I would have had to be away for 18-24 months. Sharon would have had to stay behind to look after mum, because there would have been no-one else to do it, and that wouldn't have been fair on either of them.

I was in the shortlist for the job, based on my looks, and the fact I was a drover and could use a whip. I would have been trained to do a 30 foot fall from a tower at the end :)