[Julie:] I don't know they said that no names are mentioned
[Betty:] No
[Wendy:] She takes all them tapes away and Bet's name's not put on there.
[Maggie:] No one 's names are on there
[Rose:] No one 's names are on there.
[Googie:] She's got to write down
[Rose:] What
[Julie:] She's got to write down [LAUGHTER] [clapping]
[Rose:] Mm. Have I got to fill all this out now?
[Julie:] Bet's got to fill out who she's talking to and what they are to her
[Rose:] You're her mother Grandmother. [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] When you're sixty oh Rose had it
[Maggie:] She got a shock
[Julie:] She got to put down every day look there's a sample for a week
[Betty:] For a week.
[Julie:] Look there's a sample look. She's got to put the
[Wendy:] She'll have to bring it over her coffee in the morning.
[Julie:] The person's age... male or female. And what else is it?
[Betty:] Oh what action they are and what what's that? Oh relation they are stranger or colleague.
[Julie:] Have you been swearing Rose?
[Wendy:] No I haven't said a word.
[Googie:] Oh she's all right then?
[Maggie:] No.
[Julie:] Colleague. That's colleague like we're friends. [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Friends and neighbours?
[Julie:] Yeah. Friends and neighbours. Yeah. I thought she'd be on that one five minutes I'll see what
[Wendy:] Well that's where what it is. She's got to put on she's got to put you're a granny or
[Julie:] If I'd done that if I'd done that be worse you don't use bad language but he'd be he's he'd be
[Wendy:] He'd do it all the more would he?
[Julie:] He's he's well
[Maggie:] He'd do it all the more.
[Julie:] Be serious he can't be serious.
[Betty:] No.
[Julie:] But I didn't let although there won't be nothing on there so it don't matter do it?
[Betty:] No.
[Julie:] Because we're very quiet when we're on our own
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER] Oh ah!
[Rose:] Oh I bet they're not!
[Wendy:] Oh it's all right. They have fun.
[Rose:] language with the
[Julie:] I should be I should bloody go very carefully
[Wendy:] This morning Betty
[Betty:] Oh!
[Wendy:] coffee
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] Oh we'll have a bleeding laugh at that. Don't say nothing before Joe comes in, don't say nothing.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] Do you know what you got on there now?
[Rose:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] We've got to be silent
[Wendy:] We've got her doing
[Julie:] I'd be wishing I'll Christmas birthday coming
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Rose:] How long does that tape last?
[Googie:] five minutes [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Oh have you got to change the tape then or?
[Julie:] I'll just turn it over.
[Rose:] Turn it off then.
[Julie:] Oh yes. You can hear yourself now but where
[Rose:] Oh dear
[Googie:] This man charges women three hundred pounds to have sex.
[speaker007:] That all? That all? Three hundred pounds.
[Julie:] Well he's already the front.
[Betty:] [reading] All of his six feet six foot three of smouldering sexuality he's probably the best looking man you have ever seen with a bo body he looks every inch the top model he once was [].
[Julie:] He ain't no different to my old man is he Bet? Not any different.
[speaker007:] Well none of them are are they? Hanging a bit looser [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] a bit more than all the others, like boobs innit
[Betty:] for two years. In that time he had performed group sex with his millionaire businessmen, turned on sex starved women who have never had an orgasm
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] affection and satisfaction from hundreds of clients You can get more from eating a bar of bleeding chocolate.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] Was there that went on our phone. Was there?
[Betty:] Yeah we had the toy shop ringing, said you been ringing? She said yeah all day she said we was ringing. I said well we're very rarely at home.
[speaker007:] Ooh! [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] I said special round Christmas shopping. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Oh!
[Betty:] Yeah and they have them there see and like after so long they come out and sell them.
[Julie:] Aye sell
[Betty:] I mean they could have rung yesterday that's the trouble you see they've got so many friends Good girl you fairly worked that bleeding money.
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Betty:] What twenty quid?
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Oh bloody fair aren't you?... she'd might never have known whose giving fair.
[speaker007:] ...
[Betty:] Is it getting on your nerves?
[Julie:] Well it is a bit long, Betty. Got bloody cock eyes.
[Maggie:] Let's see?
[Betty:] Does it look nice?
[Julie:] Yeah but... needs snipping
[Betty:] Shall I snip it then?
[Julie:] It would get on my nerves. I couldn't stand that. Can't see the would be
[Betty:] Shall I snip it?
[Julie:] Yeah if you like.
[Wendy:] Not too short.
[Maggie:] Oh not too short.
[Betty:] What time
[Julie:] You only have to take a little bit off ain't enough to go under your nose.
[Betty:] might go on a bit Shut me gob. [LAUGHTER] [tv interrupts]
[Julie:] It's quite warm out this afternoon.
[Betty:] That's better.
[Julie:] That's better. [tv on]
[Betty:] Excuse me?... [tv on]
[Julie:] I'd better get my
[Betty:] I know.
[Julie:] It's very nice.
[speaker007:] Sorry mate.
[Julie:] Is that better Edna?
[Edna:] Yes that's better.... A lot better. [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] You want to see her in the morning when she bloody get up.
[speaker007:] Oh yes wonderful.
[Julie:] Try and get her bloody...
[Betty:] That nice?
[speaker007:] Yes beautiful.
[Julie:] Don't bloody keep on. I said it once.
[speaker007:] she got trouble. [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Behave!
[Wendy:] She is then Julie isn't she?
[Julie:] No. You know that. You have to remind her.
[Googie:] You did didn't you?
[Julie:] just a joke.
[speaker007:] Yeah. [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] You bloody find out. Mine cost bloody. Bernard Manning was on there you know.
[Wendy:] Yes he's alive.
[Julie:] Yeah he's alive and his mother was there and she's ninety odd. Yeah. Cos she's bloody Jewish ain't she?
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER] Eamon Andrews yeah. She said you're seeing Eamon Andrews
[Rose:] He's dead isn't he?
[Wendy:] He's dead.
[Betty:] They'll all be dead by.
[Julie:] [reading] Women are twelve times more likely than men to get AIDS from straight sex by []
[Betty:] Oh God!
[Julie:] [reading] An infected woman will die sooner than men because doctors mistake symptoms for less serious illnesses []. Oh! [reading] it claims that women are at risk because men are more likely to spread the virus. A third of the infected women get AIDS through through sex with men but only about three per cent of infected
[Betty:] Are we?
[Julie:] from women [].
[Betty:] And they don't have to
[Julie:] It's bloody men isn't it? Bloody things.
[Rose:] Yeah. Bloody men. Yeah.
[speaker007:] They said it comes from apes.
[Julie:] Apes? What AIDS?
[speaker007:] That's what Keith said
[Julie:] And then they stopped it and it got spread about and then blah blah blah and then it came well it spread all through Europe and
[Rose:] Oh well
[Betty:] No wonder he had three bloody blood tests the other day then. He said the first the second was
[Julie:] Us women are not to blame for this AIDS
[Rose:] Dirty filthy it's the men.
[Julie:] Oh! I didn't say that. You can't blame all this on to the men.
[Rose:] What about Elton John? What do you think about Elton John on the paper there?
[Julie:] He just looks bloody awful.
[speaker007:] Awful.
[Betty:] What?
[Rose:] I love you forever he put on the Freddy Mercury tape
[Julie:] We haven't seen him for years the bloody queer. That Kenny Everett said he'd go to the funeral. He said he's dead so we might as well remember him. I think it's because he got it he didn't want people to see him. That's all.
[Betty:] got it.
[Wendy:] the girls?
[Googie:] Do you like the look the girls?
[Betty:] It must of
[Rose:] It's really nice of the girls.
[Julie:] I don't owe you nothing now.
[Wendy:] No
[Julie:] We're square?
[Wendy:] You have to tell me what you want in the morning.
[Julie:] Oh yes!
[Wendy:] Because you'll be gone to coffee by the time I get back I suspect.
[Googie:] Where you going up?
[Wendy:] Yeah. You be gone to coffee by the time I get back.
[Julie:] I want definitely shampoo please.
[Wendy:] Yeah. Head and Shoulders?
[Rose:] Do you want Head and Shoulders Julie or do you want erm
[Julie:] Head and Shoulders.
[Wendy:] dandruff
[Rose:] Do you want anything else?
[Julie:] I've got soap, I've got polish.
[Wendy:] They've got all different soaps down there or just er
[Julie:] Yeah I know erm
[Wendy:] You've got spray haven't you?
[Julie:] I want bread and no I haven't got any
[Wendy:] So do you want me to get you one?
[Julie:] Yes if you can manage yes.
[Wendy:] Anything else?
[Googie:] The soccer player got sent off for kissing his opponent on his head.
[speaker007:] Stupid.
[Googie:] He was saying to him he said stop bloody play acting get up and he just give him a kiss on the head
[speaker007:] Ooh!
[Googie:] and the referee sent him off
[Betty:] I hate that in men!
[Wendy:] You got enough powder?
[Julie:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] Cleaning powder?
[Wendy:] Did you want any washing powder? You know I never thought of asking you if you want that.
[Julie:] I just used the last.
[Wendy:] I got loads here.
[Julie:] No I just used the last now. I'm all right for now because I've got no more washing.
[Wendy:] Well no
[Julie:] The next time.
[Wendy:] Thank you.
[Julie:] I've just used the last now which has been good.
[Betty:] I wish someone would spread the news around. Oh I wish I had a washing machine they finished with I could have it. [LAUGHTER] Anybody got a second hand washing machine?
[Rose:] Spread the news.
[Wendy:] Yeah yeah. Right I'm going.
[Julie:] Okay my love.
[Wendy:] See you some time tomorrow. I might be back in time to see you before coffee if not I'll see you
[Rose:] You won't you won't be back by then?
[Wendy:] No.
[Julie:] See you when you come back from Kingsworth. Not going for drinkies tomorrow?
[Wendy:] I don't think so. No....
[Betty:] I better go I've gotta go to work. Goodbye!
[Rose:] Goodbye Wens.
[Googie:] What time do you have to go to work?
[Betty:] Half past four. Tea Edna.
[Googie:] Half past four?
[Betty:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] cup of tea [telephone] Oh right Ed. I've already made the reservations. Could you be here by say? I was wondering if I could take it tonight? Oh er yes. Are you sure you don't mind?
[Rose:] You mean the people who made that what's it called?
[Julie:] Syndicate.
[Rose:] Syndicate twenty of them. Enjoying football for twenty years? And they never won nothing and they were made redundant last week and one of the chaps he did it on his own this week and won three hundred thousand.
[Julie:] What on his own?
[Rose:] On his own. And when he marries he says he's going to buy a house a car and he's going on a holiday. You got the Mirror haven't you? It's in the Mirror. Oh I dunno about that. Well I don't know. They've all been made redundant. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah I got the coat on this morning I said I said hopefully Yeah. coaches up there. I said
[Googie:] They had a hundred pounds for Christmas day for Christmas bits.
[Rose:] five hundred. By the time I get I get kids something each I never have a lot left I was only saying that with one thing and another and and I said there she is worrying about [cough] her Caroline worrying about she's going to manage. I said I mean all right I mean everybody's in the same bus.. Now if that was me see I'd very often.
[Googie:] She don't get parking allowance?
[Rose:] No. You can walk. You can walk. There's a bus park. And I said to her well every time I goes over I either takes children a few groceries. I don't tell her or she'll take on the mantleshelf. But it ain't much but it's I mean I said to our I don't know how she manages on that
[Googie:] Nor do I.
[Rose:] One small girl and she doesn't go to school.
[Googie:] I must say I honestly do n't.
[Rose:] I don't either.
[Googie:] Because it's a struggle.
[Rose:] Yeah I know our Lorraine has took the phone over. I know she done that. But I don't know I said to her I know how to bloody manage. girls they go shopping like but they always got another carrier didn't they until they got sold and then when er they're on the next road from their house like take the carrier and it's all for her. Every never nothing else. Every week.
[Googie:] Did they?
[Rose:] Yes every week. Never miss. And then she goes mad she says I don't want them to and I said look Nance if they didn't want to do it they... and I said don't forget what you've done for them. Although you want to
[Googie:] I know I know.
[Rose:] weaken the belly bit now I said I said. She don't like it.
[Googie:] There's no hope for her. She needs to get help doesn't she?
[Rose:] Well she ought they could I mean I want her to do that.
[Googie:] Well it's time isn't it?... Oh!
[Rose:] Did you unload your
[Googie:] No
[Rose:] Oh that Nanette phoned in and some of the country said what do you think of this thing he said. He said I pays my poll tax he says and I am paying out of my savings he said now what the heck will I do when my bloody savings is gone.
[Googie:] That's right. That's was on there.
[Rose:] Was it on? And he said like
[Googie:] Five hundred odd pounds.
[Rose:] Yeah. And he said what the heck will I do now when my savings is gone? Well.
[Googie:] Shall I send off for that?
[Rose:] What's that?
[Googie:] [reading] Film extras... required in all areas only eight []
[Rose:] it won't raise a bleeding cameras. Well! We're not really bloody cameras.
[Googie:] So what do I do? Stand there near the video shop? Film extra?
[Rose:] Yeah they advertise
[Googie:] She's in Casualty
[Rose:] I've got a lot of time.
[Googie:] Yeah you have got a lot of time.
[Rose:] I should just go for half an hour
[Googie:] Will they pay you to be a film extra?
[Rose:] Du n no. Hello Maggie
[Googie:] Hello love
[Maggie:] Hello!
[Rose:] Hello my love we've just been talking about you. How's your Mum?
[Maggie:] Oh not so bad.
[Googie:] Oh good.
[Rose:] Oh wonderful.
[Maggie:] Oh she does look well.
[Rose:] There's a chair my love. Oh good. Seventeen?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Googie:] Oh brilliant. They think she burst one of her ulcers?
[Maggie:] No... one of her tubes.
[Rose:] Oh strange!
[Maggie:] Yeah I know also she's got a complaint as well. together a combination or something or the other.
[Rose:] Oh no!
[Maggie:] But they haven't
[Rose:] Oh that's good
[Googie:] Oh that's lovely.
[Maggie:] She's back today.
[Rose:] Is she? Oh well.
[Googie:] Mm.
[speaker007:] [tv on]
[Maggie:] breast
[Rose:] Christmas Eve.
[Googie:] Oh!
[Maggie:] Yes. My mother.
[Rose:] She can't be all that well.
[Maggie:] She's on the mend.
[Rose:] Oh good!
[Maggie:] She told me off.
[Rose:] That's good!
[Googie:] Oh dear!
[Rose:] said I was getting better she's telling off.
[Maggie:] Oh. She got her bag out and she said give me my bag. She said I said Mum Christmas is a month away.
[Rose:] Yeah did she get up?
[Maggie:] She said there's the money. You will go and get those Christmas presents for me. Tomorrow all right? Now take it.
[Rose:] Yeah but get it.
[Googie:] Oh! Are you working Tuesday night?
[Maggie:] No.
[Googie:] You're not working? You've got the money if you want to buy Christmas presents this year.
[Maggie:] Why?
[Googie:] Because I can go down with you and get them sent off
[Maggie:] Oh can you?
[Googie:] Yes.
[Maggie:] Oh all right then Great.
[Googie:] You can come with me.
[Maggie:] Okay lovely smashing very nice
[speaker007:] He said he said I got me. So I said what's in it for. He said for the money we spent here you could have had a percentage off. I said because you had a different coat on today didn't you?
[Googie:] For every ten pounds you spend you get three bucks.
[Rose:] You got your stuff now haven't you?
[Googie:] Oh yeah.
[speaker007:] I told you to hang on.
[Googie:] I don't think there's going to be a lot left there.
[Rose:] There's only
[Googie:] I'll have no bloody money left by then. So anyway I then looked at. I'll get a bloody telling off me again. No.
[Rose:] I've got a card for her there.
[Maggie:] Oh that's lovely. She got er she's off her drip now.
[Rose:] Is she allowed to eat anything?
[Maggie:] She hasn't said anything about that. I think she sort of she she she didn't say she said she's not allowed er she's not allowed to have chicken and cucumber.
[Googie:] Isn't she?
[Rose:] Not chicken?
[Maggie:] She has to watch what she eats.
[Rose:] Ooh! I see.
[Maggie:] Oh! Look at that. Isn't that cute?
[Rose:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] Oh that's lovely.
[Googie:] Where did you get that one from?
[Rose:] Kingsworth.
[Maggie:] Kingsworth.
[Googie:] Isn't that lovely?
[Maggie:] You're kind.
[Rose:] Oh!
[Maggie:] A bit bigger than that.
[Googie:] The things I've seen are lovely.
[Rose:] I'm going to get a little cushion to put on my you know.
[Maggie:] He likes it?
[Rose:] He loves it there
[Maggie:] He must be nice and warm under there.
[Rose:] It is it's the warmth and as he looks at the bush out of the front door I'm sure he laughs. [LAUGHTER] cos every time I goes out there he's sat and he's sat and he's sat as much to say hello [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] He did?
[Rose:] Yeah.
[Julie:] Yeah yeah. It's a bit bloody wet now isn't it?
[Googie:] It's getting damp now.
[Julie:] I went out and saw it a minute ago and I thought I'd bring it in and I thought I hadn't seen you for a couple of days.
[Googie:] No I said I hadn't seen you.
[Julie:] Have you heard how your mother is?
[Maggie:] Yes
[Googie:] Oh!
[Maggie:] I thought I'd better come round today in a bit more positive mood. Cos she said what's wrong with her as well so that makes you feel better
[Julie:] And that makes you feel easier
[Maggie:] Yeah yeah. And not only that when you're getting on a like like
[Julie:] No. The lady who nursed her and she said I can't see you and why not she said and she said because you under sixty five.
[Maggie:] Oh. Ooh!
[Julie:] When she told her age she was cross.
[Rose:] If I was her I would have said that was a bloody compliment if ever there was I said in the morning when she gets up have a look at her [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] When did you know?
[Julie:] Yeah supposed to have a perm today yeah.
[Googie:] And why aren't you now?
[Julie:] Because I forgot all about it.
[Googie:] It looks nice that way Well it is. It's all right for going out. You might as well have it set.
[Maggie:] It looks nice.
[speaker007:] [cough]
[Julie:] Does it now?
[Rose:] Now doesn't look no different does she? I can't understand that.
[Julie:] I know but I want a curl
[Rose:] But you don't want it. It looks nice like that. Don't know why you bother. I must say I like your natural colour best.
[Julie:] With me now
[Rose:] I reckon if you dye it you'll spoil it.
[Julie:] Oh my goodness.
[Wendy:] Is she having her hair done?
[Julie:] I haven't seen her have I this week. She might came in in a minute.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] her stuff
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] It's a good job she's not here. she's bloody obvious she is.
[Wendy:] Oh ah she's terrible I got those buttons did you this morning? I never
[Googie:] I got there as far as there.
[Rose:] store.
[Googie:] What chocolate buttons?
[Rose:] and they're eating chocolate and they haven't got no buttons. Gets nasty and all. Oh lord.
[Julie:] There's Christmas things you got are ninety nine at Asda
[Rose:] section things
[Julie:] Section things they're ninety nine in Asda.
[Rose:] Are they?
[Julie:] Yes. I seen them this morning so tell Mr
[Rose:] God
[Julie:] to lower the price of them things. what do you call them?
[Wendy:] Ninety nine. They weren't ninety nines surely?
[Rose:] Yeah they were ninety nines.
[Julie:] Where?
[Rose:] On the on the things.
[Wendy:] Have you still got your list?
[Rose:] I've brung it up I don't know whether I got that
[David:] What? What?
[Rose:] I brung it up I because
[Wendy:] Those selection boxes
[Rose:] Milk bars. I have the milk bars and the little box of chocolates
[Wendy:] They're not ninety nine P.
[Julie:] So what's ninety nine then?
[Maggie:] Seventy eight
[Wendy:] What was the ninety nine then?
[Julie:] Well...
[Wendy:] Well I'm sorry.
[Julie:] This is to date.
[Wendy:] Yeah. You've got selection boxes you're little ones.
[Maggie:] Yeah. They're seventy eight.
[Wendy:] Seventy eight?
[Julie:] What is ninety nine then? if I done it wrong. I'll have to work it out.
[Sally:] Ninety nine.
[Wendy:] Seventy eight.
[David:] Balderdash!
[Betty:] The fact is
[Wendy:] Yeah. That's it the two of us
[Julie:] Oh ninety nine pence each. They're not yeah yeah but because pound down to get it even er that's it. Sorry Dave you're you're I'm playing up now yeah You get me one of those big selection boxes?
[Wendy:] You plan on
[Julie:] I want one for Joe and I want one for
[Maggie:] I've seen some at Kingsworth what Morris' done joint ones and they they haven't got half as much as what the one has got in it.
[Julie:] Oh well.
[Maggie:] They got about six or seven bars of chocolate as the one the joint ones they got loads of them
[Julie:] Don't forget now.
[speaker007:] don't you?
[Betty:] They've got those...
[Julie:] I can't be bothered
[Wendy:] this place where they got a boat. My daughter's got it? in March. Thirteen thirty nine pounds something.
[Maggie:] Oh well don't know you.
[Julie:] Michelle going. It's the name of the house actually. It's down Devon way?
[Maggie:] Yeah it is.
[Julie:] Is it?
[speaker007:] Where our kids went? No.
[Julie:] Something big house big house I don't know
[Rose:] Where did the children go Dave Summer House?
[David:] I don't know.
[Julie:] Summer House.
[Wendy:] Yes Summer House. That's it it is.
[Sally:] Mum?
[Wendy:] No. Round there. It's something funny I said our kids went there. She said it
[Julie:] It was something to do with that school
[Wendy:] Oh what was it called?
[Julie:] And I said to Michelle she normally don't you know? You got them kids some of the kids
[speaker007:] I don't wonder
[Julie:] No not even. Evening no it was somewhat that that horrid word like that's so bloody funny.
[Wendy:] Yeah. Was the kids
[Julie:] I've never seen so many bloody kids.
[Wendy:] Did you see?
[Julie:] Yeah bleeding right and I don't think they were because the school
[Wendy:] It was getting on everyone's nerves out there.
[Julie:] They was younger than your Mandy.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Julie:] And they was bloody Running the bloody trolley over my foot. They are terrible in there. there was one kind with bloody chocolate offer they was started eating it.. I said to her you might as well let me eat it now.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Julie:] That's the trouble they just run see. They just go around and do their shopping and ignore
[Betty:] What's her name? She over on
[Wendy:] What's that girl?
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] She's over there because she used to be on the erm
[Maggie:] Where's that kid gone?
[Wendy:] on that film the other morning
[speaker007:] The manager suspended her Anyway she got her job back since the manager's gone but she, she was a right
[Wendy:] Is there any any seconds? [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] Do you mind if I do my potatoes now?
[Wendy:] No I'm going home now.
[speaker007:] Any seconds thirds? Is er everything all right? Yoo hoo There's Michelle just come in the door. Ah right.
[Wendy:] here.
[speaker007:] Here you are. It's all clean again you know. Yeah
[Julie:] How's your Mum?
[speaker007:] Better thanks. I don't know. I could have been worse. I was all nasty. What you doing?
[Julie:] It's got to be done. I've got the kids sausages and chips in
[speaker007:] Have you?
[Julie:] Yeah
[speaker007:] Oven chips?
[Wendy:] I can't stand that
[speaker007:] What chips?
[Wendy:] dry dry isn't it? Dry.
[speaker007:] Ah. Just depends what make they are mind you
[Wendy:] Well they're more dry them oven chips.
[Julie:] Well they said what you having for tea and I said well we'll have to have... you can have a few beans or something
[Wendy:] Oh ah wet then.
[David:] Eh?
[Julie:] You'll have to have chips
[speaker007:] the door.
[David:] Yeah what can you Jill!
[Julie:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] That one's horrible
[David:] Jill!
[Julie:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] Jill!
[David:] Jill!
[Julie:] What? What?
[David:] What you're going to give them?
[Julie:] Eh?
[David:] What you going to give them?
[speaker007:] No. Mind your business Bye
[Julie:] I haven't got a clue.
[speaker007:] I'll see you sometime tomorrow.
[Julie:] Okay.
[speaker007:] I've got to get up early all right?
[Betty:] All right my love.
[speaker007:] Ta ta David. Cheerio
[Betty:] What oh yes you've got to go out with them films to Kingsworth. Okay my love.
[speaker007:] Bye. Right I suppose I'll go round
[Betty:] Bye now. All right that'll do for now.
[Julie:] I could come home from work have some dinner and change and go straight out to the hospital part of all this week.
[Betty:] Oh it's all go isn't it? Ow! The nurse come in and and I said
[Julie:] Oh is she? What's the matter with her?
[Betty:] So she said should we go down now... Oh. She never answered.
[Julie:] Oh yeah?
[Betty:] tonight. Because we are having a big do er champagne party and all
[Julie:] Oh lovely.
[Betty:] So I said well I'd like to go but Barbara's going at five o'clock to get down and get a tea that's too early.
[Julie:] Five o'clock?
[Betty:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] Oh well that's your
[Betty:] Even if we left here at six we wouldn't get a table.
[speaker007:] No
[Julie:] No
[Betty:] It would be too late so she said I really want to go because we went out last night you know
[Julie:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] So I said to her she said would you like to go to the Regal so I said I don't mind. I said you had better and go and ask Keith first. So he said he didn't care where he went so as much as to say so I thought right then we'll go to the Regal tonight. I don't know what I'm going what I'm going to do on Thursday.
[Julie:] Well there's nothing stopping you is there?
[Wendy:] Oh no.
[Julie:] He hasn't got to bath the kids and put them to bed.
[Wendy:] I know but then it's the money isn't it?
[Julie:] I think I should be making the tea or I'll fall asleep in the bloody chair
[Betty:] You got to go this Sunday?
[Wendy:] No they asked me if I wanted to and I said no. I don't want to work on Sunday.
[Julie:] They were on the till when I was up there this morning and I said you are you were working there
[Wendy:] Yes there's plenty up there to grab the overtime. I don't bloody want it.
[speaker007:] Did you see the Tesco group that were on there last night?
[Wendy:] Yeah yeah. Were you there?
[Betty:] Yeah I did.
[Wendy:] they do six days a week. That is their contract. Anyway the other morning in the office they said they had to do seven days a week but no extra pay.
[speaker007:] Ah!
[Wendy:] And do you know what? On the Sunday what they have to do? You know where they makes the bread?
[Julie:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Well you know the big things and this girl was And he said we have got to get on top of there and clean all the ovens. She said and they're about seven foot high she said didn't she Bet?
[Betty:] Aye they're bloody mad they are.
[Wendy:] They get some man to do it at the moment. And he said to her didn't he take it to the tri erm
[Julie:] Yeah go to the Citizens Advice.
[Wendy:] Go to the Citizen's advice and she said we haven't got a union they don't belong. But I said it might be contractors. If it is contractors they're happy doing anything.
[Betty:] No there's Asda cleaners the ladies but the men
[Wendy:] Tesco.
[Betty:] At Tesco's sorry but the man, men they get in to clean the tops of the ovens are contractors
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Betty:] But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay?
[Wendy:] Yeah they have to go and top the bloody ovens.
[Julie:] I haven't even got the ladders
[Wendy:] And no extra pay?
[Julie:] They're top shelf up in that warehouse and they're ten twelve foot up.
[Betty:] Ah!
[Julie:] One of the girls come off the ladder on Saturday.
[Wendy:] You don't want to get up there either.
[Julie:] Come straight down on to the concrete floor. I didn't see her at first. She was surrounded in bloody boxes. Just spotted her foot. She was out bloody cold when I got there.
[Betty:] Ooh!
[Wendy:] I had to get an ambulance to her. I don't what happened.
[Betty:] top of things.
[Wendy:] I
[Betty:] Didn't they Yeah Richard.
[Wendy:] Oh Richard.
[Betty:] Hundred of thousands pounds worth of stuff. Ooh!
[Wendy:] But they took er three hundred erm CD cases didn't they? When there were CD's in them.
[Julie:] Oh well bad luck that.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Julie:] What about that
[Wendy:] Oh was that when there was
[Betty:] Yeah. and you know that shop I told you about when I seen that? Well that was dead opposite there.
[Julie:] Did they for it?
[Betty:] No. That policeman was lucky wasn't it wasn't he?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Betty:] But that was a London van.
[Wendy:] What
[Betty:] Still they're striking
[Wendy:] Well yeah still they haven't got their money have erm...?
[Betty:] No no. They got it.
[Wendy:] That's it.
[Betty:] I mean if I can buy a bloody bargain I'll buy it.
[Julie:] right left and centre of the shop floor in front of everyone they are getting stuff out.
[Betty:] They aren't?
[Julie:] They are.
[Wendy:] Well I can't see why they're not because... all right I mean
[Julie:] I don't see how they do it.
[Wendy:] They do it.
[Betty:] But I mean have they got erm they've erm got cameras in have they?
[Wendy:] Have they?
[Betty:] Well they got cameras in there see.
[Julie:] Ah but you won't see em. But they're there.
[Wendy:] Eh.
[Betty:] Because it's so easy done isn't it?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Julie:] Crikey there's one up there. She got away with bloody three or four CD's last week.
[Wendy:] Cor!
[Julie:] Portable ones.
[Betty:] I'd be scared bloody stiff. on the bloody shoulder.
[Julie:] she very
[Betty:] Course they must be used to it doing it mustn't they?
[Julie:] They've all got to keep an eye out for her and try catch her at it but
[Wendy:] She's too bloody clever.
[Betty:] They all know who it is then do they?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Stupid person
[Julie:] But these that do it they must be bloody experienced at it they could do it so quick as they was doing it. If you and I were doing it you you'd think about a lot
[Wendy:] She's very experienced all right. She does what she
[Betty:] You wouldn't just think about it it's just gone isn't it?
[Julie:] Yeah. You got to be quick. I couldn't do it. No way.
[Wendy:] I wouldn't dare. I'd be on And they'd know straight away.
[Julie:] and even on the.
[Wendy:] pinched in one of them in that Asda.
[Julie:] But I can't see how they can
[Wendy:] Yeah they do.
[Julie:] because so easy unless they search their bags when they're going out. I mean I don't know.
[Wendy:] You see they've got to be seen taking it out
[Julie:] Yeah outside the door. Yeah that's right.
[Wendy:] Get them outside.
[Julie:] Outside the door yeah that's right.
[Wendy:] Stop em and have the stuff on them.
[Julie:] And of course they've gone isn't them?
[Wendy:] It's not as easy as it sounds.
[Julie:] God I were in the market and I thought I'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that's ten and of course I get on the and I didn't know
[Betty:] No
[Wendy:] because they're tied together and all well I never. I said well I'll buy the two leave them there I said but it's done so simple.
[Julie:] That's it.
[Wendy:] Simple that is.
[Julie:] That's it yes....
[Wendy:] It's like our Pam. Our Pam at Tesco didn't she she was telling us didn't she? Last Fri last Wednesday and she got the trolley like and when she pulled the trolley a woman's handbag was on the trolley and on the you know what was it?
[speaker007:] Mm
[Wendy:] So she took the... handbag back into Tesco and said I found this handbag erm and they said well give me your name and address and all that so in any rate what happened Bet? Who's it phoned? Somebody phoned. Oh as they come out to Asda they said they found her bag and they give her our Pam's phone number and rung up and thanked our she said there's full of stuff money and all in there and thanked her for what she'd done and our Pam said fair enough I would you know
[Sally:] Hello.
[speaker007:] Hello Sal.
[Wendy:] And anyway yesterday morning she said oh she said I'm in luck today so I said what's the matter then and she said. She said I had a letter this morning
[Julie:] Mm
[Wendy:] and I said yeah she said that lady sent her a ten pound note.
[Julie:] Oh ain't that lovely?
[Wendy:] Yes nice.
[Julie:] Isn't that nice?
[Betty:] Yeah that's nice.
[Julie:] Yeah that was nice wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah well Anyway I said to our Pam well you have been brought up to do things like that and not only that if I found a pound on the floor I'd pick it up that's different.
[Wendy:] Yeah of course that's different.
[Julie:] But not for that. Anyway she sent her a tenner so she's going to have her hair permed
[Wendy:] I mean you get these trolleys now. People take them back. You have to get them pounds out to get the trolleys.
[Julie:] Yeah yeah. Oh the man takes them all back now over down the.
[Wendy:] Does he?
[Julie:] Yeah. He gets about fifty pounds doesn't he?
[Wendy:] Do he?
[Julie:] Yeah. Good luck too.
[Wendy:] Yeah because
[Julie:] Because he's going to give it to the manager
[Sally:] They don't charge for the trolleys up there now do they?
[Wendy:] No not up there no but down Gateways don't do they don't take their pounds out. They forget see.
[Julie:] The nice man does it. Good luck to him.
[Sally:] Oh ah yes.
[Wendy:] They forget see.
[Julie:] Cherry stopped him and said what you doing she said George this old man he's said I'm going to give this to the manager like he said because I've been brought all these trolleys back. She said put it in your pocket. She said that's your perk that's one of the perks of your job. You're out there in the cold
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sally:] Well Bet it's like getting used to it isn't it?
[Wendy:] Where do they where do they take the pound?
[Julie:] To the till desk.
[Betty:] No they're all clipped together
[Wendy:] Yeah?
[Betty:] And to get them unclipped you got to push a pound coin in one way and the clip comes out the back
[Wendy:] And it comes out the other yes.
[Betty:] So when you take your trolley back and clip it back up the pound comes out the front again.
[Julie:] Oh dear! I never knew that.
[Betty:] People are still getting used to it aren't they?
[speaker007:] Or dump the trolley.
[Betty:] They forget they got a pound in there.
[Wendy:] Oh that's isn't it?
[Julie:] Oh yeah.
[Betty:] Yeah I mean but if you take that to the manager. What do you think the manager's going to do with it?
[Wendy:] He'll put it in his pocket.
[Betty:] He'll put it in his bloody pocket wouldn't he?
[Julie:] Course he would.
[Sally:] Course he would.
[Wendy:] in the till.
[Julie:] poor old chap have it that's why.
[Betty:] That's what she said and she said minding me own business and this she said and this man come up to her and he said have you got
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] And she said pardon got any... and so she said what? And he said you know condoms
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] and he said for tonight and she said well she said I never felt so embarrassed she said I didn't know where to put myself she said and the girl that was with her the other demonstrator
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] So she give him a and she said
[Wendy:] Oh free night tonight.
[Betty:] and she said oh I didn't know what to do.
[Julie:] Which one should I use the blue or the pink?
[Wendy:] He's a miserable manager at the I mean she can't stand him that's in the bar. Oh she said he's most horrible and he's always gorging he's always eating something like you know. She says and we can't get a bloody sweet she says.
[Julie:] Oh no you can't.
[Sally:] But that girl that was sacked for pinching what was it? A plum wasn't it?
[Wendy:] It was a plum.
[Julie:] She had a bite out of a plum didn't she?
[Wendy:] Something like that
[Julie:] sacked her. Not up here.
[Sally:] I've been stopped loads of times and had my bag searched
[speaker007:] Have you?
[Sally:] Yeah loads of times.
[Betty:] You must look suspicious like our Jeannie used to look.
[Sally:] Yeah they always stopped by
[Betty:] I mean they done that in our factory they stopped on Saturday morning. They had three on on door I mean three security men but it's not worth it mind. And on a Saturday with Jenny going in if there's any overtime you and old what's-a-name was there and he came and tapped me on the shoulder. I did at one time I know I never I don't I never touch a thing there and I thought and he would you mind opening your carrier and I've got sanitary towels in there
[speaker007:] Oh God no.
[Betty:] and I said and I was hesitating and I said I'm sorry I said I feel a bit embarrassed he said for what reason and old Rose was with me well at door she said she knows me she said well she said if it will interest you what if I never. I did have to open it.
[Sally:] Yeah you do and all they do is just move a couple of things about. Yeah. Off you go
[Betty:] Yeah. You know what I was like when it was all heavy.
[Sally:] Yeah. Mm. Mm.
[Betty:] Bristol Mecca they had a bloody bomb scare and we had to tip out
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] and they had all these great pads you know and I had all these maternity pads because I needed them you know I had to pad up and I had to and I felt so embarrassed
[Wendy:] I know some of these security men are worse than the bloody people who goes in and out there you know.
[Julie:] They knows the layout don't they?
[Wendy:] Course they do.
[Sally:] That's it. It's easier
[Julie:] It's stupid
[Sally:] I could do it... if I had the face and I had the guts I could do it.
[speaker007:] I don't no way
[Sally:] I could I know about there if I really want to but no way I could do it.
[Julie:] Caroline went out there at Christmas and look at what she had.
[speaker007:] Mm.
[Julie:] And she went back and back again till she got caught.
[speaker007:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Oh she got caught?
[Julie:] Hundreds of pounds
[Sally:] You see people that think they got cameras out there they can't see
[Wendy:] I didn't know
[Sally:] But they are there they've even got them in the warehouse
[speaker007:] Have they?
[Wendy:] Because he likes to see what's going on all the time.
[Sally:] Yeah
[Julie:] Well my sister over there was two women. For years they went on and on and on and everything they took and that was from eight o'clock in the morning was either from Marks and Spencers or British Home Stores.
[Sally:] Yeah good stuff yeah.
[Julie:] And our had loads and loads of stuff and because it's it was red hot so she could fold it up and say
[Sally:] Yeah that's it.
[Julie:] Yeah it was red hot they had beautiful clothes and they've gone on for years like that. They had taxi in taxi out. Anyway they got they got in the end and they
[speaker007:] He run the corner shop isn't he? He goes up every year and nicks what he wants for Christmas for the kids.
[Julie:] And they'd wear different wigs every day.
[Sally:] Yeah
[Julie:] Different wigs.
[Sally:] For a couple of years on the run they've lost their dole cheque round about Christmas.
[Julie:] Oh yes they always lose their dole cheque very conveniently at Christmas.
[Betty:] Eh?
[Julie:] And they got to go down and get another one. Yeah they do that same stroke every bloody Christmas that Christmas
[Sally:] There's no way. I just couldn't.
[Wendy:] No I couldn't my money all the time. I had the a couple of musical teddy bears put by. I don't know whether you've seen them. They're about this big and you squeeze its little paw and it plays a Christmas tune
[Julie:] Oh yeah.
[Wendy:] And I said to Chris I'll have two of them. One brown one one white one one each of the bears then. And erm she said all right and I said what do I do with them and she said I'll put them down in the base at the back and I said all right so I went back on the shop floor just before I was coming out come out. I went darling to one of the girls and she said yeah I said will you come with me and she said what's the matter? I said I want to get my teddy bears out of the back. She said go now to the electrical desk and you can pay for them when no I don't want to do that and I made her come out with me and see I picked up those teddies in the bags and I went back in and put them by the electrical desk
[Julie:] Yes I see yes
[Wendy:] I said that's how you got to do it and then I come round and pick them up when
[Julie:] I mean when you think of those
[Wendy:] She said oh what a fuss. I said yeah but at least I know There's no way I've touched anything else out of the cupboard you know?
[Julie:] And yet the stores is covered for any erm one who pinches and that. But then erm they haven't got the guts to things. I mean if I
[Sally:] What do you want?
[Julie:] Although I wouldn't I wouldn't
[Wendy:] If my kids was over here I'd have to flog something
[Betty:] Oh I know
[Wendy:] I couldn't steal I couldn't steal I'd have to flog something
[Julie:] Now don't start because I'm going out.
[speaker007:] I'm not.
[Julie:] You are.
[Sally:] Now David that's quite enough be a good boy [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Well don't worry about it Bet it'll be all right.
[speaker007:] It's wonderful.
[Julie:] [cough] I don't know whether I'm coming or going.
[Sally:] I'm hungry.
[Julie:] I thought you were on nights this week?
[Sally:] Oh I am.
[speaker007:] Doing two to ten Friday.
[Julie:] That's tomorrow.
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Julie:] Why you doing two to ten tomorrow?
[speaker007:] Because she said she don't want to come in on nights. She asked everybody and she said will you come in on two to ten.
[Julie:] Mm.
[Wendy:] They bounced up their little list
[Maggie:] Oh Maggie! We can depend on you to come in on Sunday can't we? No.
[Betty:] Oh aye yeah no.
[Maggie:] No. She said it's double time.
[Betty:] Aye erm yeah.
[Maggie:] I said couldn't care less if it's triple time I'm not coming in on a Sunday. I said I see enough of this place all bleeding week I'm not coming in on a Sunday.
[Betty:] Oh dear!
[Maggie:] He'd go bleeding mad [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Well I mean er
[Maggie:] One day I have a lie in I mean I know I don't lay in there no more than eight
[Betty:] No but you know you don't have to worry about getting up have you?
[Maggie:] Well I said I sort of trundle down the stairs and have me breakfast Well that's it that's it. I said no bloody way am I working on a Sunday. I said these daft buggers that come in and do it it's up to them.
[Julie:] I don't know I don't know. I suppose if people wants to go to the shopping centres they.
[speaker007:] I wouldn't go to the shops on Sunday.
[Betty:] No I wouldn't. I wouldn't go on a Sunday.
[Sally:] I mean there's seven days in the week isn't there?
[Wendy:] I mean I mean how can people afford to do it Bet? I mean. I mean to my mind if they're opening on a Sunday they should bring their prices down... because they're opening that extra day they're going to be taking extra revenue.
[Betty:] Yeah of course they are.
[Maggie:] So they should be made to bring their prices down. That is why they put that freeze on
[Betty:] That is why that man said you will not get any more special offers on a Fri Saturday night because they can't sell it on a Sunday so you used to see them selling things off on a Saturday five o'clock. No more.
[Maggie:] Because they're opening on a Sunday and hoping that you'll go in
[Betty:] That's it.
[speaker007:] Mm
[Maggie:] and buy.
[Betty:] So you won't be able to find out nothing You won't forget that. And I reckon they'll carry on down to Christmas.
[speaker007:] Well they reckon that the British Standard people are going to have
[Sally:] It's got to be tumbledried
[Betty:] it's going to be a dry day get it out early and get it dry tomorrow. Mm
[Sally:] What way do you think Clayton will come then?
[Julie:] What way?
[Sally:] Yeah. I was going to lock the back door make sure that down
[Julie:] Why?
[Sally:] Because because she keeps on coming in.
[Julie:] [LAUGHTER] to pay your money
[Sally:] Yeah. Get a washing machine on the firm?
[Julie:] She said if you pay up which isn't very much erm there's something in Littlewoods and she's got money in her pocket and she's got a washing machine.
[Sally:] That's great.
[Julie:] will be paying her nowhere near as much.
[Sally:] That will be fine great brilliant.
[Julie:] That's what she said. She said it's none of my business
[Sally:] She wants washing machine Because if I can I'd rather get it off her than get it out of our club because then I can get some Christmas presents out of their lot.
[Julie:] Yeah. Do you... or you can say to her is I don't know where it's gone or it doesn't work. out of her catalogue.
[Sally:] Yeah. Well they just went back and said they couldn't want something that much... maybe she's gone over her limit.
[Julie:] Yeah. That's right.... gone over her limit and I'm not interested in her amount.
[Sally:] oh you turned it off.
[Julie:] No I haven't.
[Sally:] You have.
[Julie:] No I haven't.
[Sally:] The grill's gone out...
[Julie:] I haven't touched it.
[Sally:] The grill's gone out.
[Julie:] ... I haven't touched it love it's on full now.
[Sally:] Yeah. It's on full and it's gone out.
[Julie:] Oh don't tell me fucking grill's packed up. Oh no! I don't believe it!
[Sally:] It's gone out.
[Julie:] It doesn't need to go out because I took that out.... This isn't right.
[Sally:] Yeah.
[Julie:] One two three four five.
[Sally:] Yeah. That's the grill.... [tv on]
[Julie:] ...
[Sally:] I don't know. I can feel heat but... I don't know what it is?
[Julie:] The power is there cos you can hear it can't you?
[Sally:] Mm....
