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    MY MOVE to the country

    Jul 03, 2019 2 minutes

    “There’s a distinct sense of finality the day one pulls closed a London front door for the last time to embark on a new life in the country. Not least the fact that friends are at great pains to remind you ominously that ‘There’s no going back’.

    In my life prior to Norfolk, I worked as Bookings & Production magazine. I organised fashion, beauty and celebrity cover shoots, and life consisted of running to casting meetings, squeezing budgets and chasing deadlines. With an all-consuming career, happy marriage, three children and the help of a live-in nanny, I seemed, on the surface, to be living the successful urban dream. Yet, I rarely had time to enjoy the children or the charming Victorian terrace that we had lovingly restored.

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