TARRAGON & THYME

Sorry I have not been around much this week, it has been one of those weeks and with the car still ot of action (the gear box needs replacing) OUCH I have been walking everywhere and when I have got in I have been absolutely tired out after getting tea etc, After completing the front garden last week (well it is only small) and making it all nice and tidy.  Today I am starting on the back gaerden.  {if I get lost it will probably be due to getting trapped in the undergrowth at the bottom of the garden)  I am determined this year to at least have a little patch to grow a few veggies.  Niow the back garden is not likely to be done in one weekend, but if I can break it off into bite sized managebke oeces they will all add up. to one big bit eventually.  Besides being out in the fresh air was good last week especially after being cooped uo in an office all week.  Instead of being a constant dreamer without any action I have decided to try and live my dreams....

When One Door Closes Another One Always Opens  

Looks innnocent doesn't he!  Let me tell you he is not quite as innocent as he looks. Last evening I was tired and my patience was running thin.  I managed to get Demetri in gone 9.00 p.m. and that was it he was in for the evening as far as I was concerned. We have no cat flap and because I have lost cats who were left out overnight I am very reluctant to let them stay out, during the day they are allowed to roam if they want to but not at night. For some unknown reason after he had fed Demetri was determined he was going out again; I was just as equally determined he wasn't; we had grumbling, he was extremely vocal and wasn't going to pack up. [Demetri when he calls sounds like a monster, deep gutteral and extremely wowy)  Negotiating with a cat is never easy at the best of times, but he was determined he was going to have the last word no matter what.  When I came down at 3.00 a.m. this morning he had  another pop at me. (he had come up the stairs callin...

After my cup of tea earlier on, I sat as I hurt for a little while sorting out my needlecraft magazines into parts and filing them together.  I have spent a lot of money over the past few years on craft magazines and all they really need is some organisation and storage.  I have a plan to have a shelf unit built in the craft room and to store the magazines neatly in magazine stands not the binders so that when I am looking for something particular to make on the craft scene I should be able to locate them.  Well that is the plan but it is going to take me a little while to achieve, but we have to start somewhere and there a lot of lovely patterns in the magazines which although not ready to use at the moment I have plans for in the future.  Its also giving me a chance to sort out some rubbish as well so its kinda killing two birds with one stone.  In case you hadn't quite realised I am starting to have a major sort out.  First the front garden now the stas...

This morning as the sun was out and about I decided to attack the front garden.   It was well past its Spring clean.   Unfortunately we end up with everybody's rubbish in our garden (not by choice) it just seems to blow in and I had decided enough was enough.  The window boxes had also collapsed and so they have been sent to the big rubbish tip as they had completely gone rotten. So it really needed tidying up. I also have a large cotoneaster in the garden which had shedded quite a few leaves and branches as well as the holly bush which had also reset itself another plant which we have taken out.   Ground Elder had also set itself in two large clumps and we have dug that out as best we can, but it is something that we seem to have been fighting in the garden ever since we moved here. It has taken some doing, now it looks nice and tidy after a lot of cutting, digging, clipping  removing rubbish like dead leaves and cellophane wraps from cigarette pr...

The Sun has got his hat on Hip Hip Hip Hooray the Sun has got his hat on and is coming out to play. So the words of the popular song go, but today the Sun has made a return to our grey skies and is bathing everywhere in its brilliance, coaxing life out of its shell, it is indeed a beautiful spring morning this Sunday in Peterborough I have not long come down, Demetri was squawking to go out and play so he has been released from his overnight confinement  Squeak is now fed and the house is now quiet and still, as much as a house in town can be,  Apart from the ticking of the clock on the wall.  Outside is full of gentle goings on the call of  cockerl in my neighbours garden, singing his heart out on this beautiful morning glorying iun the return of the sun ; sounds reminisicent of the countryside but not quite the same.  An enthusiastic bunch of cyclists going out for the Sunday ride by the front of the house and the occasional car go by; it is a gentle d...

This above all: to thine own self be true. William shakespeare1564 - 1616