Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a great favourite of the Insight Team at Defaqto, with his idyllic cottage lifestyle, his love of great food, and his shop in Axminster being particularly appealing. Living near to a river sounds like absolute Heaven.
But what about all those other people whose addresses are ‘River Cottage’, or ‘Millstream House’ and the like? I’m talking about those people who live close to rivers. The summer floods have brought home how vulnerable some homes are to potential climate change, and how ill prepared out infrastructure is to cope with unseasonal rainfall. Many of those people whose houses were flooded this year are still not back in their homes for Christmas, and will be lucky to get back for Easter.
