Welcome to this week’s #PoCoLo - a friendly linky which I co-host with Suzanne, where you can link any 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.

It’s been another worrying week here, and one where MOH’s last day ‘in the home office’ is hurtling towards us. For him this week has been one for sorting out legalities and making arrangements to collect his belongings from his office which he last went to in person some 29 weeks ago. It’s amazing when you look at this in numbers - for over half the year we have now worked at home. Neither of us really did this before the pandemic. I’ll be continuing to work at home, he’ll be on gardening leave - and at a time when there’s very little to actually do in the garden.

Like many people we’ve at least one eye on what any new announcements may bring, and how that will impact us. We’ve a week away planned, and while we’re as confident as we can be that it will go ahead - we have a cottage booked - it’s the stuff around the edges which we’re less sure about. Visiting family at either end of our trip, eating out and going to the pub - everything that we used to consider normal - we’ll see how it goes, and all the time hoping for the best.

It’s been another quiet week here, for many reasons, and so I’m not linking a post again this week. But just sitting down to write this, and seeing how quickly the words are tumbling out makes me realise how much I miss my space here. It’s a good reminder that I need to try much harder - and hope that I’ve booked a cottage with wifi!