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      <image:caption>We already knew the Howgill fells and the local ‘book town’ of Sedbergh, mainly from fell-running which was what we spent our free time doing before renovations and children took over. Jonny had spent much of his youth trekking over from Leeds to kayak the River Rawthey, so the temptation of a fantastic kayaking river just a stone’s throw from the house, and the possibility of some epic ice climbing at Cautley Spout were added to the long list of ‘pros’.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - We weren’t put off by the rotten windows that were falling out of their frames, lack of central heating, damp walls and dead sheep in the garden… in fact these were all things that drew us to Ridge House. It needed some serious TLC and an enormous amount of youthful energy (which, writing this 8 years later, we have definitely given it!)</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Three tumble-down sheds scattered across the land provided Jonny with the opportunity to get cracking straight away to create: a) a carpentry workshop where he could make his timber frames, and b) a little cabin in the garden. Little did we know that we would end up living in both of these glorified sheds years later at various points along our renovation journey!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - Behind the peeling wallpaper, damp render and leaky roof, was a beautiful old Victorian school house, full of history, just waiting to be brought back into use as a family home.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Over the next six months while the conveyancing took place, we spent our weekends exploring the surrounding Howgills and having picnics in the garden, pretending it was already ours, and sketching out extension and re-jigged layout plans.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - When we pulled the oven out we discovered asbestos behind it, one thing led to another, and soon the entire kitchen was in a pile in the garden.</image:title>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - Happily the slightly melted dishwasher still worked perfectly and a couple of years later when we had it serviced we discovered it was 18 years old!</image:title>
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      <image:caption>There’s nothing quite like starting to build a temporary kitchen on the 6th of December when both sides of the family are descending for Christmas in a few weeks time! But having a deadline to work to is a surprisingly effective incentive we’ve learned (two babies, an extension and completed renovation later!)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House…</image:title>
      <image:caption>But the trouble with renovating is that you tend to get carried away when you make exciting discoveries. Once we’d begun taking the kitchen apart, we lifted a carpet tile to find some lino, and of course couldn’t resist seeing what was underneath that… ! We assumed the original Victorian floorboards had long gone, but there they were, in fantastic condition, made out of the kind of pine that just doesn’t exist these days (if you know the smell you know what I mean!)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - One week into living at Ridge House and we were already down a kitchen, bathroom and bedroom… (I’ll save the latter for another blog post!)</image:title>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - We inherited three shed-fulls of useful items collected over the years, including a cake tin full of pennies and three Belfast sinks.</image:title>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - With the cost of the vast extension stacking up (and our wedding to pay for) we jumped at the opportunity to re-use what we found lying around.</image:title>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - Thankfully, by the end of that first month, Jonny had managed to finish our temporary plywood kitchen, and we were able to host our first Christmas in Ridge House.</image:title>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - Still intent on saving money for the real kitchen 3 years down the line, Jonny put his plumbing skills to good use and fashioned a tap out of copper pipe (a skill he has recently expanded on to include copper loo-roll holders).</image:title>
      <image:caption>(It’s debatable whether the copper taps were actually any cheaper than conventional ones, but that’s besides the point!)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>It turns out that filling a small house with people helps with the lack of central heating! We were immensely grateful to come across a vast store of coal in one of the sheds (which gave us a clue that there must be an open fire-place behind the built in electric heater) so we just about managed to stay warm enough (Still went to bed with wooly hats on and had to scrape ice off the insides of the windows each morning!)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - Our cats, Isambard and Leo, made the most of the one functioning storage heater in the house, in lieu of the Aga we’d promised them once the kitchen extension was built.</image:title>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - Meanwhile we all endured the compulsory Christmas Day fell run with extended family.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Much like this blog post, our work at Ridge House suffered from a bit of mission creep, so I will leave you with a couple of before and afters from that first month at Ridge House, to what it looks like today - eight years later.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - The master bedroom in 2017 (complete with both wet and dry rot!)