[June:] When you go to your mum's tomorrow, or when we go out tomorrow we'll take it with us, in case we meet anybody I can be taping cos I can get as many people as I like, when you go up to Ken's take it with you, put it on your pocket, but then say to them, if you object we won't do it.
[Geoffrey:] I'm not
[June:] I've got to get as many people as I can.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] The tape is already in that...
[Wendy:] Where's that... that man's ever so nervous ain't he? Have you got it on?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Is it on?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah
[June:] Oh, [LAUGHTER]...
[Geoffrey:] Oh you won't believe it
[June:] Go on
[Geoffrey:] I got down there just now so I said to him
[June:] excuse me
[Geoffrey:] hello, how are you? Well I ain't very happy,
[June:] Oh what's happen then?
[Geoffrey:] oh, what's
[June:] Don't know what?
[Geoffrey:] She said I don't know what your there's a missing, so I it said Mr G, so dad said why does it say Mr and er, she said it's a court order she said, court order, she said er... that has been in the yard no, so he said erm, when I opened it court order, I said well I don't know what yours is I said but it's nothing to do with this, I said this is about that so when I opened the other one... I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine
[June:] Yeah
[Geoffrey:] and the two court orders, they, they'd had one court one cheque and one for the other
[June:] yeah
[Geoffrey:] so they both about the same thing, he's been sitting there worried all day, he's
[June:] Oh no
[Geoffrey:] yeah, so happy today, so
[June:] Is that what she said?
[Geoffrey:] He's been sitting there stewing all day over that
[June:] Oh she should of, why they addressed to you then?
[Geoffrey:] Well one was sent to Mr G
[June:] Did you check to see if that was going? Oh yeah it is
[Geoffrey:] and the other one said Mr
[June:] Well why should it...
[Geoffrey:] well she thought
[June:] Don't she get herself in a
[Geoffrey:] Yeah
[June:] tiswas
[Geoffrey:] It's all cor dear
[June:] ... does she
[Geoffrey:] Yeah...
[Jonathan:] Oh what a
[June:] Was it good?
[Jonathan:] Cor yeah, in, ever so good.
[June:] Good
[Jonathan:] ...
[June:] I tell me self just done that, I haven't even boiled the kettle silly me.
[Geoffrey:] ...
[June:] I don't know what I doing.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Hurry up Jonathan
[Jonathan:] Pardon?
[June:] I said hurry up.
[Jonathan:] I'm coming...
[June:] Oh I ,
[Geoffrey:] Here
[Jonathan:] Cor great, I just and they're doing tag teams, but the tag teams have joined up
[June:] I don't know
[Jonathan:] in the tag teams, so there's a, but at the moment four against two
[June:] You look marvellous
[Jonathan:] cor yeah
[June:] is it?
[Jonathan:] well they haven't actually, haven't got or anything they just use their body.
[June:] Oh yeah.
[Jonathan:] Yeah, but he's the only one that really it's sort or just say, ok take them out, how he kills them when they're, when the picks them up and throws them down again
[June:] Where did Matthew get it then? Oh
[Jonathan:] I thought it
[June:] Jonathan are you going to start your tea please?
[Jonathan:] Oh, why didn't you say?
[June:] It's gonna get cold
[Jonathan:] No,
[Geoffrey:] ...
[June:] No Well let me
[Geoffrey:] Well it's going to the not me.
[Jonathan:] The
[June:] You know what it is I bet they're pruning in the field
[Geoffrey:] Could well be, yes.
[June:] That leaves off, bet that's them out in that field messing about Oh, they nearly got to, up to the roof aren't they?
[Wendy:] Yeah...
[June:] Now why haven't you been doing very well at school this week?...
[Jonathan:] the week
[June:] Well you won't get that will you? Eh? Why haven't you been getting on very well then? I suppose you get some weeks like that when you don't... did Miss get on to you then?
[Jonathan:] No...
[June:] Did you get anything on the Oh I forget, forgot to get it...
[Geoffrey:] Well it must be cos I, I put salt on it, I thought myself you got the salt and have some more salt...
[Jonathan:] ... strong.
[June:] How did you get on at football?
[Jonathan:] We won.
[June:] How many?
[Jonathan:] Erm two, two, one,
[June:] Did they all behave?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] I know they are... did Luke play?
[Jonathan:] Yeah
[June:] Oh, is that what's upset you this week?
[Jonathan:] No... I forgot about it till now...
[June:] let that upset you.
[Jonathan:] I
[June:] not in then is he?
[Jonathan:] No, I shall need new shin pads dad.
[June:] there for you not for him.
[Jonathan:] No, I said he could borrow them, cos he's in the team.
[June:] Well why didn't he use yours and , I don't mind, but...
[Jonathan:] every week... ...
[June:] I didn't Matthew's football?
[Jonathan:] ... Steven
[June:] Oh
[Jonathan:] ball's up the other end he just sits there on the floor, so...
[June:] But you're not that interested in football Well yeah.
[Geoffrey:] I'll tell you what...
[June:] It's alright,... what else did you
[Wendy:] Can I have a
[June:] Yeah did she realize that the two Would you have
[Jonathan:] Old Mrs Well she said about two spoonfuls.
[June:] Did you get many chips today Jonathan from school? Did you?
[Jonathan:] Cor yeah.
[June:] What did you have for sweet today?
[Jonathan:] Yoghurt.
[June:] Weren't a lot of choice was there?
[Jonathan:] No,
[June:] Why was that?
[Jonathan:] Had to wait for James, I hadn't noticed he'd gone past
[June:] What
[Jonathan:] Mm, he'd gone past
[June:] He must be Now these hope there
[Jonathan:] What
[June:] It's a what? No
[Geoffrey:] Yeah,
[June:] can't understand what you're saying.
[Geoffrey:] We were saying today that the was saying today that
[June:] What
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, but he said he'd tell us he takes eleven tablets a day
[June:] Eleven
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, but apparently he's anti-depressant also he said, he said that they...
[June:] them for?
[Geoffrey:] God knows... and erm...
[June:] Forgot to put the sugar in.
[Geoffrey:] yeah, Cliff was saying that er, he said all yeah, he said he's er... he goes through the if, if you're not sort of paying attention to him you
[June:] What you mean?
[Geoffrey:] Well if you sort of leave him out of a conversation, he goes a bit funny, he storms off, I think I had noticed a couple of times that he has, and you see what happens is he sits there
[June:] Seems a bit
[Geoffrey:] well he sits there talking at dinner times well then when she goes when she goes he's erm
[Jonathan:] Quick
[Geoffrey:] alright, alright
[Jonathan:] cor
[June:] when she goes, yeah
[Geoffrey:] she goes
[June:] Any more bread
[Geoffrey:] so he sits there erm, and you know you involve in our conversation, but he sits there talking to her and then he sort of feels out of it and then he storms off
[June:] Oh a bit silly ain't it?...
[Geoffrey:] they actually came and put his
[Wendy:] Oh Oh...
[June:] Well it's got, erm Mike in it
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah
[June:] do you want some of those
[Geoffrey:] might as well
[June:] I wait on you lad, left, right and centre I do... who's washing up tonight? You must be joking... you must be joking, wish
[Geoffrey:] Wish I did
[June:] huh, dad said he wished he did
[Geoffrey:] erm
[June:] do you want some blackberry Jonathan?
[Jonathan:] No thanks.
[Geoffrey:] We're gonna have that Christmas draw next Friday
[June:] Ooh, you got to make sure you've got your tickets next Friday then.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] [phone rings]...
[June:] Hello, yeah, for you No, sounds like he's at home
[Geoffrey:] Oh er, well there,
[June:] No, no, say you might have some, well see how you feel.
[Wendy:] Yeah I will
[June:] Alright.
[Jonathan:] Can I have bread and jam as well?
[June:] Goodness me Jonathan
[Jonathan:] I'm hungry... Don't eat that much
[June:] Oh help yourself
[speaker005:] Cor that smells nice Wendy
[June:] Do you want blackcurrant?
[Jonathan:] Oh yeah, have you got strawberry?
[June:] Pardon?
[Jonathan:] Have you got any strawberry?
[June:] Yeah,
[Jonathan:] I'll have... I'll have blackcurrant then I'll have strawberry
[June:] Oh I'm not messing about with that
[Jonathan:] you'll like this stuff
[June:] Well
[Jonathan:] do you like wrestling?
[June:] Oh yeah, I didn't mind wrestling but I don't like
[Jonathan:] It is wrestling
[June:] yeah but it's that. Oh
[Jonathan:] Cos it, W W F, Paul Hogan used to be the champion
[June:] Oh
[Jonathan:] Ah
[June:] How long's Matthew had erm, Sky television then?
[Jonathan:] Ages.
[Geoffrey:] Oh I see.
[June:] You know what I've gone and done Jonathan?
[Jonathan:] What?
[June:] I've done them all strawberry, all blackberry I mean Is that alright?
[Jonathan:] Yeah...
[June:] Cor, that's lovely, great that... whatever was you and John playing at?...
[Jonathan:] When?...
[June:] Dinner time at school
[Jonathan:] What with Christopher? Oh why's that?
[June:] I don't know, said he. What did he want
[Geoffrey:] Only just to needs to know what goes into
[June:] Did
[Geoffrey:] No, no, I
[June:] Yeah... who called it up then?
[Jonathan:] what? The other day Christopher was talking talking
[Geoffrey:] Yeah
[Jonathan:] Christopher out the room
[June:] He didn't
[Jonathan:] he did
[Geoffrey:] Erm, some boys name son of, er Matt I think, and er he'd got
[Wendy:] What they do fall off the back of a lorry?
[Geoffrey:] Huh, it was a bloody gardener
[June:] Expensive one that
[Geoffrey:] I've never heard I've never heard of it before well it forty nine, ninety five
[Wendy:] Yeah
[Geoffrey:] so he said erm, like a fiver,
[June:] Oh
[Geoffrey:] so I said well said I've never heard of it, he said well you've heard of quartz haven't you?... What's that got to do with it?
[June:] Quartz?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, what's that got to do with it I said I, you know, just never heard of that well there you are then, no, be wasting my time
[June:] Oh
[Geoffrey:] No, he's got a face and a black sort of leather strap
[June:] Oh that will be
[Geoffrey:] but he didn't look...
[Wendy:] What an actual inside it.
[Geoffrey:] Inside it, it's like a flat blue sort of velvet suede wallet but I said he...
[Wendy:] Oh
[Geoffrey:] I said well why
[June:] No I wouldn't, too right
[Geoffrey:] Fair enough he said
[June:] You should be
[Geoffrey:] Yes.
[June:] I go and get you some don't worry... I was on about the necklace and you said it was a bit pricey
[Geoffrey:] Yeah
[June:] there's another twenty five per cent off if you go in there tomorrow, so how much would that be?
[Geoffrey:] I don't know how much it was
[June:] That was thirty six, if you take twenty four per cent off what's that?
[Geoffrey:] Nine quid
[June:] How much?
[Geoffrey:] nine quid off
[June:] Well I'll go and get it then
[Geoffrey:] twenty seven pounds.
[June:] I'll get it then for her, for Christmas present
[Jonathan:] What is it?
[June:] We'll do that tomorrow
[Jonathan:] What is it?
[Geoffrey:] When you gonna do that?
[June:] Well we said we was going up to Wisbech. No she ain't, cos she ain't coming down here for the and I told her that we would be nipping to town to so we can do it then when she ain't with me, the offer's only on till tomorrow. , pardon?
[Geoffrey:] who's the friend?
[June:] Who's what friend? from me, you and Jonathan
[Geoffrey:] Oh, she's
[June:] Samuels
[Geoffrey:] Oh
[Wendy:] Shall we get the er, I can't find the, can we nip into Theydon Bois, how we and B
[June:] You told me that was Westgate last time I
[Geoffrey:] will if he works into him.
[Jonathan:] she wouldn't know which one wanted.
[June:] Well she would if you told her, wouldn't she? I'm sure she would.
[Jonathan:] I don't actually know what they all look at have a look.
[Geoffrey:] Well
[Jonathan:] Hey, if we go over and toys and get my, my thing tested I can have a look at them, see which one
[June:] That's right, alright?
[Geoffrey:] Not very far away is it?
[June:] Yeah we had this morning.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] I don't know how you do that?
[Geoffrey:] Do what?
[June:] Eat erm... fruit, and the bread and butter together, I can't bear that bear that.
[Jonathan:] What's wrong with it?...
[June:] Well I don't think it's very nice.
[Jonathan:] wouldn't they at school mum, they and everybody goes, er what's that?
[June:] What was it?
[Jonathan:] Well Sure it weren't that
[June:] What was it then? had something to say every day at school dinners.
[Jonathan:] No, at home.
[June:] I never cooked something every day the same.
[Jonathan:] Not every day,
[Geoffrey:] what you had at school.
[Jonathan:] Yeah, that day.
[June:] Oh you mean perhaps I'd cooked jacket potatoes and you had jacket potatoes at school?
[Jonathan:] No, you know we had A and B
[June:] Oh yes
[Jonathan:] Yeah, well on A it was egg, bacon, and beans and chips and on B... I can't remember but A, I thought, everybody goes er we've never had that before , er what's that?
[June:] well what was it?
[Jonathan:] It was that.
[June:] Yeah, but what is that?
[Jonathan:] [shouting] I've just told you [],
[Geoffrey:] Egg and bacon
[Jonathan:] chips and beans and we
[June:] We had it at home as well
[Jonathan:] Yeah, we had it at
[June:] Oh I see what you mean
[Geoffrey:] What did the other children have?
[Jonathan:] I was the only one
[June:] How come you got it on your own then?
[Jonathan:] No, everybody had it at school
[Geoffrey:] It was the choice
[Jonathan:] I think it it was something anyway that we had popular something like that.
[June:] Vegetarians... there are people who are aren't they?
[Geoffrey:] Bloody cholesterol
[June:] Oh they, they've never had them at school they have erm scrambled egg, they never have a proper egg You know why don't you? Cos it's powdered.
[Geoffrey:] Powdered
[June:] It's powdered egg, they're not allowed to have, use raw eggs round school.
[Geoffrey:] Aren't they really?
[June:] No, I suppose cos
[Geoffrey:] Why not?
[June:] of salmonella ain't it?... That's right.
[Jonathan:] poached egg.
[June:] Do you?
[Jonathan:] Mm.
[June:] You make erm egg on toast as well don't you?
[Jonathan:] It's poached Egg in the batter.
[June:] Egg in the batter? You mean erm
[Jonathan:] cooked
[June:] scotch egg?
[Jonathan:] Yeah, that's it.
[June:] Well you wouldn't like that surely, cos you don't like sausages.
[Jonathan:] They're not sausages.
[Geoffrey:] Of course it has, that's what it is, it's got it's got sausage round it, and it's got
[Jonathan:] Oh no, I don't I don't mean the eggs, the inside, cos, but on the outside, the inside tastes lovely.
[Geoffrey:] she erm, she's behind the till
[June:] Oh yeah
[Geoffrey:] when they today she's, you could see she was miles away, so I said, well I don't know what I said to Ivan, I said something to her about sort of did you
[June:] Yeah
[Geoffrey:] so I said miles away,
[June:] [cough]
[Geoffrey:] Oh she said I'm ever so sorry I was miles away, I said yeah we've just said that, I said you never even heard us, so I said what you, you can't understand why you pay too much tax, she said no I know why I pay too much tax she said but more she said I used to be in business she said and I'm on basic rate of tax, so I said yeah I've had some of that, so she said what basic rate of tax, I said yeah where I've come so, it's a funny thing she said, I was saying to Carol the other day, she said erm, she said what a difference them blokes you work with, so I said yeah, I said I'm always saying that about these so she said oh she said er...
[June:] Well I hope you are different
[Geoffrey:] they... they... they can't wait to get into said it's like a sort of release valve
[June:] what you mean?
[Geoffrey:] well I don't know, I suppose they sort of well, they the same time paint work and they go thundering down the corridor and... go charging in there and, oh back at training on there you know come on, come on we've only got half an hour
[Jonathan:] Mummy, what's do you like best, them or these?
[June:] Them or these, erm erm brown one perhaps
[Jonathan:] This one?
[June:] yeah
[Jonathan:] I mean what's your
[June:] I don't know what they're called love, I don't know what they're called Jonathan
[Jonathan:] Yeah, but what sort
[June:] Jonathan is a weird child at times
[Jonathan:] cos they're ten P... each and they're fifty P each
[June:] Well the fifty P ones look better I must admit No, nor would I...
[Jonathan:] You can get four of these
[June:] six
[Jonathan:] You can get five of these and one of these
[June:] I'm watching the news in a little while
[Jonathan:] You can get five of these
[June:] What you put that somebody please
[Geoffrey:] Yeah...
[June:] I'll do me ironing perhaps in the morning
[Wendy:] Oh you know what I watched?
[Geoffrey:] No
[June:] Oh was on today's on quarter to six.
[Jonathan:] Oh
[June:] on please Jonathan
[Jonathan:] Oh no
[June:] yes, you've got all tomorrow to watch that, I should save it... wouldn't you dear?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah...
[June:] Jonathan what about tidying yourself up you just have out,
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Well yeah, I clean the up with
[June:] Well she said she'd be back just after six.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah,
[June:] Oh, she got
[Geoffrey:] and now I've got to go over the Sierra I, I've got a Sierra coming here.
[June:] Yeah, but she'll be back at six she said... you know
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] So we're not at John tonight then have we?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] What was I gonna say to you? Here you are
[Geoffrey:] ...
[June:] Well yeah, and I, it's a bit short notice keep can keep cancel. It's not very fair is it? Well I don't think so, did you put that tape in right, I bet you did...
[Geoffrey:] Tape
[June:] oh it's... oh, so what
[Geoffrey:] Erm...
[June:] So what's Ivan, happened about Ivan's little boy then? Or was it his little girl?
[Geoffrey:] No, boy, not
[June:] Didn't he have an asthma attack then?
[Geoffrey:] They sent him home from school or something, send him straight home from school and er, don't know I suppose take him to hospital today and then, I assume they've got to bring him home and he said oh no he said you haven't got to take me home he said cos the boy's got to be from school, come round tomorrow and pick you up [sniff]...
[June:] Did he actually have an asthma attack then?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, in hospital...
[June:] Does the other one stopped having it now then asthma?
[Geoffrey:] The oldest one has
[June:] The oldest one has
[Geoffrey:] yeah
[June:] how
[Geoffrey:] I just
[June:] What?... What?
[Geoffrey:] Charlie was quibbling about his wages coming through
[June:] Yeah...
[Geoffrey:] well what's he
[June:] dunno
[Geoffrey:] he's got a for forty five grand
[June:] you know what they're like
[Geoffrey:] I don't know where he was, he's got a cheap one and a...
[June:] I told him the price when he ordered them
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, yeah, well he must of thought that
[June:] and he knows he's not like you doing for money, cos I shan't be very pleased
[Geoffrey:] that's right...
[June:] Who's he working for now then, double glazing again?
[Geoffrey:] Still don't know
[June:] I reckon er when it is
[Geoffrey:] Yeah,
[June:] however did they employ him?... He's had more jobs than I've had hot dinners
[Geoffrey:] They've seen through and they realize that all these wasting.
[June:] Well you, that van's always up there.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Think they go round travelling then like travelling salesman or something...
[Geoffrey:] Well I don't know
[June:] they've got a place down at Markets ain't they?... I didn't think they were in a big way...
[Geoffrey:] No idea, the er... I
[June:] Who's being barred?
[Geoffrey:] yeah, well with the on the van as well, so he try and put a bit more you know, and they say well they do the same, they used to have a
[June:] Well what about the Mr then?
[Geoffrey:] Well yeah sort of erm
[June:] Do you believe
[Geoffrey:] yeah, a decision that we all erm just think what we generally use through the day.
[June:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] So...
[June:] Oh... Oh I didn't do you the yeah.
[Geoffrey:] the one thing I thought we ain't got, but,
[June:] What?
[Geoffrey:] I said
[June:] Yeah, I said I'd up here tomorrow didn't I?
[Geoffrey:] Erm,appar apparently oh Percy
[June:] What's he got now?
[Geoffrey:] He's sold that big and he's got this now, a Cavalier, what they say they want to do
[June:] Surely ain't got any money...
[Geoffrey:] the oldest, amazing that he was on the insurance, it had gone up, and the eighty seven per cent
[June:] Why?...
[Geoffrey:] well all insurances have this year because they said the joy riding kids are flying around
[June:] That's not fair though is it on people, you know, people through that
[Geoffrey:] , no, they
[June:] that's what I was thinking about like... that girl you know, typical, about that car
[Geoffrey:] What car? What girl? What car?
[June:] about the er, Orion
[Geoffrey:] Oh I
[June:] did you actually put down on that form?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Oh, but you didn't
[Geoffrey:] Well the reason they caught him was cos they've got just flashed him through the computers as and find out what anyway, put it down they then turn round say oh well, you know... whatever they're
[June:] But Susan was saying she can't see how one thing's got anything to do with the other, she didn't go joy riding
[Geoffrey:] Susan was she?...
[June:] She was saying she wouldn't let it rest.
[Geoffrey:] She ain't got
[June:] That's what I said, well we've got, that'll be in her
[Geoffrey:] It seems like she's well that's fair enough, cos that's customer's she was paying about thirty five pound every time and they go through, she perhaps think twice about doing it, she said oh well you know I've got that's the end of it so,
[June:] Yeah,
[Geoffrey:] that's fair enough I said a thing.
[June:] Oh yeah, that's right, yeah... but odd really that, that bloke has got, she said if that was me I'd write to the Chief Constable about it
[Geoffrey:] Well they wrote to the Chief Constable
[June:] Yeah, and what happened they lost the letter
[Geoffrey:] oh.
[June:] that needn't of come to a head like that really.
[Geoffrey:] No. What's the time,
[June:] Twenty past two, why?
[Geoffrey:] I'm
[June:] Well it later anyway... no. Jonathan, Jonathan, dad wants to watch the news in a minute please, so hurry up and change it over... You'd think they'd save that You don't know, I wouldn't be surprised you will... well that's marvellous isn't it?... I said I think we're gonna have to start still doing what we said, erm, getting the money beforehand I think. You know it's ridiculous isn't it? Well you don't bleeding know whether them other people turned up do you? Did your mum take it to let you know?
[Geoffrey:] no.
[June:] Oh... Sarah should have her roof on by this week... did you hear what I said?
[Geoffrey:] Pardon?
[June:] Sarah should have her roof on this weekend.
[Geoffrey:] A roof?
[June:] They're soon gonna put the roof on, yeah, soon, soon it
[Geoffrey:] I, I was there
[June:] no, but as soon as they've got their thingy in the they should be off.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] They've got someone standby to do it or something.
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[June:] Great, I said well that's the best thing really this time of year to get it
[Geoffrey:] Yeah
[June:] all covered in
[Geoffrey:] yeah.
[June:] well I would have thought so anyway.
[Jonathan:] Oh... you can't watch the video.
[June:] Why's that?
[Jonathan:] Cause Martin took it back.
[June:] Oh never mind.
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[June:] Was it good?
[Jonathan:] Yeah. He gets brain damage nearly.
[June:] Oh I see. Well that sounds good then.
[Jonathan:] His neck gets broken.
[June:] He said he gets brain damage I said [LAUGHTER] well that sounds good then [].
[Jonathan:] Nearly.... Cos
[June:] Can you just put the freezer stuff up?
[Jonathan:] Cos someone picks him up like that...
[Susan:] Hasn't it turned cold?
[Jonathan:] turns him over and they
[June:] Well you should have turned the heating on.
[Susan:] Oh no I'm not cold in here. I mean it's cold
[Jonathan:] and he's up in the air, like this... nanny
[June:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] and he and he lands on the metal chair.
[Susan:] I got a bad eye.
[Jonathan:] Ooh.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Susan:] Well I had... Mrs in this morning... she had a tooth out this morning... and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] Ooh.
[Susan:] So I've got... I've got a little pinprick in me eye.
[Geoffrey:] What'll happen then
[Susan:] So erm I'm just hoping I'm not gonna get an infection in it cos infection in it if I get blood in me eye.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] It's ever so sore.
[June:] Do you like profiteroles Sue?
[Susan:] Who?
[June:] Profiteroles.
[Susan:] Yes. I got... you know we usually have one of them... black forest gateaux? I got that instead.
[June:] Oh yeah, that looks nice. Mum'd like that.
[Susan:] Well I thought...
[June:] What have you got in your little side pots?
[Susan:] Oh I like... if I'd have known you were going I'd have got you to get me the nut ones. I can't never get them from Lynn.
[June:] Oh they had the hazelnut ones.
[Susan:] Yeah they're the ones I like.
[June:] Tut oh!
[Jonathan:] Do you like hazelnut?
[Susan:] Yeah, love it.
[Jonathan:] Oh I don't. Oh! Oh!
[Susan:] I found this book in your drawer Junie.
[June:] What?
[Susan:] I found this book in your drawer.
[June:] What book?
[Susan:] Can't read it.... Yeah erm...
[Jonathan:] Put your knee in there. It won't hurt.
[Susan:] Can I just put these
[Jonathan:] there yeah.
[June:] Cor! [LAUGHTER] It does [].
[Jonathan:] Does it?
[June:] Yeah, it's quite hard.
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[Susan:] It is hard isn't it, there?... I'll just put these in here.
[Jonathan:] Aah!
[June:] Pass me your mum's book.
[Jonathan:] It hurts when you.
[June:] Pass your mum's book.... Oh she got that from Gateway.... Is that where you've been?
[Susan:] This lot cost eighty quid. And we... we ain't got any drink in it.
[June:] I know. It doesn't surprise me....
[Susan:] Only we got a... that one... you know if anybody wants some wine. That's all... Jonathan go and see what your dad's calling.
[Jonathan:] What?...
[Susan:] Go to him, don't shout.
[Jonathan:] What?... Did you say something?
[June:] I've still got your bottle of champagne in there Susan.
[Susan:] We can have it christmas time.
[June:] Erm
[Geoffrey:] I said... how much did you say it was?
[Susan:] Oh no, it was ninety something... not eighty something.
[Geoffrey:] When you said that I thought
[Susan:] Yeah but we had we had a we had
[Geoffrey:] What er... who's in charge of a cup of coffee in there?
[Susan:] eighty pound
[June:] I thought Susan had got the kettle on so I unpacked these.
[Susan:] I have ju I don't know if it's got any water in, I have only just boiled it. Just a second, that ain't been long boiled.... See I have got some things for christmas.
[Geoffrey:] Mm I know
[Susan:] I've got Noreen... I have got Noreen's stuff under that cupboard you know I have and I've got all loads of stuff in there haven't I? I suddenly And I just suddenly remembered I've left me windows open... one of my bedroom windows open.
[Jonathan:] Do you my toy nanny?
[June:] Oh, I need them... What darling?
[Jonathan:] Look... and he can go raaa raaa
[Susan:] We did our ordinary shopping as well in with this though.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Look, he can go that and he can go... raaa raaa
[Susan:] Your money went in the bank at half past nine on Friday.
[Geoffrey:] Did it?
[Jonathan:] [singing] My name is Mr []
[Susan:] Yeah cos a girl at work took it.
[Geoffrey:] I got a bloody letter
[Susan:] Bloody the next morning with unpaid thirty five quid on it. Believe it or not
[Geoffrey:] Sixteen hundred and fifty
[Susan:] What did you say well I've already...
[June:] Excuse me Jonathan, let me just
[Geoffrey:] Dunno. Sixteen hundred and fifty quid. Bloody
[Susan:] Well that... no Geoff that definitely went in. That cash
[Geoffrey:] Oh no I don't... I mean I don't say
[Susan:] No but what I'm saying is that went in before twelve o'clock.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but what they're saying is it's gotta be in the night before so that when they come in that next morning...
[Susan:] Oh... well they don't know till half past nine.
[Geoffrey:] No, what they mean is they... if it's put in on a Thursday... so it's there so when they, whatever they get in on a Friday they can pay out then but if it's paid in on a Friday then
[Jonathan:] Ah!
[June:] What?
[Geoffrey:] they won't pay out on... on a Friday.... So
[Jonathan:] Cor. Can't I have this?
[Susan:] Load of rubbish.
[Geoffrey:] You got
[Susan:] That's what we think.
[Geoffrey:] So they didn't pay sixteen fifty and that's costing us thirty five quid.
[Susan:] Quid... yeah....
[Geoffrey:] They really
[Susan:] The sooner we get away from that bloody bank the better.
[Geoffrey:] They're all the same though. No different.
[Susan:] Yeah but
[Geoffrey:] Barclays, they changed from Barclays to Lloyds and they just
[Susan:] No I mean the building society, they don't do that do they?
[Geoffrey:] Well no, the building society won't run a business like that,. Soon as they what you're doing they you down.
[Jonathan:] Hey nanny... see this, this jumper
[Susan:] I don't think that heater's turned on is it?
[Geoffrey:] No I didn't
[Jonathan:] when he's mad, he grabs at it like that and whips it
[Susan:] Is that heater turned on?
[June:] Jonathan put it on.
[Jonathan:] Yeah. I can hear it.
[Geoffrey:] No, it's not.
[Susan:] I didn't think it was on.
[Jonathan:] I didn't turn it on there, it weren't turned on at all....
[Susan:] I didn't sleep very well again last night, I dunno. I think it's the
[June:] Yeah.... Where do you get your cake from, Superkey
[Susan:] Yeah.
[June:] I see that in there the other day and I wondered... were them cards alright for you?
[Jonathan:] Yeah, they were brilliant!
[June:] I've got more cards....
[Susan:] Can you?... The trouble is you can't smell it.
[June:] Yes I can.
[Susan:] Cat's pee.
[June:] I can smell it.
[Susan:] gonna get rid of it....
[June:] That's up this corner behind me.
[Susan:] That is innit?
[June:] Yeah well what you've gotta do is put a bowl of vinegar down there.
[Susan:] I'll spray vinegar in there.
[June:] Yeah well put a bowl in there... and let it stand and that and that'll erm go into the vinegar.... You ought'a got some of that cat litter stuff.
[Susan:] What for?
[June:] You can get some spray that you put on your cat litter tray to deodorize it....
[Susan:] Oh....
[Jonathan:] Except the only problem is we haven't got a litter tray.
[June:] No but I mean if mummy put a
[Susan:] Did you do that?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Get out the way.
[Geoffrey:] What?
[Susan:] What... Jonathan! Just go and sit in the room or do something... while I just do this. They've all gotta go upstairs.
[Jonathan:] Do what?
[June:] You can write my cards out for me if you like. I know you love the job.
[Susan:] Let's have a look what you've got. [sneeze] [sneeze]
[June:] I don't know what they're like, I just
[Susan:] Excuse me!
[June:] I just went for the price....
[Susan:] And people don't care what it is Geoff as long as they're getting something, do they?
[Geoffrey:] That's right.
[Susan:] Why don't you go and change and hang that suit up? Please.... Go and do that. Hang your stuff up eh?... Are they?
[Geoffrey:] He's so afraid he thought he was missing something look.
[Susan:] Jonathan.
[Geoffrey:] That's why he
[Jonathan:] What?
[Geoffrey:] thought you send you out... why you sent him out. He thought he was going to miss something.
[Susan:] Put them under the... you know in the erm... airing cupboard. And here you are, look... and that can go in the toilet for mummy. There's a couple in here that's suitable for children though, look.... Look.
[June:] Yeah I know some of them are more suitable.
[Susan:] Look.
[June:] Yeah well, he can have the ones what are suitable for him....
[Susan:] Oh they're nice car, oh there's a nice one with on it. Look...
[June:] Oh yeah.
[Susan:] I ain't very keen on cards with pheasants.
[June:] No I can't say I.
[Susan:] Oh look! June.
[June:] What?... I've seen that card before.
[Susan:] So've I.
[June:] Now... these have gotta go in the freezer Geoff. Would you just do it then I'll make you a cup of coffee.
[Susan:] Oh June! Geoff
[Geoffrey:] I'll do it.
[Susan:] June... ah! Look at this Geoff.... Look at that June.
[June:] Is that what you're having... for your tea.
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[Susan:] June.
[Geoffrey:] Yes.
[June:] Cos I'm having that french bread.... There's some ham and tomato and lettuce in.
[Geoffrey:] Leave it out.
[Susan:] June.... Look.
[June:] And that can go in the freezer, what? [LAUGHTER] aah.
[Geoffrey:] And these? And these?... And these... and these, and these.
[Susan:] That's an unusual card.
[June:] Erm have I got one set ou cos I was gonna leave one set out case you wanted...
[Geoffrey:] Yeah I got one set
[June:] Yup. Yeah, that's alright.
[Susan:] June. Look. That's unusual innit?
[June:] What's that mate?
[Susan:] All those christmas puddings.
[June:] Oh yeah.... Think they're quite good. I only looked, I did take quickly a look at them but, you know I thought oh I ain't got... I didn't really have time to mess about for long you know.
[Susan:] They're a nice size card as well.
[June:] Yeah they're not bad for that.... It says family selection so that's what it means... well for adults and children.
[Susan:] Two packs is enough don't you? Is it?
[Geoffrey:] What?
[June:] Er
[Susan:] We're busy this morning. We had five er extra erm were over this morning.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Susan:] Cos we were supposed to be on the rota. Mr 's only doing it today so I ain't gotta go in tomorrow.
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[Susan:] . And Mrs gives out brandy though don't she? She don't pay me got another pack of peanuts so I have got a few that... few, but you don't need any old bag do you?... See when I don't go shopping I don't get all these... I think I've read that one....
[Geoffrey:] see a pen floating about here somewhere?
[June:] Yeah there is a few about here somewhere. Wait a minute I'll just get this done then I'll make you another.
[Susan:] Sitting here I'm thinking oh, someone's bound to ring while I'm sitting here and want to hire something. I know the ropes.
[June:] Didn't they?
[Susan:] No.
[June:] Oh! Was you disappointed?
[Susan:] Yeah, cos I was gonna say... take the name and address and get you to [LAUGHTER] ring it back []....
[June:] That don't take long to unpack it really, does it?
[Susan:] I've got that much cupboard full now, I can't get it all in look....
[June:] Yeah it do, it full....
[Susan:] Where do you get that lipstick from over there? That's a nice colour.
[June:] Which one?
[Susan:] That one over there....
[June:] Where?
[Susan:] On tha on the dresser....
[June:] [LAUGHTER] I found it in the car [].
[Susan:] Oh, it's a nice colour.
[June:] I wiped it.
[Susan:] It's a nice colour, I
[June:] Cos I thought well I remember what you said about cold sores.
[Susan:] Mm.... Oh they've got that paper in here. And those christmas cards.
[June:] There's a good film on tonight Sue.
[Susan:] Jaws.
[June:] What's erm... something up to jaws innit or something?
[Susan:] Mm.
[June:] I'd like to see it.
[Geoffrey:] How how long does for June?
[Susan:] What?
[June:] He didn't actually say.
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[June:] Till, I suppose till the same time tomorrow I suppose.... He didn't actually say.
[Susan:] er christmas cards for erm... send to Madeleine.... To Madeleine for some...
[June:] Yeah cos it don't get there
[Susan:] You ought'a got mum to got your dishcloths and that cheap like. She'd get about s... five for a pound.
[June:] I don't know what they were.... They're nice dishcloths
[Susan:] Oh. More in a bag what mum gets. She, and she got me five dishcloths and five dusters.... Well you and I ain't got the same paper.
[June:] Good.... Well I'm ever so pleased what I bought you today.
[Susan:] Oh. Will I like it?
[June:] No, well tell him. Put it here look.
[Geoffrey:] [shouting] Jonathan [].
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Get your behind here please.
[June:] He's just er tidying his clothes up. I hope he's putting them on hangers.... Sat here and I thought what i whatever am I gonna do? And I thought oh I know I'll have a look and see if I How long you been here?
[Susan:] About... five ten minutes most. Only
[June:] Oh!
[Susan:] I didn't get finished work till, well I didn't get finished work till about quarter to two. And then Mr erm... oh... let me watch a Queen video. He told me he didn't get in the football team.
[June:] Yeah. Well Mr said he hadn't been, sort of erm... himself all week. I wondered if that was hurting a little bit....
[Susan:] What, cos he didn't get in the football team?
[June:] Yeah could have been.
[Susan:] Well, did anybody else get in then who he... who he didn't...? Who got in then of his mates? All his mates got
[June:] All his mates.
[Susan:] Oh dear.
[June:] So I think probably that's what it was, but I don't know.
[Susan:] Well you see
[June:] Well Luke's only reserve.... Don't think Jonathan... Jonathan wouldn't have minded if he was in a reserve, you know?...
[Susan:] Ain't he very good at football really then?
[June:] Well no not really Sue.... Well they can't pick him just because... they like him.
[Susan:] No... not cos they like him you know. You can't do that can you?
[June:] Well no er and he didn't seem that bothered anyway....
[Susan:] Right. What are you doing with them boxes?
[June:] Nothing. Do you want them?
[Susan:] Yeah I'll have them for work.
[June:] Well you can take them if you like.
[Susan:] Mr you see.
[Geoffrey:] I'll have my tea then I'll shoot off to
[June:] I to make one. Do you want another one Sue?
[Susan:] Yeah if you like. I'll have a cup of tea, I don't want coffee. Mr give me coffee this morning.
[June:] Just got to get.... Where's me other box of cards?
[Susan:] Down here.
[June:] Let's put them in there then I can put them upstairs. You can write them for me when.
[Jonathan:] Oh.
[June:] You're not you know you like writing them.
[Geoffrey:] [whistling] Oh.
[Susan:] Look at my bruise. That's now going.
[Geoffrey:] Is that what that is? I thought you'd caught your tights or something.
[Susan:] I've got, I've had it for but no, it's been round there and that's now going look.
[Geoffrey:] Cor.
[Susan:] Only just. After a month. That was right down there.
[June:] I'll show you something in a minute. I don't know whether this is a bruise or what but this morning my leg was burning.
[Geoffrey:] Mm....
[Susan:] That's in the same place as mine.
[Geoffrey:] Cor.
[Susan:] Let's have a look.
[Geoffrey:] Is that a bruise?...
[Susan:] Oh it is.
[June:] That was burning and the next minute that was black.
[Geoffrey:] On my desk
[June:] There was a load of rubbish. Go and tidy your rubbish up darling. There's a good boy.
[Geoffrey:] if you can just tidy that rubbish. There's an empty coke tin. There's an empty
[Jonathan:] I didn't put the coke tin on there.
[Geoffrey:] You must have done.
[Jonathan:] I didn't!
[Geoffrey:] You must have done.
[Jonathan:] Didn't! Mum did.
[Geoffrey:] Well, you had it.
[Susan:] Oh go on, just help her then.
[June:] Yeah well mum had to go
[Geoffrey:] You drunk it.
[June:] upstairs quick, didn't I Jonathan?...
[Jonathan:] Is that what you wanted?
[June:] So I got my... I got my first christmas present.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, and stuff on there what belongs to you please.
[Susan:] Who's is that?
[June:] Yours.
[Jonathan:] Where?
[Susan:] Oh.
[June:] Oh no, that's the third.
[Geoffrey:] The packet. And your transformer.
[Susan:] What?
[June:] Just wash it. Oh yeah we're prams and toys... to have his transformer checked.
[Susan:] What transformer?
[June:] On that... you know that racing track? The transformer's had it.... I said and he's he's only played with it about six or seven times so we're gonna... she told us to write to Hornby's about it.
[Geoffrey:] Weren't even a flicker out of it.
[June:] She said there isn't a... flicker.
[Geoffrey:] Absolutely dead.
[Susan:] Well
[June:] She said it's not
[Susan:] Jonathan's getting taller cos his tracksuit looks er... short. I've just been
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] watching the Queen video June.
[June:] Have you?
[Susan:] Well Mr had it. Well he's videoed it cos that was on telly the other night weren't it?
[June:] Why don't why don't you get out the way?...
[Susan:] You're upsetting him June.
[June:] Well every time I go to do something Susan I have to keep walking round him. Why don't you play that side if he wants
[Jonathan:] I want that.... And I want...
[June:] Can you just put that orangejuice somewhere for me please.
[Jonathan:] It's on the floor mum.... Erm
[June:] Well I don't want everybody to start... well... I got it for christmas really. I don't want... although it don't really matter I suppose.... Just put it on top
[Jonathan:] . He's the one I really wanted.
[June:] I said... I said well now someone can buy him the other one for christmas. He's got one
[Susan:] which one has he got then?
[Jonathan:] ... I couldn't get ultimate warrior... I probably
[June:] Well you can save something on here look.... Wrestling save the world wrestling premiums. What's that mean?
[Jonathan:] I dunno....
[Geoffrey:] [whistling]
[June:] I was up before Geoff this morning see.
[Susan:] Yeah you said.... You are a clever boy aren't you? Honky tonk man [LAUGHTER] Jonathan []. Don't you want... Hacksaw Jim Dougan
[Jonathan:] Mm
[Susan:] Duggan.
[June:] [LAUGHTER] D D Dougan [LAUGHTER].
[Jonathan:] No.
[Susan:] Dusty Roads?... What do you, what about Jake the Snake Roberts?
[Jonathan:] He's quick. He's on that film.
[Susan:] Was he?
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] He's erm
[Susan:] Hasn't he got lovely teeth?... Four pounds thirty! Good gracious.
[June:] I bet he could have got it cheaper if he'd have waited.
[Geoffrey:] Well he was the one who said they're two ninety nine and one ninety nine.
[June:] Yeah well only cos Matthew told him they were.
[Susan:] No, I don't think they're as cheap as that. You'll have to write that one down June and tell mum. In case what?... in case Tam wants to get him something.
[Geoffrey:] I was saying big I think.
[June:] Bloody peerage for him.
[Geoffrey:] And he said that er he's had a do with erm... Joycie. Sold her
[Susan:] As what?
[Geoffrey:] Well he's sold her... a set of patio doors... and told them they'd be sort of six to eight weeks delivery.... Meanwhile Mo smashes out the hole in the corner of the house sort of thing where they're gonna go and... they ain't there. He said and I told you he said six to eight weeks he said.... Why smash the hole in the corner of your house? Cos she was on the phone crying that er... she's got a hole in the side of her house [LAUGHTER] sort of thing [].
[June:] Well I should think she has. It's cold
[Susan:] What in Morris in their own home?
[Geoffrey:] I assume that's where she means. Well yeah.
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Well silly old fool.
[June:] Well that's like her. She wouldn't take no notice.
[Geoffrey:] Oh and erm... he reckon that he's, he's had a big do with erm...
[June:] Pat??
[Geoffrey:] Brian.
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Brian, no yeah Brian. He said er... we had a big hoo hah he said er... I borrowed some money off him he said some time ago to do something with... and I hadn't got the money he said and when I sold the plot of land he said I paid him back what I owed him cos borrow the money. He said now he's telling everybody he said that er... I ain't ever paid him and I still owe him the money.
[June:] I wouldn't be surprised if he does.
[Geoffrey:] So I said no...
[June:] Let's face it Geoff... he ain't paid you.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Do you know he rang twice last
[Geoffrey:] Twenty nine thousand he reckons he sold that plot for.
[June:] Geoff had to get up and down last night to pick him up. He had the bloody gall to
[Geoffrey:] I had to get out of bed.
[June:] ring me today and say that's got diarrhoea, he'll keep the car today but he don't want it tomorrow... can you find someone else who wants it.
[Geoffrey:] I was asleep in bed. I had to get up a
[June:] I said that's the last time.
[Geoffrey:] I felt terrible last night. I said to June I can hardly see I've got that bad a headache. So I went to bed... and I had to get up and get dressed and go and pick him up
[June:] Go and pick him up.
[Geoffrey:] and I was like this driving along the road. Terrible.
[June:] Geoff said if I hadn't have wanted the money I wouldn't have bothered. Well we ain't got paid anyway yet.
[Geoffrey:] He said I can't pay you till Tuesday cos the money ain't come through for the work he said.
[June:] No I didn't th I should imagine, I thought he said you didn't, I would imagine he gets paid at the end of the month.
[Geoffrey:] No. What he said was you don't get paid until the erm... the actual sort of... whatever it is he's sold has... been installed. So if somebody says I'll have a set of double glazing doors or something... until they've actually been installed he then gets paid.
[June:] Well that ain't a very good firm is it really?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] But then I suppose they don't get paid until the people
[Geoffrey:] But I mean what I couldn't understand was if he's selling all this stuff and
[June:] Where's mum's little black bag Jonathan?
[Geoffrey:] making so much money I can't understand why
[Jonathan:] What little black bag?
[Geoffrey:] he's that destitute that he
[June:] My bag.
[Jonathan:] I don't know.
[Geoffrey:] he more or less sort of said well I'll have to have a cheaper car. Said well I don't do a cheaper car than that. And he's specially asked down to Dover to do his karate thing or something.
[June:] Karate?
[Geoffrey:] Well he was saying I do karate.
[Susan:] Is he still as big?
[Geoffrey:] Well to tell you the truth I didn't really see him cos it was dark when he got in the car.
[Susan:] Cos he got ever so big didn't he?
[June:] I've lost my handbag anybody. I don't want to leave it in the car....
[Geoffrey:] You went upstairs.
[June:] Oh well perhaps I left it up... I'll take these up while I'm....
[Jonathan:] I can't play with I'm using the He-man.... Look this his move gr nanny.... Granny! [LAUGHTER].
[Susan:] What's that black one then?
[Jonathan:] Oh him? He ain't one of these he's just out of He-man. He's a
[Susan:] I say he looks like a cat.
[Jonathan:] He's meant to be a skunk.
[Susan:] Oh. Well yeah, a skunk.
[Geoffrey:] Suppose they're the same family.
[Jonathan:] They're not.
[Susan:] You didn't see that cat thing last night again did you. Cor it was ever so
[Jonathan:] Oh we see the end of it.
[June:] We seen the end of it.
[Susan:] That was really good again last night.
[Geoffrey:] No I went, as I say I went to bed.
[Jonathan:] Did you see the little kittens at the end?
[Susan:] Yeah, they were lovely.
[June:] Oh it was
[Jonathan:] Look nanny. This is his move.... The bearhug.
[June:] Erm what day you wa me and Geoff'll take will take your erm...
[Susan:] Take me what?
[June:] Your mac... to Morris. He's doing it again.
[Susan:] Oh lovely. Course I'd like it, if I could June I would like it for Friday.
[Geoffrey:] What?
[June:] Cos I thought I'd lost my money didn't I?
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[Susan:] I'd like erm... I'd like it for Friday if I could could you tell her cos I want it to erm go out on Friday.
[June:] I dunno how we could do it before Friday, not unless erm...
[Susan:] Perhaps she'll deliver it back to her mum's. See anyway, if if she could I would like it really.
[June:] You would?
[Susan:] Yeah I would.... Well I mean I can always collect it Thursday night.
[June:] Ooh that smell of like cat is awful in here.
[Susan:] Well I hate to tell you but this is... that's... the same smell that Dorothy's house has.... Keep thinking that's on that cushion.
[June:] That ain't. That's near that washing machine. I shall have to have the washing machine out.
[Geoffrey:] Well I noticed it soon as I got to there. In the middle of the room.
[June:] No
[Geoffrey:] I noticed it straight away.
[Jonathan:] Cor!
[June:] That is definitely in that corner.
[Jonathan:] I noticed it when mum told me.
[Susan:] Well I told you... you'll have to get some of that stuff that you put in cat's litter trays to neutralize the smell.
[June:] Here you are. This is what I always
[Susan:] No that won't do it June.
[June:] That will do it. I know
[Susan:] Well put it in a bowl though.
[June:] No, I go like that.
[Susan:] Yeah but that ain't any good. You've gotta get the stu the smell goes in to the liquid then you chuck the liquid away. That's how you do that.
[June:] I stick a bit of that in....
[Geoffrey:] Well that ain't doing anything. That's the whole point.
[June:] Yeah but it is! But she keeps doing it... she done it again last night, didn't smell till yesterday....
[Susan:] I told you to put some orange in there. They don't like the smell of orange, she wouldn't go in there.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] Why is the kettle still on?
[Geoffrey:] I'll put a can of that juice in.
[June:] The kettle's not on.
[Susan:] Ain't you got a fresh orange?
[Jonathan:] Yes it is.
[June:] Oh no it isn't.
[Susan:] You cut a fresh orange and lay it in there she wouldn't go in there cos they don't like... cats don't like the smell of orange.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Susan:] If I eat an orange
[June:] Well yeah but the only point is Susan... she perhaps don't like the smell of orange but then she might go in my room and pee in there if she didn't have nowhere else to go.
[Susan:] Well put nights then....
[June:] I'll tell you what it is, that's since you've had that ginger cat she's done it. She is frightened of that ginger cat Susan. She's petrified of it.
[Jonathan:] She won't go out there.
[Susan:] Yeah but he won't hurt her.
[Jonathan:] She doesn't know.
[June:] Well you can't tell her that can you?... Are you off then?... See you in a minute then.... Oh I feel shattered today.
[Jonathan:] Hey mum look, this is his move.
[June:] I ain't done a stroke of housework.
[Jonathan:] Mum look he
[June:] all your christmas shopping?
[Susan:] I've got Bobby's... I've got him a tape.
[Jonathan:] Mum look he can do four things.
[Susan:] I got his.
[Jonathan:] He can go
[Susan:] Erm... I've got mum's, part of mum's. I got her a nightdress. It's just a blue one, plain blue one with little white spots on and a bow at the top.
[June:] How much was that?
[Susan:] Er seven ninety nine I got it
[June:] Well do you think she'd want another one?
[Susan:] No. She told me she wants... some more of them tabard tops.
[June:] What are they?
[Susan:] You know them tops she wears, like an apron thing. She wants a couple of them she, well she said get June to get me one of those.... That's what she said.
[June:] Well I'm not gonna get her one of them am I?
[Susan:] Well you could get her that and get her something else. I tell you what perfume she likes, Taboo if you can get it....
[June:] You can't get it though can you?
[Susan:] Well I'll have a look in
[Jonathan:] Wait mum look. These are his moves.
[June:] You don't think that teapot is a good idea then?
[Jonathan:] Mum. Pwooor pwooor
[Susan:] Well yes I do I thought that's what you... can you smell the vinegar? That's vinegar.
[Jonathan:] Wait mum he can do five moves. One... he can throw a ball. Two... he can grab them by the legs..... Three
[Susan:] I don't know why they like them models.
[Jonathan:] he can grab them by the hands
[June:] They're all in. There was two little boys come in... his age come in
[Jonathan:] like that.
[June:] and er they was
[Jonathan:] Four
[June:] looking at them. I said are these all the craze at the moment? He said yeah.
[Susan:] What are they called?
[Jonathan:] What these?
[Susan:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Just figures.
[Susan:] No they're called something.
[Jonathan:] Oh W W figures.
[Susan:] W W F?...
[Jonathan:] That means er
[Susan:] What does W W F stand for then?
[Jonathan:] World Wrestling Federation.
[Susan:] Oh, I see.... Wrestling's back in fashion then?
[Jonathan:] No.
[June:] Wrestling.
[Susan:] We used to watch it on Saturday afternoons, that always used to be on, wrestling.
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] My other one which is a proper move is that.... It's a bearhug.
[Susan:] The only thing, I was telling you I've got... half of mum's. I got dad's, I got him a video. I've got Bob the tapes.... Told you what I got Geoff. I've got... you know who's here.... Erm... think that's all I've got. Ain't got yours yet.
[June:] I've got yours... Val's and Sarah's... and some of his.
[Susan:] Oh you've got your main ones.
[Jonathan:] You've got mine?...
[June:] Some of yours....
[Jonathan:] Have you got me any of these men?
[June:] No cos I didn't know you wanted them till last week did I?...
[Susan:] Perhaps erm I
[June:] Someone 'll buy you some.
[Susan:] Perhaps I c
[June:] And you want a vide erm... computer games as well don't you?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] You'll have to break down what I want
[Jonathan:] And I wouldn't mind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the video....
[June:] Oh.... Well that's something somebody could get him.
[Jonathan:] But it's great expenditure.
[June:] How much is it?
[Susan:] About thirteen ninety nine I think.
[Jonathan:] Yeah. Aah!... Aah!
[June:] You make enough noise.
[Jonathan:] No I hit me little toe. Aah.
[June:] Don't be silly.
[Jonathan:] He's got a point on. Aah.
[June:] That little pussy cat come from the pet shop.
[Susan:] That's a nice one.
[June:] I just wear him cos I quite like him.... He reminds me of muggins.
[Susan:] I like that jumper you've got on.
[June:] I got this out of mother's catalogue.... Trouble is that picks up the dust. Picks up... my navy coat, cor don't they pick up the bits?
[Jonathan:] Oh no. Wait mum
[Susan:] We go out for our christmas meal on Friday.
[June:] Where you going?
[Susan:] Bears Restaurant. Do I look tired?
[June:] Yeah not get up early in the morning? I'm not getting up early tomorrow.
[Susan:] I feel absolutely shattered to be quite honest.
[June:] Well I ain't gonna cook dinner. We're gonna go erm
[Susan:] Mr didn't wanna work tomorrow really though cos... I've gotta be... I've gotta meet that new dentist tomorrow but... obviously I owe him....
[June:] So I gotta get your birthday present now. What was it lis on your list?
[Susan:] Dunno.
[June:] I can't remember what you put on your list. You never give me the list.
[Susan:] Mum's got it I think.... Just look at my ear June, I want you to check this lump.
[June:] Oh do you know, it's a funny thing... when I had my ears pie ear pierced years ago... that poured blood
[Susan:] Did it?
[June:] the other day. I reckon there was a little... blood clot or something behind it.
[Susan:] Look, now this lump on my lughole, now what is that?
[June:] A mole.
[Susan:] That ain't a mole. Cos I've never had a mole there.
[June:] That is a mole.
[Susan:] Well that's getting bigger then.... You feel how hard it is. You pick it up virtually.
[June:] Yeah but it is a mole, I can assure you.
[Susan:] Oh well I
[June:] That's brown.
[Susan:] Why would that just come up on my ear like that?
[June:] Moles do don't they?...
[Jonathan:] Oh got him!
[Susan:] But irritates. It irritates and painful.... Itches, all the time. I'll have to get.... Are you thirsty?
[June:] I'm tired. I've been up since quarter to five.
[Susan:] What the hell did you get up for?
[June:] I done the ironing this morning....
[Susan:] So you can sit down and have a sleep tonight then?
[June:] Well no, I shan't get up ear definitely shan't get up till about eight... tomorrow.
[Susan:] No I probably won't. What I'll do when I get home is probably do a few jobs and then watch the film.
[June:] Well I did do all my housework, you'd never know I'd done it.
[Susan:] What?
[June:] Just I've been all round look. I changed it this morning, I've had all them glasses out
[Susan:] Well I haven't been in and sat in our lounge this week.
[June:] I had all my corner cabinet... that corner cabinet out and put it down this end cos I've... wanted to move it cos I've wanted me christmas tree.
[Susan:] Well I said to Mr, I said well this is the first time I've sat in your lounge for nearly two years.
[June:] What did he say?
[Susan:] I can't believe it! I said well it is. I said ooh cos I said when I come here we're always so busy... I said I only get as far as er er the kitchen don't I? And I said then I go to the surgery I said and I don't go in the lounge do I? I don't know
[June:] Why would you go in there for?
[Susan:] Well he put the video on you see... of erm Queen.... So I went in there to watch it. And I said to him last night
[June:] Is that that one who died?
[Susan:] Yeah. Freddie Mercury.... He was really good on stage, ooh what a performer.... Two hundred and fifty thousand people he played to Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] Cor. Wait, you know that new Michael Jackson... song?
[Susan:] Which one?
[Jonathan:] Michael Jackson's new song, black and white?
[Susan:] Oh yeah.
[Jonathan:] Yeah guess how much that cost?
[Susan:] How much?
[Jonathan:] Four million four hundred and thirty two thousand. Five
[Susan:] Cor
[Jonathan:] thousand two hundred a second.
[Susan:] Well Mr was saying that Freddie Mercury is worth twenty five million.... And we worry about [LAUGHTER].
[June:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah []. Yeah, that transformer. Do you know how much a new one of them is for that game, that?
[Jonathan:] Twenty three pound.
[June:] Twenty three pound. So she said write to Hornby and tell them....
[Jonathan:] That didn't come from Hornby.
[June:] That is Hornby.
[Jonathan:] It isn't.
[June:] What is it then?
[Jonathan:] Not Hornby....
[June:] Well it should tell you on it. [phone rings]
[Jonathan:] No it tells you on the box.
[Susan:] There goes the phone....
[Jonathan:] Can you play basketball and bounce the ball?
[Susan:] I wouldn't bounce a ball in your mother's kitchen where all her things are. They'll get broken.
[June:] I got one christmas present.... Ow!
[Susan:] Who are you talking to?
[Jonathan:] Hey guess where I found this?... On floor. Watch this corner.
[Susan:] Jonathan don't put in under there darling or cos she'll never get it out.
[Jonathan:] Ooh and I'll smell of vinegar.
[Susan:] Yeah, you'll stink of vinegar.
[Jonathan:] Oh classic! Yeah.... Yeah, gotcha now.
[June:] Wait a minute, hold on I'll....
[Susan:] Why don't you tidy your things up a little bit?
[Jonathan:] [playing] Ah!....
[Susan:] Well, don't lay down there then.
[Jonathan:] Ah ah! Ooh.
[Susan:] Well be careful.
[Jonathan:] I went... aah aah aah.
[Susan:] [LAUGHTER] It's probably cos you're leaning a funny way [].
[Jonathan:] I'm just leaning like aah aah.
[Susan:] [LAUGHTER] []
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER] Go and get the man. ooh! Oh god I've. Aah!
[Susan:] you twit.
[Jonathan:] Oh, it hurts....
[June:] No, well I don't think we'll be able to
[Jonathan:] Aah! It hurts just round there
[June:] because erm... we ain't got
[Jonathan:] Oh I'll have to put up with it.
[June:] Has Mr bought anything... see we ain't got Mr in for Sunday.... Have you?...
[Jonathan:] Cor you should see Toys. They're massive.
[Susan:] I know.
[Jonathan:] It's got nursery... just normal and the big one.
[June:] he hasn't booked.
[Susan:] Oh.
[June:] Because he's booked it for Monday you see.... No well you see Geoffrey's booked it out. And of course I went and, I I never handed in my book well of course I went and booked the other one out. So Geoffrey's gonna ring the bloke when he... he's gonna try and get hold of Mr... later on and ring him because we've got to let this other man know... you know he can't have it.... Yeah but we ain't got it here for Sunday you see. But he knows
[Jonathan:] Did you see that nanny? Look... nanny...
[June:] Well no I haven't but... you see he's got it Monday. We usually have it Sunday to Monday.... So
[Jonathan:] Nanny.
[June:] Geoff's gonna ring him and perhaps
[Jonathan:] Watch this nanny.
[June:] perhaps be home soon from wherever he's gone...
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER] Come here [].
[June:] Yeah well he might not be home till late you see so we've got... we've really got to wait so Geoff will probably ring this man when he come home.... Alright then?... Oh alright.... Yeah... Yeah. Okay then? Yeah... bye....
[Susan:] Shall I tidy up?
[June:] I know.
[Susan:] What?...
[June:] Oh it ain't getting very warm in here yet is it?... We'll go and sit in the room soon
[Susan:] Bloody cold.
[June:] if it gets warmer in there.... I meant to tell you
[Susan:] I don't know about you but once I pick these Mills and Boone books up I can't stop reading the flipping things.
[June:] No I'm like that.... Right, let's tidy up a bit Jonathan I
[Susan:] Well no I you don't, I tell you what, after reading these I swear I could write one myself. I swear I could.
[Jonathan:] Yeah when I get my printer mum said... I could write a book.
[Susan:] I'm gonna write a book. I'm gonna write children's stories.
[Jonathan:] Oh my god....
[Susan:] When you was little I used to make up stories for him didn't I June?
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] And your mum used to say cor I wish I could write that down [LAUGHTER] but you, but I could never remember [].
[June:] We never did did we?
[Susan:] We never did.
[Jonathan:] I do at school. We have... I did one really good story. It was called Professor Plop and the Timemachine.
[Susan:] You made it up?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.... We had to do a story when something unusual happened.
[Susan:] Oh, and what did Professor Plop do?
[Jonathan:] Professor Plop and the Timemachine, he made a timemachine, went to Egypt... and instead of having Tuten Khamoun in headdress he had Tuten Khamoun in headphones.
[Susan:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] That looks a bit tidier don't it?
[Susan:] You could get a video, video erm... Don't keep doing it silly! He's hurt his shoulder. He
[June:] Well he will do if he that.
[Susan:] Well leaning on it like that it's putting pressure on it.
[Jonathan:] [crying]
[Susan:] Well the they said there was dead cats and dogs and things.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah the carcasses, and they was in... some of them was just sort of like died there... and that was it, it was just there, and it rotted away and there was all
[Susan:] Yeah but how did QQ [break in recording]
[Geoffrey:] Two or three carcasses of animals in, in a plastic bag and it said they was just literally matted together.... And the stench was out of this world.
[Susan:] Well I should think it was full of maggots.
[Geoffrey:] That's what the bloke said. There was thousands he said, from the R S P C A, was thousands of maggots... and there was a little kitten... erm guinea pigs, hamsters and rabbit
[Susan:] What all dead?
[Geoffrey:] No, these was alive and they... got all them. But they just said all over the garden there was just dead carcasses of animals.... And as they just died there it was just left there.... And this woman... neighbour, I mean she looked... very respectable.
[Susan:] Well how the hell did they find out about it then?
[Geoffrey:] Well it was something to do with... the little boy. And they said something about... this woman... a neighbour said oh... where the hell's Jimmy or something today? So she said oh... he's alright.... And then... he just never went to school... and they maintained they'd got a private. And so she said,thi this neighbour said well just how... nosy can you get? You know she said I just said to her oh how's Jimmy sort of thing... and she said he's alright.
[Susan:] Yeah but was she a woman living on her own or had she got a husband?
[Geoffrey:] As far as I know she was living on her own with this little old boy.
[Susan:] So apparently he'd never been to school?
[Geoffrey:] He had been to school originally... because that's what she said he, then he didn't go to school and that's why she said you know, how is he and she said
[Susan:] Yeah well I thought they said in one of the papers that he'd never been registered anywhere.
[Geoffrey:] That's right. Well that that was the whole thing.
[Susan:] So he couldn't have gone to school could he?
[Geoffrey:] No he, it was a bit peculiar, I couldn't quite make nothing... and they said something about... they kept him away from other children or something. And the chap... sort of the head of social services or local government officer, he said well... in the nineteen nineties he said it is still possible, if you want to... to keep your children away from school. You know it's it's as possible as it always has been. But when when they showed you in the house... there was just like... old cardboard boxes just sort of thrown in the corner and... and... just sort of paper carrier bags and polythene bags just sort of slung there.... You've never seen nothing like it. I mean it looked like the house had been derelict for... forty years. But they was living amongst it.... Never seen nothing like it in me life. And the stench must have been terrible....
[Jonathan:] Daddy. How long are your arms?... In inches.
[Geoffrey:] How... god knows. What... what from my fingertips do you mean?
[Jonathan:] Yeah. When you got your
[Geoffrey:] Six... twelve
[June:] Jonathan. You wanna come and feed your.
[Geoffrey:] fifteen two feet I should think. About two feet
[Susan:] Well go and feed Benjy
[Geoffrey:] I should think.
[Jonathan:] No I mean how many inches?
[Geoffrey:] Oh, about twenty four, twenty six. Something like that.
