Post Comment Love 1 - 3 September

September 1, 2023

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, 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, comment 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.

Happy 1 September!

I know it comes every year, but so soon? I hope you’ve had a good summer and whatever September brings for you is good. We are definitely noticing a change is starting to take place in the seasons, the sun is still here at times, but the mornings and evenings have more of a chill to them. Our windows are open less, and more are closed than ever before in our almost two months in our new house.

We’re noticing the differences in the hedgerows too. The image below was one from an impromptu nine mile walk on bank holiday Monday, which saw us searching out an old disused railway which is now used as a cycle path and pedestrian route into Newark.

We found it and when we got there we realised we’d been there before. Not in a supernatural kind of way, literally we’d been there before back in 2016 on our first visit to the area, when moving wasn’t even a twinkle in our eye. Now we live just a few miles from there - isn’t it funny how life turns out?

Thank you for your comments on my post last week about a new blog name - it’s all really helped, and I have secured a new domain and hope to be making the changes in the next few days, all going well. Exciting times!

Eight cards making me smile

August 31, 2023

I’m continuing my quarterly The Card Boys subscription and I’ve even managed to update my address so that the cards come directly to me. We have a post redirection set, and that’s now working as it should - there was a bit of a hiccup getting it set up, so it’s likely that we lost some of our post for three weeks after our move.

And when I say a bit of a hiccup I mean our local delivery office didn’t put the redirection in place, so that wasn’t great! It’s all working now though, and we’ve an additional three weeks tacked onto the end of our paid time period, but we’ll never know exactly what we missed - we know we probably missed some bills, and a car tax reminder - but as we knew to expect these we were able to make arrangements.

What we don’t know, is as always, what we don’t know. And it’s likely we never will. Our former neighbour did pop in to see if there was any abandoned post in our old house and forwarded a letter or two manually, which was good of him, but I’m guessing there can’t have been anything hugely important, or else we’d know by now.

We’ve actually been pretty good at changing our addresses in the many, many places that you discover you need to when you move. I’d written a list (no surprise there!) ahead of our move, and it’s been quite satisfying ticking things off it. Though it wasn’t helped in that some organisations didn’t have the up to date postcode file, so didn’t have our address listed. Even the Royal Mail redirection to start with - that was a bit of a face-plant moment I can tell you!

I’m sharing these summer cards on a drizzly end of August day, a day which feels far from summer - but hopefully it isn’t the end of summer yet, and September will come good with its warm sunny days.

As usual there’s eight cards in the box, and the cards celebrate talented artists. The first for this month definitely has a ‘back to school’ feel doesn’t it? Though it’d also be good for friends who like a spot of mindful colouring.

The second impressionist-like image is growing on me. The more I look at the floral border and tree branches, the clearer it becomes and the more I see - it’s definitely one to lose yourself in, and would carry a thoughtful message well.

The cheery elephants on this next card can’t fail to make me smile. I can feel the warmth radiating from the image, and the coolness of the water as it’s splashed around - how a picture can conjure up those feelings always amazes me.

Cheerful elephants at a watering hole surrounded by palm trees, one elephant is hosing water over its head, the other has its trunk in a pool of water - all on a cheery pastel pink background — ARTIST: LAURA BARNES

A repeating design of orange and blue flowers on green stems as if they're blowing in the wind — ARTIST: ARIANA MARTIN

The next two are both colourful - a flower covered ditsy image and a cheery musical note wishing a happy birthday. I know I’ll use these, but in the meantime they’ll join my card stash waiting their turn.

A black musical note with arms and legs on a green background with a speech bubble for 'happy birthday' above the illustration is the text Just a note to say written in orange, pink and blue on a pea green background — ARTIST: GRACE CHILTON

I like both of the flower in vases designs - and it’s quite a mainstay of these boxes, which is good for me. I find the cards can be used for many occasions, and are really quite flexible - as well as beautiful. It’s hard to let them go at times.

This month this birthday cake card is my favourite. I’m imagining it’s pink blancmange, wibble-wobbling on the plate! Again it’s another one that’s evoking feelings and making me smile. I’m not even sure blancmange is still a thing, it’s probably now called posset or mousse or something, who knows?

So another box of great cards. I saw on The Card Boys Instagram page that they’re hosting a giveaway for a box of cards, which is open until 4 September, so if you want to be in with a chance pop over there and enter - good luck!

Post Comment Love 25 - 28 August

August 25, 2023

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.

When I said the other week a new routine was emerging, I may have been optimistic! As you’ll see from my post this week I’ve been mulling, and when that happens most routine things go out the window as I become preoccupied with what’s on my mind. I don’t know why I didn’t think to write a blog post earlier, as that’s really helped me - I guess that’s why we all write, and have our own space on the internet. Over the past year, while being on the moving house carousel, I think I’ve forgotten that.

Anyway, enjoy this week’s photo taken by MOH while we enjoyed a free flying display which took place over our garden this week. The weather was glorious too, as you can see from the blue sky. For about four hours on and off we were treated to various aircraft flying above the garden, as were the surrounding villages, by the local RAF base. It was very loud, very close and very impressive and finished with a stunning thirty minute display by the Red Arrows.

MOH was just as impressed that I knew where our binoculars were! I’m impressed he found them without needing detailed directions - the logical unpacking system is working!

Have a lovely week. Oh, and it’s a bank holiday here in the UK this weekend so the linky will stay open until 11pm on Monday to allow more time for you to link up.