Halfway through 2005 we’d just taken on a new farm at Walkaway. It was a fairly rushed affair, but we set ourselves up for a big 2006. Organised the finance for a crop, leased another farm at Chapman Valley, and prepared as much as we could to go hard. And then it forgot to rain, and forgot to do so again in 2007. That’s not much fun at all.

Fast forward ten years and the equivalent of ten Sydney Harbor’s worth of water under the bridge, I saw what I thought was going to be a repeat of those...