FINDING THE RURAL DREAM

It was a farm cottage on a hill that really did it. It was old, remote, with incredible sunsets and a pond sitting in a wildflower meadow in the garden. I had to have it. I had to have it despite the fact it could only be accessed by a 4x4 along a mud track through a busy farmyard. One room was so badly designed it had no windows and was unusable. Most of the garden was bramble. But my wife and I went to see it, and fell in love with it…

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