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Birthplace and Family

I was born in Australia in 1968, in a small northern Queensland town called Ayr. I grew up with an older sister and two younger brothers on a farm with lots of dogs, cats, chooks, cranky parrots and bossy roosters.

I was very fortunate to have my grandparents living in the same town too. I particularly remember my grandmothers (my nonnas). One nonna lived next door; she made fantastic hamburgers. My other nonna wore outrageous platform shoes and painted her toenails red until she was 93!