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On the subject of 'Romance'
Photo Credit: AnnStreetStudio - Chateau de Gudanes Life can get pretty mundane if you let it. You go through the same routine every day....
Julia Stevens
Oct 6, 20185 min read


Eat more dirt
The hay bales at Loseley Let me paint the picture. It is a bright sunny Autumn day. I am out enjoying the blue skies and changing colours...
Julia Stevens
Sep 27, 20187 min read


Coming down from the alpine pastures
"For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills ..." Psalm 50:10 ESV I can't help myself, I know I live in...
Julia Stevens
Sep 20, 20182 min read


Wine & Figs - Harvest time
"They are not long, these days of wine and roses" Ernest Dowson - Vitae Summa Brevis There is a nip in the air and Autumn is at the...
Julia Stevens
Sep 13, 20185 min read


A week of late summer holiday activities in France
Photo credit - Studio Yuki In the last week of school holidays the Stevens tribe decided to fill the week with 5 different activities....
Julia Stevens
Sep 7, 20184 min read


French Figs, Pyrenean Mountain dogs & summer sunshine
I sit outside on the patio writing this blog post. It is still cool in the shade and there is the slightest hint of a soft breeze...
Julia Stevens
Aug 30, 20184 min read


The artist & Arundel Art Trail
“The artist ... speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives, to our sense of pity and...
Julia Stevens
Aug 23, 20184 min read


Absolutely Fabulous! - The Firle Vintage Fair
I sit at my desk on a rainy Thursday enjoying the downpour and making the most of a chance to be inside and catch up. The last few days...
Julia Stevens
Aug 16, 20182 min read


the unforced rhythms of grace
Photo Credit - Jessie Bush. Website We The People Psalm 81:16 ... & He will feed you with the finest of wheat, & with honey from the...
Julia Stevens
Aug 9, 20185 min read


Heat wave Summer
Photo credit - Chapel Lane Today is another boiling hot day in Surrey. I sit inside with all the windows flung open, waiting for the...
Julia Stevens
Jul 26, 20184 min read


Namibia - 'I FEEL ETERNITY'
Photo Credit - Getty The Telegraph Photo Credit - Freeman Patterson 'The rising sun makes no sound. As day breaks on the Grand...
Julia Stevens
Jul 19, 20184 min read


Kisses from heaven, 3 poignant moments from last week
So last week I didn't feel like writing. It was SOOOOOO .... HOT and I felt empty and wordless. I sat in my armchair by the window,...
Julia Stevens
Jul 10, 20187 min read


Blue Bird - my old Mercedes
Last year I wrote 2 posts about my love of old cars. I wrote about the car I owned, a 1960's Beetle ( September 2017 ) which I drove to...
Julia Stevens
Jun 29, 20185 min read


Celebrating Summer with old black & white photos
"They are not long, the days of wine and roses ..." Ernest Dowson, Vitae Summa Brevis Summer is here. Spring is over and now the long hot...
Julia Stevens
Jun 22, 20183 min read


More House Hunting in France
In my recent trip to France to visit my family I thought I might look at a house if I happened to see a nice one for sale. I didn't...
Julia Stevens
Jun 14, 20186 min read


Return to France
Last week I returned to France to catch up with my brother's family and see how they were doing having lived in France for 2 months. Here...
Julia Stevens
Jun 7, 20187 min read


Getting outside & letting the natural world lift my spirits
"But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will...
Julia Stevens
May 31, 20182 min read


Rosie & Finnegan - the noisy neighbours who live downstairs
( Rosie & Finnegan) " Oh, visit the earth, ask her to join the dance! Deck her out in Spring showers, fill the God river with living...
Julia Stevens
May 24, 20183 min read


Moving to France - Part Four ( Pilgrims: homeless & car less)
Vikki woke early, nervous and excited. Today was the big day. In a few hours we would driving down South, on our way to sign the...
Julia Stevens
May 17, 20189 min read


Moving to France - Part Three ( homeless)
Our little Easter break skiing in the Alps was over. We had enjoyed the snow and now we were ready for the sunshine. The winter seemed to...
Julia Stevens
May 10, 20188 min read
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