I remember all that. How true it was.

Mum and dad cleared the land and built the house themselves, buying materials as they could afford it. First we lived in two caravans and then the first part of the house when it was finished.

I think I had one shilling a week for pocket money. A penny could buy a cheap icecream and the good ones cost threepence.

You could get a bag of broken biscuits from the grocer (the green grocer sold fruit and vegies), the first self-service shops (supermarkets) were just starting to appear frown

Mobile phones and computers were not even thought of and my Christmas present was a second hand bike that my dad had repainted by hand. The kids today cost a fortune.

For entertainment we boys put on a backpack and went camping in the bush, following the creek down to Berowra Waters or Cowan creek for a swim. We could catch huge yabbies then but now the creeks are full of garden rubbish.

Some of the best days of my life, but I didn't know it then.

Peter

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