[Jonathan:] Well you wouldn't have twenty four.
[Geoffrey:] Why?
[Susan:] Why?
[Jonathan:] Well he... he's got the biggest arms... longest
[Geoffrey:] Ah yeah well they perhaps mean from his wrist then.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Jon, I think mummy said would you
[Jonathan:] Well do you know how many
[Geoffrey:] Eighteen inches then I should think. I don't know.
[Jonathan:] His are twenty four.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, six inches longer.
[Susan:] Think I've got quite long arms for a short body.
[Jonathan:] Twenty four inches!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. I should think.
[Susan:] Yeah. Hey go and feed that... ginger thing....
[June:] Here Jonathan. Whole load for it.
[Susan:] Oh, that's got rid of him.
[Jonathan:] Hello ging.
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah....
[June:] Make sure you properly.
[Susan:] ... This is a hard
[Geoffrey:] [yawning] Oh dear [].
[Susan:] lost that I'd have been in a pickle.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] I've got me. Oh no!...
[Geoffrey:] What you done?
[Susan:] Oh I thought I'd lost me. I have to wear me
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] I have to wear that.
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah?
[Susan:] Cos... I have to have them checked. There's an x-ray in there.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Susan:] And then when we take x-rays that checks us to make sure that we're not getting any radiation you see.
[Geoffrey:] Too much radiation, yeah. I suppose you... you're gonna have a certain amount.
[Susan:] We shouldn't get any.
[Geoffrey:] Shouldn't you?
[Susan:] No.... If there's a reading the machine's not right.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Susan:] Cos you see if you get radiation, too much radiation you get cancer don't you?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, yeah quite. I see that... Gary Linekar
[Susan:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] his little boy, they're now
[Susan:] They've definitely got c... he's got leukaemia hasn't he?
[Geoffrey:] Has it?
[Susan:] Yeah... I think so. Did you hear erm... Jameson on radio the other morning?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Susan:] Well he was talking, he burst into tears.
[Geoffrey:] He really?
[Susan:] Oh he was so emotional about it.
[June:] She is absolutely petrified of that cat....
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[June:] Literally petrified.
[Geoffrey:] [sniff] Excuse me.
[Susan:] You got a cold?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah....
[Susan:] Oh I'd have brought my for you. [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] It doesn't seem to be getting very warm in here to me.
[Geoffrey:] Central heating... That weren't even on when I looked at it.
[June:] Well it's only on about seventeen.
[Geoffrey:] There you are. That's why it ain't coming up.
[Susan:] What does yours do, do you have yours on normally?
[Geoffrey:] Twenty.
[June:] Twenty.
[Susan:] What do you have your boiler on?
[Geoffrey:] Three and a half, four.... Depends what er... this time of year about three and a half and then four in the winter.
[Susan:] Well mum only had hers on one the other week. That's why it was cold in there.
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah well it ain't, that's a different sort of thing to ours. That's, that's... completely different.
[June:] Well they have theirs on one con continuously don't they?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] See we don't have our heating on continuously.
[Susan:] No I don't.
[Geoffrey:] Well theirs don't switch off does it? It just carries on. Different sort of thing.
[Susan:] Well mine, I use, I've got
[June:] Well I was cold down mum's last Sunday.
[Susan:] I told her, I said to her it was
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] cold down there. Well I have mine on
[Geoffrey:] Mind you, I'd rather be like that.
[Susan:] Yeah, than too hot.
[Geoffrey:] Cor.
[Susan:] You can always put a sweater on can't you?
[June:] Oh yeah.
[Susan:] Mine I have on twenty and I have the boiler on... well either two or three really.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah well I... two is just really for heating the water for us.
[Susan:] Oh no... one is heating the water for me. One will heat my water.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Easy. I mean two makes my water boiling.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] I get real hot water you know
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] because you see I only use it... a tankful once a day when I have a bath in the morning have a bath at night as well.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah well there's three of us have baths.
[Geoffrey:] There's three of you so, well I do a lot more washing than you don't I? Mm. And Jonathan lets the water out, and then fills it back up again. When he, when he's in the bath he'll let water out and then
[June:] [shouting] Jonathan [].
[Geoffrey:] fills it up again with hot.
[Jonathan:] What?
[Geoffrey:] Lets some out, fills it up again with hot.
[June:] Don't keep banging.
[Susan:] What's he do that for?
[Geoffrey:] Cos he's a... pillock, that's why.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] No other word for it. And I say to him I don't know whether you realize that costs water... costs money to heat that water.... No.
[Susan:] They don't realize do they? The on they only realize when they get bills of their own when they get older.
[Geoffrey:] That ain't serious the one who's got er Led Zeppelin coming to her house.
[Susan:] Why?
[Geoffrey:] Well I can't see her living on five pound a week can you?... She does at the moment.
[June:] And her mother does all the... all the washing for the... when she us does hairdressing does all the washing, all them towels, hangs them out.... Buys this, buys that. She uses her mother's electric.
[Geoffrey:] [yawning] Telephone [].
[June:] Telephone....
[Geoffrey:] Has her money in her pocket.
[Susan:] She's... well don't she give her mother any
[June:] Mind you Val said... I can't help her out sort of financially cos she hasn't got it, but she said I can he, I said well you do help her out financially.
[Geoffrey:] Well yeah in that way. Quite.
[June:] I said in that way. She said well I can't give her any money cos I haven't got any.
[Geoffrey:] Do you know a lot of them girls at work pay twenty five and thirty pound a week board?...
[June:] [yawning] Yeah so I mean really [] the twenty five pound a week she's not paying her mother she could go to pay a mortgage.
[Geoffrey:] It's a hundred pound a month innit?
[Susan:] Well Sue was Sue erm over the road was telling me... erm... the money her boys give is a hundred pound a month. What's that?
[June:] Twenty five pound a week.
[Geoffrey:] Twenty five pound a week.... So that's two hundred pound a month for two of them....
[Susan:] She said she never touches that money. She banks it.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[June:] [cough] What, for the boys?...
[Susan:] No... for herself!
[Geoffrey:] Two hundred pound a month!...
[Susan:] Well no, she gets fifteen off one and twenty off the other. [cough]
[June:] That's still thirty five pound a week.
[Geoffrey:] Well that's thirty five pound a week.
[Susan:] Yeah.
[June:] That's a hundred and forty pound a month.
[Geoffrey:] That's a hundred and forty pound a
[Susan:] And she banks that, she never touches that.
[June:] So twelve months that's twelve...
[Geoffrey:] And the way she talks you'd think she's destitute wouldn't you?...
[June:] Well that's why she don't need to go to work innit?
[Geoffrey:] Course it is....
[June:] Well I couldn't live off my son like that.
[Geoffrey:] Too true.
[Susan:] Well I'd rather give to... if I had any children I'd have give to them.
[June:] Mind you she is, let's fa she does help that youngest one out. She is helping him out cos he ain't got a job.
[Geoffrey:] Well yeah.
[June:] So... you know she she said he gets it back in the long run.
[Geoffrey:] What a useless fairy he was.
[Susan:] Who?
[June:] Oh she said he absolutely loves Tesco's. She said he's hoping they're gonna give him full employment....
[Susan:] What's he got a temporary job then?
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] He loves Tesco's....
[June:] I don't like shopping in there, let alone working in there. [LAUGHTER].
[Susan:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] God!... Well that kid he
[June:] Well I've done that job stacking shelves. That's a
[Geoffrey:] that
[June:] and you, it was alright, and guess what he stacked the first day he was there?
[Susan:] What?
[June:] Turkey! [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] Did he really?
[June:] Yeah! She said he said er I couldn't believe it but she said he didn't mind cos it was all frozen.... So she said weren't it marvellous.
[Geoffrey:] God.
[Susan:] What, did he come from Turner's Turkeys then or something?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, he
[June:] Well worked with Geoff at Turner's Turkeys he lasted three days.
[Geoffrey:] Well Ken he actually worked with. He went to work with Ken and... he he lasted three days. He didn't li
[Susan:] Why was that?
[Geoffrey:] Well he didn't like working with the meat.... Then he was off sick....
[Susan:] And then he got a job in Tesco's and [LAUGHTER] stacked turkeys []?
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] But he was completely er... this old boy come down to me so he said that old boy's left. I said no he isn't I said, he's off sick.... He said I think he's left. I said I know he hasn't left because I say his his wife works with my wife and he's off sick.... He said well he's bloody useless.
[June:] His wife? His mother!
[Geoffrey:] Sorry, I meant meant to say his mother, yeah I said his his mother I said. I didn't say his wife. Works with my wife. So he said well he's bloody useless. He said erm... they sent him down there he said and they said... go there, I forget his name this...
[June:] Duane.
[Geoffrey:] No I mean this old boy's name. Mark I think his name is.
[Susan:] My god Duane! He's a right twit.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. So he said they said to him well go with Mark and he'll show you the... what to do.... And all he'd gotta do was just put like... two different bins, sizes of turkeys, and they just pick them out and there's this thing like a V shaped hook and they just sort of
[June:] [yawning] Hook it on [].
[Geoffrey:] hook er... I don't know what part they hook up there... but they just hook it straight on this thing. And that's all they do all day long. Just pick them up...
[Susan:] Ooh what a boring job.
[Geoffrey:] and go like that. But it's if they're tall
[June:] That's what I thought.
[Geoffrey:] if they're tall it's an easy job. But if they ain't tall... and you've gotta reach every time, that's bloody hard work. Well I know that cos they're heavy old turkeys. And that's cold in there it's a terrible cold.
[June:] Well wouldn't do very much well at that cos too short.
[Susan:] tall enough?
[Geoffrey:] Well he was doing... this old boy was doing nine to his one.... [LAUGHTER] So I said well how could you do nine to his one? [] He said well he used to go... and he'd sort of look up at it, and he'd sort of think about how he was gonna put it in there he said then he'd be going like this... then he'd sort of get hold of the other hand he said and he'd put it in like that... and these other old boys are going like this... with full hands you know? He said he's pathetic. So I said to his boss, like Ken's boss, Tony... I said how are you getting on with your counting?... Cor dear oh dear he said, I know I well know why he's down here doing that. So I said is he any good at it? He said I don't think that boy'd be any good at anything. So... he said I can honestly say he said... I think he's one of the worst I've ever had down there. So Ken said to him... I can't understand what a boy like you's doing here Duane.... He told Sue didn't he?
[June:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] So, but I, I think he thought Ken meant that he was like superior and he didn't ought to be doing that sort of job. You know, he ought to be doing better things. And Les said he'd be sitting here... I'd say... Duane ooh ooh should I be working [LAUGHTER] he'd say [].
[Susan:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] He said he was always on another planet.
[Geoffrey:] He said he was sort of just miles away, sit there he was you know looking out to space and I'd say Duane... ooh should I be working he'd say.
[Susan:] Funny though how people are like that.
[Geoffrey:] Oh dear.
[June:] What was that thing come through from Les this morning?
[Geoffrey:] Just a bill for that... I R N... B thing, whatever.
[Susan:] What is that?
[June:] Do you think you'll get some tax back Geoff?
[Geoffrey:] I'm gonna get it all back, yeah. Erm what it is it's er
[June:] How much will you get back then?
[Geoffrey:] Erm... so far this year I've paid... nearly, not quite twelve hundred quid.
[June:] Oh so you might get some of that back?
[Geoffrey:] I should get all of it back. And then I shouldn't pay tax
[June:] When should you get it though?
[Geoffrey:] I would think
[June:] In the next few weeks?
[Geoffrey:] I... well see, he's put the books in. Depending how quick they actually okay them... erm I mean... for two years, three years now they they've just gone straight through with no queries at all. That might be my luck this year that'll be the bloody year they give me a query. But if they go straight through, well then that'll go through to... the Spalding tax office. Then that'll go through to Turners so I mean... it could be like a fortnight after they've been okayed.
[June:] Mm. Let's hope it does then. Well that'll be just right for... thingme for christmas then, some more money.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.... But then if it goes on
[June:] He wants you to ring him you know. Ring him Geoff because of
[Geoffrey:] Well I can ring him Monday can't I?
[June:] Yeah. Well that's what I thought myself after you'd been there ring him then.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] What you hoping then that the building society are gonna lend you the money so you can pay your bank draft off?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah you see what I want to do... the arrears that I've got with him...
[Susan:] Got to pay off.
[Geoffrey:] and and the erm... the bank... loan... the mortgage would then pay the mortgage I've got. The new mortgage would pay most of what I am... in arrears with him you see so, which would keep him happy.
[Susan:] In arrears with who?
[Geoffrey:] With the finance bloke. The one who want the money last week.
[Susan:] So how much do you want to borrow then? Just enough to pay him off?
[Geoffrey:] Thirty... at the end of the day I want a mortgage of about thirty five grand to pay the bank, pay him and also the mortgage that we've already got. Like that would then pay that off and... have another mortgage.
[Susan:] Restart... sort of remortgage.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. Cos you got... what they said was
[Susan:] Which isn't exceptional in this day and age anyway.
[Geoffrey:] She says erm
[June:] How much were the repayments on that thing?
[Geoffrey:] Erm... at the moment my mortgage is eighty four.
[Susan:] What a month?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. That's that's my... own mortgage. The bank... I pay... cos there's two or three different things I have to pay to the bank which they insist if you have a development loan you have to have this and you have to have that and that comes
[June:] The worst thing we ever did.
[Susan:] Yeah but you see
[Geoffrey:] Yeah it comes to about four hundred and thirty five pound a month.
[Susan:] What's that for?
[Geoffrey:] The the the well the equivalent of the overdraft. But you see you have an over... you have the loan. But they then insist you take out this insurance so if you're off sick
[June:] No not yet.
[Geoffrey:] that's automatically paid.
[Susan:] So there wouldn't be so much going out actually?
[Geoffrey:] No. No.
[Susan:] Well no because Geoff bought if Geoff pays his cars off he won't have to pay them off per month.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] No he's not gonna pay them off. He's paying what he ow got behind.
[Geoffrey:] No that's what I'm say I'll tell you in a minute when I've finished this.
[Susan:] Oh I see. He's got behind
[June:] Yeah but then he'll, we should be able to manage then... to pay the mortgage and pay them and keep on the level peg.
[Geoffrey:] See what he what I pay at the moment is eighty four pound for the house.
[Jonathan:] [sigh]
[Geoffrey:] And it's about four hundred and... about four hundred and twenty, four hundred and thirty pound to the bank. So I mean you you're talking five hundred pound aren't you?
[Susan:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Five hundred pound.... Erm but that's not taking into consideration the arrears on the vehicles. But, the other way... if they say yes you can have the mortgage, it works out about three hundred and sixty pound a month. Then there'll be nothing going to the bank and it also would pay off the arrears on... on the vehicles. So I'm paying like a hundred and twenty pound a month less but it's
[Susan:] Yeah and you wouldn't get all those bank charges.
[Geoffrey:] That's right.
[June:] That's right. So we're paying
[Susan:] Then of course all the money that you were paying, won't be paying in bank charges you'll be paying off.. your debt?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah. That's right
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Well blow me. Well you might as well try and
[Geoffrey:] The amount my ordinary bank charges forgetting any sort of bank loan, nothing like that at all, interest, nothing like that, just bank charges for standing orders to the finance company... er are something like... sixteen seventeen hundred pound a year.
[Susan:] Well really you don't want that. You might as well go and pay them cash.
[Geoffrey:] Well that's what I've said.
[June:] Well that's what he's said. He'll p, all he, all the money we get we'll just put into the building society... and pay the bills from the building society.
[Geoffrey:] Pay it once a month.
[June:] Geoff can go
[Susan:] Will they allow you to do that?
[June:] They're ha quite happy to do it once a month but like you said what they will not do... erm obviously is to have a lot of sort of things like standing orders and that sort of thing. They don't wanna know about that.
[Susan:] Well no well... if you get an understanding with the people
[June:] Yeah but you don't want to do standing orders then do you?
[Geoffrey:] Well Les was saying the only thing you've gotta be careful of... like when you pay money into a bank... when you're in business and you pay money into the bank and the bank then pay your standing orders... er and everything's done through a bank, then the tax office sort of tend to think well fair enough you know, he's legit. But he said when you start paying money just into a building society... and then lump sum this and lump sum that... they tend to sort of then... oh you know, what is actually going on here and they tend to start looking about a bit more. Well then when they start looking about a bit more, that is when it costs you because... anything that Les has to get involved in, cos they go back to Les and say well why did he do this and why did you do that? Then it costs you.
[Susan:] Well I should ima would imagine he'd just say well in this day and age the banks are just charging him so much he just finds
[Jonathan:] Mummy... can I watch T V please?
[Susan:] this is an easier way.
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah but I mean... no I I don't mean in general, I mean specific things. They'll say well why did this cheque do so and so and why did this do so and so... and like he said well when you're talking about forty eight pound an hour... you don't want me poking round there trying to sort out the tax man
[Susan:] Yeah but even so if you paid him forty eight pounds for an hour... that's still
[June:] Yeah but if you if you
[Susan:] ain't as much as what the bank would charge you.
[Geoffrey:] Oh no but I mean it wouldn't be
[June:] Yeah but Geoff if you keep a record when you took money in... when you draw it out. We'll keep a complete record of it.
[Geoffrey:] Oh no no no you ain't... you you ain't caught what I mean
[June:] Yeah but then if he had to find anything then
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but, no but you think how many yeah but you think how many entries go in my book... during the course of a normal year.... So then if suddenly I have about a tenth of them entries.
[June:] They're gonna want to know why.
[Geoffrey:] Exactly. There ain't the detail that there has been
[June:] Yeah but then
[Geoffrey:] over the years. And that's what they wanna know.
[June:] yeah but yeah but then on the other hand, let's face it... our business
[Jonathan:] Mum.
[June:] has fluctuated. That's been on a real high and then gone down to a low to nothing.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] So you don't get many names in that book anyway. And that is how it has been.
[Geoffrey:] Oh no, no I don't, no I don't mean no I don't mean... I don't mean the business going here, I mean the things that I pay. I mean everything I have to detail down down to what payments I make... and what costs I have... everything is all detailed down isn't it?
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Well then if you're just paying that money into a building society... and you're paying, obviously... you can't write out as many cheques as what you would normally d do in a bank and have a standing order so therefore it's gotta be paid by cash.
[June:] Yeah?
[Geoffrey:] Well that's that's when the tax man starts getting fishy and you've got to know
[June:] Yeah but what
[Susan:] Well I mean what difference does it, what difference does it make?
[June:] Yeah but if you do it above board I can't see
[Geoffrey:] Well it's just that the cash is... ah no, that's what I'm saying. But they, you gotta have... I mean I could say oh I paid erm... what shall I say erm off the top of my head, what can I think? What I pay.
[June:] Cory oil?
[Jonathan:] Mummy.
[Geoffrey:] Well that's a little bit different again.
[June:] Yeah but I can't see how they can say anything as long as you've got a legitimate receipt for it.
[Susan:] as long as you've got all the receipts and everything. I can't
[Geoffrey:] No well that's what I'm saying. Yeah but you see that's... if it's cash every time, that's when they start wanting to be fishy about it. And they then say well right, cos... every time an accountant does your books at the front of your, the actual like er... the booklet what you get on your accounts it says at the front... something like these accounts have... erm... have been audited... but only erm... we have taken the word of Mr that what he said is right. I mean they ain't sort of I mean what they could force you to do if they really, I mean they would never do that but what they could force you to do... or Les to do... would be to check with all those people who I've actually sort of made payments to, to make sure that I have.
[June:] See that you have done.
[Geoffrey:] So I could write out a cheque saying... paid Carl sixty pounds for doing my car.... And I could actually give you, I mean I've all I've got is a cheque stub.... There is nothing what actually says, only when that cheque goes back to the bank, there's nothing anywhere apart from the bank... who says that cheque is actually made out to. I could put on that cheque's to
[June:] Well how do you go on then?
[Geoffrey:] Well that's what I'm saying. They... Les takes my word for it. So they in turn take Les's word for it. But if they wanted to
[June:] Yeah but on the
[Geoffrey:] they could say right
[June:] yeah but on the other hand Geoff if they took that attitude with everybody, nobody would
[Geoffrey:] Ah no well that's it. Well that's what they do, but he was saying, about once every fifteen years that's what they do. They'll wait till something goes a bit funny in your accounts then they'll say right, we want to do this. Now if you remember, the the first year [phone rings]
[June:] Well why don't you just prewarn them before you're gonna do it and say look I'm no longer gonna use this bank I'm er
[Jonathan:] Mummy when you come back in can I put
[Geoffrey:] Well no I mean... no I mean it's just something they can do.
[June:] Yeah alright Jonathan
[Geoffrey:] And they, you know
[Susan:] Well I think that's bloody
[Geoffrey:] Well wh the first year we went in business we had that
[June:] Jonathan.
[Geoffrey:] the very first year we was in business. And Les said I can't believe this he said, I... he said if you'd have been in business ten years... that I could understand but he said to do it your first
[June:] Geoff.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?...
[Susan:] Well what, perhaps you've had your turn then.
[June:] there's Joe. For you.
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[Susan:] Joe who??
[June:] No,.
[Geoffrey:] Oh! Oh yeah.
[Susan:] Well I'd better go June.
[Jonathan:] Oh no I wanted you to have tea.
[June:] Alright then.
[Susan:] No darling, I can't stay to tea cos I've left my windows open and poor old Vino ain't been fed. You've got two pi do you want one, do you like this picture of me Jonathan?
[Ashley:] got first which I'll get a... different trophy from last year cos I've got... the same trophy for two years. So I'll get a different freestyle trophy... and I'll get, hopefully I should win my backstroke and I M tonight.
[June:] Ah, what time have you gotta do that?
[Ashley:] About quarter to six tonight.
[June:] What time do you finish?
[Ashley:] About... quarter to ten?
[June:] Cor that's late Ashley isn't it? Aren't you tired the next day?
[Ashley:] No. I am a bit morning but there you go. Go I'll have
[June:] Yeah. Does Jody swim as well?
[Ashley:] Yeah.
[June:] How did he get on?
[Ashley:] He, he... home last in the fifty fly but he finished it for once. He's never ever finished it cos he gets... his lungs get all... tired out and he couldn't breathe once so he's... decided to finish it and just finish, doesn't matter which place you come really. Get a new time... then you're alright if you get a new time.
[June:] Oh.
[Ashley:] I'll get a... I got a new time for my er twenty five sprint... which was sixteen forty four... in one length.
[June:] Oh.... Come on in Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] Hiya
[June:] Don't be silly.
[Ashley:] Hey Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] . I can get all of them. I got
[Ashley:] Oh you got one did you Jonathan?
[Jonathan:] Yeah I got him.
[June:] Out his own money.
[Jonathan:] Yeah. He goes
[June:] And who is he?
[Ashley:] Hulk Hogan.
[Jonathan:] Hulk Hogan. And er he does the hug.
[June:] What are you gonna do now then?
[Jonathan:] Dunno. And then I'd like to get the Ultimate Warrior, I'd like to get Jake the Snake
[Ashley:] Jake the Snake.
[Jonathan:] Roberts.
[June:] Do you like them Ashley?
[Ashley:] Yo.
[Jonathan:] Macho King... and Hacksaw Jim.
[Ashley:] Hacksaw Jim. What's that treasurer? That one? Is he on there?
[Jonathan:] Treasurer... which one?
[Ashley:] You know that man... treasury thingy... said yesterday.
[Jonathan:] man?
[Ashley:] Yeah, that's him.
[Jonathan:] Oh he's
[June:] Oh. Are you gonna sort yourself out then Jonathan? So I can
[Jonathan:] He's rubbish.
[June:] [cough] so I can get on. What are you gonna do, play in your bedroom or... go outside or what?
[Jonathan:] Dunno. I've got this...
[June:] What do you wanna do? Come on then cos I've got a lot to do mate.
[Jonathan:] I dunno, I dunno. What can we do?
[June:] Do as you like. You can play in your bedroom if you like.
[Jonathan:] Okay... shall we?
[Ashley:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] I had a fight last night.
[Ashley:] Who with?
[Jonathan:] Him.
[Ashley:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] Oh alright then.
[Jonathan:] He wins.
[Ashley:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] I say talk of the devil, I was just say... Mrs thought you and her were gonna get together.
[Susan:] Oh.
[June:] Oh yeah.... Well I didn't get what I wanted to get. I've been trying to find Sally to do your mac. We've got it in, Geoff's got it in the car we're gonna try again on the way home.
[Kathleen:] Do what?
[Susan:] Sally's doing my mac.
[June:] Sue's, Sally's shortened Susan's mac.
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah....
[June:] We're early today.
[Kathleen:] Who?
[June:] We are.
[Kathleen:] What do you have for dinner then?
[June:] Oh we went and had a wimpy today....
[Kathleen:] What have you done to your hair? It looks nice.
[June:] Does it?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[June:] Nothing.... I've, we was working out how long I've had this jumper.
[Kathleen:] Well I'll tell you, when I just looking at it and thinking how nice it looked.
[June:] Six years I've had that.
[Kathleen:] Huh!
[Susan:] Still looks as good as new though don't it?
[June:] Well I haven't
[Jonathan:] Can you do this please mummy?
[Kathleen:] Well wait till we've washed up....
[Jonathan:] Ooh.
[June:] What do you say?
[Jonathan:] Thank you.
[June:] Jack gone back?
[Kathleen:] You don't have to put it all in. Yeah he's, he's coming back then.
[Susan:] You didn't pick that book up!...
[Kathleen:] No he said well he can just fill it in when he comes back. That won't take him long though
[Susan:] Oh that's alright then.
[Kathleen:] will it?...
[June:] Tell Juney... [LAUGHTER] what you told me [] I nearly
[Kathleen:] Oh!
[June:] choked over me dinner today. Nearly collapsed.
[Susan:] What?
[Kathleen:] Brian's got another son.
[Susan:] Who?
[Kathleen:] Brian....
[Susan:] Who's that then?
[Kathleen:] I don't know, he
[June:] And his name's Alex.
[Kathleen:] Name is Alex Well Bob was telling us yesterday cos David told
[June:] I said to mum she needn't, mum didn't get none of the bleeding details.
[Kathleen:] Well I
[Susan:] Where the, what you mean erm
[Kathleen:] Well this... Charl the phone rang, Charlie answered it.... He said he said this is Alex. And he said Alex who? He said Alex [LAUGHTER] so...
[Susan:] What?
[June:] What?... Knock. I got one.
[Kathleen:] Yeah, no I never Nobody got me one.
[June:] We di have run out you see.
[Susan:] They didn't have any more teabags left.
[Kathleen:] And er... he said... so he said... I'm Brian's boy.
[Susan:] Oh bugger me.
[Kathleen:] Brian's boy. And Charlie
[Susan:] Brian's boy?
[Kathleen:] well he ain't here at the moment... he said. He said I'll tell him when he comes in and that's all I know. And David told Pattie that he... that was his son... that rung up. So I don't know who... what woman he had or what. Evidently someone's... knows don't they?
[Susan:] Oh my
[June:] I tell you he's got a lot of blooming skeletons in his cupboard [LAUGHTER] ain't he? I []
[Kathleen:] That's it, I said... I was just telling the children well what happens if anything happened to Brian. He he's got half of his to... Simon, half of that house.
[Susan:] And now he's got another son?
[Kathleen:] He's kept that dark hasn't he?...
[June:] It's odd but no I said he's a bloody dark horse
[Susan:] I know.
[June:] him or Joey. He's as bad.
[Kathleen:] Why?
[June:] Well, he says one thing to Emmie and something else to me. And that time we saw him he said he definitely weren't going on that holiday. Next thing I know he's disappeared for four weeks into America.
[Jonathan:] curtain.
[Kathleen:] Getting in the window, that's what he's saying.
[June:] Isn't he?
[Susan:] Oh what the cat is?
[Kathleen:] Cat behind the
[June:] Hey?
[Jonathan:] He weren't asleep he were just
[Kathleen:] You what?
[June:] I said in one breath he tells me he's not going to erm... going on holiday with Linda. And then the next little breath he's off to America and you don't see him for four weeks.
[Kathleen:] Yeah well, she's left him now hasn't she?
[June:] Yeah I know!
[Kathleen:] She's left him to sort herself out.... Don't know why she's gotta sort herself out after being a fortnight away with her husband.... Do you?
[Susan:] Well she had
[Kathleen:] Three weeks nearly a month Sue mate.
[Susan:] They couldn't have sorted themselves out then I don't know what they can do....
[Kathleen:] Well no.... Oh!...
[June:] ain't got any more gossip to tell you. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Ain't told you nothing?
[June:] No, she was chatting this morning and that.
[Susan:] Mm don't know what you're gonna have to drink.
[June:] I'll have a look out there see what's out there... in a minute. I'm going out there in a minute.
[Kathleen:] [cough]
[Susan:] drink, I won't....
[June:] What's he still chewing?
[Kathleen:] That meat.
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[Susan:] He shouldn't have put it all in his mouth at once.... He's got such large
[Kathleen:] It is tender innit Susan?
[Susan:] It was lovely....
[Jonathan:] Still takes a long time to chew.
[Kathleen:] Well it would as you've got horrible teeth that's why. Ain't got no chompers... yet.
[Jonathan:] Nearly gone now.
[Kathleen:] You ain't got your wisdom tooth in. When you get
[June:] He won't get that till his seventeen.
[Kathleen:] When you get your wisdom tooth in you'll be able to chomp....
[Susan:] Chomp?... [LAUGHTER] Reminds you of that programme on the telly []. That advert rather.
[June:] How's Auntie Alice?
[Kathleen:] Oh alright. Still the same I'm afraid to say.
[June:] What, ain't they nice to her still?
[Kathleen:] No that girl came through this morning miserable as sin she was.
[June:] Did she speak to you?
[Kathleen:] She had a bloody lip nearly down to her ankle. [LAUGHTER] No! When she first come through to me, after she had a cup of tea and a fag she spo started to speak but that was it. Is that thing on?
[June:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Oh.... Yeah so
[June:] Did you tell mum?
[Kathleen:] No, never mentioned it to.
[Jonathan:] Mum, can I have some more Coke?
[Susan:] I bought him Coke to take home but he won't want this he wants his Coke.
[June:] Well if he wants. I don't bother me. If he drinks it now, today he won't have it tomorrow will he?
[Susan:] That's what I said to him.... Told him I've got a bottle of coke in
[June:] It's up to you.
[Susan:] my cupboard he oughta
[June:] Oh find me your list cos I wanna know what to get you for your birthday.
[Susan:] Well mum's got it erm
[June:] I've got your christmas present.
[Susan:] You oughta erm drink that bottle of coke I've got at home because that goes flat don't it?
[June:] Does she know? No, haven't told her. Hey look I've got an envelope in Geoff's book.
[Susan:] Oh lovely.
[June:] The money's fallen out but there was...
[Susan:] Do you think it'll be alright there?
[June:] Yeah.... Don't knock it off. There you are look....
[Susan:] Oh dear.
[June:] What you gotta say then father?
[Robert:] Not a lot.
[June:] Has this gotta stay on here?
[Kathleen:] Well not if you're sitting on it.
[Robert:] No it's only where the cats... how we don't... get hairs on the chair....
[June:] I've had a phone call from Pam this morning.
[Susan:] So has mum. Why what does she want with you for? She's only. I reckon I'm out of favour.
[June:] No she was just asking about... christmas presents.
[Kathleen:] Well yeah that's what I, I told her you know... er told her again because erm...
[June:] Well she said erm... tell you.
[Jonathan:] Thank you.
[Susan:] Tell you what?
[June:] What sort of things we like.
[Kathleen:] Yeah well I told her this morning.
[Susan:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] You know cos er
[June:] Well she must have rang...
[Kathleen:] Yeah well
[June:] Did she ring you before me then? Or
[Kathleen:] well she dad, she, he, dad, she, Bob was talking to dad and then I said to him can I... let Pam have, cos I didn't want her going into Lynn and buying you them basket of
[Susan:] Oh no.
[Kathleen:] thingies. And, cos we erm talking
[June:] Oh I tell you what else I like.
[Kathleen:] talking to you, you said you don't mind those duck things and that, you'd rather have them than
[Susan:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah I said I liked them
[Susan:] I like all that sort of stuff.
[Kathleen:] So I said well that she Juney do like them. I said only I said yes
[June:] Jon pop your shoes off.
[Kathleen:] yes I'm sure she would I said well if that's
[June:] Yeah but yours ain't very clean.
[Jonathan:] Ha!
[Kathleen:] if that's what you wanna know.
[Jonathan:] Couldn't get them clean. Ooh.
[Susan:] Well what am I gonna buy, sort of thing
[June:] Yeah but
[Susan:] am I gonna buy her then?
[June:] Well I bought her a vase but... I said
[Kathleen:] I've bought her a
[June:] pair of them chunky earrings in.
[Kathleen:] I've bought her... erm... a double candle lamp, you know, on a stand.
[Susan:] Mm?
[Kathleen:] That was quite nice.
[June:] Cor that's a smelly cigarette.
[Susan:] Oh sorry.
[Kathleen:] Nine pound... something. Nine pound thirty five.
[June:] Oh no it's the match I think I can smell.
[Jonathan:] Ben smokes.
[Kathleen:] But er... and I bought Bobby a shirt.
[June:] Who?
[Jonathan:] Ben.
[June:] He does not.
[Susan:] What?
[Jonathan:] He brought a cigarette to school.
[Kathleen:] You don't wanna smoke.
[June:] Well he don't want, you don't want to do that.
[Jonathan:] No.
[Susan:] You don't wanna smoke Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] It was a oh what do you call them? Erm...
[June:] A pretend one?
[Jonathan:] a fake fag. They're called.
[June:] Yeah but you don't wanna get in the habit of holding something in your hand like.
[Susan:] You don't wanna smoke Jonathan cos you'll never get
[Jonathan:] And they really look like it and when you go... a load of ash comes out of the end of it.... But it's really flour.
[Kathleen:] Or sniff glue or sniff anything out of tins. What anybody. No.
[Jonathan:] Oh. What about jam? I could sniff jam.
[Kathleen:] No. You sniff nothing.
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[Susan:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] Cut your nose off if you start that lark.
[Susan:] Sniff nuffink.
[Kathleen:] No, there was a programme on there, on that erm... Casualty a bloke... died with that.
[Susan:] What, sniffing glue?
[Kathleen:] Sniffing glue.
[Susan:] Yeah I know they do.
[June:] Yeah well cos that... does something to your lungs don't it?
[Jonathan:] Blocks them up.
[Kathleen:] selling that yesterday Sue
[Jonathan:] Yeah, get
[June:] if I'd have known, I'd have gone down there. Well if I'd known I'd gone down there.
[Susan:] Where was that?
[Kathleen:] It's round the back there.
[June:] Down the back, if you
[Susan:] Oh I see that... when I come... Does she do it all the time then or was it just one-off?
[Kathleen:] Well that just come round the door Susan....
[Susan:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] Nanny.
[Kathleen:] Yeah?
[Jonathan:] You know I wanted that W W F man?
[Kathleen:] W W F man?
[Jonathan:] Mm.
[June:] Tell nanny what that means cos I asked you yesterday.
[Susan:] Well when's the late night shopping in Wisbech then?
[Jonathan:] World Wrestling Federation.
[Kathleen:] . Eh?
[Jonathan:] You know I wanted that little man?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Called Hulk Hogan. Da!
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[June:] He bought himself...
[Kathleen:] How much was that?
[Jonathan:] Four pound fo... four pound thirty.
[June:] He wants some more of them.
[Jonathan:] For christmas.
[Kathleen:] Who bought that for you then?
[June:] So if Pam don't, wants to know what to buy him, he wants some of them.
[Jonathan:] Where's the thing gone? The paper? I put it down so
[Kathleen:] It's on the table.
[Jonathan:] Oh.... I've crossed off the ones that I want.
[June:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Oh....
[June:] Cos if Pam don't know what to buy him she could buy him one of them or... two of them or whatever she
[Jonathan:] I want a ring.
[June:] I don't think she'll buy you three.
[Jonathan:] No a ring.
[Susan:] Do you want this late night shopping thing mum?
[Kathleen:] No, I left it in case you...
[Susan:] Oh yeah I will take it.
[June:] That's Wisbech though innit?
[Kathleen:] Cos we won't go to... late night shopping....
[Susan:] You won't go late night shopping? Oh that's lovely up there late night shopping.
[Kathleen:] Dad don't like going in the evening....
[Susan:] Where you been this morning then?
[Kathleen:] Who dad? Nowhere.
[Susan:] Oh.
[June:] Where was you
[Robert:] I was yesterday.
[June:] where was you then when I saw you going out in your car?
[Kathleen:] He went to get some petrol cos we'd run out.
[June:] Oh. Cor he pipped and nearly made me ju
[Susan:] You ain't given me any tickets lately.
[Robert:] There's some in the car.
[June:] He pipped me mum and made me jump out of my bloody skin.
[Kathleen:] Cos petrol's gone down hasn't it? Petrol's gone down a bit.
[Robert:] Don't see why.
[June:] Well that was said last week it was going up.
[Kathleen:] Well it's gone down this week.
[Robert:] Gone down four... four and a half pence a gallon.
[June:] Has it really?
[Robert:] Up yours... up your... one in the village.
[June:] Oh.
[Susan:] Do you definitely wanna go
[June:] Mm.
[Susan:] shopping Saturday? If it's alright then I'll come home cos Mr said to me last night, oh you want to stay here the night. I said well I can't. Cos I said I wanna go home and pick June up in the morning.... Cos there's no way you can get up to town is there?
[June:] No. No.
[Susan:] Cos I said she ain't got a car. Said not, not only that I said we don't have anywhere to park her car that's why I said I'm after your car park.... Cos erm Richard's gonna pick him up from the meal....
[Jonathan:] Mm
[June:] I thought you weren't staying the night though?
[Susan:] Well I'm not. Well he didn't know that Clare was staying. I said well you... he said I'd already told you could he said well I can't go back on it. I said well, don't matter I said, don't to worry about it.... I said I'm not worried about it. I said anyway I want... I want to get home to June... in the morning I said cos me and June are going shopping. Well I can, if he lets me have his space we don't have to worry too much about the time and go about er just after nine or something.
[June:] Yeah alright.
[Susan:] Don't wanna be too late though cos.
[June:] Well I'm up anyway, you know that.
[Susan:] Well I shall probably
[June:] What time did you get up this morning?
[Susan:] Well I was awake at erm... about twenty past seven. But I didn't get up, I laid in bed and read a book till nine o'clock. I read one of those books last night. Do you see Jaws?
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Yeah! It's rubbish.
[Susan:] Weren't that unreal? You know his mouth all went crinkly crrkkkk... I've never seen a jaw
[June:] No that was terrible.
[Jonathan:] When he opened it split a bit down there.
[Susan:] Did you see it mum?
[June:] Yeah but I missed the flipping bit how he killed it. How does he kill it?
[Kathleen:] I only saw the erm... Command Performance.
[Jonathan:] They just rammed the boat into it.
[Kathleen:] We saw the Command Performance. Oh that was good. That's the best one I've ever seen.
[Jonathan:] And the and then and you know it had broke off, so it had a load of spokes on... and just went straight through him.
[Kathleen:] And er Les Dawson had them in bloody fits. He really did. He, what did he say?... I saw this cat coming down the road
[Susan:] Backwards?
[June:] back no he said and it was... dad'd tell you more he he said
[Susan:] Only got one eye.
[June:] only got one eye. He said when I looked at it was coming backwards. [LAUGHTER]
[Robert:] Walking backwards!
[Kathleen:] Walking backwards.
[Robert:] Oh she can't tell a joke save her conkers.
[Kathleen:] Oh knickers!
[Susan:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] And... but it was really good... there was all the, the, the Cats programme and Saigon and that
[Susan:] Oh yeah?
[Kathleen:] what's his name?
[Susan:] Yeah we... we were trying to convince dad, you know that song Memories?
[Kathleen:] [singing] Memories da []
[June:] Yes?
[Susan:] We said that come from the film Cats and he reckoned the copy of Memories [LAUGHTER] he's got is sung by who []? And not
[Robert:] Perry Como.
[Susan:] [shouting] Perry Como. I said it ain't the same blooming tune [].
[Kathleen:] Well of course that ain't.
[Robert:] Well.
[Susan:] I said he's he's thinking of
[Kathleen:] Cos I kept singing it this morning. I've got it on me blooming... mind, you know when you keep singing it?
[June:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And she sung that beautif
[Susan:] You can get the music from Cats though. I've got it on tape.
[Kathleen:] She sung that beautiful.
[Susan:] Cos mum likes it. I said you can get that tape can't you?
[June:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And that Saigon thing where he sings to her, that girl. That was on
[speaker005:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] that bit of that. And there was a this time
[June:] You'll break it.
[Kathleen:] there was a... a load of Russian young boys playing those... oh bugger they were good.
[June:] Did you see The Generation Game?
[Robert:] Ah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[June:] I watched that last night
[Kathleen:] Them packets... what they had to do.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] Yeah!
[June:] I watched that for a cha, we watched that for a change last night cos we watch Blind Date.
[Jonathan:] Do you watch that every week? They couldn't do the splits.
[June:] I think I like that better than
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[June:] I'm getting fed up with Blind Date.
[Susan:] Is it the fourteenth of December you go to that party?...
[June:] Well I don't know whether... I think she's having it still.
[Susan:] Oh.
[June:] Why?
[Jonathan:] Why?
[Susan:] Well she's suddenly changed the.
[June:] Well I dunno.
[Susan:] Her birthday's on a Sunday this year.
[Jonathan:] [mimics gunfire]
[Susan:] Because that's funny, when we, you know we went to that the other week and that was erm... she went DSA to have and to hold.... They're meant to hold on to it you know so she don't need it so often.... And he said that he thinks every DSA she always has a day off on her birthday, this man did.
[Jonathan:] [playing loudly]
[June:] What do you say, it's no good to me?
[Susan:] I said it's no good to me. And he looked at me and he said why? I said cos [LAUGHTER] mine's on a Sunday []. He said well you're getting the day off. I said yeah but it ain't quite the same is it?... I got some nice towels from erm... Auntie Alice's catalogue. didn't I mum?
[June:] You did?
[Susan:] Just plain green ones.
[June:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] Mum. I wanna go to sleep.
[Susan:] He oughta take his shoes off cos they're mucky.
[June:] They're not mucky!
[Susan:] I'd do them properly. Less I shan't buy you another pair.
[June:] They're clean I'll have you know, look how shiny they are.
[Susan:] I'm talking about the soles.
[June:] They're not dirty.
[Susan:] Oh.... Well he oughta take them off anyway. He'll have sore feet....
[Jonathan:] Hot feet.
[June:] Hot feet, yeah....
[Susan:] Stay still then, here you are.
[Jonathan:] Ow!
[Susan:] Whose jeans he got on?
[June:] His. What was Pam on about yesterday then?
[Susan:] Looks like a pair of yours....
[June:] Father.
[Robert:] Eh?
[June:] What was Pam on about?
[Robert:] Nothing really.... Only trouble with her... ex husband's... wife.
[Susan:] Why?
[June:] Oh dear what's happened there?
[Robert:] I dunno. Happen mum could tell you more cos I weren't bloody interested in that.
[Kathleen:] Cos she went in the shop and
[June:] Well she abuses the woman.
[Kathleen:] No the woman wasn't in the shop you see and... young girl another girl in there... Julie and that and she was running on to Pam.... And er... she said Julie married your husband so er all Pam said was yes she said... and he's welcome to her....
[June:] Well....
[Susan:] Hello.
[June:] Get back!
[Kathleen:] And she
[Geoffrey:] Can't?
[June:] Oh no! I've got the key.
[Kathleen:] Oh dear
[Susan:] June give him the paying in book. Then he can sort that out.
[Geoffrey:] I think... ain't I got it?
[June:] No you ain't got the new one cos I've got it.
[Susan:] The old one's
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[Susan:] in the drawer.
[June:] The old one I've given him
[Geoffrey:] Oh well I, I didn't realize you'd had a new one.
[June:] Yeah cos I was
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[June:] thinking about that. All the time we keep losing them little stubs you wanna leave the gr the whole complete thing on then we won't lose them.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Where is the new one? Oh here look, and I got you an envelope to put it in.
[Geoffrey:] Oh alright mate. Thankyou.
[Susan:] Cos I'm fed up of losing your money
[Geoffrey:] Money out [LAUGHTER] yeah [].
[Susan:] That's dripping out in my handbag. Oh wait a minute. Erm them
[Geoffrey:] [LAUGHTER] Oh []?
[June:] Quarter to two Geoff. You've got time.
[Susan:] Twenty to two.
[Geoffrey:] Alright mate
[Robert:] Quarter to two, the time
[Susan:] I've been waiting for the battery to run down.
[June:] Now which one's ours?... One's Pete's and one's ours. You get a
[Geoffrey:] Can't I take them both?
[June:] Take them both.
[Geoffrey:] I should imagine it's the shiny one but I don't.
[Susan:] Why didn't you put Pete's on a... ain't you got a hook for?
[June:] I had it on a little bit of elastic band and I've, I've lost it.
[Geoffrey:] No, think that's it. Oh I'll take them both anyway cos I think that's... yeah I I'll leave ours in the garage.
[Jonathan:] Ours goes long short
[Geoffrey:] See you a bit later.
[Jonathan:] short
[Susan:] Yeah okay then. See ya.
[June:] Geoff. Batteries again.
[Geoffrey:] What batteries?
[June:] For that.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, what about it?
[June:] That's flicking.
[Susan:] Yeah, you want some more then.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[June:] Oh no they're not, them batteries ain't no good.
[Kathleen:] Well what is it June? What's that?
[Geoffrey:] Well they lasted.
[June:] It's a tape recorder.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] They lasted alright.
[June:] Well you better bring me two back just in case.
[Geoffrey:] Where are they then?
[June:] Just in the kitchen drawer, you know where I keep my club things?
[Susan:] Well... that's flickering now.
[June:] Yeah, it's flickering now.
[Geoffrey:] What the middle one you mean?
[Susan:] I should turn it off.
[June:] Where I keep all my club things at the end there where the medicine thing is.
[Geoffrey:] Oh I know yeah. Okay.
[Jonathan:] The medical the medical drawer.
[Geoffrey:] Righto then. See you later.
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] I should turn that off then.
[June:] Yeah well it don't matter. Th... that should carry on but them, them batteries isn't any good.
[Susan:] Do you mind if I watch Eastenders at two cos I ain't seen it.
[June:] Oh!
[Susan:] I only wanna see the first bit. The second bit I've seen but I need to see the first bit.
[Kathleen:] You can watch what you like.
[Susan:] Well it ain't on yet for another twenty minutes
[Kathleen:] when it's on can you?
[June:] Well no.
[Susan:] You what?
[June:] She said you can't talk when it's on.
[Susan:] Well you can. Not gonna have it on that blooming loud.
[Kathleen:] You can have it on if you want to. I've seen it.
[Susan:] Well I ain't seen it. Cos I went to the hospital meeting didn't I?...
[Kathleen:] Ain't losing much
[Susan:] Beano's definitely gotta go to the V E T Jonathan.... he's frightened.
[Jonathan:] Ah.
[June:] He don't like it.
[Jonathan:] Doesn't he like the vet?
[Susan:] No....
[Jonathan:] What, do you say [LAUGHTER] V E T []?
[June:] She said you're going to the V E T's.
[Susan:] That's like that song where they say me and my wee [LAUGHTER] scabby dog innit []? Haven't you ever heard it?
[June:] No.
[Jonathan:] Oh.
[June:] No don't do that Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] .
[Kathleen:] Oh so I was telling you... erm
[June:] Oh yeah.
[Kathleen:] And... so Pam just said to her... yeah she said he is married to my ex... she is married to my ex husband but she said... she's bloody welcome to him. You know? And what these girls must have said she don't know. And Bobby picked up the phone when the phone rang and it was her... and she sai erm Bob said yes? And he spoke to her, said hello so she said... oh hello Bob she said, is Pam there? And of course Bob went and got Pam. Cor she was right abusive to Pam. She told Pam to keep out the shop.... It ain't her bloody shop anyway.
[June:] Yeah but you do, you only
[Kathleen:] Yeah but I don't know you see, so
[June:] Well now would them girl would them girls say, she must have said more than that mother. You know what she's like.
[Kathleen:] So erm er she said she was quite rude she said and I rang back she said, I was gonna tell her... and she stamped the phone down. She said I rang back... and... her husband answered it.... He said eff... effing well get off the phone so...
[June:] Well she does cause a lot of
[Susan:] Well I mean really I mean
[June:] Well why the hell does she
[Kathleen:] That's what Vi said her mother he said
[Susan:] I mean really and truly mum with all these shops that are about, why has she gotta go in that one?
[Kathleen:] She sai and Bobby said oh... he said if they
[June:] Which shop does she work in?
[Kathleen:] McKay's Next to Bewise innit in town.
[Susan:] Yeah but why
[June:] Well I wouldn't have thought she'd have gone in a shop like that anyway cos there's some more expensive stuff in there.
[Kathleen:] No, there's some good stuff in there cheap.... It's fairly cheap in there.... And what I've seen what she's had.
[Susan:] Yeah but
[Kathleen:] But anyway erm Bobby said I don't know why you worry about it, he said. Let, I said well the best thing ju to do erm... er... Pam I said is just to ignore them I said and ignoring them makes it... you know? See I know why cos you see her husband... he don't and... cos when her husband come for the kids Bob was there and he said I ain't bloody well going out to them. He just was in there doing something... the children went out and he said I said to him good morning, he said good morning. He said and I just... don't take no notice of him.... But you see she... erm Julie's a bit upset over things cos she said... that er... they've gotta sell the house and they've gotta sell the car.... Cos he's... in a bit of problems I suppose. Although he's got a good job so Pam said I don't know why he's got in that... problem. But I said well your best thing to do Pam I said is forget it. I said he's not your husband any more. I said and avoid her as much as possible I said if you both clash together.... I said but she can't keep you out the shop anyway. So she said I've a good mind to write to the manager so Bobby said you wanna leave well alone, forget he said.
[Susan:] Well no be because the manager perhaps has heard
[Kathleen:] Would give her the sack.
[Susan:] how she speaks... no... he, he might ban her from the shop if she, if she keeps... Well you know she's called her all sorts of things in front of people. Well you don't do that.
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah, yeah. And Bobby didn't wanna know. He said I just speak to him he said when I see him and... they're nice to me and I'm nice to them.
[June:] Yeah but the whole point is
[Kathleen:] He said he only wants to put himself...
[June:] I mean she's always saying she's always saying how... you know she, oh my kids this, my kids that. Well if that woman loses her job through what Pam has said she's not gonna be very nice to her children is she?
[Kathleen:] Mm. He makes her... he makes her... oh he said to the children you can go in the house with your dirty boots.... So Bobby said they said oh dad said we can come in the house. Bob said you... you do what we tell you not what he tells you. You take your bo boots off outside if they're muddy. You don't bring it in the house.... And that Stephanie cos she don't... she don't like him she never ha well she don't know much about him do she? She was only four weeks old when he left.
[Susan:] Yeah?
[Kathleen:] So... she said oh he's a nuisance she say. He makes me sweep up after I've had me tea.... What, the two er eldest have to wash up and she has to sweep up round the table.
[Susan:] And he's telling them they can go in Pam's house
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Susan:] with dirty boots on?
[Kathleen:] That's what Bobby said....
[Susan:] They don't like going really do they?
[Kathleen:] No. He said specially the boy, he's getting... he said he, the boy's getting shown now... well she said herself... that he don't like me... to hear me... arguing and swearing.
[Susan:] Well I should think not.
[Kathleen:] He said to her oh forget it mother he said... keep on. And Bobby said he's getting that age where he don't like to hear it. But he said I think
[June:] Well Paul don't like... never used to like it.
[Kathleen:] No, he said I think before long he'll just... you know, not... go there. And the little'un couldn't care less but the middle one thinks a lot of her dad. She's like him. And Pam told us yesterday... that she can't kiss her on the lips....
[Susan:] Kiss who?
[Kathleen:] Her little girl..... She said when she comes to kiss me good... goodnight I let her kiss here but... she said... I can't have her cuddling me or she said I think of... him all the time. Cos she's so much like him.
[June:] Well that ain't her fault.
[Susan:] Well it ain't the child's fault.
[Kathleen:] No.
[Susan:] How cruel!
[Kathleen:] She said... and Bobby says she don't... he said I was laying on the floor the other night and she came down beside with me and put her arm... round me as we were laying there he said I'll never... do anything he said cos if you... started playing about with her she'll, you know... childlike and... and he said she wouldn't erm show her affection any more. He said you've got to... take that child gradually that one.... But he said the other one's a cheeky little bugger he said really. He said and I'd soon tell her off. He said but I sit at night he said when she's gone to work and he said and help them... with their drawings and things they're doing. He said they ain't no bother really.
[Susan:] Oh it's Pam that makes them... the bother, not anybody else.
[Kathleen:] He said they are a nuisance sometimes keep coming in and out for stuff but he said that's childlike.
[June:] Mm.
[Susan:] Well it is really.
[Kathleen:] But he likes that little one. He likes that little... well he likes them all I think. Really, in his way.
[Jonathan:] I don't like the little one.
[June:] You what Jonathan?
[Jonathan:] I don't like the little one....
[Kathleen:] She wanted to kiss you didn't she?
[Jonathan:] Mm? Yeah. I don't like her.
[Kathleen:] Stephanie.
[June:] You don't like her?
[Jonathan:] Not the little one.
[June:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] She's a pest.
[Kathleen:] He didn't want her to kiss him.
[Susan:] She wants to keep kissing him and he don't like it.
[Jonathan:] When she come round... the middle girl she brought a friend with her... and Ashley was with us... so we ran down the dyke
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] They ran after them.
[Jonathan:] And they wouldn't go across the dyke.
[Susan:] Oh has what's his name got that any more?... Merlin.
[June:] No he's not in the field, is he Jonathan?
[Susan:] Who've you got in the field now then?
[June:] Nobody.
[Susan:] Why's he taken them out all again for then?
[June:] Well... he likes to, I don't know whether... nobody's cleared up the field, that looks a mess.
[Susan:] Jonathan might do it and earn him
[Jonathan:] Cor! Blithering heck.
[Susan:] earn himself two pound. You know what you want a do, get some bags and bag that stuff up and sell that on the side of the road fifty p a bag.
[Robert:] [belch]
[Jonathan:] Ugh!
[Susan:] You'd get money.
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER] You wouldn't.
[Susan:] People buy it for their gardens honestly.
[Jonathan:] Ugh!
[Susan:] Don't they June? Horse manure.
[June:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] They do.
[Susan:] So if you bagged it up and put for sale on it, fifty pence.... You could earn a lot of money. You've only got to bag it up and put it on the side of the road.
[Jonathan:] Fifty p a bag! Ugh.
[Susan:] Well, you want to earn pocket money he's gotta do these things ain't he mum?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] I bet you wouldn't get many people wanting it though.
[Susan:] I bet you would. You ask nanny years ago, what did they used to nanny?
[Kathleen:] Fetch it on the road.
[Susan:] Yeah, with their buckets and spades.
[Kathleen:] Bucket and spade, they wanted that for their gardens.
[Jonathan:] Poo!
[Susan:] To put round the roses.
[Kathleen:] When the cart and horses used to come round. Horse and carts.
[Jonathan:] Aah!
[June:] I thought Liz Taylor was dead?
[Kathleen:] She ain't.
[Susan:] Liz Taylor!
[Jonathan:] Cor!
[Kathleen:] She's married for the eighth time isn't she?
[Robert:] When she's seen Neighbours we'll put it on.
[Jonathan:] Is that First Blood?...
[Robert:] No it's the Rambo Two.
[Jonathan:] Oh good I haven't seen Two. I've seen One and Three but I haven't seen Two.
[Susan:] No, I haven't seen two.
[Jonathan:] Three's good. You've seen Three.
[Susan:] Well I'll just see the first part of Eastenders if I can cos I've seen the second part.
[Jonathan:] Have you seen Rambo Three granddad?
[Robert:] Sorry?
[Jonathan:] Have you seen Rambo Three?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Robert:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] It's good i have you seen Robocop Two?
[Susan:] What you put that there for?
[Robert:] You can move it if you want to.
[Jonathan:] Have you seen Robocop Two?
[Susan:] Did you... don't you think that was sad?... Robocop Two where they chopped Simon's legs off?
[Robert:] Is he drinking his pop already?
[Kathleen:] yeah he
[Susan:] That made me feel sad.
[Jonathan:] I liked the end bit. [shouting] aaaeeeyaaa [].
[Robert:] wouldn't have it.
[Jonathan:] He elbow drops it, he goes beeeee ppp [LAUGHTER].
[June:] What?
[Susan:] What?
[Robert:] Bit early for a cup of tea yet. It ain't tea yet.
[June:] Well if you want one, have one.... Don't let us stop you.
[Susan:] You oughta seen Auntie Alices's Winnie this morning.
[June:] Winnie?
[Susan:] Winston his name is.
[June:] Aah!
[Susan:] I heard her say to him mum... Auntie Alice this morning, she love her cat... so I heard her say to him... come on then, let's see what mummy's got for you this morning. She said he had a half a pound of raw liver yesterday mum.
[Kathleen:] Ooh dear.
[Susan:] She puts it through the mincer for him and he have it raw....
[Robert:] Blimey he must have been sick.
[Susan:] Well he lo well he eats eats raw meat. He won't eat cooked meat, her cat won't.
[Robert:] Oh....
[Jonathan:] [whingeing] Mummy, why can't we have Sky []?
[June:] Why, what's on Sky?
[Jonathan:] The movie channel... Sky sport... a christmas channel now... I think. Er Sky One... Sky movies and Sky news. The news dad'd like.
[June:] Oh....
[Jonathan:] Cos it's on... it's cheap in here.
[June:] Oh. I see.
[Jonathan:] It's... satellite dish and remote control steereo receiver.
[Susan:] Stereo not steereo. [LAUGHTER].
[Jonathan:] I call it steerio.... Two hundred pound.
[Susan:] Well where you gonna think your mum's gonna get two hundred pounds... pay on the Sky telly? God it's... you have to rent, you have to pay extra rental on that.
[Kathleen:] You have to pay so much a week
[June:] I'm surprised father ain't had it.
[Kathleen:] No, don't want that Juney.
[Jonathan:] Ooh
[Susan:] easier to get a video. See most of them'll come on video anyway.
[Kathleen:] Well I don't think it's worth it actually.
[Jonathan:] No
[Robert:] What's that?
[Jonathan:] they've had Turtles on there before.
[Kathleen:] Juney says she's surprised you ain't had Sky.
[June:] Jonathan do no.
[Robert:] No.
[Kathleen:] We don't look at telly. Dad looks more at videos....
[June:] Hey, when have you been treating yourself to that one then?
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] That's Bobby's.
[Susan:] Bob lent it to him.
[June:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] Bobby bought it yesterday and lent it to dad cos we bought... we bought ourself, well Rob, dad did, I don't look at them erm they're too violent for me... but dad bought it in Superkey only five ninety nine.... In Superkey.... And er
[June:] He keeps buying all these things. People could buy them.
[Kathleen:] He bought Three... and Bobby, Bobby hadn't got Three. Pam bought him... is that Two?
[Susan:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] She bought him Two so we was gonna lend Bobby our Three so he said well I won't look at Two. You have our Two and yo I'll borrow your Three.
[June:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] So dad's gotta take that back to him next week and we get our one back.
[June:] Oh I see.
[Kathleen:] They're only five ninety nine.
[Susan:] So you've got One Two and Three between you,.
[Kathleen:] Well yeah. So... that one, the Three one is about... the Afghan war. It's a bit ooh
[Jonathan:] Yeah I've seen it.
[Kathleen:] Cor yeah
[Jonathan:] Yeah it is.
[Kathleen:] is it violent.
[June:] Have you seen it?
[Jonathan:] Mm. Julian... Julian had it.... There were these big helicopters
[June:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] them videos in in erm Superkey. We did buy it once before.... And when we brought it home it wouldn't go. And we hadn't got the receipt but she changed it. We bought another one then. You saw that one didn't you?
[Susan:] You're lucky because I'll tell you for why, you can't change a video if you buy.
[Kathleen:] No, but she's she'd, we told her er
[June:] No because they're in a plastic cover aren't they?
[Susan:] Yeah but you still can't
[Kathleen:] No cos they think you've played them.
[Susan:] They think you've copied them you see.
[Kathleen:] Well I explained to her and I said we bou took it home I said and it... it won't go I said, but unfortunately we have... you know throw the... the ticket away. So she said well... I'll change it she said because I tell you why, we send them back every, every so long, often. About every two months we send all the lot back and renew them.
[Susan:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] So she changed it and she said but you'll have to have another one. So we had another one. But you saw that one weren't you?
[Susan:] Yeah I'd seen that one before.
[Jonathan:] What was it?
[Kathleen:] And er
[Susan:] Erm... that was good but there was a twi you really like
[Kathleen:] There's a twist to it, it
[Susan:] there's a twist to it. You have gotta sit and watch that quietly that one.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[June:] Which one's that?
[Susan:] What was it called mum?
[Kathleen:] Erm...
[Susan:] Well dad'll tell you. Anyway, that's a good film but you've gotta... you've gotta watch it because there's a twist in the film. It's about a Russian spy yeah?
[Kathleen:] Spy yeah.
[June:] Oh.
[Susan:] But it's a good film. That's not... it's got a little bit of erm
[Kathleen:] Violence in it.
[Susan:] violence in it but nothing much.
[June:] Jonathan. Don't keep doing that.
[Susan:] Yeah
[June:] [shouting] Yeah no don't [].
[Kathleen:] I'll make you a cup of tea in a minute.
[June:] Yeah alright.
[Kathleen:] Erm
[June:] Cos that picks it up.
[Kathleen:] are you gonna do er er erm... do business before Geoff comes back?
[Susan:] Yeah I'll do them later on but I was gonna watch Eastenders.
[June:] Whatever does Geoff Geoff ain't bothered if she does your.
[Kathleen:] Yeah but she does a bit out here and I'm bit, feel a bit embarrassed when him and
[Susan:] Well get your
[June:] Oh I shouldn't worry about it. I do it.
[Susan:] June. I wanna watch Eastenders now, do you mind?
[Kathleen:] Take that then, cos that's the cats.
[June:] No, suppose not.
[Susan:] Well that's flashing anyway....
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[Susan:] He, does he remind you of Tarzan look? Tarzan type.
[Kathleen:] There was a a champion in the, in the weekend paper... charging three hundred pound a... a time for sex.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Susan:] Mother! I don't think you ought to say that. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] [].
[June:] . No that's alright. You want to hear it.
[Kathleen:] And you oughta seen his body. He was absolutely handsome.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Kathleen:] And people were going mate....
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[June:] How much?
[Kathleen:] for three hundred pound, weren't it dad?
[Robert:] Mm silly git.
[Kathleen:] Cor he had a lovely physique, cor.
[June:] I like them Chippendales, I think they're nice.
[Kathleen:] He's better than them even. Oh he can't be
[June:] Wonder why they're called Chippendales?
[Kathleen:] That's the name they've called theirselves.
[Robert:] Circus innit?
[June:] Well I suppose Chippendales is er antique furniture innit?
[Kathleen:] They're Americans aren't they?
[Susan:] They're strippers you know.
[Kathleen:] Strippers.
[Susan:] They're se
[June:] They're male strippers.
[Susan:] they're sexy male strippers.
[Kathleen:] They're they're American aren't they?
[June:] Would you like to see them Sue?
