Women’s Weekly: The Pantry Today I bring you the next in my series of little domestic ditties from the oh so lovely 1935 edition of The Woman’s Weekly Bedside Book, this one…
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Woman’s Weekly: Homely Tasks My sister gave me a walnut box for Christmas, filled with tiny little somethings: fortunes cookies and teeny golden shoes, Lady Macbeth’s soap (out damned spot) and a…
An Ursula Bloom Season The Easter holiday is almost upon us and in my house that means I will be inundated with boys lounging around the place, which calls, I think you…
January Book Club Choices Though we were but a few, last night’s Saving Missy book club chat was a joy, not least because it was a book we gave a resounding ten…
Borley Rectory Though I’m pretty sure you don’t darken BrocanteHome’s door in search of horror film recommendations, today, in honour of Halloween, I am giving you just that, because though…
October BookClub Choices Heavens these months come round quick don’t they? After a Summer haitus we finally got together to discuss September’s bookclub choice, The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner last…
The Perfect Marriage Well I didn’t think I was going to like it. Snobbish little Alison thought it might be a little too Chick Lit for her rather cultured taste in literature. (Ahem.)…
Painted Stories Rachel Ashwell is one of a trinity of women, that also includes Sarah Ban Breathnach, and Cheryl Mendelson, that I credit with teaching me how to live, when…
Home Library One of the things I’m missing most in the midst of this isolation is the library. I like everything about it. The whole kit and caboodle. From popping…
An Interview With Sarah Ban Breathnach Sarah Ban Breathnach Courtesy of Brigitte Lacombe To have the joy of reading a revised edition of Simple Abundance for the women we are today was, for me,…
Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life It’s here! Today is the day. In fact honestly? I would skip BrocanteHome today, pop your shoes on and get thee to the bookshop or click here (aff)…
Domestic Situation Domestic Situation Maybe you’ve heard about this. Maybe not.A man came home and chucked his girlfriend’s catIn the wood chipper. This really happened.Dinner wasn’t ready on time. A…
Pretty Book Covers Now then m’dears, you may or may not have noticed that my existing set of Kindle books have got pretty new covers, in order to create a vintage…
The Girls I received the most gorgeous collection of birthday gifts from all my lovely people: from the Penhaligon Scent Library, to business books, (I do love a good business…
This then is your life A fully fledged stay at home wife, How comfy, how warm, Central heating at the stretch of an arm. How marvellous, how quick,…
Poetry Sunday – Domesticity Domesticity Some days I could burn bookshelves, carve weapons from the wreckage, drive fearlessly past dogs and bandits. I could rocket through towns of dust. I could destroy…
The Fashionable Reader I don’t usually like very stylized Instagram pages because I am intensely nosy and always terribly keen to see the truth about someone’s life, rather than a manicured…
The Awakening of Miss Prim I really, really hate it when I read a book I read and adore turns out to be one that a number of people have frowned upon. One…