TARRAGON & THYME

Here in Peterborough the sun is shining, the quiet cacophony of nature going about its business is gentle by comparison to the noise made by man and by traffic and is quite soothing to the ear.  For once I am up early, I can hear the neighbours cockerel strutting his stuff and calling to the world to wake up.  Wake up Wake up on this beautiful morning. All this happening and I am in the middle of town, whereas I want to be in the countryside off the beaten track.  As it is still early there is still a coolness to the day, but I don''t care - I am alive and going to be working in the garden again so I am outside in the fresh air and free.  I intend to glory in this beautiful morning of ours and enjoy its peacefulness and serenity working with my hands touching the earth that coaxes so much bounty for us to enjoy.  Right am off to get my hands dirty. I hope you have a lovely morning too Catch up soon Pattypan -

Well the wanderer has returned.  I have had a very pleasant evening at the Spiritualist Church Service supporting my friend and also meeting up with another friend as well.  It has been a very pleasant evening where the majority of people were strangers to me but where I have felt very comfortable and welcomed.  My friend did brilliantly with her messages and presentation.  It has been a lovely evening. I am now home just sitting quietly with no TV on; Demetri and Squeak are both in the land of nod and I don't even have the heating on at the moment.  They are such loyal trusting creatures, just content to be nearby safe and comfortable. It will not be long before I will wend my way up to bed complete with hottie bottie.   I have had a busy day with the gardening; my back and hips ache a little so I need to keep myself warm (hence the hottie bottie).  If the weather is fine I intend to carry on with the gardening again tomorrow.  I have a...

It has been a busy day here in Peterborough.  The weather has been lovely it started off nice and sunny and then clouded over for a little while.  A proper spring morning and with the re-appearance of the sun it makes everything much more cheerful somehow.  A day where I decided that I was going to start on the back garden and give it a bit of a spring clean.  But before tackling the garden I had things to do. I went shopping first thing to the Charity shop and espied quite a few goodies as usual, but being ever practical I opted for items that I could use and be useful to me.  Hence a white Pyrex mixing bowl, 4 little ramekin pots and a sponge flan tin (one of those sponges you buy for putting jelly fruit and jello in) came home too.  I just love going to the charity shop preferably armed with some money but often just for a good look round. I then descended on the veg shop primarily to get a tray of eggs but she didn't have one apart from 18 eggs...

Just stopped for a small tea break after getting stuck in with the immediate back garden outside the back door for most of the day.  This little stretch of garden is my herb garden and I also normally have some planters with bits and bobs in as well.  Thought I would tell you about some treasures I have found recently at my Charity Shop. All inspired by Frugal Queen's post this morning about making a quilt out of recycled charity shop shirts, (and also a post a little while back by Cotton Reel)  I went tootling round to my local charity shop, but unfortunately they had no 50pence bargains; although they did have some nice shirts where the tones blended and would have been ideal for me starting to collect the fabric for a home made quilt cover.  However they wanted £3 apiece  (their prices seem to have gone up during the past few weeks) and after all the idea for me of making the quilt would be to make it frugally so that I came out with something handmade and...

GONE GARDENING BE BACK LATER

I am well chuffed my lovely friend Alison treated me to an early birthday present today and it is lovely.(My birthday is not until May)  Called the Birthday Cake Book written by Fiona Cairns the creator of the Royal wedding cake for 2011.  And it is lush; There are some smashing recipes in here and I am once I get into full gear going to have a go at some of these lovely creations with some new twists on some old favourites.  The more I look the more I like.  The more I look the more I see. It gets very dangerous when us two go shopping together especially in Lakeland. Thank you sweetheart very much appreciated you brightened up a gloomy day. Pattypan x