Post Comment Love 23 - 26 August

Hello there, and welcome back to this week’s #PoCoLo - a relaxed, 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.

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Before I forget, this week’s linky is open for an extra day as there’s a bank holiday in the UK, and so it will close at 11pm on Monday which we hope will give you plenty of time to link up.

This week I’ve been continuing to sort through our old clothes, you know the ones you’re not quite ready to part with, but equally you don’t wear either. We have a lot of those, and most of them are mine. But I’ve done well and have reduced these from two underbed storage boxes to two much smaller boxes which now fit in the top of newly redesigned wardrobes.

That also means I’ve been using Vinted, and it can be wild on there. Some items which I don’t think will have much if any interest are very popular, and others which I think will aren’t at all. And then there’s the offers, that’s quite eye opening too! But anyway, as they say every day’s a school day…

It’s not all been sorting clothes though, midweek it was the time for the annual airshow held at the local airbase - and being so close, we get to benefit from an afternoon of plane spotting, some of which are quite low and go right over our garden - as you can see from my photo this week.

It was a bit chilly to spend the afternoon in the garden, but worth it - and in case you’re wondering this, I’m reliably informed is an A400.

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The Magic Moments Border aiming to spark a love for gardening

* I was invited to the press preview of Gardeners’ World Live and provided with a pair of tickets to visit the show, therefore all my posts will be marked as 'Ad’ though as usual my views and opinions are very much my own.

I’m not sure how we’re already mostly through August and how this is the first in my regular series of showing the gardens from this year’s Gardeners’ World Live show since my highlights post. It’s the same every year, though this year does feel slightly busier, perhaps because both of us are no longer working and while our days have some structure, they are much less structured than when we were working full time (obviously). And there’s so much still that we want to do, and go and see and of course everyday life still needs to happen, I just need to get myself more organised to make room for as much as possible in every aspect of our lives, while making sure we don’t wear ourselves out in the process!

Anyway, back to the gardens - this one is one of the showcase gardens, where the show’s blurb promises that we will ‘discover creative and clever design ideas’ which can be adapted for our own home garden.

I think this one caught my eye, not just because of the teddy bear’s picnic, but because at the show I was intent on looking at greenhouses and small sheds in all their guises, and this one has both of those, so it’s an ideal place to start.

The garden designed by Stef Haydon tells ‘the story of many generations, where simple magic moments in backyards and parks have sparked a love for gardening’ - and isn’t that true. I imagine each of us have a happy memory from childhood which when we’re gardening we’re reminded of, for me it could be the trailing lobelia plants tumbling out of small brick wall, or looking in awe at dad’s greenhouse - from the outside of course!

The plants in this garden tell stories of cherished memories, hunting for frog-spawn, making rose perfume (yeap, I think I probably tried that one!) and tasting sun-ripened tomatoes - and doesn’t it just look wonderful?

For my own garden I was keen to explore greenhouses and a small storage ‘thing’ (a thing as I was open to ideas - it’s purpose is to store/hide opened, and not yet opened bags of compost keeping them out of sight, but still secure. And in true goldilocks fashion, the ones in this garden are probably a bit too small for what I had in mind, though I do like the compactness of the greenhouse, but I’m after one I can get into and continue gardening if/when it rains. You’ll hear more on my search for the perfect sized greenhouse and storage I’m sure in future posts!

And one of the best bits about this garden - alongside the calming pebble pond, and the memories I’m sure it has evoked - is that it will be relocated to a Women’s Aid domestic abuse refuge after the show, so it can continue to give and inspire future gardeners.

* With thanks to Gardeners’ World for inviting me to Gardeners’ World Live, it was just as good as I expected! I’ll be sharing more from my visit to the show - I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Post Comment Love 16 - 18 August

Hello there, and welcome back to this week’s #PoCoLo - a relaxed, 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.

This week we’ve had a couple of visits from a new friend, who it has to be said isn’t shy. No he’s not shy at all!

MOH discovered the ginger cat on his first visit and to say he was shocked was an understatement. Luckily though he was a friendly cat and was quite amenable to, and quite vocal about, being evicted. Well perhaps not so amenable as his first move was to try and head back in, so I needed to quite literally shut the door in his face. We smiled and joked about the boldness of cats, thinking nothing more of it, cats hey?

He came back though a few nights later, on one of those warm balmy evenings we had at the start of the week - and he had so much fun, what with all of the doors and bifold doors open. We had much less fun trying to make sure he wasn’t in the house - he made it upstairs to my craft room and then had us quite literally playing cat and mouse with the open doors!

We’ve not seen him since, so perhaps we haven’t quite been chosen by the cat distribution system, but who knows?!

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