IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT

It’s an ill wind

A bone chilling westerly blew from the snowcapped Brindabella Ranges, enveloping Australia’s national capital in its icy grip.

On Canberra’s southern outskirts on the property established by pioneer merchant Robert Campbell, Cyprus pine trees, bent from centuries of such winds, bowed before it’s relentless blast.

Campbell’s vision for the place named after his family seat, Duntroon, included a grand huis, wi’ a wee maze wi’ hidden pathways where later generations discovered otherwise horizontal entertainments could be pursued vertically, though safe from public scrutiny.

Tennis courts and a rotunda added to Duntroon’s pleasures.

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