Post Comment Love 27-29 May

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This has been my view for most of this week, and it’s been very relaxing!

We’ve spent the week in beautiful Northumberland and while the weather hasn’t been the best - we’ve had everything from hail, torrential rain and driving winds to glorious sunshine and slightly less winds, all on the same day. But we’ve been made to feel very welcome by everyone we’ve met, and even the cows have been curious but also completely unbothered. Our daily spa visit - there’s one on site where we’re staying - has become quite the welcome routine, though it’s the first time I think I’ve worn a waterproof over a bikini!

We’re travelling home today, so I’m looking forward to catching up on your posts - and to sharing what we’ve been up to.

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Leaving flowers and a crocheted throw

For the past few weeks the house has been full of flowers and it’s been lovely. I’ve appreciated their bright colours and the scent and the thoughtfulness from my former colleagues. They were beginning to go past their best, as cut flowers do, but it was good to have them at their best for a good two weeks before we came away. It struck me as I was removing some of the blooms that hadn’t lasted quite so well that the colours were very similar to the crocheted blanket I was close to finishing. And so that became my challenge - to finish, or almost finish - the throw before the flowers completely went.

My aim was to photograph them together. And I did.

The crocheted throw is in the very loosest terms ‘finished’. It’s finished in that I’ve used up all of the Yarn Advent box from last December, and the two additional skeins that I’d bought to offer some consistency through the project. I knew this was always going to be a colourful blanket, and I wasn’t wrong was I?!

But what I didn’t know at the time -and couldn’t have known as the Yarn Advent is 24 individual small skeins where the colour is a surprise - is how well they would match my leaving flowers, but they do, don’t they?

So this blanket will now forever be known as my leaving flowers throw, and nothing could make me happier.

I’ve still to completely finish the throw by sewing in the ends, and I may add a couple more rows to enlarge it a little - though I’ll need to keep the colours bright, but I’ve a feeling that will be easy enough. And what a great unplanned memory to have of my leaving my job flowers.

Post Comment Love 20-22 May

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 and comment on some of the posts linked sharing some blog 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.

This week the much anticipated and forecast good weather arrived in South London, and it’s been lovely. On days it’s been so warm the air feels warm relatively early in the morning, which isn’t always the case. There’s been time for pottering around in the garden, a trip to the garden centre to get new plants and it’s my first full week not working. I’m still working out what my new routine might be, and this week it’s included planning for some time away at a family wedding.

A family wedding that should have taken place in 2020 but for reasons we all know very well about it didn’t. I am doing a reading as part of the service and I probably need to read it out loud at least a few more times yet. But it is quite apt that my photo this week is of cake, and chocolate cake as that’s included in the poem I’ll be reading. The cakes are actually how I marked stopping work, with my actual last day working remotely, MOH and I enjoyed a cake from a local bakery - how lucky are we to have these almost on our doorstep? Though thankfully, I quite often forget they’re there, which really is a good thing.

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