Hi Rebecca and family, you amaze me with your achievements at your chateau! Cornwall finally sunny! We are back to Brighton for 2 nights next weekend then…. France!👏👏.see you in 10 days.! 🥰
Hi Rebecca, greetings from South Ontario,Canada. It’s been a cold week,we have had a beautiful start to spring but it’s colder now and will be for the foreseeable week.
So love reading your blogs.I really enjoy how you described you life in France. It nice your moms d dad are there to help out. Your table always look so inviting.
Thank for sharing your life with us all. Wishing you a good week. Looking forward to next week.🇨🇦.
What a beautiful read .. the chairs are amazing…reading the part about the trampoline brought everything back when we took ours down brought a tear .. we still have ours in the roof of the garage though..😁😁 have a good week…🌺
Opening week already, how time is flying along. Hope it goes well. The chateau looks ready though and the retreats looked fab. I wish we were coming this summer but sadly not x
Another wonderful read, thank you Rebecca. The removal of the trampoline certainly brought back a similar memory of another chapter ending in the story of our children. My husband repurposed the frame into the legs and supports for netting over our raised vegetable beds for protection from the birds and the new puppy we had just acquired. I am sure Tim will put them to good use for something!
Beautiful writing and beautiful photographs again, especially the ones of the evening meal through the window - it could be a painting - and the garde corps reflected on the panelling. I'm blown away by how you manage to achieve so much. The upholstery course sounds like heaven - I'm a sucker for old chairs that need attention. One day...!
Love reading your journal. Today I had a catch up day as I had 3 to read. You always bring great descriptions to everything you do I can almost imagine being in your kitchen while you cook and bake. I hope you have a great season.
Another beautiful read Rebecca , thank you. I can’t believe what a talented lady you are, nothing seems to faze you. Is there anything you don’t excel at, cook, gardener, decorator etc and of course most importantly a mother.
My eyes got a little misty at the trampoline removal… how quickly our children grow. We really only have them for a short time!!
Full on Autumn here… cold mornings and evenings and sunny afternoons.
Pots of cheerful pansies, violas and another giant rudbeckia so brighten the back deck.
Please what do I do with my dahlias now? I’ve never grown them until I saw yours… it looks like they have bulbs ??
It seems weird they are still in bloom and my beautiful cymbidium orchids are budding. This weather of ours is crazy. My orchids don’t usually bud until mid May.
We ate at that bistro the evening before we came to your chateau… the food was good , but yours was sublime♥️
I usually wait for a killing frost that sends the leaves brown and wilted. But you may not get one of those so just let them keep going while they flower, then cut them back to the ground. If you have mild winters (and not too wet) you can leave them in the ground and just mulch over the top to protect them. Or you can lift them all and store them somewhere cool and dry. There’s a video on the archive here about lifting dahlias if you have a look through. X
Very mild winters here, but I will go back through the archive anyway as they are all in pots and I love all my pots to be blooming… might swap them out for my bluebells.
We are getting loads more “English” plants in the nurseries here. Yesterday I bought a large potted, magnificent foxglove. Never seen them here other than in the gardens of “open house” period mansions. So lovely, makes me remember my childhood and visits home.
You brought a memory to my mind this week, when we moved from London to Vancouver island 19 years ago we promised our 7 & 10 girls a trampoline! And like you it was one of our first big purchases, 11 years later we took it down, it’s later years spent as a sunbed or improvised garden lounger by teenage girls. As we took it apart I felt sadness but in a surprise twist of fate , 8 years later we have replaced it with a playhouse and mini goal posts for our grandson, enjoy your changes of seasons and ages each is a new adventure xx
Rebecca, thank you for your beautiful words and photos. Coming from South Australia it is so delightful to read about your life in France. If only we could manage to come and stay. 💗💗
Hi Rebecca and family, you amaze me with your achievements at your chateau! Cornwall finally sunny! We are back to Brighton for 2 nights next weekend then…. France!👏👏.see you in 10 days.! 🥰
See you soon!
