Category Archives: Diary
Tantric Golf and Fishing
My aim at Villa Roquette is to find ways to encourage guests to stay and to ensure they enjoy and discover what they seek in Languedoc. Our climate is a gentle Mediterranean one, mild and healthy - we have 300 … Continue reading
Phone Kool
Our home Villa Roquette is a big house, but not a vast palace, so why does the phone stop ringing the moment I get to it? My dislike for telephones is increased every time I rush to the room where … Continue reading
Why Now Is A Good Time To Buy Property In France
I said in my newsletter this week that now was a good time to buy a home in France and was asked why? This is my brief reply….. Sterling is 20 percent stronger against the euro in the last few … Continue reading
Keep the Dream Alive
Many people I meet have the same dream, that of of making their permanent home in France. I understand this, it was our dream and for us it is a dream come true, even after 20 years, but it was … Continue reading
The Author’s Apology For His Book
The Author’s Apology For His Book – When at the first I took my Pen in hand Thus for to write; I did not understand – For twelve years now I have written my thoughts and comments about our life … Continue reading
The Day I met the King of Saudi Arabia Twice
It was along time ago and a different world. I happened to be in Jeddah, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the hope of selling films, books and drilling rigs. Our plane from Amman in Jordan stopped in Damascus … Continue reading
When I Made the Duke of Edinburgh Laugh
In one of the several lives I have crammed into this one, I was/am a professional photographer. For a while, when I had time, I was the official photographer for Cambridge University and each year had to take portraits of … Continue reading
In Praise of Olive Oil
Popeye had it right – he loved Olive Oyl I have the highest praise for Olive Oil – good for salads and stuff, but my respect for the green slippery liquid is the magice it performs on my fingers. When … Continue reading
Glopeter Glopeter
In the movie “how to murder your wife” there is a scene where Jack Lemmon has drawn a cartoon sketch of the glup glop cement mixer where his cartoon alta-ego disposed of his wife. I have been searching for a … Continue reading
Scruffy but Charming
After 20 years here in the South of France and spending much of the time working on old stone houses, some over 1000 years old, am I beginning to see things with ancient eyes? Today I was asked to look … Continue reading