ITS' A DOG'S LIFE IN THE CEVENNES

Here we are at the end of May and already it is 30 degrees. One wonders how much hotter it will get as summer progresses.
I have been meaning to start this for the last six months but always there seems to be something more urgent to attend to like walking in the Garrigue with the whippets or catching frogs in the streams with the whippets or simply going to the wonderful food or flea markets, but not with the whippets as they cause bedlam, tieing themselves in knots with their leads, and generally peeing on anything they can lift their legs to. This gets me in trouble with the stallholders, although the whippets do receive a good deal of positive attention here in La Belle France.

A bit about myself now.... I am an interior decorator,....a purveyor of lovely old things, a collector of beautiful junk....lover of sun, heat, colour,and life and a gypsy way down to my roots.
I have a history as a rock chick, a costume designer, art director and stylist. I have two grown children;
one a NY photographer Ben Watts, the other an actress Naomi. I have three adorable grandchildren who give me something way beyond pleasure. I live in France, also in Australia, where we have a tin shack in Byron Bay. I work in the UK, but am becoming increasingly despondent over the state of that country and so I have started sourcing for any of you who would like to acquire or just observe lovely old forgotten things and some of the furniture, textiles travel, and other inspirations that feed my passion for decorating.