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Look at her. She could be anybody now couldn’t she? That hair. The corsage. The insouciance.And yet this photograph was taken in 1928 when one Fay Watson was arrested for possession of cocaine. Is there not something astonishing about the fact that that which we regard as classically beautifully is unaltered by time? Other Things…

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"Hang personal items on the inside lines so as to thwart the curiousity of nosy neighbours." Oh lovely, lovely, lovely! Other Things To Do At BrocanteHome Join the BrocanteHome Community Discover my daily domestic to-do lists, join the conversation, read-along with the BrocanteHome bookclub and find exclusive Community only benefits inside. Join Today (It's FREE!)…

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…

Tell me now, tell me this on a day that tastes too bittersweet to endure, does the universe contrive to make space for our little ones? Last night my friend gave birth to a gorgeous dark haired little boy and this morning my Mum’s brother, my Uncle, my childhood, sleeps through his last few days,…