[Robert:] It's running. And I've placed it in a strategic position.... Where it can pick up everybody's conversation.
[Dennis:] Yeah.
[Robert:] Right?
[Dennis:] But er...
[Robert:] You're not supposed to s What?
[Dennis:] This is when you go dumb.
[Robert:] No, you don't have to worry about that. We
[Dennis:] No, I say you don't, you do. You go dumb when you er... when they switch on a
[Iris:] I think it ought to be made clear that the... the voices that you can hear, or will be hearing in the next half an hour or so will be that of the television.
[Robert:] Yeah well that's a fact of life. She... she has to make out a form, with erm what was happening at the time and everything. The duration... and all that type of. But so far she's managed to record five minutes of conversation between me and her. So... and she's got twenty tapes... C [LAUGHTER] nineties to do [].
[Dennis:] What was this tape? It wasn't bedroom er...?
[Robert:] No no this was just just some conversation we had during the day.
[Dennis:] Oh.
[Robert:] But... if I can leave it running and it runs out it will... suit me down to the ground.... There you go Dennis. Eyes down for a full house.... [snooker playing sounds] Cocked that up properly....
[Dennis:] That's Loretta Swit.... Have to get your eye in won't you, on this?
[Robert:] Yeah.... that one....
[Dennis:] Well I couldn't go to the bottom of the table because of the... Eeeuk!...
[Robert:] Bit like pot black really isn't it? Clink
[Dennis:] Yeah.
[Robert:] clink clink. conversation off this.... Oh dear [LAUGHTER]...
[Dennis:] Ooh,
[Robert:] [mimics crying]... Oh I'm sorry. I didn't realize you. Erm, I broke so you....
[Dennis:] Yeeuk. That's all they'll get isn't it? That's all they're gonna here, eeeuk....
[Robert:] Oh well, that's broken the duck anyway.... There was too much power on that one.... I definitely haven't got the action. Definitely... erm what I was trying to do was... not do what I've been doing which is to jerk.
[Dennis:] Yeah....
[Robert:] [singing] What are you making?
[Iris:] Thing is I had some wool... and I had the... thing. And I tried to do a pattern but it sent all my eyes crazy counting these
[Robert:] Yeah.
[Iris:] holes. So I'm just erm... mixing up the colours that will go.
[Robert:] ?
[Iris:] Yeah.
[Dennis:] ...
[Robert:] Choice... Almost.
[Dennis:] Not good enough though.
[Robert:] Put it up then.
[Dennis:] Oh yeah....
[Robert:] Yeeeuk.... Pink.
[Dennis:] Mark it.... Mm
[Robert:] ... Probably happy with that Dennis. You got one didn't you?... Don't think they're getting their value for money off this tape. What do you reckon?
[Gillian:] Do you want a tea or a coffee?...
[Robert:] Sorry?
[Gillian:] Do you want a tea or a coffee?
[Robert:] Cup of tea please.
[Gillian:] I've just been filling in my books and reading all about it.... I rang mum up.
[Robert:] Mm?
[Gillian:] And said to her about erm... putting the kids to bed.
[Robert:] Mm.
[Gillian:] And said we'll try and get something sorted out before you babysit on the... nineteenth. I said we didn't do too bad. I said Ben was wet but I didn't, his bed wasn't, so... god knows...
[Robert:] Is it a marketing exercise for the Sony Walkman really?
[Gillian:] Sorry?
[Robert:] Is it a marketing exercise for this?
[Gillian:] I don't know. Oh I've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris.
[Robert:] Yeah? Was it any good?
[Gillian:] Mm clank, click pheew clank click [LAUGHTER]. I couldn't understand what you... you were saying to Iris though.
[Robert:] Couldn't you?
[Gillian:] No.
[Robert:] Oh well
[Gillian:] Well you, all I heard was something about her sorting out some wool... and
[Robert:] She was doing a tapestry thing.... I'm a little bit erm... concerned with our Darrell....
[Gillian:] Yeah oh I think he's just peed off with his... father.... or
[Robert:] Yeah but it just st strikes me he's losing perspective of who's doing what for who.... I appreciate that the long term we gain as far as that property, yeah?
[Gillian:] Yeah.
[Robert:] But the short term, he is not making us rich is he?...
[Gillian:] Not by doing it the speed he's doing it.
[Robert:] If he'd have taken his time and he'd have got himself some more work... yeah?
[Gillian:] Yeah.... Well I think he, it's just Friday night and... he's coming up here tomorrow morning.
[Robert:] Is he, why?
[Gillian:] Oh, I just said do we see you over the weekend
[Robert:] Mm.
[Gillian:] and he says he's coming up tomorrow morning and erm... but he's got places to go and people, you know how he says it, places to go... people to see... tomorrow afternoon and Sunday. I asked him if he was going on his boat and he said no.
[Robert:] No, he's put it in his winter mooring hasn't he?
[Gillian:] No idea.
[Robert:] Fair weather sailor Jim. Despite all the rum bum baccy stuff....
[Gillian:] I think it's just Friday night and he's... yeah, basically.... I don't think Billy's telling him enough [cough] to be honest.
[Robert:] Why?
[Gillian:] I just don't.
[Robert:] [yawning] What, he knows something's happened []. But he doesn't know what it is....
[Gillian:] He doesn't seem to be involved in that many... discussions about the company does he? [yawning] Or what's happening. I mean [] he was moaning about erm or those trade accounts weren't he?
[Robert:] Mm.... well it's not for me to say. I don't know anything more about this business than he does.
[Gillian:] Oh no.
[Robert:] go as far as to say we probably know less about what's going on than he does.
[Gillian:] Do we? Oh. Such is life.... I had a word with Steph on the phone.
[Robert:] Oh?
[Gillian:] She's getting fat.... Yeah. She goes to hospital on Thursday. Eighteen week appointment. She's had another scan.... Got to work on Sunday.... They're gonna work from... nine thirty till four thirty this Sunday.
[Robert:] Mm.
[Gillian:] And then every Sunday up to Christmas. And if the... trading's good enough they're gonna carry it on.... So... how that will go with the Sun Sunday laws I don't know.... I'm waiting for Tesco's to... foreclose on what they said they were gonna do.
[Robert:] And what's that then?
[Gillian:] Well they're supposed to be opening on Sundays but didn't Texas and all those get fined last year?
[Robert:] Mhm.
[Gillian:] For opening on Sundays?
[Robert:] Yeah but because there's a... European Court... ruling outstanding... local authorities aren't gonna take them to court.
[Gillian:] Oh....
[Robert:] Because the... shop can just put an injunction on them, stopping them taking it any further. Or they can sue them for loss of income.
[Gillian:] Uhuh.
[Robert:] Yeah? Are you having this bath?
[Gillian:] Yeah. Are you happy about this car situation?
[Robert:] Yeah.
[Gillian:] You sure?
[Robert:] Yeah. It's work I'm... concerned with.
[Gillian:] Why?
[Robert:] enough done.
[Gillian:] You've got Monday haven't you? You've got Monday haven't you?
[Robert:] Sorry?
[Gillian:] You've got all day Monday.
[Robert:] Yeah but I need to do some typing. I'm trying to think how the fuck I'm gonna conduct this meeting... with half the company round the table.
[Gillian:] Yeah.
[Robert:] How I'm gonna run it....
[Gillian:] Well how many's gonna be at this meeting?
[Robert:] About twelve I think.
[Gillian:] Including Jeff?
[Robert:] Jeff, Fred.... Brian who's their manager of operations.
[Gillian:] Jo?
[Robert:] No.
[Gillian:] Oh!... She's not getting a look in?
[Robert:] Sorry?
[Gillian:] She's not getting a look in?
[Robert:] Not so far.
[Gillian:] Ha ha, I bet she winkles her way in if there's a free lunch going.
[Robert:] There isn't a free lunch on it, it's company internal software.
[Gillian:] Oh.... Do you want mum to come to Argos with me tomorrow morning?
[Robert:] Why?
[Gillian:] Well she isn't, I don't think she's doing anything tomorrow morning.
[Robert:] Are you asking me? Why are you asking me?
[Gillian:] Cos you said you'd come to Argos with me.
[Robert:] I said I'd stay here with the kids.
[Gillian:] Oh is that what's the plan of action?
[Robert:] Yeah.
[Gillian:] Sorry. Right. Okay.... Erm, I said I'd try and get over and see Steph one day next week.
[Robert:] Sorry?
[Gillian:] I said I'd try and see Steph one day next week... and take her some maternity clothes and erm... I'll wash some of these baby things.... If not I've only got to put them up in the attic... and bring them down in... three month's time. So I might as well take them over there and get rid of them. She said she don't mind having the stuff in the house.
[Bonnie:] Those new twenty pound notes frighten me....... Everyone's.... Sorry I asked.
[speaker006:] You have ain't you? Twice.
[Gillian:] Yeah I was lucky. I some meat... and... christmas pudding and brandy butter.... I said I've got some boring people coming on Sunday... for lunch. So, oh they're vegetarians... oh one, no the wife is vegetarian, she's a real mare.... I mean I don't mi the husband's alright... the husband's alright. But she's really pathetic. And erm I got the vegetarian cookbook out this morning so Rob said what you looking at that for? So I said well Janet's a vegetarian I said, I can't give us lot roast lamb and give her... you know. Said I've gotta do her something a bit decent. Said I know what to give her... he said ever so excited. So I said ooh I said, what's that? He said Birds Eye frozen dinners. [LAUGHTER] He said you can [LAUGHTER] I said you can't do that. But she... she ate, the only meat she eats is chicken. She's vegetarian but she eats chicken. see what I... I might
[Bonnie:] She isn't a proper vegetarian then is she?
[Gillian:] do something with that tomorrow and freeze it and then reheat it, give it on Sunday for her.
[Bonnie:] She isn't a proper vegetarian then?
[Gillian:] Oh no! Too pathetic to do anything properly.
[speaker006:] Yeah that's her.... I remember her now [LAUGHTER]
[Gillian:] Well I'm not gonna laugh when she comes up here am I?
[Bonnie:] No.
[speaker006:] No
[Gillian:] Well no it was the way you said the jumper.
[speaker006:] No I said jumper.
[Gillian:] Oh I see.
[Bonnie:] . Oh that's nice.
[speaker006:] Will that be okay?
[Bonnie:] Yeah.
[speaker006:] Something like that?
[Bonnie:] I want it quite
[Gillian:] Yeah do, do you want in chocolate and vanilla?
[Bonnie:] Yes please.
[Gillian:] Right. Well I do, I do them all, try and do them all a bit different but it'll be something on that line.
[Bonnie:] It's nice innit? next one?
[Gillian:] No there's enough. No, it's just literally sponge and buttercream. It's all yours.
[speaker006:] Thank you.
[Gillian:] Oh it's... it it's on a... it's on erm... it's on a plate so you er I don't mind... I'm, you know I don't mind not getting it back for the next month.
[speaker006:] Well you won't get it back till next week.
[Gillian:] I'm not I I I
[speaker006:] You don't want me to take all this now?
[Gillian:] No, I I'm not... no, I've got enough plates to keep me going.
[speaker006:] just have to wash an extra one out.
[Gillian:] Yeah well she
[speaker006:] Sure you'll have enough for Sunday?
[Gillian:] Yeah well she might have a paper one. Not really, no. I've just got a bag of crisps.
[speaker006:] I'll go. Go on!
[Gillian:] No! I
[speaker006:] Come on then! She's a worrier.
[Gillian:] Why, what's the matter with her?
[speaker006:] She
[Gillian:] Why?
[speaker006:] I don't know.... Is she like that at home?
[Gillian:] She's obviously scared. I thought... I thought if you spend time my kids.. I put... the two of them are sleeping together in the same room... and the other one's in, we've put her back in with us. When... if one wakes up then we've got three up there I said to Robert no way. if one of the eldest wakes up got to go back to bed. Er Robert said... Charlotte who's two and a half... she's always been pretty but erm... Robert said right, mother's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I've been getting them into bed and then I've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want... and then they've had toast with jam on. When they've had that I say right you're going to bed now. Well we had to [LAUGHTER] drag them down the hall []. The first night I took them to bed at quarter past seven. Literally quarter past eight when the I mean oh god knows how many times I went in there. But I didn't lose my rag, I was in the right mood to deal with it. So at quarter past eight I said right I said go to bed said gonna turn that light out. Saturday night I put them to bed... erm they went to bed at half seven Saturday night. But I actually got. So then Sunday night erm... we was there for twenty minutes for ten minutes.
[speaker006:] Oh no.
[Gillian:] So I better now. Mind you last Monday when I got home they was all up.
[speaker006:] [LAUGHTER]
[Gillian:] They was all in bed it was only Joseph who was up when I come out... but he was nearly gone up. Rob said within twenty minutes of you gone, he said they was all up.
[speaker006:] [LAUGHTER] Oh dear.
[Gillian:] It's quite a good idea though. Cos I say that, that makes the money for the christmas party.
[speaker006:] the raffles I want they've got some prizes.
[Gillian:] Yeah.
[speaker006:] Your Barry's in here.
[Gillian:] Oh right.
[speaker006:] Cos I said I think I should have
[Gillian:] Oh my god.
[speaker006:] . I said Gillian you see. she said, has she them? I said
[Gillian:] Who was that? Mrs, the funny, oh no I think that was Mrs erm... not Mrs, what's the other one?
[speaker006:] Can't remember. Mrs.
