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The Big Picture
"caravan parks" Discussed on The Big Picture
"The offense, which I had never seen before, I just watched it like a few weeks ago. Isn't that like where the cop he's a cop who loses it in the interrogation room? Yeah, because a young girl has been murdered and he's trying to find the are you trying to get the murderer to confess. Yeah. And it's like a psychological drama, but it has tinges of this kind of a movie that we're talking about here. And when I think about Richie now, in the movies he's making now, it's kind of lume. It doesn't have the same sense of intelligence, I think that a lot of Sydney lem movies have, but that simple, here's where the camera goes. I get excited about my one action sequence and everything else is just kind of like, you know, one shot, what two shot coverage, one shot, two shot coverage. Moving on. Let's go next day. And it's kind of a good fit for these genres too, because you don't want too much ornamental bullshit. Like you need to be excited during the action set piece. And then otherwise, you want to just make sure the guys are entertaining and charming and the frame otherwise. Yeah, that's the only thing that I feel like I'm kind of missing from the more recent guy Richie movies that the early ones definitely had was the early ones had such an incredible sense of place. Like you think about the caravan park that Brad Pitt's in or some of the boxing arenas thunderground boxing places that they go and all the pieces and the taxi drivers and lock stock and you're just like, man, this just feels like so real. And now it feels a lot more like Atlanta, substituting is LA kind of stuff. Yeah. And that's disappointing, but it's also the case for most movies. Yeah, so what is what are the signatures? Is a fish called Wanda, a garbage lads movie? Yeah, so that's a good example of like, I don't think that comedies are exempt from this.
Coming Home
"caravan parks" Discussed on Coming Home
"And I said, well, yeah. Some work was being done to the over 55s units. So it wouldn't be ready to even have a look at for a few weeks. But nien and her worker go up and look through a crack in the blind to get a bit of an idea of what it will be like. On the right hand side, it's just we told it the wall of glass actually. I said, look at all the windows and French doors. And I went, wow. Very light and airy and I said, I love those French doors. I said to marzi look. From what we can see it looks pretty good. And I said, look at this. The bus stops right out front it's about ten steps. There's a bus stop. And the one thing that I that I really loved about it, in front of the house, when you walk out the farm, there's all the footy fields in the soccer fields and I went. I've been spice and that was one of the big things when I was there that I sort of felt, wow. That's really, that's really good. I'm saying I love I'm loving all this space. So naen has three or four weeks to get ready to move into what is hopefully her forever home. It's another move and another mixed bag of emotions. There's also that feeling of God a lot of unpack. I'm in constant pain every day and if I overdo things, I can be totally wiped out for weeks and and let the pain is associate. And that's going to be right through the body. But I said to myself or regardless, you've got to do it, so that's how it was when I moved into the transitional house. Absolutely totally in agony. And there was nothing anyone could do. The best part about that house was there was a bath in it. I struggled to get out of it. But I should at least sort of get a little bit of relief. From that. And I wasn't looking forward to that pain. And I knew it would come and it did. So there is that excitement, but then there's that. You know what's gonna happen? I walked out the back and I thought, wow. This unit has got a big back out on it for a unit, my God is really big. Block at best straight, you're trying to walk out the back door that was stepped the path and then offense. I could have a really nice area here and I looked down the back. And there was a big rosemary bush. And I'm still laying down. I've got a rosemary portion. Oh, wow. And it's big and it's healthy and no one's gonna kill it. It was a really loved rosemary and the art itself was just dirt. But the lady that lived there before me. She was a little Italian lady and that whole backyard was one massive vegetable patch. I'm sort of there and I'm watching things and on her. That's fennel. Okay, tomatoes are coming up. 9 has the dubious honor of being in the fastest growing group of homeless in Australia. There has been a 30% rise in older women's homelessness since 2011. For 9, the years of abuse and control, particularly her partner's refusal to allow her to work for money outside the home. As well as her health issues. Has left her completely dependent on an inadequate social security system. She was able to go on the priority public housing list because of her health, and the over 55s list because of her age. While names story is not uncommon, there are thousands of older women who are becoming homeless, not through domestic abuse, but economic disadvantage from a lifetime of contribution to society. In ways that are either completely unpaid or are paid at much lower rates. Low paying industries dominated by women like health and social care, education, retail and hospitality. Currently the wage gap is 14.2%, which equates to men receiving an average of $261 per week more than women. Australia has one of the highest rates of part time workers across all OECD countries. And over 65% of them are women. And women's superannuation savings are much lower than men's. Here's doctor rain Oregon. Gender is absolutely in the middle of it. We know that older women are the fastest growing group of people experiencing homelessness in Australia. And part of that is because women over the course of their lives are more likely to be caregivers, so they're earning less. They're less likely to have accrued super animation. And they're less likely to own housing assets or assets outside of the home. If you look at older women, they're more likely to experience timelessness through a series of couch surfing or moving around the country living with different family members and to live out state their welcome or caravan parks..
