The Bad Mum Pinny

HouseKeepers my laptop power pack thingame has gone pow!! It has burnt a hole in my cream carpet! I will try to buy a new one in the morning, but until then I will be offline because there is no power in this damn thing… So, so, sorry! Other Things To Do At BrocanteHome Join…

When Helen and I were kids at Christmas time, hour after hour would be spent with the LittleWoods catalogue perched on our knees, while we made mile-long lists of toys we would like Father Christmas to bring us.  It wasn’t that we expected everything on our carefully drawn up lists, we just wanted to give…

Oh my. Not only is French General the most scrumptious boutique on the net, but now there is a book to swoon over… I was going to add  it to my Christmas list, but accidentally on purpose pressed add to my shopping cart on Amazon. Goodness. I can’t imagine how that happened. Other Things To…

Oh scrumptiousness galore! Agatha is a new site coming soon, that sounds utterly delicious- how could it not be with such a wonderfully old-fashioned moniker and vintage graphics designed to set Brocante hearts a-flutter across the land… “Agatha Vintage Housewares began life as a market stall on the Portobello Road selling linens, crockery and kitchenware…

Heavens this house as a child free zone thing is slightly un-nerving: all of a sudden there isn’t a single reason why I can’t be the dedicated housekeeper I was when Finley was a babe in arms and life wasn’t one long round of picking up and putting away. In the spirit of freedom I…