Cristiano Ronaldo in "Housekeeping"

Have you heard about Total 180? The magazine for the professional women turned stay at home Mum? Leaders of the movement to bring  pride back to housewives??? Hmmmmm. Have we lost our pride? What about women who are stay at home Mums, but were never professionals? Are our experiences of life at home somehow different?…

In my dreams someone takes pity on my poor ravaged soul and whisks me off in an aeroplane for a month long stay in Rachel Ashwell’s Prairie. In reality I am about to hop up stairs and clean the loo. Darn it, life is outrageously unfair. Other Things To Do At BrocanteHome Join the BrocanteHome…

On the first day of this year, I published a list of Personal Promises on this here blog… Readers, I confess, I broke my promises as easily as I frequently break my diet. In short I am rubbish. Resolutions were never my forte. However, to my delight, today there is light at the end of…

I created BrocanteHome on a cold November afternoon, five years ago when my little boy was just one year old and the home I had created with his Daddy was an oasis of domestic bliss I wanted to share with the world, never imagining, even for a moment, that eventually my little website would become…

"Where does your home end and you begin?         You don’t have to literally answer that. It’s one of those rhetorical questions. We believe a home is more than just a box: it’s a sort of second skin. It could be a third skin if you’re counting clothes. Anyway, you wouldn’t spray your…