Hack
"caravan parks" Discussed on Hack
"Even though west at lawrence are all the kind of the in jerks and the hey remember wins you get from going out to the pub with your friends going to the movies. You can still get that you can still generate those pharmacy. Gonna laugh about years later. And because it's creative and requires teamwork alexan-. Her friends have kept it up. Yes shadow damon relative attack three attack. It also provides a fixed point in the wake forest has purpose so it's not just another zoom drinks. it's eased her loneliness especially during melbourne's six lockdowns seeing them on video are hearing the voices and keep that going throughout lockdown has been has been really vital and making sure that i still feel connected to the people i love. Loneliness has been a really big problem in australia even before lockdowns that one into australians will report feeling. Lonely tamara kevin. It is the president of the australian psychological society. She says young people are among the group's most likely to experience loneliness likely to feel that disconnection from it here much more than walks the average riley. We don't have a lot of data on this yet because we're still going through it but it's pretty luckily that the pandemic just deepens that problem any of the lockdown the disconnection from unusual activities unusual social connections will only help. My loneliness can have a huge impact on both your mental and physical health. So i really connecting with people. Sometimes even if you don't feel like doing is important to keeping your ryan dolphin social connection and you. Brian has a real session. Day and your mood is dropping. It's probably with while you often. When's the last time i connected in able but how do you connect with people. If you don't really have too many friends to begin with those first couple of months where. I was kind of living in that cab on my arm. Just it was really rough on us like i. I was struggling to lock. Rachel grew up on the south coast of new south wales but had been living in cost harbor for years. She decided to move back to the south coast to help her parents with their caravan. Park off to. She lost her job down. There had nor one living down in in tougher. It's a very small kind of close tight knit community. A lot of them tend to kind of have their own families and friendships already set in stone. So it's kind of haunted on an infiltrate that she says she didn't realize how hot it was to make friends as an adult. Especially when you've just left the cocoon of school or uni. It's kind of this weird awkward transition period where y'all halfway between being a reckless teenager and then trying to suddenly be responsible adult and trying to find your why in the world can be really difficult. Rachel's no longer entira but that experience was in the back of her mind when she signed up to a new app called only friends. We developed only friends to really try to help people in the twentieth thirty year. Old demographic co-founder tamara. Sheeran says the app was designed for people who struggle with loneliness. A problem she says keeps getting worse just keeps on going up going going out and i firmly believe that it takes a community to help. The aim of the app is to get people to meet face to face and build connections but lockdowns have thrown a spanner in the woods. So they're improvising. Where currently looking at one of the stray is chefs to have a dinner for ten with meals. Get delivered to your home. However everybody's able to get online man have inbuilt video technology that enables everybody to connect and have a conversation whilst lockdown while technology. Isn't the only solution loneliness. Rachel says it's a huge help. She kinda wishes something like only friends existed when she made her move south last year on a have. Something like only friends then would have helped. I think tremendously just to have sort of an additional resource of support. Pack on triple j shalala madore with that story so dr. Michele lamy is from ending loneliness together and she's the leading scientific expert in australia on loneliness. Thanks for joining us. Lynn triple j. Thanks for having me happening. So we've just heard that young people are experiencing loneliness probably at high writes in all the age groups as well. Why is that happening. Specifically for young people so everybody know that even before the current pandemic in fact young people specifically each twenty five will of increase of feeling lonely and what we mean by that is problematic levels of known as some of the plausible reasons around is is that young. Australians out was predisposed to emerging Mental health issue but also They're really going through a period of social transitions which is really mock with many social challenges including things like leaving high school and kind of finding new friendships in at university of for the training. Perhaps even kind kind of having to make new friendships in employment and really trying to navigate and trying to find out who the esa person essay kinda navigating through this very difficult transitional phase. Okay so yeah. Let's get to those solutions. If you are noticing yourself that you'll feeling lonely that you feel like you have a community to turn to. What can you do to support yourself because some of the things that i think that we can do to address alone and just to actually understand what you need so when we actually look at our friendship and our network. What is it that we actually crave for. What is it that we are desiring. What's what are the gaps. And whether you know when we can identify what those gaps are whether we can actually take this whole step towards actually addressing it so for many people it's completely Not feasible to make new friends because we are with a bus living the social restrictions right. Now we're interested in someone new houses about looking within our current networks Or even within families sometimes improve the quality of those socia- ties. What can we do to actually improve those qualities and and actually find more meaning in the interactions that we have and that actually can reduce no minute so we don't always have to focus on quantity. We can focus on quality relationships so the second thing that we can do is consistent strategy on how to address loneliness throughout the life span but also then provide the evidence base for what actually for different groups of people because again socially are very complex. How we address known in in one group. Oh you know. One kind of person may not be the same for another and i think that requires significant investment by government to actually have a consistent and effective approach dicta. The shell limb. Thanks so much for joining us on. Triple j thank seventy hack on. Triple j that dr michelle limb. She's the head of ending loneliness together. And we got so many people commenting about this on the triple. J hack facebook. Tony said my biggest fear about the pandemic and lockdowns is that we will create a multigenerational problem of social anxiety and loneliness. And sarah said. I'm twenty six young mom and i've found it extremely hot to make friends have a few ladies ado speak to but not many will. Yeah hopefully michelle's tips help us yet. Find a bit more of a community during this time. I'll see you tomorrow..
Keep Calm and Cauliflower Cheese Podcast
"caravan parks" Discussed on Keep Calm and Cauliflower Cheese Podcast
"Has a roast be so called. I mean that's that's probably that's probably what may happen. If the intervention comes they may start talking again and everything will go like grady at the moment things a little bit like very spicy horseradish so all of us need a cold ring. I mean i love a robinson's polywater. Little orange cordial you can get in the uk they have it at wimbledon mean. Everybody seems to still drink at now. Hopefully those bottles haven't been there since you're mcenroe days because you know over the course of maybe thirty years of wimbledon. There's been a lot of sweat now. Those robinson bottles of their that don't and they do look ancient will be covered in all sorts of sweat. That'd be so much soul. I mean you could have had mcenroe's sweaty hair going in the nidal sweaty balls dripping off into the into the into the bali water i mean how. Salty bali watergate before it's undrinkable. But anyway if it's if it's fresh and hasn't been hasn't been poisoned with sweat then the robinsons very delicious. Do love hot cup of tea to call. Dan talked about this before. It does down on a hot day. Love gin and tonic. Love any sort of rubab. Code law seltzer celts. Award or anything like that quite nice strong to sell. Surreal in a perrier. I don't like the espresso over ice very much but if you need to drink to cool down people loving the tele cold brew coffee if you're a coffee lover but can't face a hot stuff in the sunny weather. How about this trend. It seems that biskov were stealing the show but now the taylor is getting in the action. If you fancy something different your caffeine fix how about in the telecom brew. Coffee is a tiktok sensation cabinet. -cation on tiktok is is really talk is trending severely really talking like a tiktok influence over the my contacts and probably can't sing. You just need to get hanson. Tele milk the taylor milk ice cream very simple first. Step half philip glass of ice next mixed together warm milk and as much talent taylor as you dad. The craters use a heat team teaspoon. It's a personal thing. Once the metallic melted into the warm milk porridge over the coffee next add in your expresso. Coffee shot top with cream and some extra is if you want to make it colder won. T talk. tran said god. I'm running to the supermarket to get ingredients and make this deliciousness. If you call it goes off though. There is lots of that flavor to sweet of coffee. Lover's you will be an absolute chocolate -i divine