With the money from selling Bruggabrong the family “Bought Possum Gully, a small farm of one thousand acres, and brought us all to live near Goulburn.” But they had little furniture in Possum Gully “He had preceded us with a bullock-dray load of furniture and belongings… Just sufficient for us to get along with, until he had time to settle and purchase more, he said. That was ten years ago”. Sybylla wasn’t a big fan of Possum Gully as it was bland and flat “My first impression of Possum Gully was bitter disappointment — an impression which time has failed to soften or wipe away. How flat, common, and monotonous the scenery appeared after the rugged peaks of the Timlinbilly Range!” When they gain Possum Gully it was in the middle of the drought
