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.

We had a glorious bank holiday weekend, meeting up with former work colleagues on the Friday, went out for a late lunch on the Sunday and caught up with gardening on the Monday - all very relaxed and worthwhile. Our grass appears to be getting greener each day, slowly recovering from the heatwaves though it’s still got a long way to go.

Like elsewhere our garden is confused. Yes, it’s September, but it’s not autumn yet is it? The trees aren’t yet shedding their leaves - though thankfully there will be a lot less to collect this year after all that tree work, and I’ve spotted some pale pink cyclamen flowering again, as well as a lone colchicum, the autumn crocus. It’s beautiful, but much earlier than we expected it.