Post Comment Love 21 - 23 June

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. 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.

Please don’t link up posts which are older as they will be removed from the linky, and if older posts are linked then please don’t feel that it’s necessary to comment on those. 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.

Thanks for your well wishes last week for my tooth, it has on the whole improved and the pain lessened, though I did need an unplanned visit back to the dentist on Tuesday. I thought I might be developing an infection, and was concerned as my chin was tingling, but everything was ok and healing better than expected. He took the stitches out as it was doing so well and since then things have improved, so hopefully they were the cause of my continued discomfort.

It’s been another quiet week here, though I did spend some time gardening yesterday finally getting around to potting up some herbs - and I think, I may have made some progress with my garden plans. Slow progress, but progress but more on that another time.

My photo this week is one from last night as we headed home after watching the England game, let’s just say the view was way better than the game!

Four black and white pictures

I’d been at a loss for some artwork for our bedroom wall. We had one picture on the wall in our previous house, and that wasn’t right for here so I needed to come up with something else. And I really wasn’t sure.

In the end I took inspiration from an existing picture we had - remember back in March 2020 I shared a photo of mine that finally got on the wall with some help from Photowall?

But I wasn’t sure if where I had in mind would work, so I mocked it up.

And so for the next few weeks or so, I tweaked their positions - up a bit, down a bit, together a bit more and so on. Finally I was happy and then my attention turned to choosing the images.

We had the rocks from our holiday in Cornwall back in 2014, and I knew I had a picture of storks nesting from a holiday in Portugal. But what else? The good news is I found some.

And I used Photowall again, this time paying for my additional three images to be framed.

The service was still good, and it was easy to upload my images and create my artwork, though I hadn’t realised that they’d changed their frames so the three new frames are a slightly different finish to the one I already had. I was disappointed that the frames and pictures came separately though, and I had to assemble them myself once they arrived - not a huge thing, but a definite difference to my previous experience.

That said, I’m still very happy with the end result. Of course when they arrived I spent more than intended on their layout - thankfully for MOH on the carpet rather than the wall (as there was also a difference in the positioning of the sawtooth picture hanger).

I decided on this layout.

And don’t they look great on the wall?

MOH did a great job, under extreme pressure to get the gaps right!!

And as you’re wondering what the images are, they’re (clockwise from top left):

• A view towards Greenwich from the Thames Path

• Storks nesting on telegraph poles in the Alentejo in Portugal

• A flooded field in Elston, one of the villages close to our new home

• A rock formation from our trip to Cornwall back in 2014.

And all are photos we’ve taken ourselves, and there’s nothing better to have on our walls - our memories captured by us - at some point I’ll do a post about each of the four photos we chose and why.

Post Comment Love 14 - 16 June

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. 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.

Please don’t link up posts which are older as they will be removed from the linky, and if older posts are linked then please don’t feel that it’s necessary to comment on those. 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.

It’s been a quiet week on my blog this week, and I’m not linking a post, as I’ve mostly been coping with an unwanted mishap from our holiday. A few days before we were due to travel home I cracked a tooth on what looked an unassuming savoury biscuit. A teeny tiny bit of tooth came out, but you know when you know it’s not right - well that.

To cut a long story short, earlier this week I needed to have it out as it wasn’t salvagable, and ouch. The swelling hasn’t been good - one side of my jaw looked square, seriously. I think it’s turned a corner now but I’ve been very grateful for ibuprofen.

Of course it coincided with our overnight trip to Gardeners’ World Live in Birmingham. Last year I went fully bandaged up following my carpal tunnel surgery, this year a swollen jaw. Hopefully I’ll manage to be fully healthy for next year!!

You’ll be pleased to know that my photo is from the show - I’ve plenty more photos to edit and share - but in the meantime enjoy these trays of mini succulents, aren’t they cute?