Andrew, with regard to the bush scene and it being close to your home, sounds like you are living in an interesting area. We used to have a backyard that looked like that and after showing some childhood pictures to a city occupant some years ago, she remarked that it must have been wonderful to have grown up in an environment like that; it was.
But, funnily enough, when I was living in the bush, all I wanted to do was live in town, or even maybe a city.
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Mick.