West Country
From one side of the country to the other--Kent to Wales. This time we're staying in a converted barn deep in the Welsh countryside, ...
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Carol Duval
- Feb 15
- 2 min
Best-Laid Plans
Unplanned changes can have unexpected--and sometimes positive-- consequences.This was the case when we had to leave Markyate a day early...
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Carol Duval
- Jan 2
- 2 min
Winter Solstice 2022
December began with a drama trifecta, the least important being the rush to complete School Gaze. Then there was Noah's surgery with all...
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Carol Duval
- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
School Gaze: A Teacher's Tale
To all my friends and family. AT LAST! THE book is now available as paperback and on Kindle. I've kept the price as low as possible. This...
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Carol Duval
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
A Bit of Background
School Gaze takes readers on a round-the-world school trip spanning six decades. Each chapter is a snapshot of life from the ‘50s to the...
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Carol Duval
- Mar 14, 2022
- 2 min
2021 Year of Lockdowns
COVID-19 has been the defining feature of the year but so has gratitude. Never have we been so grateful for science and vaccines, to live...
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Carol Duval
- Dec 15, 2020
- 3 min
Farewell 2020, Welcome 2021
I admit to not entirely looking forward to this year after Australia's horrendous bushfires in 2019 not to mention the crazy political...
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Carol Duval
- May 16, 2020
- 1 min
Author Interview: Birds of a Feather Press
Podcast (Part 1) Author Interview
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Carol Duval
- Dec 7, 2019
- 4 min
Season's Greetings 2019
This has been one of those consolidation years, settling back after last year's wonderful house swapping experience with Elaine in...
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Carol Duval
- May 10, 2019
- 2 min
Trying Lives: A House Sitter's Tale
Trying Lives: A House Sitter's Tale.
This book tells the stories of house sits and swaps across four years and five countries.
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Carol Duval
- Apr 23, 2019
- 1 min
Celebrating Sydney
We're lucky to live so close to Sydney's beautiful harbour. Down the road at Balls Head, we have the Coal Loader, now reinvented as a...
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Carol Duval
- Dec 30, 2018
- 2 min
Christmas Cheer
To get us right into the winter holiday spirit, we spent an unexpectedly joyful day at the Weald and Downland Living Museum which...
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Carol Duval
- Dec 16, 2018
- 3 min
2018 Year of Contrasts
It’s been an eventful year with a hefty mixture of good, bad and everything in between. We started the year with a fantastic road trip to...
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Carol Duval
- Dec 1, 2018
- 1 min
Yorkshire - Leeds and Harrogate
23rd November 2018 Harrogate—A bit like a northern Arundel but with department stores. Lovely Christmas lights and festive shop windows....
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Carol Duval
- Nov 28, 2018
- 3 min
Cities, Towns and Villages of the South Downs
Chichester — Nearest to 'home' and so our local shopping town. Cathedral, ancient walls, Roman Museum, buzzing shops—what’s not to love?...
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Carol Duval
- Nov 1, 2018
- 2 min
Walking the Downs
Elaine left a very handy and accurately written booklet called Octagon Walks outlining with eight walks that we’re working through and...
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Carol Duval
- Oct 31, 2018
- 3 min
Falling for the South Downs
What a change! From precarious mountain roads, thick forests and misty views of the Pyrenees to the hedged country lanes and green/golds...
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Carol Duval
- Oct 16, 2018
- 4 min
Farewell to France—With a Couple of Friends
After nearly seven weeks in La Forge del Mitg, friends Avis and Peter Gunn shared our final few days and gave us a chance to revisit some...
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Carol Duval
- Oct 4, 2018
- 3 min
Coping with Catalonia
A recent email from my school friend Jenny (North Sydney Girls) brought a sigh of relief with her recounting of the time she was...
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Carol Duval
- Sep 30, 2018
- 3 min
Girona and the Catalunya Hinterland
Elaine had told us that if we were beginning to get cabin fever in La Forge del Mitg we should spend a couple of days in Girona—Spain’s...
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