[Gillian:] ! Short hair.
[speaker006:] Grey hair.
[Gillian:] Straight, straight short hair.
[speaker006:] Always
[Gillian:] Quite tall. Never wears anything jazzy. Very plainly dressed.
[speaker006:] Rather tall and she's very
[Gillian:] Mind you she's French... she's taught French
[speaker006:] Yeah.... tell me what they were singing?
[Gillian:] Who?
[speaker006:] Wheels on the bus.
[Gillian:] Oh wheels on the bus that was.
[speaker006:] on the bus goes swish swish swish.
[Gillian:] yeah Charlotte sings that bit.
[speaker006:] Pete's starting to sing kind of mumbling the first two lines and all of a sudden she goes [singing] on christmas day [] [LAUGHTER].
[Gillian:] I dread to think what Ben's gonna be like on chr christmas.
[speaker006:] Why?
[Gillian:] Well he's so hyped up now.
[speaker006:] I know, all the shops have got father christmas. Tommy goes shop father christmas father christmas
[Gillian:] Well this is it.... Yeah.
[speaker006:] is he coming tonight? No!
[Gillian:] He's so hyped up... it's unbelievable.
[speaker006:] Three twenty then she started shooting off [someone calling raffle winners over the loudspeaker] number one eight six. Green one eight six.
[Gillian:] I've got it the other way round look.
[speaker006:] [singing] all day long [] something
[Gillian:] Yeah.
[speaker006:] [singing] beep beep all day long [].
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker006:] Dark blue nine seven o. Nine seven o on the blue.
[Gillian:] Eleven.... Ben's already tried to get one of his christmas presents, to get it out the box.
[speaker006:] Which one?
[Gillian:] Well I mean I'd bought stuff they'd all share. And this is a sort of erm a car station.
[speaker006:] On the yellow number two eight two. What?
[Gillian:] A sort of a car station thing. You go up on it and... it's Mr Chuff... So I got him that.... I got Charlotte the... Mr Loops Yellow Bus. It's got all little people inside it.
[speaker006:] What, the toy bus?
[Gillian:] Yeah, that one.
[speaker006:] Is it any good?
[Gillian:] Well I ain't got it out the box yet. I ain't had ch I mean I haven't had the opportunity to erm... have a look at it yet.... And Joseph I got a couple of toys for as well.... Yeah. Well I might be going out, going to Pet
[speaker006:] On the red number two eight six.
[Gillian:] going to Peterborough to erm
[speaker006:] Two eight six on the red.
[Gillian:] get myself something to wear if I don't hurry up and... if I don't hurry up and get something. Yeah.... So erm... I might have to go to Peterborough yet on that day and get myself kitted out.... Well I've looked round Wisbech and I've looked round Lynn. There's absolutely nothing. Evening dress. I mean either that or they're right up to your backside, you know, and I mean...
[speaker006:] pink number four five five.
[Gillian:] He just kicked the bucket.
[speaker006:] Do you reckon that'll?
[Gillian:] No that's that's well sellotaped up look. Yeah....
[speaker006:] Blue nine four five. Nine four five on the blue....
[Gillian:] Did you see anything for dad, for? That's what I say. Was that jumper alright?
[speaker006:] He ain't tried it on yet. Come in, we had tea then he went out again....
[Gillian:] Well what else is it?
[speaker006:] Tea and biscuits or tea and sugar Back on blue number eight six seven. Blue eight six seven.
[Gillian:] I wouldn't have it, she's supposed to be spending it tonight. Well I think I could make twenty quid go further than that.... Well look better should I say.... Look better....
[speaker006:] his cake. Pink four three three. Four double three on pink.
[Gillian:] Well what's in that flat box? Has anyone discovered yet? Well whatever it is no-one don't seem to want it.
[speaker006:] On the yellow number three five six. Three five six on yellow.
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER] I honked up this morning [].
[speaker006:] Pardon?
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER] I honked up this morning []. Rob made me a cup of coffee... and erm I forgot it had been standing there... and er... I went to take a mouthful course I got a mouth full of skin didn't I?
[speaker006:] Ugh.
[Gillian:] I thought now what do I do? Do I swallow it or do I, and I stood there debating over that was it, I went wheeuuu. [LAUGHTER] I thought well that's made up my mind for me []. Oh god it was gross.... I said to Rob I said well I'm a couple of pounds lighter. He said why, cos I've just honked up. He said you're not are you? I said no [LAUGHTER] I had that bloody cup of coffee you made []....
[speaker006:] On the white now six two two. Six double two on white.
[Gillian:] Well that black that black.... Well how much are those tin of Cadbury fingers? Well I ain't seen nothing like that on there have you? That's it.
[speaker006:] Ten ten pound box of Quality Street
[Gillian:] Yeah.
[speaker006:] at least that's something worth having.
[Gillian:] Precisely.
[speaker006:] Right it's on the white number six two three. Six two three on the white....
[Gillian:] Oh... god well it can't be anything that exciting then can it? Yeah.
[speaker006:] The last one on the green number eight four o. Eight four o on the green.
[Gillian:] No... nothing folks. Right, let me turn the cake round.
[speaker006:] Think it's used to you in that I don't know what, I don't tell Ron, well he knows how I felt cos I said course I'm, god he said, is that a performance, he said I haven't sat on your knee for ages, I said no I just feel like it [LAUGHTER], before we went out and er, I said well I don't think there's anything the matter do you, I said with him back there saying make sure Mr Hudson has the notes, and he said no, he said, he said he wouldn't leave it seven months he said
[Gillian:] No
[speaker006:] if he thought there was something up he would of sent you for an x-ray, or
[Gillian:] Mm.
[speaker006:] a blood test... he said I should think what's happened, that guy who's seen you, has, I, cos I said it was his understudy, yeah, cos he said Wendy had seen Mr Hudson so obviously the notes weren't in there were they?
[Gillian:] No
[speaker006:] You see, and, I, I now I've handled it a little bit better, but I couldn't focus much at all this morning. Huh, I think I had such a good night, you know what you've bloody well done he said you've got up he said before you was ready he said, you knew you wanted to get on he said, and you've got up he said with the intentions he said, you had them bloody cakes he said before you had breakfast, well I had to with her coming...
[Gillian:] But did you know that erm, you was having Emma?
[speaker006:] No... she went,
[Gillian:] Well next time she does that to you, you're out to meet somebody
[speaker006:] I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair, I mean... well she couldn't go the week... aha... I don't young enough yeah, about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some, I don't know, she's alright, I said yes she'll be alright, I said I'm going to start cooking... so she said I got to take these Heather, I said well they'll travel better in there, your father said you know Jane he said if you'd given her a hand
[Gillian:] Yeah
[speaker006:] yeah, she ain't got a minute has she? I said I want them back today and I said erm... this morning... cos I said er I want them to put my cakes in, oh she said, oh, well are you going anywhere? So I said no, so I'd better get on with my cooking, so she said oh she said done it on pur colour co-ordinated, I'm a bit more colour co-ordinated than that I was yesterday I had a
[Gillian:] You're doing very well
[speaker006:] I had a red jumper, but this was a, to be a honest this was a bit grubby down the front so it meant today
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER] meeting last night
[speaker006:] ... I ain't got a jacket with me, cold innit?
[Gillian:] I think it's I think it's
[speaker006:] cold innit?
[Gillian:] I've... Ron's well chuffed with this car
[speaker006:] Yeah.
[Gillian:] went down to Horsham yesterday and erm... went down there and came back filled it up with petrol, and it worked out to five quid
[speaker006:] No
[Gillian:] ... said we would get a mile... B M W
[speaker006:] Oh well
[Gillian:] Small world then, life's I mean erm, child seat, there was one child seat in that was strapped to the and erm there was erm the, the other car seats in the front of the not strapped in I had to hurry up and put them in the back, cos I was running a bit late... I was running a bit late anyway.
[speaker006:] I was six, I could have got another four little ones, I'd used like... and I thought well... er... I perhaps get us you see and you
[Gillian:] Think about that.
[speaker006:] Raffle tickets Gilly, have you planned your conservative raffle tickets?
[Gillian:] Yes, I've got them in my bag.
[speaker006:] I've said to Jay I don't know whether she don't want me to help her, I don't know, I, this is the second time I've said to her, and she said oh I don't know where they are, and I ain't gonna ask her no more, if they get there they get there and if they don't
[Gillian:] No, I've put mine, put mine in the envelope so will you hand them in on Saturday?
[speaker006:] I'll tell Ang push them through the door so they can get...
[Gillian:] I thought you might stand a better chance of winning if there weren't enough votes.
[speaker006:] I won last year
[Gillian:] Yeah
[speaker006:] even if it was just [LAUGHTER]
[Gillian:] So er, but I thought, Gemma's got if you can come er Joseph in front
[speaker006:] I bought, I bought his pushchair in.
[Gillian:] Oh, then I can just go up to Co-Op
[speaker006:] I thought, oh
[Gillian:] I thought I'd go into erm... I'd go to the bank on my way to this afternoon.
[speaker006:] Alright.
[Gillian:] How about that for an idea?
[speaker006:] Yeah.
[Gillian:] There's more than five minutes left.
[speaker006:] So which, which car park would you want to go in, the Rainbow on the roundabout going
[Gillian:] Why?
[speaker006:] well they don't have do they?
[Gillian:] Oh so it's the yeah
[speaker006:] and you
[Gillian:] No.
[speaker006:] and then if you two let er with Charlotte
[Gillian:] Caroline, yeah.
[speaker006:] Caroline.
[Gillian:] Oh, it's, it's Westgate.
[speaker006:] Yeah but you see it says Co-Op you see.
[Gillian:] Oh I'm thinking of Rainbow... why am I thinking of Rainbow, is that Co-Op as well?
[speaker006:] Yeah.
[Gillian:] Oh well, that's where I'm getting right confused. at the top...
[speaker006:] ... yeah well as long as we get to school for half past, I mean... but she'd got a nice little cauliflower and, I think she'd got a carton some sort of.
[Gillian:] George Benson
[speaker006:] Yeah I did notice
[Gillian:] well at least we've got a keep an eye on.
[speaker006:] That's what I thought, I'd bring the pushchair in, so we don't there. A lot to fiddle with, but you know we'll use. poor Derek, I mean I don't know whether Derek's away, didn't bother to come up on, if if he didn't bother to come Friday well he's still laying on the bench, but if it's Jack you see, the other day she... well give did you ask him, I said no I don't mention it till Friday to him... and then when I get the next one I'll say well is it this week's or last week's?
[Gillian:] Yeah.
[speaker006:] I don't want him to say well she didn't come round, she didn't ask me for the money, I mean I haven't ask him for the money and, he'd like to on a Friday, when one come up, when the next one comes you can you? I thought going out tomorrow, so I said to Bob,
[Gillian:] Well you know what a great big appreciate your trip tomorrow won't you?...
[speaker006:] No wonder you
[Gillian:] That's right, it's just that I worked, I think, yesterday I couldn't get into erm, I just couldn't get into and yesterday I must admit... I felt really rough and erm, I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris, cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I can't like your head was my stomach was churning over, it wasn't till, soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get, you see I didn't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I'm having one of them, and I didn't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs, they had fish and what have you, and erm, I thought well what can I have, I thought I what, I thought I got a little tin of salmon there, so I thought right I'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt, by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor, I only got spots before my eyes as such, but, I just had, I had four, five cups of water, I didn't drink any tea, and I wish then, well I don't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest.
[speaker006:] Your father said er David was poor yesterday, Monday, he kept coming over sick.
[Gillian:] But, I felt, I know, at one point I really thought I was going to have to ring Iris to come and just sit with the kiddies, but I thought well if I drop down what the hell, devil this house gonna look like in, with three of them... let loose in.
[speaker006:] But do you feel better today?
[Gillian:] Yeah... I feel one hundred per cent better...
[speaker006:] [someone sings] Are you
[Gillian:] No, I was, I was, came over all, I didn't feel right when I got up in the morning, I'll try and park outside Westgate, I didn't feel right when I got up in the morning, Kelly get round, yes I can go and oh find Robert... erm, yeah I didn't feel right in the morning, but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad, sandwich, and Rob said to me well you sure it wasn't that, cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit, nothing wrong with that, it's just a tin of salmon, you know.
[speaker006:] Yeah, but I mean if you were like that in the morning well its worse
[Gillian:] Anyway it's doing feel hundred per cent worse... you know... but erm... I got the, I had quite... and when you come I was, I was playing peepo with my jumper weren't I? When you came to door I was pulling, pulling the head
[speaker006:] Well I was coming didn't I?
[Gillian:] Yeah, yeah well what time was that?
[speaker006:] Ooh,
[Gillian:] Fourish?
[speaker006:] Just after that.
[Gillian:] Erm... well just as you come, that's the best I felt all afternoon and I, all I was doing was playing peepo with them through me jumper, cos I games
[speaker006:] Where's he there going?
[Gillian:] No he's chin wagging to someone... well I'll drop you off here, well that's not a lot of good is it?... Cos you won't know where I've parked.
[speaker006:] But no, but I can have a...
[Gillian:] Meet me outside Frank's, alright, I'll drive round and park outside Frank's
[speaker006:] Mm, mm.
[Gillian:] If I'm not parked out, if there's, there's anyone going about I won't park out, erm if I haven't parked where that silver car is
[speaker006:] Mm.
[Gillian:] just can you nip in and get me a pound and a half of liver?
