CHRISTMAS PAST

Wendy and Dean Simpson are great hosts so Christmas is usually a string of celebrations in their home – apart from Christmas 2014, when the family of five was squashed into a tiny two-bedroom cottage as they waited to move into their current home, a gorgeous and spacious four-square Georgian farmhouse in a village outside Hull.

‘We hadn’t set out to move,’ explains Wendy. ‘We lived in a perfectly lovely new-build in a pleasant village. Dean was just