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Sharing our French adventure as we live and work and renovate our forever home in the Haute Loire.

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6 months later!

Hello again – I can’t believe I’ve managed to let 6 months pass without a word! Finally there are pauses in the mayhem, and I thought I’d treat myself to a moment’s catch up! So 2012 – turning out to be a rather splendid year for all of us! I’ve been teaching my socks off!…

Good Bye 2011 and a big optimistic hello to 2012!

Time to kiss 2011 goodbye and raise a glass to 2012. It’s been a very mixed year for many of the people I love:  enormous and unexpected losses, some serious highs and lows…but some wonderful new friendships and new beginnings to nurture in 2012. 2011 – the year I lost my magnificent and precious Dad…

Change of plan…

One thing my life has taught me is never to fear a change of plan! I started this blog last September with an eager desire to take the family on a US Roadtrip this summer. Well the year has headed in a different direction, and it’s clear that we won’t be making the trip this summer. My…

Oh bright new year – full of dreams to be fulfilled…

I love Christmas, always have…  always will!  But equally magical, once the last slightly stale mince-pie has been finished, is the anticipation of what the new year holds. I ate too much this year, but don’t I always! and actually I quite like the moment when all the extravagant over-indulgence (during which I openly confess…

And now…

Found it quite difficult to plot the next part of this journey after the initial buzz of setting our plans in motion by declaring them so publicly. What I’ve realised is that I need more clarity – sometimes you don’t know what it is your aiming for until you push it into action. This was…

Five things I love about living in the French mountains…

I never would have thought I would find myself and my family living in a little house in rural France (had I known, I certainly would have tried harder to pass my French O’level while my brain had better powers of retention!)… and yet through a series of brave decisions and chance encounters… here we…

Throw me a rope…

Well, what a week that was! I threw a little dream out into the world and started a reality! Thank you to everyone online and off who have been so enthusiastic and supportive. Two great quotes from two great friends were amongst the comments and I love both of them (quotes and friends!): Make voyages!…

And so it begins…

I have a plan… I want to take my family to the USA on a road trip next summer to promote our film If you ever get to heaven which we made last year. For those who know us, this will come as no surprise, and for those who don’t … see “About Me” for…