[Catherine:] Er er... got them last week from Freeman Hardy and Willis. Ooh oh! I know what I forgot to get in town. Damn! What? A comb. I did a classic A pocket the other day and dropped all my dinner down me. Oh no! I put it on the arm on the chair, I was trying to be clever and I sat down and... it had like material there and I caught the material... and I just sort, all fell down here, it's a lovely smell. Wah! Wurgh! Of what? It's just God! It's mushrooms and tomato and yuk, it just Alright. Have you got a comb here? Erm Or a brush? No. I haven't got anything. I've got a travelling brush. No I don't brush my hair. Oh. So you must have to get one from somewhere then? Yeah I know, it's the sort of thing that tired. I what's the shops up here in fact? Are they reasonably near at hand? Yeah. Fine. If one walked up there? Oh yeah, walk down there in a little while. Okay. I'll get the stuff in first anyway. Yeah, I'll give you a hand.... Is it all in the car?... Can you move that one? Yeah. Well... then when you're driving along you, you haven't got any music. Yeah, it's not nice in the car without a stereo. So... I'll leave Aha. I'll leave you to... put that down there. Yeah, I'll put... put it in my room actually.... We didn't know what to get Marion. Oh So I... might get one of these. I think it's open. But er It floats in your bath when you put it in the plug. Oh! Right. Oh. The 's on... which will just here. And I bought two secondhand books yesterday and she wanted one of them so [clears throat] I might give one of them to her. Oh I see. Right. Only one pack. Where's your T V aerial? It's got... a connection. [clears throat] Went and I saw some monkeys though. in cancer research. Mm mm. . Oh is that all ready? Oh yes, I should hope it's all... I need. So if I get that adaptor out? Well I dunno, I... should do, just fit in there. There we are. You got the other one? What the adaptor? The other ca no the other lead. What have you got here, whatever you've got. That was left here? Mm. I know.. Your thing's winding in here. Mm? Your Walkman, your thing's winding. Yeah, leave it. Right. Yeah. Ah! It's a lovely table. How come they use this then Cath? Oh.... Just tied it round the ta erm... table. So that's se and I want you at the other end. See both ends are the same. Okay. I see it. Now for the stereo. Oh... excellent! Mm. If I get the darn thing in. Excellent!... There isn't any other way dad? To set this... on to that No, but erm, that shouldn't be, no.... I've adjusted it... that wants a bit of... that's it, one... two. That's right. There we are. Excellent! So, I plug this... with this... oh the stereo as well. Yeah, I've just gotta get some small Mhm. screwdrivers. Aha. Mhm.... Right. Ah. God! My fire gives me such a fright. I'm lying in bed and I sud... just little, little erm... bits... er the... Soot in it? come out. No,th the.... Yeah it suddenly... bits of... like there. But it all comes shooting down in one It's the go. yes the erm... whatsername? And I get such a fright cos I keep expecting a bird That's the soot. to come flying No. out. Usually erm... it er Thank you. it probably needs erm... probably cleaning, or at least looking at. I'm too scared to look up there. Oh bloody hell! No, I, I shouldn't. Why won't you go in there? Right.... Any luck? No not yet. Was it? I'll just take Oh it's a good one, I haven't seen this in there. [sigh]... That's your broad edging. Screw that, [clears throat] So the, cos apparently it reaches right into the erm... like living room but... all around the [cough] the house. [cough] Which is quite go ooh! [cough] Picture's quite good until you get a play. Yeah. Can you get the telly down for me? Might have to.... Oh is something in the way? Appears to be. I don't know why Yeah. [sighing] Ooh []. Anyway... [humming] Let's find the other side here. Have a go.... Nothing's ever simple in this house. Oh. That one's gone in. Hooray! [LAUGHTER] Well perhaps that one... played that way then. [sniff]... Zippy doo! In that case I've... er you put that. Put that back up and I'll wire round this to connect Well that one, is, is up. That's it. [sigh]... That's that. Right. Put that back on. Just there. That's that on with those. I'll move this out the way.... Oh that doesn't look too bad. No. It's... it's... fine when you see it. Oh, oh, oh, oh! Right?... I believe James could even be a dentist. Yes. Be quite happy. I expect that I got my N H S thing back. Oh yeah? Erm They were... crap! crap really. Was it? Just... money... or or nothing. No free prescriptions. Oh! Don't know what they expect. How much they expect you to Oh well pay out. I'd... probably best to put it all in a... all in the corner there. Okay. I was gonna shove it Can you get it behind there? Want to sort of put on the top of the wardrobe and then make it drop Oh I see, I'm with you. back. Okay. Alright, well you run... what you want round there. Hold on. Let me undo this a wee bit. There we are. Yeah so it's, it's on the floor just... just chuck it over there. Okay. Hang on love. Oh it's... no That's fine over there. Okay. It's right... behind the Yeah, that's fine. Right be crate there. And where d'ya want it? On top of the... on the top of the cupboard d'ya think? Out the way. Erm... yeah I, just at the back, or Or, or just, or just up a bit? Or if you can sort of Wedge it in there. leave it in. Yeah, well let's have a look. You take the curtain and that... hook. That's it. Do you want me to hammer that cos it's pinned? All over there. Is it?... I think you might be wrong.... Not that good, but it looks good. Yeah. Yeah. ... there. Now, just underneath that fuse box... just kept it low. Oh lovely. Cheers. It's done? All you've gotta do... is hope now that you get a decent... picture. Turn it on. Do you like my wardrobe? I did it last Saturday. Hey? Watching the doctors. Oh right. I changed it. Half my photos are still on the wall at home [blowing nose] but erm... no wonder I couldn't find them. Thought I'd put... a few of them up.... [tv on] Hooray! Good. Yes. It's a clear picture. That's alright. It's a clear picture. Keep on the football... I shall be alright. Tt! Perfect. Yes, I wanna see whe the good goal one. Put it on tape then. Arsenal nil, Manchester City nil. Ah oh! Not so bad. God! Dad! England did really well didn't they? Oh God! Chronic!... Terrible! Why are they doing so badly? Is it Graham Taylor? Oh Ferdie wasn't playing was he? No. No. That's sad that. Cos I think he would have made a bit of difference up front there wi er er... cos they would have... the defence They put in Mottley. Yeah. The defence was very bad. Old Graham Taylor's mate. Yeah. I realized old, old Ferdie wasn't playing. Yeah. The defence was very slow as er... er, when... who was it? Merson ran at them Yeah. er but er, they... and also Platt... I mean, Platt got pulled down. Okay, next job on the agenda yo you got some trouble with the radiator? Yeah, it just doesn't Which one's this? My one. Is er, I don't know... if there's something wrong, but it doesn't... the heat isn't... well Angie's one's like boiling hot Yeah. Susanna's one... doesn't really work at all, but... my one's just like... lukewarm. Oh well, let's have a look. Let's have a look at this So then, this we did, we did try to pu well, as I say, with the trouble we had upstairs, we just thought it just wasn't worth our while to sort of mess No. around and try and do any more. No, no. That's right. [LAUGHTER] Cos we just got a real fright [] when we couldn't stop the water pouring out. Oh. It's the little washer thing. Just turn the tap. ... Well I'll get cleaned. Come on, you take the stuff down and rather me just try and. And then er, once I've done that I've gotta nip up the top and get a comb. I know I do... I forgot to take one down to the place with me... I checked the then that, now we go It's alright, I'll get you one in Twickenham and I'll pay in that money as well. Okay. Alright. Fair enough. Could do. Well, do you normally walk in or, or, or do you expect a ride? What do you wanna go You [LAUGHTER] on the bike []? Oh I see. Oh just as easy to erm What go by car? go by car. Oh. It takes about... well About two ticks, ya. Alright. Fair enough.... I've still got... oh no, ticket's run out now. What, four pound for one hour? Oh I'll just run in. Okay. Right now. The alternative is, do you wanna si this is where you... running here, you Dunno what I just done with the key actually. Tt! Boy! That's bad. Not to worry. Not to worry. Erm... what we can do is er... use something here. I bought this lot down with me. It might be in the other room actually. Now so... the thing, and that goes in here, can use Oh! What, is it a spanner? It's a sa kinda ratchet type thing. Oh. Just that I think Susanna wants... to spanner to work, her bike's not here otherwise I'd have... if she gets back in time, fair enough. Just... thingie that Still, do you think you better... bleed it completely and let all the water out? No, not let the water out, you let the air out. When you bleed Oh I see. it you let the air out, that's what, that's the idea behind it. Oh I dunno, I don't know what we did at that Oh it's alright. but it just doesn't seem to be working very effectively. I mean, obviously it's off now but erm Is Angie's one is really like hot and will dry things... whereas this one takes a bit longer. Hello? That's got a... a key down there. Oh. Oh. Yeah I said we'd erm... drive over to Marion's on our way out and then... give her a pressie. Mm. I had a really nice meal actually in erm... tt... a place in Teddington. Oh yes? It's just li What's it like? It's a sort of Italian place. I had a really nice... chicken... erm... Mexican pasta thing. Really nice! It's a really smart place. Mhm. And er... you'd better get that key actually. Oh. I hope it's in the other room hopefully. Mm. While you're doing that... chuck us my thing over there as well. [football on tv]... Oh great! We won! Can't hear ya! [turning tv up football commentary] Oh gre... oh lovely! Whoopee! We won! We won! It could ne it could have been two two, but er... Stejskal saved a penalty in the last minute. Oh dear! Oh lovely! Oh, I think I must, I'll give her a ring. I really don't know... I'll see where she's put it. Well where is she then? At home. Where does she live? Sheffield. I'll give her a ring.... I can't think where... well it must be somewhere in the office. I can't think where at the moment.... I haven't got, da da, da da... Right. She's not in. Mm. Yeah. [phonecall starts] Hello Angie? Hello. I hope you don't mind me phoning you, but where's the radiator key?... Yeah. Yeah. Oh! Oh if you did, I've got it.... Oh right then. Aha ha. Oh yeah,. Oh! Seven Aha. seventeen! [tv very loud] Really good actually seeing as it got... so much [LAUGHTER] smaller []. Yeah. That's right. But I was really phoning you up... erm... met Julie... and. Yeah it was really nice. It was, it was nice. Erm... I think Joe and Ray had a great time.... Erm... it was really.... It's just. But er Good Lord! no, no, in the garage. Twenty six. Oh that's not bad. Just practically... put on a down there. It's not very far. But, well go now so that doesn't really count. You'll have to trust me, it'll be alright on the night. he wanted to take it anyway. So, we're gonna have to come an agreement of what she's got there.... Yeah. Of course! Yeah they, erm....... Going down to Pizzaland..... Yeah. I said when she did it, she goes oh my God! Didn't she know? Yeah.... No. No? That's what I said. It's just crazy! Yeah. Tomorrow. Yeah. Mm. Oh I said, I just want to. Can't you just take him out? Oh yes, I think you were quick. Yeah. Well he didn't say goodbye [phonecall ends] Dad. Dad! Yeah? Do you want it in there? Yeah sure. They actually went home because erm... it's her friend's twenty first Oh I see. and erm... she li she's in Egham and her boyfriend came down and was driving her back to Sheffield and then driving back again here on Monday so she got a free... journey home. Oh I see. Which basically... I mean she's had so she thought it would be nice for her to get away... just to sort of sa you know... have a breather from it all. Does that make sense actually. I dunno.... [football commentary on tv] Oh look! Q P R! That's it. Oh er, hey! Hey! Look! Yeah, but there's seven teams in front of them dad. Yeah I know but er... I don't mind that. Q P R. Now this is the key is it? It is. Right. That's it. Now can you get some me some... matches and tape something like that? Erm, I don't And this doesn't turn is it? What? It does turn. Yeah. Well, well it just gets dirt because erm Okay. You get some kitchen paper and I'll bleed it. I don't. Well I might need a hand. You have to make a move in Do you need a tea towel? Well can't we do it when we get back? Bloody hell! of confidence. I'm not going to do any drinking. Yeah because when we get upstairs I think something in here fell out... so we're trying to get it back on. It's all this went down here.... Now I can see why the water comes out and then air so Oh so you don't really lock it? .... And is it on, er, is it on properly down there? I don't Well if, if you can just. There, there, there's no No. no air in there so... so what's happened here? This is open. Er... get in this... you see, if you wind it down Yeah. the thing'll go down so the er Yeah. that should be... open. Right. So that's all open. I don't, I do I think he's set it to come on later so Is it? Well I can, well I can put it on earlier so we can see if it works. Okay. If I leave your key there. Let's go Alright. then. Right. Cheers. Er ye erm don't pay all your money,ye you got some cash yourself?
[speaker002:] in next week?
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Oh you are? I'm not in Monday. Oh I don't mind. What are they? But erm, I can't take it home on my bike.
[Catherine:] What do you want it for?
[speaker002:] I think it's excellent.
[Catherine:] Why don't you take another one. Take that one.
[speaker002:] Oh God! Can't be bad.
[Catherine:] Well it's.
[speaker002:] Really? God help the Susannah! Does she have to get permission to do it?
[Catherine:] Pardon?
[speaker002:] Does she have to have permission to do it? Mm?
[Catherine:] No, you have to ask though.
[speaker002:] Cos no one was and we opened up all the post that came. What? [LAUGHTER] We did that [].
[Catherine:] We opened it all. We always open our post. We get C V's printed up cos I send them to my dad.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Well I wouldn't like some bloody C V [LAUGHTER] We had cheques [].
[Catherine:] Cheques? I'd cash those.
[speaker002:] You can't. No you can't. No le, you can't any more.
[Catherine:] Who are they for?
[speaker002:] Er... for the landlady I think. Really? They're... and that. We felt terrible. But we've got a massive sackful of stuff and no one had left us a forwarding address... and the landlady hadn't been to us about any of them.
[Catherine:] So, you opened them.
[speaker002:] One was a court summons... and a man came round... the other day.
[Catherine:] Ah!
[speaker002:] Asking for the bloke who used to live at the house. Why though? Cos he hadn't paid the... three hundred pound... Visa bill.
[Catherine:] Yeah, we got something for boys there and it could have been a... that they were being sued or something.
[speaker002:] Yeah, they left. I mean, those were massive debts. All their banks statements are like four and a half thousand pounds overdrawn.
[Catherine:] I know.
[speaker002:] And they ke, I said to Angie I don't know Did anybody leave their glasses here? Last week? Somebody did. No. I don't know. I wasn't here. Oh. Get my coat.
[Catherine:] Oh yeah!... What i, what... did you get your contacts lenses?
[speaker002:] No I get them tomorrow. Catherine's saying, get blue ones. I said what's wrong with the colour of my eyes? But your eyes did look blue actually. I'm gonna scratch my noise!
[Catherine:] Go for it.
[speaker002:] What's the matter, I've got blue eyes. [singing] []. What's that Evelyn? Most probably you want. That is
[Catherine:] Really haven't seen her this week.
[speaker002:] Eh? When he's coming? I might.
[Catherine:] Dunno. He's gotta phone me. He's gonna phone me. Martin's phoning me at eight o'clock.
[speaker002:] Who is? Martin. What?
