Sarah Kanowski

And he took me to see this property.

And we drove into this property, Happy Valley, up its sort of gravel driveway and rolled in.

And the peacocks are strutting around and the guinea fowl.

And I picked up some guinea fowl feathers.

And we went in.

I met the owner.

who was not well at the time and sitting in a bedroom, not looking very well.

And then his wife came and whisked me away through this grand tour of this incredible property.

Its fireplaces, multiple fireplaces, were bigger than my bathroom.

Yes.

To be really honest, yes.

I thought I was in love with him, but I was also in love with the idea of this romantic rural future.

I wasn't terribly interested in money, but I did love the idea of living with a man that I loved.

on a farm.

What did your friends think about him?

Not many of my friends met him because he cancels so often.

So there were many occasions when he was due to meet my friends and he didn't turn up.

My family met him, my mother met him, my brother met him, my sister-in-law and the kids.

Later they'd tell me they thought he was a

At the time, they were telling me, stop worrying, because I was sharing my anxieties, saying, oh, what if Scott, why is he doing this and what's going on?