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WINNING LETTER

Time to reflect

Monique van Deventer of Hilton, KZN writes Since we bought our 10ha ‘fixer-upper’ smallholding six years ago, we’ve had plans drawn up and shelved, then redrawn and passed – and now we’ve canned the whole design and gone back to the drawing board for something more modest and affordable.

In January, my husband left to work abroad for six weeks and I spent a lot of time on my New Year’s resolution to declutter and surprise him by repainting the inside of the house Innovation category), I reflected on this statement: “Living more deliberately with less”.

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