[speaker006:] Yes.
[Gillian:] And can you have a look at the price of Mr or someone or other circus, it's Mr Toots or Mr Loots or
[speaker006:] Right
[Gillian:] turtles or, leave, leave her in here nan
[speaker006:] You sure?
[Gillian:] yeah, yeah
[speaker006:] She can come
[Gillian:] No leave her in here.
[speaker006:] ok... Hello
[Gillian:] Is
[speaker006:] hello
[Gillian:] hello, you ooh, oh she's gone.
[speaker006:] hello
[Gillian:] Yeah nanny's gone look.
[speaker006:] hello, hello
[Gillian:] Yeah we'll go with nanny in a moment lovely.
[speaker006:] [crying]
[Gillian:] Nanny's not going without you, we're just going to get in another car park, right but nanny's got to nip in that shop quickly cos look, we're late picking Ben up, we've only got ten minutes and we've got to be at, be at the nursery, alright, and nanny's gone into that shop and we're now gonna drive round the other side of that, that square and then erm, nanny will be back, alright?... Right lets turn of this machine for five minutes. But it's still, it's still cheaper in Argos yeah?
[speaker006:] It's cheaper at... twenty six ninety nine, I had to ask about that cos I couldn't see it
[Gillian:] It's Mr something is it flying circus or
[speaker006:] I don't know I said a circus one you see and er
[Gillian:] Yeah
[speaker006:] Hello, hello, hello
[Gillian:] I know, she's eating a She thinks she's going
[speaker006:] No, Charlotte
[Gillian:] Oh erm... let me slow down this bit, erm... no it's twen, oh it is twenty six ninety nine anywhere else, I've seen it but in Argos,Wi, well William looked in the catalogue on Tuesday for me, but he said it was nineteen ninety nine in Argos
[speaker006:] Yeah.
[Gillian:] but erm, had a little with the children's Christmas presents
[speaker006:] Who?
[Gillian:] Was it Monday, no it was yesterday, I was in the loo and I could hear this paper being ripped and I thought oh they've got one of my club catalogues, I didn't think any more of it and then I could hear Joseph going weee, I thought what the devil's he got, so went out, Joseph has got the flying circus bus that was meant for Charlotte and him and, Brenda and Charlotte was sharing the, the, garage thing that I've brought... so I thought well now it's out, well they're not going to keep all that till I said to him whatever is Father Christmas going to say, I said he's supposed to be taking these away to bring I said er, what's Father Christmas gonna say?, no Ben [LAUGHTER] forget, so I thought while they're out I could see Joseph's playing a lot, way with this bus thing, he was having a whale of a time, he thought that was great, so I said to Charlotte I said do you like that bus? Cos that was meant for her you see, she said no, I want the house, she meant the garage, so I said don't you like the bus then Charlotte, no, bus for Joseph, bus for the baby, so I thought well that's decided it then now I, she, she better have Mr Toot and
[speaker006:] Don't make a lot of difference really does it?
[Gillian:] You see all
[speaker006:] when it's
[Gillian:] all the figures all erm sit er all the same
[speaker006:] yeah
[Gillian:] things you see, so erm, I thought right well that's it Ben can have the garage, I'll go and buy her the flying circus, Joseph can have the bus and call it a day.
[speaker006:] Mm.
[Gillian:] You know, I mean they've still got a couple of books each and I've bought three
[speaker006:] Swing
[Gillian:] the swing and I've bought them a couple of wooden puzzles where you pick the bits up... so, I thought well then I'll call it a day there, and that'll be that
[speaker006:] Well this is this is it Gilly cos I mean
[Gillian:] Oh you can keep going though... totally over the top... I thought well Joseph's was twelve ninety nine and Ben's was fourteen nineteen ninety nine and that's just tough that I've got you know, I can't get Charlotte's any cheaper than that, but, I mean they're not gonna know how much I've, they're not gonna say well you've got five pound more than what I have cos they're not of that age so, that's how I've left it, that's what I'm gonna do, I'll get her the circus and then they can swap them over and Joseph will be happy that he got something on wheels
[speaker006:] Yeah
[Gillian:] I said to Robert
[speaker006:] He has got something on wheels from us
[Gillian:] yeah, I said to Rob you can't keep buying them learning toys, they've gotta
[speaker006:] Yeah
[Gillian:] play as well haven't they?
[speaker006:] well that helps them as much really don't it?
[Gillian:] Yeah, so erm cos then I had the argument about putting them back in the box.
[speaker006:] Tell you what I've got, I keep getting, I, I shall think I'll have another one tonight, is a great big egg box
[Gillian:] Mm, well you see, these, these are big boxes on their own there, putting them in another one
[speaker006:] Yes, but I should you'd get one of those boxes in the end
[Gillian:] Do you think so?
[speaker006:] Well, those size of those boxes
[Gillian:] Yeah, yeah
[speaker006:] I've, I've got three of them now
[Gillian:] well I could do with, I could actually do with one cos little bits and pieces, but erm, course then when I've them in
[speaker006:] I do rather use the one, like me I'd like two, cos I've got one full of bits and pieces and the odds, odds and ends I keep
[Gillian:] Oh... I've got, the one that I've emptied this morning. I think I found just the tiny
[speaker006:] Yeah...
[Gillian:] So this
[speaker006:] I come up to that cow upstairs alright, alright
[Gillian:] Mm.
[speaker006:] you know er, I think I've got to get me eyes tested, cos this can make
[Gillian:] Well you said that months ago
[speaker006:] this, well this can make you feel, can't it?
[Gillian:] Mm, mm, I mean, its probably got to the st
[speaker006:] Sometimes I look
[Gillian:] its probably got to the stage where you want glasses all the time now, just you know erm
[speaker006:] Yeah
[Gillian:] I mean that doesn't help as well, I know Sainsbury's or Tesco's and you have to keep taking them off and putting them on
[speaker006:] Yes.
[Gillian:] that doesn't help cos your eyes are not having time to adjust erm without the glasses before you put them back on again.
[speaker006:] And I can't cope walking around in my reading glasses but I've got to
[Gillian:] Mm.
[speaker006:] when I want to look at prices.
[Gillian:] Pair of bi-focals or something.
[speaker006:] Oh my god.
[Gillian:] No, I meant the ones with the half moons in
[speaker006:] Yeah.
[Gillian:] or where they change half way down, so you haven't got to keep taking your glasses on and off
[speaker006:] Yeah, they are got
[Gillian:] Are they?... I think bi-focals with the half brim bits...
[speaker006:] So erm... Which I thought well where's that all about the cake, other day, that three pound one, and then two of us went
[Gillian:] Oh god
[speaker006:] there must be a reason... you know, they, they went well so I've got sixty of them, they take them with me tonight and they said would there be any cakes available for Saturday and I, I think and I nearly said to erm, well last year you reckon you couldn't sell cakes, but anyway I helped her Nan, nan, nan so, and er I said do you sell butterfly ones, and she said I was going to have a go at making them, but she said I can't make them like you,
[Gillian:] Aha
[speaker006:] I thought well I ain't
[Gillian:] It involves, it involves too much work, that's why she can't do them like you.
[speaker006:] Christmas fillers you see, so I, she, cos I've, I'm going to make a couple of fruit cakes, I said well I was going to bring in a couple of fruit cakes and said if you need them not, if not I said I'll take them back I thought no way is Sue gonna eat them, eat cakes like she did last year, or year before
[Gillian:] Yeah.
[speaker006:] she only had the bloody cheek to charge us last year for a turkey wrong, but I mean I did get that sorted out afterwards.
[Gillian:] So are you helping with the catering side or are you running a cake stall?
[speaker006:] I can't run a cake stall Gilly cos when I got a book a someone erm wants to
[Gillian:] Oh yeah That's right, oh
[speaker006:] say ya, nay, or... and er, so I
[Gillian:] Well as you said last year they really wanted something for nothing, for it
[speaker006:] Yeah, so what I'm doing, I'll these, gonna make about a hundred... or one bit or a couple of bits and some butterfly cakes and the cakes and plates and cling film, charge them a quid, eight for a pound
[Gillian:] Mm...
[speaker006:] and that, that would be
[Gillian:] You're not telling me this Council driver can't go any quicker... cos he'll try to get back to before, before twelve o'clock...
[speaker006:] I can't twelve o'clock dinner.
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER]...
[speaker006:] No we had a reasonably good dinner and, and we didn't want no tea when we come home, this could have been some of it cos all I had then when we did about seven o'clock when we decided we'd have a bowl of soup, erm, we stuffed ourselves, we had toast and breakfast erm, we had one or two sweets in the hospital, er while we were waiting and then er, we went to Asda and then we got er er pie, chips and peas, hot actually, bread roll and butter, for one ninety nine, I wasn't half pleased, well that just suit us cos it, we would have gone somewhere else and had coffee and a cake it would of cost you, one fifty each
[Gillian:] Oh yeah
[speaker006:] so erm, we decided that we'd have this fish and chips before we got going, cos it we didn't eat, you know, an awful lot yesterday so, erm, last night when we came home I looked at this Argos ticket which I couldn't find and I've, in that I've found what erm... a Weight Watcher... er menu, so I picked that out, so I've had erm... don't know what you'll call it today, boiled egg and toast, eh bread and butter Get down
[Gillian:] Yeah, alright my love, just a minute. You'll have to come out this way because there's lots of cars on the road... Oh, one, two, three... be careful and walk Oh it's very pretty... Yes, just a, yeah go on then off you go in the house... in the gate. I don't know whether Wills is here or not. See if your little boyfriend is here... hi up the stairs, hello Charlotte, love his nursery, hello Joseph
[speaker007:] Hello Kelly, what you got?
[Dennis:] He got
[Gillian:] Yeah,
[Dennis:] He's got his
[Gillian:] A bit of peace and quiet.
[speaker007:] Oh that's golly, on the shelf, here, you've got on your hair
[Gillian:] I'll make myself at home [LAUGHTER].
[Dennis:] Which is mine, which is mine?
[speaker007:] Over there.
[Dennis:] O K.
[speaker007:] clean your hair for you now? Yeah, he's got mousse on him...
[Gillian:] Yeah I had to come to erm so I thought erm, I tried to ring you yesterday, your phone was out of order.
[Dennis:] Well, she's having a new one put on.
[speaker007:] Why we was paying the bill actually we paid to Sunday us connect us the following Friday
[Gillian:] Why?
[speaker007:] so I had it disconnected, had it disconnected... and so I've asked for it to be re-connected, they can't do it until twenty seventh December
[Gillian:] Oh no
[speaker007:] and he's got to pay forty five quid to have it done.
[Gillian:] What did you have it cut off for?
[speaker007:] I didn't have it cut off, he did
[Gillian:] No, why, why did you have it cut off?
[Dennis:] I didn't want to talk to
[Gillian:] Oh, so it's alright with one but not with the other?
[speaker007:] Yeah. What's this? This is yours.
[Gillian:] Oh yes, I can see what you've done, I tried to ring you and it said erm out of order, cos I was ringing to say I'm coming to the bank this morning so I'll pop in for coffee. I thought god is it, [LAUGHTER]
[Dennis:] three times up the
[speaker007:] A mask, want to put it on, want to put one on?
[speaker006:] No.
[speaker007:] Oh Chrissy, I use that where's your eyes oh [LAUGHTER], ooh, show mum, Gilly put one on?
[Gillian:] No, no, no
[speaker007:] You got a black eye? No, no... they're all fighting fit and in the best of health, eh, [LAUGHTER]
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER]...
[speaker006:] Mum, I'm bored
[Gillian:] Where's your little gun? watching Play Bus and Hannah's asleep and
[speaker006:] A gun, a gun
[Gillian:] Pardon? Do you want to put this one on?
[speaker006:] ...
[speaker007:] I had Jehovah Witnesses round this morning.
[Gillian:] Oh that was nice for you, oh so you've had three visitors then that's lovely
[speaker007:] Yes, the end the end of that one [LAUGHTER]...
[Dennis:] It's a on the er Bloody hell he didn't stop to take
[Gillian:] You mean a black one?
[Dennis:] Yes, with all his gold and rings and is that real gold, he went berserk he didn't start mate, they, they tried to get on him.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER] having him on [LAUGHTER]
[Dennis:] Sure, bloody Goldilocks, everywhere...
[Gillian:] So I haven't got to pick them up from nursery today, Jayne's picking them up.
[speaker007:] Oh that's all right
[Gillian:] So erm, I thought right
[speaker007:] yeah
[Gillian:] go and have a coffee. I rang up Mandy yesterday
[speaker007:] Oh yeah, how is she?
[Gillian:] who was rather sarcastic, sarcastic, I said to her erm, oh you're still alive then, as if to say you haven't rang me rang you [LAUGHTER].
[speaker007:] What she say?
[Gillian:] Yes she said we're going out to a dinner party tonight, I thought golly
[speaker007:] Here we go
[speaker006:] [crying]
[Dennis:] She's fallen I think straight on the face.
[speaker007:] Come on let's have a look.
[speaker006:] [crying] [crying]
[speaker007:] There we go,
[speaker006:] [crying]
[speaker007:] There we are all done, all done. how did you get on with
[Gillian:] Erm, he was, on the first and second day, he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was, the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something's broken, yeah I've got a spare one, but the car came back in one bit so erm, he's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm, did his, did a lot of it's nothing to do with erm, they sponsored him two thousand pounds
[speaker007:] Oh good
[Dennis:] See you later
[Gillian:] so er, mind how you go bye, so erm, he's got an interview with erm T V S and these two guys that erm... sponsored him for it
[speaker007:] Brilliant
[Gillian:] and er, in a, and then Top Gear they want to do an interview with him for er, erm racing for the disabled.
