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Tom Booth

Tom Booth

Illustrator

Sep 1, 2026

7:26
But we have Tom to thank for that.
7:28
Yeah, so the skeleton was actually reburied.
7:30
It was William Cunnington who excavated the skeleton originally.
7:33
And back then, they didn't tend to keep hold of the skeletons like we do now.
7:37
Partly it seems to be because they didn't really think they were very useful for anything.
7:41
So after the skeleton was dug up in 1803, it was reburied back in the barrow.
7:45
And then Colin Schell and...
10:43
And why do you think it was assumed that Stout Woman was actually Stout Man? Is it just a simple case of, oh, well, they were probably a metal worker, so it must have been a man? Or were there more sort of less sexist, more legitimate reasons why you might have assumed
6:07
Hmm.
6:07
Hmm.I think one thing that we decided to do, I can't remember if we talked about this before, but when we decided to work together, we had the idea of like a trial year where we sort of set...
6:20
We did a lot of discussion about what is the point of what we're doing? What's our vision for the future? What do we want the farm to be? What do we want our lives to be like, so we can see if we have like a shared vision.
6:33
And that was really helpful 'cause it, we realised we're on the same page about those sort of big picture things.
6:39
Um, and came up with some things about like, what would it look like if the trial year was successful? We, and we sort of came up with some basic parameters about, you know, that we haven't had to let any customers down, and we all feel like we've worked well together as a team and, you know, a bunch of other sort of parameters for success.
7:03
Um, and I think really the biggest thing about working together in that trial year was that at that time, Nat and Bridie still had Falkland Kitchen Farm, so we worked together across two sites in that first year.
7:15
And we knew that that was gonna be challenging, and that it was sort of a test to see, like, can we really do that long term? Mm-hmm.

21 MINS LATER

28:07
[laughs]
22:48
The sight confronting him is not at all welcome.
22:50
We had our nose into the wind.
22:52
We're still heading towards the, what we hoped was protection of the island, but we had no visibility.
22:58
All of a sudden the, the visibility opened up, and directly ahead of us was another vessel.
23:05
The captain saw it and had to go hard over to starboard, and immediately we felt that wind smash into the boat and, and really keel us over.
23:14
There were six other moored vessels, and it was blind man's buff where everyone had a blindfold on.

19 MINS LATER

41:59
Rarely has the Chuk Lagoon experienced such destructive weather.
42:04
We had no idea where we were on the island, but as we stepped ashore and sort of made our way through the mangroves, it became really clear what the typhoon had done to the island.

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