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Authenticity

Re-set Days

By alison May 16, 2023 5 Min Read
Re-set Days
Heavens its been a heck of a month. First came Covid and then I scraped (SCRAPED!!) an eye-pencil across my waterline and did myself a terrible damage, resulting in a number of visits to a much perplexed casualty and two weeks of one eye getting yukkier and blinder by the day, so I had to sport an eye patch (and...Continue Reading
The Covid Bunny
Wellbeing

The Covid Bunny

In all fairness I would have been happy with a Thorntons egg with my name piped on it, but no, this year the Easter bunny went the extra…
April 15, 2023 4 Min Read
Housekeeper’s Diary
Housekeeper's Diary

Housekeeper’s Diary

Well now, it’s as though I was ambling through a quiet Winter apparently destined to last forever and then boom, Spring arrived and life started running amok. AMOK…
April 5, 2023 5 Min Read
Housekeeper’s Diary
Housekeeper's Diary

Housekeeper’s Diary

The flowers are wilting now but they were beautiful while they lasted. (How true that is of too many things). A hand-painted glass jug Mum and I found…
March 29, 2023 6 Min Read
Brocante Mercantile
Shopping

Brocante Mercantile

You know how when I go quiet it is usually because I am up to something? Yup, apart from turning fifty-one yesterday, I have indeed been up to…
March 22, 2023 3 Min Read
Friday Night
Sanctuary

Friday Night

Friday night. My plans are cancelled and my eyes tired and dry. So after lying rather dramatically across the sofa with a hot flannel on my face in…
March 17, 2023 4 Min Read
The Social Butterfly
Authenticity

The Social Butterfly

If I was a butterfly I would be the kind who spends most of her days tight in her cocoon, only occasionally popping out to flutter her wings…
March 9, 2023 7 Min Read
Housekeeper’s Diary
Housekeeper's Diary

Housekeeper’s Diary

There is I think a kind of pregnant pause peculiar to the end of February. All of us, runners crouched at Spring’s starting line, eager and somewhat quietly…
February 27, 2023 6 Min Read
Reasons to be Grateful
Authenticity

Reasons to be Grateful

I got myself in a muddle yesterday. Dwelling on what the world is becoming. How frightening everything seems. How much anger there seems to be bubbling under the…
February 17, 2023 8 Min Read
The Renaissance Journal
Shopping

The Renaissance Journal

Oh hello, there you are! I’m just popping in to say that today sees the launch of the first of my new collection of hardback blank journals, this…
February 16, 2023 2 Min Read
BrocanteHome Loves
Shopping

BrocanteHome Loves

Well now I’m having an odd and somewhat sad week, and so rather than dwell on it, as always creating even more Brocante ease and joy is the…
February 14, 2023 1 Min Read
Introducing Renaissance Lifestyle
Wellbeing

Introducing Renaissance Lifestyle

One of the things I value most highly here at BrocanteHome is that so many of us have reached today together. Eighteen lovely years of knowing and growing…
February 7, 2023 7 Min Read
A Fallowing
Authenticity

A Fallowing

One of the biggest lessons I am taking away from my fiftieth year is that the years we spend in fallow, or indeed Wintering are just as important…
February 6, 2023 7 Min Read
Housekeeper’s Diary
Housekeeper's Diary

Housekeeper’s Diary

I had quite forgotten how long winter lasts. How interminable the nights can seem and how January rolls into February and there still seems so very much of…
February 2, 2023 5 Min Read
My Big, Fat, Wild Idea
Authenticity

My Big, Fat, Wild Idea

Last week I dreamt that I needed to see under everything. So I was crawling under trains and insisting people stand on their heads so I could inspect…
January 30, 2023 6 Min Read
Women’s Weekly: The Pantry
Bibliotherapy

Women’s Weekly: The Pantry

Today I bring you the next in my series of little domestic ditties from the oh so lovely 1935 edition of The Woman’s Weekly Bedside Book, this one…
January 24, 2023 1 Min Read
Suspended Animation
Authenticity

Suspended Animation

The sky is a creamy blue and the rooves dusted with icing sugar. And in here, in the flocked walls of home, I have been quite certain that…
January 17, 2023 7 Min Read
Waiting
Authenticity

