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Oh yes, ambulance driver.

[He mows the lawn.]

Does he live on his own too?

No, he's got a wife and three children.

So do you have much to do with any of the children who live around here?

Well there aren't any children that live around here, only next door. They've got two littlies now. I don't know what age. I suppose the little girl would probably be three/four and the little boy would be eighteen months perhaps. I don't really see that much of them, only hear them, so.

As a teacher you must have an interest in children.

Oh, I see yes. Oh no, you do but then you've been away from it for as long as I have you sort of get out of all those habits and you get to be an old granny [laughs]. You know what it's like [name deleted.]. [Comment deleted.]

I don't know what you mean by that, being an old granny.

Oh well you grow up and they grow up and you‟re just an old granny to them.

To very young children you mean?

No. The eldest girl is 17 if you believe it and the other one's 14, June, she'll be fourteen in June. So one's finished schooling and the other one's right into schooling, mmm.

And how often do you see them?

Now that's a good question. See I used to go over once every 12 months, but of course I don't now, haven't been over for a number of years but unfortunately but it's just too much of an effort and I just couldn't cope with it, yeah I couldn't cope with it now.

So they come over here?

Yes. I have to hold me daughter down. When mother gets sick all she wants to do is come home to mother, but I mean she's got home and husband and two girls and she can't always be tripping across. She tells me last night; we ring every night of course. She told me last night that one of the girls are coming over in June. And I said, well I don't really think that's necessary and I don't think it's

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necessary because I think it's making her very tired. She's had a few problems and it's just well it's tiring I feel and if she gets a few holidays and the girls get holidays. Well [name deleted] won't get holidays but the other one, [name deleted], will be on holidays so that'd be all right for her I suppose. And then there's their sport, netball; weekends are taken up with that. They both play and they've both got to go to practice on a Thursday night and [their father‟s name deleted] can take them of a Thursday night to practice because he's not working so that relieves [daughter‟s name deleted] but then she's involved in the jolly thing, involved in the netball you know, umpires and all this.

It's a very busy time of life having teenagers.

Well it is, yes. So I prefer her to, you know, keep her time and let her be devoted to the girls and the home. See come weekends, she works every day bar weekends, well then everything's got to be done, the girls are very good, they have to work of course and uh, that's their spending money, their work and they get paid fairly but well rightly so, they deserve it.

Her daughters? So what sort of work do they do?

Housework.

Around the house? She pays them, so she works and the girls do housework and she pays them to do it?

That's exactly right, mmm. She works at the hospital over there. She's in charge of the catering part of the hospital, yeah; which is a bigger complex than this one of course. She likes it and she needs the money, and these young ones they're buying homes. They were telling me the other night they're investing in land.

That's very wise isn't it?

Well I suppose. I got a bit of a shock and [daughter‟s name deleted] said, you know, oh well I know the block that she's speaking of and she said, we've been to have a look at that tonight, she said. We're going to buy it and I got a terrible shock and said, whatever do you want that for and she said we're looking to the future because she said, the girls won't always be at home and if you want to buy now's the time to buy and, uh so they've decided that they'd buy this block of land and uh, so they are buying the block of land because they reckon the home that they've got will be far too big.

So they're thinking of their own future.

Yes.

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Well they are in [name of town deleted]; it's right on the Murray Valley Highway right in between

[name of town deleted] and [name of town deleted]. That's a broad outlook of course but it is broad over there.

So your daughter's grown up in the country and gone back to it to live, but in Victoria.

Yeah, yeah well she didn't really grow up in the … I suppose she grew up here, this was her home but she worked in Hobart. She worked in [name of shop deleted] in Hobart. I've noticed they've had to sell too. She was there for twelve years I think she worked at Ash Besters so ...

So are you planning to make any changes to your housing in the future?

Not while I can cope where I am.

Do you think about? It must be a very easy place to cope with because you've got some restrictions now with your breathing but what would influence you changing, like either moving from here? I don't know what other changes you could make? I don't think there is anything that you could change here that would make it easier to live here. It looks like it's very easy to live here.

Well you've got all the services that you need. I have the nurses come twice a week.

It's a great place to live. I think I will retire here.

There's meals-on-wheels.

I've only seen good news since I've been here.

Yes they have meals on wheels and, the nurses come twice a week and that's, well I can have home help but I pay for my own help because I like the lady I've got and I've had her for so long, and she knows me and I know her and she's very trusting and so, yes I could have home help, through the DVA.

She does a good job, doesn‟t she?

Oh yes, nothing's a trouble to her. She's fantastic. Oh, it's not her day until tomorrow; every Tuesday.

So you're not planning to sell?

No, not unless I had to. I booked in down at the homes but I mean that's only for the future. I thought I might be down there sooner than I anticipated, but ...

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Oh, yes and no.

Do you think you'd have more support and help there?

No, I don't think you get more support and help there. That's not it at all, but it's not home.

Yes.

Are you with me?

Mmm, so can you tell me then what home means to you?

Oh well, that's a little bit difficult I suppose but it just means that you've got all your own things around you. You can do as you please, not that you wouldn't be here I suppose. But no not really, I just I mean guess I'd have visitors there same as I would have here but they say the house is open to anyone who likes to come and, no I'm quite happy as long as I can cope. This word cope keeps popping up at me.

This is your place and you've lived here a long time and you have it, as you want it.

Yes, mmm, mmm, so.

But you do think about moving to a retirement unit as a possibility if you needed to, if something happened and you needed to.

Well if I couldn't cope I would have to.

That's the only circumstance under which would move, so it's not in a way about staying really, you choose to stay here if you can?

Yes, that's right.

And the only reason would be if you could not stay. I mean in the retirement unit, some people get lonely when they're older and there's probably more company down at the retirement units. But you're not short of company.

Not for me I don't think. No, I don't think that I'd be, I've given it a lot of thought of course and there's a room there begging for me to go to, but no it's not my cup of tea I'm afraid. Not while I can cope at home.

To make a new start?

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