I was so shy because it wasn't my house. The house was smaller when I got married and we had an outdoor toilet. We built on an extra room in 1963 and in 1981 we built a kitchen and bathroom extension. We lived off the farm. We cut our own turf and grew our own vegetables.
Times are different now.
People get everything in the supermarket. We grew our own turnips and they were so easily cooked. Now you'd buy a turnip and you'd be boiling it forever. I help to raise funds for the Active Age group I'm involved in and it can be very discouraging because I get so many refusals. We want to organise exchange visits with other groups from across the Border, we want to go on trips to the Hawk's Well theatre in Sligo, and we want to run weekly classes for our group.