[speaker001:] If you're not doing it like that and you're in a conversation or atmosphere in the room, when I find it, this little gadget is wonderful, this will pick up for a long way, this will pick up the dogs next door, if there was no other noise in this room.
[Wendy:] Mm
[speaker001:] This is a little mike stand okay and it
[Wendy:] Mhm
[speaker001:] sit like that and to attach it all you do is swing it round vertically, plonk it on, I've done that wrong
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]...
[speaker001:] oh, well it goes like that
[Wendy:] That's right
[speaker001:] and it consists I mean you've got probably what a yard maybe
[Wendy:] Mhm
[speaker001:] I would think possibly up there, if you two are sitting here
[Wendy:] Mm
[speaker001:] then it would make sense if you're gonna continue doing that
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] Yeah
[speaker001:] to have it somewhere like that yeah I mean to be honest it's just a case of one of you, it does go that way, I knew I was right the first time, of one of you just remembering
[Wendy:] Yeah
[speaker001:] to turn the tapes over
[Wendy:] Yeah, it'll probably be me
[speaker001:] and, and also then
[Bev:] I'm sure it will
[speaker001:] and al, also then the batteries, every third tape
[Wendy:] Yeah
[speaker001:] because they do use a lot of juice up
[Wendy:] Mm
[speaker001:] okay
[Bev:] Mm
[speaker001:] so that's that, that's all of that, thank you very much
[Wendy:] No, no problem
[speaker001:] and I'll see you next week
[Wendy:] Aha
[speaker001:] at erm four-ish about four
[Wendy:] Yeah, well if that's alright, only as being that's the, what I call the end of month, like I've got to pay all of the bills and they must get it until the next, the end of the month
[speaker001:] Yeah, well fair enough
[Wendy:] the whole lot
[speaker001:] fair enough, you don't need your headphones
[Wendy:] Mm, no
[speaker001:] so I'll take those back with me, I've got another pair in here
[Wendy:] Mhm
[speaker001:] erm, oh I'm, and that's it, that's great
[Wendy:] alright
[speaker001:] so, don't worry about bad language, I mean any sort of dialect you know, just forget it's there
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] Mm
[speaker001:] One thing I think it does tell you in your guidelines, one is, if you do have friends round, out of courtesy you should maybe say so this is an experiment
[Wendy:] Say you've got a
[speaker001:] cos they go ooh for about three seconds or a couple of minutes and they'll forget about it
[Wendy:] Yeah, well I don't think we plan any at the moment do we?
[Bev:] No, no
[Wendy:] No no
[speaker001:] Right lovely
[Wendy:] Thank you
[speaker001:] thanks very much ladies I'll see you next week okay?
[Wendy:] Right we'll see you next week
[Bev:] Right
[Wendy:] Yeah
[speaker001:] Okay, you let me out
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah bye then
[speaker001:] Goodbye
[Wendy:] Is it on?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Well what shall we talk about, the weather?
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Did you want another cup of tea? And, what on earth is this film about?
[Bev:] Well I think he's sort of, he's out of a job ain't he?
[Wendy:] Well he was just now, yeah
[Bev:] and he wants a wife
[Wendy:] anyway I must get on my letter to June
[Bev:] oh, oh it's erm
[Wendy:] for it
[Bev:] oh leave it here
[Wendy:] it is
[Bev:] yeah
[Wendy:] Now she's gone, did she put my [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] Aha
[Wendy:] I don't want to lose that one
[Bev:] your sacred pen
[Wendy:] that is the best pen I have
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] so I'll leave all that there and then
[Bev:] Di can read through it when she gets back
[Wendy:] You'll have to read through all that
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and er, it's simpler than me doing it anyway in the...
[Bev:] Oh er the bloody thing's finished now...
[Wendy:] What your jumper?
[Bev:] Yeah...
[Wendy:] Well then tomorrow I must make a little list, see cos I want to finish that baby's jumper
[Bev:] Which one?
[Wendy:] to send to Malta
[Bev:] Oh yes
[Wendy:] and erm
[Bev:] you can always do some little motif yourself on it
[Wendy:] Yeah, it's a girl now we know what it is don't we? Er
[Bev:] perhaps a couple of little roses or something like that
[Wendy:] Yeah or go down and buy a couple of those little roses, which is much simpler
[Bev:] Well yeah
[Wendy:] innit? You know much nicer we really want it very, very pretty
[Bev:] but there again, but there again if they start cos kids do pull
[Wendy:] running, not very big er mat matinee jacket though is it really?
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] You know...
[Bev:] cos she's fed up with you that's why... I've lost this film now.
[Wendy:] I think it's rubbish anyway
[Bev:] Yeah, yeah... I probably think that they're having an affair I think
[Wendy:] I think so...
[Bev:] she looks old and haggard in this
[Wendy:] Mm, it's amazing what they can do though with make-up and
[Bev:] Well they can make her into an old, old lady
[Wendy:] just trust Fletcher, she's quite smart and nice ain't she?
[Bev:] Yeah...
[Wendy:] what?
[Bev:] Who's the maid
[Wendy:] Dunno
[speaker001:] ...
[Bev:] Oh where have I got to go tomorrow then?
[Wendy:] Oh I, I want to go to erm possibly the wool shop, erm square one and Abbey National, I think I can't think of anywhere else at the moment
[Bev:] Oh my not ready yet
[Wendy:] Did you go in there?
[Bev:] No, but it still went off
[Wendy:] No
[Bev:] be next week... why, he's not gone and chickened out?... I wonder if we're suppose to talk all the time?
[Wendy:] Dunno, well you can't talk all the time you'd have a sore throat wouldn't you? I mean it's, it's general I suppose I mean if it would be better to switch it on and off which you can do and er, you know, I mean we can't sit here continually talking
[Bev:] Well I know, I know
[Wendy:] I'd never get my letters written anyway... so if you want to switch it off, I'll get on with my letters and erm you do your knitting and I'll, what is the time? I've got to do the potatoes yet
[Bev:] So that's every fo, every second we think to say something, we've got to turn it on?
[Wendy:] Well
[Bev:] Is it?
[Wendy:] otherwise we leave it for an evening just have general, I mean if we can she wants us to do the whole twenty, she said she'd be delighted, there was Yorkshire Television on her car keys
[Bev:] I know I saw it
[Wendy:] Yeah I that
[Bev:] it don't mean a thing really, but
[Wendy:] It don't mean anything at all, but then nevertheless, I mean they always want somebody to do these sort of things it's all, all for a purpose I suppose
[Bev:] Oh well
[Wendy:] I don't er ta very much
[Bev:] it's all a survey's a survey innit?
[Wendy:] Surveys yeah, but I mean from your and my point of view we don't sit here talking all the time, but when your father gets in then there's talk...
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] er work and that
[speaker001:] ...
[Bev:] gosh she don't look too bad there
[Wendy:] No... Well if I get this letter done and then we'll... get the envelope, get the stuff for Malta, sort out what I'm gonna send
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] see what I'm gonna, well, see if I can get the little
[Bev:] The other little rain jacket tomorrow
[Wendy:] rain jacket for Annaleigh... get the jacket done, get that in for Ian and something in for Claire and then when you go down town... you can do it for me...
[Bev:] I thought we were going to town tomorrow?
[Wendy:] Yeah, but it won't be ready will it? Can't be ready cos the little jacket ain't erm
[Bev:] That's true, that's true
[Wendy:] for
[Bev:] We haven't got any ribbon anywhere have we?
[Wendy:] Well I might have I just don't know... I think I mean I used a load at, why, want white?
[Bev:] Well what was
[Wendy:] I used, I used yellow that I'd bought
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] but erm
[Bev:] What did you put the white in then?
[Wendy:] I don't know, I just don't know... anyway I mean it only needs a yard don't it? That they like all that
[Bev:] Yeah... I wonder if I can find another
[Wendy:] Well I should of bought some same time I would think, never mind I will go and get some now
[Bev:] Well done
[Wendy:] yes... no... not really, all that money, I mean in the end is it worth rescuing I say, I know it's sport and I know what about it, but, it's an awful lot of money though
[Bev:] ought to go back to amateur, proper amateur
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] Yeah, it's all become too, erm, professional
[Wendy:] high powered innit?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] It's not only that it's all money innit, that's why
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Yeah, I thought about that last night... try and be quieter
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]... oh dear, oh dear, just what will it be like when dad gets in? [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Oh interesting
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] I think
[Bev:] Oh no
[Wendy:] oh
[Bev:] Oh no
[Wendy:] It's not on... oh...
[Bev:] I wanted my programme
[Wendy:] I know that
[Bev:] Oh look, see what time's
[Wendy:] right...
[Bev:] Erm...
[Wendy:] I don't know what else I've got
[Bev:] where we've put the paper? Oh there it is... Catchword's not until five, five tonight
[Wendy:] Five, five? is there?
[Bev:] No not really
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] tomorrow then
[speaker001:] ...
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] It's the policeman you know
[Wendy:] Policeman, I thought it was a woman, yeah
[Bev:] No he was an ex-policeman
[Wendy:] Oh I see, I thought it was a policeman doing it today
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] oh... that's a innit?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] she'll probably be one of the cleverest people you'll ever meet
[Bev:] Yeah...
[Wendy:] What time does your father get in? It's about half five innit normally?
[Bev:] A bit earlier on
[Wendy:] Oh is it Friday?
[Bev:] earlier on a Friday yeah, well mind you he was early last week cos he had his hair cut, ha...
[Wendy:] yes... [LAUGHTER]... Freda all dressed in red, right well if I start
[Bev:] And her hair still looks
[Wendy:] I know it's horrible innit? I'm gonna start I don't know where he is tonight do you?
[Bev:] No he might be down the club
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] Oh, you know I said I saw Sharon today?
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] She goes down the Railway
[Wendy:] Who goes down the Railway?
[Bev:] Sharon she plays bingo on a Sunday night
[Wendy:] Oh crikey [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] she said is Jim still on the committee? I said yeah
[Wendy:] Now he is, yeah
[Bev:] he said, she said I thought that was his name, cos his name was up on the board I said oh yeah
[Wendy:] Mm, oh dear
[Bev:] roped in there, now, I said he's in there already
[Wendy:] Well it's alright as long as it doesn't get to be like I said it could, these are lovely stamps you know
[Bev:] I know...
[Wendy:] I've never had this one
[Bev:] R E I G N reign
[Wendy:] Oh I ain't seen it yet, ha, S C R U signet, S I G N E T, S I G N E T that's how you spell it signet, I'll start using these things
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Aha, I'll throw them away most of time, it's quite nice aren't they really?... There's Molly just come home Alan's got to be away you know
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] he's got to be wait, oh no... crusting... they you are look, there's plenty of -ing words
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] go on have a look darling...
[Bev:] I thought reign was good
[Wendy:] Mm... erm
[Bev:] I love those jackets she wears you know
[Wendy:] Well I shall go and on the big way now, she's preggy
[Bev:] Yes I know, but they do make it
[Wendy:] oh it's very smart I have to say that, I mean when you've got something like that you only need a skirt and a top
[Bev:] Yeah, but that top she had on before all you need is a black dre a black skirt and it's a suit then
[Wendy:] Yeah, absolutely, yeah...
[Bev:] wrist...
[Wendy:] S T R O... stow S T O W well that's no good, B E O... R O S T... R E S T O no for restore we want another E look
[Bev:] Yeah...
[Wendy:] Twerps
[Bev:] I've got five
[Wendy:] twerps
[Bev:] None of these words I don't think are
[Wendy:] Oh look at that I think we're anyway, certainly... [LAUGHTER] what is the date today?
[Bev:] Twenty first... sportier
[Wendy:] Sportier yeah well as you say I mean a lot of these words you wouldn't want chancing yourself, would you?
[Bev:] Well no, he's sportier than I am
[Wendy:] Yeah well I suppose so one of the, it must er... [LAUGHTER] ha, you want a U now
[Bev:] Oh nasty
[Wendy:] Oh R, Q, X, Q, X, Q, X, Q, X
[Bev:] Yeah, oh look at that, pulled all me stitches off
[Wendy:] Yeah afraid so
[Bev:] Ooh I've lost a stitch here
[Wendy:] S E X sex, fate, S H I [] [LAUGHTER] I won't see the other one G H...
[Bev:] I T sight S I G H T
[Wendy:] Yeah that's right... hats [LAUGHTER]... oh... what's that then, father's home
[Bev:] Little devil he's home early, what's that?
[Wendy:] It's early innit?
[Bev:] Done half a day... I suppose we'd better tell him that we're taping [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Bev:] Oh good it's only one part
[Wendy:] well I'm not doing those am I?
[Bev:] Why?
[Wendy:] Cos I can't be bothered that's why
[Bev:] Oh it's seventy five oh I don't like them... erm thirty five and... four...
[Wendy:] What's this half a day then?
[Michael:] Oh, ha, not late
[Wendy:] We just sat here just now and said that you'd be in about half past
[Michael:] Half past four?
[Wendy:] half past five, I can't remember
[Michael:] Half past five
[Wendy:] ah?
[Michael:] half past four, hair cut last week
[Wendy:] Yeah, that's what we said actually
[Bev:] Yeah, but half a day then.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] We're doing a survey
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Michael:] Doing a what?
[Wendy:] A survey, we've got a microphone going
[Bev:] You're on tape
[Michael:] Oh am I?
[Wendy:] Mm, you see my letters where you, where, did they come when you got here? Before you went? Connie and June
[Michael:] Eh, oh June was it?
[Wendy:] June yeah
[Michael:] Oh I thought it was Kate
[Wendy:] I thought it was Ann
[Michael:] if it was then I
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Michael:] then I put a to it
[Wendy:] No, erm, well cos you saw her didn't you?... Er Jack
[Michael:] Jack, yeah, yeah
[Wendy:] Jack down the pub and er
[Michael:] I said to her about that phone call didn't I?
[Wendy:] You did yeah
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] It was quite a long letter actually
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] she's hoping to go and have her knee done
[Michael:] That's right yeah, Jack did say that, but I forgot to tell you, yeah
[Wendy:] Well she'd been waiting because he's on full time again now
[Michael:] Yeah that's right
[Wendy:] You knew that?
[Michael:] Oh more than full time
[Wendy:] Oh is he?
[Michael:] Oh yeah, tapes?
[Wendy:] Only twenty
[Bev:] We've got to talk for twenty tapes
[Wendy:] Talk for twenty tapes and I get paid twenty five pounds
[Michael:] For what?
[Bev:] For her talking [LAUGHTER]
[Michael:] For using up the tapes, I'll take it tomorrow at Wembley
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER] Strange but
[Michael:] Where'd that come from then?
[Wendy:] Oh Yorkshire Television she had er on her key ring weren't it Bev?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Michael:] So it's just normal talking is it?
[Wendy:] well yeah, unless it's something you don't want them to hear
[Michael:] You start and stop it
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] she said that and she said she don't mind us swearing [LAUGHTER] she said I'll leave you fourteen, it actually says twenty tapes in the, bits of paper but she said if you could fill twenty I'd be over the moon did she say?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Anyway she'd knocked at the door and er, I said to her oh I don't have to buy anything and she said no, no and erm
[Michael:] They lend it?
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I think Mr has died
[Michael:] Oh
[Bev:] Funeral car
[Wendy:] well she said a couple of funeral cars
[Michael:] mm, mm
[Wendy:] And then er she looked over and well er it's gotta be him, it's not her and erm, she came
[Bev:] Well she was never, that, that well
[Wendy:] What Mrs?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Oh she's a I would of thought wouldn't you Mick? yeah, she's always buzzing about, but erm, no this lady came back
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] with the tapes and the recorder and she said I nearly knocked that door, you know and erm I said well
[Bev:] Well it's not doing much good you going out there talking
[Wendy:] Well you're still doing it... yeah she said don't worry about the
[Michael:] mm, mm...
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] I mean I wouldn't think of her sending the camera over
[Bev:] What else did I say? Give one to Mrs and one to Mrs
[Wendy:] Yeah...
[Bev:] I never got in till twelve again today
[Michael:] Er
[Bev:] mm
[Michael:] any good in it?
[Bev:] Well, they do their best for me, but it's embarrassing
[Wendy:] Ian coloured them all the way, the way in Malta and when you read the letter
[Bev:] Oh it's a funny letter
[Wendy:] Oh it is a funny letter mate, well it's a Connie letter Mick
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] of her, her bits and pieces
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] I'll read it to you, eh?
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER] No
[Wendy:] It's ever so funny
[Michael:] No, not with that
[Wendy:] Oh I'd forgotten about that, right I had to go back a couple of times didn't I Bev?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] To make sure that I was reading it to Bev right, but then you understand it's a Connie letter don't you? eh... what she needs is what we need for the summer weather Connie, my brother is
[Michael:] Who you wrote to Jim?
[Wendy:] No I've done Jim
[Michael:] Oh
[Wendy:] only I want to send this packet over now look with the baby coat and all that... well I won't be able to post it tomorrow cos it won't be ready...
[Bev:] Oh dear
[Wendy:] Oh you've been out nearly every day ain't you?
[Bev:] m...
[Wendy:] what? Well shut it off then
[Bev:] Oh
[Wendy:] alright then, he's reading
[Bev:] do what?
[Wendy:] You'll just have to keep on doing it that's all
[Bev:] Oh every time someone has a conversation
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] on and off
[Wendy:] You don't have to do it every time
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER] leave it on... N...
[Michael:] Nice little letters those aren't they?
[Wendy:] They are nice little letters, this one just as hard to understand
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] that's what Bev said I couldn't even think who Belle the dog was and dad had to remind me...
[Bev:] Erm... N, C, H, punch...
[speaker001:] ...
[Bev:] Er
[Wendy:] Oh they're coming out pretty good today aren't they
[Bev:] yeah... adore, adorned... I had it, ha, ha, ha...
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] I've never heard of it
[Bev:] No... oh, right... there's some writing behind
[Michael:] Oh yeah, ha...
[Bev:] L L I I L
[Wendy:] Oh lovely...
[Bev:] S... still
[Wendy:] No... We're on now okay?
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Well I've got to get through... right so you do the papers then and I can, only we do wanna go to square one and er we both need that sort of thing
[Bev:] Jogging trousers
[Wendy:] Well if they're that price I mean we'll er go into it won't we? It'll certainly do us at the moment in the winter won't it?
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] Otherwise I mean er, there is better ones there, but
[Bev:] Well it's more for swimming for us two
[Wendy:] Well it is and I mean they'll be simpler wouldn't they, than pulling up things like this... I mean if we're not gonna get out there, Rosemary says she gets out there about nine o'clock, don't she?
[Michael:] Oh yeah
[Wendy:] Well cos
[Bev:] they probably go for a drink
[Wendy:] I dunno, don't matter anyway, erm, but you see that one is half past seven to half past eight
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] so we don't need to go down that early Bev
[Bev:] Well we do for a swim... we're going to a spa
[Wendy:] Yeah, but so do they, and their official time is half past seven to half past eight innit?
[Michael:] Well phone them up and
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Michael:] then you'll know won't you?
[Bev:] You doing a swim because that costs more, but it's not just actual spa we've put down for though
[Wendy:] No... oh well we'll go and we'll see then, try it this week and next week and then see, see from there won't we?
[Bev:] I know
[Wendy:] But er... it's pretty chilly you know ain't it?
[Michael:] Yeah, well it's better than the, last two days easy
[Wendy:] Ah, yeah but it's, it's damp isn't it sort of
[Michael:] Chilly, it's bloody cold
[Wendy:] I know it was I went out, that's an enormous place over there you know
[Michael:] them innit?
[Wendy:] Yeah...
[Bev:] Power store are the ones to be there
[Wendy:] Power store?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Well that one over there look should be the W H Smith one you see
[Bev:] Oh so that is it?
[Wendy:] yeah well that's what I understood anyway, weren't it?
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Cos that's been shut for ages innit?
[Michael:] Mm
[Bev:] That weren't there very long really was it?
[Wendy:] No ultimate was in it wasn't it? With it, that was the electrical place...
[Michael:] Whoops, sorry
[Wendy:] What are you doing?
[Michael:] I was just
[Wendy:] Dreaming
[Michael:] I just looked down to see what the time was, I just looked up
[Wendy:] Oh
[Michael:] the trouble with this car is you can't come down
[Wendy:] you've got to slow it down
[Michael:] you can't come down through the gears
[Wendy:] No
[Michael:] you're either accelerating or you're, or you're braking [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Well don't do it again then
[Michael:] No... I just looked at the clock that was all it was...
[Bev:] Graham's got a sale on
[Wendy:] Who? Graham's, oh yeah
[Bev:] they can't do much of a business
[Wendy:] you wouldn't think so apart from their regulars that's all I can say
[Michael:] Who?
[Wendy:] Graham's them
[Michael:] up there, oh
[Wendy:] But, you know they've gotta
[Michael:] but I mean old what's name had a following up there didn't he?
[Wendy:] What erm? Yeah he did
[Michael:] whether it's the same sort of thing, and there were certain people
[Wendy:] Well, I mean you won't get
[Michael:] that wouldn't go anywhere else
[Wendy:] no, you won't get the erm passing type trade, I don't think
[Michael:] No
[Wendy:] I don't think you will, but er
[Michael:] No I don't think so, but
[Wendy:] you, you
[Michael:] as I say I'm certainly erm has his own
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Michael:] that wouldn't go anywhere else
[Wendy:] Yeah well I mean that's right, but I say, quite seriously the prices in these exclusive shops
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] today, I don't er
[Michael:] well certain amount of people buy that type of
[Wendy:] Of course they, do, course they do, well you won't get the passing trade where people want half a dozen shirts
[Michael:] No
[Wendy:] you know just, just fashion again, innit?
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] You won't get any of that
[Michael:] I don't know
[Wendy:] I think so, yeah...
[Bev:] You never phoned Aunty Lesley last night
[Wendy:] Mm I didn't can't I?
[Michael:] What's that for?
[Wendy:] Well just to see how she is, I mean we haven't been down there
[Michael:] Oh
[Wendy:] and er, you know it's just a contact really isn't it?... I said I'd keep contact and
[Michael:] Mm...
[Wendy:] I mean she could come up to us, but she always seems to be rushing about, here, there and everywhere don't she?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Michael:] Don't get out yet
[Wendy:] No, alright then, I can't anyway, oh
[Michael:] Oh well last I got out I found that I was about a foot too far forward out into the
[Wendy:] Oh
[Michael:] out over there look
[Wendy:] right we'll get back here then and, not having to go to the post office now will be a help cos that really is the other end of town innit?... It is cold that innit?... Oh, I do need some trousers I can't bloody, these are all coming apart anyway
[Bev:] Oh [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] all round the waist
[Bev:] Oh yes the waist band
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] sort of on its own
[Wendy:] and I mean really and honestly that not worth bothering to sew them up, they'll do for work, but that's all
[Bev:] Oh
[Wendy:] It's a chilly wind you know, I hope we've got a better bus tonight
[Bev:] Why?
[Wendy:] well I mean that one was just a bad, a bad effort
[Bev:] It was just unfortunate
[Wendy:] Yeah, I mean he did say, he didn't really oh, realise the heater was gone
[Bev:] That's rubbish that
[Wendy:] Well I thought it was, but who knows... you never know which way they're going here
[Bev:] No, well you watch the indicator
[Wendy:] Yeah, but, sometimes people don't use them do they?... Ah? I did tell him it was
[Bev:] I know
[Wendy:] what's name didn't I? I didn't bring my gloves
[Bev:] Well done
[Wendy:] cos I had a cigarette in one pocket and this thing in the other you see
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] This is a pretty little shop innit?
[Bev:] Yeah...
[Wendy:] Oh, oh well it could of been worse I suppose, it's Saturday again look... oh my hands are cold... mm
[Bev:] At least they've got all
[Wendy:] yeah, mm yeah that's necessary innit on a Saturday? That doesn't matter, whatever...
[speaker001:] Right thanks a lot me dear for your trouble yeah ta ta
[Wendy:] Have you got another pen?
[speaker001:] Yeah, sorry, sorry
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] That's alright don't worry... Hiya Marge
[speaker001:] Hello, said you'd be down town this morning
[Wendy:] that was a marathon weren't it Bev?
[Bev:] Cor it was
[Wendy:] Is it sorted?
[Bev:] No book went in and where the woman put the figures in last week that was the end of it, it was in there to pick up, but it was still thirty quid out, so Pam started doing it
[speaker001:] So I said to
[Wendy:] well it's Pat, she's ever so nice
[speaker001:] Well Pat's doing it for me, well somebody's doing it for me, so
[Wendy:] Yeah, well she's really good I mean
[speaker001:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I was in front of Bev when I went in there and I said to her
[speaker001:] she's gonna sort it
[Wendy:] go to Pat because some
[speaker001:] Yeah
[Bev:] My book's terrible now
[Wendy:] of them are such dickheads
[speaker001:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I mean there's one in there particularly that messed up both of us
[speaker001:] Ah?
[Wendy:] there's one of them that messed up both of us I don't deal with the bank the only thing I got it now
[speaker001:] We do, we do the bank not the building, the only place where yeah
[Wendy:] Yeah, no all I do is two insurances in the Midland now, I had so much hassle
[speaker001:] Yeah
[Wendy:] that er I, two insurances I take the money in every month
[speaker001:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and there's about what did I put it? Oh I had to put that postal order in there, there's about fifty quid in there
[speaker001:] just to keep the thing ticking over, yeah
[Wendy:] and, and I puts the insurance money every month and they take it out, I don't touch the blasted thing now
[speaker001:] Well I done my, we bank Barclays when I opened mine, they're great over there
[Wendy:] Oh yeah, yeah
[speaker001:] but er it's all this every time I go in the
[Wendy:] you've got trouble
[speaker001:] I'm waiting for somebody [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] We've got to go in here, yeah
[speaker001:] I see you then
[Wendy:] see you then, ta ta, oh they've still got them... oh, god that was freezing
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] What?
[Bev:] don't it?
[Wendy:] What do you mean? That's the ones innit? There
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] three to four
[Bev:] that's fine four
[Wendy:] That's fine innit, let's make sure it's alright, it's lovely innit?
[Bev:] Sweet innit?
[Wendy:] It's nice to have two different ones Bev because er
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I'll just have a look at these shirts up here... no, they're nice Bev
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] they're nice aren't they? Oh we'll come down another day and look, that's nice innit?
[Bev:] A bit short in the body
[Wendy:] Oh is it?
[Bev:] It looks it don't it?
[Wendy:] Now look at the beautiful colours though
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Alright, I'll go and pay for this...
[Bev:] They're quite smart mum
[Wendy:] What's that? yeah, oh they're nice thanks very much, oh
[speaker001:] One ninety nine love please...
[Wendy:] thank you, oh, that wind was bitter in the end
[Bev:] Yeah
[speaker001:] Thank you
[Wendy:] Thanks very much, ta go and look over the shoes Bev and see if there's, what sevens there are would you
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] please? Thanks a lot
[speaker001:] Thank you very much
[Wendy:] Ta... no I don't like them, cos I've got a high instep look, here I'll, I'll, it'll cut me you see
[Bev:] Oh
[Wendy:] Yeah, bloody hell they haven't half sold some ain't they?
[Bev:] Seven
[Wendy:] Yeah, but they
[Bev:] Luminous aren't they?
[Wendy:] Very luminous, threes and fours in the black, there's the plimsolls... fours, fours, they're not are they? Nothing there
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] Bo I don't want those again do I, what are those fours? No I, I really, I've gotta be very careful, that'll be better cos it's got the elastic, right we'd better get on then hadn't we?... No it don't matter I got this, this is what I wanted...
[Bev:] We want some for a little jacket mum
[Wendy:] Yeah and we want to go to Square One don't we?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Well if we go to Square One now... oh I'm glad you saw that
[Bev:] There's some nice stuff in there now
[Wendy:] What here?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Oh... oh... is that for the red?... Oh we won't faff about in here we'll just
[Bev:] No just look
[Wendy:] Well if they've gone, they're gone aren't they?...
[Bev:] Oh they look quite nice
[Wendy:] Five ninety nine
[Bev:] Oh
[Wendy:] Oh
[Bev:] one ninety nine
[Wendy:] oh that's the other one's innit?... Oh they're nice...
[Bev:] What you want?
[Wendy:] very nice... seventeen ninety nine
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] small to medium here, five ninety nine, I'll have a look at the top and see if there's anything else, what are those?...
[Bev:] Two ninety nine, don't have to be black
[Wendy:] Well I'd prefer black
[Bev:] What are these?
[Wendy:] Oh what are those?... That erm, that's them innit? Have they got a straight bot
[Bev:] Two ninety nine
[Wendy:] Oh I wonder what they'll be like, I don't want them as tight as those others, yeah but it's the legs and that, those others of mine, when I got them back they were really very ti tight
[Bev:] Oh shouldn't be
[Wendy:] Well I'll go and try a pair of those, small, medium, then you've got a large I'd expect, well I'll take a large as well, right...
[Bev:] These are large
[Wendy:] Oh let's try that one then...
[Bev:] Can't even do it
[Wendy:] Erm I've got two can I try them on?
[speaker001:] Yes, just go through
[Wendy:] Right, thanks, oops Yeah
[Bev:] If I try a pair of yours on at home
[Wendy:] Alright then
[Bev:] and see whether they fit
[Wendy:] They're nice stuff this, much nicer than the other ones, it's all in a mess, sorry, I'll have
[Bev:] Small, medium
[Wendy:] small, medium, I'm sure that's what I had, no they feel nice though, I didn't like the feel of the other ones, I expect there's enough money in there, I've got me plimsolls to put on yes they're hard those... oh I didn't know how to do it, no wonder... that'll, that'll be fine first thing won't it?
[Bev:] Yeah...
[Wendy:] These socks are no good for these
[Bev:] Well you shouldn't of put them on
[Wendy:] I was cold...
[Bev:] Oh I like that one
[Wendy:] Sorry?
[Bev:] The longer one
[Wendy:] Longer what dear?
[Bev:] ladies
[Wendy:] oh that's a good one, yeah, sorry, no they're good ain't they? Right hang on there Bev, money... right that was softer than other ones, I'll come in another day and have a good root round
[speaker001:] Yeah
[Wendy:] have these... great right, super thanks very much, bye, oh they're lovely stuff, what she on about the kiddie?
[Bev:] Oh it started off with
[speaker001:] ...
[Bev:] she said in Germany, I said no I said I can walk into them any moment
[Wendy:] Ha
[Bev:] he said
[Wendy:] Over at Basingstoke and I had a look in the shoe shops, and that, they would be very handy for me erm lace up though
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] but these were are all crumped and I don't want clumsy ones... cos you feel as though you've got Doctor Marten's or something on you know
[Bev:] But they're not comfortable after a while
[Wendy:] and they look it though, they look it, that you know, they really do
[Bev:] All fuddy duddy
[Wendy:] Yeah, yeah and they're sort of grey, I'm not sure if she got them in a charity, I'm certainly sure it wasn't bought in a shoe shop, cos she goes round every charity, she won't go in, you know I told you about that, oh I don't know what it is, she said it's loaded out with stuff and we'll have to have a walk round there, erm, round by what was Kennedy's, erm
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] by the bingo hall
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] that was a fruit shop she said it's loaded out as a cheap shop she said and erm, she won't go in there because bloke's stood in there, she said she don't mind going in and paying fifty, because, well they don't do that do they?
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] you know, so erm
[Bev:] Yeah, but he's only watching the
[Wendy:] well he's probably got nowhere else to go, I mean it's
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] just aged off innit, there must be an out place, but you wouldn't er
[Bev:] I wouldn't leave them
[Wendy:] No you wouldn't leave it, but she said it's a cheap shop so, but she said there's loads
[Bev:] but I've got to go to job spot one time
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] so when we walk round
[Wendy:] Yeah, yeah that's right, but I mean just go and have a look, and I actually said to her well you'd be better with somebody else, you know, not going in there on your own
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and erm, you know, she, she obviously needs somebody else with her to make it not so obvious for her
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] not but I think that, that with what it is you know, but then I say she's got that anyway, she's not as, as tough as what she makes out, but er it would be worth having a look you never know what's in there, and I say I must pick up a couple of paper towels
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I'm not, I'm not gonna pay any more than that
[Bev:] There's no point in it.
[Wendy:] No, oh I know what I never got that ain't finished I'll have to go down the shops, I might go down
[Bev:] What?
[Wendy:] I didn't get that baby card did I?
[Bev:] You don't know whether
[Wendy:] I looked
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] I di last night when I was up there and he said to me what was that noise, I went through all the piles and I had a quick look in the bureau but, I didn't find that, I don't know what I've done with that
[Bev:] I know there was a baby one, you know that, erm... pile with all different cards
[Wendy:] And there was a baby one in there?
[Bev:] I'm sure there was, I'll go and have a look
[Wendy:] There was get wells and driving test, oh have a look because I mean
[Bev:] I'm sure there's one there
[Wendy:] it was, it was particularly, it, it totally for a girl
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] because I said it was erm Simon's, and then I didn't know really where they lived and erm, I know they moved out, out of next door to Lesley's, and in the end it never got done that, that more to the point... but erm I can't do that up until I've done that can I? Well I can't do that up until the coat's ready anyway
[Bev:] Oh yeah
[Wendy:] but erm that
[Bev:] what shall we do with that then?
[Wendy:] Oh I don't know I mean it's gonna go through there, well I suppose I'm sure I can get some round the neck
[Bev:] It won't fit round the neck
[Wendy:] Got to fix it then haven't you? You'll want somewhere where you can either have it hanging
[Bev:] Well no what did I do with that one for... erm Ian and Diane?
[Wendy:] might get it through the bottom, that'll be simpler won't it?... I don't know what's gonna be simplest?
[Bev:] When I did that one for Ian, we just tied it in at the back didn't we?
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] And had that
[Wendy:] well let it dry off for a minute, well they must have a card, good job I thought about that... I should be interested to see what she calls her because I think Annalise is a beautiful name
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and you don't hear it much here do you?
[Bev:] No, well, it's like Nina's name, I can't remember it, Anastasia or something like that
[Wendy:] Yeah, and shorten it to Nina
[Bev:] Yeah, how they got Nina out of it, it is something like Anastasia, but it's
[Wendy:] Well Nina must be in there somewhere so
[Bev:] Well I believe er, her sisters used to call her Neen
[Wendy:] Anasteen, Anasleen, Anasleen
[Bev:] some something like that and they used to call her Neen
[Wendy:] Oh
[Bev:] and she said I don't like that call me Nina
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] and it stuck at
[Wendy:] Oh well they've added the A on then
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] obviously
[Bev:] Mm, nobody calls her, whatever it is
[Wendy:] No well they all call Annalise that
[Bev:] Annalise
[Wendy:] Annalise, I've never heard anybody out there call her Anna or Lisa, or Lise or anything, always Annalise, it's such a pretty name
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] ain't it?
[Bev:] It's funny you know, if you give them a long name
[Wendy:] Yeah they don't shorten it
[Bev:] they get very shortened
[Wendy:] but their, the name of their new house is Dew Drops
[Bev:] Is it?
[Wendy:] It's very nice
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] innit?
[Bev:] Well it's the oldy-worldy
[Wendy:] Yeah, certainly is, I think that's super
[Bev:] but I don't know why Hayley and Ian are called theirs Jack?
[Wendy:] So did Susan, Susan called theirs Jack, that little boy
[Bev:] Oh yes, but er
[Wendy:] Well Jack were then, they, they put these, in the paper periodically they put
[Bev:] Well the girl was gonna be Layla
[Wendy:] What erm
[Bev:] if they had a girl it was Layla
[Wendy:] What Hayley?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Mm quite nice that, I don't mind that
[Bev:] Fleetwood Mac song
[Wendy:] Oh is it?
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] Oh I didn't know that, but erm, no in the paper periodically
[Bev:] went mad on it, on Fleetwood Mac
[Wendy:] Oh, but when Prince Andrew was born that caught on
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] you know X years ago, but this is what they do
[Bev:] and Eugene
[Wendy:] er, well
[Bev:] I haven't heard any Eugenes
[Wendy:] No, that was picked out the history book would of picked that, they had a book here didn't they? I should of gone through the book to find that, put some money on it... because if she had Victoria as well, I thought about Victoria and er of course I didn't know about Eugene I don't read, but it's in the book
[Bev:] Is it?
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] I
[Wendy:] oh yeah
[Bev:] If there are any
[Wendy:] Don't know what it'll be do you?
[Bev:] no, I don't think they'll have any more now
[Wendy:] No I don't think they will but you can't really believe all that you read in a newspaper can you?
[Bev:] No, but they don't seem a happy couple at the moment do they?
[Wendy:] Well it's the impression you get innit?
[Bev:] Yeah, but there again the wouldn't give out or let that out
[Wendy:] No
[Bev:] if there weren't a certain amount of truth
[Wendy:] Oh it's got all something totally out
[Bev:] oh yeah
[Wendy:] Though he's got all those people up there again, Amy Karen er not Karen er Caroline
[Bev:] Caroline
[Wendy:] and er Peter...
[Bev:] Oh you know that erm... course that... erm cookery
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] for German
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] well there's a holiday one, it's... a holiday one at, at
[Wendy:] yeah, well what is that then?
[Bev:] Ten weeks but that would probably only be sort of erm
[Wendy:] A German holiday?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Oh what like erm a
[Bev:] yeah
[Wendy:] That's quite interesting then and you don't know when that one starts?
[Bev:] Well it's starting earlier than that, but I wonder whether to leave it until... because I might already know most of
[Wendy:] Yeah, oh you do know certain, a certain amount don't you?
[Bev:] Just got to get to get the sentences, oh I know quite a few words...
[Wendy:] Yeah I mean we can get by over there can't you?
[Bev:] Yeah, I think I'll wait until September and
[Wendy:] Well you won't wait until that long you'll put it down in May
[Bev:] May
[Wendy:] won't it?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] So don't forget that, I think that's more comprehensive and that was a Monday night wasn't it?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] So even with swimming
[Bev:] Oh I won't pack up at my swimming
[Wendy:] No, oh no
[Bev:] No, what I think I'll do swimming-wise is go down to seven fifteen
[Wendy:] Yeah, do you wanna go Monday dinner time, if you're not, you're not wouldn't phone you on Monday, she may, but she isn't supposed to
[Bev:] She isn't supposed to, well if you're, you're working though aren't you?
[Wendy:] I'm working but it's half past twelve innit?
[Bev:] That's right, yeah, I don't mind
[Wendy:] Well let's, let's, let's say we'll try
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and see what the weather's like and you name it, I mean we know now
[Bev:] Well let me just check me diary, I know
[Wendy:] no, but we now know that, if it, if I've got the right time, half past twelve's fine
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] erm, oh wait a minute I can't
[Bev:] You can't the cooker man
[Wendy:] the cooker man, oh well let's see another day then dependent on this
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] I mean cos if that job's available Bev
[Bev:] I'll take it
[Wendy:] you'll have to have a start about it won't you?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I mean it'll stop you
[Bev:] Oh it'll stop me
[Wendy:] what's name, but that don't matter because although he said to me part time er, but of course he didn't know, erm they might, might want somebody part time, but erm, I mean that's gotta be at least even if it's three pounds an hour
[Bev:] Oh I'm not thinking about it
[Wendy:] Well you're not bothered about that anyway
[Bev:] I'm not even bothered to think about it
[Wendy:] I mean eight hours a day, it's gotta be over the hundred
[Bev:] Er nine thirty to five thirty so I won't get in till...
[Wendy:] What?
[Bev:] I won't get in till I don't know when
[Wendy:] What?
[Bev:] get on the bus and that
[Wendy:] In the morning?
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] No he's picking you up at night
[Bev:] Oh he'd pick me up at night, I see
[Wendy:] he said half past five is fine, half past five
[Bev:] past five
[Wendy:] is fine
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] no it doesn't, that's no problem
[Bev:] well really it's not that much further forward
[Wendy:] it's only down the road innit? I say no, that, that ain't the problem
[Bev:] Hopefully if I do get it, there's somebody there, that's going from Andover
[Wendy:] Well that's what I said, you don't know do you?
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] Or somebody in the next place or the next place, we reckon we know where it is
[Bev:] Do you?
[Wendy:] no Woolworth's
[Bev:] Woolworth's
[Wendy:] Have you never been out there?
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] No, well it's the big paved erm way
[Bev:] Long way?
[Wendy:] Oh yeah, there's, mind you but what's out there is load of erm unit factories, unit places and
[Bev:] Well it'd have to be somewhere
[Wendy:] Yeah similar to my place up there
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] er but a bigger area and they're like big warehouses, big, well like the
[Bev:] yeah
[Wendy:] and erm, he's got in the, in the fabric one he's got double doors and all the rolls of carpet and erm, he's got a table in there and obviously to make a cup of tea, got a couple of beds in there cos he's sold them and it's like a big warehouse and erm... all around there there's a big concreted area, you know, and er all these units and that's where we, we reckon it is. I mean there's a lot there, there's a lot of
[Bev:] Places
[Wendy:] places... yeah... no, no the evening one would be a doddle... Anyway we'll wait and see, might not occur. I mean if then, if you did then the, the are out
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] but then, providing we go on the Tuesdays you can still go German on the Mondays, anyway couldn't you?
[Bev:] Yeah well for all that time
[Wendy:] if you have that
[Bev:] I won't
[Wendy:] probably won't be there
[Bev:] they won't be there
[Wendy:] No that's right, no
[Bev:] but thirteen weeks
[Wendy:] Yeah, well that's norm isn't it?
[Bev:] I don't know
[Wendy:] Yeah, well when I, when I was up RAF Andover
[Bev:] I had a feeling that it's six weeks
[Wendy:] Oh I, how awful for thirteen weeks, with me, I know she did when she had Ian went back I know she did, but anyway doesn't matter whatever it is.
[Bev:] Well then I'd have to stop the Income Support
[Wendy:] Oh yeah, oh yeah you most probably end up with so you couldn't do that, you'd have to tell them that, and say well I've got to start my because I'm involved with the
[Bev:] I'll have a temporary job
[Wendy:] Ah?
[Bev:] I'll have a temporary job
[Wendy:] Yeah, oh no you'll have to things like that... we get on quite well you know
[Bev:] Yeah, we seem to get held up everywhere we go
[Wendy:] Yeah we did
[Bev:] I couldn't believe it when
[Wendy:] no, never mind... ha, my brother went into the if I buy them too big then they're, all on the floor
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] you know, they're just too long
[Bev:] Oh I'll try a pair of yours on
[Wendy:] Yeah, but they're stretchies that's what's so nice about them
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and the material is, you feel the stretch, the others are like this and they just sit there, but then in the end they ride up you see
[Bev:] They bag
[Wendy:] Oh they bag something terrible but then I say at the price I'm not gonna buy them, I'm not, but in the Dodger's there's not one small in any colour
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] well then if I go onto a medium, then you're getting all this length and all this business here, all that business and it's too much, if I could of found a four I'd certainly tried it on for swimming you know, [yawning] but I don't want it all baggy and horrible [] you know and I do like that sewing stripe down the middle
[Bev:] Yes
[Wendy:] because it always looks smarter than, like this... just plain
[Bev:] Like a pin stripe sort of thing
[Wendy:] Well it's just like
[Bev:] isn't it?
[Wendy:] a crease
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] when you iron in a crease it's, it's just like that ain't it?... I I don't know
[Bev:] A bit dodgy yeah
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] You put that corned beef in the fridge didn't you?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Do you want some salad cream for now?
[Bev:] I think there's enough
[Wendy:] Oh cos I'm going down the shop
[Bev:] I wouldn't bother
[Wendy:] No, I'll do it tomorrow then... do something different for dinner tomorrow, well you can either try some, oh I've got another here, we could try
[Bev:] eh?
[Wendy:] Sandra does it, but I mean I wouldn't bother with all that
[Bev:] Oh no...
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]... They certainly do bring the old repeats back don't they?
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] I mean they're not bad little programmes, but quite seriously you
[Bev:] We've seen them though
[Wendy:] once you've seen them... If I put one of those skirts on, the navy I think, and if I get any marks on it well no, I'm only wearing me bloody coat and the skirt and er grey tights that's all, er whatever up top... I mean I hope that, have a look, I hope it's gonna be a better bus anyway this week...
[Bev:] Make sure that hip's on the side then
[Wendy:] I've already got one, I'm not bothered about that, I mean for kids I think, I think it's a good idea because well then they don't lay on it
[Bev:] Oh I've done that for many a year
[Wendy:] Yeah, oh it is neater I agree with that, I just want to get on with it now
[Bev:] You're not happy with it are you?
[Wendy:] I am happy with it, I've just lost interest
[Bev:] Oh
[Wendy:] No I, I want it certainly... oh you must get hungry in a minute surely... we must try that freeze dry too
[Bev:] Yeah freeze dry too
[Wendy:] How many cups was in there?
[Bev:] Six
[Wendy:] Mm, it's incredible really
[Bev:] Mm...
[Wendy:] It'll be nice if you could summon up people like that on the phone won't it?
[Bev:] Oh yeah...
[Wendy:] [yawning] oh dear [] god I've got to work at Albridge tonight
[Bev:] Go to sleep on the bus
[Wendy:] Well yeah but it takes longer on the bus, but er
[Bev:] But if you're tired you can go to sleep anywhere
[Wendy:] Oh you do... I hope Tommy's got that photo of her now when did he post it? Or did I post it? He posted it didn't he?
[Bev:] He post it
[Wendy:] That'll be last Saturday then won't it, that's a week then won't it? I'm sure she's on the move, for it, you know
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I mean it came out well I thought, it came out very well, considering it was, you know, different process, and it certainly does the job and I still haven't got my damn postcards have I?
[Bev:] No yeah I would, I've got to write to Dot tomorrow
[Wendy:] Yeah, yeah
[Bev:] cos I think it's only fair
[Wendy:] I've got that card, I think it's in there... oh no, well I mean, I think you've got to do it properly, I don't think you should do it on the caravan because A you're gonna get the reception, B you're gonna have to make an appointment and it, in a letter
[Bev:] I'll probably have to see them anyway
[Wendy:] Sorry?
[Bev:] I'll probably have to go up to them
[Wendy:] Well you probably shall well that's, well that's their choice then not yours
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] but the whole point is you can put down every detail in a letter for them to read, to put on file, can't you? No I think you should do it, do it that way round...
[Bev:] Well I'll pop up there first then
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] even if I'm not
[Wendy:] I'll give them a ring tomorrow
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and erm... I mean really it's a bit difficult actually because er you don't know about that
[speaker001:] ...
[Bev:] Why?
[Wendy:] Well you don't know whether you'll be able, you can go down in an evening
[Bev:] No I'll just say I'll pop down some time
[Wendy:] She might of had hers by now mightn't she?
[Bev:] Yeah, whoops big oh big foot...
[Wendy:] Well she might be that little bit further on let's face it I mean
[Bev:] Yeah, I could...
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]... Well otherwise you might be you know, a little bit further, but
[Bev:] I wonder whether how long it's gonna take Martin to fit that gear if Martin can do it
[Wendy:] Well I want, now I want yeah well I understand but I wonder how long since they will leave it... she's already looked for an answ, you know she doesn't get an answer, that's the point, I should think by now he'd I can't see, I mean, of course I mean she can take him to court over the money
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] if he disagrees or don't do anything, but I can't see how he can't leave it, can be without it, has to know...
[Bev:] Oh I'd
[Wendy:] yeah, but not from her point of view I mean, not from her point of view she'll, she'll surely just go ahead... they are a damn nuisance
[Bev:] well we ain't had lots and lots
[Wendy:] Well since Helen went we've had no luck at all with neighbours, I think they're disgusting... but then they're not the sort of people you can talk to are they?
[Bev:] No... is there a girl up this road called Rachel?
[Wendy:] Not that I know of, well I mean I don't know
[Bev:] Two er, two kiddies, er there's that, that one then, it's gotta be
[Wendy:] What one?
[Bev:] Sandra
[Wendy:] Why? They're not called Rachel...
[Bev:] No, but, who else up here's got two children?
[Wendy:] Well there's a woman that comes up not the woman with three there's another woman that's got two, I don't know her, she comes round with some of those envelopes sometimes
[Bev:] Er because
[Wendy:] charity
[Bev:] you know Sharon
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] it's a bit of er
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] erm... she, she said I know somebody up your road
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] she's got two children and I don't know anyone
[Wendy:] I don't know who's up the top, who lives up there I mean
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] somebody took over Horace's place there, I don't
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] know who they are, next to
[Bev:] er
[Wendy:] I don't know anybody
[Bev:] Sharon and her man went, on er wedding, er honeymoon, went on honeymoon with them
[Wendy:] They what?
[Bev:] You know
[Wendy:] Janet
[Bev:] Janet
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] Sharon and that lot went on hol honeymoon with them
[Wendy:] Why?
[Bev:] I don't know... they
[Wendy:] well about that then... what for a holiday or
[Bev:] I think so
[Wendy:] Strange innit?
[Michael:] Dinner time
[Bev:] Dinner time
[Wendy:] I thought so I mean it was getting on a bit
[Bev:] Goody, goody...
[Wendy:] How you getting on with that then?
[Michael:] Ah?
[Wendy:] How you getting on with it?
[Michael:] Slowly
[Wendy:] Oh
[Michael:] it's going
[Wendy:] Ah?
[Michael:] it's going
[Wendy:] Is Derek coming tomorrow then?
[Michael:] Oh I'll phone him up this afternoon then
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Michael:] cos er, see how many he wants, there's fourteen they're not gonna have, I'm not gonna have fourteen if we don't need fourteen
[Wendy:] Oh no
[Michael:] I think eight or nine
[Wendy:] Really
[Michael:] but can't even tell it, ought to be able to do it
[Wendy:] Oh he's done a lot of work ain't he?
[Michael:] Yeah, but for the little place it is
[Wendy:] Is it little?
[Michael:] Well, it's a bungalow
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] Yeah
[Michael:] but the, the back garden and, I suppose our, our lawn and Gareth's together probably
[Wendy:] That's it?
[Michael:] Yeah, but he's got in there a half shed and er this er
[Wendy:] Summer house
[Michael:] summer house, yeah, yeah, and he's got a patio outside, didn't, it's a only a patio it's nothing, it's not covered in or anything but there's steps up to it and that and, and that's it, he's got nothing in his garden, it's lawn and
[Wendy:] Oh it's just a
[Michael:] and er
[Bev:] And pretty
[Wendy:] and pretty
[Michael:] yeah, yeah that's right, it's lawn and, and flowers, he's got nothing er the beds are only half
[Wendy:] yeah I know, I didn't realise it was that small
[Michael:] it's the same size as our lawn
[Wendy:] oh, oh I didn't realise, mm
[speaker001:] ...
[Michael:] hot water now
[Wendy:] What?
[Michael:] Hot water now
[Wendy:] Hot water?
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] What?
[Michael:] Well switch your tap on... the bathroom one doesn't
[Wendy:] Ah?
[Michael:] The bathroom one don't
[Bev:] It was very hard to turn on when I was
[Wendy:] I've been able to turn it on but it ain't been
[Bev:] no...
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] Is that no good?
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] I think we'll take those sausage rolls with us tonight
[Michael:] Do what?
[Wendy:] take those sausage rolls or a pork pie with us
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I mean it is only to have something with you, innit?
[Michael:] Well it is, yeah, er what you having?
[Wendy:] One double please
[Bev:] Yes please
[Michael:] Right...
[Wendy:] So what time do you wanna leave?
[Michael:] Ah?
[Wendy:] What time do you wanna leave here?
[Michael:] Well if we're gonna take the car we'll
[Wendy:] four thirty, alright... I tried that Channel Four Mick
[Michael:] Do what?
[Wendy:] I tried to find that horse
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and it's, it's the wrong tape, it only tells you last week's winners
[Michael:] Well it tell about it erm, it, it tell about it because there's a special bonus offer on it
[Wendy:] Yeah and we wound, re-wound the tape and er looked for the number and it's the same number, I've done it three times and I got this other bloke and I went right through it once and it says last week and erm, if you wanna do it again watch Channel Four on Saturday, so I'll try it when the programme's on, they might of found out
[Michael:] Yeah... cos he did say there was a special bonus
[Wendy:] That's right, er and it had the same number... still those little chops looked all right didn't they?