[Catherine:] Martin!
[speaker002:] Ah! So when Did you get your tickets for Crowded House?
[Catherine:] No! There's not one ticket left in the entire planet!
[speaker002:] Ah ah! Gutted!
[Catherine:] So annoying!
[speaker002:] Where for?
[Catherine:] Crowded House. I'm so upset. My brother's going and he doesn't even like them.
[speaker002:] Well why doesn't he sell you his ticket?
[Catherine:] Cos he's going with his work. And Sharon.
[speaker002:] Oh. His girlfriend?
[Catherine:] Yes. They're gonna come and see me next week.
[speaker002:] Not Sharon from Essex?
[Catherine:] No, she's Sharon from [LAUGHTER] Australia [].
[speaker002:] Oh. Alright then.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER] She's allowed []. That's the only reason I'll forgive him. [LAUGHTER] Cos she's not born in this country.... Otherwise she'd be banished... from our house! []
[speaker002:] Ha ah! Oh no! The old floor. I know. She's been dipping in the [LAUGHTER] loo occasionally []..
[Catherine:] It was so cold this morning.
[speaker002:] I know. And it was so cold It's freezing! last night. Just cycling in, it was horrible!
[Catherine:] So I'm buying a car definitely.
[speaker002:] Tell me about it! Well will you pick me up at
[Catherine:] Oh yes.
[speaker002:] Do a detour and come and get me.
[Catherine:] Oh yes.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]... I'm standing in the line of fire. Really? Yeah. And I want to do that. What did you mum and dad give you Mary? Contact lenses. Oh! That's right. Guess where Lisa is now? Where? Oh Catherine's Is she lecture. Oh has she has changed? Apparently, yeah, but she's gone to to get it. Really? [LAUGHTER] Yes []. Mm. Went to see Mike yesterday? Oh I see. Is that erm Oh what did Mike say about the exam then? Didn't even know about it. [cough] Oh why? Well you see, and so many people know about it either. It's ridiculous! Well who announced it? Marion? No. Erm David told us. Anna told us. Oh you weren't there were you? No. He told us... about Lisa. Anna told us, but... he said don't worry he'll get it changed. Said, you better do mate! Did he say it was ridiculous? He couldn't understand why it had been changed. [cough] Couldn't see the point in it. Urgh! Don't know what, it i, it is though. Cos he never said. I did that. Oh that's good! Oh I'd have done that. Gill? Yeah? Do you like my balloon? Which way is it coming out? She can't see. [LAUGHTER] Shame. [LAUGHTER] []. My hair's. Oi! Have you had? See I washed it yesterday. Oh. Your hair always looks really nice anyway.
[Catherine:] No I have to sort of.
[speaker002:] So do I. But I just wash it every other day. It's always a mess.... I've been putting a bit more glue on it. [LAUGHTER] You're meant to put the glue on the paper. Ah! Well Beryl just told us to Where you put flop it on. [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] She said to sketch balloons just go like that.
[speaker002:] This is what you should be trying to do. Well you see, ours is best This is one I made earlier. anyway. Yeah, right Vicky. You see. What? Yeah, but there's glue on the other side, d'ya know what I mean? Well it's best to use that on the So you know what you're doing? No don't [LAUGHTER] believe that one please. She hasn't got a clue. [] I need the loo quick!.
[Catherine:] I'll go down to get though.
[speaker002:] Just so easy to do it to you now. Tha, we lost actually. I might just do mine a bit at home.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER] Excuse me []?
[speaker002:] No! I thought about doing it
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] I've got bubbles everywhere! I got so many.
[Catherine:] He could be a toy boy.
[speaker002:] Who me? I heard that. Marion you weren't drunk on your bir, on erm,Mo,Wen, Friday night were you? No. I was not.
[Catherine:] I was so ill the next day Gill.
[speaker002:] Sick. Rachel was.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER] And I just felt really ro, was she sick? []
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Catherine:] Ha! Ha!
[speaker002:] But it wasn't the drink though.
[Catherine:] I felt so rough.
[speaker002:] Did you have some of the punch at the party.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER] Yes [].
[speaker002:] It's disgusting!
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]... I had about two mouthfuls and then I just thought, no, [LAUGHTER] I'm going home [].
[speaker002:] Mind you, you haven't drunk for a long time and you were
[Catherine:] I haven't
[speaker002:] knocking them back a bit
[Catherine:] Yeah!
[speaker002:] weren't you Catherine? Diamond White.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]... Oh I forgot about that actually. [LAUGHTER]... Oh well, never mind eh? It's all for a laugh, a drink.
[speaker002:] I was drinking Coke half the night. Couldn't you have put the blue nearer the middle cos I'm getting annoyed. This is very much like. Helen! What do you want? Are you doing the middle cos I've gotta get this in here? I was gonna change, I was gonna leave Please do it! by ten o'clock.
[Catherine:] Were you?
[speaker002:] He's going... first of all it's Move the board. Can we put this under a No! hair dryer? No. Move the whole thing! Don't be absurd! [cough] She told me off for doing the wrong colour there. I'm not surprised Helen. It's very naughty. How can we, can you stand and look on top of see it sticks on. For five months.
[Catherine:] Could wait hours.
[speaker002:] [tut]! No good. It won't dry till next week. Oh no!
[Catherine:] Won't
[speaker002:] He's gonna
[Catherine:] it?
[speaker002:] have a look at it. We, well take about two days to dry. Well I should think so. Really?... I wanna build it up. It's cos you haven't made the. Yeah. That's what I thought. Yeah, could do that. Can you do it when it's wet? I thought you said leave it dry before your next layer on. Did she? Yeah. Well I've got about ten layers on here. Oh I'll do it. I'm gonna let mine dry.
[Catherine:] I was gonna make a little basket for it like a hot air balloon.
[speaker002:] That's what we made. You have to cut the bottom of it though.
[Catherine:] Yeah. That's alright.
[speaker002:] You have to do it when it's dry.
[Catherine:] And then I have to set fire to the bottom bit.
[speaker002:] We had a bonfire last night.
[Catherine:] Did you?
[speaker002:] What in your back garden? Yeah. What to get rid of the
[Catherine:] Well you should have invited me round and I could have been the guy.
[speaker002:] Yeah. Have to have another one though cos we haven't finished the garden. You can actually see the lawn now. I'm quite impressed. Be nice in the summer actually.... [LAUGHTER]... You're telling me.
[Catherine:] What's wrong with it?
[speaker002:] Sarah? Yeah? Going shopping? Going where? Go into London. We've asked them to put the Christmas on u, on... across early this year. What? So we can go and watch them now. Cos we're all very excited, excited this year about Christmas. [LAUGHTER] In fact, if we had Gill we're not the only one who opens up their mail. We open up ours. Open up your what? Open up what? Mail. We always open ours. You've gotta open everybody else's. Oh! What happened? But we'll tell on you. We just sat there, we thought it was Christmas so we... took a A big sack Oh I see. And we just put them in the middle of the room and And we got. Yeah. We open ours every day, when it comes it's in the post. When I don't get any post I open everybody else's.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]... No well I was a bit gutted that they had loads of post, I didn't get any, and like
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] they were even living there.
[speaker002:] Be better though... so you just open theirs. Are they all students or ?
[Catherine:] Some of them are, but
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Catherine:] some of them li, I think one of them's
[speaker002:] You're horrible!
[Catherine:] the landlady
[speaker002:] I am not.
[Catherine:] I dunno.
[speaker002:] What did you do you that for? You tell, if you found a diary you wouldn't read it? Bollocks! No. Bollocks! Everyone would read it. It might have some. It's happened to me before and I didn't. No way! I think... I don't even think about it.... I would.
[Catherine:] I think er, I would.... I wouldn't want to, [LAUGHTER] but you have to do it [].
[speaker002:] I wouldn't show my diary to a best which shows Ach! [tut]!
[Catherine:] That's terrible! I had to clean my erm... my new desk out in this room before I bought it with me
[speaker002:] From your drawers. [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] And found these erm... pack of cards of page three girls. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] How old's your brother?
[Catherine:] Eighteen.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]... Funny! How old is he?
[Catherine:] Eighteen.
[speaker002:] And what did he have? [LAUGHTER] []
[Catherine:] Pack, erm... page three pack of cards.
[speaker002:] I think po, porno magazines. Yurgh!
[Catherine:] No, only one, with that girl in from er, Baywatch. I think she's gorgeous.
[speaker002:] Which one? Yeah she is quite pretty actually. Which one? Dunno. And you told it to leave it be?
[Catherine:] Erm
[speaker002:] The one with long blonde hair? Are you just bunging Oh. more on yours? The one with the bob.
[Catherine:] Bob, yeah.
[speaker002:] Something to do isn't it?
[Catherine:] She was in, in that porno magazine.
[speaker002:] Urgh! Urgh! Posed for pornography?
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Charming! So have I Gill. Hasn't she got long hair now though? [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] And the one that goes like this.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]... Nice! Quite sweet. Oh! Peculiar bunch aren't they?
[speaker002:] No!
[Catherine:] [humming] Urgh! It's hot.
[speaker002:] Oh yeah. See, I've got glue all over the floor and it's just
[Catherine:] There you go.
[speaker002:] So what... when do we have to be back?
[Catherine:] We don't come in next week.
[speaker002:] The others, no. Do you think in our exam we'll be given a choice of like
[Catherine:] It'll be Shakespeare or
[speaker002:] I'm not gonna read that. I'm not gonna bother to read it.
[Catherine:] That's what I was thinking.
[speaker002:] Cos I just thought it was so crap! What? I thought it was good. The Alchemist. In the, just one What? week? Yeah.
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] That's right. So what are we doing next week?
[Catherine:] I think...
[speaker002:] Yeah. Dunn? Don't know? Yeah. Oh they, oh I bet it's gonna be... Blair. Well if I read it and it's wrong Catherine, [LAUGHTER] it's your fault []. So we've got... and then d'ya think we'll like get... poetry and then we'll get our last? [clears throat]... I should think so.
[Catherine:] Chaucer poetry?
[speaker002:] Chaucer?
[Catherine:] You did Chau,
[speaker002:] Chaucer. Oh!
[Catherine:] Oh. It'll be... yeah, Paradise Lost
[speaker002:] Cos we've got at least three questions on it. Why don't you come to English this afternoon, can I borrow your notes? Got shops near there?
[Catherine:] Yeah. Well I missed, I missed
[speaker002:] Yeah I missed that.
[Catherine:] so I think... so
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Catherine:] do I, do they allow you to miss the week as well?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Catherine:] You're allowed?
[speaker002:] No. I'm away till Thursday so, and that's the thing. Oh right. Because of the funny days? Yeah. Yeah.
[Catherine:] I got my ba, interim report. You had to phone up.
[speaker002:] Oh yeah.
[Catherine:] It came the next day.
[speaker002:] Did it?
[Catherine:] Yeah. Shocking! Post! I got a mass of parcels as well before for the, for the house... for our house... all the girlies.
[speaker002:] I'm going to get one. Do you have to pay postage?
[Catherine:] No! I just said oh can I have some reports of all the students? They said, how many do you want? I said have you got anything else? So she sent me sort of leaflets as well?
[speaker002:] So it's a What's this? big bundle of post?
[Catherine:] You know about those
[speaker002:] Excellent! I'm gonna do that.
[Catherine:] Oh you're not in our group.
[speaker002:] Yeah!
[Catherine:] Ah! Ah! Can't tell you. Nah!
[speaker002:] What group?
[Catherine:] Our group. There's Angie. Give her wave. She's looking.
[speaker002:] You know the one you got with Tony. You don't even know who [LAUGHTER] it is []! The whatchamacallit one? Graham. He's not. Sorry, but he is. He's a really interesting man Gill. Really interesting man. Er... Mark said that at least ten people have been.
[Catherine:] Really? What that one on, when you say
[speaker002:] Who else has given up then? Ten people give up. [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] Blimey!
[speaker002:] Ten people? Mm mm.
[Catherine:] That's a quite a lot. And lo, Lucy's said... eh?
[speaker002:] [tut]!
[Catherine:] I might change actually.
[speaker002:] No you will not! I'll change if I can think of anything else to do, but I can't. Cos you know at least all I'd have left is a weekend.
[Catherine:] Really?
[speaker002:] I'm not bothered Mm.
[Catherine:] well so long as I can easily change.
[speaker002:] , I bet you do it. It's on there. Bong!
[Catherine:] Hi smell!
[speaker002:] You sit down and tell us
[Catherine:] What did they say?
[speaker002:] about it.
[Catherine:] Oh! That much? You intend to tell Aunty Catherine all about it.
[speaker002:] What, did they pick on you? Go on. Well, they'll... they said if you're a... the stress.
[Catherine:] Is that what it is?
[speaker002:] Yeah. [tut]! Yeah. That's my problem. [cough]
[Catherine:] You feeling better Angie.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Catherine:] [tut]!
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] Be cagey [LAUGHTER] why don't you []? Really? What?
[speaker002:] Nothing! Angie if you're Be okay having a baby don't
[Catherine:] Mm.
[speaker002:] worry cos I'll look
[Catherine:] Tired.
[speaker002:] after it for you? Really? I'm just having a polio erm Like they wound me sugar cube
[Catherine:] Are you?
[speaker002:] all up. They gave me that. Yeah. Cos I thought I had to have a tetanus, and she goes, oh you don't need it. After all that psyching myself up for it.
[Catherine:] The other day I had... cos I er, dreaming about brain scans
[speaker002:] Why what did you do to yourself?
[Catherine:] every form imaginable. And I was, I dunno, but erm, I must have been run down as well and it's a bit like going to
[speaker002:] Wha what did you do to yourself?
[Catherine:] it was just everything
[speaker002:] No, er erm
[Catherine:] just in one go.
[speaker002:] I think that was all it, is but... erm... they going... are you pregnant? Could you be pregnant?
[Catherine:] I was asked that
[speaker002:] Oh were you?
[Catherine:] and nearly died! I laughed my socks off!
[speaker002:] She says
[Catherine:] My mum was sitting in the room.
[speaker002:] are you on any pills or anything? Are you pregnant? I said I'm on the pill. Are you pregnant?
[Catherine:] Ah?
[speaker002:] Work that one out.
[Catherine:] Funny!
[speaker002:] Er erm Can it be the? No I, I've already asked that before.
[Catherine:] So what did they say?
[speaker002:] They're just gonna.
[Catherine:] Really? So what's he given you?
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]... Cathy! Ooh ooh! Ooh ooh! Don't ask!
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER] Well I've gotta go. I don't like that [].
[speaker002:] You're not gonna believe it. What? I've got
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] We're running balloons on them, they're meant to be like blown balloon things. Yeah.
[Catherine:] [tut]!
[speaker002:] Oh Angie, it's not very nice that you're not very well. I hope you feel better. Oh. I'm a bit run down that's all. Mm. Sure.
[Catherine:] Are you sleep
[speaker002:] She wakes up.
[Catherine:] [tut]...
[speaker002:] sleep night?
[Catherine:] a sleeping pill.