[Julie:] Try the top oven shall we?
[Betty:] Strange isn't it? I wonder what it is then.
[Sally:] I don't know.
[Betty:] Something to do with that bottom light the bloody payment was due yesterday or today whatever's the twenty sixth....
[Sally:] No there's nothing happening. I can feel loads of heat but there's nothing happening...
[Betty:] Stupid. Usually on the there five minutes, it's on all day isn't it?... ...
[Sally:] It's come back on again.
[Betty:] Oh great
[Sally:] It just went off.
[Betty:] That's strange.
[Julie:] Don't know what it was.
[Betty:] Never known it to go off before.
[Julie:] No I've never known it to go off before either.
[Betty:] Stupid.
[Sally:] I wouldn't worry about it anyway we're Oh it's the football pools.
[Betty:] I don't think we've done it.
[Sally:] Billy!
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Sally:] You doing the football or not?
[speaker007:] No
[Sally:] Yes.... Here you are.... [door opening] [door closing] all you'd have had to get is all you'll have had to get is an element. That's the thing that so easy with electric cookers is that you just have to buy the element. So with that if one of them goes you just have to buy that as an element just slot it it comes... it's like a light bulb.
[Betty:] Oh I see take it out and
[Sally:] Slots slots out and you slot another one in.
[Betty:] Oh I see.
[Sally:] It's a lot easier with gas. Our mum's several times her rings has gone on her cooker she's had to buy a new element and she's switched to gas. And you've switched over to electric. I'd rather have... when it comes to safety
[Betty:] Gas cookers are
[Sally:] When it comes to safety when it comes to safety I would rather have an electric cooker.
[Betty:] But gas cooking is nice. It tastes different. It's nice. But I suppose you've like on I suppose you've got used to it.
[Sally:] Yeah. Now you've got used to it. I mean you know how to cook with it now.
[Betty:] I didn't have this one when you come here did I?
[Sally:] No
[Betty:] Or did I?
[Sally:] You had the old bleeding white gas cooker the dangerous one. It used to get
[Betty:] Yeah that's right.
[Sally:] they said sorry I not going to let anyone use this.
[Betty:] Because we didn't know how long we've had it.
[Sally:] Oh. Was it the council found it dangerous?
[Betty:] Yeah the gas man weren't it?
[Sally:] Yeah. He said it's dangerous.
[Betty:] Yeah he said I should get my husband to divorce it and chuck it
[Sally:] You've had this what about two years now? It's got to be.
[Betty:] Mm. She was saying four years four years and I said I've not had it four years
[Sally:] I should say about two years. Because you had the old white one when I came here. And it was just over four years ago that I came here.
[Betty:] That's right.
[Sally:] Four years and two months ago or a few months... but the gas man sort of found it dangerous. he got it taken out to the back garden isn't it?
[Julie:] [cough] Didn't you have or something?
[Sally:] I can't remember whether
[Betty:] Dangerous wasn't it?
[Sally:] Yeah.
[Betty:] It really was dangerous.
[Julie:] I remember this one being delivered. Yeah.... And you said ooh I not going to get used to this.
[Betty:] Yeah [LAUGHTER] Isn't it crazy? It comes to you so easily you know. I still don't know don't know which is the top grill the oven the top oven the bottom oven.
[Julie:] you don't ever use the programmer so
[Betty:] No. But I would if I ever got a job and I was working and I had to make a casserole or something.
[Julie:] But you could do that for Christmas
[Betty:] Yeah.... having me Coke and me chocolates.
[Julie:] I would like setting the clock because [cough]... erm
[Betty:] How many what hour is it now? Fifteen hundred? No?...
[Julie:] No.
[Betty:] Five hundred? Five hundred hours?
[Julie:] Ah ah ah!...
[Betty:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Julie:] The M on there see?...
[Betty:] Mm.
[Julie:] Oh that grill
[Betty:] Oh Christ!
[Julie:] Shut up! Bloody beep beep beep....
[Betty:] What should we do put Clayton's corned beef on a plate and just put his cheese and potato pie on a on another plate? Yes?
[Julie:] Why?
[Betty:] I don't know why. He won't be in for another oh God knows.... And his corned beef isn't gonna look very nice on his cheese and potato pie is it?
[Julie:] warmed up isn't it?
[Betty:] the saucers seem different. Put the kettle on and use the cups. Just put the kettle on then and use the teapot. Hot water in there. Got none just as soon put the bloody thing on simple.
[speaker007:] She's got a dining room and utility room now.
[Betty:] Has she?
[Julie:] Mm. Very posh.
[Betty:] Oh isn't that nice?
[Julie:] And the nextdoor neighbours complain. They complained to the council saying they haven't got planning permission.
[Betty:] Really?
[Julie:] And they did have planning permission.
[Betty:] Ah ha ha ha. That's a shot in their arse then.
[Julie:] Their argument. And she said she said I am not having you putting down the value of my house and having yours higher than mine the value of my house. She said I was here first. [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Stupid.
[Julie:] I'm soft or what?
[Betty:] Crazy!... Oh isn't that nice that.
[Julie:] Terry called her crusty. He was shouting out crusty! [LAUGHTER].
[Betty:] Oh.
[Julie:] Oh my God like crusty. I told him ssh shut up.
[Betty:] Has she always been like that or is this?
[Julie:] I don't know. She used to buy them Christmas presents and Christmas cards.
[Betty:] Oh dear! Not any more.
[Julie:] No.
[Betty:] Jealous isn't she?
[Julie:] She puts the Christmas card through this door that's it ripped up and put through her door.
[Betty:] Jealous isn't she?
[Julie:] Is that done now Jill?
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Julie:] You'll have cut that bit.
[Sally:] Mind your hands mother...
[Betty:] That's gravy now Sally with us.
[Sally:] Sally!... Hurry up your mother wants to By the way your tea's ready.
[speaker007:] What?
[Sally:] Sally your tea's ready. Either come down here and have it now or I'll eat it.
[Julie:] She's been out now for twenty minutes
[Betty:] Nor I.
[Julie:] Oh well Bet, that's a lot of cheese in that potato pie.
[Betty:] Mm.
[Julie:] Because the potato pie's all soggy.
[Betty:] Yes... Well that's nice Julie...
[speaker007:] Yoo hoo. I'm here.
[Julie:] your tea's ready... Here you are... Don't read eat your tea... I've only been here four years we had the white one remember the gas one got certified dangerous?
[Betty:] Yeah. Yeah....
[Julie:] Didn't know you had it for four years.
[Sally:] Well it was really weird right. We had the grill on and it was still on and it went off turned it off turned back on again didn't go on. Turned the top oven on nothing happened. Funny.
[speaker007:] Yeah I'm listening can you while you're talking?
[Sally:] No!
[speaker007:] Well my tea is getting cold.
[Betty:] What's it you want?
[speaker007:] I want lemon.
[Sally:] Well
[Betty:] in the way.
[Julie:] Silly child!
[speaker007:] You are.
[Sally:] You are
[speaker007:] You.
[Julie:] Go back into bed Sal?
[Sally:] Nothing wrong with me. There's been nothing wrong with me all day is there Bet?
[Betty:] No.
[Sally:] It's been ever since she wake up.
[Betty:] David!
[speaker007:] Coming.
[Julie:] He likes me.
[Betty:] ... she asked him yesterday... I thought she was lovely.... I quite agree with her she said. Oh she.
[speaker007:] Who?
[Betty:] Rita.
[Sally:] That Rita.
[Betty:] Rita. Rita. I was calling her Nan Wendy was calling her my love was calling her Gran and she loved it. Yeah...
[Sally:] called her Gran and was calling her Mum.
[Betty:] And I was calling her Mrs.
[Julie:] Who?
[Betty:] Mrs....
[Sally:] She likes you though.
[Betty:] Not half.
[Sally:] Send her a Christmas card. You sent her one last year and the year before isn't it?
[Betty:] Oh.... [cough] Oh shit I mustn't swear tonight.
[Sally:] No not allowed to swear tonight.
[Betty:] Definitely not allowed to swear tonight so don't do it.
[Sally:] No. If you're not
[speaker007:] [belch] Excuse me.
[Betty:] I should damn well think so too.
[Sally:] [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] not allowed to swear.
[Sally:] You doing one more? No don't you're on tape.
[Betty:] [whispering] Oh don't do that [].
[Julie:] What for? bloody survey I've worked on. There ain't a tape in there.
[Sally:] There is.
[Julie:] There ain't.
[Sally:] There's a tape
[Julie:] There is not a tape in there.
[speaker007:] Excuse me excuse me.
[Sally:] You've seen it did you?
[Julie:] What's it hiding behind there for?
[speaker007:] So you wouldn't see it.
[Sally:] So you wouldn't see it and it's running and there's a mike there.
[Julie:] What did you put that in there for?
[Sally:] Eh?
[Julie:] Stupid
[Sally:] So everybody's natural. Obviously people come in and don't know it's there and
[Julie:] Well they put that all on tape now?
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Sally:] Don't worry about it....
[Betty:] Forty five minutes each side it runs. I don't know how many tapes. I'm just going to next Friday. And I've just got a twenty five pound voucher for Marks and Spencer.
[Julie:] Ah I knew there was a catch.
[Betty:] Well that's something. I need some.
[Sally:] Well you've got all that on tape now?
[Betty:] Yeah I don't care. It's the truth.
[Julie:] is it?
[Sally:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Yes I know I don't
[Sally:] She listens to herself.
[Betty:] she's frightened to death. Father's, Ju this bread isn't very nice is it?
[Sally:] [singing] [] [whistling]
[Betty:] Oh she missed the programmes Have you got no shop card Sally?
[Sally:] It's up there. not a good enough job so she's finishing it off
[Betty:] Oh I
[Sally:] It's half past eight we'd better chase it up.
[Betty:] myself.
[Julie:] Into Neighbours again?
[Betty:] bank. I'm not allowed to touch it.
[Sally:] Why?
[Betty:] Because someone in America is vegetarian.
[Sally:] Yeah?
[Betty:] And when that girl becomes vegetarian mix about and the other one she's vegetarian still and she said she's not coming back in this house. She said it's nonsense.
[Sally:] It's good for them though. Yeah but what they've what they've done but what one wants to do is not is not bad for them one little bit. It's good for them.
[Julie:] That's like what's her name down the down there. She's vegetarian three months ago er three years ago. But they worked out in three years she's put on seven stone because she eats. She eats loads and loads and loads of cheese. She buys four pounds of cheese a week.
[Sally:] And she eats a load of cheese
[Julie:] Yeah but... if she was proper vegetarian she wouldn't eat cheese.
[Sally:] Well if she was a vegan she wouldn't eat cheese. She can't eat cheese if you're a vegan.
[Betty:] That's what James is.
[Julie:] He's a prat
[Sally:] You can't eat no animal fat at all
[Betty:] Yeah
[Sally:] [sneeze] You've got the sou I reckon you've still got to have er get your protein.
[Betty:] Mm. Yes.
[Julie:] Yeah but she Karen won't eat chicken.
[Sally:] Chicken and fish.
[Betty:] and fish.
[Sally:] It's the only stuff they'll eat. No meat at all chicken and er fish.
[Julie:] Do you know the reason why it's not? It's to do with red meat it's blood isn't it? Blood's red.
[Betty:] That's right isn't it?
[Julie:] You can't you can't see no blood in chicken you can't see no blood in fish.
[Betty:] No.
[Julie:] They've got this little thing in their head if it's not got blood in it no red blood they can eat it. It looks like it's a really deep cut by looking at it now. It's sort of like open there. All it was first of all was a little graze on top of the skin.
[Betty:] Mm.
[Julie:] Because where I was making boxes it was pulling the skin and was torn apart wasn't it?
[Betty:] Yeah it kept going there all the time. They do though don't it?...
[Julie:] So the other day last week I was bleeding
[Betty:] Was you?
[Julie:] Yeah I cut myself. And erm the next day I had er it was all white there
[Betty:] Was it?
[Julie:] and I took every little last bit out. But I never noticed it er
[Betty:] Serious.
[Julie:] It was not funny because what I did. I was cleaning out knives and the metal thing that goes over the knives there was something there and it was a nail and I just pushed and I caught it. So I took a nick out of my finger and ended up with from the top of my finger.
[Betty:] Mm. Nasty....
[Julie:] blood enough goes over my fingers cut his thumb and and all he did was just sort of bathed it put on it. It was a deep cut and ended up And a good cover up job. It didn't make it heal just good stuff [LAUGHTER] And she was mhm
[Betty:] Mm. Yeah!
[Julie:] [LAUGHTER] She was had on a full stomach. She had to do it before she ate anything.... She said most of it was it wasn't the actual looking at the hole it was that she was hurting him... pushing it in.
[Betty:] Mm.
[Julie:] And it weren't hurting him at all but it was making her feel sick thinking that she was hurting him like. Dunno. He just won't go. It being her first child. I don't know what I'd be like. And he sleeps in a normal bed.
[Betty:] Do he? Yes. That's good for a baby.
[Julie:] He sleeps in a normal bed all right. She was packing his stuff and I was bringing him upstairs to his room like away from her like. Like he knows she's in the house and he wants to go wherever she goes. But if she's not in the house it doesn't worry him. If he knows she's not there. So I can go upstairs and put him in his rocking chair.
[Betty:] rocking chair. Well there's not a lot I said to her does he sleep in that? It's a full size single bed? And she said yeah. I said bloody hell! I never knew a child of one could sleep in a normal size bed. cot yeah.
[Julie:] Well no.
[Betty:] She must leave his door shut. She's bound to isn't is?
[Julie:] She puts on the alarm like one of those baby alarms.
[Betty:] stairs isn't it? That's it. Got to be.
[Julie:] And she's got to go downstairs to the kitchen. He was trying to go upstairs last night cos she was upstairs and I wouldn't let him.
[Betty:] You do think those bloody stairs
[Julie:] As soon as she was upstairs. He knew that she was up there I let him sort of try and climb up. Well he climbed up the bloody first stair. Like he was behind er I never held him I was behind him like you know well it gives his legs a bit more like movement. Who's that who was on the telephone?
[Betty:] It won't be long now before it's off.
[Julie:] That'll be it?
[speaker007:] she'll have to keep an eye on him then.
[Betty:] Yes, hard work isn't it?
[Julie:] You should have seen him he climbed on top of a box last night to get to the telly.
[Betty:] Did he? Pardon me
[Julie:] He won't listen to when she was saying get down. He wouldn't listen to her like sod you.
[Betty:] Do you pull the curtains?
[speaker007:] Mm.
[Julie:] on TV. He loves putting his getting his hands in your mouth and pulling your teeth. He loves that.
[Betty:] Mm. Does he?
[Julie:] your teeth. And he likes the fridge magnets.
[speaker007:] [cough]
[Julie:] He'll sit there on the floor with them and play with the magnets. He chucks them off and puts them back on again.
[Betty:] Very intelligent little baby isn't he?
[Julie:] Mm. And he likes chucking things on the ground. If he chucks something on the ground he'll pick it up and give it to me and he'll do it all the more.
[Betty:] It's a little game isn't it? Ha.
[Julie:] I was trying to find him some couple of pairs of socks but I couldn't find anything I liked. The only socks they had at bloody Kingsworth were all girlie ones.
[Betty:] Oh! Shaws. They usually sell nice little socks in there.
[Julie:] I got little pyjamas for him three ninety nine at. The ones that I did want with turtles on it never had any socks.
[Betty:] It's always the bloody way.
[Julie:] Had two to three. I didn't really want two to three.
[Betty:] Three to five?
[Julie:] Five to seven. Yeah. Turtle ones they've got what else... they've got proper pyjama sets Yeah. They've got pyjama sets in there.
[Betty:] They're nice are they?
[Julie:] Yeah Quite cheap
[Betty:] pyjamas for the boys and nightdresses for the girls. Yeah nightshirts for the girls isn't it?
[speaker007:] Oh no! It was all in italics. She was off she was saying I haven't done this look
[Betty:] Should have laughed all the more weren't ya?
[Julie:] Do you want to go to the Pete's house? For some orange
[Betty:] I'd say when you go to this afternoon er ring the doorbell and say er just get handed a crash helmet and say this is for coming after [LAUGHTER].
[Julie:] They bite.
[speaker007:] Who do?
[Betty:] Oh come one
[Julie:] You should you should have have heard her it was terrible I thought oh my God he's he's going to cut the atmosphere like a knife in her today.
[Betty:] Nice.
[Julie:] I just hope she's civil enough because it's his birthday.
[Betty:] Oh
[Julie:] Yeah I spelt it wrong I said at least I can put another N on it.
[Betty:] I spelt it right
[Julie:] What?
[Betty:] Two Ns.
[Julie:] Everybody else she said a lot of people put one N and it's probably what.
[Betty:] That's what you said to me yesterday. You said you'd see other cards with one N and er I thought I've put two Ns
[Julie:] So I said to her while she was upstairs I got a pen I know it was a black one and I wrote in blue and put another N.
[Betty:] Put another N.
[Julie:] Put another N. I said read the bloody words then and she said oh I never read the words she said I looks at the pictures. I said no you've got to read the words
[Betty:] Read the words.
[Julie:] And she read them all and isn't that lovely?
[Betty:] Yes you've got to read the words
[Julie:] I said you've got to read the words. Always read the words. I said it's just extra if you've got a nice card to go with it.
[speaker007:] it's dreadful
[Betty:] I mean she went on the fruit machine upstairs last night. Yeah. She put some money in she couldn't anyway got off. She said I'll put one more pound in gonna lose all my money in here. Anyway got off. She put another couple of quid in didn't she now. She said didn't you she sticks another pound well win after win after win weren't it? No fucking difference. Twenty quid she got out of it. So I said I said we'll get ten pound each. All right she said. I said tell you what seeing's we've got a load of. We had two jackpots. I said you put one lot of checks in here and I'll put a lot of checks in the other. All right so we put two and two nothing so I put two and two in the other machine... three pounds that's not bad. Four pounds we've taken is frequent cash and a pound each and a pound at dinner time. I said here I said got she said oh I have to go into cash now I suppose I have to owe you another bleeding pound here you are. Anyway jackpot's free again. So you know done it. So at any rate out. Jackpot's free again done it all. bastards likes this and she starts laughing. At any rate wins couple more quid... we're playing together now and er also she nudged see the jackpot's in the middle no checks is coming out. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] It was empty.
[Betty:] It was empty [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] What was she doing
[Betty:] so she went straight downstairs ay she ripped me off so she said I'm ever so sorry Ann. So she said look I've only got a little bit in my pocket. She only had four jackpots in her pocket. She said look look. So he said never mind he said you can have it put on your note card. So she went like this pulled our her note card and said I can put it on now she said. She said put it on now. He said sorry I ain't authorised [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] Ooh goodness!
[Betty:] She said you are fucking authorised here aren't yer? He said yeah but we're not authorised to put on money on anybody's card Ann. She said well it's not fucking funny she said I'm not fuck laughing am I?
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] She said fucking machine out there not paying me out and your cancel my money on the fucking card am I supposed to eat today? So he said how was you going to eat in the beginning Ann? Well on my fucking wasn't I. But Ann I'm not suppo Well fucking hell she said [LAUGHTER]. So he said take her away just take her away. So anyway off we goes course when we come back for half an hour at ten o'clock well out of the other machine weren't it? Oh fucking. Oh Paddy was there weren't he. Cause he was there when we won at nine o'clock just after five. Well he was still there at ten because he was there at half past ten. He said right then I suppose you're going to take me over the wee pub now. I said no Pat I said some of us are working till six o'clock. I said we'll have a barrel of Guinness ready by six okay no probs. He said I put all my money in there. So I said it's your fucking problem isn't?
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] I keeps on getting from
[Betty:] So well it's cost
[Julie:] There's one guy up there's got blond hair and every time I go up there she's going to take all the fucking money out of the machine again now.
[speaker007:] Probably. Is it Thomas?
[Julie:] He's he's quite good looking. He's a bit tubby. He's got short blond hair.
[Betty:] Thomas.
[Julie:] I don't know what his name is.
[speaker007:] [whispering] Thomas []
[Betty:] It's not his name but we calls him Thomas because he's chubby.
[speaker007:] Yeah
[Betty:] Thomas. Because of Thomas the Tank Engine.
[Julie:] He's a he's a nice looking lad.
[Betty:] Yeah. That's Brenda's son.
[Julie:] Is it?
[Betty:] Yeah
[speaker007:] How's Dotty?
[Julie:] Dotty. She's fine yes. She gets a bit of problems with her arthritis. Specially with the hundred and seventy pounds we were doing. Cause they were bigger bags and they were heavier she's getting real problems
[Betty:] I said what's this the Ann with your ass. Ann fell off the fucking chair. [LAUGHTER].
[speaker007:] going to sit down it weren't they?
[Betty:] She sit down on the chair but she'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins Oh yeah. He said oh look Ann's on a. This on the fucking floor didn't she?
[speaker007:] Sat there with her arms folded like that [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] What did Ann do?
[Betty:] this happened a couple of weeks ago. They had to stop the machines because everybody was laughing see with Tara on the floor so Ann didn't even know she'd fallen off the chair. She said where's that fucking Tara she gone for a fucking blow again and they're all laughing and she said what are you fucking bastards laughing at and there's Tara there with tears down her face Tara tried to tell her she fell off the chair well... that was it. No wonder you like working with Ann. [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] You what I reckon you should do?... Take that tape machine in with Ann and do it without her knowing.
[Betty:] Yeah. Without her knowing. Take it in one night one day next week What are you next week? Two till ten. Two till ten.
[speaker007:] Every time every time you go talking to Ann put the machine on.
[Betty:] Who you got What day? Monday Mother. It's got M in front, Yeah Monday. One till ten... One till ten?
[speaker007:] What about our Dougie then?
[Betty:] Well he told he's coming round in the afterwards. Oh sweetheart. Whatever. All bleeding Dave told Ann and he thought Ann told everybody else they had to be in at one o'clock. She didn't she didn't know any different.... And I said to Dave what's this then I've got at one o'clock an hour's overtime. Oh I was meant to tell you but I've been so busy. I said that's fuck all right I've been down the canteen. Oh language! He said can you come in at one o'clock? So I said well no not now. [LAUGHTER]. It's too late. Oh please. So I said all right then. [LAUGHTER]. That's the one That's the one I said to him
[speaker007:] Jeans! I said yeah they're now in fashion Dave. Haven't you seen 'em they're very common. [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Oh! And someone said you ought to get yourself a pair. [LAUGHTER] Oh!
[Julie:] Oh and what did he say?
[Betty:] And what are you trying to say? Well on you these blue things they're not really very nice are they? I don't like them. No. jeans? He said no you're not in charge of. Oh!
[Julie:] What did he say?
[Betty:] All right. What you get away with.
[Julie:] all right.
[Betty:] Just stomped upstairs. He come back round about an hour and a half later we were broke down weren't we? He said typical what fucking breaking the machine already? I said we never touched it. Anyway later and Dave there see. He's trying to fix it. Couldn't he fix it the was gone. Anyway he said nothing to do with me now you've got to get Spark. Any rate Spark comes and Spark thinks like Dave. Ah! So any rate me and Ann were looking and Spark's fiddling about and he's making faces at Dave see behind his back [LAUGHTER]. Of course me and Ann were laughing Dave were. He couldn't look at me and Ann cause we was laughing [LAUGHTER]. Jeez! So any rate when it comes to one of the fucking screw's loose
[speaker007:] A screw loose! [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Fiddling with all the nuts all the bolts [LAUGHTER] Screw loose! [LAUGHTER] so Spark looked up at Tony and said you sure you're a fucking fitter. [LAUGHTER] And he played with all the knobs.
[Julie:] We keep saying that to Steve if he can't figure out something me and Marie look up and say get a fitter! [LAUGHTER]. So he needs a fitter desperately.
[Betty:] Cos Dave was there trying to do a fiddle. With all the buttons and all the knobs see. And I looked up at Dave and said here Dave and he said what? Is that right that you were a security guard before you were made up to reception manager. Yeah. I said I'm glad you weren't a fucking fitter then. Oh that was it. Ann was screaming wasn't she. She nearly fall down on her face. Oh my gawd what a night you had! It's what this what I said to Dave. I said oh you've got Sally with you next week haven't you Dave? Oh! [LAUGHTER] He said Yeah. I said I feel sorry for you. He just started laughing.
[speaker007:] every day. Gotta learn about haven't we. So I've got me jeans on and the first word I says to him is so why have you shaved your moustache off Dave? Because your hair [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] The best crack though was when he come doubled back short Friday and designer stubble round here. He hadn't shaved. Dave always shaves unless he got up late like so he started whingeing at me and Ann because we got our jeans on. I said here Dave and he said what? I'll have you. I'll fucking have you in a minute. I said what's the matter with you Dave are you upset or what? Hmm
[speaker007:] on the catwalk I'm too sexy
[Betty:] on the on the Russ erm Abbott?
[speaker007:] I'm too sexy
[Julie:] No.
[speaker007:] No it's really funny
[Betty:] I'd like to watch that today or something.
[speaker007:] Rottweiler I'm too sexy for my driving instructor isn't that?
[Betty:] Oh [LAUGHTER] really digging at her comments on the book. as we're doing twelve hours perhaps I'll come in tonight and the machine will actually be running. Think die of shock. And the next day he said think die shock and it was running for at least ten minutes [LAUGHTER] she got ratty and and Steve come out very nasty. Like stupid innit. He said now I've got to give you a bollocking. And Ann said well I'm waiting, I ain't waiting all fucking day someone's got to some work like. Steve said just get out of the office just get out of the office. Anyway the next day they were on the er if machine is not clean when I come in then I should not run as I did not run this morning for four hours as I might as well come in on Saturday morning and clean them myself [LAUGHTER] So she in. So she went she cos her sister she she won't come out. Oh! And the Rottweiler come in this morning and she never does any overtime not any not Saturday morning not Sunday. she was coming to help clean the machines. Oh! Isn't that nice? So that was it. She was walking down and I shout you bloody old troll. Well that was it. Andy said what did you call her? I said old troll. He said better that Rottweiler isn't it? And I said well yeah. Ho! I said look the terrible Rottweilers are coming through the door. [LAUGHTER] I said who you want back I said look terrible Rottweiler twins? Ah he said. Is our Ann like that erm with the rest of them? Yeah. Is she? Where did they live? [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] sound like bloody. Don't like Well now she's had that car now what? Four weeks?
[Julie:] Yeah probably
[Betty:] Yeah four weeks. Well she's already put a hole in the exhaust and a dent in the front [LAUGHTER] She went she said you fucking you fucking done it. She said What? He said you've got a fucking hole in the exhaust. You've only had it two minutes. I never, it's your fault [LAUGHTER] she driving it around for five months with no tax. I said aren't you going to get some tax? You do know that if you're stopped you've got to get all that backdated don't you? And you're going to lose sixty five quid. That's a lot of money. [LAUGHTER] There's a woman on the er family fortunes that was on last night. And one of the sisters she said she started for this company didn't she. Was she with them what?
[David:] Three
[Betty:] Three weeks. And she smashed the van up completely. And then three weeks later she married the boss. [LAUGHTER] He proposed to her and they got married.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] After she'd smashed the front of his van up. Yeah so anyway and I said that's not very nice so we were talking this morning about her and I had to tell Ann didn't I that she drove to work three days on a trot in her bleeding lights two.
[Julie:] She didn't.
[Betty:] Oh Mum I told you about that. You know the dual carriageway don't you where the er... garden centre is Yeah I know where And she was coming back along towards and she comes all along the dual carriageway and this car in front of her [cough] so he there and he's flashing away his lights and kept his indicators on daft bastard she says and while he's doing that some fucking overtakes see but he was already flashing his lights and puts his indicators on. So anyway she comes along into the dark pet and she said oh heck she said you must have a power cut along here I can't see nothing [LAUGHTER] so Nick reading the Sun see so he's put his head over and he says yeah it is a bit dark. You haven't got your fucking lights on you stupid cow he said. Put some lights on. [LAUGHTER] Oh she said puts the lights on. But it's still dark I still can't see nothing. He said you stupid cow you got your side lights on. Puts the lights on. Next morning off they go to to the shops she goes turns all her lights off and ignition it's in the car she starts the car up and off she trundles coming in along. She said I can't understand it Nick she says everybody keeps flashing their lights at me she said. Perhaps he fancies me like so he still didn't take no notice. [LAUGHTER] Stupid cow you ain't got your fucking lights on again have you? It's that switch there. So she puts her lights on. same day. The next day she did the self same thing Oh my God Pull into the shop out of the shop. No lights. Poor old no even her daughter Cheryl was laughing so much that her stomach was hurting and tell her to shut up. So we was talking about things like that and so she she said like selling her car now she told us how much money she made on it. And he said oh he said it's a bit mean like. She said well not really. So anyway she started talking about it. Nick said talk about Sterling Moss he said sodding fucking when you're sitting next to. What's the matter Nick? Well tonight typical. He said we've had bollards put up by our now. So you can out it's for access only. So I said oh yeah. So you got to park on the road. Sorry about this. So I said oh that's nice. He said yeah and there was tractor on the opposite side of the road and a lot of traffic coming up and down. He said that dozy cow only decided she was going to try and fucking pull out with a great big juggernaut coming down. I said is pulling out. He said she would have if I hadn't pull her fucking hand brake up. Oh my God! I said Andy what is the matter with her? I was tired weren't I? [LAUGHTER] Did she stay in bed all day today? No she got up and fucking did go. She this afternoon? This morning. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] What she got a breakfast session over the
[Betty:] Oh my goodness. I thought I be the for the bingo. She's worse!
[Julie:] She's worse than you for the bingo.
[Betty:] Short Friday. She goes straight after work. Here we're on two till six and as the old man come and pick her up and drop her off at the bingo. Good God.
[speaker007:] Terrible isn't she?
[Betty:] definitely with her old man's Sierra parked out. I told you about what she was like when the car wouldn't start didn't I? No. Fucking lights flashing and the alarm going off. She walked off and made out it weren't her car. [LAUGHTER] It's wasn't it? I'd better go and report that to so I just going there by myself. Oh how mad. I'm not telling him it was mine. [LAUGHTER] Oh she's funny. The fucking back window going up and down weren't it? Oh. I've got to go to bingo with she one night bloody numbers. last night. Well Nick don't like smoking like he don't smoke. So she puts the windows down see. She won't let people know. The Camel's here so she had hold of the steering with one hand she was smoking the other with the window down and Nick wanted to put his window down. But he pressed her button and pressed her window up. He got her fucking fag stuck in her window. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] She was going like this []. She said to me. Where's the fucking end of me fag gone? I saw the bits coming off her fag [LAUGHTER] She said you stupid bastard well he was like this weren't he? [] I said what will you do pull over and have a go at him. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] If she carries on like that with her kids and all they're going to be like her.
[Betty:] Did I tell you about her little one... who had stomach pains?... As she come back she said Dad... what? How long's our Mum going to be before she comes in? Another hour. Oh. Why? Oh well I've got a bit of a stomach ache and I want to talk to her you know it's women problems. All right he said. Well he knew what it was. He said you go up and lay in your bedroom he said and I can send her up when she comes in. All right. The little 'un goes to bed. The little one's heard Mummy pull up on the drive and has come down the stairs well before anyone could say anything he got it out. She might have er period you'd better go and sort her out. [LAUGHTER] She said what. She might have one of her periods you'd better fucking go and sort her out. She's your daughter... She said there's no need to up and say it like that. She said you could have kept this shut and I could tell her myself. Oh! Well he said your fucking daughter you sort her out. [LAUGHTER] I can imagine her house must be like that It was the same when her Mum got when it happened to her they got her a load of new clothes and she was trying them on and grandad said hey get in here now. Why what's the matter. Take your daughter upstairs. He knew why. They always say take your daughter instead of Your daughter. It's always your daughter. Our daughter
[speaker007:] If our kids have any problems or anything they don't go and see the old man they see. [LAUGHTER] Do they? They tells him all the problems. She says but I don't why they don't tells the old man they told me. [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Oh! Kids confide in everybody but their mother don't they?
[speaker007:] They're trying to chuck the kids off they can't take care of them.
[Betty:] No.
[speaker007:] Really did they go to Australia? No. No. They always lived in.
[Betty:] How come they don't go?
[speaker007:] Because they're kids like that.
[Julie:] Yeah I know that but next year I mean you got the tunnel coming out of the Ferry. Why can't they go to France
[speaker007:] Oh yeah It's all according to how much pressure there is underneath underneath the tunnel.
[Betty:] Oh yeah.
[Julie:] Yeah I mean it is on a ferry anyway. I mean
[Betty:] I tell you what when we
[speaker007:] I tell you what the littl'un the boy one night. He went to Alton Towers and any ride over a certain height he couldn't go on.
[Betty:] No.
[speaker007:] He couldn't go on the corkscrew he couldn't go up on the ship he couldn't go on anything. It was a waste of time him going but he nagged so much that she had to let him go.
[Betty:] Oh! Poor boy.
[speaker007:] I think she should take him to erm Euro Disney cause there might be a lot high up but there's still a lot to do. I mean there's a lot to see.
[Betty:] I've want me papers.
[speaker007:] I mean them kids would be over the moon if they went there. Them kids would be over the moon if they went there Euro Disney. Yeah
[Betty:] where he is?
[Julie:] Who?
[Betty:] Clayton. I want me fags and my papers. I've been waiting for fags since ten o'clock this morning.
[Edna:] I'll go around and see him in a minute.
[Betty:] Three hours. Will you? Grab the money off him. Go to the shop yourself. I bet Margaret wonders where.
[Edna:] I'm going to get some exercise. Would you like some? That's what I mean get some exercise in your legs.
[Julie:] It takes you bleeding ages to start up so you definitely got to have exercise with your legs.
[Edna:] It'll start off first of all now and then suddenly it will die.
[David:] No.
[speaker007:] It always does. It starts up first
[Betty:] George this morning?
[speaker007:] Yeah he did go I heard Judy go he said I said Ooh.
[Betty:] Funny enough she's in bed with. No he said she's gone to work on that bike. I heard her. I said you never heard I said it was you heard.
[Julie:] It was Alice.
[Betty:] Aye. It was bloody Where's my fiver Julie? She got my fiver.
[Julie:] No this is mine.
[Betty:] I made a collection for the bin girls.
[speaker007:] Did you?
[Betty:] I said would you two give in to the collection?
[Edna:] Give fifty P each.
[Betty:] And Lorraine looked you know and erm and she said how much are you short? Well I said I have got nothing out of it at the moment. So he said you'll have to stay in then won't ya? So I took it out of my pocket and he said what was happened then? And I said well any rate he come up and said where's the fiver? And I said here it is. sort the girls out
[Julie:] I'll buy him a packet of fags for erm taking us out
[Betty:] What for but don't get for tomorrow.
[Julie:] Why?
[David:] [cough]
[Betty:] You've got the today or you should have got them.
[Julie:] Get them for you tomorrow all right dad?
[David:] Yeah.
[Betty:] That'll save me two pounds out of my purse in the morning then.
[Julie:] that bloke in the garage did me out of a bleeding fiver again last night. This is getting fucking regular this is.
[David:] So he right?
[Julie:] Yeah. This is getting regular now. I said you sure
[Edna:] Well I don't know I haven't seen her all this week he said. It's too much. I've got to do so many hours that it's got people upset. I said well bully for you. I said my mate works and I get better service up there. [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] Which one did you see? The one with glasses?
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Julie:] The one's that's happy? He was miserable the other night. He must be doing so man hours.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Julie:] He's always happy. He always says hello.
[Betty:] Hello my love, how you doing? Where you going out tonight my love? Are you going out on the razzle dazzle? I said I hardly fucking think so. I'm going to work. Well you're not going out on the razzle dazzle. I said I could be. He said what do you mean? I said well a lot of them are leaving today. The old super temps I said so I said we're going out on the piss. He said what six o'clock? What time are you going to start ten? No I said I've got to start he said five o'clock? No I said I've got to start six. Well he said that doesn't give you long to go out on the razzle. I said who said we're going out. [LAUGHTER] He started laughing. He said my love all right.
[Julie:] He's always happy that bloke
[Betty:] Yeah he's always putting When I was going over to Royals. He said don't tell me you want forty Royals don't you? I said no I only want fifty. He said oh you got it right today?
[Julie:] He's always happy. He's the best one they've got.
[Betty:] He is a nice man.
[Julie:] Cos he's so happy I mean. He greets you.
[Betty:] Do you want to hear about talking about fags?
[Julie:] What?
[Betty:] Dougie bought a me a packet of fags last week not worth smoking. It's like smoking So I said to Ann here you are you can bleeding have these. I said be all right with your coffee in the morning. I'll give it to the old man she said no problem. She gives them to the the old man. He said what the fucks this? She said they're free shut your mouth. Thanks for the tip out it out got. Got his tobacco tin his smoke. Lit it up. She said what are you doing that for? Well that's worse than Silk Cut. At least I can get a drag now.
[speaker007:] He must be cutting down now.
[Betty:] He didn't like it. Well he smokes six months of the year roll ups and six months of the year fags. Because he gets coughs and splutters like. Oh well.
[Julie:] I think I've got Dot on to Wills.
[Betty:] But he aren't got time at work see? Is he a young man as well? Yeah.
[Julie:] I think I got Dot onto Wills.
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Julie:] Well she smokes Lambert and Butlers and as I say she had one fag left and she said I have to keep that for Norm. She said for when I get in the car. Her husband and erm I said well have one of my fags then. She said oh well let's have a try of one. She said oh there nice ones she said they're better than Lambert and Butler.
[speaker007:] You get twenty five for a packet.
[Julie:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Hm yes it's better isn't it for the extra She smokes these red things. She like...
[Julie:] You made her a cup of tea didn't you this morning?
[Betty:] I heard you. I heard you. I though well she's happy just come in.
[Julie:] I was. I was wide awake.
[Betty:] I opened my eyes like that. I thought no. I opened them again. I thought whatever's that dancing around in the bedroom. And it was Clay he's dancing through here dancing through there and dancing back dancing back. He said I would have asked you if I had had any trying to find trousers awake. [LAUGHTER] So he had to wear his and he don't like doing that because it gets stuck in the locker.
[Julie:] What time did you come down this morning then Bet?
[Betty:] Me?
[Julie:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Er not very early. About quarter to nine twenty to nine.
[David:] Is that water on there?
[Betty:] Yes.
[Julie:] Did Lorraine come out or stayed in there?
[Betty:] Stayed in there and I thought what
[Julie:] She's probably embarrassed as you are. And she's probably embarrassed as you are
[Betty:] I'm all right with when he's talking to her. But I feel stupid Cos I went in this morning I'd better on the piss last night. He left his car in the car park see?
[Julie:] Well if they do it again you should say come in and have a cup of tea.
[Betty:] And I looked in and thought I wonder if that's Clayton in there or not. I'm going to walk in anyway. So I walked in and she went oh morning love. And I went do you want a cup of tea. And she said oh yeah I said tea or coffee. Tea'll do. Put's the kettle on. I thought I'd better make a cup of coffee. So I went in and asked her if she wants a smoke. Give her a smoke. She said what's this? I said Wills. Oh I don't that. I'll smoke my own. So at any rate then please yourself. [whispering] she was smoking like that [] so I made her a cup of tea took it in and put it on the stool. I said I'm going back now do you want me to leave the kitchen light on? No. All right turn it off. [LAUGHTER]. Such a carry on.
[speaker007:] So what did you do?
[Betty:] you can't see in there.
[Julie:] You should just say to her
[speaker007:] cup of tea.
[Julie:] Coming in for a cup of tea?
[Betty:] I'd feel so embarrassed.
[Julie:] She probably feels as embarrassed as you do Bet.... And she always stays in that.
[Betty:] I know.
[speaker007:] She doesn't come out?
[Betty:] No....
[Julie:] I said to Sally I said I wouldn't be surprised if they two get married. I wouldn't be surprised.
[speaker007:] big plans to buy Christmas presents [LAUGHTER] shudder. [LAUGHTER] About one hundred of them.
[Betty:] Hmm.
[speaker007:] Second children.
[Betty:] Yeah. As you say. So they're second partners and their Mum and Dad.
[Julie:] Boy you think
[Betty:] Ten grand kids
[Julie:] You think what my Aunty Carol's got to buy for. Now out of the family of family
[speaker007:] Oh don't talk to me.
[Julie:] included there are about ten.
[Betty:] Ann's got a head on ain't she?
[speaker007:] Why?
[Betty:] Her sister... I think put her. Was moaning about she had to buy three Christmas presents and she only got two kids... So Ann turned round and said oh you're fucking well mad I got to buy five presents and I've only got two kids. And she said not only that whenever my kids babysit for you you only give em a fiver each. Oh she had to buy five presents and she only had two kids. That's right. And Ann said well if you going to fucking be like that don't bother to buy my kids anything. I won't buy your kids anything.
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Betty:] She says and I will spent that extra couple of quid on my kids. So said if you're going to be like that be like that. So she said don't you fucking worry I am. Yeah. She said bollocks on you lot for Christmas. I ain't buying nothing. Oh she said oh you spent money on the shirts for the kids.
[Edna:] That's it you can't these days
[Julie:] The kids come first isn't it?
[Betty:] Well they were going with their at the beginning of the year up for register and they're catching up on it now.
[Edna:] Oh. That's it. I mean we've got kids and the kids got to come first and the adults come second
[Betty:] like Ann said. It's all right for them because their kids can go on holiday with them so they've got no problems. But because their kids can't go abroad then they get a letter through to say like you know they are going on camp would they be interested. Of course Ann sends off and says yeah. But that's three hundred pounds for them to fit the bill. Oh yeah! Hundred and fifty pound each. That's a fortnight mind. Yeah. And that's everything. That's all their spending money involved and their day trips off the lot. She's got no worries.... Her and her old man stays at home and has a fortnight together. Then they go at camping school or whatever wherever the school's going. The kids do that. And then they go on holiday with Ann and the old man. And when they go on holiday with Ann and the old man they used to get through a hundred pounds a day and they go for a week. That's seven hundred pounds like sometimes more. But she said I don't mind because I would like to take my boat but I can't. When we went abroad I know we've spent three or four grand when we're over there with the holiday as well like you know. She said so it's got to be done really she said and I feel so sorry for them she says because even when they get older they still won't be able to go abroad. Yeah.
[Edna:] Well I mean I don't see why they
[Betty:] And they've had so many operations
[Edna:] I can't see why they can't go on a camping holiday in France. I mean they can go on the ferry. Take the car out there. They've got their own car.
[Betty:] Yeah but they go to somewhere bloody they go to the same place every year and they have a real good time. And she says might just as well be with the kids like so. She ain't really worried. She says the only trouble is when they get older
[Julie:] I mean I am... I mean I'm quite surprised that your floor. Whatever floor that Ann's been on hasn't done something like put some money in so that they can take em somewhere else something like over in France or something like that.
[Betty:] She wouldn't accept it. She's not that type is she? She'd say don't be silly. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] Simple isn't she?
[Betty:] [LAUGHTER] and they don't want nothing for their kids. She puts them first don't she? Oh yeah. Whatever they want they gets. my darling please?
[speaker007:] She bought them a telly.
[Julie:] I reckon they should have next year a long weekend
[speaker007:] Purple
[Betty:] All that money in your pocket haven't you? Let's have a look.
[David:] There covers
[Julie:] Even if they all go in bed and breakfast and take them two kids to Euro Disney.
[speaker007:] She erm little T V each. It was T V between them. So many hours and so many nights and. But I would have bought them one each. Yeah.
[Betty:] But they're only having one big present each this year. And that's it. That's it. Yeah.
[Julie:] Yeah I know. I'd go mad.
[Betty:] She said that fucking last year I said. What's the girl? No. Boy thirteen and a girl eleven. Oh. Or twelve that's either two years or a year between them. And don't fight. No? Of course boy and a girl don't They only argue. They don't fight they only argue but they can't fight cause of their ears. And I think the boy suffers from asthma as well.
