Post Comment Love 8-10 July

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.

Thanks for your comments and good wishes on my dental woes last week, they are now much improved following an earlier than planned return visit, which lasted the whole afternoon - an hour longer than expected. It’s also been a bit of a whirlwind week (again) in British politics, and it’s been fascinating to watch it develop and unfold. Of course, the timing as ever, isn’t great as there’s important things to deal with which will now are likely to be delayed which won’t help anyone.

The weather has been great though, and while the warmer weather generally makes me more sloth-like, it has been great to potter around in the garden, parched though it is!

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Cheese, wine and hummingbirds

Isn’t it always the way, that something almost on your doorstep is often not somewhere you go as much as you should. You mean to, but never quite get there. And that’s true for us and the wine bar in our London village. It’s been there a while now, and may even have changed hands, but we finally went along and had a relaxing evening.

It was a busy night there though, with live music which added to that. Thankfully we’d booked which was just as well as the people arriving in front of us were turned away, or at least had a bit of a wait for a table to become available. Our table was towards the back of the wine bar, which was great as it meant we had a good spot to watch the to-ing and fro-ings from the kitchen and were able to soak up the atmosphere of the live music but still manage a conversation.

Rather than opt for a ‘proper’ meal - and by that I mean a main course we decided on a more informal approach choosing cold cuts, a bistro salad, bread and a cheese platter - and a bottle of wine or two. It made a pleasant change to sit and chat, and reminded me of nights gone past spent in a wine bar in Covent Garden, which is probably no longer there - and probably hasn’t been there for a while.

But of course, I couldn’t leave without checking out the loos - which weren’t quite what I expected. In my mind’s eye, they would be typically French matching the atmosphere and decor from the wine bar downstairs. But they weren’t, they were full of hummingbirds with a modern touch - and I loved them.

The cheese alone is worth going back for, and I’m pretty sure this won’t be our only visit. Somehow drinking wine and eating cheese feels so much more relaxing when you’re out, maybe it’s as simple as knowing you don’t have to do the washing up!

Post Comment Love 1-3 July

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.

I also can’t tell you how pleased I am that the sudden onset toothache I had last Friday is much reduced. I’ve had a couple of dentist appointments, and have some more to come. My crown came out and that also seemed to trigger an infection, along with the hangover of work needed from the first lockdown - yes, I know, but while I’m sure dentists are all very nice people, they’re somewhere that are all too easy to avoid visiting. Until you need to. But still ouch, especially as I also managed to get myself a reaction to the antibiotics. Thankfully though things are improving.

You’ll be pleased I’ve chosen something else for my photo this week. Last weekend we were visiting family in Buckinghamshire and headed out for a short walk on Sunday. Not a bad view, hey?

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