TARRAGON & THYME

Still no internet connection so I am continuing to draft posts even though I am not able to post them just yet. OH and I have been out in the garden this evening together with a powerful halogen work lamp and the wooden frame is starting to come together.  We have all the walls up and together the floor down.  Tomorrow evening we are aiming to get the roof on.  We have done a couple of hours work not starting really until 8:00am after we had had tea and then we had to go back to B & Q as the lamp he had bought did not have a bulb in it.  Was not missing they just did not supply it and OH had thought was within.  So a productive evening all round even though it was bitterly cold.  I had two pairs of gloves on and my thick anorak over a couple of thick jumpers.  I was pleased to get in.  Lovely clear sky though tonight often find that with a bitterly cold night.  Its nights like this when I am desperate for a log fire to snuggle round ...

Or perhaps that should be the base is not going too well.  OH was in a hurry and ended up skimping and the base was even more higgly piggledy.  He was keen to get the shed up for me.  However we ended up having words about this as it just was not right and I was not paying out good money to have it bodged and I told him so.  He eventually came round to my way of thinking and we eventually got the base sorted out after going a couple of more times to get the fixative.  We have also got the fluorescent lights, extension leads, wiring, light switches, cover for the wire so it does not get wet etc. etc.  But the base is done - hurrah but it was dusk again before we finished and so the shed has not been started.  We are hoping to do a bit during the week of an evening when OH gets home.  OH has been suffering with his back again today  - he has a disc that pops out and causes problems every now and then and so has to take it st...

Work started in earnest and we stripped quite a lot of vegetation out of the area where the slabs were to go.  OH last weekend had laid the slabs out roughly where we wanted them to place the shed on.  However we needed to get the fixative underneath.  We spent quite a bit of time trying to do that with not very good results.  The slabs needed quite a bit of lifting up due to the ground being sloping and at the bottom.  In the end we realised that we did not have enough fixative and would need to be able to go and get some more on Sunday morning.  By the time we realised it was dusk, and extremely cold so into the house we retreated. We really need to get the internet and the TV sorted out.  We have an Amazon Fire stick but there are problems with the loading of the films we believe the signal is too slow the same with the Internet.  So that will have to happen next week when I am home.  I will strip the front room out so that we can sol...

I am not sure what is going on with the computer but am finding it difficult to keep a consistent signal the internet keeps shutting itself off so I have not read many other blogs or posted as a result.  I am going to have a fiddle with it but I think it is something to do with the router and the fire wall but I need to strip that out in the front room and it is not easily accessible at the moment so will have to do what I can when I can.  So I will carry on posting and somewhere down the line I hope that the posts actually post and you are able to read them. The migraine is still hanging and making life impossible but I am back at work after two days off Because of the rough weather at the weekend we were unable to get all the slabs down and the shed up.  We are hoping to get it done over the weekend although I think we may be a tad ambitious about this.  Fingers crossed and toes plaited and all that jazz.  Wish us luck. Catch you soon. Pattypa...

I ended up being off work for a couple of days last week with a horrendous migraine that just came on.  Trouble is that when I get a migraine I end up being in bed until it subsides in a dark room.  No computers no TV as the light always jiggers me up.  I am light sensitive in any event and that is how they discovered I had epilepsy by putting me under a strobe light which in turn triggered a fit albeit an absence a petit mal. Never mind these things are sent to try us so that itself has put the Christmas preparations on hold.  Fortunately next week from Tuesday night I will be on leave for five days so I am hoping to catchup then. Will be playing catchup all week as a result of this.  Never mind these things are sent to try us. Catch you later. Pattypan x

Disappointingly we did not get out to do the shed and lay the base because of the weather.  We have the powdered cement base that you put down and then lay the slabs on top and it then sets itself. Despite indications to the contrary it just did not brighten up and there was a proper  mizzle in the air.  So we stayed in and pottered.  Evenutally OH did manage to get the slabs into the garden - so everything is to hand ready for us to get stuck in when we can.  Bit disappointed that we have not got further but hey ho these things are sent to try us. We have however had a very nice tea tonight.  I prepared the roast beef by placing it on a sliced raw onion in the bottom of a roasting pan and then popped a foil lid over the tray and cooked it on Gas mark 4 checked it halfway through and took the foil off and there was a lovely natural gravy in the bottom of the pan which formed the base of the gravy for our meal with the addition of some...

Weatherwise the sky is still grey and cloudy but lighter than it was.  However I think today is a complete washout when it comes to doing the shed.  Something may be salvaged we will wait and see but at least we have all the pieces to get on with stuff and maybe even get the patio done with one fair swoop which will stand us in good stead. We have just had a sausage sarnie each and a milky coffee (mine Masawatti style) and a bit of a chin wag as you do.  I am going to get on in the kitchen downstairs in the hope that I can get it squared to get on with other things that I have and need to do.  Including my own personal washout  - more laundry. We have been to the Butchers and  have bought a piece of beef to have later on for tea with home made Yorkshire pudding and a few veggies. We have bought a few other bits and bobs as well.  We do not do badly on the food front and tend to buy the best we can with the money available to us....