[speaker002:] Three hours a night if I'm lucky! That's what I was like last year, honestly. Bloody awful! Yeah. What? Not sleeping? I'm not sleeping.
[Catherine:] It's awful! There's nothing worse than
[speaker002:] Have you got any balloons?
[Catherine:] that.
[speaker002:] Give me a balloon! No. Ask Cathy. You can just put some more on mine if you like. I'm not doing any more. I've had enough, I'm bored with this.
[Catherine:] Why? You bored with it? I like that top.
[speaker002:] Oh thank you. It was three pounds, in Mark One.
[Catherine:] Oh.
[speaker002:] And wear it for best.
[Catherine:] Gill, you going to Kingston?
[speaker002:] Well I dunno. Ye er yes, probably.
[Catherine:] Will you buy me one of those... from Mark One... for three pounds please?
[speaker002:] I got a navy one and a grey one. What colour do you want me to get you though?
[Catherine:] Whatever... they got. Whatever you think would look nice.
[speaker002:] Seriously?
[Catherine:] Whatever.
[speaker002:] Do you want a one?
[Catherine:] When did you get them?
[speaker002:] Yesterday. I think.
[Catherine:] Is it still in there?
[speaker002:] Yeah!
[Catherine:] Three quid?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Catherine:] Oh that's good.
[speaker002:] And I got two polo necks one with slight ribs in.
[Catherine:] What else did you get.
[speaker002:] Polo neck jumper. I want some. Yeah.
[Catherine:] Erm... this is gross!
[speaker002:] I know. What? I bought so many yesterday, I'm never buying another pair in my life. Why? So does that mean I'm gonna be in English on my own? I better go then.
[Catherine:] No, I think you should go personally.
[speaker002:] Really? How much do you get for a night then? Mm? How much do you get for this?
[Catherine:] I get about thirty quid if you stand on the right corner.
[speaker002:] Oh that's not on. Thirty quid is that you'd get?
[Catherine:] Ha! [LAUGHTER]... [LAUGHTER] Sorry [].
[speaker002:] Quick one Cathy!
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]... Sorry.
[speaker002:] Gillian. What? How much do you get for that? Oh. Covered in glue. Sixteen quid.
[Catherine:] Oh! Cheap! Mustn't be a very good job then Gill? Urgh!
[speaker002:] It's just working behind the bar there is it? Yeah.
[Catherine:] Yeah, she's coming.
[speaker002:] Is it busy? Aha. Cos I don't wanna work in places like that, I'd rather work in a... quiet. Will she go and see him or leave a note for him? I've made a mistake. [LAUGHTER] Matron Cathy. Yeah. Given Doctor's orders.
[Catherine:] Mm.
[speaker002:] One.
[Catherine:] Oh!
[speaker002:] No I think it's crap! There you go. Gotta get that glue off.
[Catherine:] I could do that.
[speaker002:] Yeah. It'd need painting. Boring! It's bloody boring!
[Catherine:] [singing] Da da []. Oh it was so cold this morning Angie cycling in. I nearly died!
[speaker002:] I blood walked! I nearly died! I was knackered!
[Catherine:] Then met up with Carl and about ten other people so we had a little, a little erm... convoy.
[speaker002:] Where d'ya get them from?
[Catherine:] Ha! Ha! Ha!
[speaker002:] looks good.
[Catherine:] A convoy into college.
[speaker002:] She gave it to me.
[Catherine:] I'd be alright as long as I could go on a route where all I had to do was turn left... but as soon as I turn right
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Then it's a problem. Yeah. [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] Get into trouble.
[speaker002:] Excellent! I think you'll just have to move your house so you just have to do a couple of miles.
[Catherine:] Yeah. That'll be alright.... And roundabouts, roundabouts are bad news.
[speaker002:] Just go straight over them.
[Catherine:] What right through the middle?
[speaker002:] Yeah! Don't worry about any cars. I need to know when... er... I want Bill to come along cos I'm gonna look at a car.gonna can
[Catherine:] He'll be up, I presume... Wednesday or Thursday.
[speaker002:] I think I'll just but it buy it now.
[Catherine:] Marion! Don't be such a nerdo! They'll see you coming a mile off!
[speaker002:] Buy what?
[Catherine:] A car.
[speaker002:] A car.
[Catherine:] She's just gonna go and buy one as you do like a jumper. Just see one [LAUGHTER] that she []
[speaker002:] A big one!
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER] likes the colour of. Yeah []!
[speaker002:] Who's Bill?
[Catherine:] My cousin.
[speaker002:] What does he know about cars?
[Catherine:] Yeah. Well, yes.
[speaker002:] I know about cars Marion.
[Catherine:] C reg... C reg Fiesta, how much do you reckon a C reg Fiesta costs?
[speaker002:] Can we see it? No. I'm just gonna buy it. Well I'm not, my dad and mum are.
[Catherine:] , just don't be impulsive.
[speaker002:] It's only one thousand five hundred though, that's alright. Ah ah! Yeah but. Yeah. No problem. Couldn't I mate?
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] I'll buy a couple. Marion they've changed all the shop around. What?
[Catherine:] They've changed the whole of the shopping precinct.
[speaker002:] Oh oh. Shut up! Major trauma!
[Catherine:] No, major trauma is Martin's got a girlfriend!
[speaker002:] Has he?
[Catherine:] Major trauma! [LAUGHTER] I was writing to my friend Darren moaning about it [].
[speaker002:] All these male friends Cathy!
[Catherine:] I know, it's exciting isn't it? But he didn't tell me he'd been going out with her for three weeks and he's never.
[speaker002:] [sigh]
[Catherine:] I wasn't happy.
[speaker002:] What are you gonna do? Well are you gonna go to the pictures tonight?
[Catherine:] Might do. I'm seeing if I could be bothered or
[speaker002:] What, when do you have to go back? Monday morning. Late? Early Christ! in the morning. Oh oh! It takes a long time then? Yeah. Yeah, I suppose so. Had a rotten. Claire told me. I'd be up as well, and he'll just goes back to sleep and I shall stay awake going, Matthew you've gotta get up... now! [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Urgh! Urgh!
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Yes! Ask him to get out.... Honestly, it was so funny on Sunday morning. He got up... out of bed... and then I was thinking... then he had a sneaky feeling that he tried to get out the door. And I thought alright then. and he run up the road just to buy me a bunch of flowers.
[Catherine:] [tut]!
[speaker002:] I had my. Yeah, they were in last night.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]... [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] What's wrong with that? What?
[Catherine:] You know what Marion's like.
[speaker002:] Shut your mouth! I want a huge present from you.
[Catherine:] I'll do my best.
[speaker002:] It's a month I think, on my birthday.
[Catherine:] What?
[speaker002:] Sorry that, sorry he hadn't got... wrapped my present up cos he thought I'd. It's okay. I haven't got any more anyway. My present was better actually.
[Catherine:] [tut]! No.
[speaker002:] No, my one was.
[Catherine:] No. No. That can't be right. Surely?
[speaker002:] No it is.
[Catherine:] Surely there is a mistake there?
[speaker002:] No it's true. Oh the gloves, sorry. Oh I forgot about those. Oh sorry.
[Catherine:] What actually ge, what did you get from Marion?
[speaker002:] Maybe it was that. Plug pet. I dunno.
[Catherine:] A what?
[speaker002:] A plug pet.
[Catherine:] [tut]! A plug pet?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Catherine:] Ah ah ah!
[speaker002:] What's it? What is it? What is it? A wha, is it a whale? [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] Float, you pu, you put your plug in and it's attached to the plug and it floats on the top of your bath when you're having a bath.
[speaker002:] Crap!
[Catherine:] It's excellent!
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] So excellent!
[speaker002:] Floats on your bath?
[Catherine:] Yeah!
[speaker002:] Be no good for us. Don't get us one. We ain't got a bath.
[Catherine:] Oh oh, well, I nearly bought you one for your birthday.
[speaker002:] We got a shower.
[Catherine:] Ah oh.
[speaker002:] You can only have a bath in our house. Mm? Have you? Oh showers are more, don't wanna bath. Yeah, showers
[Catherine:] Yeah I know. That's why we got one I think. And I think my shower costs about ten P... cos I'm not that quick. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Well mine might cost... twelve point five
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] pence
[Catherine:] Ooh ooh!
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] that's what I say []. Is she? She does.
[Catherine:] What?
[speaker002:] She makes out she's
[Catherine:] A novelty.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] Er what?
[speaker002:] Chicken Kiev. Chicken Kiev, yeah. Yeah, and she's like veggie burgers
[Catherine:] Knowing Louise [LAUGHTER] it's... until midnight []
[speaker002:] Can she have stuffed tomatoes and things like that.
[Catherine:] She has what?
[speaker002:] Stuffed tomatoes.
[Catherine:] What she makes herself?
[speaker002:] Yeah. You will on Saturday, I believe Rachel. I was sober.
[Rachel:] Yeah. You pi ee ee ee!
[Catherine:] Did you?
[speaker002:] Yeah! Were you hung over Rachel?
[Rachel:] No I wasn't drunk.
[Catherine:] She was ill.
[Rachel:] I was ill.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[Rachel:] I was really sick. I felt terrible.
[Catherine:] Yeah but we don't mention that, we just have [whispering] cos she was pissed [].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] What? Oh that one's really good. Can I put a bit of glue on it?
[Catherine:] Well it's supposed to be drying at the moment. Look at this.
[speaker002:] Actually
[Catherine:] I'm only joking.
[speaker002:] Yeah. What do you think of it? Did you do it? Yeah, I tried melt half of it.
[Catherine:] Yeah. So did I?
[speaker002:] What did you have? I felt merry. Yeah. Chicken pas, Mexican chicken pasta.
[Catherine:] So did I!
[Rachel:] That's lovely!
[Catherine:] Oh it was lovely! It was so nice!
[speaker002:] With tortilla Did you have that?
[Catherine:] No, Gill didn't, but she's, she's the odd one out.
[speaker002:] , I'm not having that.
[Catherine:] It was really nice. Yeah, it had tortilla chips with it.
[speaker002:] One of us is doing the same thing. No. I am. Oh. [cough] I always have that. I always have that same one whatever.
[Catherine:] That was really nice!
[speaker002:] What did you have? Cajun chicken. Oh why
[Catherine:] You had that last time.
[speaker002:] wha what's that? I just like it. Is it on the bone? It's chicken, yeah. That's really, really nice that.
[Catherine:] That rice was... too hot when I had it.
[speaker002:] Oh! What is?
[Catherine:] The rice is really hot, like spicy hot.
[speaker002:] I remember it was. God! Did Anna go with you?
[Catherine:] No.
[speaker002:] No she comes afterwards.
[Catherine:] She didn't come with me. She wouldn't leave early Marion. She wouldn't leave early in case she missed anything. I said I'm going, she said I've gotta stay.
[speaker002:] Why didn't Lisa's boyfriend come to the pub? Erm, that party? Cos of Ben?
[Catherine:] No, not
[speaker002:] Alison
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER] []. She got rid of him.
[speaker002:] Matthew's going right, he said I'm gonna invite Mi Mike to the party. I said no! Alison's coming. Oh crumbs!
[Catherine:] How weird!
[speaker002:] Well I'm gonna invite him. What's that?
[Catherine:] Does he know all about Ben then does he?
[speaker002:] Yeah, Matthew hates Ben.
[Catherine:] Does he? He's jealous.
[speaker002:] He thinks he's really annoying. Oh! Right. No.
[Catherine:] Who's got
[speaker002:] Well
[Catherine:] a black felt tip pen?
[speaker002:] I have.
[Catherine:] Oh you have there.
[speaker002:] Is this yours? But sometimes he's a bit like, the other week Ben phoned him and that and Rachel, you know, Rachel and Alison's party so I'll come round and have dinner. Great! And like Matthew's phoned me straight after when I was at Alison's and said oh Ben's.
[Catherine:] Do you spend a lot of time at Alison's?
[speaker002:] Mm mm mm mm, not a lot.
[Catherine:] They must know to phone you there.
[speaker002:] Er, er... yeah, but always there and Matthew know, Matthew knew I was gonna be there. Then I had dinner there. Can you do mine for me now? I'm gonna make a mobile. You finished? Yeah. [LAUGHTER] No [].
[Rachel:] Can I just finish this chi
[Catherine:] Huh!
[Rachel:] [LAUGHTER] Oh my God []!
[Catherine:] Really subtle isn't it? And like, delicately hanging in the
[speaker002:] Mine is not going up there.
[Catherine:] corner. [LAUGHTER] This massive balloon thing [].
[speaker002:] What's wrong with that? When mine's finished I'm not doing any more I'm just I wanna go home. Do you? You're only jealous Catherine. Ah. Why won't you be able to come in
[Catherine:] I am actually.
[speaker002:] Yours is good. Right, do you want to come in next week?
[Catherine:] No art next week. Planning for our
[speaker002:] Oh there's not!
[Catherine:] assignment.
[speaker002:] Have we? Yeah right! as if anyone's gonna get up and do Well Lisa's got one week. What is she doing then? Is she reading? Nothing.
[Catherine:] So what she's doing drama, continuing drama or
[speaker002:] No.
[Catherine:] did she have a choice?
[speaker002:] I might She's just do I think.
[Catherine:] Really?
[speaker002:] And they didn't have enough classes , yeah. in that one. The likelihood
[Catherine:] Oh right.
[speaker002:] But right, you said they were gonna change my exam. But she's still doing. She'll have to get a job or something.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]... She'll be alright. She'll love it!
[speaker002:] Really? She's got erm... time sheets on there. So we wouldn't have to tell
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah [].
[speaker002:] them that we changed degree would we?
[Catherine:] I'd go mad.
[speaker002:] Yeah. And I would. I would. Five hours, really? You only, I, after a little while I began to get bored.
[Catherine:] Yeah. Cos Like... I, I have Mondays off and I'm in the house on my own.
[speaker002:] You don't know what to do do you?
[Catherine:] No. Mondays is alright
[speaker002:] You can't stand anymore. Yeah that's
[Catherine:] but that's
[speaker002:] right.
[Catherine:] I don't get, well I'm not really scared
[speaker002:] Waargh!
[Catherine:] I just cook my food and do washing
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] and anything but work.
[speaker002:] Yeah. Three times. You get a bit scared don't you? We ge, we go and [LAUGHTER] mow the lawn [].
[Catherine:] Do you?
[speaker002:] I have my parties at work. I'm always too busy and organizing things. Or watching
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] T V.
[Catherine:] Thinking about what you're having for you tea, that's what I do
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] all day.
[speaker002:] Yeah. When you get up it's like Walking home and you work it out. We decided, as soon over yesterday we had a massive.
[Catherine:] Are they?
[speaker002:] But I, oh, I can't think of anything else. Really? Oh we had a massive tuna and er, erm... sa
[Catherine:] I have lovely dinners.
[speaker002:] tuna and erm
[Catherine:] Sweet corn?
[speaker002:] prawn and that.
[Catherine:] Mm mm!
[speaker002:] And we had... had loads of
[Catherine:] Oh yum!
