I want to buy a deer sanctuary,’ I said to my husband Denis, then 35, as we stood in the kitchen.
He looked at me like I’d lost my mind – and I didn’t blame him. I could barely believe it myself.
Aged 37, I was mum to Matilda, then eight, Clancy, six, Opal, four, and Goldie, two. Denis is away a lot, being in the army, we didn’t have the money to buy a property, I had no experience living on the land... and I’m allergic to animals.
‘You don’t know anything
