Summer in the sun It was the best summer I can ever remember in Solignac – a little late to start – but once it arrived it was glorious. We have reached a stage of our renovation now where even though we still have projects to finish, we have beautiful spaces to inhabit inside and…
Hot on the heels of the very late last blog, I thought I’d use the Euros as my time to write another post ! The band Singing and performing is one of my happy places – and I am so thrilled to be singing with a band again ! We got together during Lockdown pauses…
I want to get things up to date – we’ve just celebrated the summer solstice for goodness sake, and this post has been waiting a few months to be uploaded !! So here’s a quick whizz through the missing bits of house progress and family life ! The staircase I know I’ve talked about the…
I was so excited to share the kitchen progress last blog that I didn’t talk about last summer ! We had the most beautiful long, hot summer last year – a glorious few weeks of all the family here at the same time… and the big excitement of the birth of our second grandson Noah…
So a few weeks ago, after making sure we had varnished, oiled and treated every bit of the beautiful wood Joe has used to build our beautiful kitchen… we moved on up and started using it ! Words cannot begin to describe how momentous this has been – after years of temporary kitchens, albeit fully…
Here we are in mid-March already! I guess it’s a good sign that time passes so quickly these days! Or maybe it’s just a sign of getting old! We’ve been working on our home here in Solignac for more than six years now, (we got the keys in January 2017) and living in the house…
September 2022 – it’s been a jam-packed roller coaster of a year so far! My sister Sasha got married; I turned 60 and caught Covid; Oscar turned one and was Christened and and on the same day (June 5th) we lost Joe’s much-loved Dad, Dave. So the year has involved quite a few trips to…
Quite a cliffhanger I left you dangling on in June… the night of our darling, beautiful grandson Oscar’s birth. Sorry about that! As always I thought I’d be back to my blog sooner… but as always, it’s taken longer than expected to get back here! Oscar is now six months old (nearly seven months!)- he…
(May 9th) I’m writing from a top floor room in a cosy Parisian Hotel – the windows open, curtains billowing in the warm breeze, and the soothing sounds of the city evoking distant memories of city-dwelling many moons ago! Curfew still in place from 7pm, so hardly any sounds of folks on the street, but…
We have our 3 stars from the Tourist Office… we have our first guests arriving in a few days, through Airbnb, and we are fully booked until mid-March with a summer three-week booking too. Honestly we couldn’t be more thrilled! We’ve given it so much love and attention, and I have to admit to having…