[speaker002:] potato salads and things. [belch] And salads in the pro... in the food processor.
[Catherine:] Mm mm!
[speaker002:] So
[Rachel:] And that, that sounds really nice actually.
[speaker002:] Gillian what did you get then? I don't know.
[Catherine:] I made sweet and sour chicken yesterday and put it in the freezer.
[Rachel:] Ooh no! Ooh lovely! I bet it'll be.
[speaker002:] Up again.
[Catherine:] Oh oh! There we go.
[Rachel:] Yeah, it won't be tonight though will it?
[Catherine:] Never mind. I know I keep saying never mind, never mind.
[Rachel:] Alright.
[speaker002:] I can't believe they're just gonna leave me... to go in... to English on my own. Oh well I'm not going in.
[Rachel:] Don't go. Come with us. We're going to the
[speaker002:] The only th
[Rachel:] cinema.
[speaker002:] Leave your work. I didn't go last week though. Are you going to do more work?
[Rachel:] Are you doing?
[speaker002:] No not tonight er, early Sarah afternoon. Yeah. I'm like that.
[Rachel:] Well are you?
[speaker002:] I didn't go last week either
[Rachel:] Make a decision.
[speaker002:] able to get back. I don't know. We're all watching Much Ado tonight.
[Rachel:] It's excellent! Go and see it. Go and see it.
[speaker002:] I'll probably go and see it on my own. Ah! Sleepless in Seattle's terrible.
[Rachel:] It's, no it's lovely.
[speaker002:] Oh no!
[Rachel:] Marion, go away!
[speaker002:] Mm mm.
[Rachel:] Sleepless in Seattle's lovely!
[speaker002:] [mimicking baby voice] [].
[Rachel:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Oh my God! That's.
[Catherine:] I wanna see the Tina Turner Story.
[Rachel:] So do I.
[speaker002:] The what?
[Rachel:] Leigh went to see that last night. The Tina Turner thing.
[Catherine:] That looks quite good actually.
[speaker002:] Is that Much Ado About Nothing really?
[Rachel:] No it's really, really good.
[speaker002:] Is it?
[Rachel:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] What? Much Ado About Nothing.
[Rachel:] Excellent!
[Catherine:] Oh well I really want to see that.
[Rachel:] So good! Really worth seeing.
[speaker002:] I'm gonna go and see it on my own. [LAUGHTER] Cos I haven't got no friends! [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER]
[Rachel:] Nobody!
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] It's alright, they're our lot... class.
[Rachel:] What?
[speaker002:] We're going to do the editorial and then
[Rachel:] What did you say?
[Catherine:] Perhaps I could call you... Sarah?
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Yes [].
[Catherine:] I meant Sarah.
[speaker002:] I get used to being [LAUGHTER] whatever []
[Catherine:] I meant
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] comes first [].
[Rachel:] My brother.
[Catherine:] I hate going to the cinema. I'm always and I was frightened so much.
[Rachel:] Oh I love going to the cinema.
[speaker002:] I like going to the cinema actually.
[Rachel:] I do.
[speaker002:] Popcorn! Yes!
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER] Seriously though, [].
[Rachel:] I love it!
[speaker002:] It's a treat. Pop corn! And then we can go and buy something nice for dinner. Yeah. We
[Catherine:] Go, let's go.
[Rachel:] Let's go.
[speaker002:] Treat yourself Angie, cos you can always sort of catch up like that.
[Catherine:] Yeah, that's what I reckon. And I'll help her.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Rachel:] Go for it Cath!
[Catherine:] Yeah, actually I'll
[speaker002:] Yeah!
[Rachel:] She's such a friend!
[speaker002:] Yeah!
[Rachel:] You're so good!
[Catherine:] Yeah!
[speaker002:] Who's that then?
[Catherine:] Me. I'm such a good friend.
[speaker002:] Why are you?
[Catherine:] I'm taking Angie out to cheer her up.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] I wouldn't bother.
[Catherine:] Got yourself a new top?
[speaker002:] Sev So have I. seven pound fifty.
[Catherine:] Where from?
[speaker002:] Two pound ninety nine. Trolium. I go to like whe
[Catherine:] Two ninety nine!
[speaker002:] Two ninety nine. Not bad eh?
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] What?
[Catherine:] I like that one.
[speaker002:] Polo neck jumper Can't be done. four ninety nine.
[Rachel:] Ma
[speaker002:] Really?
[Rachel:] where's Mark One? In Kingston?
[speaker002:] Yeah. On only another one rail.
[Catherine:] I'm sending Gill off to get it all.
[speaker002:] Whereabouts in Kingston? Where's that? It's on, Mark One. Mark One.
[Catherine:] I'm sending Gill to get me loads of tops back.
[speaker002:] Really cheap clothes. Oh I know. Oh. How many actually left?
[Catherine:] That was two ninety
[speaker002:] Oh I know!
[Catherine:] that top.
[speaker002:] It's a nice round sweater top.
[Catherine:] And she's got a polo neck.
[Rachel:] And it looks... it looks like two ninety nine doesn't it girls?
[speaker002:] Ah shut up! Very good quality. You can tell.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] I prefer to buy quality than that
[Catherine:] Yeah but two ninety nine is... a MacDonalds
[speaker002:] A couple of pints.
[Catherine:] meal.
[speaker002:] Yeah. And also Yeah, that's very true. you could buy a jumper
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]... Yeah. And you wouldn't... you'd spend it on a bottle of wine.
[speaker002:] Yeah. Look at how much joy How much was that? you'd get out of it. [LAUGHTER] I wouldn't even spend eighty pounds on clothes. I know but I
[Catherine:] D'ya know what, whenever I feel guilty about spending some money now, I just think about how much I spent at home.
[speaker002:] I never ever, ever, ever would Yeah. and enjoy it, feel guilty about spending money. Oh look
[Catherine:] I did.
[speaker002:] I spent so something about You don't feel good or you don't feel No, I don't feel guilty about spending money on clothes. No I don't. Yeah but now that's why I'm so bored. I suppose that's why I'm bad at saving money though. Yeah. I spend pots of money. I know.
[Catherine:] What else have you bought, clothes then?
[speaker002:] No I haven't finished yet. Cos I've bought like... posh jeans.
[Catherine:] Oh! How much did they cost you?
[speaker002:] Come on cowboy! [LAUGHTER] I dunno. About thirty five pound.
[Catherine:] Are they
[speaker002:] I thought they'd be more expensive than that. Yeah. No, these You came with loads of stuff. All of these Low cost clogs.
[Catherine:] Exchange it.
[speaker002:] Cardigans,
[Catherine:] Say I wouldn't believe
[speaker002:] two cardigans
[Catherine:] that.
[speaker002:] about four jumpers Save money? It's.
[Rachel:] [clears throat] New bed.
[speaker002:] New bed. New bed. New bedside cabinet in the sale. I wanna see who's on it. I'm buying
[Catherine:] Have you got it all in pine?
[speaker002:] Marion. No.
[Rachel:] There you go.
[speaker002:] No, I had over a thousand pound. Well And I've got a job now.
[Rachel:] Oh have you?
[speaker002:] Monday night.
[Rachel:] So what's thi, what your sister found that out
[speaker002:] Have you started working at Ealing? Wednesday. [LAUGHTER] in twenty four hours then Oh we'll be in. and pay you back.
[Catherine:] Where?
[speaker002:] You will. Up at the pub, in The Tavern. That's our local that is. Oh God! [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] Who did you see?
[speaker002:] She's gonna say you're not old enough or something. Are you over eighteen? Got any I D? Okay, not you again? When does that erm
[Rachel:] Say, I don't believe you're eighteen.
[speaker002:] that Oh was it? Yeah. But I want it. And I, she had the same and she said eighteen. Well when does she work? Saturday night? Friday.
[Rachel:] Friday night.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] If I can come in on Saturday rather than Sunday. Be nice.
[Catherine:] Sarah. If you bre, if you break that one
[speaker002:] Why do they keep calling me Sarah.
[Rachel:] [LAUGHTER]... They're looking for
[speaker002:] Oh well I've got brown hair. [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] You can put your leg on that now if you want.
[speaker002:] We're not allowed to keep them anyway.
[Rachel:] That's alright. Look at that.
[speaker002:] Are you not? Yeah. Michelle and them. Oh.
[Catherine:] Just get nabbed to do something else by them.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[Rachel:] I don't need that one.
[speaker002:] I want him back here. He's a prat. I don't like them, and he's
[Catherine:] And the bloke with
[speaker002:] I don't like him at all. [in classroom very noisy lot of background chatter]
[Rachel:] I wanna start when he says something for... with.
[speaker002:] Yeah, we've gotta do a transcription on Friday haven't we?
[Catherine:] Yeah. We have got to.
[speaker002:] Just get it out the way, yeah. I want to see African Does that mean you don't have any in the summer?
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] No, we don't have any. Er And then you're not supposed to. I should be the end. But we leave leave early. Yeah we finish the end of May. Yeah! Wahey! Forty. Well... [LAUGHTER] the end of May. [LAUGHTER] It's a pity, we shouldn't really. You're a fucking nutter Clare! What? You're a nutter! I know. You're mad you are! Mad! You're blooming mad! [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] Oh it's so cold, I've gotta get warm.
[Rachel:] [LAUGHTER] [].
[speaker002:] I'll try and keep the... noise down. Well done Clare! I'm not gonna speak to anybody! Oh well
[Rachel:] Don't... don't speak to us then.
[Catherine:] Just have a game when you go round Sainsburys. And the first couple arguing over which brand of
[speaker002:] Over a long time now
[Catherine:] toothpaste to get
[speaker002:] Did she? I feel sorry
[Catherine:] let them.
[speaker002:] for both of them. Go on. Yeah, and it came on just before eleven In the what? and I couldn't understand it.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]... Did he charge ya?
[speaker002:] No, not for this one. Yeah.
[Catherine:] There you go.
[Rachel:] D'ya know what, I'm just gonna make up signatures. Cos I haven't asked anyone
[speaker002:] Signatures?
[Rachel:] I've taped.
[speaker002:] Oh that's alright.
[Catherine:] What you going on about?
[Rachel:] About th, cos you're supposed to get their permission aren't you?
[Catherine:] Oh yeah.
[speaker002:] I taped Louise and... and they had to be.
[Catherine:] Oh good.
[speaker002:] D'ya know
[Catherine:] Well we had... massive Yings yesterday!
[speaker002:] What?
[Rachel:] Oh yeah.
[Catherine:] Ying.
[speaker002:] Ying Yang Yo
[Catherine:] They were... massive!
[speaker002:] You went to the China Garden? No! Oh! It's lovely! It's really good. And cheap.
[Catherine:] It's much better than Ying Yang Yongs.
[Rachel:] Is it expensive?
[Catherine:] No.
[speaker002:] No. It's cheaper than Ying Yang Yong.
[Catherine:] Oh it's
[speaker002:] Is it?
[Catherine:] really nice!
[speaker002:] Mm mm! Is it Cantonese po Lemon and chicken. pork?
[Catherine:] I had lots of it.
[speaker002:] It's not as spicy as erm Garlic chicken.
[Catherine:] I don't like garlic.
[speaker002:] I had crab and sweet corn soup. What happened to with the all-night.
[Catherine:] I think, I think Mike said it all really. I was going to Mike, go on have some more. Honestly, I felt so bloated.
[speaker002:] Cos they came in massive things didn't they? Er What was that for? I was gonna pay for it. Is the Mike the loaded one?
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Ya.
[Rachel:] [yawning] I think Alice might be better off with him [].
[speaker002:] You should have offered to pay for it. Well yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't very expensive. I did. Fifty one. Mind you, I wasn't gonna.
[Catherine:] You what?
[speaker002:] Yes. Marion that was a very obscene choice.
[Catherine:] We thought it was terrific
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Catherine:] Marion.
[speaker002:] I nearly walked out That's why I put you down the end of the table so I wouldn't have to talk to you. [cough] That's nice! Cheers! Anthony's going, who are they? Who are they? I don't know those three. He said, tell us who they are. [LAUGHTER] I couldn't convince him though. Yeah. No, no, no.
[Catherine:] He's seen us before.
[speaker002:] I've seen him once Marion. Yeah, but tal, you haven't spoken to him. [singing] Doo doo dee doo doo [].
[Catherine:] I had a boyfriend once like Tin-tin. [LAUGHTER] Met him on the way to Kingston [].
[speaker002:] Erm What this boyfriend?
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] You got
[Catherine:] Looks like Tin-tin.
[speaker002:] Ooh lucky!
[Catherine:] Yeah, he dragged me all the way to London to go and buy some beef. And she was just like
[speaker002:] Which one's Alan?
[Catherine:] You told us not to tell you.
[speaker002:] Oh she She did what?
[Catherine:] Weird!
[speaker002:] Why is she still pumping?
[Rachel:] Cos it takes a while for the steroids to... like work down.
[speaker002:] They're still in her system. Ah ah! I felt a bit sorry for her actually. She does bring some of it on herself though.
[Catherine:] Why?
[speaker002:] Well I dunno, she's just really, I dunno... how you can describe her.
[Catherine:] She is coming from.
[speaker002:] She is that as well.
[Catherine:] Because she's got no friends though.
[speaker002:] Hasn't she?
[Catherine:] No.
[speaker002:] The only thing she's got is a... ex boyfriend. Her friends have been and gone and she does. She does her like round of phoning people. You can't blame them. We're last on the list. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] If she's bored and wants to come out [].
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] We're the last ones that she Didn't she live with a family? Why doesn't she move with other people though? Cos no one
[Catherine:] Nothing. I don't think I could.
[speaker002:] nobody'll have her. What? No one phones her? Apart from us, no. I'll phone her up. We'll be getting you to.
[Catherine:] [yawn]
[speaker002:] I'm going to ring her. No, don't. She'll take it from me.
[speaker004:] How are the people at your house?
[speaker002:] Oh wonderful! Going on the B N P march though. You can't see anything wrong in the B Who? N P.
[Catherine:] Do they?
[speaker002:] Anti- Nazi march.
[Rachel:] Yeah. That's
[speaker002:] Say
[Rachel:] why they were going past.
[speaker002:] Were they there? Yeah. Did you go in as well yesterday? about the police and... anti-riot police and. Yeah.. They're silly buggers though aren't they? They're all violent. What? There's more to it than Well honestly they were... laying into them so They're just jumping on the bandwagon. Yeah I know! It's really bad. Just said all the police are horrible because they were climbing Every single one. they were climbing over a massive wall to get into a cemetery that they're not meant to go into Bloody hell! and they wonder why the police are telling them not to go in there. They're going, oh the police are so rude to us! Do they go in there? Yeah. Which one? It's the one up? The massive march, yeah. They were on that? I'd laugh if they got fucking beaten up! Yeah I know. I'd laugh. They'd run a mile. No shit! You're going out with that lot. Did they go to that one? Yeah that's what I, why, that's what I said to Susannah and she was like... don't be ridiculous! It was! They wanna see all these people with their masks on, right... massive sticks like that big. Course it was for God's sake! They're supposed to be the passives. Yeah. Yeah. And then they go and burn everybody and all the, and anti-Nazis where they
[Catherine:] What has that girl got on?
