Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on December 10th 2022. We had travelled back from the UK with a new addition to our armoury in the never-ending war against bracken and brambles in our field – a scythe, a full-size, double-handed tool, with a blade so sharp that itContinue reading “The Grim Reaper”
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Coming home
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on December 4th 2022. I have something a little different for you this week. We have arrived back at Le Shack and I am pleased to report that all is well. I have written a chapter about our homecoming for my new book,Continue reading “Coming home”
Visiting Lac Leman – or is it Lake Geneva?
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on November 25th 2022. We had been waiting for better weather before driving down to Lac Léman but, as it didn’t materialize, we went down anyway. The cloud inversion was still hanging over the valley as we left and a French friend toldContinue reading “Visiting Lac Leman – or is it Lake Geneva?”
One goat too many.
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on November 18th 2022. After four days at one house-sit we are this week travelling on to our next property, an hour away, in a tiny village called Lullin, still in the Alps, south of Thonon les Bains on Lac Leman. We leftContinue reading “One goat too many.”
House-sitting in the French Alps
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on November 11th 2022. It’s that time of year when we begin house-sitting in France and our first one this year is in Gervais les Bains in the French Alps, a shorter stay than usual at just four nights but it slotted neatlyContinue reading “House-sitting in the French Alps”
Impressions of Belgium
For the past ten days we have been living on a barge in Belgium. We have visited Belgium only once, some years ago, a weekend trip to Bruges, but now a chance encounter has brought us to a city that we have never heard of in a region that we know nothing about. We metContinue reading “Impressions of Belgium”
Snapshots of a country part two
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on October 21st 2022. As promised this is the second part of our snapshot tour of Britain, and this time we are in England, visiting some quite unique gardens and galleries. We spent a day recently visiting The Newt in Somerset, situated betweenContinue reading “Snapshots of a country part two”
Snapshots of a country
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on October 14th 2022. We have spent the last two weeks travelling around England and Wales, visiting friends and family after we finished our house-sit in North Wales, and what has struck me, as someone who no longer lives in the country andContinue reading “Snapshots of a country”
A singing parrot, a glut of mushrooms and an armchair African adventure
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on September 29th 2022. ‘I think she’s getting to like you,’ I said, as Michael carefully eased Monty the parrot out of her day cage. ‘What makes you think that?’ said Michael dubiously, balancing her carefully on his arm as he walked throughContinue reading “A singing parrot, a glut of mushrooms and an armchair African adventure”
Snowdonia
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on September 22nd 2022. This week we find ourselves up in north Wales, looking after a menagerie of dogs, cats, fishes, chickens and a female parrot rather confusingly called Monty. Before we began our nomadic life on Olivia Rose, Wales was the placeContinue reading “Snowdonia”
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