The Morvan Greets the New Year
Nobody comes to the Morvan for motorways, theatres, discos or shopping malls. We are 20 miles from the nearest cinema, although movies…
Read more →Rosemary Border Rabson
In 2005 Rosemary Border Rabson and husband John Rabson emigrated to the Morvan in rural Burgundy, where few other Brits have ventured. Their chief preoccupation is Charity Cottage, a holiday home-from-home in their garden at Maré le Bas which they run in aid of Combat Stress (money donations) and Help for Heroes (free accommodation). Since 2012, when Charity Cottage won the Daily Telegraph’s Best British Charity award, the total amount raised for Combat Stress, comprising UK royalties and donations from visitors to Charity Cottage, is nudging £10,000.
Mistletoe, Oysters and Chocklit Log in the Morvan
Here we are again: Advent, with its Christmas markets, Christmas concerts and – er- festive fare. Pedantic Digression: The use of fayre…
Read more →All Saints and Armistice Day in the Morvan – and Movember in the UK
Hallowe’en is a non-event here in the Morvan. Look up Hallowe’en in the big Harraps dictionary and you will find La Veille…
Read more →Fun in the Morvan and a Flea Circus in Suffolk
Charity Cottage did everyone proud in September. Stuart from Canada and girlfriend Alice from Yorkshire would ordinarily have stayed in the main…
Read more →Paradise Lost, Paulownia And The Burkini Ban
I am typing this on (British) August Bank Holiday, in a sizzling heatwave. Our trees, notably the paulownia adjoining our patio, are…
Read more →Burgundy by Bike, Delays at Dover and Sex on the Beach
Our next visitors to Charity Cottage are due on 13 August. Keith, his son and his son-in-law are coming by car –…
Read more →A Centenary, a Climbdown, Some Puzzled Locals and a Unique Railway
July 1 2016 – 100 years since the murderous Battle of the Somme began. Most families have tales to tell. Here is…
Read more →Weasels, Fuel Shortages, Anniversaries and a Prang in the Morvan
How do you take a scrupulously honest and fully documented insurance claim for 2000 euros, and pay out 599 euros? No problem…
Read more →Dandelion Wars And A Stay In The Polyclinique
Yellow is my favourite colour. In spring in the Morvan the forsythia, cowslips and primroses are a feast for the eye. On…
Read more →Spring Roars Through The Morvan
In March I spoke of the rustle of Spring. Now it is roaring through the Morvan. In the UK cowslips are a…
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