£10-an-hour cleaners in a class of their own

Forget the traditional Mrs Mopp. The latest phenomenon is wealthy upper middle-class ladies who leave their £750,000 homes to clean other people’s Amanda Lynch

France

Humanity, politeness and a low-stress way of life.
This writer says France beats Britain every time.
Celia Brayfield"Deep France"
WHEN PEOPLE asked me why I was moving to France for a year, I was tempted to reply “because I can”. Who, being British and of sound mind, would pass up the opportunity? I could spend a year in a tiny village in the Béarn, in the extreme southwest, because I am a writer, and since my only child was happily settled at university, my sole responsibility in those 12 months was to write a new novel.