Oh what a wonderful morning we had! Though the thought of rising at stupid o’clock to get to the little village of Croston in time to secure a decent spot amongst the crowds gave me...
You dream you have been forced to wash a wardrobe with mayonnaise. You scrub and scrub and scrub and when no-one is looking you lean in and roll your tongue down the door. You wake...
In the lifetime it has been on-line BrocanteHome has been brought to you from various cosy spots around my house. Once upon a time I used to sit huddled in a red armchair. Then I...
Mix PMT with temperatures worthy of the Caribbean and you have got yourself a women so bloated she is on the verge of popping. Yes. When the sun comes out, I, Alison May, blow up...
Thank you Darlings. Thank you as always for listening and for not asking questions and for knowing that when I speak from a seemingly dark place, this too will pass. It always does. Especially when...
I am itching for something. It might be a cheese sandwich, a new career or a course in ball-room dancing. I have no idea. But I am itchy. (Too itchy to sleep, plan meals, make...
The healthy plant outgrows its pot the way a healthy child outgrows its clothes. Don’t let it suffer constriction. Spread the Sports or Business section of the New York Times on the dining room...
Are you suffering Lifestyle Accumulation Disorder too? I mean clearly I just made that up, for obviously there is no such thing: which makes suffering from it all the more galling. However while it m...
I still can’t write, so I thought for a little while you might enjoy the voices of a few carefully selected, downright wonderful women? For today, Suzanne Lipschutz from New York vintage wallpa...
I am writing this post in the spirit of telling the truth. Because I am exhausted and over-extended and procrastinating and aching and hurting and whingeing and falling behind on almost every aspect ...
So um, yes. I am in the business of making life more difficult than it needs to be. I go on one two hour knitting course and I think I am the Yarn Harlot. I...
All morning, I nurse some fretful sorrow. I take down curtains that gray at gathered edges, I pull out dusty screens and wash windows with blue water and newspaper, the way my Mother taught me....
These are the links that have made me smile recently ~ enjoy! Things I’m Afraid To Tell You Incredible and wonderful and true. Are we all deceiving ourselves? Each other? What can we learn from...
I suspect it might be rather well documented that I do not have a garden, I have a postage stamp: a teeny, tiny decked Victorian cottage yard that once had a quarter garden behind my next...
“Oh dear, will it never end? Day after day, always the same ceaseless, changeless work! It is just perfect drudgery, that it is and nothing else!” The speaker sinks into a chair and her h...
Welcome to a beautiful new week Housekeepers! The rain has stopped, the sun is shining and I have ground to a resounding halt. Not because I have the liberty of a carefree life but because...
Don’t you just love that woman in the photo above? I mean who truly doesn’t occasionally want to down tools and boo-hoo her heart out, before wallowing in the exhausted bliss that follows...
I have been of a calamitous nature for the past few days. On Monday night I bent down to pick a bit of fluff up of the floor then banged my head on the doorknob...
One of Marian Keyes lovely books made me laugh harder than any other book I have ever had the joy to read. Both me and my Mum, who read This Charming Man first, credit it...
These are the links that have made me smile recently ~ enjoy! Open A Book A gorgeous timely reminder that life isn’t all about the e-book. My Favorite Find I love the concept of this...
I don’t think I have ever seen anything quite as life-affirming as this video I have just happened across. Simplicity, work and enjoyment. May she be an inspiration to us all.
Today there have been curls chopped and brushed away. A reminder that there is still homework to be done. A room to be tidied. There has been marmite and cucumber and cherry juice and bad...
Once upon a time a girl happened upon blogging and her life was changed for always. She found herself creating a scrapbook full of all that she loved and she felt her heart do a...
I know I said it would be back to business as usual hereafter, but after another wonderful day a few things have cropped up that I need to say before my NAME YOUR PRICE offer...
Housekeepers I am thrilled. Simply delighted. In fact, though I can barely keep my eyes open, you could describe me as rather giddy with glee despite a hacking cough and comic book style red, runny...
Kindness Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and...
Darlings I have had a brainwave! After losing the entire morning to a nasty old migraine, I have had plenty of time to dwell on how to make it possible for more of you to...
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