Post Comment Love 11 - 13 October

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 I’m sending much love to Suzanne and her family, and I know you will too.

It turns out that when you have nothing planned, you can still have quite a busy week - who knew?

It’s been a week to keep busy with chores around the house and parcels to drop off - no soon as one lot is gone another purchase or two takes place and I’m back dropping off parcels, not that I’m complaining, but it would be more helpful if those eBay and Vinted sales were a little more coordinated. But it is good to see things we’ve loved go to new homes!

There’s been walks in the unexpected sunshine, conkers to collect and display, a pub lunch, pears from the next village up from someone’s garden - the same place we bought the chilli plant from, and as it turned out two unexpected and quite entertaining visitors to the garden.

We spent some time watching and chuckling at the antics of these two red legged partridges which wandered past the patio doors, explored the garden and found the small crab apple tree with its fallen fruit and had a bit of a feast. I guess, as we didn’t have a pear tree they had to improvise!

Thankfully though they didn’t stay for long, or make themselves too comfortable - we’ve no idea where they came from, or why obviously, but I can’t help but smile that they arrived the very same day we brought the local pears home!

Have a good week!

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Post Comment Love 4 - 6 October

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.

Thanks for all your love on my sunflowers last week - they’ve had a tumultuous week, what with the wind and the rain. They were blown over, stood back up and then blown over again - they’re currently still laying low (and I don’t blame them) but trying their best to flower. Even in their laid low state a couple of the smaller sunflowers have made an appearance, but with more weather forecast I’m tempted to let them do their own thing, at their own angle for the time being, as the bees are still managing to find them!

I think there’s no denying that summer is well and truly over, even though yesterday was a gloriously sunny day, but our heating is almost on, almost. The radiators upstairs are starting to come on each morning as it’s chilly enough, and we’re upping the temperature of our underfloor heating downstairs gradually.

But more importantly my cosy slippers are out, and they’ll be here for the winter and honestly, I’m not sad about that - just look at those pom-poms.

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Walking East Stoke's Lanes: August 2024

It’s still later than I hoped, but much less late than last month’s post - the photos in this post are from a couple of walks, one to the pub in Elston on our way to steak night, and the second later in the month further along our usual walking route of Moor Lane.

I don’t remember seeing teasels in flower before, though I’m sure I must have, but seeing these only just in flower made me think how such a delicately coloured flower can conceal such a prickly inner!

MOOR LANE

Along the bridleway/path to Elston there were clear signs that summer was soon be done - the sloes, or are they damsons, the blackberries - we never did get back to pick any this year, and most of all the rosehips with their jewel-like berries being restrained by the fencing.

It’s lovely to watch the changing of the seasons, but it seems a little early this year - and I’m still in denial today!

As we left the path and walked along the lane to Elston I was pleased to see what is I think one of my favourite views in our new area - and I was even more pleased when I saw how I’d symmetrically captured this shot.

HEADING TOWARDS ELSTON

A few days later we headed back along Moor Lane again, this time it was the seed heads of these cow parsley which caught my attention, getting ready to disperse their seeds far and wide I’m sure.

The newly laid hedgerows had been growing well all summer, and it’s easy to see how well in the photo below.

It wasn’t long before we reached our turning point of the bridge, and after a few moments to see how the view had changed this month - a freshly ploughed field and a mown edge - we turned and headed back towards East Stoke.

It really is a glorious place to live, and to observe how the seasons and farming and the local landscape change throughout the year.

Thanks for joining me this month, hopefully I’ll be back to sharing the next instalment around the third week of the month, but in the meantime if you enjoyed this post you may also like some previous series where I revisit the same place - there’s my year in Greenwich Park and remember that time when I followed a tree?

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