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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Introducing the BrocanteHome Bookclub!
Flash Sale!
With less than two weeks, till school is out for Summer here, I wanted to celebrate by announcing my annual July Sale: one week of truly scrumptious offers, the best price on Salon Membership you will see all year AND 50% off absolutely everything else in the BrocanteHome Store with the code SUMMER18. While I had intended to put…
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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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Halfway There…
Hello me Darlings, I thought I would just pop in to tell you where I’m up to, so you know I am still alive and still busy behind the scenes cooking up a storm… It has been absolutely beautiful here for the past seven days and though the weekend brought with it the kind of news that chucked the past…
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The Decision
It’s a gorgeous day. Outside the sounds of a suburban Summer are humming through the lane gardens: lawnmowers, children playing, bees buzzing – and inside Ste and I are working in companionable silence, iced lemon water at our side and shared intentions unspoken between us. It has been half-term this week and I have spent it with Finley, enjoying…
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Housekeeper’s Diary
There are words in this life no sane woman wants to hear. Namely, “I’m really sorry but I have dripped fish juice all the way from the kitchen to the front door and I haven’t got time to sort it out, sooooooo sorry, byeeeee, mwah!“ Fish juice!! At seven forty-five in the morning the very idea of “fish-juice” makes…
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Aphantasia
There are no teabags. Well of course there is an abundance of tea of the Matcha kind, the mint sort and the rose variety, but the common or garden breakfast teabag is nowhere to be seen on this very ordinary Tuesday morning. I feel mildly appalled, and butter a scone in compensation. Then stand over the kitchen sink eating it,…
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