[speaker007:] Do they?
[Gillian:] Yes, so he's really
[speaker007:] bully for him.
[Gillian:] getting into it.
[speaker007:] Cos I've watch it,recor record it a couple of times, but I didn't realize they each had different days.
[Gillian:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] there look, it's my fork, stop biting my nails.
[Gillian:] Pardon?
[speaker007:] Stop biting my nails.
[Gillian:] You have?
[speaker007:] Yeah, yeah,. Will see
[Gillian:] What, where you going to go?
[speaker007:] Well I
[Gillian:] You on your own or with
[speaker007:] No, me and Derek
[Gillian:] Oh I think he's great as that, I think he
[speaker007:] He's really quiet actually
[Gillian:] after his wife, I said to Ron when erm before we come I said, erm, I said you realize I said that you gonna be under pressure really cos
[speaker007:] Why?
[Gillian:] alright he's met you for five minutes but he's come here I said this gang of children, I said the poor bugger's not going to know what hit him I said alright if it's just for Sally's three I said he's gonna be, he's not gonna be relaxed I said I know that for a fact I said I know what it was like when I used to go and visit your people when I was
[speaker007:] Yeah, yeah.
[Gillian:] so I know he's not gonna be relaxed... but, but after you went erm when Rob come home he said well he said what time did the party break up? I said oh just when it got dark really I said we're having it down the house, I said erm drank more port I said every time we went to the loo they filled up my glass he said eh, what do you think Gill? I said I thought he was a right in fact I've never seen Sally like it before I said I felt quite really
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Gillian:] No, but he seemed to be great, he said, he said well he said to, to me he said she's with the real thing and she wants to go for it [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] But he said all he did was people he'd met quite a few times now, they say that you know like cos he's very funny, he comes out with me, god Sally what's the matter with you, you've been drinking or something, I said no, that's how he is he's not
[Gillian:] Yeah
[speaker007:] himself. No, I think he's, I said to Robert I've got quite a good streak cos I've never seen Sally
[Gillian:] We are competitive I know that
[speaker007:] more with someone than it should be like
[Gillian:] I know what it should be like but I [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] I know we have people round here for actual. Everywhere I go like he follows me know what I mean, I'm sitting up there at one stage and he, he'd spend a day sort of curls, curls up and cuddles me.
[Gillian:] That's what it should be like Sally...
[speaker007:] He goes to bed sometimes at eight o'clock
[Gillian:] I don't wish to know that.
[speaker007:] No, no, he lays there talking to his wine and stuff you know, it's really
[Gillian:] That's what, that's what is missing out of Colin and I, Colin and I
[speaker007:] Mm
[Gillian:] was conversation, we just didn't talk at all
[speaker007:] Talk about it
[Gillian:] that's right... I mean when, when you ask which position you want, you know,
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Gillian:] you think god, you know, and after five years of marriage you think well have we tried everything, yeah [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Gillian:] five years of marriage and three children you know, [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] it gets better every day.
[Gillian:] Mm... oh I'm pleased about that, I'm just waiting for the wedding bells, I said to Robert I said if they can't get any one to witness it, I said we'll be there, [LAUGHTER], he said, well you I said what do you mean? He said you're the one who kept saying go for it
[speaker007:] Go for it [LAUGHTER] yeah
[Gillian:] he said but don't wait he said I've only got you to blame [LAUGHTER] and he did...
[speaker007:] What you doing on Saturday night?
[Gillian:] Oh we've got, I don't think we've got anything on Saturday night, erm, Sunday that we got, Graham, Graham and Janet and for lunch, mum says why do you why do you invite them, I says well, I said well you know
[speaker007:] Obliged to.
[Gillian:] it's that sort of time of the year when you have all sorts of people there, but I mean she's such, so pathetic, words gonna come over for lunch, I mean we have them over every year sort of Christmas time
[speaker007:] Yeah
[Gillian:] although we never get invited back
[speaker007:] darling
[Gillian:] we never get invited back you know, I think erm,
[speaker007:] We will have you round here, we're thinking of having a party, erm, like an evening party.
[Gillian:] Can't, erm Rob's do, erm you know what we've got to get to this year?
[speaker007:] Erm
[Gillian:] Well I'll tell you, Christmas party you know it's really
[speaker007:] I think we will have one. We toyed with the idea of having one on the twenty first of this month, but if we did, but now that we've got someone interested in the house
[Gillian:] Yeah
[speaker007:] erm, I don't think we will, I think we'll wait erm
[Gillian:] wait for New Year, when everyone's finished partying.
[speaker007:] Yeah...
[Gillian:] Make it an engagement party Sally.
[speaker007:] Oh
[Gillian:] Come on, I'm getting right excited about this
[speaker007:] yeah,.
[Gillian:] No we've got them coming over on Sunday and she said oh don't do anything special just do sandwiches [LAUGHTER], oh you invite them over for Sunday lunch, cos she's a vegetarian, except she eats chicken and vegetarian that eats a chicken
[speaker007:] Oh no not a vegetarian
[Gillian:] I think it's, I said to Robert it's just an excuse to have chicken every Sunday for lunch so that they can save some money, you know, [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] Yeah, more than likely
[Gillian:] so I've decided I'm going to do erm something called Sunshine Chicken, which is just chicken e, chicken casserole, a bit different, she doesn't drink alcohol so I can't do anything in wine, erm so I'm doing that, I'm doing four portions of chicken of that cos the daughter eats chicken, erm
[speaker007:] take that off
[Gillian:] and I'm doing
[speaker007:] What you got for Christmas Day?
[Gillian:] sausage meat loaf with bacon and bits and pieces
[speaker007:] Cor lovely
[Gillian:] jacket potato
[speaker007:] What instead of just doing
[Gillian:] yeah, erm, what else am I doing?
[speaker007:] Oh cruel dude
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER] Erm, veg, vegetable curry I'm doing, there's something else in the savoury line, there is four things in the savoury
[speaker007:] Something
[Gillian:] that went with salad what was that?
[speaker007:] We're going to a party on Saturday night it's my friends birthday party, see if I can get you an invite...
[Gillian:] Erm, yeah just let me make sure I can get a baby sitter, it just depends what mum and dad are up to, I know they should have been out on Friday night...
[speaker007:] Is your mum Mrs E?
[Gillian:] No B
[speaker007:] Oh, cos there was a little leaflet over there.
[Gillian:] I won a bottle of wine on that yesterday
[speaker007:] Did you?
[Gillian:] Yes
[speaker007:] Good for you.
[Gillian:] Children had erm... er craft erm stall and a cake stall to raise money for the Christmas party Father Christmas so it doesn't come out of
[speaker007:] Yeah
[Gillian:] and erm, Jayne presented me with a bottle of wine this morning when she took er a bottle of sherry
[speaker007:] Bottle of sherry
[Gillian:] yeah, yeah Croft as well you know, oh, [LAUGHTER] we're away here [LAUGHTER]. I've got quite into port though, I'd finished that bottle of port by Tuesday night
[speaker007:] Cor we drink port and brandy
[Gillian:] well I, I drink I'd gone off of it until we opened that one on Sunday when you came over and I'd finished it by Tuesday, I was getting quite hooked on it
[speaker007:] Yeah we usually
[Gillian:] and thought this is no good... well... we came up today
[speaker006:] Yeah
[Gillian:] yeah, who was on it today? What's today Thursday?
[speaker007:] Was it the bird?
[Gillian:] It was today was it?... Was it, was it
[speaker007:] Speak properly, pancake
[Gillian:] She's going through a stage talk about cakey, cakey goes to it's all sort of pathetic, oh yes hello Joseph, and erm she says pardon, pardon, she said daddy.
[speaker007:] is that a pinafore?
[Gillian:] No it's shorts, culottes
[speaker007:] Is it?
[Gillian:] Yeah, [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] Ooh, ooh, ooh. Hannah got to go to Victoria hospital on twenty second of January.
[Gillian:] Oh how's she getting on?
[speaker007:] Erm alright, she... you're alright, aren't you now?
[Gillian:] I can see that this one's still not on his feet you obviously noticed, he'll walk about when you hold his hands
[speaker007:] Yeah
[Gillian:] he just won't go he just takes a, but he's fine
[speaker007:] heavy [LAUGHTER]
[Gillian:] , yes I'll talk about you
[speaker007:] You know I am as well don't you?
[Gillian:] You've got a big tummy, you got a big tummy.
[speaker007:] Give it back to Charlotte, well let her play with it then.
[speaker006:] Why?
[Gillian:] Oh that clock's right I hope is it?
[speaker007:] Yes
[Gillian:] Oh that's alright
[speaker007:] it's twenty five to eleven
[Gillian:] as long as I've gone by, or I'm leaving here by eleven... give me a half hour to get home.
[speaker007:] I go to Tesco's this afternoon I It's like old mother hubbard today, old mother hubbardy
[Gillian:] Oh... Oh Chris goes on this weekend?
[speaker007:] Does he?
[Gillian:] Yeah.
[speaker007:] My god.
[Gillian:] there on Friday have one of these, should be on on Friday so there putting they
[speaker007:] was really impressed by that.
[Gillian:] I don't think it's that big and Dick came over the other day and erm he wait
[speaker007:] He wait till you get in there?
[Gillian:] yeah, and he went up the plot and he come back and he said cor you can have plenty old erm cold sheds that he could have got, I said what do you really think, I played a free hand, you mean mum and dad's hand [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] Is it?
[Gillian:] made to look so small.
[speaker007:] Yeah it does actually.
[Gillian:] So if it was me walking his dog as he goes by he said we'll see what, he said we're rebuilding a new bungalow on the insurance claim [LAUGHTER].
[speaker007:] Why does their house, their house shakes
[Gillian:] Yeah and they've got some cracks in there
[speaker007:] Yeah, they're not on a are they?
[Gillian:] They own nothing, I mean, it's over a hundred years old, so it's just, it's like built on the soil
[speaker007:] Think about where probably out that way somewhere.
[Gillian:] Oh hope so, it'll be really good.
[speaker007:] Mm.
[Gillian:] Yeah move out that way...
[speaker007:] Well.
[Gillian:] and what we doing now is London, London yesterday and you, you should have been at home today but he had to go back to London again so I didn't keep him very much, given up is it?
[speaker007:] No it's not
[Gillian:] Given up smoking?
[speaker007:] who Rob, why?
[Gillian:] He gave up yesterday [LAUGHTER] no you have to laugh he Monday, he hasn't had one since Monday night.
[speaker006:] I've got
[Gillian:] and he made me feel right guilty yesterday I, I had to buy a packet about three o'clock, so I didn't have any until three o'clock and then [child talking] talk to the cat [LAUGHTER] and I thought no it's no good, Margaret I'll have to hide this packet up [LAUGHTER] ooh does the cat understand you my love?
[speaker007:] me and my mother have erm arranged it all, she's invited us down there
[Gillian:] Oh god. Let them get on with it Sally.
[speaker007:] Yeah, I couldn't even fight the thought that she'd asked him at no what I mean. It really upset me, erm, but then
[Gillian:] Well it'll be nice for you and Greg to have Christmas on your own I know it'll be quiet, but
[speaker007:] We won't stay here
[Gillian:] true, that is what I mean you, you'll be able to go away
[speaker007:] Yeah
[Gillian:] I think that's the trouble with Christmas, I said to Rob, in a way, I said I hope when I get to mum and dad's age I won't expect... my children to think oh god you got to go there for you know I said that I'd love to just once take the kids away and go somewhere
[speaker007:] Yeah
[Gillian:] for Christmas, but I mean erm, it's expected I mean they all come to ours anyway so, but erm
[speaker007:] I mean our, the more I think about it I think the main, we might even go to Germany to see my sister, so it might be next year, but I can't get Tony to talk at the moment, I don't know erm,
[Gillian:] Oh thank you
[speaker007:] sister's on Christmas Eve, she lives... somewhere they've got this brilliant pub down there called the, Christmas Eve and then over to his mum and dad for Christmas Day, but I, I wouldn't want to stay here...
[Gillian:] Oh they organized Christmas let them get on with it... cor this is the first bit of peace and quiet
[speaker007:] Mm
[Gillian:] amazing what a sweet will do.
[speaker006:] Yeah.
[Gillian:] Yeah, [LAUGHTER] you cheeky little monkey, oh what you mean here he's got a black eye?
[speaker007:] Mm
[Gillian:] Yeah, he dropped, he was playing kitchen table he dropped it, luckily it just caught the bottom of his eye...
[speaker007:] I've been offered a job Gill
[Gillian:] Who by?
[speaker007:] You probably won't believe it
[Gillian:] Not Bernard, oh no, did they ever come back to you?
[speaker007:] No, Ian
[Gillian:] Mm, I thought they were on the way here, I saw loads of for sale signs but I didn't see any new ones This part of the conversation has been wiped off, it'll continue in a few minutes. You'll have to come out this way because there's lots of cars on the road... Oh, one, two, three... be careful and walk Oh it's very pretty... Yes, just a, yeah go on then off you go in the house... in the gate. I don't know whether Wills is here or not. See if your little boyfriend is here... hi up the stairs, hello Charlotte, love his nursery, hello Joseph
[speaker007:] Hello Kelly, what you got?
