I used to play tennis. Till I was 91 and I gave it away because I thought I was getting too old. And that's my grandmother and grandfather. Well, they were born in Ireland, but my mother and father were born here. I think my mother was 19 when she got married and my father was five years older. Claude Treloar, that's my father's name. He worked for the railways. But he got killed on the road later on. 35 My mother was Daphne Pollack. My mother didn't go to work ‘cause her mother went out to the school when she was there, when she was in the fourth grade, and said she was no longer going to school ’cause she's got too much work to do at home. So she took her home. I was born in Glen Huntly. My mother got married and I was the third child and I was born at home. So the first three children she had at home. I was the third one. And that was a time when the War was on. My mother, I'm in her arms. And that's my older sister. There were five girls and one boy. That was the first marriage. My father died. My mother married again. She had two boys. Second eldest is there with my brother on her knee. He's a baby. And I was the third one here. Next one. And the youngest one there. Well, my Mum was very good. Very busy. My stepfather? Yeah, he wasn’t bad. He was from Britain. We didn't have a lot of money. We did have our own home because my grandfather, my mother's father, he gave us a house. Didn't have any shoes sometimes. That was when the war was on, we didn't have any shoes so we couldn't go to school. There was a little boy next door who was very keen on my younger sister, who's a very pretty little girl, and he threw a pair of his shoes over for her to wear to school. Because we moved to Hawthorn. East. And we grew up there. And I went to Auburn South School in Tooronga Road, ‘til I was 12. Arithmetic, history, geography. Well, I don't know what they’re like today, but they were very crabby. Yeah, very strict. And we moved out towards Dandenong. A couple of years there and then I went to work from there. 14. I went straight to work. We needed the money. Well, my sister was working in the city. At Cann’s, which no longer exists. And she asked me would I like a job? And I said, “yes”. Sewing. Suits. Coats. Long clothes, short clothes, that type of thing. That's my sister there. I went and bought myself a bike, and decided to ride it. And that's my younger sister there. Merle. My husband... John. Well, he had a sense of humor and he could dance. That was the main thing. The waltz and the two step. They had a few dances, places I would go, but I was going with my friend, she was going to dance and she was getting awards for it. She wanted me to go but I said, “No, I don’t want any awards. I just want to dance”. So I went with her and my husband and his brother. He said, “Well, why don't you come upstairs and finish dancing up there?” So we did. He was ginger haired... and a temper to go with it. Well, I got married when I was 26 and my husband was four years older than me. I had a wedding dress I made for my friend, asked me to make it. And sew it, and she offered it to me for when I got married. It was satin with... patches of... shapes on the bottom... Went down the bottom. The cutting out, we had to get somebody to cut it out. My eldest sister, she was good at cutting out, and I asked my sisters, there were two of my sisters, what colour they’d like and they wanted blue. So I picked out blue, the pattern, and I made their frocks. Crepe. Sort of a crepe. Yeah. When I got married, I had to get a home to live in. I lived in Brunswick. In Lygon Street. I liked it because I was my own boss. Yes. I wanted children. I had a girl and boy. Neil and Gail. My son, my daughter and myself. Yes. Carlton. Yeah, how good was it? They've been going down the drain and all of a sudden they come and beat Collingwood. And of course my son’s Collingwood, isn’t he? See, he come over the other day he said, “I'm not very happy”, and I burst out laughing.