CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER

MOVING TO A VILLAGE IN CORNWALL GAVE A COUPLE THE QUIRKY COTTAGE OF THEIR DREAMS – THINK UNUSUAL COLLECTIONS, WONKY WALLS, SAUSAGE DOGS AND EVEN A SHED FOR SEWING

Words: KAREN DUNN

For more than 30 years Mim McCormack dreamed of moving to the West Country. But life kept getting in the way and the dream put on hold until finally, in 2019, the time was right to pack up. “We have five children and one of our sons is disabled, which made the search harder as we needed the right house and school combination. So, we put it on the back-burner and enjoyed holidays here instead,” explains Mim from what’s now her home, a cottage in the village of St Neot, on the edge of Bodmin Moor. “We thought we’d end up in North Devon because my husband surfs, but when this place came up for auction it was just right – and cheaper, too, because it needed a lot of work! The…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2023

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