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Podcast: Mums Gone Troppo
Episode: Fiona Upstill on mistaking your husband for a mass murderer, hanging with the Hemsworths and hitch hiking up the red centre.
Description: This episode is a special one, where we sit down with Molly’s mother in law Fiona Upstill.
Her story of settling in Katherine for 40 years is so textbook Northern Territory, as we discuss how that fateful hitchhiking trip up the red centre shaped the course of her life.
It’s a story of community spirit only found in Katherine, working remote and building homes in Bulman, and having premature babies in the hottest time of the year without the comfort of aircon or electricity. There’s also tales of killing snakes when heavily pregnant, and mi...