Cut on the bias: gifts for stitchers

The festive season is starting to gear up and I’ve seen soooooo many amazing sewing-themed gifts online! If you’re still not sure what to choose for your favourite seamstress (is there a gender-neutral term for ‘seamstress’? ‘Sewer’ doesn’t come out so well when it’s written down…!), take a look at some of my favourite stocking fillers for Christmas 2018…

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How to buy a house in France

Going from finding your dream house to actually buying it and getting the keys can be a long journey, but in our experience it was way smoother to buy a house in France vs. in the UK. The main reason for this seems to be that rather than the buyer having their solicitor, and the seller having a different solicitor, in France it’s the norm to have one ‘notaire’ who deals with the whole transaction. This makes SO much sense!

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