heaven so we're about to hit the Somersaults this and it's father's day tomorrow so happy father's day to my dearest papa. Pater my dear boy. Happy father's day heavy of a lovely time make you just get over back back across from the caravan park. I think spain is not like a gypsy or anything. Other gypsies not like crossing people's palm with silver. All reading tea leaves or brushing. Heather over people's you know other regions i who knows he's doesn't do that. Karen paul but Happy fathers day to you. I discovered though. I do like the scarlet pimpernel foods so just illustrate this. I liked foods with things hidden inside. You know this isn't something like something creepy. But i like a care i like. He's a bread with with bits of meat salad inside the peter island pies meat pies la la beef and beef and mushroom guinness pie chicken and mushroom as delicious. And of course you. Behold the cornish past empanadas as. Well love a little spice to the past eight. And that's basically empanadas breakfast burrito one of my staples. It's one of my. Is you know people say they need that seven day vegetables or the seven. Is the breakfast read. I like my food. Very stealthy so i like like things hidden. I liked the surprise cutting into the care. Having a creamy soda called him blah type of sources side or batted garlic. Something along those lines. So i mean i like things hidden. Things are more like a victorian bathing suit than a thong. Banana hammock. Okay so it's pim's o'clock. We did look at pinson little bit lost last summer. But the history of pim's is almost as british t. Hymns is a staple summer. Drink some almost positive. British summer events wimbledon. The chelsea flower show polo matches. The hindi royal regatta graduation. Siamese at every garden party will be serving the drinks. That's almost as british is a cup of tea. There's no doubting the popularity of the drink and and it's been stay put some parties for as long as existed. But where did the tradition come from in eighteen. Forty man james. Pin who was based in the financial district of london invented a market. Very first pim's it wasn't just a drink though. History shows something different for the beginnings at this time that was a huge focus on health benefits of drinking tonics as what is a health properties of breathing and ceo. Taking a dip in the sea to cure. The ailments pins was invented. The health tonic. Mr pim was trying to aid the healthy lifestyle and his idea only grew from strength to strength. The tonic was jin base string that also contained a secret mix of herbs and other liquids. That was also used to aid digestion. Mr pinned offered the tonic and a small tank installed cup which was known as the number one cup. So that's how the pickup can debate the tonics. Popularity soared in the nineteen. Nine pim's began to sell the products commissioning. The product began to be drunk for pleasure as well as health. And mr pim soon sold the rights to use his name on the product to our frederik sawyer fervor says made the product in also sold globally to match the bird champa building at the time in india. Australia caribbean and canada by eighteen. Eighty seven there was a whole chain of pim's oyster houses. Success so over time it developed the brand new cups to extend their range pin number. Two number three will pin number before in the ninety sixties injured number five number six. This sounds like a goblin. Party may often app six. Pink pins cups also. The number three cut was branded. The windy cup is brandy varied. Drink include spices and indeed orange pale. Some brilliant catchphrases today but pim's o'clock is one of the best that the drink retains its popularity and has become the quintessential british summertime drink with pins. Roll cut being a firm favourite for the recent roll celebrations over the over the recent times the world cup mixes the classic number one pim's cup with champagne and that's as good as it gets so as i was doing my morning. Walk the dog. The lost two three mornings. There's been a huge behemoth of an all the camper van. Would you want to call motorhome game. What are these things callers huge vehicle. It's a leviathan of a Of a motorcycle vehicle. And everything's in it. I mean from. Tv's to showers is probably a hot tub and he can probably Lean against the wall and get a massage From one of those piston gun type things. I mean it's pretty amazing.
The Joys Of Binge Reading: The Best in Mystery, Romance and Historicals
"caravan parks" Discussed on The Joys Of Binge Reading: The Best in Mystery, Romance and Historicals
"And then that explosion that i mentioned that she probably giant not halloween's you have to never not i didn't i ended gov is as said Eleazar is in search of father that she's never met and knowing that got is keeping secrets in how much they know not noy and when i began. I didn't know who i was. And so i had to. I had to discover as she discovered along the way. And i get a lot of emails and messages from readers which i really love to receive people. You taking me by surprise the hallway through An happens in that happens in. I write back to them and said because i didn't know what was going to happen so every time i feel a big emotion in my mobile a beat surprise or be Being amused being moved in crying. And then i often find that that's brought to get in touch instead of a really laughed in guthrie upset at that stage. It echoes what i feel when i'm rotting. That's a really lovely thing to think that the you know the pictures that will remind when ob is writing all the emotions always feeling through the magic of thing rating gets transferred into another person's mind and imagination on love that rousing it. Sounds like you and microbe. Rowbotham go to long comment. Because he writes seven days a week. It's including he tells christmas day and he is exactly like you. He doesn't know how it's going to end with really twisty plot books that he does he just basically. It's the characters. Tell him what's gonna happen. So yeah it's remarkable Gone that amazing crime law to sign that. Because i've listened to jane harper into one giant hop on the dry for seduction survivors and she plotters absolutely intricately before she writes and so she knows. Everything's every chapter. And i have a great old framed in ireland. Coach denied mariotti and. She does the same thing she knows. Excellently for she starts on. What's going to happen. And she and. I meet often talk about books in progress and i say how can you right when you know what's going to happen. Why would you want to and she says how can you right when you don't know what's coming but michael rowbotham bet the idea of crime novelist. Not knowing who i he'd have him to go back to supplant some. Yeah so you. You've alluded to a beautifully. But tell us what is next. The monica the writer the next twelve months. What do they hold the stool two adult novels. I'm looking at a smaller project and we can talk about too much. I i find i find. I get very secretive about books in impress just because they so fragile and a need to keep them special in keep that kind of feeling something magical happening. But i'm i'm writing. It's a very it. It's a book that has no traveling. Interestingly enough going get what we were signing early in the way that the pandemic in the way we will be locked than standstill is gonna fix on creativity in so much subject matter and his books to set in one very small area and i'm sure that's responding to what happened but i have Osa started writing children's novels and my students book for ten year olds to chapter book. And that's coming out being purpose in new zealand in october november this year and that called massey gill and the caravan park cat and it said in a Alternative caravan park run by his family of hippies whom the And ultra the eyes of a ten year old into grandma. This cat and i have had so much from rotting that series. I'm working on the second book at the moment it's full of magic and family and childhood memories and it's an absolute rodney scott administrations with the beautiful illustrator. Co danny snow whose and that's beneficial for me to say he's brought. Oh my characters in these savings to live through illustrations in this chapter book. So i'm on that so lots of id's still it's wonderful. Look you mentioned you enjoy hearing from your readers we can they find you online I love the anybody's listening. One ever get in touch with the rhythm. My books on very active on facebook on instagram. And it's made. That does both of those pages. And i get everybody as quickly as i can. I post a lot about some. let's Riding on writing prices again saying that. I'm because i do. Keep that quiet private until i feel that the book israeli parade. But because i'm a big big raider. I do lots of posts about other books. That i'm reading. Loving i invite other roles is onto my page and do giveaways of my books and other people's books and my hobbies nitra photography. I do a lot of walking. And i find that when i've been really in my own head and really intricately untangling attendant plots to be out and about with my camera just taking the united house of niger in sometimes closed up to flowers in legs. Do a lot of galleries on my might. I'm social media of of beautiful things that have saying my travels in walks so i'm very active in and people get in touch with me by that wilson. My website and i'd love hearing from people and always get back in touch as soon as i possibly can as lovely. We'll have shots to this podcast and we'll have links to all of these things when it goes up so i will make shoulder is a included. Look you sign much. It's been fantastic talking to won't be a lack of made a new friend just across the ocean. That's lovely thank you thank. You have made a new friend that goes to you too. Thanks so much for inviting me on. 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Talking About Fun TV Shows!
