Hmm now let’s see: a beautiful Indian Summer’s day? Check. An abundance of vegetables harvested from our teeny little vegetable patch? Check. Naughty nobody’s cat still invading the garden and delivering dead mousey presents? Check. Bathroom tap still being temperamental? Check. No sign of the lost garlic press? Check. Covid related anxiety through the roof now it has been announced…
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She arrived suddenly didn’t she? Autumn. Shrugging her way into our lives with all her stylish nonchalance and turning her nose up at the very idea of letting Summer tint the last of the green tomatoes into anything remotely edible. It is chilly in the mornings now. Although the doors on to the garden are still flung open as we…
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Hello! Today I wanted to set out my plan for our lovely new Homeschool, in more detail before we truly begin to live our lives the Brocantehome way all over again, come Monday… I have, as you know, run The Salon, my flagship membership for over five years now and it has in that time become rather beautifully bloated with…
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Well now, this year has not been at all what any of us expected it to be now has it? And here we, in September already: the month I traditionally invite you to step back into life the BrocanteHome way and pick up the pieces, the joyful chaos Summer so very often has us scattering all around the place! But…
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Continuing on with The Book of Days, this post is designed to encourage you to see the blessings of modern technology for even the most old-fashioned of homemakers and to help you divine which tasks could be simplified and which truly do deserve to be elevated to puttery, domestic art… This then is homemaking the Brocantehome way. The Simplicity Myth….
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