[speaker002:] burn people! Has she got a top on? Leggings. Tights.
[Catherine:] Ah!
[Rachel:] Are you happier now? The poor girl.
[Catherine:] Oh well
[speaker002:] Oh good Lord!
[Catherine:] So what do we need to hang these up or something?
[speaker002:] Erm yes please. To dry.
[Catherine:] Right, we need to get something to put it up with.
[speaker002:] Can we not take them home? Are you really gonna carry Claire?
[Catherine:] How are you gonna carry it home Zoe? You'll
[speaker002:] Oh!
[Catherine:] look like a right wally!
[speaker002:] So we may well manage. Ah big deal! You gotta hang it up. [classroom chatter] Erm, sorry, when I said I won't see you next week, that means I won't see you now until... the fourth year. Oh no! Won't you be back? Nice seeing you. You leaving? Yeah. I'm going through to the third year and I might not do the fourth year. But why? [classroom chatter]
[Catherine:] Marilyn, buy me cream cake on the way home.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] This ob, obsession with food it's getting worrying. What are you talking about? [LAUGHTER] Shorty [].
[Catherine:] No I'm won't share!
[speaker002:] [classroom chatter] I may get a. Are you? My friend gets them when I get go into town. [classroom chatter]
[Catherine:] [singing] Well, well, well... mm mm mm, what did you say []?
[speaker002:] Come on!
[Rachel:] Hooray!
[Catherine:] See their remnants.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[Rachel:] I know.
[speaker002:] Don't mention. Oh don't worry about the lecture. Yeah. Something like that. Well, I wish I had.
[Rachel:] You can borrow notes and I'll
[Catherine:] Yeah, actually, I think I will do.
[speaker002:] Ta mate.
[Catherine:] Ta darling!
[speaker002:] See you later. See you later.
[Catherine:] See ya.
[speaker002:] I'll see you tomorrow. Bye? Have a rest of the paper there. Will do.
[Rachel:] Oh Cathy erm mm, Cathy.
[speaker002:] Erm, the one I want. Going shopping. No I'll write you some down. Lots.
[Catherine:] What?
[speaker002:] What? Have you lost that one?
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Wrestle.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]...
[speaker002:] Erm... suppose we better go then.
[Catherine:] Yeah, it's so much extra time.
[Rachel:] I don't mind but it's just... not fair at all
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[Rachel:] It's just the time that really, you know, I just wanna get home.
[Catherine:] You just waste so much time.
[Rachel:] Yeah.
[Catherine:] It's like half, half an hour, well I mean casually like
[Rachel:] Yeah. That's it.
[Catherine:] about half an hour, a good half an hour... sort of waste every morning, every afternoon.
[Rachel:] Yeah.
[Catherine:] You wasted two hours a day... in and out and in and out of college.
[Rachel:] That's a lot.
[Catherine:] Yeah. Well cycling takes eight minutes. I keep going ooh! Ooh! [LAUGHTER]... Trying to see how, how quickly I can get home.
[Rachel:] Mm. Well
[Catherine:] When you're in a rush.
[Rachel:] It's like, on Tuesday... you know, like coming back from R E
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[Rachel:] had the train at half four and I didn't get off.
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[Rachel:] And we hardly got in and then you have to
[Catherine:] Yeah it doesn't seem worth it sometimes.
[Rachel:] Yeah I know.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER] I must start using the library []. I'm so bad.
[Rachel:] keep going up to it really is bad you know.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]
[Rachel:] At least you have Tu, Thursdays off.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]
[Rachel:] Are you gonna do some work?
[Catherine:] I must do.
[Rachel:] Yeah, erm but, you know, I haven't got any work though.
[Catherine:] [LAUGHTER]... Gotta try and do some transcription... transcribing
[Rachel:] [tut]. Yeah.
[Catherine:] tonight.
[Rachel:] Mm. Try and do [LAUGHTER] [].
[Catherine:] Yeah. It's really annoying. But erm... I must start reading those books as well. But I'm gonna find it a real bummer.
[Rachel:] What?
[Catherine:] Gotta tr, like Shakespeare.
[Rachel:] Oh.
[Catherine:] And I've gotta try and look at some poetry.
[Rachel:] I'm not too worried about Shakespeare. Cos I know Twelfth Night, so
[Catherine:] You can, you ca, yeah, see I haven't got a clue.
[Rachel:] I couldn't tell.
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[Rachel:] about three quarters.
[Catherine:] Well yo
[Rachel:] I didn't know it.
[Catherine:] you can sort of bluff your way through to a certain extent.
[Rachel:] Yeah.
[Catherine:] In Shakespeare.
[Rachel:] That's what I did last year.
[Catherine:] Yeah.... It's all very strange.
[Rachel:] What have we got next week?
[Catherine:] Erm Dunn, erm Kitty said.... Don't know what he's like. Bought my Paradise Lost in a second hand book and I ga, shop, and I gave it to Marion.
[Rachel:] [tut]. Oh! What? [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] Well she kept moaning saying, oh I wanted those books! So I wrapped them up and gave them to her... for her birthday. With her pet [LAUGHTER] plug, or plug pet even []. It's so cool.
[Rachel:] Pet plug. [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] Pet plug. [LAUGHTER] Yeah []. Hello darling. Pet.... Have you got change on you? Oh I'll just have to go to the shop. Groovy! And buy some sweeties. Ha ah. [LAUGHTER]
[Rachel:] [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] Ah! Which is better?
[Rachel:] Ha!
[Catherine:] Ha ha!... Ah ah.... Oh it's not so cold now actually, it's not
[Rachel:] No.
[Catherine:] it's not too bad.
[Rachel:] No, the sun's out.
[Catherine:] Oh it was, ah, it was so cold this morning! And I was like joining the traffic trying to do my coat up and I heard this, Cathy! I thought, bloody hell is that? And I was Carlton.
[Rachel:] Oh!
[Catherine:] And there was like a massive convoy of people [LAUGHTER] behind him [].
[Rachel:] I know.
[Catherine:] There's me like in a, trying to do my erm... jacket up and trying to keep warm.
[Rachel:] [tut].
[Catherine:] My hands were freezing!
[Rachel:] Well I, well I got here and I was hot.
[Catherine:] Yeah. So... You'll have to excuse us a sec. Oh dear. It's really such a nice smell. All this Indian music. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER]... They got to. No this is, cos Marion and Matthew they like Indians and they go... both me ma, start again, they like Indian meals... and they've been round to quite a few and they said this is the best one they've been to. This is really, really nice. Mm mm. They were really impressed with it. What do you want to drink? Coke or something like that? Yeah I'm driving. Just get me a Coke. Oh right. It's easiest. Mm. I don't think I could handle it. [LAUGHTER] Lovely. You can never see, it's so dark out here you can't see Yeah that's right. like, coming in and like the windows are so dark but... and... and Ah. one thing about these places they're nice and warm. They want you to drink more apparently. Oh. ... Don't normally go for Indian much actually do we? Mm. Don't really think of it. One of the things we're learning to cook indoors aren't we? Not like this. This is proper, proper stuff. Oh. [LAUGHTER] We had nice erm... when I went to Angie's... they did like proper Tandoori chicken with, they made up and erm... all these other, they did a... er... chick pea and something else... like Indian thing. Really, really nice. Oh she's, so she's up in Sheffield? Yeah. Really nice.
[speaker002:] Thank you.
[Catherine:] Lovely thanks. Er, can I have er two Cokes please? Diet Cokes. Diet Cokes. Okay. On the tab again please, thanks. Diet Coke? Ooh!... [LAUGHTER]... Is your eyesight getting bad mate? Definitely. [LAUGHTER] Erm, I asked if they were having it in braille and then, and then er [LAUGHTER] feel my way along the page. [LAUGHTER]... Why you're lovely! [humming]... Actually I had one of the, when we went out with Robert I had a Phall which is erm... it's like you get all, all those different di, dishes [cough] obviously not got, you get like little... amounts, I don't know how big, erm Yeah. and little pots with each one. Oh I see. Really, really nice. Is that for one then or Yeah, no one. Is it? That's great. Really, it's really nice. You get everything there that you want.... I was really impressed. I think the last time I came I had erm... a chicken thing. A chicken... no a king prawn korma... I had and it was lovely. Which is like korma, it's very mild. Oh it actually, didn't, yeah. We had a medium I think we might have had a, or a king prawn curry or something. Medium is just, is just nice. What do you normally have with that then? Just erm, some sort of pilau rice or something. And where is it? Oh yeah. Pilau rice... or... any, well any rice really.... Get, get a... get a couple of poppadoms. Get a couple of poppadoms. Or get four actually cos they're lovely. You get all the little erm... they bring you around all yo, the little chutneys and things. You know, like like pickle Oh I see. and stuff. And erm Oh that's great. onions... and other stuff like that. It's really nice. Very nicely done. Get four of those. And... oh next to my house. Can you, can you not see? Not really, but no. Oh what can I have then? Dunno. Have the lunch. Er er... I had duck yesterday It was so long ago. Did you? I had duck yesterday, you know. Was it nice? What sort? Very nice. What Peking or No, no, no Oh just like roast? Yes. Very nice.. Oh well... what are you going to do? Oh actually I I think I would go, I'll go for this er... mild korma chicken. Oh! What are you gonna have Mild. with it? Very Erm mild. Oh. Yeah, well I don't want Very mild. Yeah, very mild. Oh. I might have the king prawn one actually. King prawn? That's the, that's the medium is it? No, I might have the king prawn korma, but I dunno. But don't
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[Catherine:] I see. Where were we? Yeah okay. I think Well what's I'll have the king prawn korma actually. Erm four poppadoms Yeah. And then... we can get two different rice. You can get pilau rice... and a mushroom rice? Yeah sure. Be nice. Pi, pilau And that's and a, and a paratha but I dunno what they are, we haven't had those I must admit. Erm... just ask them. Some sort of bready thing. Paratha Where are they? Paratha In the starters? No. Okay. Okay? [humming]... See what that
[speaker002:] ... Er er do you want any poppadoms?
[Catherine:] Can we have four pla, of the Four, four please. plain ones? Yes please.
[speaker002:] Right.
[Catherine:] Cheers. It's really nice as well because you when you got they like hold the door open for you and you know... give you a Oh! you feel very like... you know Mm! what's the word? Chivalrous? Is that the, I don't know. Yes. Chivalrous. Cos when you get your takeaway they erm... they carry it to the door for you and give it to you when you get to the door, and they hand Oh! it to you. It's very nice actually. Oh! Whe, when we went to the one in Twickenham, James really like it sort of go out for a ni Indian meal and stuff. Quite enjoyed it.
[speaker002:] Okay, I'll bring the... sauces for you.
[Catherine:] Lovely. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks very much.
[speaker002:] Okay?
[Catherine:] Thank you. So when's his tour? Oh er, it's er... late July... early August of... ninety four. Oh! Not long really. No. Oh. Lovely thanks. Thank you.
[speaker002:] again.
[Catherine:] Alright, thank you.... I'll take the first one, that one is sweet. It's so nice. You just dip in like that do you? Yeah. Or sort of put it,wha however really. Or put bits on your plate and then... just like put... this is a, I think this is a lime one. Mm! They taste a bit different actually to the ones we had. They don't like, used to have a little.... That one's quite hot I think. That's erm... something or other. Or just put it onto your... poppadom like that.... Easier to put it straight on. Mm. So we, with your pensions and things... is mum, what about mum does she know... what about the state pension and stuff? Well mum can draw a state pension when she's sixty or something on what I pay in into the scheme so you Oh. get it on one. Because she hasn't worked, nothing? Mm. Well, so... and th, and the husband So married woman's like if their... husband left them... and they're at work well how do they, how are they covered? Or are they not? I don't know. I don't know, it's, it's er... it's a little harder to say the least. Is, if they we, if he's left... I suppose she would get the, the single, single person's thing. Oh right. But... it's not so much nowadays though.... You have a... the problem... if the husband remarries. Yeah. Er, er, you know, who gets the I suppose it's pretty difficult really. No you can't. Sorry. Erm, with mum... i i i is fine because she could... from my point of view so, and also... as regards the, if anything happens to me, then she gets a pension from the bank... she gets Oh! a widow's pension from the bank Oh right. so that she doesn't... so we get nothing for Oh right.... It's quite good to work for a big concern like that then really? Oh... yeah. And of course even that's going to change as time goes on. Really? So what happens like, with me? Like teaching? Do I need to do... I, they don't do anything Well you may have, you may have to look after yourself in fact. Yeah. Cos obviously... it's different for you. That's the thing. Erm... er... it will be see if you can... pay into something Mm. er soon after you start your job. Yeah. I'll think about it So, say as, say erm, say by the time you're... you're probably, mm, I dunno, thirty. Yeah, cos I'll be working... well I'm twenty one. I'm doing a third year... I'll be twenty four Mm. when I qualify. Seems sensible to start as soon as possible really. Well you can start off with you see, a small sum... as regards an insurance policy. Yeah. Then take the twenty five or thirty years. Is that what you've done? That's how you're paying? No. The two, the two insurance policies I had... of erm... er the house... were on Oh right. and when we moved... I think we had a new insurance policy to cover...... and the... others became mine. Oh right. That's why it's very important cos I haven't got my... early matured pay from Roberts... and the other one in fact... matures next year with everything attached to it... except for one Oh right. of you, for you. Yeah. And the lump sum I can... then... could put in mum's name... to avoid. Yeah. paying tax on the interest. Oh right. And then just utilize a little each year. Yeah. Oh right. We should get help with James though shouldn't we? Well... at the moment, I'm working on a nil return for Oh. James so, if there is something, all well and good. Oh yeah.... I don't see how they can justify... I mean, anybody, unless you'd... got mega bucks Mm. you're just paying out that amount of money and suddenly... in one goes' a big,bi, like quite a shock. And you might like, on paper, have the money like, by the end of the like, year or whatever... but paying it out in one go or Well the thing is they're not gonna get any wind of erm... what so he's gonna get sacked.... Gone into erm... money. And that way, any interest on erm... it becomes tax free. Yeah. Oh! So again, I have to be careful because... real interest is gained on... this money that's in... grand mama's... name. Or grand mama's account which is in Claire and er... Nigel's. Yeah. There's not that much there though is there? There's enough. Really? Yeah, it's erm ... Did you have a good time when you went up to King's Lynn? Yes. It was very pleasant. The... the journey up there was erm Mum said, your mum's going a bit mental? Oh, probably is. To put it politely. I expect she is. Does she see your brother much? She sees Geoff, yes, but when she calls round. Really? Mm. Oh good. Well my, my brother, well I, I'm, I'm happy... she's er... that she's comfortable Yeah. er i in her place. It's been wonderful! Mum said it's really nice. Mm. What is it? It's not... is it an old people's home or is it something she paid for? Along, along th that sort of line. Erm... you have a war, warden who lives on, the premises... you have contact with the wardens... and if there's any problems you can Yeah. pull a cord... and they erm use a It's a bit like the one we we, went to see Aunty Mary's when we to Oh that's true. tidy it up. And this is really what So is it, is it private or... or erm Well it's her trust. Oh. It's her trust. So she pays? She pays a certain amount, but erm... you get erm Subsidised. That's right. Yeah. This is really what Ma-in-law should have done. Yeah. About the same sort of thing. Oh yeah. Well, just to sit there... it's a, I, I, know mum was fed up. Sorry? Mum's fed up. Oh yeah. She was telling me the other day.... But it's just But erm I dunno, it's just so awful! Well It just turned everything so sour. Mm. But it probably was, I mean... probably deep down... if we didn't see her..., probably got on quite well with her. But you, you just see to much of her that now Yeah. that it's just got no... got no wanting to talk to her or Mm! or no, you know, anything. Well no, you see Well perhaps she's got nothing to say, but she doesn't do anything. I don't know. But the problem... I became very angry years ago with that because, I mean Irish Close and we had the three of you... we found... that... she'd, she just kept on telling us off. And, oh, I'll go in, get th Catherine's present, I mean, it wasn't... and, there was no thought at all toward No. the children. Yeah. And as I say, there was always one I remember... that sticks passively in my mind when she came over in one December... five weekends on the trot! Yeah. Mm mm. I was going mental! Well that's it. So what did she say to you? Nothing. Well, I do, I hope... but we appreciated Claire and Steven had her more than we had, but... you know, we've had the odd times we've virtually been across there a month or something like, but... but when you have a position where you have... five Yeah. people in the house It's very stressful. I'm sorry, you know, the woman, I, er, I've tried to tell her in no uncertain terms... there Yeah. isn't a space there. Well not if it's not designed for it. I said to her, I was saying it to Mum earlier, if that was me with... a family, I'd wake up to the fact that you're pa, I, I... I, there's too many here. Mm. And course it's reached the point of no return now where she... she can't do anything for herself. Well there's nothing, yeah. You just can't do it. But if we, what she has done is soured the relationship with us Mm mm. between Claire and Steve, and also between Claire, Steve Well it's and herself. Yes. Which is such a shame because... like, we all,wi, we all get on really well with William. Sure. You know, like more, more brother,si Yeah. brother sort of sister thing sort of thing than anything else. But, you know, you don't wanna keep her off. Mum and Aunty, you know, Mum and Aunty get on well, and we all get... you know, you get on with them as well, and all types of stuff. But there is an underlined current there Mm. which is erm, Mum is aware of. Oh definitely. But... you know... the situation is... it's like... Mum should not... expect... just because Claire and Steve go away that it's immediate pack your bag it's gonna co Yeah. and, and settle down in Brentwood. I'm, I, I'm sorry. It's happened too many times now that she's You can really just, you can't break it. You can break it but the thing is that I warned her, er, you know, as long as they get through to her... hold on... that... that's very nicely set up if she twiddles her Yeah. and will continue to, to, to, erm... so that the, the, the set-up should never have been created by her. Very, very difficult. Well... that's why I said to you, and, and Laura, er to James, no way... would we... get ourselves in that position for you... you have your lives to lead Yeah. get on with it. There's no point ruining... a good relationship by That's right. Yeah. things like that.... Just turns everything sour. So how was your weekend Ah. in... Sheffield? Did you go wa, get around to see much at all? Erm, not much. What did we do? The Friday... we finally got there at about... the traffic was so bad... because Friday night as well. You'd gone up in, oh yes. Erm Do you want a bit more? No, I've had, I've had erm... two already. Erm... we went out Go on. Can't remember. Can't remember what I want now. Right erm... could I have the... er the mild korma down here please?
