Where the heart is

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Marita van der Vyver. Where the heart is

1 We live in Church Street

2 Ten weddings and a funeral

3 Things you miss

4 Paper equals panic

5 Marry at leisure

6 I’m on strike

7 Doctor, doctor

8 Born in three languages

9 Stranger than fiction

10 Time stops

11 Tarts and traditions

12 On a high note

13 Do it yourself

14 Where will my help come from?

15 Falling for autumn

16 It’s only words

17 The kingdom of food

18 Postal pleasures

19 Under the weather

20 Don’t tempt fate

21 The kissing won’t stop

22 Lost in translation

23 Camping is no picnic

24 Where the heart is

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Where the heart is

A writer in Provence

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His charming Parisian wife probably elicits more mixed feelings.

Paris is the centuries-old ‘enemy’ of the French countryside, perhaps even more so than England. A case in point: a while back, a South African friend started farming in the French campagne after more than a decade in Paris. And I mean literally farm, as in driving a tractor and tilling the soil. Lynn the Farmer soon realised that it was better to say she was from Cape Town than to say she came from Paris. It’s best not to mention Paris at all.

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