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Not what you expect a National Trust house to look like, and certainly not one that I that would be featuring on my sporadic lately weekly post about my love of windows. As you know, I do love windows as they can perfectly frame a shot, can give you a glimpse of a world beyond them, or indeed be the focus themselves. This has to be the first National
One of the things I love most about binge watching TV programmes on platforms such as Netflix or Amazon Prime Video is that there aren’t advert breaks. Adverts in the middle of a top class drama kill it for me, just as we get gripped with the action it comes to a thundering halt and we are suddenly confronted with an advert for loo roll or butter. With Sky+
Which is why I haven’t recently. I have had so many blog posts I have wanted to write, and some I have needed to write, but even those I have started have then been shelved. Either I can’t find the time to sit and write them or I haven’t known were to begin even when I have had the time. So I haven’t. Mostly because this week
With summer comes a new feel. Gone are the warm, dark shades we like to associate with autumn and winter and in are bright, light colours that give a fresh and airy sensation leaving us waking up happy and ready to face the day. But, before you pick up that paintbrush and start tackling your bedroom walls, have a look at our five simple steps to get your bedroom summer
In the words of Alice Cooper, School’s out, and not just for the summer, but for ever FOREVER. Ellie, the youngest of my three is now doing her final exams at school and then having a year out before embarking on Uni so for now, school is out. I wrote in July last year about my feelings on not having to do a school run anymore when Ellie past
I joked on Twitter the other day that with the announcement of the general election this summer, and the deepening Brexit debacle I was seriously thinking about running away for a couple of months and hiding in a cave. I was only joking but off the back of a week in France where I had been reminded how much I love Europe I did begin to think about having
Or it certainly should be. There was so much for us to consider when we bought our house together twelve years ago. Not just the legal side of the actual house purchase but we weren’t married at that point so we had to consider what we do, heaven forbid, we split up. Not something anybody ever really wants to consider when moving in together for the first time, I
A bad hair day can really hamper your confidence and make the rest of your day seem gloomy. Having a rubbish hair day can also stop you socialising or being spontaneous, simply because you don’t want people to see you and your misbehaving hair. It doesn’t have to be this way though, with these simple tips, you should never have a bad hair day again. Stay stocked up Running out
Anyone who knows me, knows that I am fairly relaxed. One of my dearest friends described me as “Half man, half duvet” many years ago, and I’ve spent a lot of time aspiring to that goal. I like to slow down from time to time. It’s nice to see that hygge is allowing more and more people to see the benefits of a slightly dialled-back approach, so I thought
Getting a new car I have a car that I like. I don’t love it, but it does what I need it to do Like get me from A to B without any complaints And the boot gives me a space to store the 976 carrier bags and bags for life I seem to have accumulated. But, and here’s the thing, for all its positives it is still brown.
Window Wednesday today comes from Collioure, a sleep seaside village in France that feels like it’s a big secret. Except it turns out it isnt in our family! I might be 48 this year but when my parents tell me I have to do something, well, I do it. Over lunch earlier this month they asked about our upcoming trip to France as it is a country they know
Chez Bebelle It’s easy to say that you have a new favourite restaurant. Or a place that you remember for all the wrong reasons. We had a shocking lunch just before we went to France, and equally today I have had quite possibly the best fish and chips I have ever had. At the time they are cemented in your mind as ones to remember, or avoid. In a
