Post Comment Love 4 - 6 September

September 4, 2026

Hello there, 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 may 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 been a busy week and we’ve been out and about locally. We went up (and down) the 898 steps of the church tower in Newark and on the way up stopped in the bell room and the clock room before finally stepping out onto the parapet with its views across the market place. It was absolutely worth doing, and I’m glad I spotted one of these rarely offered tours and nabbed our places. It’s great to discover things nearby, and especially those places that aren’t normally open.

I’ve also picked up my guinea fowl applique, which was from the workshop I did at this year’s Festival of Quilts. I’ve been adding more blanket stitch to the edge of the birds, for both decorative and practical reasons - I mean, no one needs their guinea fowl falling off do they?!

Have a great week.

Post Comment Love 28 - 31 August

August 28, 2026

It’s a bank holiday weekend here this weekend so the linky will stay open an extra day, closing late on Monday evening to give you a little more time to join us, and to do all the bank holiday things.

Though it’s looking like it might be a more typical bank holiday weather-wise. For the past two days we’ve had thunderstorms and heavy rain forecast, and they both turned up yesterday. But with the ground so dry after the multiple heat waves it’s been running off all over the place, as you’d expect. It’s been so wet - and I’m not complaining - that our garden sofa had puddles on it for most of the day! But already the grass is starting to recover and look just a little greener, we definitely needed a bit of rain.

And while I’m talking about the weather, there’s been a noticeable shift seasonally. We still have the humidity during the day, but the early mornings and later evenings definitely have a chill about them.

I’ve also spotted and foraged my first blackberries this week too. I’d arrived early for my hair appointment and so as the weather was way nicer than it was supposed to be I took myself off for a very little walk to kill some time. It made me smile though as I got back to my car with a handful of blackberries, whereas in London I’d’ve mooched around the shops. Sometimes when life changes it’s the small things that catch you.

Have a great week.

Post Comment Love 21 - 23 August

August 21, 2026

Last Saturday evening we boarded the Golden Arrow on the Bluebell Railway in West Sussex for two course dinner as it journeyed between Sheffield Park and East Grinstead. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but it was a really good evening - the inside of the carriage was exquisite, the food was good and the waiting staff were absolutely brilliant, so it was well worth doing.

We were seated in the carriage below, which MOH was a little concerned to discover was a previous LNER train, as he says he rarely gets a LNER train which leaves or arrives on time - though this one proved him wrong!

Have a great week.