"caravan parks" Discussed on Talking About Fun TV Shows!
"The two men Because there were like yeah like why would we have your ancestor buried on our land when we don't even like him or when they didn't even like the ancestors so it probably you know it was a little awkward but anyway so they're driving along there in sam is driving on the wrong side of the road this guy. I swear i don't know. I don't know vote arrogant car with sam houston but anyways they're going to go and see a castle of the tash is is the next leg of their journey to get there. They have to get into a plane and Sam you know he goes. He's getting up onto the plane there and he goes to the door. He goes through the window of the door to this plane. And mind you. They're both wearing kilts. Okay but anyway and You know grandma is telling him that's not how you do it. Oh it just opened the door and everything. And so sam gets in. He opens the door. Graham hasn't come around you know he's like can you wait till i get around the door to get in and everything but anyway so anyway. I gotta go in this plane to go to this castle. So graham tells sam. He's very excited to be showing Sam his castle of his forefathers. The castle name is Castle swing it could be the oldest stone castle built in scotland to discuss uil and sam he. Oh he points out that If anything about the mctavish is even. If it wasn't the oldest built castle in scotland they would still say it was so they're going into land on in this plane in their little nervous because the plane is tilted on its side but anyway it lands safely so this is grams first. Time being at this castle and he starts talking about how the mctavish is Came to to the highlands from ireland and they married in to the swing family. So that's why it's called a castle swain. So the castle is pretty fascinating looking at it and he really does look really coal but sam You know he points out that castle is there's a caravan park around the castle so he's given graham time about where the cows i mean. I guess where the caravan park is located. Actually because you know the castles been there for a long long time in graham you know. He sits there and he has a moment. You know it's very emotional for him and everything but Sam won't let it go that that a caravan park and there's a person out there that is exploring the grounds and he asks them if they're mctavish in the yell back no and Sam does call a comment that it is a magnificent castle and everything but They they have to move on and for me. That was a little bit of a disappointment. I kind of wanted them to get out and explore a little bit but They they moved on. And i have a theory on why they didn't explore the grounds there because it looked like a pretty a large tourist attraction. And you know being who they are. I don't they probably do have some kind of but at you know they. They flew in there by plane. And i don't think they had enough security for sam human in grab mctavish to walk around freely on the grounds because i'm pretty sure a lot of people that are there or there for at least for graham mctavish so but anyway. That's just my theory too..
Science Friction
On the trail of COVID-19 misinformation
"Hi. An tesha Mitchell welcome to science fiction. You are about to mate to people who have really felt the fault lines of covid nineteen in their families. But in the way you might imagine. A mother, he told me I've been on the Victorian government website and the coronavirus testing is boosted a son. That's when my father said Australian scientists have now found out that sunlight is quite effective in preventing nineteen fiction confronting two pieces of medical misinformation. When it comes to medical misinformation, that term is actually really knew what we're used to as snake oil quackery, the waves of misinformation misleading content conspiracy content. It's really everywhere in a way that's really shocking. ABC's technology reporter investigative journalist Ariel Bogle joins us. Now she's been tracking the spread of health information since this pandemic began some of its mono-, some of it easy flat out dangerous and aerial imagine the spink kind of like wrestling with the arms of an octopus. It's really out there. I've seen dodgy posts and videos about carbon nineteen everywhere, and when we put a call out on ABC News website for examples. We received hundreds of tips and that's we're investigating here in click sick this a three part series on where health misinformation comes from, and it's impacting our lives. We're going to start with a single social media post then aerial and the team going digging and found what's out. There is really confusing papal testing their relationships including this woman. We'll call her lucy she lives a life on the move. Yeah Gypsy had. For more than two years Lucy's been travelling around Australia with a small dog picks the angel in a Pink Caravan. I couldn't afford to rent a house at any of the places places near where my children live, which ones album winds up in Byron Bay. So then I was like our will all to stick to being in the caravan and and that way I can float between my children but early in the pandemic in Queensland and interstate travel bans kept her apart from the son and daughter. So when restrictions as FA- caravan parks in Victoria I really wanted to just come and see my son that was that was migraine lot and I just bugged out acquaintance. When she arrived in Melbourne, she heads straight for his sons share house. There's been a dramatic escalation in the efforts to control a spiking corona virus cases in. Victoria in Melbourne. Getting grim as the number of covid nineteen cases, Russula, large parts of Melbourne now in danger of being put into lockdown. So I, only really got to see my son. A COUPLE OF TIMES BECAUSE? I want it to be careful because I didn't know you know how well they were self-isolating and protecting themselves. Busey was more worried than most about being infected with the coronavirus as you're going to hear Ya when Melbourne look like it was heading for a second wave of covid nineteen she bio just before the city went into second lockdown she was staying in a caravan park in country Victoria when she got some bad news on he got really sick really really sick about a week after I left Melbourne a son was on the fine couldn't get out of bed aching alive. You know coughing and I was really nervous I was like honey I really think you should get tested. It wasn't clear what it was, but his son saying it's probably not covid earned. It's probably just a bad flu and I was like, yeah. But for my sake, just to reassure your Mama I'd really appreciate it. If you go get tested because if you get tested and it's negative than I, know at least I'm okay and then he said something that really took her by surprise his words on the phone were I've been on the Victorian government website and the coronavirus testing is boosted. Lucy was really worried about him, but she was also especially worried for Oregon Health I've got to autoimmune diseases and the worst being rheumatoid arthritis, which affects all the joints causes stiffness and sometimes I can't walk. So Lucy takes powerful medication, which also suppresses her immune system's ability to protect itself from infections. My immune system does not function well. Well doesn't really function at all. But I do tend to pick out coughs and colds and sniffles sore throats if I just around people. I live as a total recluse on my iron but that's what I have to do to to stay healthy. And this means contain is a big threat to. Lucy. So at this point, lucy son was feeling really sick and they was a risk he might have covid nineteen though it seems he wasn't eager to take testify doubt. It's important to say that Lucy son didn't want to be part of the story. Sorry. These impressions only. But this was a time when Victorian health authorities wanted everyone even with modest symptoms to get tested to help contain the pandemic Lucy didn't know what to do so I said well. What makes you think that it's crap and he said, well, I've been reading on the government website and it says the tests that they give you. Is just the test corona viruses in general, not specific to. Sarah's To the one that causes covid nineteen then her sunset Lucy a screen shot of a website he'd seen on facebook and it was from CDC Dot Gov Had the link at the top and pretty said what he'd said. But it had like highlights across the words and a big Red Maka pen round
