First Boyfriend

During the late 20's and early 30's my parents looked after a cousin Lila Bannon she was Mum's sisters youngest child. We treated her as a sister and over the years always kept in touch. When Lila was to be married she went back to Sydney to be near her Mum and Sister Sadie and on 4th September, 1940 she married Jack Griffiths a police officer and Mum & Dad together with their friends The Haubs drove down to Sydney to attend the wedding.
(My daughter Judy and I visited Lila 2 days ago)

My youngest days were spent playing tennis every Saturday in tournaments and on Sundays if it wasn't cricket season.
Dad and I played a lot together, won some but mostly were runners up as we had a big handicap as Dad was so good. Our handicap sometimes was minus 40, that meant we had to win 3 strokes before we started.
Dad was good at all sport especially cricket, we used to follow his team around, one day he got 9 wickets for 9 runs. I remember as I used to do the scoring.

Going to dances was the other favourite past time, we would go up to 40 miles to attend a dance or Ball but of course we were lucky as Mum and Dad were good dancers and Dad had a car and they loved to go dancing. Dad was always the MC and would always put on dances that were our favourites.
Weja dances were always a success as they were known around the country towns as the best cooks and the suppers were great with all the home cooking. Mum was the Secretary for the dances.
If we were having a good time at a dance they would take the hat around for a collection to pay the band to play longer, they would play to about 2am or later.
It was at one of these functions that I met my first boyfriend, he was a banjo player in the band and a good dancer as well.