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This week – at long last – we finally bid adieu to the Big Smoke and say a warm hello to rural Suffolk. I can’t wait to start our new lives at Mulberry Cottage. We’re in the very heart of the countryside with fields full of horses to the front and apple and cherry orchards at the back, and the village is laced with beautiful footpaths that I’m going to have so much fun exploring with Molly.
We have so much to look forward to – we’re planning to get a puppy in the spring and hope to have some more hens too. The husband is getting nervous in case I sneak in a few goats, geese and pigs too!
And I’ve decided to write about the experience of leaving the city for a slice of the good life so watch out for Escape to Mulberry Cottage sometime next year.
So, this is my last blog from London and I look forward to writing my next one from my very own study overlooking those fields full of horses.
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I hate fireworks! Well, I hate suburban fireworks. Where we currently live, there isn’t a fireworks night but a fireworks season which begins in mid-October and goes right through until the end of January. It’s unbearable! So, in order to escape the very worst of it, we ran away to the Welsh coast for a long weekend and it was bliss! And just look at our local walk:
The coastal path is so beautiful and I even spotted a few red campions!
I often complain about walking my dog in the London suburbs but at least we don’t have signs like this:
Now, it’s back home and there are rewrites to do for The Runaway Actress and also a house to pack because – at long last – we are leaving the noisy London suburbs and moving to rural Suffolk. I can’t wait although the day itself is bound to be stressful with dog and hens in tow!
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