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Vacation Nation
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 29th December 2007
THERE is nothing like sleet lashing at your windows and Jack Frost nipping at your nose to make any sane-minded person think about being somewhere else. And if you are like a lot of other people in the world, you will think about being on holiday in France.
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Calling the Shots
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 22nd December 2007
IF YOU are ever trying to cure yourself of an unhealthy or addictive craving they do say that a spot of over-indulgence can work wonders. I remember as a schoolboy once eating five Mars bars one lunchtime, and I don't think I have managed to eat one since. I believe it is called aversion therapy.
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The tail that wags the dog
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 8th December 2007
THERE are a great many words that cross the cultural divide between France and England - and others that struggle a bit.
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Life’s a Ditch
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 24th November 2007
THE funny thing about the familiar is that we don't really realise that it is familiar until it becomes unfamiliar, or until somebody who is unfamiliar with its familiarity points it out, if you see what I mean.
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Holidays in Hell?
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 17th November 2007
NO matter what you do, no matter how much money you have, no matter how many trips to the plastic surgeon you make, you can't escape the great cycle of life, and within that cycle there seem to be many mini-cycles that we spin off on.
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Cliché Nous
Posted on 8:00am Saturday 10th November 2007
I AM not absolutely sure, not completely. Say about 80 per cent, and that's good enough. There is something definitely dodgy about the customs control point between England and France.
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Decorcaust
Posted on 9:00am Sunday 23rd December 2007
IT is not so long since we were a nation bent on world domination and on colouring every continent red on our map of the Empire. We then descended to become a nation obsessed with the decline of Empire and the state of the weather.
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Wildcat Strikes
Posted on 7:58am Friday 19th October 2007
IF by any chance the next compilers of the Oxford Dictionary should ever ask me for the definition of a feral cat, I would probably describe it as a cat living independently in the countryside and shying away from human contact' - I would then offer to post it where the sun doesn't shine out of Simon the mad he/she cat.
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Ceiling, our fate
Posted on 7:48am Friday 19th October 2007
THIS week's article was supposed to be a heartwarming, feelgood article about two people battling to rescue a building from imminent catastrophe and give it a new lease of life. In many ways it was. From the first day when we stripped off what was left of the old roof, things were looking good.
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Lifted
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 13th October 2007
MORRISEY, in one of his more cynical moments - if there ever was such a thing - once wrote a song with the hook line We hate it when our friends become successful'.
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Trevor Morris and his wife Sue left Charlton Down in 2002 for the Tarn region of southern France, where Trevor renovates old properties. In his spare moments he writes a weekly column about his experiences for the Dorset Echo Weekend Magazine.
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