Australian Country Homes

A PHOENIX RISES

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Lovers of weekend drives to the countryside, beware. It’s not gravel roads, detours or a remote breakdown you need to worry about — it’s the lure of the country life and an irresistible tug at the heart that could end up costing you big time. So it was for Jan and Craig Cock, who live in an old cheese and butter factory in the pretty little enclave of Blakiston in the Adelaide Hills.

“One Saturday in 2002,

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