[Susan:] Yeah but, do you know what, they have female bodyguards.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Susan:] Yeah well cos you see they have to, most of their fans are women... so they have to have female bodyguards cos the males are a bit rough with them but the women are really tough who
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Susan:] bodyguards, their bodyguards, yeah. Yeah I would.
[Kathleen:] Yeah they're American aren't they?
[June:] Are they?
[Geoffrey:] Dunno.
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah, yeah.
[June:] Cor Sue if ever you get any tickets to see them, we'd better go and see them.
[Susan:] I'd like to see them.
[Robert:] Where's cat? Gone out has he?
[Kathleen:] Big cat's still in the window I think.
[June:] He's still up there look....
[Robert:] [LAUGHTER] Well he's been there a long while.
[Susan:] He's a bit like erm... what's that... erm... tut... the one that er Castle Greyskull, what's, what's the
[June:] Skeletor?
[Susan:] Yeah, the one Master of the Universe one, what was his name? Who did?
[June:] He-man.
[Susan:] Well he looks like He-man.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. Does a bit.
[June:] I reckon that was one of the then.
[Geoffrey:] Ooh ladder June. Cor blimey, I put up another spell. I couldn't go up there. Cor she was
[June:] Did you did you do any more?
[Geoffrey:] No, she was I couldn't reach. That was bending and twisting all over.
[June:] I'll perhaps get up there next Sunday and do it.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. That won't stand my weight.
[June:] If it's a nice day I'll go up. Yeah well I'm lighter than you aren't I?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. Coo that was creaking and twisting I thought ah
[June:] Do you know... mum we're do Geoff's got... he's done all down the sides, all round the back... so he's he's threequarters of the way
[Geoffrey:] I ain't done round the back.
[June:] Yeah but you've done all round the kitchen bit haven't you?
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah, the garage, yeah.
[June:] And all that
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] and he's now going up the point of the house but he can't get no further.
[Kathleen:] No.
[Geoffrey:] I've got a yard from... I'm going up... that side and I'm a yard from the point
[Kathleen:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] and I can't get no higher.
[June:] So I've gotta go and do that point bit.
[Geoffrey:] Cos I got the... Brian's ladder, like an extended ladder
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] but he said you know when you're start extending them any more than it is
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Not very safe.
[Geoffrey:] they get a bit they start to whip like that.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] And I ain't no good at ladders at the best of times.
[June:] So I said well if I go up me being light, I'll go up and he holds the ladder
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Why don't I go up? I'm.
[Geoffrey:] He was saying if you had a three tier extending ladder then the they sort of, their more rigid. Because you know it gets...
[June:] Well he went on it. He did it. Yeah but I said... Geoff said well he... what did he use? I said well that I said but he's a lot taller than you Geoff
[Geoffrey:] He's... he's taller than me isn't he?
[June:] isn't he?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[June:] He's got the height to do it.
[Kathleen:] Is he fat or thin?
[Geoffrey:] He's a big old boy.
[June:] Big.
[Kathleen:] Is he? Oh I
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah about Bobby's stomach around isn't he?
[Kathleen:] I don't think I've ever seen him.
[June:] What Brian?
[Kathleen:] No.
[June:] He's quite big, Brian is isn't he?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I've never seen Brian.
[Susan:] Did you tell... talking about Brian, did you tell... Geoff...
[Robert:] You can see he's got a bloody wig though Geoff, can't you?
[Geoffrey:] Ooh can't you just.
[Susan:] Did you tell Geoff about our Brian?
[Geoffrey:] Specially when he sweats. you mean?
[June:] Oh no. No I haven't told him.
[Susan:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] No, what mate? Do you mean, do you mean
[June:] Sue you tell him cos you know how the story goes.
[Susan:] Well mum told me. We were sitting there and she was [LAUGHTER] telling me about... Brian []. She said... his son rang up and I said what, what's his name?
[Kathleen:] Steven.
[Susan:] Simon.
[Kathleen:] Simon.
[Susan:] She said no, Alex. I said Alex
[Geoffrey:] He's got another one.
[Susan:] Alex who? [LAUGHTER] So she said he's got another one apparently he rung Charlie the other night []... and said this is Alex, can I speak to Brian. He said yeah Alex who? He said Alex, Brian's son. [LAUGHTER] So I think
[Kathleen:] So Char and Charlie said he ain't here.
[Susan:] Charlie must have... Charlie must have gone aah aah aah.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] And he didn't know about it?
[Susan:] No!
[Kathleen:] No.
[June:] No.
[Susan:] Nobody did.
[Kathleen:] Nobody did, did they?
[June:] Geoff.
[Robert:] Brian did.
[Kathleen:] Brian did. Though we don't know who the woman is. Bugger me he's been busy.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] Been doing alright....
[June:] I wonder who the...? Yeah but he did go out with a girl there for a while didn't he? In London.
[Kathleen:] Well he's been married twice wasn't he? He was
[Geoffrey:] Has he?
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah.
[Susan:] Brian has, yeah.
[Kathleen:] He he divorced his second wife cos she thought more of anim animals. But I think it was because er she couldn't have children you see?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Kathleen:] That's why he packed up.
[Geoffrey:] Well he's got enough of his own anyway by the sound of it.
[Robert:] He used to live at Picken Pickerham didn't he? Somewhere outside sort of Swaffham.
[Kathleen:] Pick Pickering something, yeah.
[June:] They reckon she was
[Geoffrey:] North oh yeah North and South Pickenham.
[Kathleen:] yeah that's where yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Robert:] Yeah that's where he used to live, in a bungalow there somewhere.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah I know it. That's where Barbara used to live, North Pickenham.
[June:] What is it Jonathan, what are you doing?
[Jonathan:] Mm.
[June:] So you ask.
[Kathleen:] What is it Jonathan?
[Jonathan:] [singing] []
[Geoffrey:] play game.
[June:] What's he got mum?
[Kathleen:] I don't know.
[Jonathan:] This.
[Kathleen:] Oh, for the cat
[Geoffrey:] Tiddy tiddy.
[Kathleen:] That big one big'un won't come down
[June:] No don't
[Robert:] No, don't rile him up boy for god's sake.
[Kathleen:] He's he's a bit of a problem.
[June:] No he don't like children Jonathan. He's frightened.
[Jonathan:] Doesn't he like fooling about?
[Kathleen:] He keeps getting in
[Susan:] No.
[Kathleen:] nanny's sink.
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] No erm Fuji Juji she'll play with you, look.
[Kathleen:] And she's asleep.
[Jonathan:] Where is she?
[Robert:] She's asleep.
[Kathleen:] Get your cards and play with them.
[Jonathan:] We ain't got some.
[Kathleen:] There's some er in the drawer. Pick them
[Jonathan:] They ain't all in there.
[Susan:] [sigh]
[Kathleen:] They've all gotta sorted out... sort them out.
[June:] Yeah so it sounds as, he's got a lot of skeletons in his cupboard.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Robert:] Yes.
[Susan:] Then he had the cheek to tell me Joey erm... Joey had a lot of skeletons in his. I thought well I dunno who's got the worst out of them two.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] No neither do I.
[Susan:] At least I don't think Joey's got any children.
[June:] I think we could write a book about our family, what goes on with... someone ha going out with someone else and... blimey!
[Susan:] [LAUGHTER] I feel a bit boring compared to everybody else [].
[June:] So do I.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] Bugger me, they've had some fun. [LAUGHTER]
[June:] [LAUGHTER] Haven't they just [].
[Geoffrey:] Sounds like it.
[Susan:] Yeah well they all seem to be bloody happy though don't they?
[Robert:] The tragedy of it is though he's paying for it now with his kidney problems.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Well that ain't got nothing to do with his kidney problems.
[Robert:] You don't know what disease he picked up
[Kathleen:] You don't know what he's what
[Susan:] Well he didn't. You know what caused his kidney problem in the first place. He's always had high blood pressure and never had it treated.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Susan:] And what it does, it eventually it breaks down your kidneys.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] What, he knew he had it?
[Susan:] No he didn't know he had high blood pressure. And it wasn't just... it was by pure coincidence, I mean his kidneys would have stopped anyway, that bloke thumped him in the pub....
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Susan:] Accid you know, came up behind him and thought he
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] mistook him for somebody else and thumped him and knocked
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] nearly knocked him unconscious. And he had, kept getting bad, and he'd had bad heads oh for years... but he just thought that was, he was one of them people that got bad heads. And he went to the doctor... and the doctor said well you haven't got anything wrong with your skull but I'll take your blood pressure.... He took his blood pressure and he said well this is astronomically high. He said erm I shall ha I'll have to send you up the hospital and you'll have to have a... you know
[Kathleen:] Scan, didn't he? He had a scan.
[Susan:] scan and that. So he went up and had a scan and they s... they checked it and of course when they checked the scan they noticed that his kid one of his kidneys hadn't been functioning for a long time. One of them was useless.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Susan:] And they said that... that erm... he'd got to erm... what did he say?... He'd gotta have these tests for this other kidney.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Erm... when they tested it they said that one was near to failure anyway and that was what was, been causing his bad heads and it was just by pure coincidence... that bloke hitting him, that brought it to light.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Otherwise he was, kidneys... he would have just collapsed.
[June:] Yeah but he ain't rejected this kidney he's had has he?
[Susan:] Well he's on steroids.
[Kathleen:] He's having a lot of problems isn't he?
[Susan:] He's on steroids. He he can't, never come off steroids.
[Kathleen:] Is he still fat?
[June:] Cor he looks
[Geoffrey:] Well he's saying that that bloke mistook him for somebody else then? Is that what
[Susan:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Well he didn't....
[Kathleen:] He didn't
[Geoffrey:] I can assure you I kn he knew exactly who he was.
[Susan:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] Yeah that that chap at the
[Geoffrey:] You see what happened was he nearly knocked his kids over.
[June:] He cut him up or something didn't he?
[Geoffrey:] He come flying round that bend near mums and nearly... his kids were on the side of the road and he come through there
[Susan:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] and he knew who it was see cos he goes up the pub same as he does. And th obviously there aren't that many American cars around.
[June:] So he was waiting for him?
[Geoffrey:] And that's why he went to the toilet without
[Susan:] Yeah but apparently apparently that weren't hi his Am that was his American car that nearly hit them but th Brian had sold that to a bloke down in down your mum's road.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Susan:] Down your road. That's why he thought it was Brian.
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[Susan:] Eh?
[Geoffrey:] A Alan?
[Susan:] Yeah that was him!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Susan:] That weren't Brian. Cos... Brian had sold the car to him.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Susan:] Because... he said the bloke
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] thought that was him in the car but it wasn't cos
[Geoffrey:] Oh I know what you mean yeah.
[Susan:] he'd got the silver one hadn't he, then?
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[Susan:] He sold the blue one
[Geoffrey:] Yeah? He said, yeah
[Susan:] the blue one
[Geoffrey:] that's right he's still got it the bloke has, yeah.
[Susan:] Yeah well that was... that was him.
[Geoffrey:] Was it?
[Susan:] That wasn't [LAUGHTER] Brian [].
[Geoffrey:] Pity he didn't hit him... cos he's a big man.
[Susan:] Well cos he went to po he thumped Brian. Didn't even look at him, thumped him from behind you see? Hit him
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] straight in the back.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Course he fell and hit his head on the washbasin.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[June:] It's surprising thumping him in the back didn't kill him with the kidney failure innit?
[Kathleen:] Mm yeah.
[Susan:] Well I suppose that's what made him go unconscious really.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Did they have the ambulance and that?
[Susan:] Well no he went out but they... somebody ran in there and h well... B Brian and... I think Pat and... David were having a drink with him and I think they suddenly thought well he's been in there a long time.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] So Pat said go and see what he's doing.
[June:] And they found him on the floor?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Well he was on the floor weren't he? Ju just about coming round....
[Geoffrey:] easily have been
[June:] But that that bloke, that bloke he'll thump anybody won't he Geoff?
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah,.
[Susan:] Was it was it?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Mm.
[June:] He used to carry on with that
[Susan:] I always call him Else.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] carry on with that girl up the road there didn't he?
[Susan:] Who, Jasmine?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] She comes to the dentist she does.
[June:] What's she like now?
[Susan:] Exactly the same.
[Jonathan:] Cor! What a fire engine.
[June:] Is she married?
[Susan:] Yeah. But she's got a good job. Very clever girl. Very bright her.... Believe it or not.
[Kathleen:] Do you think that, that one was better than the other one, number Three?
[Robert:] Yeah that was a good one, number Two weren't it?
[Kathleen:] I like number Three better. Although I didn't watch that one, it's so innit?
[Susan:] I shall have to watch number Three cos I ain't seen number Three. That's the one I haven't seen. I've seen that one.
[Robert:] You have?
[Jonathan:] What?
[Kathleen:] Number Two.
[Robert:] I don't think he made any more after Three. He went into something else didn't he?
[Geoffrey:] I said to June yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] I said to June that's gonna be a bloody great house opposite us.
[Kathleen:] Yeah so she said.
[June:] Yeah I was telling mum.
[Geoffrey:] me! When I see it!
[June:] I said we could get get our house inside it.
[Geoffrey:] Cor and the rest.
[June:] Twice.
[Kathleen:] Don't want a big house
[Geoffrey:] I bet the house itself is as big as.
[Susan:] Perhaps they've got something else in mind Geoff. Perhaps they're gonna have guests or something.
[Geoffrey:] No. He just says... I mean he was saying to June
[June:] Well believe it or not that tells you how people are lucky. They've bui got out a new... what is it?
[Geoffrey:] Roof tile.
[June:] A new roof tile.... And this firm... he thinks because he's gonna have his roof done with these roof tiles, these new type... they're gonna give him them!
[Geoffrey:] They're looking for one sort of nice house to sort of show them more or less. It's in the
[June:] To show them.
[Geoffrey:] the Ideal Homes Exhibition this year. And they're looking for a nice house to put them on.
[June:] And he's gonna get his house re-roo
[Geoffrey:] They're gonna give them to him.
[June:] all roofed for nothing.
[Kathleen:] Cor, lovely.
[Susan:] Cor.
[June:] I said my god!... Cor! Money goes to money.
[Kathleen:] What is he giving up the farm then?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Well no.
[Kathleen:] No?
[Geoffrey:] No, what he was saying was... see he sold his house for... two hundred and thirty thousand I think he said.
[Susan:] Cor.
[Geoffrey:] But what he said was that erm... the house wanted a lot of money spending on it and he couldn't afford to do it.
[June:] Don't... put that on there Jonathan. It don't play.
[Geoffrey:] And the farm has, last three years has lost a lot of money... and er they had one farm at Colkirk which they've now sold... and er... they just sort of decided they wanted to make the, they had a big barn, a big white barn which was a real old barn... and he wanted to make that into a house. And er... the planning people said no, we won't let you do that... but you can knock the barn down
[June:] And build
[Geoffrey:] and build a house on there. But the stupid thing is it ain't where the barn was is it?
[June:] No, it's further round
[Geoffrey:] Further over. So he's now knocked the barn down and he's... erm... gonna have this new house built and
[Susan:] So he could have left the barn where it was?
[Geoffrey:] Well that's right. Yeah. Mind you I suppose it would have been close to the house.
[Susan:] Yeah, yah.
[Geoffrey:] So that's now give him more garden space sort of thing. But he said they've just... I mean this year the whole orchard. That
[June:] And he's gonna all them
[Geoffrey:] complete orchard opposite us they never picked one, that's a plum orchard and they ne never picked one single plum.
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah because you got a lot didn't you?
[Jonathan:] They did.
[Geoffrey:] Cos they, they didn't Jonathan cos he said we can't sell them.
[June:] Yeah but he never picked an we did. [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] Nobody wants them.
[June:] We picked them.
[Geoffrey:] And that's why he said you can go and pick as many plums as you like cos we just haven't
[June:] He never sold any of them.
[Kathleen:] it's common market innit?
[June:] Never sold a plum at all.
[Geoffrey:] He was saying what happened was the last three years there's been no plums about so the supermarkets have sort of found something else. Now there is plums... they don't want them.
[Susan:] Don't want them.
[June:] Yeah but he was s that was him who was saying... they use a lot of plums and puree stuff in babyfood. But now they're not using plums any more, they're using marrow.
[Geoffrey:] They use marrow cos it's cheaper.
[June:] Cos it's cheaper.
[Kathleen:] Yeah, oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] So that's what they use.
[June:] So, well you imagine what go into bloody babyfoods? Yuk.
[Susan:] Well marrows are good for babies.
[Kathleen:] I'll tell you what
[June:] That's all water and starch isn't it?
[Kathleen:] you buy some
[Susan:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] you buy jam today, it don't last very long. That goes mildewed. Goes off.
[June:] No it goes moul goes mouldy
[Susan:] Do you know why?
[June:] very quick.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Cos they're not allowed to put the preservatives in it any more.
[Geoffrey:] Oh you know that bit of cheese... we got from Superkey?
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] That... mum said she cu definitely cut it off.
[June:] What you mean?
[Geoffrey:] Cos we thought it was a bit what they had pre-wrapped?
[June:] But it was mouldy!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. But she said she definitely cut it off while she waited.
[June:] Geoff's mum got me a piece of cheese last week from Superkeys.
[Geoffrey:] On the Friday that was wasn't it?
[June:] On the Friday. I opened it on Saturday and it was mouldy.
[Geoffrey:] It was mouldy.
[Susan:] Well you should have rung them up.
[Robert:] Well that's naughty that is. Isn't it mum?
[Susan:] You should have rung them up.
[Geoffrey:] Well I thought perhaps it was a bit what was wrapped up
[June:] Wrapped up and we thought that had perhaps been
[Geoffrey:] But mum said no. Definitely not. She cut it off.
[Kathleen:] Well their Rose, she got a bit on the... once when she went up there and she come over here she said to us would we... take it up and change [cough]. She never noticed it when she was in there and when she turned it over... that was all green, all the way round.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Kathleen:] But they changed it.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[June:] Oh yeah cos he said he'd
[Geoffrey:] Got to press record and play.
[June:] I did press it.
[Geoffrey:] You didn't.
[June:] Perhaps I didn't press it hard enough.
[Geoffrey:] That's gotta click in, yeah.
[Jonathan:] Ah, did you press them at the same time?...
[June:] Are you supposed to press them at the same time?
[Geoffrey:] I dunno.
[Jonathan:] Yes.
[June:] on there.
[Kathleen:] Have you ever had that drink orange it's Taboo, Taboo?
[Susan:] Malibou.
[Kathleen:] Malbou or something.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] Malibou.
[Kathleen:] Malibou. Have you ever had it?
[Geoffrey:] It looks like an Old Spice bottle.
[Kathleen:] It's a li er
[Geoffrey:] A white bottle.
[Susan:] A white bottle.
[Kathleen:] Er a sort of erm
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] coconut.
[Jonathan:] A smeary colour.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Robert:] rum.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Coconut sort of stuff.
[Susan:] That's coconut and rum.
[Robert:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] No, this is erm... orange or lemon stuff. It's five ninety nine a bottle. She mix... they... what did she have with it?... I I'm sure it's Tayboo.
[Susan:] She's not talking about Tia Maria is she?
[Kathleen:] No.
[June:] Taboo?
[Kathleen:] No it's not Taboo... as I... I think it's
[June:] Tayboo.
[Kathleen:] T A B... I've gotta get her a bottle anyway
[Jonathan:] Double O?
[Kathleen:] when I go in Superkey. I know where it is.
[Jonathan:] Is it double O?
[Kathleen:] She said it's a lovely drink.
[June:] Aah! That's orange juice and we... we had a free sample one year. Them, that girl give a free sample.
[Kathleen:] You can get it in orange or lemon.
[Robert:] What you've gotta do is get the money of her.
[June:] Orange and erm... oh... like a vod
[Jonathan:] Apricot?...
[June:] What is it, vodka orange and
[Geoffrey:] God knows.
[June:] and something else. Jonathan don't do that mate....
[Kathleen:] Yeah erm... she put, she said Gateway's th they've been selling a lot and there is none in Lynn.
[June:] Well do you know
[Geoffrey:] Costs twenty pounds more that... hostess trolley in here than in Comet.
[June:] Cor.
[Geoffrey:] Cos didn't I say to you it's a hundred and nineteen quid and when I bought yours it was a hundred pound.
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Hundred and forty quid in Curry's.
[June:] What was I saying? Yeah and we was looking at the... the wines and spirits in there. Cos I like that, that erm Lambrusco...
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Susan:] What's that?
[June:] wine. Wine.
[Geoffrey:] Wine.
[June:] It's a white wine, it's ever so ni
[Susan:] Sounds like a bloody scooter. [LAUGHTER].
[Jonathan:] Lambresco.
[June:] Lambresco. And in there... how much was it?...
[Geoffrey:] In where?
[June:] In Gateways. That was three pound
[Robert:] Mind you don't swallow that. Good grief.
[Geoffrey:] Two forty nine wasn't it? Two forty nine was the ordinary wine.
[Robert:] You get that that'll choke you.
[June:] Yeah two forty nine was the ordinary wine.
[Jonathan:] What?
[Geoffrey:] That's two pound at the shop.
[June:] And it's two pound in my village shop. So I said to Geoff I'll get it up the village shop.
[Robert:] That'll get down the back of your throat, that'll choke you. Yeah
[Kathleen:] Well sometimes you can get things cheaper in your village shop.
[Robert:] No you wouldn't be ab once that's gone right down your windpipe you wouldn't get it up.
[June:] Yeah but you could get... Lambresco again but non-alcoholic....
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[June:] And that was what? That was only one forty nine a bottle. Which is cheap cos a lot of non-alcoholic wines are expensive.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Well I can't drink wine. It gives me a bad head.... Makes me makes... oh it
[Kathleen:] I like ginger wine.
[Susan:] gives me a bad head it do and it upsets me stomach.
[Kathleen:] Ain't too bad.
[June:] What do you like to drink?
[Susan:] As soon as I drink wine I next morning I feel like nothing on earth.
[Kathleen:] really.
[June:] Not bothered? No.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Susan:] I reckon that's the additives they put in it these days.
[Kathleen:] You've got two bottles of erm
[Jonathan:] [shouting] []
[June:] ?
[Kathleen:] upstairs.
[June:] Oh I might have one of them
[Jonathan:] Lift your toe... lift your foot up granddad.
[Kathleen:] What?
[Jonathan:] Life your foot up.
[Susan:] Have you got some?
[June:] You've got some. Joey bought you some.
[Jonathan:] Oh.
[Susan:] We drank ours. I ain't got any now.
[June:] I ain't drunk mine yet.... I ain't even started it.... I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago. That should be some powerful stuff.
[Susan:] We better have that then, for christmas.
[Kathleen:] We've got a bottle of apricot wine what we've had for about twelve years.
[June:] Bugger me.
[Geoffrey:] We had some apricot wine. Was that... oh it was vile weren't it?... Yeah.
[June:] That was bloody revolting. We tried it. Oh my god!
[Kathleen:] Elsie... give it to us, years ago.
[speaker005:] Ooh!
[Kathleen:] You know how long that is....
[Susan:] Oh I saw
[Kathleen:] Did you? How was she then?
[June:] Don't hurt granddad's toes Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] That won't hurt. I bet it don't hurt.
[speaker005:] wearing too much make up.
[Robert:] Try it on yourself a bit.
[speaker005:] Yeah.
[June:] [LAUGHTER] What []?
[Kathleen:] I'll tell you what erm Marion says she likes this drink anyway.
[Jonathan:] That don't hurt. Come on. [LAUGHTER]
[Robert:] Do hurt don't it?
[Kathleen:] I'm gonna get her some this week.
[Jonathan:] Put it in your fingers. Look it don't hurt your fingers.
[Geoffrey:] I thought Taboo was scent.
[Kathleen:] That is scent, Taboo. Taboo yeah it is scent.
[Robert:] No no.
[June:] Tabasco.
[Kathleen:] Tabasco. That
[Susan:] [shouting] Oh mother [].
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] Well it just suddenly come to me. I knew I'd seen it but I'd never tried it.
[Kathleen:] I ain't very good with the
[June:] Oh what is that then? That's orange juice and what then?
[Kathleen:] Something else she has. I'm just trying to... cos he offered me a drink and I said no.
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] I think it's orange juice and rum. White rum. You know erm
[Susan:] Well I thought it was something orange
[Kathleen:] But it, it's not just orange juice cos it's
[Susan:] I thought it was orange juice and vodka and something else.
[Kathleen:] Yeah something
[June:] That's
[Kathleen:] she mixes something with it. It's
[Susan:] Well it ain't a bloody mixer drink surely?
[Kathleen:] Well yeah she has it with... it's five fifty nine a bottle. Whatever it is.
[June:] Yeah but you could put something with it if you wanted.
[Susan:] Oh you mean she has lemonade or something like that?
[Kathleen:] Yeah I I think so.
[Susan:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] And she likes it.
[Susan:] All they do in that house is drink and smoke don't they?
[Kathleen:] And she said that they seem to be selling more
[June:] Oh Geoff it's dreadful in there.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] selling more of it now.
[Susan:] What you mean, it's dreadful in there.
[June:] Oh the smoke hit you, don't it mum?... Well when I go, I went u I just won't have washed my hair on Sundays cos if I go there to get mum, I know damn well my hair's gonna stink, so I might as well not bother....
[Robert:] Oh.
[Susan:] Oh.
[Robert:] Oh I see, you The arms don't go up and down then?
[Jonathan:] No.
[Robert:] like that do they?
[Jonathan:] No.... Oh yeah.... Oh he's bending his legs, waaah.
[Robert:] No.
[Jonathan:] And then... he can go... pow pow pow pow.
[Robert:] Oh. Where do you get that from?
[Jonathan:] Er......
[Kathleen:] I was just telling him, they've got big ones like that about that size I think in... in Woolworths.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] But you punch it they're sort of... flesh
[June:] [yawning] are they []?
[Kathleen:] like a flesh skin. And they've got their muscles. There's... three type, three different wrestlers and
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] course the kids can punch them about
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Kathleen:] and kick them and that. But they're quite er... fascinating really.
[Geoffrey:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah [].
[Jonathan:] I'd love one.
[Kathleen:] Oh aah [LAUGHTER].
[Geoffrey:] No doubt you would.
[June:] You'd like everything.
[Susan:] All the things you want for christmas Jonathan, I need a money tree.
[June:] She lovely for her age?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Shame you haven't got one.
[June:] We've got a picture of her in the health club in a leotard doing a pose like that. In a white leotard.
[Jonathan:] Oh it'd be good if we could make a money tree. And after we'd made one we'd get erm
[Kathleen:] Be nice if we had one. Wouldn't it?
[June:] And she's right, as you go down the
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] corridor... you go to the studio at the end then the toning tables there.
[Kathleen:] If you wanted a pound just
[June:] If you look down the corridor there's a big picture of her
[Jonathan:] Yeah fifty quid.
[June:] on the end wall... in this white leotard. And then I always say I definitely.
[Kathleen:] [yawning] He won't do too badly for christmas [].
[Geoffrey:] Yeah....
[June:] She's over fifty you know.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah ain't she.
[June:] Mind you, you don't know how much help they have do you?
[Geoffrey:] [LAUGHTER] No [].
[June:] Where is that? I was just
[Kathleen:] Old Les Dawson was good last night Geoff.
[Robert:] No, don't start that.
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER] No.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Kathleen:] Oh he made you have, he had
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER] I can't do it [].
[Kathleen:] made you fits of laughter.
[Robert:] No well you do, I don't.
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[Susan:] Win a christmas hamper....
[Jonathan:] He does.
[Kathleen:] What, this christmas or next christmas?
[Susan:] This christmas.
[Jonathan:] I can get this one.
[Susan:] Here Jonathan, there's a job for you.
[Jonathan:] O-oh....
[Susan:] Oh is it? [reading] three questions. How many... christmas trees in our cartoon []. Where's the cartoon? Oh this at the bottom.
[June:] I done a... one the other day... that was twenty five pence it was... some charity thing. You'd got
[Geoffrey:] Where do you find the money?
[Jonathan:] north west
[Susan:] [LAUGHTER] [cough] That's what I thought.
[Robert:] What?
[Jonathan:] One north.
[June:] What you had to do they're making a giant... they're making a giant
[Susan:] Here Jonathan, come on let's.
[June:] christmas pudding.
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[June:] And you've got to guess how much it will weigh.
[Susan:] you gotta do look you send it away.
[Geoffrey:] Oh aye yeah.
[June:] So I put seven hundred and sixty five
[Susan:] Do what it says.
[June:] pound... five ounces.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And the first prize is two hundred
[Jonathan:] What, in here?
[June:] fifty pounds worth of carpet.
[Susan:] Yeah. Get a pen. Don't write on the bit though. Just o
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[June:] So I thought I'll have a new carpet in my hall. [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Where should I write it down?
[Susan:] Well don't, let's see how we gotta do it.
[Geoffrey:] Wonder if got his carpet down Friday.
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] I knew all about it but he didn't
[Susan:] So you can do it on the picture then. You've gotta find the christmas trees.
[June:] What are them three doing?
[Susan:] And then, I know the answers to this one. [reading] In which traditional christmas dish would you find a sixpence []?...
[Kathleen:] Christmas pudding.
[Susan:] You don't know what a sixpence is do you?
[Jonathan:] Sixpence?
[Susan:] It's a coin.
[Jonathan:] Mm.
[Susan:] A little tiny coin like that.
[Geoffrey:] Two and a half p.
[Susan:] We used to have when we was kiddies.
[Kathleen:] Used to be sixpence.
[Susan:] And they used to put them in the christmas pudding.
[Geoffrey:] Like a five pence piece.
[Susan:] Yeah and now what's... with the, what about this one, [reading] well known christmas carol the something and the []....
[Jonathan:] Mm?
[Susan:] You gotta put a word
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] The holly and the ivy.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] Oh.
[Susan:] Now, that says a well known christmas carol. That goes the holly [singing] and the ivy [].
[Jonathan:] I was looking at this. [LAUGHTER]
[Susan:] Alright? So you find the trees
[Kathleen:] What's the next one?
[Susan:] That's it. You've gotta find the trees in that picture. He can do that.
[Jonathan:] [cough] oh
[June:] Whatever would he win?
[Susan:] Well, send it off and we win a hamper.
[Jonathan:] What, any old christmas trees?
[Susan:] Well yeah any of the christmas trees
[Robert:] Oh. He's got has he?
[Jonathan:] Like that, and like that
[Susan:] Yeah there's one there yeah, yeah all of them.
[Jonathan:] and like that?
[Geoffrey:] Erm Gordon's garage they've
[Jonathan:] I'll put a little... line on them.
[Geoffrey:] smashed all the lock off.
[June:] Why?
[Geoffrey:] . He said bloody ironic isn't it? Said [LAUGHTER] he said and the bloke got gone bananas he said, he
[Susan:] Here's one.
[Geoffrey:] call Wendy everything.
[June:] Why?
[Geoffrey:] Reckon it was a sort of put up job. So he said I got back on the phone to him and I said as far as I'm concerned you can get in your car and come down here and fetch back what's left. And you can sort out delivering yourself. So he said he rung him back six o'clock that night and he'd sort of calmed down a bit.
[Jonathan:] That's it.
[Geoffrey:] So he said er I've gotta buy erm Paul a new lock because he's got a big padlock and
[Kathleen:] Make sure
[Susan:] No, must be more than that cos we've got to win the prize.
[Geoffrey:] I dunno something else on the garage that.
[Jonathan:] One, two... one two three
[Geoffrey:] He said I thought
[June:] Er erm
[Jonathan:] four
[June:] it's alright still is it?
[Jonathan:] five
[Geoffrey:] Never asked him.
[Jonathan:] six
[June:] aren't we?
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[Jonathan:] six. How many is there?
[June:] Well I did, the other week I'll
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] We'll have to sort that out soon won't we?
[Susan:] They don't say. You've gotta find them. Keep looking and then ask nanny to have a look and see if she can see any.
[June:] Yeah cos otherwise spend a lot more aren't we?
[Geoffrey:] Mm....
[June:] Well he sai... he did say he was gonna come and see you about this money.
[Susan:] Jonathan don't chew the pen cos your make your teeth hurt.
[Geoffrey:] Mm. Well it's quid isn't it?
[June:] Well yeah and then
[Geoffrey:] I did make a note by the way for that. I sat
[June:] that's besides of what he's
[Geoffrey:] down and worked out how many days he's had the long wheelbase this week. And the two days for this year and the two days for the estate car.
[June:] Yeah?
[Jonathan:] That's it.
[June:] Well perhaps you can just... forget one of them and do the one.
[Susan:] Aah.
[Geoffrey:] Two of them weren't it? Fifty quid isn't it?
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Was it fifty?
[Kathleen:] They found it?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] with you?
[Susan:] I felt right faint then for a minute.
[Kathleen:] That's cos you was bending over.... Have you found them Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] I've found three four
[Robert:] not enough of them your brain.
[Jonathan:] Let's see er
[June:] Oh Susan does look a
[Jonathan:] one two
[June:] peculiar colour.
[Susan:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] three four
[Kathleen:] That's cos she was leaning right over you see.
[Susan:] got a big crease on his face look.
[June:] That's that lady's. Oh wait a minute, let me put me feet up.
[Jonathan:] [singing] []
[Susan:] Good god....
[Geoffrey:] don't she?
[June:] [LAUGHTER] [].
[Robert:] Change of life,
[Geoffrey:] [LAUGHTER] That'll bring your colour back [].
[Kathleen:] No, it's a bit too early yet.
[Robert:] you say that, what about Gertie next door. She start
[Kathleen:] Oh yes she
[Robert:] when she was thirty eight.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] What was that?
[Robert:] Change of life.
[Kathleen:] Change of life. Dad says it's change of life.
[Susan:] What did I do with that ticket mum?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Kathleen:] What ticket?
[Susan:] I want that.... That's for late night shopping at
[Geoffrey:] When did she start putting on weight?
[June:] Oh that's better.
[Susan:] Who, Gertie?
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Susan:] When she was thirty eight.
[Kathleen:] She was eighty one yesterday.
[June:] Was she really? Bless her.
[Kathleen:] Marian bought her a plant.
[Susan:] Do you remember er Mrs Jonathan?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[Susan:] What did she use to do to you?
[June:] [LAUGHTER] [].
[Jonathan:] She used to squash me.
[June:] Touch wood I wouldn't get as fat as Mrs.
[Geoffrey:] No. I wondered if it was something to do with the change.
[Susan:] She used to get hold of Jonathan
[Geoffrey:] That's what made me think, you know?
[Susan:] She used to get hold of Jonathan's face
[Geoffrey:] When she started getting fat.
[Susan:] and squeeze it.
[Jonathan:] Yeah that's it. Six.
[Kathleen:] Marian bought her a plant yesterday.
[Susan:] Oh did she?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Susan:] She's still doing that is she?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. [crockery crashes]
[June:] Oh crumbs.
[Geoffrey:] There's a cup down there June.
[June:] don't worry.... I'll pick them up.
[Geoffrey:] [singing] []
[Jonathan:] [singing] []
[Kathleen:] gotta christmas erm.
[June:] Is she?
[speaker005:] [singing] []
[Geoffrey:] Sarah's ready for her roof Bob.
[Robert:] Is she?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Robert:] Oh well.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, she's all
[Robert:] Fast workers then.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah
[June:] Cor and the brickwork
[Kathleen:] Has she got that Watson?
[Robert:] Can't be very good.
[Geoffrey:] What mate?
[June:] I'll tell you something that's better brickwork than that is beautiful brickwork.
[Susan:] Geoff can you look in that picture and see if you see any more christmas trees other than what Jonathan's marked.
[Kathleen:] Has she got dark bricks or light bricks?
[June:] No, she's got sort of a medium brick but she's got a brown mortar.
[Susan:] Have you got an envelopes I can stick?
[Kathleen:] No darling.
[June:] But that, that... that is innit Geoff? I've seen, I've I've not seen brickwork like it.
[Geoffrey:] No it's a.
[June:] It is immaculate.
[Kathleen:] Why what do you want?
[Susan:] I was gonna do that competition but I've gotta car we've got one at home. I'll do it from home.
[Kathleen:] Well cut it out and do it then.
[Robert:] Oh.
[June:] That is really good innit Geoff?
[Robert:] You don't usually get good brickwork when they're piecework though....
[June:] Well he's not piecework is he?
[Jonathan:] [singing] []
[Robert:] he ain't been long doing it....
[June:] Well it's only a bungalow is it?...
[Robert:] Took six months to build that.
[Susan:] Ruth Rendell tonight.
[June:] There's three men been working on it all the time.
[Jonathan:] Oh no.
[Kathleen:] it was the end of the one
[Jonathan:] I hate Ruth Rendell.
[Susan:] Oh I love Ruth Rendell.
[Kathleen:] We ain't, we ain't been watching
[June:] I get fed up with it.
[Susan:] Oh no, I like it.
[Kathleen:] It's a new one starting
[June:] I may go to bed early and read me books.
[Kathleen:] New one's starting next week.
[Susan:] I read them, I've read the books some of the Ruth Rendell books.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Oh if I was me and I was on my own I'd ha I'd have to have the telly in the bedroom.
[Susan:] Well how can I get it in me bedroom? I ain't got an aerial in there.
[Jonathan:] Get one then.
[June:] I tell you what I'd like to do in Jonathan's. You know he's got his telly standing on that dressing table? What I want, you can bu
[Geoffrey:] portable innit?
[Susan:] Yeah but
[June:] You can buy a little thing
[Geoffrey:] June's portable aerial works alright.
[June:] My portable aerial works lovely.
[Geoffrey:] Used to have it in his bedroom. Well in fact
[June:] What I want to do
[Susan:] What do you do then, with it? Just plug it in the mains?
[June:] Course you do.
[Geoffrey:] There's... yeah, you you plug... the electric plug you plug in the mains.
[Susan:] Yeah?
[Geoffrey:] And the other aerial is just... plugged in the back where the aerial goes.... There's a little tiny plug and... that works off that aerial okay.
[Susan:] Well I have got a plug and lead hanging out. Do you just switch that into the aerial socket?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. Put that in where the aerial goes. Yeah.
[Susan:] Oh well I could have a look at that then.
[Geoffrey:] And then you have to what you'll have to do... erm... don't bother to change the telly for the moment. Just get hold of the aerial and just sort of twist it round and see if you can a good enough picture. If you can't
[June:] Well I'll get a lo... well
[Geoffrey:] well then you'll have to set up again with your controls.
[June:] that telly was mine but... I've got a lovely picture when I used to have it in the kitchen. I used to sit there...
[Susan:] What, without having it sort of with an aerial?
[June:] Yeah. No aerial.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Oh well I didn't think I could do that without
[June:] That was a nice telly that.
[Geoffrey:] The only time you don't get a very good p if the atmospherics is a bit haywire.
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] And if that's a damp night or something
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] That goes a bit haywire then.
[Susan:] I'll have to try it and see how I get on.
[June:] Yeah well what I want for Jonathan's bedroom, you can buy them. You put them in the... sort of the corner, Mr 's got one, you extend your telly.
[Susan:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah well one of them'd be handy for Jonathan's bedroom
[Jonathan:] Yeah but not too high.
[June:] No, not too high
[Geoffrey:] Who's bedroom?
[June:] Yeah to put that portable telly on... and then he's got all the space on the top for his computer.
[Kathleen:] Can I pinch his pen for a minute?
[June:] Cos there ain't a lot of space for the... is there?
[Jonathan:] Hey mum!... There is one thing I thought of. You know I can't find anywhere to put my joysticks and my... light guns. Could we put some little holders underneath that little... square bit?
[June:] Well yeah we could... I tell you what
[Jonathan:] Makes a lot, the from there.
[June:] we could put on.
[Jonathan:] What?
[June:] We could put under there to hang some bits and pieces up, some of them little sticker things. Then you can hang some up under
[Jonathan:] What sticker things?
[Geoffrey:] Sticker things?
[June:] Like mum's got her tea towels on. Or put some... well I don't wanna start drilling holes in it.
[Jonathan:] No. You don't have to drill holes in it.
[June:] What do you wanna hang on it then?
[Kathleen:] What do you win?
[Jonathan:] The light gun. Cos I haven't got nowhere to put it.
[Robert:] Drill holes in what June?
[Susan:] worth of Saint Michael's food and drink.
[June:] His dressing table.
[Robert:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] You don't have to drill them though.
[June:] Yeah well mum's... yeah but you can get them
[Robert:] You'd have to drill holes in the wall.
[June:] Well a desk. You can get them little hooks like I hang my tea cloths on. Some pretty little ones. If you put it underneath the desk, a few of them. And then the light gun could slot in that.
[Susan:] That's, have you ever tried a stollen June?
[June:] Pardon?
[Jonathan:] They come off though.
[Susan:] That's like a christmas cake
[June:] A stollen?
[Susan:] Yeah. With, with erm marzipan in, in the actual inside. And when you cut it
[June:] Never tried it.
[Susan:] you get the marzipan in er it's lovely. And they have all this dusted icing on the outside. Mr 's wife made it. and I had a bit there.
[Kathleen:] Well you make them then?
[Susan:] I don't, you can buy them.
[June:] You're not making a christmas cake are you?
[Kathleen:] No.
[June:] I've got a dundee cake....
[Kathleen:] I'll perhaps buy one or...
[Robert:] What?
[Kathleen:] Christmas cake. I'd like to
[Robert:] We'll only waste it.
[June:] Well they do
[Kathleen:] I'd like to make one but
[Susan:] Well make one then.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [singing]
[Susan:] Well make a little one. And I'll ice it for you.
[June:] Well I got a little Dundee cake.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Light it. Whoosh.
[Kathleen:] I've gotta do me own
[Robert:] And I bet nobody'll eat that.
[June:] Well I ain't bothered cos Geoff'll eat it for his lunch.
[Susan:] Well if you win this Geoff you get twelve... twelve
[Geoffrey:] Cor I dunno
[Susan:] bottles of champagne.
[Jonathan:] I bet I can make you blink.
[Robert:] Mm.
[Susan:] Champagne Saint Paul's. Six bottles of chateaux
[Jonathan:] I bet you five pound I can make you blink.
[Susan:] looks like not on red wine. Six bottles of Chablis
[Robert:] Didn't blink.
[Susan:] premiere white wine and twelve bottles of bucks fizz.
[Jonathan:] You did then.
[Susan:] Twelve bottles
[Robert:] No.
[Susan:] of sangria. Twelve bottles of Planters punch and two port decanters. Schluup.
[Geoffrey:] Bloody norah.
[June:] You like a drop of port don't you Geoff?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] A section selection of fruit juices totalling thirty pounds
[Robert:] Didn't blink.
[Susan:] and malt selection as well.
[Jonathan:] You blinked then.
[Kathleen:] You want... that boiled fruit tastes nice.
[June:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] I made you one.
[Susan:] Oh I've made, you can make... oh me and you used to make them didn't we? Cos father used to like them.
[Jonathan:] You blinked then.
[June:] Well do you know if I'd thought about it
[Jonathan:] whoosh.
[June:] No don't Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] Got to make you go whoosh.
[June:] If I'd have thought about it, that wedding cake she give me
[Susan:] We could have took the icing off that.
[June:] If I'd have took that icing off... that cake was as moist as anything, I could have re-marzipanned that
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] and re-iced that for christmas.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but what about for me dinner?
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] But Geoff has eaten it.
[Kathleen:] Did you a favour there didn't she Geoff?
[June:] I I sent his
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I sent his friend, cos his friend loves cherries
[Robert:] That cake's three year old.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] so I sent his friend bi when I cut it there's some bits got ever so many cherries in... so I sent his friend up with the cherries in.
[Susan:] Jonathan. Don't keep going in them drawers.
[June:] And what did you do?
[Robert:] Aah!
[Geoffrey:] I give him the cherries and ate the cake [LAUGHTER] myself [].
[June:] Give him the cherries and ate the cake and then Geoff told him.
[Geoffrey:] I said I gotta tell you something. He said what? I said I gotta come clean with you. He said what? I said you know you've been having them cherries? He said yeah. I said well actually the cake was for you as well.... You thieving git [LAUGHTER] he said [].
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] I said my wife has been giving me two and three bits every day thinking you're having one of them.
[June:] And Geoff was
[Geoffrey:] Bloody hell he said.
[June:] and Geoff was eating them.
[Geoffrey:] So now every day he looks to make sure how many I got.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] I shall put him a bit in tomorrow though.
[Robert:] What happened that lump we had then?
[June:] He don't have no dinner. His wife don't pack him up
[Kathleen:] Well
[June:] no dinner.
[Robert:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] had last week and I threw the other little bit out.
[Geoffrey:] And he's a bloody great fat bloke and he sits here all day and
[June:] He's huge!
[Geoffrey:] has a cup of coffee for his dinner. I said
[Robert:] Didn't Della speak to you today then?
[June:] No.
[Geoffrey:] No-one in mate, no.
[Robert:] What?
[June:] No. She come downstairs... well not for the first half hour. She came downstairs, she slopped all the way through to the kitchen... made herself a cup of tea... and sat
[Robert:] Was she dressed?
[June:] down... n yeah she was dressed... sat down and ha she didn't even, she walked past Auntie Alice, she didn't even say good morning grandma good morning nan or anything....
[Robert:] Yeah?
[June:] And then she slopped herself down, got a fag and just about choked me and Auntie Alice out and then she did start to speak. So well she obviously needs a fag and a cup of tea before she
[Robert:] Well she's only just joined the human race when she's had a fag and a cup of coffee.
[June:] Well that was quar that was about twenty past eleven.
[Robert:] Yeah I know but I mean the, the fag and the coffee revived her.
[Susan:] And she'd only just got up?
[June:] was still in bed.
[Geoffrey:] What a mess.
[June:] Well Auntie Alice said you can't wonder they stay in bed. She said... they bought theirselves a a bottle of brandy last night and erm
[Robert:] Oh christ, that's why then.
[June:] some Babycham and she said they'd sat there and drank a bottle of brandy and Babycham all night she said.
[Geoffrey:] Good grief.
[Kathleen:] Good goodness.
[Susan:] Goodness me.
[Geoffrey:] Bloody alcoholics then.
[June:] Well they have erm three bottles of lager on a Saturday night and they're them big bottles like that, you know them plastic bottles? Three bottles they drink between the two of them.
[Kathleen:] Bugger me.
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[Susan:] Do they really?
[Geoffrey:] Well last Wednesday my supervisor put on my clock card A A. So I said why?... I said I've been sitting here all lunchtime trying to sort out what bloody A A is apart from Alcoholics Anonymous.... A A? I said on my clock card.... Authorized absence he said. [LAUGHTER] I said oh. I said I was getting quite concerned about something []. I thought you thought I was on the wagon or something.
[June:] Couldn't you think of that?
[Geoffrey:] I just couldn't, I thought... I thought it'd got something to do with absence. I kept thinking absence absence absence
[Susan:] I'm gonna send that off. Try and win that.
[June:] We had, that's like we had a letter the other day we had to sign for Jonathan. [cough] That... and I said to Geoff what's D O B?
[Susan:] Date of birth.
[Kathleen:] Date of birth.
[June:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] Dob.
[June:] Dob. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Dob.
[Susan:] Well cos see I do DOB all [LAUGHTER] the time so I know what it is [].
[June:] Yeah well I I said to Geoff... I thought about it, but I did that come to me quite quickly but Geoff couldn't think of it could you Geoff?
[Susan:] That's that's like erm... when we had a new girl once we put on the card BANW banw.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Susan:] So she said... what does banw mean?
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[Susan:] [LAUGHTER] She said I can't work that out []. She said I've thought of everything. I said broken appointment no warning.
[Robert:] That DOB could really mean
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[Robert:] a lot of things. You can find a lot of
[Susan:] Innit?
[Robert:] words for that.
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Broken appointment no warning. Mean they didn't let us know.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] But then there's another one, D T C. She she said [LAUGHTER] what's D T C []? Said dental treatment complete. In fact all I do is two lines like that. A line like that and a line like that. Cos that means treatment's complete.
[June:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Susan:] But it's, we use... we use all little sort of erm... symbols and things as well. And I mean if, not unless, if you don't know them, you have to learn them.
[Kathleen:] round the home there's
[Susan:] I mean I used to, I can chart the American way you see cos but the American way is different to the British way cos we just count number one to eight but with an American they go one one, one two, one three, one four, one five, one six and then they come this way.... And then that one is two one, two two, two three, two four like that. And then you go this way and that's three... three one, three two three's four. Then you go there and that's four one, four two. So you've got tooth number forty one, thirty eight, you see... but you ain't got all them teeth in your head.
[June:] Blimey. How confusing.
[Susan:] Well I said that's a complicated way but I have to do that when I go over to Marks and Spencers you see.
[June:] Why do you have to do it over Marks and Spencers?
[Susan:] Well because they cut, they chart that way. That's continental as well. [yawning] We'll probably have to go to that [] if we join the Common Market. That'll fuse confuse every dental nurse in the king in erm England.
[Geoffrey:] Cor. It's dark out there.
[Susan:] In England I think. Well it's getting late.
[June:] What's the time?
[Geoffrey:] Is it?
[Susan:] Is it twenty five to five, dad?...
[Robert:] Nearer twenty to five nearly, yeah.
[June:] Yeah we shall have to go soon Geoff cos you've gotta take that man back.
[Geoffrey:] Alright. Yeah I gotta take Paul back, yeah.
[Susan:] I'll have to have a lift.
[June:] And then I'm...
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] We've gotta see if we can get Susan's coat drop in.
[Jonathan:] Did you hear that one? I go whoosh.
[June:] If anybody's there.
[Susan:] Oh please if you
[June:] Well if they're not there I'll ask her to ring me
[Susan:] If they're not in
[Jonathan:] [shouting] []
[June:] tomorrow morning.
[Susan:] If you could.
[June:] Well yeah I'm trying my best Susan. I've tried twice.
[Susan:] Well yeah, I know. If you can't don't worry.
[June:] But that is easier to leave it at Pam's you see.
[Susan:] And then she can pick it up when she ca got the time.
[June:] Then Sally can pick it up.... Cos I don't know what state, I don't know whether Sally's gone back to work yet or not.
[Susan:] What is wrong with her?
[June:] Well she had
[Geoffrey:] Nerves weren't it?
[June:] sort of virtually nervous breakdown.
[Susan:] What caused that then?
[June:] Dunno.
[Susan:] Was it the shock of telling her family she was expecting?
[Geoffrey:] Well that and I think the house... you know was sort of
[June:] Well
[Susan:] Didn't she want a baby then?
[Geoffrey:] house and everything.
[June:] Oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.... I think she... well and the house was certainly getting on her nerves but... whether it was... because she was ill it was getting on her nerves I don't know.
[June:] You see she was being si she's been sick continuously day and night.
[Kathleen:] Oh dear.
[Robert:] Who's that?
[June:] Sally.
[Susan:] Bet she's lost some weight then?
[Geoffrey:] Certainly has.
[Robert:] Who has?
[June:] Sally.
[Geoffrey:] She was never very fat anyway was she? She'd lost a bit of weight anyway hadn't she?
[Robert:] Sally who?
[June:] Sally.
[Robert:] Don't know her.
[Geoffrey:] Ron's daughter.... Ron's oldest daughter.
[Robert:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] Well she's expecting isn't she?
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Whatever does the daughter say?
[June:] Dunno.
[Geoffrey:] Dunno.
[Susan:] Emma.
[Robert:] Is that that one that lives in a caravan or did live in one?
[June:] Emma what?
[Geoffrey:] No, she used to live in a flat down Waltham She now lives
[Robert:] Oh yeah, that's right yeah.
[Geoffrey:] just round the corner from fruit packers.
[Susan:] Does Emma ever... get in contact with her dad?
[June:] No.
[Geoffrey:] Only christmas times. He brings a present down....
[Kathleen:] How old is Emma now then?
[Geoffrey:] .
[June:] Well she must be thirteen.
[Geoffrey:] Well yeah. She's been at grammar school a good year hasn't she?
[June:] She's about thirteen. She'll be four
[Kathleen:] Only you said Sally's having another baby?
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Mm. Father's this chap she's now... they've bought a house down near fruit packing.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] She's been going out with him two or three year hasn't she June?
[Kathleen:] Oh. Oh.
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] And now they've bought this house, so
[June:] He's got er sons of eighteen and nineteen.
[Kathleen:] Oh dear.
[Jonathan:] Nanny.
[Susan:] Has he been married before? Obviously.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Have you got any thread?
[Kathleen:] No.
[Jonathan:] Cotton?
[Susan:] What'll happen to his boys then?
[Kathleen:] No.
[Jonathan:] You don't
[June:] Dunno.
[Geoffrey:] I dunno.
[Kathleen:] Not handy. Why? What do you want it for?
[Geoffrey:] Judy her name was.
[Jonathan:] I just need about that much.
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[Susan:] [LAUGHTER] []. What where they, Punch and Judy?
[Kathleen:] What do you want it for?
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[Jonathan:] I just need that much.
[Susan:] Mum, he's a Punch and Judy man.
[Kathleen:] Who?
[June:] Sally's boyfriend. Does Punch and Ju
[Kathleen:] Oh my gawd.
[Susan:] [LAUGHTER] Mum wouldn't like that. Mum's frightened [].
[June:] [LAUGHTER] You wouldn't like that mother would you? You hate it don't you []?
[Kathleen:] Oh I hate them. Can't stick them.
[Susan:] Mum's frightened of Punch and Judy.
[Geoffrey:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah [].
[June:] [LAUGHTER] Mother's frightened of Punch and Judy []!
[Susan:] It virtually terrifies her.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Why have you been frightened of it mum?
[Kathleen:] I dunno, I've always been frightened and clowns. I don't like them.
[Jonathan:] clowns?
[Susan:] Well no good taking you
[Geoffrey:] No I ain't really I ain't really into clowns I must admit.
[Kathleen:] If anybody bought me a clown
[Jonathan:] Have you got a
[Kathleen:] doll I'm afraid I'd have to give it back to them.
[Susan:] Jonathan's got a clown doll hasn't he June?
[Kathleen:] I couldn't, oh.
[Susan:] No he ain't that's a... that's a black one.
[Geoffrey:] I'm a bit that way about garden gnomes.
[Kathleen:] But Punch and Judy
[Susan:] What's that doll I bought him?
[Kathleen:] er when he starts that noise. Ooh.
[Susan:] garden fete that time.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Golliwog.
[Geoffrey:] He also does these... he hires
[June:] Golliwog. He's still got it.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] out this castle
[Jonathan:] Yeah it sleeps.
[June:] still got it.
[Susan:] Yeah.
[June:] You bought him that from the garden fete.
[Susan:] Cos we said you never get a golliwog and we saw one and we
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] liked it and he said what's that? And
[June:] Yeah you never very often see a golliwog do you?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Kathleen:] No because race.
[Jonathan:] Nanny. And have you got a button?
[Geoffrey:] I work with one.
[Kathleen:] No... I dunno....
[Susan:] [LAUGHTER]...
[June:] [LAUGHTER] []
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Don't think we're race but
[Kathleen:] That's
[June:] I can't see nothing wrong with golliwogs anyway.
[Jonathan:] button [LAUGHTER].
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Susan:] Yeah but you don't very often get a black doll do you?
[June:] You can't get them. Oh talking about dolls
[Susan:] Well why can't you get a black doll?
[Geoffrey:] You can I suppose.
[Kathleen:] I've seen black dolls.
[Susan:] Not very often though.
[Kathleen:] No but I'm sure I've seen one somewhere.
[June:] I tell you what I saw on the telly this morning. They showed, that was on the children's thing where they do the toys. You know how they sort of bombard the telly with toys
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] and children want them all don't they?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] There was two dolls, a boy and a girl doll and the boy was actually... like a boy.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[June:] If you know what I mean.
[Kathleen:] You don't very often see that do you?
[June:] No but it was. Definitely.
[Geoffrey:] We see this little old boy walking round town
[Susan:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] today... and he'd got a cap on and he'd got long blond hair hadn't he?
[June:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah. He looked li [].
[Geoffrey:] And Jonathan said it looked like [LAUGHTER] [].
[June:] It looked like a little man.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] Yeah it did, it looked just like a little old man.
[June:] Oh you would have liked the dog what er was a woman... outside, they was eating their things outside cos they'd got a dog
[Susan:] You're not allowed to have dogs down there. You know that.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. She's got it.
[June:] Well there's no end of dogs.
[Susan:] It's illegal.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah there's a white scottie dog I saw.
[June:] There's a white scottie dog.
[Susan:] That's illegal. You mustn't have dogs down the council.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah they
[June:] There was no end of people walking dogs through there.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Yeah well it, that's illegal.
[June:] Well I can't help that if they were there.
[Kathleen:] Was there many shops open?
[June:] There wasn't any.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Kathleen:] Cos a lot of them's open today ain't they? Gateways
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and all that.
[June:] What today?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] First of December.
[Geoffrey:] That was on the telly last night weren't it?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. They're
[June:] I might go round
[Susan:] Yeah but it's only the supermarkets and that isn't it?
[Kathleen:] Supermarkets and the
[Robert:] There ain't none in Lynn now is there?
[Geoffrey:] I said to June
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Halifax Building Society's up for sale.
[Kathleen:] Gateways.
[June:] And Sainsburys.
[Kathleen:] Sainsburys.
[June:] Halifax?
[Robert:] No
[Kathleen:] Tesco's.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, near the Wimpy there. Great big sign up for sale.
[Robert:] go up the town
[Kathleen:] Are they?
[June:] Cor that'll be I'm er we said when that big new Tesco's open
[Geoffrey:] Sort of erm... near the computer place.
[June:] There's great big new Tesco's in Wisbech
[Susan:] Oh yeah but they've moved.
[June:] soon isn't there?
[Geoffrey:] Have they? Oh.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Are they right are they right on the corner of, you know where Midland Bank is?
[June:] That'll be good in there. I shall be going there I think.
[Kathleen:] Well Gateways is getting terribly expensive.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Susan:] You look
[June:] I know!
[Susan:] on that corner.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well we was only saying we'd spent eighty something odd
[Geoffrey:] Not what used to be a restaurant?
[Susan:] Yeah.
[June:] pound... no, ninety one
[Jonathan:] [shouting] Yeehaa []
[Geoffrey:] Oh shop weren't it?
[Kathleen:] This is what I'm
[June:] [shouting] Jonathan []. I'm trying to talk to nanny.
[Susan:] Yeah.
[June:] Er ninety one pound in there.
[Geoffrey:] Ah.
[June:] And you couldn't really see much what we'd got, could you Geoff?
[Jonathan:] Dad.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Susan:] Oh, you're doing one of them.
[June:] But we had eighty one pounds... in stamps.... So that helped out a lot.
[Kathleen:] But I've noticed they, they're go... they're, a lot of their things have gone up tremendously in there.
[Geoffrey:] Well straw I picked up strawberry jam... and that was sixty two
[June:] That used to be for
[Geoffrey:] and it us was forty seven weren't it?
[June:] Yeah it was forty seven.
[Geoffrey:] From sixty two.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[June:] Now it's sixty two.... I said this,thi this next year I'm gonna try and m make no end of jam. Cos Geoff only eats strawberry... well I oughta make it all really cos that'd be far cheaper wouldn't it?
[Robert:] It'd go mildew though... you keep it too long.
[Kathleen:] Oh no, ours don't Bob.
[June:] Not if you keep the top on.
[Robert:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] Mine's never gone mouldy. But I mean
[Geoffrey:] No it ain't.
[Kathleen:] we bought a like some strawberry jam in in... Superkey the other week and I had
[Robert:] I didn't think that was mildew.
[Kathleen:] Yeah well no that's what Dorothy did the marmalade on the top.
[Robert:] gone bloody mildew and she has home made isn't it?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Kathleen:] And er
[June:] Yeah well you know why. Cos her house is a bit damp.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Robert:] That ain't got nothing to do with it.
[Kathleen:] Anyway, I had to throw half of it away last week when I went to... make some jam tarts. I said to your dad we ain't had that in here five minutes.
[Susan:] Well I I've got some. And mine isn't.
[Kathleen:] Oh. Mine did. I opened a jar last week.
[Susan:] In fact I haven't even opened mine yet.
[Geoffrey:] Ours don't get bloody chance to get mildew on.
[June:] Well I'll... I'll tell [cough] No Geoff has a jar a week you see.
[Geoffrey:] Bloody do.
[June:] A jar and a half some weeks.
[Kathleen:] But
[June:] We have one of th we have a la we have a large jar of coffee of that a week, and we have er a jar and a half of jam a week.
[Susan:] Who eats, drinks and eats all that?
[June:] He does.
[Geoffrey:] I do.
[Susan:] You little glutton you.
[Kathleen:] Oh
[June:] I have two pound of butter a week.
[Geoffrey:] I have three rounds of toast and jam each morning.
[June:] I have I have two
[Geoffrey:] And a bowl of cornflakes.
[June:] I have two pound of butter a week. Six loaves of bread.... A big jar of coffee.... Erm... jar and a half of jam. Don't I?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And that and that's without all the rest of the groceries.
[Geoffrey:] Hundred and ninety teabags....
[June:] No I don't....
[Susan:] Who drinks all the coffee? Do you drink a lot of it?
[June:] He does.
[Geoffrey:] I do.
[June:] He does.
[Susan:] How many cups of coffee do you have a day then?
[Geoffrey:] Well I have one in the morning
[Jonathan:] Nanny. Can you remember this?
[June:] Yeah then he has a flask you see.
[Geoffrey:] Then I have there's three in the flask.
[Susan:] Yeah, I suppose you
[June:] See and then he has
[Geoffrey:] Then I buy one at work as well.
[Susan:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] For the afternoon break and sometimes dinner.
[Kathleen:] I used to do that I'll have you know.
[Geoffrey:] Sometimes I have coke for my dinner.
[Susan:] I sometimes think I drink a lot of co tea, but I don't drink that much then. I dr
[June:] I d I I drink two or three cups of coffee a morning.
[Geoffrey:] I'm there twelve hours I I.
[June:] But then I don't drink any more. I don't drink any all afternoon, coffee and tea a lot.
[Kathleen:] I like tea better than coffee.
[June:] Well I wouldn't, I wouldn't drink er coffee now, this time of a night cos that gives me a bad head.
[Susan:] Well it keeps me awake....
[June:] Well I don't need nothing to keep
[Kathleen:] You can always have tea.
[June:] me awake Susan. I'm awake half the time
[Geoffrey:] I don't think anything'd keep me awake.
[June:] I was saying... I can virtually survive on four hours sleep, I can, at the moment.
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] Could you give me couple of hours?
[Susan:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] Yeah you can have a couple.
[Kathleen:] As you get older you're not supposed to need so much.
[Robert:] You don't sleep so much as you get older.
[Geoffrey:] Well I reckon I need bloody more.
[Kathleen:] You don't need so you shouldn't
[Geoffrey:] Cor!
[June:] Well Geoffrey seems to need more.
[Kathleen:] You shouldn't need so much.
[Geoffrey:] I stagger upstairs and I ooh ooh ooh. Sometimes that's too much effort to get my clothes off.
[June:] Geoff could go to sleep at seven....
[Geoffrey:] Bloody right too....
[June:] Well you see I go to bed, but I don't always go to sleep. Sometimes I'm reading till twelve
[Kathleen:] To read. Yeah.
[June:] I read till twelve... and then I'm up again at five. Half past five.
[Geoffrey:] I went to bed the other night. Did June tell you? I went to bed Friday night and my head was like a... cor that was... really, all round here... that was really sort of hurting. I said I've got to go to bed.
[Susan:] You probably had a migraine.
[Geoffrey:] Went to bed and I'd got to bed and I'd been there I don't know how long
[June:] And you said you was feeling a bit better didn't you?
