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Muse – The Third Gift of Christmas!
The Third Gift of Christmas For my third gift of Christmas, I have taken it in to my head to extend my offer on MUSE- RE-VISITED– a HomeSchool course starting on January 1st 2022 and open to each and every one of you! Spread over twelve months, so that it will be as immersive as…
Introducing Brocante Habit Coaching 2022!
The Second Gift of Christmas I have been talking about my new Habit Coaching programs for a while, and now, with the New Year on our doorstep, I am finally ready to invite you to join me as together we embark on a set of short courses designed to creating habits that support our wellbeing…
My Christmas 2021 Pay What You Can Store Is Open!
The First Gift of Christmas Way back in 2012 I created my PAY WHAT YOU CAN annual event: a way of giving back to my lovely community and an invitation to all those who find BrocanteHome to be out of reach but who would love to be able to access my writing at an affordable…
Christmas is Stuffed
You need to be very, very happy that you are not going to be the not very glad recipient of a gift from me this year. No really. even I feel a bit sorry for anyone getting a little something in their stocking from yours truly because some things have no decent explanation and they…
The Christmas Tantrum
Well now, it has arrived in good time this year, my annual festive meltdown. For despite being Mrs.Christmas of all the lovely twinkly ideas, each and every twelve months, come the middle of December, I throw a tantrum of spectacular proportions, and everyone LAUGHS. They do. They look at me, ranting and stropping around the…
Puttery Treats For Cosier Mornings…
Brrrrrrr. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, my heating isn’t working!! It’s either on or its off and there is no in-between, so having it set to come on in the morning isn’t a possibility and keeping it on throughout the night might kill us all dead. These then are a collection…
Muse Re-Visited!
More than ten years ago now, I created by best-selling (EVER) course, MUSE, and it was a complete triumph of joy and inspiration that had those who took it truly willing to admit that perhaps they weren’t living as fully as they could be: that deep inside them there was another version of themselves tucked…
Housekeeper’s Diary
The oddest of nights. Ste so out of sorts, that only a trip to Marks and Spencer in search of their finest Macaroni Cheese and a chocolate pudding could cheer him up and Finley out for the evening, because he does that these days, he goes out for the evening, leaving me wondering if one…
The Brocante Round-Up!
In the whoosh of a string of lights, Christmas will be upon us (I do apologise: I’m not quite feeling ready yet either!) and here at BrocanteHome, I have been busy getting my elves in order, completing the Christmas Planner, organising something BRAND NEW for 2022, and making lots and lots (and lots!) of lists…
January Book Club Choices
Though we were but a few, last night’s Saving Missy book club chat was a joy, not least because it was a book we gave a resounding ten to, so lovely was the tale and the main character of this coming-of-old-age-book. If you haven’t read it, I rather insist you do because it is a…
Housekeeper’s Diary
The house is grumpy in the quiet hours of the morning. creaking and groaning in to life, and for a while apparently determined to make her reluctance to start the day known to those still sleeping. The gutter dripping outside the living room window, the boiler spluttering in the loft, the old boards of the…
On Winterising
(This is a vintage BrocanteHome post, refreshed and revived for seasonal inspiration). Now that the clocks have gone back I am ready to truly embrace the season ahead. To recognise that in just a few short weeks Winter will arrive and so I need to turn my head towards enjoying a few tranquil, purposeful days…
Borley Rectory
Though I’m pretty sure you don’t darken BrocanteHome’s door in search of horror film recommendations, today, in honour of Halloween, I am giving you just that, because though I am secretly something of a horror aficionado, it’s not often I happen across something that is both interesting, ethereal and oh so scrumptiously stylised it is…