The weather in Normandie is scorching and that is so wonderful as it has been a long, long cold winter here on the marshes! Every window, sh...

For some reason I have had the uncontrollable urge to sew!!! It has been SO long since my old sewing box came out, a box stuffed with 19th ...

I suppose the joy of being a brocanteuse is the fact that you can have exactly what you want ....even if it only comes to visit for a...

Up early and out into the already blazing sunshine today for a brocante in a tiny local harbour. The sunshine had obviously put everyone in...

This wonderful 19th century bird cage must have been a divine confection for a cherished song bird .........................sadly now all t...

Just come home from the most wonderful relaxing picnic by the river and now I am furiously typing this blog sitting at the old patisserie co...

George is the 19th century zinc weather vane "girouette" that sits on the roof of our tiny chateau....................He is fixed...

Isn`t it amazing how just a glimpse of something can take you instantly back to your childhood? Passing this shop window today made me smil...

I just love this old photograph! An English friend Leighton who lives here in France remembers sitting in this container when he was about ...

I have been hiding a wonderful panel of antique faded roses textile for a long long time...........I could never bear to sell it or use it!...