'The DSM' Editorial - Issue 101 Visitors
As the summer draws to an end, so does the long list of friends and relations who have come to visit. On holiday one has a tendency to eat, drink and make merry, but when hosting, it can become one long summer of over indulgence and the swimming trunks can start to chafe. Anna becomes a frenetic red coat, leading the activities: croquet, pétanque, badminton. This may sound grander than it is. In reality the croquet pitch is an undulating paddock with molehills, the pétanque ‘pitch’ is our drive and we use a potato for a jack and there is a high chance of standing on a thistle when shuttlecocking. We have a shortlist of excursions we repeat throughout summer. I have been to the Oriental gardens in Maulévrier four times this summer and am there so much, often get mistaken for a gardener. When Anna’s sister and family from Australia came to stay we visited La Rochelle for a day and a night. What a wonderful place, the harbour, the history, the shopping, the street entertainers. W...