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"Across the world catastrophic situation is playing out in Australia were massive. Wildfires are forcing thousands of people from their homes. This New Year's Eve more than one hundred hundred blazes threatening both Australia's people and it's iconic animals. We get more now from. NBC's Bradley tonight these Apocalyptic Tuxedos happening across Australia massive wildfires creating a stunning red sky. Thousands huddling on the beach desperate to escape the scorching heat from the flames. Pretty extreme. It was very scary. Everything that they can just went. Will these people sheltered in a boat enveloped by smoke vacuum a caravan park because the flyers along the beach now overwhelmed firefighters most of them volunteers. Now battling some one hundred twenty separate fires. Here's as Australia called out. Its military to help every living creature scrambling for safety smoke from the bushfires closing in as a herd of kangaroos desperately Spratly hop away from the flames. And it's temperatures soared. Koalas face dehydration. This firefighter led to helping hand. And this cyclists escape water to a Koala who just couldn't drink enough anymore. Hey sorry thirsty. But officials said as many as eight thousand five hundred. Koalas may have already already died. In New South Wales Alo- A national crisis at New Year's Eve fireworks amidst of firestorm. Australia is uniquely Gulnara Bill to climate change this past year recorded its driest spring and just a few weeks ago. It's hottest day ever on record next year. Could get even worse
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"Are rows of trees, beautiful bushland, a cacophony of birds. You'd never know back here about neighbours, about trucks roaring past on the road. Here it's just nature. Birds calling in the trees, water birds wading in the dams that sit adjacent the river, and snakes hiding in crevices or basking in quiet patches of sun. And in the distance, a stunning mountain range. There's a lot of history, dark history, two deaths that we know of, and some well -intentioned business ventures that left a trail of misery. In 1996, three businessmen took over the property with big dreams of breeding Red Claw, a freshwater variety of crayfish that looks very much like a yabby. It was the kind of delicacy you'd find among the calamari and the king prawns on a Tuesday night seafood buffet at a fancy hotel. It was a grand dream, and they knew how to make a business work, but they didn't know anything about aquaculture. So when a German man and his wife came to the farm gate offering their services, it seemed like a good deal. For legal reasons, we're not going to tell you their names. Let's just call them the farm manager and his wife. Now, the farm manager knew this place well. He'd helped set it up. He'd helped the former owner run the place. He knew the pumps and how to run them, how to service them, and keep them in working order. He knew all the ponds, all 41 of them, the sheds, the old houses. The three businessmen were convinced it was the perfect solution. So the farm manager and his wife moved into one of the dwellings, the better of the two. The ponds were filled with red claw, and the German couple brought in a worker to help them run the property. A sales manager was hired, and restaurants, yachts, and hotels began placing their orders. And that should have been that, except it wasn't. The newly established Beanlee crayfish farm was bleeding money, a lot of money. Ponds that had been stocked with 10 ,000 crays were being drained, and only 3 ,000 would be left. They started netting the ponds after that. Cormorants loved to gather on the property, swoop down, and eat their fill. The boom of a shotgun might scare them away momentarily, but before long they'd be back for more, devouring thousands of dollars worth of precious crustaceans. Greg Milam, the man with the red claw dream, told his business partners they needed to take urgent action. They were going backwards. They'd had to put more and more money into this failing venture, and they were still struggling to pay wages. And that's where we meet Jeffrey Brooks. Jeffrey to his mum and dad, Jeff to his mates. So let's step back a bit. Earlier, a man named Laurie Brooks picked up his phone and dialed the number for the career mail. It would be the first time in 21 years since his son died that he'd contact the media for help. Laurie and his wife Wendy had spotted an article that my colleague Peter Hall and I had written. It was about a senior police officer who was being investigated over corruption allegations. They'd recognised the name. It was the same officer who had investigated their son's death all those years ago. Laurie told us that his son, a 24 -year -old recently married scientist about to start a family, had died at work. He died from a gunshot wound to the chest, and he died just days after telling friends that he'd uncovered something he couldn't keep silent about. Something that had made him fearful. So fearful that he'd been scared someone would kill him. That they'd kill him and make it look like an accident. When police arrived on scene that day, the day Jeffrey was shot, they did call it an accident. In fact, they investigated for less than an hour before making that call. Unlike CSI, there was minimal forensic evidence gathered. It was a once over. As police saw it, the likely scenario was Jeffrey had been trying to wrest an old, loaded shotgun out of a vehicle, barrel first. The hammer had snagged on a seat, and he'd shot himself. Simple, or not so simple. As you'll find out, there is plenty that just doesn't add up. An unwillingness to consider what appeared a powerful motive, loose threads, missed chances to find the truth, vanishing evidence, and even claims of threats from the officer in charge. It's easy to see why Jeffrey's parents have really struggled to accept the police determination. The first time Peter and I met Jeffrey's parents, it was in the office of the Queensland Times newspaper in Ipswich. The staff there had very kindly organised a conference room for us to use, a large windowed room with one big table. Laurie and Wendy came in carrying boxes of material, evidence, like lawyers prepared for a marathon trial. There were folders of paperwork, large paper squares that had been used to conduct gunshot tests, each one peppered with shotgun pellets. It was 21 years of research, 21 years of fighting for their son and getting nowhere. Laurie and Wendy have textbook knowledge of this case. They can rattle off dates, places and names with ease, open a folder and pull out the exact document, the exact witness statement they are referring to. We were about an hour in when Laurie pulled out the shotgun. We gasped. Try and hold this. Yeah, it's empty. I've taken the forewood off because, as you can see, I can see how hard the hammer is to pull back, but they reckon