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Our French Home from Home – our home exchange continues
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Show & Tell – A cottage garden (and a winner)
Today for my Show and Tell I want to share the new garden “feature” (if you can call it that!) at our holiday cottage.Now, you may be imagining beautiful country roses, heavily scented and full of gorgeous blooms…. …..you’d be wrong! I have gone for the complete opposite – modern and minimal……. hope you are…

Photography Course – The Details
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