Ten years ago, when Becky Little and Simon Codling called time on their lawyerly lives in England, they thought they might take a small step back from the full-steam-ahead pace. They didn’t imagine owning a cottage near the sea.
The decision to vacate the bright lights of London for the gentler realm of Auckland wasn’t difficult (a holiday on the Milford Track and a return to Ol’ Blighty in the winter brought the contrast into sharp focus) but finding somewhere to buy was. Simon’s mum had a house in Devonport on Auckland’s North