[Geoffrey:] And Joey rings up and said I can't get down. Can you deliver that car? So I had to get out of bed, get dressed and go down bloody Tilney again.... The old git.
[Kathleen:] You mustn't lose that Jonathan.
[June:] [yawning] He messed us about this weekend didn't he? He really did [].
[Susan:] What's that?
[Geoffrey:] Never again....
[June:] [yawn]
[Susan:] pass my handbag up and I'll give you that money for the cat food.
[June:] Oh I know what I was gonna say to you.
[Geoffrey:] Yes.
[June:] Did you get any envelopes? Cos you've gotta... or are you gonna er sort that out with Susan about that
[Geoffrey:] What?
[June:] money for him across the road?
[Geoffrey:] Oh I'll give him a cheque some time this week. I don't wanna rush in to him.... He won't appreciate it if I do....
[June:] That's today the
[Geoffrey:] Mind you he come down from five hundred to two hundred and fifty so that's helped a bit.
[June:] Yeah well that's what I mean. You, I should give it him quick. That's what I would think
[Susan:] say if you'd done it I could have took it for you tomorrow or the next day. Well do it the next day then Geoff.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Have you got a pen there?
[Susan:] Drop it in and you can just put David on it.
[June:] I did have your pen mother. What did I do with it?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. Hopefully I should have another bang middle of the week so I, if I... give them both to you then I
[Jonathan:] Oh yeah and a plonker.
[June:] What did I do with it?
[Susan:] How much do I owe you mum?
[Kathleen:] I'm just gonna try and work it out....
[Robert:] Down the side of the chair?
[June:] No.
[Susan:] Here you are. Here's a pen.
[Kathleen:] Susan's got it....
[June:] Oh she's got it look.... I'm gonna tidy up a bit and
[Susan:] Jonathan just give nanny the pen darling.
[speaker005:] Don't keep tapping
[Jonathan:] Gotta put mark this somehow.
[Kathleen:] Erm,. It's on there. It's four thirty nine's, that's all. Four tins of meat.
[Susan:] Four thirty nine's Geoff?
[Geoffrey:] One fifty six.
[Kathleen:] And... with your... your s television stamp
[Susan:] Two
[Kathleen:] two fifty six.
[June:] Oh that reminds me, we've got to get a telly licence.
[Kathleen:] So
[Geoffrey:] I've got it. Took it down there for mum.
[June:] Oh that's done is it?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Finished? Oh good.
[Geoffrey:] I owe her a pound.
[June:] Oh good.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. Well it's not done
[Susan:] Did you have your stamps saved?
[Geoffrey:] I get them. Yeah.
[Susan:] Yeah I do cos it's
[June:] Well do you know Ken and Sally haven't have one for six months.
[Geoffrey:] Oh longer than that.
[June:] Longer than that?
[Susan:] Why haven't they got one?
[June:] Well she's alread they've already been done once.
[Geoffrey:] They were done once at the other house weren't they?
[June:] Yeah. Hundred and eighty four quid they
[Susan:] Cos you get a four hundred pounds cos the second
[June:] She's already been done once. Now I ain't gonna be done for a telly licence.
[Susan:] Well no, because I mean you need a telly lic telly don't you?
[June:] It ain't worth it.
[Robert:] She's moved. They ain't got no tabs on her.
[Susan:] six p then.
[Kathleen:] No.
[June:] Well we see we've been saving the stamps so we had... believe it or not
[Kathleen:] We save them.
[June:] believe it or not we even had fifty pound towards that which is a bloody miracle.
[Kathleen:] Well we always buy a stamp don't we dad?
[Susan:] I always buy stamps.
[Robert:] Yeah I get stamps yeah.
[Kathleen:] You get Susan's as well.
[June:] Yeah we do too.
[Susan:] Well mum gets
[Kathleen:] It does help you a bit.
[Robert:] Although all that does is help the B B C cos they they're getting interest on the money.
[Geoffrey:] That's right.
[Robert:] You should put it in your building society and then draw it out and get a few bob on it.
[Susan:] Yeah but you wouldn't.
[June:] Yeah but you don't dad, do you?
[Susan:] That gets that gets involved in other things don't it?
[Geoffrey:] That's it. Fifty quid aren't neither here nor there is it?
[June:] Well that's right.
[Kathleen:] Well them biscuits are horrible then?
[Geoffrey:] Interest on fifty quid a fortune.
[Susan:] Yeah expensive aren't they?
[June:] Now where did I put your money?
[Susan:] Here it is.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Don't forget to get me a receipt will you?
[Susan:] No.... What's that he wants? Commodore sixty four?
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Susan:] Printer.
[June:] He ain't getting one for christmas is he?
[Geoffrey:] That's what he wants.
[Kathleen:] Oh. That's what he wants.
[Geoffrey:] have.
[Susan:] I don't know. I'll just have to work out what it was he said he wanted.
[Kathleen:] You've got his list haven't you?
[Susan:] I was just looking to see if he'd got his list somewhere. I don't know where it's gone.
[Kathleen:] The list is somewhere around
[June:] That ain't no good to me mother.
[Kathleen:] Eh? I didn't know whether you had it June?
[June:] No I have erm...
[Kathleen:] Same as what we have.
[Geoffrey:] Tetleys.
[June:] We have Tetleys.... You're quiet father.
[Susan:] Is that right Geoff?...
[June:] Do you want me to put this in the bin mum or do you want it?
[Robert:] What do you want me to do? Jump up and down or something?
[Susan:] Is that what he wants? That is it isn't it?
[Kathleen:] What did you say Juney?
[Susan:] Yeah?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Do you want it or...
[Kathleen:] No I don't want it really. I don't have that tea.
[Robert:] What's that?
[Kathleen:] Tea coupon. You know the, what what I had in
[June:] It's in the bin now.
[Robert:] No you ought to save them and send for one.
[Susan:] Got job to do tomorrow. All bank things
[Kathleen:] What!
[June:] Well you don't have the bloody teabags you burk.
[Kathleen:] We don't use the we don't use that tea, Brooke Bond's Dividend.
[Susan:] Mrs 's paying me one too many days. She hadn't paid at all last time
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] No, no.
[Susan:] She paid me for this week and she said well I... you've got ninety pound here
[June:] Oh I think I may have to go to the toilet before I go home.
[Susan:] cos you see I get... she pays me forty pound extra on Saturday
[Kathleen:] No that's Brooke Bond Dividend
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Robert:] Oh.
[Susan:] so I don't pay any tax on that.
[June:] Tell you what
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] You save the coupons.
[Susan:] So she said, well I said I've got one oh you're paying me too much now. Said I'm, you er I owe you thirty now.... So she said well she said Val does the books she said. I have to... I'm not allowed to change the cheques. Cos Val does the bi books six months in advance. So if I work any extra Saturdays I've gotta wait till next Ap till April
[Geoffrey:] In advance?
[Susan:] Yeah. She does the books six months in advance....
[Geoffrey:] In advance?
[Susan:] Yeah, she does the wages six months in advance so if... Nicky obviously don't get paid any overtime at all does she? Or if she does she has to wait till the e
[Geoffrey:] I've never heard nothing so stupid in my life.
[Susan:] she has to wait till Val comes back from holiday.... Cos Val is away you see.
[Jonathan:] We're going through the table.
[Kathleen:] So she owes you money then?
[Susan:] No, I owe her some now.
[Jonathan:] And the is coming through.
[Geoffrey:] Well how does she to do the books in advance cos she don't know what patients are gonna turn up.
[Susan:] No but she does, she does... this type of thing, the wages and that in advance....
[June:] Oh that's better.
[Geoffrey:] Well I've never heard nowt like it in my life.
[Susan:] Well Mr thinks it's pretty.
[Geoffrey:] Well I've never heard nothing like it.
[June:] What?
[Susan:] So
[Geoffrey:] She does her books six months in advance. Not up to date, but she does them six months in advance.
[June:] Well how the hell can you do your books in advance?
[Geoffrey:] Well that's what I thought.
[Susan:] Well she does, a lot of them.
[Geoffrey:] Nicky could leave next week couldn't she?
[Susan:] Yeah well if that's so she's gotta alter all her books. Cos one Tricia gave me an extra, extra er payment.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Tricia gave me
[June:] she could drop dead over night.
[Susan:] Tricia er Tricia gave me an extra payment out of her erm
[June:] Put your shoes on Jonathan cos we're gonna go in a minute.
[Susan:] Cos I did a weekend and so she said well... erm... I'll tell you what Ann she said, I'll give you a cheque myself she said cos you, you'll... I'll pay you the same as
[June:] Now don't put it near anybody cos that'll cut them.
[Susan:] I'll... pay you the same as what I pay you on a Saturday is that okay? I said that's fine. Yeah that'll do nicely.
[Jonathan:] a tangle. Cut that string.
[Susan:] So then she said
[June:] No. You mustn't do that
[Susan:] is that alright? So I said yes. So then next week oh she said, I got in bloody deep water last week
[June:] Go... go and put your shoes on Jonathan.
[Susan:] Sue paying you. I said what do you mean paying me? I said
[Jonathan:] Oh
[Susan:] So Dave looked up, he said well Ann worked you have to pay her, simple as that isn't it? She she said I got
[June:] [shouting] Jonathan. Stay in here with it [].
[Jonathan:] [shouting] []
[Susan:] she said... I should have waited until Val had worked had worked
[Jonathan:] Aah!
[June:] Come and get your shoes on.
[Susan:] and put it on the end. So, so he said
[Jonathan:] Oh I burnt my finger.
[Susan:] that means Ann had got to wait till April cheque.
[June:] Get your shoes on please.
[Jonathan:] Yeah I'm doing it. Oh
[Susan:] She said well yeah possibly. He said well do you wait for April for your money from your patients?
[Geoffrey:] Bloody right.
[Susan:] So she said no. So he said well
[June:] Well we w Geoff nearly had
[Geoffrey:] I've never heard anything like it.
[June:] Well Geoff nearly had a fit about this firm who owes us two hundred pound.
[Geoffrey:] It's more than two hundred quid isn't it?
[June:] Yeah. I'm ringing them in the morning. Well, in the afternoon I think that's better
[Susan:] Why's that?
[June:] cos they're never there, seem to be there the...
[Susan:] Why, what's the matter with them?
[Geoffrey:] Well... the old boy... works at... Beck and Pollitzers... you know?
[Susan:] Oh yeah in Lynn.
[Geoffrey:] And erm... he's hired from me for some time now
[June:] You'd better send the mafia round Geoff.
[Geoffrey:] and he said some time ago, he rung up one afternoon
[June:] Susan.
[Geoffrey:] and he said my boss
[Susan:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] erm... wants a minibus... like his boy was in some sort of football team... and they need a b need a bim need a minibus. So the bloke come over and hire it. Quite a nice old boy. Hired the minibus.... No problems. Well then he rung up... few weeks ago and he said... to June, we'll need a car for a week. One of the... whether it's him or whatever but one of the people who work there needed a car for a week.
[June:] The boss.
[Geoffrey:] What... not the Belmont?
[June:] The boss had it.
[Geoffrey:] I thought the boss had the Sierra.
[June:] Yeah but the boss had the Belmont as well in the first place because erm
[Geoffrey:] Oh did he?
[June:] he couldn't have the Sierra cos the Belmont was the only one what was there.
[Geoffrey:] Oh. Well he said send the bill in. Anyway we sent the bill in. Well anyway
[June:] Twice.
[Geoffrey:] a fortnight afterwards... he rung up and said his boss had sm something had smashed into his car, and he wanted a car. So he had the Sierra... and he said I don't know whether he'll want it for, it could be sort of three or four weeks if they're gonna repair his car... or if we can get one within the company like at another depot... obviously they'll get that for him rather than hire one off you.
[June:] Well they had it so long anyway.
[Geoffrey:] So he had it couple or three days didn't he?
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Erm... it would have been three days cos that's ninety odd quid, ninety six quid. Joey tells me last night... he said oh by the way he said you don't wanna hire your car up er the Berry's. I said why's that? Oh he said they've got all sorts of aggro he said. The father's... had his house repossessed for not paying the mortgage. And he said the boy has been done by Budget for hiring a Sierra from them and taking the engine out
[June:] The engine out.
[Geoffrey:] and putting it in one of his cars.
[June:] And replacing it.
[Kathleen:] Gawld.
[Geoffrey:] So I said to June, the only thing what flashed through my mind, not the fact about having the engine out or something like that... but what flashed through my mind... was whether it was for Beck and Pollitzers at all.
[June:] But I said to Geoff I think it was quite legit because a young boy come... down with him
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[June:] who'd just started working for them and he w he didn't look...
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah.
[June:] that type of boy. He looked... he said I've not bo been with them long. I've only just started so he said er I've just come down to... you know.
[Susan:] Don't you ever ask for any proof of identification?
[June:] Well we know who they are!
[Geoffrey:] Well you see been hiring from me for ten years.
[June:] Beck and Pollitzer
[Geoffrey:] They live next door to to Joey. His father used to hire from
[June:] They've been hiring us for ten years but we, we ain't gonna hire no more if they're changing the bloody engines.
[Geoffrey:] And he said Beck and Pollitzers often hire cars he said and you know he said I thought I'd try and get you the business. Well then about a month later he said... he rung June and said I've been speaking to Geoff he said and... th they wanna hi er hire a car for a week.
[June:] But they've never paid us yet.
[Geoffrey:] But this is like now it must be...
[June:] A month.
[Geoffrey:] Well, it's a good month.
[June:] Yeah. So I'm gonna ring and
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, must be six weeks now.
[June:] I've got two or three people
[Susan:] What, Beck and Pollitzer?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] [cough] So we'll have to ring them tomorrow.
[Kathleen:] That's where erm Derek works innit?
[Robert:] Mind that don't hit you in the eye.
[June:] Yeah well at the moment we could do with that in the bank couldn't we?
[Susan:] Well that's what I'm saying you've gotta
[Geoffrey:] Well that's right.
[Susan:] Jonathan, if that breaks and hits someone in the eye, you will be in big trouble.
[Jonathan:] It doesn't cos it ties a knot.
[Robert:] It'll hit him in the eye
[Kathleen:] That'll hit his own face.
[June:] I like him in that jumper and my friend gave him that.
[Jonathan:] That's
[June:] Isn't that nice?
[Susan:] Keep it low.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[June:] Let nanny have a go Jonathan.
[Susan:] Well keep it low, not near your eyes.... I did put my shoes on cos I thought I shan't get them on in a minute because my feet swell when I sit down.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[Kathleen:] It's not very strong string is it?
[Jonathan:] No.
[Susan:] Hasn't she got lovely teeth?...
[June:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] longer don't you?
[Jonathan:] Yeah some teeth.
[June:] Well I think it's about time we was going Geoff if you've
[Susan:] She's a pretty woman.
[June:] gotta deliver that that bloke coming back in that car.
[Susan:] Don't you think she's pretty June?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. I'm ready.
[Susan:] Yes mum, can you get?
[June:] Well it's no good taking the tape with him cos he don't talk.
[Geoffrey:] No. He don't say much does he?
[June:] Well turn it off then....
[Susan:] Got so much bloody money in here again, I ca
[June:] Have you turned it off?
[Geoffrey:] We ain't gone yet.
[June:] Oh.... We'll just get
[Robert:] Has that been recording all the time?
[June:] Yeah, most of it.
[Robert:] Oh well, there you are then, you've got a good
[Kathleen:] Listen don't forget your
[June:] We got a good session this afternoon
[Geoffrey:] So that's the third tape is it?
[Kathleen:] out there.
[Susan:] Yeah I was just
[June:] Yeah, third one.
[Jonathan:] And that's both sides is it?
[Kathleen:] How many more you gotta go up to?
[June:] I've turned it over. So I perhaps could get
[Kathleen:] How many more have you gotta do?
[June:] Oh
[Geoffrey:] Seventeen. [LAUGHTER]
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[Robert:] I hope nobody ain't been swearing.
[Kathleen:] I have. me.
[June:] Mother had. Bugger me she said....
[Robert:] They'll say they'll know she came from.
[Susan:] Just have a look at them towels, see what you think....
[June:] So where do you come from mother?
[Robert:] Bow.
[Kathleen:] Old Old Bow.
[June:] Baow.
[Kathleen:] Cor blimey area.
[June:] Cor lovely Susan.
[Jonathan:] What was the first bit? What was it before Bow? What?
[Susan:] Cheap. Look how many was in there but, nine ninety nine.
[Kathleen:] Old.
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[Susan:] No you've got them in the bag.
[Robert:] Remember when that time Geoff pulled up pub. You know pub.
[June:] Oh yeah
[Geoffrey:] Yeah I remember the Bow but I didn't know about the first bit. I hadn't heard of that before.
[June:] I could do with some
[Robert:] Yeah, Old
[June:] what other colours do they do?
[Susan:] I think
[Geoffrey:] I tell you what I keep saying I'm gonna do but I ain't
[Susan:] Look there's two that size.
[Geoffrey:] got the bloody money to do it.... I should like to have a ride down and see that new bridge now. Instead of going through the Dartford tunnel.
[Susan:] Hand towels, you know big hand towels these size look.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] That new bridge is open.
[Susan:] Look.
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] What goes right over high over the Thames.
[June:] Oh yeah.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] You go over that and you come back through the tunnel.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] That's now open, it opened last month.
[June:] You'd like to go did you say?
[Geoffrey:] Mm....
[June:] Perhaps we'll have to do that in the new year
[Susan:] June.
[June:] if things change.
[Geoffrey:] I'm waiting for someone to use a tankful of petrol so I can go and have a look.
[Susan:] Are they flannels?
[June:] No
[Kathleen:] put through them rings ain't they?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Oh, nice aren't they? Lovely. Do you know what? I've still got something in my eye.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Be nice to see that really I suppose.
[June:] I could do wi I want some erm p I'd like some peachy colour ones for my bathroom.
[Robert:] like that.
[Susan:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] It's good innit? gotta
[Susan:] Well that don't matter.
[Jonathan:] knot at this end.
[June:] You ain't got no peach ones you don't want have you?
[Susan:] I ain't got any peach ones at all. Well I have got some peach ones but they ain't
[June:] But them ones Bob erm Pam bought me last year... was it last year or the year before?
[Jonathan:] my belly.
[Geoffrey:] Year before weren't it?
[June:] You can't use them cos every time you use them you get
[Geoffrey:] Oh it's terrible.
[June:] you get covered in blue dye.
[Geoffrey:] You get, you get blue fluff all over your face.
[Susan:] You've got me Kattomeat you berk.
[Geoffrey:] It's terrible.
[Robert:] Aye aye.
[Kathleen:] Oh!
[Susan:] That's alright, he'll eat it I should think. That's innit?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[June:] How many tins you got Sue?
[Geoffrey:] Oh we can buy them Susan Kattomeat.
[June:] Susan, how many tins you got?
[Geoffrey:] We'll buy them. We have Kattomeat.
[Kathleen:] They're nice....
[June:] Oh
[Kathleen:] But they're expensive
[Susan:] That's alright. He'll eat it.
[Geoffrey:] Oh, we don't want no expense.
[Kathleen:] Will he?
[Geoffrey:] We don't want no expense.
[Susan:] Oh I've got half a tin of cat food for your cat June.
[Kathleen:] They're thirty eight pence a tin and our cat'll eat two tins of them
[June:] Yeah well we're now gonna come.
[Kathleen:] a day.
[Geoffrey:] I bet it can.
[Kathleen:] fresh.
[June:] Yeah will if if your cat won't eat them, don't throw... don't erm I'll... I'll pay you for them and
[Susan:] Well no there's only one.
[June:] Oh.
[Robert:] How's Ging?
[Kathleen:] She's only got one. I've got you a liver.
[Susan:] Oh yeah he likes that?
[Robert:] How's old Ging getting on?
[Geoffrey:] He's about.
[June:] Ging?
[Jonathan:] Mm? Oh yeah he's okay.
[Kathleen:] There's so many cat foods there you, you don't know, cor you've never seen so much cat and dog food.
[Robert:] Is he still there?
[Geoffrey:] Oh it's ridiculous that is.
[June:] I tell you something... I wish I'd never had that cat round my back door.
[Kathleen:] Well I've got three Juney now. Our black one
[June:] Because my cat is my cat is weeing all over the place.
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Well she's frightened isn't she?
[June:] She's petrified of it.
[Kathleen:] Well Tilly is you see, upstairs
[Robert:] Well why? Why would he go after her? She's doctored anyway.
[June:] Well yeah but he still does.
[Kathleen:] Well why does that black one go after ours?
[Jonathan:] He don't know that does he?
[Robert:] Ah yeah but
[Geoffrey:] Poo I think it was laying in the boiler cupboard on top of the shoes this morning.
[Jonathan:] Granddad, he don't know that does he?
[June:] Well if you'd have seen that... I mean I... and she sleeps in the airing cupboard... she's now started to get in there, but she's half out on the landing. You can't shut the blinking door!
[Kathleen:] as you say like there's [cough] something funny about cats cos I opened my wardrobe yesterday to get a coat out. Tilly got in there and got amongst all me clothes and started sleeping there.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Then she gets in the back bedroom, we got a mirror at the back there what was took off one the dressing tables, and she sits and looks at herself in there and she keeps going... like that
[June:] Well my cat's going most peculiar at the moment.
[Kathleen:] and she gets, she gets, if you if you open a cupboard or a drawer... she's in it.
[Robert:] Even goes in the coal cupboard.
[Kathleen:] Yeah! And I shut her in [LAUGHTER] the coal []
[Robert:] Comes out as black as she do.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[June:] Well I I often shut erm Fudge in the boiler cupboard.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And this, the big'un, he sits in the sink.
[Susan:] You're getting tall ain't you?
[Kathleen:] We can't get him out but I don't like him
[Robert:] I know.
[Kathleen:] in the washing up and that.
[Susan:] How much taller am I than him June?
[June:] Well he won't hurt it.
[Kathleen:] Not a bloody lot.
[Geoffrey:] About four inches I should think.
[Kathleen:] But he just jumps from
[Geoffrey:] Five perhaps.
[Jonathan:] How tall are you?
[Kathleen:] just jumps from the ground on to there.
[Susan:] Five foot one.
[Jonathan:] Cor. That means I'm... four foot seven.
[Robert:] Four foot seven.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, I should think he is four seven. Something like that.
[June:] He's definitely gonna be taller than her.
[Jonathan:] Chrissie's four eight.
[June:] Isn't he cos he only
[Geoffrey:] That be four three.
[Susan:] Christopher's five, more than four eight.
[Jonathan:] He isn't. He's four eight.
[Susan:] Christopher's more than four eight isn't he Geoff?
[Kathleen:] Nick's four next year.
[Geoffrey:] God knows.
[June:] Lovely.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Jonathan:] He is n't.
[Geoffrey:] Wha what's this beer then?
[June:] Well you'll be big enough for big school
[Jonathan:] Ashley's nowhere near near bigger than that.
[Kathleen:] Helen's, Helen's girl goes to the big school next year.
[June:] Well do you do you know Geoff, Ashley weighs more than Jonathan....
[Geoffrey:] Does he really?
[June:] Yeah. They g they had to be weighed last week and he weighs more than Jonathan.
[Susan:] Who weighs the most in the class?
[Geoffrey:] Well I weigh eighty two kilograms.
[June:] Fay.
[Jonathan:] Fay Ten and a half.
[Susan:] Well I think that's embarrassing to do that to children.
[June:] And Terry was nine and a half.
[Robert:] How much do you weigh?
[Jonathan:] Er... six.
[Robert:] Six? Is that just your head?
[Geoffrey:] I weigh eighty two kilograms. I was a hundred and seventeen kilograms.
[Jonathan:] Six and two grams. Six and two kilograms.
[Kathleen:] What's kilograms?
[June:] Kilograms.
[Robert:] Pounds I should think.
[Jonathan:] Er
[Susan:] A kilogram is it erm... less than a pound?
[Jonathan:] Yeah two pound one kilogram.
[Robert:] Bound to be cos... litre's l bit less than a gallon innit? Or so many litres to a gallon.
[June:] Are we going then everybody?
[Geoffrey:] Five litres is
[June:] Cos we said to him the other day how much is so and so Jonathan? Well he can't work in... pounds and ounces
[Geoffrey:] They don't get involved in
[June:] cos they don't work in pounds and ounces today.
[Kathleen:] No, no they don't.
[Geoffrey:] That's right. It's just kilograms kilograms innit?
[Jonathan:] [shouting] []
[June:] We we are wrong by by doing it.
[Jonathan:] Aah.
[June:] But he, you see he's learnt the right way....
[Jonathan:] Ah... hurt my hand.
[Susan:] Are you doing French at school yet?
[Jonathan:] No.
[Susan:] Oh you will go when you go to the other school.
[Kathleen:] They've gotta start learning some more sex haven't they?
[Susan:] You can teach us all to learn French when you, once you start.
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Oh oh.
[June:] Well they ain't learned nothing at this school yet.
[Kathleen:] And th... there there was a cartoon in the paper in the week I thought... it made me smile really.
[Jonathan:] I know what number seven is in German.
[Kathleen:] It was a
[Susan:] What?
[Kathleen:] little boy had been to school and his mother and father was waiting for him to come home. And they stood at the door, and of course he come home with his cap in his hand, he said... er they said oh... what you do how you got on today? He said we had sex lessons today. He said you filthy pair.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Ah no. You disgusting pair. I can [LAUGHTER]
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[Susan:] Well Pam was a bit upset didn't she? Cos of what they did to erm...
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[Susan:] that oldest one in his school class.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] What had he done then?
[Susan:] Pam told June.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Susan:] They gave him
[Robert:] About homosexuals weren't it?
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] No.
[June:] Oh they're doing about homosexuals at?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. And erm what di oh they had to, what did they have to do?
[June:] Yeah I did tell... mum but I can't say in front of Jonathan.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. She, she was... well she didn't think it was right.
[Susan:] Yeah but the funny thing is, she swears and curses and says
[Geoffrey:] Absolutely.
[Susan:] all these rude and common things in front of him. Why does she think that's right?
[Geoffrey:] She got
[Kathleen:] Well you see the
[Susan:] He's, and let's face it, that boy is learning the right way. He ain't learning from slang is he?
[Geoffrey:] That's right. When that seven year old kid went in the bedroom and saw what they were doing that didn't matter.
[Susan:] No.
[Geoffrey:] But when they teach it at school that's wrong.
[Kathleen:] That's it, yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Well they. got head screw
[Susan:] Well can't they?
[Kathleen:] No.
[Geoffrey:] She wants a few more screws in
[Kathleen:] Well you see
[June:] No I do I think that's wise to teach them in schools because they learn the right way. They learn properly.
[Kathleen:] Mm. They they reckon they've gotta
[June:] And then after that, what happens after that... they know the basics. They know what's going on this that and the other.
[Kathleen:] Well they reckon they've gotta learn more now.
[June:] Is that off now?
[Kathleen:] They've got to... they've got to know now
[June:] Is it off now?
[Geoffrey:] No. It's nearly done.
[Kathleen:] They've got to
[Geoffrey:] You ain't gone yet. Don't worry about it.
[June:] Well you're h
[Brian:] It's so big, you know obviously it's
[Geoffrey:] Yes it...
[Brian:] How you doing love, alright?
[Geoffrey:] It went
[June:] Fine thanks.
[Geoffrey:] erm
[Brian:] Just sort all these out.
[Geoffrey:] I just don't wanna come.
[Brian:] You've er... have you gotta put your dress in here with these?
[June:] Yes I've got a seminar
[Brian:] Oh.
[June:] when I've... that poorly cat's into that... walking a can you smell cat's wee in here, I'm surprised
[Brian:] No I can't
[June:] you can't Brian!
[Geoffrey:] I could, when I got home today.
[Brian:] I'm stopping
[June:] She's done nothing but wee in my kitchen and now she's in that corner!
[Brian:] Was tha your your cat like this?
[June:] Yes it's such a disgrace, is that what you're saying?
[Brian:] What, Dianne?
[June:] Hello mate!
[speaker005:] My hairbrush is a
[Brian:] I tried to come home.
[June:] Did you come back in?... Is she coming, ya I've just come home.
[Brian:] Now you see, she's got it all over her but
[June:] She's hurt!
[Brian:] He said it's very hard for people to give them I I'll
[Geoffrey:] Yeah I could
[Brian:] trace them today with your erm... your
[Geoffrey:] washing
[Brian:] washing thing... I said someone and it's gone!... dunnit?
[June:] I wish I hadn't I wish I hadn't started feeding it but I can't I can't stop now it's not
[Brian:] I'll feed it my.
[Geoffrey:] And show him
[Brian:] Work on here.... Well I
[June:] Yeah I know.
[Brian:] Listen, what i have you picked up our car from there... there's no point buying a garage
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... it's in
[Brian:] Listen,we we're we
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Brian:] supposed to smell this cat's piss?
[Geoffrey:] Well I'll come down in the morning, I've got the yellow car and start again
[June:] I can smell it, I've!
[Geoffrey:] you see?
[Brian:] Yeah... it's terrible though, it's just not on, is it!
[June:] That's just here somewhere, and it's over here.
[Geoffrey:] If you sneak in the garage and do it... well I
[Brian:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] work on that one, it's not a bloody house!
[Brian:] No... you don't, you want at least
[Geoffrey:] Pretty strong here!
[Brian:] no, blue sorry he pees outside our front door a at the back door, and you can't
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Brian:] but you really can't smell it.
[June:] No.
[Brian:] But I mean that thing!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah it's something he's
[June:] Well I suppose what's... but you see I don't know whether she's doing it... that must be her that done it in that corner, cos he ain't been in here!
[Brian:] Well it might be this one, but there's somebody all the while she's doing it.
[Geoffrey:] Probably what goes in and nothing else happens.
[Brian:] I mean Louis seems to be really sort of like... a different cat... but it's not
[June:] But
[Brian:] my fault that I don't
[June:] he he don't erm... the cat don't drudge her... get
[Brian:] No.
[June:] in the way of, but she's just nervous it... for some reason.
[Brian:] Well she's a nervous cat anyway isn't she?
[Geoffrey:] But I think
[June:] Yeah
[Geoffrey:] she won't
[Brian:] Same as Louis.
[June:] Once they've I'd get a little tray in here overnight, I reckon.
[Brian:] going on shooting, said he's shooting them.
[June:] Ah now there's a love.
[Brian:] That one, everybody hates them, I think cat.
[Geoffrey:] Yes.
[June:] Isn't, isn't he looking well though Brian?
[Brian:] Yes, I mean I told him that the other day when his dad was here... the other
[June:] Yeah.
[Brian:] Sunday.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... Sunday.
[Brian:] He did look a nice old cat, they seem to be a nice
[June:] But do you know that er
[Brian:] nice colouring though isn't he?
[Geoffrey:] Any old
[June:] but ever so fussy!
[Brian:] Yeah.
[June:] ... you know
[Brian:] But you used to match them up together at the end of the day... cos Brad used to see them off
[June:] Ooh they used to play all the
[Brian:] Yeah.
[June:] time, terrible!
[Brian:] You see get a bit old like.
[Geoffrey:] ?
[June:] Yeah.
[Brian:] I must say it's natural like that, cats fighting and that.
[Geoffrey:] That's right, yeah.
[June:] Never mind.
[Brian:] Oh well it'll be Christmas soon... thinking of having a party anyway, Christmas.
[June:] Oh are you?... Carol's having one, did you know?
[Brian:] Yeah no yes well, she told us when she's a having one... is it fifteenth, it is?
[June:] Fourteenth.
[Brian:] Oh how much?... But we'll have one after everyone's had a rotten Christmas.
[Geoffrey:] Ha!
[June:] Not with I always
[Brian:] not if you feel like it.
[Geoffrey:] When you gonna have one?
[June:] Yeah well I wasn't really here for my birthday... this is my birthday one this is.
[Geoffrey:] There's plenty
[Brian:] Yeah?... What's that... forty five or or thirty, thirty five innit?
[June:] Oh God what is it!
[Brian:] I feel in a horrible mood anyway!
[Geoffrey:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] You'd have.
[Geoffrey:] Forty one, yeah this forty.
[Brian:] Yeah I know, that's what I'm saying
[June:] Yeah.
[Brian:] even for by then.
[June:] Yeah
[Geoffrey:] Yeah and sometimes you
[June:] we go what we do... down there this year.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Brian:] Well Carol said we won't be able to afford to part with him!... So I want... I did
[Geoffrey:] Do you want erm
[Brian:] but I hope not.
[Geoffrey:] we used to go every year... be go round to erm... for a bonfire but... the old boy was saying that he said they can't afford it next year.
[June:] Did she mention that?... I'll be there next year.
[Brian:] Something's bur, something's burning my love.
[June:] I know I've just I said I'd make.
[Geoffrey:] What about.
[Brian:] Yes... old Betty is anyway... your Ashley's seen the carpet...
[Geoffrey:] I've done a little bit, yeah.
[June:] he was tearing a
[Geoffrey:] And he was right
[June:] bit off
[Geoffrey:] put it up one more notch... with
[Brian:] I mean to say you don't want no more like this
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Brian:] you start going like that.
[Geoffrey:] That's right... then you
[June:] Well I said
[Geoffrey:] dunnit?
[Brian:] Yeah and it comes off.
[June:] I said well perhaps Ell could go up then, cos I'm later ain't I?
[Brian:] No he's alright for that other... they ooh it's
[Geoffrey:] Glad I went over there.
[Brian:] it's dangerous!
[Geoffrey:] You only op open it a certain way.
[June:] Well how we gonna get that bit down then?
[Brian:] Well you just have to... hire another ladder.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Brian:] To get that after easier way, it cost me what? Seven quid.
[June:] Oh wha wow!
[Geoffrey:] five point three... I'm sure mum's got a three inch.
[June:] Oh well that ain't gonna help, you don't want!
[Brian:] You can have that there, so that's ri...
[Geoffrey:] What are you gonna do about that?
[Brian:] I've done as much as I could with that one but
[Geoffrey:] Yes
[Brian:] but then I'm waiting, see I I got erm... you know the big ones in the central root up there... I've I've hired one of these there.
[Geoffrey:] Ah well that don't take... Brian get up there, she said well he's taller than you, I thought
[Brian:] No I ain't.
[Geoffrey:] he.
[Brian:] Get over like I said... she said that's enough like you've gotta leave some room for a
[Geoffrey:] But has that cost you about seven quid this one?
[Brian:] It was
[June:] What?
[Brian:] twelve quid... that's the ladder... and as well.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah and scaffold.
[Brian:] I had them all the week... I mean a ladder I mean it'll cost you that much again
[June:] Yeah.
[Brian:] here, you can get one
[Geoffrey:] That's right I mean just do th both bits at the back and front at the same time, yes.
[Brian:] Sort out the high bits together.
[June:] Well why don't you get one of tho for Sunday
[Geoffrey:] Well yeah
[June:] then?
[Geoffrey:] We're going to.
[Brian:] But you have to pick it up Saturday though wouldn't you?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, but I suppose that way you should be
[Brian:] thought about it, they're not
[Geoffrey:] They're not expensive, mind but
[Brian:] Yeah but you can store them.
[Geoffrey:] I mean I I really could of... a I mean I hired that ladder just to do about... six foot either side.
[Brian:] Well that's about how I am... yeah I got three more feet.
[Geoffrey:] But you got that for your.
[Brian:] Yeah, oh sure.
[Geoffrey:] After that lo lot
[Brian:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] unless you're taking the chance.
[Brian:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] See that ladder you've got, you know the bit you had this morning?
[Brian:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] If you have the back half of that... that'll be ideal.
[Brian:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] I don't know, it's
[Brian:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Ken's old one innit?
[Brian:] God knows!... Haven't got a clue whose
[Geoffrey:] Cos old Ken used to have to an old ar aluminium one didn't he?
[Brian:] Er, I think it was his dad's wasn't it?
[June:] What about oh it was out there.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah I borrowed it, I borrowed that one, some time ago.
[June:] Where is that ladder?
[Brian:] We haven't got it.
[June:] Well I keep telling you to move that away from the house... I said talking about your rising crime, you're giving them a ladder to use as well!
[Geoffrey:] That's right mate.
[June:] Your... cos we put it in the paddock didn't we?
[Brian:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, I'll tell you what I did if I if that's ladder's out, I'd drop it down the back of somewhere.
[Brian:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Cos they've had people round and nicking things ain't they, out the back?
[Brian:] God knows!
[June:] Where?
[Geoffrey:] Oh the... nicking out of the er sheds, lawn mo, lawn mowers and things.
[Brian:] Is that right?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... Nick knows who he is or some something like that... I would
[June:] Well there's isn't gone then!... It's in
[Geoffrey:] Yeah
[June:] the garage.
[Geoffrey:] Well why they don't lock it!
[Brian:] The garage is never locked!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well....
[Brian:] Well I don't suppose they'd be down here.
[Geoffrey:] No but
[June:] I tell you what we ought to do, I keep saying to Geoff, if we locked the garage door, you know the big garage lock, they can't get out can they?
[Geoffrey:] They can, what you should do is just drop the ladder in out, in the inside that's all.
[Brian:] All they gotta do is pull on a cable... cos the door is locked
[June:] Yeah but you can lock up can't you?
[Brian:] the door is locked from the inside, but you just got to pull the cable and it overrides the lock dunnit?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, they just pull upwards and
[June:] Oh... I was gonna say, if you could stop them from undoing that door, they wouldn't never get it out of there would they?
[Brian:] Oh no.
[Geoffrey:] But I mean there's
[Brian:] in front of it...
[Geoffrey:] Yeah i yeah that's the luck of the draw, you know.
[Brian:] Yeah, that's right.
[Geoffrey:] I think that's all it is isn't it?
[Brian:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah that's a good idea put a on it and then they'll go
[Geoffrey:] They'll go somewhere else then.
[June:] yes but
[Brian:] I certainly wouldn't leave your ladders out though.
[June:] No.
[Brian:] Cos I mean that's stupid!
[June:] Well after you just... put it
[Brian:] It's like I'd never put those steps in their shed... you know, in case people sort of like
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Brian:] nosing about and they got, that makes
[Geoffrey:] Yep.
[Brian:] it easier dunnit?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah course it does.
[Brian:] Oh they wouldn't stop them if they wanted to get in... but I mean it just makes it easier.
[June:] Wonder why everybody's going that way,?
[Geoffrey:] I dunno mate, someone... Nick's house... cos I wanted to put a lot of stuff over my shed cos that garage is getting a bit congested
[Brian:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] and he said no, someone's going round nicking out the sheds and Nick said I know who he is, I thought
[June:] then?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... I mean.
[June:] Well you
[Geoffrey:] They know they should on there.
[Brian:] Yeah.
[June:] You should be alright, cos you got the rottweiler next door.
[Geoffrey:] That old thing, it's just driving us crazy a a and they couldn't
[Brian:] then... you know, in their house?
[Geoffrey:] May... and she she an old boy come in in the week, Carole had Friday afternoon off... an old boy was knocking at all these doors... and something to do with erm... put a tape recorder in your house
[June:] Yeah well
[Brian:] Yeah.
[June:] we're doing it... I'm
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] doing it.
[Brian:] Oh it's
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... I won't swear.
[June:] You can say
[Brian:] Yeah.
[June:] whatever you like.
[Geoffrey:] No, not, no it's out of a book.
[Brian:] Listen here.
[June:] Tha... that is on.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah well that's fair enough anyway, but er
[Brian:] He's got a
[June:] Yeah but
[Brian:] toe rag! [LAUGHTER] What a []!
[June:] say what you like... otherwise you
[Geoffrey:] and er
[June:] gotta do it.
[Geoffrey:] yeah but he sat outside Sally's... and Carole said no I I I'm... you know I can't do it, she said she wants someone a bit younger and she said
[Brian:] Yeah I know.
[Geoffrey:] you ought to say you but she... you know, that I'd for someone
[Brian:] Yeah
[Geoffrey:] in their forties... forty one.
[Brian:] You have to the ages now.
[June:] No you can't be forty one.
[Brian:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] and then May ringing up Carole
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] saying, there's someone sitting outside Sally's, and old boy, that's and I can't I can't resist... is Nick there, is Jason there, is Brian there?
[June:] No
[Geoffrey:] Pathetic!
[June:] Brian,Bri he was i he he'd a... a harmless little man.
[Geoffrey:] Oh he's looking for
[Brian:] Was er
[Geoffrey:] an old boy
[Brian:] is
[Geoffrey:] a eighteen
[Brian:] looking for ain't they?
[Geoffrey:] they're looking for an old boy eighteen to twenty five... who was like a carpenter... or a plumber who's actually learnt a trade... but he said the trouble is, he said
[June:] twenty five
[Geoffrey:] I'm out
[Brian:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] working, I shan't find him during the day, he said, they're off
[Brian:] No.
[Geoffrey:] to get working aren't they?
[Brian:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] And then you also want a solicitor don't you? Or you want a businessman
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] plus you think
[Brian:] Yeah but don't you think though they're obsessed at the May.
[Geoffrey:] Oh!
[June:] Of course they are
[Brian:] I mean that it is if size of Geoff and he's, he hears a little noise
[Geoffrey:] He is headcase!
[Brian:] I've gotta buy them a card!
[June:] Well that man's, there is a tiny little ma, well he stopped me going out with Dorothy.
[Geoffrey:] We well she she wanted to Carole to ring up Ken!
[June:] Whatever for?
[Geoffrey:] Cos he was sitting outside Sally's doing his book work
[Brian:] That's right.
[Geoffrey:] I suppose obviously he most likely spoke
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] to you and he's doing the ground work, like that.
[June:] Yeah he did, yeah.
[Geoffrey:] And she saying like he's waiting for his accomplice like and they've said they've broken in.
[June:] Come on!
[Geoffrey:] I said can't you take no notice of me and phone.
[Brian:] All it is
[June:] Well they must be.
[Brian:] All it is is they just want you to tape anything and ev, it's just voice patterns basically and the
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Brian:] and the way we use words so that
[June:] Speak.
[Brian:] they... hundred years ago, although we use the same language as we do today
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Brian:] people never actually talked... then, as they do now, they don't
[Geoffrey:] No that's right.
[Brian:] you know, and he said like they want them on record... for universities and things and some
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Brian:] college in London... and they just do all sort of erm... different area accents and things, I mean when
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Brian:] we use the same words we use them in different in the different area accents but i that's all it is.
[Geoffrey:] Well that's right innit,
[June:] If he knew you
[Geoffrey:] use different accents.
[Brian:] And all you do is telling
[June:] You'll be different on there to what we are.
[Brian:] there's a load of cassettes
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Brian:] in here, you just tape them on, bang them down who it was and when it was and then on Friday he picks them up and you get twenty five quids worth of vouchers from Marks and Spencers.
[June:] Spencers for doing it.
[Geoffrey:] So what.
[Brian:] And he wanted a... businessman didn't he? Sixty one years of age... who employs
[June:] Yeah.
[Brian:] five people... cos we
[Geoffrey:] Yes.
[Brian:] sent him up to Ron... and he was saying God, he thought! I can't do it I shan't be here this week I'll be in Belgium.
[Geoffrey:] Oh...
[June:] Well
[Geoffrey:] and then everyone said ha go away!... And then Tony said to me did you hear Winston bark last night? I said no.... Someone must have been around... if he barks, someone's around.
[June:] That bloody thing's always barking.
[Brian:] He'd bark at a bird won't it?
[Geoffrey:] What the hell's going on at the the
[June:] Queue up Bartons all flipping day when she's in there.
[Geoffrey:] Well what's she frightened of like, I mean if she opened the door this
[June:] My God if she's got... if she's got that thing on a door, I should the!
[Geoffrey:] Like what the old boy said that he'd friend up
[June:] Oh yes
[Geoffrey:] the road he said, I said well I wish you would
[June:] I know, he said I daren't go near that!
[Geoffrey:] he always bloody!
[Brian:] the window... he's a brave old boy to go in.
[June:] Well he went up right to the gate
[Geoffrey:] Mind you
[June:] he said, cos he's coming back, didn't he?
[Geoffrey:] a bit of a nervous wreck his self weren't he?
[June:] Oh he looked ever so frightened!
[Geoffrey:] He's I I I I've got this dog loose.
[speaker005:] But Aunty Carole says he should notice isn't he?
[June:] Yes but this was a little old man!
[Brian:] I've had a look at the, shouldn't... onto Ken, isn't it....
[June:] Well sh she practi... she's that worried anyway cos erm I said to him well I won't do anything until I've spoken to Geoff, I'll go out
[Brian:] Yeah.
[June:] and speak to Geoff there, I thought well I'll go and make sure
[Brian:] Yeah.
[June:] I was quite convinced it was quite alright.
[Brian:] I got the again...
[Geoffrey:] ...
[June:] And er... he comes home at half past three... and he then sort of told us... what we'd got to do in it.
[Brian:] Like I suppose really yo... you do get these blokes whipping round and these
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Brian:] funny people but I mean you Carole said straight away he he
[June:] Well if you'd have looked him Brian you could of told what sort of
[Brian:] yes that's what she says.
[June:] type of person he was, he was... something like Geoff's dad.
[Brian:] , if someone came to me and
[June:] What have they got in there, what's so valuable?
[Brian:] That's what Carole says as well, I said I know... I know how you feel.
[June:] Bet she wanna, she ought to be well insured.
[Brian:] Yes s, tell them it's not that bad in there mate anyway.
[June:] Oh yeah I shall, I don't want that!... Ooh you want to tell her when he goes... when he leaves me in here with this door unlocked!
[Brian:] Who?
[June:] Geoff does, four o'clock in the morning!
[Geoffrey:] Just cos I'm leaving I've gotta.
[June:] [shouting] He never locks the door properly and anybody could get in and
[Geoffrey:] Ha!
[June:] kill me in my bed!
[Geoffrey:] No they won't mate.
[June:] I keep telling him, I said lock it up and post the key... through
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] the letter box, he said what [LAUGHTER] I've gotta come back []
[Brian:] Oh I know
[June:] Oh it ri
[Brian:] I forgot that!
[June:] Joe!
[Geoffrey:] Oh didn't mean to do that!
[June:] [shouting] Jonathan!... Don't you forget about bath time []! You don't want your shin pads do you?
[Jonathan:] Probably.
[June:] Well look how filthy they are!
[Jonathan:] So!
[June:] Well I wouldn't ta I'll scrub them up tonight if I get a chance.
[Jonathan:] Don't worry.
[June:] Ashley never scrubbed them very well did he? They're bloody filthy!
[Jonathan:] You know what he told me on the way home?
[June:] What?
[Jonathan:] He said I was riding round and he got.
[June:] Well he don't borrow them no more then!
[Jonathan:] I was gonna let Chrissy borrow them.
[June:] You shouldn't let Christopher he
[Jonathan:] Chris no I don't need them now.
[June:] He can't afford to look after them a bit better.
[Jonathan:] Well he would.
[June:] Is that money alright like that Jonathan?
[Jonathan:] What is it?
[June:] That's your dinner money.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] But bring the change home!
[Jonathan:] I will.
[June:] Not them other little things cos they know you've got them at the school.
[Jonathan:] What these?
[June:] Yeah you don't need to take them as well do you?
[Jonathan:] No oh oh.... Can you also put that these.
[June:] No I don't want to!
[Jonathan:] Please, better.
[June:] Them football boots stink!
[Jonathan:] Cos my feet have been in them now, can you put these like that?
[June:] Oh hang on a mo
[Jonathan:] What?
[June:] Where's your dinner money gonna go?... And mummy ain't got an envelope so... that'll have to
[Jonathan:] Brilliant!
[June:] do won't it.
[Jonathan:] Take it out and.
[June:] Great... that's that done.
[Jonathan:] .
[June:] Coat?... Try and keep your trousers clean Jonathan!... If you're playing football hold them up!... Not just round on the floor... you know... will you please?
[Jonathan:] Alright.
[June:] Well you're going a bit early aren't you?
[Jonathan:] No!... That was late when he was going.
[June:] Oh alright.
[Jonathan:] The leader will be there... Lea
[June:] Bob will?
[Jonathan:] Yeah... cos he doesn't come round when, he's not allowed.
[June:] Why not?
[Jonathan:] It keeps us too wet.
[June:] Well at least if it's wet and dull you've got
[Jonathan:] You've got to use it when your feet's all mucky.
[June:] You can if you're not gonna use it.
[Jonathan:] So for... but the new trousers are gonna go......! [washing machine going]
[June:] Well perhaps his mum don't want you borrowing his brother's.
[Jonathan:] We always!
[June:] bedroom.
[Jonathan:] Yeah, can I get it then?
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Do I have to take hers?
[June:] You ought to have pay for it Jonathan, I'm gonna wind it up again!
[Jonathan:] mum!... Mum!
[June:] You know I don't know why you don't have or!
[Jonathan:] ... today.
[June:] I bet it does.
[Jonathan:] Ah, I think it does.
[June:] .
[Jonathan:] What?
[June:] Yeah, do you like that?
[Jonathan:] Yeah... a bit strong though.
[June:] Oh, remember they told me, alright?... [shouting] Ian []!
[Val:] [shouting] June []!
[June:] Hello!
[Val:] How you getting on? Nice?
[speaker005:] [whistling]
[June:] Well I mean christmas presents.
[Val:] Well ha ha ha!... These flares are short... I'm in a right muddle really.
[June:] Why?
[Val:] No you're not.
[June:] I don't care.... I didn't realize that was the time.
[Val:] Ha!
[June:] What?
[Val:] Nothing.
[June:] [LAUGHTER]... I thought well I'll just
[Val:] Look.
[June:] .
[Val:] Well you know I do... well I understand
[June:] I love these.
[Val:] cos... otherwise...
[June:] I think
[Val:] No he's got three days' holiday.
[June:] Oh!... Ooh this is pretty, who done that?
[Val:] I did it last year... myself.
[June:] Cor!
[Val:] Oh... very nice.
[June:] So that'll be number six as well
[Val:] I like this.
[June:] can't flatten the ribbons.
[Val:] I shall have to get some bits and pieces
[June:] Did that last year.
[Val:] and de... see you if you can do for my table, like that.
[June:] Course I will.
[Val:] Ooh that's lovely, I like it.
[June:] Where do you get all your bits from?
[Val:] I think Sarah bought a lot of them and... I had some and... you know.
[June:] That's lovely.
[Val:] I put it away, did that last year.
[June:] Yeah I think if you put them in polythene bags and... staple
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] them up.
[Val:] I ain't got a lot out, well I got a bit out.
[June:] Ooh I rang the... the club
[Val:] Oh did you?
[June:] yep, we won't be getting anything, we're eighty pound behind.
[Val:] What?
[June:] Anybody think that was a fortune wouldn't they? What altogether aye?
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] Nothing at all coming?
[Val:] No... but I don't know about your things cos that... that was already done... before
[June:] June's came as well.
[Val:] I don't
[June:] Yeah so they perha they perhaps still come.
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] But they did say four to five weeks on the coat didn't they?
[Val:] Yes.
[June:] And two... two to four on your thing so
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] they could still come... you know so
[Val:] Erm... I've ticked coat... cos I got some things together with it
[June:] Yeah.
[Val:] and it makes... you know... innit a job!
[June:] Yeah.
[Val:] This poor old girl can't go out for christmas dinner.
[June:] Why?
[Val:] Well Marie's going in hospital.
[June:] Well why can't she go out for christmas dinner?
[Val:] Oh well... you know she's got that bad back?
[June:] You told me she was having done.
[Val:] Did I?
[June:] Yeah.
[Val:] Well Jodie... wanted to come with us... and I phoned up and they couldn't get her in... so then she started saying well why don't you stay here mum, and all that, I said yeah... just when it bloody suits her she wants you to cook her dinner, said she'd have been... she should have... I said she'd be prepared to pay it, I've already got her a seat... she said
[June:] Yeah.
[Val:] it's not bloody then!
[June:] So we what is ha what is she doing? So she's not coming?
[Val:] So now Marie's got to go into hospital and have this done, don't know if she'll be out on time and er... anyway... and so... they, you know, she said we've only got to face it mum, so she said well we can't come cos Marie can't face it... I said they all went and got their way with you again... she's just moved flat, June, they have... she had this lovely facelift... Michelle went and put all the borders round... all curtains, rails, you name it she done it.
[June:] Yeah.
[Val:] Well... Geoff laid all new carpets, I think she's having a security vault there but... Geoff
[June:] Yeah.
[Val:] fitted it all out
[June:] Don't have a go at me!
[Val:] she had our blue suite, such as it was, but... she was going to come right flat on her back... got his bedroom ready, for Ian... all that, cos they do. We done it for... Kerry... and done it for her,... Kerry left home... sorted all the house out and bought all the stuff back and give the rest away!
[June:] What?
[Val:] And that... so I spent hours doing it... done it for Marie and she's only gone and swapped with the nurse! And only cos... Well i cos he's gotta be.
[June:] Whatever does she need a big kitchen for? Her and that little boy?
[Val:] She's got a big round table.
[June:] It's hers if he comes round.
[Val:] And Geoff, she said Geoff come round last night... he said she is in such a muddle and it wants such a lot doing to it!
[June:] Then won't she have the other girl
[Val:] But, but it's always so lovely!... So pretty....
[June:] Well I can't... what, am I gonna go up the hospital then... with her!
[Val:] She goes in the thirteenth and hopefully will be out the twenty third, I realize this is a big operation... but I want Cheryl to come along anyway, book the table, stay with us, come with us... If she couldn't make it... which she'll be in so I do... understand that
[June:] Yeah.
[Val:] bring her plate home... so... she said... she said that she don't know if she'll make it or even if she'll be home for christmas... so... erm... I said oh well...!
[June:] So, are you gonna go out now then?
[Val:] Yeah... but she said wait for [cockerel crows]
[June:] He wants to because... he doesn't want to go anyway.
[Val:] Well who else is going from here then?
[June:] Just us and the... as I call them.
[Val:] They're alright.
[June:] Well that ain't gonna be so good though, is it?
[Val:] Then there's Maria... So I've gotta get and the she gotta invite.
[June:] So you've gotta co you've gotta cancel that then, cos she might have to pay.
[Val:] There's six but it's u... you can't help that can you? An emergency operation coming up. [cockerel crows]
[June:] Yeah but you ought to let them know.
[Val:] I'm going to!... I've she's only
[June:] Or whoever is.
[Val:] just told me a few minutes ago!... I said erm
[June:] Well I should leave it till the weekend things could change.
[Val:] No, I don't want to do that... I just said to her, I said... you know, you can sort of erm... ask Brenda... she said I'm doing that I'm not on christmas day, would you?... I said well frankly Cheryl with her record... I'm not in... I said she takes off when she pleases, she comes down when she wants something... I said she doing me some... good at christmas I said I do I quite understand that... I said I do understand and I'm... I've nothing nothing to do with me that's entirely up to you and she said and you wouldn't tell me what to do you won't change our minds, I said... no I'm not trying to change your minds but you asked me what I would do... I said and I think... there... and now she's... [noise train] She said and I don't care what you done, I'll do I'll do, I said she's got hundreds of where they smash the windows and break into so regularly.
[June:] Whatever's the matter with the girl?
[Val:] Ju Jim said he was going to... down here.
[June:] So there's Julie, Ian and... James aren't gonna go to the meal at all?
[Val:] She wouldn't let him come with us because she said that'd be our first christmas when we're altogether... I said yeah... that's the
[June:] So
[Val:] for them... really.
[June:] Well why can't... if John and Jim ain't gonna go... Marie's not gonna go, why can't Cheryl still go... and then
[Val:] Cos she's gotta stay and cook dinner for Jodie who's crept back... Jodie and Shaun... Marie... who's crept back... and Jodie.
[June:] So she's gonna have a he heavy work
[Val:] There's.
[June:] again?
[Val:] Again... I've tried to tell her... but he said, Geoff said we shall have a lovely time, we shan't go short... I said I know that!... But I said that
[June:] But that's got nothing to do with it!
[Val:] That's just... you again!... I
[June:] Well I
[Val:] have yo... we got the cancellation I reckon... cos
[June:] That's mucked your plans up as well innit? Cos you
[Val:] Well
[June:] all enjoy going together.
[Val:] I said well I hope you don't
[June:] I'll tell you something, why don't you go and invite Carole and Brian?
[Val:] That's what she said.
[June:] Well I would, I should go up there and have a word with Carole and Brian cos they sit on their own... all christmas virtually! They do... well last year they had egg and chips!... They
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] they tried to go out for a meal, I don't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day... down in and they couldn't get n in nowhere, I said well you wouldn't on a boxing day!
[Val:] I said to Cheryl please don't go and invite to come to yours for dinner now... and because insult us cos... we're not without him... cos I'm prepared to go... I look forward to that. Now I said to Ken that'll be your christmas present to me in nineteen years... and that'll do me a treat cos that's really worth it.
[June:] Yeah.
[Val:] I said you can bloody do it for me!... I do it for you all year... and that's for me.
[June:] So is Gill going with you?
[Val:] Well I mean, going with Jim but obviously it won't be much fun for just for him so
[June:] Oh no!
[Val:] Cheryl said invite him round there to be with Gill, which is better than Gill.
[June:] Well a yeah it's nice for Gill really cos he don't enjoy it.
[Val:] But we're enjoy it.... Then he'll want to come back.
[June:] Oh well!
[Val:] You know.
[June:] But then you can't in
[Val:] But I said Cheryl... if... we do sell these tickets to whoever... and they think they round yours, I said they can, you know what... she said no... I don't want anyone else, I said that's fair enough.
[June:] Yeah well then that's gonna be awkward really if you invite Carole and Brian and then just dump them off... ain't it?... Do you see what I'm
[Val:] Well I'll have to tell them... because... erm... you know if
[June:] Oh what a
[Val:] they're bringing plaster...
[June:] Oh what a shame!
[Val:] and we've gotta buy a can of oil but then there's and then Nick and... Cheryl
[June:] Yeah but they ma they make
[Val:] and her mother in there... I don't know.
[June:] You don't know when Nick's... well her mother don't come christmas!
[Val:] Don't she?
[June:] No!
[Val:] But she wouldn't mind coming along cos she likes him.
[June:] What Oh they have to bring
[Val:] But I said to him, I don't care otherwise ooh can Cheryl can't make it, would you like it? I said they gotta say she come to us now mate
[June:] Yeah... and then if I can't bloody go, yeah that's right.
[Val:] And invite you... she said well that's... you're not going so they wouldn't get in anyway now and
[June:] Well that's embarrassing for you to do that though won't it?
[Val:] So I said
[June:] Well I I know where I am so I ain't gotta worry... but boxing day we're going to... well I was going to mum's... I'll come up and see you boxing day though.
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] Like I normally do.
[Val:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] Well we're going to mum's but... Geoff said well I I hate them... cos Bobby and Pam are going I think this year... he said well if I get fed up doing that evening he said I'll come home early.
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] So I said oh... fair enough, I don't mind.
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] That's entirely up to him what we do... but I shall be up for... dinner... you know and sort of see you and then... if Geoff wants to leave early, we will.
[Val:] Well I think the only difference is... I say to her I hope you're still... cos she said to me you can come, I said I'm coming straight round yours christmas day, I'm not coming home waiting for you to come back, you don't come till half past ten!... I said and that's if for me... I said parting company if we go to dinner we stay together!
[June:] Yeah.
[Val:] The best of the... cos she
[June:] yeah
[Val:] she'll say... we'll just go and get changed and we'll be back, they all fall asleep... this and that and you know they don't want to come out!
[June:] Oh that's no good is it?... But
[Val:] So
[June:] but you can go straight for the meal, straight round hers. and then is she coming back to you at all?
[Val:] And they're supposed to be coming boxing day.
[June:] We... will they?
[Val:] Well that's what Ken said... he said will they... stay again... Marie's going
[June:] Yeah well even if they came sort of late afternoon, turn up about fiveish and had a... a bit of tea and then spent the evening with you... that won't be too bad would it?
[Val:] But, June I can't tell you how that baby's dominating their life... I mean
[June:] Well that's ridiculous!
[Val:] I said to her if she didn't make it the first time, let her lend you my hammer... she said don't you talk like that and don't you let e Geoff hear you! Well anyway... Friday night he slept all night... Saturday night he had her up all day!... He says get her
[June:] What's the matter with it?
[Val:] and he talk, he loves, he likes me now, cos he never did... and he says... he.
[June:] Well what's... does he he just shows her how to
[Val:] home late and he goes... she wa... he watches her go upstairs... Woooh!... Come on!... You feel insecure don't you and there she is and look... come off it!... She ge... it's really getting me... he watches her.
[June:] Well innit ridiculous!
[Val:] So he
[June:] I better go in a minute.
[Val:] Last night she trotted to bed, and he did sleep all night long, but he didn't go till half past ten... cos Marie don't put him to bed.
[June:] Well you see... children need routine really, you need to get into a routine, when you get into that
[Val:] But he yet!
[June:] Well he wouldn't be would he?
[Val:] She's been up since six... and he is up
[June:] Yeah and that
[Val:] sleep all day and night.
[June:] Well that's gonna wear her, that's gonna make her ill.
[Val:] I said... Oh I said oh you did use my hand blender, I did leave it for you... then she
[June:] Well what
[Val:] ... she... you know I said
[June:] But it's silly to let a baby rule your life ain't it?... I mean... or anyway, it isn't her baby is it? I know it's her grandson but
[Val:] Right next thing you ask her to stand in the middle of the road and... under a train and she would do! I can't tell you what's she like with him!... She don't put him down for a minute, oh he feels insecure and he's left his mummy and goes... love his granny and... come on your granny, I think oh carry on!
[June:] Well she had erm Sam one night didn't she?
[Val:] She put him through it.
[June:] Oh I bet she did, I bet she didn't treat him like that!
[Val:] She didn't... and she got two hundred pound Friday night.
[June:] Did she really!
[Val:] pay her a hundred pound a week!
[June:] Good heavens!
[Val:] Yep... cos it's two of them.
[June:] Well if I'd have known, I'd have had it!
[Val:] Well... and she put him through the hoop, nurses him.
[June:] No but you don't... you don't do that sort of thing.
[Val:] And I I handle but he had a wha you know I wouldn't let him run over me but
[June:] No
[Val:] she's...... walking the through it and stuffed them in the ground!... She goes
[June:] Well then that's her fault isn't it?... What can you do about that?
[Val:] I bet she's gotta get... irate and ring me back, tell Geoff what I said, I thought well I don't care, she's speaks it and I'll just say to her quietly well, you know... I said now Marie's done this to Geoff after all his hard work and he's helped his... worry anyway... then defies him, he begs her to leave and she defied and she's moved.
[June:] Well I think really if he's if he's
[Val:] I will do it.
[June:] gotta say to her and now you gotta stand on your own two feet... everything we do you keep changing so
[Val:] Well I've never ever... run
[June:] Well look
[Val:] any of them down....
[June:] No.
[Val:] Michelle hasn't done it frequently... but i you know I would never even talk to me like that... Sarah the little... erm... madam that she is, just like Kerry, which they are!
[June:] Well they do get like that
[Val:] Geoff
[June:] at that age don't they?
[Val:] you know... and I've never... never said anything about them
[June:] No.
[Val:] but today I did... you know when she said to me though, what would you do?
[June:] Well that's a disappointment for you Val isn't it when you get?
[Val:] Well I said to Marie... you know it just got round
[June:] The whole thing!
[Val:] you know, and they're always, she said well get on, yeah I know we do... but I said I just don't want... you know
[June:] Because let's face it Val... she is a type of person, you get her in a party or anywhere... you know you're gonna enjoy yourself.
