Justin Heazlewood

Is she taking them tablets?

Because she'd been raised on the farm and not really given a childhood and made to look after her siblings from age nine, she was very good at not really giving me a proper childhood.

She just passed on this legacy of, you're a man now, Justin.

This is at age 11.

So Nan and I would have these pep talks on the swing seat while she's drinking her home brew and I've got my glass of Coke and we'd look out over Nan's sprawling garden that she'd mostly landscaped and built herself.

And Nan would be like, what are we going to do about your mum?

She's not looking real well, is she?

And she'd just be talking at me like I'm another grown-up in the room.

And I just sat there and went, well, okay, I better fire up.

I've got to meet Nan halfway here.

So I wasn't like the other kids, you know.

I don't know what the hell the other kids.

The other kids' biggest problem was I can't find my footy sock and I can't get the video going with the new TV.

My biggest problem was, like, my Nan wants me to keep an eye on my mum to make sure she's taking her tablet.

This is pretty cool.

I mean, when I was eight, I got this good present buying by mum, I believe.

It was a little red sharp cassette boom box.

And the day before the Caulfield Cup 1988, I decided to put tape in and

And I'd obviously been playing with it and recording myself or taping over other tapes and mucking about.

I've got this tape still that has plasticine jammed in the holes so that I could record over it.