[gallery ids="539,540,538,532,536,534,541,543,542"] My favourite way of spending a Sunday afternoon, and avoiding homework, used to be to unzip my mum's tartan suitcase filled with photos collected since her childhood. On the hallway shelves sat large, beautifully presented photo albums, containing what were to be considered the...
[gallery ids="516,518,519,520,521"] Heritage, where do we find our heritage? My mother's family are Scottish, yet she was born in South Africa. My father's family are fiercely Welsh (my grandfather Cliff Bere wrote the Welsh Republican Movement Manifesto and had a taste for burning the Union Jack) yet...
[gallery ids="466,465,468,469,470,471,472,473"] Friday is cocktail and pizza night chez Domaine Carret! Whitney Marie and I started early with some mulled wine in the snow. It may not be Christmas any more, but since the snow has fallen, warm cocktails are the most tempting option. Mulled wine is...
[gallery ids="457,448,452,447,446,451,458,456,455,450,449"] This morning the air was thick and quiet. We slept for hours longer than we should have, we stretched our tea drinking out until our bladders were bursting and we socked our feet until our wellington boots couldn't fit. Eventually, Jon, Bramble and I ran...
A misty, cold and grey morning led into a misty, cold grey afternoon. Jon and I plodded in and out of the house, collecting wood, digging the garden , preparing beet roots and pondering on all the different uses for Jerusalem artichokes. So keep an...
Cheers! Lyon, France Everyone starts a fresh on January 1st, or early September at the start of the school calendar, or simply every Monday after a debauched or slothful weekend. Recently Jon and I started a new beginning on December the 18th, 2012. We moved from the beautifully...
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There are various things that make this such an incredible film, such as Peggy Lee's song, the complex and refreshingly central female characters in a Country and Western film, the fact that Francois Truffaut declared it one of his favourite films...
Yesterday morning as we were eating breakfast Jon said: "How about later, when we've finished the chores, we move the sofa out of the way and...