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Makepeace McEvoy: To Northstowe, via death's door

"I was keen to get out of Sheffield, but my plan was to return to the Lake District.  I had no idea that the Lord wanted me in Northstowe, which was the last place I would ever have chosen!  But at the end of March 2016, I fell flat on my face in the middle of Manchester Piccadilly Station - the first sign that my balance was deteriorating - and two or three months later I was fighting for my life in the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, with acute bowel ischaemia.  And from then on, life was never the same again."