[Bev:] Yeah...
[Wendy:] Right now then
[Bev:] yeah...
[Wendy:] Right, done it...
[Bev:] What?
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] I'll have to do me this year, this week then, this' ll be the week going he'll come up
[Bev:] Right
[Wendy:] yeah... we've got a
[Bev:] Less than an hour now
[Wendy:] less than an hour, oh I was waiting for those results well I'd drink me tea as well obviously but
[Bev:] You don't mean it though
[speaker001:] ...
[Bev:] are you darling
[Wendy:] Oh bored
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] oh I'd rather gone out, I think there's, there's one of those for us
[Bev:] Mm, what about a nice long walk go and pick up Jesse and
[Wendy:] Oh no I don't want Jesse, I mean after what your father said this morning
[Bev:] I heard
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] Yeah...
[Wendy:] mm, so did I, no Jesse's too erm
[Bev:] Young still...
[Wendy:] don't want to, I mean you don't want to get involved in something like that
[Bev:] You don't want to start anything off like that
[Wendy:] I told them I wouldn't have her, I, I if they wanted to go on holiday I wouldn't have her, I couldn't have her in here she'd knock everything to bits, try to move everything in here that she wouldn't chew
[Bev:] Well you couldn't
[Wendy:] you couldn't do it could you?
[Bev:] No, she'd have all those
[Wendy:] as I say she'd have everything down, I think I, she definitely needs a big house, but not only that I mean she has to put everything up like and then she got up on that did they? who to?
[speaker001:] ...
[Bev:] Alright mother I'll go and get ready...
[Wendy:] well what I'll do I'll go and get some clothes, now what we do, we gonna take some food with us then?
[Michael:] Like what? I'm not bothered cos I, I mean the things that we did last year have a bag of chips between us
[Bev:] We might as well get a bag of chips
[Michael:] I, I mean I can have a sausage roll and a piece of cake
[Bev:] we might as well, yeah, what is a bag of chips
[Wendy:] Well
[Bev:] split three ways?
[Wendy:] if I erm
[Michael:] Well on the other hand we didn't want one between us er
[Wendy:] One each
[Bev:] No [yawning] right if I'll go and get me clothes [] then erm er well I'm gonna have a cup of tea
[Michael:] Yeah
[Bev:] and then that'll have to be it
[Wendy:] Well no that have to be it then
[Bev:] because I'll be going
[Wendy:] no, it's quite a journey, how long is it?
[Michael:] Oh a good hour and a half
[Wendy:] Hour and a half?
[Michael:] It's right into the middle of London
[Bev:] Didn't seem that long last time
[Michael:] Yes it was
[Wendy:] We were chatting and that
[Michael:] It's a full, have to go er, go off the end, end of the M four
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Michael:] I wonder if I'll try M three, M twenty five and then
[Bev:] Don't go any
[Michael:] enter London, enter London cos erm Wembley's er first up fairly on aren't we?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Yeah, how far's then? April was it?
[Michael:] No April, May
[Wendy:] May
[Michael:] May fourth I think
[Wendy:] Oh my god
[Michael:] get in
[Wendy:] ah, with this going though
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] that's gonna change a lot of things innit?
[Bev:] Oh which one?
[Wendy:] The Rosea, the big, big hotel, come
[Michael:] Opposite the bell
[Wendy:] Opposite the bell
[Bev:] Oh yeah
[Wendy:] There's a the bell is yeah, but certainly the other one's changed it's name anyway, it's not the Rosea not now, but er, it's gone
[Bev:] Oh
[Wendy:] it's in the paper cos, a fellow on the way to work said it was and she, Graham got married in the May and er they get married in Cyprus but
[Bev:] They were gonna hold something here
[Wendy:] they were having one here as well and erm they booked it for the day and they were staying there overnight, cos they were, they've got a house and they were gonna let guests stay at their house and while they stayed up there and then
[Bev:] Oh dear
[Wendy:] well I said to her I prefer the cos when I got the paper I had a look and I and she er she said what... and she said oh well I don't think I'll phone Graham but if Maxine shows him the paper, she said I reckon he'll phone them because er, it did say, I think in the paper that the, that she said they're letting everybody know
[Michael:] But somebody might take it home with them
[Wendy:] so er
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Well er the banks call it in or something
[Michael:] Yeah but that's
[Wendy:] is that done?
[Michael:] It can't be used for anything else I wouldn't of thought
[Wendy:] No, well no you wouldn't
[Bev:] Convention hall
[Wendy:] But er, this hotel and, and banquet hall and innit?
[Michael:] And, and they've got erm, well they must be more than the Portacabins, but I mean they've got erm places there though
[Wendy:] Oh, yeah they did have something didn't they?
[Michael:] Yeah, yeah, I don't know what it is
[Wendy:] No they did have, oh, oh, do what?
[Bev:] I'm going to get my clothes
[Wendy:] Oh alright... what? I didn't hear that either, don't expect to get dressed like this and get out in it?
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] Oh, sitting around here... oh yeah, that'll be the week we win it won't it?
[Michael:] want ten no draws that's
[Wendy:] yeah... yeah, cos when it's got that three it's two two millions
[Michael:] Eh?
[Wendy:] two million winners, three ain't there recently?
[Michael:] Yes, oh that's the er, you can't win any more on
[Wendy:] No, that's what I mean there have been three big ones very recently, cos like syndicate won it and the old lady won it and that other woman, that younger woman won it... right what I've done, all bits together... what time do you think we'll be back?
[Michael:] I don't know time love, I've no idea what time
[Wendy:] Mm
[Michael:] probably be about midnight or just after twelve
[Wendy:] Mm
[Michael:] we're thinking about half past ten leave
[Wendy:] Mm
[Michael:] only we were... stuck there for a little while last time couldn't get out could we?
[Wendy:] Well yeah, that's right, no
[Michael:] I think we were all back but we couldn't get out could we?
[Wendy:] Something like that, when did we go, this time last year then? tend to get it don't we, cos er
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] Right have we got it all then?
[Bev:] Yeah, I think so...
[Wendy:] Well we've done your
[Bev:] yeah...
[Wendy:] Haven't I
[Bev:] I don't know
[Wendy:] It's got to be innit?
[Michael:] Mm
[Bev:] Well we didn't do any we didn't do anything in that erm bob sleigh, four man bob sleigh
[Wendy:] No, do you want more tea now then?
[Michael:] Yeah...
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] Well they must of thought they had a chance
[Bev:] Yeah...
[Wendy:] well they must of thought they had a chance our bob sleighs
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] mustn't they?
[Michael:] Mm
[Bev:] It's not surprising they don't come anywhere, they've got so much erm hype and pressure
[Michael:] Mm, mm
[Bev:] Hankies
[Wendy:] No, there were two or three in my handbag, I don't think I took it out
[Bev:] Oh I'll have one then
[Wendy:] Oh
[Bev:] if you've got it
[Wendy:] right oh I put me hand in and I thought don't know what that is... okay, off we go, turn everything off, don't leave a light, oh what's that?... I think that must of been the old boy over the road you know
[Michael:] What the in the paper
[Wendy:] Oh, oh
[Michael:] she didn't realise until it was in the paper
[Wendy:] Well I didn't know anything, nothing at all
[Michael:] Well that's sort of there we are then
[Bev:] Thank you...
[Wendy:] I think he'd been better for a long time on and off
[Michael:] Yes
[Wendy:] he is now oh was he?... As long as I can remember we've been up here I think don't you?
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] what?
[Bev:] I should of wet my hair down
[Wendy:] I shouldn't worry about it in this wind, anyway it's not the right time to do it in the wind, as cold as this, is it really? I mean we're gonna get blown apart I think... we shall see won't we?
[Bev:] Mm, can you see with me sitting in the middle?
[Michael:] Yeah, no, no I don't
[speaker001:] ......
[Wendy:] What car's that one then do you know?
[Michael:] No
[Wendy:] Mm
[Michael:] it depends where David, erm today don't it?
[Wendy:] Oh
[Michael:] Could of been
[Wendy:] could of been that, yeah
[Michael:] there's times when they got back look isn't it?
[Wendy:] Mm, oh yeah...
[Michael:] Of course it will be now won't it?
[Wendy:] What?
[Michael:] Bloody kid
[Wendy:] Is there, oh yeah, always the way innit? always the way I mean it's like when your trying to cross the road here, especially in the morning
[Bev:] Yeah me, it made me late on Friday
[Michael:] Did it?
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I know
[Bev:] I had to scoot round Church Lane
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] the thing is when
[Bev:] and I left twenty to
[Wendy:] yeah, the thing is when I go to work it erm
[Michael:] What just down here? About there?
[Bev:] Down here and trying to get past to get into Crick Laid
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] because you never know whether they're going to turn
[Michael:] No
[Wendy:] You don't, that's quite right, I said no rea, not everybody uses their indicat indicator
[Bev:] They don't use their indicators any more
[Wendy:] No they don't
[Bev:] er, if they're, er far, not too far away from the other car
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] they'll come round on his indicator
[Wendy:] Mm, that's right, no I'm afraid it's er a bit of a pain, but as I say seven o'clock in the morning mind going
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] off to Road, sometimes I don't see a soul, Jimmy's about the only one I see
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] and another morning there's a stream of cars... I think it's being one minute ear early or one minute late
[Michael:] Mm
[Bev:] Mm, yeah but I was coming out at half past nine
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] yeah, well quarter to, twenty to ten
[Wendy:] Mm
[Michael:] Yeah I was gonna say you'd think that early
[Wendy:] yeah, been sorted wouldn't you?
[Michael:] lorries
[Bev:] There were lorries, cars, the lot
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] taxis and... one thing I know is they scoot round Church Lane
[Wendy:] Mm, mm I know
[Bev:] and it was busy, but that's beside the point
[Wendy:] Yeah, well it was beside the point because you, you had an appointment didn't you?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Anyway if you're late it looks bad on you anyway straight away don't it?...
[Bev:] These are like buying bad old crisps, the other one's there
[Wendy:] Really?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Generally find that don't you?
[Bev:] Very, very friendly, but he had his shirt tail hanging out the lot
[Wendy:] Oh god
[Michael:] Who?
[Wendy:] At this place she went
[Michael:] Yeah
[Bev:] I thought you little devil...
[Wendy:] Go and see the boss or is it over there,whi, which, where?
[Michael:] Gotta be over there
[Wendy:] oh
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER] I said it won't be here
[Wendy:] Oh good, oh Jill's in there already
[Bev:] Big one? Big bus
[Wendy:] Mm...
[Michael:] Right under the
[Wendy:] Mm?
[Michael:] right under the, hello
[Wendy:] Okay...
[Bev:] Aah
[Wendy:] It is a bit innit? yeah
[Bev:] right
[Michael:] See you
[Wendy:] Gonna what?
[Michael:] You told me it'd be over there look
[Wendy:] Did you? Used to be here though didn't it?
[Michael:] Yeah, but er...
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] eh? Hi
[speaker001:] Hello
[Wendy:] Alright?... Hello how are you?
[Beth:] I'm fine thank you, hi you, alright?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Beth:] No I'm not sitting here, I'm just blocking the gangway
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] here, this will do...
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] is it did you want it out?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] that's your arm innit that one?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Have you got er, must have a knob somewhere
[Beth:] Is it under the seat or somewhere like that
[Bev:] No you're not in a car
[Wendy:] I don't know I'll get Mick to have a look in a minute... ah, ah, is there a little handle at the side, at your side?
[Beth:] this one?... No
[Wendy:] There's a, there's a
[Beth:] a lever
[Wendy:] a lever here
[Beth:] so
[Wendy:] have I, have I got one then? That looks
[Bev:] Have you got?
[Wendy:] I have got a lever here
[Bev:] Have you?
[Wendy:] Yeah, down right down
[Bev:] Yeah
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] I think is done
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Oh dear How many were there then Mick do you know?
[Michael:] Well, forty eight originally another five
[Wendy:] Five
[Michael:] Five
[Wendy:] so you should have forty eight?
[Michael:] Forty eight I think yeah
[Wendy:] Who's missing then?... That's it then is it? Where's that one?
[Bev:] up there
[Wendy:] The Sheridan, I suppose it is innit? Sheridan or Sheriton's, I don't know whether that's it or Sheriton's or Sheridon's, Sheridan, I don't know ah? well no well no it doesn't, get it right... see that's the station
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] where they were, Howard and Pete right were coming up to the erm football
[Bev:] I think right
[Wendy:] and they shutted off
[Bev:] if we ever thought to ourselves what we're doing
[Wendy:] mm
[Bev:] you might there, it drops you right
[Wendy:] Oh you certainly are, yeah
[Bev:] ain't you?
[Wendy:] but that, as I say for England and France erm they closed it for some reason
[Bev:] Who?
[Wendy:] all the system was closed there, as Howard said erm it er a bit of a nuisance they had to go all the way round the houses
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I don't know how they did it in the end, but
[Bev:] Mm...
[Wendy:] well it certainly was spectacular though
[Bev:] Very good
[Wendy:] weren't it?
[Bev:] Very good
[Wendy:] Ah?... Certainly was, as I say I don't think you'll see a lot of, better lot of colour than that
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] not anywhere
[Bev:] Oh that illuminist
[Wendy:] yeah, yeah, it's surprising what you can do ain't it?...
[Bev:] Yeah it was terrific
[Wendy:] [yawning] Oh tired now []
[Bev:] Tired now, yeah
[Wendy:] Yeah, still it means you haven't got to get on a train or
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] nothing like that, well that's the beauty of this innit?
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] Quite honestly... oh it was eight till ten that show was on for basically
[Bev:] Yes
[Wendy:] yeah... yeah... what did you say they did it three times?
[Jill:] I don't know who was cooking actually they both had their hands [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Oh no quite probably matinee and then the early evening which I thought those people were coming out from look and erm, and this one, good grief fancy doing that be here half a day, you'd think you'd earn the damn money wouldn't you? I don't know
[Jill:] I don't think so
[Wendy:] No yeah probably so if that run is just tomorrow then we just got in didn't we?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] You know... [LAUGHTER]...
[Bev:] Tired
[Wendy:] Ah?
[Bev:] Tired now
[Wendy:] Yeah what are they?
[Bev:] Chippendales
[Wendy:] Yes, on Thursday that is
[Bev:] I know, it'll be worth suffering
[Wendy:] Woolworth's wasn't it?
[Bev:] it'll be worth suffering Chippendales Chippendales on Thursday
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] I don't know the programmes are pretty good aren't they?
[Bev:] Yes
[Wendy:] and they don't do they?
[Bev:] I know they don't
[Wendy:] [yawn] Hope they're not like that bloke at Audrey's [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER]... [yawn] I can't wait until we get home, sometimes it goes quite quickly the journey though going home
[Bev:] Yeah, going home it does
[Wendy:] Yeah, trying to get up there I mean you're waiting to see the show aren't you?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] So er, it's quite different ain't it... still it's not a bad time to come out
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] is it? And I mean being that he parked there it was perfect weren't it? Didn't have a long walk or anything... [yawn]... so the next schedule go out is erm is is it?
[Bev:] I don't know, is there skittles somewhere?
[Wendy:] I don't know what they're doing of, I haven't a clue yeah more than one though
[Bev:] Well he normally gives a little er
[Wendy:] mm
[Bev:] So, right here
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]... Pretty busy in there isn't it?
[Bev:] Eh?
[Wendy:] Pretty busy in that restaurant
[Bev:] Well people do go out to restaurants
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] I think it's marvellous they go out to a restaurant
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] but really, have you?
[Wendy:] Can't can I go on me own
[Bev:] Of course you can
[Wendy:] You can't go on your own, what's, what's there in it going on your own?
[Bev:] oh I know, please
[Wendy:] mm?
[Bev:] stuck, he's stuck again... isn't he?
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] oh you might get him interested in different things
[Wendy:] Ha, what
[Bev:] you never know
[Wendy:] Could do
[Bev:] you're never too old to change
[Wendy:] I'm not so sure about that one
[Bev:] Oh well... oh dear
[Wendy:] It was good weren't it?
[Bev:] It's brilliant...
[Wendy:] But er Helen, she missed the best one, ah? It was better than the other one, it might of been the seats but I don't think so because I mean there was so much in this one
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I mean the other was a nice story, but, I think this year's is better
[Bev:] more for the show
[Wendy:] Yeah it was more of a show than a story weren't it? But there was something
[Bev:] It brought you to the place and then
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] and then it just it
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] erupted
[Wendy:] Yeah it did... my feet ache now
[Bev:] My feet are aching now, I've got thick tights on shoes
[Wendy:] I know but I didn't know how cold it'll be, but
[Bev:] That's not a brilliant idea
[Wendy:] you see, no it isn't a brilliant idea but the thing is we didn't have much further to walk can we?
[Bev:] Yes
[Wendy:] We could of done the what?
[Bev:] I think
[Wendy:] [yawning] yeah, you are, great [] oh I put my half off, I doubt if I get my feet back in them, but, yeah
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[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] oh dear ah so you are, sure you will, sure you will
[Bev:] Then I can sew it up and I've only got the
[Wendy:] One sleeve, oh
[Bev:] one sleeve
[Wendy:] it's gonna be a good one you know
[Bev:] I hope so
[Wendy:] I can see it, you know, it looks it right
[Bev:] When it gets the toggles on it should be okay
[Wendy:] The what?
[Bev:] When it gets the toggles on it should be okay
[Wendy:] Yeah, but it looks like it's gonna be good some of them
[Bev:] I don't know what one to do next really
[Wendy:] Well you'll have to decide I mean you
[Bev:] I think I'll do another plain one, but this one, some were plain
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] but...
[Wendy:] mm
[Bev:] erm, that chunky one
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] it's not just plain, there's so many stitches... erm stocking stitch and so many rib
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] so
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] it'll have some pattern but not
[Wendy:] terrific amount
[Bev:] a terrific
[Wendy:] mm
[Bev:] cos it has two bands of rib
[Wendy:] Yeah [yawning] oh, oh, oh god [] well
[Bev:] Then you can help me unpick it
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] Well that won't take long to unpick it will it?
[Bev:] No... it hadn't been knitted up too long
[Wendy:] No
[Bev:] that's what I don't want for it to er
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] crinkle too quickly
[Wendy:] Yeah, anyway once it's washed it's all gone anyway
[Bev:] Oh yeah...
[Wendy:] so really that's not a problem
[Bev:] No... but as you, I'll use that what's not a
[Wendy:] ha, ha, I bet you will, it won't take that long to unpick it though... but I mean you've got a, quite a selection there to choose haven't you?
[Bev:] Yeah, oh if I can undo that one then I can do the sleeve
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] cos that'll be quite
[Wendy:] Mm?
[Bev:] that will be quite intra intricate
[Wendy:] Yeah, not much bigger job anyway, innit?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Well I'll look, I'll see how much of that plum is left
[Bev:] I think there's quite a lot of plum and
[Wendy:] you can't use that much can you?
[Bev:] I think it was two balls
[Wendy:] Plenty then innit? For that and
[Bev:] and you've got two, well what was in them? You would of got two cos you would of been a big one won't you? Just that colour
[Wendy:] That's right, but I mean all I want it for is the erm
[Bev:] Body
[Wendy:] the body and use the black
[Bev:] Two black feet
[Wendy:] That's right... I think it looked very effective what that woman had on
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] so
[Bev:] can do one like that with that mustard up the top shelf
[Wendy:] Yeah it's nice innit?
[Bev:] with the black
[Wendy:] That would stand out wouldn't it?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] That would be nice, you won't want that much for the sleeve of black, so, do anything with black for ages
[Bev:] I saw your Andrew the other day
[Wendy:] Eh?
[Bev:] I would think Andrew doing some
[Wendy:] Probably would
[Bev:] three pound balls and three pound thirty, er three pound twenty seven
[Wendy:] How much was it nine? Yeah it was nine, that's right, no it could be quite interesting actually, and then the other way
[Bev:] Or then you'd do like the four, four, four flares
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] flat back
[Wendy:] Yeah, it's limitless innit, but the other way is to do right down the centre, one on one and one on the other
[Bev:] Yeah...
[Wendy:] reverse it on the back or have the same on the back
[Bev:] No what, what you normally do with those is er, say one half black and one half yellow and you have a yellow sleeve that side
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] and a black sleeve that side
[Wendy:] [yawning] that's right [], limitless innit?... But it would be wise to use the plum before I got the cerise or the sea green
[Bev:] Well it would
[Wendy:] Yeah, of course it would, well it only sat there anyway again innit?
[Bev:] Of course it does
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] haven't we?
[Wendy:] Well we always do, I mean if you'd use all that was in that cupboard you'd have half a dozen jumpers
[Bev:] I know
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] Well I shall use the mohair next
[Wendy:] Yeah, well there must be a fair amount of mohair
[Bev:] There is...
[Wendy:] I mean that was an exceptionally good buy weren't it?
[Bev:] Well what I want is the black and the cerise
[Wendy:] Mm...
[Bev:] because I'm not sure whether to put all different colours in
[Wendy:] Well I think, I'd just experiment
[Bev:] or the black and the cerise and all the jacquards
[Wendy:] but you must yeah
[Bev:] because that could be quite effective
[Wendy:] That would be effective, but I mean you don't want to do any that you've got to unpick, no that is not viable that
[Bev:] Yeah, that's why I think if I did all the jacquard in the cerise
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] that would show up beautiful
[Wendy:] Mm, yeah I think it would
[Bev:] because what they've done on that pattern, why they've got so many different colours, where it mixes so you've got your red and your
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] green, they've got like an orangey
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] you know where it crosses
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] you know like that one of Howard's jumper
[Wendy:] Yeah, yeah
[Bev:] well they've got it so that the colours in the middle
[Wendy:] Sort of mingle
[Bev:] mingle
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] and like you've sort of got a yellow and a green, they've put like an olive in that, an olive colour, but I haven't got colours that I can
[Wendy:] No
[Bev:] mix like that
[Wendy:] not like that no
[Bev:] No, that's the thing
[Wendy:] Oh well, oh, as long as you don't have to unpick, because that is awful
[Bev:] Oh I know
[Wendy:] It's just a mess innit after?
[Bev:] Yeah, but I don't know it'll be quite effective
[Wendy:] Yeah, oh yeah, but as I say it's limitless really
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] especially with a
[Bev:] unless I go up that shop, top shop and have a look at those gramme balls, yellow, oranges
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] red and got those to put in the black
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] but there again my er
[Wendy:] How much were they?
[Bev:] Ninety nine P
[Wendy:] Oh, that's not so bad is it?
[Bev:] No but there again
[Wendy:] But there again you're buying again
[Bev:] Well I'd put in the cerise and have all the jacquard colours, it, it would look very effective
[Wendy:] Mm it certainly would, it doesn't have to be different colours
[Bev:] No, no it doesn't... how many black ones are there?
[Wendy:] I can't remember
[Bev:] Two
[Wendy:] No I don't think there was two
[Bev:] No just one
[Wendy:] I think there was only one because they only had one, and I got one white cos they only had one I think, it was the other colours I'm sure I'd got two of, I must of done, cos I mean I've used a lot myself don't I?
[Bev:] Yeah...
[Wendy:] No I, I would think the black and the white were one, but mind you it goes a long blinking way don't it?
[Bev:] Well I
[Wendy:] yeah... but I think it was only one and one of those two, I, I'd picked the white up because there wasn't any black, for that first time
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] because I thought that was neutral didn't I?...
[Bev:] Erm
[Wendy:] I don't know if I had them or not
[Bev:] I wonder if I've seen one of those
[Wendy:] Three hundred again I think... [yawning] it was [] it was six balls weren't it? Two, four, six
[Bev:] but they want seven and I want to put that big bit at the bottom.
[Wendy:] Have I used any black? I haven't have I?
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] No...
[Bev:] Or was it seventy five ball?
[Wendy:] I dunno
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] I think it was fifty, I do, but I'm not sure... oh perhaps if we can get over there at the end of the, well it's the end of the month next week anyway innit?
[Bev:] Oh
[Wendy:] I mean, you don't know what they've got over there now do you? I mean basically we go there and the meat shop don't we?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] There's not much else we want to look around at is there?
[Bev:] We wanna look at shoes
[Wendy:] Shoes I yeah
[Bev:] But then again it's not a brilliant idea going on a for wool when we've got so many
[Wendy:] Oh yeah
[Bev:] cos we'll come back loaded up...
[Wendy:] haven't got it right actually, I mean basically we can go up the top shop and buy what we like can't we? Get one, O nine, I mean providing you've got enough to do what you want to do in mohair
[Bev:] I don't know
[Wendy:] no you'd have to get all out and have a look, but I mean if I go over there I'll bring back a load of D K and I know I will... we'll see.
[Bev:] Well you see the trouble is when we're buying it over there right
[Wendy:] You get the left overs
[Bev:] we buy six hundred
[Wendy:] Six hundred, yeah
[Bev:] which is two hundred per person
[Wendy:] Yeah, well you see it's quite a point you know, cos if we go up the top shop, we just, well the most I would buy is four
[Bev:] Well that's four pound, four pound
[Wendy:] Well that's what four pound and four nines
[Bev:] Forty
[Wendy:] thirty six
[Bev:] Four pound thirty six where you'd pay two pounds, four pounds for two hundred grammes
[Wendy:] mm, dunno well we'll see anyway, it depends on you and what you're doing
[Bev:] But there again it's better wool that you're buying from the
[Wendy:] What, at the top shop?
[Bev:] Yeah yeah
[Wendy:] Yeah, that's a very old make you know, that one's been going for donkey years, but it's those colours, I mean there's at least, well with the o
[Bev:] Well the trouble is we go over there and we buy a good buy
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] but it might not be the colours that we're actually looking for
[Wendy:] Well I, I'm sure it wouldn't be, what did I say I said that sea green and the cerise
[Bev:] And I said the mustard
[Wendy:] The mustard and the beigey one weren't it?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Er oatmeal
[Bev:] Er, yeah
[Wendy:] Well that's, that's two jumpers each innit?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I mean I've got plenty of black, so mustard and black whatever, whatever, cerise and black or something, that's daft really you know
[Bev:] It's very silly
[Wendy:] I mean nine times out of ten we erm, we just go over there and buy what's there
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] regardless when we come back well what are you going to make with it?
[Bev:] See, that's what I've bought patterns now
[Wendy:] Yeah, no well I think that, thinking about it seriously now
[Bev:] What I want to find one is one without a well
[Wendy:] Without a well?
[Bev:] Yeah, so it can hang over trousers
[Wendy:] Oh I see
[Bev:] A long one
[Wendy:] What like a sweat top or some of them does
[Bev:] Yeah, yeah
[Wendy:] but I er
[Bev:] We know that one, that woman was wearing that white one
[Wendy:] Yeah yeah, yeah
[Bev:] now something like that, that can go over a skirt
[Wendy:] Or anything and it's very versatile
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] No, thinking about it seriously it would be better to go up there, have a swifty through patterns you know, you need a bit of time
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] you need a bit of time
[Bev:] but then again it'll take me longer to find that one this morning
[Wendy:] Oh, that was when I was waiting in the queue weren't it?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Mm, it really
[Bev:] it caught my eye and I thought well
[Wendy:] Yeah, it really is stupid having all these left overs, alright as I said before I can make all that kid stuff, but in the end I've got too much to take over
[Bev:] Yeah... and then again you don't always wanna, erm start all along, with them do you?
[Wendy:] No
[Bev:] And then you've got different colours that don't really go with that, but...
[Wendy:] Anyway I mean I've got a fair pile now to take in August ain't I?
[Bev:] Yeah...
[Wendy:] No I, well the, the colours that I like you know the cerise and the
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] the green, I can, I, he's says to buy four of them without thinking about it cos they're so nice and that's really the thing that we don't do when we go to Basingstoke we start going around saying well which one shall I have, but they said that you haven't looked at it like I've looked at those and you looked at yours because that oatmeal colour will be very, very handy for erm sticking with anything and everything
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Well I mean I've looked round here for a pair of blinking shoes, the only trouble here er had over here is that I've got to go somewhere where they're wide enough and that's Littlewoods innit?... The only ones here that did a wider fitting that one, er at the time I bought some, well those with the gold on the back was Stead and Simpson and they did a wider fitting, but I don't know anybody else, but they may now
[Bev:] Probably do now
[Wendy:] they may now, but erm, I mean these I've got on are Williams, they're an E fit that I, I particularly sent away for
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Well I don't want to do that any more cos you've got to wait three damn weeks nearly for the blasted things to come and then if they're no good you've got to send them back.
[Bev:] Yeah, but there again you see... they're, you're not going into a shop saying oh they look nice
[Wendy:] No, anyway those plimsolls they're, they're alright
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] now I said the others, they've got to be lace-ups though look, it's gotta be lace-ups
[Bev:] It must be easier to find wider
[Wendy:] Yeah because I mean if there, if you've got a high instep it still don't matter because you only widen your laces don't you?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Well perhaps I'll have a look in town next Friday then, I could definitely do with a pair
[Bev:] [yawning] Well we could even, oh dear [] we could even go
[Wendy:] oh dear [LAUGHTER] yeah
[Bev:] don't we?
[Wendy:] yeah... yeah we do cos it's there innit? Quite right
[Bev:] If we're gonna spend money you might as well go to Littlewoods or
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] somewhere where it's decent
[Wendy:] Mm, same, the same situation as those clothes
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] weren't it? Oh I didn't like them I was, I could see them riding up the leg just like that pair I had on that day and in the end they look so grey and they look like
[Bev:] I had a doggy bag the other day
[Wendy:] Eh?
[Bev:] doggy bag when their
[Wendy:] yeah
[Bev:] in the end they do
[Wendy:] Yeah they do... but they, those others I was quite, you didn't try them on so I
[Bev:] No I forgot I was downstairs weren't I so?...
[Wendy:] buy one tomorrow [yawn] but the material is better and the shape is better
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and the stirrups are nice
[Bev:] They're smart aren't they?
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] But they've got to be long enough in the leg for me
[Wendy:] Yeah they have, but there was people the other night with that type trouser on and boots
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Yeah... when I went in the ladies loo there was one woman in there and they did look nice
[Bev:] Cord ones are beautiful
[Wendy:] Yeah well there again like I said before I tend to rub the cord and then they all
[Bev:] Everybody does
[Wendy:] Yeah I know
[Bev:] They are very stylish
[Wendy:] Yeah... I've got mine back on now
[Bev:] Eh?
[Wendy:] I've got mine back on, but it won't be long when I get out the bus mind, but [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] Say?
[Wendy:] I said I'll put my shoes back on but I don't know what my feet will be like when I get out the bus
[Bev:] yeah it's strange innit coming back?
[Wendy:] It's just as
[Bev:] Yeah but it's a clearer road as well
[Wendy:] Yeah, that's, that's fair, yeah, just a different proposition innit?
[Bev:] Well yes they're all sort of bubbly to get out there
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] We've seen it now were tired
[Wendy:] Not tired now, but I shall want a cup of tea
[Bev:] Oh yeah
[Wendy:] I might have a sausage roll [LAUGHTER]... the sandwiches are alright, but you can eat them twice as many can't you?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] You know when they're packed up like that
[Bev:] I think cos they're packed up and they're all fresh and
[Wendy:] Mm...
[Bev:] put the lettuce in and put the tomato in
[Wendy:] That's right
[Bev:] and then
[Wendy:] Oh they weren't bad at all
[Bev:] No they were very nice
[Wendy:] Mm, weren't bad at all, oh I had had something
[Bev:] but I, I couldn't of ate before we came out
[Wendy:] No, but I wish I'd brought the pork pies with me, I could of taken that, one of them
[Bev:] Yes
[Wendy:] I might eat one when I get out yeah, well whatever, just something otherwise you get up in the morning and you're starving aren't you?... Still it was well worth coming up here tonight.
[Bev:] Oh yes... [yawning] oh yeah []...
[Wendy:] Hello the thinner is really, really easy tomorrow
[Bev:] Probably do a or something
[Wendy:] Yeah could do, that's a good idea
[Bev:] cos that'll fill won't it?
[Wendy:] Yeah, I know
[Bev:] You won't have as much
[Wendy:] Oh no, we've got that other cake of yours
[Bev:] Oh yeah...
[Wendy:] No, better have your cake
[Bev:] Have my cake?
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] Well it can stay in there
[Wendy:] Well we'll have a look at it and we might have both [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] No I don't think you'll have both
[Wendy:] Why not?
[Bev:] Eat it in the evening?
[Wendy:] Eat one of them, I, we have one afternoon like we usually do, we'll have a look at it and see how big it is and all that, yours, and we'll go from there, I mean actually for us three that trifle will only do that, they're never that, that big
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] Oh, I mean if you want to put a tin of fruit with it
[Bev:] Yeah but that, that makes it large, large
[Wendy:] We'll have a look at the coffee thing
[Bev:] That looked a bit scrumptious that
[Wendy:] Yeah I'm surprised at him
[Bev:] Eh, start thinking about as much as
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] I guess I'll give him a kick up the arse if he
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Bev:] Oh he won't say no to me
[Wendy:] Oh
[Bev:] Not very often anyway
[Wendy:] Oh
[Bev:] erm
[Wendy:] [yawning] That's right []
[Bev:] yet?
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] Yeah he is... it won't be long
[Bev:] Well we'll soon know if he snores [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] oh he's awake then [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] Well he was nodding
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]... [yawn]... Oh what's the time then?
[Bev:] [yawning] Oh I don't know, I don't know []
[Wendy:] Nearly eleven, this stop
[Bev:] It is, I make it a couple of minutes past
[Wendy:] No, I think it's a good run, it can't be that late
[Bev:] Oh, we'll be in well before twelve
[Wendy:] I hope so, yeah... I wonder where we are then?
[Bev:] Isn't it clever how they changed the co costumes, er like that pink
[Wendy:] What with the lines?
[Bev:] With the black, you know it had the black bit as well
[Wendy:] Oh yes, that was brilliant I mean that man, what's his name?
[Bev:] or something
[Wendy:] A brilliant programme wasn't it?
[Bev:] Yes, always worthwhile getting one
[Wendy:] It is, I slipped up on chess one
[Bev:] That was at the front
[Wendy:] I slipped up on that chess one I got the black and white one
[Bev:] yeah
[Wendy:] Velcro
[Bev:] Velcro
[Wendy:] that's probably his professional name innit?
[Bev:] Yeah, that was her favourite one that was
[Wendy:] Zoe's was it?
[Bev:] I think that was very clever, very, very clever
[Wendy:] That's the one I liked [LAUGHTER] brilliant aren't they?
[Bev:] Well they are
[Wendy:] make a thing like that... take it to work and show the girls
[Bev:] She was brilliant
[Wendy:] Yes she was
[Bev:] I think that, which one was the other one that was
[Wendy:] I don't know because I said to you... oh I had a super view
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] that's gorgeous that is
[Bev:] They look ever so perfect
[Wendy:] have those two colours together brilliant
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] brilliant
[Bev:] They're ever so heavy them aren't they?
[Wendy:] Yeah I bet
[Bev:] Well they'll last for a long time
[Wendy:] Mm, that one, I don't know though... didn't have a blonde woman see and I never, I didn't, I didn't realise there was two and I really did not and I suddenly there's, they all come out on the ice
[Bev:] I think
[Wendy:] didn't they?
[Bev:] I'd be surprised if she never get erm, her mansion in her
[Wendy:] Her what?
[Bev:] her sort of own mansion
[Wendy:] Unless she was one of the poorest
[Jill:] She shouldn't be
[Wendy:] Well no she shouldn't be but since going she just suddenly appeared didn't she?
[Bev:] Yeah... that one
[Wendy:] Yeah but that was the dark haired one weren't it?
[Bev:] Don't matter, must of had it done
[Wendy:] Eh?
[Bev:] I think she's had it highlighted
[Wendy:] Oh
[Bev:] If you look at her face she had quite a pointed nose
[Wendy:] Oh, no I didn't really matter
[Jill:] That her?
[Bev:] she's in Washington
[Wendy:] is it really? Is she?
[Bev:] Seattle
[Wendy:] Mm... I don't know then
[Bev:] Oh this one Jane Taylor
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] [reading] A bella blo, blonde from Whitney Bay []
[Wendy:] I've got a feeling
[Bev:] cos they do, but when
[Wendy:] rings a bell
[Bev:] [reading] The top trainers at home and abroad, Claire Hurst, the National and International Championships [], I've seen her on ice on the
[Wendy:] Oh I thought oh I, I, I seemed to remember the Whitney Bay bit and I mean I don't know what I've done with the blinking programme last year, I mean they're all in the magazine rack, but I don't think that one's there... that was terrific that weren't it?
[Bev:] Oh when I had this one it went over to
[Wendy:] oh
[Bev:] didn't it?
[Wendy:] Oh that's been and gone then innit? I didn't think of that you know
[Bev:] Unfortunately it went
[Wendy:] Yeah that's right, and I thought to myself what if, I wouldn't of thrown it away, I keep all my programmes
[Bev:] We should of got two really shouldn't we?
[Wendy:] Never thought of that you know... oh well, where you going
[Bev:] We learn a lot of things... but then again as I say
[Wendy:] There it goes innit?
[Bev:] Yeah, have some good times...
[Wendy:] Brilliant costumes though
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] I don't know if it tells you how much this production cost but [yawning] I know it said something about, oh [] the one thing or something... Shaun Powell, that's a nice name innit?
[Bev:] Yes I like that... that one
[Wendy:] Yeah that's it
[Bev:] that's brilliantly, very brilliant...
[Wendy:] Whoever thought those up it's unreal innit?... That was particularly good weren't it?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] That really was
[Bev:] They remind me of Liquorice All Sorts
[Wendy:] That's it, that's it yeah it's sort of that er look about it innit?... I could do with a cup of tea now I know that, oh I couldn't see that signpost...
[Bev:] I don't really know
[Wendy:] what's that then?
[Bev:] Choreography
[Wendy:] Choreography?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Oh...
[Bev:] that must be a high point in a career you know, when you first see them go out
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] of who thought it all up, the opening night
[Wendy:] I should say so... so what's he? He's the president, he's the costumier, what's this chap of travelling secateurs... [reading] we welcome you up with him, for audition please contact local show office, in city where we perform, qualify you to be a trained figure skater, at least seventeen, not older than twenty six, for further information please write to Ms at []
[Bev:] Switzerland, oh
[Wendy:] there, look
[Bev:] oh that's
[Wendy:] what?
[Bev:] Caroline, Alison
[Wendy:] Oh I see... yeah
[Bev:] They don't give you pictures of everybody
[Wendy:] No, I didn't even look at it, apart from the pictures in the book ain't they?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] You know, they are in there but
[Bev:] Oh
[Wendy:] not individually is it?
[Bev:] Yeah... I think it was Caroline
[Wendy:] Yeah... [yawning] oh dear []
[Bev:] That's the one isn't it?
[Wendy:] What? What?
[Bev:] That she
[Wendy:] That was awful them weren't it?
[Bev:] Well it has to give the effect
[Wendy:] Cor dear me, straight out
[Bev:] it has to give you that effect... I thought it was marvellous
[Wendy:] eh?
[Bev:] I thought it was marvellous
[Wendy:] So did I, well that's certainly worth the money, I know it's a lot of money
[Bev:] Oh yeah
[Wendy:] but, you do it, if you think of it individually, what are you gonna do for that money anywhere else?
[Bev:] Exactly
[Wendy:] I mean we all saved what one fifty each on it?
[Bev:] It's thirteen fifty a ticket, it's erm, I don't think you can moan at a night out for that, especially a night out like that
[Wendy:] What was that?
[speaker001:] ...
[Bev:] Anyway nobody's gonna want to get up tomorrow
[Wendy:] Sorry?
[Bev:] Nobody's gonna want to get up tomorrow
[Wendy:] Oh well shame
[Bev:] I didn't want to get up this morning so
[Wendy:] [yawning] I said to I said to Ernie [] oh you'll have to go and call her of getting out weren't it? But we were out, he was very good, I mean I know he was waiting there for us
[Bev:] But not really
[Wendy:] with all things considered we did a lot didn't we?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] And I forgot that plastic card didn't I? Anyway I get the opportunity, oh you didn't look in that box for that baby well we'll have a look first, but we do want salad cream don't we?
[Bev:] Yeah... got lettuce to eat
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] so we've got to get some... Oh we'll have to go somewhere snazzy cos I've got that black dress to wear haven't I?
[Wendy:] Oh big dance
[Bev:] Eh?
[Wendy:] big dance in May
[Bev:] Can't wear that again
[Wendy:] Oh you wore it there didn't you?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Oh
[Bev:] have to wear it to Kate's
[Wendy:] Yeah, that's an idea
[Bev:] sell it to them one of them at work
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] doesn't it?
[Wendy:] Mm, I expect so, yeah [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] You see
[Wendy:] No at Kate's it'll be nice won't it? And hopeful the weather will be better
[Bev:] I just have to make sure Mitch is nowhere near
[Wendy:] Er actually I don't even know if he'll go
[Bev:] Oh I expect so, I expect so
[Wendy:] er they'll be plenty of other people there for god sake, I mean
[Bev:] Oh, he's slimy though
[Wendy:] Mm, well he'll probably be there on Tuesday again, that's what he said
[Bev:] No that'll be the third time
[Wendy:] No, yeah, well that'd be twice we've seen him
[Bev:] Oh yeah
[Wendy:] looks like
[Bev:] looks like him
[Wendy:] looks like his night, don't it?
[Bev:] Er
[Wendy:] Probably goes in have a look, cos he's got to be thirty something, I don't know what now
[Bev:] [yawning] Oh I don't know [], you got
[Wendy:] Yeah... [yawn]
[Bev:] Yes... Don't let me swim on my back on Thursday
[Wendy:] Why?
[Bev:] If I swim on my back I don't do my front
[Wendy:] Yeah well it's not really the wisest thing to do on a Thursday night anyway
[Bev:] I cheat when I swim on my back
[Wendy:] Yeah, but not only that when you get a couple of dickheads like we had
[Bev:] Oh I know
[Wendy:] you know you've got to watch them, they're not watching you, you've got to watch them
[Bev:] That's what puts me off, when we have those two
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] and we went on that other side
[Wendy:] Well we'll have to watch it this week and if er
[Bev:] That annoys me when I get
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] people like that
[Wendy:] Well it does me on a night like that, because the majority of people are either having a damn good lazy swim
[Bev:] But there's the lanes, there are nights when it's just even lanes
[Wendy:] I know yeah
[Bev:] so they just have
[Wendy:] no, very annoying that, I mean that bloke going backwards and forwards is bad enough but
[Bev:] Oh he's a right pain
[Wendy:] but then obviously that's all he does or what he does... I mean which is
[Bev:] Yeah, but he's not a bad swimmer
[Wendy:] Well he don't seem to be a bad swimmer at all he really don't
[Bev:] he just don't like going down to the deep end
[Wendy:] Maybe... but it is difficult when people do that because I mean the majority of us are going up and down and you get this one that's going across and but the majority of people on a Tuesday night are going for a leisurely swim aren't they?
[Bev:] Yeah, they're going for a swim
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] but
[Wendy:] but not tearing about, anyway if they're of course I mean it'll be a little different this week, won't it?
[Bev:] Yeah, well you're gonna go again Tue er Monday
[Wendy:] No [yawning] Oh dear []
[Bev:] You never know Liz might come tomorrow
[Wendy:] Tomorrow?
[Bev:] er Monday...
[Wendy:] Might, well quarter past gone anyway... don't even know where we are actually
[Bev:] Just gone past Mick's Services
[Wendy:] Have we?... [yawning] oh dear, dear me []
[Bev:] [yawning] oh don't do that [] yes
[Wendy:] I think I'll have a look at this lot tomorrow actually
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] It's nice to read them because you know
[Bev:] shame we couldn't got one of them other ones last year
[Wendy:] Yeah, I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now, all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack Well have a look down there, it's just by the fridge and the card I tell you what erm, that'll have to be done by that, that cake thing you bought
[Bev:] Oh yeah
[Wendy:] I never took one blinking photograph did I?
[Bev:] Why not?
[Wendy:] People did though didn't they, anything you want down the shop?
[Michael:] Pardon?
[Wendy:] Anything you need down the shop?
[Michael:] No I don't want
[Wendy:] Nothing
[Michael:] What did Ann then just wanted to talk?
[Wendy:] Er no er it was about that jumper look
[Michael:] Oh of course yeah of course you wrote her didn't you?
[Wendy:] Yeah and er, yeah and she said I love the colours but it's coming out, it comes out a forty eight inch
[Michael:] Yeah, yeah
[Wendy:] and she said if I could try it before oh, er
[Michael:] What?
[Wendy:] no she said erm, if, if I could try it oh I wait until that blessed lot's gone
[Michael:] Do what?
[Wendy:] all that blasted lot out here
[Michael:] Oh
[Wendy:] erm, no she said if I could try it
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] erm have it made and try it
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] she said well then, then that'll be fine
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] but I said to her oh I don't think I'd have it done
[Michael:] No
[Wendy:] forty over pounds
[Michael:] Yeah just well
[Wendy:] and a forty eight
[Michael:] gotta buy gotta buy a new one innit?
[Wendy:] Well that's what I said to her you'll probably find something around, but I mean it was a nice, it is a nice pattern
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] but there's nothing smaller than the first size
[Michael:] Ha
[Wendy:] and also she said she's heard from Pauline
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and they were all fine, erm getting on with that place as good as they can
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] because erm they haven't heard about their extension
[Michael:] No
[Wendy:] and erm, she said er Pauline asked where your mother's coffee set was, little coffee cups and all that and I said I don't know I've never seen one
[Michael:] Yes
[Wendy:] well I've never seen a coffee set
[Michael:] No
[Wendy:] she said it was all packed up in a box and I said well you wouldn't see it then would you?
[Michael:] Yeah, no
[Wendy:] And she said er, I said what she want it then? So she said well must of just thought about it
[Michael:] Yeah she wants it mm
[Wendy:] and she'd like it and so she well I'll ask Jean
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] erm Jean might be going out to see that new Marks & Spencer's somewhere, there's a new big one being built out
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] it's, it's not Anne's way but it's not far I don't think
[Michael:] No, yeah
[Wendy:] and she might take Daphne with her
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and she said she'd ask them
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] but er
[Michael:] Well I don't know what she's talking about
[Wendy:] I don't know
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] what she's talking about you know, because I said well the bits that Daphne brought here
[Michael:] Yeah, well I say er I mean obviously Pauline remembers it from some when don't she?
[Wendy:] Well that's right, I mean how, how long ago nobody knows
[Michael:] must of been one mustn't they?
[Wendy:] Ah?
[Michael:] I said there must of been one
[Wendy:] Oh yeah, yeah, certainly
[Michael:] but it, it don't ring a bell with me
[Wendy:] Well I, I mean if it was wrapped up in a box
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] but Ann said erm perhaps she gave it away well she did
[Michael:] Yeah, she did give some away
[Wendy:] she did give Mrs didn't she? I mean I remembered some of it, I, I remember hearing something that she'd given some bits downstairs
[Michael:] Yeah, yeah yeah
[Wendy:] but erm, I said well I dunno, I said I, I don't ever remember seeing it
[Michael:] No
[Wendy:] but at the same time if it was, if it's in boxes you
[Michael:] Well you wouldn't
[Wendy:] you're not gonna see it
[Michael:] No
[Wendy:] but Pauline must of remembered it perhaps for the
[Michael:] All the times your mum had
[Wendy:] well any of you
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I mean wouldn't get nothing out like that
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] it must be something that they've had er they
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] had for years and erm, you know
[Michael:] Yep
[Wendy:] packed away in a box, but I suppose Pauline thought about it
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] so the problem is if nobody knows about it you start that all over again
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] don't you?
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Cos you know that, that happened before
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] when that, over the teapot
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] at er, I, I don't remember anything, anything at all, but she said, I told her about the baby, she didn't know about that
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and er, she said I, I said have you heard from Paul, because the last time I spoke to her she hadn't
[Michael:] No
[Wendy:] and she said yeah he's fine he's having a super time
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and she's heard from Tanya, one letter
[Michael:] Oh
[Wendy:] and er she was with Colin
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] but now she's moving on, and another girl's going out this week or next week to er join them
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] so, that'll be about three I think
[Michael:] Ha
[Wendy:] I can't remember, three of four perhaps
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and er she said I won't hear for a while because they're gonna move on now
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] but
[Michael:] Where they going now?
[Wendy:] Ah?
[Michael:] Where they going from Malta then?
[Wendy:] They're not in Malta they're in Australia
[Michael:] yeah
[Wendy:] yeah, went to Perth
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] to start off and then erm, I think they went for work permits or something
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] you know
[Michael:] I think so
[Wendy:] but really liking it
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] but er, she says I've gotta get off of the phone cos I've, when I, when I told him I was gonna phone you he went oh no
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Wendy:] Well he will won't he?...
[speaker001:] Morning
[Wendy:] Morning...
[speaker001:] Thirty four love... Hi you Wen
[Wendy:] Hi you, alright?
[speaker001:] Alright my girl?
[Wendy:] Yeah...
[speaker001:] Oh we've got a ...
[Wendy:] Good morning ladies...
[speaker001:] See you Bye... just a bit over is that alright? Yeah Fifty four... One eighty five then...
[Wendy:] Thank you... can I have er, a quarter of pink bon bons up the end please?... And a quarter of the chocolate ones
[speaker001:] Same bag I suppose
[Wendy:] Yeah that'll be fine, yeah... ta... thanks very much...
[speaker001:] Two eighty two then please
[Wendy:] Thanks very much...
[speaker001:] Seventeen, eighteen
[Wendy:] Thank you... I bought that card for that baby
[Michael:] Oh
[Wendy:] and she wanted salad cream
[Michael:] Oh
[Wendy:] I mean there's all that salady bits and I got
[Michael:] Yes
[Wendy:] I got some coleslaw so
[Michael:] Right
[Wendy:] perhaps make a bit more
[Michael:] Well I
[Wendy:] of it eh? they're what?
[Michael:] They're opened up now
[Wendy:] yeah... right it's the last one
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Yeah... well I say once the thing's done, then it's done innit? You, you know, I got some coleslaw, so, that'll make a bit more of that won't it?
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] And salad cream... cos you've got sausage rolls haven't you?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] So quite honestly you ought to be able to make a... a bit of something out of it... there's over there that's a pretty little card innit?
[Bev:] Mm...
[Wendy:] What's this one then?
[Bev:] For deaf people and blind
[Wendy:] Oh... well we either have that war film this afternoon or the Errol Flynn don't we?
[Bev:] Well that's a war one as well innit?
[Wendy:] Oh is it?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Oh... drinking chocolate
[Bev:] Mhm, they are nice, I'll have that one
[Wendy:] Well we still haven't got one, I know we've got the Kit-Kats, but we still haven't got bits to pick have we?
[Bev:] Well we didn't have but we have now, mm
[Wendy:] We didn't have, do you want tea now?
[Bev:] Mm please...
[Wendy:] Sets, that's a set look
[Bev:] That's what I meant
[Wendy:] Oh, I wouldn't think of that, oh dear
[Bev:] Well they're putting on a show that's what it's all about
[Wendy:] get those two done... he says he ain't got much no, but I took the bits that I wanted, and my bits... and I'll try and get on that ask to go in there is there? Just wanna put a little thing that, I mean I've written her a letter, I just put a little thing that erm
[Bev:] [singing] dooby, dooby, dooby do, dooby, dooby, do []...
[Wendy:] well I could put a little sticker on Clare's hadn't I? That little blue sticker Clare
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Yeah only I've finished the letter
[Bev:] What you got?
[Wendy:] Well I put in there would you pass this thing on, just in case there's any confusion, I put in there I hope Annalise and erm Ian liked the raincoat... and jacket for the baby...
[Bev:] She'll know what it is won't she?
[Wendy:] Eh?
