February Newsletter

February Newsletter

Hello dear friends, I am writing this on a cold, wet, blustery day in northern France, at our Mad Old Chateau. I have a chest infection. Last weekend I was in Berlin, accompanying Michel for a few days to the Berlin Film Festival where it was even wetter and windier. Fortunately I escaped the cold…

An afternoon of Mediterranean Discoveries at the Arab World Institute in Paris

An afternoon of Mediterranean Discoveries at the Arab World Institute in Paris

Recently, I had lunch under a thunder-grey sky in Paris. It was a Sunday and the cafés and bars were spilling onto the streets with Parisians enjoying the pleasures of their weekend. I had just flown up from the warm south. Michel, my husband, collected me from the airport before he disappeared for an afternoon…

May Day, 2023

May Day, 2023

Hello Dear Friends! Welcome to my Spring Newsletter.   This last week has been a bit of a whirlwind. Last Saturday, the 22nd, was my birthday – a  milestone one. We celebrated quietly but with gusto. M took me for dinner to one of my favourite “special” spots, La Colombe d’Or in Saint Paul de…

February Newsletter

February Newsletter

Dear Reader, Spring is in sight. Mediterranean Spring. We have almond blossoms almost in full flower which, of course, is the first sign of spring around the Mediterranean basin. Do I say this every year? Possibly. I am always so overjoyed to see that lovely pale pink petal showing its face like a blush on…

November  2022

November  2022

This was last year. Ours is not up yet! This letter is so overdue that I am almost too embarrassed to apologise, but here we are and … erm, sincere apologies. My last note was in July. I wrote it soon after Michel and I had made a journey across southern France to spend a…

A Month of Movies, Merriment, Marseilles, and bucolic days at the Mad Old Chateau

A Month of Movies, Merriment, Marseilles, and bucolic days at the Mad Old Chateau

May It is hard to believe that it is only three weeks ago we were celebrating my late-April birthday. Michel took me to La Colombe d’Or in St Paul de Vence, not simply for dinner but for an overnight stay. As a treat from time to time we have lunched there or dined in one…

Happy Easter

Happy Easter

Happy Easter, dear Readers and Friends! I am moving offices! A few yards from one building at our home outside Paris (fondly known as the Mad Old Chateau) to another crumbling stone building on the same patch of land. Today is Good Friday, the sun is shining and I am traipsing back and forth through…

Newsletter February 2022

Newsletter February 2022

Hello! Once again this letter is a little late. My sincere apologies. It has been a low-key Christmas and winter for us this year, which explains my silence (nothing really to write about!).  After I had finished shooting and recording the final episode of Carol Drinkwater’s Secret Provence (Channel 5 changed the title from A…