it pull back and then let go. Yeah, that's crap. You try and hold by the end of the barrel. It's a very similar gun to the one that killed their son. Laurie wanted us to understand everything, the weight of the firearm, its length. You'll learn more about that later. But at that moment, I was looking around wildly to see if anyone at the Queensland Times had any concerns about a shotgun being waved around their conference room. They didn't. We asked them to tell us about Geoffrey. This is his story, so it's important that we tell you who he was. Geoffrey Brooks grew up in a country town in New South Wales. The Brooks house was on the edge of town, right next to a 400 -acre property where a creek ran through. There was Laurie, a softly spoken, meticulous man, an engineer, and Wendy, Bubbly, a devoted Christian who taught Sunday school, and their four kids. Geoffrey was the eldest. He was an easy baby. He wasn't fussy. He was quiet and relaxed. He was just very easygoing, and I think that was one of the reasons. He had so many friends, and he was so non -judgmental to people. He would accept people the way they were. That's Wendy. Her face lights up when she talks about Geoffrey. She tells us over and over that she's not just saying this as a grieving mother who remembers the best of her son. And it will become clear, the more we find out about him, that he really was the person she describes, who drew more than a thousand people from all walks of life to his funeral. A beloved son, husband, brother, and friend. The four Brooks kids grew up roaming the land around their Lismore home. The kids used to go camping and take the dog, and they'd spend the night down under a tree somewhere and come back the next day. It was in the days when it was safe. We'd just contact the farmers and say, do you mind if the kids go camping down there? Because there was creeks and things down there, and they didn't mind at all. Laurie was very strict about guns. It's something you'll hear about Geoffrey again and again. He followed his dad's teaching to the letter. A firearm was something to be respected. Hunting had to be done with respect. You shoot to kill and shoot only what you need. We asked Laurie exactly what he'd taught his eldest son. Never have it loaded unless you're going to shoot something. Never point it at anybody. All those normal things when you get through a fence. So he never pointed at anyone. He never pointed at himself. No, no. And when you get through a fence, because you're always getting through fences, put the gun over first or blow it on the ground under the fence, then get through. Don't get through holding the gun, because a lot of people get shot getting through fences. If there was an animal he was going to shoot near the top of a hill, and he didn't know what was over the hill, never to shoot it, because there could be some bloke walking up to you. At school, Geoffrey was developing an interest in the environment, and specifically aquaculture. His thing about life was, we're going to run out of fish, because they're cutting down all the mangroves and all the breeding places and putting in houses, and the future will be in fish farms and crayfish farms and prawn farms and all that sort of stuff. So he said he was going to be part of it. So he got his degree, and he did his thesis on crayfish farming. He got married young to a girl he'd met through the church, Nicky. They'd met through the youth group and become close friends. Nicky had become part of the family, and in 1995, he got his first job in the field he'd been dreaming about for years. He was quite good at his work, and we were pretty impressed with what he was telling us. We weren't impressed with the fact that we were losing money, and the reason why we were losing money, we were impressed with the information he was giving us, which was a lot better and more reliable than what we had from the farm manager. That was Greg Milam, one of the owners of the Beanley crayfish farm. Greg gave Geoffrey a six month contract. They wanted him to do a feasibility study. If he could find a way to make the farm run at a profit, they'd keep going. If not, they'd be forced to walk. Geoffrey, the farm manager, his wife, and the farm hen would all be out of a job. For the farm manager and his wife, it was even more dire. They'd need to find somewhere else to live. There were other reasons why they didn't want to leave the property too, but we'll hear more about that later. Geoffrey had thought he was walking into his dream job, but he soon discovered he was wrong. He wasn't wanted at the farm. The others treated him with suspicion, as though he was a spy sent by the owners. There's some examples of how they made his life, his work on the farm, difficult. There was all sorts of things. I think at one stage they changed the locks and changed the alarm systems and didn't give him information that he needed to complete his work and just played stupid little mind games with him. Some of the equipment on the farm was pretty below par. The cars used to drive between the ponds would never be considered roadworthy. One didn't even have doors. The shotgun the farm manager had been using to scare cormorants was from 1901 and held together by radiator clamps. Geoffrey refused to use it. He was careful with guns and he didn't trust the old single barrel shotgun. Greg agreed to pay for a new one, but he didn't want the farm manager using it. He told Geoffrey to tell them it was his own, to treat it as his own. Greg didn't trust the farm manager to clean it or maintain it. Geoffrey moved into an old caravan on site, but there were problems with that too. It was filthy and rat infested and Geoffrey didn't feel entirely comfortable on the property at night. After a while Geoff was really concerned about his well being there and asked us could we help pay for a caravan so he could live in a caravan off site in a caravan park which we agreed to. Nicky in her statement to police mentions the caravan too. This is a reading of that statement. There was a point when I wasn't happy with Geoffrey staying on the farm. There were the gross living conditions, the fact that it meant he never left the farm and that the manager and his wife were behaving in the manner in which they did. She talks about other problems too, her suspicions about what had been happening. There was an incident with Geoffrey's car where it was thought that the water pump had been tampered with. When Geoffrey had the water pump replaced it appeared to the mechanic that it had been tampered with. The farm manager, his wife and the worker believed Geoffrey was there to do them out of a job. Perhaps they were right. If his feasibility study determined the farm would do better without them, the owners would certainly take that on board. We have to make a decision at the end of the six months, that's what we're headed for, whether we needed to move the farm manager on and the worker and put new staff in there which of course would have probably been more likely to bring Geoffrey in there to run it. If he could show us that we could make any money, the alternative was if he couldn't show us we couldn't make any money we'd have to work out what we were going to do with it because my partner said we should not put in any more money. In fact, the situation had become so desperate that they'd been forced to lay off the manager's wife. She was furious. The manager and the worker both believed that Geoffrey was the cause, even though his position as an aquaculturist was vastly different to what she had been doing. At what point did you, I guess, realise that Geoffrey was getting a bit of a hard time at work? Probably after recently he went there he