Lot, France: House From Straw

Mark and Deborah (Debbie) Sampson and daughter, Tilley, like to practice an ecologically sound way of life.

Deborah works as an aromatherapist, while Mark is a writer of training manuals for his livelihood but with ambitions to be a novelist.

Together, the family's over-riding desire is to make a statement about who they are and how they choose to live their life, and to be accepted for the way they are by the local people.

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