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FUN HOUSE

Who lives here? I live here with my husband Nicholas Cole, our six-year-old daughter Vita, our cat Tulip Rose Fashion, and possibly the ghost of Madame Milfred, a clairvoyant who worked out of the house in 1915 when it was on Ponsonby Road – we found her advertisement in an old newspaper.

Where is it? Waipipi, a rural area on Auckland’s Āwhitu Peninsula.

It’s an 1870s three-bedroom weatherboard cottage, which we bought from Craig Walker Building Removals in Kumeu. It was originally the cookbook store Cook the Books on Ponsonby

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