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friendly and so did Burt and Ray and every time the Dog won a race he would bring Burt over for a few drinks and Olga and I would have tea and it was (only last month in Sydney at Betty's 50th birthday we met up with them again).
Well now Beryl came home unexpected and asked could they get married as there was a house down there that they could get very cheap and it already has sheep on it. She also told me that she had changed her religion whilst down their and that she would like to get married (on the 17th March in St. Mels if we did not agree they would have it anyway so why not. Well they were duly married. Merle was her bridesmaid and Yvonne was her flowergirl. Well what a beery night that was (shocking). I did the catering myself and made her cake. Dear Nan was invited to that but I did not ask Stepmother as Dad had passed away and I said to Beryl "if Grandfather knew this he would turn over in his grave with him being a strong Orangeman". As Beryl was married 2 days before she was 18 years as hers is 18th of March so the others have not had their birthdays yet. So they go to Newcastle for their honeymoon then come back to us and pack up and off they go to Delegate. They are still there now and have 3 sons. 1 daughter Cheryl who has a lovely boy Timothy and daughter Rebecca and poor Cheryl is at this point of time in Little Bay hospital very ill and Margaret and Yvonne go and see her and keep in touch with Beryl who is minding Cheryl's children. The 3 boys are also married and she is a grandmother of 8 children at 53 years, very capable.
So now Merle and Betty share the one bedroom and Margaret and Yvonne share the other room and Albert and John in the other room. Our house in Moore Street is starting to look very nice, we have had the old wooden veranda all cemented in and the Bull nose Iron roof taken of and a flat one put on and it has been painted inside and out. A lovely garden around, a lovely square lawn that Albert made with a peach tree in the middle. He got all the grass from Canterbury racecourse. It was truly very picturesque. Then there were patterns put right across the yard with the T-Posts clothesline and another path from the back patio right up to the Dog Pens and the fowl yard, vegetable garden on one side and flowers on the other side near Mrs Dainer place and her daughter Yvonne was a friend of Betty's. We used to have visitors there nearly every Sunday night for tea. Uncle Charlie Howlett a blind friend of Rays with his wife and family. It is about now that Uncle Albert had to give up work as he had that dreadful disease known as Huntings Carrea. It was a shocking thing. I shall never forget it. It is a very slow death which goes on and on for years, and needless to say the only thing being made now were dog rugs winter and summer. Well now they have all had another birthday and now they go to Campsie Sunday School Methodist in Campsie Street which is now I believe turned into a nursing home. The only words I ever had with Nanna Wood was when I found out about this Huntington Carrea, by saying I wished she had told us more about it, but she really did not know much. It was only that Ray's father died with it and his father and I believe it goes back to America and that it does not strike until the persons are around forty. So I got busy finding out what I could about it and a Doctor McGeorge I got on to him (specialist) and he told me he did not think I had anything to worry about by what you tell me, your husband seems O.K. and you are a very healthy woman. Well later on when Uncle Albert did pass away and then Rays sister Jessie, she had 2 children a boy and a girl. By the way Uncle Albert did get married and he had a daughter. Then there was the youngest of the family Aunty Edith