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    LABOUR OF LOVE

    Mar 03, 2022 3 minutes
    Words Jane Bowles
    Photographs Colin Poole

    easoned renovators Christina Dickinson and her husband Nigel weren’t actually looking for a long-term home when they happened upon a 17th-century Grade II-listed thatched cottage in the heart of an idyllic East Devon village. ‘We’d just agreed the sale of our seaside apartment in Exmouth and wanted to move back to the country,’ says Christina. ‘We’d decided to move because we missed having a garden, and were hankering after the quieter pace of village life. I was enquiring about rentals at the local estate agents when

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