I had no idea when I opened my eyes this morning that I would be entering an international sporting event. Indeed I hadn`t even done any...

Just a little peek around the chateau at some of my favourite things........ Hope you are having a rest...

Amy - otherwise known as Mademoiselle Tartelette from Oregon has been staying here with us at the chateau for a truffling trip. She ...

Looking through some old family photographs we found this divine old sepia photograph of Mark`s mum in the 1930s. How I wished that tu...

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...