Welcome 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 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’re here.

After the relative shock of autumn arriving last week it’s been a week adapting to the changed season and darker evenings and settling into a different routine. Like many people we’re watching our energy use, and we don’t yet have our heating on so the sunny days have been most welcome. The reports yesterday of potential scheduled power cuts in worse case scenarios is worrying, and I don’t understand why there is such resistance from government to encourage people to use less. Instead there is misinformation on the energy price cap - it’s staggeringly unbelievable, perhaps even more so as my work life was predominantly spent in communications, getting messages across to people clearly.

But anyway, I can’t fix that so instead let me share more about my photo this week - the most glorious dahlia - enjoying the sun, and which is about the size of a dinner plate too!