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…
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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…
21 Days To A Calmer You After the lovely success of the first Brocante Bootcamp, my next Habit-coaching course goes live next Monday, 7th March, a week later than expected, as so many of…
Get Better Balm One really shouldn’t bother making plans. One should not take it in to one’s head to say this is the week that I am going to do a…
Ten Things I’m Doing While We Isolate One of the things I believe to be most true about this most peculiar and trying times of our lives, is that in the future we will look…
Soothing Our Anxiety While it would be terribly easy to work oneself into the most terrible tizzy over a pandemic like this one, hysteria never helped anyone and so it is…
An Afternoon Off One of the things I am terribly good at is tuning out all the bodily signals telling me to stop. To pause. To rest. To turn away from…
Fallow Season You have astonished me with your kindness. Your patience. Your loyalty. And above all the gentle advice so many of you have dropped into my inbox. Advice I…
The Curse of the Perfectionist Hmm. Two conversations. Both with men. Not necessarily rational themselves but at least willing to offer opinion where it has almost certainly not been invited. The first with…
Uncomfortable Spaces One of the things I have become most aware of recently is how very willing I have been to exist in uncomfortable spaces, merely in order to maintain…
The Facebook Conundrum Realisation rarely happens in a flash. No, more often it is a creeping thing. A sense of discomfort we choose to ignore. A weight we barely notice we…
I did something drastic today. Well perhaps that’s a bit of an exaggeration: I didn’t shave my hair off, or pack my life into a tartan suitcase and…
The Wellness Journal – Part Two So let’s face it, a Wellness Journal with me in charge was never going to be a straightfoward matter now was it? I do wish I was the…
In The Midst of Thinking. And just as I said: I have been thinking. And it has be an odd, somewhat revalatory, somewhat disturbing process. Not what I imagined. For it seems I…
Thinking Week I gave myself a rather boomtastic headache yesterday. So boomtastic I had to be tucked up in bed at nine o’clock with a cup of hot chocolate and…
Aphantasia There are no teabags. Well of course there is an abundance of tea of the Matcha kind, the mint sort and the rose variety, but the common…
What I Learned When I Did The Creative Home Spa The Creative Spa has been somewhat astonishing to write, and this weekend I took the time to see how it feels to actually do, hour by hour, task…