Post Comment Love 5 - 8 May

Hello there, and welcome back 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.

This week the linky is staying open until 11pm Monday, as here in the UK we’ve got our second bank holiday of the month - this one for the King’s Coronation. We’ve a final bank holiday later in the month, but coming not so long after Easter it’s a time - and especially so this year - that mostly none of us know what day it is.

I am looking forward to seeing the Coronation, though I think the TV channels and coverage will be OTT - their programmes start at 7.30am and that will I’m sure be the world and his dog with any tenuous link to anything royal giving their opinion on the events for the weekend. I’ll be watching, though not from that early, but we’ll mostly dip in and out throughout the day. It is an historic event, and I’m curious, though I think for most people the event will be significantly less important than the coronation for Queen Elizabeth II.

But anyway, I know that not everyone will be watching or even following and that’s perfectly fine by me, onto this week’s photo. I’m sharing a picture taken by MOH in the New Forest last week, one of traffic we encountered on our way out to dinner one evening. The most unlikely traffic, but also the most photographic!

New Forest ponies in the road in the New Forest near Burley

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White bucks at The White Buck

We’ve had quite a week, and quite honestly, where to start. For the first time in what seems like a long time we had a short break staying in a hotel (rather than self-catering) and one that wasn’t in the Midlands or the north of England. We bucked the trend (sorry!), our own trend that is and headed down to Hampshire with visits to Exbury Gardens and the Gardeners’ World Spring Fair at Beaulieu, and planning to fit in a walk in the New Forest at some point.

There was so much to see, and consequently so many photos to edit before sharing, and then back home a visit to Grand Designs Live over at Excel has just added to it all. So not really knowing where to start, I’m sharing our hotel - The White Buck at Burley - which was just what we needed. It was so nice to get away and have a complete break, and we had a great stay and spotted plenty of bucks in the decor.

A statue of a deer above the reception and an antler light

But done in a way that wasn’t kitsch. I mean who could resist a stag candlestick?

A candlestick in the bar with a stag

There were some great furnishings in the bar area too, a good reminder that patterns and plains can give a traditional style a modern twist.

A leather seat and patterned buttoned back curved seat in the bar area

The look and feel continued through to our room too, with the reclaimed wood and neutral palette with pops of colour. Here they came from the bedside tables and the scatter cushions, where the material was also used on the chairs.

The wall behind the large grey headboard was clad with textured wood, pops of colour from the bedside lights and the patterned throw cushions
A chair covered in black and white material with pops of colour for the butterflies

The artwork in our room was also stag based, and these two stags looked over us. The brown one (on the left) had a pattern of fir trees on its body, the right (the blue) was just a bit more random, but both worked in the room and actually gave me an idea for a future craft project - another one to add to the list!

Two pictures on the wall of not quite white bucks

I was also taken with the prismatic-type stags head artwork also in our room. So simple, but so effective, understated but impactful.

Artwork - a prismatic / geometric representation of a white buck's head

I’ll share more about our trip, and our visit to Exbury Gardens, the Spring Fair, a brief visit to the National Trust’s Mottisfont and our day at Grand Designs Live and more soon, I just need to get myself a plan as there’s lots to share!

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The Garden Year: May 2023

Welcome back to this month’s Garden Year linky - if you were here last month, it was great to see you. If you’re joining for the first time, you’re very welcome. The linky will stay open for the whole month, so I hope you’ll pop back during the month. I’m looking forward to reading about your garden projects and garden visits.

Happy bank holiday - the first of many this month. For me this is when our gardening really starts to hot up, unfortunately unlike the weather at the moment! It’s also the time of year when more of us visit gardens close by, getting inspiration for our own spaces as well as taking some time to enjoy a garden without feeling the need to just pluck that weed that’s out of place. I know when I visit gardens, it’s always such a relief to see that even the most primped gardens have at least a weed or two.

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