My new years resolutions? 1. I shall stop using  my personal Facebook page as without realising it I have started using it as a diary ...

It may be freezing and dark but you have to admit the glowing lights of the brocante look so welcoming.... Stepping closer..... No...

We currently have a wonderful array of mushrooms and toadstools scattered around the garden. I would never have the courage to cook an...

And why am I quiet?  Well I have shingles....how boring...painful and boring!! Normal service shall be resumed................ A la pro...

We woke up to lashing rain this morning. I looked out of the window to see an old bicycle propped against our gate and that could only ...

This old 18th century cottage is just a few miles away.  Over the years we have watched it crumble and now it has fallen completel...

Last Winter whilst walking round a brocante like two Eskimos wrapped up against the cold, Mark declared he was going to buy a bronze clo...

Apologies if you find the simply-chateau missing but I think we have been hacked! It seems to have disappeared and our hosting company are i...

Today was the chateau pumpkin competition. Last night I checked my one pumpkin and decided to harvest it this morning. Mark said he doub...

The weigh in for the biggest pumpkin competition is on Friday and all I can say is that you will be totally underwhelmed with my specime...