[Julie:] Well there you are. It's different with a boy and a girl cos
[David:] You got your washing out mind you.
[Betty:] Because when
[David:] You been out there?
[Betty:] Her boy went out on this work experience thing for his school like. He must be older than thirteen. He must be fourteen. He must be fourteen hmm. Yeah. Anyway they paid him I told you didn't I? They paid him and the reason they ain't going to have nobody back there any more back to this firm cos safety rules. And erm she was saying that when he was there a bloke come round start giving them a little verbal. She'd never had nothing in his ears to protect his ears. So he's shouting it the boy like. And of course the old man was there and he come over and grabbed the bloke by the throat and he said don't you ever shout at my son like that again. Course he was frightened to death weren't he. And he said well he should know better than to blah blah blah Hmm He said my son's fucking deaf you idiot. Well well that is why he don't need to put anything in his ears. Because he can't hear nothing stupid. Well he's still have to put it in his ears. You're going to put your fucking eyes out. Hmm. I bet he got all upset. Well everybody knew when they're up. daft anyway and nine times out of ten you've got to look at him and speak to him and that because he can't understand and er bloke gave him the verbal. He was nearly crying wasn't he. Ah! We didn't know what to say. It's got to be tumble dried. He didn't know he had to give him a little verbal back.
[Julie:] It's already
[Betty:] What about the football?
[David:] my white shirt?
[Betty:] You picked Liverpool? Yeah. Put it on then.
[Julie:] Turn the tape off.
[Betty:] And the day that he left. [vacuum cleaner sound] Is it finished?
[Julie:] No it's not finished. It's just that you're going to get that on.
[speaker007:] Yeah do you know those chocolates you had. How much were they Julie?
[Julie:] One pound nine pence some at pence
[Betty:] Was it two pounds summat three pounds summat?
[speaker007:] Contrast.
[Julie:] Contrast. I got you a single like a small box
[Betty:] Single didn't you?
[Julie:] And they had a double box for three pounds six or something and there are what at Woolies they're about three fifty six so you're saving fifty P.
[Betty:] Oh not a lot.
[speaker007:] But still
[Julie:] But you're saving something. You save fifty P. I mean if you'd rather get them if you'd rather save fifty P. You'd get them in there wouldn't ya?
[Betty:] Well yeah I suppose so
[Julie:] Rather than get them in.
[Betty:] Yeah if you want to save yeah yeah. Oh well.
[Julie:] I mean if you don't get much of an item off an item you'd know that is well in date.
[Betty:] Hmm Hmm. If it's that cheap
[Julie:] It's either that or there's not a lot about. If there's not a lot there then they won't put the price tags down.
[speaker007:] [cough]
[Julie:] But if they're got a lot they will.
[speaker007:] Well I mean well I don't mean you'll sort it out yourself. But there ain't nothing on that pack.
[Betty:] Hmm.
[speaker007:] And luckily enough
[Betty:] I don't bloody know.
[speaker007:] So when I've been fussing about in there What are they called? Erm
[Betty:] I heard it when I come in didn't I?
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Betty:] isn't it. It begins with a B.
[speaker007:] You can see the packet there orange packet.
[Betty:] Yeah I can see it packet. Yeah [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] Ah! I don't like them.
[Betty:] And chocolates all round like.
[Edna:] I'd like we had more Cadbury's in Birmingham once. I'm going back years. I'm going back a bit there.
[Julie:] Well they had tea coffee and sandwiches cakes. They had fruit juices for kids. Now I got one lot of fruit juices and I said to go and get some more and there were six empty on the thing then I chucked them in and then there were another six empty like.
[Edna:] I suppose you can get can you get so many up you can in a lot of places can't you?
[David:] No I know you used to have a price.
[Julie:] But it worked out that they spent twenty thousand pounds on letting families go round for these three weeks.
[Betty:] It would be better to
[Edna:] they didn't have the machinery like you got.
[speaker007:] No it was all hands all done by hand no automation.
[Edna:] Yeah yeah. And the villages all round there are pretty out there.
[Julie:] Ours ours can't be done automated.
[Betty:] That's right.
[Julie:] You can't have a computer put the eggs in the pans because it's got to be it's got to be done manually by a worker.
[Edna:] Yeah but chocolate's got so expens
[Julie:] My dad's he didn't understand before he seen the mini eggs why they're so dear.
[Betty:] There's a lot of work there.
[Julie:] It takes thirty two hours before they can be packed. They got to be stored for thirty two hours. It takes so long. So basically all they're saying it takes thirty two hours to do one egg.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Julie:] As with Double Decker it can take the most two hours Crunchie takes the most two hours
[Edna:] As with Crunchie are there no Crunchies there now?
[Julie:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] There were Crunchies yesterday.
[Betty:] No no it weren't yesterday. Huh?
[David:] packs
[Julie:] What packs of Crunchies?
[speaker007:] Loose one you mean?
[Julie:] No I went Thursday.
[David:] No.
[Julie:] I went.
[David:] There weren't any loose one.
[Julie:] Thursday morning there was packs of Crunchies
[Edna:] No I don't
[Betty:] I likes a Crunchie.
[speaker007:] I don't mind a Crunchie.
[Betty:] It's light isn't it? It doesn't stick in your gob [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] I likes a Crunchie
[speaker007:] I's eat all the chocolate first and the inside afterwards
[Julie:] More than that now though.
[speaker007:] Oh aye. Yeah but you can buy it You could buy it in a penny packet bloody great
[Julie:] I used to get a lot of it when I was in
[speaker007:] And it used to be dark brown. It used to be darker than bloody.
[Betty:] They made it different then didn't they?
[speaker007:] Mm.
[Betty:] It's bloody mass produced now isn't it?
[speaker007:] So before my work out this morning I said to Joe he's in the bathroom. Done Joe's bedroom and er the Hoover was up there the dusters was up there so I thought shall I shall I. No I've got dinner before one and I thought well
[Julie:] Well
[speaker007:] properly
[Julie:] with Crunchie right? They set on a big conveyor belt. There's got to be about eight foot wide and er
[Betty:] I'd seen that being done on the telly the other night.
[Julie:] A hundred and fifty degrees C that's what it comes out at. Right and it goes like these great funnels spread it Now as it goes down it gets caught down. And when it gets cut. It's got cut like boiling hot oil a laser of oil.
[Betty:] Oh oh.
[Julie:] And we got told now I didn't know this. We got told that that laser of oil can cut through concrete just like that. Just as quick as it goes through a Crunchie.
[speaker007:] Bloody hell.
[Julie:] So they have so much problems with it like they'll never ever experiment with that again. They'll keep it for Crunchie but never use it for anything else again because they've had so much trouble with it.
[Betty:] Blimey!
[speaker007:] Charles with Christmas presents.
[Betty:] [whispering] Oh did you? [] I had to give him his paper and his
[Julie:] Well. You know battle. There's nothing there
[speaker007:] Good job put in her puzzle. [LAUGHTER]
[Edna:] Don't tell me I'll feel worse.
[Julie:] Oh I'm not telling you then.
[Edna:] No
[speaker007:] I racked my brains I couldn't get one yesterday...
[Edna:] Fortunate.
[speaker007:] Well I got on the head. She went down on there. So I got one side but I bloody couldn't get out the other side.
[Edna:] That wasn't yesterday it were the day before.
[speaker007:] Yeah it was. No it wasn't it was no I got that
[Edna:] That wasn't yesterday
[speaker007:] No that's right
[Edna:] What was the youngest one yesterday?
[Julie:] You two are not supposed to be looking at that.
[speaker007:] I ain't looking
[Edna:] Command
[speaker007:] You look now.
[Edna:] Commandeer
[speaker007:] Yeah yeah that's him language and centipede and all that rubbish.
[Edna:] Yeah I said
[speaker007:] Today he said er can our Joe come downstairs oh you go up and ask him.
[Edna:] I expect he gived you a funny answer [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] He didn't I knows that I knows it I knows it. So he ten letters. The one I said come to ten letters. I said is that enough. So he said there must be there must be extra letters in there..
[Julie:] I want to know what a kill joy is. What's a kill joy?
[speaker007:] Well it's one who spoils the bloody party isn't he?
[Julie:] Ten letters. So what's he
[Edna:] Ten letters?
[Julie:] Yeah.
[Edna:] He's a nuisance I should think. [LAUGHTER] And a killjoy is one that don't enjoy himself and let other people
[speaker007:] When we played that tape back last night. Your voice.
[Betty:] You never taped that?
[Edna:] We was hysterical.
[speaker007:] Yeah but can we plays that tape so that everybody's can hear?
[Edna:] Yeah
[Julie:] Yeah of course you can
[speaker007:] Never
[Julie:] I was totally shocked in my voice. Now to me I sound a lot different than I do on tape.
[speaker007:] Hers sounds like sandpaper.
[Julie:] I sound on there
[speaker007:] Terrible!
[Julie:] I got I didn't know I got
[Betty:] Your voice is ever so prominent
[Julie:] I didn't know I got I didn't know that I got such a deep voice. I ain't got a screechy voice at all.
[Betty:] I never swore did I?
[Edna:] You were ever so good.
[David:] And when you swore this morning.
[Betty:] You never had it on this morning?
[David:] Don't you wish get it?
[speaker007:] We'll play all that back tonight [LAUGHTER]
[Edna:] Oh Bet!
[speaker007:] We could borrow that other tape and play it on your tape What the bloody hell is that?
[Betty:] I was just going to our Pam when you come in and of course Joe was saying what's that like and I never.... So I demand to know.
[speaker007:] No you haven't.
[Julie:] I put it on right at the end of our conversation at yours this morning.
[Edna:] What did Keith say? Was he all right?
[Julie:] He was tired. He was knackered.
[Edna:] Oh he didn't hear it.
[speaker007:] We had the little ear phones on the table. We was
[Edna:] I said to do you want to hear it? She said no I can hear it.
[speaker007:] She couldn't hear it could she?
[Betty:] No. It's better to put it out on the table and hear it.
[speaker007:] I didn't know what it was did I?
[Betty:] Ever so good. It was really good honestly. Honest.
[speaker007:] I want to take this tape out really when I gone out to Asda.
[Edna:] I got to nip round Bet's.
[speaker007:] Yeah cos we've got the tape haven't we?
[Edna:] Ever so funny.
[speaker007:] Yeah but [LAUGHTER]
[Edna:] I know but all West Country. You don't realise.
[speaker007:] I said to those other girls no I can hear it.
[Edna:] And Maggie shouting in the background you can hear all what she was saying.
[speaker007:] Maggie she know nothing about it.
[Betty:] Oh my God. Oh!
[speaker007:] Yeah of course Maggie was here weren't she?...
[Edna:] But it was so funny.
[speaker007:] That's what Sandy said.
[Edna:] She wouldn't believe would she?
[Julie:] No she wouldn't believe it until she
[Betty:] Yeah. I never said that
[Julie:] Yeah she did. Three times
[Betty:] Did she?
[Julie:] on the. I came up so loud.
[Betty:] Yeah Michelle knocking at the door to see if Julie was ready and all that. He coming out for a. Oh yeah. All of it. [LAUGHTER] I said piss and all [LAUGHTER]
[Edna:] That was really funny that was.
[Betty:] Yeah yeah yeah.
[Edna:] We was laughing
[speaker007:] She says are you coming down for Christmas and I said I don't know yet. I said things is bothering me a little bit. So she said well why? So I said look Pam, I said you know why. I said you know what's all about and to start with it's bloody nonsense. It's the bloody daftest thing I've ever bloody heard. I Sophie can walk over. She walks in and out and you don't even bloody see her. I said it's a lot of bloody rubbish. I said and another thing I said I'm going to tell you straight. I said Ah!
[Betty:] And I
[Julie:] Whose is it?
[Betty:] This is that market research I'm doing.
[Rose:] This got to go back. Gets twenty five pounds for doing that.
[Betty:] Get twenty five pound for that.
[Julie:] For what? Taping what?
[Betty:] Anything.
[Rose:] Any conversation for a week.
[Betty:] Well
[Rose:] And you've used it.
[Betty:] Yeah
[Julie:] All them F's.
[Rose:] That's horrible. Swearing.
[Googie:] It's you. You can tell your voice. You can't tell yours is like sandpaper.
[speaker007:] It's yours
[Betty:] It's so prominent your voice.
[Rose:] Do you know why I talks loud?
[Julie:] Why was that?
[Rose:] My father was stone deaf. I think all my family talks loud.
[Betty:] Well you're bound to
[Rose:] He used to say what did you say? [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] bastard
[speaker007:] Clay got any money for a collection?
[Rose:] Yeah.
[Julie:] What you collecting for? School? Ah yes [LAUGHTER]
[Rose:] I going round for a collection too.
[Betty:] I've got enough for one for two.
[Julie:] Want some pocket money do you darling?
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Julie:] Going by yourselves then? Do you go to school?
[speaker007:] Do your Mum and Dad want any crisps or pikelets and things
[Rose:] Yeah
[Googie:] because I'm selling it.
[Rose:] At her work. Yeah
[Googie:] Got any to give away?
[Rose:] Yeah but it doesn't matter what it is.
[Googie:] I'm desperate.
[speaker007:] Bloody on the air.
[Wendy:] This is disgusting.
[Betty:] I can't ask Julie after yesterday can I?
[Rose:] What did she affairs shut your mouth.
[Wendy:] Well keep bleeding quiet then.
[Rose:] Ooh!
[Betty:] She's been having
[speaker007:] I ain't coming over yours Christmas.
[Betty:] Why not.
[speaker007:] You said it straight away when I come in here.
[Wendy:] We want a quiet Christmas. No swearing. No bad language.
[Rose:] Because that because I'll never agree.
[Wendy:] I'll be at church.
[Betty:] He's going to mass.
[speaker007:] Midnight Mess if you ask me.
[Betty:] Is that all right?
[speaker007:] What's that?
[Betty:] Midnight Mass?
[Wendy:] I'm going.
[Julie:] We'll go to the carol service at?
[speaker007:] I'll be here don't worry.
[Googie:] There you are.
[Rose:] I behaves myself in church mind.
[Sally:] All you seem to think it's bloody Halloween come back again.
[Wendy:] Yeah I know
[Rose:] What church you go to? The Pentecostal?
[Wendy:] No Courages. [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] in your pocket there?
[Wendy:] What about it?
[Googie:] How about taking me out for a drink then?
[Wendy:] Who you?
[Googie:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Shut up.
[Rose:] I dare thee.
[Wendy:] girl friend.
[Rose:] Eh?
[Wendy:] fiddle.
[Betty:] I hope there'll be no need to
[Rose:] I'm going home now. Not going to be bloody worried about that [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Oh!
[Googie:] I bet I been and forgot what I come in here for now I'm not really sure.
[Betty:] if you ask me. [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] God I forgot.
[Wendy:] Oi!
[Googie:] What?
[Wendy:] What did you come over for?
[Googie:] I just
[Wendy:] You only come over to be nosy don't ya?
[Googie:] Well go and hit one.
[Wendy:] Noisy bleeding neighbours. It's getting like
[Googie:] It's what I call So?
[Julie:] What you going for?
[Googie:] When I write my obituary
[Betty:] Ooh!
[speaker007:] Obituary [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] When I write that I'll shall have I'll have plenty to write about you know. Your orbit what do you call it?
[speaker007:] I don't know.
[Wendy:] What does it mean.
[Googie:] Bloody life story then. Put it that way.
[Sally:] Do you have a word for her have you Clay?
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] I don't know what she's going on about.
[Betty:] You know what do you call it you know?
[speaker007:] Obituary.
[Betty:] No.
[Googie:] Your obituary's on your in the paper when you're dead. Oh is it? Oh well
[Sally:] Autobiography you daft buggers
[Googie:] Biography?
[speaker007:] Biography
[Googie:] that ain't bloody right. No. Yeah it is. That ain't biography. No no. That is your biography. No. That ain't
[Sally:] Autobiography.
[Googie:] No no. It begins with an O.
[speaker007:] Autobiography.
[Googie:] No. But
[Julie:] It begins with an O isn't it? Obituary.
[speaker007:] Now come on.
[Googie:] No obituary is on your in your paper.
[Wendy:] That's what someone writes about you when you're dead.
[Googie:] I don't care care about that I don't care about that! No [LAUGHTER]. O. It begins with an O. No. [LAUGHTER] He says biography. That's all bloody grammar innit.
[Sally:] It's autobiography
[Googie:] that David so obituary obituary.
[Sally:] [shouting] Autobiography []
[Googie:] No that's the bloody
[Sally:] Biographies
[Googie:] What school did you go to? Don't know what. Obituary obit oh God bloody get that out.
[Rose:] Biography is your life story. Autobiography is when you're dead and gone and they write about you.
[Betty:] No it's orbit
[Rose:] Obituary Mum.
[Betty:] O-b-i-t-r-y.
[Sally:] No that's what they put on your on the top of your tombstone.
[Googie:] That's your bloody that's your bloody no erm That's your er
[Sally:] Not your epitaph?
[Googie:] Epitaph that is. Epitaph on your tombstone but obituary in the papers. No. It is! No you've got it wrong. Not epitaph. you can't afford to put all that in the
[Wendy:] How old are you?
[Googie:] Can you Clay? Twenty seven.
[Wendy:] Are you [LAUGHTER]
[Sally:] Why? 's twenty seven she sick...
[Betty:] Clay?
[Wendy:] Hmm.
[Betty:] We won't be able to have a great big piece put in the paper. We can't afford it. It's about a pound a word.
[Googie:] Don't bother doing that I'll have that money before I goes
[Sally:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] about a pound a word.
[Googie:] I don't want no bloody I can't spell Dave. I'll have I'll have the collection. I didn't know the other day. I thought he's home. I thought I thought he's home. I'll go back in and walk home.
[Betty:] He's gonna er get a loaf of bread. [cough]
[Googie:] Going up the shop. [cough]
[Betty:] He's got to go out and do this shopping with his bad leg.
[Googie:] I think I'll have a paper.
[speaker007:] [shouting] No []
[Betty:] Are you through now?
[Sally:] I am through now.
[Googie:] Well it ain't here is he?
[Sally:] I haven't seen him.
[Googie:] Yes but I expect he's upstairs.
[Rose:] Oh I better go soon.
[Googie:] Yeah but don't let him now. I'll go now.
[Betty:] I'll go and get me I want and organ.
[Rose:] She wants she wants an organ for Christmas Clay.
[Betty:] I don't an organ. I just wants the organ
[Rose:] One that she can play a tune on. [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] if it comes to that.
[Julie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] What did he say? [LAUGHTER] What's he say? [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] I don't like a bloody organ.
[Julie:] I said ask Jenny if you want to play a tune on it.
[Betty:] Oh it were I play a bloody tune on it bloody snake charmer [LAUGHTER] I want an org I want a bloody proper organ. [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] Oh do you?
[Googie:] Well they bloody wore out so
[Betty:] Proper organ [LAUGHTER] You've played one of these have you?
[Googie:] I'm going to buy her one.
[Julie:] When are you going to play to us then?
[Betty:] I do and she walks out the room. [LAUGHTER]
[Sally:] Why not?
[Googie:] I [cough] [LAUGHTER]
[Rose:] I could put a handle on him. [LAUGHTER] And the monkey I got he. [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Got to go to the shop again. I leave my bread up.
[Betty:] Oh. She do play lovely.
[Googie:] She not bloody heard
[Betty:] She's in the kitchen listening now. I said to Joe I said he said go on then go on then.
[Wendy:] What was you playing then?
[Googie:] Oh I don't know [cough] Playing the lost chord I'd know.
[speaker007:] flaming ripper.
[Betty:] It wasn't
[Wendy:] all the bloody corpses out the bloody graveyard.
[Googie:] I don't know no bloody hymns do I?
[Sally:] [LAUGHTER] All the corpses in the graveyard! []
[Googie:] Yeah [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] You mean he's dead.
[Googie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] see with Eddie. Is that all what you're getting this Christmas.
[Googie:] shut both the doors [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Oh I'll get an organ all right for Christmas. Chance would be a big fine thing. [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] Oh dear I getting some bird seed Christmas eve. [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Oh dear!
[Googie:] Yeah. It's a good job I don't know really. I don't know if I passed her in the street
[Wendy:] You passed her in the street as well?
[Sally:] Every pastor in the street.
[Googie:] Do what? Oh well I don't mind if she says hello Ed. That's all right. Don't worry about it. If you live with them round here you get like em.
[Betty:] I put them down on that floor.
[Wendy:] What are you trying to tell us. That you were posh when you were over in.
[Googie:] I were I were but I and weren't I Bet? I never swore over there.
[Wendy:] I bet you had a wife spot
[Googie:] No I never A wife swop? What do I want wi
[Wendy:] Or a husband swop
[Googie:] I used to keep over there. over there. front door key to take pot luck [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Any luck with you would be pot luck wouldn't it?
[Betty:] Oh! Did they debit your bank balance yet?
[Wendy:] Did they swear over.
[Googie:] I don't know. I didn't know em. They didn't talk to me [LAUGHTER] I mean I did talk to they because
[Wendy:] Coarse were they?
[Googie:] Yeah. She gets behind the curtains
[Sally:] Well they does that here.
[Googie:] I don't. I look through the blinds. I see more [LAUGHTER]
[Sally:] [LAUGHTER] Nosy Rosie
[Googie:] I tell you what I tell you what I tell you what all I knows here is that he I knows Rosie and Wendy. And you ask me any body's names around here I couldn't even tell you Sylvia's name next door.
[Wendy:] You just fucking said it.
[Julie:] Yeah but that ain't her surname.
[Googie:] No no I don't, I don't know her surname
[Wendy:] Williams all right?
[Googie:] Is it?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Julie:] It's Williams.
[Betty:] Is it?
[Julie:] Yes it's Williams.
[Googie:] I never knew that I never knew that. Cos a romance is going on there mind. I suppose you've been watching that as well.
[Betty:] Oh yeah!
[Googie:] that serious love. Yeah but they just comes up to the door and says to her we're going away now. Goodbye. Yeah we're going away bloody neighbour or what. You'll be there. [LAUGHTER] if the lights is on or if the windows is open.
[Wendy:] Yeah but you aught to tell her anyway. They will police
[Sally:] on television
[Googie:] I was frightened. I was scared stiff. I thought well should I go up? I coughed [cough] She cough before she went upstairs. he never took anything out of here first. No I was bloody fright but I know that other night I shut that door. Monday it was. Monday night it was. I shut that door Betty. He said I said I did. I shut the door behind you. I didn't although I didn't slam it but I did shut it. And I said to our Joe we got to get a another lock for that door.
[Betty:] Well I was looking her front door's not locking.
[Googie:] Yeah. Have you gotta go to the stairs?
[Wendy:] Just waiting for your boy friend to come in weren't you?
[Googie:] I said Joe might know.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Googie:] Don't get bloody ideas
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] Eh? Hey. Yes. he was talking to her like seven years old.
[Julie:] [LAUGHTER] Talking to her like seven years old?
[Googie:] The fact of that. I went upstairs to see the bloke in my bed and I thought this is lucky [LAUGHTER] it was three bloody dogs in your garden when I went out the other night.
[Betty:] Oh no!
[Wendy:] Was he having a bit?
[Betty:] Oh No!
[Googie:] Didn't you hear me shout? I said three dogs out here Bet. In your garden. A lit little brown one.
[Wendy:] Oi! Was they having a bit?
[Googie:] Oh they might been but I don't I don't know how long no.
[Wendy:] That's what you were looking at weren't it? See all the stuff.
[Googie:] Tell you what I've chucked many a bucket of water on over them
[Betty:] I won't see you again for the rest of the time
[Wendy:] Chucking buckets of water over them eh?
[Googie:] I bloody have done years ago you chuck buckets of water over them.
[Wendy:] Well what's this
[Betty:] whatever you got to spare.
[Wendy:] bucket of water.
[Betty:] If you gave me a fiver I'd be grateful.
[Wendy:] Oh my God you're a pain.
[Googie:] It's like the bloody alms houses in here ain't it? [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] It's bloody terrible in here.
[Googie:] Yeah. It's like alms houses.
[Betty:] When you're poor and they've got to find all the bills.
[Googie:] Yeah but Betty you've given all yours to the bleeding bingo man.
[Betty:] [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] He's giving his to the pub. It's keeping people at work.
[Julie:] You want a buck?
[Googie:] But I keep but if that's all you got to spare yes. Thank you very much. Every little and.
[Betty:] That's four bucks three tonight.
[Julie:] you owe me that for a year. Where's me money for me crisps?...
[Betty:] Huh.
[Googie:] Or thy goodwill on my friend's part.
[Wendy:] You've got some friends have you?
[Googie:] Yeah I have.
[Wendy:] What do they do then?
[Googie:] Never you mind.
[Wendy:] Where do you keep Able?
[Googie:] Ah?
[Betty:] There are a couple of pints left or five pounds has to go.
[Googie:] I bet ya I think you'd I'd bet order you two he'd go because he'd go.
[Betty:] [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] You can't rely on her.
[Julie:] Betty where's the
[Googie:] Oh he's been lucky. It seems bloody forty
[Betty:] I'd better go and get the bleeding coffee aren't I?
[Googie:] What time is it?
[Betty:] Quarter past ten. We'll go the front way.
[Sally:] Where's he did he bring his car up?
[Googie:] Yeah. We've been out in it yesterday. His car is good as gold. He stopped out here. He started go from Bet's come out. No trouble.
[Sally:] Why did drive over here for?
[Googie:] What? When we come from Bet's?
[Wendy:] What this Thursday?
[Googie:] No when we come out of Bet's to go down the garage.
[Wendy:] Yeah what's the point of driving from Bet's over your house?
[Googie:] No we got the car from the garage right?
[Sally:] You were at Bet's.
[Betty:] Don't bend it oh ah!
[Googie:] Here what's all the
[speaker007:] Of course she's not here
[Wendy:] Don't know where's she's been.
[Betty:] Bye.
[Wendy:] You'll be all right? You won't get lost packed lunch?
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] I much Does Devlin want some of that Oh!
[Wendy:] You can make yourself a few bob there I should think.
[Betty:] I should think of you [LAUGHTER] for his finger. [LAUGHTER]...
[Julie:] Edna!
[Googie:] Oh God! Edna?
[Betty:] Edna.
[Googie:] You didn't know my name did ya?
[Julie:] you didn't answer.
[Betty:] Oh aren't you clever.
[Julie:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Mm. I do want a new nobody takes pity on me though [NOISE] quiet there. Eh?
[Googie:] white slippers [cough]
[Sally:] White.
[Googie:] yesterday. Did you see them on the counter. I couldn't get them on they won't fit.
[Wendy:] White goes in her mouth [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] Ta ra see you later.
[Betty:] Okay.
[Julie:] And you did say sit.
[Betty:] packed lunch.
[Julie:] Yes.
[Wendy:] Yes. [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] I think she gets lost. She might be go out for a hike later in her slippers.
[Betty:] Well when you enter sixty five mind.
[Googie:] Yeah [cough]
[Betty:] Oh truth the truth got me. She said oh I'm sorry she said. This lady she said I'm not for ages but this lady is in the age range I want she said and you're under sixty five. Well you're under sixty five she said. I'm seventy seven. What's the matter with thee? She says well she was gob smashed. She went you what? She said I'm seventy seven. She didn't believe her.
[Julie:] She didn't believe her? [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] No. Mind you she didn't look seventy seven do she? She don't act seventy seven.
[Sally:] Like she said you see her first thing in the morning. [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] When she got no teeth in she just got up [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Oh she is funny.
[Julie:] She looks a bit like Laurie. First thing of a morning....
[Betty:] John Laurie never come in the kitchen when I come down I thought oh good God. Time to get up. Oh...
[Julie:] Oh I woke up this morning when me alarm went off and looked at her fucking hell.
[speaker007:] Oh
[Betty:] no way who's there. I'd better go and get me crisps [whispering] I'll sort this out when I come back. []
[Julie:] When you coming back? She'll fucking hit me when you're. She probably will when you're gone.
[Betty:] Straight in your gob.
[Sally:] [cough]
[Betty:] Straight in your gob.
[Julie:] She won't do that to me.
[Sally:] No she'll give you mouth with her hand.
[Julie:] Don't be bloody cheeky you...
[Sally:] I must stick up for her Doreen.
[Julie:] Oh dear. Just like a fucking mother. Just to say nice girl Doreen. Uh. Stupid. [whispering] []
[Betty:] Don't do that not when I'm reading the paper right.
[Julie:] All right yeah. Whatever you say my love
[speaker007:] [cough]
[Julie:] Interesting?... All right my love you read the bit your reading all right. Here you are.
[Sally:] ?
[Julie:] She didn't hit me. She likes me to Here you are my love.
[Betty:] I'll hit him in time....
[Julie:] She won't she likes it.
[Googie:] I'm sorry?
[Julie:] She don't mean that.... Don't look at me like that wait wait.
[Betty:] [scream]
[Julie:] Ah! Mother she's hitting me.
[Googie:] Bloody good job too.
[Betty:] About bloody time somebody sorted you out.
[Julie:] What is it my love?
[Googie:] Oh you!
[Julie:] Mother she's calling me a bastard.
[Betty:] What? Where?
[Sally:] There.
[Betty:] Tell Doreen about about the tele.
[Wendy:] It's come round to collect the money she asked for it.
[Googie:] Oh my God! [LAUGHTER]......
[Betty:] Did you tell her what she said?
[Julie:] What did you say to her? I don't remember what you said to her like.
[Betty:] She come up behind me look she didn't know and I said oh don't fret my love. Give her the money like she's got past me she said are you my grandad are my Clayton's dad? And he went and I went and he said yes I am. And she said ooh she said I got two grandads. [LAUGHTER] At least you had an omelette [cough] seven years ago weren't it?
[Julie:] Er look at her.
[Betty:] Right then this is your bingo money... you'll have to be forced. You can't sit any money.
[Julie:] That's right.
[speaker007:] mouth?
[Julie:] It's the pill.
[Googie:] Oh well.
[Julie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Well we have to It's yours.
[Julie:] Is it?
[Sally:] Eh? Didn't you get an?
[Betty:] Aye
[Julie:] Nasty.
[Betty:] Papers.
[Wendy:] Do you combing your hair?
[Betty:] No.
[Julie:] Do mean combing your hair?
[Sally:] you won't find them.
[Betty:] Pardon? Oh Clay!
[Julie:] What?
[Betty:] Give your daughter pound.
[Julie:] Have a look in my trousers. You might find a pound in the pocket.
[Betty:] Oh that would be a wonder.
[Julie:] You could be lucky.
[Betty:] He wants to go er
[Julie:] river
[Betty:] Hm yeah.
[Julie:] He got big brains hasn't he?
[Betty:] Yeah
[Julie:] In fact if he had to breathe it'd be dangerous... I reckon.
[Betty:] Where's old in my bedroom.
[Julie:] No you silly daft woman. Anyone on the site goes to.
[Betty:] being what?...
[Sally:] Those those
[Julie:] Well he'd never talk about I always says it to her face...
[Sally:] Yeah. Yeah. Curbed.... [whistling]
[Betty:] She thought she could move
[Googie:] No cos he's better off.
[Betty:] got her papers she might see.
[Sally:] But he's better off [whistling]
[Julie:] Is the paper there?
[Betty:] Must of put it in her purse. Eight months.
[Julie:] Are you serious?
[Betty:] What? Yeah.
[Julie:] Fucking hell!
[Betty:] Eight months.
[Julie:] Yeah.
[Betty:] He's got more
[speaker007:] You're not telling us
[Betty:] You'll be when they're gone. You know that don't you? We'll have to stay in here seven nights a week chatting to each other and arguing. Ooh! Ha ha ha [cough] Did you hear that Clay?
[Julie:] What's that?
[Betty:] When you're all gone he's going to put me on the
[Julie:] He's still won't bleeding go out would he?
[Betty:] My God...
[Julie:] Yeah but you can lend it to Laurie on the nights you're not using it.
[Betty:] Oh very funny. It's the in places at street they tell me these days.
[Julie:] Is it?
[Betty:] Yeah. It's like the Mauritania innit?... I assume the Mauritania's still there.
[Julie:] Don't know Mum.
[Betty:] have you?
[Julie:] I never go up street did they?
[Betty:] . Horrible
[Sally:] Are you still going
[Julie:] I don't know I suppose so.
[Betty:] Oh yes
[Julie:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Erm how do you what you buying the children or don't you know for Christmas?
[Julie:] Don't know what?
[Betty:] Any chance of buying them all a pair of slippers each? They aren't very dear.
[Julie:] Yeah. Can do.
[Betty:] Well I'm going to buy the two and I'm going to buy the two boys pyjamas and two girls night shirts and we thought you'd buy the slippers. And we got a full of chocolates and sweets and by the time we put their sweets on the top as well, there'll be lots and lots by for Christmas.
[Julie:] Oh yeah.
[Betty:] Loads of it we got. We spent pounds. Easily spent about fifteen pounds buying a great big bag like that.
[Julie:] ?
[Betty:] I know. Well that's for that. You can stop kids eating sweets and chocolates because that's what Christmas is all about.
[Julie:] Another kid.
[Googie:] Do you like it?
[Betty:] Nobody asked you if you wanted anything in the shop. Do you want anything any time or should
[Julie:] She don't chocolate.
[Betty:] It's no bother mind.
[Sally:] [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] Oh I used to like chocolate.
[Sally:] Yeah yeah.
[Betty:] Well I'm going to find David and I are going to but the two boys pyjamas and the two girls night shirts so we thought if you buys them all a pair of slippers. That's their nightwear sorted out. Upstairs they're going to buy em like erm bloody oh our Kelly's into hair dressing some curling bloody brushes all sorts and that sort of thing for her. Junior scrabble for Sarah and er I don't know about the two boys I don't what we've got sorted out for the boys. So if we could collect it all up together and when we are going down we could take the whole lot down out of the way.
[Sally:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Kelly's been and had her hair dyed.
[Julie:] What's that?
[Betty:] She's too young isn't she? Thirteen to muck about with her hair. She's got lovely colour hair and by the time she's bloody twenty one her hair will be a mess. [LAUGHTER] Much too young to muck about with her hair
[Wendy:] My mother said she's going to go on game anyway.
[Betty:] That's what I felt when he's gone and the girls is got no money [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] She says she's gonna get a brown paper bag for her and she said
[Betty:] Oh [LAUGHTER]. That's the suppose it's in now it's up by the Mauritania down in Park Street so they tell me.... I'd better get some coffee she's going to tell Joe that you charged her this.
[Julie:] Why?
[Betty:] Yeah at half price. [LAUGHTER] She's not going to think very highly of you this morning. [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] ?
[Betty:] What do you think?
[Julie:] What?
[Betty:] Not going to think of Clare? [LAUGHTER] Oh that's funny. Right so I'll see you later.
[speaker007:] Yeah
[Betty:] Take care then. Don't forget the two
[Julie:] Yeah
[Betty:] And the bread. Are you going to leave me a couple before you go on and take the
[Sally:] Yeah.
[Betty:] And when I'm back in a minute or two
[Julie:] Oh is he getting the?
[Sally:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Yeah. Unless you're going.
[Julie:] Leave your money out. I'll get them.
[Betty:] Oh put the money out then David.
[Julie:] They'll be here when you come back.
[Betty:] Right. Two look. Two fourteen for Oh what? You'll get the money in er?
[Julie:] What's he gonna do? Go out all day with no fags cos I'm gonna buy 'em.
[Sally:] Don't be so
[Julie:] Oh he's got more than the fucking
[Sally:] That's her money that's
[Betty:] To
[Julie:] So what's fucking doing it all. Look I just thought I'd
[Betty:] Two Mirrors Clay.
[Julie:] Two Mirrors?
[Betty:] Yeah. Two Mirrors Star Sun. Mirror for Margaret, Mirror Star Sun for me. I reckon it's half past now.
[Julie:] It's cheaper to buy a puzzle book.
[Betty:] Yeah but they're not open.
[Sally:] They don't open.
[Betty:] I likes the three papers for sitting back to do the crosswords. It's my insurance see. Oh what shall I do with the washing line? He wants it twice a week. The old cooking cause he'll only eat a cooked dinner You can feed once a week
[Julie:] I'll bring him a pasty back from work.
[Betty:] I said to Julie about the washing I said to Julie I said you're at home how about you taking this washing machine with you when you go because you're paying. Oh no no she said we'll buy our own.
[Julie:] Oh good.
[Betty:] Don't when they took the washing machine out and left Julie.
[Julie:] They'll bring their washing round here.
[Betty:] Yeah. Most probably.
[Julie:] They don't care.
[Betty:] I don't mind.
[Julie:] See give you something to do then.
[Betty:] Give me something to do yeah.
[Julie:] When you get bored in the
[Betty:] Good God! I think I'll get a job in the.
[Julie:] Yeah. You'll be
[Betty:] Your Stephen's still on about getting his kitchen.
[Julie:] Who?
[Betty:] Stephen at work.
[Julie:] Oh yeah yeah.
[Betty:] she come up on Tuesday. She's asked me to get. She's still coming [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] You ask me she's got make up loads of excuses.
[Betty:] Yeah. Either do that or she'd have to make it worth my while. I ain't going to bloody go to work and come back and bloody sit home for thirty quid.
[Julie:] She's got to pay you lots of money then.
[Betty:] Lots and lots [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] Hiya.
[Julie:] Where you doing.
[speaker007:] Pardon?
[Julie:] Where to?
[Betty:] Like near. I canna more. Somewhere sort of local. Cos I mean your place got the monopoly everywhere else. Hasn't it? You still could go bloody shop where yours is. You want a hand
[Julie:] It's horrible though isn't it?...
[Betty:] You know I mean you've got to ask them you know sensible and the
[Julie:] Yeah but if he has another shop is he still going to get his
[Betty:] Yeah. He's suppose so.
[Julie:] You could put his fucking any where couldn't you?
[Betty:] Well yes I suppose you could really. Well anyway she reckons he'll be starting up a business afterwards.
[Julie:] Putting with all the rest.
[Betty:] Yeah ain't that daft. Why doesn't he —
[Googie:] Betty...
[Julie:] Did you get my fags.
[Rose:] This is my fags.
[Julie:] Oh is it?
[Rose:] Yours are in there.
[Betty:] All these
[Julie:] That is what he was saying. [LAUGHTER] I sold it when you were upstairs.
[Rose:] Yeah.
[Julie:] sub titles [whistling] Do you know what?
[Betty:] What?
[Julie:] I missed my drink when you drink Martini. How did you manage that.
[Rose:] You did....
[Julie:] What may [cough]
[Sally:] You're all...
[Rose:] Take that stupid hat off.
[Julie:] There's nothing wrong with my hat all right.
[Rose:] Bloody stupid thing....
[Julie:] Wear this fucking thing it's attached to my hair That one's better than this one.
[Rose:] You can have it off
[Julie:] That is the other crash helmet.
[Betty:] No that isn't
[Julie:] Well well Thursday then. You've never had it on.
[Rose:] No.
[Julie:] Fucking hell.
[Rose:] You haven't time to put it on. He straight out through the door he forgot about it [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] He must have been out with his bike... probably come in got off his bike went straight inside... at least I brought my drink with me Well you won't offer me a drink....
[Rose:] him one as well.
[Julie:] It depends if she lets him in.... David David.
[Rose:] Oh yeah.
[Julie:] What the fucking Ah David. Which way do you place the number down.
[Betty:] Yeah. Do you know where the two little catches are.
[Sally:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Have a look.
[Sally:] They've worn. It's not that difficult. They ain't got things like that to worry about.
[Betty:] Who?
[Sally:] They've got on my car.
[Betty:] Oh no.
[Sally:] I've got perfect clutch....
[speaker007:] Too young lady.
[Betty:] Did I?
[Julie:] If you know the by word. [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] ...
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] Isn't that true?
[Sally:] Behave yourself don't hang about too much.
[speaker007:] All right. [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] He won't I must remember to buy one of these hats for Jamie.
[Rose:] Why?
[Julie:] What a fucking He asked me yesterday. He said have you got any more of those. I said yes I got fucking hundreds. So
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] What the fucking hell for... He's still tired.
[Betty:] Even more tired.
[Julie:] Lazy bastard... You know why. He doesn't fucking sleep all night. keeping me awake.
[speaker007:] Mm.
[Julie:] I'll be the one that's tired really.
[Betty:] Yeah probably.
[Julie:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Julie:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Oh God.
[Julie:] What? [LAUGHTER]...
[Rose:] Don't.
[Julie:] I like it when you get nasty [LAUGHTER] Right.
[Rose:] [shouting] Watch it [].
[Julie:] Ooh...
[Rose:] Com on then. Come on then. No now. No.
[Julie:] You said I'd got to make the most of it this week end.
[Rose:] Yeah yeah yeah yeah right.
[Julie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Rose:] Oh no no.... [kiss] Don't be silly please.
[Julie:] Don't care about fucking me... [cough] so there!... I never. All right then.
[Rose:] You did.
[Julie:] It's all right darling [cough]... I haven't annoyed you again? Fucking look what you done to my leg. Stupid woman!...
[Rose:] Mm. Don't do that.
[Julie:] Don't I don't like it.
[Rose:] It hurts. Ah.
[Julie:] It really annoys me. Doing that.
[Rose:] Does it?
[Julie:] Yeah. Really winds me up.
[Rose:] Good.
[Julie:] I thought I told you
[Rose:] No [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] Stupid [LAUGHTER]... Sure you want me?
[Rose:] Yeah. [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] Sure?
[Rose:] Yeah. [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] Are you sure?
[Rose:] Yeah!
[Julie:] You sure you don't No. You don't fancy it then?
[Rose:] No.
[Julie:] No?... Why you bored?... [LAUGHTER] Oh God.
[Rose:] Black and white.
[Julie:] Eh black and white. Ha ha.
[Rose:] Have you finished with that book?
[Julie:] Yeah.
[Rose:] ?
[Julie:] No. You never taught me how.
[Rose:] If you're very sick you know it says on there. two and black rape. Well you're
[Julie:] Could watch the other one another other day? The other's a fucking good one.
[Rose:] Mm mm.
[Julie:] What's that about anyway that Black Rape? Hmm?
[Rose:] I don't know.
[Julie:] Tell me I want to know.
[Rose:] Well watch it and you'll find out won't you?
[Julie:] A little bit?
[Rose:] No.
[Julie:] When? [sigh]...
[Rose:] Stop messing about.
[Julie:] Why? you've changed stupid car.... Right?
[Rose:] Go on [LAUGHTER]
[Julie:] That's a good invention.
[Sally:] Fucking hell better be here in twenty minutes.
[Maggie:] I'm gonna borrow your husband a minute sit on the floor.
[Betty:] Alright. Just watch him cos he's liable to be a bit amorous. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Right Dave?
[speaker007:] chuck you out
[Betty:] Oh dear dear dear.
[Maggie:] Erm next next week innit?
[David:] Yes.
[Sally:] I sat here and sat here
[Maggie:] So you'll have go out on Monday anyway won't you?
[David:] Yeah I'll say
[Betty:] And when I come in I had the shock of me life when I come in. Half past two I thought bloody clock's stopped. And then I thought well I'll go up and go wee and put the heat on. And I come down I thought... nearly twenty to three I said well it ain't stopped I thought it's late
[speaker007:] What Here? Mhm.
[Betty:] Yeah. Mind you
[Maggie:] You want to borrow a fiver?
[David:] Yeah. Any type you like
[Betty:] because I erm you can drive in the council yard then dinner hour
[Sally:] used to live there.
[speaker007:] No he's got a
[David:] Do you?
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] No they they were alright.
[Sally:] feeling embarrassed young man. Sit down my love don't take any notice. And he he said have you ever looked at yourself
[speaker007:] That's right dear.
[Sally:] full length mirror. Blinking shock. But he couldn't wait to get.
[Maggie:] You might have them in the packs anyway mightn't they?
[David:] No packs. cheaper in er
[Maggie:] Yeah. I'll have erm...
[Betty:] sciatica
[Sally:] It's it's this dreadful pain. Excruciating it is. Yes sciatica's the worst you can have.
[speaker007:] never felt pain like it I
[Sally:] And tab tablets sometimes don't touch that see cos it's on the nerves.
[Maggie:] down anyway. Erm... if they've got any.... Packet of crunchies if they've got any.
[Betty:] Well. Well what did I tell you
[Maggie:] Well that's alright... You got any chops?
[Sally:] And he said erm well he said we can ta take into consideration you've four kids he said can extend it for twenty eight days
[speaker007:] give her a leeway
[Sally:] So he said... she said well council place without your letter
[speaker007:] Just get a few odds and ends like you know
[Sally:] he said and we'll just jot down that you've extended for twenty eight days. Just as she came out the council she said I I'm just outside the council offices ringing you. And she said they said that as soon as the twenty eight days is up there is to go into but... but they've got to take pot luck wherever the Olner estate anywhere. And she said beggars can't be choosers
[speaker007:] You've gotta do it yeah. There's always a time she might be able to exchange She'd be a fool if she don't do it.
[Sally:] So she said mum she said I've gotta take it so
[speaker007:] Course she has, yeah.
[Sally:] that's it. So she said I'm... coming up in a fortnight's time... the fourteenth cos it's David's birthday that week
[speaker007:] Oh aye.
[Sally:] Oh. And she said I wondered if you could do me a favour. I thought here we go! So I said what is it. sleep round here for two nights. They'll sleep on the floor in the girl's room. Because they're bringing this bloke he goes fishing with either that or out on the bleeding street
[Maggie:] Knott's Landing. You like this do you?
[Sally:] she said Mum she said beggars can't be choosers she said wherever we got to take it.
[speaker007:] She's gotta take it.
[Betty:] bloody things and all this and that. She might be nearer than she thinks.
[Sally:] kids might have to be uprooted all over again because it's too far from her
[speaker007:] electrics up there aren't there? bed and breakfast could she
[Maggie:] Right then Dave! Alright!
[Sally:] She said really in a way I'm glad.
[Maggie:] Thank you very much.
[Betty:] What's he doing Ann?
[Maggie:] Smacked me arse!
[Betty:] Five six minutes you've been in there.
[Maggie:] Well it's not long enough
[Betty:] [LAUGHTER] it takes six bleeding hours to think about it let alone six minutes.
[Maggie:] Oh I've gone past that now. You don't know what you'll catch! [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] No that's true these days.
[Betty:] Do you see that last night on that that... well I, I thought it was
[speaker007:] I lent him a fiver just in case love.
[Betty:] the something wife was it? I thought it was some kind of erm er documentary yeah that's what I thought. Cos our mother said there's a documentary about eating the weren't there? And then I switched over and I thought but it's a about this little boy. Oh it was ever so you would have sad
[speaker007:] There's a sad film on about it tonight
[Betty:] That erm... chap queen died didn't he, that's
[speaker007:] Yeah gonna tape it for me tonight.
[Betty:] That Ruby Wax's been on this week hasn't she?
[Sally:] Yeah, what every night.
[Betty:] she's so blunt though isn't she?
[speaker007:] [tv on, loud coughing in background]
[Sally:] drop of whisky last night
[Betty:] lost his job. There's twenty four made redundant.
[speaker007:] Oh that is
[Betty:] Never said a word to them. They just said it's getting a bit short. And then they wage crashed twenty four of them.
[Sally:] Where he used to work. He w he went down to erm... for a job but erm... I was sad cos he's such a
[speaker007:] Yeah he's a good worker but see it's th it's the work families innit?
[Betty:] that was here
[Sally:] Right I might be going up Parsons tomorrow or Wednesday I don't know, so did you want anything up there?... Do you want any more soups?
[Betty:] No hundreds.
[Sally:] Don't talk to she about grub. She's overwhelmed with it. Shouldn't have anywhere to put it if you Did you want a jar of onions up there?
[Betty:] Well I got a jar in hamper.
[Sally:] It's one pound tw,ei either one twenty five, it's about that big....
[Betty:] Erm.... [shouting] Dave []
[David:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Shall we have a jar of pickled onions from Kingswood?
[David:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Yep.
[Sally:] The mince tarts at Asda... mince tarts Asda. They're one twenty five for a dozen.
[Betty:] I got some in me hamper.
[Sally:] Well Craig's going down to the local. Then he's going off to a party.... So the girls are going to Penny's and they ain't coming back.
[speaker007:] I don't bother a lot I must be honest.
[Sally:] No. Did you want anything else up there?...
[speaker007:] fifty nine today
[Sally:] Fifty nine today bloody tomatoes.
[speaker007:] and I got some fruit up the market on Friday. Pop round there. I got er two pound of cox's apples.... Satsumas. Satsumas. Two pound for... seventy pence.
[Betty:] I'm going up Mackhurst. Ever heard of the big warehouse? Oh I might do and I'm going up there erm... Saturday week.
[speaker007:] Where's that to then mum?
[Betty:] Oh it must be over by Caulfield way is it?
[speaker007:] Er I told you about it cos I went over there didn't I?
[Betty:] Well went over there Saturday [tv in background] Sunday, yesterday.
[speaker007:] Yeah
[Betty:] With Terry. And Terry said he's gonna take his mother-in-law and me over, not this Sunday, next week. Nearer Christmas cos cheaper.
[speaker007:] little bit of V A T on the top but it's not much.
[Betty:] No. He said he's gonna get me a new for Christmas. But two hundred Woodbines in there is only twelve pounds something. For two hundred. And cheaper
[speaker007:] His is? Yeah.
[Betty:] Christmas. He said he'll be able to smoke his bleeding head off there! And he said there's... he said then. The cheese I buy Asda is called...
[speaker007:] Yeah. I give Jim that bit of cheese he said where do you find this? I said in Asda. He said well I couldn't bloody see it I said no you didn't see it I said because you've got to go to the counter for a ticket.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] Oh! Well! I'll see Betty there he said when she bloody gets on the counters. He said I'll get she to bring out
[Betty:] Yeah I will
[speaker007:] [tv on very loud]
[Sally:] He likes to he likes wash them off, put them in salt water
[speaker007:] bubble and squeak
[Betty:] ages. I thought yesterday I thought well I've got, done too many bloody spuds extra potatoes
[speaker007:] Bloody lovely that.
[Sally:] I've gone right off. I've gone right off of chicken. I only have the breast. If I get your... tinned stuff this week. I'll get you four... tomatoes and four... potatoes?
[Betty:] Yes please.
[Sally:] And then, the week after I'll get the... other
[Betty:] When it's convenient
[speaker007:] [tvmusic comes up loud] she wants to go to the toilet. Up out of the chair.... [sigh]. I said come on lounge about on the settee all afternoon on the commode Yeah. It was typical when he said come on Lilian! On the throne. [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Ah!
[speaker007:] Yeah, yeah. Well you've got to haven't you? I mean
[Betty:] Lots of girls on this week. Sally's one till ten. Julie's exhausted.
[speaker007:] They said it's the last day Monday so if you want to borrow any money love. Monday is the last day. Next Monday? So if you want to borrow any love. next Tuesday not this Tuesday
[Betty:] Oh I would be grateful, most probably I will. You know what I'm like
[speaker007:] So
[Betty:] for money on Mondays.
[speaker007:] I'll be borrowing a tenner
[Betty:] Girl comes borrow Sally's Julie's.... She knocked on the door she said. The gas man come about and er... as he went this girl come to the door. Yes? She said Sally live here and I said yes. She said [cough] can I borrow her please and I said... no. And she said no, I said no I'm sorry I said she don't let anybody borrow it. I said
[speaker007:] Well you didn't know her did you?
[Betty:] No that's what I thought.... Anyway she said can I see her. I said no she's in bed at the moment I said but I will give her a shout. Anyway I give her a shout and she said ooh she said. So she said tell her I'm Julia well I didn't know who she was. Anyway she come down stairs she said and she said ooh Julia she said course you can!
[speaker007:] Oh well she knew her did she?
[Betty:] And she let her borrow it and she sent back forty Rothman's cigarettes and said thank you very much, I'm very
[speaker007:] Oh well. It was nice of her
[Betty:] So anyway she was happy.
[speaker007:] I said we'll have to have our then won't you. When's Pete going over, tomorrow is he?
[Betty:] He'll go tomorrow or Wednesday.
[speaker007:] she generally goes on Wednesdays don't she.
[Betty:] Barbara went last week. She got all hers, she got loads didn't she Barbara?
[speaker007:] Yeah, yeah.
[Betty:] gone into Bristol with her mother today.
[speaker007:] Big Wendy? Do you ever see Wendy up Kingswood?
[Betty:] I seen her when was it?
[Maggie:] I've got to love you and leave you Bet so... er I'll just pop round... Wednesday?
[Betty:] Yes certainly.
[Maggie:] About half past two is that alright?
[Betty:] Yes
[Maggie:] Then, then Dave can come and sort I out then.
[Betty:] Okay my love. So he knows what you want don't he?
[Maggie:] Yeah. [shouting] Dave [].
[Betty:] Do you want anything exciting?
[Maggie:] Yeah you know... s same old usual.
[Betty:] Usual, yeah.
[Maggie:] Anyway I'm gonna... bag some up for the kids you know for Christmas.
[Betty:] That's what we've done. We've got a big, great big polythene bag and it's with sweets and chocolates
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Betty:] for them. Cos Dora rang and she said could er somebody get her twenty pounds worth and I said what do you want it for? She said for the kids. I said don't worry we've got it all.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Ooh she said that's good then. And erm... what was it she wants from Curry's?
[speaker007:] Like. Gives I the rent.. Comes in the next day she bloody want it. I don't get no interest on it see
[Maggie:] Right then. I'll see you erm Wednesday.
[Betty:] I'll see you on Wednesday my love
[Maggie:] Cos I want to try and get you know things sorted out... round there.
[Betty:] I've been trying to vacuum this through all morning I haven't even done it
[Maggie:] Doing it bit by bit I done all Ross' bedroom yesterday. And I said you keep that bloody tidy.
[Betty:] You tell him! You tell him Ann!... I said about our
[Maggie:] Yeah I told Jean about that.
[speaker007:] Yeah How's Dean's Bobby? She's pretty.
[Maggie:] She's teething. She's got all her, one at the bottom.
[Betty:] Ah.
[Maggie:] And she's got another through at the top now.
[Betty:] Ah love her. Love her.
[Maggie:] I haven't even done the covers yet
[Betty:] Oh Julie done the covers for Barbara yesterday. And she said
[Maggie:] I've still got to do everything yet. Anyway. I'll see you Wednesday then.
[Betty:] Okay my love.
[Maggie:] Alright?
[speaker007:] Bye Ann.
[Maggie:] So I all that you want is your tomatoes and your taters?
[Betty:] Please.
[Maggie:] Okay. Potatoes.
[Betty:] Don't worry about it if you can't manage it.
[Maggie:] Oh I can manage that!
[Betty:] Well you put your stuff your own stuff and yourself first. Yeah it is.... Oh it take our three days [LAUGHTER]. So you're trimming up are you? Well the kids innit?
[Maggie:] Charlotte said huh. Why aren't you trimmed up she said.
[Betty:] Who said that?
[Maggie:] Our Charlotte said that.
[Betty:] Oh she's
[Maggie:] Oh she got her glasses Bet?
[Betty:] Oh!
[Sally:] She wear glasses?
[Betty:] Bobby
[Maggie:] Yes.
[Sally:] Well she
[Maggie:] see.
[speaker007:] Right yeah.... Innit a shame.
[Betty:] Yeah. She might grow out of them as she gets older.
[Sally:] Grow out of them.
[Maggie:] Very thick.
[Betty:] Oh love her.
[Sally:] Oh love her
[Maggie:] Still she said Auntie Ann I haven't got to wear them all the time she said. She said I'm not wearing them down the shop. I think she's a bit conscious of them.
[speaker007:] Our Pam had them when she was two
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] our Pam.
[Maggie:] And then. She never used to pull them off she was ever so good.
[speaker007:] If they knows they've gotta keep them. How old is she then?
[Maggie:] About four I think.
[speaker007:] Yeah it's a bit much.
[Maggie:] Yeah but if everybody says no you mustn't see
[speaker007:] Ah!
[Maggie:] it's for her own good mind Betty.
[Betty:] Oh yeah and she's
[Maggie:] Yeah need them more.
[speaker007:] I reckon I'll be going now I got to do Paul's bloody
[Betty:] Have you got to go then? tube's hanging out love. lens' is pulling.
[speaker007:] so I might go down. Do it worry you? No. Oh No I meant... whatever it is it... well it's, it's pulling
[Betty:] Irritating is it?
[speaker007:] Yeah it's irritating. It is!
[Betty:] Twenty two carat not bleeding gold.
[Maggie:] If... Betty!... If If they've got a... box of Roses out there I could I have.... Box of Roses.... And get the rest with... you know others. Alright? I'll see you Wednesday then. Bye.
[Betty:] earrings.
[Sally:] Don't say do it?... Four ninety nine innit!
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Sally:] It is.
[Betty:] Four ninety nine twenty two carat!
[Sally:] Twen twenty two carat! It is. Look. Four ninety nine.
[speaker007:] Bye Bet. Cheerio Gwen erm Anne.
[Betty:] Cheerio then see you Wednesday.
[speaker007:] Bye.
[Betty:] Right. Four... four ninety nine. There. Normally seven pounds. Is that right?
[speaker007:] Yeah. I don't know. What does it say, rings?
[Betty:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] Is that... See here look it's
[Betty:] Oh you've got to take your ring off and measure it... round the circle.
[speaker007:] Oh.
[Betty:] . [reading] Triple plated with twenty two carat gold unless otherwise stated [].
[David:] Shop'll check that.
[speaker007:] is there?
[Betty:] Excuse me. You don't think of that do you? T V and your video and sh she gave me a card, that is the gospel truth I'm not telling
[Edna:] No she's given me a don't bother with it.
[Rose:] don't worry about it.
[Betty:] Well it's brand new here somewhere.
[Edna:] Yeah but you'll find it.
[Betty:] Yeah but I trust her I don't know
[Rose:] Yeah we trust her. We always sees what she writes down there.
[Edna:] Well... not if she writes it down don't worry about it.
[Rose:] Yeah but she said she was
[Betty:] She's ever so nice. As you said accidents do happen and things don't get put down when you need to verify.
[Edna:] No that's why I mean to say
[Rose:] You never know that could have been my signature Well I can forge her signature anyway.
[Edna:] It don't go for an A B C D F J K they goes for numbers look. Five six seven eight nine.
[Betty:] Yeah that's right
[Edna:] It's not that it's not like I mean It's not cos you haven't gotta do it from the outside it's from the inside.
[Betty:] What do you mean?
[Edna:] Th... that that circle is got to be the inside of the ring not the outside
[Betty:] In inward?
[Edna:] Yes.
[Rose:] small as that.
[Edna:] That's it. See. See what the seven's like....
[Betty:] Nearer seven.
[Edna:] No you don't do it from the outside of the ring. It's always the inside of
[Rose:] seven that. Try it on the seven. That's more like the seven innit?
[speaker007:] Definitely. That's a seven.
[Edna:] You always do it from the inside.
[Betty:] Twenty two carat gold for four ninety nine.
[Rose:] Plated. Plated.
[Edna:] No you always do your rings from the inside of the actual ring. It's never the outside.
[Betty:] Innit?
[Edna:] No.
[Betty:] I gotta get one Ann. Do you know... that's cutting, see how that's cutting my finger? Do really hurt.
[Edna:] one that's a little bit bigger don't you.
[Betty:] Yeah but then you're coming to a...
[Googie:] What did you say? six or seven.
[Edna:] Give us your wedding ring.
[Betty:] Yeah but it's loose see
[Edna:] Yeah I know it's loose.. That's an eight. I would say that's an eight so you'll need definitely a seven.
[Betty:] Reckon?
[Googie:] Well if it's too tight you'll have to send it back.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Edna:] These are six actually. So You need a seven.
[Betty:] I want a seven. I think I'll send for
[Googie:] That one with all the coloured stones there. because I mean
[Edna:] Why don't you ever go down to Half Price Jewels?
[Betty:] [reading] Multi-c multi-colour pretty pastel shade stones. Will normally []
[Googie:] They'll all come off in the first wash. [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] I shall washing I should think... I should think all me stones is gone!
[Betty:] [reading] Alaskan modern matt finish platinum plated set of crystals normally six pound four ninety nine [].
[Edna:] Yeah but crystals in...
[Betty:] No.
[Edna:] yeah my stone's in there isn't it?...
[Betty:] Is that yours?
[Edna:] Yeah
[Betty:] That's erm pastel. pas
[Googie:] What's he call it this morning?
[Edna:] Has the washing machine come yet?
[Googie:] Yeah. I says has the machine come.
[Edna:] I mean it was like a bloody interview on that phone
[Betty:] yeah.
[Edna:] Never done that before. And your music centre, never done that music centre.
[Betty:] Mm.
[Edna:] Never done it with that
[Betty:] Music centre was a lot more money than that as well weren't it?
[Edna:] Yeah. Never had nothing like that. I couldn't believe it. Cos well I did say to her why's to worry about. bloody queer. Yeah but that's big sticking your fingers in it. I phoned up the bank this morning. Well cos of that... cheque It hadn't reached them. And I said can you tell me if erm this cheque is gone through to er Peter. And she said oh blah blah blah. Of course I'm there aren't I. And she said could you read me your number out like. Well I said blah blah blah. But I give her erm...
[Betty:] Littlewoods.
[Edna:] I give her Littlewoods instead of Peter Craigs didn't I.
[Googie:] You wanted Peter Craigs?
[Edna:] I wanted, yeah. And she said no she hadn't got no invoice with that number on. Course she hadn't cos that's Westminster. Anyway I ooh I'm sorry I said it's Peter Craigs. So she said well, off she goes again. Oh yes she said it's gone through she said. I said well I said that was the twenty first of... it should have gone on the eleventh see but it didn't it go twenty first.
[Googie:] Twenty first.
[Edna:] Oh yes she said it's gone through she said. Probably she said you'll get that on your next statement.
[Googie:] Yeah.
[Edna:] But I I... I said to Joe well I'm gonna phone up cos remember down Westminster that time
[Googie:] When you had that trouble
[Edna:] That was their fault wasn't it. There was a nought. And that was through they not me but I mean that was all alright. But it seemed a long time.
[Googie:] yesterday.
[Edna:] So she said seven days but she was right because... she said twenty eight days. Well anything I send for now wh you, within twenty
[Googie:] Cos it'll be Christmas.
[Edna:] If you'd made your mind up a bit earlier instead of farting about.
[Betty:] What she said the most seven days?
[Edna:] Well she said er... so... she said I
[Betty:] guarantee
[Edna:] No no I said I want it on forty eight hours. I did the. I thought oh bloody Christmas. She said but... she said I'll say seven days but, she's put the but in. But anyway that order is through so
[Googie:] Yeah.
[Edna:] she said she hasn't got it so....
[Googie:] I'll start paying for it this week anyway
[Betty:] I got anyway I, I got gold necklaces. I don't wear them.
[Googie:] necklaces.
[Edna:] Th they're dearer than what you wanted
[Googie:] Yeah
[Edna:] Yeah but you do realize on there... they've added no five year guarantee on that. I showed Bet.
[Googie:] Yeah.
[Edna:] You slipped up there really yeah. You slipped up.
[Googie:] Yeah but the the one that I wanted was four hundred and eighty nine
[Edna:] No it was cheaper. Weren't it Bet?
[Betty:] Aye?
[Edna:] Bet. It was cheaper than the one she had. The f five year guarantee?
[Betty:] Yeah it was cheaper.
[Edna:] It was cheaper. And and I said to Bet look.
[Betty:] Yeah... it was.
[Edna:] No. Not that one. Not...
[Googie:] The other one with the five year guarantee was a five hundred to six
[Edna:] There's three there's d Indesit Indesit
[Googie:] Oh no I don't want it
[Edna:] No. That's what I mean. But the one
[Googie:] Ooh no way.
[Edna:] you chose it hasn't a five year guarantee.
[Googie:] No the one that I did... really want
[Edna:] I showed Bet.
[Googie:] guarantee was four hundred and eighty nine that was a Hoover Ecologic but...
[Edna:] The one we see with five years I said to Bet well it's bloody cheaper than the one she's, anyway I I I had enough money on my er thing so
[Googie:] Yeah.
[Edna:] it's up to you.
[Googie:] No me.
[Edna:] So erm
[Googie:] I'll start I'll start paying from this week anyway.
[Edna:] So she said what week's is er no is is it thirty eight weeks. I said yeah. That's right weren't it?
[Googie:] Yeah.
[Edna:] Thirty eight I said yeah.... What was it one, how much was it a week?
[Googie:] Erm I've forgotten now. Twelve pounds thirty seven wasn't it?
[Edna:] Oh was it.
[Googie:] Or twelve fifty seven. One or the other. Twelve something yeah.
[Edna:] weren't it?. I said well... something like that.... So what I've done... I'll show you if you want come here.
[Googie:] Yeah.
[Edna:] I got a brand new card out for you right?
[Googie:] Right.
[Edna:] So what I, what I'll do, I'm gonna transfer your... your erm... your there and then that's gonna save just a few... couple of bobs alright?
[Googie:] Yeah. right.
[Edna:] more than that but I thought that saves
[Googie:] . Half past seven on Thursday night.
[Betty:] seven on Thursday morning. Got to work
[Googie:] So so what So... if that one's done... how much was it we said a week?
[Betty:] Twelve.
[Googie:] Twelve.... [somebody calls out] What.... Alright.
[Betty:] Oh god she's playing up here.
[Googie:] So I'll try and work that out. I'll try and work that out
[Betty:] Why are you playing up? Ooh look why are you playing up? Shut the door
[speaker007:] Father Christmas. Father Christmas Betty?... Christmas tree. How much were these. Eight ninety nine.
[Betty:] Bloody gone out and bought one fourteen quid
[speaker007:] You idiot! Why? You bloody idiot! Why? Because you are! I could have give you I could have took you down tomorrow night between six thirty and nine right ten percent off everything you. Ooh yeah. I got wax coat. Wax coat, you know the wax coats.
[Betty:] Ooh!
[speaker007:] How much? How much are they normally? oh god bleeding expensive. Nineteen pounds ninety nine. That's cheap. Two clocks. How much... do you think the clocks? how much? Oh that's pretty. the bedroom. Don't matter if it's got fruit on it does it? How much?... How much?... No don't tell! How much would you say it cost? One ninety nine! Ooh.
[Betty:] One ninety nine!
[speaker007:] Twenty nine p. Another game there that was a pound. Guess how much I paid for it? No! All sorts of things. Guess how much I paid for the Christmas pud?
[Betty:] Two pound odd I just paid for mine.
[speaker007:] Guess how much I paid for mine?... Luxury with brandy and cherries
[Betty:] Oh I got luxury in there. I've just put it in there. Have a look.
[speaker007:] Come on then, let's see.
[Betty:] Ooh mine's a lot better than that.
[speaker007:] Guess how much? Marks and Spencer's mind with the brandy. Guess how much? I dunno. Five ninety nine. Marks and Spencers. Marks and Spencers. Where's yours? Oh is that what you got off Madge?
[Betty:] Yeah here it is....
[speaker007:] Ooh it's a funny shape pudding. It's better Bet.
[Betty:] Two pound odd
[speaker007:] I'd rather have that shape you can cut. Yeah you can cut that pudding nicer. Yeah nicely You've got another pudding in there haven't you? They don't last two minutes in our house puddings.
[Betty:] She. She said she had one last year and it were excellent so she brought me one.
[speaker007:] You've never had Marks and Spencers though have you? Who brought it. Who brought you one?
[Betty:] Ann.
[speaker007:] that's beautiful. I'll tell, yeah I'll tell you what I had one last year but it was a big one. It was a bigger one. Beautiful. Lovely that is. Yeah.
[Betty:] And she said she had this one last year and it was excellent.
[speaker007:] Microwave. Microwave. you know Bewise? That's where I got them in Bewise they're closing down or something or
[Betty:] What Bewise?
[speaker007:] Yeah. ninety nine. That's cheap innit? I got the kids erm Carrie and Edward a bag.... There's their bags. Yeah. very nice. Oh what's happened there?... They've got oh that's their... start again what's... I spent Right. I'll show you this next. Oh that's what I got in the shop. Everything's a pound. I got some hankies. That's for. All that was... that's a pound. Ooh. That's for his room. For his bedroom.
[Betty:] Ah!
[speaker007:] But they're always handy to have them, aren't they? What, a pound each? Yeah everything was a pound. There's all sorts. There's toys... there's a shop just out for Christmas a pound. We shall have to go shopping Betty How much? That's for Edward. Look and the How much was they? Five ninety nine. The girl's was dearer mind. Where was that Sue? That was in... Do you like that? Do you like that? Yeah. Very nice. For the girls. For the girls. It was seven ninety nine.... How much money's gone then? [LAUGHTER] No Alma's been erm keeping some money for me and I, she, I give her so much a week... and she give it all today.
[Betty:] Here that's nice though innit?
[speaker007:] That's for Edward. That's pretty, that. Do you reckon he'll like that? curtains to match? No. I haven't finished yet mind.... Oh Donna phoned did she?
[Betty:] Yeah. Look what I got for mother.
[speaker007:] Mind you don't step on anything. I got to bring it up cos Bet likes...
[Betty:] That's nice.
[speaker007:] To wear to bed!
[Betty:] I know that's a dressing gown isn't it?
[speaker007:] That is to wear to bed! That's a nightie.
[Betty:] That ain't a nightie!
[speaker007:] Ain't a nightie. That is! That is. It's not It's a dressing gown. That ain't a nightie. That is a nightshirt he wears to bed.
[Betty:] Oh a night shirt. Yes.
[speaker007:] Yeah see. How much was? Nine ninety nine. It's erm what was it?
[Betty:] It's nice it's satin though innit?
[speaker007:] Oh I got one of them. Oh I bought mine up Harris's. How much? Oh we well mine was seven ninety nine up Harris's. [shouting] Three ninety nine! [] [LAUGHTER] Oh bloody seven ninety nine I give for mine bargains. For the girls look. For the girls.
[Betty:] Lovely ah.
[speaker007:] For the girls.... For the girls Bet. What's this for Lovely innit? That's for the. Look.
[Betty:] Ooh it's posh look at that!
[speaker007:] Ooh. How much were they? They're for the girls. Er seven ninety nine, eight ninety nine.... Pyjamas and they've got look.
[Betty:] I want some for our.
[speaker007:] These are in. That ain't bad that'd fit Kevin as well see. They haven't got very much up there at No Keyways up Kingswood're not very good. So do you reckon I've done well? Got pyjamas for the kids.... And they're cheap. The dearest I think is three ninety nine and the cheapest one ninety nine. Ooh sexy! Gas... oh my gas man been. Yeah electric man's been. Anyone else?. So I haven't done bad. Have I? For the kids? wonder where you bought these clocks? Bewise in town one ninety nine. They've got the ordinary... ordinary ones... but a lot... and but I thought that's alright for the kids' bedroom. I know it's got fruit on it Yeah it's lovely.
[Betty:] Don't matter. That's nice.
[speaker007:] One ninety nine.
[Betty:] Thanks.
[speaker007:] You been in town all day? I've got all your fags, thank you. And guess what? Never bought myself any did I. Silly.
[Betty:] Ah no. Tut tut tut. You silly girl.
[speaker007:] all swollen again.
[Betty:] Oh not again.
[speaker007:] What did you go in a car did you or on the bus? No on the bus. I had to drag it all home on the fucking bus.
[Betty:] all marks round it
[speaker007:] They had loads of shops down there with like bargain shops. You go in there and you can't find some bloody bargains Bet. They had coats, just ordinary like coats, eleven ninety nine. I got to put Carrie's zip in for me. I give her two quid. Which is fair enough innit?... Remember her zip was broken? Do you reckon Carrie'd like that?
[Betty:] Yes
[speaker007:] How much were them Bloody three ninety nine for that one and I think I paid five ninety nine for that. So it came out well. Yeah Oh we went into some of the shops they was two ninety nine. they might have one but they wears out... come the winter all wet and soggy well one ninety nine.
[Betty:] Oh that'll keep them happy.
[speaker007:] That's not bad is it.
[Betty:] No.
[speaker007:] And the chess set.
[Betty:] No
[speaker007:] Yeah but the kids I I tried to teach Sally how to play chess but she always claimed that I cheated. Guess how much? Do you reckon they'll be alright for their Walkmans? Yeah. I just thought. Have you got it on?
[Betty:] No.
[speaker007:] Why?
[Betty:] No. got that on.
[speaker007:] Seven ninety nine. That ain't bad. Seventy nine p! I meant for the three. No. For the three it's seventy nine p. For three! Yes! [LAUGHTER] They'll be alright for Do you reckon they'll be alright? That was in Bewise. Yeah. I bet They won't be fantastic but they'll be alright.
[Betty:] I like those clocks.
[speaker007:] Yeah I do. I wouldn't mind one of these clocks. Up in the bedroom. I could do with a clock up in our bedroom. In my bedroom.... I got one on the sh on the telephone I opened the white one didn't I. This is the red one. The red one'll be better for the girls wouldn't it?
[Betty:] Oh yeah that's lovely.
[speaker007:] Isn't that nice. I got to get batteries to go with it though. Is that for Edward to go with his? Red yeah
[Betty:] Yeah red. Let the girls have the white.
[speaker007:] I was gonna get one for myself but our mum's bought me one hasn't she. Do you reckon they goes? . Paid a lot of money clock.
[Betty:] Oh god. bloody way.
[speaker007:] One ninety nine. One ninety nine. Couldn't nick them for it could you?
[Betty:] No.
[speaker007:] Got to get batteries Oh you've got to get the batteries for everything you buys. You don't get it with the batteries. I think you've done well mind. And how much was your Christmas tree? Eight ninety nine. tree. It's not a white one. It's a green one. I said I wanted a tree didn't I?
[Betty:] Well I haven't been in here when you've said it.
[speaker007:] up tonight then? up tonight? proper tree this Christmas. Yeah. Hold on a minute. What? She was gonna have a proper tree themselves... he erm made her go out and buy one. Yeah that's nice. That's nice innit?
[Betty:] Ooh.
[speaker007:] Yeah. Do he know he's having that? No. Look it's wax Twenty kid. Well that ain't bad
[Betty:] That's the price is it?
[speaker007:] Yeah. He wanted electric shaver. Oh so [LAUGHTER] it's a bit different Our mum tried them on she said but six foot four and a short arse she said Will these be alright on the night then? Yeah cos them wax ones er they're expensive aren't they Julie? They're waterproof aren't they? . So did I do well? Where're you getting your money from? That machine down there?
[Betty:] She's been saving.
[speaker007:] I've been saving for a long time with Alma And I should think it's bleeding spent it and all. What's on now? Don't know. I treated me and mum out to lunch. Did you?
[Betty:] Where did you go?
[speaker007:] . The girls would love it. I expect they've been in the gallery haven't you?... Haven't you been? It's a great big, it's little snack bars everywhere and they've got the Italian and the Chinese and then they've got the the... taters with all different things. And then and went to a sandwich bar.... You have this sandwich like, like that with all the salad stuff in it. And you got ham or tuna or cheese or prawns or whatever.
[Betty:] Ooh.
[speaker007:] And then you get crisps and coleslaw on the side with it and like hot chocolate we had. That was five pound. And for two Yeah. not bad. So we had a big sandwich you know with salad and with crisps and that on the side and the hot chocolate and it was five pound. Ain't bad then was it? Then they got the burger bars but it's all in and out quick. And it's nice and you can have a fag. I've never seen these before. Oh you've got to go in
[Betty:] Yeah it's a soap thing innit?
[speaker007:] No it's a bathroom kit.
[Betty:] Is it? How much is it?
[speaker007:] Nine ninety nine. I thought where's Edna. Yeah. It hangs hangs your towel. had a good day down there. They had the boxer shorts with the man's hanging out. [LAUGHTER] reject shops Our mum said you missed the best night of your life. There was a bloke there and he was being rude Said there was wine all on the table. Our mum said it was a fantastic, she'd never been, she said her and her mate was wetting their knickers all night. She said Bet would have loved it, and Edna. She said it was fantastic. It were eleven pound six... for everything. Eleven pound. What about the six? the food and all. Food and all? There was wine on all the bloody tables and lovely.
[Betty:] I heard they had champagne.
[speaker007:] Oh.
[Betty:] Can you turn that radio off? I want to listen to the phone in.
[David:] I got the whatsname on.
[Betty:] What?... What?
[David:] The whatsname. Don't ask me. I dunno what it's called.
[Betty:] What do you want that on for? I'm trying to listen to the radio. I want to listen to the... phone in. What's the question then, on the There in't a question, for yesterday....
[speaker007:] says it'll be coming in on Saturday you want that one as well.
[Betty:] Oh I can get that off Maggie she saves her papers.
[speaker007:] I, I might have Saturday's. But Joe'll have a look in her... bag.... I want half the winnings.
[Betty:] Oh alright.
[speaker007:] Saturday. Saturday. Well have you got Saturday's there? No I haven't. Saturday. Got rid of Saturday's. We will because Jo keeps them all.
[Betty:] You put's them out for the paper man don't you? And Maggie do see she keeps hers.
[speaker007:] Well where's yours? In the sack?
[Betty:] Yeah must be.
[Maggie:] You should put it out. They use the papers Betty.
[Betty:] I know. Is the sack gone? Have a look.
[speaker007:] Yeah. If it's too dirty I'm not bringing it in mind.
[Betty:] Alright. Shut up.
[speaker007:] ... twenty five pound haven't I?
[Betty:] Mm.
[speaker007:] If she's lucky.
[Betty:] I've done them. Now them in the Sunday's paper. You've got to find out six mistakes but I found
[speaker007:] It's not in either of those and so it must be the one that's closed and I'm not gonna open that it's yukky. Yukky nasty. Right Ann. Another token. You want day one which is Saturday.
[Edna:] Alright yeah? And then what? Just bung it in the envelope and send them off?
[speaker007:] Just bung that in like that... seal it down and put a stamp on it.
[Betty:] Wait till Saturday morning and then... they'll tell you then. Send it off.
[Edna:] You mean I got to send that off?
[Betty:] Yeah Saturday. You got to send it
[speaker007:] is December the twelfth.
[Betty:] Yeah. Want Saturday's now.
[speaker007:] You, no you want erm tomorrow's. No you got tokens every day.
[Betty:] Have you?
[speaker007:] Yeah. Oh yeah.
[Betty:] It's every day is it?
[speaker007:] Oh yeah you'll get one in every day. Yeah.
[Edna:] But you got to have Saturday's... to start with.
[speaker007:] But you got to have Saturday's to start with but you got
[Betty:] and all this week's
[speaker007:] It's a wonder it don't say it. What paper's that? It says at the Wait a minute. It says attach our three tokens.... Saturday.
[Betty:] So that's Saturday Monday and Tuesday then.
[speaker007:] No that may not be Saturday's. Yes it is it says Saturday's. It says Saturday's? Yeah. Oh. Cos this is two and three so it says to three tokens. Oh well it may be a different picture then coming on Wednesday. Yeah, probably.
[Edna:] And then you got to send it off. [reading] And put your entries in an envelope and send it to Asda Contest. []
[Betty:] Oh
[speaker007:] So get it on. Get Saturdays.
[Betty:] Well yes.
[speaker007:] Cos how many things did I put in for the thingums in the draws in Asda. I put
[Betty:] I know
[speaker007:] dozens in.
[Betty:] Oh I never win a bloody thing. Yeah but somebody gotta win haven't they?
[speaker007:] Yeah. Yeah. Might be you
[Betty:] Be nice wouldn't it.
[speaker007:] But is it, is it a, have you got to send it, you haven't got to send it to Asda? Got to send it to the Mirror haven't you?
[Edna:] You got to send it to the address
[speaker007:] The Mirror. Yeah.
[Betty:] Oh Mirror it is?
[Edna:] No somewhere or other. I dunno.
[Betty:] Let's have a look..... [reading] Asda contest, Daily Mirror, []. Yeah I reckon that might be lucky seeing you did that
[speaker007:] yeah.
[Betty:] You never know. Somebody gotta win haven't they?
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Might be I.
[Edna:] Well the other day they they were so easy the other day I thought to myself... erm who was it, what was it, it... oh who, who was the one that sang the green grass of.... I mean I knew that didn't I? And then that other was a member of parliament and I knew it's erm... I knew he, I think it was erm... oh I can see him stood up there.... Tory member of parliament. And I know his name not... it's sommat like erm... who can I say. Oh it'll come to me in a minute who it was.... And Joe said yeah that's he.... Oh... M,Mi, Michael, Michael somebody.
[speaker007:] Stout, stoutish man.. He's something like vicar but he's a bit stouter. I knew, I knew he.... And then on the other one was erm who wrote erm... no, what was, who was the sommat of the Blytons. Well it's Enid weren't it?
[Betty:] Oh Enid Blyton.
[speaker007:] That's three easy ones and I done he. Mm.... Bugger me...... Michael M, begins with a m. Michael... No it begins with M. And there's two m's. Michael... sommat like that. Oh.
[Betty:] It'll come to you.
[speaker007:] It'll come to me yeah. Michael, something like maize, something like that. Anyway I'm still waiting for the postman.
[Edna:] [LAUGHTER] Oh dear.... How's Mike alright?
[speaker007:] Yeah fine.
[Edna:] Still working?
[speaker007:] Yeah
[Edna:] For his living. Sally hasn't got my stuff yet?
[speaker007:] No.
[Edna:] No. No intentions of getting it? Or?
[speaker007:] Well she hasn't said. I expect next week when she's six till two, it's easier innit? And there won't be so many people about.
[Edna:] Cos it's the last week this week isn't it?
[speaker007:] Well. Yeah. Couldn't go in, we can't can we, after. It's only then. Only employees.
[Edna:] Ninth of December innit?
[speaker007:] So they'll have the run of the place then and then they'll be able to, be able to go in and out once they please I suppose. She's six till two as well next week so it's easier.
[Edna:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] Girl asked her if she'd change shifts with her next Wednesday and she told her to go away politely.
[Edna:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] No way. She wanted her to do a night and she said I'm not bloody doing a night and then back in here she said. She said what she said I'd have to stay all night and all day.. I'm not doing it, certainly not.
[Edna:] You won't get nobody to change over with you now right up to Christmas will you? No, nobody wants to do that.
[speaker007:] No not now. Not this time of the year. So.
[Betty:] I done... Wh what I done plates of chips.
[speaker007:] Is she alright? Yeah she's not too bad. She's not my friend. Don't worry about it. She isn't your friend? Why not. Cos I told her. I said that... phone bill's still in there waiting to be paid. Hasn't she paid it? No.... She said I shall take it and pay it on Thursday. Don't worry about it. I said you just better. Ah she rang the bill up. Ninety eight pound. She rang the bill up with Julie. It was it wasn't me and Gwen. They're on there permanent. I calls her Beattie she ought to have the bleeding phone stuck to her earhole. Cos they don't realize how long they'm how long they'm on there. No. And she cannot get up without going on the phone. Oh. Gotta be on the phone all the bleeding time. taken over from. Taken over. Yeah. So she got... well yeah she won't pay the bloody bill. Ours was a hundred and thirty five. Ooh. Oh Christ.
[Betty:] Penny's was a hundred and twenty seven. She got a lodger and she, the lodger said she'd made five phone calls.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] And she said that's all she'd made was five phone calls. Well anyway there was two numbers there unaccounted for. So Penny rang those numbers to find out where it was and it was something to do with the council or something. And that was her phone calls as well the other girl had made. Anyway her husband's so bleeding dopey he said oh chuck two hundred quid down and we'll cry and quit. So of course the girl was laughing.
[speaker007:] How much was it?
[Betty:] Hundred and twenty seven.
[speaker007:] And he chucked two hundred quid in?
[Betty:] He said chuck two hundred down he said. That'll do for you for the lodger. And he'd bloody paid the rest. Silly sod.
[speaker007:] Twenty pound. She must've used more than that.
[Betty:] Well he said give I twenty pound
[speaker007:] business people?
[Betty:] No.
[speaker007:] Ordinary people.
[Betty:] Just ordinary young bloke. Mind you, he runs the skittles and he runs football and he does this and runs that. Oh yeah of course.
[speaker007:] And to think that calls was only tuppence for three minutes. They've gone up again haven't they Jan?
[Betty:] They're not.
[speaker007:] Yeah. What the calls? Oh I shall bloody get a
[Betty:] a minute now innit?
[speaker007:] thirty eight for two minutes innit? two minutes. Yeah but I mean you're on you. You don't realize I mean what's two minutes.
[Betty:] No. Minutes is gone innit.
[speaker007:] Course it is. By the time you say hello. That's it.
[Edna:] And I'm everlasting getting bloody ooh that phone getting on my nerves. I'm gonna write or Joe's gonna write to them. The mill. The mill. The mill.
[speaker007:] Ooh. We always get the erm... We had them changed once cos there was so many damn Gate, Gate Bathrooms we are.
[Betty:] Oh we has Hermitage Wine Company.
[speaker007:] Gate bathrooms all the time.
[Betty:] But there's a st a stores before. Remember that store some something storage weren't it? That we had.
[speaker007:] Oh yeah.
[Betty:] Oh. Cos they changed their line. They changed their number. It, it's just as bloody bad now. Terrible.
[speaker007:] That's it. It's absolute I gotta go. I've got to go up Asda. You don't wanna go up Asda?
[Betty:] No thanks I've got to cook me dinner.
[speaker007:] I don't like Asda now.
[Betty:] No I hate it now. I bloody hate it. We went up Friday. Now the bloody... have you ever? Think we'll have a suggestion box. They had a kids party, a game. Where the smokers' end is.
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Now why do they have kids parties where there's smokers? smoking with children.
[speaker007:] Yeah but I wouldn't want a kids party round there with all that ooh bloody going on.
[Betty:] Ooh it was terrible. The music was so loud
[speaker007:] I don't like
[Betty:] Why don't they have it right down there at that end where there's no smoking and the little children would be right out of the way. Well yeah. They've got a room there haven't they they can have? But there's the bloody place and on a Friday night I thought ooh bloody.
[speaker007:] shop Sunday? No. I ain't shopping on a Sunday.
[Betty:] But you don't need shopping on a Sunday do you?
[speaker007:] Well I wouldn't go to the shop on Sunday anyway. I just don't No I never. like shopping on Sundays. Nothing religious about it. No but it's Bu, I, it's a shame that I
[Betty:] Six days shalt thou labour.
[speaker007:] The sh the shops that are shut on a Sunday and it's a day I think it's the lord's day and I'm not
[Betty:] Well it's a day of rest.
[speaker007:] Yes it's a day of rest
[Betty:] Not shopping.
[speaker007:] I I just... don't I'd rather come and borrow. Say Bet I've gotta have some sugar. And I don't never do that cos I don't like doing it. But I would. Rather than go round the shops.
[Betty:] Well yeah. I can't see no sense in it.
[speaker007:] No. I wouldn't go shopping... on a Sunday. N, that is not on religious grounds either that is because I just... think that they work six days they should have a day off anyway. That's bloody greed half of it.
[Betty:] Oh unions split Sundays off.
[speaker007:] I think you can only spend your money once.
[Betty:] Course you can.
[speaker007:] So if they're gonna go up there on a Sunday they ain't gonna go up there on another day. You can only
[Betty:] Well
[speaker007:] spend your money once and that's it.
[Betty:] So if you go Sundays you ain't gonna go Mondays or Tuesdays
[speaker007:] No. That's right. Yeah but it's a flash in the pan. It'll suddenly die down. They'll say well it ain't worth opening we. We ain't taking enough They're only gonna open four weeks before Christmas aren't they? Are they? Yeah
[Betty:] Oh yes. It's only up to Christmas.
