A delaide Bragg’s rural upbringing saw her immersed in the outdoors from an early age. Her family (brothers, Frank and James, and parents, Arthur and Dordie) lived at Rossgole, in the Upper Hunter Valley of NSW, in a handmade clay-brick home, which had been built by Adelaide’s grandfather in the early 1930s. Sitting on more than 10,000 acres, the extensive property was also home to the family’s nanny, several stockmen and their families, the odd jackaroo, polo ponies, stock horses, sheepdogs, about 800 cattle, 12,000 merino sheep, a small number of Jersey cows, and dozens of chickens, ducks and turkeys. Then there were the Bragg’s household pets: Labradors, Jack Russells, ferrets and guinea pigs.
The home’s welcoming interiors helped create a convivial atmosphere between the family and the workmen who…
