Vacuuming isn't my most favourite thing to do, but at least it's not my least. I became a bit manic about keeping the floor clean w...

It has been 16 years now and I have only just learnt that what my son and I have been doing all this time has a name: additive bilingu...

La Plage du Mugel A couple of years before we took off on our much-talked-about French adventure, a friend sent me a present. I love h...

Summer holidays seem a long time ago now. In Beautiful Provencal accomodation - Part One , I took you to the very pretty village of Cabri...

I knelt down in the garden and looked back towards the house. It was empty of all furniture, all personal possessions, almost all traces of ...