Edwina Bartholomew’s husband makes shocking admission to plan in the middle of their unique housing scheme: ‘We were fools’

Renovations of the country New South Wales pub in the middle of Edwina Bartholomew And husband Neil Varcoe’s unique housing scheme have hit a snag.

Neil is located in Carcoar (POP. 271), in the NSW Central West region, which supervises the renovation of the expired former guest house Zij Bought for just over $ 1 million in May 2023While Edwina lives in it Sydney For her job at seven o’clock.

Earlier this year, the popular Sunrise star and her husband, who finally received two children, Molly, Five and Tom, three, approval to continue their dream to convert the building into a luxury outing called ‘Saltash Farm’.

Writing in his bi -monthly column for Galah Magazine, Neil revealed that the long -term renovation is still not complete.

“We expected that we would be open now. We were fools, “he wrote.

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“Everyone is a fool in the beginning. You pick a timeline out of the air and then tell yourself that you are at the front or behind. Usually behind. How strange. ‘

Neil added that he stopped placing an end date on the project, because the aesthetics will take a while to ‘contract’.

‘Saltash Farm is a large, beautiful, complex being. It is a heritage building in a village protected by the National Trust, “he wrote.

‘Saltash must both fit in and stand out. It must feel old, familiar, but look new and fresh. It is a wild contradiction, and that has been put together.

“I don’t talk about when it will open. I just say it will take as long as needed to do it well. ‘

In 2024, Edwina spoke with realestate.com.au that the couple was determined to finish the project, despite recently diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia.

“We are moving forward with this incredible project, despite this health test,” said Edwina.

“I love being in the country. It will be wonderful to have more time with family to enjoy life at a slower pace. ‘

She added that working in the house would help her keep busy and take her thoughts from her diagnosis of cancer.

‘This is a condition that I will manage and with which I will live. Our renovation has been a wonderful distraction and will stay in the coming months, “Edwina continued.

Edwina also revealed that she only sees her husband of seven years in the weekend and holidays.

The diagnosis of the chronic fatigue syndrome of Neil led him to leave Sydney and move to the regional New South Wales – a movement that she claims ‘really heal him’.

“That was a decision that we had to make for ourselves a few years ago, because what we did clearly did not work,” she told Australian Women’s Weekly.

“He lives three hours away from us, and we see him on weekends and vacation and back and forth, but it was the best, and probably the only way we would have survived as a family.”

Earlier this year, Edwina confirmed to Daily Mail Australia that her family is indeed planning to leave Sydney for a day – but that is still a free way.

“We would like to settle in the country,” she said.

“But we’re not in a hurry.

“We have the best of both worlds and will continue to juggle with the back and forth for the near future.”

“Our family schedule and WhatsApp chat from who is true and what happens is absolutely strange,” she added.

“There are enough moments when we thought” what we did “, but we are determined to build a beautiful company in what we think is the most beautiful city in New South Wales.”

In the meantime, Edwina shared an update of the emotional cancer during the lunch by Marie Claire’s International Women’s Day in March.

The TV star got frank during the event about how CML – a kind of blood and bone marrow cancer – had influenced her life.

‘I was lucky that I was a month where I knew it before I told everyone. I had this experience without going through the trauma of chemotherapy, “Edwina started.

‘[The cancer] Was a gift because it put things in perspective … I didn’t have to withstand a real intense experience of “in” cancer and absorbed through it. “

The diagnosis of Edwina is a ‘mild’ form of leukemia and can often be managed without having to undergo chemotherapy.