Post Comment Love 23 - 25 October

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As a cyclist MOH always has at least one eye on the weather and this week I’ve put his extensive knowledge and experience to good use to make sure we could get out into the garden and prepare it for winter, in the best weather possible. And didn’t he come up trumps?!

We spent yesterday morning moving our garden furniture into the relatively clear and much more organised than before garage, and though some of it was still wet from the overnight downpour and has needed more space than we’d planned to allow it to dry out, it seems that we have more free space than we had in there last winter. Which is good news!

In fact the weather was so favourable that we even spent some time getting the rest of the garden ready for winter, and it was so nice to do that with the sun on our backs. But I did notice that my last rhubarb stem had succumbed to the season, and so that was destined for our garden bin - but in better news, next year we’ll be able to eat the stems it produces and that will just be fabulous.

Have a good week.

My last rhubarb stem destined for the garden bin

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Post Comment Love 16 - 18 October

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.

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It’s been an unusually, but much needed, quiet week here. We’ve caught up on jobs here, unboxed what we think could be the last few boxes from our house move in the garage (I know!) and generally getting the space more organised and ready to store our garden furniture over the winter. The grass has been cut - thankfully not by me! - and we’ve enjoyed the unexpected warm temperatures, though not the wind so much.

There’s been much tidying and cleaning, and I’ve given my craft room a bit of a reset and reorganised the desktops a little, as I realised I was avoiding using my overlocker because it was too much of a faff to pull out. So that’s back out again, but not too prominently, and I’ll see if this position works better for it and me. The reset has given me a longer run of space, which could come in useful as I’ve finally talked myself into finishing the block of the month quilt from last year - it’s large so needs some extra space.

All this also means I’ve taken very few pictures, but one of the ones I do have is of the pig garland for my crochet group’s upcoming tree dressing event. I spent some time working out how to add the snout and ears (using crochet and knitting respectively), and I think it works. Though of course when do googly eyes not work!

Have a great week.

Two pigs on my garland -a work in progress

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Post Comment Love 9 - 11 October

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.

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In the past week or so we’ve been on what seems like a whistlestop tour of the gardens of Devon and the Cotswolds, and I’m not going to lie it’s been great, though it has also contributed to a quieter time on here lately. Not only have I made good use of my National Trust membership with visits to Killerton, Castle Drogo and Hidcote but I’ve also used my RHS membership and their partnership scheme when visiting Hestercombe.

Of course that means many, many photos - but the weather has been glorious. It’s turning more October-like from here on in, but boy we’ve been spoilt.

This week’s photo is from one of my all time favourite plants - a red hot poker, which was basking in the October sun in Hidcote’s gardens.

Have a great week.

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