Talbingo

... have been for her.

Like, imagine it, she's come from Talbingo, from the snowy mountains.

Yeah.

You know, real bush girl kind of stuff.

Okay, so imagine that silhouette.

She's riding with her first child, making this treacherous journey to Old Talbingo in Monaro, New South Wales, up from Canberra, because she wants to labor with her mother by her side.

Mm.

Something quite common at that time.

Yep

... who are all around them, who socialize with them, and you really get a sense of that in the book, My Brilliant Career.

When she visits her grandmother at Talbingo, she was the first granddaughter in a house, as I said, that is just teeming with-

Yeah