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I have some exciting news to share... I have moved to Great Malvern! While Hereford is still deeply in my heart - being my childhood home, my close family there - I am really looking forward to digging my heels into the Malvern hillside both figuratively and literally. A huge selling point for my husband and I are the train links, so I can be back in beautiful Herefordshire in minutes while he has connections to his own home in London.

Not to mention the absolutely stunning landscape, musical and literary history that Malvern has to offer. Walking down the same steep paths as C S Lewis, Tolkien and Elgar once did has a haunting magic about it, brimming with creative inspiration from the architecture to the Victorian gas lamps (still in use today) to the natural wells.

There's a magnetic pull for me here, and I am excited to see how Great Malvern will inspire my future design practice.

"All about them were small woods of resinous trees, fir and cedar and cypress, and other kinds unknown in the Shire, with wide glades among them; and everywhere there was a wealth of sweet-smelling herbs and shrubs ... Here Spring was already busy about them: fronds pierced moss and mould, larches were green-fingered, small flowers opening in the turf, birds were singing."

- J R R Tolkien from LOTR: The Two Towers