[speaker007:] Oh. Oh is it? Oh yeah
[Betty:] Well Tescos took as much Sunday as they took.
[speaker007:] Because it's a new broom innit? Yeah New broom sweeps cleaner. Well they'll keep doing it. They'll keep on if they can. Yeah? But I mean these erm do it yourself places have been open for, well defied the law now for a long long time haven't they? I mean I know there's fireman, there's doctors, there's ambulances. All that's gotta... th that is different innit? Well yes. etcetera gotta do Sundays haven't they? No I don't agree with that. No neither do I. I got off with a lot of things. I think I'm getting old and frumpy.
[Betty:] Hark at her!
[speaker007:] Old and frumpy. You haven't got a mint have you?
[Betty:] A mint?
[speaker007:] My mouth tastes horrible.
[Betty:] No
[Edna:] Do you know my mouth was like that the other week. And I only said to Joe yesterday
[speaker007:] Or, or a fruit drop or anything.... It's horrible. Yeah, mine's terrible. Just anything.
[Edna:] And then told me. She give me the name. Only a little bottle like that. It's not expensive. Just a, a mouthwash and that's done my trick.
[speaker007:] awful.
[Edna:] Yeah. And I I, I did say to Bet oh my bleeding mouth I was gonna say.
[Betty:] No. I've gotta chocolate.
[speaker007:] That my help.
[Edna:] Well it might take the taste a little bit.... I to Joe I said
[Betty:] Do you want a chocolate?
[Edna:] No thanks.
[Betty:] They're nice nutty ones.
[Edna:] No I don't like the nutties.
[Betty:] Oh don't you. Do Joe like the nutties?
[Edna:] Oh he ate them but I didn't like them very much.
[Betty:] That's why he got them then. They're ninety two pence they are. But they're nice.
[Edna:] Yeah.
[Betty:] I had two
[Edna:] Ninety p a bag?
[Betty:] Mm. For a bag. Nice big bag, like that.
[Edna:] You get a lot of they in the, with erm... erm
[speaker007:] Roses. I like them. Roses. don't they? Ugh. Oh I couldn't eat chocolate in bed.
[Betty:] Yeah. That's why I'll be bleeding coughing all night now. [coughing]. See they're making you cough now.
[speaker007:] Hasn't swallowed the nut. Oh no. I do hate to cough.
[Edna:] Now yesterday afternoon I said to our Joe I fancies a bit of chocolate. He said well buys you what you want. And I walked along back and front, back and front like that and I said oh I don't know. I don't know whether I wants it or no I said. So I said I'll have a couple of th they I said. And I said you gonna have any? He said no and I said there's some chocolate brazils there look
[speaker007:] Mm. Schlup.
[Edna:] Course I, you won't get many to the quarter bag Bet.
[Betty:] Well no but
[Edna:] Anyway he said no.
[Betty:] He said no.
[Edna:] Yeah. Yeah he don't eat too many he likes... he like they but he won't erm... I had to say to him the other night. But I've been buying more icecream and that.
[Betty:] Mhm
[Edna:] And he likes a bit of icecream.
[Betty:] Yeah I do. I likes a bit of icecream.
[Edna:] I bought one this week. Haven't had it before. It's a bit, anyway it's a bit dear but ooh it was lovely. It's, it's erm... is it a butter and erm whatsit one but you could taste the difference. And Joe said god this is different. Yeah and it was nice. Buy another one.
[Betty:] Got such a lovely selection mind haven't they.
[speaker007:] chocolates now then? Well yeah I will, I'll have, yesterday No I mean.
[Edna:] No. I haven't even had a chocolate. I haven't had nothing.
[Betty:] Well he does. Not you.
[Edna:] I'm asking her and asking her but, I said no I did say to Joe, I said Joe cos erm... I said cos I, our Doreen said about it didn't she? Sh she rang up, she said erm... thanks all the same but she said erm... erm, I don't know who it is mind Bet, it's a man whoever it is.
[Betty:] Ooh
[Edna:] So she, he. I don't know what it is. So I said well that's nice.
[Betty:] Oh well that's alright then so if you want anything perhaps she'll
[Edna:] No oh no I won't I won't, no. No, no. Oh no. And then.... But Joe see won't go over there.
[Betty:] Mm. Well. Can't blame him can you?
[Edna:] No.
[speaker007:] I mean Julie works out there and she rarely goes in there. She hates going in the shop. Well I've asked Julie I've asked Sally and they the. If it don't come I don't say oh where is it. I thinks oh well if they don't wanna bloody get it that's it ain't it? No I don't worry.
[Betty:] I asked her to get some for erm... the children. The children's coming up next weekend.... And er she said oh she said don't worry about the kids. Leave it to me. So I thought oh well she'll get some next week. Or perhaps she'll get up market and that.
[speaker007:] Has she got my list?
[Betty:] She must have.
[Edna:] I've got nothing in our house. I haven't had none for weeks have I Bet? chocolate at all. I even come in to her one day to see if she had a bar of chocolate.
[Betty:] Got any chocolate!
[speaker007:] She never bloody had none. Does she bring any Sally at all?
[Betty:] Yeah she brings some sometimes.
[speaker007:] Ah.
[Betty:] Sometimes. Like she'll bring or
[speaker007:] If there's anything going I suppose.
[Betty:] or... erm one of those bags you know with all the bits and bobs in
[speaker007:] Yeah she said
[Betty:] she brought for him last week. But she don't bring like she did you know what I mean?
[speaker007:] But then they just say it's so crowded over there It's murder.
[Betty:] It's crazy innit?
[speaker007:] I I say but I don't feel as I want to... Last year this time Bet we nearly got killed. Can you remember?
[Betty:] Yeah we queued queued to get in. And they'd let so many in at a time.
[speaker007:] So stupid weren't it? I said as Bet said they ought to have a one way over there that's what they ought to have.
[Betty:] The only system's where everybody goes round
[speaker007:] And if they forgot something bad luck.
[Betty:] Yeah too bad.
[speaker007:] Cos you go over there there's so many coming this way. Oh god... I well I mean
[Betty:] And bleeding baskets up the arse.
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Betty:] I mean okay people can't help that but
[speaker007:] I know they've got to have the basket.
[Betty:] it's no pleasure is it?
[speaker007:] No
[Betty:] Anyway. Got something nice for tea.
[Edna:] I done some fresh plaice and some scallops dinner time
[speaker007:] Ooh.
[Edna:] and I ain't kidding, I so enjoyed it... and I said to Joe... I wouldn't mind that for Christmas dinner I really enjoyed that.
[speaker007:] What was it you had?
[Edna:] Had erm fresh plaice, scallops... and peas. And I rea, bread and butter, cup of tea. I really enjoyed it. It was lovely. And that's it. And the plaice it was so ta, oh it w, I love plaice.
[Betty:] he'd gotta have erm steak for his Christmas dinner. He said wonderful wonderful.
[speaker007:] I'm gonna have steak. I'm gonna have steak. Steak, mushrooms, chips, peas. Yeah I don't want. I don't want
[Betty:] Steak and creamed potatoes and mushrooms, garden peas and side salad. That is what we're gonna have. I like it. I love it. There's only three of us having that cos our... the girls are going out. Staying out all night they are.
[speaker007:] Where are they going to?
[Betty:] Going over to some friends in Stockwood.
[speaker007:] What's the best way to cook steak then? What all day?
[Betty:] In the oven very slow.
[speaker007:] All day, all day?
[Betty:] All day and all night. They're not coming in till boxing night.
[speaker007:] Ooh great life innit? What do 'you do? Cover it or What do you do? C just put the. Don't cover it?
[Betty:] You don't cover it. No. No I just put it go bang
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Betty:] both sides and I just lay it out. With a little drop of water it
[speaker007:] No fat?
[Betty:] Just a tiny bit of it. Nothing
[speaker007:] Don't it, you don't What do you have sirloin or
[Betty:] Well
[speaker007:] have the best
[Betty:] best. Nothing but the best. I'm gonna find the steak with the yellow fat on the edge. The man told me on the telly that is the best so
[speaker007:] I likes them cut Yes. about three pounds only about that big if you buy a proper steak Fillet? Yeah. they'll eat you know. Well you want
[Betty:] Well if you're gonna have meat, gotta have meat on your dinner. Our Clayton said
[speaker007:] Certainly I'm gonna do a, something for the next day. Cook it so as we can have it cold with salad or something. I, I don't want
[Betty:] Whatever. I'm gonna cook it all Christmas eve. Out the bleeding way then I haven't got to
[Edna:] If there was somewhere open nice we'd go out to dinner but the thing is nowhere open round here.
[Betty:] Ooh we was gonna go Alacio weren't we?
[Edna:] But our Joe don't. I don't think he fancies it. I suppose it's the look of the place is it?
[Betty:] Yes. Bloody heavenly food up there.
[speaker007:] Up where?
[Betty:] The Alacio in Kingsford.
[speaker007:] Oh yeah.
[Betty:] Excellent.
[speaker007:] Is it? D'you reckon it is.
[Betty:] It's dear.
[speaker007:] I'm gonna phone tonight and see.
[Betty:] But it is lovely. Everything's eatable and it's all cooked and boiling hot and really nice. Service is excellent, really nice. Gets packed!
[speaker007:] Do it?
[Betty:] Upstairs and down
[speaker007:] But they may be booked up for Christmas day.
[Betty:] You've booked up?
[speaker007:] I said it could well be booked up.
[Betty:] Oh it could be. It is absolutely lovely
[Edna:] . I said to Joe only just last night we was chatting about it
[Betty:] there. It's really nice.
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Edna:] But. I ain't bothered.. I'm sick of I don't, I just
[Betty:] I don't want turkey or chicken. No.
[Edna:] I done a great big chicken Sunday and it was a beauty.. But d'you know I, I didn't fancy it.
[Betty:] I don't like chicken on my dinner any more.
[Edna:] I no, I enjoyed it cold yesterday though.
[Betty:] Got company Christmas day... for lunch?
[speaker007:] Yeah. Houseful of people. Thirteen for lunch. Ooh
[Betty:] Well lucky for some. Cor blimey
[speaker007:] Wait a minute. Let me see er... four... no twelve to lunch. Twelve
[Betty:] Oh that's better.... Make it a round figure, have twelve.
[speaker007:] Twelve.
[Betty:] Oh my god.
[Edna:] I used to years ago but I couldn't put up with it now.
[Betty:] I couldn't put up with it now, no.
[Edna:] Can't be bothered.
[speaker007:] And I've got sixteen to tea. But I'm having a rest boxing day.
[Betty:] Going somewhere else?
[speaker007:] Huh no, well I'm staying home I hope.
[Betty:] I thought you was going to Marion's this year?
[speaker007:] No. I said I wanted to have a rest. Hello Dave.
[David:] Hello.
[speaker007:] I want a rest I said. Alright? Can you get in?
[Betty:] He's playing up mind. Haven't had a shave.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Have a bloody shave. Every time! I shall have a bleeding shave rash.
[speaker007:] Used to have a. I was gonna say
[Betty:] I know!
[Edna:] rash. Joe'll say where have you been.
[Betty:] and can't shave.
[David:] What are you moaning about now.
[speaker007:] Oh go and shave. Ugh. [LAUGHTER] I get a rash there. What. On the dot your dinner's done. You know what... er Wendy come
[Betty:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] It's on about that?
[Betty:] What is it?
[speaker007:] And it's called... ooh. Begins with a s. I thought that's what bloody erm... Wendy g
[Betty:] What's it called sciatica?
[speaker007:] No it's, is, they
[Betty:] What are Donna got.
[speaker007:] People thinks it's sciatica but it's in, begin with that but it's a funny name. And it's, this woman had it and it swells up, and it er. She said then it goes down well it did don't it? oh when I think of that name. Ooh.
[Betty:] Mhm. right up to date.
[speaker007:] Oh god. What is it? I can't think of that name. No, no I can't think of it. But it's
[Betty:] I'll leave you to talk to him a minute. I'll just see
[Edna:] I don't want to talk to him.
[Betty:] Oh talk to him a minute.
[Edna:] No I don't want to talk.... Oh then she come straight in and cornered the bloody paper.
[David:] Bloody do don't she?
[Edna:] So she said she's forgot the paper..... Yeah she come straight in. Cornered the paper. She never said hello or nothing. I thought... told Bet I thought oh you ignorant bitch.
[David:] She is.
[Edna:] Yeah. I know she is.... Then she sat there like that.
[David:] Yeah... she do. Like a lump of bloody lard.
[Edna:] Oh god.
[David:] Like a bloody lump of lard.
[Edna:] Yes. She got twelve to dinner Christmas day and sixteen to tea. Don't know if she invited Bet and you I don't you, she didn't say.
[David:] That'd be a bloody joke.
[Edna:] She didn't say. I'll tell her.... That's big pen where she get it from?
[David:] Our Sally... got them at erm
[Edna:] Good innit? Oh they're nice. Where'd she get them from?
[David:] At er...
[Edna:] We tried to get a rubber that rubs, rubs ink out but you can't get one very well can you? You don't very often
[David:] I think you get them at, I think Asda got them like.
[Edna:] when you're doing your puzzle you makes a mistake there you can rub it out.
[David:] I. I think Julie went up, bought one up there. But I wouldn't ho honestly swear to it.
[Edna:] Oh, have to see. Gone to Weston ain't she?
[David:] Yeah gone to her... Grans.
[Edna:] Mm. Not a very nice day though is it?
[David:] No but... no, not, not actually gone to Weston. To the other side of Weston.
[Edna:] Just outside, yeah. No I meant to say she's gone down that way ain't she
[David:] Yes.
[Edna:] Oh well.
[David:] Her mother... her and her... her mother and her sister had to go up.
[Edna:] Ooh well they're all gone are they?
[David:] Yeah.
[Edna:] Oh. That's alright.
[David:] Dunno why but that's where they've gone....
[Edna:] She's like two penn'orth of isn't she? Ooh I've got a terrible head, got a terrible cold.
[Betty:] dropped us in the cart then by getting that with the chocolates in.
[Edna:] [LAUGHTER]
[David:] No that's stupid.
[Betty:] I was kicking your leg, did you feel me I thought oh
[Edna:] He just borrowed one.
[Betty:] What one of mine?
[David:] Yeah.
[Edna:] Only borrowed it.
[David:] You bloody... wrote all bloody mine. You and your bloody daughter.
[Edna:] Yeah.
[Betty:] How dare you take
[David:] You had four, Sally had four.
[Betty:] Oh four!
[David:] You did!
[Betty:] And then you give erm Graham back.
[Edna:] Well I just saying I wouldn't have told you
[Betty:] Shut the door Please it's cold.
[Edna:] I said to, I said to him I won't tell her.
[Betty:] Leave her alone.
[Edna:] piss off.
[Betty:] bored he's driving her mad. Shut the door!
[Edna:] Well... garden.
[Betty:] Ooh. Pain in the arse he is.
[Edna:] How she sat there.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Edna:] God!
[Betty:] I thought my bloody chair oh
[Edna:] Yeah
[Betty:] I thought ooh she's gonna break that chair.
[Edna:] What a lovely way to sit.
[Betty:] Yeah. She said I won't be able to take you out to to lunch till after Christmas time cos I'll be far too busy. As I ooh it's immaterial
[Edna:] Well she got twenty four bleeding days.
[Betty:] immaterial to me I said.... Ooh my god
[Edna:] I said to him I said she's got sixteen to tea I invited thee and Bet [LAUGHTER].
[Betty:] Ooh... the bloody erm W. I. innit or the church
[Edna:] Religious innit ah yeah.
[Betty:] Ah one or another.
[Edna:] I thought she's m, most rude to sit like that
[Betty:] She is rude. Got no manners.
[Edna:] That is awful innit? I was gonna say to her ain't a chair big enough?
[Betty:] Yeah
[Edna:] I nearly
[Betty:] Well I, I heard the chair go clk. I thought ooh the bottom of the chair. Worse than a child innit?
[Edna:] If it was a child I'd say here you sit up properly.
[Betty:] That's it sit up properly. I do to our kids if they lean back I says oi tip that chair on its legs.
[Edna:] sit up properly. That's right. Like oh when she comes in I thought ooh her bleeding chocolate.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Edna:] I got to tell bleeding lies cos I mean to say
[Betty:] I know. I thought ooh my god. I mean David tore her list up. Nobody knows what she wanted.
[Edna:] Ooh she says so you haven't had any chocolate. I said no I bloody haven't.
[Betty:] No good girl.
[Edna:] No.
[Betty:] Ah she bought her chocolate. She gets her drinks from somewhere.
[Edna:] Yeah course she do.
[Betty:] I mean where do she get they from I'd like to know. Not... here Bet seeing Sally won't get you anything d'you like to
[Edna:] Yeah. Well course you would. Yeah. Now our Dawn told me... cos I did say to her I said here I said er Bet did say that. Well she said, thank her, thank Bet ever so much she said
[Betty:] Ooh.
[Edna:] but she said erm... ever so kind of her but she said er... she did say who... she said there was a friend of hers somebody
[Betty:] Oh well good luck to her.
[Edna:] and I thought ooh. But I, as soon I said to Joe dinner time I said well...
[Betty:] you'd be the first to say to her
[Edna:] Yeah.
[Betty:] well I'm going down there d'you want anything.
[Edna:] Yeah. Oh Joe said well he said run a mile for her. Yeah.
[Betty:] But you'd have thought she would have said wouldn't you?
[Edna:] No she never.
[Betty:] I mean she got a c, a card for... well I am going to Macrows. But she's got a card for Macrows.
[Edna:] Is that cheap then?
[Betty:] Never once said would you like to come up Macrows. It's so cheap up there.
[Edna:] Is it. Is it
[Betty:] It's out at that way.
[Edna:] I mean you've got to have a card. You can't go in without?
[Betty:] Oh no you can't go in without a card.
[Edna:] No, no, no.
[Betty:] But I mean... what you're paying say er ooh... say my cheese is nearly five pound at bloody Asda pasdas, got it up there for about one fifty. Ever so cheap.
[Edna:] Oh well you might as well go up there hadn't you? Of course.
[Betty:] Ever so cheap... and of course I haven't got a fridge I bought all their frozen stuff
[Edna:] yeah. I'm blowed.
[Betty:] Our Clay said
[Edna:] somebody works there is it? They've got to have their card?
[Betty:] It's Carol, Carol erm
[Edna:] No I meant to say it's somebody that works there is it? Like
[Betty:] No he works on the channel tunnel. But he just... they give them out cards from
[Edna:] Oh they give them out, oh.
[Betty:] Yeah. And er he, he took our Clay up Sunday. And our Clay said he's gonna take me and his mother-in, well future mother-in-law out next Saturday.
[Edna:] Oh.
[Betty:] So he said get some money up together mum. I said well I'll have what I find
[Edna:] Yeah.
[Betty:] He said don't worry about it. Be alright. He said I'm going out again with him and gonna get you, you and dad's cigarettes and
[Edna:] Well if it's cheap place where our Maureen. We'd go in ooh... massive
[Betty:] Ginormous place innit?
[Edna:] And she had to sign in about a card and that sort of
[Betty:] Mm
[Edna:] And it's ever so cheap there cos she bought me a, I can remember... erm I wanted a curtain thing you know, big long one with the hooks and that.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Edna:] And it, had it for one twenty five. I mean back here. I can remember. And it load your trolley. You know you load your trolley up then, you have to take a trolley round like.
[Betty:] Oh like a supermarket. Of course yeah.
[Edna:] Because they have a lot, yeah, they have, yeah have a lot like.
[Betty:] Well yeah I suppose you buy in bulk don't you.
[Edna:] Yeah. She'd buy it by the bulk yeah.
[Betty:] It's good though isn't it?
[Edna:] Yeah. Save money.... Yeah.
[Betty:] Oh our Clayton said, said don't get your stuff up Asda, he said just keep, hang on to your grocery money
[Edna:] Yeah and get it up there yeah.
[Betty:] So I thought well that's alright then. See you'll be able to get your Christmas cheese and all the bits and bobs.
[Edna:] All that yeah, yeah.
[Betty:] He said there was so much stuff up there I couldn't reel off what they've got because he said they got everything.
[Edna:] Yeah, yeah got everything.
[Betty:] So I said to him well mammy wants a freezer he said oh shut your mouth I'm not getting you one. Have one for Easter.
[Edna:] Well perhaps he's buying a bleeding washing machine
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Dishwasher I said.
[Edna:] Dishwasher or
[Betty:] That'll be the year innit? When we got all what we want, that'll be never. Never got everything you want have you?
[Edna:] No, no.
[Betty:] You could go on and on couldn't you? I thought that bedding was cheap she bought down town yesterday didn't you?
[Edna:] Yeah but... that, what she bought the girls' ll be very thin when she got it on. But still it serves the purpose don't it.
[Betty:] don't think
[Edna:] Yeah, no but I mean it's alright for the. I thought that was nice for the boys.
[Betty:] Yeah that was quite nice.
[Edna:] That was cheap.... Yeah they was alright.
[Betty:] erm think
[Edna:] Why's she gone out to today for then?
[Betty:] She went out and bought all her erm... tut Christmas cereals, coffee and tea bags and er
[Edna:] Ooh. Although she she spend her money
[Betty:] Oh bloody and all sorts she buys. I said what you want? She said well they're always handy. And erm... washing powder and soaps and toothpaste
[Edna:] Yeah well she's got the money there she might as well spend it hadn't she?
[Betty:] God. She said I got everything in now for Christmas.
[Edna:] Well Joe says we has our ten pound next week.
[Betty:] This week innit?
[Edna:] Not this week...
[Betty:] Yeah it is.
[Edna:] Oh next week
[Betty:] Well Iris said this week I don't know when it is but
[Edna:] Yeah, no I think that's right. Cos Joe said your, that's right it must be this, I said it ain't so early as that. He said yeah. I said oh I didn't know that.
[Betty:] Oh that's tomorrow then innit? Obviously for us
[Edna:] For you, yeah. Thursday for him. He generally gets anyway.. He said oh he said I'll have that he said get some...
[Betty:] Sweets and chocolate. We got a whole load like that in a bag for the kids.
[Edna:] [LAUGHTER] ooh dear.
[Betty:] But he's gonna get some more he said. I thought well keep them quiet.
[Edna:] Oh I didn't know he had it so early I always thought it was the week before.
[Betty:] Cos really that'd pay for the girls' nightshirts.
[Edna:] . It's disgusting.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Edna:] Really is.
[Betty:] Where's the electric man? I wish he'd hurry up and give us it.
[Edna:] Yeah I'm go, I'm, old Joe reckons it'll be a whatsit one.
[Betty:] Ooh.
[Edna:] He said I think, cos he said, the bill come in just with the gas last time. Near enough with the gas last time. He reckon it'll be a whatsit one.
[Betty:] Oh I hope not. Weren't it an estimate last time?
[Edna:] I don't know.
[Betty:] Or did we have a reader?
[Edna:] No we had the reader last time didn't we, yeah.
[Betty:] We had a nice young man come round
[Edna:] Yeah we had
[Betty:] I'm not sure. Oh not a damn
[Edna:] And old Joe said he said I reckon it's a... be a whatsit. On the other hand it might not. Our Pam said he hadn't been there so....
[Betty:] I mean he's usually after the gas man isn't he?
[Edna:] He follows it all round don't he?
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Edna:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Oh bloody hell don't say that. I hates that not knowing.
[Edna:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah but still it might be less it might be more. You don't know do you?
[Betty:] Ooh. So don't worry about it.
[Edna:] said to our Joe, I I did believe, I mean I I, well I said
[Betty:] innit?
[Edna:] Well yeah but, cos I mean I'd left it on all night before. And we've had it on every, well you know we have. I've had a radiator on in the hallway. I've had a radiator on in the front room. Well same as our Pam said well mum you ain't using no more gas it's silly.
[Betty:] Well no with the radiators on.
[Edna:] It's the, well you've got the water on
[Betty:] That's it. It's all running off the same gas.
[Edna:] Yeah. Erm. No I don't I don't know why, I have, we don't have our fire on mind. No we don't have the fire on.
[Betty:] Well no.
[Edna:] Well he don't go in there. If it's anybody it's I. If I goes in
[Betty:] Well there's no need of it if you got your radiator on.
[Edna:] Yeah. Mind if I goes in there like, sometimes over the weekend if he's watching football. And I'm sat there, think to myself put the bloody fire on, put your feet up. I do do that for
[Betty:] Well that's it.
[Edna:] I don't tell him, although he doesn't mind.
[Betty:] it's cold innit?
[Edna:] worry about it.
[Betty:] You can't be cold. Don't do what David's mother and father and bloody freeze to death.
[Edna:] No.
[Betty:] Fancy she coming in today. She looks half dead don't she?
[Edna:] Her eyes.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Edna:] the whites of her eyes goes don't it?
[Betty:] I know what's the matter with her?
[Edna:] I don't know. She looks like somebody got her bloody in a trance.
[Betty:] Yeah. I thought she was gonna go bleeding sleep on that chair.
[Edna:] Yeah. her eyes. Her eyeballs
[Betty:] It's all that shit and junk she takes and all they fucking pills.
[Edna:] Well she looks she looks druggy don't she?
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Edna:] She looks druggy.
[Betty:] She takes all these vitamin pills and god knows what else. And herbal mixtures and all that.
[Edna:] Mm.
[Betty:] They don't do her no good.
[Edna:] [whispering] No [].
[Betty:] Bloody fool ain't she? I mean she does bugger all at home.
[Edna:] Aye you're right.
[Betty:] Don't know how many ti times a week, I meant to ask her does she go to that man now.
[Edna:] That's why she's bloody fat and bloody flabby innit?
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Edna:] I mean I don't bloody but.
[Betty:] Well no nor do I don't whiz about
[Edna:] I'd like to see her going upstairs. I bet
[Betty:] Oh my goodness. And her stairs are so steep
[Edna:] Oh god.
[Betty:] Yeah cos they have to sort of bring the staircases, cos they built all that on didn't didn't they
[Edna:] I think she's so rude. I can't, I mean alright
[Betty:] Well she is rude.
[Edna:] I'll speak to her but I can't say, I couldn't take to her. Couldn't have her as a neighbour.
[Betty:] Ooh
[Edna:] Ooh I couldn't do that! Nor I. me.
[Betty:] Well that lady don't bother with her next door down there.
[Edna:] Doesn't she?
[Betty:] Got a bloody great fence up.
[Edna:] Oh! Just as well
[Betty:] the hint, yeah. Oh, oh dear. Got a lovely place there but is she... sort of
[Edna:] Yeah but they the sort of people that don't.
[Betty:] Oh it's lovely.
[Edna:] I mean got lovely places they don't do they?
[Betty:] No.
[Edna:] They just takes it in their stride.
[Betty:] funny innit? I mean she got that bloody great... well all that is glass across there, it's all
[Edna:] Bet she cleans it every day don't you. [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] It's absolutely. She... she could have that spotless couldn't she? Old man takes his bloody dinner in there. Sits in his easy chair with his feet up with his tray. Yeah. Well yeah.
[Edna:] But she looked a bloody sight in dress.
[Betty:] All that money. There's a bleeding sight yeah.
[Edna:] as big round as my body nearly. Didn't she
[Betty:] Wears the wrong clothes as well doesn't she?
[Edna:] her clothes she got bloody, well. Hangs on her don't it?
[Betty:] Well she new clothes can she?
[Edna:] Well.... She could get, and they bloody old... boots, shoes she got on.
[Betty:] Ooh I tell her, I says to her pop down to Wallis's.
[Edna:] yeah.
[Betty:] I mean Wallis's is fairly
[Edna:] yeah
[Betty:] It's for the bigger lady and
[Edna:] Yeah there's the others erm... what was it, I was gonna look for and I turned bloody on whatever his bleeding name is. They had erm clothes show for the... the fuller ladies this morning.
[Betty:] Ooh.
[Edna:] I was gonna look at that and I forgot it.
[Betty:] But you can get some lovely clothes.
[Edna:] Yeah.
[Betty:] There ain't no bloody need for her to be, and not with the money. She got the money.
[Edna:] Yeah.
[Betty:] I mean you and I
[Edna:] But it looks as if it looks as though she stands there and something just drops
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Edna:] She ain't got a bit of style has she? I wonder what her underclothes is like.
[Betty:] Well there's knickers, there's bloomers. Yeah, blowing in the breeze. [LAUGHTER]
[Edna:] Bloody hell.
[Betty:] Yeah. I mean she could have it all couldn't she? She got the money there, why in the hell don't she sort herself out. I mean very smart.
[Edna:] yeah. Yeah. But I mean to say you sees these big ladies, well I've seen them on their
[Betty:] Smart and together yeah.
[Edna:] Mm. Mind I'll tell you honest she asked [coughing], fat lady this... take your troubles to her I forget her bleeding name.
[Betty:] Clare Raynor.
[Edna:] Clare Raynor. Mind she did look nice. She looked ever so smart and I thought well
[Betty:] That's it. Got the money. Why not use it. Make yourself, make the most of yourself?
[Edna:] Yeah. Yeah cos I looked in ours and I said to our Joe I'd like a nice dress. Oh well get, have a bloody dress if you want one. And I was looking and they'd got red, black in one window. Red and yellow one. And er... they've got another one I think that's dark colours. But I said oh that's nice innit and it was, a what was it jumper and... like for Christmassy like a silver
[Betty:] Mm. Long sort of yeah.
[Edna:] Like a long yeah. And it was ever so. And I said that's nice innit well, he said well have them if you want it. I said it's a lot of money innit? He said well it ain't if you, if it's a thing you want it ain't is it. Well it's only thirty five pound for a jumper with a top.
[Betty:] No.
[Edna:] Ah yeah but I mean I ain't wearing again would I after Christmas, no.
[Betty:] Go for it. Have it. Why not treat yourself.
[Edna:] They had a nice top there that, they had a nice top there I liked, red. He was nice but it was thirty five. Oh I dunno. Wouldn't wear it after would you?
[Betty:] That's the thing. Are you gonna wear it after. But she, she could bleeding dress up... to the nines.
[Edna:] I likes a nice pair of shoes on if, if I go out. I likes a nice tidy pair of shoe, anywhere special. Yeah, nice tidy pair.... If your hair's tidy yes. Nice yes.
[Betty:] Well you got to have tidy feet haven't you. If your hair's tidy and your feet's tidy. That's everything.
[Edna:] Cos I nearly thought to myself shall I have a wash and set for Christmas. Cos up in the, the erm... paper shop they got somebody in and she does it like... special for p for pensioners. I thought to myself shall I go. I thought oh I can do my own if I rolls it up
[Betty:] Oh you can do your own.
[Edna:] Once I have to do it. If I can, if I just wanted, wanted to go round, go round.
[Betty:] Going down Pamela's?
[Edna:] No. I sh, I shan't go.
[Betty:] You're not. Definitely not?
[Edna:] Well things haven't altered have they? I mean I had that go with her. She couldn't have said nothing to our... if she did I should have thought well alright our nan said I must bloody go up but she didn't come up Sunday. She was down there.
[Betty:] Oh she was there was she?
[Edna:] Yeah I s, cos I seen the car. Course she said she was there.
[Betty:] Oh course
[Edna:] And she said that yeah.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Edna:] I don't know. I said, well I did say to her this morning I said there's a... some for the baby and some bits of chocolate. Oh she said I'll be going up tomorrow but I, I, I can't ask her, I didn't ought to but I can't... can't ask her nothing, innit funny. Don't know why. I said well I said I don't know if they're alright for her cos I haven't seen her so I can't tell.... Yeah. But see... I don't know Bet. It'll, it will hurt me. But I, I daren't sort of do nothing cos that's gonna upset our Joe if I do. But I, might not be there all th, might not be there.
[Betty:] No, I suppose it is. Sunday's just the same thinking and wondering.
[Edna:] Mm, yeah.
[Betty:] It's just not right.
[Edna:] But then she, well she's stubborn isn't
[Betty:] So just treat it like a Sunday. If they don't come Sundays bollocks
[Edna:] I said to Joe I said I'd enjoy that Christmas day Joe. He said so I so he said it's nice.
[Betty:] Ah.
[Edna:] He said. And I, I might cook a dinner and think oh I don't want it. lovely. It really was it was lovely that dinner.
[Betty:] Ah.... When you know they're down there Sundays. They don't bleeding bother to come up so it's only like a Sunday innit?
[Edna:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Innit?
[Edna:] I, I, I shall feel awful though.... Well I, well Joe said I. I couldn't understand him really saying that. And so I said well...
[Betty:] Well he hasn't done nothing wrong
[Edna:] No anybody speaks. I mean there's Terry, we haven't spotted. It's awful you sit and think about it.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Edna:] I said to our Pam, Terry hasn't looked in the bloody door. Not as we seen him a lot but least he could come and say... alright.
[Betty:] How are your keeping now.
[Edna:] Mm. Anyway say oh poor bugger. And he'll go to him and he's say ah. Bloody come in here poor buggering me!...
[Betty:] Still it's your daughter. If she's invited you to her house that's up to you innit?
[Edna:] Yeah but I yeah but I still... I don't know. I mean, the baby won't know us anyway.
[Betty:] Won't she. No.
[Edna:] No....
[Betty:] She just won't will she? Now they forget so fast don't they?
[Edna:] Yeah. Well look at our Sophie she but she don't know you now. No and yet she she run to, course she seen break. But I could go up in a few weeks. There's Maggie.
[Betty:] Oh here's Maggie.
[Maggie:] Alright?
[Betty:] Alright my love.
[Edna:] Maggie with the fringe on top.
[Betty:] How's your ma?
[Maggie:] Alright I suppose.
[Edna:] Just saying I thought she was coming home?
[Betty:] No I was just saying
[Maggie:] She was supposed to be out Monday.
[Edna:] not coming home.
[Betty:] She's not very well is she?
[Edna:] across there.
[Maggie:] yeah I think so.
[Edna:] motorbike yeah. How, how is she anyway?
[Maggie:] She's fine in herself. They're all flapping round her cos her... temperature keeps going up and down like a bloody yo yo.
[Betty:] Ooh.
[Edna:] What's that? Cos she's had the injections is it?
[Maggie:] Been on the drip all night she's got an infection
[Edna:] Oh on a drip.
[Wendy:] Hello
[speaker007:] Hello
[Betty:] Alright?
[Wendy:] Mhm.
[Maggie:] Her stomach's right up.. Can't understand why
[Edna:] Do they know then? What it is?
[Betty:] Strange innit?
[Edna:] Innit.
[Betty:] D'you have a nice time?
[Maggie:] She took us everywhere. All round the shops. small items.
[Betty:] Ah well then. That's Nan's innit? [LAUGHTER]
[Edna:] Is the tide in down there?
[Wendy:] Don't know never
[Edna:] front.
[Betty:] Ah.... Was she pleased to see you?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Ooh.
[Wendy:] What time are you going out there tonight? Are we still going?
[Maggie:] If you want to.
[Wendy:] Cos I ain't getting anything.
[Maggie:] No. Well what time are you going? What time have you got to be there?
[Wendy:] Well it's from six thirty till nine.
[Maggie:] Six thirty to nine?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] It's purely up to you. He don't mind and... well down town innit?
[Wendy:] Yeah well we, if we go it's gonna take us hour to get bloody down there and back on the bus innit?
[Betty:] Oh I love buses. Bloody nuisance innit? Mind you perhaps erm Chris take them one way and Clay the other? Ask him when he comes in.
[Wendy:] Yeah. Could do.
[Maggie:] Otherwise it means Chris got to hang about till we're ready to come out
[Betty:] That's it. It's stupid innit?
[Wendy:] That's if Clay don't.
[Maggie:] I reckon people's conversations ought to be bleeding private not on bloody tape
[Googie:] Yeah and I'm right with you er... Maggie. I'm sorry about this.
[David:] Maggie!
[Maggie:] I'm gonna whip the ruddy tape and wipe the bugger clean.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Listen we don't swear it's Betty innit? We're safe anyway
[Betty:] Oh yes. Got nothing to worry about. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Cheers.
[David:] Bye Mags.
[Betty:] Bye Mags.
[Googie:] I couldn't smell they chops then?
[Betty:] Well they been in there since two o'clock. But they're not cooking very well. But they're not cooking very well. They're on too low. I put them on ever so low.
[Googie:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Not it is nice though innit?
[Googie:] Oh it's like mud innit?
[Betty:] Do you want boiled potatoes or not? Or roast?
[Wendy:] What?
[Betty:] No you don't want to. Of course you don't.
[Googie:] It's bad for you Dave.
[Betty:] Boiled or roast?
[speaker007:] roast.
[Betty:] Yeah but he likes boiled
[Googie:] I bought of these scallops up there this week Bet. They were cheap.
[Betty:] Yeah what were they like then?
[Googie:] Bloody lovely. It's not, they ain't battered or nothing but it's just, ooh they're beautiful they
[Betty:] Are they?
[Googie:] Yeah. And they about eighty nine, eighty something. They're lovely. They're really nice. Not the battered ones, they're not very nice. Just when you open it it's just nice scallops. And they went golden brown, they was bloody lovely.
[David:] brown?
[Googie:] Yeah br, some went black. I kept them on a bit too long. Yeah but they were really nice. I say I don't like the others now. They go greasy your battered scallops. eat that.
[Betty:] It's very bad for you.
[Googie:] I used to do a lot for Joe but I don't do them now. Not good for you.... Oh dear.
[Betty:] [rattling of bags]
[Googie:] Oh I shall be glad when the bloody weather.... If it snowed it'd be a bit whiter, bit whiter.
[Julie:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah it would be.
[Googie:] Snowed.
[Betty:] What did your mother have to say then Julie?
[Julie:] Oh not a lot. Not really.
[Googie:] Many shopping down there?
[Julie:] No. Closed. Suppose they go down there weekends look.
[Googie:] they've opened Sunday I expect.... I don't know where the people are getting their money from.
[Betty:] Who drove, Karen?
[Julie:] No she can't drive. It was our mum.
[Betty:] Oh can't she?
[Julie:] No.
[Betty:] Oh your mother did the driving.
[Julie:] Mm.
[Betty:] Was she surprised to see you then, when she
[Julie:] Yeah.
[Betty:] got there.
[Julie:] Yeah. Yeah cos Auntie Carol never told her.
[Googie:] Father was cussing cos you weren't here.
[Betty:] Oh ah.
[Googie:] Said where's she to.
[Betty:] That's it. He come in last night and you weren't here. Come in today, you weren't here.
[Julie:] Tough, innit.
[Googie:] Gallivanting about.
[Julie:] I can see my dad any time, I can't see my nan any time.
[Googie:] . When you see him.
[Julie:] Can you get me out the
[Betty:] Oh Ju
[Googie:] What's it you want? The milk? What do you want Ju?
[Julie:] No I never. But I need it as well. For tonight.
[Googie:] What do you want? What do you want?
[Julie:] Erm marge please.
[Googie:] The marge.
[Betty:] Oh ah you need your car for tonight.
[Googie:] Whereabouts is the marge Bet?
[Betty:] It's up in the cupboard.
[Googie:] What cupboard?
[Julie:] Oh it's in the cupboard.
[Googie:] Oh up there. bloody cupboard.
[Betty:] Dawn used it look, she put it up in the cupboard....
[Googie:] Go in to dinner today?
[Betty:] Can't you use erm... Sally's car tonight Julie?
[Julie:] Well I don't know.
[Betty:] I don't suppose they'll take the names as long as you've got a card to show, will they?... Cos I'm hoping, our Clay, she said he'll be in about six, half past. So I'm hoping then he'll be in before you... go out. Cos he
[Julie:] I hope he ain't le left the card in bloody Lee's car.
[Betty:] So do I.
[Julie:] said nothing last night, seeing him never give it me back.
[Betty:] I said to him, I said put Julie's card in the middle thingie there with Sally's. He said yeah alright mum and that was the end of that.
[Julie:] He
[David:] put your name on it.?
[Julie:] No
[David:] What Sally's
[Betty:] Yeah well I expect he'll ring
[David:] on Sally's on yours.
[Julie:] No, it was Sally's....
[Betty:] See he should have put it straight back in there when he come in. Stupid person.... Now he won't be able to have them again will he if he's gonna bleeding muck about and act stupid.
[Julie:] where it is. Well he won't be able to after this week anyway.
[Betty:] No.... Well I never thought he'd take it out and put it in in the drawer. In the front room, he might have. Knowing him I expect he's still got it in his pocket....
[Julie:] I don't know what pocket he would have put it in then cos it weren't in his coat pocket.
[Betty:] Oh
[Julie:] ... Silly man.
[Betty:] Oh he's a bloody idiot..... He don't stop and think that's the trouble.... Hope dopey Lee never went home with it.
[Julie:] He better not have....
[Googie:] scissors.
[David:] Yeah Julie got them.
[Googie:] Did she? Bit awkward now innit?... Veronica came here. Was looking at the papers come straight in and Eh?
[Betty:] She's so rude.
[David:] All these papers seem thin today.
[Googie:] They are thin, yeah today.
[Julie:] newspaper....
[Betty:] Oh bug!... Our is gone quiet.
[Googie:] Yeah. How many Funny, all different papers, all different news.
[Betty:] said to ju- erm... Sally get my stuff? I said no not yet. Perhaps she'll get it next week
[Googie:] said yeah.
[Betty:] Yeah [LAUGHTER]. Liar.
[Julie:] crisps. I'll have to remind her. I wants two lots. Salt and vinegar and ready salted.
[Betty:] Well Clayton... have you asked him?
[Julie:] I asked him once and he said yeah but...
[Googie:] Ah well he forgets don't he?
[Betty:] Oh my god his mind's like a sieve.
[Julie:] I, I'll write on his forehead.
[Betty:] Yeah
[Julie:] so every time he looks in the mirror he'll know
[Betty:] Good ideal that....
[Googie:] [reading] How would you spend your last day on earth? [] Get pissed.
[Julie:] God, get pissed
[Googie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] shouting legs up, kicking the legs up and laughing. What am I looking for?... Oh a tin of peas! I knew I was looking for something.
[Julie:] You're getting on a bit.
[Betty:] Oh my goodness.... Ooh ooh, where are they? Come on.
[Googie:] I think I'm gonna... prawn cocktails first... for Christmas day. I loves a prawn cocktail.
[Betty:] And do. She likes prawn cocktails....
[Googie:] Asda's prices. Icecream Christmas puddings, have you ever heard of that?
[Betty:] Don't like the sound of that.
[Googie:] Two ninety nine. Whoever's thought that up.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] Look make icecream cake
[Betty:] Oh yeah icecream cake's lovely.
[Googie:] I've never made one.
[Betty:] Ooh we have birthday cakes for the kids, icecream cakes.
[Googie:] Do you?
[Betty:] When they was little, yes.
[Googie:] icecream Christmas puddings....
[Betty:] [whispering] []. Dave, see if the saucepan lid's down in the with the plates please. It's gone on walkies.
[David:] Yeah it is....
[Googie:] C and A. Oh I haven't been in there for years, not C and A.
[Betty:] Got some lovely clothes in there.
[Googie:] Have they?
[Betty:] Well I haven't been in there for years mind but when, the last time I went in there the clothes was lovely.
[Googie:] I ain't got no inclination to go down the town
[Betty:] No. If I had, well a few hundred maybe.... Don't like it in there these days do you?
[Googie:] No I don't like the town at all.
[Betty:] No. I like to go to Bath. It's nice at Bath.
[Googie:] Oh it's just as bloody bad there.... after having a flu jab.
[Betty:] Ooh goodness.
[Googie:] Ooh he was only twenty six.
[Betty:] Oh my goodness.
[Googie:] Giving him a sneezing fit.... He said oh shit and he died.
[Betty:] That's it then. Well he shouldn't have opened his gob and said it should he?
[Googie:] There was no asthma... attack, no cry or gasp of pain. He just said oh shit.
[Betty:] [LAUGHTER] oh shit!...
[Googie:] Bleeding hell.... And he suffered two heavy sneezing fits earlier in the day.
