Betty talks mainly of family and domestic life:  There were eight children in the family all together so the ten of us lived in a three-bedroom cottage, with one lounge room, and a kitchen and bathroom. The family often struggled through lack of money when her father was unemployed: “I used to take my mother’s rings up and pawn them of a Monday to get enough money for food…” When her father got paid on Friday, she’d return to claim the property.