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LABOUR OF LOVE

NICHOLAS SCOTT IS a patient but determined man. After making the decision to leave Melbourne and go bush — but not too far from the city — he spent two years looking around central Victoria for the right place to call home.

His search, after inspecting almost 600 properties, ended when he found an old property at Pipers Creek, 10 minutes’ drive from the town of Kyneton.

“It had been a working farm — sheep, dairy, chickens — with

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