[speaker002:] chicken korma.
[Catherine:] Yep.
[speaker002:] Okay.
[Catherine:] And the king prawn korma. And the king prawn korma.
[speaker002:] Do you want another?
[Catherine:] Not for me thanks, no. Erm... what do you want the, the the paratha Pi, pilau, yeah. One of those do you?
[speaker002:] Just one of the paratha
[Catherine:] [clears throat] Yeah, just one. And, we wanted? One pilau and one mushroom One pilau and one mushroom and one mushroom rice.
[speaker002:] One pilau rice and one mushroom.
[Catherine:] And one mushroom rice. Yes thank you.
[speaker002:] Do you want any nan bread?
[Catherine:] Do you want any nan bread? No, I'm fine thank you. No, thanks a lot. Right. Thank you. Okay?
[speaker002:] One chicken korma, one prawn korma, the er pilau rice, mushroom rice and a paratha
[Catherine:] That's it. Lovely. Thank you very much. Lovely, thank you.... Yeah so, Friday night... we went out with her friend Helen and another friend where she works, and this other guy. It was really good actually. We went into Sheffield... right into the city... and went to a pub. It was pouring down with rain though. So heavy! We got so soaked. We couldn't find a taxi so we thought well... we may as well start walking. [break in recording] Yippee! Oh there is it? Oh! What's happened now? Looks a bit dead to me. [tut]! I had a little chat with an old man today about his flowers. [LAUGHTER]... So he smiled at me. Yeah, so he was cutting his like flowers off, so I said oh they're really nice. He was telling me that they'd died of the frost or something. But he gave me a good smile and a big goodbye when I left him so. Oh I see. Where was this, down Lincoln Avenue? Jus, just there... Gloucester Road, I was just coming back from Witham. It's the roads... you know where our house is? Just Yeah. the road sort of, sort of here. Oh! I see. Yeah. That's where it was. Only takes about... takes about ten, not even that, to get to Witham station... to get like to London and Kingston and... e all your other sort Oh I see! of stuff. Just sort of up that way. Oh yes. So that's good So it's quite good isn't it? So it's quite, cos I mean Strawberry's Hill's about... twenty five, twenty minutes, like the station, walk away. So it's easier to go to Witham. You have to change Mm. at Twickenham though, that's not too Oh oh. bad. But you can get to London in about twenty, twenty five minutes by car. Oh. That's alright. And as well, as Vicky's on that line as well. Vicky. So I can get straight down, she's about four or five stops away from Witham. Oh yeah. So I must go and see her. I was thinking maybe next weekend I might... or meet her for the day Yes, you must. or something. Yeah! Well you'll have to go down there. And she goes to Richmond quite a bit as well. And Dave, her boyfriend's just started at Roehampton. So we're all sort of in the same, very Yes, oh yes you must close vicinity well so we're all gonna go out for dinner or something. We said Yeah. when we're all settled in. So I must give her a ring this week actually.... I didn't realize how close we were. I'm so, I've No. got no sense of geography, like, I just, didn't really, haven't got a clue. You should, you should ge, if you look on a map you can, you can judge where I know you can, but really I can't... I just want a detailed like, even a detailed train map. Yeah. Cos er, all the ones they have on the trains have got like Strawberry Hill and all the, that's all included, but then you buy a general map... and we're all sort of cut off. Well then Yeah. I haven't got a clue where I'm going. No. As for buses, I er, just haven't got a clue. I never used one before [LAUGHTER] until I came here []. Well, it's one of things you have to, I think you learn fast about er u using a Honestly I train for I really haven't got a clue. a form of transport. So I don't even know names of roads, just tell people where I'm going. Yeah. Haven't you supposed to er, er, have bought a local map yet? [LAUGHTER] Yeah, but I'm hopeless []! Mm mm. I just like, I just like, I know places, like I was told when I was meeting the girls yesterday, I didn't know what road I was going on I was just telling like, people names of the pubs and luckily this, like, bloke behind me getting on the bus, said oh you need a like, a seventy P or something and that's when I knew [LAUGHTER] where I was going and... everyone's like telling me where to get off, everyone gestures to me. I'm, they must think I'm so thick []! I just sit there looking completely lost waiting to see this pub go by before [LAUGHTER] I know I can get off the bus [].... [LAUGHTER] And that's the way it goes []. Oh right. Bit of a hopeless case come to think of it. Maybe you should take a map with you Cath, because then you're able to follow the, where you are. It's just such a worry though. Well no, no. No, no. Take the, take the map with, stick it in your bag. I just tell everyone I'm new in the area. [LAUGHTER] So I just say I'm really new in the area []. So my taxi driver like whizzes past my house, I go, oh I'm new in the area.... The thing is do, I don't think I'd know. I wouldn't know how to get a bus. I wouldn't have a clue where to go. Oh no, I'd, I'd, I probably wouldn't either but er... er, the thing is, it's the he e, having to live here for... well say, at least three Yeah. years... it's really matter of getting hold of a map Oh yeah. a a and using it. I'm working my way... slowly but surely Ye you should sh how to get around. How we doing for time? Mm. Not bad. It's always busy. It's twenty five to ten. Ho oh! My God! Mm mm. Oh! It smells so nice. Well... [tut], okay. You'll have to take mum out for a nice Indian once she feels better. What's happening for James' birthday? I don't know at the moment. I haven't even thought about it. At least he doesn't want a party. You're safe No, oh with that one. Well the thing is, er, I, I can It's quite nice how sensible he is in a way. I, I think he's... drawing into his shell there as regards friends outside the family. I think he realizes that er... there's a heap lot of trouble out there Yeah. er er... he could become involved Yeah. with if he just let go Yeah. Cos he's quite good in a, but it's so easy to get wrapped up with, obviously... at that age it's very impressionable and very like... they, they must look so big to a lot of people that they go out Yes. drinking or whatever, and causing trouble. The thing is that, really, that they all they've done is show themselves up. Cos Mm. I, I was surprised when I heard of... sort of the things that had happened. Yeah. I'm sorry, but, you know, they're I'm impressed with the warnings. For phonings, warnings and phoning everybody up though. Yeah sure. Sure. I think that's re, cos that's He the only way Yeah. cos the majority Yes, you're right. haven't got a clue Yeah. No. what anybody does. Yeah I know. Ah yeah, I, I would think myself that... I was also, er rather sorry that the boy doing had just shown how silly they Silly. are. Even in somebody else's house you Yeah. just show respect. Oh, yes. I mean, no matter what you're doing yo, or where you are you just show respect for other Yeah. people's property or And the other thing is what, I just wonder what's gonna happen on this trip because erm, some of them are away aren't they? Mm. I hope the master I think the teachers are gonna have to be there. Well, they'll be I think they're gonna have a tough time. [LAUGHTER]... Thank you.
[speaker002:] Thank you. Chicken and prawn.
[Catherine:] Thank you.
[speaker002:] korma.
[Catherine:] Have two more Cokes I should think. Yeah, two more, do you want another Diet Coke? Yeah.
[speaker002:] Right.
[Catherine:] Can I have a... another two Diet Cokes please? Thank you. I think the teachers... co, but I think the teachers realize what they are like. I think they're just gonna have to be really, really strict with them. Well, Well they would be o, they're representing too many people for them to misbehave. Well I,. I, I hope, in fact, that i, if one does th It's no ignoring it yeah, well the till it thing is, if one does in fact, they, they'd, they'd kick him off in fact and straight back Yeah. to the U K. But it's such shame cos it's, I mean it's such a chance of a lifetime I just wish the trouble Mm. would stop. I think you Cos I don't think, er no, I don't thi, there didn't seem to be any hassles with William's lot. No, well... but er... it, it, it's... it just strikes me as being... a very, very immature when you're in another person's house Yeah. Lovely thanks. Thanks. Another person's house and you really just start wrecking the place systematically. Yeah. It's sick! You can turn them off. Well it's very jazzy in the surrounding. Oh yes. I think I'll have those in the bedroom window. Did you put my red light up yet? I was telling Adrian that, you were putting a red light up in my bedroom that I... [LAUGHTER] as long as your brother kept coming home with all his friends []. And then Martin turned up, and then you turned up and my dad's like... I'm sorry, what's going on? Yes.... That's it. Come on mate, I'm starving! No, no... advances on his, on his salary soon. It reminds me a bit of, d'ya remember that place we stayed in Brussels? Like und, that was underneath? D'ya remember that res, you know when we went to Brussels... and stayed above the... sort of Indian restaurant? Oh yes! Yes I do. Thanks very much. Yes that was a little bit out. But, ah yes, I remember. Yes. Yeah. Cor! You have a long memory. Certainly have. It's there somewhere. Do you remember it? Yes. That's erm, that's quite a while ago actually. Well yes, a couple of years ago.... It was when James went to... Russia. Oh! That was it. Er near, near er Skiptia Oh yeah, that's why he wasn't there. near Skiptov Oh that was it. Robert was in, at, at, University. Yeah. Oh that was it. She must have been away so we took flight. Yeah. That was good actually. It was quite nice. Except of course, I er, I, I couldn't read my road map there in, in Brussels. My goodness me! [LAUGHTER]... Was a bit of a mare wasn't it? Ah! It was terrible. Because the thing had changed so ma, so dramatically from when I was across there, that was the first thing that stopped me. Yeah. And secondly, as regards where they were... the road maps didn't seem that... didn't coordinate that Yeah. well. Has he got a job? I do, I er, well I presume he's still working in fact, with this er... with the bank. Well I think the problem with, with what they have in Brussels now, they have so many underpasses in fact, and er, motorways that if you... you come off the wrong it's a nightmare trying to get back Mm. on the damn thing again. [LAUGHTER] Well I can't even find the M twenty five []! No. I was surprised it to,we well going... to this place yesterday... er, on the directions we were with Tammy, she was reading them out and we come off the M twenty Yeah. five on the M four, the M four we look for... er er... exit eight... is it eight? Yes it is. After that, we started in trouble. We went into... the village of... that's right, we went to, saw the signpost for Bray, they said, when you come al, along the road, erm... you'll find a signpost before the motorway, er, sign for the motorway on yo, to, to, to Bray. Oh yeah? Bang! We were on the motorway [LAUGHTER] where's this bloody sign! [LAUGHTER]... [LAUGHTER] So, we went along for, about five minutes, couldn't pick anything up... so we stopped and asked this, someone where Mo Monkey Island was. Oh you have to go back down there and turn er, left underneath, underneath the motorway. But, when we came back, yes, there's a sign there, but it didn't tell you the other side, you have to come [LAUGHTER] okay You have to lose your way, come back, yeah. That's it. So we... we, we turned down this road, through the village... and we couldn't find Monkey Island. [LAUGHTER] Oh! [LAUGHTER] Oh []! Oh alright. Fair enough. So we stopped again. I went across and... yes it's, you have to go back er a a a again, and when the road narrows, just after the, the, the narrow in the road, you take the first left. So, up we go... the road narrows... straight past the first left, there isn't a sign for Monkey Island at all. Mm. I said, what the bloody hell's happening here? So went in the car park, turned... back... took the first er er, er... well I did a right then Yeah. there it was, suddenly at the end of the road, Monkey Island. But... you know, everything else said it would be signposted, yes it's great. Well it would be, yeah. Ah! [LAUGHTER] Really great! And we weren't the only ones who said they lost out cos it er I'm not surprised. Terrible! Terrible! So what is it, a, an actual island? It's an actual island, yes, and you see And how bi, quite big, it must be quite big. Is it big? It's not that large, but it's,yo yo get a You just take it over for the... weekend? Well, we, we, we,mo most people there, there were nineteen of us, but there were a few other people there on, on the place itself, and what you have is er, a bridge from the mainland across to the island Yeah. the... th, the, the Thames in fact, must go underneath. It's quite a fast ride and it's quite high too Oh I see. because of the water. But this was a boat was saw s, over the... up the side of the mainland, in fact, which had been er... whether it had been tied up too tight in fact... I wo, now, now for leeway... and the thing had... just sunk. Oh. Oh blimey! Yeah th, the water level's just Really? just a, you know, way up above the... the main er thing, yeah. But, there's the... the main, er, hotel... that you book into and you come away from there... to the dining area and erm... and the reception Oh I see. Oh quite pleasant. Must cost them a fortune. Mm mm. D'ya get everything paid for? Everything paid for. Well... I gather everything's paid for, all, all the [LAUGHTER] all yo, if the clients had to pay for anything it would be for one newspaper and one telephone call home that was all. Erm Did they like your phone bill from erm Oh crikey! They won't be paying for that. Where was it? Oh bloody Geneva, er, Switzerland. That's it. [LAUGHTER] I couldn't think where you'd been to []. Oh. [LAUGHTER] No,i, it should be that. The worst of it in fact, er, as I say, Friday evening I didn't have a lot to drink... I was determined not to have a lot because I, I find the reaction It's not worth it... just for one week is it? and then Sa Saturday, well, I went, well this morning I went through some, I got up at half past six... I did some Why d'ya get up so early? You know just to... well ease myself in really. I, I, I woke up at half past six, I got a call Mental man! er, no not really. Really ju, just, it just, I, I got everything ready, I was out. I had breakfast at seven... sent up, up to the room, ah and then just... watched the, I, oh yeah, watched a bit of television news, put some music on the... television. Cos you can put the channel just to show the time... and Oh right. and one or two others. Oh that's right. Erm, and