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a huge university machine.

I suppose I should count

my blessings

that I'm actually in

a university,

having not done it myself,

yeah.

Looking at it,

do you wish you had had that opportunity?

Not really.

It's the same as anything.

Why look back and say, "I wish

I did this or had done that"?

I've had a good career.

At least I'll have my own home.

Which is a new thing

for my family.

My mom and dad are obviously

still in Council Place.

I'll never be a rich pensioner;

I'll never be able

to travel the world once

I retire, I'm afraid,

but as long as I can keep

the house warm

and we can feed ourselves,

that will be fine.

I don't like the big boys

hitting us

and the prefects

sending us out for nothing.

When he was 7,

Paul was in care

in a children's home

in London.

Were you happy at

the children's home in England?

We didn't mind that, really,

because we didn't know

what was going on

'cause we were a bit young.

Well, as far as I know,

my mother and father...

Well, they separated

originally, I think.

And they eventually

got divorced.

I went to the boarding school

for one year

and then we emigrated

to Australia.

Paul settled with his father

and stepmother

in a suburb of Melbourne.

Would you like to get

married, Paul?

Tell me why not.

I don't like like, um...

Say you had a wife.

Like, say you had to eat

what they cooked you.

And say I don't like greens.

Well, I don't.

I know I'd prefer

to be alone, really.

I can't say I don't want

to get married,

'cause I think I do, but I want

to be happily married,

and not before

when I'm not sure.

What was it that you

fell in love with?

What is it about him?

His helplessness,

I suppose.

Just the motherly instinct

in me,

to pick him up

and cuddle him.

He's also very good-looking,

I think,

but he doesn't agree with me.

In the summer, he's got this

cute little bum in shorts.

I mean, I can tell

quite a few stories,

but the one that really

irritates me the most is,

when we have an argument,

he says, "That's it, leave me. "

I say, "Fine, all right,

I will one day. "

We had our 20th wedding

anniversary

just before Christmas.

Which is

the life sentence.

And one reckons that we

should be out of jail by now.

To a certain extent,

we started thinking,

well, do we really know

each other now?

Because you just get in

the humdrum

of going to work,

coming back home.

Running kids here...

Kids here and there.

I don't think you mean to be,

probably stop thinking

about each other a lot.

It's still the last

person you want to see at night

before you go to sleep

and the first person

you want to see

when you wake up.

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