There is so much to look forward to in the months ahead
- to lengthening evenings bike rides past fields of sunflowers or wild meadows of bluebells & poppies (just like the seventies Flake ad) & several months of fetes vide greniers (car boot sales) & barbecues in friends' gardens. & I cannot wait to get back to see if Andy Lawton has called... After reaching the heights as a successful fashion editor Karen said goodbye to all that & set about renovating a run-down house in rural Poitou-Charentes in central western France & living a simpler life. Her idyll is almost complete when she is blissfully ensconced in her fully plumbed tiled floored & 'warm as the hug of a pashmina' Maison Coquelicot
- until that is a gang of macho Portuguese builders a procession of Brits behaving badly & the ghosts of boyfriends past begin to arrive on her doorstep. Karen soon finds her (dancing) feet in the small rural community when she discovers the key to acceptance is le danse country. & after a few shuffles & twirls she meets the love of her life
- he has dark shaggy hair four paws & a wet nose...