Well I don’t know about you, but I simply cannot wait…
Mary Poppins Returns
Why Don’t You?
Created in the spirit of Diana Vreeland who ran a darling little column called “Why Don’t You?” in Harpers Bizarre, I bring you a new weekly feature – seven teeny little somethings to do to make life that little bit less ordinary… On Monday… Decide to do the 5:2 Financial Diet: spend nothing at all on five out of seven of…
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In The Midst of Thinking.
And just as I said: I have been thinking. And it has be an odd, somewhat revalatory, somewhat disturbing process. Not what I imagined. For it seems I am not a person given to truly thinking at all and that when I do the thoughts only have to be formally invited to come dashing in and stomp all over my…
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Thinking Week
I gave myself a rather boomtastic headache yesterday. So boomtastic I had to be tucked up in bed at nine o’clock with a cup of hot chocolate and a Night Nurse because I had convinced myself that a sniffly nose and a headache equals the kind of flu Finn’s Dad was spreading to all and sundry this week and only…
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Welcome Home…
Well now I have polished the child, packed him off to school, spick and span, wiped away the dust of the Summer from every surface in the house, mowed the lawn into Autumnal oblivion and of course, bought myself a new pencil case and plucked my chin hair because I am a woman of a certain age and…
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Till September…
Hello my Lovely. Over the past few years I have taken August off Brocantehome in order to be a little more present for my family during the Summer holiday and to reset and clean up my routines and rituals in my newly printed Housekeeper’s Planner ready for a new season, and this year will be no different. So for the…
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Christmas In July!
I don’t care if you are cringing. As she in charge of making your life less ordinary, this I know for sure: she who plans early catches the Christmas Crackers before they are all sold out. And so this is the week I am inviting you to hop on board the Christmas train with BrocanteHome. I know. I know the…
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Introducing the BrocanteHome Bookclub!
I am delighted to be able to invite you to take part in our first Living Room Bookclub in my lovely Facebook group: The Living Room… The Living Room group is FREE to join and I cannot think of a better group of women to talk all things bookish with in the monthly book-club I am hosting there. Each…
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The BrocanteHome Living Room Is Now FREE to Join!
Well I think the image above just about sums up how I feel right now, if you care to replace the screaming baby with an overgrown teenager and a man with his head firmly facing the darn World Cup… I talk a lot here about creating a life less ordinary, but I know it is true that the ordinary…
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Housekeeper’s Diary
It is rare now that I write at the weekends, for there simply isn’t time, but today has been a long, lazy day and my fingers are itching to type. Suddenly I am alert, and blinking back into life like a mole emerging from a long dark tunnel. Awake and astonished that there is still a life to be…
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The Salon Workshop Is Here!
And so the first part of my lovely, dastardly plan is complete: The Salon Workshop has landed and together myself and my Salon Members are about to embark on a week-by-week journey towards a life less ordinary: bringing together all the resources currently to be found in the Salon Library and adding direction, purpose and a new ritual I…
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