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Water was coming in from all directions - window, walls and roof!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - How it looks now, after we re-roofed, stripped the cement render from the walls outside and let it dry out for a few years. We then insulated internally with sheep’s wool and wood fibre board, and finished the walls in tongue and groove boarding painted in Farrow and Ball’s Setting Plaster.</image:title>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - Sadly the blue bathroom suite didn’t make it out in one piece!</image:title>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - We picked Farrow and Ball’s Arsenic after finding it on all the old doors once we stripped them back.</image:title>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The day we fell in love with Ridge House… - And of course after a year of living in our (finally) beautifully finished house, we wanted nothing more than to swap it for this! (Hoping this won’t take us quite as long!) So yes, despite the highs and lows of renovating Ridge House, we are totally addicted to the process. But on the plus side that means we get to share Ridge House with all our lovely guests, who have so much appreciation for it. (This is also slightly addictive! Yes, I do a little dance every time one of you leaves us a 5 star review!) So thank you for sharing our love of Ridge House, and thank you for choosing it for your special occasion, celebration or holiday. And we hope to see you again soon!</image:title>
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      <image:caption>We kept the original doors and removed the modern MDF panels they’d been covered in (painted in that charming gloss white of the 70s). Underneath were remnants of the various paint colours that had been used over the years, including a bright turquoise which is pretty close to Farrow &amp; Ball’s Arsenic. We used this as inspiration for our colour palette when decorating the house and decided to leave the old doors as they were in their mish-mash of colours. I think it does a nice job of showing how the house has changed over the last 150 years.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The History of Ridge House - I came across this sketch of Ridge House whilst digging around in the Sedbergh archives. It shows the original configuration of the building when it was first built as a school in 1877. There were two entrance porches at either side of the main hall - one for girls and one for boys. The yard at the back was also split in two so that girls and boys played separately. My guess is that the long shed behind the school was an outdoor privy.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Today, our timber framed extension sits in what would’ve been the children’s play area. The chimney was long gone when we came along but the two little windows in the rear elevation are still there and we’ve kept them visible internally so you can still read the history of the building. These two little windows were what we used as inspiration when designing our ‘link’ between the new roof and the old.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The History of Ridge House - This window still had the original fluted glass of the 1880s intact so we cleaned it up and left it in. Now it looks through from the hall into the kitchen, and lets light from the spacious and airy kitchen-diner into the dark and cosy Victorian side of the house.</image:title>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The History of Ridge House - This is the same window from the other side - the cosy reading nook in the kitchen-diner. Jonny cleverly made a new oak window cill for it which spills out into the room to create a floating bookshelf - handy for all those heavy recipe books!</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Sadly this window had already been removed - presumably in the 70s when the old flat-roofed extension was built and it became an internal window. So rather than reinstate glass we made it into a little nook or shelf. Given its location halfway up the stairs it is now a magnet for small children to play in (what is it they love about tiny spaces!?)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The History of Ridge House - This photo was another gem from the archives, and my guess is it’s from the early 1900s. We’re pretty sure it shows how the school’s principal elevation would have originally looked when it was built in 1877.  If you have a keen architectural eye you’ll notice that the original windows on the front elevation are much smaller and higher in 1877 than they are today. This was apparently so that the school children couldn’t get distracted by the view of the fells! (I’m so glad we’ve moved on from this in our educational philosophy!) When it was a school, the whole building was one room internally, and it was open to the eaves. When it was converted to a house in the 1950s, a first floor was inserted to provide bedrooms upstairs, so the windows had to be dropped.</image:title>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The History of Ridge House - This photo is from 2020, when we’re halfway through re-roofing. These were the windows that were presumably put in when Ridge House was converted from a school into a house in the 1950s. You can see a very subtle change in the pointing and stonework showing where the windows used to sit. These windows were falling apart when we bought the house, so we replaced them with traditional sliding sash timber windows.</image:title>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The History of Ridge House - When we replaced the windows, we spent a lot of time trying to decide what configuration of window to go for. The original 1977 windows had small panes (in those days large sheets of glass were expensive) and we think from the configuration that they were possibly tilt-openers rather than traditional sash windows (presumably cheaper?) In the end we went for 2-over-2 sash windows as we felt like the proportions worked (we weren’t massive fans of the 1950s 1-over-2 arrangement!)</image:title>
