Richard Scolyer

The farmer was a farmer, a tough guy who'd let me drive on his tractor sometime.

I remember when they're shearing sheep to take off their woolen coats.

So they're both nice to me, but I think like any couple, people have fights, and I remember being scared when that would happen.

I remember that.

I remember there's guns around.

I'd hide underneath the table when there was a fight on.

And, yeah, I never really thought about it until I've become ill with brain cancer.

But people have explained to me that your childhood and how you go through things, and it shapes in part who you become as an adult.

And it seems likely some of the things that happened as a kid has had an impact on me and perhaps...

made me to be a more determined person and when there's issues at times I'll put my head in the sand over them and in some ways it's helped me.

I seem comfortable in, depending on what it is, but pushing things to the side and concentrating on what's most important that what you're trying to achieve.

So yeah, I don't know if that's...

I'm told by experts that it is.

Can I just add one extra thing to what we're talking about, Sarah?

We talked about Bridge North.

That farm's just a bit on from Bridge North.

And whenever I go back to Tasmania now, I love riding bikes on the open roads and I've got a

great mate there, Jim Finlay.

And we'd often go and do this cycle of 100 Ks and we'd go past Bridge North football ground, the farm where my dad grew up, that farm that I lived on when mum was sick and many other relatives' places.

And yeah, poor Jim gets sick of me pointing out and telling him stories about different memories I've got of my time living in that area.