North & South

ABOUT TIME

SOMETIMES people ask me how I spend my time. The answer is simple: I waste it. Not intentionally, but I do have a knack for taking a simple situation and making it sticky.

Last week, I whipped down to the paddocks with a 15kg spray-pack on my back to attack thistles before dinner. I took a shortcut over the dried-out wetland and stopped,

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