Welcome to the latest blog on June 23rd 2021. I have some great news to share. We are heading back to our boat, Olivia Rose, tomorrow and hope to spend July and August cruising through France. At the moment she is moored as far away as she could possibly be, on the Moselle near MetzContinue reading “Back to Olivia Rose!!!!!”
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Need a cure for insomnia? My new book has just been published!
It hardly seems possible that a year has passed since I published my first book, Just Passing Through, about our life on the waterways of France. It has done well, and to my astonishment I now have sales in the USA, Australia, Canada, India and Europe as well as the UK. I know many ofContinue reading “Need a cure for insomnia? My new book has just been published!”
Naked ambition
Hello and welcome to the latest blog on May 7th 2021 With Spring in the air many people are thinking about their gardens. We receive numerous e-mails from gardening companies trying to sell us goods of a horticultural nature but one stood out from the crowd this week. The title was’ World naked gardening day’Continue reading “Naked ambition”
Let it rain
Hello and welcome to the latest blog on April 30th 2021. After weeks of hot, dry weather the rains have finally arrived and our dusty valley has been washed clean. There is a sense that we are on the cusp of an explosion of growth: in the newly seeded fields along the valley floor, inContinue reading “Let it rain”
And now for something completely different…..
Welcome to the latest blog on March 26th 2021. Something a little different this week for all of us. As many of you will know I published my first book, Just Passing Through, following our first three seasons on our boat, almost a year ago, on April 11th. I had hoped to follow up withContinue reading “And now for something completely different…..”
The Olivia Rose Diaries 