Celebrating two years of the Loo Series

Now isn't this an odd thing. No, not my obsession with a good loo - surely you're used to that by now, but I've randomly been sharing those good loos here for two years. I know, hasn't it gone quickly.

The odd thing is that my first post almost two years ago to the day, was of the loos at the new Flat Iron in Covent Garden and without any planning at all, two years on I'm sharing the loos at the Flat Iron in Denmark Street.

I'd love to say that was planned, but it wasn't. It's clear though that Flat Iron do have some very good loos!  Although when I saw this sign in the Denmark Street restaurant I wasn't quite sure what I'd find...

It wasn't anywhere near as bad as my expectations, but I did opt for the door with the ladies loo sign on, just in case.  It was the wall art though that really made this small loo, it's pretty unique isn't it?

It was only afterwards that I realised the centre cow (bull?) had a bell, and I can't help but wonder if anyone ever rings it, and why!

In fact at the time I was much more amused by the choice of handwash.

What else?! 

I'll finish this post with a picture from the restaurant, mainly to prove that I do take other pictures in restaurants, and because it really is a rather gorgeous light.

The food too was good, but I must remember to order a medium rare steak for this cut of meat, MOH's tasted so much better than my rare one. But that could always be because it was on his plate...

My garden in January

Or more accurately the title of this post could be, my garden on January 28 2018. It's been the only day this month I've been out into the garden, and even then it was to just check to make sure we hadn't suffered any storm damage in that windiest of days recently, and to take some pictures.

January's not my favourite month, but I'd spied the snowdrops from the conservatory window and it was them which drew me outside. As it turned out Sunday was mild and rather lovely, but I was happy just having a cursory check around.

And the snowdrops were definitely worth it.

About half way down the garden the pink flowers from the hostas drew me in with a welcome burst of colour.

At the back of the garden the strawberries have been busy, there's lots of runners - which means new plants - and the leaves are varying shades of green and yellow, while the runners are a vivid red.  I've got these earmarked for the allotment to edge that new path I put in last year.

And now the admission. I own a pair of crocs, in fact I'll call them communal crocs and they live by the back door and are handy for popping out into the garden, as demonstrated below. 

The sleepers are relatively dry considering the weather we've had. I suspect they may need treating later in the year but I'll give them plenty of chance to dry out first.  Under the cherry tree the dead flowers of the silver leafed sage like bush made me smile, the flowerheads reminded me of hydrangeas that I've seen this week in Greenwich Park, and both reminded me how much I like dead flowers as much as live ones!

Throughout the garden the lime green of the euphorbias were making themselves known.  Amongst the leaves. Our garden is full of them right now, the wind has thoughtfully blown them off the grass for us, but that means they're in the beds and in piles on the patio. That's a job for another day though, a warmer one I hope!

Another discovery was the amount of buds starting to appear on the lilac tree and camellia. Walking through Greenwich Park this week I've seen camellias starting to come out, but it seems that this year is no different for mine and it's remaining resolutely, and fashionably late. I think it'll be a good month yet before we see any flowers, although I'm very happy to be proven wrong.

I was worried how the hibiscus would cope with the colder weather, I wasn't quite expecting the cold that we've had though. The leaves have gone rather black and I didn't hold out much hope for it. But I checked it this weekend and it's still alive. The way to check plants is to make a small scrape with your fingernail. If under the scrape shows white or green then it's still alive, if it's brown then it's time to think about getting a new plant. 

The final photo is rom the ivy which is also showing signs of yellow, which you'll know is very welcome. In fact any type of colour, even the lushness from the ivy, is welcome at this time of year. Anything to combat the greyness of the skies, but from a quick walk around the garden it's obvious that spring is on its way, and I'm very grateful for that, aren't you?

Post Comment Love 2 - 4 February 2018

Hello there and welcome to our weekly link up for Post Comment Love - or #PoCoLo - if you were here last week, it was great to see you and if you're new here this week then you're very welcome. Both Morgan and I pleased to see you all each week and we're sure you're going to find some great posts to read.

This week has once again been dominated by work, but as I said on Monday it's one I've been ready to face head on. That said, I'm very glad it's Friday. And we've a bit of a weekend planned and I'm very much looking forward to that. I did manage to book a spa hotel but it seems very much in demand, so after much to-ing and fro-ing which they insisted on doing by text until it transpires there were no longer any massage appointments left.  Grrr.  

I will still use the spa, but it's unlikely to include a massage which if I'm honest I could do with. But it's not all bad, I've decided to upgrade my spa visit to an afternoon tea. I think that's fair don't you?

There have been some lovely days though this week, and there's been some rubbish ones too. I'm much more of a fan of the frosty, crisp days and that's what my photo this week shows. It's Greenwich Park on a frosty morning, it really is my best commute ever.

Blogger Showcase: Sophie from Sophie Roxanne

Sophie loves to write about how she feels, and that often is in poetry and rhyme, on her blog, and admits to being a bit of a huge foodie, loving the freedom to write about anything she wants.  She has some great posts linked up over at Morgan's this week so do pop over and discover the signs you grew up in Wales and more.

Even in Sophie's answers to our questions her personality shines through, as you'd expect from anyone that uses Head-case as one of the words to describe herself.  You'll have to pop over and find out why there's a long red dress and Star Wars pyjamas though.

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