[Betty:] And then what? He went and had his jab did he?
[Googie:] Well only been married eight months, had a little baby.
[Betty:] Oh no... Oh do me a favour Dave.
[David:] What's that?
[Betty:] Reach the Paxo from up the top, Julie put it up the top. If there's a single one I'll have that one, if there isn't I'll have to open a double.
[David:] Sage and onion stuffing?
[Betty:] Yeah that'll do....
[Googie:] didn't seem very concerned did she?
[Betty:] No she seemed a bit
[Googie:] Yeah
[Betty:] Don't know how she seemed, do you?
[Googie:] Well I mean I don't, well I've never... I think 's holding that hat on.
[Betty:] [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] I can't, I can't look at him.
[Betty:] Disgusting innit?
[Googie:] Horrible isn't he?
[Betty:] Ugh. Really ugh. Well if he's going out and she's going out, who's gonna look after the children?
[Googie:] . Oh I don't know. They'll take them I suppose.
[Betty:] No she said, no she ain't taking the kids.
[Googie:] I expect they'll. Looks as though he's arranged to go out.
[Betty:] Yeah. I dunno....
[Googie:] Lot of them are being sacked off the bloody telly innit?
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Googie:] watching that.
[Betty:] What they say, thirteen have got to go. Was it thirteen? From I T V or somewhere?
[Googie:] It's more than that.... Actress Jan Francis is
[David:] on till twelve o'clock again. That's on till twelve o'clock.
[Betty:] Oh, that programme we seen last night is on till ten to twelve.
[Googie:] What the film? Is it? What time's it start?
[Betty:] Is it ten o'clock?...
[Googie:] Ten?
[Betty:] Ten till twelve.
[Googie:] Oh ten. That's alright.... Jan Francis with that Dennis Waterman show. Stay Lucky. Yeah.
[Betty:] Ooh.
[Googie:] Ridiculous.
[Betty:] ... That David got that front room on the show, or was it?
[Googie:] She makes a string of money from... bloody Lloyds Bank adverts.
[Betty:] Yeah that erm... chap isn't on there now with her is he?
[Googie:] What Dennis Waterman?
[Betty:] No, no on those adverts.
[Googie:] Oh not on that advert.
[Betty:] Er... charmer. Nigel Havers.
[Googie:] No
[Betty:] He isn't on there any more.
[Googie:] No, no.
[Betty:] I don't like that other one, er
[Googie:] I don't like Waterman.
[Betty:] I don't like Waterman either. I w, but I liked him in that one on a Friday night.
[Googie:] Yeah, Minder.
[Betty:] No.
[Googie:] No?
[Betty:] Don't like Minder.... Erm... what was it called? He was he had a lot of money. and he was having trouble with the wife weren't he secretary.
[Googie:] Yeah, yeah. That's right. Mm can't think what it was called.
[Betty:] What was that called?... Ooh what was it called? Do you know I don't like, don't like that Minder. I don't like that old chap in it. don't like that George Cole either.
[speaker007:] No, no.
[Betty:] That George Cole, er Arthur Daley. He used to go out with Wendy's Auntie June.
[speaker007:] Did he?
[Betty:] Yeah.... Years ago mind....
[Googie:] Don't know whether to get me washing in or not. What do you reckon?
[Betty:] Well I was going to put mine out and I thought it's too wet.
[Googie:] No don't put it out.
[Betty:] So.
[Googie:] I think, put the clothes horse out for now. Clothes horse
[Betty:] But sometimes it dries in the evening.
[Googie:] Yeah but not wool. I think I'll go and get it in, put it on the horse in the... passage.
[Betty:] Oh are you going?
[Googie:] Yeah. Well I'll get that in before it gets dark....
[Betty:] Wednesday innit, tomorrow.
[Googie:] Wednesday tomorrow. Yeah. All day.... quick again innit?
[Betty:] It's gonna be bloody Christmas before we know were we are.
[Googie:] Yeah.... Never mind Bet! We knows all what we gotta do. That's the main thing. Hang your stocking up, hope for the best. [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Stocking up! You never know what you're gonna get in there do you?
[Googie:] Oh the path is drying a I dunno
[Betty:] Yeah, there's something falling there.
[Googie:] Is there?
[Betty:] There's something... you feel.
[Googie:] hamper.
[speaker007:] [move away from the tape recorder]
[Googie:] Oh yeah I can feel it now.
[Betty:] I got... come and have a look at it. Cos I've got it in this cupboard. Excuse me a minute David please thank you very much.
[Googie:] Oh no don't move him.
[Betty:] Yeah well he gotta move.
[Googie:] Well don't move him.
[Betty:] Oh innit sad.... See it got all marked down there.
[Googie:] Ooh ooh. Bloody hell.
[Betty:] Which is quite a lot
[Googie:] Yeah!
[Betty:] in that cupboard out there.
[Googie:] You daren't touch it. [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] In the cloakroom.
[Googie:] In the cloakroom.
[Betty:] cloakroom.
[Googie:] You want that wall down at the back, it'll go back further.
[Betty:] Got all the biscuits and all that in there.
[Googie:] Lovely.
[Betty:] That's all their booze in there.
[Googie:] Ooh ah. That ain't too bad then Bet is it?
[Betty:] Mm quite a... few bob's worth of booze there.
[Googie:] Yeah biscuit. [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Yeah. That's what I said to him.
[Googie:] Lovely.
[Betty:] I know. The only thing we didn't like in there was two tins of tuna fish.
[Googie:] No I don't like tuna fish.
[Betty:] Erm
[David:] And lemon. Lemon cheese.
[Betty:] Oh and a lemon cheese, I give it to
[David:] And two tins of soup. erm soup
[Betty:] Oh game soup.
[David:] Cock a leekie or something.
[Betty:] Oh cock a leekie oh!
[Googie:] cockroaches in it.
[Betty:] Yeah I've given it to... Wendy for the kids.
[Googie:] [LAUGHTER] kids.
[Betty:] And the girls said. Here dad what does this say on here? So he said cock a leekie. So they said well what is it?
[Googie:] Cockroaches.
[Betty:] He said it's a couple of cocks and a few leeks chucked in.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Googie:] See you in the morning.
[Betty:] He did. She said the girls they just stood there and they didn't know what to say to him.
[speaker007:] . See you again in the morning
[Betty:] cocks.
[Googie:] All being well Betty.
[Betty:] Right.
[Googie:] tomorrow
[Betty:] Oh no it's only we innit.
[Googie:] See you in the morning then. Bye Dave.
[David:] Cheerio. Cheerio.
[Betty:] Bye googie woogs. Vietnam in here.
[David:] Good morning Vietnam.
[Betty:] . You ain't got your glasses.
[David:] My glasses are here.
[Sally:] Fucking useless nowadays trying to find anything in these books.
[Betty:] Crazy innit?
[David:] come here.
[Betty:] David knows where it is. Got the councils.... B C D E F G H I J... K L M N... O... P... P A's... P O's don't you?
[Sally:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Erm... P I's, P R's... P O
[Sally:] Police.
[Betty:] Police. Avon and Somerset constabulary blah blah blah. Small print blah blah blah blah blah blah blah....
[Rose:] [talk in background]
[Betty:] Bristol.
[Sally:] [shouting] Yeah? []. Oh so it's
[Betty:] Got bloody Filton, Keysham, Kingsford, Radstock, Thornbury. Everything but Southmead. Bloody marvellous. Bath... Somerset constabulary. Police. [reading] see our page for advertisement []. There he is.
[Sally:] Where do I have to Southmead.
[Betty:] . [reading] In the case of specific requests please ring the appropriate number below between eight o'clock in the morning and six o'clock at night [].
[Sally:] No Southmead
[Betty:] No Southmead in here. Get on to Filton... and ask Filton to give you Southmead's number. Or to have them put you through to F er to Southmead.
[Sally:] Okay.
[Rose:] Or Kingswood.
[Betty:] Say you're the nearest I can find in the book, Filton I should try. Filton's next to Southmead innit?
[Sally:] Mm.
[Rose:] Any other police station should have one anothers numbers.... Or K Kingswood cos that's her local... station innit?
[Betty:] Yeah but it's better to get in contact with Southmead if you can.
[Rose:] Mm.... Here
[speaker007:] Ta
[Betty:] And don't go swearing for goodness sake....
[Sally:] Clayton home late last night and I thought he must be taking Lorraine home. Did he?
[Betty:] Yeah. She come and knocked on the door so he
[Sally:] Of course I heard a car. And then I thought oh that's Clayton coming in as well and then I thought no it isn't, he's going out and I heard him go out. Thought he must be taking Lorraine home this time of night.
[Betty:] Yeah she come to the door answered the door Oh hello he said. What do you want. So she said, well Clayton. So he said oh I'm ever so sorry he said he's gone out. So she said gone out, where's he gone? He said I don't know, he says he's gone out with some girl called [someone coughs]. Don't know where they are.
[Sally:] shout Well she don't own him.
[Betty:] That's right.
[Sally:] Ring up Clayton. Ask him to ask Simon
[Betty:] To phone you here now.
[Sally:] To phone here now It's.... Like he sold it because he had a producer
[Betty:] Yeah well we know, we know he had a producer.
[Sally:] It couldn't have been though, could it?... He obviously didn't stop. speaking on phone Yeah can I speak to Clayton
[Betty:] person he sold to. that person oh my god.
[Sally:] They had the log book anyway. They should have changed it over.... We gotta do things like that.
[Betty:] Got receipt for it Sally? [someone coughs]
[Sally:] Yeah but I never sold it to Simon. I sold it to Lee. Sorry? Lee was the one who sold to Simon. Thank you
[Betty:] I wonder where those two police officers came from that came here that day.
[Sally:] They didn't say their names did they as well.
[Betty:] Oh I dunno. Can't remember.... They were quite satisfied.
[Sally:] Hello Clayton it's Sally. Hello. Erm... you don't happen to have Simon about there do you?... You don't happen to have Simon about there do you?... Yeah, right. Well Julie's just had a letter... from the police. And they're doing her for a road traffic accident at Morrow Road when Simon the bike.
[Betty:] This... last month....
[Sally:] Yes. When Simon the bike.... March.
[David:] No
[Betty:] November! November!
[Rose:] The accident was November.
[Sally:] Sorry, November.
[Rose:] The accident was November.
[Betty:] No, just gone. November now just Just gone.
[Sally:] It happened on the twenty second of the eleventh ninety one. So whoever got the bike now still haven't changed the log book over to their name.... Yeah. So... no, so we got to find that off Simon now, who he sold the bike to.... Alright...
[Betty:] He's gonna have to sort it out and ring you back tell him.
[Sally:] He's sorting it out. He's getting it now.
[Betty:] ...
[Rose:] Cos I can't put Simon's name down on that bottom of the form. I gotta put Lee's cos that's who I sold it to.
[David:] have that accident.
[Betty:] . Failing to stop, tell him.
[Rose:] Well apparently he's sold it so maybe the ne.... [someone coughs] police.
[Betty:] can have that. He had to sign for it.
[Rose:] Don't worry about it. It's better, it's got to get sorted out though
[Betty:] Oh yeah.
[Rose:] hasn't it?
[Sally:] Got that letter?
[Rose:] Otherwise they'll be coming for a warrant for me.
[Sally:] What? Tell him to give it to you. Because we gotta send this letter off now to the police station. We're gonna ring the police now and explain to them. We don't own the bike.
[Betty:] Apparently he's
[Sally:] O K then? Yeah. Four o'clock's... yeah get, get Simon's name and address
[Rose:] And Lee's.
[Sally:] And Lee's.
[Rose:] Because I sold it to him first.
[Sally:] Cos we sold it to Lee first. We never give him a receipt. Cos he didn't want one.... Alright then. So you want Lee's address
[Rose:] Oh well Lee's not in any trouble anyway.
[Sally:] and telephone number. And surname. And so with Simon's.... Okay then?... Who?... Yeah.... Right well I ain't actually Simon.... Cos the police will want to know from when Simon sold the bike to this other kiddie who had the accident.... Okay then?... Okay ta ta. Bye.
[Rose:] What did he say?
[Sally:] He's gonna find out. He's got to, Simon's got the name and address of the kiddie he sold the bike to. And he's gonna give it to Clayton. He's also gonna get Simon's name and address. Clayton's... Lee's address is in the telephone book under his surname anyway.. So he's gonna sort
[Betty:] Our, our mother's name's.
[Sally:] Also he's gonna sort that out and he's gonna get on to the police station now to explain that you don't own the bike.
[Rose:] So they've sold it on again them two have they?
[Sally:] Yeah. They've sold it on
[Rose:] Oh so it isn't them two.
[Betty:] Well
[David:] So he says.
[Sally:] Simon sold it on when he had that accident. Remember? Simon had an accident didn't he?
[Betty:] Well yes
[Sally:] He come off the bike. Well Lee come off the bike said the bike was too powerful. Then Simon had the bike... and he had accident. He fell off then and he said that's it... I ain't have it no more. So he sold it on to a... this kid and it was up Baxters
[David:] Ah!
[Rose:] I think it should have stayed here I think. I don't think it wanted to go, do you?
[Betty:] No. It wanted to stay in it's own house.
[Sally:] It's got the jinx, that bike.
[Rose:] It didn't never have a jinx when I had it.
[Betty:] Did you find police station.
[Rose:] No. No. He had to ring up that and it gives you all the phone numbers of all the police stations in Bristol.
[David:] Right, what's the phone number again?
[Rose:] They know about it anyway. ask them for the phone number of Southmead police station and they'll give it to you.... It says on there it says Bristol, all police stations area. In like area.... Do you do the washing?
[Sally:] It were beginning of the year since that bike cos February March sold it.
[Betty:] too well.
[Sally:] I think that bike don't wanna go out of this, go away from this house, do you?...
[Rose:] Never had an accident on it. I just fell off it once but that was outside
[Betty:] wasn't it?
[Sally:] [LAUGHTER]
[Rose:] Is anyone going outside? No?
[Betty:] Daddy.
[Rose:] I want some teabags get me some please.
[Betty:] Talk to him nicely and he'll get you some.
[Rose:] David please... will you get me some teabags if they've got any?... I'd better have about three cos half the time they haven't bloody got them up there
[David:] Yeah but what
[Rose:] if they ain't got the red ones and they've only got. Don't what them.
[Betty:] rubbish.
[Sally:] Don't want that rubbish. I don't know what the other ones are like in the bags.
[Rose:] No I won't bother. Just have, just have the red ones otherwise don't bother.
[Sally:] Well for eighty teabags Typhoo one fifty six it is in the shop. And that was in a cheap shop that was down Weston.
[Betty:] [whispering]... anything to tell me. I've a letter here.... Oh I hate the police. isn't it? []
[Rose:] I've never been in trouble with police.
[Betty:] Touch wood!
[Rose:] Touch wood.... Never. I've never got stopped on a bike. Which I don't care if I get stopped on that cos I am fully legal.
[Betty:] Oh well. You've got no worries have you? naughty girl have you?. Touch wood.
[Rose:] Touch wood.
[David:] No.
[Betty:] Once.
[Rose:] What did he pinch?
[Betty:] Listen I told you cos he never [LAUGHTER].
[Rose:] Oh! I bet she have. she have. Pinching the biscuits
[Betty:] Yeah
[Sally:] Eh?
[Betty:] Ten years old, pinching the biscuits.
[Rose:] Ten years old. Pinching the biscuits.
[Betty:] Well she didn't pinch them but she ate them. [LAUGHTER]
[Rose:] Oh come on.
[Betty:] bloody frighten her to death.
[Sally:] Clayton pinched the bloody gate and your lighter didn't he?
[Betty:] And the veg up the garden.
[Sally:] That's what you look at, back on really that's funny innit? But at the time it's really, really serious.
[Betty:] No. She stayed up the police station all day. She wouldn't even give her name. Ten years old.
[Rose:] She knew already then.
[Sally:] Wasn't me who pinched anything.
[Betty:] Wasn't her. Well she was
[Rose:] Yeah but. Cos they're with someone. That's what I always say to mine.
[Betty:] Two little buggers wasn't it?
[Sally:] Little swines weren't they?
[Rose:] So I'm gonna say that to the kids. If you're with someone that pinches... you're a girl you... just walk away.
[Betty:] That's it. But if they get arrested it's down to you. You're the innocent bystanders but... if they tighten things up.
[speaker007:] take their time.
[Betty:] Should put the phone down and try again.
[Rose:] No cos it'll be engaged again.
[Sally:] Yeah.
[Rose:] It won't cost until they answer. It won't cost you anything.
[Sally:] Wendy.... There's a smoke in there and it's... unopened. There should be anyway.
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Sally:] I don't know what to do for tea. It get's like that every night now don't it? I just don't know what to do.
[Betty:] I've got no idea.... None whatsoever....
[Sally:] That bit will have to stay out.
[Betty:] Yours blooming done?
[Sally:] Yeah. I'm gonna put mine out.... I reckon. No- one in. I reckon the desk sergeant isn't there.
[Betty:] Bet he said bugger them I'm gonna have my coffee. It's his coffee break.
[Sally:] Southmead are quite good actually. I've had dealing with them before.
[Betty:] Oh yeah.
[Sally:] . Cos that's er, they do as well. That was simple
[Betty:] Oh... after all that.
[Sally:] Simple. Right. Fill out part B, explain you don't own the bike. You haven't owned it for over a year. You can't remember the exact date etcetera etcetera etcetera.... And who you sold it to.
[Rose:] Bullshit bullshit bullshit
[Sally:] Yep.
[Rose:] Yeah.
[Betty:] She just puts March ninety eight and then leave it at that.
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Sally:] What about April Julie? Cos you couldn't remember if it was March or April if you remember on that M O T certificate.
[Betty:] Oh well. It doesn't matter.
[Sally:] Which cup's mine? The one in the blue?...
[Rose:] I thought they sorted it out
[Sally:] Granddad! Is this one mine?
[Rose:] The pink one.
[Sally:] Thank you.
[Rose:] Shut up will you.
[Betty:] That's nice innit? Can't be brain dead
[Rose:] That's what I mean, that's why she's brain dead innit?
[Sally:] Oh that's nice innit Julie! I'll get him back
[Rose:] Get him back.... Ooh!
[Sally:] just now.
[David:] walk around with that bag all the time do you?
[Sally:] I'm freezing. You cold?... It is cold.
[Betty:] Oh I'm lovely and warm, I'm frozen.
[Sally:] I'm frozen. Oh you're nice and warm. I'm bloody freezing.
[Rose:] I don't care. I'd go to court to stick up for myself. Besides anyway I don't even know
[Sally:] Betty got I virtually
[Rose:] One of the girls might treat you? To a perm.
[Sally:] Yeah but it's, you sh innit?
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Anybody, anybody gonna treat her to a perm three pound?
[speaker007:] A what?
[Betty:] Perm.
[speaker007:] It's five pound altogether.
[Betty:] Five pound.
[speaker007:] No answer she's got it all on tape.
[Betty:] Oh! [LAUGHTER]
[Sally:] She's got the bleeding tape on again. Sally volunteered didn't you Sal?
[Rose:] No.
[speaker007:] Christmas tree. One pound fifty nine it was.
[Betty:] Christmas tree?
[speaker007:] Yeah Christmas tree. And it's that big.
[Betty:] Oh my god
[speaker007:] really nice.
[Sally:] I keep forgetting that bloody tape's on.
[speaker007:] One fifty nine.... decorations. They were expensive down Woolworths but they were nice. quality. Oh James
[Betty:] Yes Julie was telling me last night.
[speaker007:] James. Sharon's fellow James.... You don't know him he's in the army. Got pictures of him though.
[Betty:] You've seen him here.
[Rose:] worked for Wimpey.
[speaker007:] Oh Wimpey. He's gone a bit podgy in the face. Has he? Definitely, yeah. He said he was coming out though didn't he Yeah but he had to come out
[Sally:] You haven't pinched my fags have you?
[David:] No I haven't
[Sally:] I just thought I'm sure I had more than that.
[David:] I haven't pinched your fags love.
[speaker007:] He's laughing.
[Betty:] I wonder if you'll hear, er get a phone call this morning....
[Sally:] I kept biting the... biting the sellotape off last night. I said to your mum I haven't got... I must have cut something and I'm pshht the blood went everywhere all
[Rose:] I wonder if
[speaker007:] What're you laughing at Bet?
[Rose:] send him that back. I won't hear any more about that bloody
[Betty:] Look! Posh or what!...
[speaker007:] Mhm. [LAUGHTER] Very funny. He's gonna get me something else for Christmas day. I've got him a wax coat. What, one of them ones? Twenty quid.
[David:] He's getting her a book.
[speaker007:] Yeah that's cheap innit?
[David:] Getting her a book that shows you how to tell the time.
[speaker007:] They used to be bloody thirty odd quid, forty odd quid. You get them on the market for seventeen ninety nine. Nineteen ninety nine I paid. What is it? A wax one you got him with wax on you got one of them. Why? You'd have got one with, without the wax, the waterproof one. They wax one gets on all the clothes. That wax.... Yeah it does. Gets on all the clothes. That's horrible. Our Ashley had a wax jacket
[Betty:] Yeah he did.
[speaker007:] didn't he? It's got on all the girls' sch sch school stuff.... No I honestly think you had the waterproof. I don't think you had the wax. Didn't I?
[Betty:] Felt waxy though.
[speaker007:] Yeah but it feels waxy, that's the waterproof but you can see the wax. Chuck it. bleeding horrible.
[Betty:] He likes it anyway. He's parading up and down in it.
[speaker007:] Don't get the wax one. Gets on all your clothes and everything. And stuff that's white it stains. He bought the girls a bloody great not, well... it's like that sort of thing but it's a big one. Now what thing we looking at Oh yeah thank you. And they're about that big and it's that long. And it can take,ta No not a. Like they used to have years ago. You used to have one didn't you? Years ago.
[Betty:] Well I was thinking, yeah cos I
[speaker007:] Radio cassette sort of thing
[Betty:] Yeah yeah
[speaker007:] but it's a bloody great big one. He bought it for twenty five quid. It's only a year old.
[Betty:] That's alright then.
[speaker007:] But they're. I think it's a Sony or something. They're bloody Cos you could, you don't have to have a tape recorder. Like... a thing. It's got built in tape recorders or something?
[David:] Built in mike
[speaker007:] microphone
[Betty:] Why away?
[speaker007:] Might have been the mike. Microphone isn't it. They're taking it away so was doing a tape for grandma and granddad and Keith was going, he was going hello grandma and granddad it's Kenny you know like the three of them and he was going, whoop whoop whoop oh da! And it would start again and they were singing all lovely and they'd get half way through the tape and he was going yeow yeow. [LAUGHTER] He was doing it all the while and they went Keith! And then they was eating their supper so just want another piece of bread, and they'd nearly finished the tape. And he went [clearing throat].
[Betty:] Oh!
[speaker007:] Goodbye he was going and don't say that. And he had to say something on the bloody tape didn't he?
[Betty:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] Where's me fucking presents he was going, you bastard! Oh my god. [LAUGHTER] The kid was going mental. He was jumping up and down and going.
[Betty:] Typical innit?
[speaker007:] Oh dear.
[Betty:] Bloody typical bloke that is.
[speaker007:] Have you hid all that booze?
[Betty:] Yeah. It's down here and in there.
[speaker007:] Good. Don't put it
[Betty:] No that's what I said, we moved
[speaker007:] bloody sees it. Yeah.
[Betty:] He said they'll think it's a hamper then, know it is a bloody hamper when they see the food about. So have to... hide it up in the wardrobe.... Stick it down with sellotape so no bugger can't open it.
[speaker007:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Put the ironing board in front. I got cushions up there so I put them on the top.
[speaker007:] Yeah I don't think Tom would go up there anyway.
[Betty:] I don't know!
[speaker007:] Well you know what I'm like with those
[Betty:] And if she's called round she goes looking for a cardigan or something on.
[speaker007:] I told she's got another twenty eight days. He said oh that's good then. in the box.
[Betty:] . Twenty eight days coming round.
[speaker007:] Pardon me!
[Betty:] At least er, they'll get their Christmas over here.
[speaker007:] That's it, yeah.
[Betty:] I know you do. Wednesday. The girls are going with Sally and the boys are going Thursday
[speaker007:] No Wednesday.
[Betty:] Wednesday.
[speaker007:] Wednesday.
[Betty:] On Wednesday night that's right. Then
[David:] No. Pass.
[speaker007:] [noise background] And what else Bet?
[Betty:] Erm...
[speaker007:] You do realize... it doesn't finish till half past nine don't you? That's alright. Cos they've got
[Betty:] Oh you, you're talking about.
[speaker007:] get up alright?
[Betty:] Gonna take in a club after, alright?... Give or something.
[speaker007:] Yeah I don't think he will. If he plays up you shout at him right. He won't play up. You worry too much. He's good when he's out away from his mother like all other kids. Only plays their mums up. [talk simultaneous]
[Betty:] Oh they gotta go in erm... in the canteen haven't they?
[speaker007:] Eh? Have they been getting any?
[Betty:] No. Cos I like that. Makes a change for her doesn't it.
[speaker007:] wondering what I was doing on the twenty seventh. Was I working or having a day the day off.
[Betty:] Oh God. Anyway we've got all that to come next Wednesday
[speaker007:] what. You in or out?
[Betty:] Saturday and Sunday are taken up. Monday we're going out for dinner.
[David:] No that's Sunday.
[speaker007:] that Monday is that?
[Betty:] Yeah on that Monday we're going off
[speaker007:] Are you working the Saturday? Yeah.
[David:] Where are you going? Where's Sally going?
[speaker007:] I'll show you what I'm going to do. No I'm not worried about what you're working up there. I want to know what you're working down here. Yeah but I can work it out can't I? Erm... Thursday Friday Saturday That's right innit? The Monday. Got Sunday Monday Tuesday off. So I'm working Wednesday Thursday night and that's it. That's if Yeah and I don't want to hear about, telling me about that bloody shop. Get down there
[David:] Hey!
[Betty:] Mm. Great got to be over there about half past six.
[speaker007:] Tuesday, Wednesday. The twentieth I'm not working that day Well we could get twenty first. Twenty first I'm not working. Alright, what'd you say?
[Betty:] Well can Clay take me up the bingo?
[speaker007:] Yeah if he's home in time.
[Betty:] Or Kay could take me up bingo I ain't worried.
[speaker007:] Yeah stay in all night. don't we?
[Betty:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] We goes out If you're going to effing bingo and Dave's going to effing bingo, we can all go out up in my car, the girls can... and have to squeeze up in the back of the car. Drop us off and go off to do your bingo. To do your numbers innit? And then come back down and meet us in the club when you've finished.
[Betty:] Well yeah pick you up at twenty past nine
[speaker007:] Yeah, yeah. Meet us in the club. Cos we only go in for one drink to cel, celebrate Penny's birthday with her. Yeah. No worries. The kids are allowed in the club. Yeah. Oh yeah. Did you see? Yeah I seen him last night but not to talk to. Oh. I'd better go.
[Betty:] I know, I'd better go, she'll be needing money. [shouting] Goodbye then [].
[speaker007:] Goodbye.
[Betty:] Let me carry that up to the gates. It's too heavy for you my love.
[speaker007:] No it's alright.
[David:] Are you gonna put a coat on?
[speaker007:] What?
[David:] Are you going to put a coat on?
[speaker007:] I can't sneak off no more look.... Where is it. You've hid it. Oh there it is.
[David:] It's where you put it.
[speaker007:] I thought you hid it.
[David:] four letter word I
[speaker007:] Answer machine only takes quarter of an hour to I thought he hid it Bet. You know what he's like. empty out and if the... automatic stuff don't work. So I've got to be there to fill it back up again. So wherever I go I've only got quarter of an hour. I've only got quarter an hour to go down and have a smoke. I s that was the thing, Dave was moaning about it last night see. So I said... answer me one question then Dave before you run off. He said what? I said who gives me a. Well nobody. I said well then thank you very much.
[Sally:] You are gonna speak Maggie.
[Maggie:] No I'm not.
[Sally:] You are. You are. You're speaking now. You were.
[David:] First time knew Maggie with her mouth shut.
[Maggie:] Aha. It's not possible keep yours shut that's for sure.
[Sally:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] insulted him.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER] Where's bleeding Bradleyscope?
[Sally:] Bradleyscope is near Craig's school place.
[speaker007:] Oh that's not too bad.
[Betty:] It's cold in here innit?
[Maggie:] tape on here.
[Sally:] Got to innit, got to use them up.
[Betty:] Got to use them up yeah. Got to get my twenty five quid haven't I?
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] decided on where
[Sally:] Er?
[Betty:] You ought to take the very first one round to Maggie's next time you go round there. And play it back to her.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Betty:] Oh it's hilarious
[Maggie:] Better not.
[Betty:] honest to god it is hilarious. You always Googie's voice very prominent. Mine sounds like sandpaper. Terrible.
[Googie:] You telling I've got a big mouth.
[Betty:] Well not really but a a very strong voice.
[Sally:] And mine is.
[Betty:] Yours is strong yes. Well
[speaker007:] It's like the swearing's wonderful.
[Sally:] Shall we give these a ring right. That's the phone number at right?
[Maggie:] Well just don't leave it on when you have a political argument with Billy alright.
[Betty:] Well yeah about that.
[Rose:] Excusez moi s' il vous plais.
[Betty:] Got to talking.
[Sally:] First week of January... if you want have that... okay?
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Sally:] You got to get it out to get it ordered by the first week of January.
[Betty:] Right.
[Sally:] Otherwise
[Betty:] Oh yeah.
[Sally:] Here you are Julie right it's here, okay?... Put a square round it, give it a ring and ask them... I only want the two front seats.
[Betty:] All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, I don't know about two front seats.
[Maggie:] I said to Sally what do you want for Christmas, do you want some chocolates she nearly hit me.
[Betty:] That's not right is it?
[speaker007:] No, they didn't have those little ones. I got you three quarters.
[David:] Anybody got a pen?
[Betty:] Our Julie had a pen. Oh here you are, Sally's got a pen.... I couldn't see the washing when I come out of Googie's and I said I've got washing on that line and I said I can't see no there ain't no washing on that line. She said oh could have took it down the launderette and dried for you. [LAUGHTER] Still on the line.
[speaker007:] I was just about to put some more out. I wasn't going to but I will I think... got to go out there at one o'clock so
[Betty:] I never seen anybody
[speaker007:] Keep your head down.
[Betty:] last night. When you went out. bananas.
[speaker007:] [singing] bananas []
[Maggie:] I think erm... is that that Isobel's dog again? He was out there the other night hanging about a lot so.... She a couple of nights running then.
[Betty:] that's all about. But I'll tell you what they have
[Maggie:] Yeah but even he was gone the other night.
[Betty:] Mm?
[Maggie:] I sat in the front room. I could hear our. And er go out. I don't know what was going on out there, both of them were going out there.
[Betty:] Strange innit?
[speaker007:] Hey. Tell Betty how big that erm thing of Roses was in Woolworths....
[Maggie:] Like that.
[speaker007:] Bloody big.
[Betty:] Was that a jar?
[Maggie:] No it was like a
[speaker007:] No this was a plastic
[Maggie:] it was a plastic container.
[Betty:] What like that?
[speaker007:] Well, like, like
[Betty:] Bloody hell.
[Maggie:] I reckon you could use it as a waste paper basket afterwards.
[Betty:] Blimey. That big.
[speaker007:] I said Mags, look at this!... [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] The girls... Wendy's girls was making a tape last night for their grandma and granddad you know.
[speaker007:] Ah!
[Betty:] And Keith was acting silly and bloody barking like a dog and miaowing like a cat.
[speaker007:] Excuse me. Sally can you. Look you moan about everybody else. Practice what you preach. I don't want to lose Maggie, okay.
[David:] No it's too heavy.
[Betty:] Ooh reckon it's gonna snow don't they.
[Maggie:] That's what Dave was just saying
[Betty:] No that's not.
[Maggie:] I'll never get up on the wagon.
[speaker007:] Well just hope... just pray and hope that the temperature don't go up slightly. Cos if it does then it will.
[Betty:] Well they forecast don't they?
[speaker007:] well no if it's cold then all of a sudden the temperature will suddenly rise. And that's the time when you get snow.
[Betty:] It's not. We don't have no snow February do we?
[speaker007:] So did they all have fun nosing at your hamper when it was brought in?
[Betty:] Well I came back from coffee and it was nearly put away.
[Maggie:] Did she tell you about my
[Betty:] Oh dear. sagging is he?
[Maggie:] She said Maggie you're not gonna leave that cupboard like that are you. I said... why what's wrong with it? She said you stand here and have a look.
[Betty:] Mm goodness. got ours down there and in here.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Betty:] You got to hide all the booze away here.
[Sally:] Had to hide We've had to hide the booze.
[Betty:] Donna'll be here next week.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] Now is that supposed to mean something!
[Betty:] Say no more innit?
[speaker007:] Yeah but David's coming with her.
[Betty:] And a mate of his as well and the kids.
[Sally:] So that's it. The booze has got hid.
[Betty:] Got to hide everything away.
[Sally:] And Clayton's not allowed to open his big mouth.
[speaker007:] Put it in the shed and lock it up. out of sight all your tins and glasses.
[David:] Yeah. outside like.
[Sally:] Yeah. I er... I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so.
[Betty:] Veronica came up didn't she yesterday to see where her er... has Sally got her stuff please. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Good grief.
[Betty:] And I said no she hasn't. I said she can't get in to the shop. Not this week. Well it's tough.
[Maggie:] she told me there ain't no wo, no point going in now before for the night anyway because everything's so dear.
[Betty:] That's it. get's a list
[Maggie:] Well that's it. I just get what I can.
[Sally:] Yeah well it's cheaper for us anyway.... Cos they'll try and sell it... most of it off anyway because they have their stocktaking.
[Betty:] They'll restock won't they in the new year? To start off again I suppose.
[Sally:] Yeah. They try and get as rid of as much as possible.
[David:] Do you wanna cake Maggie?
[Maggie:] No thank you Dave.
[David:] Sure? Mag?
[Maggie:] Quite sure thank you.
[Sally:] polite to you isn't he? What's wrong with he?
[Betty:] Here you are, you can sit here
[Maggie:] Well being as he tried to squash me twice behind the back door. He's got to be polite. Then
[David:] Didn't squash your arse behind the back door. There isn't enough room.
[Maggie:] Hush up you. He stuck his cold angle down my neck.
[Rose:] Oh why is it every time I sit somewhere he's always got to sit somewhere near me.
[Betty:] Well
[Maggie:] Like on the bus. He loves you Julie.
[Sally:] Rover Listen to this [reading] Rover. Three point five A P V reg. Sixty seven thousand miles. Eleven months M O T Excellent throughout one thousand five hundred and ninety five pound. []
[David:] Eh? What reg?
[Sally:] For V reg
[David:] V?
[Sally:] . I think they've put the one in front don't you as a mistake? [LAUGHTER]
[David:] Must be in bloody marvellous condition for that price.
[Sally:] Must look brand new.... Well look at this then. [reading] Rover three five S E auto. Electric windows, mirrors. stereo. computer. Rear seat belts, alloy wheels, tow bars, eleven months M O T, five months' tax. All in good condition []
[Maggie:] Course I've only got the one catalogue.
[Betty:] I asked for them didn't I?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Googie:] Don't know where it is.
[Maggie:] You been and thrown my catalogue out. I only had two.
[David:] What catalogue?
[Maggie:] My hampers.
[Betty:] Hampers.
[David:] I haven't seen your catalogue.
[Betty:] Well it was with the one
[Googie:] Oh
[David:] upstairs.
[Sally:] Jesus. That's not bad is it?
[speaker007:] No.
[Betty:] hopeless.
[Sally:] [reading] Rover three five s.e. W reg m.o.t. and tax
[Betty:] No.
[Sally:] four ninety two. Metallic blue, leather interior auto, alloyed... twin socket towbar and sunroof. Good all round condition. offer. Or small car with tax and M O T taken in part exchange. []
[Betty:] They're economizing.
[Maggie:] Economizing be buggered. No good if you can't see what you're gonna get in them is it?
[Betty:] because... you got to get plenty of stuff haven't you after Christmas.
[Sally:] [reading] Vauxhall bodywork new tyres excellent condition good offers four door car. Preferably escort. []
[Betty:] Oh my goodness. That's good. Gracious. You ain't gonna run out now. I know where to come if I run out of tea bags.
[speaker007:] Oh god.
[Maggie:] are we expecting a siege or something.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] You never know.
[Betty:] Well that's it. You don't do you. I mean if we have ten foot of snow and can't get out.
[speaker007:] No I've got book of stamps from, from Iceland so I can fr fill my freezer up as well.
[Betty:] Mhm. With her stamps what she had from Asda or Boots she bought her Christmas presents. That was a good ideal wasn't it? Instead of buying food.
[speaker007:] That's a good idea yeah yeah.
[Betty:] Cos you've paid for the
[Sally:] Cos he was in a filthy mood last night wasn't he? God he had it about him.
[Maggie:] Yes. walking around with a chip on his shoulder.
[speaker007:] Yeah. A chip on his shoulder.
[Maggie:] told him if he didn't... wake up and be a bit more... happy I was going to knock it off.
[Betty:] Oh upset him. You?
[Maggie:] Police.
[Betty:] Oh well that's nothing is it.
[Maggie:] No seat belt, he got stopped for it yesterday.
[speaker007:] He never?
[Betty:] Oh. Course they bloody tighten. Oh right on bloody Christmas.
[Maggie:] I know. It's his own fault. He's still driving around in that one now. He'll get stopped again. He likes it.
[Betty:] Oh well. How much fine is that? Or is it a warning.
[Maggie:] No. Fixed penalty innit? It's always that pound.
[speaker007:] Thirty pound.
[Maggie:] Thirty is it?
[speaker007:] Think. Oh my god. Not telling him that.
[Betty:] Thirty pound? Over Christmas.
[speaker007:] I ain't telling him that.... I ain't telling him that. Ah but you pay on the spot.
[Maggie:] No.
[speaker007:] Oh no sixty pound then. Fifty pound three points on your licence.
[Betty:] Don't be so soft.
[speaker007:] [shouting] Fifty pound three points on your licence. [] They were doing it down the road here done the other week. Thirty pound on the spot. Fifty pound, three points.
[Betty:] Oh
[Maggie:] What for no seatbelt?
[speaker007:] No seatbelt. the copper stopped erm
[Sally:] They were stopping everybody who was going to market without
[speaker007:] Yeah
[Sally:] a seatbelt.... Thirty pound on the spot, fifty pound three points.
[Maggie:] Well I ain't gonna tell he that.
[Sally:] no L plates displayed. And that's a thirty six pound on the spot fine.
[Betty:] Oh my goodness.
[speaker007:] tell him that.
[Maggie:] Don't tell him Sal will you.
[Betty:] No just don't... ignore it.
[Maggie:] Let... let through the door.
[speaker007:] You got worse things.
[Betty:] Oh my god when I hear his Bloody awful innit?
[Maggie:] He thinks it's sixteen pounds.
[Betty:] Well he said ah sixteen quid, well ah ah ah ah.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Sally:] He was saying they can't do their job they can't go out and get these proper bloody criminals
[speaker007:] Well it's true.
[Betty:] It is true innit?
[Sally:] pick on me. I thought oh god here we go.
[speaker007:] Were you there were you?
[Sally:] Yeah
[speaker007:] You were sat in the back seat were you?
[Sally:] Well not not when he got pulled but he... I was sat in the backseat when he was pissy. He was talking about it and he can get really pissy.
[speaker007:] Then we goes in the garage. Well... have you tried to park in the garage at Don't bother. It is so narrow. There's no room to manoeuvre and we got no lock on our car. You should have seen the state he was getting in when he... cos he couldn't get round the bloody corner.... Found it hard to get our Cortina round. so heavy.
[Sally:] Listen to this [reading] Rover three five manual, alloy wheels. No m.o.t. or tax. Two hundred and fifty pounds. []
[Maggie:] cos it's an old car.
[speaker007:] Mind you. He enjoyed coming out with us last Saturday didn't he?
[Maggie:] Oh he... well yeah. He was getting
[speaker007:] D'you go round and round. To go down? loving that.
[Maggie:] Oh my god. foot on the brakes [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] Oh I was, yesterday that... well... was it yesterday? Yeah yesterday night. I was following a car home. I know it was a learner like and obviously it was her first time out. She mounted the pavement three times. Oh. Anyway. He was coming along, there was a push-bike in front. I said to him watch this now she'll sit all the way right to the end behind him.... She did. So anyway we come up to the roundabout and... she never. She just had to turn out, and there was nothing coming down, foot down, opened up, got... I was at the top of the hill and she was nowhere in sight. I thought them poor cars behind me.
[Betty:] Oh.
[speaker007:] Because she was terrible.
[Betty:] We went out Saturday night. We got up the top there. Up here... where... up you know going up towards like Wellings way. And a bloody car was in front like that.... We was here
[speaker007:] [shouting] Oi! That's my fucking tea []
[David:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Ah. Oh.... Language! [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] No good saying oh!
[David:] . Julie said here's your tea here.
[Rose:] No I never.
[David:] You did!
[Rose:] Well I didn't say for you.
[David:] You did love.
[Rose:] No I never.
[speaker007:] Don't [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Oh well. Anyhow. As we were saying....
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Car in front. We're here. Car here. And he just decides to pull over like that doesn't he?
[David:] No he pull outwards from there.
[Betty:] Well explain.
[David:] He was stopped. He pulled out
[Betty:] That's right pulled in.
[David:] Pull in. Then he pushed straight out.
[speaker007:] Oh no.
[Betty:] Didn't to indicate he was coming out.
[David:] signals or nothing. Just pushed out. He must ha, he was looking, somebody looking for a house. Realized it wasn't there.
[Betty:] Didn't bother to look in the mirror see what on behind.
[David:] Just pulled straight out.
[speaker007:] So David was
[David:] jolly happy weren't they, that lot?
[Betty:] [singing] da da da da []
[Maggie:] Yeah I'll bet.
[David:] Yeah nearly on that bend as well. You know as you go round...
[Maggie:] Mm.
[David:] Where Terry used to live.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Some crackpots on the road mind isn't there?
[Maggie:] It's like on that bike Pick our Dan at Saltford look. Go up the roundabout. Straight on down there and straight towards The Globe on the corner?
[Betty:] Oh I know, yeah.
[Maggie:] And coming back the other way. He always cuts somebody up along there because they're going too fast. You see they see a straight road on the outside lane. Go straight down decides to indicate and decide to pull over.
[Betty:] Honest I hate that. I gets all nervous. If we get too near a car I think oh my god. Sometimes they're so unpredictable.
[Maggie:] He does it on purpose
[Betty:] I mean it's your fault
[Maggie:] No he does it on purpose. People go too fast down the outside lane anyway....
[Betty:] Oh I don't know.
[Maggie:] Never mind.... Right. Let's go round and put my washing out.
[Betty:] Better go and... sort that. Missed me programme I hadn't put it on this morning. I'm just getting worse. It's just getting worse and worse.
[Maggie:] Not with it Betty. Not with it dear. That's all it is. Right then.
[Betty:] I've got no interest. That's what it is. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] See you later.
[David:] Cheerio Mags.
[Betty:] Cheerio my love. Have fun Mags. Bye my love.
[speaker007:] Bye [coughing] Cough it up won't you or what.
[Betty:] Unloosened, undone innit?
[Sally:] Yeah. Bigot.... narrow mind....
[Betty:] So all the two's
[Sally:] If you're narrow minded your
[Wendy:] Zealot.
[speaker007:] [whispering] zealot. []
[Betty:] Yeah.... ta... So let's get to eighteen then. [reading] Greedy [].... something, it could be... H U... N G R Y. Hungry?
[Sally:] Yeah. Could be.... Greedy, you're hungry aren't you?
[Betty:] [reading] Eager to be susp suspended on railway [].... Hung. hungry. So it is er... D O H. doh....
