TARRAGON & THYME

Things can be changed, tweaked, improved its  up to you at the end of the day  

.......with the bathroom I am esconced deep cleaning the same. If gone for too long please send a friendly St Bernard armed with a cocktail to locate and  revive me.  Its warm again this evening and the bathroom is tidy. Catch you all hopefully later on Pattypan xx

Thank you ladies for your lovely supportive comments; to come home after a busy day at work and to be greeted by you cheers me up no end and for a change I thought I would post my comments here in a post. Elizabeth Rhiannon - lovely to hear from you again dear friend I have missed your blog and will hopefully catch up with you in full shortly and thank you for your kind wishes for my mum; she is healing very slowly but is a little frailer although still very very determined.  One of her wishes was to see my eldest nephew go to University - he has been at Warwick University for the past year studying a four year Doctorate in Chemistry.  Her wish is now to see the youngest one also at University and it is giving her something to fight for. Light and blessings to you and yours and I hope all is well with you. Hi Jay Strawberry wine is delicious  -it is very sweet and a deep red colour; its one of those wines that my mum used to make when I was younger and also m...

Things have been a bit hectic round here these past few weeks and I have hardly had time to sneeze.  So much to do so little time to do it unfortunately as a result I have not been on here much or surfing the Internet; and it has been so hot thank goodness I have a ceiling fan in the bedroom. On Saturday I went to my mum's to start the cleaning for her.  I spring cleaned and bottomed the bedroom for her; washed nets and curtains and washed all the paintwork and the furniture dragging it out from where it had been and generally tidying up.  This weekend coming I am hitting the lounge and doing the same with that. Not that the house is untidy it just needed a Spring clean.  We decided between us that if I worked through room by room  and get it how she wants it to be it will be much easier to keep on top of - well that is the plan anyway.  It was nice to spend time with my mum - she never stopped talking bless her. Saturday evening I should have been a...

Sorry its a short and sweet pop by this evening; I have been out to the monthly meeting of the Pyschic and Spiratual Fellowship and as always we have had a fantastic medium Natalie with us this evening.  If you are ever in Peterborough on the first Wednesday of every month please come and see us at the Fellowship the meeting starts prompt for 7:30 pm and is held at Paston Community Centre in Peterborough.  Entrance fee is £5 and tea and coffee with biscuits and there are usually cakes to buy (which are really scrummy).  Monies raised after expenses for the hall and insurance are taken goes to those local good causes in the area which quite often get overlooked.  We get to have an entertaining evening learning about something we love and spending time with like minded people. I now have a pile of ironing to do so it will be a little while before I go up to bed - I am trying to break the ironing pile into bite sized sessions so that it does not overwhelm me and I do ...

Food bills seem to be going up and up and we are getting less and less for our money but you can still save and eat well. It doesn't have to be a take away  - in fact that is one of my rules Take Aways are out (at about £20 a hit well that's for us and would be more for a bigger family I would rather have the money and get several meals out of that sum;  OH seems to prefer my home made stir fries  - they are a bit interesting and it is a good way of using up the contents of the fridge, with a little bit of this and a little bit of that and you do not need much fish or meat to make a very filling meal out of what potentially could end up in the waste bin.  Just a few bits  out of the store cupboard as additions can make a very tasty supper although strictly speaking it does not really conform to strict Chinese cuisine but more Pattypan freestyle if you like.  Like alchemy really but then if you really think about it that is what cooking is.  There ar...