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.. Made, Said and Done For Every Home and Household. Look Martha! Back in the days when you were just a glint in your Great Grandfathers eye, the good housewives of the nation were impressing their families with Good Things of their own. Granted, good things like Jugged Hare and Giblet Pie were the order…
"You have come, of course, into an art gallery full of pictures and felt that sense of beauty that seems at first overwhelmng. Then little by little, you select here a picture and there another that, for some reason or which which you cannot analyse, seem to satisfy you or meet your need or mood…
To me the most difficult thing to de-clutter in the house is my wardrobe. In all honesty I find it difficult to talk about because so much of who I am is wrapped up in the clothes hanging there: and thus because I find the clothes hanging there so absolutely without the Je ne sais…
You know what? Forget James Blunt and his sordid ragged trousered philandering. (How fickle I am Dear Readers!). The man who is going to get me through my summer horrible is the gorgeous, gravelley voiced Ray Lamontagne. Do you think it is possible to fall in love with a voice? With a splintered, short biography…
Perhaps I am not like you. Perhaps when all is said and done I do a very bad job of holding things together. Of remaining authentic when authenticity is the only thing I’ve got. You will read this and not know what I’m talking about. I hardly know what I’m talking about. Some stories, you…
O.K, this is going to be as long and as teary as Gywneth Paltrows Oscar Speech, so bear with me… BrocanteHome.com finally went live yesterday and there are a few people I need to thank for making it possible… To Mum and Dad- for getting Finley out of my hair when I was feeling demented…