Manny's Blog - Sharing our French adventure as we live and work and renovate our forever home in the Haute Loire.

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Laying the floor and raising the roof !

12 Oct, 2025 4 comments

It’s been a whirlwind of a year… here’s the latest news from Solignac: Christmas 2024 I never did manage part two of my January blog ! Needless to say, Christmas and New Year were absolutely magical, with Harry and Charlotte here for Christmas itself, (Charlotte’s first trip to Solignac – and it delivered in style…

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I’m an actress, a singer, a producer, an indie-publisher, a teacher, a blogger, and a mother of four amazing grown-up children. My husband Joe and I run a small media company together in the Haute Loire in France, where we’ve been living since 2008. We bought an old farm in 2017 and this blog is primarily about our renovation journey, and our life here in department 43. Welcome!