Post Comment Love 25 - 27 July

Hello there, and welcome 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, and if you see 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 we’re pleased you’ve joined us.

While it was nice to see some rain last weekend, it was also a bit grim! Clearly we’ve got used to wall to wall sunshine - but thankfully there was a day of sport awaiting us starting with the first British and Lions test match against Australia, some Tour de France and then later on some darts. Yes we still have that sports subscription and are doing our best to get the most out of it.

I also took the opportunity to have this pretty bouquet delivered from the flower farm in our next village. I saw a post of theirs on Facebook lamenting the lack of customers at a local market in which they were offering their freshly picked hand tied bouquets for sale online too. Very enterprising I thought, and there’s nothing better than sunflowers to lift a grey day - and they’re still going strong.

Have a good week.

A small bouquet with sunflowers in a vase in my kitchen

Post Comment Love 18 - 20 July

Hello there, and welcome 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, and if you see 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 we’re pleased you’ve joined us.

Our escape to the coast last weekend did mean much lower temperatures, which we were grateful for - and we were lucky with the traffic too, which was an unexpected bonus. It was good to have an early birthday celebration for my dad, and with my brother and I arriving with everything needed for the weekend it also meant a relatively stress-free time for our parents too. Though we did need to improvise with the Pimms with no large jug to be found, instead though we found the perfect secondary use for the liquidiser jug!

It’s been cooler this week - yay! - and I’ve even snuck a morning or so in the garden potting up plants and cutting down some of the bushes which went wild while we were away. And I’ve picked the first of my black viola cherry tomatoes - I can’t wait to try them soon!

Have a great week.

A handful of black cherry tomatoes picked from my garden this week

Post Comment Love 11 - 13 July

Hello there, and welcome 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, and if you see 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 we’re pleased you’ve joined us.

It’s going to be another hot one though, the UK’s third heatwave this summer. I think a trip to the coast could be in order at some point to cool down, and no doubt plenty of other people will have the same idea. Hopefully we’ll be able to keep cool (and I hope you can too), it is after all the perfect excuse to enjoy an ice cream or two.

My photo this week is my astrantias which are finally flowering - yay! I bought them last year and they’ve been giving me some worry, as I thought I’d lost them in the heat much earlier in the year, but they’re back.

I first saw these delicate but clearly quite determined flowers back in 2014 when we visited the garden at Bosvigo in Cornwall, a private garden that is absolutely beautiful then and I’m sure it still is today. I’d never seen them before, didn’t know what they were, but knew I would have some at some point, and now I do.

Have a fabulous, but cool, week.