How to Turn a Bathroom into a Kitchen!

Okay, the 10 key steps for turning a bathroom into a kitchen!

1.Find a bathroom you really don't like.
2. Take out the bath, the shower, the sink, the toilet, the tiles, the flooring, the lighting, and that crappy soap holder.
3. Add a wooden floor, which you will later cover with vinyl.
4. Call in an electrician and plumber.
5. Cover the walls with plaster boards.
6. Say yes to good, darn good, friends who offer to sand and paint said walls and to help lay the vinyl.
7. Keep all small kids away at this point!
8. Fidget at home as the kitchen company come in and install a kitchen you ordered months ago.
9. Sigh with relief that everything has worked out just fine and that sometime soon your kitchen really will become your kitchen..... that is, in 2 weeks time when the electricity and water are turned on 'for real'.
10. Get on with the remaining rooms/house as 2 weeks pass....

love n hugs n new kitchens,
Robynxxxx

The Big House?

After

Before

After

  Curious to know how things are going in the Big House?

  Just watch this space in the next few days and weeks!

  Big Changes are Taking Place...

  love n hugs,
  Robynx

Home from Home

On the way back from Provence, we stopped off in Scotland.

Well, not really.

We stopped off to visit some dear friends in Lozère.... which, with it's granite-rich landscapes filled with dry stane dykes, rowan, fir and spruce trees, heather, gorse, wild pansies, bluebells and open farming fields filled with cows and some sheep, felt awfully like some place I know in Aberdeenshire !

Of course, the weather was slightly warmer and so the animals and insects are quite different.. but that just made our walks all the more enjoyable!

So, if you're ever looking to visit the northeast of Scotland with a bit of heat, there's a little patch of France that might just do the trick!

Hoping you're feeling at home where ever you are in the world!
Robynxxxx

heather!

grasshopper

lizard!

Two butterflies?

A real butterfly!

Le chateau de Baume

Farmland!

Holiday Time

Hill above Les Omergues

 Hello again,

One of the many upsides of being a high school teacher in France is the great holidays. It's true, while we're 'in school,' the hours are long for teachers and students alike: from 8am to 6pm many days of rhe week. However all those hours crammed together in the classroom give us all a darn good excuse to relax once the school year is all done and dusted. As soon as we were 'out,' I took the kids down to Les Omergues in Provence while Ben, bless his cotton socks, stayed and worked on the 'Big House' (more of that later).

What would Provence be without a little lavender?

We had a lovely few weeks as the kids and I were able to enjoy, once again, the dusty walks, the sandy rivers, the baking heat, the generosity and the grandeur of Provence.

How many hours did we spend in  the Jabron?

Such freedom, with a paddling pool, some of the cutest dressing up clothes in the universe, and lots of books and drawing stuff, meant that Jack and Emma were really able to' chill out'.

That's my boy, looking quite young and innocent!

For the annual village fête, there were nights of dancing and fireworks raining down, and also a sports day - with dunking for lemons, races, and square boules !

Competing in local sports day!

The holidays weren't without danger, as Jack discovered on many an occasion. Here, he's just discovered what happens when you surf down a hillside on your tummy ... at least he got some good looking fossils in return :-)

That's what happens if you look to hard for fossils!

Emma, meanwhile, got herself into equal amounts of trouble... but mostly when she was dressed as a bee!

Emma, the bee!

And I guess that's just the way the cookie crumbles!

hoping your cookie is crumbling the best way possible!
Robynxxxx