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      <image:title>BLOG - The History of Ridge House - We believe that the owner of Ridge House when we bought it in 2017 was the grandson of the man who’d originally converted to a house in 1955. We inherited three garden sheds full to the brim of all sorts of bits and bobs from the last half century, including (to our delight) the original Victorian desks from the school, complete with inkwells and the carved initials of bored pupils.</image:title>
      <image:caption>When it came to renovating the original part of the house in 2023 Jonny carefully sanded and oiled these and installed them as window-seats in the sitting room and the snug. I’m yet to find out who ‘PVS’ and ‘TW’ are, but I have faith that some knowledgeable person in our lovely community in Sedbergh will eventually enlighten us!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>BLOG - Our Staycation at Ridge House - The reality of 4 kids under 5, 3 adults, 2 dogs to walk and trying to film content, meant that Jonny volunteered to take the kids to soft play one morning (The Hive is only 15 minutes down the road and a favourite haunt of mine on a rainy day) while Athena and I got to do a child free walk (unheard of!) with just her youngest in the carrier and our two dogs. We headed towards Cautley Spout which is my go to local walk from the door.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>The photos make it look like an utterly idyllic weekend - which of course it was. But the chaos that comes with 4 small children was ever-present - especially with the rollercoaster of emotions around a holiday with best friends and a party!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>BLOG - Our Staycation at Ridge House - But of course when you look back all you remember are the small moments of joy, watching your children play and explore. And even though this is (was?) our home, it still felt like a holiday. It didn’t make me regret us not living at Ridge House, because living somewhere and going on holiday there are two totally different things. Ridge House is a house to be shared, to host in, a house for slow dark mornings and long evenings relaxing in front of the fire. A house to share with friends and family and slow down, in a way you only can when on holiday.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>A black and white dog lying on a patio outside a glass sliding door.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kitchen with a wooden dining table, green and black cabinets, hanging lights, and a sliding glass door leading outside to a patio with outdoor chairs and a dog.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kitchen and dining area with a wooden table, chairs, a dark green open shelf with dishes and kitchen appliances, and a refrigerator.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bright kitchen with large window overlooking green yard, wooden dining table, black shelves, and modern appliances.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dining area with large wooden table, bench and chairs, leading to an outdoor patio with wooden furniture and stone steps.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rustic kitchen with dark green cabinets, wooden dining table, benches, chairs, and a mix of modern and vintage decor.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kitchen with wooden countertops, black paneling, and a window with a view of blooming pink and purple flowers outside. There are various kitchen utensils hanging on hooks, a jar with kitchen utensils, a kettle, and a vase of purple tulips on the windowsill.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bright kitchen with large window showing outdoor garden, wooden dining table with chairs, black cabinets, white farmhouse sink, and various kitchen utensils.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kitchen shelf with two labeled jars, one containing coffee grounds and the other with tea bags, and four decorative mugs hanging from hooks, each with different patterns of cityscapes and animals.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kitchen with large wooden table, bench, and chairs, black cabinetry, window overlooking garden with trees and flowers, and hanging light fixtures.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kitchen with dark green cabinets, wooden countertops and a large kitchen table in front of a large window overlooking a garden.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Laundry room with a washing machine, a small basket on top, and four blue labeled storage bins for plastic/tins, paper/card, glass, and overflow.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>A wooden shelf holding a jar of laundry pegs labeled 'Pegs' and a cream-colored container with a handle and lid. Below the shelf is a white Bosch washing machine. In the background, there is a wall with an electrical socket.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Living room with a black piano, a gray sofa with blankets, a bookshelf filled with colorful books, armchairs, a wood stove, and windows with floral curtains.