[Dennis:] He got
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER] Mind you I can't talk, I looked in the mirror a couple of weeks ago and my eyes are, I mean are really they're having a rough time indeed
[speaker007:] Oh my eyes are really
[Gillian:] and my eyes under here were black and I
[speaker007:] Mine are most of the time
[Gillian:] and I thought god I've got to do something, I've looked in the mirror and I though Gill this is disgusting, you know, it really is
[speaker007:] It's horrible isn't it sometimes?
[Gillian:] So erm, I went out and I had my hair, oh I've had me hair permed again but you can't tell unless you put a brush through it though
[speaker007:] Got to get mine done again
[Gillian:] and erm, I went up to mum's and she's got a load of Unique make-up, and she said if there's anything in that bag you want it, you'd better have it, so I said I went through, and we did destroyed all mine and put it all in the, I mean lipsticks ten quid a time or whatever, seven quid a time, so I went through and Mary had a she got this moisture, oh I thought what does this mean, she said it's for removing lines, I thought right we'll have a sample this
[speaker007:] Yes
[Gillian:] so we put it under there and round here and everywhere and I went over to on Saturday and erm... crumbs she said you look, you look really good, [LAUGHTER] I thought
[speaker007:] What's it called?
[Gillian:] yeah [LAUGHTER] it's erm, moisture sturgeon it's by Clinique
[speaker007:] Oh it's
[Gillian:] oh I don't know, this is just a sample pot, but er, it was one that she, if you buy, sometimes you're buying make up you get a freebie gift, thing, and it was, it was in one of those
[speaker007:] Alright, don't panic, here you are, quick, quick, quick, need some of that
[Gillian:] and er, she said my eyes really sparkled she said first time I've seen them sparkle for a long while so I was right chuffed about that.
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker006:] Mum.
[Gillian:] Hello, oh that's pretty... Charlotte and Benjamin found their Christmas presents the other day.
[speaker007:] Did they?
[Gillian:] Yep I was, I was in the loo and erm... they were, they went into the office and I could hear this rummaging of paper and I thought they've got a club book, I didn't think any more of it, and when I came out they got, both of them out of the boxes. Ben had got erm a Mr garage thing and I
[speaker007:] Does he as well?
[Gillian:] and I bought her but when I came out the loo he is playing with the bus going wheeee, he was having a great time with that, I looked at him and I said got to give that to Charlotte, no, no, I don't like it I want the house, meaning the garage, so I've gone out now and bought her a circus
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[Gillian:] cos when I went, when Ben went to nursery school erm he wanted a box out of the break out of the office, I said no you're not, I said Father Christmas is going to come and collect that, I said he's gonna wrap them and I said he's gonna come and deliver it
[speaker007:] Oh dear
[Gillian:] no, no, no, I thought oh god I'm gonna have to get them out of the house
[speaker007:] Well we've had all this trauma about you know, cos I do you, where do you want the he said well don't see much of daddy or nan and granddad and nana and granddad said they moved in on Christmas Day stay here and Rachael and Steven wouldn't come up, stay here on Christmas Day, it's quite likely, quite likely to go with daddy he said but, in many ways I he said I know what we can do is when we send up the chimney we could put nanny's address, nanny's address on it, shall we? I said yeah ok.
[Gillian:] Well that's alright [LAUGHTER].
[speaker007:] We had a new battery put on the Jenny
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] I did, I to it disconnected
[Gillian:] It's not on, I mean he is, it's as much to his advantage as yours, what if he was taken ill?
[speaker007:] I know, that's what I said, that's what got it
[Gillian:] And you need an emergency you, you gotta well,
[speaker007:] He's only recently started to take notice of Hannah like take her swimming and that on and since he found out that she's got a heart murmur and that's what it's like, cos he for tea on the way back, and then he bathed the children and put them to bed, and last night no, what he put them all in the bath again, put that down again
[speaker006:] No, it's
[speaker007:] , he er, [LAUGHTER] he, erm,
[Gillian:] Charlotte can you get any more in your hand? You know, I mean, what you've come to stay the night?
[speaker007:] He put the boys in the bath last night, I think Sam accidentally kicked Hannah, or kicked Hannah I don't know I wasn't there, but he came flying down, really got to curb that child he said, I said I beg your pardon, he said you've got to curb that child kicking Hannah, I said if I'd seen him kick her, he said that well I'm not sure that he actually kicked her it might have been an accident
[Gillian:] Oh
[speaker007:] but you've got to curb him of that, I said... make matters I said Dan get yourself down here now I said did either of you kick Danny? He said no, so I said don't lie to me yes you did, I said you just said you didn't know if he kicked her or not, and this argument went on, Danny ended up in tears and I ended up really angry so I said well I'll go down then, leaving all the kids screaming fuming, but he actually knocks on the door now... [LAUGHTER]. Oh Sunday it was really bad cos he had these people turn up for lunch and erm, said it's Sam arranged to come and collect him quarter to six and then we went up to Fore Gate for lunch and then we came back here and had erm we were all standing in the kitchen here, knock on the door, a walked in, I'd completely forgotten about it
[Gillian:] Oh no
[speaker007:] was standing near the washing machine,, Simon gave him a filthy look, I said look I apologize for I'd completely forgot that you were coming to collect he said I know I can see that, he hadn't really what with the kids all running around and, so quickly got them and er, I thought he got, did you bring your cheque round? He said no I've forgot about it sorry, no I completely forgot about it sorry I'll bring it round later and give it, he posted it...
[Gillian:] And he's the one who sent it. What he's, I bet what he doesn't like about it is that you're not running back to him saying look Simon come back to me I need you and it Oh
[speaker007:] Wynne my supposed friend fixed him up and.
[Gillian:] Oh
[speaker007:] Looking at them next stage, distribution centre then are we?
[Gillian:] Yeah
[speaker007:] Mind you this is getting quite frightening at his age lark
[Gillian:] Age? Yeah
[speaker007:] I mean Rob was saying he watched a documentary on it the other night and he said even by kicking someone now, if you don't haven't, isn't an accident it's like kissing someone you
[Gillian:] Ooh
[speaker007:] Now it, now it, he says it's getting quite serious now, cos apparently came up with erm these four cases where erm the people have lived an absolutely normal pure life
[Gillian:] Yeah
[speaker007:] and the only thing that they've done is if you kiss somebody, kissing someone whatever you know, erm or someone's dirty and that is the only thing they can put it down to
[Gillian:] Oh my god
[speaker007:] its quite frightening when it gets to
[Gillian:] yeah it is
[speaker007:] things like that...
[speaker006:] Mum
[Gillian:] What my love? No you don't want that, oh you're making a lovely train here... well we're going to stay at a hotel on the nineteenth this Sunday
[speaker007:] Are you, ah
[Gillian:] Yeah
[speaker007:] second honeymoon
[Gillian:] No we're going to erm Horsham for the Christmas party, the works Christmas party... and erm, the hotel where Rob stopped at last time when he was down in Horsham, that's where they're doing Christmas party this year, so we obviously we staying in a double room
[speaker007:] Oh lovely
[Gillian:] for the night, so, cos the woman at the hotel said er, oh she said want a double room this time not a single
[speaker007:] Oh yeah
[Gillian:] so he said I did say I'm bringing my wife, she said oh yeah how many times have I heard that before [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER], it could be really embarrassing [LAUGHTER], so what we'll do we'll stop over the night and erm come home Friday morning, and mother's going to stay the night.
[speaker007:] Stay the night at your home?
[Gillian:] Yeah, yeah, get the kids organized and that's
[speaker007:] Oh that'll be lovely.
[Gillian:] So, well I haven't got anything to wear yet, It's my bodyguard [LAUGHTER], so where's he having that?
[speaker007:] Oh I don't know
[Gillian:] Where, is it his office?
[speaker007:] yeah
[Gillian:] a lunch do or
[speaker007:] I finished at lunch time today,
[Gillian:] Oh I wouldn't go for anything like that, he knows that as well
[speaker006:] ...
[Gillian:] Laugh if you said I'm coming and you didn't turn up [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] Yeah. I'll suggest that... I thought is fucking crazy, you know
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER], I don't think you've got anything to worry about, have you seen that advert for Babycham no erm the advert with Babycham, erm, er running on about true romantics and he goes through all the differences his and this woman marrying this guy and she must be and she must be fifty five, and he's about twenty three, twenty four and Rob turns round the other day and said, she's got [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] I haven't though, cos, I mean when he gets to those he's not a normal twenty two year old, he's way beyond oh yeah, twenty two, but
[Gillian:] Does he want to go out?
[speaker007:] Yeah at the same time I'm aware of the fact
[speaker006:] Mum where's that cat going?
[speaker007:] that he's maybe on a learning curve, do you know what I mean?... I mean his little friend that came around on Sunday, Mat
[speaker006:] Mum what's that called?
[speaker007:] and he's he's six feet seven tall, he's twenty and you'd think he was thirty five
[Gillian:] Oh, I might come round in that case [LAUGHTER], that
[speaker007:] ...
[Gillian:] Hold on, go and get Charlotte
[speaker007:] What do you want?
[speaker006:] Bread
[speaker007:] Yeah with what?
[speaker006:] the bread
[speaker007:] Where's
[speaker006:] He's got
[speaker007:] He's gone to the
[Gillian:] Oh yeah...
[speaker007:] What do you want on it?
[speaker006:] Erm, erm butter
[speaker007:] Get down then, so I can do it...
[speaker006:] yeah...
[Gillian:] through a snow a couple of weeks ago
[speaker007:] Do you want some bread and butter with jam Charlotte?
[speaker006:] Yeah
[Gillian:] Please
[speaker006:] please...
[speaker007:] yeah, bring that one here then
[speaker006:] paper
[Gillian:] Paper, yes,
[speaker007:] Oh, that's
[speaker006:] paper,
[speaker007:] about eleven o'clock
[Gillian:] oh god,
[speaker007:] Why you got to go out then?
[Gillian:] cos erm, Val will be home at half past eleven and
[speaker006:] Oh
[Gillian:] Yes, Sally says we'll do it, we'll change it in the car... alright, just as I was saying we had erm, we had roast dinner, Charlotte don't aggravate him, we had roast lamb, erm and I'd washed up by two o'clock
[speaker006:] mum
[Gillian:] and you know the first time since we've been married I've been able to actually cook a roast dinner and washed up by two o'clock on
[speaker007:] When was that, last Monday?
[Gillian:] yeah [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] Well this Sunday we left all the washing up
[speaker006:] Mum
[speaker007:] gone and left us, half past eight, we were in bed by quarter to nine and
[speaker006:] mum, don't want some on mine
[speaker007:] You don't want jam on yours?
[speaker006:] I like it
[speaker007:] You do want jam or not?
[speaker006:] No, I just want butter
[speaker007:] You just want butter?
[speaker006:] Yes mum
[speaker007:] There's yours then... sit up...
[speaker006:] That's
[speaker007:] ...
[Gillian:] So you gotta say so by and David, you've got to travel down there on the Saturday.
[speaker007:] Well I've got to get to King's Lynn on Saturday
[Gillian:] Oh King's Lynn, oh that's not too bad...
[speaker006:] I want some more jam mum.
[speaker007:] Ah I knew this, I get this every tea time.
[speaker006:] [crying]
[Gillian:] Alright, alright let's see if you like it
[speaker007:] I'm going through a stage where erm, I'm cooking them lunch and they just have a
[speaker006:] I've got on here mum
[speaker007:] is he alright like that or?
[Gillian:] Yeah, put it there he'll feed it, he'll have it, hurry up, that's it hurry up and eat it cos we've got to go erm, and they'll have sandwiches or something for tea and er if you point something they say no I don't want it and then when the other one can I have it, oh [LAUGHTER]... you're digging your finger in it
[speaker007:] Yeah...
[Gillian:] Erm Graham and Janet little boys have got them at
[speaker007:] And what have they said about that?
[Gillian:] They're not doing anything about it
[speaker007:] No, they probably won't back down...
[Gillian:] I mean when tests and god knows what else
[speaker006:] Oh, oh no
[speaker007:] What are these?
[speaker006:] ... what's that called?
[speaker007:] Charlotte, she's a girl,
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker006:] she's like a... tiger
[speaker007:] She's like a tiger is she? Is she pretty?... Is she pretty? What?
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER]...
[speaker007:] Tell Gill where you'd go this afternoon?... tell her...
[Gillian:] Mm
[speaker007:] you little slug
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] he is, I call him a slug
[speaker006:] [LAUGHTER]
[Gillian:] Look Charlotte can't do anything without being messy, look, the other, the other erm morning I went to school to pick Ben up, er and I put her in the car seat, she's lovely and clean, and I give her a biscuit, by the time we got
[speaker007:] Oh no
[Gillian:] by the time we got there, it was all, I mean it was only a plain biscuit but it dry all way round here [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] That was like yesterday, right, it was all over his clothes, all over his jumper and all round his face and all in his hair, you're a slob, a slob, shall I go and get yeah...
[speaker006:] I can't sit on seat.
[Gillian:] That's right you sit on there and I'll get the kiddies... together
[speaker006:] ...
[Gillian:] no Joseph right, you gonna hurry up and eat that, because we've got to go sweetheart
[speaker006:] Oh ...
[Gillian:] if the baby right, let me go and put Joseph in the car...
[speaker006:] Why?
