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https://i0.wp.com/www.thedesertecho.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/mamsbury-botanical-gardens-papery-seeds.jpg?fit=660%2C495&ssl=1660495We spent a lazy weekend showing our new housemates the Australian countryside. We thought we’d ease them in gently by setting off from the Malmsbury Botanical Gardens which is very British before taking them down the bumpy dusty dirt track into the bush filled with all our lovely venomous slitherers. I do love a town […]