You escaped the rat race for the cottagecore “good life” aeons ago. Gingham tablecloths and root vegetables from the allotment are important to you, and there’s probably a chic bucket in the larder collecting water from that leak in the thatched roof. This Christmas add an artichoke plate into the ’scape and fill that statement vase with fresh bouquets from the garden — you definitely didn’t buy them at the petrol station …

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