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‘It was only a matter of time before we moved to Suffolk,’ says Lynn Walford, recalling how she and her husband John swapped life in busy Hackney, east London, for the picturesque East Anglian village where they’ve lived for the past decade. ‘Although John was born and brought up in Kenya, his family had owned a home in Walberswick since 1905, where he loved to spend holidays, so this part of the world had long been familiar to him, and to me too, from the days when we met

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