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Caroline Bennett's avatar

Dearest Rebecca thank you for this. I've read it or some of it before but I never realised why the journal is"between". Your explanation sums it up perfectly. Carry on being you and bringing joy through your journal of family life and running a business in France. I love it.

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Giselle Andrews's avatar

Your journal is my little escape from ordinary life. Thank you for sharing your journey❤️

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Amanda Godsell's avatar

Hi Rebecca

You are both so brave taking this big step which has really paid off- I love your posts on Facebook - especially your garden ones- from one fellow floral enthusiast to another☺️🌷 - hope your flower weekend goes well this weekend - look forward to seeing your posts.

Amanda x

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Maureen's avatar

I enjoy reading your journal each week. You are a wonderful writer! Your boys were at the perfect age for French immersion. Young minds are like sponges and they aren't embarrassed at that age like a teenager would be.

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Claire Ridyard's avatar

It's just lovely - I love reading your weekly updates. You and Tim have done what I dreamt of doing but I landed up in another country by mistake and had my own adventure. The chateau is as fabulous as it sounds and I love the fact that I have been lucky enough to visit and can imagine where everything is!! Keep writing Rebecca it's a perfect start to my Sundays!

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Carole collis's avatar

Have so much respect for yous risking a new life in France and how much you have achieved .

Your hard work is exemplary. I love reading your journal xx

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Kate Taylor's avatar

Hi Rebecca. We have spent the last week on holiday from Kent in the Norfolk Coast but my husband has said I have also been buried in France! I have read every post from the start of Between to current day - and felt growing sadness that I was catching up! I will have to wait for new episodes to read 😁

It was so interesting to read about how you feel about the impact of Chateau DIY. I love the series but often fast forward over some characters. I love watching you and Tim - and would love to visit one day. It is not a given that being on the programme would bring you guests. You convey such a warm, calm atmosphere which has a huge appeal!

I can only admire your incredible work and commitment.

I am now settling to wait for the next instalment 😁

Kate x

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Maria Hanley's avatar

I didn't know the backstory of your French adventure, so thank you. Also, I love how you describe feeling "between" worlds. I grew up as an expat, an American in the Middle East. Have you ever read about Third Culture Kids/Adults? Might resonate.

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Marty Izaguirre's avatar

"Between" is the perfect place to guard your delightful stories. It reminds me of both the Buddhist concept of "Bardo" and the Nahuatl "Nepantla". Both are states "in between" where one is never 100% one or the other. As an American expat in Honduras, I completely relate!

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Suzanne's avatar

You write so beautifully Rebecca 🤩 I love the concept of ‘between’; I guess there’s an element of that in all our lives to some extent💁‍♀️

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Sally Horn's avatar

Absolutely love hearing of your adventures in France.

We live in Brittany in our own “little château” I’m trying to establish a cutting garden so all your garden tips come in very useful.

Hope you had a great time in America.

Keep up the good work x

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Jacky Stevens's avatar

Lovely to read as ever, I too love your term Between its sums up beautifully the way I feel too living in a country I wasn’t born and brought up in but embrace the new and all its differences, my husband doesn’t take any notice of people and chateau’s I follow but he does take notice of your garden notes and after I read out your last comments about dailies, ours are now potted up and in the green house xxxxxx

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Denise's avatar

“In between” describes it perfectly. I am English but have been living for many years in Scotland and feel too Scottish when I visit family in England and will always be viewed as very English upon my return to Scotland. At least I don’t have to contend with a different language merely some different accents and vocabulary.

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Linda Barnes's avatar

In between, that is how I feel as well. I wonder if our children feel the same, as they spent a lot of holidays in Belgium, when my parents were alive.

Now that they have children of their own, it is nice to see them taking the next generation to show them where I grew up.

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Judy Grayburn's avatar

Oh how wait with anticipation for the Substack alert which brings up your beautiful green email frontage

I know I will be blessed reading it xx

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Christine Allen's avatar

Oh and the cooking tips where she produces magic from almost dust. Can’t wait to visit next year ❤️

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