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Yes.

And so how often do you feel lonely?

Oh no not at all. Like on Saturday when the power went out I felt down.

Feeling down, that's different from lonely. When a person feels down, that might be when they want to reach out to other people.

Yes that's right.

Yeah. Sometimes if you're having a bit of trouble and you share it with someone else it doesn't seem so bad.

Yeah that's right. Well I love doing crossword puzzles I've got my books there.

So someone comes once a week to clean, [name deleted]. [Name deleted.] Yes.

And how often does she spend here?

Two hours. She hangs the washing out. I put my washing on in the morning and change my bed and everything and she puts the washing out and sometimes she'll come back and get it in.

But what happens if she doesn't? You can't live here anymore.

No I can't

So that's a paid worker from the hospital?

From the hospital, yeah.

It's a good thing.

Yes.

So do you talk to her at all? Is it just the help you appreciate or is it nice to have her come?

Oh she's a lovely person.

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Oh she won't have a cup of tea. I've often wanted her to have a cup of tea but she won't have one.

Has to go on to the next person?

Yeah.

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05/05/2003 Interviewee 10

How long have you lived here?

What here in this house?

Yes.

About 52 years.

That's a very, very long time.

It is a long time.

And where did you live before you moved here?

Various little hops and jumps; over in the lovely blue place in the street down here, that used to be a residence attached to the chemist, [name deleted] will show you the lovely colour it is. You might like it. I was there for ...

The purple place, no I don't like that.

Oh purple is it. Well I call it blue but anyway no, I don't know how long we were there, about twelve months I think after we were married. It must've been longer than that.

So you came here when you got married?

Yeah. I've lived in the district all my life actually. We had a farm out of the town, oh my parents did so then after I married well, we lived in [name of town deleted] and I lost my husband in 1993. He didn't have a very nice life really. He was an ex POW from Japan, so therefore he suffered quite a bit, but, you know; too young really.

My father had quite a difficult life too. He served in New Guinea. He didn't have a particularly happy life.

No. It's very difficult to see them suffering while you're trying to do as much as you possibly can for them.

Yeah, and often it catches up with them when they get old.

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It was terrible. And that's too young.

[Conversation deleted.]

What do you like about living here?

Oh, the friendliness of the people I think, and it's just been I gather you'd say, it's been home to me for so long that I just wouldn't be happy anywhere else. I've got a daughter that lives in Victoria and badly wants to build a granny flat and take me over there but no way, I mean I couldn't, that's just not my cup of tea to just pull up stakes and go. I wouldn't know anybody. Here, you know, you know people and they pop in and have a talk or a cup of coffee or whatever ... Would you like a cup of coffee?

Mmm ...

Yes.

We already had a cuppa.

Oh yeah right. Well yes that's about it. I've got nice neighbours and it's a nice area really you know. I just sort of know everybody all round, if you can see you know ... Oh well, you get your doctors and you get your hospital and the complex down there well, where would you be without it I just don't really know. The other night I rang [name deleted], what was it a five-ish or something like that and you know it's not long and they're on your doorstep that sort of thing, you know you don't get that treatment everywhere.

No, not even in all country towns, by a long way.

Well you wouldn't in city towns either would you?

No you wouldn't get it at all there. You'd have to get up and go to the after hours service, probably.

I don't know if people realise just how fortunate we are. Well I certainly do. And I think most people do and you know you've got the staff are nice. I've had quite a bit of time down there in the hospital recently over the last three or four years, little sort of breaks. And you know you just couldn't wish for anything nicer. It's just like home.

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Mmm, well if you don't you soon get to know them. A lot of the younger staff I don't know but I mean you know they're very friendly and very nice and the older, they're not sisters now, NRs aren't you.

[Interjection deleted.]

RNs, I get it the wrong way around. RNs they are termed now. And as I said if you didn't know them you very soon would but I know most of those anyway because most of them are local and so you know it's all very nice from the patient's point of view. I don't know about it the staff's point of view. But you're not interviewing me for that. You're interviewing me for my point of view. So it's all very, very nice. You couldn't wish it to be better really.

And what don't you like about living here?

I don‟t think there's anything. Doesn't seem to be does there. No. No nothing really. I mean some people say it's isolated but it's not really; you're only three quarters of an hour, an hour to Hobart and I mean if you go to Melbourne or something that's only a suburb isn't it? Or semi suburb, so you know I don't think it's isolated at all. You're on the highway between Hobart and Launceston. Well you're about in the centre of Tasmania. That's virtually what happens here, isn't it.

So it's very central in fact.

Mmm, it is.

And how often would you need to go to town anyway? Do you often need to go?

The only thing I have to go for is dental treatment and other than that, well I need it now but I don't feel well enough to have to have it but, but that's the only thing. Everything else is here.

So you go there for dental check-ups?

Well yeah, have to. There's no one else here unfortunately. We have had a dentist and a very good one I might add but of course he's retired now and uh, so it's a matter of if you need treatment and at my age you wouldn't think you would but I do, badly. It's just making not so much the effort, I don't like going to dentists anyway, who does but if I had the health yes, I would be there.

So you still have some of your own teeth.

Three.

And they need attention.

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