[Bev:] I said she'll know what it is
[Wendy:] Yeah... do you want a biscuit or something? I just bought er the, which ones do you want?
[Bev:] I'll have a Digestive, we've got to finish them off
[Wendy:] Well yeah only we didn't really eat last night properly at all did we?
[Bev:] No... good old Flipper
[Wendy:] Do what?
[Bev:] Good old Flipper
[Wendy:] Oh is that now? Haven't had that for a long while...
[Bev:] I didn't see on there really
[Wendy:] Mm?
[Bev:] I said I didn't see on there
[Wendy:] Oh I see I know
[Bev:] yeah
[Wendy:] oh I see...
[Bev:] Should be about right shouldn't it?
[Wendy:] Mm, looks like it, pretty little cardigan innit?
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] actually down there you know
[Bev:] I'm not what you do, cos I've got to finish on the other side
[Wendy:] Mm, mm
[Bev:] so that I'll
[Wendy:] mm, I've got a long way to go yet then have I?
[Bev:] Not if erm, the longer the jumper it looks
[Wendy:] Well
[Bev:] doesn't it?
[Wendy:] wear it on, you don't know do you? I'm quite sure I don't
[Bev:] I don't know much about it
[Wendy:] No
[Bev:] but as I say I've sat and done this
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] cos I wanna do something else
[Wendy:] That's right...
[Bev:] like that?
[Wendy:] Ann said hold on to the pattern, she said I don't know what to do, erm knit them I know how she's done it, yeah
[Bev:] Well if I did all that again
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] that's gonna be quite
[Wendy:] well you'll have to see how much black there is cos
[Bev:] that'll be quite effective won't it?
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] But you see I want to put that extra bit on the bottom you see
[Wendy:] Mm, well if there's only one pocket which I'm sure there is you won't have enough
[Bev:] No...
[Wendy:] Is the back quite
[Bev:] I don't know
[Wendy:] It's a good way of doing it, innit, there's no messing about is there?... oh...
[Bev:] No start again
[Wendy:] Oh it is, oh mm
[Bev:] follow the pattern, but there again this stuff goes a long way
[Wendy:] Mm, it does
[Bev:] so I might chance it
[Wendy:] What's the needles?
[Bev:] Fours and four and a half
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] so it's not double knit?
[Wendy:] No, oh no, did I try it on smaller needles?
[Bev:] No I tried it on smaller needles
[Wendy:] You did
[Bev:] but that was on tens, I've done it on tens
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] but
[Wendy:] oh you did
[Bev:] It's just a bastard to do this rib
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] and get the rib going...
[Wendy:] Yeah I don't remember whether it was you or, or me
[Bev:] cos ours was seven red er seven blue, black
[Wendy:] Mm...
[Bev:] but if it knitted sort of like it did not before
[Wendy:] Yeah well you can leave out the pattern there can't you?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Just in case you, I reckon, I think it's too big
[Bev:] Cor, that would be
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] I wonder why, whether it would be too striking
[Wendy:] Not with the colours you've got I wouldn't of thought
[Bev:] No with erm, just the purple, you know I was gonna do it all cerise
[Wendy:] Mm, I dunno what
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] because the black's gonna take it off innit?
[Bev:] The black should take it off
[Wendy:] Mm certainly... cor look at that
[Bev:] Awful innit?
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] Oh god, were it erm awful
[Bev:] Mm... that's where they are, all yeah... cor let's have a look now and see whether
[Wendy:] Oh what's
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] No, I mean they might not be, but, I wonder, they put it in there once a month
[Bev:] Oh
[Wendy:] you know the big spread that I saw that time
[Bev:] I dunno
[Wendy:] I don't remember the paper I only look at the front and the back on a Friday, well pick it up and have a look...
[Bev:] Travel club
[Wendy:] Yeah, tell me, right that's, that's it, I thought I wore that...
[Bev:] Right theatre trip Joseph
[Wendy:] How much?
[Bev:] Seventy nine join us in a weekend trip
[Wendy:] Is that a weekend? Mm
[Bev:] Yes
[Wendy:] not bad is it?
[Bev:] Miss Saigon
[Wendy:] No I don't fancy that one... somebody I know went
[Bev:] Oh
[Wendy:] yeah, yeah...
[Bev:] Ah, but... Joseph is a sightseeing one
[Wendy:] As well
[Bev:] but Miss Saigon is a bed and breakfast
[Wendy:] Mm, well seventy nine quid is not bad you know, when you go up Saturday?
[Bev:] Thirteenth of March and fourteenth of March so
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] no look theatre trip to Joseph it says [reading] join us on a weekend trip to see one of Andrew Lloyd Webber's famous, famous, fabulous it says, that's why I try and fabulous productions, also a sightseeing tour of London, seventy nine pounds, Miss Saigon, don't miss this great opportunity to see this smash hit musical prices include bed and breakfast and a visit to Covent Garden []
[Wendy:] How much is that one?
[Bev:] Seventy nine quid... so the seats are cheaper
[Wendy:] Mm...
[Bev:] Stratford and the Cotswolds, Grand National, Lakes and Mountains, Flying Scotsman
[Wendy:] There are rather a lot you know
[Bev:] Windmills and Waterways, that's not Granada, Amsterdam
[Wendy:] Who?
[Bev:] Granada
[Wendy:] oh
[Bev:] And Amsterdam, four days, three nights, bed and break
[Wendy:] How much?
[Bev:] A hundred and thirty nine
[Wendy:] Oh that's not bad is it?
[Bev:] Euro Disney
[Wendy:] No...
[Bev:] that's not a bad price
[Wendy:] How much?
[Bev:] Fifty nine a night... Walking for Ebbw Vale Garden Festival, Chester and the North, North Wales, Portugal, two hundred and twenty or two hundred and seventy nine for eight days
[Wendy:] Not bad
[Bev:] No it's not [reading] this holiday gives you the choice of either hotels or self catering, situated in the beautiful coast coastal town of Travana, summer in cha, chateau... six days, one bed and breakfast, four half board
[Michael:] You want coal fire lighting or are you alright?
[Bev:] half board, Edinburgh Tattoos... erm Kentish Gardens and []
[Wendy:] Oh that goes round the area
[Bev:] that's a hundred and eighty nine
[Wendy:] Not bad though is it?
[Bev:] No... it don't say how long though
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] mm, I'd of thought that
[Bev:] No or Las Vegas
[Wendy:] Mm, mm
[Michael:] this weekend like, actually made my arm ache, I don't know
[Wendy:] Haven't been doing it have you?
[Michael:] What? What a long weekend for two? is it? Oh well tick me off if it does
[Wendy:] Well, let's see, you haven't been doing it, I mean regular for exercise innit?
[Bev:] Mm
[Michael:] Yeah, oh a lot of it you use all that this week? I tan your arse
[Bev:] Oh I wouldn't
[Wendy:] I don't have to be down one night then
[Michael:] Presumably yeah, I, er, ah, well you heard what I said it will be nice, he said yeah, so, after work I suppose, well before there I'll go down, he'll help himself, it's just... he can't take any more
[Wendy:] Mm
[Michael:] I said he can't take any more than what there is cos there ain't no more...
[Wendy:] Flipper
[Michael:] Mm yeah
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Michael:] Mm, what, something I what I was watching the other night erm, what on earth was, something, it was nineteen forty seven that were, it was er, it was an old repeat
[Wendy:] Mm
[Michael:] nineteen forty seven I saw the thing, not a film, a, a show
[Wendy:] A show?
[Michael:] and I thought bloody hell
[Wendy:] Bloody hell I mean a show
[Michael:] Yeah, that's that's a long
[Wendy:] I mean we've got an old Errol Flynn there
[Michael:] Yeah, ah films I mean you expect to go back, but this is, what on earth was that?
[Wendy:] Er what like a variety or what?
[Michael:] Mm or perhaps a quiz show that started then, you know.
[Wendy:] When's that Des O'Connor thing on then? That Michael Miles thing?
[Michael:] When is it?
[Wendy:] Mm
[Michael:] Dunno
[Wendy:] Not to, I know we saw it the other night didn't we?
[Michael:] Yeah, yeah
[Wendy:] I wonder
[Bev:] That's not bad is it? Miss Saigon with tickets, with staying
[Michael:] A lot about erm
[Bev:] forty two fifty
[Michael:] it was on about, last night on he'd obviously been talking about, erm people, they're trying to get a trip done, Aspect of Love
[Wendy:] What's that one then?
[Bev:] Quarter past
[Michael:] That one that Michael Ball sang in, that, that
[Bev:] Erm Andrew Lloyd Webber's
[Michael:] Mm
[Bev:] other one
[Michael:] Mm
[Bev:] with his wife
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] What
[Michael:] in
[Wendy:] Sarah Brightman?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Michael:] Oh that's fair innit yeah
[Wendy:] But there again
[Michael:] but they erm, I told what, that never arrange it and then borrow some figures
[Wendy:] Why that's right, I mean that might be the best idea in the end
[Michael:] Well yeah, we, we talk about it but
[Wendy:] didn't it? Yeah I know they did talk about this Doreen and Owen, because er
[Michael:] Michael has told us down the pub, if they had more than a week's notice
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Well no, that's right
[Michael:] Erm I'm not, you know erm, I mean
[Wendy:] Well this is why
[Michael:] er Rose would of had all four if she'd of known about it earlier
[Wendy:] But the thing is Mick you've gotta get, you know yourself sorted early enough
[Michael:] Yeah, that's right
[Wendy:] and if people don't pay then they lose them
[Bev:] If they all said yeah we'll go for them
[Michael:] As I say, if they said, you know I mean I, I don't know whether that much will take a lot
[Bev:] Typically it's their own bloody fault
[Michael:] but drop, pop it over one look
[Bev:] innit?
[Wendy:] Well I mean when they put their names down they
[Michael:] Yeah I, I don't care it happening again I tell you that
[Wendy:] Well no I'm sure it won't
[Michael:] Well it's been a
[Wendy:] What?
[Michael:] it's, it's been hassle because
[Wendy:] Do you want any more of these Bev?
[Michael:] only we, we lost sixty, sixty five pound yesterday
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Michael:] didn't we? Sixty three pound
[Wendy:] Yeah, but the whole point
[Bev:] You can go Bruges
[Wendy:] Oh
[Bev:] you know that's where
[Wendy:] Yeah, but the whole point Mick is, it's hassle
[Michael:] Yeah, yeah
[Wendy:] innit?
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I mean
[Michael:] and the annoying part about it
[Wendy:] yeah, well, that
[Michael:] for both shows because there was an extra demand
[Wendy:] Yeah, but that in itself gotta stop
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] that
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] aspect of it has gotta
[Michael:] Yeah, I mean we, we've turned to thirty three this time because it's a thirty three seater
[Wendy:] Now that can be the erm
[Michael:] Now I know it's a funny thing but this time because of demand it was forty eight, now alright out of that forty eight three was still, right one was in hospital so you can
[Wendy:] Well no you're gonna get this all
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] the time
[Michael:] Yeah but er Jill gave her her money back
[Wendy:] But the whole point is Mick you are stipulating
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] an X-seater
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] coach and if it comes out like Helen and Pete like that and they're, they're gone and the others haven't, no wonder it's been up on your wall
[Michael:] Yeah that's right
[Wendy:] but the whole point is you see, if er
[Bev:] For bedsit there's a demand for the Chippendales now then
[Wendy:] Yes she's got a list did you know?
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] yeah, well I thought she had one at
[Michael:] mm
[Wendy:] innit?
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] But the only thing, the, the next thing is now collecting the money early enough
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] and what is that June?
[Michael:] Oh I don't know when that was cos we
[Wendy:] June weren't it Bev?
[Michael:] Eleventh I think it is well anyway
[Wendy:] I know
[Bev:] It's a Thursday
[Michael:] it's a coach
[Bev:] it's a Thursday
[Wendy:] June's I know it's it's the sixth of June
[Michael:] And we shall shortly be do our
[Wendy:] right
[Michael:] And the only thing we've got on, I mean after tonight er it's got nothing to do with me anyway
[Wendy:] Kate's was June the sixth, June the seventh was the
[Michael:] June the eleventh is it, if June the eleventh is a Thursday then that's June the eleventh
[Bev:] That's the, that's the one
[Michael:] Mm
[Wendy:] Yeah, Kate's anniversary is the
[Bev:] July I thought that was
[Michael:] No They've just got land I think now. And the bungalow's too big! I mean it's erm... either get... one or two bedroomed bungalow can't you?
[Wendy:] Yeah, and I say, you know I mean obviously it's too big but I mean not from... from the point of view that... the buildings are right outside of them ain't they?
[Michael:] Mm. I think that's what... er,i as much as anything to spoil them.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] But I mean I, I see no point in all of us going out and looking for presents.
[Michael:] Mm. No.
[Bev:] Cos you only come round with
[Wendy:] Oh wha
[Bev:] little bits and
[Michael:] I mean, if we spent a tenner each. I know you get nothing for a tenner but if you spend hundred pound... you can
[Wendy:] You do.
[Michael:] get something quite nice for a hundred pound.
[Wendy:] Well I mean, but and then, I I don't know how much that garden furniture... costs.
[Michael:] That
[Wendy:] That, I mean you know it's pretty erm
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] it can be... pretty
[Michael:] I know.
[Wendy:] pricey because of what Glen and George bought!
[Michael:] Well wha, I mean before we never had a hammock weren't it?
[Wendy:] That's right.
[Michael:] Cos it got a bit pricey so I thought, we could of bought one about half.
[Wendy:] Yeah, but I, no, I did. Yeah.
[Michael:] We'd have had one but... they got dearer and dearer and dearer!
[Wendy:] Yeah, but there was no Mick. I mean th, the amount of time we have to sit in the blasted garden anyway... is er... nothing innit?... I must remember that though because erm... I mean to gi give our erm... erm
[Michael:] Time.
[Wendy:] some time... or all three of them.
[Michael:] When do you go down town?
[Wendy:] Friday.
[Michael:] Oh, not before?
[Wendy:] Well I don't know. Why?
[Michael:] Er, well, if you do and erm... don't go special, because it's er... not essen... er, it's my turn to buy the... draw prizes. I had a quick look round yesterday but I ain't got a clue!
[Wendy:] And what what
[Michael:] But anything up to you know, ten fifteen pound. Fi, pay fifteen pound first prize. Don't matter about the rest, there's some in the bird box... I can fill in, but I can't just
[Bev:] Well, isn't the Argos book out yet?
[Michael:] Mm. Yeah, suppose so.
[Bev:] I mean, the Arg
[Michael:] I dunno.
[Bev:] Argos book's got
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Bev:] everything!
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Bev:] You can sit here
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Bev:] I mean we'll, we'll have a look later
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Bev:] on.
[Michael:] Yeah. I'll
[Wendy:] Well what sort of thing? What do you want men and women or
[Michael:] Well
[Wendy:] .
[Michael:] I mean the
[Wendy:] is it
[Michael:] Because we had more money, we spent more money last time, we bought a... erm... a men's and a lady's watch and that went down a treat.
[Wendy:] Yeah, well cos that's that's
[Michael:] Well Tony won it but I mean it still went down a treat.
[Wendy:] What, so it's not
[Bev:] You want something that's universal for the first one.
[Michael:] Well not necessarily that, I mean, people buy when they go, I mean, I've always just gone straight away and got a nice bit bottle of booze... and er
[Wendy:] Yeah well something like, that can get boring!
[Michael:] Wanna drink some drink and that. But I I I'll sell more on the shop floor. But I won't sell so many in the office.
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] No. No, I mean it can get a bit of a boring
[Michael:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Wendy:] not got. I mean round Christmas and that
[Michael:] See it's
[Wendy:] it's... it's a bit of
[Michael:] Well
[Wendy:] but I mean there's so much in here. And I mean, obviously... I'm not saying that you ought to buy it anywhere else
[Michael:] No.
[Wendy:] but... but I mean I've got prizes of
[Michael:] Yeah, well er er er er
[Bev:] The
[Michael:] I I I was just thinking about a... if I couldn't find anything else... a fifteen quid voucher for somewhere.
[Wendy:] But i it's always nice to see the article... I think.
[Michael:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Wendy:] You know? It's the sort of thing you say, cor that's nice! Innit? And how much you spending?
[Bev:] Fifteen.
[Michael:] Well it's about fifteen quid and that leaves us... the opportunity to get six or eight
[Wendy:] Little-uns
[Michael:] little ones, yeah. So that'll be.
[Wendy:] Oh!
[Bev:] But erm
[Michael:] I mean, anything,i if we went to twenty it wouldn't matter.
[Wendy:] It wouldn't?
[Michael:] No, I got about forty anyway.
[Wendy:] You've done camera.
[Michael:] We done pra practically everything I should
[Wendy:] Er
[Michael:] think.
[Wendy:] Camera
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Well I mean you won't
[Bev:] Well what about a... cassette...?
[Michael:] We've done that.
[Wendy:] We've done that. Erm... I mean everything yo you can buy is in here.
[Michael:] Cordless telephone, we did that.
[Wendy:] Innit? You know?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] But you still wanna... a something. You want something for all people.
[Bev:] That's a phone's
[Michael:] Mm mm.
[Bev:] Do it?
[Wendy:] Don't you? You get, I mean, you've gotta make the people
[Michael:] Yeah, well I'll get it
[Wendy:] interested.
[Michael:] Well I I mean it doesn't matter to us as far as that goes as long as they are... erm
[Bev:] Well what the whole thing is they put
[Michael:] Get something for us out of that. You know,i i
[Bev:] They've gotta be willing to part with that bit of money.
[Michael:] No! But that don't matter cos the same ones buy er... whatever it is. But you do like to ha, give them something that... will be useful to them.
[Wendy:] Well of course you do! Course you do! Well I mean, I say you won't... actually get a better selection than looking in here... will you?
[Michael:] No.
[Wendy:] all there innit? You know.
[Michael:] Right. Oh it's... How much is that fork and spade?
[Wendy:] Thirteen
[Bev:] Thirteen
[Wendy:] pound.
[Michael:] Oh! See that.
[Bev:] You know but there again not everybody has a garden!
[Michael:] Well, doesn't matter. The majority do don't they?
[Wendy:] Well I do think the majority do, yeah.... But then you don't have something to draw the women.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I mean, I know it gets difficult. Course it does.... As I say, if you look through this book... then
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] quite honestly what you gonna find elsewhere?
[Michael:] Yeah, I I mean I,or all I I went in a single shop.
[Wendy:] No.
[Michael:] All I did was looking in the windows.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] But I mean, Gill would go out and I said I'd give her a... if if we did it... e er... turn and turn about you only have to find one about once every eight weeks like.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] And... whilst she bought the... the first one last week, Yvette, did the rest.
[Wendy:] Does she?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] So you're actually looking for one thing?
[Michael:] And then, then I will just fill in with the rest. Then you do get bottles of wine and... boxes of
[Wendy:] What about a clock?
[Michael:] We done it before. But unless it's a, no well... if it's a nice one then
[Wendy:] Hell of a selection! I know they're dear ones but... I don't think there's any more on the previous page to that one though. But it's a nice drawer I would think. If it's a, if it's a nice
[Michael:] I mean... I presume they do... erm.... That's a.
[Wendy:] Yes, no I'm right. I'm sure they do them, cos you can get them on the... Christmas club can't you? I'm sure you can get an Argos. But I don't always think personally, it's a
[Michael:] They got a... clock radio
[Wendy:] present.
[Michael:] They got an alarm radio.
[Wendy:] Yeah, when you see the thing.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Oh!
[Michael:] Course but
[Wendy:] I mean look at those, they're gorgeous aren't
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] they?
[Michael:] Well.
[Wendy:] Oh they don't?
[Michael:] They can't, they can't have them on,bu but I mean er... it's just that... always, always go round the table like... erm... the draw, the top prizes, for that, that's all we need
[Bev:] Oh that's beautiful!
[Michael:] to do.
[Wendy:] What's that? That's a bit dear!
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Wouldn't get that prize.
[Bev:] Beautiful!
[Wendy:] I can't really see it but I can see what it
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] But there's a lot there in my, on that other page why don't you go and have a look. I mean, the thing is the... they're not... you know, some of them are not that nice but er
[Bev:] Well it sells, it's got to. Can't have
[Wendy:] .
[Bev:] Well you got that one... that one
[Wendy:] The dearest one is nineteen ninety nine in that section. Right? Now that, that's a pendulum one.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] They've got three pendulum, four pendulums.
[Wendy:] That's nice, get that.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] That's a nice wall clock!
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Clock
[Bev:] Hairdryer?
[Wendy:] Have you had a wall clock or have you just had a clock?
[Michael:] No. but... no I don't she had a wall, I don't know! We've had so many over.
[Wendy:] I mean a wall clock is an nice additive to the room.
[Michael:] over five years bloody prizes!
[Wendy:] Mm!
[Michael:] It's get a bit out of hand!
[Wendy:] Well tha that's what I say!
[Michael:] It's a, I mean it were the same at Christmas weren't it? When we were going to have that... that....
[Wendy:] Yeah. Well that did
[Michael:] Because that thing didn't know what to do any more!
[Wendy:] No, well that's a
[Michael:] I bet a video recorder is now down within that... range, virtually! Settle for something. I mean it's not the best. And you get them hundred and fifty odd quid can't you now? And we one before
[Wendy:] That one was only
[Michael:] because they were... too much!
[Wendy:] Too dear! Well that one was.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I don't know what they were this year but I mean that was... not much dearer than that.
[Michael:] Who?
[Bev:] There's a?
[Michael:] ... yeah, have a think.
[Bev:] They are.... A lot of people now are collecting those.
[Wendy:] But there's two big
[Michael:] As I say, I er... well I've just said to you, I mean er... we sell... forty odd quids worth to blokes.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] The offices are... I think the offices are... I think, for the offices between them were ten pound fifty last time. Out of forty quid like.
[Wendy:] And two big wall clocks there.
[Michael:] Yeah. Good idea! I'll have a look first.
[Wendy:] I mean there's radios and
[Michael:] Yeah, I, like I say we, we done
[Wendy:] There's that.
[Michael:] we done all that erm... Wa, Walkman all that sort of thing we've done... at one time or other.
[Wendy:] Well I say... if you scout through this book Mick... they've got... an
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] an enormous range!
[Michael:] Well that's right.
[Wendy:] And if you go round the shops, yeah
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] you might find... something a little different, but I mean it's the
[Michael:] What sweets did you get?
[Wendy:] Ay?
[Michael:] What sweets you get?
[Wendy:] Erm
[Michael:] You got, they're uninteresting ain't they?
[Wendy:] Mm?
[Michael:] They're uninteresting aren't they?
[Wendy:] Uninteresting? There's nothing down there! Unless you unless you want
[Michael:] Got aren't you?
[Wendy:] There's Liquorice Allsorts there!
[Michael:] Oh! I see. You've opened them have you?
[Wendy:] Mm!... Well I, I never done the... book Mick. spotty line won't it? Well Mick, you won't find a bigger selection than Argos.
[Bev:] Mm!
[Wendy:] I I think the prices are... bloody good!
[Bev:] See it's nought point one. Oh good! Not everybody wants it.
[Wendy:] Well no, not everybody wants that sort of thing.
[Bev:] Well not everybody likes them.
[Wendy:] No, that's right! Anyway, what.
[Bev:] Yeah.... Right, do you want to stretch that? See how it is.
[Wendy:] Oh yes, that's your best bet Mick.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] Oh that's
[Wendy:] And those two big clocks there.
[Bev:] That was
[Wendy:] That would make a nice additive to anybody's house.... That's it.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I would say so.... I mean, that thing is with Argos Mick it saves you walking round the blasted town!
[Michael:] Well that's right!
[Wendy:] You know I mean
[Michael:] Well, as I say, I've been all down through the.... And as I say again, I never went into a... into the shops, I only saw the expensive stuff really.
[Wendy:] Mm. But it's the time it takes
[Michael:] You know, Rumbelows
[Wendy:] innit? You know, I mean
[Michael:] Dixons.
[Wendy:] Yeah, well they're all there but
[Michael:] But at least I,a, they're altogether you see, that's why I went round.
[Wendy:] I'm just, you know thinking of the time.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] When do you have to have it by?
[Michael:] Oh er... as long as I've got it Friday morning, but I lo, I need to know... by
[Wendy:] Why don't you then?
[Michael:] Wednesday I should think.
[Wendy:] I mean, I can go to town it's no.
[Michael:] No! No! No!
[Wendy:] It won't bother me now.
[Michael:] Well it's not necessary at all!
[Wendy:] And anyway, if you, if you run in... if you say
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] it's a wall clock. Just let's say... it's one of these wall clocks.
[Bev:] All you gotta do is is just phone up and give them your
[Wendy:] Well
[Bev:] Er, just to make sure that it's there.
[Wendy:] you could phone up and see if it's there, yeah. But, failing that, you know, if yo if you're going in town anyway I can write the ticket out cos I got one here
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] and you just walk in with it, that!
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] But if you phone up and they've got one they reserve it for you but you have to get it... that day, weren't it Bev?... So what's your next erm... they were asking on the. What's your next... item then?
[Michael:] Skittles.
[Wendy:] Skittles, that's what
[Bev:] They're good!
[Wendy:] she said. But when I
[Michael:] And they play with them
[Wendy:] Oh! Well I couldn't remember nothing about it!
[Michael:] No, I can't either. It's March, but... when in March I don't know.
[Wendy:] No, oh you're alright but I'll come in a sec.
[Michael:] And the they want me to do the....
[Wendy:] Mm.... Well that don't really interest me.
[Michael:] No.
[Wendy:] Not a bit.
[Michael:] Well, I've nearly dropped out but if you went along with
[Wendy:] Well I could come along in the evening perhaps.
[Michael:] Well... the evening, afternoon.
[Wendy:] Okay.
[Michael:] Late afternoon.
[Wendy:] Yeah. But I don't find that....
[Michael:] Well they might wanna go er... now there's two of you.
[Wendy:] Dunno.
[Michael:] Why not? No, don't know. That is the answer.
[Wendy:] I don't know. Well I suppose we.
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER] Mm mm []!
[Wendy:] That's what it seems, mine, mine goes out of town at least don't they?
[Bev:] They are here anyway.
[Wendy:] Oh I re remember that programme.
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] He likes it!
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] Oh well I'm doing this anyway.
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Don't laugh Bev!
[Bev:] Well it's boring!
[Wendy:] Right erm... what about a barometer? Have you had a barometer?
[Bev:] Prefer a wall clock.
[Wendy:] So would I. And you shut the door and out of that thing there.... That's if he's willing to go up to twenty.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Nineteen eighty nine, that's a nice one! Nice one for fourteen ninety nine!
[Bev:] I like the big tall one.
[Wendy:] Mm. Well that's nineteen eighty nine.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] But also they're fourteen ninety nine, very nice! And it's got a pendulum.... Look.
[Michael:] Oh!
[Wendy:] They're all nice aren't they?
[Michael:] I wonder what size they are? Does it say?
[Bev:] Yeah, probably.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Number four is sixteen by ten, by one and a half. Sixteen
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] and one
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] half.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Number five... is nineteen and a half by twelve by two and a half. And number six... don't tell you. Diameter eight inches across.
[Michael:] Right.
[Wendy:] Two year guarantee.... Oh, both of them here, either of those.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] But that one's not bad you
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] know.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] It's got a pendulum.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] And that's fifteen quid!
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Well wha, what I'll do, but I stick that
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] that's bit look.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I mean these are all much too much.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I'm not
[Michael:] Ooh, is that all?
[Wendy:] I don't think anybody would er... quibble about winning an any of those.
[Michael:] Alright..
[Wendy:] Right, I'm gonna go with Bevvy now.... Don't know whether Harold's at home today, cos he got all them people ain't he?
[Bev:] Mm?
[Wendy:] Caroline and Peter and... Marlin.... She's burying your wood love.
[Michael:] He does.
[Wendy:] I know.
[Michael:] like he's gonna grow trees or something!
[Bev:] I dunno!
[Wendy:] Well I dunno what you do without it, I'm telling you!.
[Bev:] Muggy.
[Michael:] Er er... oh, cos muggy out there, in the.
[Wendy:] I know that! What I just said!
[Michael:] Mm. Well my hair was wet look.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] What if he wants you to go tonight Bev?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] It will be the opportunity to post that parcel won't it?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Mm. Well I'll let him have a look later today. But I don't think you'll get a better selection than that anyway.
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] I say if you, if you did decide on something and... wanted it... give me an opportunity to post... Connie's parcel. Anyway, I doubt very much if I want to stay in all blasted week anyway! Well with this
[Michael:] Oh I don't know it's up to you.
[Wendy:] this weather and that, I mean it's... depressing innit?
[Michael:] Well I say, if we did and you just took it in and I went in the next day and picked it up.
[Wendy:] Yeah. Well it, I mean let's face it it isn't gonna be no bigger than a clock is it?
[Michael:] Well no, no. No, too right! deciding what we're meant to be having.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Lots of....
[Wendy:] Oh yeah!
[Michael:] So it can people in. And I know we have the bottles of wine. Sherry and, in town anything done tomorrow. Just phone up. I mean they, everybody knows there's only one main prize.
[Wendy:] Well....
[Michael:] That's the wo, and they're always up....
[Wendy:] Oh no, well I mean something that called out ev... once a fortnight don't you?
[Michael:] No.
[Wendy:] That not the point
[Michael:] No.
[Wendy:] is it?... I mean Christmas ones are... an enormous prize anyway aren't they?
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Bits and bobs anyway so... I ain't never won one.... Oh well... I suppose later on in the day... if you have a look. I gotta go out tomorrow anyway.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] And I mean he will determine I mean, cos I say, I gotta go go round Lesley's but... there again... there's so much on the go again.
[Michael:] Maybe. Maybe you can. One last Sunday.
[Wendy:] I'll try to.
[Michael:] Oh well we voted for you to go there last time.
[Wendy:] I know, well sounds like as well.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] That's why you said it's like at this job wasn't it?
[Michael:] Well... it's one fifty down long enough amount of time. For you to pick up a
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Michael:] a. Well I shall
[Wendy:] Pick one of them.
[Michael:] Yeah. What does it mean? Oh it's only... it's got erm... I mean I can se, see where it is and what it is in the
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] morning but... evening time I could do it love.
[Wendy:] Yeah,.
[Michael:] Mm. Mm, your.... Over the magnets, one of those little unit clap things on the... the estate where we got the car.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] I don't know, but I would imagine that.
[Wendy:] Mm?
[Bev:] I said to mum I said... works out that I get it
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] and that it's too far to walk in the mornings and that
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] I see if I can a few of erm... one of those
[Wendy:] Mm. Well I said, they know it's no problem, you said
[Michael:] No.
[Wendy:] didn't you? So er... I mean if it turned out to be twelve weeks work.
[Michael:] No, don't take this the wrong way! [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] No. I won't
[Michael:] Do you still owe me a... thirty pound?
[Bev:] Mm.
[Michael:] Ah.
[Bev:] Forgot all about it.
[Michael:] No, don't matter. [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] Oh!
[Michael:] That were part of it that's all.
[Bev:] I forgot all about it.
[Michael:] It's alright. Well I should hope somebody give it to me. I, you know, usually... for the hundred tonight I meant to be... served up one packet... and that means Wednesday buying
[Bev:] about.
[Michael:] No, that'll do anyway. What do you want.
[Wendy:] No! No no it don't! Everybody forgets something.
[Michael:] I thought you was gonna be, like that, I was just... wondering.
[Bev:] You little stirrer mum!
[Michael:] If it wasn't for that I'd I so, can't get what I should of done.
[Bev:] No, but you are actually.
[Michael:] You said it!
[Bev:] Paid my ransom!
[Michael:] Yeah. I mean they work out so regular now... that er
[Wendy:] Well I haven't worked down there lately
[Michael:] Yes, yes, yes
[Wendy:] actually.
[Michael:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Wendy:] Cos they were a pain!
[Michael:] Yeah. Too full! So that I... the last time I was down there and I... they opened up the door to go and get some cos they had hundreds in there. Thousands, in fact, I would say.
[Wendy:] What in the cupboard?
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Are they all blue though?
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Oh! Cos I thought they were doing some.
[Michael:] I bet they were, they bet there were two or three thousand of them.
[Wendy:] Yeah. But what they
[Michael:] Full.
[Wendy:] we're doing
[Michael:] Full.
[Wendy:] was getting all this enormous load of black
[Michael:] Ah.
[Wendy:] and then erm
[Michael:] Well, so you are as normal then?
[Wendy:] Well, yeah, I do what I can but
[Michael:] Well I don't think so.
[Wendy:] as I mean... I've gotta have a look at the till on that
[Michael:] Yes, but
[Wendy:] .
[Michael:] if I'd have known about that, if it goes, it goes and it don't... we should get something out of it.
[Wendy:] Well erm... I put another tripper on that.
[Michael:] No! No!
[Wendy:] And erm
[Michael:] Alright!
[Wendy:] Dunno how long that'll take for me.
[Michael:] , no.
[Wendy:] Ah?
[Michael:] You're not gonna go far or nothing with it are you?
[Wendy:] No. Yeah, I'll cut it off. Oh... now
[Michael:] Oh oh oh,!
[Wendy:] I'll cut them down then Bev, ay?
[Bev:] What?
[Wendy:] The that goes in the chipper.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] I'll cut them thin.
[Bev:] Yeah I'll
[Wendy:] Well I think you'll have to cos I don't think... don't like them too big, don't want them too big anyway do we?
[Bev:] No. Two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen... twenty two. Two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen... two, four, six, two, eight, two, fifty four, fifty five... fifty five.... Eight, ten... mm mm.
[Wendy:] ... Ay?
[Bev:] Two... mm, I'm counting now.
[Wendy:] Oh!
[Bev:] Two, four... ten,... eighty six, seven, eight ten, two, four, six.... Two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty two, twenty four, twenty six, twenty eight... thirty, two, thirty four, thirty six, thirty seven
[Wendy:] I'll be able to sew this up this afternoon.
[Bev:] Yeah. I know you said you were able to didn't you?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Oh yeah, that's good! And this' ll be your easier one to sew up cos it's blue.
[Wendy:] Yeah. These spuds aren't much good you know.
[Bev:] No?
[Wendy:] I'll have to tell him, no! He probably have to go out to where Simon went.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] No, they're ripe like hell!
[Bev:] Well it's been a very cold, cold winter.
[Wendy:] I know. It's been ice cold that's why.
[Bev:] Yep.
[Wendy:] Mind you, I still say I like the reds.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] They're a much better potato.... Well if I go on like this we'll be getting another bag next week! Oh dear! actually there but you know what I mean.
[Bev:] Yeah.... [sigh] Right.
[Wendy:] I'll go and look at that... potato thing... and the meat and then... I'll see. See what we have to do cos the meat won't take long will it?
[Bev:] Shouldn't do.
[Wendy:] I'll give Lesley a ring in a minute.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Cos she ought to be down there this morning didn't she?... We haven't seen Helen for ages now have we?
[Bev:] No ho.
[Wendy:] When she come up with them photos I suppose... was the last time weren't it? Must of been mustn't it, that day?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] What the hell is microwave film?
[Michael:] It's a load of shit!
[Wendy:] What is that then? Gotta have it.
[Bev:] You've got to have it?
[Wendy:] Yeah. No, it's still in there, this is, gotta go in the fridge for four hours.
[Bev:] It's like cling film... but it's microwave.
[Wendy:] Well what if I don't get it?
[Bev:] Must have it do you?
[Wendy:] Yeah, it says it! Take it out the foil tray... erm... put in a... well, a pyrex... and erm... cover with micro co... microwave film.
[Bev:] Cover it with a... lid.
[Wendy:] Does that matter?
[Bev:] I would imagine it's doing exactly the same.... Christ, it's only up, microwave film only just come out!
[Wendy:] Has it?
[Bev:] It ain't been out that long. Bring in your Microwave Know How.
[Wendy:] Yeah. This has gotta defrost for four hours in the fridge.
[Bev:] Oh well.
[Wendy:] Good job I almost got it weren't it?... Dunno where I gotta put it, mind but still
[Bev:] It's probably cold enough out there to... be the fridge.
[Wendy:] Ay?
[Bev:] I said it's probably cold enough out there.
[Wendy:] No, well I'll put it in.... Where's the Microwave Know How then?
[Bev:] Ah?
[Wendy:] That big one?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] I can't reach it.
[Bev:] [shouting] Bring me the little book, that might have it as well.
[Wendy:] I can't reach the big one.
[Bev:] No, the little one.
[Wendy:] Oh right.... Well I mean, they might sell it down the shop but... I never heard of it.
[Bev:] It says here
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] Cover and wrapping, wrapping food.
[Wendy:] Yeah. What in there?
[Bev:] Ah?
[Wendy:] In the microwave?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] [reading microwave book] By covering... the food during microwave cooking you can speed up the cooking procedure. This also prevents splattering and juices all over the cooker wall []. That's the gravy.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] It would be, yeah.
[Wendy:] Right. Yeah?
[Bev:] [reading] There are several ways of covering food
[Wendy:] Oh... right.
[Bev:] use a tight fit lid
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] to a dish
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] or use a saucer or plate to cover.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] Use cooking bag... cooking bags or roaster bag
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] for vegetables... and meat. Remember to replace the metal ties... provided with elastic band
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] or string.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] Cling film, plastic wrap is inva, invaluable... to all microwave users. But do remember... to puncture holes [].
[Wendy:] It's, it says that.
[Bev:] So... I would imagine... as long as you put a lid on it
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] it's doing exactly the same.
[Wendy:] The same thing. Do you do that when you do scrambled eggs then? Do you put anything on it?
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] No. Why don't that... work the same then?
[Bev:] Because it cooks at the top and then cooks inwards.
[Wendy:] Oh. My, I better go down and get cling film I suppose.
[Bev:] I wouldn't bother!
[Wendy:] Won't bother. Well we just gotta find something that's prickable then to use ain't we?
[Bev:] Plates... in the
[Wendy:] Yeah. That's wha that's what it says?
[Bev:] Yeah. I really wouldn't bother.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] Right.
[Wendy:] I wouldn't cover that anyway. So let the flavour out.... I tell you when he's coming but then I'd have the... cooker going up the... Swannee... Well, well no.
[Bev:] Just say I've popped down to see the.
[Wendy:] Yeah alright. It's only just
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] No point in.
[Bev:] Yeah, that's a.
[Wendy:] I'll say that he's gone. Well... speaking on telephone h hello love! It's Wendy. Is mum there?
[Bev:] Alright?
[Wendy:] Yeah. Why's he acting like Sam? [LAUGHTER]... About to say watch out he might shout without moving the receiver!
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] And I said he didn't. [LAUGHTER]... How are you? Yeah. Well we was coming down, now the cooker's gone up the Swannee! And he isn't erm, it lights up in the oven. I ain't got no bloody oven at the moment. It lights up but it erm... you turn to the regulo love... and it still stays... the same level which is... you know, sort of you know, little. So I've got the gas man coming tomorrow but I doubt very much he'll be able to mend it tomorrow but... but we was, we're gonna try and get down. She's ending up with a getting on to job centres and all that, you know. But ain't got nothing. But er... yeah, you ain't got nothing? No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well tha that's right ee er, I mean th there is no point in sort of getting a aggravated about it is there? None at all. So I mean she's been waiting on that erm... place down Junction Road but they, you know, we've had nothing from. No.
[Bev:] Asked her if she's signed on at Trevalle
[Wendy:] Lesley's had a letter to say from them... down the job place they ain't got nothing. Er Trevalle she's just said. Have you heard of that one? Tre, what is it?
[Bev:] Trevalle
[Wendy:] Trevalle Are you on that one? Yeah, she's on it, yeah.
[Bev:] Job Spot?
[Wendy:] Yeah. You done the lot have you? Like she has, yeah. Yeah, well I say, it's one of those things, I mean, you get bad but er... but there's bugger all you can do is there? You know?... Aha.... Mm. Well, well er well it is, because I mean so many go for the sa da damn same job don't they? But... what about yours then, any... nothing? You have? Aha. Mm. Does it? Yeah.... The other place. Mm.... Really?... Ha. Yeah see that's a problem because that's like Greatley... Greatley and Amport... cos an an, Anne was saying that wanted one in that lot which is a similar, but she couldn't have one. Yes, it's a... Yeah. Yes. It's all so petty! Innit? You know?... Ha. Yeah. Have they? They, they wanna get shot of... well they've have to change their policies I think!... Oh have they?... Aha. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh well that's not nice then is it?... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.... Oh, yeah. No. No, it's around about the off innit? You know? Yeah. Still, never mind I I hopefully it's a chance, you know? I mean erm... them solicitors sent a letter to him... we had a copy come here but erm, he's gotta pay her fifty pound a week. We ain't heard nothing! Nothing at all! So I dunno how long they're supposed to let it go on, you know?
[Bev:] Tell her he phoned you.
[Wendy:] Mm. Well she's on income support look. Thirty nine sixty something a, a week. But erm... I, you know, he he phoned again. I suppose Bev has told you this bit. He phoned, and I answered the phone look... and erm... he changed the story, he said if she wants any money I'll let her have some. And I said, too late! I said you've got it writing... and in the solicitor's letter, she said in there that erm... he must get in, if he don't understand it or er don't agree or whatever... he must get the solicitor but er... ain't heard, ain't nothing a about it! Not a thing! Mm. Totally, yeah! Yeah. Oh no,tha that's it, hundred percent! They get enough fees! Yeah. Yeah. Half hour. So I mean... well I suppose it's, times flitting away cos I don't suppose her solicitor will let it go on forever! They've taken out of him. Yeah. And they've taken out of his pay. Anyway, but that means going to court won't it, you see? Mm. Well that's right! Yeah. Well she she reckons, you know, on the army and that he can well afford that! And er... I say, I dunno, he might have got a solicitor, it might be all going on, who knows? No. No, it's just a case of sitting. No.... Well, well that's right, I mean, I know she's gotta send it in, I mean it's nothing, but it's something. Well nothing at all! Yeah! We see Jenny Tuesdays, have you seen her? Yeah! Well you get so bloody bored don't you? You know? It's a good night actually. Er, she goes down with a friend. Oh.... No. Well thi this is why we dunnit... quite seriously because I mean I'm bored to tears! This weather and all that and i it just... drives me daft you know? Th i it's a nothing sort of month innit, you know? No! No! In the winter you can't. No. So we... well this week on Tuesday we're erm going... swim and spa... and Rosemary and Anne and all them... er Maggie they're, they are all there so... this is what we're gonna do... try for this week and see what it's like, you know go through all the system there. But it is a night out. You know? That's right! Yeah! Yeah! Cos I say, otherwise all you do is bloody housework and go to... up the factory, you know, I mean, it's nothing! It it's bored! How's the kids then? Mm. Good. Oh well that's a... that's a help isn't it, you know? Oh really? Oh, is it hi, was it his decision? Well that's right! But I mean.... Mm! Hell of a but er... I mean last night, Val said it's alright..
[Michael:] Well those sandwiches must have been
[Wendy:] Yeah, they were nice.
[Bev:] They were nice!
[Michael:] Quite nice, yeah.
[Wendy:] Oh, they were nice..
[Bev:] I do! I I think it's fair you know.
[Wendy:] Mm. No messing about, I mean, let's be honest.
[Bev:] Oh yeah.
[Wendy:] And er... and then gotta by himself.
[Bev:] I love salad sandwiches but I hate making them!
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Too much hassle usually ain't they?
[Bev:] Well they are!
[Michael:] I mean, your mum on a Saturday used to have a gigantic... salad sandwich! Everything went in it! And that fills you up.... I'll have another plate.
[Wendy:] Well that was... that was more like a meal weren't it?
[Michael:] Well it's because you
[Wendy:] In the end.
[Michael:] you put everything in it didn't you?
[Wendy:] I did! Everything that was going I shoved in there!
[Michael:] Couldn't cut it! Couldn't get
[Wendy:] No. and it all, all fell out anyway. We got
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Well I say, I I'm really annoyed about those tops but
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] It don't matter I mean it's a change anyway but
[Michael:] It's not today you can't get them innit? It's yesterday when you bought you it.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Yeah, well that's quite a point innit?
[Michael:] Mm. Yes.
[Bev:] Well I do remember... standing there saying... oh well I can do those on top.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] So that'll be alright for tomorrow.
[Wendy:] And we haven't got any further.
[Michael:] Mm!
[Wendy:] And we should of dropped that off! have them tomorrow. I mean them... let's face it... one out the three of us should of... thought a bit more.... they are now, they the week. I suppose you dunno when he's gonna mend this cooker.
[Michael:] No.
[Wendy:] Well normally it takes at least two days
[Michael:] Well do you want?
[Wendy:] Yes!
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Well... they used, and it's only that, I don't know... o get a lorry up on a Wednesday. And that, that we only have to wait till Thursday
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] somebody else will say
[Michael:] Well they can't can they?
[Wendy:] Well somebody else to... Ay?
[Michael:] Don't worry about it!
[Wendy:] Well I know, I don't worry, it's just annoying innit?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] But somebody who broke down on a Thursday
[Michael:] Using er... use the tea caddy on that.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Like the pies that are cooked. As long as you know that your... gonna do it then you heat it
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] up in that where you are aren't they? As long
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] your pies are cooked. We've proved that they're
[Wendy:] Yeah. Oh yeah! I mean, that is a way out isn't it?
[Michael:] Be truthful.
[Bev:] Well... well let's face it, one of the girls I used to work with going up..., she never used a... ordinary oven.
[Wendy:] Didn't she?
[Bev:] Nope! Never!
[Wendy:] Mm. Well... if you're, if you're able to do what you wanna do in other ways.
[Michael:] Cos they, like the microwave, it's just lots of things.
[Wendy:] I should think they use it... you know, well Lesley does the majority of the time.
[Michael:] Right. Yeah, well Lesley's a... a little bit different. Cos I mean that's something... because they're at work they build up with
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] Oh yeah, I think that's absolutely right!
[Michael:] If you don't know any different.
[Wendy:] That's up to you.
[Michael:] Different system.
[Wendy:] Well no, not only that if it's the simplest way
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] for yourself, I suppose you carry on doing it wouldn't you?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I mean, a lot more mess and a lot more... doings the other way.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Well, the spuds are alright aren't they?
[Michael:] Mm! Nothing wrong with them. That's all I can tell you so far.
[Wendy:] The other
[Michael:] In fact
[Wendy:] of table.
[Michael:] that... Ay?
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] Oh, missed that one.
[Wendy:] Well I I was, I was wondering, see on the market generally they're whites.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] And they all come up well.
[Michael:] Well I first... well I'll try and see Sam, well... when do you need them?
[Wendy:] Oh no, I won't, I won't need them yet but
[Michael:] but you know
[Wendy:] it depends where they go along there doesn't it?
[Michael:] Well, well I say, I shall see Sam in between even if it's Friday night.
[Wendy:] Mm. It depends, I mean
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] if they go along... they might get better as you go they might get worse, who kno, who knows! But er
[Bev:] Oh isn't good!
[Michael:] Well
[Wendy:] But
[Michael:] it hurt but it's gonna feel. They'll be a result somewhere.
[Wendy:] Some of them, these are a bit hard in the middle you know.
[Michael:] What?
[Bev:] Spuds.
[Wendy:] Spuds. Mm, well I should of said, I mean like they used to.
[Michael:] That's right. I did a few of the last ones but. [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] The thing is that when you erm... if you cut them down so much you are gonna have... total saute aren't you?
[Michael:] Did you... pre-cook them?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Yeah, I did.
[Michael:] Mm. Mm.
[Wendy:] But I mean, it just means cutting them smaller actually.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Don't you?... Oh I was sick of them down there. Blame it on. Don't worry about the swimming cos we've been down there and she said yeah, I can't stir myself.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Lesley.
[Michael:] Oh!
[Wendy:] Well Jenny's asked her you see.
[Michael:] Mm.... Can't what?
[Wendy:] Stir herself.
[Michael:] Oh! I thought you said spare herself I was gonna say... what has she gotta do,?
[Bev:] He fell over then!
[Wendy:] Did he? I didn't look. She said she'd gone after that house... but she's not in the blasted catchment area though!
[Michael:] Oh Christ!
[Wendy:] You know, like that great big effort we said about.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] But... they can't sell them.
[Michael:] That's right.
[Wendy:] But, so she might stand a chance. Cos in the end I mean they've gotta sell them ain't they?
[Michael:] They're growing up in the village. And they've gone up from outside haven't they?
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] They reckon
[Michael:] , sometimes the village... catchment is not
[Wendy:] What?
[Michael:] Well... there could be no in the village... in some instances.
[Wendy:] Yeah. Well as she said, it's only minutes down the road... and they say don't come into it.
[Michael:] Mm.... And where it's at?
[Bev:] I dunno.... Well I'm not sure about them.
[Michael:] We, well it's a whole parish away.
[Wendy:] Not sure about what Bev?
[Bev:] Potatoes.
[Wendy:] Potatoes.
[Bev:] I'm afraid, some of them are alright but some of them are not.
[Wendy:] The what Mick,so sorry?
[Michael:] Well I say the er... it's a fair result... as far as catchment is concerned, it's one parish to the next.
[Wendy:] Mm. Yeah.
[Michael:] That's what parishes are all about, that's all.
[Wendy:] They never bring in any in.
[Bev:] They have to.
[Wendy:] ... they've rented out all the rented ones.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] But er... Peter's been on the ten day holiday abroad.
[Michael:] Mhm.
[Wendy:] ... got away.
[Michael:] Oh well, course.. Er well, unless they want to do a... go for a piece of this... I mean, as well anybody, if not better than anybody now.... And you just think. One meal of it at the moment.
[Bev:] Yeah. I know.
[Wendy:] Yep.
[Bev:] Well it's before innit?
[Michael:] You what? Mm. See you should do a fair amount of.
[Bev:] Oh yeah!
[Wendy:] He was doing that with business anyway.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] He said er... he got a letter from Brampton Row
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] No jobs!
[Michael:] Oh! Well there ain't... at the moment! I mean er, that's what... they've gotta get used to.
[Wendy:] Well, but whether he just
[Michael:] Yeah. I mean tha, if you got that one, you got that one but
[Bev:] If you won't, you won't.
[Michael:] Yeah, that's right.
[Wendy:] But they've lost.
[Michael:] I know!
[Wendy:] it's the situation... she said and we'll stick with it.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I said that.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] But I think you get to the stage where you don't expect to get one you know?
[Michael:] It's a and do it.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Michael:] They'll have two in one day!
[Wendy:] Well that's wha, that's the other situation innit?... Is that other bloke still there?
[Michael:] Don't know. Still not sure, I think so. I'm not sure.
[Wendy:] Well he was nice, that day you were talking about me. Chatting to the right one.
[Michael:] No, no I think so. But al although that... so Les knows the other. I mean I was I joined a while ago remember.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] Yeah, I'm not keen on them spuds.
[Michael:] No, some of the trouble. You know what it's all for. It's the, the little one.
[Wendy:] Well I should of done them all.
[Bev:] Well it's not, I'm bloated anyway. Aren't I mum?
[Wendy:] Well, so you say!
[Michael:] You were sat down.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] Now I'm on. I've come
[Michael:] I see.
[Bev:] on.
[Michael:] Ah!
[Bev:] That's why you heard me about this morning!
[Wendy:] I see!
[Michael:] Well yeah, that's the one that got out. I mean I could of gone out not long before sh... she came back though.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Did he?
[Michael:] I was most... most surprised, yeah.
[Bev:] You did?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] Cos when erm... oh crumbs! When... I pulled the toilet, I thought [whispering] oh shit []!
[Wendy:] So normally he gets up then.
[Bev:] I know. I know, that's why I don't do it in the morning.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Mum?
[Wendy:] No.
[Bev:] My nose has decided to run.
[Wendy:] Well it's alright then, it ain't... what I want personally.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Michael:] Well that's good then.
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] Ah []! Well that's good! It's on and all! I used to fill up that's why I don't work.
[Bev:] I'd rather fill up today.... I've been going, I'm going to.
[Michael:] Mhm. When?
[Bev:] Erm, it's er... it tightens your neck muscles.
