Starting Over
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.
Trevor's articles have now been collected in a 348-page book called Viva La Renovation, which is available on-line by visiting www.dorsetecho.co.uk/publications or from the Echo offices in Weymouth and Dorchester.
| Femme Power | | BEHIND every great man there has to be a great woman, as Aretha Franklin once proclaimed. |
| Eurostar is Born | | WHEN it comes to new technologies, I wouldn't call myself an early adopter. Probably a begrudging adopter is closer to the truth. |
| Un, Deux, Trois, Cat | | THE good news is that the re-homing of the three feral kittens abandoned on our doorstep some four months ago has been an outstanding success. |
| Hide 'n' Seek | | IN DIFFERENT ways and for different reasons we all have certain things that we choose (or need) to hide from others. |
| Pool resources | | MANY is the time that I have declared that the age of finding a true bargain in the French Hinterland is well and truly passed, and as is the case with anybody who deals in sweeping statements, I have been made to sweep those statements into my mouth on many occasions. |
| Smoke-screen | | JUST at the time when the world should have been focusing on Sarkozy's attempts to reform a bankrupt and outdated economy into a shining example for the whole of the Western world, the world has become distracted. |
| CrackerNajac | | THERE is an almost endless number of different ways to use stone. You can carve gargoyles out of it, build an Alpine rockery home for your garden gnomes, or even use it as a missile to throw at people who really annoy you. Roman armies, for instance, or giants called Goliath. |
| Cold Comfort | | HOME is where the heart is. Home is feet in warm slippers, a centrally-heated house, cats stretching out on a rug in front of a roaring fire, soft fluffy towels awaiting your exit from a hot shower, mains gas and electricity, mains water, mains drainage
In the UK, at least. For those people you last heard from some years ago heading for a new and exciting life in foreign fields it can be somewhat different. |
| Decorcaust | | 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. |
| Vacation Nation | | 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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