My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Female
Introduction	In September 2011 after years of staring longingly in French estate agency windows ..... we finally bought a house 20 minutes drive from Carcassonne, intending to divide our lives between Yorkshire and Caunes Minervois. Things didn't workout quite as we imagined, as I was diagnosed with cancer shortly afterwards. After surgery and follow up treatment I have now been cancer free for 12 years. So Mark and I continue to spend time in the two places we love.... Caunes Minervois and Yorkshire. We love France, but our call on living in the UK has increased along with the number of our grandchildren. We now have 8, 6 living in Yorkshire and 2 in Liverpool. At the moment, the pattern of our travels between homes suits us well.
Interests	Family history,our children,baking,gardening,letter writing,US political history,vintage clothing,travelling,Coronation St.
Favorite movies	Bruges,Paris Texas, We need to talk about Kevin,Memento,Badlands,Midnight Cowboy,Whatever happened to baby Jane,Sunset Boulevard,Harvey, Dr Zhivago,Toy Story, The Wizard of Oz.
Favorite music	Nanci Griffiths, Dixie Chicks,Indigo Girls,Daniel Lanois,Ry Cooder,Kirsty MacColl,Dick Gaughan,Paul Simon, Beniamino Gigli,
Favorite books	Anything by Annie Proulx,Kazuo Ishiguro, Rohinton Mistry,Anne Tyler,Hilary Mantel All time favourite: Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath