MERRY & BRIGHT

LIVING IN THE LITTLE FISHING VILLAGE OF FLINDERS, on the Mornington Peninsula, is paradise for Bec Dentry. “It’s really pretty and quaint, with a beautiful pier and boats moored everywhere. We don’t have letterboxes, so you have to go up to the post office to get your mail – you’ll always see people on the way and say g’day,” she says.

It’s a far cry from Melbourne, where Bec and her husband Marcus, both 46, used to live with son