[Val:] Yes
[June:] I know she thinks says things... you know she embarrasses me at times
[Val:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] but I know... you know if she's there you're gonna have a good time.
[Val:] Yes, that's right.
[June:] You know erm... and I... if she if she goes to emba cos I think she does it for the purpose really... to people
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] she tries to embarrass
[Val:] Oh yeah.
[June:] them you know
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] I try to ignore her, if I can wha
[Val:] Or start laughing.
[June:] Yeah... when she tries to d
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] Like last time at the party... well I just ignored her, I just looked the other way... well Caroline she well
[Val:] She'd want to be like him.... Do you know what?
[June:] No way!
[Val:] She she told Alan to me
[June:] Ooh!
[Val:] I think it's best if you go Alan... so he said well shall we ask the children what they think, so he brought all the kids down
[June:] Oh no!
[Val:] he said what do you think Ben? So he just stood and... so they said and what about you? Then she cried... so she said, what about you Sam?... So she said I was so proud of him, he said... yes dad I think it would better for us all if you left... she said I was so proud of him.
[June:] Proud?
[Val:] And Val told Cheryl so now it's... and er... I said I think that's awful! Anyway he's took gone on holiday with them. [LAUGHTER] Good old Perry!
[June:] That's it, I'll be going on holiday there.
[Val:] But it's safe They've gone... to Fiji... and then Singapore... and America.
[June:] He did tell me they were going.
[Val:] And then Australia. He
[June:] He's been to France. My God!... That's a nice area... and it's a house
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] that's just the area he's in.
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] I said mine are getting it three times!
[Val:] Yeah, I know... and he said... she said... my sister said if I can't afford it, she'll pay... but I'll... she said... and I was so proud of Sam! Big bossy!! Ah they're bossed them around all their life... I was proud of him, just standing. [phone rings]
[June:] Cor I wouldn't have been proud! You mustn't walk away you know cos I shan't be ab... you're supposed to be on my tape! [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] Oh, talk about.
[June:] Well it don't matter what we talk about, we can talk about something naughty if you like!
[speaker005:] Have we go
[June:] [cough]
[speaker005:] have we got to say who we are Margaret? That's right.
[June:] No Jean, you ain't gotta say who you are... nothing like that... [shouting] bye []!
[speaker005:] Bye!
[June:] Have a nice day.
[speaker005:] You think they'd be a bit. Yeah I know. The bike went on the side of it.
[June:] Well that's a good job it went on
[speaker005:] Yeah.
[June:] cos ahead.
[speaker005:] Got it all on the which is fine. See you soon.
[June:] Yeah, oh yeah oh... it's alright for some innit! Well!
[speaker005:] ... someone said
[June:] Yeah, that's right.
[speaker005:] His family
[June:] Whatever's all them people for to, ooh! Why did they keep coming?
[speaker005:] I dunno....
[June:] Ah ho!
[speaker005:] Seventy seven P... my shoes have gotta.
[June:] Well now how did it get in Well honestly it's terrible isn't it?... They get worse don't they!
[speaker005:] no.
[June:] I'll go straight to my and I do with some coffee.
[speaker005:] Yeah... and.
[June:] Makes you feel a bit
[speaker005:] Yeah.
[June:] downcast really don't it?
[speaker005:] Yes it does... had enough again.
[June:] You're not sort of good in it... ooh look at washing blowing Sue!
[Susan:] It's blowing high isn't it, shirts on the line.
[June:] Well I got some sheets and that.
[Susan:] ... hot... got those on Friday morning.
[June:] Have you?
[Susan:] Yeah... Helen but I got them,
[June:] Did you really?
[Susan:] Well I say I'm going to get a boiler...
[June:] Well I've got
[Susan:] for.
[June:] I might bring my take my cotton things in before I go... peach.
[Susan:] Yeah... it soon turns up.
[June:] Yeah and then that by the time I get back about fourish
[Susan:] Yeah, I suppose you have to.
[June:] they're damp!... Do you know I could go out on mine, couldn't you? So's mine.
[Susan:] You can reach a... all overgrown.
[June:] See they look so tidy but they... oh I don't know how they keep them like it! Nor do I!
[Susan:] ...
[June:] Do they?
[Susan:] Mm.
[June:] Did Jenny and have dinner with them all?
[Susan:] Probably... she got her... yes she did.
[June:] Ooh crumbs!
[Susan:] I went
[June:] I bet!
[Susan:] I bet
[June:] Yeah well I don't take a lot a notice of Dorothy on that score because she go she says, I don't know why I do it!... But she always told me
[Susan:] cor she does!
[June:] Yeah.... That lady's gotta big job doing that! Yeah.
[Susan:] Always looks good.
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] ... Look where the
[June:] I bet than mine some... some of mine are getting old and you can't get them clean.
[Susan:] And they get a bit, you know.
[June:] They look a bit well grey looking don't they?
[Susan:] Yeah... I'm not sure what she does... but they're all lovely and clean... theirs not as good as.
[June:] No.
[Susan:] That gets your things a
[June:] I'd cos er sometimes my tea cloths they've still got little stains on them.
[Susan:] Yeah mine have.
[June:] They're clean but they're
[Susan:] Yeah... then you get something
[June:] Hello.
[Susan:] like that.
[June:] You can't
[Susan:] There's
[June:] get the stains out
[Susan:] there's a thing on one of my cloths I've got some on...
[June:] And I bet it never come out.
[Susan:] No, I'd have to sort of wash it a little bit so I
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] put it in... sort of
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] like up to there.
[June:] Yeah I find that... oh Val they've got some ha Christmas trimmings up.
[Val:] I'm not a bit worried yet.
[June:] Jonathan wanted us to put ours up the weekend and I thought well
[Val:] Did you?
[June:] Well I don't really put... I suppo... I usually put them up before birthday.
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] Ooh that's Geoff's mummy's birthday this week.
[Val:] eighty four.
[June:] Well I got Geoff's mum's... and Susan's
[Susan:] Well I skip that [LAUGHTER] every time []!
[June:] [LAUGHTER]... Then Ron's... who else, someone else is in December... I can't think who it is. ?
[Val:] Yep.
[June:] What a horrible day to have a birthday!
[Susan:] Is a bit it could though.
[June:] Oh not him!
[Susan:] Mr.
[June:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah [] [LAUGHTER] Well did you? Did you know you was gonna have him on the twenty
[Susan:] No.
[June:] fifth?
[Susan:] No... should have been the fourteenth of January.
[June:] Oh so you had him early
[Susan:] That's what they said.
[June:] then!
[Susan:] That's what they said.
[June:] Oh you had him quite early didn't you?
[Susan:] , I'm sure.
[June:] They never know properly anyway. I'm sure no one 's caught her.
[Val:] Nope.
[June:] Oh that cabinet in there Sue look!
[Susan:] Ooh. Ooh
[June:] ... also don't it?
[Susan:] Oh... yeah... I walk down and she was just coming down here.
[June:] Oh was she alright?
[Susan:] No too bad, I said how are you... getting on Val sort of... tired I suppose?... She said... I have my good days and my bad days, said I had bad day yesterday... not too bad.
[June:] Yes... don't take a lot
[Susan:] Now that they've gone back to school she has a bit of a job with the...... I've gotta go you know, I said we'll have so many people round... talking you know she said he'd got a terrible!
[Val:] How?
[Susan:] Said the
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] gotta over his ears... gotta to say have you.
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] She said and then... all of a sudden she'll come back and her friends waiting around... so they
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] said could they help out a little bit for teachers... you know?
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] And she said... he got up and went off and to get things... she said he... he's not too bad now, he said it's getting better.
[June:] No that's good, and yet prob... yeah... probably with his friends going
[Susan:] That's it, yeah.
[June:] you know
[Susan:] But she said as... it's so terrible when a little boy... her.
[June:] She'll do that for a long time, I bet.
[Susan:] And then she said and then I think... used to try... you know?
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] She said and I've... once or twice I've found a we've gotta have that, but then what am I gonna give Ashley?... She said and
[June:] Yeah
[Susan:] then that hits me, you know?
[June:] Yeah it hits you like a ton of bricks
[Susan:] Yeah.
[June:] I should think.
[Susan:] I think, you know.
[June:] Yeah... it's not very nice is it?... It's awful!
[Susan:] It's not often they come back from work... she said they feel I can't, not yet, she said I could never... my housework and... that's too much... yeah she likes to do
[June:] She wants to give herself
[Susan:] everything at once, you know?
[June:] Well some people
[Susan:] Yeah.
[June:] you know,bi... would rather be flowing about and... you know?
[Susan:] Yeah.
[June:] But if she feels like she wants extra time I think... she ought to allow herself extra time
[Susan:] That's right yeah.
[June:] don't she?
[Susan:] Yeah.
[June:] Well it's a big thing losing your son at that age isn't it?
[Susan:] Yeah it is yes... and like she said see cos he was you see
[June:] Was he?
[Susan:] Yes, she said he'd always got the music on loud and sort of full of messing about you know so
[June:] Yes.
[Susan:] she says he's really sort of quiet and
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] well he would be.
[June:] Trudy.
[Susan:] Do you know Mrs...?
[June:] Mrs
[Susan:] Did you?
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] Yeah?
[June:] Why what's the matter with her?
[Susan:] Well
[June:] I heard she was in hospital. Oh my God!
[Susan:] Yeah.
[June:] What's she got cancer or something?
[Susan:] Well I dunno I mean everybody jumps to that conclusion but
[June:] Oh my God!
[Susan:] I dunno... but she
[June:] [yawn]
[Susan:] must be something serious...
[June:] Oh how terrible!
[Susan:] Yeah, cos she's ever so nice
[June:] Yeah cos she's a nice person.
[Susan:] a lovely lady weren't she?
[June:] Yeah.
[Susan:] You know?
[June:] Yeah cos she used to teach here in the school
[Susan:] Yeah.
[June:] a little while didn't
[Susan:] Yeah.
[June:] she?... Oh!
[Susan:] We want out the back door?
[June:] Yeah... oh dear! Makes you wonder don't it?
[Susan:] ... I've got to
[June:] Ooh... I thought he was a flipping turnover that!
[Susan:] That was me.
[June:] Who did?
[Susan:] I did.
[June:] Did you have a good at school?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] What've you done?
[Jonathan:] Done erm... we done...... erm
[June:] Did you have a lot to finish off?
[Jonathan:] No... not really... erm we had to do all about guards.
[June:] What guards?
[Jonathan:] Egyptian guards.
[June:] Oh!
[Jonathan:] You know Uliusfor... Haurus... all that
[June:] Oh yeah.
[Jonathan:] yep er... what else did we do? We did... erm... what else did we do?... Tables work.
[June:] Oh you like doing them don't you?
[Jonathan:] Mm.
[June:] Is maths your favourite subject?
[Jonathan:] Yeah... no drawing... art.
[June:] You like art as well.
[Jonathan:] Yeah... I like erm Friday's... art as well.
[June:] What is your worst thing?
[Jonathan:] Er er er... handwriting.
[June:] Yeah but your handwriting's a lot better.
[Jonathan:] Ooh I hate it!... It takes me so long!
[June:] How's James getting on now? Is he getting on better?
[Jonathan:] No, not really.
[June:] Oh dear.
[Jonathan:] John's the worst though.
[June:] Still the same is he?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] You play with John a bit more now don't you?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.... When he... when we get... when I've done about two pages... guess how much he's done?
[June:] Dunno.
[Jonathan:] About two lines!
[June:] Oh dear!
[Jonathan:] Right... and when... Mr said to everybody... right, read out your stories... and he didn't know John was so slow... and so... when he erm... asked John to read his out, cos everybody had to read it out... John goes...... when he goes... reasons for writing... er what is John's called?... Oh yeah... the magic potion... I was in my lab... when a big bang... went off... it was very nossy... cos John he couldn't spell noisy!... Because the bang... had made a very... loud nossy!
[June:] Well don't be horrible!
[Jonathan:] No this is what he said.
[June:] Bet he read it out, I know... Is it?
[Jonathan:] Well that's what he said... oh no when he went... to sleep... I did... I'd done about a page... this is what I read out, I went... Professor Plop and the Time Machine.
[June:] Oh!
[Jonathan:] I was in my laboratory... when aha... I've got it!... I said... well you see I was making a time machine and all I needed was one more microchip... and what was sitting right up under my nose?... Yep, you guessed it, a microchip.
[June:] Yeah, go on then.
[Jonathan:] So I put the microchi chip in place... the time machine was ready... the next day I put one of them down... so I typed in ancient Egypt... and then I put... oh and by the way... I wa I'm called Professor Plop... because... when I landed in ancient Egypt... there was a big plop!
[June:] Oh oh!... Yeah?
[Jonathan:] I never knew Egypt was so big!... When I met Tutankhamen I thought his clothes were a bit dull... so I thought I'd give him a shell suit... yeah, maybe a baseball cap... some Reebok pumps... and a.
[June:] Ah ah.
[Jonathan:] Mind you, he wasn't very pleased though. Oh no, and there was a... I mean.
[June:] What is it at home then?
[Jonathan:] Oh Lemmings... and that computer game I wanted.
[June:] Oh yeah?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Is that an expensive one?
[Jonathan:] Er... it's about five pound.
[June:] Oh... someone might be able to buy you that for Christmas.
[Jonathan:] Yeah... I did last Christmas.
[June:] What's that?
[Jonathan:] , not on the thing I'd make... the Bushwackers.
[June:] What's that?
[Jonathan:] They're W W F men... Jake the Snake.
[June:] Well where are they?
[Jonathan:] The big... they have... things.
[June:] Erm that's upstairs.
[Jonathan:] then?
[June:] What you mean, where are they?
[Jonathan:] You took them home.
[June:] Yeah well I put it upstairs.
[Jonathan:] Whereabouts?
[June:] In your bedroom.
[Jonathan:] Oh... I never see it!... What near the computer?
[June:] I don't know where I put it actually, but it is in there.
[Jonathan:] Oh.
[June:] Well go on then, what else you gotta tell me?
[Jonathan:] What in school?... Well I didn't do much... really... I suppose we did a little bit more in the afternoon.
[June:] What do you do in the afternoon?
[Jonathan:] Er we had Julian the Weak
[June:] Who got that?
[Jonathan:] Ben... he's doing
[June:] Is he going?
[Jonathan:] No... I'm the only one, me and Kelly are the only ones on our table... and I think it's gonna be Kelly this week.
[June:] Why?
[Jonathan:] Cos she's worked hard.
[June:] Well why ain't you then?
[Jonathan:] No I mean she did a lot of work and all.
[June:] Why don't you try harder then?
[Jonathan:] Yeah but I'm not gonna do that much!... We did a po... a sheet and a half... of A four that big!
[June:] Of what?
[Jonathan:] Paper!
[June:] And what... a story or something?
[Jonathan:] No writing!... About Egypt.
[June:] How many did you do then?
[Jonathan:] Only did ha... three quarters... she did nearly two!... Ergh!... Got a bit of a cold.
[June:] Yeah I know, so has Pete, did you hear him?
[Jonathan:] Yeah... he's going [sniff] okay I'll be up in a minute love.
[June:] Almost like he's dying!
[Jonathan:] Cor!... He goes, I think I'm about to die!... Hang on a minute
[June:] have their tonight.
[Jonathan:] Hey, you know Whizz the dog?
[June:] No.
[Jonathan:] Oh alright, when you yell hup!... When you erm... pound your chest... she jumps up and hugs you.
[June:] I know.
[Jonathan:] And if you say down!... She goes and licks your feet... and if you say
[June:] in your bedroom.
[Jonathan:] mi... what?... In his Simon's... play on the computer.
[June:] Whatever would he do on there?
[Jonathan:] Er the dog poop.
[June:] Oh he didn't again!
[Jonathan:] Three loads!
[June:] No!
[Jonathan:] He said I've got a new system now... I'm going... and what is that then? He goes... I pick it up in a bag and chuck it out the window!
[June:] Oh how disgusting!
[Jonathan:] I go... mm... urgh!... And he uses
[June:] What about
[Jonathan:] the same bag!... I thought ooh, what if you put your hand in the wrong place urgh urgh!
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER] I was thinking... urgh urgh urgh []!
[June:] Ah how that's horrible!
[Jonathan:] Right... cor he's got ever so nice computer in he?
[June:] He's what?
[Jonathan:] His computer's ever so nice.
[June:] I haven't seen it Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] You never?... Cor!
[June:] No.
[Jonathan:] You should go up there one day... cor oh.
[June:] No thank you, I don't want to.
[Jonathan:] No and just have a look at the computer... I mean the printer that's about... half a metre long.
[June:] Is it?
[Jonathan:] Yeah it's massive!... Cor!... Tell you one thing... right
[June:] Maybe his dad doesn't know that does that.
[Jonathan:] Yeah I reckon so... I reckon that's how it got outside on the floor!
[June:] They ain't you wanna be careful when you're walking down that park it's
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] all over the.
[Jonathan:] Just in case he chucks some out.
[June:] Makes mummy feel sick.
[Jonathan:] So do cor!... Right... on mine I can play on this computer, he said we'll play Diddy Paint
[June:] What ever's that
[Jonathan:] Not Diddy Paint, it's a... and he goes... ready calcu... and he's showing off he goes... right, I'll show you what it does... when he put on the calculator... and it
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] shows you a little tiny picture of the calculator and when you press one button it presses the button on the thing... and... then he showed me the clock
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] er... then he showed me the alarm... and the he sho... right he's got file of everybody... ain't got one of us though.... You know that lady up the road? You know opposite the council houses?... You know?
[June:] What?
[Jonathan:] She lives down there in that nice house co opposite the hou council houses.
[June:] What the big house right down there.
[Jonathan:] I can see yeah, opposite the council houses he said... right... they got... have they got some cows?
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Yeah... and bulls?
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Ah yeah... and he's got a file of that house.
[June:] What do you mean about?
[Jonathan:] Well... I reckon they've got a computer like it.
[June:] Well what does it say on this file then, about the people?
[Jonathan:] It just says, sort of like, her age, her name... right and on Simon... he typed... I said... can I do Simon then?... He goes, go on then, I pre got it on Simon... I reckon it must of thought about it... do you know why?
[June:] Well why?
[Jonathan:] When I pressed Simon nothing come up!
[June:] Oh God!
[Jonathan:] He goes... sorry... nothing in here... [LAUGHTER]... Cor it's ever so nice though... it's one of them Amstrads... with that big bit on the bottom, that square base.
[June:] Oh yeah, what is Julian's one?
[Jonathan:] That's just a normal Amstrad... cor nothing's like his.
[June:] He reckons he's gonna sell his.
[Jonathan:] Yeah... and you know what he wants.
[June:] What?
[Jonathan:] Apple Mac.
[June:] Who does?
[Jonathan:] boy... Simon.
[June:] He won't be getting that.
[Jonathan:] Oh I bet he does.
[June:] He won't Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] Why not?
[June:] Cos his dad said so.
[Jonathan:] Oh... Hello Fudge!... And how are you today?
[June:] I thought you was gonna play football today.
[Jonathan:] No.
[June:] I got all your things ready and then you didn't play!
[Jonathan:] Matty said... if you play football I'll nick your Hulk Hogan.
[June:] Who said that?
[Jonathan:] No... I knew he was joking, he always do says it.
[June:] What does he want you to play with him?
[Jonathan:] Yeah... he doesn't have nobody to play with.
[June:] Well no but you both... yeah but you wanna play football if you want to Jonathan don't you.
[Jonathan:] Yeah I will.
[June:] You know play football on the
[Jonathan:] Well Lee won't play football either.
[June:] Why don't go today?
[Jonathan:] Ha forgot his kit... mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm
[June:] If you wanna play it, you play it, you know don't let Matthew put you off.
[Jonathan:] Doo doo
[June:] When's the next match?
[Jonathan:] Er I dunno... I hope it's only [LAUGHTER] shorties, so I [] can get in the team!
[June:] Well... you're obviously are not quite good enough, are you?
[Jonathan:] No... I can tell you one thing though... Matthew isn't very good!
[June:] And he's a naughty boy as well!
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Is he naughty in class?
[Jonathan:] A bit.
[June:] Is he in your class?
[Jonathan:] Yeah... he's the eldest year five.
[June:] Is he?
[Jonathan:] Yeah... he's ten.
[June:] ... Is he?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] When's his birthday then?
[Jonathan:] Er August... I think.
[June:] Oh he isn't much younger than you then really is he?
[Jonathan:] Oh he is!... the end of August... no, it might be the ne
[June:] oi!
[Jonathan:] She weren't!
[June:] She was!
[Jonathan:] She didn't!
[June:] Jonathan!... Take her out please will you!... Pick her
[Jonathan:] Ay?
[June:] up and take yourself out.
[Jonathan:] Come on!... Come on!... Out which door?
[June:] That door... make sure!
[Jonathan:] Come on.
[June:] I'm not doing that... again!
[Jonathan:] Silly dum cat!
[June:] Come on... I know. Okay.
[Jonathan:] Whe... when are we having tea?
[June:] Won't be long.
[Jonathan:] Right... the... what else do I want for Christmas, er... well
[June:] Smack in the ear hole!
[Jonathan:] No! Er... let's think, ooh what do I want?... I know there's something that I wouldn't mind. Oh that's right you said you wa wanted that Lego set didn't you? Oh yeah I want that Lego set from you... then from Fudge and Father Christmas I'd like a man... each.
[June:] I thought you wanted that headphone set?
[Jonathan:] What headphone set? Oh yeah!
[June:] Well you can't have everything
[Jonathan:] I'll have that from Father Christmas... and one of these from Fudge... [LAUGHTER]... I'd like the ultimate warrior from Fudge... or Hacksaw Jim or Macho King or Robert.
[June:] anything in other words?
[Jonathan:] Well... I'd like the ones that are crossed off.... Can I have a pen?... I need to cross some more off... [LAUGHTER]
[June:] Well why don't you just say you don't mind any of them?
[Jonathan:] No cos some of them I don't like!... I've got him... I don't like him, don't like him, don't like him, don't like him... don't like him, don't like him, he's okay, don't like him, urgh he's rubbish!
[June:] Well I tell you something you don't wanna spend all your Christmas money do you?
[Jonathan:] Cor no!
[June:] You know what you wanna do with it?
[Jonathan:] What?
[June:] Put it away... and then
[Jonathan:] and
[June:] er
[Jonathan:] save it for that trip.
[June:] for your holiday, yeah. And then you'll want some for the holiday, when we go... just to Cromer won't you?
[Jonathan:] Yeah... Cor!... Can't
[June:] [cough]
[Jonathan:] wait till we go on that trip... to erm... oh where is it?... Meaple
[June:] Meaple
[Jonathan:] Can't wait!
[June:] Why can't you wait? You'll have to.
[Jonathan:] Oh!... Why?
[June:] I wish these chips would get done cos everything else is cooked.
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]... Mum?... Mum you know Nightmare?... Right... on one of them... this bloke it says... he hypnotises them and he goes... when I click my fingers... you will become my servant and he's about to click his fingers like that [clicks fingers]... when... somebody comes and rescues them.
[June:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] And then, if somebody else clicks their fingers... they be... tha they become their enemy... and the enemy... if they click their fingers... he becomes their enemy. Mm mm mm... What's for tea... mummy?
[June:] Lasagne.
[Jonathan:] Is it done?... Will it be fun!... Cor they look... I told you one of them didn't have much in!... Which one
[June:] What you on about?... No!... That's cos I've... I've filled that's all.
[Jonathan:] Hoorah!... Which one can I have?
[June:] Whichever one you like.
[Jonathan:] Can I have the biggest?
[June:] You are greedy sometimes Jonathan!
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]... Yeah... Ahhh my... Ooooh!
[June:] I don't know what time to expect dad tonight.
[Jonathan:] [sneeze]... Urgh I hate sneezing!... [singing] My name was Jonathan... and my name is [].
[June:] You know you gotta go Grandma on Saturday?
[Jonathan:] Oh oh!
[June:] No you don't sound like that cos she was nearly like and Grandma.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Not like this
[Jonathan:] I wish I could take one of my mates.
[June:] Well you can't... not at Grandma's can you?
[Jonathan:] No I mean to play... if we played outside.... My mates would love it.
[June:] Well no... Grandma's gonna have you all day.
[Jonathan:] Oh... what for dinner?
[June:] Or I might be home a lot earlier than you think.
[Jonathan:] Can you buy me a pressie?
[June:] What?... Well I don't think so
[Jonathan:] No a Dinky car I meant.
[June:] I don't know I shall have to see.
[Jonathan:] But if you do... buy me something with style!... Something fast.
[June:] Something with style?
[Jonathan:] Something... something that's brown, with flames down the side... or a stock car... yeah a stock car.
[June:] You don't want a lot do you Jonathan!
[Jonathan:] No I never want much!
[June:] No I know... you don't realise I don't think how much
[Jonathan:] I found out something.
[June:] What?
[Jonathan:] My
[June:] What?
[Jonathan:] He said... he got one of these for two ninety nine.
[June:] Where'd he get them from?
[Jonathan:] He said... he I said did you get it from Bramson Toys, he goes yeah... I mean oh no I didn't... no, no no... cos he knew what I was gonna say... I said did you get it from W H Smith? He goes... yep,na na no I didn't get it from there... Oh where'd get it from?... He goes, where'd I get it from?... Cor I can't think them... Oh that's it, Westgate!... I thought, you little liar!... And now you
[June:] He told me at Westgate.
[Jonathan:] Yeah it doesn't now though... right, and and erm... what's his name? Er, Mark, he's a liar too.
[June:] Jonathan, don't talk like that, it's not very nice!
[Jonathan:] Well he is!
[June:] Can you just get out the way please!
[Jonathan:] Okay... is that better?... Can I sit here tonight?
[June:] Well no!
[Jonathan:] Please?
[June:] It's dad's place.
[Jonathan:] Please cos I like sitting here.
[June:] Well yeah I suppose you can, and dad can sit there.
[Jonathan:] And on my knee?
[June:] Well it, yeah but will you put on on the end of that ta... at right at the end there, so they're out the way.
[Jonathan:] Yeah I'll put them there... yeah... [singing] []
[June:] Dinner won't be long now, I just can't get them back in.
[Jonathan:] Who would you say is the oldest out of the girls?
[June:] Erm... Sarah is.
[Jonathan:] Boys?
[June:] Daniel?
[Jonathan:] No!
[June:] Who is it?
[Jonathan:] Darren.
[June:] How old is he then?
[Jonathan:] He's older than Sarah.
[June:] Is he really?
[Jonathan:] He was born on the same day as Sarah... but he's an hour earlier.
[June:] Oh... who's been telling you all this?
[Jonathan:] Oh Darren.
[June:] Do you like Darren?
[Jonathan:] Yeah he's okay... and guess who's?... Erm
[June:] Er, oh yeah! Who?
[Jonathan:] Oh yeah! And I'm making my own way home.
[June:] Yeah I'm gonna meet you up there.
[Jonathan:] Phew!... We missed the before!... God I'm not sure!... So I had a guess.
[June:] So what do you say?
[Jonathan:] I'm going... ah own way home... I thought God I hope mummy's making me, letting me go on my own way home.
[June:] Yeah well what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna meet you at the... village hall.
[Jonathan:] Oh... [singing] money [].
[June:] They'll be other people coming won't there?... Fay will I should think.
[Jonathan:] Yeah, Fay, Sarah, Daniel, Jason
[June:] Oh no!
[Jonathan:] er... Kelly isn't coming!
[June:] No she's going tomorrow isn't she?
[Jonathan:] Is she going with you?
[June:] I'm not going at all.
[Jonathan:] Ahhh!
[June:] Not this time.
[Jonathan:] Oh! Can't you come... but there's
[June:] Mr asked me to come Wednesday when you went.... Who's
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[June:] is in your group then?
[Jonathan:] Andrew, Darren
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Na Natasha... Elizabeth
[June:] Ooh my goodness me!... Can I just
[Jonathan:] Cor God!
[June:] move the chairs round?
[Jonathan:] Mm.
[June:] Elizabeth... any of your own mates?
[Jonathan:] No... what you mean, like Luke?
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] No... [singing] Dee doo dee dee []
[June:] So how many people are in your group?
[Jonathan:] About... seven.
[June:] Well you isn't said seven!
[Jonathan:] No I can't think of the others.
[June:] What about James or someone like that?
[Jonathan:] No!
[June:] Who are you actually with though?... What?
[Jonathan:] Mrs.
[June:] Who?
[Jonathan:] Mrs.
[June:] Oh you like being with her don't you?
[Jonathan:] Yes she's the best.... I like Mrs... [LAUGHTER] No, Mr []... she likes me
[June:] you're gonna... filthy!
[Jonathan:] I hope Ben is.
[June:] I don't, cos he's naughty at John's.
[Jonathan:] Yeah but he's my mate.
[June:] The sausages are done, I'd better turn that oven off.
[Jonathan:] I'd say I've got five best mates...... Christopher... Ashley... Lee
[June:] Yeah
[Jonathan:] erm oh who was that other one now, I can never remember his name?...... er... well not John!
[June:] Oh John's alright.
[Jonathan:] Yeah he's not best friend though, he's a pain!... Every morning he goes... [shouting] Jon-ee-than []!
[June:] Alright Jonathan!
[Jonathan:] And he comes running towards me with his arms out! I thought, oh my God!... Right and when he gets near I go, oh my God!... And John goes ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!... [LAUGHTER]
[June:] Don't be silly Jonathan!
[Jonathan:] Well he's... o... he's weird!
[June:] Well perhaps he is a little bit weird but don't be silly!
[Jonathan:] These chips are hot!
[June:] Well they've just come out of the chip pan
[Jonathan:] Ooh!
[June:] I should they are hot!
[Jonathan:] I didn't know though did I... I thought you'd let them cool!... Can I have Lasagne?... [singing] []... Can I have mine out the tub?
[June:] Why and you leave it in the tub.
[Jonathan:] Yeah probably... maybe... ooh it's a bit burnt!
[June:] No it's not burnt!
[Jonathan:] Well this bit is.
[June:] That's... the top bit, that always goes like that.
[Jonathan:] What this bit?
[June:] Look, it's lovely!
[Jonathan:] Mm... are you getting yours out?
[June:] You don't want to take yours out.
[Jonathan:] No, I'll get mine out... I've got a little dip in the corner!
[June:] Have you?
[Jonathan:] No I mean... When are we going, Wednesday?
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Mr isn't gonna be there tomorrow.
[June:] hasn't got to do has he?
[Jonathan:] Dunno... haven't got Mrs.
[June:] has.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Do you like the?
[Jonathan:] ... or Mrs.
[June:] Do you want a chip?
[Jonathan:] Only a few.
[June:] How many do you want?
[Jonathan:] That'll do... only a few.
[June:] We'll leave the rest for dad.
[Jonathan:] That'll do.... Cor blimey!... Ooh ooh ooh!
[June:] Before I forget I'll put them in the microwave.
[Jonathan:] Hot!
[June:] What's hot?
[Jonathan:] Everything... can I have tomato sauce please?
[June:] Urgh!
[Jonathan:] What?
[June:] You ain't putting tomato sauce on lasagne surely?
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER] No, on my chips []... I like it with cheese... Ooh it's got kidney in!
[June:] Don't be silly!
[Jonathan:] Oh they're onions... I could of sworn they was kidneys.
[June:] You are Jonathan, sometimes.
[Jonathan:] [singing] Go go go go go go go go go, dee dee [] ahhh! Oh oh!
[June:] That's enough!
[Jonathan:] Oh God!
[June:] Don't keep saying that!
[Jonathan:] What, God?
[June:] Yeah it's not very nice!
[Jonathan:] Sorry.
[June:] Alright.... Is it nice?
[Jonathan:] Mm... I suppose I could take my computer down grandma's.
[June:] It's not six o'clock!... Already?
[Jonathan:] I'll have a look.
[June:] it is.
[Jonathan:] Yep... Urgh!
[June:] This is the what mummy usually has when I go out with the meal at work.
[Jonathan:] Do you?
[June:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] What Italian?
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Mm... Are you gonna go this year?
[June:] No.
[Jonathan:] Why not?
[June:] Cos dad'll be working I think... and Miss... Mrs isn't going and Mrs can't go, I might as well go.
[Jonathan:] What day is it?... Usually?
[June:] Erm... I think it's a Wednesday night.
[Jonathan:] Well I was gonna say you could've dropped me off at grandma's.
[June:] Can't can't can I?
[Jonathan:] Why not?
[June:] Cos I don't usually have a car, somebody usually takes me.
[Jonathan:] Oh.
[June:] And anyway you've gotta get up for school in the morning.
[Jonathan:] No I mean when dad gets home he could pick me up... So what time is it then?
[June:] About seven.
[Jonathan:] No, dad'll be home. Oh.
[June:] I'd rather go out with dad anyway.
[Jonathan:] Can we go to the soon?... Please?
[June:] I dunno.
[Jonathan:] If I can do go
[June:] What?
[Jonathan:] Well... there's two things I'd like... I can't have both of them... I thought I'd have a prawn and cocktail
[June:] Prawn cocktail Jonathan! Why do you say prawn and?
[Jonathan:] Prawn and cocktail.
[June:] Prawn cocktail!
[Jonathan:] Oh... I've not got a prawn and cocktail... or... them little tiny fish nanny had.
[June:] Oh whitebait?
[Jonathan:] Mm... found them nice.
[June:] You didn't did you?
[Jonathan:] Mm... or the soup.
[June:] Or the
[Jonathan:] soup.
[June:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] That was lovely!... They do a mean mushroom!
[June:] Do they all talk at school like that?
[Jonathan:] What?... Like what?
[June:] Mean mushroom!
[Jonathan:] No... some of us do though.
[June:] Aunt Maggie videoing you the re-match?
[Jonathan:] Yeah, hope so... I hope so.
[June:] Did he say he'd come round here on Sunday?
[Jonathan:] Mm?
[June:] Did he say he'd come round?
[Jonathan:] Mm.
[June:] have a look.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] He don't normally play with him do he?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] He wanted to come round tonight, I thought, no!... Please!... Please Mrs say no!... She said okay, you'll get a good hiding when you come home!... He goes, okay... we got round the corner and bumped into his dad!... He goes, where are you going?... He goes round Jonathan's, he goes oh no you're not!... I thought
[June:] And what did you say while all this was going on?
[Jonathan:] I kept quiet... mum... cos his mum's quite big and his dad's quite big.... Well his dad's very big!... He was
[June:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] in the RAF.
[June:] Was he?
[Jonathan:] Mm, used to be.
[June:] What does he do now then?
[Jonathan:] Dunno.
[June:] Oh... well he wouldn't hurt you.
[Jonathan:] Oh he's... Cor!... I tell you one thing... I wouldn't like to be him!... Up and down a dark alley, at night... Cor, flipping scary! Cor he's every so big!... About six foot five!
[June:] Is he really?
[Jonathan:] Yeah!... Cor he's massive!
[June:] Well Matthew don't take after him.
[Jonathan:] Why?
[June:] Cos he isn't no taller than you.
[Jonathan:] He is, he is a bit... about quarter of an inch.
[June:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] What colour eyes have I got?
[June:] Brown.
[Jonathan:] What colour eyes have you got.
[June:] Brown.
[Jonathan:] What colour eyes has dad got?
[June:] Blue.
[Jonathan:] Mum?
[June:] Yes.
[Jonathan:] Could I have green eyes?
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] If you had blue and dad had brown.
[June:] Well greeny tinge I suppose, yeah.
[Jonathan:] No I mean... green.
[June:] If two people have got blue eyes... the mother and father the children always have blue eyes... I think... If the mother's got brown and the father's got brown they don't have a blue eyed child.
[Jonathan:] Don't they?
[June:] No.... What's that noise Jonathan?
[Jonathan:] It's the tape recorder.
[June:] Oh... makes a funny noise don't it?
[Jonathan:] Yeah all we... Cor I love my tea!... Couldn't live without it.
[June:] Didn't eat all your dinner today?
[Jonathan:] No.
[June:] I thought you'd have liked that cheese and egg pie?
[Jonathan:] It's okay... I prefer pizza.
[June:] Yeah you can't always eat pizzas Jonathan!
[Jonathan:] And lasagne... and shepherd's pie.
[June:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] Can you remember when Steven put that salt on my dinner.
[June:] Yeah... Who's going with Mr?
[Jonathan:] Mm?
[June:] I said who's going with Mr?
[Jonathan:] Jason and Tom... Liam... and Matt probably... and... I don't know the rest.
[June:] friends though isn't there?
[Jonathan:] Yeah... a tiny bit more.
[June:] That's very nice Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] Mm... oh ha oh!
[June:] Couldn't eat a bit more than that.
[Jonathan:] Cor, nor could I!... It's filling innit?
[June:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] Very filling. [door opening]
[June:] Here's Daddy.
[Geoffrey:] Oh you're are you?
[June:] We couldn't wait no longer!
[Geoffrey:] No I've been.
[Jonathan:] Ooh ooh ooh!
[Geoffrey:] Ah smells a bit spicy what is it?
[June:] Ah bread!... Don't worry you'll.
[Jonathan:] Oh pardon me!
[Geoffrey:] Another job...... ooh... oh you've had yours then.
[June:] Mm I've just had it.
[Geoffrey:] Might as well take that, you've got plenty there... Oh, how you been then?
[Jonathan:] Okay.
[June:] Alright?
[Geoffrey:] You got my message did you?
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] We're down Pete's.
[June:] Well yeah you know go Mondays.
[Geoffrey:] Well yeah but I thought you went Monday mornings.
[Jonathan:] No.
[June:] Monday afternoons.
[Geoffrey:] No I didn't realise that... well I mean
[June:] Well I had to come all the way back didn't I.
[Geoffrey:] Why?
[June:] Because I don't like his van.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but what's the matter?
[June:] I couldn't, you can't really see on it.
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[June:] I couldn't see, I ain't got my glasses on me.
[Geoffrey:] Oh I see... oh.
[Jonathan:] I'd have a guess.
[June:] Yeah but I've gotta make so... I had to come all the way home!
[Geoffrey:] I'd come to that... they
[June:] Well I've made appointment for Wednesday so bloody well keep that!
[Jonathan:] Dad, I wonder why
[Geoffrey:] Yeah
[Jonathan:] tape flickers? No.
[Geoffrey:] Your voice.
[Jonathan:] No.
[June:] You need to change them batteries, the batteries isn't very good at all!
[Jonathan:] No I don't think it's that, I think it's cos it's getting near the end of the tape.
[June:] No it can't be cos we've only just just turned that one over!
[Jonathan:] No we haven't.
[June:] We did.
[Jonathan:] That's near the end of the tape.
[June:] Is it?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Oh good!
[Geoffrey:] Is the tape?
[Jonathan:] Yeah... yeah.
[June:] I taped... I want you to check it for me, I taped me and Sue walking home cos I have to do around the school you see.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] So I can do it walking home can't I?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And I've had it on the.
[Geoffrey:] Ken
[June:] He's on holiday for three days.
[Geoffrey:] Oh is he?... Oh.
[June:] I think he's getting his.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... no I didn't realise he weren't there said to see you tomorrow, they never said nothing and John said what's the matter with Ken? I said oh I don't know.
[June:] John?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... so he said er what's the matter?
[Jonathan:] John?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, said I dunno, said he isn't here today... But er
[June:] Yeah well Pam says he's got three days holiday.
[Geoffrey:] Oh... Can you come and stay?
[June:] I didn't hear a word you said. What?
[Geoffrey:] .
[Jonathan:] What's that... Terry Waite that's it.
[Geoffrey:] ... accident
[Jonathan:] ooh ooh!
[Geoffrey:] in the.
[June:] And he wonders why he's got a
[Geoffrey:] That's right he does.
[June:] Something wrong with his he's likely to.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.... He's... on booze Saturday afternoons... and Saturday night... Sunday afternoon... lun... Sunday night, I said my God!
[June:] Still with the money he saved he's got enough.
[Geoffrey:] Well... he said he got through fifty quid.
[June:] Well that's quite some money, fifty pounds worth of
[Geoffrey:] That's what he said
[June:] Well he can put... bought as much as we're gonna buy... you can drink yourself silly for thirty... one.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... I know.
[June:] No I thinks that sounds silly. What?
[Jonathan:] Can you get... can you get too... oh there's none in it... I like shandy too.
[June:] That's hot!
[Jonathan:] Nice.
[June:] Pete's... gone down to the shop and got yourself a bottle whisky.
[Geoffrey:] has he really?... Makes the look nice dunnit?
[June:] Well he's... got a cold, a very bad cold.
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[June:] Gotta bring him up to scratch.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Ooh it's a terrible cold innit?
[June:] He has really got a bad cold.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Sounds awful!
[Jonathan:] He was a choking and a coughing!... He was
[June:] No he wasn't coughing.
[Jonathan:] He went [cough]
[June:] Is that enough?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah that's fine.
[Jonathan:] [cough]
[June:] Is that alright?
[Geoffrey:] Yep... wonderful!
[June:] Right, done it!
[Jonathan:] Oh mum what have you done to it?
[June:] you don't want... here are. Oh alright, give it to them.
[Jonathan:] Even my.
[June:] No don't wipe your dirty one! I'll get a clean one... Just turn that water off for us Jonathan?
[Jonathan:] Oh why?
[June:] Don't mess about with that!
[Jonathan:] Where?... From where?
[June:] The boiler cupboard.
[Jonathan:] That's better.
[June:] Oh wait, let's see what you gotta tell me today.
[Geoffrey:] It's been a lovely day.
[Jonathan:] I beat you to it.
[June:] Yeah well... I couldn't so I had to come over and and buy them a flipping new one! Ooh I... number again, I'll take it out in a minute.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Oh no
[June:] And er she said well, I said I'm ever so sorry but she's anyway... so I thought oh God!... That's a step in the right direction.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I rang
[Geoffrey:] Yep
[Jonathan:] [singing] Dee dee dee doo doo [].
[June:] You can't, you don't go through to that office at... I go further on
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] but they are amalgam... is it
[Geoffrey:] Yeah
[June:] amalgamating, with another firm so the paper work probably has got lost... So I she said she was gonna ring me back, but you see I haven't been here this afternoon so I'll perhaps ring again tomorrow.
[Geoffrey:] Okay.
[June:] Well I couldn't do nothing about it really, she said well that'll be sorted out in... she said I'll treat it, we're now sorting it out today what we're doing.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] So I said well I hope it's not gonna be too long I said cos we're not a... a very big firm... and I said, you know, we want the money!... She said well I should imagine that's what's happened... the paper work here has got muddled up with the other.
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[June:] So she said I'll do I'll sort it out straight away for you... well I had a phone call at eight o'clock this morning, who the hell that was from, I don't know, I was out the washing line... I come flying in but I never got it, and nobody's rung.
[Geoffrey:] .
[June:] Not unless I get a few phone calls from been here today.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] But you must get that portable done cos then that reaches over there I can
[Jonathan:] No it wouldn't would
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] it?
[June:] I bet it do I bet it will!
[Geoffrey:] Well they go for it round to the erm... cemetery.
[June:] Yeah well that'll be ever so handy, well you can try it can't you?
[Jonathan:] What way down now?... To the cemetery?
[Geoffrey:] The cemetery round St. Andrews.
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Flipping heck! Would do then... Well if we go past services.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, mum's house is over there.
[June:] Yeah don't go very well the other way we said, didn't we?
[Geoffrey:] I've
[June:] I dunno why.
[Geoffrey:] ... it was half way outside.
[June:] Well
[Jonathan:] Tell you why
[June:] too bad.
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] And guess what? I can tell you why.
[Geoffrey:] The other one never used to, the other one used to get as far as Ken's house and fail.
[Jonathan:] Did it?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] You must get it sorted out though, after Christmas
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] there isn't much point now but
[Jonathan:] We can get right down to nearly.
[June:] Well you see... He'll
[Jonathan:] Why not?
[June:] He'll be breaking up the twentieth and how long you on holiday, fortnight?
[Geoffrey:] No...
[June:] ... I thought you had a long Christmas break?
[Geoffrey:] Well not i....
[Jonathan:] We don't break up till the twenty eighth.
[June:] Yes you do, you break up on the twentieth!
[Geoffrey:] Christmas on the twenty fifth.
[Jonathan:] Oh.
[June:] Christmas Day, yeah... precisely! Christmas Day is the twenty fifth!... Do you want a cup of coffee Geoff?
[Jonathan:] I bet this bit
[Geoffrey:] I'll have it after my tea.
[Jonathan:] cos got muddled up, then you know what he said?... He said we'll have the twi quiz thing, we have the quiz thing on the twenty eighth.
[June:] Who said that.
[Jonathan:] Mr.
[Geoffrey:] I think he means the eighteenth.
[Jonathan:] No... he probably means the twentieth.
[June:] I'm just going in here
[Geoffrey:] About the
[June:] to have this,
[Jonathan:] No he said the la
[June:] Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] he said the last day... yeah... Oh... I hate these silly men.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] This one I swapped with Christopher.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] This one I swapped with Christopher.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah
[Jonathan:] And this one I swapped with Christopher......
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] He's got a little cloak.
[June:] Tell your dad what time we got up.
[Geoffrey:] What time did you get up?
[Jonathan:] When?
[Geoffrey:] This morning.
[June:] This morning. That was last nights.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] That's it.
[Jonathan:] I'm going up... stairs... okay?
[Geoffrey:] Go on then.
[June:] Yeah well I've I've just done that.
[Jonathan:] Two.
[June:] So I just put you on it.
[Jonathan:] What about me?
[June:] Well you are on it, you twit!
[Jonathan:] Oh.
[June:] See I got... Sue on it [LAUGHTER] as well.
[Jonathan:] You can't get them back.
[June:] Erm, what else can I put there?
[Geoffrey:] What?
[June:] We was at home
[Jonathan:] Put
[June:] having tea
[Jonathan:] My aren't there.
[June:] then what can I put?
[Jonathan:] No good on there, you told them off.
[Geoffrey:] Walking from work.
[June:] Yeah but that that is the Sunday thing... that's how I get muddled up with the date, but that's on the same... tape you see?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. Aha.
[June:] Oh I'll put that... Yeah go on what was you gonna say?
[Geoffrey:] Oh... I was just saying about... that turkey thing... and you said... we'd never eat er
[June:] Frozen.
[Geoffrey:] Mm... I was saying... when he worked at Smedley... they used to... can up baked beans... for er... Smedleys themselves... Tesco's
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] All sorts of different people... he said I would never ever buy any beans he said cos of this... chappie who used to work they used to... unless you change over the tin or something he used to spit in the tins.
[June:] Urgh how disgusting!
[Geoffrey:] Every time I said, my God! Every time he said... he said I never had a ba tin of baked beans... my God!
[June:] Oh that's absolutely disgusting!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... he said ju that's it you just don't know what you buy in there.
[June:] Cor I couldn't le urgh!
[Geoffrey:] Quite!
[June:] Oh and we eat a lot of baked beans I hope he don't work there still... urgh!
[Geoffrey:] won't know.
[June:] What what... time shall I put on there?
[Geoffrey:] What time?
[June:] On here... oh I'll put about
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] yeah cos me and Jonathan started talking on it... before.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] You know?
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] [cough]
[June:] I ain't made too many mistakes... oh I've put them... marathon.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] Nothing exciting happening, there's them... poisoned dwarf.
[Geoffrey:] my mothers today.
[June:] Why's that?
[Geoffrey:] Cos they took him off and put him somewhere else.
[June:] I bet he didn't like that?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Was Bleep in?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... he had a big do with the council man.
[June:] Why?
[Geoffrey:] The council bloke come down
[June:] Oh, what is Val's accent?
[Geoffrey:] Well west
[June:] is it?... Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] ... to be exact.
[June:] Well... I don't know... well that'll be on there if they want to know anyway now, you've just said it.
[Geoffrey:] Mm... erm... yeah the council bloke come down and went in while his father was there I see you've got no carpets down anywhere... the door's not painted... and he said you've been living here for two years!
[June:] Well what's the council man got to do with that?
[Geoffrey:] Well they got a grant you see.
[June:] Well carpets ain't got nothing to do with it surely?
[Geoffrey:] Yes they have... that's when I the house is finished.
[June:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] When your carpets were down, you moved in... so he's coming back December the eighth.
[June:] I thought he would have to tell them got his carpets down.
[Geoffrey:] He had a carpet just put down in his lounge.
[June:] Well he's got a lot to do then.
[Geoffrey:] He was belly aching.
[June:] Cor!... How's how's the thing between Blue and
[Geoffrey:] Completely by now.
[June:] Good heavens!
[Geoffrey:] Even the first day back... there was hardly any atmosphere at all very serious mood they were... but Kim keeps well out of it.
[June:] Oh I think she's the trouble maker there myself.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... she'll just keep well out of it.
[June:] I think... that's what started it all off I think she's running off.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. [china crashing]
[June:] Oh whatever you done?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah she was erm... well necessarily... cos that day... Blue was working on the other team as well so he had his erm... break at different time.
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] And I er... she comes storming out of the canteen... swearing... not at anybody in particular, just at herself really!... And then she's seen me, oh what time does Blue finish?... I said whenever he about half past three... so erm... so then she come down... Geoff said you gotta finish half past three Blue... my God!....
[June:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] And he did as well.
[June:] What you mean?
[Geoffrey:] Well like sometimes I'll say to him everybody gonna finish about four... you know
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] what happens, then his she stands there, you bloody by four... but I mean he finished when I said he was gonna finish... for a change I should think.
[June:] I didn't know Julia hadn't been in for a long while.
[Geoffrey:] No, what's the matter with her?
[June:] She'd erm... was erm... getting a pie out the oven... and cos some of the juice went on the floor, she wiped it up thinking she'd wiped it up properly and she didn't, she slipped, she's broken... a couple of bones in her foot.
[Geoffrey:] Cor!... No I
[June:] [cough]
[Geoffrey:] ain't seen for ooh
[June:] She hasn't been there for about a month.
[Geoffrey:] That's it then.
[June:] I suppose she must have her foot in plaster.
[Geoffrey:] Mm... and old Bob down the road, Bob, he hasn't been in for about the same sort of time... this' ll be his fourth week won't it?
[June:] Well I see him walking about the other day!
[Geoffrey:] He's hurt his hand.
[June:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] Come home from work on the Saturday and assume he went shopping or something, apparently he hurt his hand.....
[June:] Has he?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... Mr said have you seen do it? I said, no I haven't.
[June:] Well I seen her at even the other day.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I think it might have been Saturday... possibly.
[Geoffrey:] By Saturday normally I see him.
[June:] Well he goes up to do his shopping don't he, in town
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] and walk up....
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] What does he do for Christmas Geoff?
[Geoffrey:] No idea.
[June:] Cos he's got a son away hasn't he?
[Geoffrey:] Got a son up Sunderland.
[June:] Perhaps goes there?
[Geoffrey:] Mm... he normally goes up to his son's every six weeks.
[June:] Does he?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] That must be a lonely old life for him living there all on his own.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah it is.
[June:] What happened to his mum?....
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[June:] His wife.
[Geoffrey:] Carrying on with.
[June:] Oh I don't know!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah she was.
[June:] I thought she was dead or something!
[Geoffrey:] No she got off... So she innit.
[June:] Oh I dunno.
[Geoffrey:] I've I think I'm right in saying she was something to do with erm... that boy who
[June:] Married someone else.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] I think she was that doing it.
[June:] Perhaps it was her.
[Geoffrey:] I dunno... but erm oh yeah she's... God, everybody used to go round their house.
[June:] Oh crumbs!
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] And thi and this
[Geoffrey:] All the blokes on the one night on they used to go in there.
[June:] They didn't!
[Geoffrey:] I assure you they did... it's hard... working down there for so long it
[June:] Yeah cos he's a nice little man ain't he?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah he's harmless.
[June:] Yeah ever so harmless little fellah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.... Hard working old boy as well.
[June:] What about what Brian said last night?
[Geoffrey:] What?
[June:] About, cos that man was... sitting outside... May.
[Geoffrey:] Oh May.
[June:] He weren't sitting outside her house at all, he was sitting up here!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah well he, didn't go up the sides or something?
[June:] Oh well he might of done, yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Make our bloody...
[June:] They're paranoid for... people breaking
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] in arn't they.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I was telling Sue about it, oh my God she said!... She said well they didn't look the type, I was going well now
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] quite honestly he didn't!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I said and he's quite and inoffe i inoffensive little man... he was a nice little man.
[Geoffrey:] Bag of nerves weren't he?
[June:] Well yeah, but he was a nice little man.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] He knew what he was talking about.
[Geoffrey:] He reminded me of someone, I couldn't quite... I know somebody who acts very much like him... I just can't... well I told him you remind me of someone.... Did you get your milk today?
[June:] No, none at all.
[Geoffrey:] Oh right.
[June:] Ooh I rang the... club and sorted that out, done
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] that.
[Geoffrey:] Yep.
[June:] So she said well don't... don't put them down again I'm... doing it by the computer.
[Geoffrey:] Ah!
[June:] So I said well... do I get the things now? So she said well no cos she said you're... you're in the re in arrears a bit.... Ooh I said, oh have I?... It ain't a lot!... So she said I'll do it on the computer and... and I'll let you know... so... we're eighty pound behind... well course we never sent one month at all!
[Geoffrey:] Did you not?
[June:] No!... So we got behind... So I said well we'll tr I'll try and get caught up... sort of, in the new year... you know, get them a bit.... Actually I think I'm gonna finish that catalogue anyway I'm just
[Geoffrey:] Which one are we talking about?
[June:] Grattan.
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[June:] And just have the other one cos they're such a peculiar funny firm they are!
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] So I explained to them, I said well that's cos you changed over... and I sort of never put it across through... oh she said well don't worry I've done it now, she said you haven't got anything to worry about now, I said well it did bother me a bit... to think that... I didn't think you had my payment!... Oh yes she said, we've had it... I thought well why send me letters, then!
[Geoffrey:] Well that's a standard letter I suppose and
[June:] Well that's what she said, that's a standard letter.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... the only trouble is, you know, standard letters don't always sort of
[June:] Well you get some little old dear what runs the
[Geoffrey:] That's right.
[June:] catalogue to
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] get a little bit of pocket money or... that's the only way she can get anything!... Oh they're out in that car again out there.
[Geoffrey:] They've been working on Sarah's today.
[June:] Damn!... They're up to the roof aren't they?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... Yeah
[June:] What's
[Geoffrey:] they put the trusses on and then they fill the gables in... and then put the... tiles on.
[June:] I didn't think Sarah didn't go to the ol lo oh had... oh I wouldn't of thought that was a pair,
[Geoffrey:] Oh no they want something flash don't they.
[June:] Well Val was telling me... Caroline got the kids all in a row... and said something about erm... you know, more or less to say well... I want to leave your father... she said
[Geoffrey:] She did?
[June:] what do you think about it Sam?... And he just put his head down.
[Geoffrey:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] And what do you think about it Erica?... And she burst into tears!... And what do you think about it erm... what did I say the other one's name was?
[Geoffrey:] Ben, Erica
[June:] Which one did I say?... That'll be Ben the oldest.
[Geoffrey:] Ben, Erica you said... Ben and Erica.
[June:] No it was Sam.
[Geoffrey:] Oh sorry, Sam... no it's Sam, Erica.
[June:] Yeah well anyway the other one
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] he said well I think that's the best you can do father, he said we've had enough hassle for you for all these years!... So she said... quite right, she said he's done nothing but bully you lot ever since you've been children!... So she said and I felt very proud of my son, ah I said I wouldn't want a son of mine who said that to his father!
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] I wouldn't of wanted it.
[Geoffrey:] Well no, but on the other hand... you know
[June:] Yeah but all said and done Geoff, they are his fa, he is their father.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but I mean it depends what sort of bloke he is, and I mean if he is like that
[June:] He... you know what a big head he is.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but I mean you don't know what he's like to his kids do you?
[June:] Well she said he he's done nothing but bully them.
[Geoffrey:] Well then the kid's right ain't he?
[June:] Well... you heard what he said he wants his children to have a good education and he pushes them... all the time, they've gotta... if they do anything
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] they've gotta be brilliant at it... But
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] you see some children ain't got it in them and... you know
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[June:] but you heard what Ashley said about swimming.
[Geoffrey:] Made them... yeah.
[June:] Well, to me if a child has got a... by all means encourage along... but you shouldn't push them into anything cos... later on in life they get a bloody complex about everything... you know if they
[Geoffrey:] I don't know.
[June:] if they've got a job or something they're frightened they're not gonna do well and
[Geoffrey:] Where do you draw the line between... you know, not sort erm... encouraging and not
[June:] Well I do it all look at... it's the way you say it.
[Geoffrey:] Well that's what I'm saying, so perhaps the kid was right in what he said.
[June:] Well yeah but I wouldn't
[Geoffrey:] Been a bastard to him well
[June:] Well would you like your son to say... I think
[Geoffrey:] Well no but I don't to think I am like that with Jonathan.
[June:] Well no.
[Geoffrey:] Well I don't like
[June:] But he's always been like that with them kids you know yourself... if they do anything it's gotta be done
[Geoffrey:] Well you know how he is, if you say too much to him, don't do that, don't shout at me!... He soons... starts squawking and... wiping his eye and stamping about the place... but if he's like that... all the while to them... so what is.
[June:] They've all gone off to Fiji.
[Geoffrey:] Who has?
[June:] The parents, he said he was going didn't he?
[Geoffrey:] Oh him as well?
[June:] So she said, Val said I thought... good for you mate, you didn't get pushed out... he's gone... they're all gone... till the new year innit?... Well I wouldn't of wanted to go with them myself.
[Geoffrey:] Well not after that little escapade, nor would I.
[June:] I wouldn't of thought so... I would of sa I would of said well if I bloody ju good enough for living with I bleeding come on a... I don't think she'd want him on holiday with her anyway... and her sister said is she hadn't got enough money, she'd pay for it.... That's right... that's what Val told me.
[Geoffrey:] She don't have time for him.
[June:] What?
[Geoffrey:] She hasn't got a lot of time for him now.
[June:] Who hasn't... her sister?
[Geoffrey:] Her sister.
[June:] No... she just says he's a bloody big head!
[Geoffrey:] Well he is isn't he?
[June:] Well yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Ah I mustn't I must admit I don't think I know any worse than him.
[June:] But I think he's quite harmless really Geoff... I don't think he
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[June:] means any harm, that's his way.
[Geoffrey:] Well that's yeah but I I must admit I find it quite tiring.
[June:] Well he's always been pleasant to me... you gotta
[Geoffrey:] I can honestly say... he's the sort of bloke I would sort of try not to get lumbered with at a party or somewhere like that... I mean I don't mind I didn't mind talking to her... but I find her
[June:] Well I find her... boring.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I find her very boring... although she's a very kind person.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, no I could talk to her more than I could talk to him.
[June:] I'm surprised... you know, she isn't stuck for them children mo any more if he'd been
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[June:] like this... that's it.
[Geoffrey:] Let's face it she erm... I mean she was the one who bloody married him!
[June:] Well she hates him!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] She literally hates him!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well I think that's awful... I do.
[Geoffrey:] Well yeah... well I suppose that's what she thinks, if she gonna go through the rest of her life with a bloke she hates.
[June:] Well she might as well get rid of him now, I suppose while she's young enough to find perhaps find
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] somebody else.... Well whatev whatever's all this big house in aid of then?... I bet they're gonna build it and sell it!
[Geoffrey:] Well that's gonna be the farm though innit?... They'll have to sell... sell the farm and everything.
[June:] Well yeah, I would've thought so because le
[Geoffrey:] And hope.
[June:] Well let's face it erm... he's got a, a half... a half a right to it.
[Geoffrey:] I know yeah.
[June:] He's worked hard, he's worked... he ain't he does work, when he works.
[Geoffrey:] Does he though?
[June:] Well I dunno.
[Geoffrey:] I always see him riding about up the... Steven there... he's always up there... I know when I used to work for it was always Steve who used to be... riding to this farm, riding to that farm, checking on this, checking on that and taking the wages round that sort of thing.
[June:] And he does it now does he?
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[June:] You never see that... erm do you?
[Geoffrey:] No you don't.
[June:] Well yeah cos... when you think like that... if they do pack up he's got no no nothing.
[Geoffrey:] No not really.
[June:] Well not unless they... they don't sell that house... well look at poor old Dick!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but he's just about retiring age anyway isn't he.
[June:] Yeah but he's still gotta have a home to live in Geoff!
[Geoffrey:] Well yeah, alright... yeah but they normally get out don't they?... When they were like Jack... what's his name?... Erm... Jack the foreman he got out and when he... when he retired cos... you know
[June:] Well that's like er
[Geoffrey:] the house went with the job.
[June:] but then they've got er... er said they... they asked if they could... rent his house off him until they got themselves sorted out.... No bloody way he said!
[Geoffrey:] Did he?
[June:] I thought to myself well yo if Laura had a house and then thought Pete was in that in that position, I'd of helped him.
[Geoffrey:] Did he really?
[June:] Yeah... well they've had they've had a big today.
[Geoffrey:] Who have?
[June:] .
[Geoffrey:] Oh?
[June:] Well I thought she said I ain't gotta then have they?... A hundred pou thous thousand in debt... they had two lo... two bloody great Morgan cars!
[Geoffrey:] About what was that?
[June:] Well I reckon that's her... either his mother or her mother.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Cos when I was coming home from Pete's... a bloke stopped me... er... whatever's that noise?
[Geoffrey:] I dunno.
[June:] A bloke stopped and he said er... can you tell me where is? I said well you're in the... oh he said I'll tell you what I want, a little black and white house... I said it's just there look... I said nearly you're nearly on top! He got a few yards down, he said... so I said well... have yo... you haven't come round to view the house today have you? Oh no he said, I said because they got a funeral on, he said that's what we've coming for, we're coming to pick granddad up.
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[June:] Well I thought well I didn't want people going round there
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Well... that was a waste of their time if they'd have gone round there to view them, weren't it?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] So that was not having a lot of flipping luck is she?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] But they haven't put them out their home.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Alright, but I think they've gotta re-house them first haven't they?
[Geoffrey:] I dunno.
[June:] Well yeah they just shove you out on the street, they gotta... especially if you got children they gotta re-house you.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] But I dunno... whatever's... whatever's this bloody world coming to?
[Geoffrey:] , she said I really don't where it's gonna end Geoff, I don't know no more.
[June:] Well you never guess what she said today?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Well I wa... she said... I'm gonna start up drinking June... I said you're not!... She said I bloody well am! She said you can up and have one with me if you like sometimes, I said alright then.... She said well he's got his fags, she said I'm gonna start drinking!... I said well... be warned Val! She said... I know when to stop, I thought yeah but Yeah but that
[Geoffrey:] I've heard all that before!
[June:] [shouting] Jonathan what are you doing []?... Ooh and there's ooh something else happened as well!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] She erm Sha Sharon's not going out with them now... for Christmas.
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah, why's that then?
[June:] Cos Marie's going in hospital having her operation.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] She said and I'm not leaving her to you see!
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] But Val said them children... them children have... they manipulate her.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I thought well manipulates you Val.
[Geoffrey:] .
[June:] So she said erm... I'll bloody told her straight she said!... But she said...... there's Geoff worried sick about that old girl
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] because he's said... well she's go she's... they got her this little place, didn't they? Sorted it all out for her and carp... it was all carpeted everything
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] now she's gone and moved down in West.... But he... Val said it was that flipping rough
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] and the house is like a tip!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And she said Geoff kept saying to her oh I wouldn't move from where you are, you know you got your place lovely i... if you... the reason she moved was cos she wanted Tony to get the... breakfast round...... What was said... that's what Val said.
[Geoffrey:] I can well imagine.
