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UNDULATING TERRAIN CHARACTERISED by steep hills and dramatic granite outcrops is typical of fine wool land on the NSW southern tablelands. The winding dirt drive on Chris and Margot Shannon’s 1450-hectare property, Talmo, located at Bookham, about 32 kilometres west of Yass, is no different. Rugged hills of granite and limestone meet the skyline on one side, then drop into a gentle rolling landscape dotted with eucalypts on the other. “There is nothing better than driving home,” Margot says. “Coming down the driveway fringed by the big granite boulders, with the Burrinjuck hills in the background,