THE WORLD IS JUST A CLICK AWAY

Hoorah, I now have a reliable internet provider and I hope to return to my normal practice of blogging every day,so for anyone who breathed a sigh of relief when I stopped publishing.....TOUGH!

So much has happened in the past few weeks that I hardly know where to begin,I know let's do the good things first.

We now have a fantastic new wet room where our old bathroom used to be,the shower is amazing and there are hand rails in just the right places,in spite of the fact that it was designed with disabled users in mind it is light, bright and very pretty...we love it.

Down stairs there is a new lavatory which means far fewer journeys up an down the stairs and of course the stair lift now installed means that no longer have to worry about either Pa or I falling down the stairs,it's wonderful.

Miss twiggy survived the builders time with us and loves her new cat house which my son takes out in to the garden for her each morning. I have extended my little bedroom by opening up the walk in wardrobe and using it as a meditation room,it has a lovely old window and the view over the fruit trees in the orchard is beautiful. Through this window my tame robin now visits me early in the morning for his share of my short bread,as soon as it is light he appears on the sill to collect the largess left over from my supper, this morning he came right in to the room and sat on the back of my easy chair regarding might with his bright eyes before flitting off with a chirrup.

Now for the not so good. The estate are ,once again attempting to gain planning permission to build on my garden and this time it seems that they also wish to tear up our flower garden so that they can lay a lawn to match these landscaping of the new houses. OVER MY DEAD BODY!

The line is drawn battle has commenced and this time we shall not have to fight alone. I had hoped for a little quiet time after the rigours of the past months but it was not to be, In the mean time the orchard has produced a prodigious gooseberry harvest,plenty of salad,new potatoes, peas, logan berries and summer raspberries, The strawberries were a disaster and there will be no apples this year as the rain prevented our bees from pollinating. However the damsons which flowered earlier are weighed down with fruit so it will just have to be damson chutney this year.

Our kitchen is still very busy and I hope to publish some new recipes as I have been experimenting and trying out new things.

I hope you have had and enjoyable summer so far,I know that the weather is dreadful but at least now the hosepipe ban has been lifted!!!!

And now I have loads of emails to answer,the world is just a click away again,goodnight,

Hoorah, I now have a reliable internet provider and I hope to return to my normal practice of blogging every day,so for anyone who breathed a sigh of relief when I stopped publishing.....TOUGH!

So much has happened in the past few weeks that I hardly know where to begin,I know let's do the good things first.

We now have a fantastic new wet room where our old bathroom used to be,the shower is amazing and there are hand rails in just the right places,in spite of the fact that it was designed with disabled users in mind it is light, bright and very pretty...we love it.

Down stairs there is a new lavatory which means far fewer journeys up an down the stairs and of course the stair lift now installed means that no longer have to worry about either Pa or I falling down the stairs,it's wonderful.

Miss twiggy survived the builders time with us and loves her new cat house which my son takes out in to the garden for her each morning. I have extended my little bedroom by opening up the walk in wardrobe and using it as a meditation room,it has a lovely old window and the view over the fruit trees in the orchard is beautiful. Through this window my tame robin now visits me early in the morning for his share of my short bread,as soon as it is light he appears on the sill to collect the largess left over from my supper, this morning he came right in to the room and sat on the back of my easy chair regarding might with his bright eyes before flitting off with a chirrup.

Now for the not so good. The estate are ,once again attempting to gain planning permission to build on my garden and this time it seems that they also wish to tear up our flower garden so that they can lay a lawn to match these landscaping of the new houses. OVER MY DEAD BODY!

The line is drawn battle has commenced and this time we shall not have to fight alone. I had hoped for a little quiet time after the rigours of the past months but it was not to be, In the mean time the orchard has produced a prodigious gooseberry harvest,plenty of salad,new potatoes, peas, logan berries and summer raspberries, The strawberries were a disaster and there will be no apples this year as the rain prevented our bees from pollinating. However the damsons which flowered earlier are weighed down with fruit so it will just have to be damson chutney this year.

Our kitchen is still very busy and I hope to publish some new recipes as I have been experimenting and trying out new things.

I hope you have had and enjoyable summer so far,I know that the weather is dreadful but at least now the hosepipe ban has been lifted!!!!

And now I have loads of emails to answer,the world is just a click away again,goodnight,

Hoorah, I now have a reliable internet provider and I hope to return to my normal practice of blogging every day,so for anyone who breathed a sigh of relief when I stopped publishing.....TOUGH!

So much has happened in the past few weeks that I hardly know where to begin,I know let's do the good things first.

We now have a fantastic new wet room where our old bathroom used to be,the shower is amazing and there are hand rails in just the right places,in spite of the fact that it was designed with disabled users in mind it is light, bright and very pretty...we love it.

Down stairs there is a new lavatory which means far fewer journeys up an down the stairs and of course the stair lift now installed means that no longer have to worry about either Pa or I falling down the stairs,it's wonderful.

Miss twiggy survived the builders time with us and loves her new cat house which my son takes out in to the garden for her each morning. I have extended my little bedroom by opening up the walk in wardrobe and using it as a meditation room,it has a lovely old window and the view over the fruit trees in the orchard is beautiful. Through this window my tame robin now visits me early in the morning for his share of my short bread,as soon as it is light he appears on the sill to collect the largess left over from my supper, this morning he came right in to the room and sat on the back of my easy chair regarding might with his bright eyes before flitting off with a chirrup.

Now for the not so good. The estate are ,once again attempting to gain planning permission to build on my garden and this time it seems that they also wish to tear up our flower garden so that they can lay a lawn to match these landscaping of the new houses. OVER MY DEAD BODY!

The line is drawn battle has commenced and this time we shall not have to fight alone. I had hoped for a little quiet time after the rigours of the past months but it was not to be, In the mean time the orchard has produced a prodigious gooseberry harvest,plenty of salad,new potatoes, peas, logan berries and summer raspberries, The strawberries were a disaster and there will be no apples this year as the rain prevented our bees from pollinating. However the damsons which flowered earlier are weighed down with fruit so it will just have to be damson chutney this year.

Our kitchen is still very busy and I hope to publish some new recipes as I have been experimenting and trying out new things.

I hope you have had and enjoyable summer so far,I know that the weather is dreadful but at least now the hosepipe ban has been lifted!!!!

And now I have loads of emails to answer,the world is just a click away again,goodnight,