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Reading an Alastair Sawday guide changed my life
5th August 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this
The news that today is Alastair Sawday’s 65th birthday brought a wry smile to my face. The founder of Sawday’s Special Places to Stay will be utterly oblivious to this fact but reading one of his books changed my life. I’m not joking. Seven years ago, desperate to book a last-minute summer holiday, I bought a copy of his guide to self-catering properties in my local WH Smith’s and began...
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The house with no name
28th July 2009 | 4 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The first time I heard about my tumbledown farmhouse in the South of France was when a friend sent an email saying: “Beautiful place. Great potential. South-facing, with its back up against a wooded hillside. Very old farm with heaps of charm.”
Much to my horror, and before I’d even set eyes on the place, my husband sped south on the TGV (train à grande vitesse) and made an offer on... -
Sunlit fields of lavender
21st July 2009 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
This summer isn’t turning out the way I planned at all. Forget sunlit fields of lavender and evening drinks on the terrace. Instead it’s pouring with rain, the din from next door’s builders is so deafening we can’t set foot in the back garden and my teenage son is lying flat on his back upstairs with a metal plate in his shoulder. The only thing cheering him up after his...
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Emma Lee-Potter
Emma Lee-Potter is a journalist and author of four novels. She has two teenage children and spends her spare time worrying about the ramshackle farmhouse she bought in the south of France. The wreck has half a roof, assorted wildlife and an alarming damp problem but her friends assure her it all be perfect by 2020. She writes a weekly blog for Easy Living magazine.
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