Starting over
What do you do when you’ve spent seven years renovating a house and just as you finish, fire rips through and destroys it? That was the nightmare scenario facing Sarah and Shane Watkin and their children Henry, nine, and Alice, six, in March 2019. “We’d just put in the outdoor fire, which was the last piece of the renovation jigsaw,” says Sarah of their 5ha Clevedon property. “But one night it sparked, catching a nearby wooden bench and spreading to the house.”
Fortunately, the family was able to get out, but they lost not only their possessions but
