Rabbit Proof Fence

No. This isn’t a movie review. I haven’t even seen that movie, though I’ve heard it’s good.

This is a post to show you just how SLOW I can be.

When I was about 8 a new family moved in just down the road from me. They’d just moved from Queensland, where I am currently living…and have been for coming on five years now.

They had five kids and I became the best of friends with one of the middle kids, Michelle Finter. She was very quirky and clever and she LOVED rabbits.

Almost as soon as they moved in they had rabbits in the back yard. Lot’s of rabbits. And the numbers kept growing. The entire family was obsessed with the rabbits and I just could not understand it.

So, moving on. I now live in Queensland. And there is apparently (not apparently, there IS. I say apparently because it’s in bad repair and it doesn’t work so well anymore) a rabbit fence all the way around the state to keep rabbits out. AND!!! Rabbits are illegal to keep here.

I don’t miss rabbits, but I was thinking about Michelle and her rabbit fetish this morning and all of a sudden it clicked as to why they loved their rabbits! I don’t blame myself for not knowing the reason so many years ago. But really, it took me five years of knowing about this rabbit ban to put two and two together! Come on Boo, get with the program!

2 thoughts on “Rabbit Proof Fence

  1. Hi,
    is there any chance the Michelle Finter you refer to would’ve been about
    16 in 1995??? At that time a girl contacted me in Arizona from Queensland via pen pal cause she’d found my name and thought we might be related. She LOVED Brad Pitt and wanted to be an actress. I lost track of her and thought it would be fun to catch up if I ever could.
    thanks
    Brendan

  2. Brendan, Michelle would have been about 17-18 in 1995. We lost contact when her family moved to a different suburb of Melbourne when we were about ten and I myself haven’t been able to contact her since. I’m sorry I can’t help you more. I don’t even know if she loved Brad Pit :) She had two sister’s and a brother if that makes it easier to tell if this is the same girl.

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