FULL CIRCLE

TIM AND JO O’BRIEN live at Boggy Creek, a 200-hectare cattle and sheep property west of Tumbarumba on the western edge of the NSW Snowy Mountains. They first lived here together in 1989 as 21-year-old newlyweds, but separated after two years. “It was a lack of maturity and foolishness that saw our marriage end,” says Jo. “It was something that we both came to regret.”

Twenty years on they met again at a horse event. “I used to think about Tim often, about what could have been and what should have been,” Jo says. “To bump into him like that and have a chance to say sorry for what had happened was amazing.” In 2014, Jo and Tim