used to realize that they weren't quite happy with him being there. Again, I'm a little bit sketchy on timing and days but I know he lived on the farm for a while when he was doing his work in the caravan and he sort of got the feeling that they weren't very happy with him at all. Probably rightly so because he was there not seen as a spy or anything on our behalf, we were just trying to get to the bottom where we had, as you said, this massive farm that wasn't producing enough and I got a feeling that they, well I'm sure that they resented him and certainly told us various times that they weren't happy with him being there. Imagine getting your dream job and turning up to that. Not only had they refused to tell him how the farm worked, what he needed to do in his job, now they were changing the locks and alarm codes. Geoffrey was not a confrontational person. He could have been. He was very tall and had a large build but he was very laid back, mild -mannered. He wouldn't argue. He would just calmly state his point of view and move on. After finding himself locked out, he found a phone and called Greg Millam. They've changed the alarms, they've changed the locks and they've taken my keys, Geoffrey had said. So Greg hung up and called the farm manager, asking him what he was doing, told him he was being a child. The farm manager bit back. He was playing a trick, he said, a test, to see if Geoffrey went running back to the bosses. Oh, very clever, very good detective work. Who is he going to ring? He's not going to ring his mum, is he? You locked him out of the farm. Who do you think he's going to ring, Greg had said. The farm manager stuck to his guns. He wanted to see where he stood with Geoffrey. This is very childish, Greg told him. It really is. Greg had been getting weekly, if not twice -weekly, phone calls from the farm manager, his wife and the worker, ranting about Geoffrey. They couldn't possibly work with him. He's fat, he's useless, he gets in the way. He can't do his work properly. They were cruel things to say. It's difficult to do your work when your colleagues refuse to explain how things work and where things are kept. And it wasn't true. The owners had been happy with Geoffrey's work. The first thing he told them had proved invaluable. They'd been selling the largest crayfish, because after all, that's what the restaurants wanted. And leaving only the smallest to breed from, their crayfish had been progressively getting smaller. Geoffrey moved to a different caravan park, but things didn't get much better at work. At that stage, when you said he was worried about his wellbeing, at that stage was he worried about his safety? Or was it more… I think so, because he wasn't sure what could transpire. They, let's say the three of them, which is the farm manager, his wife and the worker, seemed to conspire, doing things all the time. Things were getting nasty. Nicky had told her husband to be careful. I was worried because the farm manager had a bit of a temper and they didn't want Geoffrey to be there. I'm his wife, so I was worried. I just don't know how deep the fear went. But despite the bullying, the exclusion, Geoffrey was getting on with the job. He came up with a plan that could see the farm run on $10 ,000 a month. It sounds like a lot, but the cost of running the pumps was enormous. At $10 ,000 a month, they'd turn a profit. It was good news. Good news for the owners, but maybe not for the staff. Because Geoffrey had discovered something else, and this became the source of his anxiety, the fear that he would tell his friends about. Well, somebody reported on us that, you know, there's a big sign on the gates of crayfish for sale, so we didn't even know about that. We didn't know about selling cash crayfish for anyone driving past. Of course, that didn't go into helping run the farm or getting straight into the pocket. We got no idea how much crayfish they actually got sold cash, and maybe that was one of the reasons that we were losing so many and losing so much money. It wasn't being sold by other methods. There did seem to be some indication that they were not doing things the right way, like even things like petty cash has been used to buy stuff for the house. And the guy across the road, Lance, I think his name was, used to own the, there was a place across the road that had ponds and things, and he used to say that the sign was up every weekend for crayfish for sale, so yeah, I don't know where the money went for that. Pretty cash as a value, and they just weren't really good at their books, and it just seemed to be costing us too much money. Reading through the brief of evidence, the interviews with witnesses and speaking to people we've tracked down ourselves, it seems pretty clear that the farm manager and his wife were selling crayfish for cash. Neighbours who lived near the farm back in 96 have told us a sign on the gate advertising cash sales of crayfish was always there. And Greg Milam and his partners were certainly not getting the money. Things became so tense on the farm that Jeffrey would wait until the others weren't around to report back to the bosses. He'd make quick, quiet phone calls. At one point, towards the end, Jeffrey told Greg he'd discovered a secret cash book. Greg told police about it. He told them he'd said to Jeffrey he should knock it off and give it to him, but Jeffrey had been afraid, afraid for his life, as Greg put it. Just days before he died, Jeffrey visited an old school friend for dinner. His name is Paul Martin. You'll hear from Paul in a minute. But we'll also hear from his dad, Bob, a retired New South Wales policeman who spent 30 years in the job. Paul and Jeffrey went to school together. They were best mates who spent countless hours at each other's houses. So the day that I hadn't seen Jeff for some time and the day that I saw Jeff was at my parents' place and I hadn't seen Jeff for a considerable period of time. And he was, he was, had always travelled and confronted and I think the reason that I was so startled by him was the fact that his behaviour at the time was so inconsistent with anything that I'd ever seen in all my time that I had known Jeffrey. He was anxious he was beside himself and all this time has passed Kate and I still remember this engagement. He spoke about significant concerns about what potentially might happen to him. He'd discovered that people were acting in a manner that was defrauding the company that he worked for and that he had discovered that this was the case. And he had approached these people about his observations and they were fairly agitated about it and he indicated that he feared retribution from these people, that they potentially would seek to silence Jeff and him speaking out. To the point where he, you know, indicated that, you know, if something was to ever happen to me, you know why? And that to me is just, yeah, even to this day since she was down my mind, I must find thinking that that actually happened. He was frightened when he spoke to you? Fear, yeah, fear in his eyes. Like I've never seen him act in, he's never been like that before in all the time I've known him, he's never acted like that and he was scared and he had fear for what potentially would unfold. So Jeffrey, days before he died from a gunshot wound to the chest, told his best mate he was afraid for his life. He wasn't himself, he was fearful. He was exhibiting some pretty clear signs of anxiety. And what's more, he told Paul he'd not only discovered the workers at the farm were ripping the owners off, he'd actually confronted them about it. With what we know of Jeffrey, this makes sense. He was a man who'd been raised in an incredibly moral household. His