Giving up corporate law to marry her polo coach has given Josephine El worthy a life that fils like a new pair of riding gloves. It is fair to say Josephine Elworthy did not fall for her polo coach because of his house. When the Clevedon-based lawyermet then professional polo player Nick Jones, he was living in rural south-eastern Auckland in a ramshackle farm cottage whose former residents included a flock of wandering sheep and half a dozen cigarette-smoking stable hands.By the time Josephine came along, Nick had begun repairs, peeled off countless layers of wallpaper, cleaned up the ovine manure and nicotine stains and tacked on a couple of single men's huts, purchased from the Huntly Power Station site. But the roof still leaked and so did the sewage system. The original kauri timber portion of the home dates back to the 1870s, but Josephine suspects that the stained brown carpet she encountered was "about 400 years old".
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