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After a team meeting last night we agreed on a nice long, overdue break! Two weeks baby! Two weeks to do whatever takes our fancy! Fabulo...

Not just living a life together! Warts n all, right? So I'm not gonna lie and tell you, things are all rosy in my garden right now. They ...

Well, what an eventful few weeks we've had as a family! It really doesn't seem that long ago, we were going into lockdown, thinking it wo...

So we have the mortgage verdict and we also now know why it's a NO all round. Won't go into massive detail but mostly it's the way his co...

Firstly, let me apologise for how sad my last blog was! Reading it back this morning, made me wince a bit, yet I've always blogged 'warts...

We are a 50ish, end of the ish actually, multicultural Americano-French couple. I have lived in the United States long enough to have bru...

I've only gone and jinxed it! Totally knew it would happen! Of course the picket fence fell over and the roses all died, why wouldn't the...

Er, not me! More like slave to the rhythm these days! My rhythm of life is super slooooow, country and can't be arsed, mostly! Sorry! The...

We got an email from an airline this morning. Our flights back to the UK in early August have been cancelled. This is hardly a surprise g...

With each passing year, especially as my birthday looms large, I look back on the past 12 months to see how far I've come? I've never bee...

The second installment of my Bastille day celebration in Montana… Today, I gathered a few things to complete our little Bastille intimate...

Bonjour! #UnFrenchSophie, here. Wow! Already Bastille Day, year 2040...oops 2020…I look around, one more time, and pinch myself to make s...

It's the way ahead, absolutely! COVID has indeed accelerated the 'Work from Home' movement. It was high time indeed! Soooo overdue, howev...

of life..... and the beat goes on. Expat life can be challenging at times, can't it? We all have those 'moments' I know and whilst I have...

Being honest with myself at the moment seems to be the most important concern of my day, every day. I have traveled faraway roads lonely ...

4, rue Aristide Briand 16600 Magnac-sur-Touvre Our first post COVID French 'mini break' was a little 'F A B' to be honest. We absolutely ...

The Charente: Pale pastels. Mellow yellows. Deep greens....! What a revelation. I love Normandy as much as I love Yorkshire really, how c...

Gosh, I have so much to tell you! I will have to break it up into a novel, script and television series! Lol! No seriously though, I will...

New Year’s Eve 2020…me sipping on a flute of Champagne and wondering about … 3 lives ago, I started to make New Years' resolution, as a r...