Devotion

My Camino

I may not be a true pilgrim (yet!) but el Camino de Santiago has definitely guided a lot of my life over the last 18 months.

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Food/Recipes

Nous sommes arrivés chez nous!

It has been just over a month since I last wrote a blog and it has flown past in a blur of buying a new car, planning our move, packing, loading, cleaning, moving, unloading, unpacking and settling in to our beautiful new home here at La Girouette.  We have now been here for 2 weeks and I am SOOOOO happy as I sit here in the heart of this sweet house writing these words.

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Food/Recipes

In Search of Balance

I have never been very good at doing things in moderation.  I am an all-or-nothing-kind-of-gal!  If there are chocolates in the house, they get eaten.  If the bottle of wine is opened, it gets drunk.  If I fall in love, I jump in with both feet.  You get the picture!  I have a pretty addictive personality and, up until recently, the only way I could really manage my addictions was with abstinence.  But, for me, living a good life is really all about finding and keeping my balance. How to do that when surrounded by so much temptation?

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Inspiration for Life

A Shift in Perspective

The practice of acceptance has been hugely transformative in my life over the last decade.  The beauty of this process of acceptance is that you can apply it to any aspect of your life with which you wish to make peace. 

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Garden

Home Sweet Home!

After 6 months looking and 3 months extremely focused and intensive (15 hours per week) house-hunting we have finally bought our new home in the Dordogne!  Voilà ‘La Girouette’…

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Inspiration for Life

Avoiding the Void

As I sit here in my dressing gown in front of the fire, loaded with a nasty cold, surrounded by used tissues and with the rain pouring down outside this Sunday morning, it would be easy to start to feel a little sorry for myself.

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Life in the Dordogne

What is Home Anyway?

After only 12 short weeks of living in France being here in the UK/Ireland has felt quite alien to me and I have been acutely aware of the much faster, more stressed and less connected way of life which is so different to life in the Dordogne. 

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On the road

A Pair of Old Beach Hippies!

We are really loving this level of freedom and ease and we are starting to realise that, if we decided to, we could just live like this for the winter.  We could leave France and keep heading south to warmer climes in Greece or southern Italy if we fancied it.

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Inspiration for Life

New life, same old me!

It is so easy to think that you will be fundamentally changed as a human being just because you make a big life change like moving to another country, ending a relationship or changing a job.  However, of course, just because the external circumstances of your life are different does not mean that you are different.

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