Hello there, and welcome back 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, posts which are older will be removed from the linky. 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. If you were here last week it was great to have you along, if you’re new here this week we’re pleased you’ve joined us.

I can’t believe it’s November already though.

I am enjoying and embracing the autumnal food, less so the darker evenings though the lighter mornings are welcome, but I’m sure it won’t be too long before they disappear again. We’ve been hitting the local markets and farm shops for our veg, most recently buying some fantastic looking celery, carrots, cauliflower and cavolo nero from a stall in the market at Newark. You could tell that they hadn’t long been cut/harvested from the fields - partly because of the amount of mud that came with them, but also because they just looked so fresh and inviting.

The celery and the carrots were the muddiest, and neither were going in my fridge without a wash. I couldn’t believe the amount of mud that came off them, and then quite quickly couldn’t believe the amount of mud they left in the sink either!