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    FAMILY TREASURES

    Apr 29, 2021 3 minutes
    Words Annabelle Grundy
    Photographs Colin Poole

    Strange though it may sound, when Cape Town native Inge Watrobski moved to an apartment within a large Georgian house on a rural Somerset estate some 18 years ago, she says it felt like home from home. ‘The West Country landscape is so green and rolling, it reminds me of where I grew up,’ she says. ‘As soon as we saw this place, we knew we’d take it. It’s such a beautiful, peaceful spot, surrounded by countryside.’

    Inge’s husband Rory had accepted a job in Bath and the

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