[June:] So she said...... the 's go out with them don't they?
[Geoffrey:] Di oh yeah... That makes me laugh!
[June:] What?... What does?
[Geoffrey:] Well she isn't is she?
[June:] Well erm...
[Geoffrey:] That's what I mean they don't call them they call them... cos she don't want to lose her name does she?... Pathetic innit!
[June:] I didn't think Ken liked the woman.
[Geoffrey:] Bloody arrogant can you get!
[June:] Well Ken don't like the woman anyway, does he?
[Geoffrey:] I know he don't no.
[June:] Well I certainly wouldn't sit down at Christmas dinner with them... that's why
[Geoffrey:] Yeah
[June:] they're going.
[Geoffrey:] Oh you said yeah.
[June:] And er... Mervy.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And that's all now... so Val said... she said I said to Cheryl now don't you go and take Mervy away cos me and Ken certainly aren't gonna go and sit... sit with erm... the 's all dinner time... so she said what they're gonna do, they're going out for the meal and everything and then they're... Ken are gonna go to Cheryl's for the rest of the day... So I said so that's upset your plans then Val... she said isn't it just!... She said I've been really looking forward to it June.... Have a break... looked like she gonna cry any second!... She said
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[June:] Do you know me and Ted have been married thirty year... no not thirty, they've been going out together thirty years
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] then she said do you know these last six months we do nothing but argue... she said we've never argued so much!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And she said oh I think it's only the pressure.
[Geoffrey:] Well that's right.
[June:] I said well me and Geoff argue more, I said we never used to... cos we never argued a lot did we?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Well we have done... I felt sorry cos I hadn't really when she phoned me up over there I was up... I thought oh my God!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah,
[June:] Cos I'm a bit worried we gotta get things sorted out... so I rang I said I didn't to get onto you, she said no I know how they feel... she said... her granddad always do things like that.
[Geoffrey:] What?
[June:] You know break appointments... I said well that only worries
[Geoffrey:] it ain't quite the same is it?
[June:] well I said I suppose Geoff couldn't get away.
[Geoffrey:] Well they just wouldn't let me...
[June:] I said that that worried m that really sort of worried me... so I rung her back anyway, she's alright.
[Geoffrey:] Well, you don't wanna worry about them because at the end of the day, I mean if... if that was absolutely desperate I shall turn round and say well I'm sorry I've bloody got to and that's it!... You know, but I mean
[June:] But you must go Wednesday Geoff!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... No
[June:] And she been
[Geoffrey:] it was... they was that panicking cos tomorrow morning, the ministry are coming... and
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] they was panicking. We all it is ba, well I say all it is... this bloody great strip right be between the ceiling and the walls, the right length of corridor and the manager see it and he said look... that should be shiny sort of like... and it's all pitted... so he said you'll have to go up here he said and do it all with steel abrasive... said fair enough.... So of course I, took me about half hour to find the forklift cos somebody had nicked it... by time I went got the chemicals Robin comes down, he said oh don't worry about he said do i... do it tomorrow morning he said, they'll be nobody about then... can you go down the bot bottom and do the butterflies?... I felt well... bloody marvellous, you now,i it was that imperative it had gotta be done, you can't have time o no I'm sorry you can't!
[June:] So you could of gone to that appointment tonight?
[Geoffrey:] Well, well no, no because it was then about, that's what I'm is, then four o'clock you see, so I mean I knew I wouldn't make it anyway... that's why I thought I'd better ring... cos the job that we finished was half past three so I thought well even if I come home... I shall be late even if I don't get changed and washed or anything.
[June:] Yeah well you can't go there not washed and changed.
[Geoffrey:] No that's what I thought I was
[June:] But you got an appointment fo you could of had one for tomorrow but I thought Wednesday is a better day I thought.
[Geoffrey:] Wednesday is a better day, and anyway Thursday's... erm... he's got a... he's gotta go at four... actually go at four not... an appointment, he's gotta go at four.
[June:] Why erm... why do the ministry keep coming down there then? Do they turn up there?
[Geoffrey:] Well I don't know, whether they're trying to catch them out but they they certainly coming down more and more an and sort of more and more frequent.
[June:] I'm surprised they warn them that they're coming.
[Geoffrey:] Well it's erm... the sort of things they pick them on really is not that
[June:] Not hygiene sort of thing?
[Geoffrey:] No, thing I mean silly little thing, well I think it's silly but there you are, they all see to know what they're talking about but... I mean cer certain things like in the fillet room
[June:] Mhm.
[Geoffrey:] the meat is not allowed to go on just an ordinary pallet.
[June:] It's gotta go on a special one?
[Geoffrey:] It's gotta go on a steel pallet... and yet next door... in the export chiller... they're allowed to go on a wooden pallet... and we work on wooden pallets... erm
[June:] I'm surprised they use wood.
[Geoffrey:] Well if you see how many pallets they got... and you see the trouble is the metal ones are so slippery... they're all the while dropping meat all over the floor.
[June:] Yeah I suppose they would, yeah.
[Geoffrey:] There's loads of things they're on about... oh th the there's a whole... book what they gotta h... have sorted out.
[June:] Do they?
[Geoffrey:] Oh Christ yeah!... Certain doors are not to be opened... things like emergency exits there's... they notice that there's more one of the emergency exits is actually broken, so the door don't even open.
[June:] Bloody hell!
[Geoffrey:] So all that stuff
[June:] Well then that is, that's gotta be sorted out because if you
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] had a fire there, somebody wouldn't get out properly!
[Geoffrey:] That's right.... Yeah.... Well that's like us we haven't got an emergency exit.
[June:] What way do you go to your nearest exit then?
[Geoffrey:] Well there's a bloody great... roller door, but you see it's at the end... we work
[June:] Yeah well what about if the fire was down that end?
[Geoffrey:] Well exactly!
[June:] How would you get out?
[Geoffrey:] We haven't got the... oh yes there is, oh course there is, that's a lie... we go through yeah.
[June:] Yeah well what about if the fire's between the box room and this exit?
[Geoffrey:] Well that's where they are......... I went... that slid across there like that, phewf!
[June:] Where are you going?... What ab oi!... Don't ask then! I mean I won't even talk to myself am I?
[Geoffrey:] No..
[June:] I didn't tell your mum... that I'd got it on you see... she said now all that I've been saying!... So I said well no, no... they won't take no notice of that, I said anyone that's been
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] I said they ain't gonna say... ooh that's Val on there, I said the
[Sarah:] No they don't know who it is, do they?
[Jonathan:] I said well they don't know!
[Geoffrey:] No... it's the London University of
[June:] What is it?
[Geoffrey:] London University.
[June:] In Cambridge got something to do with, what was that he said?... Well anyway something about University... you know all these... studies they do.
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] It's all about speech patterns.
[June:] Geoff and Joan thought erm... someone was trying to... rob us along here!
[Geoffrey:] He sat... in his car out there
[June:] Poor little man!
[Geoffrey:] and they thought that he was the accomplice... sitting outside while somebody was going round the house.
[June:] I said I don't know what hollering for, he's got a bloody
[Geoffrey:] I'm surprised they haven't got
[June:] rottweiller there!
[Geoffrey:] the bloody postman down as a
[June:] Oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] detective or something!
[June:] But how pathetic!
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Well... well no, you know I had at mum's... and I
[June:] yeah
[Geoffrey:] come home and I thought well I'll drop that, I'll stay and go up the ladder... and I was gonna do painting... you got him... Hey up!!... So I jumped right away.
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] !... Then I thought what on earth did he say! And then I just never understood a word of what he said.
[June:] Well I can never understand him.
[Sarah:] No I can't.
[Geoffrey:] I thought what ever's he on about!
[Jonathan:] I can.
[June:] If we ought to had him mate... they'd have thought he'd come from
[Geoffrey:] Well
[June:] another planet! [LAUGHTER]
[Sarah:] I can't never understand him.
[June:] No I must admit I can't.
[Sarah:] We have this French woman come in... she comes quite often Mrs and... she said... I'd like to make an appointme appointment on the... she said the eleventh, and I thought... I said... pardon?... And she said it again and I thought well i... it didn't sound... like eleven... eleven... I don't know what it sounded like really and I just went... so that'll be Wednesday the eleventh? And I thought [LAUGHTER] if she says yes, I've got the date right []!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And did you get it right?
[Sarah:] Yeah... that's embarrassing, you feel an idiot don't you!
[Geoffrey:] I was just gonna say yo
[June:] Yeah
[Geoffrey:] I was just gonna say you got a purple tint in your hair but I can see what it is now!
[Sarah:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] She got those to
[Geoffrey:] purple tint on top.
[Sarah:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] I like her hair tha that colour do you Geoff?
[Geoffrey:] I don't mind either way really.
[Sarah:] I don't look like Ann now do I?
[June:] [LAUGHTER] No []!
[Sarah:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] I dunno
[June:] No.
[Geoffrey:] Well I think er... the funny thing is... it's looks dark... now.
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] Well that's cos it's always been so light
[Geoffrey:] But I suppose it's been
[June:] isn't it?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Ah I like it... I knew there was something
[Geoffrey:] Oh I like her hair.
[June:] different to me... have a at least when you have it down Sarah...
[Sarah:] If you think so I've
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] I think I could of
[June:] Oh yeah
[Sarah:] er I mean I know it's a bit messy at the moment, I ain't washed it since last time you see!
[Geoffrey:] Oh I see yeah.
[Sarah:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] isn't you really?
[Sarah:] No... erm... but when I... when I have I'm so used to having it up and all tucked back... when I have it down I feel scruffy
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[June:] Yeah... I think you do feel tidy if your hair's off your face.
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] Mm... but mind you I had that headband... didn't I?... But what I'd like to do is... I'm gonna... set it on rollers... I'm gonna blow dry the top... I'm gonna
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] set the back on rollers... and then, you know when I have it... all... clipped there with an oval clip
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] in my neck?... Secure it there, pin it all under, then I'd like to get a net with sequins on it... or
[June:] Oh yeah!
[Sarah:] or something... to put over it... for evening, but I can't find one.
[June:] I wonder where you find one of them from?
[Sarah:] You know, sort of back comb it out so it's sort of
[June:] Well they must do them Sarah, mustn't they?
[Sarah:] Yeah... but I thought I ain't seen anybody... with it like that... be a bit different, sort of when we go out New Years Eve and that.
[June:] Mm... where's a?
[Geoffrey:] I don't think we got one round here.
[Sarah:] Only Peterborough I suppose.
[Geoffrey:] Peter or Cambridge I suppose.
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] Mm.
[June:] And or perhaps a real sort of top hairdresser, they might have them... they sometimes have bits and
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] pieces don't they?... Well that used to be all the rage once, didn't it?
[Sarah:] Yeah... I mean we got hairnets at work... sort of... clear ones though.
[Geoffrey:] ... I remember hairnets
[Sarah:] You get
[June:] [LAUGHTER] Oh yeah!... O... yeah []
[Geoffrey:] and
[Sarah:] But they're erm
[Geoffrey:] They're red.
[Sarah:] Ah no ours are just... you couldn't tell you'd got it on.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] No.
[Sarah:] Sort of a hair colour... practical
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] you see.
[Geoffrey:] That's right.
[Sarah:] But I think next time I might have it cut short.
[June:] You're not!
[Sarah:] I might do, I don't know... I'm fed up with it... really!
[June:] You want a change?... How
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] was you thinking of having it cut?
[Sarah:] Short.
[June:] What short short?
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Actually I think it suits you, I mean really i... like... it's not on her face anyway isn't it?
[June:] No... so short
[Geoffrey:] So I think
[Sarah:] No.
[June:] short hair would suit you cos you haven't got it all over your face have you?
[Sarah:] Cos I saw erm... a photo when I was eighteen and I it was... sort of short in the neck... over my ears... short in there and then sort of fuller there and then just a bit of... you know a light fringe not a heavy fringe... and I thought I might have it like that so
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] That'll be nice... I can't really remember
[June:] Well I think if that was me... I'd have that done now... in case you don't like it by the time you... you get married and that could be growing again.
[Sarah:] Oh no I wouldn't have it cut until after I got married.
[June:] Oh
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] you'd have it cut after?
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] Oh.
[Sarah:] Cos I definitely want my hair long for when we get married.
[Geoffrey:] You do?
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] Yeah... so that I can either have it... up or down really.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] I've got the choice then.
[June:] Yeah... I do do you know I don't like to see brides with their hair down... if you've got long hair i
[Sarah:] Oh.
[June:] but I don't think... sometimes I think... well if it looks nice... but some of them brides on there that just hangs don't it?
[Sarah:] Oh yeah, I'm not having it like that. Mm... I think I but Sarah did it at work, she did it... sort of plaited it... from here round
[June:] Oh yeah!
[Sarah:] and this was taken up in like folds... but the plait stood away from the head, it sort of come out
[June:] Oh yeah!
[Sarah:] you know, as you get them half baskets that fit on a wall
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] not as much but it sort of come out like that... and then you sit your flowers... it makes that a shell... if you know what I mean?
[June:] Oh yeah!
[Jonathan:] But it... it's flatter coming on there... and then you sit your flowers... all along on there... but
[June:] Oh that's sounds nice!
[Sarah:] but then I'd... I like it fuller and... prettier.
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] You know I'd like... a little bit more curly and... not
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] curly curly but sort of fuller and
[June:] Well you'll have to have it done a couple of times
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] sort of try two or three styles then... sort of how... well you gotta think about your headdress and that first, haven't you?
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] What you're gonna have and then pu guide your hairstyle to go with it we... or
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] or your wearing wha well, yeah.
[Sarah:] No I'll be the next sa
[June:] What you be doing in the new year Sarah?
[Sarah:] I know, I think after Christmas I'm gonna go and have a look for some dresses and... you see when it was an ordinary colour I was gonna have ivory... but now it's this colour... I think i'll be better having... having white, I don't know.
[June:] Mm.
[Sarah:] I think if you've got the... white.
[June:] Yeah. Yeah but you aren't
[Sarah:] But then
[June:] you haven't got a white skin Sarah have you? You've got a sort of a bit of an olivy skin haven't you?
[Geoffrey:] It's not
[Sarah:] Yeah... yeah.
[June:] Yeah so you will have time to
[Sarah:] I shall be out there [LAUGHTER] every day []!
[June:] get a
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] tan won't you?
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] You'll have time to do that.
[Sarah:] You see if you have iv, and ivory dress... certain colour bridesmaids dresses don't go with ivory.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] So they do do they?
[June:] No.
[Sarah:] That sort of thing.
[June:] You're right... yeah.
[Sarah:] Cos I think with ivory, I think peaches and that look nice, but I think with white... I like stronger colours.
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] Still, I don't very often wear pale colours.
[June:] Will you have your bridesmaids dresses made?
[Sarah:] I don't know... I hadn't really thought about it.
[June:] Had you thought about your bridesmaids yet?
[Sarah:] Yeah... I am not gonna have all... six I think.
[June:] Oh are you!
[Sarah:] Yeah, but I'm short of two little ones, or one little one... erm... Amy's cousin Joanne... and... and then Helen... Florence's little girl, Helen
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] and Amy's cousin Claire... and then this girl who's hair I do
[June:] What?
[Sarah:] This girl who's hair I do... erm her little girl, Karla... cor she's... if I found a little girl to look like her, I'd have one!
[June:] Oh.
[Sarah:] But she is so pretty! She's got white blonde hair.
[June:] So you want another little one?
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] Are you having any page boys?
[Sarah:] Yeah I might do... yes erm... probably Ben.
[June:] Well didn't you just have
[Sarah:] That's what mum said, have the
[June:] Why don't you have the
[Sarah:] little bridesmaid and the page boy.
[June:] with the page boy?
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] Instead of having another bridesmaid, have a page boy... and so the two little ones... go up together... page boy
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] and erm... bridesmaid and then have your bridesmaids behind.
[Sarah:] Yeah mum, that's what mum said.
[June:] I think that'd look nice
[Sarah:] I might do.
[June:] a little boy and a little girl together.
[Sarah:] Yeah cos they're the same age.
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] Both blonde.... Ooh
[June:] Mm.
[Sarah:] she's ever such a pretty little girl, she's got... white blonde hair
[June:] Oh I think that'll be nice!
[Sarah:] really sort of she's just a pretty little girl.
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] Then she dresses her lovely as well.
[June:] Then you haven't gotta worry about finding another one.
[Sarah:] No... yeah I could do that.
[June:] Couldn't you?
[Sarah:] But apart from that I hadn't really thought about it really.
[June:] Well, Jonathan don't do that... while that's on because it ain't no good doing it!... Well yeah... get over Christmas and then you can start sorting yourself out really.
[Sarah:] Yeah, yeah I know... and I think once the matters on... the bungalow and that
[June:] Mm... that's right.
[Jonathan:] Big!... I'm not big.
[June:] There's just a lot to think about isn't there?
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah cos tha... once Christmas is here, that'll soon come won't it?
[Sarah:] Yeah, eight months then.
[Geoffrey:] It'll fly by now... Christmas
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] New Year, Easter
[Jonathan:] Ooh can't wait!
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Can we go?
[June:] Jonathan goes to soon.
[Geoffrey:] [LAUGHTER]
[Jonathan:] I can't wait till Christmas!
[Sarah:] Not till next September... well it'll
[June:] Next
[Sarah:] be soon after I get married then won't it?
[June:] Yep.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Oh!... I don't want to go in.
[June:] And won't you Sarah?
[Jonathan:] I don't want to go!
[June:] You get the first week will seem a bit strange but once you get the first week over you're alright then.
[Jonathan:] Oh no!... I'll skip the first week.
[Sarah:] You will be won't you?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And you're working.
[Sarah:] yeah.
[June:] Hopefully.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well yeah, if he can get a job that is!
[Sarah:] Mm.
[June:] How the job situation is these days!
[Geoffrey:] You needn't get the.
[June:] He can't a job.
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[Sarah:] What does he do then?
[June:] Well he's a labourer really.
[Sarah:] What bi for builders?
[Geoffrey:] Sort of classed as a labourer and...
[June:] He erm, he didn't have a job for two weeks!... He said he can't get unemploym... erm... the dole or nothing cos he's self employed!
[Geoffrey:] Then there's twelve of us down.
[June:] What? Twelve is it?... He can't get any money se... so so he can't get erm... what do you call it?... Social security
[Geoffrey:] Social security.
[June:] if you've got money in the bank!... Well I said that's terrible that... our boy should suffer because he's got money in the bank, and saved his money!
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] He's gotta live off his ear... off his money ain't he?... Well he isn't certainly gonna dwindle
[Sarah:] But why should you have to when you saved
[Geoffrey:] Exactly!
[Sarah:] saved it
[June:] Too right Sarah!
[Sarah:] for if you want a house or
[Geoffrey:] See they'll maintain that
[June:] Yeah that's right!
[Geoffrey:] ... Social security.
[June:] I said you're paid the same.
[Sarah:] No.
[Geoffrey:] Social security is when you haven't got no money... and he has got money.
[June:] Well I ain't got any but they won't give me any!
[Sarah:] Well that's like when older people when they save for their... retirement and that... you know
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] they can't get things cheap like bus passes and all that can they?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Well... Well I think, I, I don't think it pays you to save up... er
[Sarah:] No.
[June:] for your retirement and so you'll be comfortable off... cos you might as well live off your state like everybody else.
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] You might as well enjoy your money as you go along, why bother to have any!
[Geoffrey:] They were saying on the television the other day
[June:] Why bother!
[Geoffrey:] the new taxes
[June:] Well I certainly isn't going to, Sarah!
[Geoffrey:] The new tax law thing
[June:] I shall get as much out the system as I can mate!
[Jonathan:] Me me.
[June:] Well I told you that.
[Geoffrey:] if they go up... erm... the government now wanna
[Jonathan:] Help!
[Geoffrey:] bring this new tax, but instead of poll tax and community charge and that... it's gonna be like a new erm... property tax.
[June:] Oh yeah, I think I've heard of that.
[Geoffrey:] And er... what they're saying that, sort of, you get people, shall we say, older people who
[June:] He's
[Geoffrey:] are retired so they got no income... and then perhaps been left the house
[June:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] in in a will or something
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] so they have the house and move into house
[June:] Then they pay a lot
[Geoffrey:] but they're gonna taxed so heavily that they can't afford to live in it... under this new tax!... They've just gotta sell it!... I thought well... how... what a bloody shame!
[June:] Terrible isn't it?
[Sarah:] Mm... I mean er why don't they do it on like the square, how big your house is because that way you could... I know it's not far when... people who live in a great big old house... don't have to pay as much cos if this... I mean Uncle Trevor and Aunty they've got a massive great house... haven't they?
[Geoffrey:] Have yeah.
[Sarah:] But if this... because it's old or something they don't have to pay so much... the
[Geoffrey:] the
[Sarah:] rates
[Geoffrey:] The rates, yeah.
[Sarah:] you know?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] But if you only went on the square foot it don't matter how big it was... well that's like, surely that'd be fairer?
[June:] That's right... it wasn't
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but ah then again why I mean like a lot of people have... don't have actual... they haven't got money... but they they sort of choose to have money tied up in property,... though it don't mean to say you're wealthy just because you've got a big house does it?... If
[Sarah:] No.
[Geoffrey:] you've got no money... we haven't got any money... but, you know
[Jonathan:] [singing] Doo doo doo doo []
[Geoffrey:] I mean why should I I
[Sarah:] Why should you be condemned just because you've put your money into your house?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah that's right, I mean some people don't
[June:] Alright fair enough they want you to buy your own property but now.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] And if you go a spend if you in if you've got a big house and you tend to spend thirty thousand pound on a new car you don't get taxed on that [phone rings]
[Jonathan:] Phone!
[June:] Phone Geoff!
[Geoffrey:] new car.
[Jonathan:] Shall I pause this?
[Geoffrey:] I thought it was the front doorbell.
[Jonathan:] Shall I stop it?
[Sarah:] No, leave it on.
[June:] Well that's like... there's jobs like
[Jonathan:] Shall I stop it till daddy's back?
[June:] your dad and... Geoff... they pay a stamp at Turners don't they?
[Sarah:] Yeah, they do.
[June:] They still have to pay a self employed one as well you know?... I didn't know whether your dad knew that?... You still have to pay it back, I said well I don't think you should have to pay it back!
[Sarah:] Cos you're going there because your own business has not any more!
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] .
[June:] Well yeah, Geoff wouldn't be there if i if his business was running alright!... Well I said I don't think that's to e you should pay two stamps myself!
[Sarah:] No... well there's nothing wrong in pay any.
[June:] Like bloody!
[Sarah:] Yeah... cor I could... I could couldn't you?
[June:] I feel like giving him away but I don't know whether I would, but I feel like it.
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] I'm surprised someone hasn't.... Which erm relative of 's has died?
[Sarah:] Dunno who has.
[June:] Well I reckon that's her mother or his mother.
[Sarah:] I don't really know, I haven't heard
[June:] Mm
[Sarah:] anything about it.
[Jonathan:] [singing] Somebody will find me [].
[June:] Yeah because erm... as we come home from work... these two... sort of big saloon cars, black ones... sort of come up, mourning cars I suppose you call them... and they stopped at 's and picked a load of people up.
[Jonathan:] I thought you called a?
[June:] [shouting] No []!... But you mean, no not them Jonathan!
[Jonathan:] Oh.
[June:] And then as we was coming home from Pete's, a chap stopped us... and asked us... where was... so I told him where was... he said I'm looking for a little black and white house... I said it's right there look!... He was right up to it... so I said well... I don't know whether you're going round to view the house cos that's on the market aren't they?
[Geoffrey:] Here we are
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] you got the in here?
[June:] cos I said erm... no I haven't actually, stop... cos I said that
[Sarah:] That's what I've come round for! [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] then.
[June:] they got a death in the family today and then he said that's what we've come, we've coming to pick up granddad, so I reckon that is
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] her mother or his.
[Geoffrey:] Better have the one who's died I think.
[Sarah:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] No!
[Geoffrey:] It wasn't her June, was it?
[June:] No!
[Geoffrey:] Not her?
[Jonathan:] No it was.
[Geoffrey:] Oh well that's
[June:] There was some smart cars round there today.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?... [singing] Oh [].
[Jonathan:] Ooh!
[Geoffrey:] Hey?
[Jonathan:] [singing] [].
[June:] Well I said they haven't had the house yet!
[Sarah:] That's right.
[Jonathan:] I know!
[June:] I bet that... that's pretty as well.
[Jonathan:] [singing] [].
[Geoffrey:] No that's him
[Jonathan:] You've been in it!
[Geoffrey:] that's him on the phone
[Jonathan:] So have I!
[Geoffrey:] he was saying all the sort say at work you know that they... they don't know and they start on about er
[Jonathan:] [singing] You have been a [].
[Geoffrey:] you ruin your chances so... about three times a week the comes in to arrange my poll tax and all this... and they get going you know well why should a bloke that having a big house and he only pays the same rate as them... so I said, well it's like this as far I'm concerned I said... you know... no bloke... works perhaps twice as many hours as you do... he chooses
[June:] haven't you?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... yeah.
[June:] When I said, I think that's wrong!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. The only time you don't pay a self-employed stamp... is if you... your business... earns,yo you can actually get away it, if you've lost money on your own business... on paper... or if you've... earned
[June:] Well we have! Why have you got it?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah tha... that's what I'm saying, I ain't got to.
[June:] You haven't got to pay it?
[Geoffrey:] No...
[June:] What about that last lot?
[Geoffrey:] Ah that's, what they've said once you've paid it, you can't get it back, and if you don't pay it they can't insist you pay it.
[June:] Well you haven't paid it.
[Geoffrey:] No I paid the last one though.
[June:] Well you can't stop paying it now.
[Sarah:] So you haven't gotta pay that one more.
[Geoffrey:] No, I can't afford to.
[June:] Ooh good!
[Jonathan:] Good good good.
[Sarah:] That's it, why should you have to keep
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] paying for them all year long?
[June:] Ah but perhaps Ken's the same as you then?... Cos I shouldn't think he's made any profit.
[Geoffrey:] Dunno, well that's the situation. I think you're allowed... you're allowed to make thirty pound a week profit... fifteen hundred pound a year, anything over fifteen hundred pound... on your business... they... gotta pay tax.
[June:] Well you had a loss.
[Geoffrey:] .
[Jonathan:] God!
[June:] So a I said it's a shock
[Geoffrey:] Ken lost
[June:] we didn't know you see, well Geoff paid it last year, well he di he di he didn't have to!
[Jonathan:] [singing] My name is Jonathan [].
[Sarah:] So that's like dad said, I mean... things
[Jonathan:] Dad?
[Sarah:] are not always
[Jonathan:] Can you pass me the
[Sarah:] the people that have... left are sort of in the recession and that now, there's all the... really big business people and that... that have come down to the same level as everybody else.
[Geoffrey:] That's right.
[Sarah:] And they're all creating but... you know
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] there's been a lot of people that have been... on that level for a long while.
[Geoffrey:] That's right.
[June:] Yeah we have.
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] You know, but now cos all tha all them estate agents that had... all the boom and everything didn't they?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah... made a fortune didn't they?
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Well but I mean, Brian was saying himself... you know... he can't remember... at least he's says he's been working down London when he hasn't been earning a hundred pound a day... you know, it's something, we just accepted it, he said over the years I've been earning a hundred pound a day he says, and that was it... you know yo yo just do.
[June:] And now he's nowhere... earning
[Geoffrey:] That's it.
[June:] nowhere near that amount.
[Geoffrey:] He says he worked like a pansy he said and now he says I go
[June:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] and he says and I'm putting in God knows how many hours, he said... and we got a drop to... fifty pound a day....
[June:] He's halved them wages has he?
[Geoffrey:] I said well exactly I said.
[Jonathan:] Is this our book mum?
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] But I mean I... I wouldn't even mind earning two hundred a fifty a week.
[Geoffrey:] Well no, well I mean like we do I mean... I mean but I mean... my gross up about three hundred over Tony's but I put in many hours right?
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] isn't it about like that quarter to five in the morning
[Sarah:] I know.
[Geoffrey:] till quarter five at night and then Saturdays as well till dinner time... you know?... But they
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] better that me.
[Jonathan:] [singing] I found some [].
[June:] But then you want it.
[Geoffrey:] Well that's right... that is
[June:] They
[Geoffrey:] it.
[June:] So you're gonna get tax back as well, like you was told?
[Geoffrey:] That's it...
[June:] Gonna get that back so... I mean all these little bits
[Sarah:] ... that are grumbling... cos they've come down, but really they've come down to the same level as
[Geoffrey:] Well that's right.
[June:] everybody else.
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] That's right Sarah.
[Sarah:] They don't
[Geoffrey:] Well Brian was telling me
[Sarah:] levels off!
[June:] You was.
[Sarah:] What's the time? I'd better go in a minute.
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] Eight o'clo, eight o'clock.
[June:] Eight o'clock.
[Jonathan:] Five past!
[Sarah:] Oh I've got one of them things.
[June:] Geoffrey
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[June:] wants one, don't you Geoffrey?
[Geoffrey:] Er... no I mean, them over there
[Jonathan:] Mm mm.
[Geoffrey:] oh but they really get up my nose! just wanna do is phone me up, you know I I sa... oh had a row with, don't say anything like about quarter to four time... and I said to her, well I'll be quite honest... I said er... there's sixty pound a week... or seventy pound a week... I get more than you... I said I have never heard a load of moaning pratts in all my life!... I said you overtime... you're moaning cos you gotta do, oh yeah we're always
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] the one's that have gotta... I said and as soon as you ain't got no overtime... ooh we aren't allowed a lot this week, we're a bloody flat week da and a... I said I don't know what to do to keep you happy!... I said if you said to me, Geoff, I want all the overtime I can get... I can get the overtime... I'll go round and I'll try and... or if you say to me well... I don't want the overtime, I'm quite happy with a flat week... then I'll know what I am... but I said you change from day to day, one day you wannit, another day you don't! You
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] just want... the job, to suit you... if you wa, if you want to go and pick your kids up from school you'd think that... oh why should we do work today, you know, let somebody else do it!... So I said
[Sarah:] Right.
[Geoffrey:] well blow that!... I said there's a
[Sarah:] You gotta take it when it's there ain't you?
[Geoffrey:] That's right I said, you know, I can't understand you!... I says yo... you go out to your flipping eleven pound a week
[Jonathan:] [shouting] Mummy []!
[Sarah:] Oh no!
[Geoffrey:] and er he gets a thirty five pound a week child allowance on his for his four kids!
[Sarah:] Typical innit, though!
[Geoffrey:] That's a... about a innit... bloody hell!... Paying... they're paying yeah so
[Jonathan:] Well you.
[Geoffrey:] so I er... he said er... no he said, it's not that he said... I don't like people to tell me... you've got to do overtime today, he said, I like to be asked! I said well I'll be quite honest mate, there's two hundred people working in this factory... and I said, if you think that e all the charge hands and the supervisors have got to come down and roll up you lot to get the job done... I said you... turn round and you think if you was in business, whatever it is you like to do, if you're in business and you've got an order and that order's gotta be out by six o'clock tonight... and you've gotta grovel to your workers... otherwise you'd lose that order, I said what would you say? Down the road mate, I'd get somebody who wants to do the job.
[June:] Yeah... that's right
[Geoffrey:] I said and that's exactly how they are! I said they aren't gonna put up with like you!... I said and that's why... cos Paul said to me, he said, I never hear you moan, I said look you won't hear me moan... because... it's not that I enjoy the job... I hate the job... I said I hate the work, and I find it hard work... but at the end of the day... on a Friday, I know that... six o'clock in the morning on a Friday... I can go up to the Nationwide Anglia, slip my card in there... and I know there's gonna be a couple of hundred of quid in there... with the
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] tax paid and everything, and I know it's gonna be in there... I said now that to me is worth a lot... I ain't gotta worry whether there's gonna be cheque from... out on my doormat in the morning... or if it's gonna bounce when I put it in... so I sa
[Sarah:] .
[Geoffrey:] as far as I'm concerned whatever o overtime they sling at me, I'll do... not because I feel like doing it... but I need to do it... there's
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] my wife and kid at home!... So he said oh oh said his moan and groan... so he said well I spoke to Blue he said, he's off sick he said and he gets ninety pounds a week for being at home... I've been working here all week he said, for a hundred and forty... so I'm forty pound a week better off than him!... Yes but he's sick!... I said he's not on holiday... he's sick!
[June:] Well forty pound a week's forty pound a week extra
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] innit?
[Sarah:] That's
[Geoffrey:] So I said
[Sarah:] how much a month.
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah so I said to him
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] I said but what an attitude to take!... I said you're not working for forty pound a week
[June:] [shouting] Jonathan []!
[Geoffrey:] you're working for a hundred
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] and forty pound a week but
[June:] Would you go and check see what the heating's on?
[Geoffrey:] you have to be sick... you still get paid...
[Jonathan:] The temperature's
[Geoffrey:] I said you're going about it with the wrong attitude!
[Sarah:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] A lot of people say I'm bloody lucky to get paid for being at home sick!
[Sarah:] And that they've got a job.
[Geoffrey:] Yep, I said what are you
[June:] Oh
[Geoffrey:] I said no I was home sick... and I... in bed like you said I couldn't... who's gonna turn round and say well there are Geoff there's a hundred quid mate
[Sarah:] That's it.
[Geoffrey:] we know you're ill in bed?... I said but you're
[June:] Nobody is!
[Geoffrey:] bloody lucky!... I said that'd do you good to be in business for a couple of years, that'd get you sorted out!
[Sarah:] They all think that's like he said they think oh stand up in the corridor, that's alright, Amy said... if you don't... if you have a holiday, you don't get no money
[Geoffrey:] Absolutely!... Well like they're
[Sarah:] He said they don't know half!
[Geoffrey:] that's what I said to Ron, I mean I've never known... I can't remember the last time I when I used to work for Colin for ten years... trying to get a holiday out of Colin was like trying to get blood!... Oh you can't have two weeks at once you know... but over there you gotta get rid of your holidays before December, you gotta get rid of them otherwise you lose them. Take them, you've got to get rid of them!
[Sarah:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] In the end I couldn't get rid of them, I had two days off... when I was ill... and I had as holidays... to ge to get them... sort of settled up you know.
[June:] To get what?
[Sarah:] That's like this woman at work
[Geoffrey:] To get.
[Sarah:] she's a teacher and I think she thinks that teachers are the only ones that work!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Oh bloody hell!
[Sarah:] And I said something
[June:] Cor!
[Sarah:] to her like erm
[June:] [LAUGHTER] Oh yeah [].
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] erm, what did I say? Something about... oh what did I say?... She's a funny woman anyway, I said something like
[June:] They are... peculiar breed!
[Geoffrey:] I should think... I should think you... it's nice to have the six weeks... ahead of us... and she said... well it's not a holiday!... I thought well I wouldn't mind Ooh no!
[Sarah:] six weeks of not having to get up and you gotta go.
[Geoffrey:] No, not going into the shop at least, yeah.
[June:] Cor!...
[Sarah:] She said... she said for the first week you unwind, I thought... if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you're back to work again!
[Geoffrey:] You're back to work.
[June:] That's right.
[Sarah:] She said and then I have two weeks... erm... homework to mark... and then we have a weeks holiday... I thought well that's two weeks
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] holiday
[June:] Cor!
[Sarah:] really.
[Geoffrey:] That's it.
[Sarah:] She said and then the next week you're preparing to go back!
[Geoffrey:] Well why can't she do that... two weeks marking in that first week she needs to unwind?
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] And then have a
[Sarah:] And yet... another client of mine who's a teacher, she said oh yeah she said it's lovely, she said... I suppose I ought to do the... marking and all that... at the beginning she said but I leave it, she said, and I sometimes do it in the last week.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] I thought to myself that's... two different
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] attitudes really.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.... Yeah
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] isn't it?... No well I
[June:] All they seem to do to me is drink coffee!
[Geoffrey:] That's right.
[Sarah:] And then you have a we... sorry, I'm sorry I can't do it that week, I've got a weeks holiday.
[June:] What again?
[Sarah:] I think you have six weeks in the summer, we only get four all year!
[June:] Yeah well and think about all the other weeks he gets, half term erm
[Sarah:] And weekends.
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] Get all weekend don't you?
[June:] Sometimes we get what they call baker days.
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] You know, so... they don't do too badly... they do quite well really.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] .
[Geoffrey:] Ah I dunno.
[Sarah:] But people in a way, make you sick really don't they?
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] They never
[Geoffrey:] They all sort of
[June:] Always bloody moaning!
[Geoffrey:] and they're all
[June:] aren't they?
[Geoffrey:] ready to ta, that's what I said to him... you're always ready to take out hand outs, what ever's there to be handed out, you know.
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Cos... that really got up, up my back when the, I mean tho... ain't a ba, bad bunch of old boys but... I normally go down... but they they clear and once we've done our work... before dinner break they all clear off... and I go down to the... and then I sort of walk back... more or less behind them... you know, to the... break like... and as I go past the club, I go and wash my hands, they go straight in, I go and wash my hands and I walk past the... and er... we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve... and I go past, it's one minute past quarter to twelve... so cos when we go in there you see... quarter past twelve... due to go back... I always give them two or three minutes... and I say that's it, that's, ah we was late coming in, I said no you weren't!... We was... I said look... I can read a bloody clock as well you can, I said I wa... walking behind you down the, you went in the canteen and when I went past it was one minute past quarter to!... So I said you know, the one minute past quarter to... and there's a sort of quietly you know... but then you know, just have to grab at
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] they get excitement out of taking two extra minutes
[Sarah:] Give them an, inch and they want a yard
[Geoffrey:] I think oh my God! You know, I, it's so petty that!
[Sarah:] That's like Sarah at work, I mean... she leaves at twenty past five, if she thinks that, she'll leave at ten past five... I mean she thinks you're stupid because she don't always go but even when she's not going... she
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] still goes at twenty past five... so why don't she go at six when we do?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] You know.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And she said she even taking her home Sarah!
[Sarah:] I told her I wouldn't.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... cos she used to get me t, and then she rang me up one day when I was and said... dad erm... dad can't bring me round there cos the car's not working, can you come and pick me up? Yeah....
[Sarah:] She said I'll give you some petrol money, I said I'm not bothered about petrol money, I said it's the fact that I've gotta come round to pick you up, I said I'm not a taxi!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] And then... I was late, when I got round there I thought well she'll at least be waiting at the top of the drive, if not at the top of the road.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] She weren't there, I had to go round the house knocking on her door and oh
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] I was mad!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well yeah you don't mind giving anybody a lift
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] if they make their way to you.
[Sarah:] Yeah... and she used to be hammering on the door, twenty past five... you know... yeah but... Mrs the other day... it was something like... two o'clock, Mrs said to her, she went to lunch one till two... Mrs oh have you had your lunch? She said... no, are you off lunch yet? She said... not until five past, Mrs said you can get up them stairs, she said you go at... ten minutes early every day!... She said I'm sure you're gonna quibble about five minutes... lunch hour!
[June:] Oh she actually told her then?
[Sarah:] Yeah... But bu... oh she's just...!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] Idle!
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] I said to Mrs, she said I don't know she's a funny girl, I said I don't think she's funny I think she's idle!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] I thought, why should we work to pay her wages?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] And she don't do nothing!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah... Does she do any hairdressing yet or?
[Sarah:] A little bit... but... she really winds me up she does.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah that's how I
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] I...!
[Sarah:] And then she said to me... Mrs gives us... erm sometimes an extra ten pound, she gets a Y T S allowance...
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] and she ooh I don't know I'm gonna have to something to her cos some weeks I get it and some weeks I don't, I said you ought to think yourself lucky you get an extra ten pound, I said, we don't!... I said we bring them, we're earning the money... cos she don't earn her own money does she
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Sarah:] just shampooing.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] No.
[Sarah:] She said I want to know whether I'm gonna get it regular or not!... I said think yourself lucky you get any extra at all!
[Geoffrey:] Mm... yeah.
[Sarah:] And then she said about her erm... Y T S, oh... I haven't got my... bus money back yet... I only get an allowance!... I said well... I never used to get any anyway, and I said I used earn less than you!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] You know she cor!
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Sarah:] I mean
[Geoffrey:] Hand outs every time!
[Sarah:] But they don't know half do they?
[June:] That family has more handouts than anybody I know!... And the, what is the the thing what annoys me... is they're working!
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[June:] That is what annoys about it or... fair enough if they haven't got any money they get these handouts... but when they're working and they still get them... that's when I think it's wrong!
[Sarah:] I mean we're the mugs aren't we really?
[June:] Well course we are!
[Geoffrey:] That's right.
[June:] My mo, I think my motto's gonna be, see if you can't beat them, join them!
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] But that's exactly the same... me and Ady having this bungalow built, I mean... some people been ever so funny.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] Wonder why.
[Geoffrey:] Why should you and
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] Oh that's alright
[June:] Been funny?
[Sarah:] for you, I said we... worked... you know, we've not been given anything, everything
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] we've got we've... worked for.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] I mean they get ma, they know for six months, they get married with all the gear, the next year they got a baby, fair enough, that's up to them.
[Geoffrey:] And then
[June:] And then they get divorced!
[Sarah:] You know, I mean... we haven't... I ain't got a new car or anything, I've had that
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] years and
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] people do what... you know, everybody's different what they do with their money
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] aren't they?... So they think
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] just because we... saved for that... that you know
[June:] Well you saved hard for it, so then why shouldn't you have it?... That's what
[Sarah:] I know.
[June:] you want to do with your money
[Geoffrey:] I said that to
[June:] that's up to you.
[Geoffrey:] you know... got he... he's quite, he's having it built over here.
[June:] He's important
[Sarah:] What?
[June:] Sarah!
[Sarah:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] No kidding you, his is your dad's bungalow, and it's a house!...
[June:] About as big as your dad's... bungalow!
[Geoffrey:] ... that's painting the front in.
[Sarah:] Oh!
[June:] If you look round here cos he's right opposite us.
[Geoffrey:] It's a concrete slab
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] it don't look any
[June:] He put
[Geoffrey:] at all do they?
[Sarah:] No.
[June:] Well he's
[Geoffrey:] It is bloody huge, he's had the fireman round there!
[June:] I said to Geoff when you get your footings in they do... you think to yourself, cor that ain't gonna be very big!
[Sarah:] You do yeah.
[June:] But as soon as it builds up, you see how big it's gonna be... so I said well that's gonna be like erm Buckingham Palace I should think!
[Geoffrey:] But they haven't a concrete slab!... Cos he said it's gonna be as big as the other house.... The old house.
[June:] And do you know he's getting all
[Sarah:] I wonder how they're doing it?
[June:] well he thinks he's gonna get his tiles for nothing isn't he, Geoff?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, he said I got a thousand pound... well I'll ring around, he said I got a thousand o... off my, I saved a thousand pounds on my roof he said... I thought bloody hell, how much cost... [LAUGHTER] costing him []!
[June:] No, but he's, he went to the Ideal
[Geoffrey:] But he
[June:] Homes Exhibition
[Sarah:] Oh yeah.
[June:] and course they're doing this new... tiles.
[Geoffrey:] They bought out, this company have bought out a new... tile... and he said they're looking for a sort of nice house to have as a sort of a show house and then... he thinks he'll get them for nothing.
[June:] Cor must be really!
[Sarah:] Mind you, I mean when we were choosing our bricks... he said ooh erm... he gave number and that, I mean I know... he's not too bad is he when you want
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[June:] he can help them... ooh you want to ring him a... my bricks should of cost... what did he say? Four hundred or four hundred and... forty or something... erm... and on, I can't remember what he said he was getting them for I
[Geoffrey:] Two hundred and thirty?... Come from Belgium?
[Sarah:] Probably yes.... Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] He told me that.
[Sarah:] But Geoff said there aren't any bricks that are that much money anyway!... So I don't know whether he's right or not.
[Geoffrey:] ... no.
[Sarah:] Cos we
[June:] But we
[Sarah:] rang them up and he was... dearer than all the... blooming... builders merchants!
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] At least Kevin was saying.
[June:] Cos you see we was lucky how we got our bricks... didn't we? Weren't
[Geoffrey:] yeah.
[June:] we Geoff?
[Geoffrey:] I.
[June:] Well how did you get to know about them?
[Geoffrey:] I sold him the car didn't I?... That was it.
[June:] Yeah Geoff sold him the car
[Geoffrey:] sold him a couple of cars
[June:] and he said well he'd
[Sarah:] Oh.
[June:] got a load of brick, where did he have them
[Geoffrey:] He had it, he got caught by... he got er
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] there's like a big pallet all surrounded and he got a big pond down the bottom... it's erm... near Grimston... Common
[Sarah:] Oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] common... and he lived at Grimston... and er... he got this plot... and er what was... right next door to it was a sort of real big old... li like a... French chateau... and he wanted a big ge red... brick Georgian house, a real big one, sort of sitting at the back of this plot... that the owner
[Sarah:] Oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] had put down the end.... Anyway he got all his bricks and everything... and er... he got all his ideas what he wanted... and then they turned round and said no, we're not gonna let you build down there.
[June:] So we bought his bricks.
[Geoffrey:] So he's got all his bricks up... virtually I think he said, but I ain't worried about it cos I'll get rid of them somewhere... and I helped him out, I sold this car and, and told him what I was doing... and he come I've just the thing for you, just... cos was having bricks like your dad's, the sand grain sort of brick, you know.
[Sarah:] Oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Ooh he said I've got just the for you, he said, he said....
[June:] And that's how we got them.
[Geoffrey:] And I di in the end they... the same for them, but
[June:] He and Geoff went over there and loaded them on the trailer.
[Geoffrey:] we would of done it by ourself sorted out.
[June:] Yeah we do a... we went over there and loaded them all on and then got a puncture in the trailer,!
[Geoffrey:] Put them on a didn't they, then load them... load
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] them on... yeah.... Used be able to sit in the car... would be... go up the back don't they?
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] And I used to load the boot up... and bring them... and load home like in the boot of my car... my Sales Manager said to me the other day, how the hell did you get bright red dust in your boot?... I dunno!... There's all like red brick dust in your boot!
[Sarah:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] Oh no!
[June:] Geoff was getting the bricks.
[Geoffrey:] And I had Avenger estate, and I done the same with that... and I got away with it for ages and I... what you want a do, I know what you wanna do... he erm, I mean that's that's really sort of pushing it over the top... but he got a great big sheet of polythene, he went down to ready mix... and had a load of ready mix in the back of this... Avenger estate, brand new he'd only just got it!... And course
[June:] Well we didn't do that but
[Geoffrey:] and then on top of that he took the battery off... Pat's car... and it fell over in the front so all the acid burnt the carpet! Come back dinner time... and they were saying well no you see you can't just a borrow a car to go to dinner in, yeah that'll be alright man... and I hadn't even been in it... since Roy bought it back! [whispering] Absolutely went spare you know []!... Sent memos all round, you know... and he called me in the office that day, to say I'm really disappointed in you, I said, what do you mean?... He said well I give you that Avenger estate he said cos I thought you were building your house, that'll be handy for you you know... yeah you did... and you let me down badly!... So I thought now what do I say, do I drop myself in it or do I say well that wasn't, that was Roy, I said well you know I said I must admit I said I... I'm sorry... so erm... then Roy said well that battery he said was me he said I, I borrowed Geoff's car again and look the battery fell over in it so I'm gonna help him... er... then I sa, a piece of that bloody great went across our French doors and... this, there's a went across
[Sarah:] Cor!
[Geoffrey:] there... and I went down to the... at... [LAUGHTER] and he said []... [LAUGHTER] we got your lintel in mate, do you want to take it?... So I said yeah I can do... so he said bring your van down, so I never said nothing... so Bob said, got any like your dad had
[Sarah:] Oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] It's for our new one again you see... so I rolled the front seat down... put my brief case on the front seat... so he says, where's your van then mate? I said it's here!
[Sarah:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] No, where is it? I said that is it!... Yo you can't put it in that he said, it's brand new!... That'll be alright... so cos he slid his my brief case... and er I got all the way home, no problem at all, I'd got newspaper under the back, so it didn't scratch the back... when I come to... come down Mill Road... this lorry's go, I mean I got the tail gate up... and er... I sort of looked in the mirror, I thought oh my goodness my tail gate, I could hear it so... and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down... and scratched along the dash board!
[Sarah:] Oh dear!
[Geoffrey:] Trying to get it out, sort of plastic dash went creeeh!
[Sarah:] Cor!
[Geoffrey:] This lintel!... That went right across there... but... well I suppose.
[June:] Well I imagine there is.
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Mum?... I wanna play a game.
[June:] Alright then... I'm sorry that's not in there.
[Jonathan:] Mum!
[Sarah:] Well it don't matter we'll probably be able something out the sale anyway.
[June:] Yeah you can get it, yeah.
[Jonathan:] Mum,
[June:] Yeah that's right.
[Jonathan:] take up.
[June:] What?
[Jonathan:] Er
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Jonathan:] .
[June:] Oh... oh... didn't look.
[Sarah:] Anyway I'd better go, I'll see, well if I don't see you before I'll see you next Wednesday
[Jonathan:] For my birthday.
[Sarah:] then won't I?
[June:] Yep, so what time is it, half past six is it, or do you want me... quarter past six was it, or half six, what time do you want me?
[Sarah:] Is quarter past six too early?
[June:] No, I'm home till quarter past eight.
[Sarah:] Is that alright?
[June:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] That'll be better for me really if you don't mind.
[June:] Yeah, I'll come up to you then.
[Sarah:] Yeah alright thanks a lot.
[June:] Yep.
[Sarah:] Thanks then.
[June:] [shouting] Yeah, alright then mate [].
[Jonathan:] Because I don't know whether you can
[Sarah:] Bye!
[June:] You can turn that off now Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] Would you spend
[Sarah:] Pardon?
[Jonathan:] a hundred and ninety nine pound on me on my birthday?
[Geoffrey:] Certainly not!
[Jonathan:] No I didn't think [LAUGHTER] you would []! No I knew you wouldn't!... Would you eighty nine?
[Geoffrey:] can't afford that sort of money Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] No cos it's just a... computer game.
[Geoffrey:] I really can't.
[Jonathan:] Eighty nine pound!... Oh.
[Geoffrey:] I think that's the... something for you, but dad's struggling... I really am struggling!
[Jonathan:] Oh... I'll find something cheaper... Oh!... That... cos you know what American was?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Jonathan:] You know Julian's one?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Yeah well it isn't that one, it's... I'll find it... and I'll read it out to you... Julian's one is two hundred and thirty four ninety nine
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] because it's got gold wheels... right... it's got a better suspension.
[June:] Jonathan you, have you turned that tape off?
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[June:] Well turn it off now if you wanna watch in fifteen minutes. Have you got all your school things ready?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] You got your trousers all muddled up.
[Jonathan:] Oh!... Why do you always have to tell me!
[June:] Well it's not, very nice going to school with.
[Jonathan:] Right every time we have school's.
[June:] Your flys are undone!
[Jonathan:] Hi!...... ha!
[June:] Ask him to have his undone then!
[Jonathan:] Yeah and he's always.
[June:] Is he?
[Jonathan:] Mm... yeah.
[June:] And you don't play in blooming class will you?
[Jonathan:] No I won't.... Yuk!
[June:] Erm what was I gonna say?... Why don't you put your belt on them trousers?
[Jonathan:] No, leave them like that!
[June:] Go and get your coat then.
[Jonathan:] Okay, I'll be back in a minute!
[June:] Do you have to go so early?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Well why do you go so early?... [cough]
[Jonathan:] I wanna meet... my mates.
[June:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] Well a... but Andrew likes to be going early.
[June:] Andrew who?
[Jonathan:] Andrew.
[June:] Andrew?
[Jonathan:] .
[June:] Why does he like going early?
[Jonathan:] He just wants to, don't he!
[June:] Oh... do your coat up.
[Jonathan:] Don't throw away!
[June:] Don't forget your bike tonight.
[Jonathan:] I'll just... pick it up.
[June:] I wondered if you'd help me out in the garden, perhaps like if it's still nice when you come home from school?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Clear some of the leaves up.
[Jonathan:] If it's bright enough.
[June:] Yeah if it's nice.
[Jonathan:] I work till four o'clock, and then... and then it'll be getting dark won't it?
[June:] Yeah... yeah that's right.
[Jonathan:] Packet... and raise your hand there.
[June:] Pardon?
[Jonathan:] Do I have to be home by five?
[June:] You're not going today, you're going tomorrow.
[Jonathan:] Oh yeah I am.
[June:] Yeah I'll meet you up there... look, look at her... look, look who's looking in the window!
[Jonathan:] Can I let her in?
[June:] Yeah go and let her in.
[Jonathan:] [singing] Oh [].
[June:] [shouting] Hurry up []!
[Jonathan:] Come... here you are
[June:] [cough]
[Jonathan:] come on in!... Good girl!
[June:] Alright then off are you?
[Jonathan:] Hey mummy... you know when you used to... go to toilet in the middle of a conversation.
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Yeah... I know how you do that.
[June:] Pause it.
[Jonathan:] Yeah, do you know pause it?
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] So do I.
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Have you ever paused it yet?
[June:] No, [LAUGHTER] because I'm frightened o I might []... I haven't done that.
[Jonathan:] Can I try?
[June:] No not now, you can perhaps try today.
[Jonathan:] Yeah get in the middle of mu... [LAUGHTER] I []
[June:] Say bye to her.
[Jonathan:] Bye pussy, let me say goodbye.
[June:] You know what she wants.
[Jonathan:] Her breakfast.
[June:] Yeah and guess who hasn't been fed either!
[Jonathan:] Ahhh!
[June:] Ginge.
[Jonathan:] Poor little... Ginge.
[June:] Alright then... do you want to go then?
[Jonathan:] Yeah just kiss goodbye... Bye!
[June:] Bye bye... be a good boy won't
[Jonathan:] I didn't spoil the tape today!... I don't want to!
[June:] Oh yeah I can do... bye then!
[Jonathan:] .
[June:] Yeah... [shouting] bye []!
[Jonathan:] [shouting] Bye []!
[Val:] Morning!
[June:] Twenty please, and have you got a... birthday card for mother please? Ooh!... Isn't it cold!
[Val:] grandma's back in the wrong place!
[June:] Ooh I better have a grandma as well please?... Oh crumbs yeah!... Ooh!... Ooh and I want a packet of sage and onion stuffing, whereabouts is that? Anywhere here?
[Val:] It's up the top there... in the yellow packet next to the Paxo breadcrumbs, up the top shelf.
[June:] Yeah... oh yeah... Ooh God I'm knocking all the shop down!...... You got some good slippers on!
[Val:] Hey?... Oh!
[June:] [LAUGHTER]... There's always something isn't there?
[Val:] Well yeah.
[June:] Is Rene here today?
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] Oh that's nice with the little bunny rabbits on... That's a nice one, the little bunnies innit?
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] Oh shall gi and one for Jonathan... erm... nan
[Val:] that one.
[June:] Oh those two will be alright.
[Val:] Those two?
[June:] Yeah... lovely thank you... and do you have stockings?
[Val:] I've got so I've got some here.
[June:] I'll just have a look
[Val:] They're not erm
[June:] Pop socks
[Val:] That's... one size stockings... there's not much left in the way of them now because most people you know... don't wear stockings, these are pop
[June:] Well
[Val:] socks and tights.
[June:] Tights
[Val:] And that... I think they're all tights there.
[June:] Are they all tights?
[Val:] Yeah... apart from that one pair that you got in the, that you had there.
[June:] Yeah that's not really the right colour for her... erm... what else can I think of?... Have you tried this V P sherry?
[Val:] No.
[June:] Well she drinks sherry you see I thought well... is that a sweet sherry?
[Val:] I don't know
[June:] Er
[Val:] what's it got on it, it's medium isn't it?... It's cream isn't it?
[June:] Cream sherry, that should be fairly... shouldn't it?
[Val:] Well yeah it should be.
[June:] Yeah I'll have that then... well the... lovely thanks very much. [ringing up till] Did 's grandma die or something?
[Val:] Mm?
[June:] 's
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] up the road.
[Val:] I think last
[June:] Oh.
[Val:] week.
[June:] Oh the funeral was yesterday weren't it?
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah... where was she buried down here then? Cos she lived do
[Val:] She lived no she was in Marshlands Nursing Home.
[June:] Oh was she?... Oh I didn't know.
[Val:] Yeah she'd been in there about... seven or eight months I think.
[June:] Oh.
[Val:] That's why they erm... the funeral was actually from Carole's.
[June:] Yeah I se... well I happened to be coming home from school... cos I thought there was a... the hearse coming and then I watched two mourning cars... two flashy great big things!
[Val:] Mm.
[June:] I thought crumbs I bet that cost a lot! They do don't they?... I thought how the other half live!... I must be doing something wrong!
[Val:] Suppose sometimes... in those circumstances, I know I mean my mum and dad died two years ago it was a thousand pound!
[June:] Yeah... it must be... it's not cheap
[Val:] Well
[June:] to die [LAUGHTER] is it []!
[Val:] ... so six months later Terry's mother died it was a thousand pound gone up!
[June:] Crumbs!
[Val:] It had gone up in that time.
[June:] Don't worry about that Val I'll do it when I get home.
[Val:] One of those cars... Terry's mother only had two.
[June:] Yeah.
[Val:] But he didn't have the... he he had the hearse and one car... we had... the hearse plus three more cars.
[June:] Did you really.
[Val:] And cost us a thousand pound.
[June:] Yeah.
[Val:] About five hundred pound... those three cars.
[June:] Was it really?... Cor!
[Val:] And his coffin was draped with the union jack.
[June:] Was it? Was he erm in the
[Val:] He was into a lots of things, he was er in the sea scouts, he was the district commissioner of the scouts.
[June:] Oh he's all sorts of things then?
[Val:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah.
[Val:] He's also done a lot of things with his
[June:] Yeah.
[Val:] so... I mean they
[June:] Yeah.
[Val:] sent from London, from the Heather's Scouts Organisation... set a wreath that was, it stood up
[June:] Really?
[Val:] something to stand it up to it was that heavy, it was the scout's, it was beautiful!
[June:] Oh lovely.
[Katt:] Alright?
[June:] Oh hello, I haven't seen you for ages!
[Katt:] Ah!
[Val:] Right, that's five fifty seven that lot altogether.
[June:] Hold on, do you want the fifty seven if I've got it?
[Val:] If you've got it yeah.
[June:] Yeah, I've got it... five... six seven. Right lovely thank you... Ah I suppose I better be off to work.
[Val:] Right.
[June:] Yeah I don't wanna take a bottle of sherry round, the school will think I'm gonna be on the booze all afternoon do won't they!
[Val:] [LAUGHTER]
[Katt:] Something to talk about.
[June:] Pardon?
[Katt:] I say that'll give them something to talk about.
[June:] Well yeah. While they're talking about me they're leaving someone else alone aren't they?
[Katt:] Ya.
[June:] ... Not that I'm bothered what they say about me.
[Katt:] That's right.
[June:] Right.
[Val:] Thanks a lot.
[Katt:] Ta ta.
[June:] Cheerio!
[Val:] Bye bye.
[June:] Yeah tara Val... oh!
[Val:] That's alright, just leave it.
[June:] You don't mind me doing this do you?
[Val:] What?... no.
[June:] That's alright is it?
[Val:] No...
[June:] Alright then.
[Val:] It's that... alright. [LAUGHTER]
[June:] [LAUGHTER] I switch it off now before I go out then []! Ooh you weren't!
[Sue:] Oh I did I thought
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[Sue:] I fancy that.
[June:] Have you seen what's across there?... What he's got in his back yard?
[Sue:] No well I ain't do you want anything on there?
[June:] Oh but one of these isn't gonna be ready for Christmas.
[Sue:] You know what he's got geese for don't you?
[June:] What.
[Sue:] ... they reckon you could touch their beaks!
[June:] Oh yeah, yeah 's have got them... that was, that funeral was at 's that was her grandma I reckon that's
[Sue:] Oh was it?
[June:] why she hasn't been to school... she was in erm... the.
[Sue:] Oh.
[June:] Also got a bottle of sherry in here, I th people think I'm going [LAUGHTER] on the booze []!... I bo just bought one up the shop for Geoff's mums birthday... well she's now
[Sue:] Yeah.
[June:] starting to have a glass of sherry every night, well I thought well
[Sue:] Why not!
[June:] if she can get a few bottles
[Sue:] Mm mm
[June:] that's saves her... paying for it herself don't it?... And I got her a box of Black Magic so... that's her birthday present sorted out... so she can eat and drink then can't she!... Well she don't want ornaments and things like that, does she at her age?
[Sue:] They got so many!... I don't know what to buy my dad for Christmas but... if I
[June:] Ooh no
[Sue:] buy him a bottle of Baileys... he
[June:] Does he like that?
[Sue:] loves Baileys yeah.
[June:] Yeah.
[Sue:] Well I mean
[June:] Well yeah he hasn't gotta buy
[Sue:] you don't want...
[June:] Well no.
[Sue:] stuff he, you know.
[June:] See my dad likes videos and things like that... but he wa he, I know he likes aftershave, he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I'll... get him something like that or... I thought I... sort of saw cos I'm going shopping Saturday, I'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can.
[Sue:] I don't blame you.
[June:] So I thought well... if I can... sort of get... think to myself a rough idea before I go... Jonathan's going to Geoff's mums cos Geoff's gotta work all day Saturday you see?
[Sue:] Yeah you said that.
[June:] Well that's something to do with they're working this Saturday and then they break up a bit earlier or something.
[Sue:] Oh I see, yeah.
[June:] Something like that, so... I said well that's a... good job I'm going this Saturday innit really?
[Sue:] Yeah.
[June:] Ooh!
[Sue:] It's a bit nippy isn't it?
[June:] I'm frozen!
[Sue:] I think
[June:] Mrs won't be there.
[Sue:] No, she's gone on a trip, Simon called round he just dropped mother off.
[June:] Oh yeah she was going with you mum isn't she?
[Sue:] Yeah
[June:] Who has she got, does she know?
[Sue:] She doesn't know, I don't suppose she'll know till she got there will she?
[June:] No probably not, no course she wouldn't... I think Jonathan's with Mrs.
[Sue:] gone has she?
[June:] Oh yeah, she's going tomorrow... no tomorrow, they go don't though.
[Sue:] Tomorrow...
[June:] Ooh!
[Sue:] Ooh!... Half past ten isn't it?
[June:] What this morning?
[Sue:] Yes... my mother in law.
[June:] Ooh!
[Sue:] She's gonna be there tonight... I thought well I always could just... well I think I might come over if you've gotta be there.
[June:] Oh! She isn't bringing the boyfriend is she?
[Sue:] She's not, she
[June:] No she wouldn't would she? She wouldn't!
[Sue:] No.
[June:] Oh perhaps she's gonna try and
[Sue:] She might want to stay I don't know.
[June:] sort of you know, sort of get peace with you again... Ooh!
[Sue:] Without anything [LAUGHTER] almost wished she hadn't of come...
[June:] Oh!
[Sue:] We went down this park cos we wanted to
[June:] Yeah.
[Sue:] and when we walked in she's got her brother and her boyfriend.
[June:] Oh!
[Sue:] And they always go on a Wednesday, they never go on a Thursday.
[June:] Oh!
[Sue:] I mean that's why we went on a Thursday and they'd changed their... as a chap that seems very strange to me!
[June:] Yeah.
[Sue:] Because she knows we go once every you know... every other Thursday at least.
[June:] Perhaps she was frightened that... she'd gotta
[Sue:] Yeah
[June:] see you on your own.
[Sue:] Says she's coming over so what's
[June:] Oh!
[Sue:] you never know!