[Wendy:] And it will.
[Michael:] The.
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]... We're on weight six already daddy!
[Michael:] ?
[Bev:] Twenty.
[Michael:] Oh!
[Bev:] Not bad going.
[Michael:] No, but you gotta do that.
[Bev:] Oh it is a dreary old day innit?
[Wendy:] Yep.... Oh!
[Bev:] Do you want anything here?
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] Aha []!
[Bev:] Yeah?
[Wendy:] Where's that girl from? China or somewhere is she? You know there's one beautiful Chinese or whatever! Last
[Bev:] What last night?
[Wendy:] night.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] She was dressed in one of the... outfits, and I thought well that suits you down to the ground!... Cos I like watching their faces.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] , you can see they're fed up. You can see
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] don't they?
[Bev:] They were dancing for you last night.
[Wendy:] Well, you missed... a certain amount... facewise particularly.
[Bev:] Yep.
[Wendy:] From the other side.
[Bev:] But... don't get the seats right at the bottom... next time.
[Wendy:] Ooh no! I won't!
[Bev:] No. I don't know what Helen will do now actually.
[Michael:] They didn't involve her in it did they?
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] Well, only across the other side, they sat down there.
[Michael:] That'll if they didn't, they.
[Wendy:] No. No.
[Michael:] They want the old
[Bev:] No, I thought it was excellent! I really did!
[Wendy:] That was the nicest trip weren't it?
[Bev:] Mm.
[Michael:] I say that chuck over's good you know!
[Bev:] It was really good!
[Michael:] But er, you know, I mean, I know it's only practice and you know how far you gotta be in front of the other whatever!
[Bev:] Well saying he dropped those too.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] But
[Wendy:] You know
[Michael:] He's practically running.
[Wendy:] Are those those discs or whatever you
[Michael:] Mm!
[Bev:] They were very effective!
[Wendy:] They were effective!... They caught up in the air didn't they?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I say, it's all the practice, he suddenly worked it out
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] you know?
[Michael:] Oh yeah!
[Wendy:] You're gonna drop one of those.
[Michael:] Well it's all the practice cos I mean... he was moving all the time!
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] Well he was very good!
[Wendy:] Well they all were. I mean that... that couple of blokes
[Michael:] Mm. I tell you if I had a... if I had a preference it was when everybody was on the ice.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] But I don't enjoy the ice skating that much to think... they were good at their job, yes
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] but... it don't mean nothing to me the skating.... I say, it's not that they weren't good.
[Wendy:] Well no, but I mean I'm not a lover.
[Bev:] Well I love it when they do the acrobatic part of it!
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] It's something going on innit? I mean, I like the costume, I mean I thought they
[Michael:] Well so did I! And when they were... th... the the film.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Yeah. The red buses and the... mauve ones and all that I mean they
[Michael:] Oh, they never goes up. They're just doing a... like a walk.
[Wendy:] Spectacular!
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Spectacular!
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] But that Liquorice Allsort one... I er
[Michael:] Brilliant!
[Bev:] brilliant!
[Wendy:] It was.
[Michael:] Mm. All put all their pickles on there?
[Wendy:] She did.
[Bev:] I did. Don't they look like?
[Michael:] .
[Bev:] They look like burnt!
[Michael:] [cough]
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] That was all... []!... That's what I did with a cup of tea this morning... didn't I? It was a ruddy great gulp! It's not on!
[Bev:] Yeah, you come running out of her bedroom
[Wendy:] Didn't know what to do!
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] So it's not as if we're having breathing and... didn't know what to do!... weren't it?
[Bev:] I've seen one bloke with a giro this week.
[Wendy:] What?
[Bev:] Yeah. Twenty.
[Wendy:] Well there's no today. It's not on all the time.
[Michael:] No, it's alright.
[Wendy:] Today is it?
[Michael:] Ye yeah it's er... closing
[Wendy:] The
[Michael:] .
[Wendy:] Then you got the sno, blinking snooker every night so
[Bev:] Oh.
[Wendy:] Well probably... at six.
[Michael:] I reckon the highlights... of erm... and this is what this is. Highlights.
[Wendy:] Is it?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] That is a good top innit?
[Bev:] Mm. Did you see that, which one was it? That... blue one?
[Wendy:] Blue one. Yeah.
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Yeah. Well it doesn't slide on the ice weren't it?
[Bev:] Ooh!
[Wendy:] Mm. Mm.
[Bev:] You could see in some of their eyes they were a little bit
[Wendy:] Yeah, when they er
[Michael:] [whistling]
[Wendy:] didn't they muck up the ice?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] .... It's a lot of work weren't it?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Well, I'm going to start this thing off. If I don't get on and do it... I'm never gonna get it done.
[Bev:] That, I like that!
[Wendy:] Ay? Yeah, I like that! I do. Well that is... really yo you feel good wearing that I would have thought.
[Bev:] Lot of work's gone onto them things.
[Wendy:] Have they?
[Bev:] Dowdy! She just had a black skirt.
[Wendy:] Well blimey! I don't why, should of when you were young.
[Bev:] No, well I wouldn't.
[Wendy:] one of those.
[Bev:] No, can't, too much children there.
[Wendy:] Yeah, I know it has but er... Lisa's fits you.
[Bev:] Lisa's fits me now.
[Wendy:] Well I say again, I thought they might go with the children.
[Bev:] No I meant
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] I know!
[Wendy:] It probably is erm
[Bev:] Well all... women now I don't think.
[Michael:] Put a film on?
[Bev:] Mm mm.
[Michael:] It just goes in like that.
[Bev:] Mm mm.
[Wendy:] Yes! And we.
[Michael:] Hey?
[Wendy:] Have a load of kids.
[Bev:] Real excited mother!
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah []!
[Michael:] Did you hear about the one on the seat upstairs?
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] She did that! Cos I don't care! Got more than me.
[Wendy:] We have one, it, let him know it must be how you sound.
[Bev:] Yeah, that'd be a good tester.
[Wendy:] Mm. It's er, that's not me! That's not me!
[Bev:] Oh yeah! So that we would be pleased.
[Wendy:] Well... I dunno, I'm surprised nativity's started at school now. I go... go round with the bloody out there today! At one time. I think some of them have gone now.
[Bev:] Yeah, I think you just got the gu, red one. The little red one.
[Michael:] Don't matter about that.
[Wendy:] There was another one in the
[Michael:] Yeah so
[Wendy:] drive.
[Michael:] .
[Bev:] Why put it on by the?
[Michael:] Yeah, well I don't want that, I just found... didn't wanna kick it, I
[Wendy:] I put it up that end cos I thought anybody
[Michael:] I just want
[Wendy:] sitting there that ain't got one, it's
[Michael:] Oh.
[Wendy:] it's handy.
[Michael:] Yeah, but I I
[Wendy:] Kick it off, yeah.
[Michael:] Mm. Well I used it just now that's why I knew... there was something in there.
[Bev:] What?
[Wendy:] Well that's probably before or just after a service.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] Well that's just right then.
[Wendy:] If it's ready.
[Michael:] Mm!
[Wendy:] Well if he's anything like last week he won't be!
[Bev:] Well, then he might have to... he makes a mess of that bed... I ain't made of money you know!
[Wendy:] Oh yeah.
[Bev:] .
[Wendy:] Well... when I was up there. Oh well, they find a it goes all over this.
[Bev:] Oh! jumps on, jumped all over the end of my bed last night, got the bed covers
[Wendy:] No, it wasn't th, last night, it was this morning. Oh well!
[Bev:] Well I dunno, it was a good night out.
[Michael:] It's my
[Wendy:] Ay?
[Michael:] Is it, my tape in there? Or have you changed it?
[Wendy:] I don't know what's in there. We haven't touched it.
[Michael:] Oh well if you ain't touched it, it's mine then.
[Wendy:] No we got nothing in it, unless... this, oh it's three o'clock!
[Michael:] Well, take mine out then. Don't run it back cos a... I've got so far on it.
[Bev:] Oh!
[Michael:] The Belgian one.
[Wendy:] What we were gonna do is see what this bit like
[Michael:] And you want erm
[Bev:] Can I have a
[Michael:] your old boy's network tonight?
[Wendy:] Oh yeah!
[Michael:] Oh well I shall have to watch from ten o'clock then.
[Wendy:] Well
[Michael:] There's something on the other side. No, no, no, no!
[Wendy:] No, well no, listen to me! Don't bother
[Michael:] I'm not bothered.
[Wendy:] cos I'll probably blooming watch it anyway!
[Bev:] You probably will.
[Wendy:] I probably will Mick, cos I don't
[Bev:] half past nine.
[Michael:] Well see.
[Wendy:] I don't put the light out at ten do I?
[Michael:] No, but I say, it's up to you. If you
[Wendy:] I want it
[Michael:] want it saved then
[Bev:] I told her off last week cos she was watching it!
[Wendy:] I watched half of it last week, as soon as you told me off I... I put it off.
[Bev:] Because she was having it taped and watching it! So I said that's it!
[Wendy:] Yeah I was, yeah. And it's half a blooming hour weren't it?
[Michael:] Mm. But does your thing starts at ten o'clock though?
[Bev:] That's alright, I'll let her watch it tonight.
[Wendy:] Ah yeah. No, you do what you want.
[Bev:] I've got to get my jumper finished.
[Wendy:] Oh!
[Bev:] Oh I think I'll have a bit.
[Michael:] What's this then?
[Bev:] This is Force Ten to... Navarone.
[Wendy:] Navarone or something.
[Michael:] Oh well they've just blown it up then. Oh well!
[Wendy:] Navarone, I can't have
[Michael:] Have you seen it then? Ah ah...
[Wendy:] It's not the.
[Michael:] No, but he... is it?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Oh well they've just... blown the lot up!
[Wendy:] Sorry?
[Michael:] They've just blown the lot up!
[Wendy:] Well it had to be three o'clock dunnit?... it's the dreary neighbours weren't it?
[Bev:] No,. I thought it was though.
[Wendy:] Ah that's right!... That's right, yeah! Robert Shaw.
[Michael:] Oh that's innit?
[Bev:] Oh!
[Wendy:] Harrison Ford.... Edward Fox.
[Bev:] Yeah, well I, I I saw it in the paper. I mean, you never know... erm
[Wendy:] Well it could be quite a good story.
[Bev:] Well we've got the old Errol... Flynn so I mean we have got
[Wendy:] Yeah, that's not a war one!
[Bev:] Yes but
[Wendy:] And... don't let us forget Lovejoy tonight!
[Bev:] No! But make sure we put it on the right side though! I was quite annoyed about that!
[Wendy:] Have to remember it.
[Bev:] that, yeah. Blake.
[Wendy:] Blake. At least reme... remembered.
[Bev:] Remembered.
[Michael:] though it was.
[Wendy:] Wasn't! But I thought you would of reminded me.
[Michael:] Yeah,.
[Wendy:] Ha! That'll be a.
[Bev:] Ooh, innit?
[Wendy:] Want a Kit-Kat?
[Bev:] No,.
[Michael:] Yeah, I wouldn't mind if you're going to get one. Oh,.
[Wendy:] I thought knowing me Well if I don't bring them in they'll sit in the cupboard
[Michael:] Yeah, I was going to get them down.
[Wendy:] And then we all say cor look, we haven't started them! Here are then, you ready?
[Michael:] Yep!
[Wendy:] Well you just in here.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] Oh there weren't much in
[Michael:] I like them.
[Bev:] I do!
[Wendy:] I like Kit-Kat very much! Especially these little ones.
[Bev:] The four ones are too much!
[Wendy:] Yeah, it is too much. That's too
[Bev:] Oh thank you.... Are you starting again?
[Wendy:] Well only... if it's, I mean that's decent look innit?
[Bev:] God, it's!
[Michael:] Pardon?
[Bev:] It's?
[Wendy:] It's.....
[Bev:] . Oh yeah! That's all I'm doing isn't it?
[Wendy:] Are you going up?
[Bev:] I don't know yet. See how I feel.
[Michael:] What's that?
[Bev:] Oh I'm going back to. Didn't want anyone up at the. And would you write my letters for him?
[Michael:] Up where?
[Bev:] At the doctors. You ought to have it.
[Wendy:] This one will be alright.
[Bev:] No... she's not a.
[Wendy:] Mm? That's the bloke! That's the bloke with her!
[Bev:] , that's the bloke that was in Upstairs Downstairs!
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] Isn't it?
[Wendy:] Yeah, he was but I can't remember what he was
[Bev:] Lady Hamilton's... what's a name? Colonel... it was... Colonel and somebody
[Wendy:] Mm. I can't remember.
[Bev:] that was upstairs... wasn't it?
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] or up, downstairs.
[Wendy:] Well if somebody at work or in a office, bound to have a watch. I'll take it in one week but... if not, I'll leave it there.
[Michael:] Mm. Leave it there and.
[Wendy:] Ay?
[Michael:] Let us know that you
[Bev:] Mm.
[Michael:] .
[Wendy:] Mm. Mind, she could of got that first one out. Shouldn't she?
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Oh dear oh dear!
[Bev:] Oh!.
[Wendy:] Yeah oh, I've done it now.... I think the bloody adults should wouldn't they?... Well really.... Oh my God!
[Bev:] .
[Wendy:] Is it a what?
[Bev:] .
[Wendy:] A what?
[Bev:] .
[Wendy:] Why?
[Bev:] .... What are they staying in aeroplane?
[Michael:] No., the last three missions th whatever they have they'll use
[Bev:] Oh!
[Michael:] three more of them.
[Wendy:] That's right.
[Bev:] Ask you what a are they?
[Wendy:] What are you on? What's that? Oh what, with no?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Oh! Oh! Well it's individual innit?... Well... that's a quite good one!
[Bev:] . It's on hold though.
[Wendy:] No, on that.... He knows what to do. So, he wanna be a hero I suppose doesn't he?
[Bev:] In the end... it's probably.
[Wendy:] is it?
[Bev:] Well....
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] Oh well.
[Wendy:] I don't mind.... Oh that Harrison Ford he's a... good actor I thinks.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] There's always plenty of action anyway. isn't there?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Do you wanna sweet?
[Bev:] Oh go on then! Twist my arm! I'll have a one.
[Wendy:] Do you want some chocolate?
[Bev:] I think... [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]... Yeah,.
[Bev:] Your looked at me then.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] I don't know.
[Wendy:] It is! Taking on the rest of them.
[Bev:] Hic!.... Shut up!
[Wendy:] Bloody neighbour! Bloody screeching kids! They never come in without their, screaming their damned heads off do they?
[Bev:] Ooh it smells
[Wendy:] Never have a, yeah it flipping does!...
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] That feeling, I know... little!... They've stopped.... Coming out.
[Bev:] Oh they probably don't know they're there do they? There's not many left out of the companies.
[Wendy:] No, no outcome.... But outside
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER] Have you been []?
[Wendy:] As I say, what's the point of having and the dogs?... Mm!
[Bev:] Look, the reason he jumps.
[Wendy:] Well... that was the end of that!... Don't know who that is!
[Bev:] .
[Wendy:] Is it?... Oh! I can't understand why it don't get on her nerves, but you
[Michael:] I know.
[Wendy:] can't, if people gonna ignore it
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] then er... it goes over the top of their head dunnit?
[Michael:] Well I mean what's the alternative?
[Wendy:] Why?
[Michael:] What's the alternative? You know, I mean... she either... gets on with it or gets rid of them don't she?
[Wendy:] Well no
[Michael:] It's simple!
[Wendy:] she can insulate the house.
[Michael:] Well that don't stop it from... getting on her nerves does it?
[Wendy:] Yeah, but it don't get on her nerves that's the whole point! I mean she's obviously able to throw it off. I mean, she's in there Mick.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] And when we hear it in here... she's got it worse in there cos she's in
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] there! But I mean that yesterday afternoon... you'd have thought the bloody things were in here wouldn't
[Michael:] Yes.
[Wendy:] you? That was two of them but
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] She said she didn't hear them. Yesterday afternoon, well it started off on Saturday... and he ended up outside that house... I'm outside ours... there was three cars in the drive which you cannot get! Right? So one went right across the pavement.
[Sandra:] Terrible! Yeah.
[Wendy:] Now added to that... by our wall... there was this ruddy great lorry again... it's a great bit thing with an open back right? We a long
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] open back. So they park that up on the... pavement outside our wall... didn't come to our gate... but, and then... didn't it obstruct Alan's because they had it on the pavement, so anybody going down the pavement
[Sandra:] Out in the road.
[Wendy:] had to go out in the road! So I said to Mick... I'm sure that's illegal. Well he don't know! Anyway, so... banging doors... people galore! So come yesterday... there was... people going and all this business... and it ended up... with just... her car and one red one... then the red one goes out... she goes with the woman... they're outside there... two of those bloody King Charles! And they were in the front room going wild! Then the afternoon, we'd had lunch... anyway... I'd got up out the chair, I was so bloody livid! I got up out the chair and er... went out the front door... and... I said to her for God's sake it's Sunday! What do you mean? I said well hell well you've got them going in there full pelt... you don't go in there to stop it! And she said I can't hear them when I'm outside. And I said, everybody can hear when they're walking down the pavement! And er... I said to her, you know, you must realise that... when we're in here we can hear, no, you'd of thought they was in... around our feet! Well I can't hear them! She had the door open at the moment... with these bloody dogs yapping... and she looked at me and said I can't hear them! So, I said to her right, I said... you wanna be in here... live in here... I said I'll invite you in! And she went in and shut the door! Well wha, that's it! Mick said to me, what did she say? What did she say? So I told him! And I said, you know, quite honestly Sandra she does nothing... to stop these dogs.
[Sandra:] She's deaf is she?
[Wendy:] Well I wonder if she's got a hearing problem, she'd never says she has. But you think come on! I mean! [lorry noise] I mean she had the door, the front door open! At that
[Sandra:] I'm surprised she couldn't even hear!
[Wendy:] Oh!
[Sandra:] I mean we have double glazing. The idea if you've got double glazing
[Wendy:] So have I!
[Sandra:] And yes, I can hear at my front door next door but one the window. If somebody goes up their path and she barks you can hear it!
[Wendy:] Well, I said to Mick, he's just got up now. Oh, I said to him look... I said she obviously a person that takes no notice, but she lives out in the country. Because she's in there! When it goes on inside, she's in there!
[Sandra:] I'm su sure she can't hear it.
[Wendy:] She said I can't hear it when I'm out here. So I said, well that's it! I know he don't this Sandra... and I don't care a sod! Bloody had a gutful of her! I mean, for a start I don't think she should have four dogs shout out... in there all the hours that they are! And er... I'm not saying they're ill treated... cos they're probably not, but there's different ways of ill treating isn't there?
[Sandra:] I mean they don't look scruffy
[Wendy:] Certainly!
[Sandra:] you get fed but that's about it! And they're in the warm you can't say they're
[Wendy:] No.
[Sandra:] they're not.
[Wendy:] Well I haven't seen her. I saw her that one night look... take one of those little ones... going up the road... but I've, I mean.... All these people there this weekend and I've not seen one dog go out! And I mean you don't just stand at your window... but... at some time or other
[Sandra:] Well she's probably sharing a room [LAUGHTER] with the dogs []!
[Wendy:] Well they must be!
[Sandra:] It's like living in a dog's kennel!
[Wendy:] It's only a three bedroomed bloody semi after all!
[Sandra:] Well like living in a dog's
[Wendy:] Yeah!
[Sandra:] kennel!
[Wendy:] Yep! So I said to him, right... I said we either... go... I mean I keep saying to him you've gotta do something about this! Either this plaster board holes or whatever the house... well the trouble is it costs such a lot of money
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] you know, and we are, we have got that insulating lot. Oh it's... she's cantankerous! She's... whatever you say... don't wanna know! Well I was bloody livid! I was really livid!
[Sandra:] Who's the other side... of her?
[Wendy:] Well th the bloke... but I mean he's not attached. But he's out. He's out
[Sandra:] I was gonna say the people on the other si I know
[Wendy:] No!
[Sandra:] they're not joined, so the other side never
[Wendy:] But he he always at work or somewhere! You know, I mean he's only a single bloke.
[Sandra:] Oh right.
[Wendy:] Hiya Doreen!
[Sandra:] Hello Doreen!
[Wendy:] But I mean this week... er this weekend... er, Mr died... opposite... erm, they've got a, a detached house there... and erm... somebody went
[Sandra:] Oh I saw her in Norwich. She was
[Wendy:] Did you? I didn't know anything about it you see... and all of a sudden there's two... big black cars in the road... the other day
[Sandra:] He's probably paid for two. I think Anne no
[Wendy:] I don't know.
[Sandra:] you know?
[Wendy:] Yeah. I I
[Sandra:] Karen's sister
[Wendy:] couldn't tell you but er... these cars turned up... erm, there weren't no hearse... and off they went and er... course when I went up the garden to get some washing in Claire... came up... and er... anyway she said er... about Mr and I said well I assume it was him, I saw Mrs... and she starts on about this dog barking out in the garden again! But she won't do nothing about it!
[Sandra:] Oh! One of them!
[Wendy:] I said I had a damn good go at her yesterday afternoon!
[Doreen:] Did you? What did she say?
[Wendy:] She said she didn't hear it! She was out in the front... seeing as one of her umpteen people, I mean they must pack them in!
[Doreen:] Yeah that car was still there on Friday parked, it's that brown one.
[Wendy:] Doreen if you'd have come up there Saturday
[Doreen:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] They blocked the pavement, there was three cars in the drive which you cannot get!
[Doreen:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] They blocked the pavement and there was this bloody great lorry... up against the path so anybody coming down or up the road... had to walk into the road... or co, cross the road to the other side! But yesterday afternoon... I mean, it was Sunday afternoon after all!
[Doreen:] Yeah!
[Wendy:] And she sa
[Doreen:] Well if it's like that now... in the winter you're not out much... in the summer when you're out in the garden
[Wendy:] You won't be able cos we won't be able to sit out there... and you know Claire and George? But, I mean being in their seventies, well he's eighty now!
[Sandra:] Is he?
[Wendy:] Erm... they spend lots of... afternoons sat
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] out there.
[Doreen:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] I was bloody livid!
[Sandra:] You know what to do?
[Wendy:] I just got up, got out of the chair... and went. I was absolutely furious! And then she turned round and said well I don't hear it! And I said, no but you have the door open
[Doreen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] and... these doors were going on, like they're seeing this wild woman off! Well I thought I don't but
[Sandra:] .
[Wendy:] No, I say I won't leave it now, if I get much more of it then it's the environmental health!
[Sandra:] Ah!
[Wendy:] But she's one of those cantankerous types!
[Sandra:] Yeah, she must be!
[Wendy:] But er Thanks.
[Doreen:] It don't bother her! But then I say, when you you've probably got very, very used to it!
[Wendy:] Well that's it! You know,an and Mick said to me
[Doreen:] She's must be quite lonely.
[Wendy:] you know, I mean they were so good when they came here but I mean they've been shut in for months now!
[Doreen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Months and months! So I mean, in the end... even animals can get cheesed off! No I've gotta give my arm a rest.
[Doreen:] Oh!
[Sandra:] Oh!
[Wendy:] Oh well, up a bit.
[Sandra:] Hiya!
[Wendy:] No, I say she'll er... she'll have to do something about it cos Mick said... well, he just said to me no... he said well... what can she do? Erm... she'll have to get rid of them. I said, she won't to let them bloody in! I mean that's what they say about Julia that time weren't it?
[Sandra:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Well when I went to Citizen's Advice tha that lady said... I don't think it's viable to have four dogs in... a semi- detached anyway!... That was a vet so
[Doreen:] Have you got a hanger? I've got that one
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] that broke.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Sandra:] I haven't.
[Wendy:] I bet my water.
[Sandra:] Why have you, I thought I saw one but then I thought this is staff I think.
[Wendy:] Well who's is that one then?
[Doreen:] Dunno, it was on the floor.
[Sandra:] What and that fell on the floor?
[Wendy:] Well if it was on the floor and somebody wants it they'll have to have it won't they?
[Doreen:] It's not the one I. Ooh!
[Wendy:] What's that?
[Doreen:] I didn't see the
[Wendy:] Gone through the now.
[Doreen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] It's no wonder er... that's the er... dearest show... or the most expensive show they've ever done... costume-wise... really. Very fabulous! Beautiful! Even in those seats we had were.
[Sandra:] What was that actually at... Wembley?
[Wendy:] Wembley, yeah.
[Sandra:] Wembley. Yeah.
[Wendy:] Yeah. The seats were fantastic!... That's the one I liked best, the man in the blue. Yeah, that's the one Bev liked liked best... and the merry-go-round that's just in there... cos of the fair
[Sandra:] Mm.
[Wendy:] and there's the one that linked right round. I mean that was... they... dimmed the lights so that they're not all erm... silvery grey... at one stage. I mean, it was a job to say which one
[Sandra:] I was gonna say,i it's that one.
[Wendy:] Yeah, that's the one that went over
[Sandra:] And then
[Wendy:] that was the fair. But erm... but the whole the point about this show was... three partners had stopped near the door... the whole ice was covered with people who... and er... apart from the juggler an and you know... bits
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] like that, but... but that isn't the woman. That isn't the woman. It was a blonde haired woman.
[Sandra:] Oh!
[Wendy:] But obviously she was the star when they. But the actual... main star...... is this one. He was.... Lovely when they! You know, the production?
[Sandra:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I'm sure they did do it well.... All that time... must of had a ball! I thought that was... so this is, we had a bad night's sleep! I would have said while I was putting out my washing cos I did it last night on purpose for the gas man coming in. They're all asleep next door!
[Sandra:] Yeah, they don't have to get up!
[Wendy:] No! No! Anyway, and I have one for Connie, that's the little girl over.
[Doreen:] Oh right!
[Wendy:] Yeah. Was one, there's two now. And so she's on medicine. Erm... I know, like you do these... and er... I mean I, I've heard about Alan and Sue for a long time, I know they're having a lot of bother, you know with the... decorating and all that. But she's got in there, well I hope Alan and Sue can settle now. Apparently, a lot of the trouble they had was her father! He says him to go to work and look after the kid. Well they got two kids now but the, it was then, you know? And er... Alan apparently wants to go to Spain... and Alan said well I'm not bloody working there, as he said, I don't wanna earn money like that! And course, they had,... with us you know... at one time... and now they've got that holiday again now, so I mean none of them would of been cheap... when they did it.
[Doreen:] No.
[Wendy:] And er... I didn't realise that... you know, the father had....... said about it.
[Sandra:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I didn't bloody know, I... worked it out. Well he knows he can er, start off
[Doreen:] Without any hassle.
[Sandra:] Oh!
[Wendy:] Oh! Doreen?
[Doreen:] Oh! Oh! I haven't.
[Wendy:] Beautiful it was! Really was! Well but we go.
[Doreen:] Oh lovely!
[Wendy:] Fifteen... fifteen quid seats we had. Two.
[Sandra:] Oh!
[Wendy:] And we had a nice coach this time. Oh! Somebody called Freeway Which is a lot of
[Sandra:] Kingston.
[Wendy:] Oh yeah, Kingston, yeah. It was Kingston.
[Doreen:] And you didn't look out the
[Wendy:] No. And it was a beautiful warm... comfortable. Last time we went up,la last year was when erm...... no heating like.
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] And it was an old coach. I mean, alright the heating didn't go wrong... but it wasn't that, the coach itself was... you know, really rattled! Rattled all the time!
[Sandra:] Yeah some are quite. They've got a, I think they've one ones.
[Wendy:] We had one... good one when we went to Bournemouth.
[Sandra:] They've got a double decker they use for the school run and that is absolutely on it's last legs by the look of it!
[Wendy:] Yeah, we had a double decker one time when we went to Bournemouth but I can't remember who it was. But that wasn't... old. Cos that was when Helen and... Tommy 's erm... wife left their clothes on there thinking it was staying there but it never, it came back. It was on another run, we got another coach... come back... so they had to go out to where the one it was to
[Sandra:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] pick up their clothes! But I tell you what though that erm... ice rink place... it wasn't half full! They fill them up! Masses and masses amounts of people! But that is, if you go up under your own steam I mean even dearer than the way we did it.
[Sandra:] Mind you it's getting to the end of the run as well isn't it now?
[Wendy:] Then it's
[Sandra:] London.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Then it's London.
[Sandra:] Er... you know... most of those it's sort of pre-Christmas and round Christmas.
[Wendy:] That's right. You know, like the pantos innit? Yeah, we certainly found it was a. But er, it was very good!
[Sandra:] Yeah, years ago my granddad remember, he used to take me to a... pantomime something
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Sandra:] like that.
[Doreen:] Well I suppose it's just
[Wendy:] We used to go with
[Doreen:] go into the Brownies and... I used to go Windsor every year actually with my two.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] I didn't have to pick up
[Sandra:] That erm
[Doreen:] or nothing on there.
[Sandra:] I don't know if you saw Brush Strokes? You know the sequel to that?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Sandra:] Veronica?
[Wendy:] Oh yeah!
[Sandra:] She used to be... in the pantomimes at Windsor.
[Wendy:] Oh!
[Sandra:] Yeah her... mother and father used to be... the, but they were sort of in the... always in the scene... erm, repertory and they were in charge of you know?
[Wendy:] That tree
[Sandra:] Perhaps her manager or something.
[Wendy:] whoever was in
[Sandra:] She had her sister
[Wendy:] there, it was good!
[Sandra:] the other sister as well.
[Wendy:] That was... skating all around, you know... it turned. And the eyes went up and down and then they were going up and down.
[Sandra:] Mm!
[Doreen:] Really!
[Wendy:] Almost, you know... and... they said they were better, we were right looking at the stage over this time. Last time we were over here and when it came down it... ever such a big thing! And they just go down like
[Doreen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Yeah!
[Sandra:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Yeah! Ever such a big... thing, or whatever you call it! Yeah i it's really good! And, Bev, all Bev said Liquorice Allsort through all this one.
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] she's got, but I liked those.. And of course, being so in the back seat they sort of when they, they she
[Sandra:] Mm.
[Wendy:] landed they, they they don't
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] as though they, as though they just going off!
[Doreen:] Well they slide don't they?
[Wendy:] I mean you can't see their face
[Doreen:] Face
[Wendy:] or legs or anything can you?
[Doreen:] Cos I mean the... I like the difficult
[Sandra:] [cough]
[Doreen:] with that
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] on.
[Sandra:] No.
[Doreen:] No, they come on.
[Wendy:] I didn't watch.
[Doreen:] I used to I used to do rollering a bit.
[Sandra:] though my kids both ice skating.
[Wendy:] They came down, they were altogether like that but at one point those red ones came down the ice altogether. You weren't allowed to take photographs. I took the camera, but I never used it.
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] But people were popping off again like last year. And he specifically said this bloke... none
[Doreen:] Well
[Wendy:] allowed
[Doreen:] No she didn't!
[Wendy:] Don't take any notice if they don't want.
[Sandra:] It just said no photographs inside and yet
[Wendy:] . But it was, really was
[Doreen:] It's one of things things on television... about it, you know, I mean
[Wendy:] Yeah, what the video?
[Doreen:] you see them... things going and you wonder
[Wendy:] Ya, but yeah.
[Doreen:] if they're told not to or whether they're allowed to.
[Wendy:] But I suppose the only difference in this is the.
[Doreen:] They make the bloody things with roller skates like that.
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] If it was me I'd go straight
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] over. Jason's obviously down when they've, you know well....
[Sandra:] [cough]
[Doreen:] A bit more.
[Sandra:] Oh I really buy a Range Rover.
[Wendy:] That's much better. I mean th the Around the World in Eighty Days was good.
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] But this was more...
[Sandra:] [cough]
[Wendy:] somewhere... it says about the am amounts that was spent on the costumes. Must of been... loads... and they're opening, there's a new... new stadium
[Doreen:] Yes.
[Sandra:] Yeah, in Switzerland..
[Wendy:] They're at least seventeen, not over twenty... the first figure skater.
[Doreen:] Yeah.
[Sandra:] Erm, Switzerland.
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] But somewhere it says about the amount it cost, but I mean if must be like that. Must be bad! I mean, even one's like this.
[Doreen:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] You know? But he was magnificent! Tremendous that one!. But it was, it was very good! But it shows the difference between last year and this year. When we went up to th, we had coffee and Mick had a... bottle of beer... erm, before we went in and... and last year, well you wouldn't of go, dreamed of getting a seat in that... restaurant area,yo you wouldn't! Now, this year we
[Sandra:] [cough]
[Wendy:] and there was a spare table.
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] And, the people that were milling around us when you're trying to drink a cup of coffee stood up... last year... it was just the, you know, people are not
[Sandra:] Was it the same time of the year?
[Wendy:] Yes.
[Sandra:] You didn't go earlier last year?
[Wendy:] Well I don't think so. I'd have to ask Mick but... I don't think so.
[Sandra:] I mean generally they... you know, I, that's one of the things people cut back though isn't it?
[Wendy:] Oh certainly! Certainly, because erm... I say it's... you know, it's sort of an extra innit? something innit?
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] You know? And er... but you could see it. I mean it's a huge place Doreen! Erm, probably the ice hockey or whatever like that... they
[Doreen:] [cough]
[Wendy:] but there was a hell of a lot of!
[Sandra:] Yes, they do, they do horse shows and that though
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Sandra:] don't they? That
[Wendy:] Yep!
[Sandra:] time of the year.
[Wendy:] Yep!
[Sandra:] Brian went to... see Prince, when Prince
[Wendy:] Oh yeah!
[Sandra:] he had the arena
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Sandra:] and Michael Jackson had the... stadium.
[Wendy:] Yeah. Nice place though! It's a nice though. You know, for sitting and that. Well we don't know where we are in that do we?
[Doreen:] No bit of paper.
[Sandra:] No.
[Wendy:] Walk in where you like.
[Sandra:] Yeah. That's.
[Doreen:] Mm. Whether he came in... just because of Bev or whether he'd... started on
[Sandra:] He came through, he came I mean
[Doreen:] Told you when it's, yeah he starts coming round.
[Wendy:] Well that was a few.
[Doreen:] Mm?
[Wendy:] That was a.
[Doreen:] No, as I say, he's coming anyway isn't he?
[Wendy:] I haven't got a clue to be honest, you
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] know.... If I was you.
[Doreen:] Mm?
[Wendy:] He could be on..
[Doreen:] Yeah, but those
[Sandra:] But then it would be the same, wouldn't they?
[Doreen:] Yeah. Two great..
[Wendy:] Ah! Take me out.
[Doreen:] Well yeah.
[Sandra:] Well Doreen said about going last week didn't you?
[Doreen:] do some of them
[Wendy:] [cough]
[Doreen:] there's quite a lot in there but I mean... there's only that... just that bit of bay isn't there?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] Cos all the rest have gone.
[Wendy:] That's right.
[Doreen:] They still want... that and then perhaps we're.
[Wendy:] Well you just hope that his sister's keeps running along don't you? You
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] know? I mean er... I suppose you got quite quite a few outlets now.
[Doreen:] Well I, I got quite Mm.
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] Well they got rid of all those it's the just cottages... I saw round the back.
[Wendy:] Were they?
[Doreen:] but I mean they had a lot as well at one time didn't they? And they're all gone. several notices... [LAUGHTER] come flying back [] in erm... what's her name? They've had some more of them as far as that didn't they?
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Doreen:] Well you don't wanna keep buying them do you? They're sending, they're sending a couple of.
[Wendy:] Are they?
[Doreen:] Yeah cos... they've had a lot in there but then
[Wendy:] Have they?
[Doreen:] can't keep buying them can you? And I mean
[Wendy:] No.
[Doreen:] people have gone in and bought them, that's it! cos I mean but
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] it's not... you don't wanna really.
[Wendy:] Ya. A what?
[Doreen:] They'll have no time.
[Wendy:] Oh no time left? No!
[Sandra:] Oh no!
[Wendy:] The you see these days because it's there one minute and then it's
[Doreen:] Er
[Wendy:] not is it?
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] No, right.
[Doreen:] Still there's stuff that you can do.
[Wendy:] Oh yeah..... Well I put my washing out and I thought to myself right, today.
[Doreen:] I put my out at four. he didn't have the time.
[Wendy:] I don't think he will for one minute! They, they didn't bother
[Doreen:] [cough]
[Wendy:] to come, come up on a Wednesday we're all going out for a
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] well that'll mean Thursday. But I thought well I'll get on with it, what, when they get up. I just chucked everything in that I had, did it, in the box and we were out before seven.
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] And I thought well... that way it's done innit?
[Sandra:] Get mine done. I know! Yeah.
[Doreen:] Graham likes merry hell....
[Wendy:] Oh yeah!
[Doreen:] Mm!
[Wendy:] Yeah, I know that when I
[Doreen:] The only, the only thing is she has
[Wendy:] Mm. Well course, there's gonna be a certain amount of all in the same day isn't there?
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] You know, I mean
[Doreen:] David... coming up there didn't he? I don't whether
[Wendy:] Well was there weren't he?
[Doreen:] Yeah. He seen him with her. No I mean, I don't think really that's very good at all!
[Wendy:] Yeah!
[Doreen:] But erm... I don't whether he wants to. I know Mr used to go up there cos he was still at school then and he used to go up there cos he was doing nothing but whether he... he wants her to... get a job, well... he. But so... he was on about
[Wendy:] Well er
[Doreen:] up at.
[Wendy:] Yeah?
[Doreen:] But David was saying, oh you know,.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Doreen:] So she said well but you know who's doing it she said, and they won't change or anything.
[Sandra:] No!
[Doreen:] Erm, George, Glen and Rosie, I mean I know what.
[Wendy:] Yeah. Oh I know!
[Sandra:] But, I thought it don't matter where you stay somebody's gonna say oh God, I wouldn't go there
[Wendy:] Well well that's right! Where was that person where we went... erm... we went somewhere
[Doreen:] David was it?
[Wendy:] Was it, David?
[Doreen:] Mm. Well that thing.
[Sandra:] I could hear her! But erm
[Wendy:] Dave was being. . Well I dunno where it was.
[Sandra:] Hello Wendy! I rang up.
[Wendy:] How are you?
[Sandra:] So she came out last night... cos she was away... well I left after it... No, morning. He'll be down tonight, tomorrow night and I'll guarantee it.
[Wendy:] Oh God!
[Sandra:] Well she were there for two hours just trying to.
[speaker001:] She was th there three! Excuse me!
[Sandra:] ... and, she's serious!
[Wendy:] No, Daryll, yeah I've still told her where she's gone.
[Sandra:] No, don't take them.... Just put them in there for me please? That's it.
[Wendy:] And a quarter of your please?
[Sandra:] Take these.
[Wendy:] Thank you very much.
[speaker001:] Four forty eight please.
[Wendy:] Oh that's smashing!
[Bev:] As I say, that's all dad said.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] So, I don't know. They said work from eleven point three. I mean this is the last which is there.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] From what I understand. I dunno! [sigh] Ah!... Only I've... get a if you want one.. I thought there's no point in leaving it in here.
[Wendy:] Well no!
[Bev:] It's past it isn't it?
[Wendy:] [sigh] Ah!
[Bev:] Why, why ain't that girl there then mum?
[Wendy:] What girl?
[Bev:] Erm....
[Wendy:] So that's for somebody else then? Seven pound
[Bev:] Seven pound fifty for that cut. Why what else you had?
[Wendy:] It was over seven pound.
[Bev:] Yeah, but you had a... cut and blow dry.
[Wendy:] Yeah. Yeah. Well then I did didn't I? I did. Well I wonder if there's anywhere else you know? I mean I could definitely do with these sides done.
[Bev:] Well I might ask Brenda.
[Wendy:] Oh I'll try it. Try it. You didn't!... Why's that then?
[Bev:] Mm?
[Wendy:] Well I dunno, you aren't bothered about a job are you?
[Bev:] I don't think so.
[Wendy:] Well if if you don't want it say no Bev!
[Bev:] It's not that I don't wannit.
[Wendy:] What is it then?
[Bev:] I mean it's not two pound! So
[Wendy:] Leave it then.
[Bev:] Leave it. Well no, because I've gotta give it
[Wendy:] Yeah I know, but it's no good if... you're gonna get yourself uptight about it! Just gonna go and on though aren't you? Well you can always say... you can't do it, you've got...... divorced innit? I I, there's no point Bev if it's gonna bother you! I'm telling you now! I thought you were yesterday.
[Bev:] Ay?
[Wendy:] I thought were a little bit uptight.
[Bev:] Well it's not that I'm uptight.
[Wendy:] What is it then?
[Bev:] I think it's because... I haven't done it for so long
[Wendy:] Yeah.... Well,... cos if it's any good,.
[Bev:] I want it! I don't wanna be a... failure!
[Wendy:] Who knows!
[Bev:] Exactly! And the only way I'm gonna know is if I take it.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] God it's not the right time of the bloody month!
[Wendy:] You got a couple of letters here.
[Bev:] Have I?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Where? Oh!... Oh one's a.
[Wendy:] Well I should make your mind up Bev, here and now. You really must! If you prefer not I'll, I'll say
[Bev:] No! I want it!
[Wendy:] I know you want it Bev but it's no good getting yourself uptight! It's no good at all!... No good at all! Just waffle on and be done. It's to be expected really.
[Bev:] Yeah, but then... fifty nine thirty two.
[Wendy:] What?
[Bev:] Well that's erm... cheque erm....... Well that's what I was waiting for weren't it? And then I'll get my old fixed.
[Wendy:] Well no, you must make your mind up love.
[Bev:] Real last.
[Wendy:] Yay or nay I mean there's only a possibili, what is the thing you don't know how to do?
[Bev:] Well, the word processing. But that's not it,i
[Wendy:] What is it then? I mean, it seem to me it would be an ideal one... if
[Bev:] Well it would!
[Wendy:] if, if, from what she says.
[Bev:] It would!
[Wendy:] So you take the bull by the horns or you don't!
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Or you don't.... But if yo if yo let it get you down then you don't.
[Bev:] It hasn't got me down.
[Wendy:] Mhm. Well that's what it is, apprehension's made that happen.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Certainly.
[Bev:] And you don't want that.
[Wendy:] Well, I say, he tend to go at eleven and three, so think about it.
[Bev:] Yeah, you're right. You see it's not really for me to do.
[Wendy:] I mean, from the sound of it she's... answers the telephone, does a bit of typing and
[Bev:] That girl in there though?
[Wendy:] Mm. Does a bit of typing.
[Bev:] Oh I want it! Don't get me wrong.
[Wendy:] So why not?
[Bev:] But the... you gotta expect, there's bound to be a bit of apprehension.
[Wendy:] I understand that totally. But I think it's take the bull by the horns
[Bev:] Oh yeah,
[Wendy:] and I mean let's face it... you might not like it! You might not... you might get there and you might say... oh I don't like this! But that can be the same anywhere couldn't it?
[Bev:] Yeah!
[Wendy:] If you come up my place. Which I'm sure you wouldn't like would you?
[Bev:] Ha! Okay I'm going out now.
[Wendy:] Well I suppose if you want to... work... then the first one is...
[Bev:] The first ones always can be the worst one!
[Wendy:] Ay?
[Bev:] Well, the first one's always gonna be the worst one!
[Wendy:] Mm! Certainly is! But I say, I'm sure your capable of taking the bull by the horns.
[Bev:] Oh God, yeah! I've done it before it's just I haven't done it for so long!
[Wendy:] Oh well! I mean er... that's why I never done the yesterday. I mean, it's not that she's probably gonna go after it but... I, you know, who knows! I mean they know up there because of the, of theirs. But they'll probably... rather annoying at the moment. Innit?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Well I think it's... If you want it.
[Bev:] Oh, I'll be alright now. I shall be alright now cos of Val.
[Wendy:] Yes, that's right. I mean, as I say, you might get there and you might hate it anyway.
[Bev:] Yeah, I might not even get it bu
[Wendy:] No. No, another he said was that bloke came in later. What was that man's name?
[Bev:] Clive...
[Wendy:] Clive? Clive?
[Bev:] I dunno, it was either Clive or Richard I think.
[Wendy:] I mean unless they get a temp from an agency... they gonna want somebody aren't they?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Sounds to me as though they're just... sell stuff, I I don't know! But it sounds to me as though it's taking something off the telephone, which is simple innit?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] And erm... a bit of... couple of letters typed. I mean, the re... at the least you could go and have a look I suppose if
[Bev:] Is it somewhere?
[Wendy:] He never said. He honestly never said.... It seemed to me it were the type of place you could sit and do your knitting.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] If she's sat watching them... she's pregnant but... if she'd have sat watching Neighbours... and she weren't able to... [LAUGHTER] was she []? And he did say to me... well he has spoken to me about it, he did say answering... the telephone. He said that.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] As I say, I've only met her the once. And she come up in the car for him once.... But I mean the first step is always the hardest. I mean, if... that don't only apply to you.
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] But er... if you want it an and it's... then... no harm in going and having a look! Is there? Like I say, the choice is yours hundred percent! You don't have to.
[Bev:] I want it but
[Wendy:] Well the butt of it then has gotta be go over.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I mean if, if she wanted you to go out there today, just if... then the sensible is to pick up a taxi.
[Bev:] Yeah. Well, then I know where it is.
[Wendy:] Certainly! I mean I went, I'm i if it's the place where we said it is... then, I mean it... I know we went through Thicket, yes I do! Cos I saw their horses and which I think are Moira's. But I mean... you know what I'm like in a car I just sit there and then then... your father turned in... and there was all these, where we went to get the carpet, you know? And that is as much as I can... sort of remember. But I really don't take much notice... anyway, sat in a car.
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] I don't.... Still as I say, no,th it's, it's a fair comment to say it's to be expected. But if you can overcome that... you know, by saying ah what the hell! It's either this or nothing which, which it is... and if you want it... I mean Lesley's not bothered about it cos he's giving her seven hundred quid a blooming... month! Well neither would you if yo, somebody give you seven hundred quid a month! Neither would I! For God's sake! I wouldn't get up at six, put the washing out and then go up there! Thinking.
[Bev:] But there again, one week you might, one month you might get a... one month he might give her that and... bugger all the next month!
[Wendy:] Well she says it's guilt money and that is possible.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] But, I think you're quite right in what you say. Quite right!... No doubt about that. You never know... with what she said anyway. Unpredictable. But I mean, knowing her... the... the the sa, the money she's had... she will... erm... certainly look after.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] You know? I mean she's been living off what... seventy three odd quid has she?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] So I mean there isn't anyway in the world that she's gonna bank... seven hundred quid a month! No way at all! She'll er... make the most of that because she won't... possibly... money for erm
[Bev:] Mhm.
[Wendy:] she'll want money for the deposit and... and whatever she gets.... Has there been much noise today?
[Bev:] No, but... their dogs and that.... Got a lot done this morning then?
[Wendy:] Well I did it on the way.... Why not? And stupid git there should of popped those in there! Really stupid!... Could of done that easily couldn't I?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] There's plenty time weren't there?
[Bev:] What did they think of the brochure then? The
[Wendy:] [cough] Yeah! Yeah, they did like it.... But I say, you have to be there to appreciate it don't you?
[Bev:] Oh yeah!
[Wendy:] You know?... Sorry?
[Bev:] I say, you might as well buy the other book.
[Wendy:] Mm mm.... We can go on Sunday.
[Bev:] Oh, it's going all morning. Been going all morning.
[Wendy:] Was she in there?
[Bev:] Oh she was in there.
[Wendy:] She's very isn't she?
[Bev:] Oh, well it's either that or she's just ignorant!
[Wendy:] I can hear it now.
[Bev:] Wait till he's gone out now. I think they've all gone out.
[Wendy:] Do you? Well the red car innit?
[Bev:] Yeah but I mean I only her.
[Wendy:] I'll try her again and this time let it all come out.... Impress on them that you don't wanna come out with it short. Can you?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Lorna or somebody.... Well we know, we know Lorna.... But it seems to me that Gwendoline and Margarite that... are scissor happy. Don't go in there. No I mean if the, one of the I think the situation
[Bev:] I shall alright.
[Wendy:] will change totally and I
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] mean... I don't know what this is.
[Bev:] It's just going
[Wendy:] I
[Bev:] back... after five
[Wendy:] Well
[Bev:] years.
[Wendy:] yeah, not so, so confident but if you don't make the attempt
[Bev:] Then I shall be like this every time something crops up.
[Wendy:] And you've done this all before under worse circumstances.
[Bev:] Yes.
[Wendy:] Oh well, I really do! But I think sometimes... I mean you've either got to do what you do... coming back from Germany... I think you have to take the bull by the horns don't you?
[Bev:] Oh yeah!
[Wendy:] And I tell you, I don't know what this is.
[Bev:] Well I don't.
[Wendy:] Or if it's gonna occur... but it seems to me... it would, or sounds like... it would be a simple let in... to the
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] to the situation.
[Bev:] Mm..
[Wendy:] Erm... that's only what I heard, that's all! I don't think it's a... massive place that... you know, I I just think it's like... a warehouse thing. A.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] A might be the word. I don't know! But it was no different from me starting work up here... that time
[Bev:] After so long
[Wendy:] after so long, which it was a long time. Course it isn't! It ju it's just the same. But in the end I had to do it... didn't I? Well you have to do it. If the circumstances are such... you have to do it. And er... I say, that... well purely taking the bull by the horns innit? Really?
[Bev:] I know.
[Wendy:] It's for your own benefit because
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] whatever it pays if it's, if it's better... will pay more than... obviously what you're gonna get from either or. Then go in or
[Bev:] Well I shall still get his.
[Wendy:] Yeah, I know you still get his.
[Bev:] But... I won't
[Wendy:] Well you ca
[Bev:] I won't get the income.
[Wendy:] Mm mm mm. That's right. But nevertheless... you know, if you could get it and you could manage it... it will relieve the bloody boredom wouldn't it?
[Bev:] Ya.
[Wendy:] Cos it is boring!
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Course it's boring! Boring for me! Because what is it
[Bev:] [belch] Pardon me.
[Wendy:] and that's where it should be nice... made a change didn't they?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] You know? That's where it made a difference... but I was... sticking in all the blinking week... I'll save that till he gets home but... apart from
[Bev:] That's rubbish innit?
[Wendy:] Well apart the radio... but I expect they're gonna... a radio of sorts you know? But er... no I say, the choice is yours. Certainly! Well that, the first step's some when... will have to be taken
[Bev:] Well the longer I leave it the worse it'll get.
[Wendy:] Certainly will! But then, I mean a actually I mean as I said, Lesley ain't that bothered... because of what he's giving her
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] but at the same time... she's got all lethargic... cos
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] cos she won't even go out with Jenny, look! I mean, I say, still again, I don't know whether she swims or she doesn't... but nevertheless it's an invitation out innit?
[Bev:] Well she can go to the spa bit.
[Wendy:] Well any of it! Well even if you went and watched.
[Bev:] Yeah!
[Wendy:] There was
[Bev:] At least you're out.
[Wendy:] there was people watching over the balcony last week. I saw them!
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] But I say... I believe in in one respect... alright, she's got the car... she can whip in and out... but I do believe in another respect she's got to the point where she can't be bothered!
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] And it's so easy to sit every day innit?
[Bev:] too!
[Wendy:] Anyway, so... might not get the opportunity anyway, so it might not arise. [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Well the point is, for a thing like that... if somebody else knows somebody
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] and they're willing to take you on for x... you know... erm... it just, a lot of it is... word of mouth.
[Bev:] Word of mouth these days.
[Wendy:] It is! Don't mean... there's a... what's a name in there, a waistcoat.
[Bev:] What a
[Wendy:] mohair I think.
[Bev:] Oh.
[Wendy:] But I dunno. That's your father.
[Bev:] Mm, quite nice innit? Quite a different... feel today.
[Wendy:] Mind, I get bored to tears with doing this every damn day! Bored out my skull!... Right well if I ordered another, I order from the thing.
[Bev:] Right.
[Wendy:] If I ordered another four
[Bev:] Don't do it for Friday cos you'll be out.
[Wendy:] Oh yeah. Oh well stay away from Friday then. m What I can't understand is, it happens all the time my telephone next door
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and somebody must try and get in touch with her in the evening if she's not in.