[Gillian:] you sit here, you sit still for a minute and eat, eat your sandwich and I'll just put Joseph in the car... oh what
[speaker006:] hands
[Gillian:] yeah, eat it up then just let me go and put the baby in the car and I'll be back for you in a minute, alright? Yeah, if you sit there and eat that
[speaker006:] What? There's none there. , yeah... in there don't want fork, baby
[speaker007:] baby
[speaker006:] baby, it's baby
[speaker007:] that's Charlotte, that's his hattie
[speaker006:] hattie hattie [LAUGHTER] look...
[speaker007:] there you go
[speaker006:] , mm, oh my mummy said hat... just smack my head
[speaker007:] No she doesn't want to smack your head... there you are get off her, there she is...
[Gillian:] I'm back, hello my lovey
[speaker007:] she's looking at Charlotte
[Gillian:] Cor,...
[speaker007:] ... no gently with her would you? Let her go, let her go...
[speaker006:] Where's that gone?
[speaker007:] Pardon? That's alright Gill leave them
[Gillian:] Are you sure?
[speaker007:] Yeah, after the devastation we left you in the other day
[Gillian:] Oh god, don't matter about that... right then have you finished eating?
[speaker006:] Yeah, eating
[Gillian:] Right let's just quick, can I use, have you got a cloth, I can just wipe her hands with?
[speaker007:] Oh yeah there's a you'll have to use
[speaker006:] I've gone to work
[speaker007:] I know I've got baby fresh wipes. I wonder what you was
[Gillian:] Yeah alright, well I think you've eaten what you're going to eat you don't eat crust anyway, right that's it put it down
[speaker006:] Got
[Gillian:] don't you leave anything will you?
[speaker007:] Put the cards back up please
[speaker006:] got
[Gillian:] You've got some, oh,
[speaker007:] you can't pick up, yeah
[speaker006:] oh
[Gillian:] Oh, come on Charlotte cos erm
[speaker007:] Come on darling you've got to go, we see you another day, should we?
[speaker006:] No.
[Gillian:] Yeah, we'll come and play another day
[speaker006:] no
[Gillian:] when we've got a bit more time
[speaker007:] shall I find out cos I think I'll see Maria tonight, I'm sure she won't mind if you come, to the party on Saturday
[Gillian:] Oh it's Maria is it?
[speaker007:] You know Maria do you?
[Gillian:] Your baby sitter, she's the plumpish one
[speaker007:] Yeah, yeah she's the big one I was being polite. I think she's got about eighty people going so it should be quite good and we got a
[Gillian:] Hang on, just wait
[speaker007:] I'll have a word then I'll give you a ring tomorrow
[Gillian:] yeah
[speaker007:] Friday, yeah
[Gillian:] mm, yeah I shall be there, I shall definitely be there in the afternoon anyway
[speaker007:] Yeah, ok
[Gillian:] as far as I know, when, when is it her party?
[speaker007:] Saturday
[Gillian:] Saturday night?
[speaker007:] yeah
[Gillian:] Oh, in the meantime I'll just see if mum's available, she can baby sit
[speaker006:] ,
[speaker007:] yeah,
[Gillian:] I haven't met, yeah, erm, where's he live?
[speaker007:] Up the road, big
[Gillian:] No, I haven't met him yet
[speaker007:] and Mat and are coming as well. I mean I'll wait, we wait there and, but I think she just wants as many people as she possibly can, do you know what I mean?
[Gillian:] How old is she?
[speaker007:] She'll be twenty three
[Gillian:] And she's just had a party party
[speaker007:] Yes, her mum and dad just gone off on a cruise for er, I don't know
[Gillian:] Oh god [LAUGHTER], booze up time Ok, well give us a ring then
[speaker007:] I'll ring you tomorrow afternoon then
[Gillian:] erm, I shall be there as far as I know and in the meantime have a word with mum and dad if they're free right bye, bye then sweetheart
[speaker007:] wave bye, wave bye, bye
[Gillian:] bye, bye darling
[speaker007:] bye.
[Gillian:] So woke up and Will's now gonna show off for you, right we'll see you soon
[speaker007:] Lovely to see you
[Gillian:] yes, I thought I'd just nip in, let you know I'm still alive
[speaker007:] thank you, bye
[Gillian:] talk to you later
[speaker007:] bye.
[Gillian:] let's just do the door... right off we go... look where you're going
[speaker006:] step
[Gillian:] that's right, now we've got to hurry up and get home, we're late... say what's new mummy... So you had a good day yesterday?
[speaker006:] Yes dear, very, very nice...
[Gillian:] I thought about you, about what time was it, about ten o'clock and I thought well it's no good gasping for air, she'll soon be able to have some yeah [LAUGHTER].
[speaker006:] but as I was saying erm, it was erm... when you think I sort of tend to worry if I see like Neville you know
[Gillian:] Mm
[speaker006:] towards or anywhere, but then you see it can be your weight as well
[Gillian:] yeah
[speaker006:] to climb the stairs, and I think then you tend to panic a bit, I and I felt most of the time I felt fine, and then you see getting up at five o'clock yesterday morning, by the time I got off, it was your father that fell asleep on that last drinking session, but I mean, as I said we ain't used to drinking in the day like that
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker006:] I mean some of them at the going in at dinner time and have a couple, three pints it don't hit them does it?
[Gillian:] No
[speaker006:] And erm... I they had to have a couple of I mean I think
[Gillian:] yeah?
[speaker006:] and er, well what they were saying on bus cos he had a sleep just in front of us last night, somebody said we're Park Row and they said oh he's asleep in front there, well that was him you see, so I reckon he comes from there, see I mean, the rest must have just come in here or King's Lynn, well if they fell out
[Gillian:] Yeah
[speaker006:] they could get ready for half past where with rather doing the
[Gillian:] oh
[speaker006:] we had our alarm ooh after five, William called us just in case we laid late, so we was on the move ten, ten past five, so I mean we've been on the go perhaps two hours more than anybody else... and eh, and then cos when, it was just like that, but it was down here now I thought to went to that down on his and a little
[Gillian:] yeah
[speaker006:] bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I'm gonna change places in that seat but your father's sitting on, alright, I said go in that back seat, just behind us there were there or I said or I'm just coming to sit where you are, I said I can't do four hours sitting like this, I mean I'd have been boss eyed before I got, well I was I, I, all say look at that cloud
[Gillian:] mm...
[speaker006:] I would have been boss eyed before I got out of Lynn, I could feel it you know, squint through
[Gillian:] yeah
[speaker006:] and I thought there was no good putting up with it just by not saying
[Gillian:] yeah
[speaker006:] perhaps he's been forewarned and just swapped over sides with, but I mean we had a full wind and light through then, well sort of
[Gillian:] yeah
[speaker006:] and er so that was ok and, you know, but they I didn't know quite what to do with myself when I got home then I watched, see the news, see about this Sharon er, no Sharon
[Gillian:] yeah er I was listening to
[speaker006:] well, I mean all erm was erm erm Wednesday night was a, an, an engineer
[Gillian:] yeah
[speaker006:] well it's the next door neighbour... and they said it's alive and I asked Jayne cos I said what the, hospital, yeah cos like it, it's that neighbour, well it's a neighbour
[Gillian:] yes, but
[speaker006:] neighbour either side,
[Gillian:] yeah
[speaker006:] but, I reckon it's the guy when they went down to Aunty Queenie, to that stream that day...
[Gillian:] yeah
[speaker006:] because they, she said that has this hay and straw, so... so all in all...
[Gillian:] ... so er will go on another trip?
[speaker006:] Oh yeah... I mean they were good company to go out with and I said to you at dinner time and then since they've joined us, so we was all the same
[Gillian:] yeah
[speaker006:] time, I sort of thing, bit like and Barbara did, but they were
[Gillian:] What? where you looking this is the combine here look
[speaker006:] but I mean they weren't you know and I mean someone we didn't even know at all, so er... you know all erm... but I mean Lionel sat with the guy that organized it and the bus driver so he didn't feel out of it, you know,
[Gillian:] Mm
[speaker006:] so you know all in all erm
[Gillian:] When could you go on one of these
[speaker006:] , but when they asked us to go, you know, I mean they two seats to spare and old Bert wouldn't speak and came and said would you two like to go, he's on the committee, you see so he went and mentioned it to Lionel and Lionel got them out and said would you like to go and right I'll put your name down so
[Gillian:] How much did it cost?
[speaker006:] nothing.
[Gillian:] Huh, you can't complain at that can you?
[speaker006:] Erm, gone in that museum it was eight ninety five to go and the meal would have cost, I should have think, well Dan said the Christmas meal was being advertised, it was gonna be served any time, erm
[Gillian:] I mean you can't, you can't go any, I mean you can't even go to the Bridge for er, erm, a meal under a fiver so
[speaker006:] I eight or nine pounds
[Gillian:] yeah
[speaker006:] I think it was, was it six fifty for one lot of meal and eight for another?
[Gillian:] , it's got the
[speaker006:] Just got erm, I mean was out in the stick... I like to just half a dozen little flight of stairs perhaps with a dozen steps
[Gillian:] Don't know, well what have you done with it? Alright, well look, dear I can scrub that and I'll, I'll get it for you so all in all er can you see the boat, you look and see them in a minute
[speaker006:] behind this one
[Gillian:] erm, oh I came along here the other day and I thought oh heck, if you were living in actually
[speaker006:] Yeah. Mum, there's a boat
[Gillian:] Pardon?
[speaker006:] boat
[Gillian:] I don't know what you're saying... we're going to go to the shops
[speaker006:] shops
[Gillian:] That's right, we'll change the subject [LAUGHTER], so er... erm... oh, forgot whatever I was going to say to you... oh are you doing anything Saturday night?...
[speaker006:] No
[Gillian:] Oh you got your market all day haven't you?
[speaker006:] No, I ain't promised I'll be there all day Gilly because I could
[Gillian:] well,noth nothing's happened as yet, but Sally's erm been invited to a party, her, her baby sitter's party
[speaker006:] mm
[Gillian:] and there's only going to be a couple of people there she knows and she was gonna ring Marie and see if Rob and I could go, you know, really as a, to keep, make up a foursome sort of thing
[speaker006:] yeah
[Gillian:] and she said it's on Saturday night so I'm sor, you know, I'm sorry it's short notice and erm she said I'll ring Marie and find out, I said well you know ring her but I said I can't make any promises I said, I know mum should have been out Friday night and I don't know what else she's got on...
[speaker006:] Oh it's only a so erm... it might not come... Mum
[Gillian:] Yes Charlotte Pardon?...
[speaker006:] I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes, and they either they'll eat them or they'll sell them, and I'll hav I'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I wouldn't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow, but I'm not gonna give them all
[Gillian:] Oh no
[speaker006:] You know, I shall say look, er, a I'm a
[Gillian:] So, what's the plan of action then, is dad going all day or
[speaker006:] I don't quite know Gilly, what tomorrow?
[Gillian:] Yeah.
[speaker006:] I don't quite know, er morning always seems that much busier as regards food, so Ivan's going up in the morning erm, you know... why?
[Gillian:] Well is only, only asking...
[speaker006:] Father's gotta be up there as tomorrow night to take to bring his stuff
[Gillian:] Mm.
[speaker006:] when they shut at three you know four
[Gillian:] Well I mean his erm, his father's up there and, I mean if you want to go up later on I'll run you through
[speaker006:] yes, oh
[Gillian:] if you decide you want to go sort of four, fourish or threeish
[speaker006:] oh it closes at three
[Gillian:] oh well
[speaker006:] so I mean I should want to sort of come home... sort of then... you know, er...
[Gillian:] Mum you should be alright for a lift home with someone shouldn't you?
[speaker006:] Mm.
[Gillian:] I mean if you decide you want to go
[speaker006:] But I don't want to go from eight o'clock
[Gillian:] no
[speaker006:] or nine o'clock till three
[Gillian:] no... cor look at this tractor and trailer look, can you see it Aysh?
[speaker006:] Yeah
[Gillian:] it's not got a number plate on it tractor and a trailer
[speaker006:] ...... No, er, we were sort of saying to Jayne everything was so pricey in that museum
[Gillian:] Mm
[speaker006:] you know, erm, I said well we'll take them a little something home.
[Gillian:] Well, that's how a lot of these places make the money isn't it?
[speaker006:] Yeah...
[Gillian:] Tell you where I wouldn't mind going to have a look erm, Crystal
[speaker006:] What's
[Gillian:] Well, there, if the things open today, cos erm I haven't got anything for Jayne
[speaker006:] mm, mm.
[Gillian:] if they have got Aunty Jayne's present
[speaker006:] Yeah
[Gillian:] have a, cos I bought her that umbrella
[speaker006:] yeah, skirt
[Gillian:] yeah
[speaker006:] and earrings
[Gillian:] mm... you couldn't wait could you?... I don't see the point in going mad cos you're not going to get there any quicker...
[speaker006:] Then you get some clown like her
[Gillian:] mm
[speaker006:] or him
[Gillian:] god, they're half asleep today
[speaker006:] with no
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER]... perhaps if we can quickly, I mean I don't want a lot out of Tesco's, it will just save turning out, I don't mind turning out this afternoon but, if the traffic
[speaker006:] It'll do more good at home can't you?
[Gillian:] Well it don't seem a lot of point in wasting petrol to come
[speaker006:] Cos I don't, I don't hoover my house... but I mean father's now put irons and toasters on side the bed and oh Gilly...