mother was a Sunday school teacher. He'd been reciting the moral lessons of the church since he was a little kid. So he'd discovered this dishonesty and instead of going directly to the owners, he'd wanted to explain himself to the workers. He'd apparently said to them, look, I can't stand by while you do this, I'm sorry, I'm turning you in. And when Paul said Jeffrey just wasn't himself that night, he meant it. This was a guy who was the eternal optimist, always happy, always laughing. Jeff was the kind of guy who, at a massive family Christmas, spotted his father talking to the ladies in the kitchen as they did the dishes. Laurie had been holding the hose, inadvertently pointing it at the open window, when Jeff snuck around to the tap and turned it on full. It soaked everyone before Laurie had the chance to react. It's one of their favourite memories of Jeff. Jeff the prankster. Jeff who could drive off into the bush with a fishing rod and not come home until the fish stopped biting. Jeff who, as a kid, wore clothing hand stitched by his mum and was so confident about it that the other kids were always asking, Mrs B, will you make me a pair of boardies too? Jeff who married his first love, his best friend, and made exciting plans for a future that wouldn't happen. This guy could never get bluer for Jeff, you know. The rest of us it was all grey but everything was rainbowing in accordance with Jeff. So he was so happy in his life and himself and he was incredibly positive and he always saw the silver lining in everything. This is Paul's father Bob's recollection of that night. Jeffrey's parents are with us, sitting around a table at Jeffrey's old work headquarters. He was in a white shirt and I can even remember that and he was talking to his mate Paul and he made mention to Paul that he was worried. I can't remember the actual conversation but I do remember the fact that he was worried about his wedding and it involved the farm. As a police officer though, that would have stuck in your head. Did you ask him to elaborate? No, I didn't ask him to elaborate. No. But he wasn't the kind of kid who would have said something like that unless he was… Oh no, no. No one will. By February of 1996, it seemed the end was near. The three owners had put in around half a million dollars and they wouldn't and couldn't put in any more. The farm manager, farm hand and even Jeffrey were told they'd been made redundant. Greg Millam gave them all a finished date of March 29 and told the manager and his wife that they'd need to move out of the house. They organised for an ad to be placed in an aquaculture magazine putting the farm up for sale. But it seemed nobody was giving up. The farm manager went to the owners with a proposal. He'd take over the farm, buy them out for the sum of $50 ,000. His brother back in Germany was prepared to put up the money. They told the farm manager thanks but no thanks. They would take their chances with the ad and hopefully there would be some interest from a realistic buyer. Jeff had gone to them with an idea too. He'd been speaking to his grandfather about investing in the farm, becoming a shareholder. That along with his plan to reduce costs to $10 ,000 a month would give the owners a cash injection and the ability to turn a profit. They'd been considering it. It could work. They would see what came of the magazine advertisement and go from there. Jeff was happy with that and the owners agreed to invest in some special breeding stock to be flown down from Cairns. Despite the turmoil, the uncertainty, they were still planning for the future. Three weeks before Jeffrey died, a fax arrived at the company's New South Wales headquarters. It was addressed to two of the partners, Greg Milam and Bill Brownie and consisted of four pages of handwritten points. A proposal from the farm manager on how he could run the farm for coincidentally $10 ,000 a month. And there was one catch. No Jeffrey. Definitely no Jeff. The farm manager may have been more detailed over the phone but his written proposal was filled with vague undertakings and broad statements. It said they will save money and increase sales without any real detail about how those things would be achieved. An overall report about the farm since the beginning will be posted to Mr Bill Brownie in the next days, he wrote, but Greg Milam wasn't impressed. If you can run the farm for $10 ,000 a month, he told the farm manager, why haven't you been doing it? Things soured even more when Greg was forced to ring the farm and tell them he couldn't afford to pay wages when they were due. One of the partners simply couldn't put any more money in. He spoke to the farm hand who understandably was upset. According to Greg, the farm hand screamed and shouted down the phone telling him, Don't bother turning up unless you've got the money or I'll be waiting at the gate with a gun. Greg didn't take this overly seriously. The farm hand was just very hot headed. And from what Greg knew, he was behind in his house payments so he was obviously feeling a lot of financial pressure. By mid -March, it seemed certain the farm manager and the farm hand would be laid off, despite the manager's $50 ,000 offer. But they were suspicious about Jeffrey's future. They didn't really believe he was being made redundant. After all, he and his wife had moved to Brisbane. They'd rented a house. Their move was permanent. They'd hardly do that if Jeffrey's job wasn't secure. And if Jeffrey's feasibility study had found a way to make the farm turn a profit, surely the owners would push on. So on the evening of March 12, the farm manager and the farm hand arrived at the company's headquarters. They'd gone in prepared. The farm manager wanted to talk more on his $50 ,000 offer. He had a lot of questions. Greg couldn't answer them and didn't want his lowball offer in any case. The farm worker, on the other hand, had a long list of overtime hours and he was demanding payment. He knew we'd never get paid for overtime. I think his intention was to take time off in lieu and the farm manager was creating records of his hours. He'd give us his normal weekly but the additional ones he was looking at. And then Jeffrey had come to us and all of a sudden demanded all this overtime for so many years working. And we just didn't laugh at him but we just said we can't do it. And he fucked his fist on the table. Yeah, he was a bit of an idiot. Yeah, and said he'll get his money one way or another. Yeah, basically. He wasn't, he was very, very tampered. He'd scream and yell at you and walk out the door and then come back in a bit later and settle it down a bit. In his statement to police, Greg said the farm worker had slammed his fist down on the table and said, I'll get my money back no matter what, before storming out of the room. Greg said the worker told him he was done, he wouldn't be back. Greg followed him out trying to calm him down, wanting to continue the conversation. But the worker had said, I don't want to talk to you, and kept walking. Greg didn't think he'd be turning up to work the next day and the manager was on leave, a holiday to give him back some time in lieu before his redundancy came into effect. He would leave Jeffrey on his own to run the farm. But Greg had bigger concerns. The farm manager had been very vocal in the past about what might happen should he ever lose his job. In his statement to police, Greg said, I've had some very threatening letters from the farm manager. He told me verbally in front of the worker that if he gets sacked or has to leave the farm, he'd make sure something happens to the farm so that nobody gets any stock or money out of it. Now the farm manager knows the farm backwards,