🔆🦋🔅Giselle Stafford🔅🦋🔆
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mrs-eclectic.bsky.social
🔆🦋🔅Giselle Stafford🔅🦋🔆
@mrs-eclectic.bsky.social
UK immigrant in Umbria.
Daughter of an Immigrant.
Dog Mum to DJ and Freckles, foodie, snapper of photos from my life as I see it.
Adore being in new places, hate the faff of getting there!
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I finally got proactive with our beautiful holiday rental apartment in Falmouth, Cornwall.
What do you think of my efforts?
Feel like booking a Falmouth getaway after looking? 🤗🤗🤗
www.falviewluxury.com
Did you know there is a real genuine pyramid in Rome?
Built around 12 BC - and it’s right there at the side of the road!
December 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Last night I made “fake” enchiladas.
Turkey mince and pecorino, not cheddar.
They were still very tasty!
#mexicanfakeaway
#gisellesumbriankitchen 🤪😂
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Going going gone!
One day this will be a three-car carport!
Our landlord wants it and it will be a vast improvement on the broken down shed!
December 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
DJ’s default position … and tbf - mine too! 🤣🤣
#loveDJ
#blueskydoggies
#assumetheposition
November 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A beautiful chilly start this morning!
#thisisumbria
#ilivewhereyouvacation
#homeiswheretheheartis
November 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Yummy, fresh out the oven Sourdough loaf!
Made with oodles of seeds and multigrain flour.
Looking forward to digging in later! It smells divine!
#sourdoughadventures
#gisellesumbriankitchen
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I sometimes have to literally stop and take in the beauty of our neighbourhood! This is the road to Fabbri where we live. You can see Rocca di Fabbri on the hill, our marker to let guests know where to turn to our place.
This time of year, the light is particularly beautiful!
#lovewhereyoulive
November 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Freckles loves going to the beach! It’s an hour and a half’s drive, but totally worth it for the joy it brings!
#AdriaticCoast
#PortoSanGiorgio
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I hate this 🍊💩 so much that I have muted his name on Bluesky so I don’t raise my blood pressure too much!
I’ve seen the clip of whoever it was fainting.
As much as I want the 🍊💩 to be glitching as in the photo - vid and photo don’t match. He didn’t do anything to help, but he was looking on.
I added the ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ music to the clip and it came out hilarious 😂
President Dementia Looks On As Man Faints In Oval Office
RFK Jr. flees scene.
www.thegodpodcast.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Just snapped now. No filter, no messing - just beauty outside our house.
#novemberskies
#sunsetvibes
#thisisumbria
#lovewhereyoulive
#ilivewhereyouvacation
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
May I just toot my own horn here?
It’s been a tough few years one way or t’other - but I think I scrub up quite well for a freshly baked 60 year old!
#sexysixties
#rockthathaircut
#notdyed
#stillhere 😁
November 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Olive Harvest is upon us again!
I know I’m biased, but I truly think the olive oil from this area of Umbria is the absolute best!
Trevi has a month long festa now - weekend of 18/19th being the best of the month!
Proper local festa.
October 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Is it real or is it Ai?
This is my question almost every moment of being on social media.
Cute doggies? Are they real or fake?
My husband shows me little vids over our morning coffee.
I can’t enjoy them anymore.
If I have to check each one, the fun is taken out. Or I just default to - fake.
October 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It’s that time of year already! Fire is on!
October 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I went all retro yesterday and made a delicious pineapple upside down cake!
I used a coconut yogurt in the sponge - tastes like an edible pina colada!
Oh, and it’s virtually fat free!
#winner
#gisellesumbriankitchen
#retrocooking
#gallbladderfriendlyrecipes
I can DM the recipe if you’d like it!
October 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Above the fog today - so much prettier than being in it! 😂

#nofilter
#montefalco
#thisisumbria
September 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Seeing this today, after last nights ‘rescue’ - took our dogs for a walk at sunset and there was a cute young dog running around in the vines and no owner anywhere.
So took him home for the night.
Hubby volunteers at the local kennels and long story short, the owner is collecting in a while! 👏👏
September 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The roses are STILL spectacular in our garden!
🪏 #deadheadingworks
September 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
No, it’s not a deep puddle! Yes, she’s lying down in it. Yes, she needed a shower when we got home!
#aftertherain
#freckles
#swampmonster
September 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
@bsky.app - what’s the deal for uploading short (less than 10sec) videos from iPhone to here? It won’t do it! 🤣🤣
September 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
These are Autumn Crocuses - a sign that summer is leaving us. My husband is banned from mowing them down! 🤣
September 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Weirdly, I couldn’t see the lunar eclipse with the naked eye, but my phone camera did - absolutely dire photos, but the little vid beforehand shows our gorgeous countryside! However, you’ll have to trust me on that - can’t upload it to Bluesky! Have a pic of the moonset this morning instead!
September 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Back home after a couple of days away and here’s today’s garden forage!
Figs, grapes, strawberries, peppers and cucumbers! I left the tomatoes on the vines.
September 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Mussels! Yummy. 🤤
Cozze impepato (mussels with pepper - so good.
#torredipalme #ristorantelatorre
#marchemeals
#minibreak
September 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The view from Torre di Palme, Marche was spectacular last night! Sitting high above Marina Palmese where we’ve had a wonderful couple of days mini break!
September 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM