A patch of paradise
“I was going to paint a wall today but it’s already three o’clock. Where does the time go?” Jo Graham asks in her faint Devonshire accent. Arriving in Australia as a backpacker more than 20 years ago, her surfboard doubled as a compass needle and guided her to the Sunshine Coast after a slight detour through Darwin.
A rural upbringing in an old house in Exeter, England, prefaced Jo’s romance with a Maroochydore timber cottage, which she bought privately