[Bev:] They must realize she does work
[Wendy:] But I mean we've had this for blooming weeks now ain't we? Er nine weeks
[Bev:] It's either the phone or the dogs or the child
[Wendy:] Mm... when you can hear the telephone like that in here, there's no wonder you can hear the rest of them
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] cos that telephone was in the hall...
[Bev:] It surprises me
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] leave it, leave it ringing so long
[Wendy:] What on the other end?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Mm, that was stupid yesterday though Mark putting that on
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] god dear me, who ever even thought of it look... stopped now
[Bev:] stopped
[Wendy:] Yeah, dependent on, I mean that's twice since I've been home innit?
[Bev:] It rang about three times this morning before you got here
[Wendy:] Obvious they're away then innit? I don't know I mean sometimes it goes and I think she's in there don't you?
[Bev:] Yeah...
[Wendy:] I wonder if all the dogs are in there?
[Bev:] Probably
[Wendy:] I thought, when I went and opened the windows I saw the other one but I didn't see the...
[Bev:] they wouldn't have room in one car for four dogs would they?
[Wendy:] I don't think they take the dogs out in the car for a run, you know, like a lot of people do
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] I don't think she puts them in the car
[Bev:] it's not the sort of car that you do that with, not with four anyway, you'd imagine them having an estate car
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] wouldn't you?
[Wendy:] Yeah, something where you can put the bar up at the back
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] and erm Val has got one ain't she, for Just
[Bev:] Yeah...
[Wendy:] Is it a telephone? It's gotta be
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] a telephone, what the hell's going on?...
[Bev:] Oh I don't know
[Wendy:] I reckon it's been brought into the front room because erm, if she shut that door for them, cos she shuts the animal in a, a room here there and bloody everywhere, it's stopped again now ain't it?
[Bev:] She might of answered it, she might be in there.
[Wendy:] Oh that's twice, a hell of a lot of time but er But they said wet and windy, but that wasn't there was it?
[Bev:] I think that was more up North.
[Wendy:] Oh, up North, right.
[Bev:] Shall I just pop that back out?
[Wendy:] Yeah Okay.... Is it open?
[Bev:] Yeah.... put anything. Put water in there. You gotta have
[Wendy:] Oh yeah.
[Bev:] liquid haven't you?
[Wendy:] Oh! No, I mean don't be like.... I say... over there and on foot. ain't it? You know.
[Bev:] Yep.
[Wendy:] At least out the way.... Cor!
[Bev:] So that can go in when we get back.
[Wendy:] Oh sorry!... But I mean if we... do go out... I, she's out whether I go in town or somewhere.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] And... then you got something simpler... for cooking tonight, don't you?
[Bev:] I don't wanna mess about it.
[Wendy:] Don't have to mess about when we get in. It's too much hassle innit?
[Bev:] Oh yeah.
[Wendy:] These plates must be your father's ain't they?
[Bev:] I would think so.
[Wendy:] Cos we didn't have any done did we?
[Bev:] No, that film last night wasn't it? Oh you've got erm
[Wendy:] Oh I got, so that's one of your father's innit?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Oh I'll put him in his side. There's a. Oh, if we lose it it's only a. I put on se, when I do the leighs I did the door on the end of it look.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] I don't bother to change.... And then next week I must order some more coal... for... but erm, I've gotta go outside here so... no good doing it for this week is it?
[Bev:] Not really.
[Wendy:] Well I mean, see you get messed about can't you?
[Bev:] Oh very easily.
[Wendy:] I mean he er... he used to as regular as clock work but... I say, and I have had those times when he comes... four o'clock- ish even... in the afternoon. Well then
[Bev:] Well that should be a
[Wendy:] the whole day's gone now. Don't let me forget them slides.
[Bev:] That'll cook an hour.
[Wendy:] Why?
[Bev:] When you put the
[Wendy:] An hour?
[Bev:] Yeah. When you get back
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] three quarters of an hour, to an hour that is done. And that
[Wendy:] Right.
[Bev:] is also... including... everything that's in there.
[Wendy:] Yeah, yeah. Right.
[Bev:] So as long as your carrots are
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] onions are
[Wendy:] So we need to be home by half past four then?
[Bev:] Well no, as long as you're onions are soft
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] so... which they do soften up
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] that's all that is.
[Wendy:] Right.
[Bev:] Cos like, it's only liquid.
[Wendy:] Yeah.... Have we go, got windows open upstairs or not?
[Bev:] Yes..
[Wendy:] Well I say, you just have to do your best, so doing... but if there's any left over it'll be, always be tomorrow look. Won't it?
[Bev:] Yeah.... vacuum cleaner on... That's that erm... about that tuck.
[Wendy:] Put that wor erm... torch back... in the car. And er... that'll be out the way won't it? And I think I'll have to... now push on about this
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] these. Cos it does
[Bev:] The idea, that's it.
[Wendy:] Well it, what... sauce do you want?
[Bev:] Well we'll have, that one will do. Oh hang on.
[Wendy:] Cos that will give you a lot. as far as I know but
[Bev:] No. Well I do. Do with some more strength, so you... he don't like at all does he?
[Wendy:] tomorrow.
[Bev:] Without a doubt.
[Wendy:] I don't think exactly what he wants cos he came back and have some more of that other thing didn't he?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] You know... if they're there, they'll have it.... We can have mash with it can't we?
[Bev:] Have what you like couldn't you? Not a problem is it?
[Wendy:] Mash is better I think. It is for you innit? You prefer that don't you?
[Bev:] Well you don't have boileds do you? So
[Wendy:] Not very often, no. Don't really like them.
[Bev:] Don't leave much does it?
[Wendy:] No.... How's your throat today?
[Bev:] Alright today. Well it's too much to know.
[Wendy:] Probably.... don't it? In her hair.
[Bev:] by with... the other day it looked clean. I come up and meet you.
[Wendy:] That's right. Yeah. Come over dunnit? Have a a bit of fresh air, it's a bit of fresh innit?
[Bev:] Well, yes.
[Wendy:] Well especially on a day like this, I mean you ca... go out on a day like today. The water in all this.
[Bev:] Is that enough?
[Wendy:] It's alright. Ah! I should think so. There'll be... plenty of the other and a... there's... gravy anyway isn't there? Which is sometimes what we have innit? Well there's always other things.
[Bev:] Cos in one respect I'd rather do... what I think is enough... but er... than too much and then feel like a bloated little
[Wendy:] Oh no, that's right. It is though innit? I mean...... there's more if you want it, you know? But
[Bev:] Oh yeah!
[Wendy:] .... Well I said, cos I said to her yesterday, it's gotta be done hasn't it? You gotta start now. waiting and waiting and then it's Christmas again innit?
[Bev:] Why, are they gonna have a?
[Wendy:] Yeah. I mean
[Bev:] Why not?
[Wendy:] Ay?
[Bev:] There's one way of doing it!
[Wendy:] Well of course there is.
[Bev:] But I mean... if I can get her to start somehow and I think it's gotta be this one. But erm
[Wendy:] If you get one going good
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] it's or.
[Bev:] Well shove it straight in there.
[Wendy:] Why?
[Bev:] don't want it left in here do we?
[Wendy:] That's why I ain't put it out yet, but we'll er... shove in everything that we can.
[Bev:] Is the... sponge supposed to be out here?
[Wendy:] Well I put it on the stuff and it's blown, I'll keep it because that's what I've just used. one thing or the other. No doubt about that.
[Bev:] Right we don't want any of this at this moment do we?
[Wendy:] No.
[Bev:] We can get that out the way. Hopefully!... Oh, so it's only a bit of corn.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] And of course, then... all good.
[Wendy:] So I rang up that si, that lot got better.
[Bev:] Did it?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] I'll go up them now then.
[Wendy:] You don't want here.
[Bev:] So... here's your bit of.... I'll have to go look for that book then won't I? That, Mick's
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] waking up.
[Wendy:] And the.
[Bev:] Ooh!
[Wendy:] That was funny weren't it?
[Bev:] I'd already got it. I said I've had it at work this morning. And Doreen said, oh we ain't got no books! So we'll now... have a look.
[Wendy:] Mm. vacuum cleaner on
[Bev:] But I don't know why it is, I think that, they were gonna bring it out then.
[Wendy:] Ay?
[Bev:] I said she'll know what it is, but
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] it sounds like. Do you want me to?
[Wendy:] No, but don't forget later on.
[Bev:] Pop down later. Later, so
[Wendy:] Well I said I wanna... I wanna wash this floor.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Well cos first of all I thought well you know, I don't wanna... not about okay.... switching off vacuum cleaner... behind the cooker innit?
[Bev:] Ah?
[Wendy:] Look at that!
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Behind the cooker somewhere.
[Bev:] Oh mine always leaks.
[Wendy:] Leak somewhere don't they?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Right,....... she thought of anybody good I suppose you'd have a you'd have a job wouldn't you? Aye.
[Bev:] Can't find anyone.
[Wendy:] That's... what?
[Bev:] I'm safe.
[Wendy:] What do you mean I'm safe?
[Bev:] In case of a fire.
[Wendy:] Yeah. Well that's why you, I bought some ones One lu... one in the bathroom and one in the landing look... and one in the... front bedroom. up there.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] A, of course, you don't remember that.... And they're normally in some,e,... windows that you have them... checks for them isn't there?
[Bev:] Not, flats you don't have.
[Wendy:] Right... well you're supposed to have fire escapes with flats. I always thought anyway. Supposed to.
[Bev:] Well I thought so.
[Wendy:] Yeah. Right.... Right.... Oops! Must use those carrots up Sunday though won't we?
[Bev:] Yeah.... Oh!, not to use that thing up.
[Wendy:] What thing?
[Bev:] Oh yeah, that's better, yes! Well that's what it's... blooming well got for innit? Use it.... These storers come apart you know.
[Wendy:] I know.
[Bev:] And I don't think we'll touch those again.... Well those potatoes didn't go bad.
[Wendy:] No.
[Bev:] pay for them. Bought them in.
[Wendy:] Yeah,. They're not working, they're not working are they?... Oh I won't bother to move that ain't going to... post out.
[Bev:] What?
[Wendy:] I said I won't bother to move that... washing.
[Bev:] Right. [radiotv on]... Want anything else to eat.
[Wendy:] No, thanks.
[Bev:] .
[Wendy:] Oh you wanna to have a look at it anyway.
[Michael:] That's right. When I move that I'll.
[Wendy:] Yeah.... Jake's going... to that place tomorrow.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] That woman, we went there haven't we?
[Michael:] Mhm. Oh yeah.
[Wendy:] And er... no point in faking it.
[Michael:] We're having a party aren't we? Well there's a... there's balloon
[Wendy:] Balloons.
[Bev:] Balloons.
[Michael:] balloons up at the door anyway.
[Wendy:] But he's got a organ now.
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Well I think it's an organ don't we?
[Michael:] What the...
[Wendy:] Yeah. It was his fault.
[Michael:] Christmas is for family.
[Wendy:] ... but er
[Bev:] [whispering] He must have [].
[Wendy:] I mean she was only seeing the last one off when I came home from work!
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Did Edith give you anything?
[Michael:] No, Edith didn't, thanks! [LAUGHTER]... I, I looking for him cos they er, I mean he is a... old farmer. Got a day off is it? Day off!
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Oh well I hope she does or we're both gonna bank on it weren't it?
[Michael:] I know. Mm.
[Bev:] It's only because it's no good.
[Michael:] This ain't no.... Well I think he will... just before I take it off and put it, and then what? I got some here haven't we?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Done one side and not the other!
[Wendy:] I think you mean, I mean you just want these.
[Michael:] No, cos they'll wanna, a square one will look alright won't it?
[Bev:] Oh, you wanna first bit of light to go along that
[Michael:] Yeah, that's right, yeah I know but I mean it run
[Wendy:] Yeah, but I mean you've gotta look at it.... Yeah that's alright isn't it?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] Or is it, cos that's what you want.
[Michael:] All depends dunnit?
[Bev:] Ye ye yeah.
[Wendy:] Ahh... yo you like that?
[Michael:] Ah, nice innit?
[Wendy:] Innit?
[Michael:] Yeah!
[Wendy:] Well that's... blooming worse family than that innit?
[Bev:] What?
[Michael:] I'm a, no.
[Bev:] Oh.
[Michael:] Ah?
[Bev:] I suppose you have to.
[Michael:] Look at that! They need some boys who haven't got a car.
[Bev:] No, well, there you go!
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] Well that's what I say, if people see it
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] I mean it might make them er... think, ooh I'd like that myself!
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] The trucks gone now. I burnt.
[Michael:] Ay?
[Wendy:] I burnt the.
[Michael:] Oh are you?
[Bev:] What?
[Wendy:] I burnt the.... No, that one won't go in, it's rubbish! Burnt that lot see, and I done some more. And er... so... and so i I never said a word to him. Edith said, have you heard anything? And so I mean I said it quite... and I said no, well they haven't come and ask me. And er... usually, never said a word... he's like a friend... and erm, this woman... who... I said to her, mind he don't do anything about this... I suppose. So, perhaps it was her or... and er... tend to like her but... but I think he, what he says he means....
[Bev:] I mean because she's been on the
[Wendy:] Oh yes.
[Bev:] and she's er.
[Wendy:] And that's poor! And I know something too but she can't.
[Bev:] Oh no doubt. I can't that girl! I tell you I.
[Wendy:] Well, certainly.
[Bev:] But I thought for a girl that's
[Wendy:] But erm.... Well we'll have to get the carpet.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Well that... what was that price for Bev?, ah!
[Bev:] How much was that then?
[Michael:] Yeah, well hopefully
[Wendy:] Well we was gonna we was gonna look in the... erm advertiser and er... big rugs. I got that advert today. But er to, she never bought her, she's never made. So she said well I'll go out then and she's lives in a massive great... she'll say to come back, so... and stuck there, well poor old Margaret....
[Michael:] No,.
[Wendy:] They're sleeping tomorrow night.
[Michael:] No.
[Wendy:] , myself... sometimes.
[Michael:] Oh, well innit?
[Wendy:] What?
[Bev:] Getting.
[Michael:] Yep.
[Wendy:] F I
[Michael:] Er er er
[Wendy:] Well it's only... some of this wallpaper tomorrow night.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Bev:] But er... anyway [a machine going]
[Wendy:] I don't know what this is like..., you go ahead love.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] radio.
[Bev:] You never know what to say about it.
[Wendy:] Oh I'm cleaning. If you just pop that down over here.
[Michael:] Yeah, I see it. It's a bank holiday that's why
[Bev:] Oh. , the cars dunnit? Oh yeah, I and slide shut you see... not used to it.
[Wendy:] Just the same?
[Bev:] No,
[Michael:] Well
[Bev:] We're just trying to find.
[Wendy:] I am.
[Michael:] Yeah, and that's... a lot more out of it.
[Bev:] Have I got it then?
[Michael:] Well th that's the... the proper but er... got to move the, move the, you
[Bev:] Oh!
[Michael:] see these.
[Bev:] Nothing wrong with it then? No problem at all is it?
[Wendy:] Well I don't know.
[Bev:] Done it!
[Wendy:] Finished?
[Bev:] Yes!
[Wendy:] Ooh!
[Bev:] Yeah, I'd like to say.
[Wendy:] Oh come.
[Bev:] Yeah. Dad had a chance to look.... You done, oh yeah you done all the washing up haven't you?
[Wendy:] Yeah.... That's why there's.... Oh, perhaps I'll try it.
[Bev:] and liked it.... Lesley says my.
[Wendy:] What?
[Bev:] So does dad. Don't she mum?
[Wendy:] What?
[Bev:] It'd be nice if he paid your bus fares for you.
[Wendy:] Oh yes.
[Bev:] [yawning] Oh dear []!
[Wendy:] Do you want any bread?
[Michael:] Yes.
[Wendy:] I don't know what it is.
[Michael:] Yours is the red one love?
[Wendy:] Mine's the red one.... Do you all want bread?
[Michael:] I don't.
[Bev:] And mine.
[Wendy:] Don't.
[Michael:] Well, that's.
[Bev:] Erm... Oh I don't know if I'll buy it. Have a look. No I won't!
[Michael:] Will.
[Bev:] I won't! Yeah..
[Michael:] Yes.
[Bev:] Well that's
[Michael:] Alright then.
[Bev:] You know what, you know what granddads... who else will have one...?
[Michael:] .
[Bev:] Well that's really what I got him so
[Wendy:] No.
[Bev:] I got a price anyway.... Well. Yeah, sell it to the bike shop.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Bev:] And I expect it might be there though now.
[Michael:] Ah, well that's right.
[Wendy:] Cos she's not fussy.
[Michael:] No.
[Bev:] But er... I ac, I hope she makes them like this. Outside. Yeah!
[Michael:] .
[Bev:] Oh yeah!
[Michael:] Fold it in half and give half of it here. Just fold it
[Wendy:] Oh right.
[Michael:] in my hand.
[Wendy:] Yeah.?
[Michael:] Ay?
[Wendy:] .
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] Oh.
[Wendy:] Oh, I got some more brandy love... and that was it.
[Michael:] Yeah erm... don't bring that er...
[Wendy:] Oh I know but look
[Michael:] .
[Wendy:] You're gonna bring that one are you?
[Michael:] Yeah.. He's gotta do...
[Wendy:] Yeah. Well that's how my bringing the boys.
[Bev:] Yeah. Erm... we'll have been then.
[Wendy:] What tonight? You can't come with me now!
[Bev:] How much of that is our?
[Wendy:] This is it, they don't dri, coming down town tomorrow.
[Bev:] Well, we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across. Who else is going? as well aren't they?
[Wendy:] Yeah, they are. Well, we'll see, I mean
[Bev:] Don't come out as much you thought it would did it?
[Wendy:] No! We'll have a look perhaps, would er I mean.... Gotta use the old packet of mince innit?
[Bev:] Yeah. Have you packed that?
[Wendy:] Not yet.
[Michael:] Not like, she'll not that.
[Bev:] Not much we felt.
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] Is it?... Got a large packet of mince though.
[Wendy:] That's right.
[Bev:] innit? He'll think you... he's done the whole lot, packet.
[Wendy:] That's not bad.
[Bev:] That's what I say. This is how I've bought mince.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] Damn give her a lot!... I did twenty six thousand I'll have you know!
[Michael:] Mm?
[Bev:] Yeah, and I'm.
[Wendy:] Oh.
[Bev:] Not a bad taste, but not got much content have they?
[Michael:] No.
[Bev:] I mean it's not an perhaps.
[Wendy:] They're a boring type!
[Bev:] Yeah, well as I say there's nothing to
[Wendy:] is there?... Two hundred and seventeen poll tax with a bit more to go on it.
[Michael:] Oh!
[Wendy:] sounds like, what is the bags or what? And what goes onto it and then he
[Michael:] Ye yeah, a bloody great bomb!
[Wendy:] Bit of a game weren't it?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I don't suppose they'll go up... twenty eight P have you? You can take from here? To near... twenty six. But to go up that bit... bit further than the other.... But I can't see any of them justifying that.
[Michael:] Well they're fair stages, I mean where does thirty four go from the top?
[Wendy:] I don't know.
[Michael:] That'll go right round the top.
[Wendy:] Well what did she say? Glen her, Glen they say, isn't it?
[Bev:] Something like that.
[Wendy:] Okay. Is it, no?
[Bev:] Mm. Probably that. That's right.
[Wendy:] Well you know... substantial rise isn't it?
[Michael:] I know.
[Bev:] Well you do that every day.
[Michael:] I know.
[Wendy:] Well if you go by by bus every morning... that's why a bus in the night, in the
[Michael:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Wendy:] the eleven o'clock bus. Unless they're gonna walk in the pouring rain, no whatever! I don't. Do you want some
[Michael:] I'm not a
[Wendy:] cake now, just here?
[Bev:] I don't want no cake.
[Wendy:] Good! Well, look I've got
[Bev:] I won't buy it.
[Wendy:] No! Ooh no!
[Michael:] [sigh] Ah []!
[Wendy:] Then if we we're going out and then we... well anyway, what's the point of in the cupboard?
[Bev:] Well that pretty tasteless.
[Wendy:] What do you want?... There you are, if your father bought that clock back.
[Michael:] Didn't.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] After all the debating and
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] We were like that weren't we?
[Bev:] Mm?
[Wendy:] We were like that. [LAUGHTER].... If you wanna refuse it.
[Bev:] like that.
[Wendy:] Well, are we gonna put Bellise on? We don't want any more... though do we?
[Michael:] No.
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] When I
[Bev:] You alright?
[Michael:] , yeah.
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] All the sweets... spoiling me!... even done the washing up now innit?
[Bev:] Ay?
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Calling you a bugger, I'm washing up! Well I know, I only do they did tonight. Gotta take them glasses haven't you?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] . Which one do you want Mick? Do you want the Swiss brown or the rest of the walnut?
[Michael:] It depends on what's happening. You know, if the wa I'll have that but... but I had the last bit before that.
[Wendy:] Fine. Alright then I'll have the walnut.
[Michael:] Right. I cut it in half last time but I've
[Wendy:] I could get us there you know? After the weekend I could get us there.
[Michael:] Oh., half past nine you know.
[Bev:] Oh we gotta find Bellise yeah? Now which
[Wendy:] Be one of yours won't it Bev?
[Bev:] [singing] Straight to my lover's heart []
[Wendy:] It's on the front of yours love.
[Bev:] See, nearly forgot it!
[Wendy:] I did. Yours.
[Bev:] Citroen.
[Wendy:] It looks like. It's nine o'clock.
[Michael:] What?
[Bev:] .
[Wendy:] What? Is that the one you're going over now?
[Bev:] in there wouldn't you?
[Michael:] Yeah, I did, that's right. That's, that's
[Bev:] What?
[Michael:] the problem.
[Bev:] What?
[Michael:] Will you stop playing with that!
[Wendy:] Well I took them both. And put them your side since we found that I did them... for you. And I don't... believe at all.
[Michael:] I only had two left.
[Wendy:] Yeah, that's right.
[Bev:] Well I think that film might be tonight.
[Wendy:] Which one?
[Bev:] The coloured one.
[Wendy:] Oh yeah. I don't know.
[Bev:] I don't know.
[Wendy:] Oh! Blimey that were quick!
[Bev:] I know.
[Wendy:] They done that one, and you're starting now. Yeah.
[Bev:] Yeah. Can't wait to go can you?
[Michael:] What?
[Bev:] Starting that film off, it's only that one.... Where is the greens?
[Wendy:] Well I could only say in the cupboard?
[Bev:] Right.
[Wendy:] What I say... only have to look.... Right.
[Michael:] Mm.... As soon as I
[Wendy:] Last one.
[Michael:] pick them up I knew that the
[Bev:] Where's the water?
[Michael:] Here.
[Bev:] Oh.
[Wendy:] Erm... at least you know I'm terribly.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] So.... That's what I to
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] do.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I mean, and that... one in Joan's... fit innit?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] That's Pippa's things. Pip will give them up.
[Michael:] Mm....
[Wendy:] Well he's had a here ain't he, tonight?
[Michael:] Hey?
[Wendy:] He's here tonight, I forgot. I gotta do all those bits and pieces tonight haven't I?
[Michael:] You oughta be on. Unless you want to see him and I'll?
[Bev:] Papa!... it's six foot this way look. There are... and across.
[Wendy:] So?
[Bev:] Well! All the same.
[Wendy:] That's right.
[Bev:] At work.... I'll have to go tomorrow if that happens.
[Wendy:] What?
[Bev:] Full swing.
[Wendy:] Why?
[Bev:] Cos I'll have to I'm afraid.
[Wendy:] Won't you? Oh you... no go, ah I see you do!
[Bev:] Mm, fluffed it up a bit here haven't you?
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] Ah, what are we now, March? Right, let's go. Twenty seven.
[Michael:] Well I'm foxed! I don't know what that means, I'll go up and get my calendar.
[Bev:] Put it in by eleven.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I'd probably have to go there on the eighth. . Twenty eight.
[Michael:] Twenty seventh, do you make it?
[Wendy:] Twenty seventh this time.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Yeah.... Well twenty eighth tomorrow.
[Bev:] Oh. Don't know, is it?
[Michael:] Yeah, it says... every fourth Friday though weren't it?
[Wendy:] I have.
[Michael:] I think.
[Bev:] Friday night I'm going out with Trisha.... Don't get s coming with us now do we?
[Michael:] No.... Okay then.
[Wendy:] Have you got a please?
[Bev:] ..
[Wendy:] No, you wanna sit here?
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] Are you sure?
[Bev:] Yes I'm alright.... Not bleeding worried, that's right!.
[Wendy:] Well... don't say it, I might have cut one off. That's a problem innit?
[Bev:] Pencil.
[Wendy:] A what? A pencil or a pen?
[Bev:] A pencil please.... Dawn's wedding should be right.
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] Shouldn't it?
[Wendy:] I don't know. together, I don't know.
[Bev:] A sign....
[Wendy:] Oh yeah! Yeah. That's right.... Did they get on alright?
[Bev:] Yeah, I do.
[Wendy:] He's older than her.... Not that one either.... This is the received one. That's the other one isn't it? Five sixty five.
[Bev:] That is
[Wendy:] Where's the other one?
[Bev:] There's a longer one.
[Wendy:] Yeah. I know. Well I've got that to do.... Well I just leave that one in here
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] do we?... Right. Whe where is this? This i this is Bellise is it?
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Oh pa!... Seen who?
[Bev:] What?
[Wendy:] .... Oh I'll that again. Oh wait a minute.
[Bev:] I wouldn't know. Didn't know that.
[Wendy:] All I've got to do when I... give the tape back... is
[Bev:] Mum!
[Wendy:] Mm?... I don't remember paper.
[Bev:] No it hasn't been.
[Wendy:] What the midweek?
[Bev:] I don't think so. I had a look for jobs.
[Wendy:] Where's that?
[Bev:] Have a look at last midweek, I threw it on the.
[Wendy:] What is this... bloody...
[Bev:] let's have a look.
[Wendy:] You want that?... Oh, it's what we're looking for isn't it? Have you seen the midweek this week? Oh, I hope I've.... I don't have to keep them, that's all, I gotta... know
[Bev:] If you've got the receipt.
[Wendy:] I've got the receipt.
[Bev:] That's alright then.
[Wendy:] I won't, besides the fact. Ain't you got
[Michael:] Well no, it's in, no it won't be.
[Wendy:] Well I could all of those letters couldn't I?
[Bev:] I dunno. Why not!
[Wendy:] Would you like there for tomorrow?
[Michael:] What?
[Wendy:] ?
[Michael:] All what?
[Bev:] I don't know.
[Wendy:] I might have put it in the... the bin.
[Michael:] Ay?
[Wendy:] I said I haven't put it in the bin.
[Bev:] Must have a few shows around you know.
[Wendy:] Well, I dunno it'll be.... Oh Christ! I think Gill will be quite pleased with that clock now.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Don't you?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Cos ooh, we have to.
[Bev:] What?
[Wendy:] Innit? The clock we bought them for Christmas.
[Bev:] What we have to leave it?
[Wendy:] No, this one. I don't know
[Bev:] Oh.
[Wendy:] what it is. In fact, I gotta
[Bev:] . But he must be an Agent sometimes?
[Wendy:] Might be what?
[Bev:] He must be an agent.
[Wendy:] What, like the
[Bev:] sometimes.
[Wendy:] I'll have a look under there, yeah. You have that and I'll get that one.... Oh, and she did get it. I think he's an agent for that. I'll ask Pete. Have a look on it.... They burn them first when you've finished. That's free.
[Bev:] Bob.
[Wendy:] Mm. I think that Bob is an agent.... Oh I've never heard such a load of bloody rubbish in my life!
[Bev:] Stop winging mother! isn't she winging?
[Wendy:] Yeah, I think it is.... Right, I haven't got any paper have I?
[Bev:] Well I only have to sell
[Wendy:] Well I don't remember what er did... at the paper.
[Bev:] I can't remember seeing it this week but I pick it up don't I? Normally.
[Wendy:] [yawning] Ooh []! Oh that was a long walk weren't it?... Lovely day though!!... And it was quite warm wasn't it?
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] I don't know whether I gotta take... what they.
[Bev:] We haven't got any bus timetables have we?
[Wendy:] No. But you can pick one up... easy enough can't we?
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Well I'll go and have a look for us at the bus stop innit?... Right, that's all I got a tape, eight o'clock innit? Eight thirty. Start at half past nine and start again at nine thirty.
[Michael:] Don't you want this then?
[Wendy:] What? What do you say?
[Michael:] I said, didn't you want this?
[Wendy:] Oh father!
[Michael:] Ay?
[Wendy:] No, I don't want this.
[Michael:] [belch]
[Bev:] But there's nothing else. Right, you better get straight with our money.
[Wendy:] Where did you have, those scissors? Where they over there?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Michael:] What are you tutting about now?
[Wendy:] No, it's the television money! Getting on well without. Mm?
[Bev:] But we could do some, they like that.
[Wendy:] Ay?
[Bev:] Dunno... if it's possible.
[Wendy:] Surely aren't that bad.
[Bev:] I would have thought they'd say. [car horn]
[Wendy:] Your grandfather!
[Bev:] Here's here! Here's here! Here's here! Put it on number four please.... Well it, a swift one weren't it?
[Wendy:] Yeah,. What have I done with? He wants to pick them up.
[Bev:] Oh.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Ha!
[Michael:] Just bought the car. ain't you? Righto! See you dad! Bye!... God that... though innit?
[Wendy:] I dunno!
[Bev:] Er, I quite like this.
[Michael:] So did I. she messes about! [LAUGHTER] That's the... the problem with that fi film weren't it?
[Wendy:] I dunno what it is! I never heard it!
[Bev:] Yes, I think so.
[Wendy:] Is it?
[Michael:] Yeah. I think so. He dies doesn't he?
[Bev:] He's dead!
[Michael:] Dead, is he?
[Bev:] Well it's supposed to be Christ.
[Michael:] Oh, I dunno. What, she's ma ma married to him is she?
[Bev:] And then you have a de, well... a devil woman... cos, cos German's won't play it.
[Michael:] Ah oh!
[Wendy:] Yeah,wo wonder why it was have they?
[Bev:] Yeah. Cos she's... cleaning him off.
[Michael:] Oh!
[Wendy:] Oh! And they won't play it all in Germany?
[Bev:] So the... women said, they were on this morning's programme.
[Wendy:] Oh!
[Bev:] They think she's the an... second one of these... the anti-Christ.
[Wendy:] Oh!
[Bev:] They won't play it.
[Wendy:] She's got quite a haunting voice. It's nice. Got a high tone.
[Bev:] Yeah.... This is the bit you don't like?
[Michael:] No.
[Bev:] Were you saying?
[Michael:] No. I like the.
[Bev:] Oh.
[Michael:] And she actually goes off the... it's on e... every hour... at least
[Bev:] Is it?
[Michael:] at least once an hour.
[Bev:] I would have said that..
[Wendy:] Don't like those do you?
[Michael:] No.
[Wendy:] .
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Bev:] That's great dad!... Well no it's
[Wendy:] Well no it's not.
[Michael:] No, it's only eight five.
[Bev:] Only eighty
[Wendy:] I see.
[Bev:] five... that's all.... Is there a romance tonight?
[Wendy:] Sorry?
[Bev:] Sam's problem..
[Wendy:] I dunno what you're on about!
[Bev:] .
[Wendy:] What this?
[Bev:] No. It's at the... Cinema.
[Wendy:] What's that?
[Michael:] Yes. [music ends; tv still on]
[Wendy:] What's happening now then?
[Michael:] I dunno what they're doing?
[Bev:] It's the paving stone or something.
[Wendy:] Ooh!
[Michael:] And it's one of these.
[Wendy:] I see what you're on about. I didn't know what you were on about!
[Bev:] I want them to stop there.... Another one of those of.
[Wendy:] Oh!... Do you want that Time Out?
[Bev:] [singing] na na na na, na na na mm... na, na na na [].
[Michael:] What's that?
[Wendy:] Not have a car as
[Michael:] Oh.
[Wendy:] well..
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] [singing] Mm, mm mm [].
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] [singing] Stay with
[Michael:] Is this the one with the mortgage?
[Bev:] me [].
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Have I opened this already?
[Wendy:] Well it's one of the, the insurances.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Has it got the... bonus?
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Well that was this year, won't need to keep that. Oh we got some this year, we never got none last year
[Michael:] No.
[Wendy:] did we?
[Michael:] No.
[Wendy:] Yeah, we didn't get any last year, they
[Michael:] No.
[Wendy:] didn't, couldn't give any out wasn't it?
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Something like that. No money.... Yeah that's one of those that I pay tomorrow.
[Michael:] Mm. [sigh] Ah.
[Bev:] . [singing] Mm, mm mm []. I can have er
[Wendy:] Yeah that one.
[Bev:] Oh I saw that but it.
[Michael:] [yawning] I wonder what []?
[Wendy:] Er
[Bev:] Erm
[Wendy:] Well it looks like you gotta pay it out it you know and... take that
[Michael:] [belch]
[Wendy:] from there.... That was all. All the debt a vous... [sigh] Oh []!... Well I don't have... er, I I've in there innit? On that tape?
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] And get... er eight o'clock it'll be compo weren't it?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] And
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] er, the new comedy on one... starting tonight. Er... where is it on that... but we need something... is it tonight we look at Compo Yeah. And we.
[Bev:] What? We can't those can we?
[Wendy:] No we're going to tape, erm. We're going to need tomorrow to tape.
[Bev:] Oh, cos it's normally up in. See what I mean?
[Wendy:] No, I don't.
[Bev:] Well let's try it again. Oh! Normally it's the Brittas Empire though isn't it?
[Wendy:] Mm. Yeah.
[Bev:] But it's not on tonight, it's the Us Girls
[Wendy:] Yeah, so? What? We tape those?
[Bev:] You can't do them.
[Wendy:] Why not? It's on a, after Compo
[Bev:] Yeah, and we normally haven't got anything to watch when Compo is on.
[Wendy:] Ah! Got you!
[Bev:] We normally watch....
[Wendy:] Ah ha ha ha ha ha! Because they break. Got you!
[Bev:] As I say Brittas, is normally on
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] just there.... Got me now?
[Wendy:] Oh I got you now. I'd sooner have Compo anyway.
[Bev:] Can't have Compo
[Wendy:] Why's that?... Yeah, we have Compo next. Normally tape Compo
[Bev:] Yeah... tapes it. But you
[Wendy:] Oh!
[Bev:] don't have to watch it tonight!
[Wendy:] That's what I said to you. Do we want it tonight?
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] We shall save it then!
[Bev:] Yeah. Where's this?
[Wendy:] Dunno! I'm st, work out what we were doing then!
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] The!
[Bev:] where?
[Wendy:] I both said a time. Dunno about holiday, I said cor blimey! Is the Cornwa go Cornwall good? I said I I'm going on a cruise,the go that men started laughing I said yeah... I am one day. I said even it's not till the last. Said alright? away from here! Well! They one for aren't they?
[Bev:] Yep.... Vancouver innit?
[Wendy:] Well it don't bother me, what an experience! Innit dear?
[Bev:] I'd go back to the Caribbean if I....
[Wendy:] Caribbean in the er
[Bev:] India's
[Wendy:] Indies. Well that's West Indies.
[Bev:] I know.
[Wendy:] And then Bob said... Jamaica... I said, yeah that'll do! Well one of those went to Jamaica!
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] everything. Mm. Stayed on island.
[Bev:] Yeah, I remember used to stay on an island.
[Wendy:] Mm!
[Bev:] Does now.
[Wendy:] Do you know it's time for?
[Bev:] It's not!
[Wendy:] Oh it's not!
[Bev:] Have you finished it mum?
[Wendy:] Nope.
[Bev:] Oh dear!
[Wendy:] Four rows. Yeah, and then six.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] And then that's it? It's long enough innit?....
[Bev:] Watch, ooh!
[Wendy:] I got four.
[Michael:] Can I share with you love?
[Bev:] Yeah!
[Michael:] Yeah. [LAUGHTER] Mm mm [].
[Bev:] No good falling! I won't be
[Wendy:] You just don't a year.
[Bev:] No, got. For a year, mm!
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]... Anyway, well let's hope this. Probably get one back to Claire.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] ... I like it very much!
[Wendy:] Oh I... they all owe me now! Even Connie owes me! After all, I got that by now though.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] They'll probably write back... thank you! We love it! We've all got colds and can't afford any more medicine! So, I'm fed up I want to go to Malita And then we get, they'll call in and say you haven't come up there for a week! Ha! [LAUGHTER]
[Michael:] I tell you I don't, didn't realise that er... Paul and Charlene have said er... they can move in by June the second... all you've gotta do... is dump everything in there... then bugger off to Malaya... for the summer... and sort out when he gets back! [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] Sort it
[Michael:] But
[Bev:] out in the winter?
[Michael:] no, she's a bit of a... she says she's broke, he said run enough for her for all the
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Michael:] .
[Wendy:] What is it four years?
[Michael:] And I said, and I said... it's every spare time he gets something like that.
[Bev:] So it's more than that then.
[Wendy:] He says... don't he say far
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] too far back. But erm
[Michael:] Yeah. They're going
[Wendy:] she said... he's... getting really irritable now!
[Michael:] But she says... I've had enough of this now and... it there... don't help
[Wendy:] See it's it's lovely to get it... done and like that but
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] not to that... that extent that you put in every minute! It's lovely... if you can stay in your flat as long as you needed to. It's lovely if you had enough money to do it all when you wanted to do it. [music on tv]
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] It's a marvellous opportunity anyway! no but... he won't have a mortgage. He doesn't have a mortgage. He owes... he owes the family... so he'll be paying back.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] But he'll never have a mortgage. He won't ha, he won't have no... no government sce, you know, no.... But he he owes... the bank, borrows from the bank like.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] But er... that'll have to be paid back but I mean tha that's... nothing is it? I mean, he's got a bank loan rather than twe twenty five year on your property... around your neck! No, I mean, it would have been fantastic if they'd had the cash... to just get on wouldn't it?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Mind you, knowing the I think... it's just a, a
[Michael:] Might not have been the managing director
[Wendy:] No.
[Michael:] .
[Wendy:] Oh! Well.... I mean anybody getting into and deeper... than him... I'd be surprised!
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Right?
[Michael:] Yep!... I mean, they're always friendly aren't they?
[Bev:] I bet they would!
[Wendy:] Can't get any worse! .... Well they got to close up.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] .
[Bev:] What this one?
[Wendy:] Aha.
[Bev:] What is she going then as well?
[Wendy:] Mm..
[Bev:] Oh!
[Wendy:] Did you hear about that woman? We both know about that. That whisky gone and all that
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] You know it? Oh!
[Michael:] Ay?
[Wendy:] whe when the doctor comes
[Michael:] He's there.
[Wendy:] about sixty for him in he?
[Michael:] Something like that.
[Wendy:] The doctor only drinks whisky!
[Bev:] So he would... he had that... week off didn't he?
[Wendy:] Something or other, yeah.
[Bev:] Through this... window pane.
[Wendy:] Yeah remember, yeah he did.
[Bev:] That was before the election.
[Wendy:] Yeah! Got to tell her about that haven't they Mick?
[Michael:] Yeah, they insured it pretty well., probably gone into it now but
[Wendy:] Not very happy!
[Michael:] Won't be very happy, no!
[Bev:] It's terrible innit?
[Michael:] Mm. Well it's his fault, his fault
[Wendy:] He looked through it!
[Michael:] he might find a... pain when he's old.
[Wendy:] Ay? Oh God!
[Michael:] I might find.
[Wendy:] Well I'm sure he'll be paying for that. I am!
[Michael:] Mm, well I'm not! But I I, I mean it just
[Wendy:] Well I am Mick because
[Michael:] perhaps
[Wendy:] it's on card! They pull them all out Mick! Ninety, hundred years old. Well... they pull them out! Ain't no doubt about it!... And when is this one?
[Michael:] They haven't declared it yet have they?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Put
[Bev:] [cough]
[Michael:] put that one in at the moment cos it sort of.
[Bev:] Well then... when was the last part of?
[Wendy:] No erm
[Bev:] Recently?
[Wendy:] One night in the week wasn't it? Well I can't, can't remember.
[Bev:] I shall put properly on this one.
[Wendy:] Oh! Oh yeah! Well if er... you think you're gonna be sure, ah?
[Bev:] Yeah!
[Wendy:] Well, don't need to go up there then. Want me to go up there?
[Bev:] Well I'll have to un, I'll have to unpick
[Wendy:] Oh of course, you got all that haven't you? Mm. Oh alright. Here's some.
[Bev:] Well I bought nine hundreds.
[Wendy:] I think so, yeah.... I know you used a...
[Michael:] Well I can get up early tomorrow then.
[Bev:] And go out
[Michael:] That's what I say.
[Wendy:] Bloody morning I was up at quarter to nine!
[Michael:] No. Yeah, but I mean I can you tell you for... nine, half past something like that.
[Bev:] Oh I don't wanna be up too late!
[Michael:] No but I mean, yeah.
[Bev:] In case you come in at twenty past... eleven.
[Michael:] Mm.... Well I'm back by quarter to. Wake up normal don't you?
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] How much have they got in normal cars?
[Michael:] If you down there you'll be home... won't it?
[Wendy:] I gotta go straight down in the morning.
[Michael:] Straight down where?
[Wendy:] The bakers.
[Michael:] Ah, yeah, yeah! Well I'll... but
[Wendy:] But
[Michael:] I'll be down there.
[Wendy:] Oh Lore yeah!
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Oh yeah! I'm not a go, I'm not going down there. Not th, yet. Soon. After.
[Bev:] Worst bit now though
[Wendy:] [cough]... Sorry?
[Bev:] trying to turn it out.
[Wendy:] Mm. Right! Right! Right!
[Bev:] Right! Right! Right! How much is seventy five?
[Wendy:] Well stretch it on the two when you get
[Bev:] No I don't like stretching it!
[Wendy:] Well you have to stretch it! You stretch it when you put it on!
[Bev:] I know, but it's... good!
[Wendy:] Well it's only a forty one!
[Bev:] Good God! I think I made it bigger than that!
[Wendy:] With your neck if it come out at a forty that'll be fine won't it?
[Bev:] Well it's only on six millimetre needles... so
[Wendy:] It's always looks... you know.
[Bev:] I don't think I've got the touch!
[Wendy:] , look! Look!
[Bev:] I won't be able to do much more will I? Ah, that's going plenty!
[Wendy:] Aye it will. When you come over down your arm... in the summer. One of those innit? One of them that you, well.
[Bev:] I know, but I still have to do a twenty!
[Wendy:] [yawning] Well you got after this []. I've done my bit.
[Bev:] Well then that's bloody... or!
[Wendy:] Well it's fitting a blouse... innit?
[Bev:] Dunno!
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] Put the front up... and I'll measure!
[Wendy:] Well, what we do... seven will have to do.
[Bev:] Well if do more and you don't like it
[Wendy:] Alright. Well let well let me do, I've gotta get
[Bev:] Well get to your numbers
[Wendy:] Yeah I'll get to my numbers. Where is the front? I know the back or whatever it is, I dunno. I'm just doing the front.
[Bev:] It's down there. This is a bit of a mess innit? The pick it up. You're not happy with it are you really?
[Wendy:] I am happy with it. I just can't get the
[Bev:] High?
[Wendy:] No, I just can't get the enthusiasm... cracking. I think it's
[Bev:] Yeah but we've only done so much.
[Wendy:] Yeah I know, only I'm tired! Really think I'm tired! And I really do think that! All the I've stuck after work. And I did try and sit on one of them. No, You're up and down like a yo-yo! Now, and you're even more tired than if you start a family, you know? Well I do, I do the little bits again.... I dunno what we're doing... on one of them. I didn't do it, I'll have to do it tomorrow.
[Bev:] Right.
[Wendy:] You know when they put in the... foam wall cavity... you know the, when they
[Bev:] They're doing now a model.
[Wendy:] Yeah! Yes! Erm... green, red and yellow.
[Bev:] Oh!
[Wendy:] And they're all for... brurgh er er, I dunno! Th the three colours are a purpose.
[Bev:] Oh, so they know what length,wha
[Wendy:] Whatever! Whatever!
[Bev:] It is. Which er
[Wendy:] They're all the same size.
[Bev:] No but
[Wendy:] They're all the same size... they're just different colours, so whenever
[Bev:] To tell the width... in between the walls obviously.
[Wendy:] .
[Bev:] Well I dunno!
[Wendy:] I wondered if it was different solution?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] I dunno what it is but... they're about that long... and about that round... and then they got this trigger... like you... similar what you do on the Vax hold the trigger.... And they make those horrible shoe box they were open., once it shuts, did you ever see those? Come up like that?
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] You didn't see them?
[Bev:] They are good!
[Wendy:] They're not supposed to be but they are virtually child-proof now, they showed them!... Well they a, they are! You seen me shopping in before. As Doreen says to me... did I see the one on number six? Well yes I did.
[Bev:] But you didn't see very much.
[Wendy:] But I didn't take a lot of it. All I saw was... he was tall... one I never saw... I could see the impression... and it was like four stars.
[Bev:] Oh!
[Wendy:] And I just turned round cos I was making these trigger things, you know this... cavity
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] thing... and I went cor that's pretty tall! Never thought any more about it... and she said to me... was that this morning? Oh the other er... she said I'd had four of those, and I said what are they then? And they're tips to put on the canes... so you don't poke your eyes out in the garden. But I ain't seen one yet. Now, I remember... ages, ages, ages ago... this was talked about. But it never materialised, well... it has now! But I hadn't actually looked at one, picked one up myself but she pinched four. But they obviously don't pinch them do they cos
[Bev:] Rita?
[Wendy:] er, no.
[Bev:] Oh yeah!
[Wendy:] They tried it first cos it's... brand new tool. Only about that big... four, cos they go in one of the little machines. But I know, talking about, I shall be down there. Yeah, I shall be down there tomorrow. Next to the... the the triggers. , I know. I mean, she hasn't got a man of her own but there's plenty going in there is he?
[Bev:] Do you know she hasn't got a man of her own?
[Wendy:] No.
[Bev:] I think she has actually. I think it's that one in that blooming great blue... thing. Brought that big present in at Christmas. He, she went out in the car with him one day... last year.
[Wendy:] Did she?
[Bev:] She went out all dressed up... and he drove her blue car.
[Wendy:] No, I don't know! There's so many men go in there! I just dunno!... But he came with a box that day. It's probably the dead father!
[Bev:] He did stay for Christmas! And then two days before Christmas he didn't stay.
[Wendy:] ?
[Bev:] I didn't ma... know damn who they are.
[Wendy:] Well he works here I know that!
[Bev:] Urgh! Look at those!... [singing] Stay with me [].... [singing] Stay with me []....?
[Wendy:] Gone outside.
[Bev:] [singing] Stay with me [].... [singing] Stay with me... oh oh oh... Stay with me. Doo be doo be doo be doo be doo be doo! Stay with me []. The reason your system is not going mother is because you keep bloody!
[Wendy:] I know! I know! I know! That's cos I think there are two coloured one next.
[Bev:] Ooh the got one!
[Wendy:] Alright.
[Bev:] No!
[Wendy:] I know bu, no, I don't wanna leave it! I wanna see it finished!
[Bev:] Get on with it then!
[Wendy:] But it's the cost. It's... and say get on with it!
[Bev:] That's alright. I will! Think we better start doing more over it?
[Wendy:] Oh God!
[Bev:] I do!
[Wendy:] Well I think it's, we're insufficient.
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] I do!
[Bev:] I don't!
[Wendy:] Mm!... Well I enjoy my swimming, like.
[Bev:] Yeah, but we won't be swimming will we? We'll have to have another swimming night.
[Wendy:] Look... no! The whole point is... what am I going on to, I'm going for free aren't I? Yeah. It's innit? It's still and and foggy and innit?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] The thing is... we can stay longer in the swimming pool. We had a hell of a long time in the what's it? Didn't we?
[Bev:] Yes but... it's worse... having a hell of a lot of time in there cos that's what you're
[Wendy:] Yeah I know it is!
[Bev:] paying for!
[Wendy:] Well, it don't matter! It's another one pound something, that's all innit? It's one pound... sixty... forty.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] One pound forty to three pound
[Bev:] No, one pound sixty to three pound seventy five.
[Wendy:] Seventy five.
[Bev:] So that's nearly two pound.
[Wendy:] Well, so what! We got a lot of facility. But I mean I, I could of swum more. I like the other, I like both of it.
[Bev:] Well that's why I say
[Wendy:] Now you can see... just what I say.
[Bev:] Well no, I weren't gonna say.
[Wendy:] Oh I do! Where's that
[Bev:] I've got it.
[Wendy:] Well start... He's foreign don't worry! If you start that off we're not gonna forget it are we?
[Michael:] Put that up there.
[Wendy:] They working a car?... pull, put it back in.
[Bev:] Oh! Thing
[Wendy:] What's the matter? .
[Bev:] Let me run it forward here.
[Wendy:] No it's alright we'll do them. Just
[Bev:] Gotta try it.
[Wendy:] Well
[Bev:] Right, do this.
[Wendy:] Well they do get stuck. It's incredible!.... Can't really use for it can you?... Why is this one
[Bev:] Put this over there.... I'm not gonna start it now.
[Michael:] Oh!
[Bev:] Ha!
[Wendy:] Long holes.
[Bev:] Ha!
[Wendy:] The details along this one.
[Bev:] Her er!.
[Wendy:] Strange innit?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] They're the ones that don't bother taking them.... Strange alright!
[Bev:] Well yeah.
[Wendy:] Whoever's done that.
[Bev:] Ah! Oh! Right, monka... one more.
[Wendy:] Well I think one night of aerobic, one night
[Bev:] [yawning] Oh dear []! And I've gotta find a blooming aerobics suit now!
[Wendy:] No, you don't! Claire will lend you, will do!
[Bev:] And what, I'm a sod!
[Wendy:] Well... Marylin's
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] first. Then you got Sian, then you got a, ooh! Very weird!
[Bev:] What do you mean?
[Wendy:] Windsurfing.
[Bev:] , innit?
[Wendy:] Ladies and start the kitchen and all that.
[Bev:] Yes, but it's good when it's done you see!
[Wendy:] Ha!
[Bev:] Ha!
[Wendy:] Ha! Well you wouldn't
[Bev:] It's good!
[Wendy:] want me to do it on my own would you?
[Bev:] Oh no! You'll have to join her and do it.
[Wendy:] I've only got this blue and black.
[Bev:] [yawning] Well it's over there.
[Wendy:] They'll let me through, er Sainsburys?
[Bev:] Oh yeah! Have to be a Thursday I think.
[Wendy:] Ah?
[Bev:] I say, it has to be a Thursday.
[Wendy:] Oh darling!
[Bev:] Der darling! Or we could always do the Aqua Suite.
[Wendy:] No er... necessarily lo like that. I think that's why it comes out a bit boring. Well Lesley said that about the aerobics didn't she?
[Bev:] Yeah, but I think at the moment Lesley's finding everything boring!
[Wendy:] Yeah, she is too!
[Bev:] Don't you?
[Wendy:] [yawning] Yeah, they got [] a lot of problems mind.
[Bev:] Well haven't we all?
[Wendy:] No, not at all actually.
[Bev:] Alright.
[Wendy:] I think for Lesley... taking up a bit personally. Do you?
[Bev:] I think she's gardening too much!
[Wendy:] Yeah. But, that's up to her. Well you look, oh the other one too, I mean she's being stupid with her! Really.... I mean, let's be honest, alright, so she does wanna... whether she do want the firm to fold or not, I'm not certain. But I mean, when your phoned in.
[Bev:] I would of said why?
[Wendy:] Yeah!
[Bev:] Cos I would!
[Wendy:] I would! I would!
[Bev:] Certainly would Bev!
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] Well if anything comes to me from... Arnie
[Wendy:] Who? Too right!
[Bev:] from now on.
[Wendy:] Well, I said, tell the truth all the time didn't I?
