TARRAGON & THYME

 During the real first hot spell of weather we had and prior to us going away to Woodhall Spa again we had an incident with the next door neighbours.  They have been regular users of having a barbecue and we believe that they had one and put the barbecue away hot.  It was purely by chance I found the fire.  We were upstairs watching a TV programme and I kept hear hearing this crackling sound.  So I went downstairs to check as it sounded as though the next door neighbour was watering up and had left the hose pipe on.  When I got downstairs I could not see anything (I had been worried that he had collapsed in the garden and left the hose pipe running which has happened before).  I popped my head around the bottom of the house only to see the fence inbetween used and next door.  There was hardly any shed left next door by this time and I have never seen a fence go up so quickly.  I screamed for OH to call the fire brigade.  We are very luck...

 Sorry for being absent for so long. This was not intended. This is the first time I have been able to get online on my computer in a long while. I was badly hacked earlier on in the year which has caused all sorts of problems and my email account is still not working properly.  To exacerbate that I could not remember passwords for different accounts and for the best part have been putting up small posts on Instagram, however it has always been my intention to come back to this account.  Hopefully you are all still there. We have had rather a lot of other stuff going on as well including a fire caused by next door neighbours which completely demolished our shed and contents and they were not insured.   I will pop up a more detailed post hopefully by the end of the week. Just wanted to say hello and let you know I should be back into the swing of things hopefully by the end of the week. I hope each and everyone of you are keeping well. Kind regards Pattypan x

  That is underestimating again the amount of time needed for bottoming out the bedroom/study/computer room!  However I have made an exceptional start and cleared quite a lot of stuff interspersed with washing pillows, quilts, blankets, sheets and curtains.  It is getting a good going over though.  I think I am going to be another couple of days in dealing with this, but at least then it will be thoroughly done.  I am mindful that I have to have this gall bladder operation which will put me out of action for a couple of days or so I prefer feather pillows and I buy the ones that you can wash and dry in a tumble drier, just on a normal general wash and then they go into the tumble drier - mine have been on Turbo and they have come out lovely and clean and beautifully fluffed up as if they were new.  It does take a little time as I only wash one pillow at a time and only dry one at a time so that they get thoroughly cleaned and then dried.  I prefer to d...

 hopefully for some progress tomorrow whilst OH is fishing.  It will be an early start though.  Missy is staying with me as it has been far too hot today and we have had the fans on for her as well as ourselves. I was going to cook a roast today but in the end decided not to, however will do for tomorrow when OH returns from his fishing.  He is going with the step son so it will do them both good. It has been a pottering sort of day nothing substantial just ding a bit of this and that. However I have located my embroidery threads.  For a long time now I have been looking for a second Lever Arch Box file that i knew i had stuffed with embroidery threads. I just could not find it though.  OH had stuck some boxes up high out of the way and this afternoon one of the boxes slipped and we had a mini cave in.  It was the embroidery threads box.  I am very pleased about this as I have a couple of small projects that I have been wanting to try for a while....

I am not doing well at the moment in the longer run but rather than leave the blog another day I thought I would start off with what has been going on today and then try and play catch-up bit by bit.  I also found out unexpectedly that a friend who was a couple of years younger than me had also passed which was a bit of a shock. Inbetween trying to do everything else, I have had toothache which calms down and then blows up again which is driving me nuts. Sorry not meaning to complain and be negative but very grateful that we have a Dentist. Good job the work is starting soon albeit with some extractions.  I have three months of work to look forward to, which should for the best part put things back into order a little bit although I will have some issues with some of my other teeth probably later next year but we will deal with that when we get to it.  It does not help that I have Vitamin D Deficiency and also the Sjorgen's Syndrome has done a lot of damage as I do not pr...

 Hi, just to let everyone know that we are now back from holiday.  We had a lovely restful holiday and did not really want to come back but knowing that in real life we have a lot of things to deal with we have come back to try and get sorted a bit.  One of the problems I have is that I get stuck in and start sorting things then start having fatigue attacks and I am not able to do anything for a few days.  It is pretty demoralising but part of what I am having to get used to.  I am not complaining, it is just a different way of having to go around things to what I am traditionally used to doing and I hate being slowed up!  More frustration than anything else on my part as I do not consider that I really have any health problems, just issues that get in the way and raise their ugly heads every so often.  Not that I am not looking after myself, I am it is just that sometimes things escalate every so often for some unknown reason.  Everything is okay...

 Having issues with the local internet at the site we are on hampered by the fact I bought OH's laptop instead of my own and dont have the passwords.  If get a chance to connect and post I will. Pattypan x