[Gillian:] Oh, get this Christmas bingo out the way
[speaker006:] So I got I've, I've have a
[Gillian:] you'll be alright
[speaker006:] I'd rather have a couple hours
[Gillian:] me
[speaker006:] a couple of hours tonight wrapping up presents and rest and you know
[Gillian:] mm
[speaker006:] rather be up there with them... they sanctioned to go up there on a Friday night and they said that, that lot of them do er... you know, what you call it, there you go up and everyone's in the mood to sell you something, they let you, you know
[Gillian:] mm
[speaker006:] ... and course with that Ron on the, of course you know, he tells jokes and some of them are a little bit crude, but, they take all in good part, you know, I said to dad I said you don't always, he's that dry
[Gillian:] mm
[speaker006:] I mean he went to school, he went to oh school, but he lived at Enfield and erm, you'd have never thought then that he had got it in him and, so dry I said to dad I said he never ought to be a bus driver, cos the things he comes out with, he'd have to be a comedian, I mean he's, I mean as er, what, they used to call the comedians didn't they, three or four of them on the telly, and I mean Mum
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker006:] they're all animals,
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER], I know, I think he wanted a pair of binoculars.
[speaker006:] er, so, with that er... he never ought to be on the buses, I mean he... old Bernard Manning and Charlie what was that, his name, Charlie what?
[Gillian:] Williams?
[speaker006:] They called it the old comedians
[Gillian:] Yeah, yeah, yeah, er well he was a half cast,wh
[speaker006:] yeah
[Gillian:] oh god you definitely said they're out today, oh where's he going? Oh... ah, and they talk about women drivers, ain't got a patch on him...
[speaker006:] Where's he gone?
[Gillian:] Oh, oh, well he's still reversing, he's waving his arm about for everyone to overtake him but, he still sits in the same position... [yawning] oh dear []...
[speaker006:] So I come there at this morning with cramp in my leg and I said I've hardly had that,
[Gillian:] Oh there's that little old man mum...
[speaker006:] oh yeah, she came the other week with somebody, I reckon he ill treated her...
[Gillian:] I, he looks a bit weird don't he?
[speaker006:] Yeah
[Gillian:] Oh come on, stop having a chinwag...... I see if I can park round by the post office first... do you know what you want out of Argos or, oh you've written all the numbers down haven't you?
[speaker006:] Yes I did.
[Gillian:] That's what I call super efficient...
[speaker006:] There's the Argos ticket... I don't know whether it's in...
[Gillian:] What's the matter? Alright, can, can I just park up then I'll get it for you
[speaker006:] ...
[Gillian:] Yeah, where, look see where this light is up here, look, as soon as I've parked I'll get it for you but at the moment I can't reach it alright? In a minute I'll get it... that's a school like Ben's, look Charlotte Can you see it?
[speaker006:] [scream]
[Gillian:] That's a nursery like Ben's
[speaker006:] [scream]
[Gillian:] What's the problem Joseph? Well there are then drink it.
[speaker006:] There look there's the serviette. isn't it?
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER]... oh what is the matter with everyone today?...
[speaker006:] I think you might have to have a look Gilly, just to double check cos I've got two numbers on here.
[Gillian:] Oh, what was it you wanted?
[speaker006:] The police one
[Gillian:] Oh the police Lego, erm, Duplo?
[speaker006:] yeah
[Gillian:] Look at the digger Charlotte
[speaker006:] Oh where the hell have I put that now? Digger
[Gillian:] look here... well I, I know which one it is cos they're on a separate page in the Argos book
[speaker006:] Oh no, no
[Gillian:] yeah, so I know what you're talking about... well didn't you say you got the police one the other day?
[speaker006:] No, no, I couldn't get it
[Gillian:] Oh I thought you got, what did you get from As Asda?
[speaker006:] father got another set of lights
[Gillian:] No from Asda you bought two Duplo things, well
[speaker006:] No I bought one
[Gillian:] one
[speaker006:] that farm yard set
[Gillian:] ah
[speaker006:] the farm yard set for Katie... but then, cos I haven't got her so much, so I thought we, she, I don't think she'd be into police, I thought if I bought police and that was dearer and the amount that I bought for Ben and Charlotte
[Gillian:] mm
[speaker006:] they'd better share the police and if it comes to the crunch I can get a farm yard for the birthday you know what I mean?
[Gillian:] Oh look at this, for a handy spot
[speaker006:] ... Well I don't know where I put the Argos ticket at all now, got the one you want, in given you that one because er... Mummy
[Gillian:] Yes
[speaker006:] mummy
[Gillian:] Charlotte
[speaker006:] mummy, mummy
[Gillian:] pardon?
[speaker006:] Try?
[Gillian:] Try?
[speaker006:] yeah
[Gillian:] Try for what my love?
[speaker006:] try
[Gillian:] Try
[speaker006:] There's my thirteen pound and your
[Gillian:] Oh you've got a speak problem today, the brain's not quite functioning with the mouth, is that right?
[speaker006:] don't want big one.
[Gillian:] Now is there anything else you want in town?
[speaker006:] Don't think so Gilly.
[Gillian:] Right, if we erm, nip off to Tesco's now, what's the time, half past ten... are we going to go into Tesco's now Charlotte and have a ride in the trolley?
[speaker006:] Trolley
[Gillian:] Trolley Are you gonna be a good girl in Tesco's? I ain't got the reins with me, going to have a ride in the trolley, no
[speaker006:] trolley
[Gillian:] yeah you can ride in nanny's trolley, won't that be nice? In the front... oh come on... Argos has now open, open on erm Sunday
[speaker006:] Sunday, yeah it was in the paper
[Gillian:] won't be any different to any other day of the week then will it?
[speaker006:] Rainbow,
[Gillian:] Ah?
[speaker006:] what I've seen in the paper today, we're both gonna join today, er this week, er Council erm, er are looking forward to it, they approve of it... bet you bloody County Council will...
[Gillian:] So we're gonna catch every traffic light on red now... there was something I wanted to go into Wisbech for but I can't think for the life of me what it was, I must get stuck into this Christmas shopping again, really must... so much to do and such little time to do it in... oh he's, he's put that car down five hundred pounds, that price of that car was, that he got for sale on it seven, seven, nine, five,
[speaker006:] What, yeah
[Gillian:] then it went down to seven, fifty, now it's six fifty... it looking good a nick in, he'd be lucky to get five I would have thought... is there anyone you want a bit of crystal for? Crystal...
[speaker006:] No
[Gillian:] mind you it's perhaps not a good idea to go and have a look not with this
[speaker006:] no No, perhaps go one day
[Gillian:] I think there's only one I actually need to
[speaker006:] No, but give me a chance just to have a
[Gillian:] oh with the women, it's men I haven't got organized.
[speaker006:] What colour cords does Rob want?
[Gillian:] Erm... black.
[speaker006:] You got the men sorted out?
[Gillian:] Who William and Dad?
[speaker006:] Yeah
[Gillian:] No...
[speaker006:] Well do you want that Littlewood's shirt that I've got, still says that we're going, I get up on... Sunday and go to and, no we've got to go to with that coat, take that coat over
[Gillian:] Oh yeah
[speaker006:] so if you wanted to go see if you change William's thing to the colour I want and if they had, he said... he thought the shirt that the guy got with it matched it better than the smaller check, so... do you wanna give him that check shirt that I bought him?
[Gillian:] Yes, how much is that?
[speaker006:] Nine ninety nine.
[Gillian:] Mm...
[speaker006:] It was just a thought that I
[Gillian:] mm, alright
[speaker006:] can take it back that it was a nice one, it was a brushed one.
[Gillian:] No, that'll be al, I, I just haven't got a clue what to... what to get him, I, I mean I'm still stuck for father... women I, I seem to be getting on quite well for the women it's just... finding some
[speaker006:] What col, what col
[Gillian:] come on granddad move your bottom.
[speaker006:] what colour did you say?
[Gillian:] what colour
[speaker006:] cords?
[Gillian:] Black... why?
[speaker006:] Well I don't know.
[Gillian:] Oh I see, either black or navy, but erm, he's got more jum, more jumpers to go with black. I've erm, I've got him a sagey coloured pair... now you're gonna be a good girl today aren't yeah?
[speaker006:] So is he alright for sweaters?
[Gillian:] Erm
[speaker006:] You know, I've got to work it out Mum what I've, what William's will come to and
[Gillian:] Well he's alright, he's got a navy sweater and a grey multi sweater
[speaker006:] He'd, would he be into one of these?
[Gillian:] One of these what?... Waistcoats?
[speaker006:] Yes, for his cars
[Gillian:] Well actually I've, I've, I'm toying with the idea, I haven't quite made my mind up, erm I've seen some wax waistcoats
[speaker006:] Oh
[Gillian:] wax jackets but they're a waistcoat and I've, I've ordered one really just to see what it's, it's like, because erm at the moment I can, I just try and get a bit closer to the door, I think we'll go round again, erm... cos in the, in my club book at the moment, I, I can get twenty percent off and which brings it down to, it's twe well say thirty pound so twenty per cent off it brings me down to erm... brings it down to twenty four pounds and then erm with my commission off that brings it down to just under twenty one pound
[speaker006:] mm
[Gillian:] so I'm toying, that's what I'm toying with at the moment, is this erm... wax jacket
[speaker006:] Oh.
[Gillian:] well it's not a jacket, it's a sort, as I say it's a waistcoat. Oh there's one right in front of us, look, blind as a bloody bat Gill.
[speaker006:] Dad's just got in
[Gillian:] Oh gawld, move forward a bit, so that's what I was going to get, but erm in BeWise they've got erm checked shirts and they're five ninety nine this brushed cotton thing, so I thought if I get him that waistcoat and a pair of cords, erm and get him one of these brushed cotton shirts... [yawning] that'll be that sort of colour []
[speaker006:] How much are the cords then?
[Gillian:] What in the club book?
[speaker006:] No
[Gillian:] Cords in general?
[speaker006:] eh?
[Gillian:] Erm...
[speaker006:] Mummy
[Gillian:] yes, we're now going sweetheart, erm
[speaker006:] mummy,
[Gillian:] I think they're about fifteen something like that, fifteen, sixteen, really depends whether you buy needlecord or erm this thickish cord
[speaker006:] Well what do you want?
[Gillian:] Well I'm, I'm easy, I mean the thickish cord erm, washes ni, they wear better I think the thickish cord but I mean erm and they're a bit warmer, but if you shop about usually you can get them erm the same price as the needlecord... I'll leave that with you, right.
[speaker006:] If we've got to go to Boston at some point, for the bras you see, so erm
[Gillian:] Mm, oh, oh I'll leave that with you anyway
[speaker006:] I'm a bit concerned you know, about this, just this one week's wages you know because I would have thought once Jack got his time sheet out he would perhaps realised that
[Gillian:] Just ring Derek up
[speaker006:] no... but on the other hand I've got a certificate till... then, so if the, if the money has run out for what he pays me
[Gillian:] mm
[speaker006:] and he claims back, I'm still entitled to er,
[Gillian:] oh yeah
[speaker006:] sick pay from somewhere aren't I?
[Gillian:] yeah, you're allowed
[speaker006:] and I,
[Gillian:] you're allowed twenty six, er twenty six weeks off
[speaker006:] I thought I was.
[Gillian:] I'm sure it's twenty six weeks off on full pay and then you go on
[speaker006:] Mm
[Gillian:] whatever, whatever
[speaker006:] yeah
[Gillian:] they call it this week, it changes names every week
[speaker006:] yeah
[Gillian:] so you
[speaker006:] it says
[Gillian:] I wouldn't know that
[speaker006:] statutory sick pay
[Gillian:] yeah, but I'm sure the, the first one's for twenty six weeks.
[speaker006:] Yeah, but I'm su, you know I did debate whether it was twenty
[Gillian:] No, no, I'm sure it was twenty six
[speaker006:] I thought it was six, twenty six... if Derek and he went away last weekend he perhaps stuffed it in here but then he drops it in when he finds it
[Gillian:] mm
[speaker006:] but Jack is so temperamental these days, I mean the other day he went by he said oh I nearly forgot you, I mean one week he rang me and had it pinched out of his car
[Gillian:] Yeah
[speaker006:] and then he found it, stuffed down the bottom, so he don't know what he does with it
[Gillian:] Oh so he found that?
[speaker006:] Yeah it was in his car...
[Gillian:] He reckoned it was pinched outside the post office
[speaker006:] yeah he said oh Margaret wages have been took out me car... he said I ge, I'll get it at some point for you Margaret he said when I go at the bank but he said, yours was taken out Jack's car
[Gillian:] What?
[speaker006:] he said yeah... and then
[Gillian:] then he found it
[speaker006:] and then er, I whether Jack or Derek came up with it he said it was found in the car.
[Gillian:] Well I think you ought to ring Well's
[speaker006:] Oh I will after this weekend, you know, because if
[Gillian:] yeah, but
[speaker006:] if they just bring one, I shall say well I've got choice then to say well is this this week's or last week's, now I don't want to give them that opportunity to say well she's worrying about one week's wages, I mean Jan could love that... and that's given him chance to bring er, whereas if it pops through the door, or he comes
[Gillian:] mm
[speaker006:] I shall say to him, what's happened is this this week's or last week's?
[Gillian:] mm, and if he says well I've already got last week's here.
[speaker006:] Oh well then I'll say well that ain't.
