Could you guess my Dad loves to garden?! His collection of gardening mugs received over the years….

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

We usually arrange our home exchanges through www.homeexchange.com So far in the last few years we have been to Dublin, Boston & Cape Cod, Galway, France and Donegal. This summer however, we have arranged a swap with an old school friend of mine, who now lives in an historic old mill in the Cotswolds. It…

As part of my daily December blogging I want to share some of my many nativity sets (and there ARE many!) This is one I picked up in the January sales for just a few pounds. It is small and sweet. For our family, remembering that Christmas is about the birth of a baby who…

Today we headed for a chateau, which made a change from a cathedral!  Or else there would have been a risk that this blog and our holiday would need to be remamed “a Tour or French Cathedrals while House Swapping”! It was in the beautiful village of Pierrefonds, and not surprisingly has been used as a…

My latest iPhone photo shared on Instagram