It’s been many years since my famed induction into Holbrook farming via Bruce and his three brothers, and I am still some time away from getting my own property and starting new disasters.

This city boy — stilled named ‘Ted’ after a pre-visit phone mishearing — was now up to an introduction to Sheep-rearing 101 executed by the University of Holbrook, aka a family of four boys and their mother who welcomed me with open arms, seven dogs, a motorbike with no rear brakes and other rural luxuries.