Goulburn

Queanbeyan, 24 and mostly sunny today.

Goulburn, 25.

Yes, 25.

And Canberra, mostly sunny and 25.

She was 11.

She was killed in a tractor accident down in Goulburn.

Okay.

And the father and uncle, idiots, racing down a hill.

So it was just golf for me.

And probably in hindsight, that was a really good thing because I spent every moment I had at the club, either working on the business, watching the coaches, doing my traineeship I've got practice rounds at every course I play for example everywhere it could be in Goulburn I go for a practice round take the big wheel out we used to just wheel out make a map of a course and play it map it I do never miss it uh train everything never missed anything I completely immersed myself in golf and that part was really helpful because I I got to really good golf pro side, Charlie Pettit, who had oodles of experience.

Vic Bennett, he won the PGA, I think it was in 75.

So I was coaching alongside him.

And she was in South Australia.

And then she moved to Goulburn.

So I would see her two or three times a year.

And she rang my husband, who has a medical background, and she told me that she just had these scans, et cetera, and it was found that she had lung cancer, which was devastating, but it was treatable and she could have an operation, et cetera.

So we'll be back down that way after a Newcastle convoy.

So, yeah, and then a Goulburn convoy and then an Illawarra convoy and then I think you've got another conference on after that somewhere, but, you know.

Yeah, well...

I plan to go to the Goulburn Convoy.

I really want to get to that one because the locals that run that one are just great people and I really want to get to that one.

And there's a...

Yeah.

In orange.

the back of a ram or a sheep that has not been de-sexed.

That's the Goulburn one, is it? Yes, it is, Suze.

That's the back.

We're looking at this now.

The front of it's obviously the ram.

Then behind it, you can see its bits.

What's that? Where is it? Goulburn.

Beautiful.

But my earliest sort of strong memory of experiencing music was I was probably about – I don't know, maybe five or six or something old enough that I could, I mean, small enough that I could still sit on my dad's shoulders.

And he would take me to this festival that happened in my hometown, which as I say, country New South Wales, it's a little place called Goulburn, which is sort of halfway between Canberra and Sydney.

And yeah, not a lot in the way of music experiences back there especially not original music like original live music experiences but once a year this incredible festival would roll through town called the Goulburn Blues Festival and it would bring all sorts of artists from all over Australia and sometimes the world even on the, would come through town for a period of about four or five days and they'd activate at the showgrounds.

There would be like tents and pop-up stages and all sorts of carry on would just appear out of the blue at the show, the local showground.

And my dad would take me every year to see these bands because it was sort of the way it was held out in the open, it was all like family friendly and there was plenty of like alcohol free spaces and things like that, which can be hard to find.

jail.

That was Goulburn.

No, you did Silverwater.

That's right, you did Silverwater.