Post Comment Love 1-3 April

Welcome 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. 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 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’re here.

What a difference in the weather this week? It’s gone from sun and almost t-shirt weather back to very wintery - we even had some sleet here on Thursday. I much prefer the warmer stuff, and would be very pleased to have it back!

I’ve had a busy week away from my blog, what with catching up from a few nights away and a family visit too. The lighter evenings have meant we’ve had busy evenings and I’m hopeful that this will settle down and I’ll get back to my good blog habits again, so please bear with me.

And so, in honour of the colder weather my photo this week is of one of my crocheted blankets - a granny square that just kept on growing, and once it was done ended up quite a good match to our living room decor, quite unintentionally. And so it’s over the arm of the sofa, and if this weather keeps it up could come in very handy. There’s not been much time for crochet recently either, and that’s something else I need to rectify.

A close up of a large granny square blanket

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The Garden Year: April 2022

Hello there and welcome back to my garden linky, which opens at the start of each month and stays open for the whole month - meaning you can link up at any time. You’re welcome to link any posts that have a garden theme - this could be your garden, the plants you’re growing or the gardens you visit, or anything in between - just so long as it’s related to gardening.

Plants in their prime this month

  • Apple blossom

  • Wallflowers

  • Euphorbias

  • Tulips

  • Daffodils

What to do in the garden this month

  • Tie in climbing and rambling roses

  • Keep weeds under control - it’s a never ending job

  • Give your lawn some attention and repair bare patches

orange and yellow tulips in pots with ferns
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Interiors inspiration at Margo & Plum

We were lucky with the weather for our short trip away last week and it was great to spend time outside feeling the sun on our skin. It also helped to get us out and about and one of those stop offs was at The Engine Yard which is right next to Belvoir Castle. We’d stopped there before and remembered a vibrant, thriving space and it still has that potential. We last visited in August, and on this sunny March weekday morning it was much quieter, understandably so. But it was nice to enjoy the space, pretty much unhindered.

Also not surprisingly some of the shops had changed, and some chalet-style huts had popped up for weekend pop-up market stalls, which seems a great idea. We had a nose around all of the shops, but by far my favourite was the interiors shop of Margo & Plum who, as their website says, offer the most glamorous decorative pieces for your home.

And here, I have some snaps to prove it.

A luscious table with black gold and white striped ornate pots, gold fans, a silver cockatiel (not real) and tropical like greenery

The relatively small space is full of the most sumptuous things for your home. While they look great together and the displays are full of inspiration, most of us won’t need quite so much, but together it’s quite a statement!

MOH was very taken with the neon signs, and I’m not sure he could quite decide which. Maybe at some point we’ll get to the stage where a decision is needed, who knows?

A circular drinks trolley with a champagne bucket, glasses and a neon sign saying cocktails
Another neon sign, this time on a shelf - the white gin bar writing - with diamante  decorated glasses and lemons alongside

I had a couple of favourites, and definitely more than a couple of things I could have quite happily brought home. The first is this aqua jungle decorated vase, it’s quite unlike any vase I already own which have much wider openings, though I suspect this one probably doesn’t need anything more to improve it.

A close up of a round aqua vase painted with a parrot and tropical birds and plants
A stunning round gold mirror with sunburst spokes in the shape of a square above a mantelpiece decorated with the vase in the previous picture, ornaments and candelesticks

The other thing that I was really quite taken with was the sunburst mirror above - the ‘squareness’ of the sun’s rays really appealed and this feels a much more modern take on the more usual sunburst mirror design. We don’t have much, for want of a better word ‘bling’ in our house, but this shop tested my mettle (pun intended).

Black and white geometric patterned lidded pots alongside golden leaf imprinted vases
More pots, a taller/thinner pot with black/white vertical stripes and gold on the top next to a black white and pink leaf design lidded pot

The final thing on my list was this flamingo plate - the vibrant colours and the design were the attraction for me.

A green plate with two flamingos alongside white orchids

One thing I’m sure of, we’ll be back here again at some point for more mooching around, and maybe even a purchase or two.

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