Jan Harman is our Pledger Of The Week. She’s also pledged for a ‘bed-time story’ from the road. Jan lives on a beautiful country property in a valley between Mansfield and Bonnie Doon (Victoria, Australia) with horses, alpacas, some cattle, two dogs and a chook (chicken).

Jan is also Max’s Mum. We’ve stayed many-a-time at her place, sometimes to visit & relax, other times to write songs in the peaceful surrounds. Which reminds me: Once I had the speakers next to the lounge-room window. The repeating bass line drew a couple of unexpected guests from the surrounding fields. I saw something out of the corner of my eye on the other side of the glass. It took me a few moments to twig. When I turned my head to focus, there were two large [deadly poisonous] Tiger snakes ‘dancing’ on the other side of the floor-to-ceiling window, right next to my foot (which was thankfully on the inside of the glass). Needless to say, after the snakes were taken care of, the bass was turned down.

Jan’s an amazing, loving & life-loving, generous person – who can handle the odd Tiger snake with a shovel.

Thank you, Jan!