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LUCY HOUSTON WALKS along the pebbly Tasmanian beach with her younger sister Bonnie. Their border collie Floss trots steadily ahead, turning occasionally to check on the pair. Lucy is nine, the same age her father Alastair was when he went to Scotland’s Isle of Skye. “My great grandmother had her 100th birthday and we went over from Tasmania for the party. Her family had a beautiful house on the Isle of Skye called Talisker,” explains Alastair, whose mother Primula grew up holidaying on this Inner Hebrides island. “We stayed there for three

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