Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

My Willie Thorne moment

I’ve been trying to calculate at which point in the past few weeks I missed that metaphorical blue

[Photo: Pascal Rondeau/Getty Images] 
issue 26 November 2022

The sunny, growing month of November is the British expat’s Provençal dividend. Every morning the meridional sunshine comes in through the left-hand bedroom window, lighting my face as I sit up in bed with the breakfast tray and the daily paper. By 11 o’clock it has moved across to the right-hand window, warming the blanket and the dry soles of my bare feet.

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