Over the years, I’ve almost become fanatical about looking for the first signs of Spring here. Those little things that lift my heart after the short, cold and drab winter days, promising lighter evenings and warmer days to come. The first sign here is always the little clump of Siberian Irises along the lane, which … More First signs of Spring
What a Day! Sometimes travelling is easy and everything goes to plan, and then there are days (like today) when it’s exactly the opposite. What seemed like a simple early-morning trip to Nice, to collect our youngest from the airport, turned into yet another step along the steep learning-curve on crisis-management in France. The day … More What a Day!
Joy of joys…… it’s raining! I never imagined that I would ever watch the weather forecast, as anxiously as I have this year, looking for any real signs of rain. In fact, I would go as far as to say that there was a time, (after one particular winter on Dartmoor, when it started raining … More And finally it’s raining
I think it would be fair to say that this year has been a little disrupted …. In fact that is probably an understatement, as everything we had imagined we’d planned has been tossed in the air and the cards of life have fallen in a chaotic tumble around our feet. It feels as if … More On our way home
after a lot of thought, we have finally started the work to open a new kitchen in the utility room of the house. … More And the renovation works start again … opening a new kitchen
A few thoughts on what has changed and what has stayed the same in Provence over the last 30 years, since our first visit and the publication of A Year in Provence … More A comforting book and a reflection on 30 years of Provence
Vaucluse Dreamer 