Three country piles (needing piles of cash)
I'm starting this post in tears. The angry sort, not the tragic sort. And not because the end of the world has got any closer, but because I'm having to start this post. Again. Having lost six hours work with a single wrong key stroke in my final paragraph. Also, telling me you've been there too won't help right now. Let's just get on with it shall we, bearing in mind version one was much jollier; this version involves gritted teeth. House No. 1 (above) sent to me by reader Lawrence (back from Latvia) is part Hobbit home in the Shires and part second little pig rustic. But it is adorable and easily my favourite of the three. Also it comes with 24 acres. The house, near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire , has had the same occupant for 40 years who clearly had a ball here in this hidden home in a copse in its fields - working, painting... There's an occupancy restriction (agriculture/equestrian) but personally I'm a big fan of anything that would stop it being tu...