I do love a good guide book. For this holiday I bought one of the Footprint travel guides for the Dordogne and Lot, written by Michael Pauls and Dana Facaros. Their style of writing...
Mum’s Gone to the Dordogne – 101 uses for Duck Tape
When my husband comes home from work of an evening his first thought isn’t to get the hoover out or dust the skirting boards. On holiday, however, he becomes a bit fanatical about cleanliness, probably...
Mum’s Gone to the Dordogne – Peripherique ou non?
In order to get to this hut on the left, we had to drive about three hours in England, half an hour on Eurotunnel and an eternity in France, stopping off for a night in...
Mum’s gone all operatic!
If you caught my Gallery entry this week, you will know my choice of novel was A Room with a View by E M Forster. Whilst it had particular resonance for me, it was interesting to hear...
The Gallery – A Novel Idea – A Room with a View
The theme for “The Gallery” this week is a photograph which represents a treasured book. My chosen novel is A Room with a View by E.M. Forster. The novel tells of Miss Lucy Honeychurch and...
Mum’s Going to the Dordogne
This weekend I have been mostly washing clothes, putting them on the line then running outside to rescue them from the downpour which has appeared out of the ether. I am ironing, folding and...
Answers to “Where’s Mum Gone to?”
Thanks for your entries for The Gallery’s “Can you see what it is yet?” photo quiz. The answers: 1. Casa Mila in Barcelona. Often known as La Pedrera (Catalan for ‘The Quarry), designed by Antoni Gaudi....
The Gallery – Where’s Mum Gone to?
For The Gallery this week the theme is “Can you see what it is yet?”. Tara has asked us all to photograph something at an odd angle or focus so that the object looks different....