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<p>The Sunrise presenter Edwina Bartholomew and her fiancee, writer Neil Varcoe are soon accepting guests at their farm at Glen Alice, west of the Blue Mountains.</p>
<p>The past year has been a busy time for the couple of six years, having renovating their 1890s farm house, Warramba along with resting and rejuvenating the land. </p>
<p><img src="https://www.urban.com.au/images/2017/09/19/Screen%20Shot%202017-09-19%20at%2010.49.35%20AM.png" alt=""></p>
<p>They paid $430,000 for the charming 19th century sandstone cottage through Mudgee agent Peter Druitt.</p>
<p>It's been since redesigned with the help of one of Edwina's school friends, Felicity Slattery from Melbourne's Studio Esteta.</p>
<p><img src="https://www.urban.com.au/images/2017/09/19/Screen%20Shot%202017-09-19%20at%2010.50.57%20AM.png" alt=""></p>
<p>They have the <a href="https://www.warramba.com.au" target="_blank">farm stay website</a> up and running, with plans to build a farm stay cabin over summer.</p>
<p>The couple have also teamed up with events company Under Sky to offer a glamping experience.</p>
<p>Her Channel Seven colleagues haven't been up to the retreat yet, however they'll be their for Bartholomew and Varcoe's nuptials next year.</p>
<p><img src="https://www.urban.com.au/images/2017/09/19/Screen%20Shot%202017-09-19%20at%2010.51.56%20AM.png" alt=""></p>
<p>The property is just outside Lithgow where Varcoe grew up, some 225 kilometres from Sydney in the Central Tablelands.</p>
<p>The home was restored by a previous owner with a stonemason using sandstone from the same quarry on the Huntington estate that the original stone was drawn from.</p>
<p><img src="https://www.urban.com.au/images/2017/09/19/Screen%20Shot%202017-09-19%20at%2010.53.35%20AM.png" alt=""></p>
<p>Neil and Edwina have welcomed a fold of Scottish Highland Cattle — the oldest registered breed in the world - who have been named Billy Connolly; Ewan McGregor; Susan Boyle; Annie Lennox, Tilda Swinton and Shirley Manson.</p>
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<p>"We get down there every spare minute we have."</p>
<p>Bartholomew said they get to the farm whenever possible from their Sydney base, a recently purchase Dulwich Hill home.</p>
<p>They settled on the 1870s terrace earlier this year, just before they announced their engagement.</p>
<p>Spending around $1.5 million, the three bedroom home is another doer-upper, according to Edwina.</p>
<p>It takes three hours to get to the farm.</p>
<p>"It would be too far for some people but we absolutely love it.</p>
<p>"We rarely turn the radio on and just use the time to catch up."</p>
<p>Kangaroos, wombats, goannas, birds — including the endangered Regent Honeyeater — frequent the farm.</p>
<p>Bartholomew began her career in the TV industry when she won a Sunrise intern competition where she progressed from making coffee to producing the show.</p>
<p>She covered the Beijing Olympics for the Seven Network (and reported for Seven News) before signing on as Sunrise's Sydney correspondent replacing Simon Reeve.</p>
<p>This article first appeared in the Daily Telegraph.</p>
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