[Bev:] I'm somewhat wondering about this flat. And I am.
[Wendy:] What.... Only I think you'll have to. If that's the way you feel.... Where yo where you are... I mean they'll have nothing. Is there anything I should be doing to this flat?... And then, she might well say either she does want... something from them or she ain't! Won't she?
[Bev:] Mm. Oh she's said.
[Wendy:] Well if, I sometimes feel a letter, I mean you what she said that morning when you phoned?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] I sometimes, this is what I said Marion... I just feel a letter... doesn't pressurise them. Alright, you gotta wait a couple a days for a reply... but erm... I do think sometimes, anyway, it's on paper then isn't it?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] I mean fortunately you put all that in that first letter didn't you? Ah? Don't you want it on?
[Bev:] .
[Wendy:] That's the top?
[Bev:] Naughty girl!
[Wendy:] Oh!
[Bev:] They always used to people with adverts.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Ha!
[Wendy:] Yeah, it's true innit?
[Bev:] What is?
[Wendy:] Oh they're over here.
[Bev:] Well they're we meant to be?
[Wendy:] Are they? Well! Didn't take no notice of the old woman!.
[Bev:] Ay?
[Wendy:] Yeah!... Why is some?
[Bev:] I dunno. Not really. In there?
[Wendy:] I thought Dashwood was going out of this here Bill.
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] Well it's in the paper anyway.
[Bev:] Is he?
[Wendy:] . I'd say... for what he wants.
[Michael:] I thought it was Tuesday night cos he... he were really bad to them offer ats, offer some... jobs to sell. Er... security systems.
[Bev:] Oh! Oh the security people
[Michael:] And he
[Bev:] were going innit?
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Michael:] And that proved to be a fraud.
[Bev:] Oh!
[Michael:] Ha! That's what he was in it for. So
[Wendy:] Where are, where is your?
[Michael:] Ha! Could of brought them.
[Bev:] What? Yeah, but in... ankle.
[Michael:] Yeah but you don't get a security nine pound now do you?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] I thought you got fifty one pound something?
[Bev:] No! It's
[Wendy:] No, it's twenty nine
[Bev:] twenty nine sixty five.
[Michael:] Yo you... If I got
[Bev:] My first one was fifty one
[Michael:] Ah!
[Bev:] because
[Wendy:] Oh!
[Michael:] and then
[Bev:] I had days on
[Michael:] you get up to
[Bev:] on call.
[Michael:] you got seventy nine last time?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Aha!
[Bev:] Oh God, yeah!
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Oh no! It's not that much!
[Michael:] Yeah. Well er... they're not much, nothing you need to do is there?
[Wendy:] No. I didn't think there was at all.
[Michael:] Not until... er I mean if you do ge
[Bev:] Get that job
[Michael:] if you do get that job then
[Bev:] I've got a thing to send in.
[Michael:] Yes, that's right.
[Wendy:] What do you want me to do then?
[Bev:] Well... stand up... for a start!
[Wendy:] Oh! Alright.... Urgh! Dirty wasn't it?
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] I'd look very nice with erm... that.
[Bev:] Nope! Nope!
[Wendy:] Not one in here.
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] Oh blow me stupid!
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]... Oh crike
[Wendy:] Who were that, you or me!
[Bev:] You.
[Wendy:] Oh! I couldn't hear.
[Bev:] No. Oh no!
[Wendy:] I warned you!
[Bev:] Well he didn't listen then did he?
[Wendy:] Have you done it?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] [cough] Oh God, those blasted sweets!
[Bev:] He looks that I know mum.
[Wendy:] Does he really?
[Bev:] The, long hair I reckon.
[Wendy:] What there? Yeah, that's a mole.
[Bev:] Cos then it catches the light.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] It looks like a line. Which makes him real menacing!
[Wendy:] Mm!
[Bev:] Horrible!
[Wendy:] Mm! innit?
[Bev:] [singing] children of my own, they asked what will I be? Will I? Will I be rich? Ca cera cera, whatever will be will be, the future's not ours to see, Ca cera cera, what will be... Ca cera cera []!
[Wendy:] [yawning] Oh! Oh! Oh []!... Urgh!
[Bev:] ... that's horrible innit?... It looks awful!... Looks like Granny.
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]... Does it?
[Bev:] Well really!
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] And this, bit.... I have! I have! I have! I have! I have! I have!
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] [yawning] Yoh, ho ho ho ho ho []!
[Wendy:] We are going to watch Us Girls.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Are we? Is that what you said?
[Bev:] Yes mum.
[Wendy:] New si part comedy series.... I wonder why they put that car down there tonight? I wonder if Alan's said something. Because they er... to try and get them out.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Bev:] It's, might have left a note on.
[Wendy:] He might have done. But he would do it!
[Bev:] Gosh, he's got a bloody right to!
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Well that's the first time... I've known them go down there. But, I didn't know when he go out.
[Wendy:] Ah, has he left enough room for our...?
[Bev:] Well it's bloody far, too far to
[Wendy:] No, you go over by Georges don't you? As long anything.
[Bev:] Yeah but... you gotta leave enough room for
[Wendy:] Yeah, there's enough for both of them. Oh. Well I've never known them do that before have you?... But when I er... come down this morning I thought Christ he's never gonna get out of there! Cos I mean it's an awkward space innit Mick?
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] And they don't seem to have... do they?
[Bev:] He must have had a job.... What's this then?
[Wendy:] Peugeot one o, er one o six.
[Bev:] Oh!
[Wendy:] Is it, or a Renault?
[Bev:] I gotta bloody do three more stitches wouldn't you?
[Wendy:] Why?
[Bev:] Yeah!
[Wendy:] The more you sew
[Bev:] There's now four.
[Wendy:] Yeah! Well just carry stitches and then bring in a bit and then double up.
[Bev:] Well no because
[Wendy:] Do it that way.
[Bev:] you've done these two
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] cos you got one stitch there... then you've made one... so, one, two, three.
[Wendy:] Do it then. You do it your way! I wouldn't do it that way personally but then
[Bev:] Well then you have one out won't you? Already.
[Wendy:] No! What do you wanna do?
[Bev:] I wanna do rib four
[Wendy:] Then... and then up to that's how would do it. I'm not saying it'll come out right, but that's what I'm saying I would do it.... Is this it?
[Bev:] You wanna watch the?
[Wendy:] Why? It's on now innit? Last of the Summer Wine, Us Girls.
[Bev:] It's only on one.
[Wendy:] You're on one aren't you?
[Bev:] No I'm not.... I'm not! I am now.... Not on video is it? m
[Wendy:] Whining... farting... howling... erm... he came in at half past five and er... overnight again she's got two carloads there... so it was just the same till gone eleven... anyway when Mick came in [cough] I said to him what did that bloke say and he said he's looking out some... different equipment to what he
[Sandra:] Mm
[Wendy:] and hopefully But I said to him about... Duttons Road... and I said to him what I'll do is, I've gotta go to town tomorrow... I'll er get some tapes... and start taping
[Sandra:] Mm.
[Wendy:] and write a letter for Duttons Road, enclose one of the tapes... and say where do I go from here?... I mean you know, I mean it was just impossible, I don't know what the hell's going on in there. There's two cars in the road, two in the drive this morning. Been there all night. Course they're all in bed aren't they?
[Sandra:] Yeah.... Do you know bus fares go up Sunday?
[Wendy:] Well I haven't been using the bus Sandra.
[Sandra:] Twenty eight now... it will be... and thirty four from the hospital.
[Wendy:] Ooh! Dear oh dear.
[Sandra:] There was a notice and... it was Monday... and I said, you know, what was it? Oh, don't really know, they tend to go up sort of two
[Wendy:] Well sometimes they went up one. Some while back.
[Sandra:] Well yeah, I don't think any of them are going up one... this time.
[Wendy:] Well we've been walking, I mean... we ain't been out this week.
[Sandra:] So it was the chatty one this morning. He started chatting and there was nobody else on the bus and I said to him what are they? It's twenty eight. I said what's the hospital? He said thirty four. The Drove... should be forty seven he said but it's an odd amount. He said... they may, cos it's forty five at the moment
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Sandra:] he said they may just go one to forty six he said or they may even go forty eight on that one... to even it up....
[Wendy:] Ah there's the continuation innit?
[Sandra:] And he said thank goodness,h he said oh they got and I said yeah... I've got Monday and Tuesday off he said, it might have died down when I get back he said cos us drivers take all the stick.
[Wendy:] I suppose that's perfectly true.
[Sandra:] Which [LAUGHTER] yeah I said well [] there's nobody else, I said they get on and you say I want more money... but he said it's a nightmare.
[Wendy:] Gotta be. Gotta be innit?
[Sandra:] But I mean the hospital, when you think
[Wendy:] Yeah but people don't realize do they?
[Sandra:] that need, you know... if you're, unless you live sort of here... you're going up for appointments, doctors, whatever
[Wendy:] Well that's what I mean.
[Sandra:] and you don't feel like walking. You get on, I mean if it's a mum and a kid or...
[Wendy:] Oh well we've been walking when we've gone into town... but I mean... just between you and me... but when I got home Bev said... pop into town I've got a parcel to post and I said well I can't... I said because according to Des... well nothing happened
[Sandra:] It didn't.
[Wendy:] and she got a bit angry and I, I get a bit angry so I said, because I said well what the hell is going on? Now
[Sandra:] He should of kept his mouth shut. I mean if she's gone home
[Wendy:] He should.
[Sandra:] and said ooh they didn't half seem interested, I reckon they might... then he comes in and says
[Wendy:] Well I'm not gonna say a word to him Sandra, I'm not gonna say a word, I'm gonna wait on... and see if he says anything... and er she got
[Sandra:] Cos surely I mean if they'd of said... we are going to
[Wendy:] Mm...
[Sandra:] but they didn't
[Wendy:] Yeah. Well I think it's a just a mess about place don't you? I mean she's in and out of town all the time like you said... here there and bloody everywhere.
[Sandra:] Perhaps they had something else in mind, perhaps it's her. Perhaps she was thinking oh yes it's
[Wendy:] Well why didn't he say that yesterday then?... I mean it
[Sandra:] Or is he twisting what she says.
[Wendy:] Well... but yesterday, when he said that, you'd of thought
[Sandra:] Well I did
[Wendy:] well mind you, the only thing is he said did she get a phone call yesterday and she never... so he might have he expected her to have had one. Would you not think?
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Yeah. But she's getting cross now cos I said to her look... you've gotta think about this seriously. You going out there, you stop all your Income Support and it co turns out to be a bloody week or something... well alright you turn round and get back on Income Support but it's not simple is it?
[Sandra:] Is she regis she's registered with quite a few agencies hasn't she?
[Wendy:] All of them yeah.
[Sandra:] Yeah cos they tend to
[Wendy:] Well as far as I know.
[Sandra:] phone up Thursday
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Sandra:] even Friday morning
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Sandra:] when they've just had a call in, to start on Monday.
[Wendy:] Yeah....
[Sandra:] You know, so it's her
[Wendy:] But I, I mean I'm
[Sandra:] the possibility that she could get some
[Wendy:] Yeah. Well I'm not very happy about this situation at all, I have to say. Alright so he should keep his mouth shut, this I agree with... but at the same time she leaves
[Sandra:] Well so somebody ain't
[Wendy:] tomorrow.
[Sandra:] Yeah somebody ain't telling the truth are they?
[Wendy:] No. So it's up to her. I said to her well it's up to you what you do, but I said er I, I don't like the situation. I mean she sat watching Neighbours all that day. He did say to me right in the very beginning basically it's answering the telephone. And then er that
[Sandra:] Well if that's case she can go and work for one of the taxi companies and sit in their office and ans
[Wendy:] That's right. But that day that that woman phoned up... the house... erm... she said I've been watching Neighbours or something
[Sandra:] Mm.
[Wendy:] and she said erm one of them, I think it was... Clive, he's just narked off she said. She did
[Doreen:] Hello.
[Sandra:] Hello Doreen.
[Wendy:] Hiya Doreen.... Yeah, so... it's up to Bev what she does about it but I mean I'm bloody pissed off with it. She does keep on, but I'm not gonna say a word to him. She never got a phone call about that job
[Doreen:] Ooh
[Wendy:] Anyway I'm not saying a word to him, I'm gonna wait and see if and what he says... because I say it's making me angry. And that's the second, third time he's said to me
[Sandra:] Yeah....
[Wendy:] So I'm not gonna say nothing.
[Sandra:] Well he brought it up in the first place. It wasn't as if
[Wendy:] Absolutely.
[Sandra:] you said oh who's taking your wife's job.
[Wendy:] I never. Never even bloody thought about it anyway. But I say it's in peculiar bloody works. But I don't think it is a works, I think it's two blokes, I dunno how many are there but it... all I've heard of is these two bosses
[Sandra:] Mm?
[Wendy:] and her. And I say if she sits watching Neighbours and pops in to town to book a holiday for Brittany and... well I shan't, I shan't say
[Sandra:] You don't normally have televisions around do you?
[Wendy:] Well that's what... Bev said. She said watching Neighbours? But she told Bev. And I said
[Sandra:] Well Annette said when she was up at but
[Wendy:] Some do.
[Sandra:] but they were all to do with sort of satellite dishes and it was in their reception area and it had satellite T V on, and it was an advertising thing as much
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Sandra:] as anything, if she ever had to do reception
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Sandra:] she couldn't understand how, she said oh she said and, and a couple of channels that used to drive her up the wall. Oh them things was on [loud crash]
[Wendy:] Ooh er... stupid person! [LAUGHTER] God! Well that must have been a big bit surely.
[Doreen:] Seems nobody was underneath it.
[Wendy:] Well... bit late anyway weren't it?... Yeah well I say
[Doreen:] shut up now.
[Wendy:] Mm I see that.
[Doreen:] ...
[Wendy:] Body Shop was on there... erm
[Sandra:] Saw it.
[Wendy:] this morning, no just now
[Sandra:] Oh.
[Wendy:] I don't know whether they're having difficulties, I don't know what it was about but he seemed very serious, this man. It was all about money
[Sandra:] Mm.
[Wendy:] but
[Sandra:] It wasn't their profits was it? Cos they're all
[Wendy:] I dunno.
[Sandra:] issuing their
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Sandra:] yearly reports aren't they?
[Doreen:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Yeah well the banks are all
[Doreen:] Barclays only made only made five hundred and thirty three million. [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Well that's nothing to them is it?
[Doreen:] [LAUGHTER] I mean dunnit [], it makes you laugh does it?
[Wendy:] Yeah well it's nothing to them.
[Sandra:] million down innit?
[Wendy:] Yeah. This is it.
[Doreen:] Cor yeah but it's still a profit not a
[Wendy:] But erm
[speaker001:] loss innit?
[Wendy:] Morning. Yeah but they don't
[Sandra:] How much?
[Wendy:] Oh I didn't, I didn't know. Er
[Sandra:] they said anyway, and then the parishes add their bit.
[Doreen:] Cos it's in the erm
[Wendy:] Oh I didn't know Was it?
[Doreen:] Mm. Forty pound extra.
[Wendy:] Oh I didn't know, I didn't see. How much, forty pound?
[Doreen:] Forty pound wasn't it?
[Sandra:] Mine's sixty pound actually....
[Wendy:] Yours is?
[Sandra:] Yeah cos we had a discount last year
[Wendy:] Oh you did didn't you?
[Sandra:] Yeah we had a twenty pound discount so we've got a hundred
[Wendy:] Yeah that's right.
[Sandra:] and twenty to find this year.
[Wendy:] Oh. I know I did seen it on the T V, different places, but I, I didn't know anything about here.
[Doreen:] My yesterday and said that... well my cousin said they've gotta pay twenty pounds but my friend said there is a those who couldn't pay [LAUGHTER] [] I dunno whether it'll do any good but... I should think some of them
[Wendy:] Well
[Doreen:] wouldn't want their neighbours to know.
[Wendy:] well in the end I expect there'll be a lot of places that do it don't you?... I mean it's er... true, isn't it?
[speaker001:] Mm
[Wendy:] It's true... so... well... one here. If you get caught...
[Doreen:] Jolly good job
[Wendy:] Well yeah. Did you see in, I don't know wha where it was... free paper
[Doreen:] must be something they can do....
[Wendy:] the other day but... yeah it must have been cos I haven't seen any papers since Monday... how many thousands don't pay on... not paying their television licence.
[Sandra:] Oh yeah. They've got
[Doreen:] Oh really?
[Sandra:] thing now, it's.
[Doreen:] Yeah they got, they can do it better now and
[Wendy:] Well there you go, it's just another fraud
[Doreen:] Fine them more and all. They're bringing fraud, I did see that on the T V, they're bringing fraud into
[Sandra:] It's innit?
[Doreen:] Yeah. They're bringing it in or something or thinking of bringing actions forward into the or... whatever.... Saw that this morning, something about it anyway. But er
[Sandra:] Oh... the first payments are due. But we started late last year didn't we?
[Wendy:] Thought we started in June, but I got one more to pay. So I got I got Friday... to pay and that's ten months.
[Sandra:] I... of that and I said to to him is that the last one? He said well I ain't heard nothing but
[Wendy:] Well it is for me. Definitely. I've got one more
[Sandra:] That's February's payment.
[Wendy:] That'll be February's payment yeah...... No
[Sandra:] the month so you'll have to
[Wendy:] No
[Sandra:] March....
[Wendy:] It would be March because we started late didn't we? Do you remember?
[Sandra:] Cos normally normally you finish in February
[Wendy:] Yeah well normally I would of been finished wouldn't I?
[Sandra:] and we used to have March
[Wendy:] I pay it at the end of the previous month so it's due on the twenty eighth, twenty ninth
[Sandra:] We used to start paying the rates in May.
[Wendy:] Yeah we did... but I had a feeling... we were late... last year
[Sandra:] So I should think that's... but I reckon we must... cos the government changed it, it knocked hundred and forty quid off didn't they?
[Wendy:] Yeah. No I, I, but I'm sure I've got one more to pay but it'll be the fifteenth of March that'll be due.
[Sandra:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Cos I do it, the day he gets paid I pay all the bills
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] and that'll be for the next month
[Sandra:] But I said to I said well you might get a free month but I said or you... in March and then Ap... supposedly April starts again.
[Wendy:] Well that depends when they start again dunnit?
[Sandra:] Unless they do it, less the banker's orders go... start
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Sandra:] in May.
[Wendy:] Don't know Sandra. But I'm
[Sandra:] It was just a bit in The Echo cos they're all about here and
[Wendy:] sure I've got one more to pay.
[Sandra:] Eastleigh is quite high again. That's nearly three hundred.
[Wendy:] So's Welwyn innit?
[Sandra:] Welwyn's over three hundred.
[Wendy:] Yeah. I saw that on the... well proposed
[Sandra:] Yeah. Cos Annette paid a lot when she was then at Chandler's Ford
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] very high one.
[Wendy:] Ah.
[Sandra:] Thanks Gloria.... Mind you Marguerite's was over the three hundred last year when she
[Wendy:] And where was that?...
[Sandra:] Er... it's funny up round there cos there's about three different councils well although her address is Hampshire
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] the postcode... is Guildford... and you've got Aldershot or there's and there's another one that is... three different cou another one
[Wendy:] [cough] Mm.
[Sandra:] But it was one, one of them anyway and hers was over three hundred so save a bit.
[Wendy:] Mm....
[Sandra:] But once again they haven't worked hers out, I mean she told them she was down here in January... and she still hasn't had a bill yet for the end of this year.
[Wendy:] Well all you can do is tell them, I mean you're within the law then, it's up to them innit? You know?
[Sandra:] twenty one days don't you, when you move to no she notified the one she'd left. She said I'm not paying any more up there, I'm moving
[Wendy:] [cough]
[Sandra:] and notified
[Doreen:] I mean they all ought to be geared up for all this for Christ's sake.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Doreen:] It must be happening every day of the damned week.
[Sandra:] Yeah. They take so long to sort it.
[Wendy:] But I mean it's like Hugh, they said he hadn't registered or something wasn't it? That's what they said. But, said to me one day erm...
[Sandra:] Yeah but he wasn't paying it before was he?
[Wendy:] He hadn't registered, that's what I was told.
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] So when the bit of paper came... they just ignore it
[Sandra:] They said he
[Doreen:] Well
[Sandra:] you, you haven't paid when he was out at cos you have to notify them that you're moving
[Wendy:] Mm
[Sandra:] so one council's got a bit of paper and it ties up with the other one when you come here... but if you don't, if you haven't paid before you couldn't tell them you were leaving or if he suddenly says here... I'm here
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Sandra:] well then the next question is where have you come from?
[Doreen:] Mm that's, that's right yeah.
[Wendy:] Yeah but he hadn't registered, that's what... cos I said to well I don't really know this sort of thing I said, said here, that's first I knew. I said now there's three more of us that know that he's not paying poll tax
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] then she said yeah he told me all about it, she said he hadn't registered. And I said well if, if you're gonna do this sort of thing you keep your bloody gob shut.... Don't you?
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Cos there's all of us that know now, she knows.
[Doreen:] Good job he didn't tell me. Not that I could do anything but I wouldn't
[Sandra:] But he didn't register When they move into that new house though, cos I mean the council are aware that the new
[Doreen:] Yeah. Well you would think so Sandra
[Sandra:] and services to be connected
[Doreen:] but I mean when you have a erm
[Sandra:] You know the builders might even say we've sold these two.
[Doreen:] when they don't have erm, when you have your election form and that and you send it in,do don't they come round if you haven't sent it back, or do they just, they used to didn't they?
[Sandra:] No. They don't check up.
[Doreen:] Well I, I know something I erm, what was it then, what? Perhaps it was the erm
[Sandra:] sign those papers because they thought there was a tie-up
[Doreen:] [cough] perhaps it was when we had the census paper
[Sandra:] Loads of people
[Doreen:] then was it?
[Sandra:] Census paper had to be
[Doreen:] Oh
[Sandra:] done, yeah.
[Doreen:] Cos they came round then. Why can't, if they don't get things back, why don't they come round?
[Wendy:] They can't cos I don't think there's enough
[speaker001:] [cough]
[Wendy:] in this country. What I said, if it was like
[speaker001:] enough people
[Wendy:] No! If it was like Germany where everything is, is regimented, whatever word you wanna use... whether you agree with this or whether you don't, everybody in Germany pays everything that they should.
[speaker001:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Now, if you agree
[Doreen:] Well I suppose that is it, you see in this they don't believe in believe more in freedom don't they?
[Wendy:] Oh yeah
[speaker001:] Hiya!
[Sandra:] They've blocked the idea of I D cards haven't they cos
[Wendy:] Mm. Yeah. Well you see
[Doreen:] Like we had in the war, we had an
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] identity card.
[Wendy:] But you see you can say it's the big brother and all this rubbish, but the fact remains that we three are paying the poll tax and he is not.
[Sandra:] Mm. This is it.
[Wendy:] This is how it ends up. I mean everything is, is... well, regimented, I can't think of a better word
[Sandra:] Germany they do it with T V licences
[Doreen:] [cough]
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] when he went in to hire... or buy a television, they
[Wendy:] Yes they do. Yeah.
[Sandra:] had to notify the authorities that so and so has signed up for one.... So perhaps the house
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Sandra:] Well I don't know but, but if they up there
[Doreen:] [cough]
[Sandra:] and bought a house... well then the next question is well where have you come from?
[Wendy:] Well of course and this is... don't you feel whether it's
[Sandra:] So I mean
[Wendy:] Yeah! So you and I and Doreen
[Doreen:] let everybody come here don't we? I mean to say... law in other countries but they're always pleased to come here and take all our what's it aren't they?
[Wendy:] This is it! immigration to stop.
[Doreen:] I mean all the Scottish and the Welsh, [LAUGHTER] I always remember when [] when erm... when the first houses, when we lived, when I lived with me mother, and in that house we lived in was a big estate... erm near us and erm... ever such a lot of Welsh people lived there... and, I don't know who it was, somebody wanted a place, couldn't get anywhere... and my mother went up there with [LAUGHTER] [] you let all the Welsh people come here he s she said they run us down and that was years and years ago she said, nearly everybody on that estate's Welsh ourselves.
[Wendy:] with Dennis and Marge we'd been out with Dennis and Marge you know, a while back, and they're both Scottish and they run this country down to the
[Sandra:] I know.
[Wendy:] and he's, he's working in there! up until now, but, well are different now... this is the last place he stopped, he would walk down the road if he heard of a job for five pound more
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] and
[Doreen:] And he always seemed to slip into it I expect.
[Wendy:] He did. Now he's staying here
[Doreen:] [LAUGHTER] They do don't they, Scottish people?
[Wendy:] because of the state of the country, or the state of the employment, but we've been out, actually out with those two and they... put this country down
[Doreen:] [cough]
[Wendy:] yet they never stayed up in Scotland cos there was nothing to bloody do. Now they own their coun well they're buying their council house... he works for where was you know, and she's erm... something director, financial director now.... You see? I mean... but I mean people are still flooding into this country today.
[Doreen:] Mm. That's what I say, there'll always be, they run us down like mad and [LAUGHTER] [] and yet they all come here. same as all these black countries... didn't want us in there did they? But [LAUGHTER] lot of them wanna come over here now things are getting bad for them....
[Wendy:] Well no, that was another thing... more or less as I was coming out the door they'd got the news thing on... and this was Australia... the new prime minister, I don't know his name, he's running down... I didn't hear it properly but I heard the gist of it, erm and it yeah it was running us down this morning cos Britain something something something.
[Doreen:] Mm. Mm.
[Wendy:] The insults to the queen, I mean she grimaced when they said it and she had to
[Sandra:] I saw it in the papers.
[Wendy:] just sit there and she's not allowed to answer back.
[Doreen:] She's, no cos erm he... in a speech didn't he? Then he put his arm round her and his wife won't curtsy, she's Dutch, the Dutch [LAUGHTER] are just as bad as anybody now [], just lately, I mean lot of these terrorists get in through Holland don't they? They don't seem to do nothing to him.
[Sandra:] Yeah. in The Sun and there he was was saying you know, no we... virtually we don't want anything to do with the queen and all that...
[Wendy:] I don't know why they don't write... push off!
[Sandra:] Something on the news this morning about, about this
[Wendy:] And then don't
[Sandra:] this prime minister... something wrong with this, English... they wanna separate from us....
[Doreen:] And they're, I mean they're not all good at the environment because what's his name David Bellamy was out there when because they were gonna do something weren't they? He was protesting
[Wendy:] Oh yeah
[Sandra:] Something on the erm reef or something wasn't it?
[Doreen:] Something to do with David Bellamy
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] or something. You don't cos... you don't get all these things but Christine has the... New Scientist every week... and I don't know why it's always us, but you wanna read that sometimes, I don't read a lot [LAUGHTER] cos I don't understand it [] but some of the things that some of the countries are doing and yet it's always us.... I mean there's a, there was a programme on I watched last night, on the sea or? It runs past Germany, Denmark and Holland... and then into sort of North Sea and the Rhine comes in it and it's terribly
[Sandra:] Zeider Zee
[Doreen:] polluted.
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] I said to Leslie it's only us, and yet it's Germany does that bit, Holland does this bit and Denmark is doing something else.
[Wendy:] There was a programme, there was... I mean a lot of it was East Germany but there was a programme on West Germany... that was a while back now... and the rivers were in filth
[Doreen:] Oh. And yet it's only us.
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] Only us.
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Doreen:] I don't know [LAUGHTER] []
[Wendy:] I mean when they find a bit here there's all hell let loose isn't there? I mean even down
[Doreen:] Well that's right.
[Wendy:] they had that central heating oil... and there was a big boom built all round... to stop it spreading.
[Doreen:] And I went through there, when did I go down with you and I went past? and outside where those students sit, I thought the young people were when you read some of that in paper... the cigarette ends and crisp packets, well that can only be the students, I mean people go through but they're not
[Wendy:] Well they sit, they sit on the steps don't they? They sit on the steps
[Doreen:] terrible that, I thought ooh
[Wendy:] Well mind you Andover is, I thought
[Doreen:] For two pins [LAUGHTER] I'd sort of say to them, I thought well you might [] might say something to the erm to the wrong sort but I thought
[Wendy:] Well I feel really so I wouldn't that job. I mean the other morning I looked down and somebody had thrown up in the street
[Doreen:] I know, it's horrible.
[Wendy:] all across the pavement and I thought
[Doreen:] Sometimes we go down the Salisbury Road
[Wendy:] That's the you know by the time sort of office workers are going in, they've done all the streets and all the pavements but... while they're doing it it's a hell of a mess.... Well I shan't go, said this morning do you wanna go to town today but I said well I've gotta go tomorrow
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] erm but I said we really hung around all day yesterday with that. I'd like to stuff it, I, I would! I'd say stuff it. I know she wants to get out of the house, I know
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] she wants to do something
[Doreen:] she wants to get some money
[Wendy:] but I'm not so sure about this
[Doreen:] [cough]
[Wendy:] I'm not so sure about it.
[Sandra:] Ask her what it is.
[Wendy:] No I don't know anything. I, I just think er er I've got a feeling one day when I said something he come up with a name but it didn't register
[Doreen:] Where was this?
[Wendy:] It's up where I got my carpet, up erm commercial centre,
[Doreen:] Oh...
[Wendy:] I mean if she
[Doreen:] [cough]
[Wendy:] if she buses she got a half hour walk there
[Doreen:] So it's gotta be ain't she?
[Wendy:] Yeah. I mean if it, if it... I mean originally he said to me it was part time... so I thought to myself well that'll be perfect, just get her back into the flow again.
[Doreen:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Then this woman says erm nine... nine till five thirty I think she said... well the five thirty bit would be alright wouldn't it
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] The nine, well... you go down into and you get a bus... go wherever it dropped you and then half a mile, mind you that's gonna cost you about fifty P
[Sandra:] What?
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] just to get
[Sandra:] Really?
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] That's right,... yeah. It must do if it's gonna be forty eight to The Drove, yeah.
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Cos they go up on Saturday.
[Doreen:] Yeah it's erm... forty to. If I went down
[Wendy:] What now?
[Doreen:] if I went up and down it would cost me eighty pence.
[Wendy:] Well it's going up two P on Monday.
[Doreen:] actually it was erm I forget what it was when me mother-in-law died and she used to moan about the shop and I said to... Christine the time she goes down and back... I mean things are dear in, but some of the things in the shop now, and then, are cheaper than down the town, so if you take your, your bus
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Doreen:] now if I was to go there and back... that's eighty pence, I mean I could get, for, for that e extra eighty pence I could get a few things in there that are dearer but I mean I like going down the town anyway and just wander and go back but I do get a few more bits in there now than I did.
[Sandra:] Well mine's going up to twenty eight
[Wendy:] [cough]
[Sandra:] I mean it is a few years back but I can remember not long ago it was eighteen P... I pay twenty six now. And I said to him what's it going up? Thinking will it be a penny or twopence and he said twenty eight.
[Doreen:] [cough]
[Sandra:] Thirty four to.
[Doreen:] My friend sent me erm some erm
[Sandra:] Been on the bus for two years.
[Doreen:] dolls clothes' patterns as well yesterday and they weren't half old cos on one of them there was a, a doll that you could send the doll for, there was a lot of those in Women's Weekly weren't there?
[Wendy:] Oh yeah.
[Doreen:] And the doll was twenty two and nine. And it was about this, it looked this big this doll [LAUGHTER] [] and three and three for the postage and packing. [LAUGHTER] I thought now [] oh now you'd have about two pound for postage and packing wouldn't you, and I don't know what the doll would cost. cos some of them are three ply and I thought I'm not gonna sit and knit three ply.
[Wendy:] again for them and erm I got a phone call again from Pauline yesterday and now wants... a wine making book and it's
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] by that bloke Berry from Andover
[Doreen:] Oh yeah we've got one of them.
[Wendy:] and er
[Doreen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] I said we've been to his house, Mick and me... long time ago... when he lived way and erm... I said to Mick well have I gotta send this? And he said well no I don't think so, he said, er too late this year for it.
[Sandra:] Take it. [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Take it with us. more postage.
[Doreen:] What is it cheaper cos I say it's never too late actually for wine making cos it depends what you can
[Wendy:] Well it's their grapes cos they've done it you see.
[Doreen:] Yeah....
[Wendy:] four... and Andrew's round there now. Well
[Doreen:] Yeah but she put that what's it
[Wendy:] miracle innit? That what?
[Doreen:] That... clocking in clock two
[Wendy:] I know.
[Doreen:] two minutes slow, I mean they go by that.
[Sandra:] He wouldn't bother about
[Wendy:] Yeah but when it's the other one that's slow they go by the other one.
[Doreen:] Oh dear, well he shouldn't leave two there then should he?
[Wendy:] They go by the slowest clock.
[Doreen:] innit?
[Wendy:] Mm? Yeah but that's the one they start by, you know he, he starts when he feels like it.
[Sandra:] He won't do nothing like that. Well I suppose they could start at seven thirty
[Wendy:] Well no
[Doreen:] by the clocking in clock.
[Wendy:] Eh?
[Doreen:] Go out by the clocking in clock.
[Sandra:] Yeah that's it.
[Doreen:] When I, when you were all doing nights
[Wendy:] Everybody else does.
[Doreen:] when Mikie was here and you were doing nights, and he called us one day and I said it's not six o'clock yet he said you're
[Wendy:] Two minutes to I was told
[Sandra:] It was two minutes to six that we
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Doreen:] That's it.
[Wendy:] that's what I was told when I come here.... Don't let her Steve
[Doreen:] I'm leaving [LAUGHTER] []
[Wendy:] Steve, don't let her.
[Doreen:] Bye bye then.
[Wendy:] Okay. Ta ta then....
[Doreen:] not going down the town today?
[Wendy:] Me?
[Doreen:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Depends how I feel when I get home.
[Doreen:] Mm.
[Wendy:] If I feel brassed off I bloody well will. Well it seems stupid Thursday and Friday, that's all.... I mean another thing is... oh there, yeah I dunno what that is. Oh is it?
[Doreen:] It's quite nice when it's out
[Wendy:] Oh.
[Doreen:] but I mean it's a pain
[Wendy:] Oh it is a weed though innit?
[Doreen:] Oh it's n well
[Wendy:] Half and half.
[Doreen:] I suppose really.
[Wendy:] What, like a rockery?
[Doreen:] It's an old cottage type really.
[Wendy:] Oh.
[Doreen:] Bye.
[Wendy:] See you.
[Sandra:] Cheerio.
[Wendy:] Oh I don't know a weed I did. Oh I bet bloody phone. He never said a word. Not a word. said to me has he, has she heard anything and I said no and I told her what she said. She said well you don't wanna take no notice of him.
[Sandra:] I reckon what it is... talked about it
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] what a good idea or something
[Wendy:] He is a liar. Mind you she phoned her once look.
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] She was supposed to phone her back Tuesday, that's what his wife said.
[Sandra:] Yeah. It could well be that have got other ideas.
[Wendy:] Well I said
[Sandra:] I mean they don't have to tell you everything
[Wendy:] No
[Sandra:] work somewhere do they?
[Wendy:] I said to Bev erm... don't mean to say, I mean I might get home and find she's got a phone call... but she said to me yes I mean we, she did think of going out yesterday, and it was me that stopped it but if I feel so inclined today we'll go down if she's in
[Sandra:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] cos I haven't been for about a month, three weeks.... Just for the afternoon.
[Sandra:] No he's got funny attitude
[Wendy:] He's horrible really you know.
[Sandra:] I mean there are occasions when you
[Wendy:] Don't you find it so terribly annoying that he's walking round... not paying his poll tax?
[Sandra:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Don't you?... Well I do Sandra. I mean Doreen said... erm I wouldn't do nothing about it but well when we found out she said I will, I'll report him but... you know when you know
[Sandra:] Well I mean what... all you can do really is anonymously... is phone up
[Bev:] Hello.
[Wendy:] Oh here she is. Alright?
[Bev:] Hiya. Yeah.
[Wendy:] Having a walkies today, well why not.
[Bev:] Why not? A nice day.
[Wendy:] Tis nice innit? I say if you want we'll phone Leslie
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] I said to Sandra, well this... job business Bev, he's not said a bloody word to me this morning he's, in actual fact... he's been... well yeah, he hasn't been able to
[Sandra:] He hasn't been talking to anybody has he?
[Wendy:] no, but he hasn't been able to because he has to come round... but he's all ra ra ra ra, whistle whistle whistle.
[Bev:] Well let's face it, she said she'd phone me Tuesday
[Wendy:] Tuesday mm. But it's
[Bev:] Now it's Thursday today
[Wendy:] but there's there's something I didn't tell you the other day
[Bev:] Oh yeah
[Wendy:] and I did say to you that you must go, if you go there you must go on the books because you're with a solicitor
[Bev:] Oh yeah.
[Wendy:] Yeah. Well I, what I didn't tell you was I don't know if I told Sandra did I?... No I didn't
[Sandra:] can't remember it.
[Wendy:] No well...
[Bev:] They wanted me to go on casual.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] You can't be casual any more it's against the law.
[Wendy:] Well... well well
[Bev:] even bar work but it's
[Wendy:] well
[Bev:] it's against the law now.
[Wendy:] he said to me one day, and I don't remember the day... he said the best thing would be for her to go on casual, then she can keep her thingy thingy. Well I never said
[Bev:] Oh yeah, I'm sure! [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] yeah, well I never
[Sandra:] So you can do the same as him and you can also not register for poll tax.
[Wendy:] Well she's registered already.
[Bev:] I'm registered already.
[Wendy:] And I mean if she got this job she'd have to pay the full amount, if she's on Income Support you don't do you?
[Bev:] No. I only pay twenty percent when
[Wendy:] But that's beside the point. Yeah well
[Bev:] But I'd rather pay the lot [LAUGHTER] I tell you [].
[Wendy:] Well no, that's very fair comment Bev but I think this is a dodgy do. I find this
[Bev:] It sounds it.
[Wendy:] I find this strange. Anyway what he said to me was
[Sandra:] I reckon they're gonna carry on paying her, keep her on the books
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Yeah, no they're not, they're giving her a lump sum
[Bev:] You see with maternity they have to do it anyway.
[Wendy:] Yeah but they're giving her it all in one lump sum, that's the deposit on their place. He told me that. But this other bit that I was telling you
[Bev:] Mm?
[Wendy:] he phoned her that mor it was that morning, I know it was now, and anyway he went off and he phoned her and he came back and he said to me... yes she'll, give us your phone number didn't he?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] And she said, he said she said yes that's cheaper for us. Cos they won't be paying any
[Bev:] Nothing.
[Wendy:] thingy doodles, I, I said I don't think you ought to touch it.
[Bev:] Well... I couldn't do that anyway, I'd have to say
[Wendy:] Well that's what I said to you
[Bev:] if you take me on then it's gotta go on
[Wendy:] I told you that didn't I? But I didn't tell you all that was said cos I thought well I'm not gonna say it if there's no need... because you would automatically go there
[Bev:] I ain't do nothing against the law.
[Wendy:] Well I think it's gonna be difficult anyway Bev. And the bus fares will be
[Bev:] Well it'd be very expensive in the long run.
[Sandra:] I don't... well, probably like some of the others cos they get a bus in on market day, they get a bus home
[Bev:] Well she said it, you have to catch the Woolworth one, the one for Woolworth and then walk half a mile.
[Wendy:] I, I don't, I... I'm bothered I know. I'm bothered about it though. Well Sandra
[Sandra:] and that's years back now. That was one po no that was seventy five... each way but they go up through and it's now gonna be twenty eight to Manor Road
[Wendy:] Oh
[Sandra:] just before the hospital
[Wendy:] the hospital?
[Sandra:] and... depending on whether they can't have an odd or even amount forty eight to the Drove which is as far as, if you work at, that's as far as you can get in the morning and get off and walk through.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] But I'm, I'm bothered by all this. I know he's a liar, I know he can be a liar, but I'm still bothered by it, I mean
[Bev:] Well
[Wendy:] it's Thursday and she was supposed to phone you Tuesday but he still keeps
[Bev:] If she phones then it'll it, it will be... I wouldn't take it unless it's on my terms.
[Wendy:] ... I think it, you know
[Bev:] It would have to go through the books
[Wendy:] Well it would.
[Bev:] because no way
[Sandra:] Well somebody sooner or later's gonna catch up, I can't understand really why these people think oh I'll get away with it.
[Bev:] I don't know why they bother. I don't know why they
[Wendy:] Well it's like
[Sandra:] Cos they don't half hammer you and if they catch up with you once they watch you like a hawk.
[Wendy:] Yeah but this is the one that ain't paying his poll tax look Bev.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Ain't registered. Well you've bloody registered and you've only been back a month haven't you?
[Bev:] Month and a bit yeah.
[Wendy:] Month and a bit. No I don't like this, I don't er... it sticks in your mind don't it?
[Bev:] Well it would be on my terms, there's no way I'd go cos I know it's against the law
[Wendy:] Well Sue said that to me up here didn't she?
[Sandra:] Yeah and they
[Bev:] They can't do it.
[Sandra:] and it was too much hassle to put her into any other job.
[Wendy:] Yes it was.... But I mean
[Sandra:] National Insurance
[Wendy:] Mm.... Oh that's something I was
[Sandra:] Cos quite how they work it out... I know before
[Wendy:] Well
[Sandra:] you had to notify all your employ everybody knew
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Sandra:] and between them they decided
[Wendy:] Yeah. Right... now
[Sandra:] twenty five percent cash
[Wendy:] I've just remembered this, her saying about Annette, you know when Sue came up and said about erm... being stunk out by the exhaust on that
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Wendy:] bloody lorry...
[Sandra:] Mhm.
[Wendy:] right... then we got on to talking about him going into the gents and what he does, he don't shut the door and such
[Sandra:] Mm.
[Wendy:] right? And I said yeah, I was on one and Suzie was on seven, and I said yeah, even the cleaners complain, you know, in the evening that he don't shut the door when he goes to the loo... and er I said, must have said, when she's working and Dee Dee turned round and she gl she laughed and said working? I said well whatever you wanna call it. And then er I said well th this place was never like this when old was here and, and Dee said no it damned well wasn't. And I looked at Sue and I said you know [LAUGHTER] she's got twenty jobs []... erm two cleaning... and
[Sandra:] Childminding.
[Wendy:] childminding. And I said how, I, how does he get on? She said oh that's up to her, that's nothing to do with us.... So if he does declare them
[Sandra:] Well if she's childminding, she can say she's self employed.
[Bev:] She's self employed there.
[Sandra:] Therefore...
[Bev:] Was it there when you left for work this morning?
[Wendy:] There were there were four there this morning when I went to work.
[Bev:] Sue's been there all bloody day. I think their kid's got a bloody new organ
[Sandra:] he's going dong dong dong boing...
[Wendy:] Good. Well let's hope your father brings that thing home tonight. If not I'll go and buy one tomorrow. I'll go and buy something.
[Bev:] I got up... about quarter to nine
[Wendy:] Yeah?
[Bev:] and I heard it all before I got out of bed. This bloody organ
[Sandra:] Something should be done.
[Wendy:] Well I was gonna send a tape look. If he brings, I won't... and I think I
[Bev:] how do I stand
[Wendy:] no well I was gonna do that write a letter,, send a tape to say here's an example of how we're living, and leave it up to them then. Yeah but what's the point? What's the point? If I can
[Bev:] Because you might they might say before you can do anything you've gotta give them this fourteen days notice.
[Wendy:] Well then they'll tell me won't they? But at least it'll be on the cards won't it? I'd sooner tape because I mean that was quite impressive that tape with all that static wasn't it?
[Bev:] Yeah.... seen me I was running from one room to the other.
[Wendy:] It was terrible downstairs wasn't it? But she was laying in bed listening to them last night weren't you?
[Bev:] Yeah I don't know what they was playing at.
[Wendy:] God knows what they get up to in there.
[Bev:] It sounded like the mach er like erm a motorbike, so whether they've got video games
[Wendy:] She was laying in bed. And we
[Bev:] So whether they've got video games.
[Wendy:] were awful. Well we erm... we didn't go to bed till did we?
[Bev:] About quarter to eleven we got to bed, but they were going on... I fell asleep during the middle of it cos I just got used [LAUGHTER] to the noise []
[Sandra:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] Yeah
[Sandra:] See you tomorrow
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] See you....
[Wendy:] Right I'll get us some fags, we'll have a couple of cakes. Well I don't see the point, I mean we're staying in every bloody daft day aren't we? You know? And I really think Eh?
[Bev:] I said I can't see it coming off.
[Wendy:] I think it's bloody
[Bev:] I must be honest.
[Wendy:] peculiar innit?
[Bev:] Who wants to do that travelling every day anyway?
[Wendy:] Well... this is what she said ju just now, yeah well not just now, earlier on, she said about getting out there and I said well I'm sure it's that place... she said well it's the only one out there that she could think of.... Do you want one of these? And er I said to her well and er she said that she was embarrassed, I think he's about the
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] the best erm
[Bev:] sort of
[Wendy:] well no
[Bev:] No but he was dodgy to me
[Wendy:] [talking with mouth full] conversation... anything else we need? We're alright for milk...
[Bev:] Erm
[Wendy:] Anything else?... Hiya May.
[speaker001:] Oh hiya Wendy, alright?
[Wendy:] Yeah. Erm
[speaker001:] Bye Bev.
[Bev:] See you....
[Wendy:] I don't know. Erm let me think, can't remember now. No?
[Bev:] Erm...
[Wendy:] Go and see if there's any... nice big spuds...... Nice weather isn't it? Yeah.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] []
[Wendy:] Well I'm done now for... till tomorrow morning... and then thank god it's Friday I say.... I don't know what we want for tonight but we might go down my sister's this afternoon so we want something easy for when we come back.
[speaker001:] That's right, yeah.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[speaker001:] No job yet Bev?
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] No, not yet.
[speaker001:] it's hopeless innit?
[Bev:] Tis at the moment
[Wendy:] Blooming is innit?
[Bev:] at the moment
[speaker001:] Expect you get a bit bored don't you?
[Wendy:] Well I say if we can go in and out and... not stick indoors all the time you know?
[speaker001:] Yeah cos you help with the chores as well
[Wendy:] That's right [LAUGHTER] Yeah [] yeah. There is some mince in there. Shall we do a stew in a pot before we go?...
[Bev:] Oh I was gonna do a... erm
[Wendy:] Shepherd's pie?
[Bev:] shepherd's pie wasn't I?
[Wendy:] Yeah. Well I've got
[Bev:] What's the time Yeah but then we don't wanna be too late back do we so
[Wendy:] Yeah but then you're only, it'll be all cooked won't it?... That's gotta be coo I'm sure we can get spuds out for that. We got onions, we got mince and we've got Oxos, let's do that shall we, have one of those? Then all that's gotta be done is chucked in the... oven innit? But I don't see staying in every damned day for this er
[Bev:] No no no no no no no
[Wendy:] Do you?
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] Right we'll do that. I mean we'll
[Bev:] erm carrots then don't we?
[Wendy:] Well if you want carrots, yeah.
[Bev:] Well do you want carrots in it or
[Wendy:] I don't mind. If you want them get them, it won't do any harm. Go and get two or three.... Go and get two or three, that'll do.... Right I want forty red band Marlborough and quarter of peppermints if you've got them today. I don't know I the other day. No, I'll get her chews then. And she's getting erm two or three carrots. No there weren't many left I remember love the other day. ooh... beautiful out innit?
[speaker001:] sun comes out
[Wendy:] It's always the way innit?
[speaker001:] last week.
[Wendy:] It's always the way innit?
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] I mean yesterday I did a load of washing... it's been in the garage ever since cos I
[speaker001:] Mm mine's in the conservatory.
[Wendy:] I thought it was gonna pour yesterday.
[speaker001:] Mm I did and I, course I went out at eleven so
[Wendy:] Yeah, so you don't chance it do you?
[speaker001:] No
[Wendy:] Okay?
[Bev:] Here you are.
[Wendy:] Cheers.... Right...... Right...
[speaker001:] Right sixty six
[Wendy:] Thank you very much.
[speaker001:] there you are....
[Wendy:] Anything else you can think of?
[Bev:] Don't think so....
[Wendy:] that'll do fine won't it? Thanks Maureen, bye.
[speaker001:] Cheerio then....
[Wendy:] Right... well it's the sort of day we walk down there innit?
[Bev:] Yeah. I like those walks in this, in this weather....
[Wendy:] No they was all on about theirs this morning erm poll tax cos it's
[Bev:] Well there's no way I against the
[Wendy:] Well Sandra started off saying it's two hundred and seventeen pound each... poll tax... plus there's gonna be more on top because of the parish or something, but the actual borough rate is two hundred and seventeen and er then whatever it comes out at
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] forty pound off something... and er course then Doreen gets on to the subject of Des again and all these people that don't pay [cough] cos apparently somewhere, and I she said Portsmouth but I'm not... I can't really remember... what she said
[Bev:] Oh hello.
[Wendy:] they're gonna put a list up of non payers but you can't put a lit up of people like him because he's not registered.
[Bev:] He's not registered anywhere.
[Wendy:] No.
[Bev:] Because it's like... one of the girls now their place is close to two areas
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] because they were paying it over here until we had to pay
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] so she said
[Wendy:] Oh yeah. Yeah.
[Bev:] because they were paying for her house, she wasn't... her husband and herself didn't have to pay over there
[Wendy:] No. Hiya
[speaker001:] Hiya.
[Bev:] because when her... their house... and it was being paid through there
[Wendy:] Better off then are they?
[Bev:] Oh I don't bloody know
[Wendy:] Well it's alright, we'll get something sorted.
[Bev:] And erm... then it was, she said we had to... so I don't know what happens when
[Wendy:] At the what? Who said, who told them?
[Bev:] Well they're actually paying for it on the erm...
[Wendy:] On the books?
[Bev:] books. This is the council. They wrote back and said... you have proof but you don't have receipts and No I know ... er Yeah. Cos she said well... Yeah.
[Wendy:] ...
[Bev:] and she
[Wendy:] Who??
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Oh....
[Bev:] There's a letter for Howard.
[Wendy:] For Howard?... What the whole?
[Bev:] Yes. When I twisted it
[Wendy:] Yeah?
[Bev:] to turn it on well it suddenly went.
[Wendy:] Oh well he said he... he said he'd have to have a look at it didn't he?... What?...
[Bev:] Oh look look.
[Wendy:] Well if I... erm
[Bev:] Could take it down Leslie's and tell her or...
[Wendy:] What?
[Bev:] will she want a tape down there?
[Wendy:] Oh we'll see. I'll take that, I'll readdress that letter... and
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] and that can go in the... box can't it?
[Bev:] Yeah....
[Wendy:] Normally, I say, I don't see the point of staying in for this.
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] I know we've gotta go out tomorrow but then if we don't go down there today we're not gonna go this week.
[Bev:] No.... But she... she was pleased to hear give you a hand with this.
[Wendy:] Yeah.... It's dirty, it runs out black. That's a new, brand new tap that is.... Brand new tap.... I don't know who you do that
[Bev:] Well let's take the whole lot out.... Well give me the bowl and I'll put it in the bath.
[Wendy:] That'll be a job for Tim won't it?
[Bev:] Yeah. Oh yeah....
[Wendy:] I just hope that that boy
[Bev:] I'm sure he will.
[Wendy:] I mean he
[Bev:] Oh yeah
[Wendy:] he said he understood why we wanted to do it. But
[Bev:] And can hear the crackle and the bloody
[Wendy:] Yeah you can
[Bev:] cos the ba er the crackle is very bad. These two?
[Wendy:] Yeah, that's all we've got left.
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Yeah well I mean with all this noise and that you don't feel like doing much do you?
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] Anyway I talked to Ann about this this morning and we've come to the decision to leave it on... because that's what we did in the... in the erm...
[Bev:] We knew you would.
