I don’t usually like very stylized Instagram pages because I am intensely nosy and always terribly keen to see the truth about someone’s life, rather than a manicured version they have arranged into pretty boxes, but I make an exception for The Fashionable Reader. Because I love her with all of my pastel-colored, book loving heart. Not only does…
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The Fashionable Reader
The Awakening of Miss Prim
I really, really hate it when I read a book I read and adore turns out to be one that a number of people have frowned upon. One does so hate the frowny faces of the literary superior who fail to see the charm in a book and instead prefer to spread their frowny insults all over Amazon. And…
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Coming Soon!
Just a little heads up me Darlings… The paperback and ebook versions of Trash and Treasure are almost upon us so if you want to be the very first to place your order when it is published, do pop your name into this form won’t you and I will drop you an email as soon as it goes live……
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Life-Long Learning for Homemakers
My female need to know has never been quite so fiery. I am so very hungry for information: from where Finley is RIGHT NOW (still asleep having now lost his voice completely) to what drinking nettle tea will do for my well-being and why those who sell deep-sheets don’t make them quite deep enough to truly fit my mattress….
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Making The Bed The Brocante Way…
** Making Your Bed the Brocante Way is a vintage BrocanteHome post I regularly update to remind you that even bedtime should be a little less ordinary…** It is late and HouseKeepers I am exhausted. Some mornings I open my eyes and I just can’t wait till bedtime so I can crawl into bed. Then other days I am…
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Housekeeper’s Diary
Today. Bright and sunny and a child sick in bed. Bacon for breakfast, sat on a bed of spinach. The music of the washing machine reaching a crescendo as I pop the last forkful in to my mouth. A strong cup of coffee to get the fire of domestic industry burning. And a long glass of water cloudy with…
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
I simply cannot wait to see this film. If it is even half as good as the book it it going to be a little piece of wonderful…
The Bedside Basket
Well now honestly, I wish I was one of those bloggers who bombarded you with beautiful images of my life but the truth is that I simply haven’t got time to be staging my daily existence with style, grace and a flutter of my magic wand and so I’m afraid you get what you get with me and what…
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Create A Housekeeping Routine…
Welcome to my latest 30 Day Email Course – one tiny little email everyday to help you create a domestic routine that works for you and your family… For we cannot begin to live a life less ordinary if we are hampered daily by the flotsam and jetsam of a chaotic domestic routine and so in this plan I…
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