TARRAGON & THYME

It is New Year's Eve and we are going into the last few hours of 2015.  A bittersweet year from my perspective but life goes on.  There are new pages to be written new experiences to be had new things to do. New friends to be made new places to go a whole rich tapestry waiting for us in the wings.  Change -  the word that a lot of people do not like.  But we have to embrace change its the only way we grow so that we do not stagnate.  In other words its healthy.  We might resist it because it is happening and sometimes that change happens irrespective of circumstances or us wanting to change.  But change it happens for a reason. There have been many positive things too; I have lost some weight which impacts so badly on my movement and my joints.  Not sure why I have lost it but I tend to be flying around a lot more than I used to. I do a lot of walking and I use an app on my phone to measure how many steps I do in a day and for the best p...

I went into town at dinner and on my way back to the office I called in at the Works cheapie book shop.  Prior to Christmas they had some lanterns for £10 each which although lovely I was not prepared to pay £10 each for. Move on a few weeks and the next thing is spend £15 and you would get one of the lanterns free. Today I went in there were not many left.  However they were £5 each.  So I snaffled a couple and they are in the box ready for next year's Christmas.  Which is very appropriate as tomorrow is New Year's Eve and the countdown to another year. These two lanterns will look lovely on the long oblong mirror I have which is in a white frame which I proposed using as a table centre with the edge surrounded by Greenery.  Together with these little lanterns I have four of each.  You can put tea lights in but I managed to get some battery operated flicker tea lights so no naked flames at all although you could if yo...

Why are we suddenly giving storms names?  We never have done really up until now.  Even though I am quite solidly built walking into work today was a bit hairy as the wind was taking me where it wanted me to be never mind that I did not want to go.  It was the same at dinner time. It was even hairier when I came out of work and it was raining.  We need the rain because of the drier summers that we are experiencing.  We would not survive without it.  However I am very concerned that people are suffering in this country through no fault of their own because of our own Government taking short cuts and not honouring the reason that they are where they are in the first place because they were voted in by somebody.  This country has a social conscience.  We give to whatever good cause is going.  Sometimes though Charity really does begin at home.  We should and must look after our own too.  It would be false ec...

Back to work today and it has been a busy one a bit of a shock to the system after the precious time off for Christmas, but hey I am not the only one I think we have all been a bit out of synch today.  Its not long a matter of days before we are into the New Year and we sadly say goodbye to yet another year. That is 57 New Year's I have seen go by. 2015 the year in which we lost mum and our lives were tipped upside down leaving us to do the best we could in the circumstances and to start to pull the fragments together again as best we could.  Mum and Dad would expect nothing less of us both.  Life is for living and making the best of what comes our way.  Its about finding a way through emotional difficult circumstances  individually and together but move on we must in the flow of life to be participants not just voyeurs or people watchers but taking part and being actively involved. Taking part does not mean that we forget how could we e...

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