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>A cozy corner with a window revealing a hillside covered in yellow flowers, floral curtains, a framed picture on a wooden window sill, a black radiator, and a wooden rocking chair with a cushion, a blanket, and a dark shirt draped over it.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Cozy living room with green-paneled walls, a wood stove, a rocking chair, an armchair with floral patterns, and a staircase, decorated with books, framed pictures, and blankets.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Cozy living room with green paneled walls, a large window, a bookshelf filled with colorful books, a rocking chair with a checkered pillow, a wood stove, a floral armchair, and a patterned rug.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>An upright piano in a cozy room with a large window showing a scenic landscape outside, curtains with a floral pattern, and a radiator underneath the window.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Living room with a gray sofa, colorful throw pillows, a yellow blanket, a wooden stool, a large bookshelf filled with books, two windows with floral curtains, a rocking chair, a wood stove, a patterned rug, and a glimpse of an armchair with a floral upholstery.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Cozy living room with a bookshelf, a gray sofa with blankets, a wood stove, an armchair, and large windows with floral curtains.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Living room with a dark sofa, colorful throw pillows, a wooden side table, a patterned rug, a blue bookshelf filled with books, two windows with floral curtains, a rocking chair, and a view of a hillside outside.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Living room with a black upright piano, a gray sofa with multiple colorful pillows and a yellow blanket, a large green bookshelf filled with books, a window with floral curtains, a small wooden stool, and a wooden chest with a book on top.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A flat-screen TV on a wooden cabinet in a room with white walls</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Living room with a flat-screen TV on a wooden cabinet, two framed topographic maps on the wall, a beige sofa with yellow, pink, and purple cushions, a wicker basket with magazines, and a patterned rug on dark hardwood floor.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Entrance hall with wooden coat rack, wall-mounted lamps, and view into living room with green wall and armchair.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Interior of a room with dark blue paneled walls, a window showing a grassy outdoor landscape, a framed print with trees and the quote "Let's run away to a place in the mountains," and an orange glass vase with dried plants on the windowsill.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>A row of seven books about the Wisconsin landscape and wildlife stands on a wooden windowsill next to a hedgehog-shaped sculpture made of metal. The window shows an outdoor scene with green and yellow trees.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>View of green hills with yellow flowering shrubs through a window, reflecting in a mirror, with books at the bottom.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>A corner of a room with dark blue wooden panel walls, a white vintage sink, a small window with a wooden sill, a teal vase with dried flowers, framed photos on the wall, and a geometric light fixture.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Interior of a bathroom with a wooden toilet seat, blue paneled walls, copper pipes, a black radiator, framed pictures, and a window with green foliage outside.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>A small bathroom with dark blue wooden panel walls, a white sink, a toilet with a wooden seat, a gray radiator, a small window with a vase of dried flowers, copper pipes, a soap dispenser, and a framed picture on the wall.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>A windowsill with a row of books, a decorative hedgehog figurine, and a mirror with a gold ornate frame in a room with blue walls and a view of green hills and yellow flowers outside.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dried flowers in a teal pitcher on a wooden windowsill inside a blue-walled room with a view of trees and mountains outside.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A glass jar containing dried flowers on a wooden shelf next to a staircase with white walls and wood paneling.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>View of a countryside landscape with leafless trees, green hills, and cloudy sky, seen between two rooftops with weathered wooden shingles.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>View of an interior hallway showing two open bedroom doors with a window, a small rug on the white floor, and a black nightstand with a lamp in one bedroom.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>A window with a black frame and brass handle overlooking a green outdoor landscape with trees and grass, partially covered by white curtains with green fern patterns.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bathroom with dark blue wooden wall panels, a bathtub, a toilet with a wooden seat, a sink with a mirror, a window with trees outside, and a walk-in shower with beige herringbone tiles.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bathroom with a walk-in shower, a blue vanity with a sink, a mirror, a wall-mounted light, a towel, and a vintage-style bathtub with a brass faucet.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Toilet paper dispenser made of copper pipes mounted on a dark blue wooden wall.