The sign on the veranda of Leonie Durrant's 100-year-old Hawera cottage reads Costafue, as in "cost a few pennies", "cost a few arguments" and "cost a few banana cakes". Especially the cakes. There's nothing like home baking for giving you a head start when you're building a garden on a budget. When Leonie moved in with her husband Carl and sons Michael and Leslie fifteen years ago, their budget wasn't so much a shoestring as a snapped rubber band. The property was, to put it politely, dilapidated.
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