The constant rain has caused the marsh to be higher than ever. Our garden has never filled with water but it has come close a couple o...

Oh what a tiny waist this was!!! A waist that would have been tightly laced in a corset to produce this incredible 18". Is it any ...

When I opened these old letters from the 1920s this morning I almost felt guilty.  Written from a soldier to his "Grand Amour...

Yesterday, with our business tax payment imminent, we went off to the nearest town to transfer some funds into our French bank, Credit A...

A wonderful day of truffling in the most divine attic and it may have been freezing cold but I was in heaven!!! Lots of delicieux t...

  It has been a sad start to 2016 with the loss of Jill, my close friend. Mark and I had just to moved to France some eleven yea...

I have so many boxes of small treasures from a recent manoir attic clearance that I am going to spend the weekend filling up my Etsy shop. T...

Distressed and timeworn this tiny trinket box or patch box is such a sweet confection. I have left it just as I found it. The...

Even after 12 years of living here on the beautiful Cherbourg Peninsula we still find new places hiding away!! Today we saw a sign we ...

Many many years ago when I had just started my truffling through France I was told by a fortune teller that if I ever found any old taro...