

Post Comment Love 15 - 17 May

May 15, 2026

This week I’ve wanted to do much more gardening than I’ve been able to thanks to the weather - it’s been quite changeable here with more typical April showers weather, although there’s been some downpours too and I haven’t really wanted to take my chance with them. I’m hopeful I’ll get through the ever growing list of jobs - or at least start them, soon.

I’ve been meaning to pop into town to see the Knife Angel sculpture which is in our market square for a month, and this week I made it happen - along with lunch out, some errands and an eye test.

The sculpture was worth seeing, it is both shocking and moving. In 2014 the ‘Save a Life, Surrender Your Knife’ campaign was born by Clive Knowles, Chairman of the British Ironwork Centre in Shropshire. Struck by the large number of knife crimes reported in the media he set about finding a way to make a real difference by highlighting this national issue.

Speaking to families and communities affected by the horrific acts of violence, many of whom were already working tirelessly to help raise better awareness the Ironworks offered to fund and provide all knife banks with police constabularies across the UK holding an amnesty or surrender campaign to better educate their communities about knife crime.

Thousands of weapons were collected in these knife banks, they were cleaned and blunted and included in the Knife Angel sculpture. Some of the blades have messages engraved by families who experienced knife crime first hand, and these were placed strategically in the sculpture which is now known as the National Monument Against Violence and Aggression.

It took four years to make, involved all 43 Police Constabularies in the UK and standing over 20ft tall is built from over 100,000 blades removed from UK Streets. It’s purpose was to evoke emotion and raise better awareness and importantly make educational change everywhere it visits.

As I said it’s both shocking and moving - and also quite beautiful - I really hope it can be part of reducing knife crime, something that is truly needed.

Have a good week.

The Knife Angel in Newark's market square