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THIRTY-ODD YEARS ago, we made the big decision to shift the family's main base to the country, and bought a bare block of land at Tooborac, not far from the precise geographic centre of Victoria. Instead of having to agist our horses at a distance, we could have them handy to the house (after we got the house built, of course); we grew our own vegetables and fruit; we cut our own firewood; we enjoyed doing most of our own fencing, and all the many handyman tasks which can keep you running all the daylight hours.
Of course, on an (eventually) well-manicured mere twenty acres you can't even pretend to be into serious farming, but you can get a very agreeable taste ...