Character cottage near Sudeley Castle, Hailes Abbey, Cotswold Way, Cleeve Common

I run Apricot Online. We educate SEND children (www.apricotlearningonline.co.uk). Love helping these children get their education and reinvent themselves as learners.

I have two beagles and live in a cabin in the garden behind the house. Very bohemian -- which is not how anyone who knows me would describe me.

Mostly I'll be working from my cabin by day and enjoying movies in the evenings. So, I'm around if you need me, but will try to stay out of your way while you're visiting. I will only pop through the house to water my allotment.

I love this old Anglo-Saxon village -- though we're actually a town now. Winchcombe is an area of outstanding natural beauty and I love imagining Henry VIII riding back from a hunt to see his wife, Catherine Parr at Sudeley Castle. My terrace is called Sudeley View -- and from the master bedroom, when there are no leaves on the trees, and I lean a certain way... I actually do have a view of Sudeley Castle!

It's a great area for walking and there's a field and Rec Centre across the road where my dogs can run. I can just walk to the castle fields for the dogs to have a romp. It's a nice change of scenery for them and me.

I'm also close enough to Stratford-on-Avon for day trips. Cheltenham is about 7 miles down the road if I want to do some proper city shopping. Bristol/Bath and Birmingham are about an hour away by car. There are so many beautiful villages surrounding me -- Broadway, Bourton-on-the-Water, Burford, Stow-on-the-Wold, Chipping Norton, etc. We even have our own steam engine that trundles to Cheltenham and back in the summer. Great for a picnic.

What's not to love?!

200 year old period features -- like the lintels over the doors and windows come from retired ships from Bristol.

So central that you can walk to anything in town.

Courtesy basket of essential items you might have forgotten to pack.

Anti-microbial/Anti-allergy pillow protectors on all the beds.