the long game

Built in 1911, the house, dubbed Rothiemay, belonged to the Humphries family right up until the Turners purchased it in 1992

For Darren Turner, there are no shortcuts in life. “You lay one brick on top of the other until you get a wall,” he says. And although he may be speaking metaphorically, this pretty much became his reality when he and his wife, Tess, bought their current family home in South Australia’s Naracoorte, a rural town 336 kilometres south-east of Adelaide.

Built in 1911, the house, dubbed Rothiemay, belonged to the Humphries