[June:] Ooh you ha wait and see... Is Graham at work today?
[Sue:] No, but, well it Tuesday is his day off but he's got late till eleven this morning.
[June:] Oh that's alright.
[Sue:] And this afternoon, don't know whether to... have an exploratory... operation on knee in Huntingdon
[June:] Oh yeah!
[Sue:] yesterday... and they sent him home last week and he's on crutches at the moment.
[June:] Oh.
[Sue:] So Graham has gone round
[June:] Morning!
[Sue:] Hello Bill... be home, it'll be five.
[June:] Yeah.
[Sue:] Perhaps... his work has so
[June:] Has it?
[Sue:] Yep.
[June:] I think that's how it goes, you see, this is Geoff's busy time.
[Sue:] Chris said that always like that Christmas time because... they have the pay talks in January... and they always cut them back...
[June:] Do they?
[Sue:] pay talks... yeah.
[June:] Oh!
[Sue:] To make them think there's not a lot of work and that you know?
[June:] Oh yeah... yeah
[Sue:] So he said yes you know, they say well if you want to be paid it means... people'll have to be sacked and all this, well you know!
[June:] Well yeah that's how they go don't they, yeah.
[Sue:] That's right.
[June:] Ooh!... I'm in the infant end today aren't I?
[Sue:] Yeah well I... me and Margaret should be in the hall... but I think they've assumed that there will be less
[June:] Can go in the hall can't they?
[Sue:] They can all go in the hall... and then that'll leave me free to go out first like I should do.
[June:] Well that's right yeah.
[Sue:] I was told I should lend that classroom to them... I can't ge... really get out first... and that should be my turn to be out first today.
[June:] Yeah cos I definitely shan't be out first shall I?
[Sue:] No.... No and if not that'll be Margaret out first, out of the hall, won't it?
[June:] Yeah.
[Sue:] I mean she'll be out... two days on the trot.
[June:] Yeah and that's not fair, and that's cold today isn't it?
[Sue:] No and you see it's just them two... I think they could put him sort of like in the hall and if there's a
[June:] Yeah.
[Sue:] ... he
[June:] Ask Eric yeah... yeah cos there won't be that many will there?
[Sue:] Well I wouldn't of thought so, the whole class gonna be missing.
[June:] Ooh!
[Sue:] So... really... that'd be the best idea but
[June:] Yeah... do you know my washing was virtually dry when I went home yesterday.
[Sue:] mine got quite dry... finished the ki... the kids wet on the radiator.
[June:] I ju I
[Sue:] But my towels were dry enough to iron.
[June:] Yeah... my flannelette sheets were virtually dry just
[Sue:] yeah.
[June:] popped them on the radiator for ten minutes... and I i... well I ironed them... I usually do my bits
[Sue:] Well I left it I thought I've just gotta sit down... had a they got Daisy.
[June:] Oh yeah.
[Sue:] They do look brown, well!... She wanted to play and she wanted to colour and oh oh
[June:] Oh she wanted to do all sorts did she?
[Sue:] oh... [LAUGHTER] Then erm []... said... I love my granddad... I said what about your grandma? No!... I said not... oh alright she says, a little bit!
[June:] She likes her granddad does she?
[Sue:] Yeah... I said do you love Jack?... No, she said because he doesn't love me!
[June:] [LAUGHTER] Oh []! God she didn't know!
[Sue:] She goes I love my friend over there, that was George.
[June:] [LAUGHTER] Oh yeah []!
[Sue:] friend.
[June:] [LAUGHTER]... How old is she now?
[Sue:] She'll be four in February.
[June:] Ooh so when would she go to school?
[Sue:] Next September I would think...
[June:] Ooooh!
[Sue:] could of been
[June:] Yeah.
[Sue:] might take her September... I don't know.
[June:] Well they will do, cos they do here don't they?
[Sue:] Cos she's doing mornings at nursery now... nine till half past eleven.
[June:] And does she like it?
[Sue:] Loves it, yeah!
[June:] Yeah she's that type of little girl, ain't she?
[Sue:] Yeah.
[June:] She's a, sort of outgoing isn't she?
[Sue:] Well I said it'll soon be Christmas... she said yes... not quite four weeks she said.
[June:] Ha!
[Sue:] I
[June:] What she want for Christmas, did she say?
[Sue:] A doll that's got long hair and cries.
[June:] Oh!
[Sue:] Well Julie went and got it the other day that's why fetched her out, to get their presents.
[June:] Oh.
[Sue:] So dad collected her out of nursery and then Julie picked her up when Jack come out of school.
[June:] So what does Jack want?
[Sue:] Well I want a train set... and I think one of.
[June:] Oh!
[Sue:] And they want walkie talkie things
[June:] Oh yeah Jonathan used t
[Sue:] out of them.
[June:] Yeah.
[Sue:] She wants this doll, well Julie got it yesterday... and... said I phoned up, she said you've gotta listen to this... she said I've just put a battery in when you want to hear it cry.
[June:] Does it?
[Sue:] The only way you can stop it is putting a dummy in it's mouth!
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[Sue:] And
[June:] Oh she'll like that then won't it?
[Sue:] So
[June:] Jonathan wants this erm... this Lego set that's got... well I have got it actually... and it's a big lorry
[Sue:] Yeah.
[June:] with a helicopter and all that on the all on
[Sue:] Oh!
[June:] the back... I says
[Sue:] So she's colouring yesterday... she kept... have you got a handkerchief?... In my pocket she said, in a minute!
[June:] [LAUGHTER] Is she still as blonde as ever?
[Sue:] Yes... yeah ever so blonde.
[June:] Yeah.
[Sue:] That kept it kept getting in her eyes, I said I'll fetch it over and brought it back, put them slides in... face... no she said, Shaun'll do it! Oh I was all... you know
[June:] Does he make a lot of fuss of her then?
[Sue:] Well not ever such a lot... and then
[June:] She just took to him.
[Sue:] and then she said I'll go to the toilet she says... I can go by myself... she says!... You're not coming in! So I had to stand outside the door
[June:] Oh.
[Sue:] good job the bolt... well the bolts up
[June:] Yeah.
[Sue:] tight, always has done
[June:] Well that's good.
[Sue:] you know... and then she come out, I said I'll tuck you... no she said, Shaun will!
[June:] Ah ho!
[Sue:] So I thought
[June:] So Shaun's well in favour... so he could look after her, I think she'd stay with him.... Oh, some of the older ones down the infant end again... Jonathan went last week... so I said he
[Sue:] Oh what a common little cow!... Oh no!
[June:] I thought he weren't gonna bring them Sue?
[Sue:] He weren't... all over the sixth form... I've not got a to live with!
[June:] So she said... I dunno... so I said is it awkward to talk? She said yeah... I said alright then... [LAUGHTER]... so whether they'd got someone there then... I don't know.... You don't know do you?... Margaret's on this tape this time.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?
[June:] Ooh I don't how old Margaret is... fifty two I think.
[Geoffrey:] Ooh... bloody hell!
[June:] What?
[Geoffrey:] Nice little bump there.
[June:] Where?... [LAUGHTER] Oh yeah []!... It seemed quiet in school today, didn't seem so many children, is there?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I told you about Mr wife didn't I?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Very poorly!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Very poorly!... That's a shame really innit?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Ladies, L a d i e s innit?
[Geoffrey:] Mm... Rurgh!
[June:] Arrived, A doubler i v e d
[Geoffrey:] i v e d.
[June:] yeah.
[Geoffrey:] That bloody erm... er... what do you call it? er... personnel woman was there today.
[June:] Well I don't know whether Nick went today cos I see his car.
[Geoffrey:] I thought he said he'd gotta go somewhere?
[June:] Oh what a shame!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah she was, she was there eight o'clock.
[June:] Oh!... What's the time Geoff?... Three thirty innit?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Am or pm or is that?
[Geoffrey:] Am.
[June:] Well he'll perhaps get an interview fairly quick won't he, if they want people?
[Geoffrey:] Ooh I don't know.... [whistling]
[June:] Cor hey you, we're swearing a lot on that... was they doing that for my benefit do you think?
[Geoffrey:] No, they always swear like that!... Ah you never heard nothing have you!
[June:] Cor blimey I wouldn't want to be there!
[Geoffrey:] F this, f that!... Oh yeah.
[June:] What's the date today?
[Geoffrey:] Fourth.... Oh yeah it's always like that.
[June:] Cor I wouldn't like working with that lot then!... Mm.
[Geoffrey:] Men tend to talk like that don't they?
[June:] They didn't.
[Geoffrey:] No well that wasn't a... office... in the office.
[June:] Do you go in there then?
[Geoffrey:] I can stay in there... they was sitting on the bleeding!
[June:] So was Sally.
[Geoffrey:] Cos that Australian said er... get many more ruddy red ants in here he said, we'll need to... start chipping in for the coffee!... I said and if when he come in he goes I suppose, they don't want to stay in do they?...
[June:] Well blow me!
[Geoffrey:] So he said er
[June:] Well you were right in checking it, cos you sold her Escort didn't you?
[Geoffrey:] Well yeah but I mean I shall have...
[June:] Well you'll have to tell him, you've done it.
[Geoffrey:] Well I ain't done it yet, I've only... erm
[June:] Why can't they do anything till February?
[Geoffrey:] Well... no I'll tell you later June.
[June:] Oh alright then... Er
[Geoffrey:] Er
[June:] you know we're going to your mum's tonight?
[Geoffrey:] Yes.
[Jonathan:] Are we?
[June:] And you know what... I wanted, some Fairly liquid or they've gotta go up and get it. Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Oh we can go up to that... Fina garage I should think they have it.
[Jonathan:] And show dad what I bought you and him.
[June:] Right Geoff.
[Geoffrey:] Have a look.
[Jonathan:] When I went to Bound Zoo I bought, this pencil, that's twenty five p
[June:] You didn't go to Bound Zoo
[Jonathan:] Not Bound Zoo er
[June:] Cambridge.
[Jonathan:] Fitch William museum.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] And I bought that, that was twenty five
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] that, was twenty, one pound
[Geoffrey:] What is it?
[Jonathan:] fifty five... it's a laser box... the dragons light up in different colours, look... see there's nothing
[Geoffrey:] Oy ey yeah.
[Jonathan:] inside it... and then for you and mum I bought a little something, it was one pound forty.
[Geoffrey:] Oh, a duck.
[Jonathan:] Yes.
[June:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] Ah I bought that
[Geoffrey:] Where was that from then?
[Jonathan:] Fitch William museum.
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] All of that was...
[June:] so... look
[Jonathan:] I know it's really
[June:] I put them
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] with my other little ducks.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... erm... Ernie's quite a nice old boy.
[June:] He was very pleasant on the phone, very pleasant.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well we were talking about mating.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] Oh.
[June:] Erm
[Jonathan:] Cor it was ever so good at that museum... Cor it was ever so tall though!... They got them wash house!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah
[Jonathan:] Cos you know the wheat house has got five big poles
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] well so has this!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah I know what you mean.
[Jonathan:] With a load to spare!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Right, and you go inside, it's got... two... floors... each about floors about as tall as our house!
[June:] You
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. I know.
[Jonathan:] Not all about that, it was.
[Geoffrey:] one night.
[Jonathan:] They got a lot about Egyptians though... they got Egyptians
[June:] They ain't got... a mask or anything like Tutenkhamen has, have they?
[Jonathan:] No... there was only one real mask.
[Geoffrey:] Oh well that's... I've seen... Jimmy.
[June:] When do you see him?
[Geoffrey:] In the.
[June:] What?
[Geoffrey:] half past eleven... just now... literally just now... and er... and he... basically he don't know about... what he's on about.
[June:] Oh no!
[Geoffrey:] Nope, he don't know... erm... what he's saying is
[June:] A lovely little man weren't he?
[Geoffrey:] that blokes that's erm... dro been rigging it... who he does the things for.
[June:] Why?
[Geoffrey:] Well, because he said... for obvious reasons, he said er... I didn't want... my name and address... mentioned.
[June:] isn't mentioned in the papers.
[Geoffrey:] Now he's gonna wish we'd tell him... so he said erm
[June:] Well what has he done with it then?
[Geoffrey:] Oh it was genuinely gone... quite genuine, he said... you now, he had a, that we know about... but it had... genuine
[June:] Cor, it didn't do that!
[Geoffrey:] Well there are you... don't go near them.
[June:] Well we'll have to get our own then won't we?
[Geoffrey:] So he said... choice... because it was his... property they contacted him... but he said what he's done is though right... there isn't anywhere near that amount!... He said we're talking about eighty or ninety
[June:] We're short on twenty two.
[Geoffrey:] We could... we can, ah no... no... in terms of money... he's talking about four or five thousand maximum.... Well
[June:] Where did you get the twenty two from then?
[Geoffrey:] Cos he told me there's three hundred gone.
[June:] Well Jimmy ought to tell her
[Geoffrey:] Well... you know what he's trying to do, he's trying up the claim... so when back, he's still gonna get the amount that he wants... so he said t to... Jim... something about, he isn't paying the insurance... I said you're joking!... He said I've insured it he said but I ain't paying as well he said!... If you're getting all the money he said, you can pay the premium!... So erm... they're sort of having a few words at the moment.
[June:] Yeah well that don't help with getting your money though does it?
[Geoffrey:] No... and what's happened is, he's been up the bank... and er... the thing has
[June:] Saved his money.
[Geoffrey:] and the thingo's gobbled up his card... as he said, well if it hasn't... gobbled your card... then... no problem.... If it has
[June:] There's a problem.
[Geoffrey:] we'll have to re-issue another one which could take sort of, you know, this time of year it's over a week... so... he said well it definitely has.
[June:] Did he say, I'm desperate for my money!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... so he said well... what do erm...... and he said the woman up there didn't really ask what had happened!... It was A T S.
[June:] Why did it gobble his card up then?
[Geoffrey:] Well because A T S... had gone... straight to the bailiff... and the courts... to freeze his account.
[June:] Ooh my God!
[Geoffrey:] Mm... because his account was frozen... as soon as he put his card in... it took it in!
[June:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] So he said, can I get a new card?
[June:] Could you have that done to you then?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] You couldn't have that done to you?
[Geoffrey:] Oh sorry, I thought you said did I have it done.... Well no cos I ain't got one of them sort of cards have I?... His was like sort of a bank credit card but bank said he put the cheque card in... and that was only a fifty quid thing anyway.... But he
[June:] Alright.
[Geoffrey:] could draw it up to a... a thousand pounds... on that card... I mean
[June:] And you said he's only just paid it, well
[Geoffrey:] That's what he said, if I'd known what I know now, he said I wouldn't of paid it!... He says I'd better go and check the money... so he said erm... but what he couldn't understand was... they wrote to him and said that... they haven't paid the cheques... but they didn't say anything about freezing his account!
[June:] Well they should by law, surely!
[Geoffrey:] Well... dunno.... So he said erm... I said to the woman... I went to the court this morning... so he said... when you explain to me... he said I've got money in my pockets cos I borrowed it from dad... tha... he said I owed sixty two pound... so he said I said to the woman... in the... court... how can I pay this... the sixty two pounds... when you've frozen my account?... She said, that's your problem!... He said well it isn't... cos it's your problem... so she said, no I'm sorry, she said, you know it's one of those things! He said well actually I have got the money because I borrowed it.
[June:] So he paid it?
[Geoffrey:] Well yeah... but he said... without this card... he can't get no money, cos he's used what money he had to pay off the card.
[Jonathan:] ...
[June:] I don't feel like going up thingamy tonight do you?
[Jonathan:] I do.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] But we ought to.
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[June:] Well... you're only going to grandma's.
[Geoffrey:] Going to grandma's, but mum was going up to B and Q.
[Jonathan:] Oh... never heard of that.
[June:] He thought you meant going to Aunty Hilda's.
[Jonathan:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] Well I'm gonna wash
[Jonathan:] Alright.
[June:] up when I get back I suppose.
[Jonathan:] Hey dad!
[Geoffrey:] doing it.
[June:] Well I can't wash up, I ain't got no Fairy liquid.
[Geoffrey:] Oh I see what you mean, yeah.
[Jonathan:] You know in the erm... ooh... the London museum?
[Geoffrey:] Yep.
[Jonathan:] The ceiling's just cracked, the painting.
[June:] Well you just can't do nothing!
[Jonathan:] The ceiling's just painted innit?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Yeah well then this has got all glass domes... it's got little patterns... and they're three d and coming out!
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] And the best room... is not the Egyptian... it's the erm... and armour... things
[June:] You loved that did you?
[Jonathan:] Yeah... the spear... the blokes holding his other horse and it reaches right to the ceiling!
[June:] Cor!
[Jonathan:] About... a bit taller than this house.
[Geoffrey:] Oh... I used to like making things like that... cos he makes things for the London museum.
[June:] What did?
[Geoffrey:] Mm... he did.
[June:] Ooh it's for ages!
[Jonathan:] They ain't very big!
[Geoffrey:] No they had a van didn't they?
[Jonathan:] People.....
[Geoffrey:] Yeah well he only used to make miniatures... he makes them.
[Jonathan:] Does he?
[June:] He did... promise
[Geoffrey:] Well
[June:] he'd bring some down.
[Geoffrey:] talking of miniatures... my God!... They gave old mate some stick this morning!... Cos at... Peterborough... Football Club... beat... beat Liverpool last night.
[Jonathan:] Oh I bet
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] they did.
[Geoffrey:] Got in the first division.
[Jonathan:] Did they?
[Geoffrey:] And they went and put a poky little old football club in... won this... well of course they everybody!... He stuck hi... and he get that wound up towards the end... I felt sorry for the poor little soul!... E... every person went past they go... alright Peterborough!... Liverpool.
[June:] Is he a Liverpool supporter then?
[Geoffrey:] Mm.... So course
[Jonathan:] Who beat them?
[Geoffrey:] Peterborough.
[Jonathan:] Peterborough!
[June:] My God!
[Jonathan:] Oh, brilliant!
[Geoffrey:] One nil.
[Jonathan:] One nil!
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] Ah!...!
[Geoffrey:] So er... he sat there... tea break
[June:] Ooh.
[Geoffrey:] and you didn't mean to do it... Cliff meant to... mess about... and make out he's gonna knock his coat over like that
[June:] And he did.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, and it went... all over the table!... Well he jumped up, cor he went learing into him!... Cliff said, I'll buy you another one, no I don't want another one!... Don't wannit, no!... Cor he was in a hell of a mood!
[June:] What just cos Liverpool didn't win?
[Geoffrey:] Well no, cos everybody wind him up.
[June:] Oh why do they do that to him?
[Geoffrey:] I don't
[Jonathan:] Cos he said
[Geoffrey:] know.
[Jonathan:] it's like Kevin innit?... And mum always
[Geoffrey:] I suppose it is, that's like that.
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER].... But he
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] they used to tease him when he first come.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Cos when he was little... in the infants... he's ever so tiny weren't he?
[Geoffrey:] But a... don't matter how big they are
[Jonathan:] He has a go at them.
[Geoffrey:] Oh he does!... Terrible!
[Jonathan:] What if they were small like him?
[Geoffrey:] Well he'd kill them.
[Jonathan:] He's really nice Jonathan.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, yeah I mean... cos Ivan says to me, he says, he makes me laugh he said, cos he don't back off does he? I said no he don't.
[June:] Ooh are there any strawberries in that?
[Jonathan:] That is strawberry.... It's
[June:] You like yoghurts don't you?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Mind cos it's all down
[Jonathan:] it's strawberry syrup.... Ooh it's nice!
[June:] Strawberries in syrup... dad would like strawberries.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] You ever tried a little bit of that?
[Geoffrey:] I don't like it.
[Jonathan:] You'd like this one.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Gosh, you know it tastes crea, don't taste like yoghurt.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Jonathan:] It like
[Geoffrey:] Why?
[Jonathan:] Go on try a tiny bit out the corner.
[Geoffrey:] No, no I don't
[Jonathan:] Go
[Geoffrey:] like... no
[June:] No dad don't want it it might make him feel sick.
[Jonathan:] Well when you finish your tea, just have a tiny bit.
[Geoffrey:] No I really don't want to mate, I really don't want to... you enjoy it.
[Jonathan:] Cor look at that one!
[June:] Dad was gonna ring you up at eight o'clock... before you went to school... and say
[Jonathan:] What for?
[June:] have a nice day and
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] someone was on the phone.
[Jonathan:] Ahh!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah I sorted out all my ten p ready to go... and... they were there.
[Jonathan:] Ahh!
[Geoffrey:] Ooh and that girl who left, what was supposed to go
[Jonathan:] Oh I didn't leave till ten past, did I?
[Geoffrey:] come in today
[June:] No.
[Geoffrey:] she come in today.
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[June:] Why's that?
[Geoffrey:] Come into work... I think it's assumed she'd left... but she didn't leave, she di... she had enough of it... so she had a couple of days off... come in this morning... and er... I said to Steven, no idea what the situation was.
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] He said yo... it's terrible in here he said, it really is, he said I've never known such catty in all my life!
[June:] What is catty then?
[Geoffrey:] Well... right old bitches they are!
[June:] Well they come from the right area, don't they?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Let's face it.
[Geoffrey:] That's right.
[June:] You can't get any worse than that can you?
[Geoffrey:] No... cos whenever we go in there... they're always moaning if Cliff starts singing or something.
[June:] No!
[Geoffrey:] Oh they go if he starts singing!
[June:] Why!
[Jonathan:] Cos singing?
[Geoffrey:] So he dropped a metal pallet on... purpose... and course, it makes a hell of a row!
[June:] Yeah... well I would of thought it'd been nice, been nice to have
[Geoffrey:] Well
[June:] somebody happy around instead of miserable.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but he, he is rather loud.
[Jonathan:] Is he always singing?
[Geoffrey:] Oh terrible!
[Jonathan:] I wouldn't mention it.
[June:] I suppose he does it on purpose don't he?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Never mind singing.
[Geoffrey:] I ha... I had sort of few, few words with him this morning.
[June:] With who?
[Geoffrey:] Cliff, Cliff.
[June:] Why?
[Geoffrey:] Cos of that... come in front again.
[Jonathan:] we do.
[Geoffrey:] I never said nothing mm... cos
[June:] Why aren't you drinking that?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah when I've had this.... I never said anything... then he er... I could see he'd gone cos he just stood there... for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working, he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack... see him doing nothing... I never said nothing... he come charging through with a rack... and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up... with fifty boxes on... so we had to... make that right... and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway... and he hadn't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift, they fell all over!
[June:] They fell over.... Ooh Christ!
[Geoffrey:] And then I'd... I'd had enough... and then he started messing about and he started pushing the boxes down through my strapper... then, course that messed the strapper up!... So I
[Jonathan:] Did it?
[Geoffrey:] I was doing the lift.
[June:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] He said what's the matter?... I said well what you do in your private life it's up to you... if you want to get drunk... and you want to spend money... then that's fine... but once you step over... that clock tower I said and you start interfering with my work it's a different thing, I said well I've... and I've just said nothing because... although you ain't worked right, at least you've sort of you've work in this factory sort of in the morning, you've got over it but
[June:] and then
[Jonathan:] [singing] Yeah [].
[Geoffrey:] there's been disaster tonight... ain't gonna put up with it!
[June:] So what he say?
[Geoffrey:] Didn't say anything.... I said you know, I think you've gotta sort yourself out Lee... and everybody went sort of quiet... but... Paul said... I've never had a rollocking!... I said well in all fairness Paul, you ain't actually... bloody got, I said I don't do it for the fun of it... I said and I don't like doing it... but I see, he just sort of
[June:] Well that's silly comment... can't be doing him any good!
[Geoffrey:] I said well the thing is discipline.
[Jonathan:] [singing] []... If grandma went
[Geoffrey:] If the transport
[Jonathan:] into the she'd sherry each.... Cor!
[Geoffrey:] I said if the transport get that load of L T M thrown back... Robin is gonna get it right in the neck!... And if Robin gets it in the neck... I shall get it in the neck... and I shall be getting it in the neck because of you!... So I said I think
[June:] Well then what did he say?
[Geoffrey:] I said I can assure mate, I said I shall make sure there's hell to pay!... I said but I shall be wrong... for not saying anything about you coming to work drunk.... So I said I'll leave you to think about that.
[June:] Well he must of had that amount... he must be contin, he must have alcohol in the body... continuously.
[Geoffrey:] Of course he has... he was drinking Saturday afternoon to Saturday night, Sunday afternoon and the Sunday night... not Monday night... but... again last night.
[June:] So he never gets over it does he?
[Geoffrey:] And he went to bed half past... two.
[June:] And got up at four.
[Geoffrey:] Before then I should think, quarter to four.
[June:] I should think he looked like nothing on earth did he?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well he's gonna kill his self isn't he?
[Geoffrey:] That's right.
[June:] Anyway he's just rotting his bowel, he'll be rotting his liver next!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... I said to him... Cliff, I think it's tragic mate!... I said that's none of my business, nothing to do with me... but I said I should think it's a tragic waste for you... and I say, it wastes your money... but that's... entirely down to you.
[June:] And what did he say?... Nothing.
[Geoffrey:] He didn't say a word, no.
[June:] Well it is a shame innit?
[Geoffrey:] Mm... I mean, you know when he gave up the drink
[June:] He was a different man.
[Geoffrey:] he was a different bloke, yeah.
[June:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] And the trouble is you see... they all make laugh of it... old Cliff, old Cliff, old Cliff!
[June:] And that makes him worse, really.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah well I said to him, what you don't realise is Cliff... they laugh at you... to your face
[June:] But they talk
[Geoffrey:] at the
[June:] behind your back!
[Geoffrey:] end of the day when you do something wrong they're the first to nip in that office and say what you've done wrong... and why you've done it wrong.
[June:] Yeah,.
[Geoffrey:] But I think I shall have a quiet word with him tomorrow morning when I get to work.
[June:] Gonna see him?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And say what?
[Geoffrey:] Well, you know... I just can't sort of let it go on.
[June:] Well he perhaps won't do it any more now you've told him.
[Geoffrey:] As soon he gets his mouth round a Guinness bottle mate, that's it!....
[June:] Well for heaven's sake, how many does he have?
[Geoffrey:] Well it's roughly about five pound and, one pound and... I thought he said one pound forty a pint.
[June:] How many bottles does he have?
[Geoffrey:] Well he got through fifty quid on Saturday and Sunday... so that's forty pints innit?... That's twenty pints each day...
[June:] [shouting] What and... forty pints in a night []!
[Geoffrey:] No... forty pints in two... like Saturday afternoon and Saturday night, Sunday afternoon and Sunday night, he got through forty pints... or perhaps just under forty pints but that's it.
[June:] Well is he an alcoholic?
[Geoffrey:] Well he's always been able to drink like that... he's.
[June:] Well he's happy enough behind all this isn't he?
[Geoffrey:] Well... well I dunno.
[June:] Well I'm, I must admit I don't know.
[Geoffrey:] But I was... the trouble
[June:] What?
[Geoffrey:] is
[June:] He's rotting his stomach isn't he?
[Geoffrey:] yeah I mean, and the trouble is... what... n annoys me more than anything... is the fact that he's good worker... I me even when he's drunk, alright he don't work at full capacity... but he does sort of almost as much as what they do... and when he's
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] sober... he can do more than they do... I mean i that ain't the sort bloke you wanna lose, and I'm, when he balls and shouts at them... well he gets on your nerves really... but at the end of the day I'll... you know, I'll put up with it.
[June:] You can put up with that, good God!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah because he's a, he's a bloody good worker but... and when he's like... Cor!... And the other morning... disgrace!... The funny thing is, like... there's a beer smell isn't there?
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] But he has got the sort of... acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath... just like you'd been on... spirits all night... or whatever, any sort of... you know, wine and... it's not a beer sort of smell.... But I mean he's... I mean Ivan said to me, phworgh, he said when Cliff's breathing over you! I said I know I said, just like neat alcohol innit?... God he said!
[June:] Well I should think... that's... acidity in his stomach innit?
[Geoffrey:] Definitely... and he'll say I've got this pain, I've got this pain, I should think you have Cliff!... Oh it's not that, no it's not.
[June:] Where's he get the pain?
[Geoffrey:] In his side.
[June:] In his side? I think he's rotting his liver, that's the feeling.
[Geoffrey:] Liver, yeah, exactly.... But you see he's that thick
[June:] .
[Geoffrey:] you can't tell him nothing... he would say... oh no no no, beer's no problem, beer's no problem no... it's not that experience, not that experience, I said well you wanna smell yourself Cliff!... Cor God!
[June:] Well I still... alcohol.
[Geoffrey:] it does.
[June:] Yeah alcohol
[Geoffrey:] And your guess is that... he said er... bought something
[June:] Guinness is a heavy drink!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah he's
[June:] That's surprising he don't have such a bad head!
[Geoffrey:] No he said er...
[June:] Ah... Cor!... Well fancy being a like that all that time... it's bad enough when you've been out on a binge and you get that headache then.
[Geoffrey:] Chris... Ivan said to me, he said... Cliff wanted us to go and have a drink he said when we've finished work on a Friday... he said last night, I tell you, I said... I said no, no I didn't!
[June:] Well how are you all gonna get home?
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah he don't mean that he had a lot of drink, just have a drink and come home.... I said well I hope you enjoy.
[June:] Well it isn't worth it, you can't afford to drink and drive can you?
[Geoffrey:] I know.
[June:] Mel's got her lights up, did you see them?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah well... yeah.... Mm... yeah talking about that now he's out the way... basically what he was gonna say was, as simple as this
[June:] [whispering] [].
[Geoffrey:] well it don't matter does it?
[June:] Oh alright then.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... no he was just saying that head office... they'll dictate to them like anybody else... so he said... I've got to have... erm... the mortgage up to date for a start before I can consider anything.
[June:] I thought you'd done that, you was gonna do that?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but I haven't... that's what he saying, but he said what I wouldn't do is ju, don't just say right phrum... there's
[June:] What do you mean?
[Geoffrey:] there's a thousand pound he said, you know, if you can make it right... sort of over the next month... but he said basically I cannot do anything until... erm... the end of February, he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out, he said I can't do anything for you until then.
[June:] Did you tell him that?
[Geoffrey:] Who?
[June:] Malcolm.
[Geoffrey:] No... no point in me well anyway when she
[June:] She'll know.
[Geoffrey:] Mm... so he said erm, that's the situation he said but you can forget your business he said, as far as I'm concerned he said, you've lost for two years so he said consequently he said you're gonna lose this year are you? I said well I wouldn't be surprised.... So he said well all I can say is he said you wanna just forget that... erm
[June:] And just do it on the money you owe on the house.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah exactly... don't get involved at all. So he said well... how do you feel about your business? So I said well... you know, I can't just wind it up over the next... six months, I said er... what I wanna do I said is erm... I gotta carry it on for that... transit... for that... Orion till I finished anyway... so it's gotta go another year... so I said well what I'm feeling about doing I said is er... just sort of keeping a finger in the pie... I said, he said, if I'd said tomorrow, if I had finished the whole the tomorrow... I've gotta buy a car... I can buy it finance so I'm gonna get no tax relief on the H P... I get no depreciation... no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed... I can... if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever... three, four, five vehicles but I said at least I can have some... erm... and I can then sort of they would be more... utilised, where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity... so he said yeah, yeah fair enough then.... I said well that's what is, I said if you look at it the depreciation is so heavy... compared with the income, and I said and the insurance as well but I said hopefully cos we haven't had any... of er... any claims at all this year... you know, I said I know but all of the insurances of gone up, but I said... I'm hoping that we can sort of get the insurance down if possible... so he said, yeah fair enough then.... He said well from my point of view anyway at least he said just disregard that... completely he said and we will do it on what you earnt, so he said all I can is... erm... just put in as many hours as you can to get your wages up on that side... erm... and then by the time we look at that he said, the end of February obviously you'll have December, January and February which will be good months... there, I said yeah... so he said well then you know... erm... a hundred pound here and a hundred pound here he said, it all helps to keep the figure up for you... so he s
[June:] Yeah but that don't help us with Malcolm does it?
[Geoffrey:] No, but I mean all I can say is basically erm
[June:] Give him as much as yo, we can, when we can.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And can you do
[Geoffrey:] And he said he's quite prepared to do it, he said, there wouldn't be no problem... but he said I cannot do it, he said they are
[June:] What, is he gonna lend, what's he gonna lend you then?
[Geoffrey:] About thirty three thousand... but you see what he said is, head office make the rule and he said and... they're not
[June:] No there's no problem... that we can
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] have it?
[Geoffrey:] That's right, he said what
[June:] But you can't have it till February.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah because he said as soon as they... see arrears he said they insist that it's paid up... and they insist that you have like... three months... pay them... no problem... he said
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] and then there's no problem.... I said no, but he's
[June:] Well we can manage that probably
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] couldn't we?
[Geoffrey:] but he's, he give me a a print out, he said well here's your print out look... so he said as soon as
[June:] But you'll have to ring Malcolm and tell him Geoff... because he'll be on the phone to Miriam.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but she'll know... she'll know that... in fact he'll be seeing her.
[June:] Was he alright?... Malcolm or
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... he just said you did say I can have some more money, I said well yeah.
[June:] Ah... we ain't... but you must pay your mother too, Geoff!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... yeah.
[June:] And then there's Andy as well.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... well what I think I'll do
[June:] Well why don't you pu... yo... well did you
[Geoffrey:] [cough]
[June:] use that other thousand?
[Geoffrey:] What?
[June:] Or is that still in the bank?... Or have we used it all now?
[Geoffrey:] What you on about now? Hang on,yo your losing me!
[June:] Well you do... dad's two you give to him
[Geoffrey:] I give him two and a half.
[June:] Yeah, well then you had that rest well... there should be quite a bit in that account... because there was only one six that went through for this insurance... and there hasn't been a lot more going through this month.
[Geoffrey:] No...
[June:] So... you got erm... quite a bit.
[Geoffrey:] Ah but it'll be something few days, you see from cars find out what I've still got on there... yeah let me just see.
[June:] Yeah well come on then cos I want to get to mum's cos I'll do that washing up when I come back shan't I?
[Geoffrey:] Oh alright then.
[June:] Well then tha I hope... you should help erm... this weekend
[Geoffrey:] That's why I sa that's why I told them the weekend I thought at least I'll have something shan't I?
[June:] Ooh... for goodness sake ca... can't you write a cheque out for that David!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And that other one's got to be paid within seven days so we
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well, how long has go got, till next week?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] Well we'll send them altogether the weekend... hang on, bung it in.
[June:] Alright then.
[Geoffrey:] Alright.
[June:] You ain't drunk your coffee, do you wannit?
[Geoffrey:] No I don't, put it away... we've got
[June:] And I'll wash up when I come back.
[Geoffrey:] I haven't anyway.
[June:] Well you'll have help me when I come back I thought.
[Geoffrey:] ... David.. that'll do.
[June:] I won't get a Fairy Liquid, your mother might have one.
[Geoffrey:] Erm twenty... there fifty... two hundred... ten
[June:] I ain't gonna bother to count it
[Geoffrey:] twenty
[June:] cos does the mortgage come out of that sixty grand
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] dunnit?
[Geoffrey:] twenty
[June:] No, what I'm gonna say to you about this
[Geoffrey:] About what?... Three twenty... twenty five
[June:] Have you put him in?
[Geoffrey:] No, that's what I said, I di, she said to me
[June:] Get and... you lot never told me that Renault went out last night!... Nobody told me about that!... That's a bloody good job I didn't have a booking for it.
[Geoffrey:] Well was it?
[June:] Yeah but I... I'd rather know, cos I, don't know where I am!... Erm... see Mrs can have
[Geoffrey:] The white
[June:] for fifteen.
[Geoffrey:] .
[June:] Let me cross her out and put fifteen in there.
[Geoffrey:] So, put how much money... how much is she paying then?
[June:] Thirty five, that's there.
[Geoffrey:] That'll be enough then yep... cos that's the same amount of money.
[June:] Right?
[Geoffrey:] Yep.
[June:] Then... the 's want you to fill the bus up... with petrol.
[Geoffrey:] Do they?
[June:] They're a hundred and seventy miles.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well I'm sure that's why I've put that there look, that's the same colour pen... no one else is... got anything so it is them.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah well why ain't... why is bringing that back then?
[June:] Erm, I think she's bringing that back erm... early hours of the morning, at
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] twelve, about twelve o'clock.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, fair enough then.
[June:] So, but what I'm saying is you've got a twelve here and... oh well that wouldn't make no difference cos she'll have that back, that'll be ready for them... na... yeah well then we got a twelve there as well!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah well that's what I was gonna say, so forget about the other blue ones... they can have that.
[June:] That's what, that's what I was trying to tell you.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] So now he's gonna have the twelve... minibus... erm... what do you call him?... Darren?
[Geoffrey:] Darren yeah.
[June:] I'll put Darren... well that is clean cos I cleaned that up.... Well we got a lot going on this... haven't we?
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] And I've got to try and get to work, get home, get my jobs done and get these cleaned as well I don't know how I'm bloody gonna do it all!
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] I'm hoping your not gonna be home too late.
[Geoffrey:] Well I think I will be June... I don't know, I mean that's been quarter to six these last two nights.
[June:] Well... see Carole and them are bringing that back... tonight at her erm... his son is gonna... come back and then
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] they're gonna leave that here
[Geoffrey:] That's it.
[June:] so if I get up there and do it early in the morning, well it don't get light till half seven
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] well I could do that first I think... before I do anything else... so that'll mean I've got to do... so that if the long is clean...
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Is it filthy then?
[Jonathan:] Ha!
[June:] Oh get off, sorry darling.... Yeah well that's gotta be cleaned as well sometime, for... him nine o'clock that morning, well I can't get all that done, by myself!
[Jonathan:] Maybe.
[Geoffrey:] Well I shall have to lend that's all.
[June:] Well that erm... well it all depends what time I'm back from... you see I, I wanna try and get them hours in tomorrow
[Geoffrey:] Well yes.
[June:] So then that means me fri, I like to leave Friday
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] free.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] So the Sierra I can do ready for you to take to Kevin on Fri... Friday night is it?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah I'm delivering it over there Friday night.
[June:] Yeah well... that isn't a prob... well... well perhaps that'll be better if I had er... long wheel base down here and do that first, that goes out first?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] But how can I... I can't get it down here you see, not unless you go and dropped it off like
[Geoffrey:] Bring it down and.
[June:] Yeah well now that bell gone... it's out on
[Geoffrey:] S... Saturday night to Sunday.
[June:] so you gotta tax that.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] So get your papers ready and everything tonight
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] and we'll give it to your mum tonight.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... oh yeah.
[June:] So
[Geoffrey:] Well won't do it till Friday anyway will we?
[June:] Oh no, well don't worry then.... So... and the estate I've gotta clean up. Now did Jimmy have that, today?
[Geoffrey:] Yes, he bought it, that's what I say he brought it back when I was down there.
[June:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] Where's the little slip of paper
[June:] I don't know what you done with it, I never see it.... So what's today?... Wednesday... erm
[Geoffrey:] ...
[June:] What?
[Geoffrey:] .
[June:] Oh well you can write it on again can't you? Do it when you come home... I'm just saying a bit
[Geoffrey:] No, I wanna do it now.
[June:] Did you find that other bit of paper?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Ooh Christ! Well that's there somewhere Geoff, cos I wouldn't throw nothing away, you know I don't. Ah!
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] ... oh I've got the
[June:] Is that it?
[Geoffrey:] Yes.
[June:] Oh bugger me, that was inside
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] that book!
[Geoffrey:] That's it.
[June:] Give us that here!
[Geoffrey:] And I wanna... don't go and lose it!... That's definitely
[June:] I put this is where I put my
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] stuff I want
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] to keep!
[Geoffrey:] I don't care where you put it love, just don't and lose it.
[June:] In there.... Here Jonathan, here's your mat, now
[Geoffrey:] Can I have the pen there please?
[June:] And I must do my cubs this weekend, both of them.
[Geoffrey:] Right, so we're talking
[June:] Ah look!... Come on petal.
[Jonathan:] In the fridge?
[Geoffrey:] Renault
[June:] Yep, well I want to get going Jonathan cos I've er
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Do your flies up.
[Geoffrey:] then
[June:] Go and get your shoes on... jacket on.
[Geoffrey:] Long wheel base... Tuesday...
[June:] Cos I gotta wash up when I come back
[Geoffrey:] Thursday
[June:] and sandwiches also.
[Geoffrey:] Friday
[June:] Go on.
[Geoffrey:] a hundred and twenty five.
[June:] Come on love,.
[Geoffrey:] Sierra... thirty
[Jonathan:] And we need
[Geoffrey:] Friday... fifty four.
[June:] I'll turn this off now shall I?
[Jonathan:] What have we go to get?
[June:] Fairy Liquid.
[speaker016:] Fairy Liquid.
[speaker017:] [yawn].
[June:] We thought we didn't know what to buy you and I know you like chocolates and I know you've started to drink sherry, so I thought well
[speaker016:] I've got another bottle.
[speaker017:] Saves on hankies don't it!
[speaker016:] What?
[speaker017:] Cos there's Reg... Reg is having
[June:] They were what?
[speaker017:] the heart attack and
[speaker016:] We got Margaret one of things [LAUGHTER]!
[speaker017:] There were plenty of germs
[June:] What?
[speaker017:] we've not, we've not been too good at one of them
[speaker016:] What death traps!
[June:] Oh does granddad have one?
[speaker016:] oh no!
[June:] Seeing as it's your birthday, yeah that's right, happy birthday for tomorrow anyway.
[speaker016:] Yeah that's
[speaker017:] And there's all around
[June:] You'll be at cup final on Thursday.
[speaker017:] the world.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] Let's hope you win.
[speaker017:] Just as well I've been staying out the way [yawn].
[speaker016:] [whispering] I won't give it I shan't tell him []!
[speaker017:] No they're doing that
[speaker016:] I'm coming home.
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker017:] But a... well I should think so, you don't know.
[speaker016:] [whispering] [] something else
[June:] Well I was gonna change them but you might as well.
[speaker017:] cos there the most
[June:] Ooh lovely I do like them walnut.
[Jonathan:] Grandma I what?
[speaker016:] Oh look he's a
[Jonathan:] .
[speaker017:] They're all the same.
[Jonathan:] Or there.
[speaker017:] Thatcher.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] That's why all
[June:] I said and they already
[Jonathan:] What's?
[speaker017:] [LAUGHTER] []!
[June:] Mending the cars and different signals.
[speaker017:] It sounds like that they... know as
[June:] Yeah we got one using... six
[speaker017:] speak to, just speak to me... I don't wanna be.
[speaker016:] .
[June:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] Oh no! Well I said that's up.
[June:] Well I thought well if
[speaker016:] Ah!
[June:] we come earlier we can go back earlier cos of Geoff... cos you know... so I fetched him.
[speaker017:] Oh.
[June:] I get to feel like anyway.
[speaker016:] Well I said I felt knackered when they left here! It were only quarter past one... and I finished at... and I felt really...
[June:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] What about this one?... This one looks to be alright...
[speaker017:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Ha ha ha!
[June:] Well I thought it was a little bit different myself.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Suppose that'll.
[June:] I like rabbits as you know.
[speaker017:] Cor!
[Jonathan:] Look the has got that one, that one, that one... works.
[June:] That's what Susan bought him didn't she, for his birthday last time?... He wears this one for school.
[speaker016:] He's not listening!
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[June:] That's what he bought today.
[speaker016:] Oh you've been out haven't you?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Course you have.
[June:] And he bought, he bought me and Geoff a lovely
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] little... duck. I said he are, give him the money to spend on his self!
[speaker017:] That's right.
[June:] I didn't as, I did tell you you shouldn't of bought me anything!
[Jonathan:] I know.
[speaker016:] Really!
[June:] That's brown ain't it?
[Jonathan:] Yeah... but if you put it in the dark... it goes all starry.
[June:] Are you working tomorrow granddad?
[speaker017:] What? No.
[June:] Oh.
[speaker016:] No cos Ken goes to work.
[June:] Oh I thought he'd finished, he'd finished?
[speaker016:] No. said could be
[June:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] a couple of days.
[Jonathan:] Is that alright mum?
[speaker017:] No I'll be... the best team we've had. 's starts at four.
[June:] I thought Val said he was having three days holiday?
[speaker017:] I don't think he'll before at now.
[June:] Well somebody said
[speaker016:] Oh!
[June:] .
[speaker017:] Otherwise we
[June:] Well I don't mind.
[speaker017:] I'll go round there shall I?... See
[June:] Well that's what Val told me.
[speaker017:] so he said well that's you down... but he said he wanted to... cut them back.
[June:] Well he hasn't has he?
[speaker017:] No... well yeah it's up to him what he says.
[Jonathan:] I'll have that one.
[speaker016:] Alright.
[June:] I said that's bo, that's bothered me about that bleeding, I like him a lot.
[speaker016:] Well....
[speaker017:] Who are they?
[speaker016:] I never told you... I just everything's going round in the room... I just had and make the best of it.
[June:] Blow him!... We don't want him grandma... that's why he can't get a vehicle from anybody else cos I think he's messed
[speaker017:] That's right
[June:] everybody up there!... I tell you... I think he owe a lot of money.
[speaker016:] But can you... him?
[June:] Well we've got a tenner to go have we?
[speaker017:] but I ain't had chance to say to you, but I was saying to... cos when I called in and see... you think about it... he
[June:] He was desperate to get there... desperate! Absolutely
[speaker017:] Yeah.
[June:] desperate!
[speaker017:] Now he's never ever offered to pay that fifty odd quid.
[June:] Not till today.
[speaker017:] Yes so... and I reckon... quite frankly cos he's living on that lay by up the end... and I reckon he was hiding, do a runner or something or he ain't up to something no good!
[June:] Well he weren't gonna have my vehicle.
[speaker017:] He's such a devious little tyke!
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] I even got Ken to try it on us.
[June:] Did you read them that couple in there?... He had what?
[speaker017:] He had Ken over by the allotments, when he used to stay in the car for a couple of weeks rent.
[speaker016:] And he went out to pay, first place.
[speaker017:] Yeah.
[June:] That's how he was in the first place though.
[speaker016:] So the young he was
[June:] Jonathan!
[speaker016:] he really had me!
[June:] Why don't you sit on the pouffe and let grandma sit there.
[speaker016:] Yeah I'm alright.
[June:] There's a place there!
[speaker016:] No [LAUGHTER] I'm alright []!
[June:] Shift up then!
[speaker016:] Can't see... No I, I didn't... I didn't probe him... I said what about the money though?... Well... what a... well I said... you are a gentleman of the land... well he said I haven't got a lot of money.... Well I said how would?... Well... well I said nor do I.... I said we've had so much
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker016:] aggro... I said... no money... no cars!... you'll get a car...... I said I know you will he said!... Call the police in.
[June:] Oh well I ain't bothered! I'm afraid she was rude to us!
[speaker016:] And I said as well I said
[June:] We put up a lot with him!
[speaker016:] I'll go to court.... Oh!... I said on what...... well he said it's gotta be... well... cos Maggie said it's too late... I said no you can have it, he said that's... I said yes
[speaker017:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] on two wheels!
[speaker017:] That's right.
[June:] Not on
[speaker016:] So
[June:] he won't!
[speaker016:] I said if you're going to court Neil... and if that ain't paid, I said there's... Beth can manage... they... and they paid us out.... So what are you trying to say then?... I said you're gonna have yo... have gone to Cornwall.... Oh no he's not!
[June:] And put the miles on the clocks.
[speaker016:] That's ve, that's all very well
[speaker017:] Well you might as well save him his... and if he has got the car he's gonna hammer it cos he don't
[speaker016:] Course he does.
[speaker017:] at all.
[June:] Yeah... he'd have probably blown the bloody thing up!
[speaker016:] That.
[June:] Well I rang you just in case you know I don't want yo... how we need the money... so I thought to myself... Cornwall, twenty eight?... I thought well that ain't worth it!... But I'd rang the number
[speaker017:] I suppose it's on
[June:] you see, well... I put the phone down.
[speaker017:] Yeah... it is twenty eight when you think about it, time you get the van up there.
[June:] Well no.
[speaker017:] .
[speaker016:] flipping thing!
[June:] Up and down
[speaker017:] You know that they they don't think of that though.
[June:] You could let... they wouldn't let anyone put him in.
[speaker017:] They'll think that's all.
[speaker016:] They go to.
[speaker017:] bloody change that!
[June:] Well he's a liar!... But do you know now would Paragon garage not have a car in in the middle of the week?
[speaker017:] Honest, I don't know.
[June:] Well about he... erm Rent-a-Van? He'd have them in. And he reckoned he'd been there?... He hadn't
[speaker017:] They
[June:] got one!
[speaker017:] they wanted to!
[speaker016:] Yeah... he's got his tricks!
[June:] He don't want to come down to me cos I shall send him off! I shall say
[Jonathan:] I'm sorry!
[speaker017:] That's right.
[June:] Yes, so are you.
[Jonathan:] I know.
[June:] So she said.
[speaker017:] You wanna try a bit of roll?
[speaker016:] She said
[June:] No not yet, I've only just had my tea!
[Jonathan:] Granddad... gran wants some sherry, do you want a glass?
[speaker017:] Yes please.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] Half'll do.
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] Half of one.
[speaker017:] Half'll do.
[Jonathan:] Half of one,... half of one.
[June:] Ken's got a bit more to do then?
[speaker017:] Yeah.
[June:] I should think he'll be glad when that's done won't he?
[speaker017:] Oh it's
[speaker016:] They've put a on there's
[speaker017:] And the blinking machines been letting down so much!
[June:] Who's machine is it? You mean he's gotta pay for it?... Does he hire it?
[speaker017:] Well I, I don't know what sort of... terms he's come to... I suppose he told them why... how much he'd got you see.
[June:] Oh!
[speaker017:] Can't just have it... so they charge you... so much an acre you see... and he used to have it.
[June:] Oh so yo, when you've finished you just take it back sort of thing?
[speaker017:] ... yeah.
[June:] Oh I see.
[speaker017:] Pork's very nice.
[June:] What's Geoff eating?
[speaker017:] Sausage roll.
[June:] [shouting] Oh Geoff, you've only just had your tea []!... No I can't eat one. Ooh I can't eat one yet.... What's he doing?
[speaker017:] There's some
[June:] Jonathan mind!
[speaker017:] we got held up
[June:] Don't open that one!
[speaker017:] we we couldn't find out what's wrong with it.
[June:] Let grandma open which one she wants!
[speaker017:] The last time the chain come off...... come off, as I say, just come undone... and it's
[June:] What's grandma done with her nest of tables?
[speaker017:] and she hadn't.
[Geoffrey:] .
[speaker017:] When the chain brakes she said
[June:] Oh blimey!
[speaker017:] if it brakes down... there's there's taking it up to top sprocket so it comes off you see.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] Then it don't quite work right then.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] Well... it shouldn't... it... it did i... but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of... I should think about... four or five lengths... they had to take it off the sprocket... and er... course you see... they
[June:] Grandma
[speaker017:] let in front, then they've gone down!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] And Ken said no way can we do we gotta take... take some off.
[June:] Aha.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] That's what I'd like.
[speaker017:] And I was, I was there... we put it under the, on the bar you see..., we were changing, blocking up, blocking them in there and the... that just would not go up!
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[speaker017:] So what it was th ch ha... the chain couldn't give up you see.
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[June:] Cor isn't Mr a weird looking!
[speaker017:] Well the chain
[speaker016:] Will you
[speaker017:] the bit takes it up to the
[June:] Oh!
[speaker017:] to the top
[June:] And went.
[Jonathan:] Oh ho oh oh!
[speaker017:] top of the... but it stops losing.
[Jonathan:] Haba, haba, haba!
[speaker017:] Has to keep it coming out there.
[June:] What have you given me that for?
[Jonathan:] Turn over... Just in case you want some
[speaker017:] had to put some time for
[speaker016:] Give us a bit more light dad please?
[speaker017:] I was amazed.
[speaker016:] Bet
[June:] What have you done Jonathan? Let me take that off of there.
[speaker016:] I tell him he won't forget will he?
[June:] Who?
[speaker016:] I won't... cos
[June:] No.
[speaker016:] I'm going out you see, so I've got to
[June:] Yes.
[speaker016:] make the best.
[Jonathan:] Gosh! Well
[June:] You got my glass Jonathan!
[Jonathan:] Here you are.... Look.
[speaker016:] This is your wife's birthday here.
[speaker017:] I know.
[Jonathan:] Oh boy!
[June:] I said I was looking... I said where's grandma, I put that ne... table there is that alright?
[speaker016:] What table?... Yes course it is.
[June:] Well I thought what's grandma done with her nest of tables? So I was looking for, I didn't know where it was and I thought well
[speaker016:] Well when I... you see I used to push the settee in pull it out... I thought well I don't know I might as just as well leave it here.
[June:] I think it looks nice like.
[speaker016:] So do I.... I have it when Des and... Doris is here you see.
[June:] It's more homely.
[speaker016:] Yes... so I
[June:] Well on the phone you'd think he was business ex ec... the way he talks!
[Geoffrey:] Well he used to be... he owns the other factory now.
[speaker017:] I know.
[June:] What does he do now then?
[Geoffrey:] Well they, they just... you know they they just have this erm... craft sort of, they do stall and... and they make stuff for the shop... they had... he had a couple of retail shops, he had a factory... yeah I think he said he had fifty two people working for him.
[June:] Cor he isn't keen on this!
[Jonathan:] Cor I am.
[Geoffrey:] Then he said he had some
[Jonathan:] Oh can I have it?
[Geoffrey:] bad debts or
[June:] No.
[Geoffrey:] something... sort of, nearly finished him!
[June:] What do you say? We know how you feel!... He always pays you though don't he Geoff? No problem at all.
[speaker017:] Oh this is.
[Geoffrey:] .
[Jonathan:] Mind grandma, it's a bit strong.
[speaker016:] [sneeze]
[Geoffrey:] most he said, don't get done.
[June:] In what one?
[Geoffrey:] Well er... you know Tony says oh we want this and we want that... he shall have to employ somebody to do, do them so there's no, just get involved
[Jonathan:] Cor!
[Geoffrey:] with... too much
[Jonathan:] Ooh!... Yeah.
[speaker016:] We ought to had Emma here now didn't we?
[June:] Yeah she likes a glass of sherry don't she?
[speaker016:] We ought to had
[June:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Get them out together.
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[June:] I don't think a glass of sherry hurts them.
[Jonathan:] Oh!... It makes you sleep.
[June:] I should think you'll be tired tonight anyway Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] Cor yeah!
[June:] Well you wanna go
[speaker016:] What you?
[June:] he's been going to bed too late!
[speaker016:] Oh, the night before me and we went to bed, had a lovely night and then last night we couldn't last.
[speaker017:] I don't know what I'd have done if we had a
[Jonathan:] .
[speaker017:] what they call a.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... well what
[June:] Well Jonathan couldn't get to sleep last night.
[Jonathan:] Cos I had a blocked nose.
[speaker017:] Ah.
[June:] He's got a
[speaker016:] Did you?
[June:] bit of co... well I said... he's come in ain't he?
[speaker017:] But that.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] But you see he don't feel the cold!
[speaker017:] ... but
[June:] But I made him put his coat on.
[speaker017:] yeah?
[Jonathan:] Didn't get them on.
[speaker017:] That's ten
[June:] He
[speaker017:] yards.
[June:] He drinks it too quick.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well that don't hurt does it.
[speaker017:] And er
[Jonathan:] Kevin
[June:] Why, a couple of sherries isn't gonna
[speaker017:] I.
[June:] make or break you is it?
[speaker017:] It's when the
[June:] They should help you to sleep really.
[speaker017:] Why not? That's what I'm saying, I never seen!
[Jonathan:] Can I have another one now?
[speaker017:] See I never heard them I
[June:] Not yet!
[speaker017:] looking at.
[speaker016:] Drink too much, cor!
[speaker017:] but we painted it all
[June:] What, you mean you
[Jonathan:] granddad.
[June:] drink too much?
[Jonathan:] Can we have one of those things?
[speaker016:] Well, I don't one glass one... alright, I go
[Jonathan:] .
[speaker016:] and fill it again!
[June:] Well that won't hurt you!
[Jonathan:] Right, granddad.
[June:] Couple of glasses of sherry!
[speaker016:] Then I go
[Jonathan:] I had two glass fulls
[speaker017:] And that's
[Jonathan:] and mum had two glass fulls, but she didn't drink hers... so I had four glass fulls.
[speaker017:] My when it hit the side of the
[Jonathan:] Ooh
[speaker017:] well it hit the tractor
[June:] Mm.
[speaker016:] Don't mind that.
[June:] I always
[Jonathan:] Ooh!
[June:] find sherry burns my stomach!
[speaker017:] tear in it and th... holes in it.
[speaker016:] Here... I feel it here.
[June:] No I feel it here I do.
[speaker017:] But it er
[Jonathan:] Yeah when it goes down
[speaker016:] Take some
[June:] I had one yet, I'm gonna I weren't gonna have one
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] cos I've only just had my tea
[speaker017:] don't say
[June:] but I will try a little one.
[speaker017:] and then wash her back
[speaker016:] We haven't long had tea!
[speaker017:] shelves and
[June:] Very nice.
[Jonathan:] I'm gonna sit there st
[speaker017:] so er
[speaker016:] Daddy went and fetched
[speaker017:] he he put the washing in the
[June:] Where is Blackie?
[speaker017:] goes in the wash and and put some [dog barks]
[speaker016:] oi shut up!
[speaker017:] me and him you see.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Gonna let her out.
[June:] aren't you gonna let her in?
[speaker017:] The man said
[speaker016:] Go and get her in.
[Jonathan:] Shall I go let her in?
[speaker017:] so he i he, he just put them... put the washer in and, and just take care of it.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I said I've ruined this tracksuit haven't I?
[Jonathan:] Shall I go and get her in?
[speaker016:] You'll have to
[speaker017:] erm before we have any help in!
[speaker016:] then he said
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] I said... the funny part about it was... we never had at home
[speaker016:] ... so when you bring her out... shut that door
[speaker017:] that's the we wanna, we're gonna up
[speaker016:] I said
[speaker017:] town
[speaker016:] oh
[speaker017:] going up town
[speaker016:] and then
[speaker017:] turn the off
[speaker016:] was or not,
[Jonathan:] What you mean?
[June:] The kitchen door.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] I think
[speaker016:] June.
[Jonathan:] It's alright now
[speaker017:] they've got at
[June:] I know it is, I see you picked the
[speaker017:] er
[June:] figures.
[speaker017:] and the join, and it fell off
[Jonathan:] That was the only.
[speaker017:] and then gone back!
[Jonathan:] Ooh ooh!
[speaker017:] I had to say, say well I never... where the hell did that come from?
[speaker016:] Geoff he pulled out.
[June:] Did he?
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] and the machine wouldn't work so
[June:] Well Geoff did buy me some sherry glasses he says oh, you give me two like... very similar to this.
[Jonathan:] What colour's the
[speaker016:] Oh!
[Jonathan:] little boy in?
[June:] Mm.
[speaker017:] Then he said... er er er
[June:] You make nice pastries, nice and light.
[speaker016:] I said to dad, are you getting too
[speaker017:] , he said I'll work late... I know what
[speaker016:] And everything's very nice, lovely!
[June:] Mm.
[speaker017:] Because you want the right size... join... what you put in... they hadn't got any, no more of these...
[June:] No I said to Geoff well I hope he don't come back.
[speaker016:] Who?
[speaker017:] They're supposed to
[June:] That bloke, I don't want him coming
[speaker017:] .
[speaker016:] Well dear you won't worry, I'll shall soon tell him to!
[June:] You ought to... you ought to say to him, I shall ring the police, you come round here any more!
[speaker017:] people in the, in the... bay I wouldn't
[speaker016:] No I'm not!
[June:] I don't want him, it worried me that he might come and bother your mother.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] No!
[speaker017:] There's no this time.
[speaker016:] I can stick up for myself!
[Geoffrey:] Oh!... So he won't... you just don't
[speaker016:] I did that
[June:] I know you can.
[speaker016:] old bloke!
[Geoffrey:] End of the day... and if you don't let him in, he don't have to have any
[speaker016:] No.
[Geoffrey:] anyway!
[June:] Well I tell you something if he ke, if he does start to hassle us I shall ring the police and I shall tell them!
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[speaker016:] I should use
[June:] I shan't have no qualms about it, I shall say well he's hassling... me and my mother-in-law and we can do without it!
[speaker016:] That old boy that I spoke to, when his... he was with his daughter, I said you give me my bloody keys and you money!... I gotta move!... I said well there's a wheelbarrow down there mate!
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker016:] Rent-a-Van's up there.... So she come the other day, she said well my dad is like that.
[Jonathan:] She wants to come in.
[speaker016:] I said well he's not gonna
[June:] Ha!
[speaker016:] be like that with me my dear, I said, tell me how to run... my son's business!
[June:] That's right.
[speaker016:] Well what are we going to do? I said well that's his hard luck!
[Jonathan:] Pardon me!
[speaker016:] I'm sorry!... I said I almost charged him sixteen instead of twenty six!
[speaker017:] and it's
[Jonathan:] Brurgh!
[June:] Oh.
[speaker016:] I said it's funny, I said, but now when you're trying to help
[speaker017:] don't mind these
[speaker016:] well you can't take no notice of that, I said I'm afraid I do!
[June:] That's right.
[speaker016:] So he went... so away we went.
[June:] Hello Blackie!... Hello!
[speaker017:] They like that,
[June:] Cor she's getting a fluffy coat isn't she, now?
[speaker016:] Well it's like with them [LAUGHTER] gypsies weren't it []?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Now the policeman wouldn't go!
[June:] And you went after them?
[speaker016:] my mother's
[speaker017:] Well... it's like me innit?
[speaker016:] Oh [LAUGHTER] []!
[June:] Well Geoff's nearly got a smack in the ear hole today!
[Geoffrey:] Yesterday.
[June:] Well yesterday.
[Jonathan:] your glass again now?
[June:] No, she hasn't drunk the first one yet!
[speaker017:] And I worked on the till this morning I said to.
[speaker016:] what?
[June:] Yeah she is quite cold isn't she, on the phone?
[speaker016:] What annoys me, she told me to have them plums!... They don't belong
[June:] And he had
[speaker016:] to me!... She said don't tell such bloody lies, I said he's going in caravan! Who's is that caravan?... So her head come out... what's the trouble?... I said... he's only got a bag of my plums!... What do you mean got a bag of your plu?... I said I saw him!... I said he's, he's been right back past my window!... You, you, don't he said, I'll down to you, I said I don't bleeding first!
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker016:] That's alright.
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker016:] I said to that caravan I get upset!... He said well I ain't going up there!... Well I said I'll go with you... but he... did he eventually go?... That policeman, did I go with
[speaker017:] .
[speaker016:] him or did he
[speaker017:] No.
[Geoffrey:] No he wouldn't dare!
[speaker016:] No.
[speaker017:] Unless he went with a team... I don't know....
[June:] And you went and he didn't?
[speaker016:] Yeah!... Ken said my mother's just been... well I'm not going....
[June:] Innit marvellous!
[speaker017:] He said we're not to go any more on our own.
[Jonathan:] Can I have another sherry please?
[speaker016:] Yeah, he said we're not supposed to go on our own!
[speaker017:] now she won't change.
[June:] Well I suppose yeah cos they could... set on him on his own
[speaker017:] Yeah.
[June:] he wouldn't stand a chance would he?
[speaker016:] [LAUGHTER] Oh no God []!
[June:] They, they normally have a back up all the time don't they, policeman? They're never normally on their own are they?
