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Farewell notes

3 October 2020

9:00 AM

3 October 2020

9:00 AM

Today on a day of unsurpassable spring glory my wife and I visited the onetime home of her maternal great-grandparents, Robertson in the southern highlands of NSW. Her great-grandfather, in fact, cleared much of the land later employed for extensive farming in that whole area and also built a small stone house – later greatly enlarged by Kerry Packer – in a road named after him: Pearson’s Lane.

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