Born 100 years ago at Bombaderry, near Nowra in New South Wales, George Parish could best be described as a wanderer - until he found Thorpdale.

And with wife Kath (nee Caldwell), 10 years his junior, intends staying in their home on Trafalgar South Rd they have shared for more than 60 years.
After leaving the family home at Bombaderry and seven older sisters, George's early years were spent travelling and working in random jobs.
Eventually his travels brought him to Gippsland, first to the Latrobe Valley in the 1950s, and where he later met Kath, to Thorpdale where Kath's parents had a dairy farm.
George and Kath had two children, Leesa who grew up on the farm at Thorpdale, and a son that sadly died when only six weeks old.
The Parishes later bought the dairy farm from Kath's parents which they worked for a number of years before selling to a potato grower.
However, they had no plans to move and subdivided the house block from the farm, where on October 8 George's 100th birthday was celebrated with Leesa who now lives in Churchill, and a steady stream of drop-ins by close friends, neighbours, some nieces and nephews and people he worked with, mainly in the local potato industry after selling the farm.
Leesa described the birthday gathering as "a lazy afternoon" where her father was able to chat with the visitors and cut his special birthday cake.