Hi Rebecca, greetings from South Ontario,Canada. It’s been a cold week,we have had a beautiful start to spring but it’s colder now and will be for the foreseeable week.
So love reading your blogs.I really enjoy how you described you life in France. It nice your moms d dad are there to help out. Your table always look so inviting.
Thank for sharing your life with us all. Wishing you a good week. Looking forward to next week.🇨🇦.
What a beautiful read .. the chairs are amazing…reading the part about the trampoline brought everything back when we took ours down brought a tear .. we still have ours in the roof of the garage though..😁😁 have a good week…🌺
Opening week already, how time is flying along. Hope it goes well. The chateau looks ready though and the retreats looked fab. I wish we were coming this summer but sadly not x
What a busy week Rebecca, wish I still had your energy! Love keeping up with what you are all doing xx
Wonderful as always - keep smiling ❤️❤️
Another wonderful read, thank you Rebecca. The removal of the trampoline certainly brought back a similar memory of another chapter ending in the story of our children. My husband repurposed the frame into the legs and supports for netting over our raised vegetable beds for protection from the birds and the new puppy we had just acquired. I am sure Tim will put them to good use for something!
Beautiful writing and beautiful photographs again, especially the ones of the evening meal through the window - it could be a painting - and the garde corps reflected on the panelling. I'm blown away by how you manage to achieve so much. The upholstery course sounds like heaven - I'm a sucker for old chairs that need attention. One day...!
Love reading your journal. Today I had a catch up day as I had 3 to read. You always bring great descriptions to everything you do I can almost imagine being in your kitchen while you cook and bake. I hope you have a great season.
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Another beautiful read Rebecca , thank you. I can’t believe what a talented lady you are, nothing seems to faze you. Is there anything you don’t excel at, cook, gardener, decorator etc and of course most importantly a mother.
My eyes got a little misty at the trampoline removal… how quickly our children grow. We really only have them for a short time!!
Full on Autumn here… cold mornings and evenings and sunny afternoons.
Pots of cheerful pansies, violas and another giant rudbeckia so brighten the back deck.
Please what do I do with my dahlias now? I’ve never grown them until I saw yours… it looks like they have bulbs ??
It seems weird they are still in bloom and my beautiful cymbidium orchids are budding. This weather of ours is crazy. My orchids don’t usually bud until mid May.
We ate at that bistro the evening before we came to your chateau… the food was good , but yours was sublime♥️
I usually wait for a killing frost that sends the leaves brown and wilted. But you may not get one of those so just let them keep going while they flower, then cut them back to the ground. If you have mild winters (and not too wet) you can leave them in the ground and just mulch over the top to protect them. Or you can lift them all and store them somewhere cool and dry. There’s a video on the archive here about lifting dahlias if you have a look through. X
Very mild winters here, but I will go back through the archive anyway as they are all in pots and I love all my pots to be blooming… might swap them out for my bluebells.
We are getting loads more “English” plants in the nurseries here. Yesterday I bought a large potted, magnificent foxglove. Never seen them here other than in the gardens of “open house” period mansions. So lovely, makes me remember my childhood and visits home.
Thanks Bec , have a brilliant opening week. x
You brought a memory to my mind this week, when we moved from London to Vancouver island 19 years ago we promised our 7 & 10 girls a trampoline! And like you it was one of our first big purchases, 11 years later we took it down, it’s later years spent as a sunbed or improvised garden lounger by teenage girls. As we took it apart I felt sadness but in a surprise twist of fate , 8 years later we have replaced it with a playhouse and mini goal posts for our grandson, enjoy your changes of seasons and ages each is a new adventure xx
I love reading your journal each Sunday morning. I hope to be a guest in your beautiful chateau someday.
I feel like I am back at your wonderful home when I read your journals. Currently
In Antigua, enjoying the sun.
Rebecca, thank you for your beautiful words and photos. Coming from South Australia it is so delightful to read about your life in France. If only we could manage to come and stay. 💗💗