The back story

We had lived in Essex for over twenty years bringing up our family of one daughter and one dog. Our house was comfortable and modern and suited our needs; well placed for good schools for the daughter, green space for the dog and inside the M25 and all its connections for Alan's work in the automotive industry. When the cancer diagnosis came, the preceding years became the golden ones and the future looked very uncertain. Our beloved dog had died just 6 months before and our beyond beloved Sarah was in her first term at university. But this isn't about that........Alan survived, took early retirement, bought a house in Liguria and we put our Essex home on the market.