NEW DREAMS & ANCIENT BEAMS

Relaxing in their cedar hot tub, Laura and Mike Szczygielski can watch the world go by, which in their case means deer, owls, foxes, hares and even bats. Since moving to the Warwickshire countryside two years ago, they’ve been able to immerse themselves in the rural idyll they’d always dreamed of. ‘We’d lived in our last house, a four-bed detached property in Solihull, for 20 happy years, but when the children left school and went to university, we