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER] Right come on then off we go. Hello there... right, and what do you want, some mushrooms... which mushrooms shall we have my love? Two lots of these... two lots of mushrooms oh, right a cucumber... you're being a very good boy today, yes,
[speaker006:] no
[Gillian:] you're not... right, peppers... I've got green peppers at home so they'll be alright, better have a few tomatoes, right will you just sit there for a minute while mummy gets to pick the tomatoes... oh, oh don't panic, no-one's going to run off with you
[speaker006:] Oh sorry darling I'm not running off with you.
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER]... [LAUGHTER]... right tomatoes... Oh right, oh what cauliflower... of course, yes... can mummy just try and clip this on her cardigan cos it keeps coming off? That's right, let's just hope we meet someone we know and have a decent conversation with them shall we? Yes.
[speaker006:] ...
[Gillian:] Right let's quickly catch nanny up, do I do cheese board for tomorrow?
[speaker006:] No
[Gillian:] Oh why not... green we'll see if nanny can get us a celery tomorrow, I think cos that is really green
[speaker006:] Mum, mum, mum
[Gillian:] right go nan, nan, nan, nan, nan nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, let's see if we can find her, shall we? Daddy wants his chocolate
[speaker006:] nan
[Gillian:] oh I think we'll take him a bar of this... oh let's have a carton of custard, seventy nine... right, we've got one of those, right I want... pasteurized milk... four pints one oh five, oh that's not, no great saving is it?... If I buy eight pints, right this will do...
[speaker006:] Oh
[Gillian:] Oh, right let's just have a look and see what's here no cream cakes today we're on a diet... mm no, eat by the seventh so what's today's date the sixth, tomorrow's the seventh... there's... no hold on sixth today seventh... eighth is Sunday, no it must be the ninth, oh god I'm totally out of date I don't even know what date it is... let's have one of these that'll make a change apple and raspberry, apple and rhubarb, no I think we'll have apple and raspberry, well that's one less dessert I've got to make... right were alright for coffee we're alright for tea,
[speaker006:] Mum
[Gillian:] Charlotte, now what's nanny picked up?
[speaker006:] I can't remember
[Gillian:] Oh I see... can you oh, here...
[speaker006:] mum
[Gillian:] Charlotte
[speaker006:] Christmas
[Gillian:] Christmas, yes my love [LAUGHTER]
[speaker006:] Christmas
[Gillian:] Christmas again, well, goodness me, can you, also see if you can get me a stick of celery tomorrow? Cos they're sixty nine here, but they're green, you know...
[speaker006:] What's that?
[Gillian:] Oh what is it my love? Erm, yes they did, er yeah you can pass me one actually, how much are they here? Forty five, ooh
[speaker006:] ooh
[Gillian:] ooh
[speaker006:] mum
[Gillian:] His face is black, whatever do you get up to in the car?...
[speaker006:] Mum
[Gillian:] Charlotte
[speaker006:] mum
[Gillian:] right we'll have another ground black pepper erm see if Charlotte can tip that one down the sink.
[speaker006:] Where's the
[Gillian:] Well I should think they'll be with them the when we get in the car... buy one get one free... oh might have, have we had it? Oh here, might as well, I wonder if nanny saw it... oh it's one of these where you've got to send away for it...
[speaker006:] mum...
[Gillian:] well in that case then I might as well have a tested one and be stingy with it, erm... oh where's sage and onion, oh here we are, sage and onion... Right quickly go and find nanny again cos we seem to have lost...
[speaker006:] Mum
[Gillian:] yes, we need one of these to make, clean out the deep fat fryer... oh I want a french stick... What's the problem? Mm You getting a bit excited? Yeah
[speaker006:] ... Mum
[Gillian:] Charlotte Yes when we get in the car... anything else... I don't know where nanny is, here, here she comes... I think this is a waste of time. Thank you, I mean, we'll turn this off put that on when we get to near the check out shall we? Perhaps have a conversation with someone up that end... erm well I, I, I can't see anything
[speaker006:] Oh they seem to stick in my mouth.
[Gillian:] I don't hate them or anything I think they're really quite vile, oh Well you can just wait, you want you can go in mine, erm... do we... could do with and that would be it for the interview What he was out moaning again yesterday, so... I just thought it was getting a bit long round where the old septic tank used to be... oh shan't and we've done Tesco's so that clock's right isn't it?... That's that out of the way...
[speaker006:] She...
[Gillian:] Want to go back via erm South, want, see what he's got, I keep, every time I come have a look
[speaker006:] Always go for fish and chips
[Gillian:] That's right [LAUGHTER], that's what he had the other day when they came in... There you are, good girl... er, what's the plan of action this afternoon?
[speaker006:] I'm gonna make a fruit cake...
[Gillian:] Mm... Oh did I give you my library ticket?
[speaker006:] No.
[Gillian:] Bet it's due now... see if I can win any of the luxury cars [LAUGHTER], I don't think it's possible to get that [LAUGHTER]... there was the,, you, you, you realise make an insurance claim for it, oh, now, now what's he doing? Got his hazard lights on but he's moving
[speaker006:] but he's moving
[Gillian:] he'll have more problems if he carries on moving... don't panic, all is under control... I think there's one driving round the bend perhaps... talk about it all, where's really first year he gonna know
[speaker006:] No,
[Gillian:] what it's all about... oh pork chop, no it isn't proper pork
[speaker006:] No.
[Gillian:] all what erm
[speaker006:] ...
[Gillian:] , what you thinking about mother?... You look deep in thought.
[speaker006:] I, I... I should have gone about eight o'clock tonight
[Gillian:] Mm, mm.
[speaker006:] you know so I, I... you know... you know it's just a peculiar
[Gillian:] You know where all this stems from do you?
[speaker006:] What?
[Gillian:] Well from when you first had the operation and you was frightened keep bumping into you, and it's, I mean that's taken an awful lot of confidence away and you still got
[speaker006:] ...
[Gillian:] Oh dear... I feel worn out... Pardon?
[speaker006:] ...
[Gillian:] Push it down then
[speaker006:] Joseph's a good boy today
[Gillian:] Yeah, very good.
[speaker006:] Is daddy at home today?
[Gillian:] Yep, [yawning] he came, he came home from comes about [] he comes in about late
[speaker006:] Yes, cos you just walked in didn't you?
[Gillian:] Yes, it was eight, half past and erm... pardon that's enough you two.
[speaker006:] [crying]
[Gillian:] Excuse me
[speaker006:] [crying]
[Gillian:] what's that over there? Is that a train? Is it a car? Is it superman?
[speaker006:] No
[Gillian:] No, mm, mm, oh dear it's again, god.
[speaker006:] wafting over
[Gillian:] and erm Health and Environment people you know
[speaker006:] [crying]
[Gillian:] and erm, it can't be good for your health
[speaker006:] er
[Gillian:] Oh it shouldn't be... what do you say? They're clean
[speaker006:] a right cold old weekend.
[Gillian:] I don't know... one for you, good girl, there's a school there look like what Ben goes to, but that's a bigger school... [yawn], god I've got to get myself organised yet for next year haven't I? Oh god.... I says I'd rather can get Ben to next September, Joseph, Charlotte starts on September and Joseph will be the next one.
[speaker006:] Which September could she go now or
[Gillian:] She can't go till Sept September coming
[speaker006:] Oh
[Gillian:] ninety two, Ben er start, erm prim primary infants September ninety two, Charlotte will go at half days primary in September ninety three and Joseph's go at half days erm September ninety four.
[speaker006:] Oh they start when they're four?
[Gillian:] Yeah, yeah and then they'll be able to stay Joseph and Charlotte will be full time in January... they're allowed to, I think what it is, is, they're allowed to start when they're small part time but they're not allowed to go full time until the term they're gonna be five in and you see Charlotte will be five in March and because I think that comes before the Easter of the Bank Holiday, erm she'll be able to start January... full time, where you're supposed to, you know, three years they'll all be
[speaker006:] Why do you this three hours did you see it on telly the other night? They were interviewing grown ups in the street and ask them er, so many figures and add that on, she said
[Gillian:] Oh god
[speaker006:] I don't really know, you don't know, well the answer was the whole education wants
[Gillian:] yeah
[speaker006:] to bring it back, said she didn't know, she said I don't know, and they asked another one, it was about what's a hundred and thirty one and thirty eight and something, not, she tell you it was a, the answer should have been a hundred and twenty nine... and they've got a thirty one in it... yeah
[Gillian:] Oh it's lovely...
[speaker006:] Eighty eight, forty one, something, something of that effect.
[Gillian:] And he's got to add them together?
[speaker006:] I think add them together, well there was an old woman of about fifty, sixty, she said a hundred and twenty eight, well he said you're one out madam, a hundred and twenty nine, well they were amazed themselves, the girl said well a hundred and twenty eight
[Gillian:] Oh no
[speaker006:] a hundred and twenty eight
[Gillian:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker006:] [LAUGHTER]
[Gillian:] What do you say? Please... you gonna get another dent in the back if you carry on driving like that
[speaker006:] I was gonna say do you want
[Gillian:] ... I don't know if I agree with this, giving seven year old, three hours tests, erm, I don't, see the child is, I mean can you just see sit Benjamin sitting down for three hours doing a test? And they reckon what, what it, that's all it's going to be a three hour test... I don't agree with putting a child of that age through a test... I mean there's none of this nursery pick out who is slow on what, where, why and when, who's good at something who's, who's not so good at it, erm apparently and er, put a seven year old through this exam, find out what they're good at and what they're not, well the teachers obviously aren't doing their jobs very well.
[speaker006:] Mm... there was Ben's
[Gillian:] He's quite good, but you know he, he, where, where he had that bash on his head Oh god it stands out a mile, quite a good photo, it looks as though he just about
[speaker006:] Yeah.
[Gillian:] It is quite good, quite of Katie
[speaker006:] Yeah she's Katie she bought what were her chances of re-ordering it you know...
[Gillian:] Well there was, but I can't remember what prices they want...
[speaker006:] Now, you've had two of me ain't you?
[Gillian:] Yeah
[speaker006:] and I owe you seven, is that right?
[Gillian:] then what about the shopping?
[speaker006:] I haven't sorted that out yet, I'll sort that out this afternoon.
[Gillian:] [yawning] why do you owe me [] seven?...
[speaker006:] Oh no, I paid you three, didn't I?
[Gillian:] I don't know
[speaker006:] I gave you three for the bird box, you gotta deliver me a bird box
[Gillian:] Oh, right yes, yeah
[speaker006:] I want Barry to find that, oh I see you owe me a fiver don't you?
[Gillian:] Yeah...
[speaker006:] Yes cos I gave father the money for whatever it was, so, yeah, I gave him five pounds worth of change
[Gillian:] and then there's erm, that shopping, bit of shopping you got for me last week
[speaker006:] I knew I owed you five...
[Gillian:] [yawning] oh dear []
[speaker006:] You've got Christmas raffle tickets, get them all together, I've got you pounds worth on shelf the other week, and then I got your two pounds worth, I, two pounds worth on
[Gillian:] Oh put it on the shopping list
[speaker006:] No, I'll treat you to them, I make my lot to the nearest bottle with Unicare if I can, how many you've got?
[Gillian:] Erm, I've no idea, not
[speaker006:] Well I sent three
[Gillian:] But I mean if I think, if I think erm, if I remember rightly you were, you were buying erm couple or three weeks [yawning] that's my first lot, oh dear excuse me [] Now what are they doing? One's pushing it over and the other one's pulling it back, oh... there isn't enough of them around as it is... he's late isn't he? He was late yesterday, got a brand new vehicle and, yet I mean if, if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven, so erm, it was half past eleven that's right, it was dead on, so erm, erm whatever's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas?
[speaker006:] Oh my goodness, they are out today.
[Gillian:] Whatever is it going to be like nearer Christmas? I mean he can go it's the bus that can't.
[speaker006:] Yeah...
[Gillian:] Is this grass that you bring being delivered tomorrow morning?
[speaker006:] Mum Yeah, don't they come and
[Gillian:] No that was the erm... oh whatever was that called, it's the piece of wood that runs along the brick work
[speaker006:] Oh
[Gillian:] that the rafters sit on, on the
[speaker006:] gates
[Gillian:] Oh bum I ain't paid the mortgage, oh only in the I'll pay it probably tomorrow... Charles had his money
[speaker006:] ...
[Gillian:] [yawning] I'll try and nip up there tomorrow [], if not I'll have to go on Monday... I don't think any, I don't think run away, what will Monday's date be, the ninth? oh well... There are those new Chronicles that have got to come out
[speaker006:] I don't think any are coming up now.
[Gillian:] Oh I thought erm, they said they chartered them cheap
[speaker006:] No, I thought they're all up there watching and [sigh]
[Gillian:] Dear me... I think Daryll was hoping the roof things the best they can do was Saturday morning. No, you're not getting out today, nanny's got a lot of work to do, and she's got loads of cakes to make and all sorts. No, I'm sorry darling, come up later, we've got to go.
[speaker006:] Let me get myself sorted out and
[Gillian:] Nanny, nanny will probably have you up later when Ben helps Gramps to feed the dogs, and he won't do that either will he, feed him
[speaker006:] Cake, cake, cake
[Gillian:] Nanny hasn't got any cakes at the moment cos you've got to cook them, say bye, bye
[speaker006:] No
[Gillian:] yes, come on
[speaker006:] Bye, bye
[Gillian:] say bye, bye.