then, I, I got out the room about er... twenty to nine. Oh! I was one of the lucky ones because they were... having done that... the others in fact left it until later... and in fact they took, they, they called up for time. Ah oh. You know. You're not as dumb as you look are you? No, no. Well the thing is, I got caught once before in the other place when I went to... Manor of the Groves... where I tried to book out... erm... and found I was late for the first erm [tut] [tut], [tut] [tut]. first erm... meeting. Give your apologies as you walk in Well yes, and I thought well, you know, okay, I did it because I was wondering if You know these, these, V P's V P's, yeah. sits down and says. So this time I was determined not to erm, get caught. And it's paid off. It was a, a nice place. Nice and sunny. Ba, I had Yeah. lunch, we, we had a, er er, from half past twelve through till... till quarter to two... erm... and then went back inside. But you, you sat outside for the best part of... quarter of an hour, twenty minutes, cos it was so sunny. And it was a When the weather's nice it's just lovely, really nice Oh it's beautiful! Yes. It's just... and it's so, it's like it was raining the other day when we went to go out... and just could not be bothered. It was really Mm. pelting down. Oh it was when we were gonna go to the cinema and I phoned Marion and I said no, I really cannot be bothered, it's just pouring down with rain, had to Yeah. get the bus and I thought, oh er... so luckily Lisa sa, like they said, oh don't be silly we'll come and get you. So luckily, they like drove round and picked me up Oh I see. and just brought me back again, which is fine. Right. But, just when you've got no transport and it's Mm mm. pouring down with rain it's... it's just such an effort... to motivate yourself to get up to Oh God! Yeah. It's like when we had no wa, like heating... or water, it was such an effort to... get yourself up Yeah. to get ready to go out and the Yeah. just, cold showers and stuff are like Oh bloody hell! not on my list of like... pleasurable er No. things to do. Just like, no way! No I... I mean,we, I say, we sat out there and the peacocks are there... peahens. Oh yeah! Oh really? Mm mm. I see. I say, it i, it's nice, I mean, unless you... you really know about it... you have no idea at all. No. No idea. I suppose a lot of business might be done through word of mouth as well. Mm mm. If anything. The kind of thing you ought to do with... with mum is like, you could probably go down one Sunday and have a, have a, you know, have a lunch. It'll be Yeah. visit It's not that far is it? Well it took us, as I say, an hour and a quarter. Pick me up on the way. Ha, ha, ha! [LAUGHTER]... Joke! I see, so we go round the M [LAUGHTER] twenty five, up to the M four [LAUGHTER] yes! Yes. Any minor detour. Any minor detour. There'll be convenient roadworks at Twickenham. I see.... Well I got one or two postcards of the place, you know, the, I got er Yeah. a description of the place. It's er, only got really a hotel, Monkey Island, that's all. Oh oh! So Very good. This is lunch... Monday, oh it's Monday to Well you got the number anyway. Well, yeah. We'll have to make a booking. Right. Lovely, thanks. Er er... now then Food! here we go. This is hot is it? That's a bit, yeah. Don't touch them. No, this? Yeah. It is hot. Put your hand on and see if it's sticks on like... burning flesh. [LAUGHTER] No, I don't I don't know. No this is a wee bit hot. Oh yeah.
[speaker002:] Mushroom rice.
[Catherine:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] And pilau rice.
[Catherine:] Okay. Fine, thanks. Lovely, thanks. The paratha Mm. Lovely. we can share it. Yes. Certainly.
[speaker002:] Chicken korma.
[Catherine:] Yep. Lovely, thanks.... Should have thought about it and got a different sort of erm... [tut]... temperature thing in instead of two kormas. Oh well not to worry. Well okay, not to worry. What korma's that?
[speaker002:] King prawn.
[Catherine:] Oh. Lovely. Thanks very much.
[speaker002:] Enjoy your meal.
[Catherine:] Thanks very Thank you. much.
[speaker002:] Thank you.
[Catherine:] Right. Alright. I'll just do half of this and then eat it.... Actually I was gonna have that, that bit. Save it. Yeah. Cos,.... Yeah, that's boiling hot. Help yourself. Ooh it's lovely! No, I, the thing is erm... I'm not a very hot curry man so I No. just sort of this is mild. Nice bit of bread..... Oh no. That's nice actually. Is it? Bon appetit. Mm mm! It smells, can you smell on the food, it's lovely. Mm. [break in recording] Weren't, although erm... I was... told that my father died of that so that er, I should... do you mind What, from smoking? cutting down? From smoking. Did he? Oh I didn't realize. I mean he died of, cancer, cancer of the lung, cancer of the lung, yes. Oh I didn't realize it was that. Oh I see. Mm. I didn't realize it was from smoking. And they said that er... yo, you're... you'll be war, the signs would... then, in fact, that er... there was a link up Mm. with that. And until that I didn't reali Oh I didn't realize he died cos I, I, I, carried on smoking for a number of years after that. Well you never think it's gonna happen to you as well, for, I mean, anything. You never ever think But the thing is, with a number of these older people that smoke I, I think... they probably had mainly better tobacco, er, there's probably too Yeah. many bloody chemicals added Yeah. now... that do have a, a, sort of... a lasting effect. Yeah. I mean the majority of them now it's not even worth them stopping, and I mean, most of them are like... in their eighties and not, er eighties and there's like... the amount of damage they've done Well, it, it, it, it's terrible it's by them stopping it's not gonna really do anything. it's the only, the, well they probably ta spend about... you know, half an hour of that trying to get up and stop the coughing Well,Ma, you know Mark who stayed with us? Oh yeah. His chest is so bad, it really... ma, it's a bad smoker's cough. Oh. Horrendous! And he, he... reckons he smokes way too much. Mm mm. But basically that's because of Well yes, the his family, you know family, yeah sure. Sure that's always outlet. sort of understand, yeah, something you've, you know, why he does it. Which is really sad. [LAUGHTER] He's a really sweet guy []. But erm Just thinks too much and smokes too much. Well... well I do, I heard it over the weekend in fact, that I can er, have er, another... BUPA medical to start with. Really? Er, yeah. At the place just not far... away from er, where I work. Oh that's quite good. So I, I mean, I've got to go in for that. Did you, what, do you have to pay for it? No, the bank pays. I see. Oh that's really good. Every, yeah, well one can have it every two year, er Oh. having said that, the last one I had was er... I had at le, I think at least four years ago. Yeah. So... yes, it was very nice indeed. That's lovely, thank you. Very nice. That's very enjoyable.
[speaker002:] I do apologize for the delay.
[Catherine:] That's alright. That's okay. You're a bit busy in here. That's okay. No problem. I see you've got quite a full house here. You came to us highly recommended anyway. Yeah. Thank you.
[speaker002:] Thank you.
[Catherine:] Ooh! Thanks. Thanks. It's quite nice to get checked out and then, to know that everything's alright or... thin, that anything that's wrong can Yeah. be stopped if you get it, if you stop it early Well enough. well I think What's that for? it has a, don't know what it is. I suppose they must put these in the... the oven I would Yeah. think, is er right? They have loads of them. Put them on most of the tables I think.... Probably save them loads of money as well. Oh well.
[speaker002:] Alright??
[Catherine:] No thanks. Doesn't it? Suppose What? they've got loads of money if they... they sort you out Oh sure. now? Yes. Yeah. That's right. So what do you want for sweet? I don't know. I might have a sweet actually. [LAUGHTER] Mm mm. Mm. I think it, you've got to have one for a change. Oh right. Okay. Oh that's lovely. I'll just settle for that.... They're steaming actually. Well you get them they're really, really hot.
[speaker002:] There you go.
[Catherine:] Lovely thanks. Right, which one?
[speaker002:] Okay?
[Catherine:] Thanks a lot. They're lovely! They're so nice. Phworgh! Oh Lordy, Lordy, Lordy! A novel way to use your oven isn't it? Cor! It's gorgeous! Mm. Mine's not gorgeous. That's gorgeous! ... Bit of a. [LAUGHTER] Round the ears. Round the ears. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER]... Mm, it'll clean up. Yeah. Yeah. That's all we came here for, you know. Well, yeah. [LAUGHTER] Cocktail. Cocktail. Really. No er, no it's No er lovely actually. It's all lovely. Yes. I'm really beaten now actually. Yeah. Well it's a It came at the right time. ... E each of them approved. Yeah. Am I still covered under BUPA? I think so. Erm, I, I wa, when I get into work on Monday I'll have to find out. I'm not ill or anything [LAUGHTER] so don't worry at the moment []. Er, but I, I, I, I think... erm... I think had it out up until Robert is baby. He, he's joined his own wo, he's joined his own. He joined his own, but I mean when he was at college. Yeah. I think he said he was covered actually. Well I don't know. Well I'll find out... so, at least then... er, if there is, you know, you're Yeah. aware of, of what Yeah. one can do. Well, it's, it's very, very handy actually. Oh sure. It's a very good thing That's right. if you've got... the money, sort of, the means to do it Well I think then do. the bank pays and it Yeah. comes out from... from Ye from my tax. Yeah. I do, I'd, you know, from that point of view, as regards er health... in this kind, but to... know that you're covered rather Yeah. than er Oh yeah. er ha, have problems... er er er, er when, when you Definitely require something. It's so much easier. Especially like my tonsils and stuff. That was like... the day I had them out was the day that my first N H S appointment would have been and it... it's like, you know Yeah, er, yeah. what's the point in waiting around? Well Those tables things are quite good aren't they? Those little hoover things they use? Oh yes. Over there. Mm. Very interesting. Well it's different innit? Mm. Much quicker though........ Not very big actually is it? Big restaurant. No. I would have thought it would have ex extended by the door No I don't think it does. but it doesn't. It's the Ah perhaps to the toilet.... There's loads er like, in the window... when we, like... newspaper articles and... things where it's been recommended and stuff. Ah I see. For, you know, they all, all put them up. Well d'ya know what I haven't to your place yet, the, fireplace. I haven't put the up. Oh yeah. Well you can do that before you go. I just hate lying, when you suddenly hear these things come down on, just have visions of like a... a po pouring out. Yeah I, I, I think what it is, it probably needs a clean. Definitely. And er... I was gonna, er er, look up the thing. Don't, it doesn't work apparently. Cos Jim who was in there last year said it didn't work when he was there. Oh oh. So I don't, I don't know if it's... attached or... anything, I don't know. I'm not sure. I haven't been gassed yet anyway, [LAUGHTER] so []... I don't think any gas or anything's coming out. No.... And you'll find your stuff's... staying there? No I kept a couple of newspapers but er Well I've, I, I bought a stack with me in fact It's. so, so, if I I know, I wondered why you brought the Gazette, I thought... strange! No, you can have a read of it if you like, but I'll scrunched the others up there, stuff them in there, stuff Bit of local news. Eh? Bit of local news. Bit of local news. Mm. Stuff. Oh. Seems like ages since I've been home actually. It's go Yeah. time's gone quickly really here, really quickly. But on Well the other hand i, it does seem, seem well you've been occupied here haven't you Yeah. really? Er, that's the thing. But then, it just seems like ages since I've been home. I think I've spoken to mum nearly every day this week actually. Yes. She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and... that she couldn't get any. I can't believe that we're not going. So gutted! I mean, he doesn't like them! No. He never liked the band. And he's going to see it. And I can't even get one ticket. Go and buy myself one. I'm gutted! I really am. You'd think he would either... apply for another one or, or let you have his. I've told him, if anybody's ill and his offers on there... I'll be there. [blowing nose] It's just such a shame because... th, the one day I knew they were playing it was James' birthday. Oh. And it seemed to silly to get on because obviously something was gonna happen. Yeah. And I didn't know they'd done any extra days. But they added them and nobody told me. Oh. I'm not happy! Are they that good? Definitely. Only band I want to see playing... in the world. How far are you up to? Oh I think I might have finished my tape actually. No, no, it's still going. Only got a little bit left. Oh really? [LAUGHTER] Yeah. For Sat, for, for next week... I've got to transcribe some of it... and do it. As part of my project. What is your, is your,ha ha, what happens then? Yo you listen to this then do you and type up? I, er er er Well yeah... I've got to try to transcribe it. Oh.
[speaker002:] Your desserts.
[Catherine:] Lovely thanks.
[speaker002:] Okay?
[Catherine:] Thanks. Mm! Well... have a... a cool thing. Actually Indian sweets, I don't fancy that at all. A Bombay Cassata... Lemon delight, phworgh! Orange Delight. That's sorbet. That looks interesting. Cointreau flavoured ice cream formed in a miniature replica of a Cointreau bottle. Erm... Mella Mentha... Creme de Menthe Italian liqueur ice cream. No. Yuk! Coconut supreme. Coconut ice cream. Yeah. I don't fancy coconut thank you. And mango, exotic mango sorbet filled into a half mango skin. Oh dear. You like mango don't you? Yes, I like mango, but I think I'm gonna go for one of these yo, had across here. I'm having er er, lemon. Yes, I, I was looking at that one just now. What's the other one down the bottom there? Orange. Orange Delight. Or a Bombay Cassata. [reading menu] Delicate blend of Can't read this blood thing here! mango, pistachio, and tutti-frutti flavoured ice cream sprinkled with cashew nuts []. No, I tell you what it is, it's the light, it's too dim. It's like our one in the bedroom. No, no, you're just blind mate. [sniff]... Old age. Old age. Thank you Catherine. That's a Bombay... Cassata, what's that then? I've just read it to you, you blooming Okay. banana! Yeah, what's it say? [reading menu] Combining a delicate blend of mango, pistachio and tutti-frutti flavoured ice cream sprinkled with cashew nuts []. Yeah I'm gonna have... Bombay Cassata... done. Yes. What's for you? I'm gonna have a, a Lemon Delight, I do believe. A Lemon Delight. Okay. I do love a lemon sorbet! Okay, one Bombay, one lemon please?
