Post Comment Love 24 - 26 March

March 24, 2023

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 - please remember this, posts which are older will be removed from the linky. 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’ve joined us.

How’s your week been? As you can probably guess from this week’s photo mine has involved tea and cake.

Last weekend we spent time with my family celebrating my parents 65th Blue Sapphire Wedding Anniversary, an amazing achievement for them both. We had afternoon tea in a fabulous little tea room in Thorney in Cambridgeshire where the food was great and nothing was too much trouble for the team there.

Then later in the evening we ventured into Grantham, Lincolnshire for a really good Thai meal, though we’ll have to go back there as none of us had enough space to really do the menu justice. Needless to say we didn’t need much food for the rest of the weekend.

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March 23, 2023

I wrote last year about how my plan was to use the year to evolve and adapt to leaving full-time work and embrace a more leisurely pace of life. And on the whole I have, though it’s taken a while and plans have changed a little along the way. Not everything happened as we’d hoped - the summer was far too hot, and the ground too baked to really set about any kind of landscaping work, and we’ve not moved house. But evolve was a good word, and one that had enough flexibility to bend to the circumstances the year brought.

I’ll most likely talk about our house move in another post, we’re still hoping it will happen though we’re not sure when, or exactly to where. It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster that’s for sure, and one that picks up speed of its own free will at times, as these things do. I’m not sure when I’ll update you on the thrills and spills yet, as there’s some pondering to be done - and some of it is still raw. But I’m hopeful that things will work out.

Once again I’m setting a word for the year, and this year it’s a simple one. Big. Or perhaps that should be BIG.

Like last year its one that will flex, and most likely challenge us. But as MOH said to me on New Year’s Eve 2023 has the potential to be our biggest year yet, and he could be right. We’ve already made some big decisions house-wise this year, they haven’t all come off so far, but it’s still only March.

In other news MOH is finishing work next month, slightly later than his revised date but he’s ready. The problem with working remotely and contracting is that he doesn’t take proper holidays, and when he does he’s still more often than not at home. He’ll have his own adjustments to make I’m sure, but it will be good to be able to spend time together during the day getting out and about. We will both want, and need, time on our own but I know that walks and house/garden visits are much more fun in company than alone.

And who knows we might even manage a proper holiday later in the year. I still can’t believe we haven’t been abroad since February 2020 and before the pandemic, so that in itself will be pretty big!

Woman on a swing made from big, graffitied concrete blocks, at the sea's edge with further concrete blocks into the distance — Photo by Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash

And if you’re wondering about my choice of image, well it reminds me that sometimes we need to think beyond what we first thought, and try things we might not have considered before. Something I think it’s likely we’ll need to remember at times this year.

Post Comment Love 17 - 19 March

March 17, 2023

I hope your week has been a good one. We spent some time with my MIL last weekend treating ourselves to Sunday lunch out. The rest of the week has been pretty mundane with the usual chores and tasks, the highlight of that being our food delivery - so not a highlight at all really. It could be worse, it could have been a visit to the dentist or the hygienist, but that’s booked in for next week - oh, I know how to live!

From the brief dusting of snow last week and chilly temperatures, yesterday and today have been quite warm in comparison. So I think we’re officially at that time of year when none of us knows what to wear when heading outside, and yet whatever we choose is bound to be not quite right. Let’s hope spring really is on the way soon.

An iced cupcake decoration on a chocolate cup cake