[Wendy:] in the ha in the what's name there and it might be a better idea because it's not. So if we start pulling them about which is... cos I said to her about the hall and if I don't scrub it all off... we're gonna have to erm... gonna have to do the hall and er I said we've got to try to put it on because the walls are so... ooh... bitty... you know what I mean?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] And er I really feel that, you know, you can make yourself more bloody trouble... cos that's what happened to Helen... next door. When she got the erm... paper off in the erm er er in the hall, she found it all fell apart. All the walls fell apart....
[Bev:] It's like living back in the flat.
[Wendy:] I've done this before, but I mean Tim will have to have a look at it when he
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] if it, if we can't, oh it's the dustman
[Bev:] Have we
[Wendy:] dustman innit?
[Bev:] Yeah. Have we got a bucket?...
[Wendy:] I've got a bucket yeah, why?
[Bev:] Well it's easier with a bucket.
[Wendy:] Oh.... Oh a kettle should do, after that lot.... If we can get that lot sorted
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] and then you can use the kettle can't you?
[Bev:] Yes.... Oh... finished that sleeve off but I must sew it on.
[Wendy:] Yeah?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] ?
[Bev:] Yeah....
[Wendy:] Right I'll leave that there.... No I'm afraid this Des is...
[Bev:] Well I'm not bothered.
[Wendy:] a very peculiar character, I just find it all so peculiar.... And I mean Dee said to me this morning... cos she heard us one morning
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] well Des, she heard Des look... talking about it... and er... she said has she heard anything and I said no, I said not fully but more or less... we stayed in yesterday... cos you said shall we go out didn't you?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] And I said more or less we stayed in but not a word.... And I say there was some sort of a... an embarrassment I can only call it
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] today.... All this whistling and...
[Bev:] It was all nervous.
[Wendy:] nervous, yeah. Bit of singing and... and that sort of thing.... Well they wanna, don't matter to me at all I just think they're dodgy characters. And you know they don't pay the poll tax and you... you've been told almost you can do it on... casual. You got to think about it ain't you?
[Bev:] Mm. Well I wouldn't do it on cas
[Wendy:] Eh?
[Bev:] I said I wouldn't do it on casual....
[Wendy:] Well you wouldn't do it, no. Too much bloody worry, I mean we've never done anything like that anyway. I say it's like him... him not paying his poll tax. If he's gonna do things like that he wants to keep his gob shut doesn't he?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] You know? I just... can't understand. But mind you he can't keep his gob shut, so I do understand... you know that er
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] that is the way he is.... He's full of gut really.... But anyway if they did phone now I think it's very bad practice... if she's leaving tomorrow
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] cos Sandra said why the hell has she left so late? You know I mean it must be three weeks now till she has it. She said you don't normally do that.
[Bev:] Well she could have it any day now.
[Wendy:] Well that's what she said, fortnight either way actually. Just exactly what Sandra said.... So she been in next door has she, all, the whole morning?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Yeah well of course only just gone from last bloody night haven't they?... I mean she seems to fill the bloody house with people every day of the week.... Certainly some strange goings on in there I reckon.
[Bev:] Yeah well you see some people can't help that.
[Wendy:] Some people what?...
[Bev:] Can't help that.
[Wendy:] Help what?...
[Bev:] But have people round.
[Wendy:] Yeah but it's such a strange bloody house innit? Don't know what's going on in there do you?
[Bev:] Well I would have liked to have known what the noise was last night, I'm sure it was a video game or something.
[Wendy:] If it picked up, if he finds what I think he could probably find us... I mean he knows precisely what we want and
[Bev:] He wants an amplifier.
[Wendy:] Yes but as I said before... he now has heard it so
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] he knows what we want to eliminate....
[Bev:] Oh he'll come up trumps for us.
[Wendy:] I'm sure he will....... What about the animals this morning then?
[Bev:] Oh not bad....
[Wendy:] Well probably cos somebody'd been with them. Innit?... Well if they're not left continually on their own they've got a bit of company haven't they?
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] That's the point. But when they're left totally on their own for hours and hours. Well... make the veg... if I do that.
[Bev:] Woman and the man went up the garden
[Wendy:] The woman what?
[Bev:] Woman and the man... and the kid
[Wendy:] Yeah?
[Bev:] the alsatian and one other bloody
[Wendy:] Went up the garden? What were they doing then?...
[Bev:] Talk....
[Wendy:] Got a chicken and a bloody rabbit up there. Well there was. Whether there still is, I mean... I used to hear the chicken making a ruddy noise. I mean obviously you won't hear the rabbit but... I don't think I'm gonna stay in anyway. Alright so we'll be out two days there's
[Bev:] No but you're staying with me.
[Wendy:] nothing to do. I mean we even get bored with the knitting.
[Bev:] [speaking with mouth full]
[Wendy:] Eh?
[Bev:] You can very easily get bored with knitting.
[Wendy:] Mm. What's the? Oh... But I mean I get to work I'm so bloody tired. I'll get those earplugs out... for night times if it's necessary.
[Bev:] Mm....
[Wendy:] ...
[Bev:] There you are.
[Wendy:] What?... Yeah.... No we can shove that in the box.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Don't know what it is, don't need to open it do we?... I know he's, he's up there this weekend....
[Bev:] Well you do know
[Wendy:] What?...
[Bev:] he'd probably be very pleased to see... well all three of us if we wanted to.
[Wendy:] Oh they brought that back in.
[Bev:] Yeah, I didn't think they were going.... All three of us if we went up for a weekend.
[Wendy:] He's gotta work Bev, he's not doing enough. He's not doing enough, he had one bad result another
[Bev:] Oh, I didn't know that.
[Wendy:] No you didn't did you? Couple of decent ones and one bad one. And his average is sixty two percent.... Sunday but I mean... I'm not sure, I'll say it now, I'm not sure... I'm certainly not sure he's doing enough.... If you think about it... if you think about it I've probably
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] where he is up and down, up and down and people are in and out and
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] well I'm sorry but from where I'm looking at it... sixty two but... not that I've thought about it in any depth but...
[Bev:] Mm But there again and that have lived in town before
[Wendy:] Oh yeah.
[Bev:] so maybe not.
[Wendy:] ...... Probably touting for business, that's all it is. Barclays have lost a load of money.
[Bev:] Yeah.... Right I can start
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] if you want.
[Wendy:] It's in the freezer, there's a packet
[Bev:] Well I'll I'll do er... carrots and that first.
[Wendy:] And I say if you do the spuds just well, if they start to go brown inside chuck them.
[Bev:] Right.
[Wendy:] Cos it goes right the way through.... There's a lot of out to the hospital though innit?
[Bev:] Yeah....
[Wendy:] Well I think we'll have to find somewhere to lock it, well Danny says there's places all over....
[Bev:] Well there will be.
[Wendy:] Yeah. Could get a, quite a... a good deal I would have thought... somewhere....
[Bev:] use this... tomato and onion?
[Wendy:] Well why not?... Yeah that's a good idea.
[Bev:] With minced beef, I won't put carrots in cos that
[Wendy:] No.
[Bev:] might not be
[Wendy:] Well see what they say. Is there anything in here I've gotta get out?
[Bev:] Well the things will be in there
[Wendy:] things
[Bev:] Yeah one... So I won't do carrots
[Wendy:] No. But you need some more onion
[Bev:] Yeah I'll do an onion.
[Wendy:] the potato will be on the top anyway so... that won't matter will it?...
[Bev:] Well it says serve with... fresh mince vegetable, mixed vegetables. Cos what you do is you put your meat in that, you don't put your
[Wendy:] No
[Bev:] potato in it... do potato on the side
[Wendy:] Oh well we can do that then. That'll be simpler anyway won't it?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] It'll be a pot of potatoes but... I should put some onion in there though.
[Bev:] Oh yeah.
[Wendy:] Cos he'll want that.
[Bev:] And your meat
[Wendy:] And your meat yeah.
[Bev:] So...
[Wendy:] Well that'll be a bit simpler won't it? Could that be done in a pot?
[Bev:] Yeah, well it's for casserole so...
[Wendy:] Well a pot will be simpler for when we get back if she's in of course but...
[Bev:] No I can't see why not.
[Wendy:] ... Mind you get your tea.
[Bev:] Yeah....
[Wendy:] I think we need a breather anyway.
[Bev:] Well it's just a waste of a lovely day.
[Wendy:] Yeah. It's beautiful innit?...
[Bev:] Well no, the reason I... and because these things just go so quickly
[Wendy:] Well yeah
[Bev:] that maybe it would work out cheaper to start all over again. Well they... I would think up there there's a screw
[Wendy:] Screw yeah.... Well
[Bev:] Will you have the new fashion taps or do you want... different bits here?
[Wendy:] This but this is twenty five pounds worth there.
[Bev:] Yes I know....
[Wendy:] I mean it was only months ago cos it's only a while ago that Tim came.... I saw that down there again....
[Bev:] Do you want some more onion than that, yes?
[Wendy:] I should chuck another one in, what difference does it make?
[Bev:] Oh my eyes!
[Wendy:] Yeah... that is it.... I mean there is a lot of wall space here that is not wall look.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] but I can't see the point of doing vinyl on that anyway... I really cannot.... Here I'll tell you what...... oh yeah no, alright if you have that
[Michael:] Mm?
[Wendy:] I can have er Emma Freud explores the unspoilt i island of Belize.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] That'll be interesting I It's erm
[Michael:] What's that, half past eight did you say?
[Wendy:] Travelogue half past eight till nine.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Michael:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Oh she's swimming with a dolphin.
[Wendy:] Is she?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Well that'll be interesting.
[Michael:] Mm mm yeah we'll do that as well then. Oh you've got your, gotta do that cos you'll wanna be, you're watching Morse aren't you?
[Bev:] Mm yeah.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Everything's bloody Wednesday night isn't it?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Michael:] Well you shouldn't have to go out then should you?
[Wendy:] Right so it's eight thirty on four... and nine o'clock on two.
[Michael:] We'd have to get the bloody books out if I was here.
[Wendy:] Oh yes, well he would. eight
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] eight [] thirty on four
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER] Listening []
[Wendy:] Oh shove it.
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] and nine o'clock on
[Michael:] I'm listening.
[Wendy:] on two, alright?
[Michael:] I am listening....
[Wendy:] Now what's the time? Now, now I want something now. I don't want Coronation Street... Tomorrow's World... Def Two's still on
[Bev:] There's nothing...
[Wendy:] Well we'll have to have Coronation Street then.
[Bev:] This is Coronation [LAUGHTER] this is discount.
[Wendy:] This is what?
[Bev:] This is more discount... on the
[Wendy:] Oh oh... Mm....
[Michael:] [belch]
[Bev:] He was in Soldier Soldier
[Wendy:] Who, this one?
[Bev:] Yeah. Yeah
[Michael:] He was the C O weren't he?
[Bev:] No. The C O was a... he looks like... oh what's his name? He reminded me of him straight away Patrick McGowan the... the colonel reminded me of him.
[Michael:] Mhm.
[Bev:] It wasn't him it was just... facially....
[Wendy:] Told you in here who it was... This is Your Life, Gary's Choice.
[Bev:] Oh it didn't!
[Wendy:] It says [reading] I can't give anything away but that the show is... show's not a load of old cosh... tonight []
[Bev:] That's naughty.
[Wendy:] Tis a bit....
[Bev:] Go on, all made in advance. Yeah yeah yeah yeah... didn't realize that.
[Wendy:] What? Made in advance?
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] They'd have to be really to get all the people together wouldn't they?... Oh bloody cup of tea now.
[Bev:] I'm not staying in with you if you're gonna be in a foul mood mother.
[Wendy:] I'm not in a foul mood, I'm talking to myself.... [yawning] Do you want tea []?
[Michael:] Yes please.
[Bev:] Yes please.
[Wendy:] Does it work?
[Michael:] ?
[Wendy:] in the kitchen....
[Michael:] What, on the ceiling?
[Wendy:] No, on the walls. Does it work?...
[Michael:] Well I suppose so.
[Wendy:] have it done?
[Michael:] Eh?
[Wendy:] Can we have it done?... Is it permanent?...
[Michael:] Yeah it's permanent isn't it?
[Wendy:] Yeah that's what I said to Ann look.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] What could you have done out there?
[Michael:] Well the, the, the best thing, best thing! The only thing is that's that's permanent is wood isn't it?
[Wendy:] Yeah. And what sort of wood would that have to be?
[Michael:] Well you can please yourself, it could be that or pine or whatever can't it?
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Michael:] You choose your, your own like it used to be.
[Wendy:] That would be permanent wouldn't it? It had all better be
[Michael:] That's the only thing it can be... but to be permanent.
[Bev:] Or tiles.
[Michael:] Or, yeah, or tiles but tiles is all
[Bev:] Tiles is clinical.
[Michael:] It's cold, yeah....
[Bev:] It's always clinical.
[Michael:] Mm....
[Wendy:] Gotta have something permanent there.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Haven't we? To make it easier.... And that wouldn't be cold would it?
[Michael:] No....
[Wendy:] I never thought about that. Where would you get that?
[Michael:] Oh all over the place. Yeah, all over the place.
[Wendy:] Yeah?... That's quite an idea isn't it? Is it very hard?...
[Michael:] No I should say with a er you know, I mean you've gotta... er... i if it's tongue and groove or, or whatever but as I say, tongue and groove is best.
[Wendy:] And that's this stuff here?
[Michael:] Yeah....
[Wendy:] Quite an idea innit?... Be worth the money in the end wouldn't it?
[Michael:] Mm....
[Wendy:] And then would you varnish that?
[Michael:] Well that would depend on what you had see
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] If you
[Michael:] you don't do it....
[Wendy:] It would be nice though wouldn't it? In the end. I mean that would all have to come off, all the lot wouldn't it?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Everything.... That would be rather nice you know.... Couldn't you get in?
[Michael:] No. No. But as he says I'll probably get in... he said er I was doing something. Er er gotta be tomorrow.
[Wendy:] Well you've gotta get it haven't you?
[Michael:] Yeah I've got it tomorrow well, the latest Friday morning but I mean it's not as, I've gotta get it now....
[Wendy:] It's a pity you haven't got to earn enough to put in there and pay for it.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Yeah it don't it make much odds though
[Michael:] No I mean... doesn't it?
[Wendy:] Oh it was the other day when I went in there.
[Michael:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Crikey that didn't take us any time at all....
[Bev:] Ugh pigeon shit on mine.
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] Ugh!
[Wendy:] Mm probably.
[Bev:] ugh....
[Wendy:] [yawning] Ooh... ooh god []. That was best night's sleep I had last night for ages.
[Bev:] Well if you go in mine...
[Wendy:] No I'll go in that one....
[Bev:] Yeah but you
[Wendy:] Well unless they make a noise.
[Bev:] Well I just put a thingy on....
[Wendy:] Well if that boy's bringing that thing in we'll have to
[Bev:] Well there's no point in recording anything more.
[Wendy:] Why?... It's it's
[Bev:] brings in something
[Wendy:] well it is, it's using it.... Mm... hear that minute you said that I knew that... but it never, it never... I mean
[Bev:] But we were doing so well.
[Wendy:] Well you'll have to go through the lot.
[Bev:] Well that's
[Wendy:] You'll have to go through all the Bs......
[Bev:] I wonder what made you stop pressing?
[Wendy:] I haven't, I haven't got a clue but I knew it the minute... the second you said it I knew it.... I say because I was running around a bit I think.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] I think that's probably the, the thing.... Just did it, that's the answer.... Blooming annoying though.... what I had on it.... Alright, I'm up to hundred and one now.
[Bev:] You rotten devil.
[Wendy:] Well hadn't been any for ages....
[Bev:] [yawn] I could be...
[Wendy:] It's getting very boring though.
[Bev:] Well see you're at the wrong colour.
[Wendy:] Yeah. Yeah I, the mix with this, did you?
[Bev:] Oh no.
[Wendy:] Mm.... Sorry?... And what colour is that?
[Bev:] Green.
[Wendy:] The erm... nice, this oh no
[Bev:] Yeah that
[Wendy:] not that green.... Or that green?
[Bev:] Or that green.
[Wendy:] Or that green.
[Bev:] It'll have colour, it'll have pattern in it you see. It has
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] ribbed bands going up there and there.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] And I should put the pockets it.
[Wendy:] Yeah. That's right.... [yawn]... I might get a blooming letter from Pauline someone then mightn't I?... Doubt it if she keeps ringing up.
[Michael:] No I did, this week.
[Wendy:] The other ones... wasn't it?
[Michael:] No we, we all take a turn on it where you do it.
[Wendy:] Where do you go, Tesco's?
[Michael:] I will do, yeah.
[Wendy:] Oh you will do.
[Michael:] Yeah I'll go tomorrow then....
[Wendy:] Oh yeah... sure you were.... Well that's quite a point actually.
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] Well she always says get your arse back to Eng
[Michael:] Get your arse back to
[Wendy:] to England.
[Michael:] mother she's told me
[Wendy:] Her mother.
[Michael:] quite a lot about it.
[Wendy:] And she's a right ooh get your arse back... Well when Peggy gets gets more
[Michael:] Yeah. But she to like that
[Wendy:] Don't she?
[Michael:] doesn't she?
[Wendy:] Yeah.... Get your arse back to England she says....
[Bev:] You're sure don't want this then?
[Wendy:] No... otherwise I can't do
[Bev:] Alright then....
[Wendy:] [yawning] Oh god I can't stop yawning []....
[Michael:] He was an officer you know.... He was an officer in that...
[Bev:] He was... he wasn't the colour sergeant
[Michael:] No he wasn't, he was an officer....
[Wendy:] In what?
[Bev:] Soldier Soldier.
[Wendy:] Oh I never watched it....
[Bev:] He was captain. He was a captain. His wife was blond.... I'm sure
[Wendy:] Which one is it you're on about?...
[Bev:] I'll show you in a minute.
[Wendy:] Show me....
[Bev:] She was the blond one that had the affair with... yeah... the colonel looked like a... erm the colonel was an Irish bloke, wasn't he?
[Michael:] ... I think he was company commander.
[Bev:] Yeah. Something like that....
[Michael:] Cos he was certainly in charge of one of those
[Bev:] He was cert
[Michael:] when they did the erm
[Bev:] he was in charge of the group.
[Michael:] Yeah, he, he, he was certainly in charge of those when they had that er mock
[Bev:] Mock fight, yeah.
[Michael:] fight.
[Bev:] Not battle, that
[Michael:] Cos he he er... what put one over on the boat who's had, been having an affair with his wife wasn't it?
[Bev:] That's right.... I missed the end of that, I... I hope it'll come back on again... cos I enjoyed it.
[Wendy:] That was late on at night though weren't it?
[Michael:] Yeah,
[Bev:] Oh it weren't late there.
[Wendy:] Yeah it was here.
[Bev:] Eight o'clock.
[Wendy:] No
[Michael:] Yeah was late.
[Wendy:] It wasn't a time that I would, it... er when I
[Michael:] Normally sit and watch it, no.
[Wendy:] No, not me.
[Michael:] No it was ten o'clock at least.
[Wendy:] Er yeah.
[Bev:] Oh no. Eight o'clock over there.
[Michael:] No, it was ten o'clock at least.
[Bev:] Prime time.
[Wendy:] [yawning] No, not here [].
[Bev:] But there were a lot of things you could get......
[Wendy:] when you get into them?
[Bev:] Eh? Yeah.
[Wendy:] Take a long time.
[Bev:] They show everybody don't they?
[Wendy:] Mm.... What?
[Michael:] He gets
[Wendy:] I should think so, yeah. [LAUGHTER]...
[Michael:] Do you want to know who it is before I go out? [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] No,... two hour thing....
[Bev:] Slap your legs young man.... Wouldn't we mum?...
[Wendy:] Well it wouldn't much would it? You know if,...
[Bev:] [belch] Oh pardon me.
[Wendy:] [yawning] But if we []...
[Bev:] ...
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]... [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Michael:] sounds if it's recording dunnit?
[Wendy:] Well if she does it
[Bev:] I did it, so
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] not me []. That's... [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER]... Oh dear! Hundred and three.
[Bev:] probably hundred and eleven now.
[Wendy:] But you've got [yawning] fourteen more th []... fourteen more than me.
[Bev:] I've got four more thank you very much, I've only gotta get hundred and fifteen.
[Wendy:] Yeah, but seven a time
[Bev:] Oh yeah, I see what you mean.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] Yeah but you've gotta add on another six.
[Wendy:] for god's sake don't say I'm doing it wrong.
[Bev:] No. You'll have to get to hundred and eleven
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] but then you add on six rows.
[Wendy:] Oh do we?
[Bev:] Yeah, and then cast off.
[Wendy:] Oh.
[Bev:] ...
[Wendy:] There's Morsey
[Bev:] That car's right for him.
[Wendy:] It's a lovely car innit?
[Bev:] I don't like the car myself
[Wendy:] Oh I do.
[Bev:] not for me I wouldn't.
[Wendy:] [yawning] Oh I think it's beautiful old car []....
[Bev:] I know who done it.
[Wendy:] You don't!... You can't it's brand new.
[Bev:] I know who's done it.
[Wendy:] Really?
[Bev:] Yeah....
[Wendy:] Doesn't he know her or something?... There goes that bloody dog.
[Bev:] There's two going. It's a bloody yapper and a
[Wendy:] Bloody house innit?... There goes the other one out the back.
[Bev:] Yeah....
[Wendy:] Bloody people.... We must try and get some... really good ones though if he brings that machine in. I mean I... pity about today.
[Bev:] Well
[Wendy:] That would have been
[Bev:] morning...
[Wendy:] What, when you were here?
[Bev:] Quiet... that's when you can hear everything.
[Wendy:] Mm.... Well I'll leave that job for you then if
[Bev:] You never know, I might be busy.
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] The way he's bloody going I won't be. Strange innit?
[Wendy:] Well I... I get a bit annoyed actually because like I said
[Bev:] Well it is a little bit annoying!
[Wendy:] Well I, I am. I am a bit annoyed so I said don't get messed about I said... this is the whole point cos if, if you get over there and there's and it's only for a bloody week it'll be annoying. Yeah I just don't know. I never said a word to him, he said it to me.
[Bev:] This is a little bit annoying now because
[Wendy:] I think so.
[Bev:] yeah, I haven't even asked for it!
[Wendy:] I know. Des said to me this morning did Bev get a phone call yesterday and I said no. You know, from that... works
[Michael:] Oh yeah.
[Wendy:] and he said oh she will today.
[Michael:] Eh?
[Wendy:] She will today.
[Michael:] Oh, she hasn't.
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] No.
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] That's it, it's getting a little bit annoying.
[Michael:] Yeah. I know.
[Wendy:] She leaves on Friday.
[Michael:] Mm.... Well I would think it er... isn't to be wouldn't you?
[Wendy:] Well I dunno, that was this morning, he come up to me.
[Michael:] Oh yeah but that don't mean to say he she's got the
[Wendy:] Oh no, no but
[Michael:] I mean er
[Wendy:] I find it annoying anyway.
[Michael:] it might mean that
[Bev:] Well if it's there it's there, if it's not it's not
[Michael:] Well
[Wendy:] That's it
[Michael:] they might have decided not to. Eh?
[Wendy:] Eh?
[Michael:] She could still get a phone call telling her sh telling her no, that's the other thing.
[Wendy:] Well course she can but it seemed a bit strange that he said that this morning.
[Michael:] Yeah, yeah.
[Wendy:] Doesn't it? Now what?
[Michael:] Well I know where my... oh is that yours? it's in my overall pockets and I, I tell you what's in the, in the thing with it, me petrol one and I... had me premium punch put on there look. And it's in my overall pocket, I know it is....
[Wendy:] A damned good job I got one innit?
[Michael:] Yeah. Well I could still get in but I couldn't lock the door say no bugger off. [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] got a system now.
[Michael:] [LAUGHTER] It's bloody good too.
[Wendy:] Well he's got a system
[Michael:] I bloody would.
[Wendy:] hasn't he?...
[Michael:] Right...
[Wendy:] Got your key?
[Michael:] Yeah....
[Wendy:] only one?
[Michael:] Yeah cos was the other one w in the car well, in the car fortunately.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] See you later.
[Michael:] Yes.
[Wendy:] Bye bye.
[Michael:] nine o'clock...
[Wendy:] Well half past eight, nine.
[Michael:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Channel Four Okay. [sigh]
[Bev:] Must have been
[Wendy:] ...
[Bev:] You can't be beating me!
[Wendy:] I'm not beating you.
[Bev:] You are! You've only gotta do two more.
[Wendy:] Oh no I'm doing the wrong one, I'll be hundred and five.... I've done out all me rows, I've gotta come down instead of going across. I'll be hundred and five.... Oh I see what I've done now.... Is that him?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] I don't recognize him.... Oh it's
[Bev:] There was a young boy there wasn't there?
[Wendy:] Young boy?... I don't remember that....
[Bev:] Well not a young boy but a young man.
[Wendy:] Mm? Who's he then? Oh.
[Bev:] Cos when he was talking to his wife on the phone
[Wendy:] Mm?... That was a bit rude wasn't it?
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Well Lewis is supposed to be
[Wendy:] [LAUGHTER] I like him though.
[Bev:] Yeah... he's supposed to be a bit
[Wendy:] Mm. Oh yeah.
[Bev:] Nice to go out for a meal, that'll be a nice.
[Wendy:] Mm. What, with Rosemary and that?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Well I think so, I mean they're all good company by the looks aren't they and...
[Bev:] Well this is what I say.
[Wendy:] it's a different night innit, something
[Bev:] You don't go out for meals do you?
[Wendy:] Well I expect your father will have to take us out or perhaps Anne'll pick us up....
[Bev:] Well you might find, cos they might want a drink...
[Wendy:] That's it.
[Bev:] taxi.
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] Because Margaret's only up the top there isn't she?
[Wendy:] Yeah.... Yeah.... Or get your father to run us out and taxi back....
[Bev:] I'd hate to have someone who also looked terrible with a
[Wendy:] Mm I know
[Bev:] scarf
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] That's all it is.
[Wendy:] I know, some people can wear it, some people can't. That's all that is isn't it?
[Bev:] Yeah....
[Wendy:] That bowl of fruit there!
[Bev:] When we going to the Caribbean mum.
[Wendy:] Mm.... wouldn't it? That must be a little pub then, that thing is it?
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Eh?...
[Bev:] Yes....
[Wendy:] [yawning] Oh before []... Yeah that's a nice hairstyle if you can keep it like it.
[Bev:] Mm.... You see trouble is you won't get it all one way....
[Wendy:] Mm.... Poor old Morsey. half past eight, what's the time?
[Bev:] start it off now.
[Wendy:] Oh. What did I say it was?... Oh god I can't remember.
[Bev:] Two.
[Wendy:] Four.
[Bev:] Four.
[Wendy:] This is at two. This is on three...
[Bev:] I haven't really got hold of this yet.
[Wendy:] No nor me....
[Bev:] Is that it?
[Wendy:] Yeah.... Yeah well we didn't concentrate on it when it started actually, we was all talking weren't we?... That's the trouble....
[Bev:] Well the
[Wendy:] Well
[Bev:] son-in-law's trying to hide something.
[Wendy:] Yeah, I didn't realize who he was actually.
[Bev:] The wife... that isn't... the wife is another story.
[Wendy:] Yeah.... Yeah
[Bev:] [yawning] oh god... but I think he's trying to hide something [].
[Wendy:] Well
[Bev:] But there was a young boy there
[Wendy:] No I didn't see him.
[Bev:] Cos it was while he was phoning, you know the, the boy said... you can get a telephone qu er a special telephone fitted.
[Wendy:] Oh that's right, that was the... B T man.... British Telecom man. He was repairing the
[Bev:] Of course he was. telephone. But some...
[Wendy:] Hark at that bloody row next door.
[Bev:] Some boy or somebody cut the phone, you saw that at the beginning.
[Wendy:] No I didn't. I didn't see that.
[Bev:] I'm sure we did....
[Wendy:] No that was the B T man.
[Bev:] Course it was.
[Wendy:] Mm. He comes through and said if you want a...
[Bev:] You can have a special phone fitted.
[Wendy:] Yeah. That's right....
[Bev:] Well we wanna know who this other woman is don't we? Cos she wasn't the nurse... cos she walked in half way through the inquest.
[Wendy:] What the one with the...
[Bev:] Son-in-law.
[Wendy:] Son-in-law is it?... Oh yeah, that was her daughter wasn't it? Yeah. Her daughter died
[Bev:] And the son
[Wendy:] and the er grandson... yeah.... Yeah that's right....
[Bev:] a yoghurt.
[Wendy:] Mm see what I've got will you? Please. I had the black one, so something different.... I think I've had all the mango ones. Might not have done though.... What? Yeah I'll have a mango then please....
[Bev:] We have nine left.
[Wendy:] We've got nine left now?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Good grief. Oh well that's good then.
[Bev:] First of March, I don't know what to do.
[Wendy:] Well you go to town on them then. First of March?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Oh that's Saturday then innit... did I say?
[Bev:] I don't know....
[Wendy:] I must go and get some wood....
[Bev:] Ah!
[Wendy:] What?
[Bev:] Ooh
[Wendy:] It's doctor and wife.... He's gonna say he couldn't have pulled the trigger.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Certainly will cos she's leaving... well that don't matter, have a look and erm, it might turn out fine, it might keep you occupied for a while
[Bev:] Well
[Wendy:] Do you want your water and that?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] It's over there
[Bev:] erm put it on again last night, they won't do it for me
[Wendy:] have I done that? No I haven't, damn it that would of been wouldn't it?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Did I say one?
[Bev:] I think so
[Wendy:] I think I did, er, mm... no I say you've got to be choosy, certainly I'll agree with that, anyway by the sound of it, like said she seems like she's or does down there
[Bev:] All I've got to know is, cos I shall write it all down
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] is what buttons do what on that water actually
[Wendy:] That's right
[Bev:] WordPerfect thing, cos all it is most probably
[Wendy:] Yeah well they, they correct spelling and all that don't they?
[Bev:] Well
[Wendy:] Some of them
[Bev:] some of them
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] All I've gotta know is like sort of, which ones to press to get to
[Wendy:] Hit A, B and C
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Erm you've done
[Bev:] to get to the menu you could work out from the menu
[Wendy:] Yeah, you've done your pills haven't you?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I've asked you that, nothing else you need to take down there
[Bev:] I don't think so
[Wendy:] Er ta, start the video ain't I?
[Bev:] Right station
[Wendy:] Oh I'll check that, one, that's what I said didn't I?
[Bev:] Aye
[Wendy:] Hello mummy, where are you?
[speaker001:] Hello
[Wendy:] Hello love, oh
[Bev:] open the door would she, nobody else would get up
[Wendy:] Ah? oh
[speaker001:] No...
[Wendy:] just take cut her plant down like I did
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] I had to cut that one down, it's all there look... oh... So what do I do here, I've put the potatoes on
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] what about this other stuff? Put it in and stir it...
[Bev:] here I come
[Wendy:] What?
[Bev:] I said here I come
[Wendy:] Oh... and I want it to be ready that's all
[Bev:] [reading] One stir and store it in the fridge and use within three or two to three days, recipe for meat balls and onions divide them into neat piles, place in oven proof dish [] do you wanna do it that way? Cos all you've got to do, it's the easiest way
[Wendy:] Is it?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Alright, I have I? I use is it, is that all you can do with it?
[Bev:] Well that's what it says, or microwave it, but that's just the same
[Wendy:] It's happened again
[Bev:] Don't worry
[Wendy:] Right, I, the first thing I do is go out and sweep it off the road then, I can't, I just can't remember... nip down and get a loaf yeah
[Bev:] That, that must the last bread
[Wendy:] Ah? Well what do you want? You want this dish? Well the only thing I can do
[Bev:] Put the plate on
[Wendy:] is, yeah, that will do, but it'll have to go that way
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] okay?... Which one?
[Bev:] Do the big one
[Wendy:] Now what about Oxos?
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] None at all?
[Bev:] No, you don't need them
[Wendy:] If you want
[speaker001:] ...
[Bev:] Amazing
[Wendy:] What?
[Bev:] cos I told you
[Wendy:] it does a bit don't it?
[Bev:] Phew
[Wendy:] Oh well, so what number?
[Bev:] Er what's that?
[Wendy:] I know what number?
[Bev:] Four
[Wendy:] Four...
[speaker001:] ...
[Bev:] I think she's trying to shelter too much though
[Wendy:] Yeah sounds like it actually
[speaker001:] ...
[Bev:] So is it, funny how they're older, they're old enough... well Lee's not
[Wendy:] no
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] When I've had this tea I'll go down and get a cut one
[Bev:] Eh?
[Wendy:] When I've had this tea, I'll go down and get a cut won't be worth buying anything else down there anyway, cos it will be won't it? be interesting anyway...
[Bev:] Probably have a few
[Wendy:] yeah, well there you are, there you are
[Bev:] well sort out later, sort out on the
[Wendy:] right, well this can go in then can it?
[Bev:] oh go on
[Wendy:] yeah, no
[Bev:] that'll be fine
[Wendy:] Right, well that's good... well that's what we needed weren't it something like that?
[Bev:] It said forty five and one hour, though stirring occasionally... that'll do mum, cos you can use up the sausages
[Wendy:] Really
[Bev:] to make a quick supper
[Wendy:] we haven't half got through quick ain't we?
[Bev:] I know
[Wendy:] Oh well oh, oh look I'll have this tea and I'll go over and get something, the what?
[Bev:] Ah time up
[Wendy:] Yeah I see that it just come through the door
[Bev:] You know what that is don't you?
[Wendy:] What, a lot of it's adverts mind... lot of adverts in there
[Bev:] Scissors where did they go?
[Wendy:] Oh I've put them in the drawer, top drawer, the er kitchen drawer...
[Bev:] Well you must be losing some weight then mother
[Wendy:] Oh it is true, but it did, it did do it, but that was the other day and I didn't think that they had the same effect, no, well perhaps so, mind you I mean we have done a lot of walking, haven't we?
[Bev:] But as I say
[Wendy:] If those bus fares are going up like Sandra says
[Bev:] you'll be doing a lot more
[Wendy:] won't be worth going on the bus unless like I said you've got a great load to carry but then that could be worked out on a Saturday morning, it would mean going down there, after Tesco's that's the only thing
[Bev:] Yeah, well we can do that tomorrow because
[Wendy:] You can't
[Bev:] I can't, I forgot
[Wendy:] ha, mm
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] Well you might be home within an hour
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] won't you? That's the only way to look at it I'm afraid...
[Bev:] Oh bugger me I'm, there's no way I'm not doing it by the books
[Wendy:] No
[Bev:] Can't afford to do that
[Wendy:] No, don't blame you
[Bev:] I shall say well that's it, I'm a law abiding
[Wendy:] Well no I mean it's not in your best interest and you wouldn't do it anyway, that's more to the point
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] You've never done it so you won't bloody start now, it's not worth all the hassle, for god sake, you know damn well it's wrong oh there's another load next door now, in a white van
[Bev:] Party time
[Wendy:] Yeah, that's that bloke who was on the bike... right, cheers
[Bev:] Fifty P off vodka you want them?
[Wendy:] Dunno
[Bev:] You don't buy that there so
[Wendy:] this is advert...
[Bev:] thirty P off cans of beer that is or a bottle of wine...
[Wendy:] I know I'm obviously not gonna take everything, am I?
[Bev:] Well...
[Wendy:] Cos I wouldn't... fifty five, seventy, eighty, ninety five that'll do won't it? That'll do, I mean there will be people who take the whole damn lot, although I don't want to be embarrassed
[Bev:] or just pick, pick out ones that
[Wendy:] Well there's that one in the paper, I'll have that one, that'll probably go on longer that Tetley tea one... mm...
[Bev:] A Comedy of Errors at Crickley
[Wendy:] Mm... ah well that's quite a thought innit? Pity we ain't near Sawbridgeworth play house
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] It's too much of a journey ain't it, they do quite an amount there I think still
[Bev:] Yes they do...
[Wendy:] there and we'll probably fill our time, I mean if... just if you're working that'll change it won't it? where's that?
[Bev:] Here
[Wendy:] Where? Quick read
[Bev:] There
[Wendy:] Oh, erm, we must, I won't do it tomorrow I don't think
[Bev:] Easter in Jersey
[Wendy:] Easter in Jersey? yeah and I want that, whereabouts in Jersey? Just Jersey oh that's
[Bev:] Oh this is where oh
[Wendy:] that's Holland
[Bev:] where else does it go? Bruges, Ypres and
[Wendy:] Ypres
[Bev:] Ypres
[Wendy:] that's where my grandfather died Ypres...
[Bev:] That's where it goes, Southern Ireland... John cruise er choose, coaches
[Wendy:] John
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] That's alright as long as it's not an old one, ha
[Bev:] day trip to Brugus
[Wendy:] Oh I ain't been there... ha when's that?
[Bev:] Nineteenth of April, mystery tour
[Wendy:] That's Easter innit?
[Bev:] South of France
[Wendy:] Nineteen is, is, is er Good Friday
[Bev:] Royal Tournament Italy, Venice
[Wendy:] Mm, still a few then ain't there?
[Bev:] three day vine and, three day vine valley
[Wendy:] How much is that one?
[Bev:] and hypermarket, doesn't say
[Wendy:] Yeah see there's, they're alright, but if they don't fill it you don't go
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] cos it happened before...
[Bev:] well
[Wendy:] well we must wait on a bit, we'll have to now, if she hadn't phoned it would of been, you know something nice to think about won't it?
[Bev:] Well they all finish in three months if that so
[Wendy:] Yeah, oh, well April is Easter, April nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two, and it looks like your father he said he might take some time innit?
[Bev:] Mm, so it's only a couple of months' work really
[Wendy:] Oh yeah, if that, she short of cash she can well sure be back, I bet you, I wonder who's she taken over there? I can't see them two paying out for somebody to look after it and I cannot really... I cannot... Seasons, well what you got on today?
[Bev:] Well...
[Wendy:] Mm...
[Bev:] Italy in September
[Wendy:] Yeah I read one today, that's better
[Bev:] ha, sort of really...
[Wendy:] I didn't know she was from Wales
[Bev:] No, nor did I...
[Wendy:] You had a short skirt on today
[Bev:] No it's not, a black skirt on the knee, it's Charles' suit
[Wendy:] What?
[Bev:] No it's not
[Wendy:] I can see them bloody lines on her stocking shorts
[Bev:] Could be... Fergie got er, erm bloody
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] Is it another sleepless night and I'll get my bloody ear plugs out
[Bev:] Could be
[Wendy:] Oh well... alright I'd better go and get some bread... right anything else we need?
[Bev:] Don't know, don't think so
[Wendy:] Eh?
[Bev:] Don't think so
[Wendy:] Erm...
[Bev:] I know I had it this morning
[Wendy:] Oh well we shall see what we shall see
[Bev:] tonight
[Wendy:] I shall start it tonight, it's all noise, it's all what we are, no matter what their is, right, bread... I'll turn those spuds off while I'll go out look, anything else then?
[speaker001:] ...
[Bev:] Yeah, we came in
[Wendy:] Oh I wouldn't, I wouldn't
[Bev:] No you wouldn't of mind
[Wendy:] No
[Bev:] He came in and he'd been playing with this bloody lighter
[Wendy:] Yeah, well I knew that
[Bev:] now lighter for you, fuel you can use
[Wendy:] Can you?
[Bev:] Yeah, you can use air freshener
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] any aerosol
[Wendy:] Really oh blimey, well I didn't know
[Bev:] I know as much as I know cos I watch this this morning
[Wendy:] What a blasted programme eh?
[Bev:] but he was like that with it
[Wendy:] Was he?
[Bev:] as he came in
[Wendy:] I didn't see
[Bev:] No, you were out in the kitchen... erm he went [sniff] and I thought oh don't you dare
[Wendy:] Oh that would of done it... well I dunno I, I
[Bev:] I just can't
[Wendy:] Oh you can't be...
[Bev:] but I did somewhat think
[Wendy:] You what?
[Bev:] I did somewhat thought I
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] Well
[Bev:] But the say... say
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] abusers
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] die the first time they've tried it
[Wendy:] Really?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] What the erm I mean see it
[Bev:] inexperience the
[Wendy:] the other one got asthma, oh damn
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] erm, but this one hasn't has he?
[Bev:] No, got eczema
[Wendy:] Eczema, yeah... oh, now what about you getting something for tomorrow then, cos you'll have to take something, you can't go there without anything even if you bring it back, you must take something, ha no problem in a bag is it?... is a buying rolls
[speaker001:] ...
[Bev:] Do you want me to cut out these date ones?
[Wendy:] Yeah why not, yeah anything that's relevant, I mean if it goes on till then we can only use it twice can't we?
[Bev:] Yeah, well it seems stupid not to
[Wendy:] Yeah... that cat knocked that plant down, did you know?...
[Bev:] What plant?
[Wendy:] You know I said she'd cut down her plant like I had
[Bev:] Oh yeah
[Wendy:] The cat knocked it down
[Bev:] Oh well
[Wendy:] and er broke it all...
[Bev:] erm, there are a lot of toiletries in this one
[Wendy:] Yeah, oh well...
[Bev:] well it's all toiletries in it
[Wendy:] Is it? What is it?
[Bev:] Erm, Coffeemate
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] Right...
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] You wait it'll come in a minute... can hear the bloody television, it's true though, if we didn't have our television on, all we'd listen to is theirs innit?
[Bev:] Mm... mm good job he went out... did you hear that banging er
[Wendy:] Yeah some it, up there or something
[Bev:] computer games innit?
[Wendy:] Is it? I don't know... it's a pain I know that, I mean we don't want to hear anything do we?
[Bev:] Oh I don't know what's his name is, what's his name?
[Wendy:] Who?
[Bev:] My old lorry driver
[Wendy:] Your old lorry driver?
[Bev:] The lorry driver
[Wendy:] From where? oh I don't know his name, oh dear... who's winning here?
[Bev:] The woman
[Wendy:] Colander...
[Bev:] That's er cars, stands for cars don't it? Cars or motor bikes
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] going round corners
[Wendy:] yeah, well we're safe at the moment... erm take it back and see what comes out
[Bev:] yeah I, if he gets a present and he don't wanna show it, there's a scream...
[Wendy:] I wondered why she ain't gone out today, she hardly ever stays in does she?
[Bev:] No, I wonder where she's put the dogs?
[Wendy:] Dunno... yeah but it don't mean to say that there's a lot come out, it could only be that lot, couldn't it?
[Bev:] Mm...
[Wendy:] I mean you can't if you overload the kids you can't have four dogs in there... thereof, well you wouldn't thought of that would you? Really... yeah I can hear her... June well it won't be will it? Ah, noisy little bastard ain't he?
[Bev:] Yes... he is... I suppose
[Wendy:] Eh?
[Bev:] if he doesn't really see that much of his mother
[Wendy:] No, can't do can he?
[Bev:] he wants all her attention when he does see her
[Wendy:] Yeah, but then the times when she could be with him she's buzzing around in the car so what
[Bev:] Oh yeah I know, what I'm saying is you can somewhat understand he's a noisy bastard
[Wendy:] T A T E R N
[Bev:] Double T
[Wendy:] Yeah, cater, mater, that sounds A R T, no there's only one R, count... well I just hope he brings one thing home be interesting this bit on a bigger one won't it?... Ha... well if he can't do, if he can't bring nothing that man, which I'm sure he will I shall go and buy something, I mean that thing of Scott's won't be any good without the appropriate thing will it? It's gotta be portable you see, that microphone of Scott's
[Bev:] Well does it have to be portable?
[Wendy:] Well it's gotta be portable
[Bev:] Why?
[Wendy:] Well cos it can't only be in here or in there, it's gotta be everywhere innit? Gotta be, much simpler anyway
[Bev:] Simpler, yeah
[Wendy:] Yeah, but erm, carry around, I mean you might want it at a minute's notice...
[Bev:] Withdraw, no W I T H... no... withdraws
[Wendy:] Withdraws, you reckon...
[Bev:] No I didn't have it I had one of the W dish water
[Wendy:] Dish water? Mm, oh...
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] Oh I must remember to take that film out... Is that the finish of it total?
[Bev:] What?
[Wendy:] That jumper?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Oh is it? Of course you've done the neck I suppose
[Bev:] Mm...
[Wendy:] Oh... oh don't want that then do we?... Oh no... look at her...
[Bev:] Oh no
[Wendy:] Well it's a good cause innit?
[Bev:] I didn't mean that I mean this
[Wendy:] Oh, what's happened now then? You put the light on don't you?... I should think they would, so would I missus...
[Bev:] Oh well they won't win
[Wendy:] Why?
[Bev:] Because they're favourites they won't win
[Wendy:] Oh I see, aha, yeah, probably right...
[Bev:] [singing] Give me just a little more time and our love will surely show []...
[Wendy:] Heard about this have you?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Oh I haven't...
[Bev:] a green frog has been the mascot
[Wendy:] Oh I haven't heard anything about it at all
[Bev:] there he is
[Wendy:] Oh yeah, oh I don't know... that's very loud next door isn't it?
[Bev:] Mm...
[Wendy:] what are they deaf in there?... Be interesting cos you can hear exactly what they're saying, mm... I say people like Simon and Doreen who don't erm televise much and you've got the telephone you told me don't you?
[Bev:] Erm
[Wendy:] The other day... have that other one there...
[Bev:] Oh it could only of been at five thirty
[Wendy:] Mm
[Bev:] they won't go yet
[Wendy:] They might not go all night, but er
[Bev:] Well they were doing it at eleven o'clock last night, it must of been something like that because I heard every word...
[Wendy:] Yeah over that... I mean sometimes you want to sit quiet and you cannot can you?
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] Yeah, well I dunno, do it all properly... I must do all my bits and pieces tonight, I haven't done them this week, oh let's have a look at the poll tax, because I thought there was one more, I'm sure there is
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Sandra wasn't sure, I don't know, I'm sure there is
[Bev:] Yeah there is
[Wendy:] turn on that and I've done mine...
[Bev:] But the kids are changed these days you know
[Wendy:] The kids are what did you say?
[Bev:] Changed
[Wendy:] Well I don't not right is it?
[Bev:] Like, I would never of thought of
[Wendy:] yeah, what you talking about him next door? Or thingy
[Bev:] Well both
[Wendy:] Both, but this one next door Bev is pushed from pillar to post
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I mean
[Bev:] he wants loving
[Wendy:] he's a very kid where the mother's got to go to work
[Bev:] he wants loving
[Wendy:] and I mean let's face it if he is still with the old grandmother, it's, that's a different world as well innit?
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] But this kid goes haywire and a lot of them do... I mean he's all crash bang wallop isn't he? There's no
[Bev:] Wayne is though
[Wendy:] Wayne yeah but she, she was his neighbours and that don't she? That one down the road aren't they?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] And all that, or at Betty's or, what have you, I don't think she'd leave them with the mother-in-law
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] but she leaves them with the neighbours or a neighbour, but I mean it's all different to bringing them up yourself, innit? Gotta be, there a, it's a complex really because nobody will agree, erm, give, bringing up a kid will they?
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] Nobody and I don't ever think people will bring up somebody else's the same as they would their selves, I, I don't think it's possible for anybody to do it, I mean look at Julia when she was a, that childminder with that Kerry
[Bev:] No she didn't care
[Wendy:] Julia didn't care a sod about that kid, she'd let her to scream on, stand in the middle of the garden screaming, indoors screaming and she said to me I have no feelings for her whatsoever but she took the bloody money every week and this is what's so wrong, nobody knows how she er was as that child, only people like us who would hear
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] and all Julia wanted was more and more and more money, there was a conflict on how many gran children she could have and sometimes she had five in there, one of them which was then very small which she had to spend time feeding and that and that was Kerry
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] well those others, three of those, somebody else's children plus her own ran total riot out in the garden, but I mean there's not enough people to come round and do spot checks even if they're allowed, I don't know whether they're allowed to, but they've
[Bev:] I don't know if they can
[Wendy:] No I don't, but nevertheless nobody knew only people like us and the neighbours, how that kid was every day when her mother to the T S B and her mother according to Julia had her because it was the done thing... her mother, her own mother wouldn't have her, Kerry to look after her... and I know that for a fact because one time when Ross was ill, Julia said I can't have her and she said oh god I suppose I've got to go and beg my mother to have her now... she did, but the woman said to Julia, I mean she wouldn't give up her job, they had a four bedroomed house, two bloody great cars, eleven cats
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] and er, I mean what she saw of Kerry was, she dropped her here at quarter to nine, she picked her up between five and half past and the rest of her she saw around kid, the rest of the time she saw her own kid and er Julia was to have her until she went to school, so I mean how can there be any bond there, which there can't, but the mother said herself I had her because it was the done thing... so I mean it's, it's today innit don't you think?
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] I mean all that kid do was scream, scream, scream, scream, I mean Ross wasn't the best one to be with, cos he was selfish and of course in Julia's eyes he never did any wrong but Kerry come off worse all the time and I said childminding is fine and it's necessary but the people, you know that, that people can't know people and Julia was a spoilt brat so
[Bev:] Mm...
[Wendy:] I mean you must, if you're looking after a little girl, you must in the end, unless you've low and detest children, or unless you're out purely and simply for the money, I mean how can you
[Bev:] Not get a bond.
[Wendy:] well how can you not get somewhat attached to a child, I mean of course there's children you don't like, like adults you don't like
[Bev:] Yeah, but then you still, if you see them every day
[Wendy:] That's what I mean
[Bev:] you get somewhat attached to them
[Wendy:] Julia felt nothing for that child, she didn't like her, she didn't hate her, I mean she, she didn't... she just felt nothing cos that's precisely what she told me, that's her words, not mine, you know and I find then, that, she shouldn't be a childminder
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] that's my instant reaction, instant
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] that Julia wanted money more, more money, I mean he worked every hour that god gave at, so his money must of been decent, had to be
[Bev:] I don't think daddy would of let them
[Wendy:] oh I don't know cos Julia was living with a bloke before that, I don't think they'll of had any say in it
[Bev:] Oh
[Wendy:] and from what I understood he was already married anyway, never, never was mentioned here, but I did hear it, whether it was true or not I'm not say it, but I was told that he was already married and divorced to marry her, that was what I was told, no I mean I don't know, but... but I'm damn sure that I know
[Bev:] I hope this fucking kid don't play with that every day
[Wendy:] That's alright, play with it, there's no point in saying anything to them Bev it's now got to be proven... and I say, if I can get it done and I can get it sent off, then they will point me in the right direction won't they?
[Bev:] Oh yeah
[Wendy:] That's the, that's the whole point, you, you have to start somewhere, yes I can give her a bit of paper, yes she can throw it in the bin, it's made no difference, in fact I think it's getting worse since I spoke to her, isn't it? She's had more people in there, the dogs have been left more hours that
[Bev:] Ah that's just her situation
[Wendy:] Fair comment, but this week she was on holiday, didn't stop her and going and leaving them poor dogs in there barking their heads off and crying, for seven and a half hours did it?
[Bev:] No...
[Wendy:] I mean poor dogs and this, I mean we've said it all before it's not viable, four dogs and a semi that you don't exercise, four dogs that er appear particularly one of them to be housed in the same little area, day in day out with a curtain on the door, so that there's not even light going in there
[Bev:] That's so he can't see out in the garden
[Wendy:] That's what? So that he can't see what's going on, cos she thinks if he don't see what's going on he won't bark, but he cries... but I mean she shouldn't have them there, she's never here so she shouldn't have them, I mean look at the trouble Alan had to get Jessie, because they worked, but Emma goes home every lunch time to see to Jessie... from the bank, but I mean the woman... one of them wouldn't let her have a dog, one kennels, which is how it should be, but I mean this one breed those three herself so, yeah... I mean if you breed dogs yourself and you have three in the house of the same breed, what the hell do you want an alsatian for, as well but the whole point is she don't have them as enjoyment, she don't have them as company
[Bev:] Yeah, they're just there
[Wendy:] They're their, their animals that's all like that chicken up the garden I mean I don't know what it's in, might be in a run, but being the place that is in behind that shed, there ain't that much space with a rabbit as well is there, you know, I mean, there might be a run on the floor, it'll be crazy to have a run on the floor because she's had rats
[Bev:] Oh
[Wendy:] ain't she?
