When Michelle Pears goes to work, locals smile and tourists wonder. She usually leaves home as a clown, a fairy or a bee but these days she has to share her world of make-believe online.
A magic paddock for a purple house
"I always thought there was something magical about seeing the sea, having lived inland in my childhood," she said."I walked over the bank and there were five swans swimming down the rivulet, and I just knew that this was my place," she said."Well I actually said, 'If we don't buy this, I'm divorcing you!'"The Pears raised their two sons in the Purple Pear Cottage that Mr Pears built.
"I think all up I'd have thousands of costumes, and when I'm too old to be bouncing around or buzzing around as a bee I think I'll open my own costume shop."
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