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Close-up of a shiny chrome kitchen faucet with a white handle, attached to a flexible hose, installed over a white sink with a dark wooden wall in the background.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Close-up of a wooden windowsill with three brown soap dispensers, overlooking a scenic outdoor landscape with trees, flowering shrubs, and cloudy sky.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bathroom with navy blue wood-paneled walls, white tile floor, white toilet with wooden seat, navy blue vanity with a white sink, bathtub with wood trim, and a window with a ledge holding three red bottles, a mirror, and a wicker basket.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A bed with white pillows and a black and gold metal headboard next to a small nightstand with a white lamp, under a sloped ceiling with exposed wooden beams.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>A cozy bedroom with white bedding, a patterned armchair, a wooden dresser with a lamp and books, and a window with floral curtains, located in an attic space with sloped ceiling and exposed wooden beams.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>View from inside a room through a double-pane window, showing a green hillside, trees, and a cloudy sky outside. Part of a floral curtain is visible on the right.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>A cozy bedroom with a sloped ceiling, pink walls, a window with floral curtains showing a green landscape outside, a queen bed with white bedding, a black radiator under the window, a patterned armchair, and a wooden dresser.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>Inside a house with a wooden window sill, a window showing green hills and trees, a framed note on the window sill, and floral curtains.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>View through doorway into a small bathroom with a sloped ceiling, wooden beams, a shower with a colorful curtain, a toilet, and a small sink with a towel.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Small bathroom with a walk-in shower, a colorful curtain, a mirror, and brass taps over a sink.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>GALLERY</image:title>
      <image:caption>A shower area with a colorful floral and animal print shower curtain, white tiled walls, and a chrome showerhead and fixtures.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Open notebook on wooden table with handwritten journal entry dated March 21-24, 2023, about a trip to Edinburgh with mentions of family, first experiences, and enjoying the weekend.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A handwritten thank you note in a journal, dated March 11, 2025, expressing gratitude for a visit to a beautiful home, mentioning the garden and scenery around Kingston New Bridge.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Handwritten thank you note in a guestbook, dated Easter 2023, with a floral doodle in the corner, expressing gratitude for a visit and mentioning family members.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Handwritten letter dated 2nd May 2023, addressed to Mary and Jonny, expressing gratitude for their hospitality and describing their house and garden. The letter is signed from the Lytwood family.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A handwritten letter in a notebook with a wooden surface background.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A handwritten journal entry dated May 11, 2025, describing a week of outdoor activities, including weather, farm chores, and enjoying local countryside.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A handwritten note in a guestbook dated May 19, 2023, addressed to Johnny and Mary, expressing gratitude and describing a stay in a garden during warm weather, with wishes to return.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A handwritten letter on a white page, open on a wooden surface. The letter is addressed to Johnny and Mary, thanking them for a wonderful trip and describing enjoyable moments, including playing board games and sitting by a fire. The handwriting is cursive and slightly tilted.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A handwritten note in a guestbook dated June 13, 2023, expressing gratitude for a visit, mentioning the scenic views, harmony, and a desire to revisit next year, signed by Heda, Laura, and Matt.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A handwritten journal entry dated June 14th to 18th, 2025, describing a visit to a house with a cheerful atmosphere, exploring the local area, and enjoying delicious sausages from a butcher that is highly recommended.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A handwritten letter on white paper with black ink, dated June 29th - July 5th, 2025, describing enjoying time at the Heath and visiting local farms and towns in Weybridge, Surrey.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A handwritten travel journal entry on a white page recounting a visit to Liverpool from August 12th to 15th, 2023. The entry describes enjoying a mini-break with family, exploring the house and garden, playing with toys, reading children's books, and visiting a farm. It includes signatures from family members and handwritten notes, with a small heart and smiling face doodle.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A handwritten letter dated August 26, 2023, on cream-colored paper, addressed to a family, mentioning a wonderful stay at a cottage near a lagoon, with appreciation for the hosts and their books, signed by Vicky, Keanu, and Georgia.</image:caption>
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