THE SIMPLE PATH

Buying an old house and farm in Tarn, France, set Phillip and Kevin on a ten-year path to learn how to do everything themselves in order to transform it.

Words RACHEL MORRIS

You stand on the high lip of the property, looking over its young orchard, and across a valley of sunflower and barley fields to the woods on the opposite ridge. On the horizon you see the outline of church spires, and the gentle undulations of the Black Mountains. People lie beside the pool on this ridge for hours, watching the sky, glad not to be on the plane. Time seems slower here. Bliss can be planned for, but sometimes it is stumbled upon. Phillip Hill, from Wales, and his Scottish husband Kevin lived in South London for years. Kevin works for British Airways and Phillip is a visual merchandiser. Together they renovated their London flat, then a house, and then sold them. But all along, they dreamed of a home…

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Womankind (Digital) - 1 Issue, June - August 2021

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