[Sally:] what was the clue for
[Betty:] About music.... Money... connected dough innit, money?
[Wendy:] Yeah, dough, dosh.
[Betty:] Mm.
[Sally:] And it's a deer.
[Betty:] There it is, there's D A R I N G. Daring isn't it?
[Wendy:] Yeah....
[David:] You don't think did you?
[Betty:] And nineteen, [reading] old time dance [], ends in an a.
[Wendy:] Old time dance.
[Betty:] So it's not sa samba or
[Wendy:] yeah.
[Betty:] Could be cha cha.
[Wendy:] The cha cha.
[Betty:] [reading] Leave rearranged to take in west end dance []....
[Sally:] Where's the cha cha come from?...
[Betty:] V A R E T and A.... [shouting] David [].
[Sally:] He's come in his chair. I thought he was getting ready that's why I sat in your chair. sitting here.... Bet, tell your husband....
[Betty:] [whispering] []... What's fourteen down then? [reading] Detergent [].
[Wendy:] Bleach?
[Betty:] No. N something r on the end. Cleaner.
[Wendy:] Cleaner.... It ain't cha cha then is it?
[Betty:] No....
[David:] Foxtrot.
[Betty:] valeta V A L E T A.
[David:] Put the kettle on.
[Wendy:] here anyway.
[Betty:] Try twenty. [reading] pierce [].... A something t two something. Ah. [reading] put name down to make record []....
[Sally:] And guess what my group's in here.... Somewhere.
[Betty:] Do you know what pierce is?... Enter.
[Sally:] For explanation of dancing right, got [reading] dance ball, mask, masquerade,
[Betty:] Perhaps it's valeta. Erm valeta.
[Sally:] fancy dress?... hot jam session, ballet, ballet dancing, classical ballroom dancing, choreography and the Eurhythmics [].
[Wendy:] Ah.
[Betty:] Ordain. Ordain.
[Sally:] Yeah. So Eurhythmics means dancing.
[Betty:] Ordain a priest so what do you go, ordain.
[David:] What's that. What's that.
[Betty:] Crossing.... [reading] England's opening pair perform by degree []....
[Wendy:] Ordain yeah.... could be.
[Betty:] What about tension? Six letters, A something on the end.... [reading] Family goes to the sound of music []..... Encourage. What do you do if you encourage somebody? Could be a palling
[David:] What?
[Betty:] Palling. Paling?
[David:] There's no such
[Betty:] Paling it's what it is. Because that's how you pronounce it
[Sally:] But
[Betty:] Losing colour, you're paling.... Aren't you?
[Sally:] Pale, paling, yeah.
[speaker007:] Mm
[Sally:] that erm ordain is edict. E D I C T....
[Betty:] So we want ten across [reading] pension []. A something N on the end.... That's it. [reading] Family go to the sound of music [].
[David:] Opera.
[Sally:] No. Erm. Theatre.
[Betty:] No.
[Wendy:] Go to....
[Betty:] We don't know.
[speaker007:] Gosh.
[David:] What's that there?
[Betty:] G.... Gore. What do you say oh gosh, oh gore, oh?
[Wendy:] Got?
[Betty:] God you say sometimes.
[Wendy:] God.
[David:] What's that
[Betty:] [reading] Golly sounds like half a horse.
[David:] What's that?
[speaker007:] What she's doing.
[Betty:] Encourage. If you encourage what do you do?... Encourage you to come up here, what do I do?... Say oh come on out.
[speaker007:] Invite
[Betty:] Yes you got it. Invite.... [reading] Stir up order book perception []. I N
[David:] Gee. You gee gee innit?
[Betty:] V I T E
[David:] Gee gee.
[Betty:] It's gee. G double E. Gee. Horse.
[David:] horse.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Gee gee.
[Betty:] That's it.
[Wendy:] Invite? Was it?
[Betty:] Yeah. I like it.... So that er... th [reading] expression of regret []... is L
[Wendy:] Oh it's love innit?
[Sally:] Yeah
[Betty:] Short of twenty four hours. Short of twenty four hours then what a pity.
[David:] It's the best we can get.
[Betty:] Some other day innit? No. No it's gotta be A. Twenty four hours is a day.... Expression of regret.... Could get the seven down cereal, we might be able to get somewhere. end in an A
[Sally:] cornflakes you got weetabix you got shredded wheat.
[Wendy:] Bran flakes.
[David:] Is that, is that the right cereal?
[Betty:] Yes. Not a serial in a, in a television it's a C.
[David:] Cereal....
[Betty:] [reading] Tiny particle holds key to shower [].
[Sally:] Tap....
[David:] How's cereal spelt?
[Betty:] C E R E A L. Cereal. Like oats and bran and that sort of thing.
[Wendy:] And what does it end with?
[Sally:] It's got to be an N.
[Betty:] N. Yeah.... Weetabix cornflakes shredded wheat
[Sally:] Not bran?... No not enough is it B R... Is it bran?
[Betty:] No No....
[Wendy:] Sultan what is it the all bran, it has sultanas on it.
[speaker007:] That bloody thing... all sorts.
[Betty:] Fruit and fibre.... erm... there's cornflakes isn't there?
[Wendy:] Muesli? No.
[Betty:] All bran.... Oh stupid.
[Wendy:] Shredded wheat. Sugar puffs. Puffed wheat.... Cocoa pops [LAUGHTER]. Rice crispies.
[David:] That's not a cereal.
[Wendy:] What?...
[Betty:] Expression of regret. What. Short of twenty four hours what a pity.... Clap.... Hard luck.
[David:] Cereal's corn or wheat.
[Sally:] Bran?
[David:] No that's
[speaker007:] No
[David:] that's coat, that coats straw that dunnit?
[speaker007:] Oats. No. Yes it is.
[Betty:] Mm but I don't like do you?
[David:] Corn, wheat
[Wendy:] What about corn? Not enough?
[Betty:] No. Too many....
[David:] Corn, wheat.
[speaker007:] Barley? No. Barley, corn.
[Betty:] We're so stupid.
[David:] That's not barley?
[speaker007:] B A R L E Y. It's Y on the end.... Oats? Barley...
[David:] Rye....
[Betty:] Don't know.
[speaker007:] You sure it's breakfast cereals?
[David:] No, no it's cereals innit.
[Betty:] Got to be cereal.
[speaker007:] It's not serial on the telly, no?
[Betty:] No, no that, cos that's S... E R I A L. This is C E R E A L.
[speaker007:] Oh.
[Betty:] Tension. Any type
[Wendy:] Frustrated. Angry. Mad.
[Betty:] Yeah.
[David:] Wendy.
[Wendy:] David....
[David:] You got corn... barley, rye... oats...
[Wendy:] Grape.
[David:] No
[Wendy:] Grain.
[Betty:] Yes....
[Wendy:] sorry.
[Betty:] Ah. You got me A for me day. Something love a day, live a day.... Innit? Expression of regret.
[Wendy:] Can't be anything else can it?
[Betty:] No.... Short of twenty four hours what a pity. Love, leave
[Wendy:] Love 'em leave 'em [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Love a day, no something a day. Look it up tomorrow. So all we want is erm two down now. Buck up. Or ten across tension.
[Wendy:] Frustrated aren't you when you're tensed up.
[Sally:] Can't find for tension or buck up.
[Wendy:] Have to leave they till tomorrow Bet.... You done your other crossword? Done the Star yet?
[Betty:] No. I'm gonna do the Star. Haven't done the Star that's a short the Star. [reading] Since Friday's full moon occurs in the area of your horoscope... relating to your hopes, friends and wishes. You should be looking to the future with excitement and anticipation []. But erm
[David:] eating burgers in my tummy.
[Betty:] Oh. [reading] Don't get your hopes too high or let yourself get too carried away after all... you know what people are like []. So don't... What's he doing?
[Wendy:] Taking Julie's coat off.
[Betty:] He ain't an ounce of trouble. Not a bloody ounce that man. [crashing]
[speaker007:] Oh god.
[Betty:] Love her.
[speaker007:] and got the papers....
[Betty:] Aquarius. [reading] Don't be quite so selfish or you might frighten away
[speaker007:] I'm not selfish.
[Betty:] someone you really care about. Relationships are well starred and a new one will turn out to be very important to your future. You are on the threshold of new things []. And Keith's the same as mine [reading] don't be in too much of a hurry today or you could miss something important to your future. If you stop, listen and you may learn something to your advantage that may ease the burden you have been carrying []. Oh no don't tell me he ain't got the sack.
[speaker007:] I've been made redundant.... You got the car Dave?
[David:] Yeah.
[Betty:] Here's our Sally. [reading] money at last seems to be coming in. But if you blow the whole lot on celebrating you will be back to square one. So use your common sense if you are to finish up on top. Go about things in the right way and you won't have the same worries again [].
[Sally:] Ooh.
[speaker007:] What's mine?
[Betty:] Erm [reading] an unexpected kindness will thrill you and also be financially beneficial. This is a particularly good time to consider making major changes either to your job, home or personal life. It may prove traumatic but it'll be worth it [].
[Wendy:] Yes I'm coming. Bye Bet.
[speaker007:] Bye Wendy.
[Betty:] Yeah. Take care.
[speaker007:] Piss off. Piss off. Have you got the, he said he'd got the car. Yeah I got my car Have you got his money? Yeah. Bye.
[Wendy:] Bye.
[Betty:] . Enchant....... [reading] Plenty of space given... plenty of space given. Plenty of room for a place with Cyril Smith on board.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Who the fuck's Cyril Smith when he's out?
[speaker007:] Cyril Smith. That fat bloke.
[Betty:] said that. Ooh yeah.
[speaker007:] Yeah that's right. It's unusual for you.
[Betty:] [reading] Deliberate deception [].
[speaker007:] Billy Liar. Did I tell you Billy Liar got a job.... Did I tell you?
[Betty:] Don't frighten me before Christmas.
[speaker007:] I thought I told you.
[Betty:] No. Where?
[speaker007:] I thought I told you.
[Betty:] Ye but I ne tut. See
[speaker007:] Seventy people went for the job see.
[Betty:] Oh he got it yeah.
[speaker007:] And he got it.
[Betty:] Yeah. He thought he never got it but it come through. Because they chose
[speaker007:] Guess where?
[Betty:] Oh god lot's of choice here.
[speaker007:] Guess.
[Betty:] Where to now.
[speaker007:] Guess where.
[Betty:] In Bristol? in the galleries?
[speaker007:] The B B C.
[Betty:] On the door?... Oh my god!
[speaker007:] I thought I told you last week!
[Betty:] No.
[speaker007:] Sharon stopped me and told me.
[Betty:] B B C!
[speaker007:] Been there two or three weeks.
[Betty:] . Well the pay won't be right too long or something
[speaker007:] yeah
[Betty:] Oh I'll go and see her, see the babies before Christmas.
[speaker007:] Christmas yeah. But he gets on my nerves.
[Betty:] Yeah. Don't want to be bloody stuck up there with he do you? Ah but she can't help it can she but it puts you off going when he's in dunnit?
[speaker007:] That's it. you know pop round five minutes if he was there. you know?
[Betty:] That's it. It's enough innit? Sort of say well I've gotta go now. Ah I bet they're lovely now. The babies.
[speaker007:] I bet she wonders what's happened to her. Bet she thought...
[Betty:] Bet Scott's grown now.
[speaker007:] You think she'd have wrote to me.
[Betty:] Mm.
[speaker007:] Cos you know she usually do if I haven't been round for a while she'll say oh... what's the matter, have I done something wrong or why you haven't been round or... Perhaps she thinks well it's too far to come.
[Betty:] She can't help it see can she?... And she can't get out and about with all them kids can she? I suppose she got, no she's only got the one home, her little baby ain't she the, well he isn't a baby now.
[speaker007:] She got three home hasn't she. There's only one at school.
[Betty:] Oh there's only Scott at school?
[speaker007:] Yeah. I don't know if Shane was starting September.
[Betty:] Oh he's bound to be now. He's at school.
[speaker007:] School I imagine yeah.
[Betty:] And then there's er
[speaker007:] Simon....
[Betty:] Is that that Simon?
[speaker007:] Scott, Shane, Simon and Ben. Yeah.
[Betty:] Yeah. So how old's Ben now? Two?
[speaker007:] No.
[Betty:] He is must be.
[speaker007:] No he must be two in January and the other one's in January I think. Something like that.
[Betty:] Got one must be, one's three, one's two innit? There's only twelve months isn't there between them.
[speaker007:] I haven't seen her for months have I.
[Betty:] As soon as she'd got over one pregnancy she was in it again wasn't she?
[speaker007:] I know.
[Betty:] And it's no good for her to go on and think she's gonna get a little girl is it?...
[speaker007:] Cos when she left here she thought she was pregnant I told you didn't I?
[Betty:] Mm. Like Sharon. She thinks she is and Ann don't know she said I forgot to ask her.
[speaker007:] Who's Sharon?
[Betty:] at Bingo, Sharon. Just had a little baby, Cameron.... He's lovely.
[speaker007:] Sharon No?
[Betty:] No, no. Sharon, she got Carly. Her mother goes in for the bingo. Her mother got a tattoo arm.
[speaker007:] I probably do know her.
[Betty:] Yeah. Cos she said to me she said guess what? I said what. She said I got to go for erm pregnancy test. I said oh fuck me what for? She said well I haven't seen nothing since the baby been born. And I said well you don't if you're breast feeding. Don't always do you?
[speaker007:] No.
[Betty:] And she said oh my god she said I don't know she said Paul's gonna leave me if I'm pregnant again! I said well it's his bleeding fault as well as yours.
[speaker007:] Takes two dunnit?
[Betty:] Yeah. He's erm three... no he's the same age as her baby next door I think. The same age as Denise's little girl. So it's three months or three and a half months.
[speaker007:] That's the only trouble watch David coming
[Betty:] Yeah. Can't see a bleeding thing now sneak round here and listen to our conversation.
[speaker007:] Before we could see him coming in couldn't we? I used to sit there I'd say... shh so and so's [LAUGHTER]
[Betty:] Yeah. Well as long it ain't fucking today. And they usually come on a Wednesday.
[speaker007:] has to go recently.
[Betty:] Well I think they wanted to go with him today. She said is he taking anybody and I said well I expect so. I thought oh my god, what do you say?
[speaker007:] You should have said he's taking
[Betty:] So I said well I said I really don't know but I think so. She said oh well she said I'll... get Sally to get me something before Christmas she said. I think Mary'll want what we've bought.... Well what she bought she gave it all to Mary because she had Ben's birthday party. And it was three, three mothers hired a hall and a cake and everything between them to have three parties. Erm she said well she said there's about bloody fifty kids and three parties. So she said to help Mary out she said I gave her all the sweets and chocolate I had she said so the kids could have something to go over with....
[speaker007:] Hm.
[Betty:] I thought oh well. Shut your mouth Bet. She they're lovely boys. Got lovely manners. And so quiet. Course I brought them up she said.
[speaker007:] Oh yeah what did she stay long Monday?
[Betty:] Yeah. She didn't go till about...
[speaker007:] Cos I was more or less going as she come in.
[Betty:] What did I do for tea? Nothing. David done it. He us come out here twice to st start. And in the end he just banged the top of the bleeding cooker up and. Cos they had had bacon. They had eggs, bacon, beans tomatoes mushrooms and fried bread.
[speaker007:] You had chops last night didn't you?
[Betty:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] What you doing tonight? I'm doing chicken pieces.
[Betty:] I've got nothing. Don't know what to do, I've got nothing....
[speaker007:] You usually got something in.
[Betty:] Got a tin of corned beef I could open. I could do some potatoes I suppose boiled potatoes. Or I could open some tins of potatoes and he'll fry them with corned beef and beans.
[speaker007:] I thought you usually get your stuff in for the week?
[Betty:] Well I do but I've used me chops... and er I bought anything. The fishfingers we threw a whole box out last week because we never used them. Erm out because we didn't use them.
[speaker007:] What a waste.
[Betty:] Ooh we got plenty of cheese. I could do a cheese and potato pie
[speaker007:] potato pie.
[Betty:] tonight. Yeah that's easy innit?
[speaker007:] Mm.
[Betty:] No I done it bloody last week. He was late in. And I left it on the side instead of leaving it in the grill. And it got dry. And he come in, he said what's this? I was just going to bingo. What's this up here? I said well that's your tea. He said I don't bloody want that. I said all you've got to do is put in the microwave two minutes that'll do it I thought oh my goodness. Fucking microwave.
[speaker007:] He never!
[Betty:] So I thought oh shut up. When I come back from bingo he said I went up the shop up the... chip shop he said and got some fish and chips for my tea. I said well tough you'll pay for it now. Bloody hell. He said I'd rather have had two tins of vegetable soup, he said with a nice pot of potatoes. That would have suited me that and a loaf of bread.... He said I had chips for my dinner. I don't want chips for my dinner. I said I don't never co I haven't cooked a chip since bleeding, all year.
[speaker007:] No.
[Betty:] I said I told you if you want chips you go down the chip shop.
[speaker007:] Chip shop.
[Betty:] He said well he said I had Kentucky dinner time he said. So I said well I said a pity [coughing] innit? I said your fucking fault. I said if you don't want, I said what I got here. That's fucking tough. And he said. Don't get your pissy head on with me. I said you've go your pissy head
[speaker007:] Your pissy head
[Betty:] on with me. I'm your mother. This is my home now please fuck off. He went tut. Anyway in the next breath he said erm about some supper then? I said want some supper? He was laughing. I told him put the bleeding crumpets in the bloody toaster again.
[speaker007:] And put the alarm on?
[Betty:] Oh my god it was like a, well it was like a fog out here. Thick black evil fog.
[speaker007:] He was dipping them in his tea yesterday. Do you see him?
[Betty:] No, he always do that, dirty swine.
[speaker007:] . He dips everything, don't he?
[Betty:] Mm. It's a horrible habit he's got into. My
[speaker007:] He's always done it.
[Betty:] Or is this mine.
[speaker007:] Uh Uh.
[Betty:] where did he get these from then?
[speaker007:] That's yesterdays. This is todays what he's bought.
[Betty:] Oh that's right. Of course. Oh you silly cow.
[speaker007:] That's what he got from the post, I bet he bought two of them.
[Betty:] Yeah I bet, I bet he bought more than that He never brought me back no money. Where's me money gone.... I bet he took it.
[speaker007:] Oh dare!
[Betty:] Oh that silly sod. Oh. I said to him this morning I said what sick joke's this?... I said what joke's this. He said what joke's what? I said you should have brought back ninety five pounds he said it's ten pounds extra.
[speaker007:] When was that, today?
[Betty:] Mm.
[speaker007:] He's a crafty
[Betty:] I said to him there's fifty, well there's sixty one pound I think on there. He said well I had to get fags and papers and... petrol. I said what? He said well erm, that's it. I said do you realize we owe Julie fifteen pound and she wants it today. We borrowed it to go out with. Well you'll have to pay her won't you.... I thought well, I don't know. He's hopeless.
[speaker007:] Why does she want it today, I mean you got to pay it back
[Betty:] Well yes. So she said give me thirteen didn't she. Cos she owed me two.
[speaker007:] I don't know.
[Betty:] Yeah. So I give her thirteen. And that's what she said I might as well go with David. Sally don't want to go, I got thirteen pounds. So that was that. I mean she went up and got that out of her bank for us to go out with Monday because we had no money.
[speaker007:] Oh yeah cos I got you your fags didn't I?
[Betty:] That's right.
[speaker007:] But I didn't bring the papers cos I
[Betty:] Not paid you yet mind.
[speaker007:] No.
[Betty:] I don't know whether I ought to have my hair permed this week but I couldn't really afford it.
[Rose:] Can't you? You should do it next week then.
[Betty:] Yeah what
[Rose:] We'll see how we get on tomorrow. I could always do it and then pay me next week couldn't you?
[Betty:] Don't really want to do that.
[speaker007:] But you know I don't worry do I.
[Betty:] No I know but
[speaker007:] I says that to Mrs she said I'll see if I can afford one before Christmas. So I said well don't bloody worry she said but I couldn't do that.
[Betty:] It'd worry me.
[speaker007:] Don't worry. You know I don't worry.
[Betty:] I'm not in a very strong position anyway
[speaker007:] I asked one of they didn't I?
[Betty:] Yeah nobody said yes did they?
[speaker007:] Ask Clayton, he'll pay for it. Say give our our some money for doing me hair.
[Betty:] See what he says when he comes in.
[speaker007:] Say... I can't afford to have me hair done this week can you afford to give our Wendy some money? I says to him it's only five quid he said ah.
[Betty:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] It's not half as much as she charges in her shop.
[Betty:] Mhm
[speaker007:] I couldn't do that. I couldn't be nasty and do that.
[Betty:] He got to buy the lovely a present. He said what can I buy her mum? What can I buy her I said I don't bloody know.
[speaker007:] Necklace?
[Betty:] He said she got rings, she got necklaces, she got two or three watches. He said she got everything imaginable. She got erm bleeding leather jacket and she got a bloody
[speaker007:] Take her down the town.
[Betty:] What I said. He said no, he said no I'll put some money in her car and say get something yourself. I said well that'd look nice. He said well I don't know mum.
[speaker007:] Keith was gonna buy me eternity ring then he said oh I'll buy you a watch instead. So he bought I the watch.
[Betty:] Nice innit?
[speaker007:] I said I don't really want eternity ring because I can't get it on me finger. Me finger's are so small. If I put another ring on it cuts like that one.
[Betty:] Oh.
[speaker007:] And it cuts right in my fingers.
[Betty:] Can't wear three isn't it?
[speaker007:] Can you?
[Betty:] no.
[speaker007:] Can't wear three because it cuts in my fingers.
[Betty:] I wants my others. I've had them stretched once, I wants them stretched again cos I've got a beautiful ring up there and I never puts them on. He complains when we goes out. He says I bought you that bloody dress ring ye bloody years back. Why don't you wear it? I said well it's too tight. Get it stretched. I've already had it stretched once, it might break.
[speaker007:] Yeah. Doubt if you'll be able to have it done again....
[Betty:] I wanted a P but an O. An O my finger is. And he'd listen? Instead of letting me try it on... first. No. He listens to that bleeding stupid Debbie. She stuck it on her bleeding finger. She said I got fat fingers that'll do. And it wasn't no good it. He's starting work tomorrow
[speaker007:] Who? Yeah I thought it was to take er Peter to the hospital.
[Betty:] No
[speaker007:] You've got it wrong again. They've got a Tanners Court.
[Betty:] Tennis Court?
[speaker007:] Tanners Court. Tanners Court.
[David:] Tanners
[speaker007:] Oh I know. I'm would part the there. Yeah be alright there. Yeah be alright at the very. Yeah first day, people find a exit. Well I'm not going out with. No, yeah doing what someone, not taken notice of these. They every time, when he rung up Radio Bristol when I was about having coffee the other morning. For what pensioner they wanted did them. They want something to. To see. Well he's no bleeding good cos he's disabled, he's got one leg down [LAUGHTER] He's gotta start tomorrow afternoon at one. Thursday? Behind eh Superdrug in Bristol. For three weeks? Oh it's a Christmas shop again. Yes. And you want to wrap up warm. Looking for in, in. Yeah Yeah They're gonna have that bit disabled. Oh that's at the back of the gallery. Got at to a Got at the back of the gallery that is. Yeah like you won a rabbit? That. They. round the back of the gallery. The Superdrug is right on the main and they've got a they've got a great big car park now at the back of the new gallery. No listen, you know where Debenhams is? Yes. You come up from Debenhams bit Yes. and you got erm... Turning on the right, you go round back, round the back where there, there, there, you get married. No, no, no, no, no. Ah you innit? No, up Yes, what going towards the post or the other way? No, erm Go past Debenhams. You know where Debenhams is? Yeah. You've got the row of shops haven't you? Yeah. Takes you down to the Littlewoods. Yeah. That's right. But come come back up a little bit Oh I know, yeah. come back up a little bit Yeah. and erm... There's a space down there Oh I know where you mean. You got that? going down to Yeah. British O erm... British Home Stores, British Home Stores haven't you? Home Store, yeah. Then the next, it's the next turning up. Yes. You never see a up that way I never Yeah. It ain't what You never go out. It ain't what [LAUGHTER] Have you got to fit in? Yeah. Have they? And they got a No Can he see her? I got than that. Don't you get p... do they give you petrol money? I don't know. Well they should do for nothing could he? No, our Doug doesn't, our Doug does voluntary work at. Yeah and Yeah. But didn't give me no moneys. Nothing. Get sixty pounds. I've got to phone up Sunday I'll say he can't do it until the spring cos dad's got he suffers with his chest. Yeah but he He goes to this drug unit and helps at the library. Library. Wrap yourself up warm. No he doesn't, no. Dave will, he'll get a free lunch. Oh no Doug don't get anything. Well that. Yeah. . in er... British Home Stores innit? British Home Stores. And a tip. What checking. You might, you might, you never know. come down you've got nothing to. If we come down there, if we come down there, if we come down there to she'd want you to. And don't come a bloody car park don't put the board up. poor chap. Yeah. Ah no. Ah. Now what they see she went. Pensioners. [LAUGHTER] I should have for Christmas. I on the door. [LAUGHTER] When he's getting paid I. [LAUGHTER] He's make sure he's wrapped up warm and feet and all, he's gonna be bleeding c he's gonna be. I'm telling you, you won't have the fire on you'll have the bleeding lot on. [LAUGHTER] Give him a pack of Aspirins I've got a pack here. Er, come up along here. Yeah I know. British Home Stores. Few weeks ago. Oh I know, what time do you want. Don't know. Yeah. When I fourteen months ago. It's about time you started done again. That's what I said. not very clever. If I didn't order and stand up for her you wouldn't. She wants somebody behind her to up her. [LAUGHTER] I know. What did you get off Father Christmas? looking at his sack and he put the bunny in the cellar. Weren't the bloody come down would I? Oh. No you'll get bugger all. Could do what the. Well we'll go down now going to dinner, we're going to dinner with him. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah and we pensioners on the book. Shh. What was the bloody dinner bloody left. I did You did not it was too bloody hot. had my dinner it's just the treacle stuff [LAUGHTER] She gets worse. Why did you have to bring her over Geoff? Eh? Why do you have to bring over, she gets worse,. I don't know she's there half the time. [LAUGHTER] You got the tape on this morning? It's on. What. [LAUGHTER] You better come on I want to know. Do you know what we've tape? Clayton. Oh no. Hooray. [clapping] He can't get in. Yes Clayton. Hello darling.
[Julie:] Morning.
[speaker007:] Hello my darling. It's like a mad house.
[David:] Morning Clayton.
[Julie:] Morning Dave, right.
[speaker007:] I think our flat is just of his own, he comes and goes where he likes.
[Julie:] Does he?
[speaker007:] I settle. Good innit? What you want a bed? then. I said to him Don't make a mess in there. I said to go in and see and I said to him go and see the bear, and with that Dave knocked on the door. I he was only talking to us before you knocked on the door. And I see your poor mother wandering up the town She said. looking for you. Yes er, yes I've seen your mum first time she'll have a. But she won't come in here, I am. I know she didn't, I didn't know before she. [LAUGHTER] No, no, she offered. Very shy my mum. Oh you won't be shy if your mother come in here. [LAUGHTER] No I figured I said don't worry darling, I said, on Thursday I'll clean the fire for you. Oh going back, yeah he's gone back to his work, I said now don't spoil it Kevin for the day. No. Oh you are. Oh you are. today where he can stay at our mum's. gonna get him his dinner bread and cheese You must be joking They'll be over the Legions twelve o'clock. [LAUGHTER] Well there's the open, we could have gone up the. cos he's isn't he? Don't worry about your work. I thought myself, there's her mother wandering about, is she off galavanting with Dave, where the hell she gone. Gone. When, when I see he come back I thought never, he ain't been up Kingswood already, but you haven't been up Kingswood. Course I have. Did you give him a lift and have to go back down? just a bloody job. [LAUGHTER] Why not? at first. No, no I don't want to sit down. He's going in now. I'm, I'm going in a minute. Well he wouldn't work without it. It's very kind of you David, I get people. I. I know you work. He, he'll never gonna see you, we don't. [LAUGHTER], you see I Oh [LAUGHTER] One of these days you'll come out and your tyres' ll be down. Well we thought the tyre was down now, thought we had a flat tyre. Yeah well Well last night I meet You're up early Oh god I knew. Have, I got witness Miss. Okay, do. Come on. What's he do again. Last night left them lights on. Oh never left the bloody window open? Yeah. Yeah. I know she did, I know she did, I'm watching your bloody property. I do, I watch last night. stick up for you to stay there. Well the car went wrong. Hello Danny. Yeah. I went in her bedroom last night, switched the light on, went I thought I'd seen lightning and I thought oh I couldn't have seen lightning, anyway I goes to. I. That's not bad. Bit slow here put the kettle on. Yeah erm I told you I just gonna get the kettle on. Here what she just say? Anyway What's that. When I turn the light off, the only thing is, where the switch is When. looking in the window. So. Put rubbish in my bag. I can't get it off, I can't stop the bleeder. [LAUGHTER] like that and they go round the windows. Anyway I comes out to here and said don't go near that door, open the back door very careful, there's three kids got and then we went out and chase the buggers. Why, unless we can rock the bloody thing release it. Yeah, you wanna. You know who they were? Well I think, I think they. It in erm, well no, no, erm That's the way trying to rock the bloody things this morning. They've got the new. Yeah I think it was he but I be quite sure and I think it was the boyfriend was number thirty, but I don't know other one, right out of the window where the porch is. Tried to push went bit of a shock I think. He went out and he chased them. my way, couldn't see nobody. So, erm. ... I didn't bloody watch them. in the window and the gate. ... like. Yeah. Ooh. My Pete said, my Pete said do you mind that we sat at the table, I said yeah, that's, that's, that's a How do we. [shouting] Quiet man []. we could do it. It'll be alright. Bring them up there. Yeah, he. you mean that quiet gentleman? It's in the garage. Must have his. Heard that. You want to get your. David and I went out the other Wednesday, he said. Yeah. ... He's got me now, so there soon be. Ah, you can argue as much as you want with now. Yeah, worry about that. [singing] We are the labourers, we are the labourer [] policy. You that stupid. [LAUGHTER] If it goes quiet here until a certain person come over. I gotta be that bloody dubious for me to. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] I. yes they will. Where did she go? Oh she went out didn't she? Where did she go drinking out of glasses? Did she? Always got. At least she. Told her and told her and. Oh, [LAUGHTER] He goes there a lot. . Wish I was fifty years younger. I told you that mother three months ago. Yeah, you don't work here, he just says don't you have your finished. You slag me off. Yeah, yeah. You. Yeah but the difference between the two is get stuffed. [LAUGHTER] No, don't tell get worse. He calls us old tarts You. Well you start comes over. I don't. You do. Do not. No you don't, she start, be that. Ah well you no bloody live here do you? I do still. Ah, well, that's a long time ago when there was. Yeah. Well that's the difference. Aye. Well,. Is that why we get on so well? [LAUGHTER] Yeah, yeah. Oh dear. We're the poor. Mixture of. Yeah. He can't help it like that it's funny age. all the. We haven't seen these have we Dean? No wonder they've stitched. this is my old... this is my older sister. same age [LAUGHTER] [cough] What month children they March. You don't have a every day. All is. The day before the day before Keith, yeah, twenty seventh. Yeah. he was created, he wasn't born. Ah on my birthday. What does that pain the backside want coffee? Coffee Craig? Bloody hell that be bloody dark in a minute,. You know, you would never believe it, until she got married she wouldn't say a boo. don't believe it. Ooh, she's every. Oh, you know, when I lived down. see her when she was like a. Oh well big. didn't see nothing. Terrible. Yeah. Went over her mouth. Before I got married I used to go a church twice a day. told me. I was a Sunday school teacher. And I was, I was a [LAUGHTER] I had lovely blue eyes. Yeah, your mother's. [LAUGHTER] Where you met Edna? Where you met Edna? Eh? That's right, that's what talking about. Look at me now, I'm a bloody wreck. He's marvellous. There you are. No, he's marvellous. Eighty one. Eighty one yeah. Yeah, were there. Yeah, were there. Just throwing your orders in. Just throwing your orders in. My dad, our dad's good isn't he for his age? Yeah. Well that women in yours other week that I couldn't do this save, I'm sorry sir but you're under sixty five. Yeah. I just set. I went to order. I said oh my god you've he said aye, if she knew Bert now, he said he'd be dead. Well if I was a nice looking girl again, he'd know me cos I I was very Ah, there. I got that. I got it. I look very these days,, yeah, I know you're all. You're, what? There's nobody else at it. Eh? cracking. cracking your [LAUGHTER] They lived in Road when I was born. Who did? Who was the most looking. Yeah I'd know her. You'd know my mum. You? Yeah. [LAUGHTER] no, that's a compliment, now you can't bloody deny it. Yeah I've been wanting to ask you, what do you think of my little flat then? [LAUGHTER] Eh what be going on then with you two? Oh,. Younger than my. Ah, now. Younger than my toy boy. I always wanted a toy boy. She's toy boy. [LAUGHTER] Ah, but you're a winner when I I'm alright now. But you're, you're good at. It's after him girl you are. Yeah, the night life. Yeah. Who's baking the bleeding bread then? Who's baking the bread? Who's baking the bread then? Lucky baker. Well they on guard, or what? What in a minute. She scares him off. Listen. Every time she walks in this house, she starts him off. the way that bloody Mike sees, some of them do no work over there till he goes back. You mind we eat? No. No, what? morning, woke up with. Then she comes over. Like. I must admit I'd never of dreamed. He said when I come in here first have never this way before. Yeah. When he come in, when he come in here first. want the holiday. You said to er, didn't you Betty? He said that's a nice lady, he said you've got somebody respectful coming here, watch you mouth, didn't he? Aye. He said that to her lover. Say what, look what you've done. I know. [LAUGHTER] Corrupt you, he corrupted me. Who me? I said to his girlfriend, aye, I said to his girlfriend Liar. Can't get a word in without can he? I said to his girlfriend Nobody can. [LAUGHTER] Now you, now you knows why he stays quiet. [LAUGHTER] And bloody get there. I didn't think he swore at. Who? [LAUGHTER] First time I, I I don't you. Fifteen years. I. Fifteen years I've known and that's the first time I've ever heard him swear. Oh my gracious you are. God. You are. Oh my girl. Aye. Oh. Er your memory's just terrible. There's nothing. Swearing at [LAUGHTER] I like to. Yeah, then I. be alright. Looks like that chap in er erm Your. What shop in Watford? and there he is, I seen his hat there on the settee, I started laughing, I, I. Well what's. Well it was on the settee and cos he had his blue hat on. Julie said he went up to bed and she she said he sat his, sat on the bed, went like that and he was snoring. When, when I see him he was on the settee. Don't know how people could go to sleep and. [LAUGHTER] And he had hat on. I toss and turned. Oh, I just wasn't. Oh she'd stay in bed all day. Oh, I could sleep with Oh yeah. I think we'd better get now confusing. Getting a bit I don't think. Eh? Bet the weather's gonna be nicely and wet and cold. You ain't go. Oh, I, I want if I go out tonight. She said [LAUGHTER] But that's a. that's where she started. Getting excited. I know, I told her. When do you and mum want to go? Ah they're dragging you out already. They're sending me out. ... No. Ah. No, they've not come. Oh. They like going out? No, they didn't want to go out. Don't be bloody miserable. going out tonight, I got me, I got me crosswords to do aye, things to do, I got to bath him yet, get all the I haven't done nothing. Yeah, but made my in for a tea. you got one for the. Eh, you got one for. Going outside are you? That thing have come for Heather and Mike. Broomsticks. What, what, yeah. Oh Vilma. Vilma, oh, you got to for. You got. I come over. you see. I should say. [LAUGHTER] No, this is. Do you think. Drink your coffee up. [LAUGHTER] And And I. I tell you what was nice, you know that, you know that, what I bought, that er fruit cake? Yeah. Have a I did on Sunday, it was lovely, really nice. What's? Yeah. Cherry? Try it out. It was like, you know like the piping you get in the tins, only it was in a silver packet and it was beautiful. Oh it was beautiful. Edna does baking. What, what is it cherry? Cherry. Oh cherry. Lots of cherry. isn't that funny for and I'm gonna make one. Yesterday morning on the... cookery up by there you needed some ice cream cake. Yeah I like. Baked Alaska. Ooh. Ooh it's beautiful because Ah Sunday. Ah it's. ... [LAUGHTER] What he'd say? What it he said ... like you to be rid of them. [LAUGHTER] I'd, I went to with my friends on Tuesday and. Yeah. Over to the general public Joe. Miles away. Joe. Open to the general public, so in we go I could now. She's got a bad throat. Who? Listen, went out to this shop with my friend and she's gone deaf, seriously she has. Dora. It was her birthday. Bit like Ike. Sixty six she was, so in we go, and it's got open to the general public, so this man said to her something about I can't serve you I've had a robbery, she said I don't know why they advertise it on the window if he's, if he's not prepared to serve me and when I looked round there was all the taken over, they had a burglary. [LAUGHTER] She found it to be. Oh, perhaps she didn't know eh? she. There's nothing to. He cracked up. Did he? What did it. Then she said what you laughing at. I said they've have a robbery, ooh she went Worth a. Got embarrassed then. When I went round there's all the police doing the finger prints. Ha, ha, ha. [LAUGHTER] Oh I don't like that. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] Serious that is. [LAUGHTER] Well, I I don't know when. No, it's only cos she got a cold. No we're laugh, not laughing at her being deaf, we're laughing at her, the robbery. The robbery. Yeah, but she couldn't hear. Didn't realise. To hear. I thought it was Candid Camera I couldn't stop laughing. I mean my sister phoned me up tell her friend died in the. Listen me Blanche she said, well I knew the truth she said was a friend to me. Yeah, the. I said, yeah. I went and answered who Joseph what bottle does it in? [LAUGHTER] Oh god, my, my sister have been. Laugh, she's worse than me. He was good to me she said [LAUGHTER] What was he doing out an a courier wasn't he? A courier in the bloody army. They were watching his. Neither were. ... He there by now, he got be. Yeah,. Now you, you listen to this, you listen to this, now he was suffering, he had to carry a bloody bottle An oxygen mask. for oxygen and he did drive a car. Yeah. Oh. And there were times when he had to stop the car and put the bloody bottle on him. Get oxygen on and I said to my sister a married bloke. How the bloody hell he's. Anything happening now. [LAUGHTER] He had to stop the car because he had. , yeah, she said she had. ... Could of died in the van. Well he cou well no there's a [LAUGHTER] I don't think it was romance I thought he kept her in chocolates and cigarettes. [LAUGHTER] Ah, she was ever so upset and, he sat there bloody laughing. I shall regard. [LAUGHTER] I said what Indian battled did he die of? [LAUGHTER] I have him on the phone and god she was. Trying to be serious. Alright for you she said sat there bleeding laughing she said. [LAUGHTER] Cos you've never met did you, oh you'll like. Nancy I did I walked with her didn't I? Oh yeah, oh yeah. What's he do? Yeah. Her language is as bad. It's worse. Yeah, yes, she's worse. Anyway she loves it, she do, Everybody. Everybody, she said what's a bloody matter with her dad it's. No. [LAUGHTER] She's lovely. Not bad, I thought you meant she was stone deaf cos that is. No, no. I don't know so much, my younger. We use to do that at top of Road, we use to go up by the bus stop and Remember Philip do you remember Philip? Used to go out bloody stupid and he use to have these called Philip and he did he was always on Philip. Remember Philip don't you? Yeah. Used to carry a stick with Yeah oh those sticks worse than the bloody. Oh. And we never knew when he was coming. Yeah, but we were. Did you... did you know he's? Oh my word. Yeah. Aye. He had a... he, he when he did walked into town he was a cripple, he just sort of fling Yeah, sway a bit. He had a stick under his arm. Ya. And he was nick named Billy Baloo. Mind you when we were young we use to bring. And then Tommy on the wall, remember Tommy on the wall? On the wall, yeah, it bloody Do you know, you know down in W off of West Street? Yeah. Where the shows used to be? Shows used to be yeah. Where Billy eh Get down there. Billy Baloo used to erm know Tommy on the wall Tommy on the wall. He used to know, there's a pub on the corner isn't there? There used to be. Yeah, used to go in there. And there were some flats weren't there with the with Tommy on the w er Philip, that's right, Tommy on one day... and he, that pub, he picked a bloke up and threw him straight through the bloody pub window. Did he? Years ago. He was strong bloke. He didn't know his strength. And he'd be walking all over the place seen anywhere, Tommy on the wall and they'd shout Tommy on the wall [LAUGHTER] Yeah, he was just Yeah. He keep folk and all of a sudden he'll go ooh, ooh, ooh. Yeah that's right, yeah. [LAUGHTER] I bet they were was bloody. Yeah, yeah you're right. upsetting, he was stood on the was there, and he was stood on the corner and this er I suppose a couple of. Ever so strong, ever so strong, pick anybody up, yeah,. What did erm He's dead by now I expect. Oh Oh dear. He. Oh, did he do a streak or something? Who? Baloo, streak. Yeah, he go, I tell what Philadelphia Street, down there somewhere, there was a street called Bluestry or something Joe.
[Wendy:] Where?
