Grass Roots Magazine

We Bought the Tip

y wife and I, and our daughter and her husband had decided to pool our resources and buy some acreage on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. We had little trouble selecting the third property that we viewed. It was 10 acres of part bush, part pasture, fenced and ready for livestock. There were stables and a horse arena, to which our daughter was immediately attracted. It also had a boomerang dam, a large shed partly converted for living and an old Queenslander that was shrouded with

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