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A GOOD YARN

SOAKING UP THE COMFORTING warmth of the morning sun against a backdrop of blooming Blue Moon roses, Nick Bradford considers the transformation of the four hectares he shares with wife Kylie and son Zachary, 12, at Nundle in north-west NSW. “I think we’ve created a utopia here,” Nick reflects, musing on their purchase of an overgrown block and house, and taming it during the past six years, clearing away rubbish, building a new Federation-style house,

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