Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast, a show that looks at the why, what and how of

living slow in a fast world. I am your host, Brooke McCallory, and I'm joined as always by

Benjamin McCallory, my husband and co-host. Thank you very much. You'll hear more of me today

because today's episode is a hostful. It is a hostful.

So for those new to the show, this is the episode where we've asked questions of our listeners

to write in on any single topic.

Nothing is off limits.

No, nothing is limits.

We've had some doozies this week.

We have, actually.

There's some great questions that, as always, great questions that we're going to answer.

I'm going to struggle with something like the Privacy Act on these questions.

What do you mean?

I don't know, like giving examples and it's going to be hard for me not to name name.

But I'm going to try because, yeah, it could get quite awkward, especially for those that still listen to the podcast.

Okay.

I'm intrigued.

Isn't it?

Let's get into it.

All right.

Okay. Okay, our first question comes through, and I always struggle reading this.

So I am just going to read verbatim. Okay. Okay. So I always try and add things in.

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