Emma Bridgewater For Aga

Bettina and Bob are a rather charming vintage couple navigating their way through new married life and the setting up of a well thought out first home and this is the second  of many appearances they will be making here on Brocantehome, teaching us how re-think our way of life and add a little more…

I have spent the weekend just gone, lost in a book. The kind of book with such a strong sense of time and place that it was almost a surprise to find myself sitting here at my desk in modern day Ormskirk while my heart is still serving rouge behind the counter of a turn…

People I am delirious. Absolutely delirious. You know how much I adore the frivolous stuff and nonsense that is M.C.Beatons’ Agatha Raisin cozy mystery series? Like adore it with all the passion people usually reserve for the kind of vices they wouldn’t want to take to the confession box? Well yes: that much. Agatha is…

Wander around any Mediterranean village early on a summer morning and you will see housewives in floral headscarves brushing their steps and paths with a vigour I have never applied to anything… There is something deliciously ritualistic about this greeting to the sun that I adore. Essential housework acknowledged without fripperie or fuss. And while…