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was a very happy year for me to a point and Dorrie was so pleased she said it was the nicest little wedding she had been to and she got up and played the piano and sang, and Bill and Harold became quite good mates.
Well before the end of the year Merle and Ron had their own place at Revesby, also I think John met Coralie that year. Well our first Christmas we invited the Loomes to come around. Now March 1962. Margaret turns 21 years. John and Coralie gets married in the December. We got an invitation but I refused. I sent it back because I was very hurt with him and I had not seen him since that night he dropped the girls off. Yvonne used to come into the sandwich shop every now and again. Dear Yvonne. she and I can not be bad friends for long at all. We seemed to be very close to each other even when she was a very young little girl. Maybe because she was home with me alone and no other babies but she used to say to me "mummy why haven't I got a little baby to play with, the others did?" "I don't think I want any more babies anyway, I have not got enough money to buy anymore. So you will stay my baby for always. won't you like that", she said and hugged me. She was not at school these days and was full of love in those days and she still is, and still calls me mummy sometimes.
I was working with Bill in the Sandwich shop for quite a while and we were enjoying living at 'Mont Clare' until one day I was walking home and I said to myself your a fool working for someone else think about it, so I did and that night I said to Harold about it, and we talked about it and one day I said "you know that shop down on the corner, well its up for sale, how about if we go and have a look at it? He said he did not know enough about shops but if you want we will. I just went in casually one day and bought a couple of things, and I told Harold what I had done. So when he came home from work the next day we went down to have a look and find out how much etc. Well we went to the bank to see about a loan, much against Harolds grain as we still owed a few hundred on Mount Clare and after we came home he said to me, "do you really want to buy that shop". I said "we may as well work for ourselves as me work for Bill". "O.K." he said "but no borrowing. I will sell my shares, that way we should have enough", so this he did. Well we told the chap we would buy it and put a deposit down. (but I have no idea how or how much the shop was). Well it was about 4 to 6 weeks before we were able to get in. So then I told Bill I was leaving and told him we were buying the shop up on the corner of Bourke and Liverppol Streets, and I was going to have a sandwich bar put in plus a pie oven so I will buy them off you if you like Bill o.k. pies. pastries, sausage rolls. cakes etc. Well the day came for takeover and stocking was done. I got Bill's stocktaker to come and that guy did not like that, as there was a lot of old stock and that was thrown out. All told I remember that because £300.0.0 was not much for a corner store. The guy said he would stay for 2 or 3 weeks until I got to know the people, well we had him there for one week and I said to Harold "tell him we don't want him to come any more." "o.k." he said, but I will still come and buy my things once a week. Well by now were making alterations, sandwich bar in, windows all cleaned out, fruit and vegies in one window and all kinds of breads including continental, shelves all done out with new fresh stock. I think it was cocoa•cola who painted the outside of shop and put our names up H. & E.N. Forshaw.