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Even before I knew anything about Granddad Les, Wally and me sometimes dared each other to see how close to the knackery we could get. It was way out in the bottom paddock, and Dad had banned us from going further than the dam. Wally said it was because the whole paddock was haunted. He said he could see ghosts wisping in the grass like sheets blown from the washing line. But even then I knew for sure that was a lie. Ten-year-old Cub lives with her parents, older brother Cassie, and twin brother Wally on a lonely property bordering an abandoned cattle farm and knackery.

Alison is an actress who no longer acts, Patrick a musician past his prime. The eccentric couple live an isolated, debauched existence in an old manor house in Scotland, a few miles outside their village. That is, until Patrick's teenage daughter, Neve, flees Australia to spend a year abroad with her doting, if unreliable, father, and Alison, the stepmother she barely knows. On the weekend of Neve's eighteenth birthday, her father insists on a celebratory feast to mark her coming of age. Despite Neve's objections, her mother Shannon arrives in Scotland to join the celebrations.

An improv podcast by Emily Milling and Luke O'Grady featuring improvisers from Toronto! (Definitely not a kid's podcast.)Remember what it was like being a little kid? Carefree, adventurous, excited for any small adventure? Lucy and Emmett do! Because they are little kids! And they want to share it with the world! They’ve gotten hold of their dad’s audio recording equipment and they’re not looking back. Join Lucy and her little brother Emmett and hear, through the voice of children, all of the wacky things this world has to offer.Lucy (Emily Milling) and her little brother Emmett (Luke O...