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This is the freedom Jess and Hamish wanted to achieve for their boys and newborn baby girl when they moved to the district.

There are some dare-devil moves going on in the front yard at Myanbah as Jess and Hamish Webb's sons Walter, aged five, and Angus, three years, enjoy the cool of the evening exercising their inexhaustible energy and a friendly measure of sibling rivalry. The Evel Knievels-in-training start with high-speed bikes races then move on to walking the plank on the stone ha-ha wall that, when complete, will simultaneously separate and provide uninterrupted views of the paddocks on the Webbs’ sheep and cattle property near Uralla in the NSW New England region.

For Jess and Hamish, this is precisely the freedom they wanted to achieve for their boys and newborn baby girl, Willa, when they moved to the district in

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