It is somewhere we came to walk before I moved here.
We were walking through it at Easter two years ago when I'd just moved back home, when we saw the for sale sign whilst looking up from the benches.
Happily because the estate agent was closed over Easter we shoved a note through the door saying we'd like to view it and left our phone number. I was the first person to look round and because houses were selling very fast then made him an offer. I told him I would be paying cash and he even knocked something off the price thinking he was going to get a carrier bag full of notes!
Mine and next door are probably the only houses that can see the lodges all year round because there is a gap in the trees. Last night I lay on the sofa with the front door open watching the swallows dive en masse over the water. This morning I awoke and sat up in bed to see the Heron in it's usual place by the little island.
I feel very lucky living here, nice views and smashing neighbours, something I never had whilst living in cities.