Were you responsible for any Household Chores

The one I remember the most was my job to come home from school and cook the evening meal...... we lived in Queens Park...I would have been about 12 and my Mum worked and came home probably about 6..
Oh my gosh I did not enjoy doing that.....it was always potato, red meat and and some veg it never varied.
I guess like most kids..I made our beds and cleaned our rooms which was never a big deal as we had very very little..for instance I had one doll all my childhood except another was bought much later, this one had hair..but I never took to her. So cleaning up our room was easy, hardly any cloths and no toys.
Doing the dishes and sweeping the floors etc like I imagine most other kids did...it varied from house to house that we lived in..Eddy worked out that it was 14 homes before I left to spread my wings on my own.
But I will tell you off one unusual thing...One morning waking up early and going to make my bed I lifted my pillow and there was a snake curled up under it ...I had slept on the darn thing all night...Lucky Me !!!!! Someone was looking after me that night.......Our house was one that Dad had built in Forrestfield...Three rooms side by side with a wooden patterned floor that Dad had made and which was the pride of the family and a little back room which had nothing but sand on the bottom.
Our parents did the very best that they could, I can never remember going hungry , but things were different then it was for others who belonged to this Country.......we were migrants and felt like it....
My biggest responsibility was looking after Eddy, he is 5 years younger then me.....He nearly lost his life to Tetanus when he was four..And that responsibility became even more poignant.... Without sounding ungrateful ..at times it was too much.
 Also being an interpreter for my Mother..... who couldn't understand sometimes what was being said..I think in some ways I grew up too quick......life was very different in Holland then when we came to Australia..... Even though there were times of fun there were more times of struggle...particularly for my dear parents.
So you could say that my Household Chores were somewhat different then some.