Philipa’s Christmas: How Arts Decoratifs create joy
This is the house, so glorious with colourful Christmas arts decoratifs that it could well be used as Santa’s cave. It is laden with the exotic style and Christmas cheer of new-found Goolwa friend...
View ArticleMy Hand-made Christmas
We wanted something different and special to decorate our island home for Christmas because we didn’t want rummage through our storage pile of boxes to the artificial Christmas tree. And with...
View ArticleOne wedding, two funerals and a ”nouvelle maison”.
Pop goes the French champagne cork of my life on the eve of 2011. How else to capture the fabulous happenings of 2010 which have taken Olivier’s and my life together to a higher plane. Goodness. Who...
View Article“Philly’’ a phoney for real French fromages.
The French people are precious about their cheeses and savour the nose, palate and taste of their ancient fromages with as much passion as their wines. But now there is an American invader, the...
View ArticleWe Must Cultivate Our “Garden”
Eighteenth century French writer, Voltaire in his novel Candido, says “Il faut cultiver notre jardin’’, which means “we must cultivate our garden’’. He is writing metaphorically that it is important to...
View ArticleThe King of Cakes
Galette des Rois: There is something about religious tradition which gladdens the soul and in French culture, the festival of Epiphany when the Three Wise Kings, who visited the Christ Child, is...
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