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Joanne Ridout

'I was looking for a country cottage but found myself refurbishing a town centre building with a shop'

You know what it's like - you're looking for your dream Welsh country cottage but end up buying a huge, three-storey big building in the centre of a town with a rundown shop instead.

That certainly wasn't the property plan and pathway that Ceri Lee was expecting when she decided to move back home to Wales from Essex but now, after a lot of drama, trauma and annoying Welsh weather, she couldn't be happier.

Ceri, originally from the north west of England but who has strong ties to north Wales, was living at the time in Essex with her two sons. She was looking for a new location for a new chapter in her life and the choice was not a hard one - Wales.

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