You would not believe the noise in the garden! It is so loud we can hardly hear the TV!!! It starts at dusk and gets gradually louder. The b...

Don`t you just love blue shutters.............. Especially when they are Provencal blue............ And don`t you just love finding a cafe...

Maison Gosselin is a very special shop on the coast in St. Vaast La Hogue............... It has the most wonderful delicatessen and some b...

At an recent early morning brocante I found the most wonderful set of old postcards all dated 1922 and written  between  Robert and his ...

Another blazing hot day - wonderful!  Dan and Jenny hadn't slept too well as the inflatable mattress they used in the half-renovated att...

Well it`s all systems go now! The scaffolding arrived for the chateau painting and the higher levels are being jet washed. I had no idea tha...

Well that`s it.......today I change my name from simply-chateau to simply-shat-on after two swallows used me for target practise within an h...

Up at 5.30 this morning and we managed to fit in 5 brocantes that meandered around the streets of Normandie towns and villages! We stopped a...

Was up very early driving into thick fog towards a vide grenier/brocante - and was delighted to truffle out some delicious shabby chic finds...

Yesterday when I said "The restoration work here is chaos" what I should have said was " Tomorrow, I suspect it will look lik...