News from The Villa

How do you decide what colour to paint a wall? When we were buying our lovely home, Philip asked us to pick one colour—our base colour—and he would paint all the walls the same. We landed on Repose Grey, a rather lovely shade, which we have used as our base for matching other things. But…

Getting ready for ?

When we adopted JR, there was no internet, no YouTube. I wish there had been. I was really busy travelling in those days and was out of the house a great deal. So poor JR did not get much training and of course the truth of the matter is I didn’t get much training to…

News from The Villa

It’s been a cold week! Minus 30 overnight, lots of snow, and my goodness, suddenly, we have lots of snow on the ground. I haven’t done an update on our neighbourhood for a while, and so I thought I should acknowledge that we’ve lost Bud and Sylvia recently. As I was thinking about this year’s…