[speaker007:] Blue... down by Philadelphia Street, Bluestry. Not. Not Bluer No Blue. No. No. Began with a B whereever it were. I'll ask Graham when he comes. I didn't Philadelphia Street, in all this Anyway it was On Ervey Street. Pardon, you know you get the Brother. still there isn't he? You know you know, you know you went down erm Clarence Road Mm the police station there innit? I don't know that. Right down by. Yeah, but station. Yeah, yeah, the station's there now, but what we use to do is both down there and the next come up and Rights Lane is, you, you know Sheppards use to be there? street. Come up on to New Manor Road? Yeah, yeah. Well if you go through there by Sheppards Yeah. then you'll come out like that. Oh I know where you mean. Go over there and that must. Oh That's right, yeah that's right, yeah. Fish and chip shop. And Audrey, Audrey made me, her mum kept one of the pubs down there didn't she? Down where? Down, down on the corner of erm She kept that home the corner where. That was well. Her name was, but she's married again ain't she? Did you know the? Did you know Tom? Yeah, in Bart Mill in er Richmond Street. No. , yeah I know, yeah, cos that, yeah, I know. Lilley. Yeah, nine children. That's right, I did. Yeah. That's right. That was my friend's son the. Did you know the? Mm, say no. , they knew the Did you, did you. Live on the end of Jarver Street. Yeah. She use to stand on the street. Oh, you know [LAUGHTER] Yeah, yeah, I know. Yeah. She's bought them the where they it was like two pieces. ... No, it weren't sure be strangers that was. Yeah. Was it? Weren't it? I knew that. I knew that. That's bloody sure. before she was married. Yeah. I it was horrible it, it ever since. , I used to know, when the door went back. Shocking. Couldn't, no I couldn't, I wonder if it were him? so, she's my bloody. Well, it's so bloody long ago were likely forget. Ooh, ah, [LAUGHTER] No, not they. I see. Oh no, oh no, it's just. Margaret she's coming to this do we're going to, I haven't seen her for about forty years. Well you'll see her then, Margaret,. When's the do? January. January. Saturday. Yeah you've gotta bring What's he wearing when he goes out to dinner? Are you going? She's not. No, she's not. No, no, no, no, no hawkers nor circulars. Where you going? Where you going? Oh have you? I've got to phone, I booked our mum up to dinner, she's coming up. Well I'm not coming then. Ooh, lovely. I'm not going then for oh ages. Ah, ooh isn't that lovely? No. Yeah. You know. bloody out of the way, I'm not. [LAUGHTER] Where is it? Where Can't tell everybody where we're going. Where's that to? That's what. Book on our own Bet. I at you. So I get a. I go on gives you ten pound leave your money in there. Bye. Don't forget. Don't forget, don't forget. Where is it Dean? Where is it? Over there. I should do it. I got in there. We have a. I spent her she got it. tell me where is it? Ain't got. No, no, no, no. I, I, ain't. bloody booked our. I've put three in. Yeah but, yeah but we've booked what we want, if you ain't booked in here. I have I booked in here an'all. Well then that's a bloody cheek. What she having? What she having? That is a bloody cheek. What, what? To invite people in, we're not, but four of us is going and they buggered the lot. No. Well. No, there was a reason for it. You'd like to go in my place? No, there was a reason for it. There's a reason for it. I'm going now. What, two old people to go, so Maggie thought would better to go with you. Oh, that's a not very nice thing to her. I won't say that's a. What, what [LAUGHTER] Have to ring up the health suite tonight and say cancel one out ones come in. choke to death. Whereabouts is it? Come up... up through Hammond Street, do you? Come up the High Street. I think it's a bloody cheek. to come and. Yeah. Yeah. Down by the Blue Boar. Yeah, the more the merrier, go on. Down by the Blue Boar yeah. Go on. road then turn right. Well it's turn. Turn left. Oh. Perhaps she couldn't come. going to get over there? That'll be her words. [LAUGHTER] Oh my god. [LAUGHTER] Oh god. Er look, one word of warning, Yeah. when you go there, I don't want no bad language I shan't. and I want you to give some in the in the. Did I behave myself when we took you out? No. She wasn't the same. Oh, I bloody did, didn't I,? She wants a karaoke lunch. Ooh shouting about, ooh I burnt my bloody mouth. Places I've been. We have wine on the table girls, drink it Ooh I do like a fish. Edna don't drink nothing. Ooh. Don't you? No. Nor do I. Since I met her. at home, so my own lemonade. Ooh we get a drop of vodka in that. [LAUGHTER] This is. I've asked. Gave it nicely. Gave him a David said to her there's Ann, let Ann and you in the back and Wendy three and Aunt Betty in the front. Fair enough. She'd get the bus Let me take her. She's getting the boot. Well let me [LAUGHTER] That's nice. Well, towards it, upset the cart now ain't she? [LAUGHTER] She'll upset her, you bloody don't say nothing, but you say when she's gone. Oh,. say you, you ought to say it to. What about. When she got that come from. Oh Oh bloody hell. not now. [LAUGHTER] Have you, have done a. You do, sat here in the bloody chair and gone ee ee [LAUGHTER] Jake. Jake. He's gone out with Joe. Gone out with Joe. I wonder if he's. Well, I think Joe's gone. [LAUGHTER] dinner []. [LAUGHTER] No got me fish and chips today. What took me right off now ain't you Bet? Cos I have ain't you? Yeah. Well they married two or three. cos I will make it up by Christmas. Ooh aye,. you go and pick her up. [LAUGHTER] They think it's a bloody halloween party. [LAUGHTER] How am I gonna get down there? I got er a bloody walk, you'll not take car. How you. leaving him poor chap. I was gonna wear that old bloody buy something now. You haven't. ... You always look smart when you go out, don't she? No. You do. It's a bloody. Dad shows. You've got bloody. Ah yeah, yeah, but, But I got clean drawers on. Yeah, no wait a minute let her tell you what I not mean when he comes over our house I always give some. with her. You could've come. She never said. Oh. That's you in the doghouse now,. No. Ah. They do, yeah, they do. Eh? place. You do, I know she do n't. W... w... what about you for? Because, she a friend, that's okay, she goes. see her friend. Ah, ah, ah. give over. Your husband for a friend. I've been with him fifty four years, look if you want. Look who's. Fifty five. Yeah fifty five years. The poor chap he got a... a... a he haven't got a penny in his bloody wallet. I am for all the bloody rice in China. I don't think I would've been married fifty... eight years. Good lord. Good god. There you are, see? he hasn't got a penny in his bloody wallet. No. Not got a penny in his pocket. He wants a pound, I give him one. Just like that [LAUGHTER] He ain't got a penny in his bleeding pocket, poor chap. No he never had nothing. Yeah. He had all about with I said do you mind me going out with he said no, you go and enjoy yourself, and I put the money on the table. . Aye, yeah, but the thing is you says he's got no money in his pocket, but I bet he don't go without nothing, I bet he don't, I bet he don't go without nothing, I bet she makes sure he has everything. He's had. Don't, poor old chap, he cooks, he cooks. [LAUGHTER] I said that's bleeding cottage pie. [LAUGHTER] I was saying how nice it was, tell me it was too bloody hot. Has he ever cooked a pie that comes out the oven cold? [LAUGHTER] I said he's. I bet yeah. cook my dinner, ooh he did deliver a bacon casserole, mm, it's hot isn't it? [LAUGHTER] I cooked you bloody one this week. No, I change me mind this week, eh, I bought some erm, I bought there are dates. bought some erm what round, what you have when we have dinner, when we went out to dinner? Scampi. I did I bought scampi. Ooh, I've got something for you in the cupboard. Oh have you, oh lovely. I don't want to. Ooh, last night. I got to see this, got to see this. For who? For her dear husband, it's for a. Ooh, I mean, ain't that funny, I scrubbed the jar out this morning and Joe, Joe said remember the marmalade. Ah. Oh thank you pay you for it. No don't be silly. Yeah, yeah, let's pay you for it. Yeah, I'd like six pounds please. Well. Sit down, that's it. Is that it? Oh I like, Joe do like marmalade. Yeah I do, Peter always buys a jar of marmalade for me when I sleeps up there I have. I have marmalade on toast right and he only said this morning and he said don't forget the marmalade, he's chucking the jar out. Yeah, who asked them? I did. Oh. with you last night and I thought oh, after that poor old pensioner. See calls friends. nickname. Pensioner Yeah poor old forgotten her name. We'll get our ten pound this week, so we're not doing too bad. [LAUGHTER] Gets harder. You want saw her yesterday. Who did? Geoff. Well that's different when it guy. He said she's got a ten pounds bonus because I paid for the. Well, you know you've paid off don't mean that. Well that's what he said. Every year I spend it on the children, we have, we both spend it on the kids, but this year we haven't. said to me, he said, what about ten pound this week, I said no you're wrong, I said we don't have it till a bit nearer, I didn't think so. Yeah you have it this week. I didn't think so, I said er, I said suppose at the end of your wages. I thought. Yes that's right. No Yes Yes, same, it's that sort of same week. You'll have yours today. I thought Bet got it as well, I thought Bet got it as well. I didn't. I reckon that's wrong. Do you have ten pound each? Yeah. Yeah. Oh that's nice then. Only when you sixty five or whatever it is. Yeah. Yeah, but you, I don't see why you. No I get yet, Oh sweetheart. Yeah but, yeah but get it. No. No. No, cos he's only got, if, if he had separate books she would. Oh. But Dave's only got one book. But if sh Bet was on she'd get it. Oh. Serves him right. Yeah, oh, oh, Dave give her up. Bloody omen. you are. Joe won't give you aught. Eh? Joe won't give you aught will he? Joe me all the time. [LAUGHTER] Eh? fish and chips while his. [LAUGHTER] Yeah [LAUGHTER] No, first penny in the pub. like that, and he said it was ever so funny, he took fifty up there because, I bet he told you about the money betting and all that and he's said he bet fifty pound, he thought christ he said, I was bloody lucky he said I, I had the, I said well David. [LAUGHTER] I said the girl at the cards would [LAUGHTER] Did you get your fags and paper? Yeah. I don't know, I hope so. Well what's the. Let me read the stars. Oh aye, we. Yeah. What's you done then? with a paper do she? Where's the Sun? Sally, Sally got it. Oh. Got to have the Mirror or the Sun. That's right,. What's the matter with Sally then? She's all this sick Is she? and bad in work yesterday. Is she? Got a terrible head There's an awful lot of sickness about. Went round there and the next morning she struggle on. She phoned the doctor's she got up she can't get her foot in. [shouting] David [] going to work? phoned in and said she. Where? She looked terrible. She's silly isn't she? [reading] Attending all healthy with a charity function seems likely, legal tax and business matters are prominent []. It's not only bring them blokes round. Oh. No. [LAUGHTER] They're not figure. This is my wash same as Keith. Aha. [reading] You may be getting a friend or neighbour, and handy some s social event they are planning be careful losing money or credit cards while out shopping, your interest can help you with your career, meeting this month may solve problems with high finance []. Oh yeah. innit? Aquarius. Oh you. [reading] At times you may feel a bit down or out of touch with those around you, however, one matter needs your attention and a new business venture is also worth thinking about things decorating or maintenance as necessary, a telephone call will bring surprising news []. Ooh. Oh ain't that nice? Ooh. What's mine? What's yours? What are you? The Bull. Taurus the Bull. Taurus. What are you mum Cancer? Gemini. Gemini. [reading] Be firm with people who impose upon your generosity or time too often. Some of you will be planning a party. Dealing with people overseas, perhaps planning a visit is also to the fore. Family mat matters feature and reunions are likely. Someone you care about will h feel happier []. Oh. Bullshit [LAUGHTER] Oh. No, I haven't read you the rest of mine cos you'll laugh. [reading] You may have to make an important decision, your love life seems to flourish and pr proposals of marriage are in the air. Attend to Christmas preparations concerning children and pets [] [LAUGHTER] Oh well you'll. Ooh. Proposing Christmas ooh. Ooh. you're gonna be alright [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] you said to him the other night. What do you want for Christmas? I got. wedding. Yeah, wedding, oh I. I ain't getting married no more. Get on, never. Be third time lucky. Yeah. put me in for a lovely red for me. Wanna see it? Erm, what she for? Bloody. ... [LAUGHTER] Don't put it in his bloody bed. Oh she's got blue up there in the. Oh that's alright then, yeah, that's alright then. in the Star mine. [reading] Other people will be making changes today, you may feel put out that you have not been consulted, however it will pay off if you curb your famous temper. The new rules will actually work in your favour, so go with... with the flow []. It's a little bit. It's a little bit hard understand that innit? Aries. No. Well it is for you. Do my one. It is for me cos of my brain goes a bit Why? Well, I see through it. Silly. Read it again, I couldn't see through it. [reading] Other people will be making changes today, and you may feel out... feel put out if you have not been consulted [] well that should be your stars. she's already bloody done it, telling me. That's what My. Yeah and she yeah. [reading] However, it will pay you to curb your famous temper. The new rules will actually work in your favour, so go with the flow []. Oh well I think I have a pretty good yeah, that's pretty good this morning that. Yes flow along. [reading] You felt like a... you felt under more than your fair er share of pressure lately [] Yeah she has, yeah. Yeah. [reading] but at least stress will begin to ease at work and you will feel so free to turn your attention to other areas of life at last. Remember they are just as important []. Has she got a? Yeah. Read Taurus. Who's Taurus? That's me, that's my new friend. Ooh. [LAUGHTER] I know,. [reading] All the trouble and strife is behind you today is a golden glow beh today, a golden glow begins to settle over all of your relationships and during the next month many of you may be thinking of making serious commitments. Winter weddings are very well... stared. [] Yeah. Ooh winter wedding. Perhaps it me, yeah. Oh it might be. Ooh, yeah. [LAUGHTER] What's your? Aries. Aries same as Keith and David and your Dean. I'm. [reading] You are, you are, you are at your most confident this afternoon and so this is a time when you should enjoy... ensure that your voice is heard where anything important is concerned. This evening you will prove moderately good for romance [] Done, done the cards. Ooh, ooh. No, no. [LAUGHTER] Girls, no wait, on the car park [shouting] oh you [] [LAUGHTER] Bloody hell don't. We've got another to read. Sally's got the Sun out. Oh, she'd better go and get it. You got. This is serious. You don't want to give it up do you? Yeah. You don't, oh bloody hell. What's legal fiddler? Maxwell. Oh aye, yeah, he commit suicide. I did. There was more to that weren't there? A lot more got to come out yet. I feel sorry for his sons because he only told them what he wanted them to know, he didn't tell them the rest. Yeah, they've got. Did you show Edmund your er? You look yours. I let you know what. Oh yeah I haven't seen it either. I haven't seen it either. That's nice. They'd not of had them before Christmas. Yeah, we always do. It Christmas. That's one way of getting these days innit? Ooh.
[Betty:] [reading] Even though you are b bound to be feeling a bit today it really is a case of no news is good news. There is no point in proc proceeding any further with certain plans or in finalising any arrangements until you have proper confirmation or something of value that should be tomorrow [].
[speaker007:] there. Ooh. put down that. Oh. What's mine, the bull? Hang on then, Taurus innit? Yeah.
[Betty:] Oh. Oh Taurus [reading] Since you may not be capable... capable, qualified or experienced enough to deal with certain matters, even partners, family matters or legal advices to act on your behalf, and there lies your problem, because some of your plans maybe go up in smoke unless you get actively involved, so legal matters needs to be []
[speaker007:] Never Arsehole. Have any Have you got can you yeah. Have you got the secretary table Ask for your divorce. [LAUGHTER] I come in I said when you move the polish the secretary table. [LAUGHTER] Ha, ha, ha my bloody table. Write him. Write him a love letter yeah. Edna. I wonder why she. [LAUGHTER] don't take no []. Things only squeak when they're not. Yeah, that's right, then you like that, well Was they bad? Got lot to think about, they bad? They bad? Yeah. pay for it. They had to squeeze it off ears. No, I make that so discreet and I said to them, on your bloody squeak on ours. I. Got to go and look at. matching pair. That's why he wants to stay here. I mind the bloody brains going on my. Ooh, ooh. Well What. They I got to show you the that I got to. a little red. No, this lovely make up and that and I don't want. Ooh, ooh, no. Maybe two ninety nine. Smell of What, what is it? Ooh no. What that? Can I have a look? Ooh. Two ninety nine. Where's this too? And I bought one for my friend's daughter for ten pounds. Where's this too? That's what Julie give her. . What. . Terrible. Ooh where's that from? Ooh I want those. It's only a cheaper innit? Where did you get that from mum? That free with this. Ooh, I thought you bloody sent her away for it, where you send? She's right on the finger. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] Take their jewellery off. [LAUGHTER] Where do you send for? These? What do you send for? What is it eh. ain't you? Ooh yeah I'll have him. I wonder why. Yeah I wanna... oh that. Bet look China. Nine cents for. Nine cents for. ten pounds. Nine cents for a just what I wanted. got hold of something. Oh I don't mind buying something. That I. Maybe on my life. How much is he, twenty two carat? stamp on it. Get me one of those for erm I'll have the ring there. Two ninety nine, you want me to send off for that? Yeah. Really, you get another ring? Yeah. You get a picture of your choice, look Bet, you can have erm... anything on there. I want a bit smaller than this for my. [LAUGHTER] Oh I see. If you order us something. I think you've gotta I want it a bit smaller this. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] a bit small. see it... I. Is it real? Oh it's real yeah. Oh Yeah. for a size innit? That for a. Yeah, we've got bit. Yeah. No it's I have got invitation Do you want with or? That one I isn't that beautiful that? I told you. Too big for me. I took it into to make it bigger, right, it was mum's, so they said well we've got to put valuation on it to send it away, so I said well I haven't got a clue, so they wrote down a thousand pound and I thought never in all this world. Oh yeah. Ooh might be. I took it down the jeweller's, nine hundred and forty five pounds. Ooh. Oh. Yes please. I told you, you all. No. I've never seen one like that, have you Edna?
[Edna:] No, not like this, nice, very nice, yeah.
[speaker007:] So they've had a. It's like a double wedding innit? It's nice. Oh yeah. an insurance. It's OK nan died. Ooh don't say things. Erm, see, it's you wouldn't neither. Yeah, alright. Over fifteen pound worth. What? The owners owe her fifteen pounds. Well, what else is there. He gets a Here are mum. No I only ordered that. No, I get He hardly ever tried Linda he wants to see more of that to pay it. fifteen pounds gets a free mirror of. Oh yes Yeah, too big, have the next size down, got to. We'll get the blue one. No. round my bloody neck this morning. Didn't know she was getting it, I was getting it this morning. Yeah, you get Very nice What's that mum? You get. On my life, I ordered one of them for my friend's daughter for her birthday and it was ten pounds that's two ninety nine. Was it? Mm. Is that? They got all sorts love. My but. Put a note in there, a bit smaller please. please. Er, order a rich moisturiser, skin supplement, facial oil... Free make-up Mary, yeah. aftershave, look at my. How much is the aftershave Betty? Well I've sent for my gold ring haven't I? [LAUGHTER] saw the night cream and all that, it's good stuff. I don't use bloody carbolic soap, I, don't never use nothing like that. I do not I wash my face. Never bloody wash. Ha, ha, night and morning and it's... it's the rinsing of your face. Face getting the soap off. I've never use I've never used nothing on my skin I never got nice skin oh no I don't, no I don't, well any waste of money is a gimmick. The said that is good, it's... it's like erm pearls and is toner for your face. I've always. If you get the soap on off your face, I never used to say that Mm. If you get the stuff on your face your skin and all this it can ruin your washing, if you don't get the soap out of your washing then it's clingy. Not half. Ah? I'll order you one. Yeah. Will you please? Yeah, course I will, yeah. Thank you. And if you getting another ring, but please send smallest size, yeah. Smallest size,. when I want it. [LAUGHTER] No, I, I. That's what I do. Julie says. Does it? Yeah. Some of them got on. I've got mauve wedding ring on. scarlet,. Have you? Yeah. That was that. Well, why, you don't want to wear them case. Caught. somebody grab you by the neck take your jewellery. Cut them off jewellery. I took, never take that, I never take me bracelets, necklace, nothing off. You go a bed with that on? Yeah. The lot? Yeah. Watch, necklace, don't even take me teeth out when I go to bed. Oh no, I don't. Ooh. Don't you? I do. You know in the paper when they give out the other week No. Well you. Somebody broke in on Lawrence Hill and er you know erm well that's our friends and Lisa's they're always at the party we goes to You have got work now. They were in, aha, yeah, they were in bed, right, and this, look, in bed, listen to this, sound asleep it's on the radio and news, they're asleep in bed with two girls and the boys, the boy was in bed fast asleep and somebody come and touched him like that and when she woke up it was this, this the lad and Ooh. he was in bed with her and she and no she pushed her husband and of course he turned over naturally, he weren't, he didn't know and she pushed him again and he tied them up there, took all their jewellery off of them What? No. they sold it now, they're... they're going to America to live, yeah, they went in the bedroom for it, they went in the bed... children's bedroom, sorted it out Oh. kept the children in bed, told them not to move and the boy, the gi erm, what's her name, I can't think of her name now, she erm, she woke her, her husband chased them both downstairs, tell you where they live, you know Lawrence Hill? Mm. I think, do you know erm, er, what can I tell you, there's a big garage there on Lawrence Hill Yeah,. before that there's Yeah. that's go round there, do you know? Yeah I do. Well they live down there and that was their Anita's friends. Oh. She was petrified, she opened her window and she screamed. She window. She opened her window and screamed and erm, of course the neighbours come but they was gone and they took it all they're gold she had it on in bed, pulled it over husband neck,. When was this? It was on Radio Bristol and, and er When did that happen? Oh Pam come down and she said do you know where it is, she said it's so-so, they young. Ah. sold it now, different people got it and they've gone to Amer going to America... yeah that was them, ever so nice girl she is and her children, two lovely girls and a boy of about sixteen I suppose, lovely girl she was, and they were frightened to go anywhere. I know they were. They wouldn't go to bed in their bedroom after she had a horrible job with them. Frightened her, took all her stuff. Ah. Did you?. They must of had a. They took that first thing before they went upstairs to wake her up and... and she didn't know who it was, well she looked up and... well it just took her breath away and then she tried to wake her husband up, cos she didn't like that, when he got up, he chased them. Well it would do wouldn't it? He was undressed weren't he. When did it happen? When they both. Yeah. fortnight, might be. a coloured bloke. Was it a coloured bloke? Two weren't it, two blokes. Maybe it was coloured. I've go and get me dinner now. Don't know what to get. Fish and chips. Don't tell now, mum. Oh, when you come back here, ya, don't hungry. You sure? She might be. No,. I'll run and get me a minute. Alright. Are you gonna have a perm now? No, I was, too late now. Oh, you see, you can upset everything coming in here. I know. Erm, there you are, Wednesday the eleventh, Doctor couldn't get any. I got that one fish ponds, I got erm... gala, I, no I ain't got any, the other one. You want top hand. Yeah. Sounds like. He knows we know all about it, we don't wanna tell us we knows.. He knows what a good nan you are, he knows what a good nanny you are. Ooh isn't that lovely. You read the words. Ah. Oh read the words to me. [reading] No word is a beaut for a mother and no mother is as beautiful as you []. Oh, isn't that lovely. Where'd you buy that? I does the Ace catalogue every year. Oh yeah. I saw it in there and I thought oh ain't that lovely. You should hang that on the. Yeah, ain't that lovely. Ain't that nice. I picks a lovely. I buy something for Keith every year. Nice innit? It's really nice. Lovely. It is nice, yeah She said I got a watch mum, I said I know.. Nice watch she got. Yeah. I got a. But they give you erm Oh I haven't got one of those. Don't know where he is then. Got all the others. What is it you want a regal work? They give you a temp, yeah, top. Oh they get and go in without that one? Yeah. If they were temping. Oh. Kate said last night she wants to go, could we borrow your car tonight please?... I said. Were you the only? Arrange it with erm work. These are the ones for when you're on a diet, ninety nine calories, it's over there. What chocolate bar? Yeah. Oh. I got to lose weight. Ooh my god. Well if I can't have a bit of this chocolate, I'm going home [LAUGHTER]. Yeah very n it is nice, very nice, that's in a together is it? Nice, that is nice. go home now.. Has come back? Pardon? Edward's thing's come. Ooh, great. I've marked it up so it's see whether eh. What you got? Ah innit lovely innit? fight with the enemy. When, when. the same? Yeah, take him back. He took it back. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] Well I'm buggered Dave. You er That's what I said about weren't it? Well you did say. Yeah, you did say. bloody told me nothing, go for it Dave. Wednesday. Oh it's Wednesday. Did you do your work? buggers. Sixty pounds spending money swine. That's. Ah, it's only a bloody car, it's a car. That's what he said about last week. He did, yeah. What about Bill? Yeah, I haven't opened it yet. ask how much I owe is it, because I what's all this in there? Oh let mummy read it. I bet he's pleased about that. Oh that's lovely. Yeah, for it, has it got? count sixty pound ninety nine, you nine pound forty. Sixty, how much was yours? Fifty six. Sixty odd pound, sixty pound. Yeah, we've got a gas stove mind. Yeah. I haven't. That's what sixty pound. gas stove. My electric bill. And it's not estimated. It is. Bill, we have it read. That's what I mean. Take that off Bet. oh no, previous, previous. this time. Yeah. very good, mine's like that. Yes, so how much do I owe them? pound, fifty. I've got to pay that. No you don't pay that. You know that when you pay each month right? Yeah. I give it in November or December, it comes through the final bit. Yeah. That's right. When, November? Oh, it's all according when you started, your financial year. Started in January. So your final will come in, in January. January. January. Ah, so when paid enough, I have to save that up. Then if you've paid too much Pay that up No don't pay it now. No. What about ten pound? That's what your bills charge at the moment. at the moment now next month when you get your next bill that ten pound thirty will be worth about twenty ninety one. Yeah. But, erm So you in credit or Who's pinched me chocolate? You ate it. You had one in your mouth. Are you in, in credit or you in debit? Debit, debit. What about me? Is that all you earn? Yeah, that's alright. Where. What's that? You look, that's your dinner. That's a ninety nine calories for them chocolate. Get, you get cooking that steak for us you'll [LAUGHTER] When you pay your gas next week you'll be up in credit then won't you? yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's alright. Oh that's good. So you're electric. No, no. I'm not electric. but I don't think with them other. now. Yeah, Joe thinks it'll be alright at the moment, oh though it don't matter does it? The gas man came and. read out. They do. But when I have to you can read it yourself. Yeah, oh I. When they goes. What did the gas man cover read our meter. What? Monday morning. Weren't Tuesday. Definitely weren't Tuesday. Monday. . Monday, yeah. Monday. Must be out then. Yeah. Remember? Yeah. come down with the stairs to chap, young chap, I told you he's knocking on the door, it must of been then. Can you remember who 's is? Yeah. Yeah. Ain't they lovely. Good.. I, I morning, I, she get what I said when you get one, I went and got you one I said but it was one ninety nine. Oh. Yeah, but I didn't how she come home without on the. I know. how she get on the bleeding bus with that? I put her on. She looked like Father Christmas when she come in. They put her on. They put her on. Yet you And there was a. He said. yeah. Yeah he did, he lives there. I like the look this Christmas. Ooh ha, ha. Yeah, I might. Oh you. [LAUGHTER] Got to stand in the queue then with. No no you've got to have. No. You've got to. several off us mind. Did you hear that programme on? Did you hear the programme on? It's frightening. No. It's terrible really, because take it seriously. What one was that? Ooh that was. Yeah, that. What about the film? I cast the little with me because condom on. what said? You've got to carry a little packet with you because who goes to said please can you put your condom on. Condom on. Condom on. Yeah, and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now. A packet now, goes in for a pint. Yeah they get you a condom. You've got a bloody. They've got red ones, blue ones, pick them up off the ground when they're finished with them. You know next week at the bar. Really. His name is Bruce. What. That Chuck is playing and Mark, Mark singing, [singing] Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue []. Oh god. I tell you what I'll bring over when there's a nice erm, they're curling tongs that brush and it's a blow dryer. Oh. That one. Yeah. I've got a little. I think I'll have mine done for party then. Yeah, because. Yeah, and they're blow dryer. in the bloody washing machine. Yeah. own hair. Look I've been washing my hair All for thick hair, ever so thick hair. And the more you done the worse it was I always found that. Yeah, ah? I've got me wig on this morning. Thick hair. Well it's about time you cut up David's hair. Thank you Barbara. Well I said wait till he's finished. [shouting] You don't pay me []. [shouting] I'm not cutting it because he never pay me []. OK You cut my friend's hair and I'll pay you. I having a bloody Yeah, you know what to do next time don't you. [shouting] You don't pay, you don't pay []. I let you make me tea when you come up here. a nice pair of scissors for him. What can we have for dinner? I take you out and have fish and. Isn't that right David? What? If you bought her four lots of tea bags out of your ten pound yesterday, that correct? [shouting] Yeah, that was for doing your washing [] I bought her chocolate for her last week. That's for doing your washing oh you, washing, what bloody you'll. God, I know what you get. Oh, do I owe you any money? No You sure? Yeah. I, I, I tried to break it up. [shouting] All the electric I got on slot []. Slot, I know. I said to Bet I said they ought to write out a cheque on the end. [LAUGHTER] Or do her washing for six weeks. I told her on, on a Friday when she gives the first. Yes. You say you had stuff stood here when I'm waiting for a bleeding. You'll have to wait won't you? Yeah, She's got your dinner. [LAUGHTER] I thought he come. where's your dinner? What did he tell you last week? Yes, I know, I knows that. Bloody. Yeah, getting at you for? What she getting at you for? Don't ask me. chip shop, we can all have fish and chip. Ooh that'll be nice. So you. back yet, no. Ray, where you been then? Oh I didn't know that. He don't he's. Do you want some Andrew? fat. good mind to take the bloody thing back. wants fish and chips don't you? after dinner. Got the bloody marmalade, fish and chips. Getting to me that. Did she? I said the more or less, so I got the in it?. over there though. What's your name?
[Edna:] Edna.
[speaker007:] Edna. I tell you what they do sell over there, ever so cheap jam and marmalade. Over where? Over price. I know I had. Ooh, Oh, I like that. Yeah go and take ooh. enjoy that bit. Yeah. Go and take that thing back then Joe, cos I have after dinner, in the post office.
[Wendy:] OK.
[speaker007:] Same and then bring the car back and we'll go and have some fish and chips. What, yeah. Well I meant to say back to the house, I meant to say. fifty four years. Sad innit? do. It is sad innit? He looks hard done by. It's sad innit? He looks hard done by. She's bossy to him though mum. Yeah, but he don't, he looks so hard done by I don't think. I bloody am. [LAUGHTER] I am. Go on, she looks after you. I don't. She's bossy to him though. Cos I goes in there, it goes in there and it comes out there.. Ken Dodd. Ken Dodd. Bloody Boswell. Well bloody Boswell. [LAUGHTER] Take of the electric. [LAUGHTER] what we having then girls? and chips. No, no,. What. Ah yes. Remember years ago Ah, I used to sit there. Now listen and eh do you remember years ago when we She's. Italy and Swalk and all that on the back of the envelope? Yeah. Sealed with a loving kiss. I trust and love you always. Always. Do you know what fish and chips mean? No. No, no. Chip, you write chip, come home I'm pregnant, he writes F off I'm staying here. [LAUGHTER] I like it. Where'd you hear that at the Legion? she wanted I hope. . He can't handle it with all this swearing can he? No, no. before. I never swear. Joe, Joe,. Listen if I had enough time I'll tell you the joke of a life time mate, but I haven't got the time. Oh, it don't matter about the time. No, I'll tell you the best one. Have you, have you ever seen the expression on a man's face when he takes the out, do a crap, stand up and find it's not there? Yeah. Have you? Yeah. Hey, never come across that. Ooh. Get on you dirty thing. [LAUGHTER] Oh what she can do with. It's true, I said. It's true. Now listen, I told you about didn't I? I told you that pea joke. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. If I were. listening, listening. He's. Well we don't mind. [LAUGHTER] you, you were, you were disgusting you were. Clayton Yeah. You going to the chip shop? Yeah. David got all. What? Last night he'd gone a work. Here, here, what time does he go a work? Well I've got, I've got, gone all the way out there and come back go out again. Oh innit sad, our Sally got a tank full of petrol she said. Ah, feel sorry for her, ah. Well if that's Sally If that's Sally I wants me chocolate Sally. It's upstairs. Yeah I know. Erm, right what do we want, fish and chips, fish and chips, fish and chips, what you having Clay? Yeah, let me get some money. Yeah, what you having for your tea? Fish and chips. Got to buy your own have I got to buy it? Oh, give me my purse my girl, regular I am. Fish and chips between us mum? No. down there. I. How much is fish and chips Clay? Large? Yeah. Two pounds, thirty I think. I didn't realise. Two pound what? Thirty. My god that's what we're gonna have. Fish and chips between you and Dave. Yeah. Do we have our? Or do you want something else? You sure? You got, look, I keep thinking it's got tomorrow. Why what's that? What, what you going to have Clay?
[Julie:] I don't know mum.
[speaker007:] Well Let him get what he wants. You better give him fiver. I'll give him four pounds. He'll want two bloody lots in.
[Julie:] [LAUGHTER] no that's enough thanks.
[speaker007:] Two pound thirty yours. Two pies, one piece of fish, two pies. You sure, you want fish? Ah, we. Two pies, one piece of fish Excuse me let's eat tonight mind. Let's eat tonight. I, don't suppose Cor that.
[Julie:] Sally.
[speaker007:] Sally.
[Julie:] chip shop?
[Sally:] No.
[speaker007:] No. No.
[Julie:] No.
[speaker007:] I knew she, I don't think Let me.
[Julie:] I'll just sit on the edge of your bed and eat me chips.
[speaker007:] Bring me chocolate Sally for the letter.
[Sally:] Sorry.
[speaker007:] Where's me chocolates for the letter? Don't take her breath away.
[Julie:] shops she said.
[speaker007:] The shops [LAUGHTER] she [LAUGHTER]... well I've had me day off now. Was Mr in work today? You going out this afternoon? No. No. Your, your. No. Yeah. Ah, yeah,. That's nice innit? Good girl this morning. Yeah, well up to dinner now [LAUGHTER] next week. I know, I've got plenty over there though. You ain't got plenty what is it, you've got, you've got paid... and that is. never been. We've got enough over there for now. Yeah, but you'll be, still got to pay this week. I know. pay bloody. How much she got to pay? It only says pay a pound a week, I pay three pounds some week. Well only one week you paid three pound, come off it. Wendy. Two one week. Oh. What did you give me this week? One pound. I told you Last week, last week, last week, last week. I ain't worried about it Edna. I am. Are you? I don't want you to think well I give her more than that.
[Edna:] No I don't.
[speaker007:] I don't know so much, how do I look, no doubt with her money. Ah anything over, anything over it's mine. [LAUGHTER] what you doing with my cigarette? I know I give you three pound one week.
[Edna:] Yes, last week.
[speaker007:] fag out.
[Edna:] Last week you give me three.
[speaker007:] And then another week I give you two
[Edna:] One fifty, no one fifty, one fifty.
[speaker007:] Two pounds?
[Edna:] It's all down my love.
[speaker007:] I don't know Edna, I don't worry about it,. where's me lighter? Just give it to Sally. I had it, brought it back down, here it is, no, there it is. There it is. Yours. Do you want it? dinner. Yeah, dinner I think. Oh my purse is still open. Box. Oh shut up. Yeah aargh pinches everything. Pinches everything. I bloody to pack up I can smoke. [LAUGHTER] I thought, I thought, he put a brick in my. butter. Milk bottles an'all. Had me. take home. be heaven when he starts work back. Ooh be lovely. We'll be over to dinner. Yeah. Be over to dinner. There you are see now have the cottage pie. [LAUGHTER] Oh yeah. She'll burn her bloody mouth. [LAUGHTER] Where's Tracy going, which shop is he going to? Whitby. shop. Can he get a pound of flour? Oh yeah. Pound of flour and half a pound of marg, and an onion. What? Pound of flour. Oh. I got a. Can you get a pound of f er self raising flour, half a pound of margarine please. Yeah. Good I, as I make you a pie then for your tea. Yeah. You got the? Yeah she's got the corned beef. You got corned beef out? Yeah. I done the dish yeah. Got the corned beef. What you want? Half a pound of margarine and a packet of flour? Flour. Self-raising. Eh just any margarine? Don't have to be Flora, any margarine. The cheapest margarine they got. Yeah the cheapest. Echo, anything. Stork. Stork,. Happy Shopper. Yeah Happy Shopper, yeah. Freeman's is nice. Yeah. I think I'll have a. New Year, have a nice New Year. The it was all at our kitchen and. I didn't have any of it. You lying old toe rag. Ooh. Don't tell me. I makes them every year, I makes them every year don't I dad? Not having anybody in the no. No, not having a party this year. You having a party this year? Go in somebody else's house for a change. house. I shan't be there, gone out, going away for the weekend. What? Yeah well I'll give her the fags, she can have the bloody fags. Ooh, isn't that lovely? fag. Let Dean have a couple. Ah. He's pretty good mine, isn't he? Well he's alright sometimes isn't he? He's pretty good, yeah. Yeah, I know you do, I said, I said you haven't been on the bus already? [LAUGHTER] He said yeah, and, he said [LAUGHTER] then he says ah, he said says what to think, I said what, about David, I said he never said. Well he was nice to know. an old age pensioner, yeah. Pensioner. He said, I'm taking this old age pensioner to Kingswood. [LAUGHTER] Oh ssh now kind. Where's your potatoes Bet? I'll show you potatoes. Got any potatoes? Thanks to. Ooh, god. Edna, see a poor bloke walk up to.
[Edna:] No, no, course you wouldn't.
[speaker007:] Have a bloody. Give you a lift anyway. Yeah. What's a night. [singing] Oh what a beauty, I've never seen one before []. [LAUGHTER] I hope all on this tape. Yeah. Think so. Ah that's. [LAUGHTER] Bloody hell. Tell mum what's it for. get paid twenty five pounds for doing this, it's a Yeah. Erm Sorry. When they come round, er Market research. Research. Who does? There, you've got to tape people's conversation that's why I said. It's terrible, don't do it. over. What does it say,. It don't do where it come from though mum. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Let me see. Oh your. [LAUGHTER] use. Pardon? This one's the best. you do. Where's your colander? Oh, under there. Under there. I David's been busy. Talk nicely now. Pardon? You have to talk nicely now don't. fish and chips. Fish and chips. Yeah, better get their hair done before the fish and chips. Well yeah. Well you better say that fish and chip joke. Ooh I Oh,. Yeah. [LAUGHTER] Oh my god. You take him back in that. Yeah. If I settle back there's shouting say right I don't know her. [LAUGHTER] Oh dear. Like it you saying you think some nice friends haven't you dear? [LAUGHTER] No he'd laugh actually. Would he? No. I bet you anything he would. He would, he's quite a nice man. Yeah he's got a sense of humour. Yeah. You've seen. Got to be better than you. Oh he won't come in here, he won't come in here. He won't come in to anybody's house Bet, he wanted to get back. I don't blame him for one minute. [LAUGHTER] No, I. I got to go and do all his cleaning. Well he can come and do mine after dinner. Oh no. I don't mind housework, I don't mind house No. No. I only does mine Fridays. I only do mine once a week, because I live on me own. , did with me old man. My place is filthy. And mine. Never clean. Ooh, I don't take a bloody notice now. speak of dust. No, don't take notice. Keep still Bet.
[Betty:] Oops sorry.
[speaker007:] Am I going to do?
[Betty:] I could of done my work today though Kim and Richard came over when I was poorly she got the duster straight out she said nanny I'll polish the furniture because I knows you get upset.
[speaker007:] . Ah. Ah, nice little girl ain't she? Do you know what? Whatever. He's complaining because I, well it's as though we run a minute mile. No, no, I could fix the bike back, where's the lock to the bike, what's the matter, I want to play football, I want to play, where's me football kit, he wanted me to say your dad said you're not allowed to play football because it's too late and dark coming in. Oh please I want to play football, I said oh let him play, don't be so mean. [LAUGHTER] Anyway he played football, what time did he get in? He got in about twenty five to five. Oh that weren't fair. Just as I was going to work. Oh that wasn't bad. Oh that's not bad is it? No. He sat in my armchair over and I said to him, well now nanny probably won't ever work again darling so I can't afford it so I'm not buying much this year, he said you says that every year. Every year. [LAUGHTER] Don't we all. You says that every year nanny. I says to the little kid, when nanny and mums don't take, well I don't anyway. [LAUGHTER] I don't anyway. I'm not David's dinner, because I might pop up to. the chip shop up the Reindeer are you? Yeah. I'll. Like a. You don't like it long over your ear. No, not really. Oh. And I'll go and lay the dinner because. Could of had rest dinner today could have all sat round. Yeah, yeah. Anyway I'll give. Never mind, don't worry about We can have all that out on paper and then. Now look, I don't want no talking about me when I'm. I'm going to talk about you. Get out, don't turn me off then I'll have the. I'll give it back to you then. Don't turn it on, I'll have the. When you I'll pay it back. Yeah, yeah, and you just take notice what I'm saying right. I are, I are. Alright then, and we're sorting this out when she's gone out, when it's gone out, but we're going to think about this eh doing things underhanded right? Yeah. OK. Right Right. Oh don't just give us a song now. They need to give us a warning. That's it I. warning. I say, please don't talk about me when I'm gone.
[Edna:] No, I shall have to turn on a dress out the club book where it says about
[speaker007:] Oh shut up Edna.
[Edna:] and send it back.
[speaker007:] What? Erm. to make one. ones. No. got that because. Do you want some cake, some cake? You've gotta prove. As I've done Littlewoods for about eighteen years. Have you got proof that you swear it that? Pardon? Have you got proof? Have you got proof now that you swear it? it's on the tape. I, I'll have a lot work. Yeah. Go on then. Please don't talk about me when I'm gone. No I won't. going then? Please hear what happened. Yeah, but where's he going? Did I tell you what happened? No. I sat down. Let when I tell you Edna, I s, I do sing you see so I sat for. Sat down the bottom. Oh my god. I sang down the Bottom Club, so when I went down the next week the manager said I've just been waiting for you, I've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said, look the group can't come he said, will you sing? And oh Why you? Would you mum? I'm awful not what. [LAUGHTER] Have you get up and sing mum? No. Why not? I've seen her in Italy cabaret. OK take care. See you. In fact I go or else I'll [singing] Why are we waiting [] [singing] waiting [] Shit [LAUGHTER] Where's my? I've got to go. Would you sing for him if I have my life to live over? That's Pete's favourite song. And mine. Aye that's my Pete's favourite song. I cry if I go anywhere and people sing. Do you? He loves that. years ago that was. Our nan use to sing where [singing] Kiss me, honey, honey, kiss me []. [singing] I do it my way []. Oh [LAUGHTER] [singing] The girl is [] Our mam always used to sing kiss me, honey, honey because you're mine. Do you? Yeah. Oh I don't know. song. [singing] []. Don't you? I said come and get me girl. [sound of electrical appliance] Put the hair dryer on. [singing] mine []. Go and put the on. [sound of electrical appliance] I'm back love. You like?
[Edna:] Goodbye.
[speaker007:] See you later. Cheerio Edna. You not going to ask her now are you? [sound of electrical appliance] Dominate. nice and out of the way. the tape's stopping. Tape's gone, tape's gone. Turn it off Bet. Tape's gone. Turn it off, or has it gone? I don't know, what did you do it? Put it back on. It's on because I can't turn it off. Right,. I thought that was ever so nice of Edna not to mind me coming. She, she didn't mind because she's winking and I thought ah isn't that nice of her, it is really because she organised it all and she don't know me so that was very kind of her didn't you think so Bet? Yeah. Well yes, that was quite nice. Yeah.
[Sally:] What tea towel?
[speaker007:] There's one there.
[Sally:] I want.
[speaker007:] Oh. to take. Where in the cupboard? Yeah. Here's Edna back again. Isn't it? Can you put this on top Oh up there mum. microwave up there. and er Put that there, will you? Up here, yeah up here. Right. You ask what I got Bet, alright? style. What have you got? And then I sat coming round this afternoon, so. [sound of electrical appliance] Why did she get any of that cherry stuff didn't you? Yes, yes. And a erm Do you want anything else? Write it all down. Jar of marmalade. Doing nothing. Oh. If there's anything decent going on. salt mum? Pardon, yeah I put the salt in. [sound of electrical appliance] See you later. OK. Bye Edna. Ah. Bet don't worry if we were all fat and. No. Sally's coming. Oh I know. oh dear tea towel. Where's you been out the back? Yeah. Right, come here. Oh look at the back of the door window a cigarette packet. [LAUGHTER] Oh thank you my. Nice cup. Yeah. Yeah it just. They all be coming up to me saying you making mince pies again this year Dot. Where can I get erm, where can I get erm a pink to do the lattice on top of mince pies from. You can buy them can't you? Shall I get this out first? Yes please. You can buy them to do the lattice somebody told me. Oh I'd love one, because they look so nice don't they on top of mince pies? Mm. fish and chip. Finish Betty's hair. No. No, we'll eat. enjoy it. That's Clayton's. So he's still not. Here are Clayton. Did he? the... the big lattice ones. No. Oh I like the big lattice ones, I, I, I made fourteen dozen small for the neighbours. We don't want do we? Throw it in the paper. Throw in the paper. well I like bacon. no use your fingers. Well I always use mine but, er Hey. You two, want. I don't know why you think I make a different No. I'll have a knife. Mm. Do you want? Yeah in a minute. Feel free. Erm, is she going to see the doctors Sally? Yes, tomorrow, she can't get in till tomorrow morning. What am I looking for? Don't know. Can anybody tell me? Going in that room to all sit down? Erm Yes. What. I don't know I. You sit here, do you want to sit there? No Clayton you can't sit there. No it's his place really.
[Julie:] Why can't I sit here then?
[speaker007:] Oh dear,.
[Julie:] It's my seat and I'm sitting here.
[speaker007:] Right there's your some bread there. wrong. Just stay there. Where's the bread? Have you got a proper vinegar bottle? No, no. have that in of my mouth.
[Julie:] Got a lot of.
[speaker007:] She's not. Gippy tummy. No cutting the sellotape with me teeth. Oh you silly girl. You've got proper salt thing haven't you? Wrapped all your presents up then? Yeah. mine wrapped up he said I'll take you over but you've got to have all your presents wrapped up, I said yeah alright. Good. I don't want.