Shutters & Sunflowers

Yesterday, I was explaining that I wouldn’t be available next week as I was about to go on a trip, and before I had time to really think, I’d said  “I’m so sorry but I won’t be here, I’m going home.” They …

Imagine waking up each day to a view of the San Francisco Bay, a view so special you can hardy believe it is yours. It lies there patiently waiting for you behind your drawn blinds. As first light dawns, the sky seems to …

Many of us see January as a new beginning, a time to change the things we don’t like. As you reflect, how hard do you have to search to really know what makes you feel fulfilled or happy? As Robert Louis …

I wouldn’t normally write a blog about a movie, although I am not really writing about a movie, (as brilliant and Oscar deserving as it is) but more about the person the movie was about. The movie is “The Imitation …

As the year draws to a close a new one to begin, it’s a time to reflect and think of what’s been. Good days and sad, all part of life, happiness and joy, trouble and strife. Maybe teardrops fell, like rain down …

As you read this just after Christmas, I hope you have been sprinkled with the magic and wonder of the season, surrounded by those you love and the joy of giving and receiving. People all across the globe, have celebrated this …

The Christmas story continues: The little girl turned away from the Christmas tree, leaving her sister to introduce herself to the much wanted dolly and bumped into her father as he finally made it down the stairs. Noticing her serious, …

Christmas stocking in tow, excitement bubbling over, the little girl scampered along to her parents’ room when she suddenly remembered the stockings she had put together for them. Although only eight years old and desperately wanting to still believe in …

A little girl rolled over in bed, gingerly glancing at her bedroom window to see whether daylight was peeking through. It was still dark and the house was wrapped in silence. Disappointed and with no idea of the time she …

Travel France Online has just published Shutters and Sunflowers’ article about Christmas Puddings as part of a wonderful collection of Christmas wishes from all over France put together by Diane de la Guillermie, this fabulous website’s founder. For me, as a child, just as it …