This divine crumbling old chateau called "Blanchlands" has been on the market for sale for as long as we have been here........ ...

You may know that I have an addiction to old period doors and Mark looks in despair each time I arrive home with another one lashed on the...

Dearest Tartelette.............. MademoiselleTartface way over there in Oregon..your current silence is ominous!! Usually you Skype me ...

Our own renovations are moving on apace; my office has a floor, walls, new roof, a second floor with a staircase, large French windows that ...

Laduree Paris...... Oh! ...... how I NEED gateau..........................or macaroons.....................!!!!!

I so want a pair of these wonderful archangel wings...................... I`d wear them to the supermarche and sweep everything from the s...

My mum decided to call  me Shirley after Shirley Temple............It is such a 1950s name and I always wanted to be something exotic and ar...

Today is a bank holiday here in France. Our village cemetery is awash with flowers that families have left in remembrance of their loved one...

10 minutes by boat from Venice is the island of Murano, famous for its glassware - but we found out that it also has other treasures! With m...