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set in stone

Blame the pandemic. Or perhaps a long, shared history of making drastic changes on a whim. Or just the desire to share 'an adventure'. Whatever the cause, it led theatre producer Kerry Comerford and her artist and designer husband, Mark Thompson, to up stakes and buy Battunga homestead and guest cottages near Watervale in South Australia's celebrated wine-producing Clare Valley.

“After 25 years of marriage and living in the same house on Lake Macquarie on the NSW Central Coast, we decided it was time for a change,” Kerry says. “For 20-odd years I'd been living and travelling

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