Cindy Pan

I grew up in Badgery′s Creek on a CSIRO field station. I was the subject of numerous experiments. Mine was a life devoted to science.

My brother wanted to test the hypothesis that rotund, never-shorn lambs were a viable mode of transport for three-year-old female humans.

They were not.

My father wanted to see whether the wild Chinese cabbage he had ′cultivated′ was indeed digestible by humans. It was not.

My mother specialised in cultivating hair-and-dust balls that blew along the lino like the tumbleweeds of the wild, wild west. Fortunately these were eminently digestible…so my brother proved...

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