[speaker002:] [clears throat]
[Catherine:] At the double! Wo oh. That's a bit threatening there. [LAUGHTER] On you get! [LAUGHTER]... Mm mm. [humming] Right. And two elephants to take us home please. [LAUGHTER]... Indian, of course. Indian, of course, yeah. [LAUGHTER] Er, er right. No, could we have one we, Lemon Delight... and a Bombay Cassata please? Is it possible just to have a glass water? Lovely, thanks. You're splashing out there aren't you? Oh!... It's gotta be done. It's gotta be done, yes. You're doing it. I can see that. Wahey! The sky's the limit! I only order water when I'm not paying.... [LAUGHTER] How would you know... I'm not paying? [LAUGHTER]... [LAUGHTER] Cos I'm gonna run out of here []! I take it we're leaving pretty quickly? No I, I had a feeling that I was gonna get landed with the bill there. Dear oh dear! It's the reason you came to see me. I thought it was a matter of going Dutch. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER]... I dunno. That's only on dates, you're my father. Is, oh oh. You That doesn't count. Well let's see if I've got any money. My God! I think I paid it in. [LAUGHTER]... Makes me laugh! What a joker, eh? Mm mm. But those tender young hands will be... plunged in those dishes yet. I'm used to it. I do the dishes every day. Quite a dab hand at the washing up at the moment. Yeah. Yeah. Got a lot less at home than erm I'm not doing, I'm not doing it, I've piled it all up and left it. Yeah. Well a cup of whatsername stuff I poured down the sink upstairs rather than get it kicked over because if they come back in a silly state then they'll knock it all over... books. Sure. Oh So don't worry about that. That'll be their books... upstairs. Ah but it's silly because the thing is,th the they're, well the,th those,th those two rooms look as if a bloody tip has hit it! Oh yeah. Well that was the room as well that... we had the leak from so then we had the neighbour up there. There's a massive erm... I don't even know what you call it, of dope... like Oh yes. this, er in there... because I, I hid that because I mean, I don't know er like... if anybody, I mean I only know what it was cos somebody told me Yeah sure. like if anybody else saw it it just looks like a piece of dirt. And it was, honestly, it was such a mess and Angie and I were like, oh this isn't our room. Oh this isn't our room. We had to like tell her about five times so they knew it wasn't our room as we like took this guy in... it was like... books, everything was, there was so much crap on the floor, we had to get through to get to the radiator... so that our next door neighbour could try and like stop it from leaking. Oh dear! So embarrassed in case they thought it was us, and you know like, really embarrassed. I saw him the other day and he said ah yo, have you, not leaking yet is it [LAUGHTER] from that radiator []? He was really friendly actually, he got him out, and it was quite, sort of good to help us with it, you know, I just didn't have a clue. Especially when you have like, we had boiling water pouring out of there. You know, like trying to stop it with our finger Yeah, sure, yeah. and it was ju, it was burning our finger Yo, yes sure. And squirting And they the yeah, they had like... like three towels. It's only, it's only a little thing isn't it, in fact, with the thread on? Yeah, that's what fell out. Yeah. I mean, I dunno, obviously it hadn't been done, or maybe Angie undid it too much or whatever. Undid it too much, yeah sure. Yes you'd have to be And then just it was, it was literally spurting out Yeah. and it, we thought it would stop, but obviously, the water's No, no, no. been pumped through Pumping through, yeah. And course it's got, pushing it So we still had all this boiling water Yeah. and we didn't... think, and sort of, then we realized that had to sort of like turn it off and that might help a bit, but... boiling water, we're trying to stop it with our finger. And of course the pressure of the, the heat was just like killing us. Mm mm. Soaking wet towels everywhere, water spurting on the wall, and like everywhere Oh God! Yeah. And you got, in the end we just laughed. And it, it came through to you? It came through yours? Yeah. Because, I suddenly, oh that was even funnier because I was... I suddenly went... Angie I think we've got a leak, and it was like all on the, all in my windowsill... and sort of like came down and then, luckily, she said... she only realized because of what I did last year, leaving my sink on, that it goes through the floor, otherwise, none of what, we wouldn't have realized. So, then she said, oh right, I'll get on your desk just to check that it's alright, so she got, took my work essays off, and she got on my desk... and then I said, oh I'll help you down, so she sat on my desk to get off... and of course it's not attached Oh! No! so she leant forward and whole thing went flying forward. Angie went flying off, my pens went everywhere! Oh God! And we just lay on the floor laughing because it was just getting from bad to worse. What happened to your word processor? It was fine because I'd moved it, luckily, I'd Oh I see. And then about erm... from about an hour, about half an hour later after we'd sat down we're just laughing our heads off because the gi, they'd gone down the pub and we said no, we'll have a quiet night in. And then about half an hour later Mark turned up completely out of his face! Oh no! Cut leg cos he'd kicked a car and his leg was all bleeding so he had to Oh! like try and mend that. Then he went to go to the loo and nearly did a complete backward flip down the stairs. Oh God! And then he went into the bathroom... locked the door... and it was just silent. And, like, we left him there for about five minutes and we just didn't hear a thing Yeah. cos we were wo, we all got really worried, we're like, Mark.
[speaker002:] Mella Mentha? Bombay Cassata?
[Catherine:] Thank you. Thank you. I wanted a Lemon Delight.
[speaker002:] You Lemon Delight?
[Catherine:] Yeah. Mm. Sorry. Thanks. Didn't think that looked like a Lemon Delight. And erm... Delicious! Oh! Wanna take this stuff as a souvenir? Well I'll take the umbrella, yeah. Oh. Great! Tuck in. Start. No that's alright. It won't get cold. So of course, it was deadly silent in there for like erm... oh it won't get cold! [LAUGHTER]... I've just heard what you said. Oh dear. I'm on the ball tonight. Someone is slowing up. [LAUGHTER]... It's getting late. So, like we all, we're all set to barge the door down. We're banging on the door going Mark, are you alright? And there was no answer. So we thought I, so we said look, we're gonna have to break it down. Course we like, started banging the door and all of a sudden we heard this really like... [mimics laugh], laugh, you know Mark Oh God! having a laugh on our behalf. So he came out and [LAUGHTER] we really slapped him hard []! We thought that was Oh God! really out of order. But, and then he, he's like, we left him on the sofa and said oh Mark we'll be back in a minute, like, turned all the lights off hoping he'll like pass out... you could just hear him like laughing to himself for another like twenty minutes and we're Oh God! in the kitchen going, we just wanted him to pass out. And then luckily, it suddenly went really quiet and... he obviously wore himself out and like... was having a sleep. And we're just like, oh God! And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere. Oh no! Oh dear. And then I, I was coming back from lectures at, as he was like leaving our house and he looked a really [LAUGHTER] sorry [] state. He'd put this massive like, plaster on his leg and he was going... oh I'm a nancy boy cos I've got a plaster on. So we wrote nancy boy all up his leg [LAUGHTER] on this plaster []. And he walking round with these shorts on from last night, and his like, dirty T shirt and this big plaster with nancy boy written on it... trying to get home. Has he found a place now then or is he Yeah, he's gonna be in Isleworth. Which is quite a way out actually. It's What's on the way to and he's gotta, he's gotta come into here has he, every day? Yeah. Bloody hell!
[speaker002:] You alright?
[Catherine:] Yes. Yeah. I'm just waiting for a Lemon Delight. So, yeah... it's erm... I think he's living with... Marion told him about the house, it's one of the girls who was in English last year with her, Maureen, he's living with her and another girl, and another boy. Oh I see. He seems to be fine so, it seems to be working out well. Too, too long a journey to get drunk every, each night won't you? Oh eh? Oh he does it anyway. I think he'll just crash at our house. He knows he's Yeah. he's more than welcome to crash at ours. I mean, it's quite, it's about... yeah, I don't know, he said it's... about a forty minute walk or something. Or... a ten, fifteen minute cycle ride. Oh yes. Our cycle ride's just about long enough. And he's, he, he he doesn't It's get drive? the worst bit is... Lincoln Avenue and Meadway, once you get to Meadway... it's sort of like... you know, it's like Yeah, sure. Yes. that is, well that is, and that's like the longest, even Mm. like the longest bit, the walk into college seems to be, that bit. Yeah. Cos the rest of it is just basically straight across... basically you're just cutting across. Oh I see. Well yo... well basically all the ma, there's like three or four main roads and we just cut straight across it like it. Mm mm. And everywhere, like at Strawberry Hill Station and college. And that's... you know, the worst bit seems to be Lincoln Avenue, just seems to go on forever! Yeah. Luckily, we're no further down, I think we'd die! There's quite a stretch though there. Yeah. You can ca, and it carries on for miles around as well doesn't it? Joining on the motorway bit. Mm. Made it for me specially. Yeah. Quite nice. Is it? It's beautiful.... Mm. Bombay so,si, er er up there will be out now. [LAUGHTER]... It's quite nice thought because it, you're getting exercise as well and, and you've got to do it to get into Mm. college so yo, you know,yo... whereas at home if you've got the home i, it's easier to get, you know, to get in a car. Oh sure. The weather's a bit grotty or... you know, or you're not feeling too good, it's easier... to get a car, you know, to get a lift in with someone.... I don't mind cycling. What they've done they've put this onto a warm plate, that's why it's melting so much. Oh, oh ah! Everything's kept in ovens round here.... In these little... Baby Belling type ones.... I wonder how much money they make? They do pretty well. Oh yes.... Right.
[speaker002:] Sorry about that.
[Catherine:] That's alright. Lovely, thanks very much.
[speaker002:] Okay. Thank you.
[Catherine:] , I got a brolly as well. Mm mm. Take that off. Go on break it. Go on. No, no, no. I shan't break it. There you Oh well are. you win it. No, I'll have to give it to you. Cheers honey. Er... Mm! Gorgeous! Is it? Mm. Want a bit? No I don't really like... not really into those sort of flavours. You can have my cherry though. Mm. What is it, pistachio... I might have a bit of pistachio actually.... Nice actually. It's nice and light. Beautiful!... So what time do you expect your... friends home this evening? Don't know. If they've gone to the see this, to the see, Goats don't Shave... then I doubt they'll be back till a, about midnight, one o'clock, if they get the train back... if not, tomorrow morning or something. Mm. Well they're altogether so I suppose Mm. in that way... they're relatively safe. So don't sit up worrying about them. But erm... they're bloody daft if they did what they did last time anyway! Oh yes. Cos I was gonna go with them and then a, just would have costed like, quite a bit it's about seven pounds to get in plus your stuff, like,wai, transport there and transport back. Blimey! Plus, you'll er, you'll have a, like a couple of drinks there, even if it's Cokes or anything, but your... you know, it'll still be a long night. Yeah. But apparently, it's meant to be really good there. Really good erm... like Irish, sort of pub. Mm. Pub. But I would, I will go there sometime. But I.... Lovely. Mm. Is yours alright? Very nice. Want a bit? Oh that's nice. Something cold and refreshing actually. Mm. Cos next, well the week after the reading week... we've got, we do the first visit to our schools that we're doing our T P in. Oh oh! Will your transport be laid on or I don't know what, well the... I mean it's all paid for so we'd either... depending how many people are going... away or whatever Yeah. then erm... there What's might be a coach. If not, apparently, they've worked out... how everyone will actually go to school. So, you'll see. So I'll just see. But we'll be told beforehand, or I'll find out. Cos also, I don't mind, mind going on public transport as long as I know how to get there. Yeah. Yeah. If I'm told to get the... whatever bus. Yeah. Cos I, otherwise I'll be no good at [LAUGHTER] working it out for myself []. Mm. Wouldn't have a clue.... But I think, I, I think I'd get a train straight through but... I don't really know. How often do you that then? Well... the train. Cos a few people are further out than me so... cos Angie's just up the road in Hamworth. Which is like... just a se, it's about... twenty minutes walk from our houses I think. Oh. So it's fine.... Cos loads of us are gonna be getting back into like evenings when you're really tired. Cos what's, well what's quite good is... you do a week and then we've got, it's our half term... so we've got a week off. Mm. And then we do another four weeks. Oh. I think the first week is just sort of basically erm... we share with the teacher and... only do, say, a couple of lessons a we, couple of lessons a day Sure. and maybe like read to them at the end of the day or whatever. The, I think, well then after half term then it's more... us, we're the teacher and we sort of take it after Oh I see. half term. And what sort of age? I'm with erm... nine and ten years olds. Mm. Year five. Yeah. I think so. Oh yeah. I know, but I've never ever taught that age group before. Well thump them one will you? [LAUGHTER] Every time they get cocky, thump them! Yeah. I've only taught erm... seven and eight year olds.... So it'll be quite an experience. Mhm. It's gonna be so exhausting though.... You get, we get assessed on it as well. Oh well. You fail those things and you're out basically. Is there a, is there, is that a fact? So you really have to have a... sort of strong character and in you go. And so Yeah. Basically lesson pattern stuff. Cos when we go in... after winter break that's when we'll find out... er what topics they're doing... so we can plan our lessons and Oh I see. fit in with whatever, like their curriculum. Well if you want anything... er er photocopied or put together let me know won't you?... Cos I can always... sort of Yeah. nip down of a... a weekend, collect it and then Yeah. erm... bring it back to you. [clears throat]... You know, if you need, it's a sort of trip of a... an evening. Yeah. Oh cheers. Well you're nearer than Robert was, yes. Yeah. Cos it's not too bad. It's really handy. I, yeah, I don't mind two hours on the motorway, it's, it's, it's nothing at all. It's a... you do a two and half hour stretch there and then a two and a half hours stretch back it's a Yeah. rather heavy going. Well it's so handy though. It's really like, like a big plus side to it. Mm. I mean, especially if James is gonna go in London as well.... Just so much easier to get... just to know that... if ever like... you know, eight or nine o'clock one night for whatever reason I wanted to come home I could be there like myself, in an hour. Oh sure. Yeah. Or people could be up within Yeah. an hour to see me.... Well just, in another way, it's more of an effort or whatever... to get people up. Most people that I know have got cars. Yes. Like Martin, and he's got no excuse for popping up.... Well, I suppose er, he said he'd come down this time, so Mm. now he was at Richmond. And I phoned his house and he didn't phone back. Oh my God! He was down the pub. Beast! Dear oh dear! And he doesn't even drink!... Him and Stuart go down, they have their half, half a Coke and, cos they know the landlord... where we did our er Oh yeah. clay pigeon shooting. In, he loves it. Just goes there, chats to the landlord and... comes back... burning up down the country lanes as he goes.