Waiting

I have lost my voice again. I open my mouth and nothing comes out, though the words exist fully formed and spoken. I have lost my voice and…
January 12, 2023 4 Min Read
The (New) tiny Joy List Is Here
Shopping

The (New) tiny Joy List Is Here

Well heavens to Betsy I haven’t been this excited since I accidentally tripped a member of Take That up and bashed him on the head with a roll…
January 11, 2023 2 Min Read
Woman’s Weekly: Homely Tasks
Bibliotherapy

Woman’s Weekly: Homely Tasks

My sister gave me a walnut box for Christmas, filled with tiny little somethings: fortunes cookies and teeny golden shoes, Lady Macbeth’s soap (out damned spot) and a…
January 10, 2023 2 Min Read
Hi Ren
Authenticity

Hi Ren

One of the things that I am committed to seeking is awe. That mysterious emotion we cannot chase but have to happen across. An emotion that stops us…
January 9, 2023 5 Min Read
Housekeeper’s Diary
Housekeeper's Diary

Housekeeper’s Diary

And then there was one. After three lovely weeks of a festive Finley, and then a weekend spent clearing my mind with my Dad, the house was suddenly…
January 9, 2023 5 Min Read
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Hi, I'm Alison

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Throwback to the days when the house was tidy. Th Throwback to the days when the house was tidy.
This though is what I want you to know today:  on  the days my house is immaculate, I am usually sad - trying my hardest to maintain control of a life that feels as though it is about to get away from me.
When I am content, I let life spill on to the table, on to the counters and the floor. Life spells out her joy because she has nothing to prove, doesn't have to convince anybody that everything is alright... can be what a house is supposed to be, a place to nurture our messiest, happiest, most daring dreams.
After a mad and silly lifetime of compromising mys After a mad and silly lifetime of compromising myself and tolerating other people's nonsense or situations that I found uncomfortable, I have come to realise that it is only when we get truly, madly and deeply brave that we take  another step towards our bestest, loveliest, most precious selves. 
Maybe today is the day to get brave, because life is scarily short and none of us should die having sacrificed joy for the sake of not rocking the boat...
#bebrave #spirituality #selfcare #loveyourself #inspiration #authentic #beyou #authenticonly  #menopause #renaissancelifestyle #perimenopause #mentalhealth  #bravewomen #braveandbeautiful #mindset  #loveyourself #motivationalquotes #quotes #happiness #lovequotes #lifequotes #instagood #quotestagram #poetry #goals  #happy #quoteoftheday #inspirationalquotes #quotestoliveby #quote
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I did myself a damage with an eyeliner, I dilly-da I did myself a damage with an eyeliner, I dilly-dallied around London, went on dates with a very tall man, hunted hither and thither for my creative brain (and decided Covid must have stole it) and I let the house run amok while I tried to work out why the washing machine hates me…
And then one day I woke up and it struck me that if I carried on managing all the things and wearing a blindfold to all that struck me as complex or dull or scary or exhausting, then the roof might just fall in and put a stop to my hedonistic gallop! And so I declared a Re-set day to face the truth I am avoiding and phone up those I would rather not deal with and poke the washing machine with a big stick and tell the tall one some things are just not meant to be… all this to say there is a new blog post on Brocantehome today, so If you too feel like life is about to go spinning off into outer space then do yourself a favour, take a deep breath, face your fears and re-set… #reset #mindsetreset #allthethings #midlifeblogger #midlifewomen  #50 #fiftyandfabulous #tired #exhausted #lifestyle #lifestyleblogger #startagain
Now that he’s not here so much, I treasure the n Now that he’s not here so much, I treasure the nights I’ve got him to myself. He still hates having his photo taken though…
By happy serendipity I am in London until Sunday f By happy serendipity I am in London until Sunday for the Coronation, a gorgeous change of pace after a terrible few weeks…
The capital is, as always, inspirational, lively and eccentric and I have spent a sunny today wandering around Knightsbridge, and revelling in all the gorgeous window displays - case in point, this glorious ode to the Coronation at Neill Strain Floral Couture… sometimes life kisses us with little bits of lovely doesn’t it?
#neillstrainfloralcouture #london #knightsbridge #coronation #kingscoronation #kingscoronation👑 #windowdisplay #windowdisplays #sloanestreet
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