Sally le Roux has fond memories of visiting the Pindari farmhouse as a teenager, as it was the home of a childhood friend. Set on 26 hectares around 35 minutes’ drive west of Toowoomba on Queensland’s Darling Downs, the homestead was surrounded by gardens filled with jasmine, salvias, camellias, towering tibouchina and jacarandas. “The house was always stylishly decorated, beautifully maintained and always felt welcoming,” recalls Sally. “It was such a lovely place to visit; a bush sanctuary.”
Many years later, Sally and her husband Pieter had returned to Toowoomba from time spent in Brisbane and Perth, and were living with their children, Jake, now 12, Charlie, 10, and Angus, nine. Pieter, a doctor raised on a sheep property in South Africa, and Sally, who is practice manager of their…
