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MERRY & BRIGHT

As the Christmas season approaches and Vanessa Arbuthnott is again getting ready to welcome friends and family into her vibrant, much-loved home, she always finds it hard to believe that this rural idyll was once a desolate and draughty cow byre, strewn with hay bales and roofed with rusty corrugated iron.

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