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e have lived on the North Norfolk coast for as long as I can remember. I recall the most wonderful childhood of summers in bare feet, boating and fishing, whitebait netting and constantly being nagged to put shoes on. The house was a cottage with ramshackle sheds and a beautiful barn on the edge of the world, protected by an earthen sea wall, beyond which lay thousands of acres of salt marsh,

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