[Bev:] yeah
[Wendy:] And she's had rats under that shed... it ain't that long ago she said, she said she had them... so I mean I can't see anybody with an ounce of common sense letting a chicken being on the ground, ground
[Bev:] Well no
[Wendy:] who knows I don't know, I wouldn't, but who knows? You're back to that situation of commonsense again ain't you?... Won't she?
[Bev:] Safe from
[Wendy:] Safe from cuts, good heavens
[Bev:] What?
[Wendy:] probably the er, poll tax are
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] Right, that was worth it, weren't it? I think oh he's left out there his
[speaker001:] ...
[Wendy:] Oh it's bubbling away nice
[Bev:] Stir him again then
[Wendy:] What again?
[Bev:] It says stir occasionally
[Wendy:] Oh... watch that dish, it's a bit hot that dish... right no, just towels, good one, right whip it out for me then please, I'll have to leave it there because some of this is, still out there, ta... well that's not bad, time wise
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] Oh... I bet these kids find this thrilling you know, don't you?
[Bev:] God...
[Wendy:] Barking dogs next door... barking dogs next door again, so I shall, plenty of material shouldn't we? Subject to material
[Bev:] god, yeah... The annoying, the most annoying thing about it
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Bev:] is, is if she tries she can make it quiet in there
[Wendy:] That's what she's supposed to do according to the Citizens Advice Bureau, is to control them so that she don't annoy the neighbours
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] Now Sunday when I had her about that terrific barking, your father was the first to say, look she stopped it
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] but she lets them bark on like she lets the kids scream on, and that is today innit?... I think basically what it comes down to, it doesn't bother her
[Bev:] So why should it
[Wendy:] so she doesn't care about anybody else
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] It can't bother her Bev because the amount of noise that we get through the walls is so bad and she's in it, she's actually there with the animals barking, so she takes no notice whatsoever of them
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] she's probably bloody used to it after all the years she must of had them, she tells
[Bev:] can't
[Wendy:] she tells me they're all old dogs
[Bev:] But dogs whatever age don't
[Wendy:] Well
[Bev:] make that noise
[Wendy:] the way she said it that day was, they're old dogs, they don't need the exercise and they don't bark, that is the impression, impression I got...
[Bev:] It's not true so...
[Wendy:] Now what's that point to spend an afternoon here... no point at all is there?
[Bev:] Not a lot
[Wendy:] Well there isn't any more is there?
[Bev:] They wanna get that paper out
[Wendy:] Sorry?
[Bev:] Do you think that put that paper through the
[Wendy:] what out in the garage?
[Bev:] Yeah
[Wendy:] I dunno, right let me do this and then I'll have a look... I mean I've got to do this because I'm not sure of it, done now innit?
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] I wouldn't wanna do it tomorrow, well only later afternoon... but I mean if I have to put ear plugs in at night to get some sleep because of them, surely the authorities have gotta say something about that...
[Bev:] Well
[Wendy:] well for god's sake, I mean I often wonder about people who make noise like this how they would feel if we did do the same, but I still say because we've done our polystyrene insulation she can't hear us, it's worked in the reverse ain't it?
[Bev:] Probably
[Wendy:] Instead of us, you know, instead of it blocking out for our benefit, I reckon it blocked out for their benefit somehow... a hell of a lot of insulation, in here
[Bev:] Mm
[Wendy:] a hell of a lot really, normally you wouldn't have the vinyl and normally I would think you would only put the tongue and groove not out of the polystyrene behind it and the vinyl, I can't see why people want tongue and groove that they go to all those lengths would you?
[Bev:] No
[Wendy:] Well I don't think so tongue and groove is, is wood innit?... I don't know I mean I don't know nothing about these things, what, really have to feel that we are the lot... Oh, and Us Girls, do we want that?
[Bev:] Well we'll see what's right
[Wendy:] That's wro, right then, eight o'clock, eight thirty, that's half an hour innit, er we'll have to turn it off then, er leave out the news and then put Casualty... that's half an hour, that's an hour... yeah, we'll have to knock out, just knock out the news because otherwise you've got to back and that ain't you?
[Bev:] Mm...
[Wendy:] Seven thirty... right, let's see what's on at six, the Crystal Maze or, eh?
[Bev:] I think it's
[Wendy:] oh on, the next generation, [reading] John Ireland, Robert Fuller, Ben Cartright is dead
[Bev:] Oh
[Wendy:] his brother arrives in Boston before he, miners who want the miners families' ranch [] that goes on till seven thirty
[Bev:] Oh bloody hell
[Wendy:] well other than that we've got
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[Wendy:] There's a fair bit on tonight mind, isn't there?... Alright. What have I got to do here?
[Bev:] I don't need all that.
[Wendy:] Right!
[Bev:] Right, I'm ready.
[Wendy:] Now
[Bev:] Rib two. Make one. Rib four.
[Wendy:] Yeah.... Rib two. Do you want me to read it to you? Alright. Will it change then? Rib
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] two... make one. Rib four... one [LAUGHTER]... make one. [LAUGHTER]
[Bev:] Yeah?
[Wendy:] Where have you got to?
[Bev:] Rib two, make one. Rib four, make one.
[Wendy:] Rib four.
[Bev:] Yeah? Rib four.
[Wendy:] Make one.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Rib five.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Make one.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Rib four.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Make one.
[Bev:] Mhm.
[Wendy:] Rib four.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Make one.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Rib five.
[Bev:] And just there.... Yeah?
[Wendy:] Make one.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Rib four.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Make one, rib five.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Make one, rib four.
[Bev:] I know. Ah! That's make one innit?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Make one.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Is that a four or a five?
[Bev:] Erm, a four.
[Wendy:] Five then.
[Bev:] Mm. Make one?
[Wendy:] Make one.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Rib four.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Make one, rib four.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Make one, rib five. How many you got left? You gone wrong!
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] How many you got there?
[Bev:] Well if I make one I got four. How many do you need?
[Wendy:] Eighty six. But I would of worked out to... I had four left, I had to increase in one... which would have left.
[Bev:] Yeah, and then you had three... and then you... made one and... to there, and that would have been right.
[Wendy:] Wait a minute. Er... [LAUGHTER]... right, so what's going up here? One, two, three, four... so that's makes eighty five.
[Bev:] No, it's not! One, two, three
[Wendy:] [yawning] Oh well []!
[Bev:] Nine o'clock. What was on telly, something I wanted. That's it....... Eighty. Well that's eighty three now cos I'm. So I've, I've gotta back to six haven't I? Gotta make eighty six ain't I?
[Wendy:] Ooh! I got eighty six... but don't ask me how because I just don't know! But I know that I'm clever and I know that have it! But I how I got there is a mystery!
[Bev:] Well you only gotta do it once more so
[Wendy:] Mm.
[Bev:] .
[Wendy:] Are they really? Honestly and truly?
[Bev:] Yeah!
[Wendy:] Well truly that's
[Bev:] I gotta do that back ain't I?
[Wendy:] What a!... Alright, cup of tea?
[Bev:] Please! [yawning] Oh dear []!
[Wendy:] [yawning] Oh bloody hell! That's all that [] bloody walking!
[Bev:] I mean, people keep telling you you've gotta lose some weight, they don't tell me!
[Wendy:] What did Anne say about you? Look at her! Look at
[Bev:] Oh
[Wendy:] her!
[Bev:] Yeah, but come on there should be a bloody difference between me and her!
[Wendy:] She meant how slim you were.
[Bev:] Exactly! Well!
[Wendy:] Not in relation to her she's. She was just saying look at her! Look at her!
[Bev:] I know.
[Wendy:] Alright, what clothes you got?
[Bev:] A little podge
[Wendy:] She's only a little woman! It's all relative.
[Bev:] Not that sort of thing.
[Wendy:] Tall woman.
[Bev:] Well, oh my God!
[Wendy:] Tall woman though isn't she?
[Michael:] Mm?
[Wendy:] Lesley ain't tall is she?
[Bev:] Ha! Don't want to improve!... Remind me not to go.
[Michael:] No.
[Bev:] .... [singing] Na nee nee [].... Okay then.... I haven't got holes have I?
[Wendy:] No! You have you?
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] That's alright. Pardon? Yeah!
[Bev:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah []! Oh I dunno!... This is good.
[Wendy:] Eh?
[Bev:] Do you need this?
[Wendy:] Erm... no.... What's this a recall of last week?
[Bev:] Yeah. Mm, bit of trouble there!
[Wendy:] Mm! Yeah, there was really.
[Bev:] Oh Walt's gone ain't he? Been there a while isn't he?
[Michael:] Mm.
[Bev:] Putting his arm round the Queen!
[Michael:] Yeah!
[Bev:] We've just redecorated the hall and I
[Wendy:] Could I? I it needs a... blimey!
[Bev:] Oh it's here!
[Wendy:] And there's two up isn't there?
[Bev:] What shall I wear tomorrow then?
[Wendy:] Well, I reckon... your black skirt... that's nice
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] and er... some sort of top.
[Bev:] And my new coat? The one he bought.
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Or?
[Wendy:] I like the hem on that black skirt it's look today.
[Bev:] What, the little one?
[Wendy:] No! The long one. I like that very much! It'll look good with that coat.
[Bev:] What coat?
[Wendy:] The black one!
[Bev:] I got two black ones!
[Wendy:] Oh! Sorry!
[Bev:] My long one?
[Wendy:] Yeah!
[Bev:] Like that?
[Wendy:] Looks [LAUGHTER] lovely []!
[Bev:] It looks lovely!
[Wendy:] Well it's today's sort of thing innit?
[Bev:] I want to wear my short black one!
[Wendy:] You can't! Be comfortable. I wouldn't! That other one looks so modern. The long, looks so nice on you!
[Bev:] Oh yeah, but
[Wendy:] well I mean you don't wanna go dressed, too dressed.
[Bev:] Don't I?
[Wendy:] Well I don't think so, do you? I mean, this is the... temp job innit? It's up you! You wear what you like! But I think you wanna be comfy don't you? You know, really comfy Up to you, entirely!! See in the morning when you get dressed... what you think. Do you want alarm put on?
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] You sure?
[Bev:] You better do.
[Wendy:] Ay?
[Bev:] You better do.
[Wendy:] Well, you know... quite seriously.
[Bev:] Er
[Wendy:] It's probably the night you bloody wo, the day you over sleep innit!
[Bev:] Well I did one morning. One night.
[Wendy:] I mean, I know it's late, it's twenty past eleven but
[Bev:] Yeah I don't... well, be rushing around.
[Wendy:] No, course you don't! Well I'll erm
[Bev:] I wanna wake up.
[Wendy:] what time shall I er... get him to do it for? What would you prefer?
[Bev:] Erm
[Wendy:] Ay?... Nine-ish would
[Bev:] Nine.
[Wendy:] do. Nine would do, wouldn't it, nicely?... I would think so. I mean you don't wanna be push, push I mean... but at the same time you don't wanna be... you don't definitely wanna be running around like a cuckoo head do you?
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] There's nothing worse! You want a cup and tea and you name it. No, nine o'clock should be... perfect I would think.... Bloody dogs barking!
[Bev:] I know!
[Wendy:] Howling!... No it ain't it's a kid!
[Bev:] No, I think that's a dog. It's a dog!
[Wendy:] It's both!
[Bev:] Oh!
[Wendy:] He's shouting mummy... Oh that's brilliant isn't it? No bloody sleep again!... He's not happy kid is he?
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] Not at all! Crying like hell there!... Oh God!... Probably leaving him to cry again.
[Bev:] It's what?
[Wendy:] She's probably leaving him to cry again.
[Bev:] Oh I know!
[Wendy:] Easy innit? What fo
[Bev:] Well unfortunately... a lot of that he's got to stop you know.
[Wendy:] Yeah, but you know what? If they had some sort of party in there... he's gonna go over the top you know.
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] And then she wants him to go to bed... after he gets hyper innit?
[Bev:] Yeah, but as I say... a lot of that could be Doctor Spock's erm
[Wendy:] Well it could be her, she can't be bothered!
[Bev:] Oh yeah, I know.
[Wendy:] Just when I never had my thing. Innit terrific ay? Had to get a blinking day off didn't he, that bloke?
[Bev:] Well he isn't now though.
[Wendy:] Yeah, not today though. So as we said, it'll probably happen again! It happens, and happens, and happens! Dogs, kids and bloody shouting! Terrific! Love it! Really make you worthwhile coming home don't it?
[Bev:] You love it really!
[Wendy:] Ay?
[Bev:] I said you do love it really!
[Wendy:] Do I? Well, who knows I do, ay? Surprised at that actually!
[Bev:] Dunno what to wear.
[Wendy:] What? You what?
[Bev:] Just don't know what to wear tomorrow.
[Wendy:] Well, make your mind up in the morning. Got plenty of nice stuff. What?
[Bev:] I shall wait and see.
[Wendy:] Yeah, well that's what I'm saying! Try and few things on and... go from there innit?... You'll come up with something.
[Bev:] Yep!
[Wendy:] Right, nine o'clock... alarm then.
[Bev:] Yeah. I've got a spider in here!
[Wendy:] You what?
[Bev:] I got a spider in here.
[Wendy:] Big one?
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] What's he doing in there?
[Bev:] An incy wincy spider!
[Wendy:] Oh bloody hell kid, go to bed!
[Bev:] He shouldn't be up at this time!
[Wendy:] He's not! He's shut in his bedroom by the sound of it.
[Bev:] Oh! Well do you wanna come in here?
[Wendy:] No! I think I'm tired enough.... Where's
[Bev:] Stopped.
[Wendy:] this spider then?
[Bev:] He's under there.
[Wendy:] What? God! Put him, put him on the whole of when you see him. He's alright, he'll be asleep now.
[Bev:] Oh it's not there, I can't see him.... Oh! I bet I wear
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Right? Well if you say that black skirt's alright I'm... alright.
[Wendy:] Well, I mean let's... lets face it you'll be sat in the car... you're gonna get crumpled aren't you?
[Bev:] Probably.
[Wendy:] But, yeah, what were you saying then?
[Bev:] Er that white... er, little top of mine... with
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] erm... the little vest one.
[Wendy:] Vest, vest?
[Bev:] The one I wear in the canteen.
[Wendy:] Oh yeah.
[Bev:] And my green erm
[Wendy:] bolly
[Bev:] bolly
[Wendy:] with the black skirt.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Be lovely! Yeah, no, that'd be fine Bev. Really! Right, I'll have a little rest... before I turn the T V off. I think.
[Bev:] Well I'm going bed.
[Wendy:] You've got a what?
[Bev:] I'm going.
[Wendy:] Ni night love. Oh! Ho ho! Not that cold though is it?
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] Go to bloody sleep kid! Ooh! If only I had my thing!... He's just like Ross isn't he?
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] Can you hear him?
[Bev:] No, I just heard the door go though.
[Wendy:] Yeah.... Thing is, you know... he's not next door to here, he's out on the... in in the... lawn area isn't he? Our lawn area. That's where the bedroom is innit?
[Bev:] Well I wonder how much of the bedroom?
[Wendy:] [cough] Erm
[Bev:] When you see Helen next
[Wendy:] Yeah, I'll ask her.
[Bev:] ask her.
[Wendy:] I will. Yeah.
[Bev:] Wanna know how much the... bedroom is out there?
[Wendy:] No, I don't know.
[Bev:] Cos it's cos if it's got
[Wendy:] I can't really remem... Ay?
[Bev:] couple of square feet
[Wendy:] I can't remember.
[Bev:] it's coming... into your... area.
[Wendy:] Yeah. Maybe.
[Bev:] So you might have the door to the... kid's... bed underneath that wall.
[Wendy:] See, he never used to be in this bloody room! He was on the other room when she came here. In the other room, at the other end. That's why I never heard weren't it?
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] But then she changed bedrooms lo, when that... bloody... other bloke came here.... But he's not happy kid!
[Bev:] No.
[Wendy:] Oh!
[Bev:] Yeah... but the quiet ones.
[Wendy:] I dunno whether those people went you know.
[Bev:] They must have done.
[Wendy:] Must of done... tonight. Cos, I say the car was down the road. I've never known that! Never!
[Bev:] Do you know what?
[Wendy:] Mm?
[Bev:] I know it's a horrible thing to say
[Wendy:] Mm?
[Bev:] but... it's a shame nobody else
[Wendy:] Mm?
[Bev:] got woken up last night. Sort of somebody's put the the road. If somebody wanted to get out quickly
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] and couldn't
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] and they went to the wrong door... and said is this car anything
[Wendy:] Well tha, that's right! I mean erm... I
[Bev:] Because say... Gail and Keith go got woken up at three o'clock in the morning
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] and said
[Wendy:] That's right!
[Bev:] is that your car outside?
[Wendy:] Yeah. Well Alan did it here one, one time.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] And it wasn't us.
[Bev:] No, but you know what I mean?
[Wendy:] Yes I do know what you mean. Well
[Bev:] It'll be unfortunate for the couple that, whoever got woken up
[Wendy:] Yeah. But it might do something. I know what you're meaning.
[Bev:] Cos you dunno what Alan might have done.
[Wendy:] Ay?
[Bev:] You dunno what Alan might have done.
[Wendy:] Well
[Bev:] If that car was there and
[Wendy:] Yeah. It, I think he got out and I I do... he, I said to you and your father how he got out I just dunno! Cos it's a very difficult road this.
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] But I think he did... probably just, because when I got up... er... when I co, you see when I come down the stairs I can see through that window look
[Bev:] Mm.
[Wendy:] and... Alan's light was on in the hall, call it the hall... and the car was there... well a little while later... he went. I think he got out... but I don't think it would have been easy, there's... that time this morning. And, I've never known these people... put the car down by George's! So, knowing Alan, do you remember somebody... used to park their car in front of Alan's gate when they went to London?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] And he left a note on the windscreen. But I mean Alan has to go up to London! It's not long after six o'clock in the morning that he leaves.... But er..., I fully understand what you're saying. Really!
[Bev:] Well I say... some... let's say Sandra wanted to get out
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] and couldn't... and can't
[Wendy:] Yeah! Yeah!
[Bev:] Right?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] And she should be able to.
[Wendy:] But another thing is you see... where Sandra lives, you saying that... where she lives is apparently... erm... P C, now I don't know him, but she does... he lives up the same road... and when people park... didn't she tell you this when we were coming down?
[Bev:] No, I don't mean that Sandra, I meant this one!
[Wendy:] Oh Sandra over here?
[Bev:] Right?
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] Let's just say she couldn't out
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] and she went to Claire and George tonight
[Wendy:] Yeah.
[Bev:] and said is... anybody staying with you?
[Wendy:] Oh yeah, that'd do it!
[Bev:] That would do it wouldn't it?
[Wendy:] But, what I was gonna say was... concerning them blocking these pavements... if the
[Bev:] I know as we... I was there when she
[Wendy:] You were there when she said about P C. Well if we had some... I know there's two policemen up round the corner here. Cos they walk down here, here
[Bev:] Is there any one in?
[Wendy:] Well P C I think... is an older policeman.
[Bev:] Yeah, that's what I meant.
[Wendy:] Mm. These are two young-uns I reckon they lodge up here somewhere. Not this road... but round... where Colin and
[Bev:] any policemen isn't she?
[Wendy:] Ay? You what?
[Bev:] The lodger, policeman.
[Wendy:] Who did?
[Bev:] Linda.
[Wendy:] Yeah, she did didn't she?
[Bev:] A nice one.
[Wendy:] I forgot that. Yeah. Yeah. But you see somebody like P C, being an older person... he does it properly I suppose, is what
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] the answer is. He goes and knocks people's door and says you're blocking the pavement! Well if he'd have come down here that night, or that day... when there was three cars in... in the drive and one... right across the pavement, and then that... that big lorry on the pavement... he'd have had them wouldn't he?
[Bev:] Yeah.
[Wendy:] Went to bed and er of course the kid went berserk didn't he? And er god you should of heard him, god if it ain't Ross all over again, mummy, mummy and she left him there, as I said when they first came he was in the far bedroom, well now I suppose with all these people she's rearranged it indoors and he's in the one next to our house, and she's shouting at him and er it went on how, I can't tell you how long, I mean, Bev and I was talking through bedrooms you know
[Sandra:] Mm
[Wendy:] and er, it was gone eleven I would of thought, anyway he stopped and I slept like a log, got up at twenty past six, but erm, it's a strange thing because one of those came last evening and it parked outside George's, now I said yesterday, when Alan goes to work, it's not long after six normally to go up to London and that
[Sandra:] Mm
[Wendy:] and I said to both of them, I just don't know how he got past that second car in the road right, come out of his drive, I couldn't believe that he could of done it, but he did, because he went you know
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Wendy:] anyway last night, they parked outside George's so I reckon, I mean it's only us thinking he's put a note in the door because he will do this, because when a bloke used to leave his car outside Alan's gate, others, instead of the station
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Alan left a note on his windscreen
[Sandra:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] but er, I don't know how he got out yesterday and I've never, never know him parked down the road, not at all, anyway we got, I got home and erm, I said to Bev you know, right go and phone Lesley see if she's in and then I did a bit of housework and then the phone rang, ooh, we was aiming to go out at one and that must of been ten to one, and it was Liz
[Sandra:] Oh yeah
[Wendy:] and er I said to Bev well you do what you like, you know, she went out, the first time she's answered the phone, since
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Anyway er Liz said can you come over like today so Bev said yes what does it entail? Liz got quite cross you know she's quite oh bugger it, you know, and er she said to Liz what's the hours? Oh I dunno you'll have to talk to Ian, she said I've been working Les done, er Les, Les told me eleven till three, it was half past eleven till three and er, so Bev was alright
[Sandra:] That's exactly what we do
[Wendy:] Yes, well Bev was asking, I mean I was doing housework, oh, I was doing bits and pieces you know, and er getting me coat and all that and er... she was asking questions and all that and Liz said I'll pick you up at twenty past eleven, so Bev said alright then, so she come off the phone said she'd go and have a look and apparently erm, it must of been yesterday if, if Liz is telling the truth she said to whoever are you going to do anything about this? And he said oh yeah, so, I said to Bev well, they had the feeling it was haphazard or whatever the word be, anyway
[Sandra:] So she's going over about it
[Wendy:] she's going over at half past eleven and she said to me if it's not worth the money I'm not changing and er, I shall tell him that I've certainly got to go on the books you know
[Sandra:] Mm
[Wendy:] can't do it any other way, so I said oh I'll go and have a look, I've got to go down town and that's right that's right, I mean she's, she's took some money, or taken some money if, I mean she'll be home twelve o'clock if it don't suit her like
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Wendy:] she'll only get a taxi, if er, she thinks it not viable, but er, it, it to me, it just seems not buggering about, but
[Sandra:] I mean there are some places like that and
[Wendy:] There are
[Sandra:] people are quite happy to work there
[Wendy:] Mm
[Sandra:] and the pay is
[Wendy:] Mm
[Sandra:] pretty okay
[Wendy:] Yeah, well I mean I don't know what she's been earning this Liz, but oh where we going today then? yeah
[Sandra:] Who knows perhaps it's one of his days out
[Wendy:] God knows, I don't, well so we'll see we was late weren't we? Or later
[Sandra:] Yeah he's a bit like her sort of in a dream
[Wendy:] Did er
[Sandra:] he doesn't realize that you're sort of there seeing him
[Wendy:] did erm, did he ask you if you had a roof rack?
[Sandra:] No
[Wendy:] No
[Sandra:] a what?
[Wendy:] A roof rack, he wants to borrow one for Sunday, cos Susan's coming back look, anyway she asked me and I said no we've never had one, I don't think we ever had, I said I'll ask Doreen, so I asked Doreen and she said yes we have, but I'd have to ask Leslie first, so when Dee come back I said yes she has, but don't say anything to her cos you might not get it, but she's not getting that.
[Sandra:] No Margarette's got, erm the two bars hi Doreen
[Wendy:] Morning Doreen
[Sandra:] you know when you get two bars as opposed
[Wendy:] Mm
[Sandra:] to a complete effort
[Wendy:] Oh I know what I was gonna say
[Sandra:] on her
[Wendy:] Norman Gates, they're trying to clo close Norman Gates
[Sandra:] Yeah that's been in the erm Echo
[Wendy:] Oh dear me
[Doreen:] That's been in the papers the last few weeks
[Wendy:] there's a person down the bottom, you know in Paul's old house, their little kid goes there, I didn't know nothing about it.
[Sandra:] Yeah, their, they're still behind aren't they?
[Wendy:] I think they are actually yeah... yeah I don't know
[Sandra:] Cos the other, that's it, that's, what's the one we've got up by us?
[Wendy:] What Walberdeen?
[Sandra:] I've go the Walberdeen one
[Wendy:] Yeah, yeah, is that a special school?
[Sandra:] Somewhat
[Wendy:] Oh
[Sandra:] yes it's not a normal one, but I don't
[Wendy:] No
[Sandra:] quite know
[Wendy:] no, I mean years ago that's where we all went that
[Sandra:] Yes
[Wendy:] area you see
[Sandra:] No Anton took over
[Wendy:] normal school yeah
[Sandra:] Anton Junior
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] took over from Walberdeen
[Wendy:] Yeah, but er, it says two hundred and something for the two, seventeen was it?
[Sandra:] That's what the Echo says for the
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] town and then when you go out and in villages
[Wendy:] yeah
[Sandra:] it
[Wendy:] yeah... but actually the paper boy was late this morning and we didn't get erm mid week
[Sandra:] Didn't you?
[Wendy:] No if there's one here I'll take it, I've done up Howard's
[Doreen:] Had mine Monday night again
[Wendy:] No we didn't get one, I, I've gotta go to the post office today so any post that's gotta go there I said I'll take the lot and save tomorrow lot
[Sandra:] Mm
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] and er got, no we never had one cos Les said no I remember we didn't get one this week, cos she would of had a look through you know
[Doreen:] Yeah
[Wendy:] so if there's one here I'll have it
[Doreen:] Mm, what, where
[Wendy:] That's that woman who looks after Dee Dee's sister
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] does that and all, and er... she had a da, she went to the authorities about that woman
[Sandra:] Yeah, did she get anywhere?
[Wendy:] Well I don't know, but she, I said, cos she's telling me about her coming, only three days up the hospital then she's gotta go back to her own place because Ian said she'd never managed, she keeps falling and she said this woman never went to see her once when she was in hospital, yet she's getting paid it look all the time, and she ought to go to see if there's anything she wants you see
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and er, I said, morning, I said er
[speaker001:] Morning
[Wendy:] has she been any better this woman cos she was always on about her, and she said no, she said I went to higher authorities about it, is that it? is letting another, so many off, don't know what it said I would think so, I don't know how many it was
[Sandra:] Eh?
[Wendy:] are laying some more off
[Sandra:] Yeah cos I
[Wendy:] no I, it would
[Sandra:] interview
[Wendy:] it was double figures but I can't erm, I can't remember eh? but er, as I say I can't remember precisely, I just scanned it and give it to Mick who was out the door like, Lesley put her house up for a hundred and twenty six... erm, one... how much is it? a hundred thousand, a hundred and twenty six thousand, hundred and twenty six thousand
[Dee:] That four bedroomed detached?
[Wendy:] Yeah, yeah en suite
[Doreen:] She might get it
[Wendy:] Eh?
[Doreen:] She might
[Wendy:] well it's er, it's a funny thing that is because they all gone, now they were supposedly around a hundred thousand look, when they took it on and they've all gone, there ain't any there new ones
[Doreen:] But she still hasn't had any body in to see it
[Wendy:] No but it is a strange thing because sometimes you get my end of the market and you get somebody wants her end of the market, but erm
[Sandra:] Well the ones that have got more money, you know, the maximum money
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] they're gonna go for the best there is
[Wendy:] Oh they're gonna go for
[Sandra:] and they're gonna go out of town detached
[Wendy:] Yeah, yeah
[Sandra:] as much as they can get
[Wendy:] that's right
[Sandra:] as opposed to
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] I mean up our road they don't fetch that much, but there are one or two
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] even bigger and more detached than ours
[Wendy:] Mm, yeah, but erm
[Sandra:] but, you know
[Wendy:] it's not even
[Sandra:] get a choice of two
[Doreen:] it's not even something like
[Wendy:] cos their er home yesterday look Jody went back to work and there was Bill and Scott
[Sandra:] He's still at school?
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Doreen:] Yeah, another year
[Wendy:] and er, she's got two more raises at school, they'll give him a credit and then wrote him a letter saying that he'll probably be expelled again, of course she went busting up there
[Sandra:] No wonder you said about the credit
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] Thought he turned over
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] a new leaf
[Wendy:] yeah, well the thing was he Peter gave him a key Peter gave him a key to come in the flat any time, you know, of course he did didn't he, he was well you know what he had in there, he's now got one girlfriend, he ditched Paula
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[Wendy:] This one comes from Southampton, but he worked on it didn't he? Out of work again isn't he?... Well I said to her my god you've got a load of you've got a load of problems
[Sandra:] Absolutely
[Wendy:] She has, she really has... what?
[Doreen:] It's wet innit? It must of rained cos I, the thing here pots full of water
[Wendy:] Yeah, well it, well, I got up late, twenty past six, the kid was going berserk when we went to bed
[Doreen:] We erm, were they?
[Wendy:] The kid was
[Doreen:] Yeah
[Wendy:] my erm, screaming, shouting
[Doreen:] The garden was dry out the front on the top you know
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Doreen:] like summer and it's wet today
[Wendy:] Yeah, but erm as I say we went to bed her and I
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] and he was well
[Doreen:] Yelling
[Wendy:] she was shouting at him, didn't hear any dogs, and erm, it was gone eleven, must of been
[Doreen:] Yeah it was
[Wendy:] before it stopped and then of course I slept like a bloody log until about twenty past seven
[Doreen:] Yeah and you er I ov I overslept, well I woke up at five and normally I think if I go to sleep now and I sort of get myself awake but today I must of turned over
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Doreen:] and it was right on six when I got up
[Wendy:] yeah...
[Doreen:] I don't have to come out until seven
[Wendy:] no
[Doreen:] near, well not quite seven so I mean I don't have to do a lot but I just liked to er take my time and you know
[Wendy:] Well I, I did nothing, I did nothing you see because erm, by the time I'd been in the bathroom done the sandwiches
[Doreen:] Yeah
[Wendy:] blah, blah, got myself a cup of tea, blah, blah, blah, got on me coat
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] out the door and that really is, I mean half past eight the other day it was awful
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] awful, but by god did he go, I said to Sandra it's Ross all over again, funny innit but she's got no
[Doreen:] But did she, did a
[Wendy:] time for him Doreen
[Doreen:] Well that is the trouble I expect you see
[Wendy:] he's pushed from pillar to post this kid
[Doreen:] Like the other one
[Wendy:] erm and when she has all these people in, he's up, he's not in bed
[Doreen:] No
[Wendy:] he, er, he, when he went, when he first come there, he used to go to bed seven o'clock
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] but she said, well the last lot that I've got but one of the times when we were not chatty, but talked, she said how naughty he'd got, but I mean she's never with him
[Doreen:] Well, cos I mean if he goes to school now and he didn't, he picked up things and then
[Wendy:] Well I, I
[Doreen:] he's not got
[Wendy:] he's, he's
[Doreen:] time for and well that is it innit, well if she's not got time for him
[Wendy:] Well what do you mean?
[Doreen:] Well that is it, not got the patience have they?
[Wendy:] But he weren't like that when they came he weren't like erm Wayne, Celia's Wayne, I mean he's been like it forever
[Doreen:] Yeah
[Wendy:] and Ross was rotten spoilt, you know, there's but this one seems to of gone haywire, oh does he go, but as I say she's changed the bedrooms you see, he used to be on the far end
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] erm with an outside wall but he's not
[Doreen:] Can't be helped with the can it in those rooms with the dogs
[Wendy:] No, well that boy had to a day off didn't he?
[Doreen:] Oh
[Wendy:] Anyway I'm hopeful that he'll be in today, because I mean the noise won't stop, so I mean when I report it, it just goes on
[Doreen:] Mm, mm
[Wendy:] it just goes on, but I said to Sandra where they've been parking all these cars, Alan over the road he comes out just after six o'clock and goes to London every day and I don't know how he got his car out with the
[Doreen:] No
[Wendy:] but he did, anyway last night when these, this car arrived, they parked it down the road outside George's, well I've never known that and I reckon Alan's put a note through the door
[Doreen:] Could of done, yeah
[Wendy:] but I, I mean Bev said you ought to go over at six o'clock in the morning, bang the bloody door
[Doreen:] Yeah make them get up and say can you move
[Wendy:] Yeah, yeah
[Doreen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] I don't know how he got out, I mean our road is so difficult anyway, of course there wa, that night there were two, yeah two when them, he had to get out in the morning, but er, I mean he did it, but I expect it was a struggle
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] you know you have to go backwards and forwards
[Doreen:] Yeah
[Wendy:] shake yourself round, but I've never know that last night
[Doreen:] Yeah sometimes when Rosemary was here, we didn't have any bother or anything but now and again somebody, she did their hair at the time
[Wendy:] Oh yeah
[Doreen:] dress making and er somebody would park outside our house, not by the drive, but there but to get in Les had to swing over and round
[Wendy:] That's it
[Doreen:] and then when they were he couldn't swing much so he had to go down and back in but er
[Wendy:] That's what you have to do
[Doreen:] it was only occasionally, I mean no bother with it or each other
[Wendy:] I mean this is virtually every day
[Doreen:] Yeah
[Wendy:] every day now, now I mean I don't know how many she's got living in there or what they've got living in there, they stay overnight and if they generally do that it's two more car loads
[Doreen:] Mm
[Sandra:] We've got British Telecom outside our house for six weeks
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] the other morning I hell of a squeak of brakes and they had two vans and as you used to turn the corner by Swatons, the bollards are out
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] the wrong, the wrong side of the road, of course you've got the blind bend, somebody had gone round there, somebody else was coming down old Whitton Road legally
[Doreen:] Mm, mm
[Wendy:] Oh my god
[Sandra:] and they sort of met and how they didn't hit I don't know... but at the moment it's, well get the car back today it's er been away being done, cos somebody smashed into him
[Wendy:] Oh no...
[Sandra:] he managed to pull it out, he, they smashed all the front wing in, he was parked outside a customer's house and all of a sudden there was a knock at the door getting to the end, you know the important bit of the sale
[Wendy:] Someone bashed you
[Sandra:] got and it was a young girl next door, a car backed out of her parents' drive
[Doreen:] Mm
[Sandra:] well drove out and turned, her bumper caught Mick's wing and right up against the wheel so imagine to pull it out to drive it and the driver said oh won't claim on the insurance she said, erm, I'll pay it, get three estimates and let me have them and Mick said it's gonna be about three hundred quid, well if it had gone through the insurance he could then have put in for a hire car
[Wendy:] Oh yeah
[Sandra:] of course he couldn't, he said oh well he said what's the point so he hadn't been working, earning money, he knocked a hole in the dining room from the lounge wall yesterday...
[Wendy:] Well I, I, I have got
[Sandra:] cos I say and the worse is the mess is, my god
[Wendy:] Well I have to say Sandra that I would, alright you've got a lot of mess, but I have to say I'd sooner have one like that than
[Sandra:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] well we've tongued and grooved
[Sandra:] Just as well we haven't got next door neighbour
[Wendy:] right
[Sandra:] joined on
[Wendy:] tongued and grooved or, or something pine for the kitchen wall, do it, pay it, forget it right, so, I mean I don't know what wood I mean we'd have, we'd have to see it, but I said to him look I said something's gotta be done, so I said to him shall we get Gary or somebody similar to do some Artexing in here and he said well with the coal fire and all that he said it'll, it'll get dirty
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] which it will won't it?
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] And erm, so I said alright then give me some suggestions, because when we moved out of erm Milton Avenue, Diane and Harry immediately did the walls wood in the kitchen, about the same size as mine
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] and it looked like
[Doreen:] Andrew's got that in his bathroom half way, that's what he said and then he's got a moulded piece along the top of it and then he's
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Doreen:] got the wall paper, it looks ever so nice
[Wendy:] does, does it?
[Doreen:] rubbed it all down and
[Wendy:] And that would be alright in a, in a bathroom you know
[Sandra:] Dean's got a complete pine bathroom
[Wendy:] Has he?
[Sandra:] he's boxed his bathroom in pine and that wood stuff and then varnished
[Wendy:] well I said to him
[Sandra:] It looks nice very nice it looks
[Wendy:] look I said I don't mind vinyl, I don't mind good vinyl the only good, the only one that, it was good for the toilet, but I got it in a pack cos we've got such a small single toilet
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] I got it in a pack outside Fads
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] but if you believe the proper price
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] I mean it was just three rolls
[Doreen:] I know it's terrible the price of it, weren't it? When you go, at Tesco's they've got a sale ain't they? that, that quick one Texas
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Doreen:] twenty five is it or twenty percent off or something, but I think I don't know some of the stuff when you
[Wendy:] Well I said to him look, I said I know I'm fed up with this thing next door, and I don't want to stay there, but Alan said that I've got to stay there, right, so I said to him, you know, we have to start doing something and I said to him something permanent because he ain't a handy man, I mean he'll do it, because I mean it's something like measuring steel innit? Let's be honest
[Doreen:] But you've got to keep on and that yeah, that's right, yeah
[Wendy:] but I said to him, I'll go and buy vinyl and we can come back into the same position, and he ain't no good at sticking vinyl up, I always go round with a bloody then I have to do something I suppose before we look round it'll be August we'll be off to Malta
[Doreen:] Mm and then it's the winter again
[Wendy:] and then he'll look round and
[Doreen:] winter comes so quick
[Wendy:] So quick and he said alright then I erm, I said well where shall we go and he said there's plenty of places
[Doreen:] Mm
[Wendy:] to buy wood
[Doreen:] I mean I know nothing
[Wendy:] As I say next we're getting this Phillip's
[Sandra:] this Phillip, he does a lot, I mean I don't like Phillip's but as I say my Ian says that, Ian says that
[Doreen:] That's a lot, I mean that wooden fence we had I mean, a lot of garden fences are dear, but it was a pound cheaper in the garden centre at Tesco's
[Wendy:] We've got one there
[Sandra:] Most of B & Q stuffs are cheaper
[Doreen:] B & Q's nice
[Wendy:] Yeah, where is that builders that
[Doreen:] There's one at Thatcham
[Wendy:] Thatcham?
[Doreen:] just outside Newbury you have to go on the M four
[Sandra:] B & Q at, one at Basingstoke
[Wendy:] Is there?
[Sandra:] it's on the dual carriageway as you go in on the
[Wendy:] But if not, otherwise I'm gonna go up the I mean I shout up to the bathroom, I mean
[Doreen:] There's a big one at Millbrook
[Wendy:] Tim's coming up to move the bath back and all that you see, this old bath and erm, do some pipe work, but until that's all done, erm, er, until this woman is sorted out, because if I find in the end we've got to insulate again, then I know how I feel, I mean that tongue and groove going up polystyrene in the lounge and yesterday I think he's got a new organ yeah, I think it's an organ, and that, that is all in those two recesses, now, you know if I find you know that I don't get anywhere and I can't see that I won't, but if, because the bathroom is where the dog is there, of course consequently that comes through the corner of the lounge
[Sandra:] Mm
[Wendy:] erm, well before wherever you put anything, you know, finished article on the bathroom wall, that one wall we might have to do whatever they allow
[Sandra:] Mm
[Wendy:] because this is, I mean I didn't hear the dogs last night, only the kid, but I mean nevertheless the day before if you'd of been in there, so but, but the kitchen can be done, toilet can be done
[Sandra:] Mm
[Wendy:] We don't want tiles now look
[Doreen:] and I think he's got all the tiles now there's a load of tiles going cheap in there
[Wendy:] I know, and this is what I said, he said I know I don't really want the old vinyl, do it anyway
[Sandra:] oh it's a pig of a job
[Wendy:] Yeah I remember you have to
[Sandra:] It's alright if your walls are absolutely
[Wendy:] Yeah they're not
[Sandra:] flat
[Wendy:] I mean I remember Mike I mean that house had
[Sandra:] mine is absolutely I mean it's, it looks fine and it's done, but if you actually put the skirt level there are actual places
[Doreen:] Mm, mm yeah
[Wendy:] Well when you walked in my porch when those blokes were doing it, you walked in there, I mean it's nice, it's a wrong suite for the for the room, too narrow the room for one of those
[Sandra:] Mm
[Wendy:] I think
[Sandra:] Mm
[Wendy:] but the minute you walk in a shop, pretty curtains, Austrian blinds, a new shower the minute you walk in there you look at this lump
[Doreen:] [LAUGHTER] Our wall is flat
[Wendy:] because the wall
[Doreen:] but when Pete was doing the sides of the erm lounge and he erm put that coving up
[Wendy:] round it
[Doreen:] and got sort of in the hall, ha, and you can just about see it
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Doreen:] now, it's sort of wall goes
[Wendy:] your eyes go on it
[Doreen:] down [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Oh yes
[Doreen:] and he said crikey look at this, what am I gonna do here and he sort of had to fill quite a big gap in, but he sort of pushed it and filled it and then the wallpaper goes up so you can just see it, a little bit, what's a name now, just in the hall there's a bit
[Sandra:] Ours shows because it's not a bold pattern it's very subdued
[Doreen:] Mm
[Sandra:] but it's a lot like a chevron
[Doreen:] Mm, mm
[Sandra:] so you've got your pattern down, because when you've got something like that
[Doreen:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah
[Sandra:] it's fine, until, unless you actually look
[Doreen:] that's right yeah [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] go all round the ceiling line, round, the pattern all matches, and the pattern
[Doreen:] Yeah
[Sandra:] you walk round the room this side and it's all level, it's when you get up the top
[Doreen:] Yeah, it's just in this one top part in the corner
[Sandra:] well the bit where it meets, pattern should be over the door, so it's not until you're in the room and looking back out
[Doreen:] not back over, yeah
[Sandra:] but when he did it I said oh my god you know I said yeah, but you know it's there
[Doreen:] Yeah, like where I sit in my chair if I look up there I can see it, but as I say it's not there all the wallpaper it doesn't, but when he first sort of put it up, I thought oh crumbs look at that [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] Yes, I must admit I had one or two people going up the loo and looking, I mean people stop and look when we first had all the stuff outside, you know, what you doing in there? Because then they could see the conservatory gradually taking shape
[Doreen:] Mm
[Sandra:] but...
[Doreen:] yeah lovely
[Sandra:] it will be nice when it's done, I mean last weekend he sorted out the doorway which wasn't half knocking out but Annette was out yesterday after work and she come in and she sort of opened the door, good god she said just as well I'm not sitting in to watch television, well you couldn't
[Doreen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] until about half past nine, when they said right that's all the dir dirty work done, he said I'm going up to have a shower and he put the carpet, rolled the carpet half back, and picked up a load of mess and we had polythene dust sheets over it
[Doreen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] and the dust that had got underneath was absolutely thick
[Doreen:] Mm, you wouldn't know, you wouldn't believe it would you?
[Sandra:] the television the video and all that
[Doreen:] When they'd be just our, our patio doors for weeks on, still finding dust
[Wendy:] Well you do
[Doreen:] washed and
[Wendy:] Mick was drilling, he put the framework round to drill up against hammer drill, he says to me do us a favour so I said what? He said stand there
[Doreen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] with the hose of the vacuum cleaner with the nozzle on
[Doreen:] [LAUGHTER] yeah []
[Wendy:] so while he's drilling
[Doreen:] sucking it up [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Of course he's tried to get under a polythene sheet to contain it
[Doreen:] Right, is like the dentist [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] it was hot, it was dust in that hammer drill, god it makes a noise, it did, it certainly saved a lot though
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Wendy:] it filled the hoover bag twice, the old vacuum cleaner
[Doreen:] Yeah it was like when my mother-in-law had the
[Wendy:] But if, if he hadn't been doing that
[Doreen:] it was awful up and down [LAUGHTER]
[Wendy:] Well if we want this kitchen, well a lot of it is tiled anyway you know part ways up, erm I said to him whatever it costs, it'll be done...
[Sandra:] They obviously didn't like it, there was nothing dif, there wasn't definitely said but there was some
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] comment, and another time I'd lit up a cigarette you know
[Dee:] Have a nice weekend
[Wendy:] Bye
[Sandra:] See you
[Dee:] ta ta ta ta
[Doreen:] see you
[Wendy:] I do I I never heard a word
[Sandra:] She never mentioned it to me, so
[Wendy:] Well erm, she never said nothing, ta ta, and er Doreen never said nothing and Dee Dee never said nothing, I mean all I said to Dee was you might get it tomorrow if Lesley lets her, well Lesley wouldn't unless she forgot it of course, there's always that isn't there? Ain't it gone dull?
[Sandra:] It was so brilliant and
[Wendy:] Yeah well I've got to go to town only I dunno whether she's gone, can't be gone yet, twenty past
[Sandra:] No she's got Andrew's er, she was talking to Andrew and Andrew happen to say airport for something, I don't really know
[Wendy:] Yeah I know what it is, erm Susan's given all the info except the er
[Sandra:] Yeah, but, no Anton had to make a phone call anyway and he said while he was on the phone
[Wendy:] No, oh I didn't know that
[Sandra:] he would do
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] for her
[Wendy:] terminal weren't it?
[Sandra:] Yeah terminal one
[Wendy:] Is it?
[Sandra:] plus Andrew said ten thirty and Susan had said ten o'clock
[Wendy:] Oh yeah, no
[Sandra:] British Airways was due in at ten thirty
[Wendy:] Oh
[Sandra:] then he stood there explaining, I mean he's driven up to Heathrow a lot
[Wendy:] Mm, yeah
[Sandra:] telling her all the signs and what to look out for
[Wendy:] I haven't been to Heathrow as much as I'd been to Gatwick
[Sandra:] I've never actually flown from Heathrow, I've been
[Wendy:] No I haven't
[Sandra:] we've been up there several times to
[Wendy:] no Bev's flown but when I've gone up with her
[Sandra:] to the spectator area, you know when you've got to spend the day there
[Wendy:] I don't think I ever have done Heathrow, oh wait a minute, did I the first year?
[Sandra:] Took the kids up
[Wendy:] No I don't know
[Sandra:] took the kids up a couple of times and then Mick and I have been up there with the and you go the long stay car park and and watch the aircraft
[Wendy:] Yeah, yeah
[Sandra:] but we spent, spent the, well half a day at Queens Terminal at Paper Gallery
[Wendy:] No I have flown from there it was
[Sandra:] mother did when she
[Wendy:] But I've been up there cos Bev's done a couple from
[Sandra:] yeah mother went out to Robert's wedding
[Wendy:] Heathrow oh yeah
[Sandra:] flew out with Robert that went
[Wendy:] erm
[Sandra:] from Heathrow, that was a schedule flight
[Wendy:] Sue was on about her daughter living with that bloke like, I don't know if it was the same bloke, I just dunno, yes it is, yes it is, it's gotta be the one, when she broke her shoulder, it's gotta be, anyway he got no job and Sarah got this good job apparently wherever it is, I can't remember where it was well she got what she wanted then, whatever it is anyway, she's keeping him virtually and they got this flat, whatever they've got, and erm
[Sandra:] Long wearing tan
[Wendy:] yeah, they'll be, and she's always moaning driving Sue up the wall, why should I keep him blah, blah, blah, blah, doing nothing, we sit and look at each other and Sue said for Christ sake she said you're twenty years old, not forty, she'd been bad on and off again, throat, well she had the shoulder, throat er she thought she had, oh the diabetes was one weren't it, diabetes one, they thought she had, thought that she had glandular fever but she hasn't and er, so Sue said to her well are you looking after yourself and she said yes I am, Sue said well I dunno she never seems to be, cos she's never been well has she really?
[Sandra:] No
[Wendy:] I mean you have to wonder
[Sandra:] I mean they all joined the club but Sue used to
[Wendy:] mm, anyway not only that one Emma erm... been she don't want to go to college or something new and erm she's doing something, must be finals I would think, think it must be finals and er Sue said to her well should she pack up
[Sandra:] Yeah she's a couple of years younger so she's
[Wendy:] Mm
[Sandra:] probably got A levels this May, whatever
[Wendy:] erm should she pack up her Saturday job, it pays around twenty pound and it will go up to about twenty five, and Sue and Will sat and talked about it and she got, she's surprising been interviewed for the W R A F but I mean that's not gonna be so easy these days, I mean they're gonna take the exceptionals that they need aren't they? And Sue said she's got nothing in view apart from that and she said to her you must have alternatives, she's not applied to anybody or enquired about anything
[Sandra:] Police Force are recruiting again
[Wendy:] Are they?
[Sandra:] Mm
[Wendy:] Well erm,gor
[Sandra:] Government said that you now get
[Wendy:] well Hampshire was supposed to have some more weren't they?
[Sandra:] Yeah, they've been advertising in the Echo
[Wendy:] Well
[Sandra:] they recruit
[Wendy:] well, erm tisn't, she's not, she wants the W R A F and nothing else and Sue said you can't be like that, you know, and er, so they've decided that she's gotta carry on with this Saturday job because she won't be able to go on the dole look, straight away will she?
[Sandra:] No
[Wendy:] And Income Support I think is, what did she say for her age twenty I think
[Sandra:] I know
[Wendy:] twenty pound or something
[Sandra:] Yeah there's, there's a catchment anyway, I mean when they've finished school, college or whatever
[Wendy:] Mm
[Sandra:] they're not working or on a scheme
[Wendy:] Mm that's something innit?
[Sandra:] there's nothing
[Wendy:] That's right something, something like, like that, anyway so she said er she said it's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she's gone back to college on the flexi idea, erm, brush up her typing because she said, now whether she's thinking of future years, she said when she left here that time, although she got that job she said it wasn't easy, she said because I had no bits of paper as such, although when I did the test I passed it, she said it wasn't simple, so she's doing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and not sure about Friday evening and er she said then she'll have trouble getting the money over that's out of them, why the redundancy because been there over two year, so I presume redundancy or holidays or both so Sue said to her well if they were so good to you in the past, but that ain't the point is it? They did all, they did
[Sandra:] Mm
[Wendy:] on their own back, she didn't ask for it and June ain't worked since Christmas, so er, I says I know what it's like with my sister... and I mean she's been right in it ain't she?
[Sandra:] Yeah last week
[Wendy:] Both of them are
[Sandra:] had two phone calls
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] one was an agency in Andover
[Wendy:] Aha
[Sandra:] with a job, they were gonna put her forward
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] so she hopes then
[Wendy:] something will come
[Sandra:] if they put her name forward she might get an interview for that, the other one was an agency in Basingstoke
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] most of them were secretary, audio typist
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] jobs, so she said that was Wednesday
[Wendy:] Aha
[Sandra:] so she was hoping to wait and see.
[Wendy:] waiting to hear no, oh well hopeful then.
[Sandra:] Last night we had a phone call, oh it frightened me at first actually, I answered the phone
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] said is Miss there, Tina, I said yes who's calling? Cos she was still busy you know
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] Forte Travel Lodge, and I thought shit, and of course the thing that went through my mind was when Graham's out on the road
[Wendy:] He goes er
[Sandra:] he stays over sometimes I mean
[Wendy:] yeah somewhere
[Sandra:] of course obviously now I don't know what he's doing from day to day
[Wendy:] No of course you don't
[Sandra:] er, first thing I thought oh my god something's happened with them
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Sandra:] and he's at Travel Lodge and somebody's phoning
[Wendy:] Yeah, yeah
[Sandra:] why ain't they phoning Margarette, so anyway, shouted out to him and he wouldn't do I said it's Forte Travel Lodge, he said what they bloody I said I don't know, and I stood there when he was
[Wendy:] Of course
[Sandra:] all he was doing was listening at first and I thought oh no it's so long
[Wendy:] it
[Sandra:] it turned out when he put the phone down, he said well there's a turn up, there she is
[Wendy:] Who?
[Sandra:] erm, she work as a chamber maid at the weekend or whatever for some spare cash
[Wendy:] What this one?
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Wendy:] Oh, see you.