The Fletcher family spent ten years living in the house built in the Wootton"s former back garden, but by 1981 it was time for a change, as the suburb was altering before their eyes. One after another, the quaint weatherboard homes were being demolished and replaced with bland brick flats that covered almost the entire length of each long, narrow block of land. Nell had moved years before, Ted having died of a heart attack one afternoon while digging his vegetable patch. A good way to go for him, as Joseph said, but a terrible shock for Nell, who"d witnessed the event from the back steps.
Soon afterwards, Joseph had purchased the Holden Kingswood – Nell couldn"t drive and had no intention of learning in her seventies – providing much-needed space to transport the procession of visitors fr
