Pensioner Leslie Colley can't understand what all the fuss is about. At 92, he has just become a father again, and the former dockworker said it was planned.
"I don't feel any different than when I was 22," Colley told reporters at his home in Ararat, 125 miles west of Melbourne in the southern state of VictoriaBaby Oswald, born July 22, has five brothers and sisters - the oldest 71, the youngest 15 - and an extended family too numerous for his nonagenarian father to remember.
Colley's second wife, 38-year-old Fijian-born Patty, said she had no problems with his age. "He's a romantic. He's better than some young fellows," said Patty, who married him two years ago.
Colley, who does not drink or smoke, said the conception was fortunate but planned.
He put his virility down to good diet. "I don't eat junk food - no cans of soft drinks or potato chips for dinner," he said Friday.
Despite his age, Colley has been busy around the house like all new fathers. "I haven't had time to turn around, even the breakfast dishes have not been washed up yet."
Colley could be the world's oldest new father, but the Guinness Book of Records does not help. It lists only the oldest mothers.