[speaker016:] Well I mean... he was stealing... and then, what about that time when... I rang the police to say he's nicking apples out
[Jonathan:] Grandma.
[speaker016:] of here.
[Jonathan:] sherry please?
[speaker016:] And he said I gotta see him pick them!
[speaker017:] They won't cha, you won't chase him
[June:] I gotta catch him!... Well I said if you stand there long enough I said, you'll catch him!... I sa
[speaker017:] Yeah what makes me laugh they come with the blue lights flashing don't they!
[June:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] That's right.
[speaker017:] You know cos
[June:] And then give theirself away don't they?
[speaker017:] yeah, people scarper don't they?
[speaker016:] Yeah!... I said I saw the boy come over the
[Geoffrey:] Ooh I reckon there was an accident today on the A seventeen... erm
[speaker016:] What time?
[Geoffrey:] Ooh... it's early in the morning.
[speaker016:] Yeah well I said to you
[Geoffrey:] There was skid marks all over and the traffic was right back down the A seventeen, when I got there it
[speaker016:] Would it be sort of before your dad went?... Perhaps say quarter to nine?... Cos I saw two police car go along there.
[Geoffrey:] Might have been.
[June:] They were flashing their lights.
[Geoffrey:] Wouldn't like to say really cos then you... when you start at quarter to five
[speaker016:] No you
[Geoffrey:] you haven't got no idea of the
[speaker016:] No.
[Geoffrey:] time sort of pass
[speaker016:] But I did hear this one... and I run to the window
[Geoffrey:] By the time we do our morning and the, you're then getting up sort of thing you see
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] this is it.... And then it's
[speaker016:] And then there's two police cars going towards Wisbech I saw them
[Jonathan:] mummy.
[speaker016:] flashing
[Geoffrey:] Ah!
[speaker016:] lights.
[June:] What's the matter dear?
[speaker016:] So it... no this is broad daylight
[Jonathan:] I want another glass of sherry.
[June:] You better ask grandma. He wants another glass of sherry grandma. What time?
[Geoffrey:] It'd be broad daylight so it'd be a bit later.
[June:] And that's all you have, you don't have
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] no more Jonathan!
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] Must be about nine time... well what time does dad go?
[speaker016:] Oh that'd be about... quarter nine.
[Geoffrey:] Oh it could well of been then, yeah.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] aren't you feeling very well Jonathan?
[speaker016:] Got all my cake and no shopping for me.
[June:] He's got a bit of cold that's all.
[Jonathan:] I'm hot.
[June:] I think he's had a busy day.
[speaker016:] Oh
[June:] Perhaps getting a bit tired.
[speaker016:] [LAUGHTER]
[Jonathan:] I'm hot!
[June:] There you are that'll perk you up then.
[Jonathan:] Yee hee!
[June:] What do you say?
[Geoffrey:] That'll make him warmer.
[Jonathan:] Thank you.
[June:] Well done.
[speaker017:] Oh!
[Jonathan:] Glug glug glug glug glug glug glug glug glug glug!
[June:] Ooh you naughty boy!
[speaker016:] Anybody else?
[Geoffrey:] You what?
[speaker016:] Shall I do you one?
[June:] Yeah might as well yeah.
[Geoffrey:] I'll have one... why not.
[June:] You'll soon finish that bottle!
[speaker016:] That's don't matter, I got another one.
[Geoffrey:] That other one... what was it?
[speaker016:] Yes.
[Geoffrey:] Oh you didn't ought to have open that,
[June:] That's what I said!
[speaker016:] It don't matter... that other ain't done.
[Geoffrey:] Oh innit? Oh
[speaker016:] No.
[June:] Oh I thought it had.
[speaker016:] no.
[Geoffrey:] Oh we didn't to drink yourselves.
[speaker016:] Oh well go on!
[Jonathan:] Had a drink.
[speaker016:] It's about... twenty one
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] We'll have to make sure we get a... bottle of sherry in for Christmas Geoff.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] Well we usually what do we usually drink? Sherry
[speaker016:] I like that yellow
[June:] whisky
[speaker016:] stuff.
[Jonathan:] I'd better not drink any more!
[speaker016:] that Warninks.
[June:] Oh advocaat you like? Yeah.
[speaker016:] I do like that.
[Jonathan:] Daddy what happened if you go glug glug glug glug glug?
[speaker016:] [LAUGHTER] You'll go lug lug lug lug []!
[Geoffrey:] You'll burn your throat... and you'd feel very
[June:] Yeah... and you wouldn't be, feel very well.
[Jonathan:] Ah!... Dee dee dee.
[June:] You won't have it if you're gonna drink it quick.
[Geoffrey:] Just sip it Jonathan... sip it at....
[June:] Did you have another one?
[speaker017:] coming at and... again.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah? Yeah?
[June:] Ooh crumbs!
[speaker016:] They'll try and knock the old cars off the road won't they?... That's
[Jonathan:] Cor!
[speaker016:] what they're trying to do.
[Jonathan:] Dad?
[June:] Well you can't... you know
[Jonathan:] I need some whisky!
[June:] I know your car's getting old but i i it... yeah but it don't look erm
[Jonathan:] It take
[June:] that rust.... But you get some, they're full of rust... and it makes you wonder
[Geoffrey:] Oh it's terrible
[June:] how they keep on the road, don't it?
[speaker016:] We've seen them, they seem to and the mud guards hang off!
[speaker017:] And I met... some of them cha... you know that chap and
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[speaker017:] it's fascinating!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... that's right... that's right.
[June:] Well you'd you'd think they wouldn't want them on the road cos if they had an accident... the people would get killed, they'd just
[speaker017:] Well my one
[June:] crumble wouldn't they?
[speaker017:] er... car park about a fortnight ago.
[Geoffrey:] .
[speaker017:] Well I wonder however that that got through to touch that.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] Course th the... one of the wings wa, was bashed inside, they were hanging off!
[Jonathan:] Do you wanna finish that thing?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Oh?
[Jonathan:] Do you want... finished.
[speaker017:] There's people out... they was in, it was the... paper the other day about... about the da, about the... arresting people.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.... Yeah.
[speaker017:] That's that girl who you knew.
[June:] when was that other one?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah that's it.
[Jonathan:] How did he do it?
[speaker017:] little girl.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] And they
[June:] He's a big old boy, John!
[speaker017:] that the wings ho hold on
[Jonathan:] Big fat slob!
[speaker016:] Is he?
[June:] Cor is he!
[speaker016:] Is he as old as Jonathan?
[June:] Same age
[speaker017:] !
[June:] virtually.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well when he was so and it
[speaker017:] Actually do it myself
[June:] What are you doing?
[speaker017:] can't he?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, If someone lifted the gearbox
[June:] Erm
[Geoffrey:] it's gone forever!
[June:] when he was a little
[speaker017:] Yeah.
[June:] baby, he was
[Geoffrey:] I said I've
[June:] such a puny sickly looking thing!
[Geoffrey:] I've done a hundred and twenty thousand
[June:] But
[Geoffrey:] and the gearbox was as the day they come out!
[June:] cor his head and shoulders taller than you isn't he Jonathan?
[Jonathan:] No.
[June:] He is, he's he's a
[Jonathan:] He isn't.
[June:] lot bigger than me.
[speaker016:] Is he bonny?
[June:] Ooh yeah! He weighs
[Jonathan:] He comes to there on me.
[June:] How much... no he's tall, lot ta bigger than that isn't he Geoff? He's a lot taller
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[Jonathan:] About there.
[June:] than Jonathan, John is a big old
[Jonathan:] Well Ricky comes
[June:] boy isn't he?
[Jonathan:] Ricky's only there.
[June:] How much does... J erm John weigh? Nine and
[Jonathan:] Nine and a half.
[June:] Nine and a half stone?
[speaker016:] More than me!... So anyway
[June:] Well weighs ten and a half!
[speaker017:] Losing that old [sniff]... Datsun they got hold
[June:] Well I said I think that's far
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] too fat for young girls!
[Geoffrey:] Yep.
[speaker016:] Mm.
[speaker017:] Datsun Cherry.
[June:] Oh she's like a bull
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] elephant!... See if her m
[speaker016:] Oh yeah I saw her didn't I?
[June:] Well if her mums was to slim her down now.
[speaker017:] She's going no in second gear.
[speaker016:] Norma 's little girl, is she as fat as ever?
[speaker017:] try to pull
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] parts.
[June:] Well no she did go on a diet, she used to go and see a dietician at the hospital.
[Jonathan:] Who's that?
[June:] Kerry
[speaker017:] I'd, she used to come round and help
[June:] I think
[Jonathan:] Erm.
[June:] she weighed nine and half didn't she?
[speaker017:] .
[June:] And she's what?... Nine years old.
[speaker017:] What... walked to
[Jonathan:] She's er
[speaker017:] and back again.
[June:] Do you
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] mind if I have a cigarette?
[Jonathan:] The head... the youngest nine and a half stone year old!
[speaker016:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] I want an ashtray, go get us one.
[Jonathan:] You hasn't started it mum!
[speaker017:] All the shout
[June:] No I know I ain't started it! I don't have to rush!
[Jonathan:] Well I haven't started!
[speaker017:] I'll take them round like that!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Can I have some?
[June:] No you're not having
[speaker016:] No.
[June:] any more of it!
[speaker016:] No.
[speaker017:] !
[June:] You shouldn't drink it quickly!
[speaker016:] Ooh you'll go without
[speaker017:] When we got straightened up we can
[Jonathan:] If you can have
[June:] That's wrong to drink all that ain't it?
[speaker017:] That was
[speaker016:] like that.
[speaker017:] put you off.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] If... if I think I'm it'll be
[speaker017:] and then
[Jonathan:] alright.
[speaker017:] and then e everybody
[speaker016:] In a minute.
[speaker017:] when he's... when he's facing this way
[speaker016:] He wants sleep
[June:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] sleeping.
[speaker017:] wouldn't of helped us.
[June:] Well I'm hoping he's gonna go to bed... not too late tonight.
[speaker016:] Ooh your dad and I will sleep like a top.
[speaker017:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] If
[speaker016:] I said to
[Geoffrey:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker016:] that Mrs
[speaker017:] I thought, I thought we'd go to erm....
[speaker016:] What's her name? .
[speaker017:] At any rate he
[June:] ?
[speaker017:] he
[speaker016:] he'll be alright.
[Jonathan:] Why does have that fish?
[speaker017:] Says he's
[speaker016:] cooking I told you.
[June:] Mm.
[speaker017:] front of the drive.
[Jonathan:] Why doesn't nan have
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] that big tall one?
[speaker017:] I did, I didn't even like to move
[speaker016:] Well granddad uses that.
[speaker017:] round there and
[Jonathan:] Oh.
[speaker017:] that's
[speaker016:] And Norma... used to say, I don't put them to bed with Charlie because they don't go to sleep, in and out of bed... she tried the bed's.
[June:] That's right.
[speaker016:] So
[June:] Where you going Jonathan?
[speaker016:] I was ta
[Jonathan:] I'm going to get something.
[speaker016:] I was talking to... Mrs
[Geoffrey:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker016:] I said what about it? Your little old come up the window and
[speaker017:] No.
[speaker016:] pulled the curtains back.
[speaker017:] You still
[speaker016:] I said now that one's baby in there.
[June:] Cor!
[speaker017:] I said I'll spray
[June:] Well I te is it, you know how
[Geoffrey:] no.
[June:] cos I walked home with Liz tonight
[speaker016:] Oh.
[June:] cos, I had to go and pick Jonathan up didn't I?... Cos it was getting dark and he hadn't got his light
[speaker016:] No.
[June:] on and I didn't... I said to him I'll come and meet you a... I said you can come to the hall... cos that's ever so light through there
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] cos all them,so... oh... and talking about that, I see the Manor House... er... you know the one on The Chase
[speaker016:] 's....
[June:] I see that all lit up... look at that, look nice! So I thought
[speaker016:] I bet it does!
[June:] cor blimey I could live in there!
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] That looked really lovely!... Oh yeah what was I saying erm
[speaker016:] About Liz and coming... meeting Jonathan.
[June:] Oh yeah, so I walked with her.... Well her little granddaughter's a lovely little girl!
[speaker016:] Well then I
[June:] But she's immaculately clean!
[speaker016:] Yeah well her washing, that girl's washing and that, I think that used to be lovely! Well I don't know what's happened to Kevin.
[June:] Well I don't know what's happened to Kevin then!... Cos that little girl's immaculate!
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Look what I got, a!
[speaker016:] Well Liz used to
[June:] No we're not playing that tonight Jonathan, we've come down to sa talk.
[speaker016:] and then she used be spotless... at one time! Her washing, you couldn't touch her!... I don't know what's happened to her!
[June:] Well sh
[Geoffrey:] saying.
[June:] Well he can play with the bits.
[Jonathan:] I bought the trotter out.
[June:] We're not playing it, not
[Jonathan:] I'm not
[June:] tonight!
[Jonathan:] tired!... Toys and
[speaker016:] It's just toys, it's not Lotto look!
[Jonathan:] Look!
[June:] He said Lotto!
[speaker016:] too thin, ooh I'd love to stop
[June:] Oh yeah... I thought he'd put
[Jonathan:] [sneeze]
[speaker016:] Bless you!
[June:] That was your dad's.
[Jonathan:] Was it?
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker016:] and Brian bought you that didn't they?... Some more belonging to it in there look Jonathan, that other thing there.
[Jonathan:] What this one?
[June:] The trailer.
[Jonathan:] This it?... The trailer
[speaker016:] The
[Jonathan:] did.
[speaker016:] trailer.
[June:] You don't see that sort of thing now, parts
[speaker016:] No.
[June:] do you?... And I suppose that's the in
[Jonathan:] This didn't did it?
[speaker017:] Wouldn't think so, I mean that's probably
[speaker016:] An Air Force thing.
[Jonathan:] Well!
[speaker017:] They've only
[June:] Where?
[Jonathan:] Must have the whole army nearly!... We see a tank like this... wha, on a like this... one of these... a man in a jeep
[speaker016:] What you mean
[Jonathan:] Right?
[speaker016:] today?
[Jonathan:] Yeah and we see a lorry with a bloke... he was doing like that looking out the back... and we all go [shouting] Ahhhh []!
[speaker016:] What real?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Oh!...
[June:] Where did you sit on the bus?
[Jonathan:] Er... in the middle.
[June:] Oh you didn't sit on the back seat then?
[Jonathan:] No, not at all.
[speaker016:] When we went to er... Zoe's place there... they'd got some tins, that Megazone tin what I've got
[speaker017:] Oh yeah.
[speaker016:] on the shelf.
[June:] Had
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] they?
[speaker016:] Yeah, and that other one what I put my stamps in.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah the one.
[speaker016:] I said well I got [LAUGHTER] some of them []!...
[Geoffrey:] Old Oxo tins and that
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] er...
[June:] Yeah cos you oh we used to have, when we used to go on the strawberry field
[speaker017:] See.
[June:] we used to have lu... er our lunch packed up in one
[speaker016:] Oh yeah
[June:] of them Oxo tins
[speaker016:] yes.
[June:] didn't we?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] them Zube sweets don't they?
[speaker016:] Yeah.... And I laughed I,
[Geoffrey:] They make all them bon bons don't they at the moment.
[June:] Well is she upset cos we're sitting on her seat?
[speaker016:] Well you perhaps won't believe me but I sit where Geoff is... and she gets right against me and there's all this to spare isn't there granddad?
[June:] Yeah but they like to be close.
[speaker016:] And if I come here
[speaker017:] Like we... like touching me.
[June:] Yeah my cat
[speaker016:] then she'll go to me again.
[June:] does.
[speaker017:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Look.
[June:] But cat's do I think.
[Jonathan:] Lucky!
[speaker016:] But she's
[June:] She can't hear you Jonathan.
[speaker016:] she's looking ever so well at the moment and she's eating.
[speaker017:] Ey!...
[June:] She does look nice.
[speaker017:] when I come and press that, right... Geoff?... Com, coming out the back... tell me how... just as I'd gone by the door... and er
[Jonathan:] Can't I have another, another drink please?
[speaker017:] anyway course they had a meeting
[June:] No, not yet!
[speaker017:] you knew I'd be coming
[speaker016:] It's no use going up yours
[speaker017:] I kept calling him back! He would not come back!
[June:] He
[speaker016:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] he knows he gets a meal when he comes up there.... We should.
[Jonathan:] Yeah somebody's been in the garage!
[June:] Why?
[Jonathan:] All the stuff's back... erm, food for the birds has been knocked over.
[June:] Oh!
[speaker017:] Every time you leave
[June:] That's that
[speaker017:] food around
[June:] do you know that bloody ginger cat, I'm not kidding you
[Jonathan:] No well they're
[June:] I feed that ever so well!
[Jonathan:] Urgh what's this?
[June:] And do you know that still getting on!
[speaker016:] Well they will.
[Jonathan:] He couldn't do that.
[speaker016:] He does.
[June:] Cor crikey!
[speaker016:] When I feed the birds she'll go and pick it over... and I see today... I put her
[Jonathan:] Have you got your Christmas tree?
[speaker016:] some little bits round the fence... first...... then I put her ordinary food on her hut... and do you know that little old beggar was
[June:] Checking it over.
[speaker016:] moving the... her own food and... [LAUGHTER] digging out theirs []!... Ooh she's a bad!
[June:] She does look well though, don't she look lovely with a big glossy coat?
[speaker016:] She's always
[June:] Oh I don't think anybody would beat... beat my cat's coat though.
[speaker016:] No.
[June:] A there isn't that about today.
[speaker016:] Oh!
[Jonathan:] She doesn't call him the vet... when she's
[June:] She's gotta say v e t, cos
[Jonathan:] erm
[June:] he don't like it!
[Jonathan:] Cos if he sa, if he says vet he goes... meouw!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] He don't like it.
[speaker016:] What's the matter with him?
[June:] Well... he's had bad breath... she calls him dragon's breath!... He's had bad breath for a long while... and she said... his tee, cos she tried to clean his teeth with a toothbrush.
[speaker016:] Oh yeah.
[Jonathan:] So she said she'd got some of the scale off... but she couldn't get u... all of it on and she said... these last, well... three or four weeks she said... every time he eats his food... he goes meouw... and runs away and he can't eat!... So she reckons he's got a bad tooth.
[speaker016:] Could be that.
[June:] So he's having an anaesthetic today.... Mum well... Susan took him this morning so he was... to have it done early at eight
[Jonathan:] ... I know he was.
[June:] And mum was gonna pick him up dinner time cos... he is so
[Jonathan:] Who?
[June:] frightened!
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] And they don't like him there cos he makes too much noise.
[Jonathan:] That one?
[speaker016:] Well then that's then their plan to get rid of them all.
[June:] Well they do, they like to get rid of them. Susan said well I'll try and get rid of him as quick as I can.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] So I shall have to ring her tonight when I get home, see how she got on with him. [clock strikes] Well I rang mum
[Jonathan:] That's what you think!
[June:] but she weren't there so, whether... and then I rang down Susan's, I thought they might be there but nobody answered the phone, so I thought well
[Jonathan:] Well I do know about this one.... Is that one yours?
[June:] But that's a shame when they don't like it isn't it?
[speaker016:] Oh yeah.
[speaker017:] car, a police car.
[Jonathan:] Is it?
[June:] But Susan said last time he... disrupted all the other cats and dogs!
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] there.
[June:] Said he ma... he makes, she said he makes such a funny noise!... But you see he don't like being... caged i... she said if you sit
[speaker016:] No course not!
[June:] him in the car... he'll sit there.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] But she said you put him in his box, and cover it up, he don't like it!
[speaker016:] That... sat as good as gold till you got to Colin's didn't he?... Good as gold and he was like old man on the seat!... [LAUGHTER] As soon as you've him collared []... what does he do? Hey? Did he?... didn't you have... catch him
[Geoffrey:] I don't know.
[speaker016:] [LAUGHTER] something like that []!
[Geoffrey:] Something like that.
[speaker016:] She said [LAUGHTER] she []!
[Geoffrey:] He'd get down.
[June:] Now Guzzy tries to get in the vans and that when I'm cleaning them.
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah she does.
[speaker016:] Does she?
[June:] I mean... does.
[Geoffrey:] She does, yeah.
[speaker016:] She gets up there
[June:] It's ever so funny!
[speaker016:] she just hangs round when you
[June:] But ju I, I tell you something tha... I reckon she's going through a mad state! Do you know... did I tell you when she was asleep the other day?... In the boiler cupboard on top of all the shoes!
[speaker016:] Ah!
[June:] And then she'll sleep... she won't sleep actually in the airing cupboard, she'll sleep... so the door's wide open... and she's half way across the la, and she sleeps you know
[speaker016:] Across the landing.
[June:] you know the toilet?... She shapes her sor self round the toilet!
[speaker016:] Oh no!
[speaker017:] She'll sit on the toilet... half shaped
[June:] When you want to go to the loo you've gotta... put your
[speaker017:] half way
[June:] no you gotta put your legs over cos she wouldn't move out the way!
[speaker017:] Oh!
[June:] And... do you know, I di
[Jonathan:] Gosh she up there
[June:] I didn't tell you did I? The other day... she sat near her water bo, well you know how they sit with all the their little paws in?
[speaker016:] Oh yeah and they do
[June:] she sat there... right near her water bowl... looking at it!... And I thought whatever's she sitting there for? When I looked she ain't got not water!
[speaker016:] It was empty.
[June:] I said well she couldn't of told me any more could she?
[speaker016:] No.
[June:] But she seems to plonk her body down anywhere don't she Geoff?
[Geoffrey:] Anywhere yeah.
[June:] Just plonks down!
[speaker016:] Mm.
[June:] And she lays all on top of the... all on top of the dressing ta and... she's never done it before has she?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] She's on top of all my dressing table, she she don't knock nothing off!
[speaker017:] That's what... and...... what time's that chap don't he?
[speaker016:] Yeah... Yeah.
[speaker017:] and when she'd jumps... she lands she rolls over.
[Jonathan:] Ah that ain't dangerous is it?
[speaker017:] To er...
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah?
[speaker017:] They didn't come right on to the when I was
[Jonathan:] Wasn't that was it?
[speaker017:] moving on the bottom shelf
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] and they was hanging
[Jonathan:] Oh it couldn't
[speaker017:] and when she wanted to come out... she'd hook
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[speaker017:] the door on the side and that... and that kept slipping down her!
[June:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah [].
[speaker017:] And she... and she she'd been out... she wouldn't come out
[Jonathan:] This one mum?
[speaker017:] she made sure nothing was out there.
[June:] Did she really?
[speaker017:] She didn't come out!
[Jonathan:] This one mum?
[June:] Oh our cat's most peculiar!
[Jonathan:] I might have one of those.
[speaker016:] Yeah.... Well those two on
[June:] How long we had her?
[Jonathan:] Mum?
[June:] How long we had h, we had her when we had erm... she was a kitten when had Guzzy... when Guzzy was, weren't very... well, and that was just before Guzzy weren't very well, cos she didn't really like her did she?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] So how old is she?
[speaker016:] Was she a stray then?
[June:] Well yeah didn't we find her on... that, I tell you
[Geoffrey:] About last year.
[June:] when it was... when I had that little Renault Five... because erm, she used to... she used to get under the bonnet didn't she?... When we used to go to school in the morning I used to have to lift the bonnet up to see if she
[Geoffrey:] to nineteen eighty eight... nineteen eighty eight we got rid of that.
[speaker016:] Oh so she's
[Jonathan:] So she's... three year old.
[speaker016:] Well it's, eight eighty nine ninety, ninety one.
[Jonathan:] Three.
[June:] I've had her more than three years surely?
[Jonathan:] No
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but erm... before then
[speaker016:] Four.
[Geoffrey:] since we've had her
[June:] Oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] yeah but what I'm saying is, it was somewhere between eighty six... and eighty eight... cos you had the... Renault
[June:] Yeah cos
[Geoffrey:] since
[speaker016:] eight
[Geoffrey:] eighty six... and we got the... Uno August eighty eight.
[June:] Yeah well didn't someone... we found her didn't we?
[Jonathan:] We did.
[June:] Yeah well
[Geoffrey:] Well
[June:] we found her.
[Geoffrey:] when I worked in old Blackie that big old black...
[speaker016:] Yeah that's terrible that!
[June:] bought her over
[Jonathan:] Can you We could
[June:] But she couldn't drink milk could she?
[speaker016:] No I think erm
[Jonathan:] And she was a bit blind in one
[June:] What?
[Jonathan:] eye!
[Geoffrey:] Hardly see could she? All her eye was stuck up.
[June:] Oh her eyes were all stuck up and that.... And we started to feed her didn't we?... And we gradually bought the... dish nearer the door and then she gradually come in didn't she?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah we used to leave the door open, she'd come in and out again... and then she would
[speaker016:] Cos Carole's still got Blackie.
[June:] No Blackie got co, run over didn't he?
[Jonathan:] That's Louey!
[Geoffrey:] She's got another black cat.
[June:] She's got Louey now!
[Geoffrey:] It's Jason's... her son's cat.
[June:] Oh no Blackie got killed one night last year.
[speaker016:] Ahhhh!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Ooh Carole was
[Jonathan:] Ohhhh!
[June:] absolutely devastated!... Weren't she Geoff?
[Geoffrey:] That was the night of her party weren't it?
[June:] Yeah, the night of her party.
[Geoffrey:] Or the day time of her party.
[speaker016:] Ahhh!
[June:] Well she reckoned there was, cos they were, they had a lot company there
[speaker016:] Yeah and she didn't like it.
[June:] yeah and he went... and she said well it... that'd always been across that road
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] and erm
[speaker016:] That's
[June:] but the boys who have knocked him down come and told her didn't they?
[Geoffrey:] Yes. Went round Vals didn't they?
[June:] They went round Val's and Val said ooh no she said I think that's Caroles. But they did... pick him and tell her.
[speaker016:] Well that's good of them then.
[June:] Well no, they went and picked him up didn't they? They told her though.
[speaker016:] Cos there was a one like
[speaker017:] I know.
[speaker016:] granddad saw it, one like... a little while ago, that got killed.
[June:] Mm.
[speaker016:] I reckon somebody put it on the.
[June:] Well there's a cat, I don't know who's black and white cat it is... it comes from the council houses and that stands in the middle of the road!... It lays down in the middle of the road!
[Geoffrey:] I know.
[June:] I thought ooh my God you get a fast car round here mate you won't
[Geoffrey:] Ooh, ooh I forgot!
[June:] dicing with death!
[Geoffrey:] About three minutes after nine.... Terry from hire is coming for the red minibus.
[Jonathan:] I've saved the pussy.
[speaker016:] What tomorrow?
[Geoffrey:] No tonight.
[speaker016:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] I bought it round and the keys are in it.
[speaker016:] Oh he did really need, he ring you?
[June:] Yeah.... Yeah but he always seems to want some
[Jonathan:] I saved a pussy yesterday.
[Geoffrey:] I never liked him
[June:] Erm
[Geoffrey:] ringing up.
[Jonathan:] [singing] Doo doo doo
[Geoffrey:] You know.
[Jonathan:] doo doo [].
[June:] Who's this, who did I
[speaker016:] Well!
[June:] say got the Belmont at the weekend Geoff?
[speaker016:] That lady... yeah
[June:] ?... Yeah she did
[Geoffrey:] Yeah she did.
[June:] ring me... Miss.
[speaker016:] She ain't been for long while has she?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[speaker016:] I told her you'd be home about... quarter or twenty past.
[Geoffrey:] What was I gonna say erm... what's on the... in your Sunbeam?
[speaker016:] Well... they was here, was it, two minutes after one and they was begging for a....
[June:] So how much
[Jonathan:] Mummy!
[June:] did you charge them?
[Jonathan:] Can I have another sherry please?
[speaker017:] Haven't said yet.
[Jonathan:] .
[speaker016:] I think they went early to get back early.
[Jonathan:] Grandma
[Geoffrey:] Well
[Jonathan:] can I have another sherry this time?
[speaker017:] bloody.
[speaker016:] Well I dunno, that's what... that's a better priced.
[Geoffrey:] No I sa cos I went up Wisdens at quarter to four and I see it in there then.
[speaker016:] Oh!... Oh perha... what time did you go back... today?
[Geoffrey:] Today?
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] the time today.
[speaker016:] Oh well then that's perhaps a bit before one then, not after, it was about ten to one then perhaps.
[Geoffrey:] Was he nice?
[speaker016:] He had... glasses... ever such a nice feller.
[June:] Well you can't charge them too much for that or you'll
[speaker016:] pick the minibus my dear, I said the white one...... [LAUGHTER] Either it's white or black []!... After all he's in the yard.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah he'll understand.
[June:] You'd better ring Ca Carl tonight, sort out that battery.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well if he's there that is... cos Joanne was bringing the car back.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Where's... Carl supposed to be then, at work?
[June:] Well I reckon he's
[Jonathan:] [singing] Mm
[June:] got a job on today
[Jonathan:] mm mm
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] mm []
[June:] Chris... his erm daughter's had her baby.
[speaker016:] Oh what Carl's daughter?
[June:] Yeah so he's a grandfather.
[speaker016:] I didn't know he'd got a daughter!
[June:] So he's a grandfather.
[speaker016:] I knew he'd got a boy, but
[June:] And yeah cos I said to her... well what do we call you then?... She said aunty... she said I'm not gonna be called a grandmother!
[speaker016:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] At twenty five!
[Geoffrey:] [whispering] is that all she is []?
[June:] Twenty five.
[speaker016:] Looks a lot older that that don't she?
[Jonathan:] Can I have another sherry please?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[speaker016:] Well I don't know cos I went up there once and she was
[June:] Well I don't think so
[speaker016:] she was... going out and she looked really good.
[Geoffrey:] That's right, yeah she is, well actually she is
[speaker016:] But when she's in the garden her hair anyhow.
[Jonathan:] Grandma.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] It puts ten years on her don't it.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah well I think anybody does
[Jonathan:] Grandma?
[June:] if your hair's
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] untidy you feel unti
[Geoffrey:] Marion looked well didn't she?
[Jonathan:] Can I have another sherry
[speaker016:] Yes.
[June:] Well she had jeans and erm
[Jonathan:] you said I could have another sherry!
[June:] sort of nice sort of boots on and... a sweatshirt tucked in and... a belt on... she looked... like a teenager really.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] You're not having any more after that!
[speaker016:] No your not! No more!
[Jonathan:] When I said you,
[June:] Look grandma will be drinking that bottle!
[speaker016:] That'd be a job mummy!
[June:] Well it isn't gonna take
[speaker016:] Might take you
[June:] very long.
[speaker016:] Well I said to drink the
[Geoffrey:] Yeah well it's
[speaker016:] bottle, I might drink the sherry in [LAUGHTER] out of it []
[Geoffrey:] to sell.
[Jonathan:] Ooh we got
[June:] No that's it, you don't have no more!
[speaker016:] I got a job for you, I don't like having you Saturday night!... Such a lot of trouble!
[Jonathan:] Ha!
[June:] What're you gonna do Saturday?
[speaker016:] I'm going to get my decorations down, will you
[Jonathan:] Ooh!
[speaker016:] do them for me?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Yeah... I'll get you the box and you do as you like... put them up as you like... I don't
[Jonathan:] Okay.
[speaker016:] care... I'll get you some drawing pins, I got them.
[Jonathan:] Okay.
[speaker016:] Yo, you go what you like.
[June:] You like doing those don't you?
[Jonathan:] Mm.
[speaker016:] Put them where you like.
[Jonathan:] Ha!
[June:] You'd drink, you'd think... you wouldn't think a child would like sherry would you? Yeah I know.
[Jonathan:] I thought granddad's was fizzy pop.
[speaker016:] No, but I... did you drink your sherry?... Good old dad, that'll do.
[Jonathan:] No! But they won't, they're the whiskys.... A sort of
[speaker016:] Oh you thought he was drinking pop?
[Jonathan:] Mm... mm... mm... ah ah!
[June:] He drinks it too quick Jonathan, as I said that ain't the drink you should drink
[speaker016:] [whispering]... your granddad and if he says he's going [].
[speaker017:] That's right yeah.
[June:] Dad don't... dad don't drink any more does he Geoff?
[Jonathan:] Cor!
[June:] He used to have a bottle of whisky a week but he don't have any now... he ain't had it for a long time has he?... Well that gives him indigestion.
[speaker016:] He don't take any notice of me, I don't.
[Jonathan:] Is on yet mum?
[speaker016:] I said to Sally, how's Norman? Oh he's alright!...!
[June:] Oh!
[Jonathan:] I'm alright!
[June:] You got your Christmas cards yet grandma?
[speaker016:] I got... what?
[June:] Have you got them?
[speaker016:] What to send away?... No, I got some.
[Jonathan:] How many?
[June:] You ought to get them out of Superking they're quite nice.
[speaker016:] Mm.
[June:] Down the bottom end there... one... they aren't ever so dear, one forty something.
[speaker016:] Oh what's his name... I thought patronises you.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] What about selection?
[speaker016:] I asked him if he's gonna sell them, I thought well he patronises
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] get
[June:] Well I got mine from Superking I never ordered them did I?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[speaker016:] Well he, he don't go you'll see
[Geoffrey:] He said I was talking to him earlier on, I
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] just never thought.
[speaker016:] He's a good old boy.
[Jonathan:] I could just, just eat this leg!
[speaker016:] That was him on the door.... Ooh I told you didn't I?
[June:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] I could drink a pint of this.
[June:] He's drunk that!... Now that's, no more don't ask for
[speaker016:] You won't get any more!
[June:] No, cos you'll do
[speaker016:] else you'll... you'll be like grandma was at Mrs...
[June:] You'll be drunk!
[speaker016:] foot on the floor.
[Jonathan:] Could I get drunk?
[speaker016:] I had a... Uncle Ron.
[June:] [yawning] Ooh []
[speaker016:] He don't go out so much now does he?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[speaker016:] Staying another night.
[Jonathan:] Dad, could you get drunk?
[speaker016:] He goes whenever.
[June:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] And I suppose if he's in there
[Geoffrey:] That's what I just said when he went up there you see.... I said I dunno how they afford it, I said I can't afford to go out one day a week,
[speaker016:] No well Ron don't go out with him.
[Geoffrey:] He said the last time I went out he said was December the fifteenth, I said, and I'll tell you something else, that was the last time I went out. So that's Tu... we er
[June:] Thursday.
[Geoffrey:] Thursday.
[speaker016:] Mm.
[Jonathan:] [singing] one, two, three, four, five [].
[June:] Oh no, we've been out since then haven't we?
[Geoffrey:] When?
[speaker016:] Well you went to Carole's.
[Geoffrey:] Ah ye, no I mean like go out for a
[speaker016:] But I mean for a
[Geoffrey:] meal or a
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] drink... a drink.
[June:] Oh yeah that is, yeah that is right, a year ago yeah!
[speaker016:] Well the trouble is you can't afford it! That's the
[June:] No
[speaker016:] Yeah daddy said it's Sunday.... I'd love to go out for a meal. I said well my dear we can't afford it so you gotta... have what I do.
[June:] Yeah well we, we haven't been out for one
[speaker016:] I know!
[June:] since last year.
[speaker016:] I know.
[June:] We haven't been out at all.
[speaker016:] I mean you could get a decent meal
[June:] What?
[speaker017:] I can't... I can't eat a full meal though!
[speaker016:] We can't eat a full meal anyway and they charge
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] you the earth!
[June:] I wouldn't... wha, where was that place in town we was looking at?
[Geoffrey:] Hoh!
[June:] Where we said that looked... ever so nice!
[Geoffrey:] Oh you know the?
[June:] Four pou, that was only four pound something!
[Geoffrey:] You go down Hill Street
[speaker016:] What in the?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... and there's er... as you go over the top... there's like a postman's passage... and you go past where you turn into it... there's in the corner there.
[speaker016:] Oh yes.
[Geoffrey:] Well then you can't... drive only about ten yards further than that... then it's the conservative club on the left hand side
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] and then nearly next door to the conservative club, the chap that's hiring the minibus from us is called The Horse Fayre Tavern.
[speaker016:] Oh!
[June:] We said we might go in.
[Geoffrey:] And then just as you go in the sort of... crossways the new Horse Fayre shopping precinct sort of thing
[speaker016:] Oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] and er... they got a board out there and... had that sort of three twenty five and things like, that's very good.
[speaker016:] Oh!... Cos I'll tell you who
[June:] Cos they do, me and Jonathan love lasagne... we do, and they
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] do lasagne on there don't they?
[Jonathan:] Do they do
[speaker016:] Well every Sunday we go to Sadie's that flower pot place... there's twelve or thirteen cars out every Sunday!
[June:] Must be ki quite good then.
[speaker016:] It must be, cos it's changed hands.
[June:] Why don't you pull your jumper down Geoff?
[Jonathan:] Cos he's silly!
[speaker016:] He's enjoying his self, aren't you boy?
[Jonathan:] Cos he's hot.
[June:] Good God!... Do you know
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] Geoff's put all that weight back on he lost?
[speaker017:] All that waste of money!
[speaker016:] Have you?... That don't matter.
[June:] Well he said, we didn't think he'd lost weight, that'd he'd toned his muscles up.
[Jonathan:] [singing] [].
[speaker016:] .
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] I put on... one kilogram.
[Jonathan:] Yeah and I.
[Geoffrey:] I said I couldn't finish it... put it down.
[Jonathan:] Can I have some please?
[Geoffrey:] But I... now I don't pull the wheels you see, I ain't pulled the wheels you see
[speaker016:] No.
[Geoffrey:] have I?
[speaker016:] No.
[Geoffrey:] Less than four months and now and that
[June:] She's had a real spruce up. Jonathan don't!
[Geoffrey:] The only problem I used to find was when I used to pull the and get cramp... terrible in here.
[June:] I know.
[speaker016:] Oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] And I said I don't thi, he said well I don't get it! I said no but you're... taller... and you're
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] pulling a different way, I used to pull it with my legs... he pulls it with his back.
[speaker016:] You know where she wants to go?
[June:] Where?
[speaker016:] On the mantelpiece.
[June:] Well Jonathan's going out, he's gonna the
[speaker016:] Oh are you going?
[Jonathan:] Yes.
[speaker016:] Go fetch the flowers there.
[Geoffrey:] cor he said, I'm
[Jonathan:] I'm going out
[Geoffrey:] plus my back my he said, I don't have to keep stiff, I said yeah well that's where you're pulling it but
[speaker016:] Yeah
[Geoffrey:] I have to pull it with my legs.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] So don't you fi... do it at all?
[Geoffrey:] That's why I put on the weight, I just stand there all day you see... got a load them in and press the button that's all I do all day, I don't move!
[Jonathan:] Gotta put it in there.
[June:] Bleeding hell!
[speaker016:] No I didn't, get off!
[Geoffrey:] I literally don't move!
[June:] You're not going, can I have one of your?
[speaker016:] Yeah this is what I put them there for.
[speaker017:] .
[Jonathan:] Ooh!
[speaker016:] Well Geoff did.
[Jonathan:] My legs are [LAUGHTER] wobbly []!
[speaker017:] At the end of day I
[June:] Mm... my mum makes these.
[speaker016:] Are they alright?
[speaker017:] a word he's saying!
[June:] Nice.
[Jonathan:] Dad said they're nice.
[Geoffrey:] That's bloody hard work on them!
[June:] Well I shan't look forward to going home and washing up.
[speaker016:] Mhm... Oh come on.
[June:] Well we said last night, we didn't think we was ever gonna get to bed! [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] Cor every time I paint, it bloody rains again!
[speaker016:] Well don't Jimmy... that's what I told.
[Geoffrey:] I tell you what mate, he's a.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Very.
[June:] Why?
[speaker016:] I should think I'd
[Geoffrey:] Well
[speaker016:] Well they sho...
[Geoffrey:] when they and they freeze your bloody bank account like that he... I mean, like you say he... it's just daft you can't do that!
[June:] They've froze his bank account!
[speaker016:] Yeah... now he's stole all them.
[June:] Mm... yeah but I should think they're insured for that.
[Geoffrey:] Well yeah but you see they.
[speaker016:] They probably weren't on his premises either were they?
[Geoffrey:] Well it's... no.
[speaker017:] Jimmy's?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.... But he was saying you see, what's happened is the... they isn't his... he just delivers them for the bloke
[June:] Well yeah.
[Geoffrey:] and they have these bloody great artics come down and put the stuff in your shed... and it was nicked... but he said there's in, there's about... eighty odd... hampers nicked... worth about sort of, perhaps four thousand
[June:] [whispering] Hey what are they doing []?
[Geoffrey:] quid... but the bloke who... owns them... he's... near said they were sort of a couple of hundred or... three hundred nicked or something... and he put the load in at twenty two thousand quid!... So he said that's all got out of proportion.
[speaker016:] Makes me laugh when he comes Ooh sorry!
[Geoffrey:] He's only insured for eighteen thousand anyway... so I said well to be perfectly honest Jim, I said I wouldn't of thought that the insurance company's gonna pay out eighteen thousand quid without getting some sort insurance investigator down there to... sort it out. I said they'll want to... know, where they was, how they was... they'll want to know the value of each stuff, what was in it, everything!
[speaker016:] It's terrible!
[June:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] They don't know... they isn't gonna just churn out, oh yeah well we'd better pay that mate, eighteen thousand quid!
[June:] Yeah well I said to Geoff, well I hope Geoff soon gets his money because he owes Geoff a lot of money at the moment!. I said well we need that really, this
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] this week!
[speaker016:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] Too right!
[speaker016:] Oh it's a job I don't know!...... weekend a day or two ago he did look a bit better tonight.
[Geoffrey:] And the building society bloke's told me today... they've got a hundred and fifty... accounts... in the office... that are sort of heavily in arrears...
[speaker016:] That's a joke!... Streuth!
[June:] Well we're not heavily in arrears are we?
[Geoffrey:] No that's what he said, he said
[speaker016:] No but you are but I mean
[June:] We are in arrears but we're gonna be
[Geoffrey:] he said you are by the number of payments you isn't paid... he said you haven't paid for almost a year but he said you haven't money.
[speaker016:] No... no.
[Geoffrey:] He said well you ain't got much.
[June:] Yeah it worked out... what, about nine hundred pound innit?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Oh dear
[June:] Well you see nine hundred pound that's only sort of your half yearly rent is it?
[Geoffrey:] Mm... I know.
[June:] So we we're not
[Geoffrey:] And that's what we're paying per year....
[June:] Yeah we pay that for a year.
[Geoffrey:] So he said but, he said, the stupid thing is he said, I'm... I could
[June:] That's a bloody good job that is all it is! Cos I didn't know how we'd of managed if we'd had a big one!
[Geoffrey:] he said it's... it's the twelfth payment which he said is... you know, just pay it I said
[June:] But he said to Geoff... don't pay it off all in one lump sum
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] He told him not to do that, he said just pay when you got some and
[speaker016:] If you can.
[June:] pa, pay what you can... so it... gets it down
[Geoffrey:] So I do.
[June:] so you're catching up
[speaker016:] Mm.
[June:] but don't go and pay it all off.
[speaker016:] Yeah... Do we really pay this poll tax?
[June:] You're mum's worried she hasn't paid any poll tax since August!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Well what
[June:] She hasn't had a form or nothing!... I said we'll worry about it when it comes!... But she don't want to get what we've had, she's gotta pay it in advance
[Geoffrey:] No well the thing you wanna do then is er, well yo you still got the form haven't you?... You gotta keep the original one.
[speaker016:] Should have somewhere.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah well all you gotta do is... you know where... now mind them
[June:] Jonathan!
[Geoffrey:] Jonathan!
[June:] Put your feet down!
[Geoffrey:] You know erm
[June:] Put your feet down!
[Geoffrey:] where's the easiest place to tell you to find?
[speaker016:] Is there one in Wisbech?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Jonathan:] I'm all hot! Take my top off.
[Geoffrey:] If you drive
[Jonathan:] Can I slip my top off?
[June:] No you can't take your top off!
[Jonathan:] I'm hot!
[speaker017:] Well, you pay it up... up to them!
[June:] Oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but I'm telling you whe
[speaker017:] Surprised you ain't heard from them.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but I'm telling you where you gotta
[speaker016:] If you sent a cheque?
[Geoffrey:] pay it.
[June:] Well Susan goes in there!
[speaker016:] And Edward.
[June:] Well look, leave it and when she pays hers, pay
[Geoffrey:] Well
[June:] yours!
[Geoffrey:] yeah if it's in a fortnight then we'll have to pay ours.
[June:] Yeah so we're gonna
[speaker016:] Pay
[June:] ours in a fortnight
[speaker016:] pay ours
[June:] she'll take
[speaker016:] Oh yeah take ours as well.
[June:] my sister'll take yours as well.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] She pays ours, she pays her own, so she wouldn't mi... she's going there.... So leave it a fortnight and then we've gotta pay ours... so then you can sort yours out.
[speaker016:] ... Geoff... er Ken sent our week, thinking he'd.
[Geoffrey:] That's right.
[speaker016:] I said and now that's how they ruddy well do, they play on your money don't they?
[June:] Yeah, that's right.
[speaker016:] And I thought if we can
[Jonathan:] Ooh that feels good.
[speaker016:] Mary paid the rent
[June:] You got... then a little to draw on if you
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] need poll tax.
[speaker016:] Or the car... two new tyres and new exhaust.... So that means money!
[June:] Yeah well you won't have brand new tyres will you?
[Geoffrey:] I went into the back way and... and then the... laid carpet on the floor look, as you go in the back way... concrete.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] And they got an old curtain at the back door... and then that's all... you sort of go through... across the corner of the kitchen... and he was making a... bouquet of flowers... and er... he was setting them all out like... and then when he bought it into me... it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane... and it'd got two gold... strips like
[speaker016:] That's what they sell you see.
[Geoffrey:] and all curly at the top and all curly at the bottom... and then a big bow... be tied round the bottom.
[speaker016:] Yeah they sell them you see.... He's
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] making them for the next morning.
[Geoffrey:] and then er... when you go into the room there was another big blanket.
[June:] Just these blankets all over!
[Geoffrey:] Where the door
[speaker016:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] is, there was a big blanket over the door... then as you sit here their room was like all the way round to you, and I sat there... and the stairs come down, the open stairs come into the room... and here is an... old brick fire place
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] with a basket... and there's television, a stereo over there, and loads of videos... on the shelves here... and there... like the road goes past, they was right close to the road... just here was this big blanket... and other side of the blanket there's a Porsche... and there's a dog in th, in there
[speaker016:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] just on the side of the big blanket, he was whining and barking and!... Anyway they... two little old girls, little old boys in there... so she come and this woman who looks after little old baby, she was about there... and she gets this baby out, well I tell you what he didn't miss a bloody trick he didn't!
[speaker016:] [LAUGHTER] No []!
[Geoffrey:] His eyes were
[speaker016:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] like he... sticking up his head they did... and er... course the kids said they was going to get th, and he
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] was full of them kids! He... you could see him really took up to them.
[speaker016:] She said he's grown up.
[Geoffrey:] Watching every movement, and she put him on and put his blanket on the ground... and he was laying there in his... handful of this and so she said... come to me then... and she put something on the floor... she said well... you know you go to it, I ain't gonna give it to you... and he's... she said well no, you've gotta try! Yeah.
[June:] Really?
[Geoffrey:] Ooh ooh ooh! You never seen I will
[speaker016:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] bloody get there!... And his old arms they were going like [LAUGHTER] this you know []!
[speaker016:] She said he's grown up.
[Geoffrey:] And he's really getting frustrated cos he couldn't go and then she said well no, you've gotta do it!... He was going like
[speaker016:] That's the woman? Or Mrs
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] So, no she's... very much in the background she was... and then course little old boy he goes down to her and his old eyes lit up again... s, so then... eventually come in, so he said erm... oh here's that trophy they wanted, she come third in Great Britain, little old gran.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] So, he said you've never seen it have you? I said no.., so he said er, I'll show you a quick video he said, and he showed me this video, part in Manchester and part in Peterborough... two old girls got these crash helmets on
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] and they stand there sort of bouncing up and down on this canvass thing, you know, sort of like this... then she goes ooh ooh, and her bleeding leg comes up in the air
[speaker016:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] she kicks this other little old girl beside the head!
[speaker016:] Yeah they come in here one night.
[Geoffrey:] And er she won a point for that, and a point for this... so anyway, showed me that, so he said well... just stand up a minute Geoff, so I stood up, so he said erm... now don't move!... So he says to the oldest one he said just do... ah, he said three four kick or something...
[speaker016:] Bit
[Geoffrey:] round here doing this business... like that... and then all of a sudden she come across the room she's Weow! And I felt the wind come off her foot!
[June:] !
[Geoffrey:] Bloody hell!... And the little old girl he says, you gotta bear in mind, he said she's only nine he said so she can't do none of that... she come up and she could get her leg up, she went like this!... And that went past my face
[speaker016:] Mhm.
[Geoffrey:] and then he said something about do us... cart... one and a half cartwheels and end up in a crab or something, and she come flying across the room at me and... I felt this foot go shwoo
[speaker016:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] by the side of my head and she landed up, sort of like this on the floor... but sh, apparently she didn't quite get that right!... So they was well into it, you know.
[speaker016:] Yeah he said they are.
[Jonathan:] What they doing?
[Geoffrey:] Now he said right, he said now why don't you
[June:] They've been trained from early age haven't they?
[Geoffrey:] Tai Kwondo that's what they do.
[speaker016:] Well no, they isn't long... well couple a year ago.
[Geoffrey:] Just
[June:] What?
[Geoffrey:] he said, that's all
[speaker016:] If it is as long as that!
[Geoffrey:] But he said they train every Sunday.
[speaker016:] Yeah he said it takes a long time
[Geoffrey:] And... and he said er, I think he said they're going to Manchester
[June:] Yeah but yo... to me, that's near enough teaching them children all that... but to me, them children want to mix with other children.
[Geoffrey:] Well that's the only time we see him innit?... But he says
[June:] Yeah but
[Geoffrey:] you.
[June:] I think it's wrong!
[Geoffrey:] Well why have they... why have we got to do it she says? Why have we gotta?
[June:] Well don't, if that child doesn't want to do it, I think that's wrong to make her.
[Geoffrey:] He said, and what could I say, he said?... Why has she gotta do it?
[speaker016:] Mm.
[June:] Well she hasn't!
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] He said it's tha, that is what he said... if you don't want to do it, you don't have to!
[speaker016:] But she drops that kid about eight in the morning!... Tina does.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well... she's got something
[Geoffrey:] Got it all in their living room... they got about four bloody great boxes full of... bread rolls!
[speaker016:] Oh!... Yeah well that's for the
[Geoffrey:] Full of them!
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] And he said er... ooh there should be four hundred and sixty sausages, he said yeah well they're in the freezer.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah well they've gotta be cooked tonight... so you gotta do so and so, so and so and so and so... and he's gonna be cooking all these sausages and stuff!
[speaker016:] Yeah!
[Geoffrey:] I said, whatever time do you get done?... Oh, he said, two o'clock... or when we get done.
[speaker016:] Well that baby weren't ten days old and she was past here at eight o'clock in the morning!
[June:] Well then how's she bloody done it?
[speaker016:] Well I think
[Geoffrey:] I dunno, they get in on a Friday night... he said by the time we've cashed up, when I got there they'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room... similar to that brass one what I'm... but it's an old tin thing it is... sitting in the middle of the room... there was a little bag of money there... a little bag of money there... and a bag of money there... that's Geoff's money... that's petrol money... that's five hundred pound.
[speaker016:] Was that her?
[Geoffrey:] No that's what he said.... He's
[speaker016:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] telling her.... There's five hundred
[speaker016:] Oh he didn't!
[Geoffrey:] pounds for that griddle... there's so and so's money... and there's the money... for the flowers... all in these little bags of money, been counting out all this money... and they got home seven o'clock that night... and he was then... don't know where he was going with me... erm... but they piles in the car... all three of them... the girls have gotta have a shower... so they stayed there... and er... ooh I know where they was going!... They was heading off to London that night to go and pick up this griddle for this
[speaker016:] Luncheon.
[June:] No.
[Geoffrey:] erm
[speaker016:] Well it's not a life is it?
[Geoffrey:] Oh dear!
[June:] I wouldn't want it, I like my evenings to relax!
[speaker016:] So do I!
[Geoffrey:] He said well... if you go and make the he said any time between now and Christmas, you'll have to come and have a meal on the house, I thought I'm bloody sure I will!
[speaker016:] Cos he does the... flowers and she does the food, or vice-versa.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah and they've also got another bloke
[speaker016:] Ooh ah, that's it, who
[Geoffrey:] who
[speaker016:] comes here.
[Geoffrey:] who them.
[speaker016:] Oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] He... something about, I don't know, he... he got in trouble or something with... and so, then she bought the... van... and he has it... and then she has half the profit.
[speaker016:] Ha!... Cos it makes me laugh when they pull up here, I say, look at this outfit dad!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... and then he's got that roast potato
[June:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] thing ain't he?... He's got a roast potato thing.
[speaker016:] Yeah... yes. Cos she was on a lay by
[June:] Wednesday
[Geoffrey:] they always go there.
[speaker016:] once.
[speaker017:] What?
[June:] Was she?
[Geoffrey:] there.
[speaker017:] er...
[June:] Cor you'll make some money erm
[speaker017:] He was waiting on her.
[speaker016:] It's just
[June:] in the next month then.
[Jonathan:] Hey
[June:] Cos they had shopping you see.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] I bet I know what's on T V.
[speaker016:] By... what love?
[speaker017:] They was
[Jonathan:] Bet I know what's on T V.
[speaker017:] there wasn't a car wi within three or four feet
[speaker016:] But I think like
[Geoffrey:] Yes.
[speaker016:] June
[speaker017:] sometime.
[June:] Money's not everything.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Well I mean they managed
[speaker017:] Yes.
[speaker016:] years ago.
[June:] I'd like to have a little bit more but I
[speaker017:] Yeah.
[June:] don't make, I don't, I wouldn't want to be
[speaker016:] there
[June:] Well I always consider me and Geoff worked along, so far so that's long enough for me, I think!
[speaker016:] Ain't it always?
[speaker017:] lot of people used to have more than one.
[speaker016:] That's what I said to somebody else,.
[June:] I'd work a lot less if I could.
[speaker016:] I said I had three kids and I could work all day and then I had to do my bloody work when I got home, light a copper
[June:] Mm.
[speaker016:] and... there's all switch button now, there is that advantage.
[June:] Well yes, that's right.
[speaker017:] was setting.
[speaker016:] But... but I shall never forget when he was like... always spruced up [LAUGHTER] to go snooker match... snow white shirt []!
[June:] Mm.
[speaker016:] Dad's when he goes to... as long as they always.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] I said I can't get to do, go and do them.
[speaker017:] Fifth of December... really.
[speaker016:] I'll fetch something. Course he.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah. Course it puts on his [LAUGHTER] you couldn't see []!
[June:] Oh no!
[speaker016:] He said, [LAUGHTER] look at my bloody suit []!
[speaker017:] Cor that was terrible!
[speaker016:] So what I had to do
[Geoffrey:] Alright mum?
[June:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] I had to... get one that weren't ironed and iron it up for him!
[speaker017:] Carole.
[speaker016:] And... when they come
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] to pick him he's, he went out, he said I said to them, you'll have to wait a minute my mother ain't been very well, [LAUGHTER] and I was ironing his shirt, he won't... nothing to do
[June:] Oh!
[speaker016:] with mum []!... Poor old Doug!... I think he slept in that loft... when he used to come here.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Poor old Doug!
[June:] Have you cleaned your brass grandma?
[speaker016:] Ooh... nearly fortnight ago I done that!
[June:] Looks shiny!
[speaker016:] Oh!... [LAUGHTER] You wouldn't of thought so if you'd have come before then []!... I'd have, I hate it!
[June:] Mm.
[speaker016:] Blooming stuff!
[Jonathan:] Why aren't you opening
[Geoffrey:] [yawning] Oh dear []!
[Jonathan:] it?
[speaker016:] Well I'd like to see it Jonathan but I don't... I had so much on at
[Geoffrey:] I hope I win two hundred and fifty quid on the draw prize on Friday.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] Well I don't Geoff!
[speaker016:] Geoff, do you know what that plate says?
[June:] I wouldn't!
[speaker016:] You talk about luck!... They had... a hundred pound... fifty pound... and twenty five... and that all went to one family!... And they weren't nothing to do with House!
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Well blow me!
[speaker016:] She said... yeah... the mother won... the hundred... the son-in-law won the fifty
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] and something to do with them, won the twenty five! Well they said they've never known that to happen, cos I had some tickets... ooh I said I didn't win then sister? She said no... and there was several erm... smaller prizes.
[June:] Well we've had a go... well I think it was for erm some sort of... I think was for multiple sclerosis
[speaker016:] Oh yes.
[June:] or something like that.... Anyway the tickets were twenty five pence each, so we all had one at work... and you'd gotta guess
[speaker016:] From the school?
[June:] No, Jenny bought them.
[speaker016:] Oh.
[June:] You gotta guess the weight of this Christmas pudding... that's a great big Christmas pudding, and they tell you... how many... j erm... jars of this and how many tins of that and... how many pounds of sugar and... and you've gotta guess the weight.
[speaker016:] And you do that?... The weight.
[June:] And the first prize is two hundred and fifty pounds worth of carpet.
[Jonathan:] Yeah but what if someone cheats and does it?
[speaker016:] Well I said to dad
[June:] Well I don't think they'll know what'll it weigh until they weigh it.
[speaker016:] well he was in Stuart and that was for...
[Jonathan:] Hooray!
[speaker016:] and I thought well we're a ha... a healthy family... I said you never know when you want help... so I said but I've got twenty p here, I'll have one ticket... he said well my dear that one ticket come out... can come out!... He said
[June:] You just
[speaker016:] I should like to see you win having one ticket... cos you've patronised us.
[June:] Mm.
[speaker016:] I said well, I don't pass you by but I'll have one ticket.
[June:] I never did
[speaker016:] We don't
[June:] get my things from Encyclopedia Brittanica did I?
[speaker016:] Yeah that was a... con weren't it!
[June:] Con weren't it!
[Jonathan:] Why didn't they give you it?
[June:] Don't know... I won third prize on the draw... and I
[Jonathan:] That's the
[June:] never did get it.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] I said well why don't you se... she said well you've gotta come and pick the books, I said well... I can't come all that way, I said it's hardly worth my while, I said why don't
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] you send me gift token?
[speaker016:] I won number twenty eight... in the Daily Mail, I got
[speaker017:] Did you hear about that? Do you know
[June:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] what she got?
[June:] How much you gonna win?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[speaker017:] Oh
[speaker016:] Erm
[speaker017:] A lot of that money won
[speaker016:] Well... five
[speaker017:] was er
[speaker016:] five thousand.
[speaker017:] makes you wanna
[June:] Well I hope you win it.
[speaker016:] Ten thousand for first one, well I shan't get that cos I got five or six on that one.
[speaker017:] lot of that was i in insurance bonds.
[speaker016:] But I want twenty eight on that one... and I want two on there.
[Jonathan:] What would you do with five thousand?
[speaker017:] But people go and work a lot and
[June:] Spend it... save it.
[speaker017:] insurance.
[June:] No you wouldn't save it all would you?
[speaker016:] I shall buy you a shed
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Or a tree house.
[speaker016:] And Jonathan a shed, John and Julian a shed and I shall get all the other little boys the equivalent of what you're shed cost.
[speaker017:] But I mean a lot on the railway
[June:] A lot, wouldn't have a lot left!
[speaker016:] I wouldn't bother! I said to dad I've never had a lot
[Geoffrey:] And
[speaker016:] I used to have a little bit... and I shall see the same with my little boys and girls
[Jonathan:] Yeah I'd leave some for them instead of a tree.
[speaker017:] He took her
[speaker016:] What do you want then?
[Jonathan:] Instead of a shed
[speaker017:] more people.
[Jonathan:] and instead of a tree house
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] I'd like a little second hand.
[speaker017:] But you see there's a lot of people who
[speaker016:] Oh I've heard that today, there was some little bikes like that
[speaker017:] drawing... drawing
[Jonathan:] Yeah!
[June:] He's always wanted a.
[speaker017:] on the way out!
[Jonathan:] I love them!
[speaker016:] You couldn't ride it!... You'd get with your bike on the lawn so we
[June:] Do you remember that time you and James and Marie had Julian's.
[Jonathan:] Cor yeah that was
[June:] And nearly hit the police car
[speaker016:] Police car.
[June:] didn't they?
[Jonathan:] Yeah right, I was
[June:] But i
[Jonathan:] coming round the corner
[speaker016:] And daddy
[June:] Who?
[Jonathan:] you know grandma
[speaker016:] Julian.
[speaker017:] Seen the paper,
[June:] What's the matter with him?
[speaker016:] Well he was... up all night with tummy ache!
[speaker017:] and er
[Jonathan:] Well it is grandma look
[speaker016:] and he said he'd he'd got!
[speaker017:] got the money for the
[Jonathan:] I was on
[speaker016:] But he looked very sad this afternoon.
[speaker017:] there's someone out in the woods!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.... Yes.
[Jonathan:] I hope James then hit me.
[speaker016:] So I rang Alfie back
[Jonathan:] save it for the...
[speaker017:] and is
[Jonathan:] and the ceiling got jammed
[speaker017:] and they come
[June:] And they nearly hit it.
[speaker017:] for his compost!
[Jonathan:] the brake... they was going... [shouting] stop []!
[speaker017:] Well what do they
[Jonathan:] Gilly goes [shouting] Ken!... Ken []! I go... he's jammed!... And he went
[speaker016:] Well she answered it and I said
[Jonathan:] Bang!
[speaker016:] aren't you very well, he well I've
[Jonathan:] He went Ahhh!
[speaker016:] I've had stomach ache grandma, all night.
[speaker017:] money
[speaker016:] Well daddy said he does look bad!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] No don't put them near the table!
[speaker016:] He said he looked a bit better this afternoon, I said did you see Julian? He said yes, he looked a bit better this afternoon.
[speaker017:] Must of
[June:] Oh good.... There's nothing worse than stomach ache though
[speaker016:] No.
[June:] is there?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] No you mustn't do... don't
[speaker016:] Ooh you mustn't bite him!
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] .
[Jonathan:] [shouting] Yeah []!... Hello!
[June:] isn't he... he's eating hot bread isn't he?
[Geoffrey:] May well pick up the bit of pa a paper.
[June:] Geoff's
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] been trying to look for a bit of paper and I opened a book today and found it!
[speaker017:] One of... one of the sons is... has resigned out of like the.
[Geoffrey:] I don't know dad.
[speaker017:] Yeah, that was on... that was on
[speaker016:] Ooh yes there's been no ending about it it's
[speaker017:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Go on put me in there!
[speaker017:] I wish I could
[speaker016:] Horrible old man.
[June:] What you done?
[Jonathan:] I won't leave until you put me in the.
[speaker017:] He must of known something about that.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] I will not leave until you put it
[speaker016:] Geoff.
[Geoffrey:] What?
[speaker017:] Robert Maxwell.
[speaker016:] That old Maxwell.
[June:] Oh ey.
[Jonathan:] Daddy!...
[June:] Well he lived like a millionaire an lived like erm
[speaker016:] I've got
[June:] lived like erm... royalty and he'd got no money had he?
[speaker016:] Well I said to Dad he really makes me laugh you know.
[Jonathan:] Mummy tell daddy to put me in the hall.
[speaker016:] I said I wish I could happy go lucky like that... I don't think she re, she rings me up, you don't wanna ring me!
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER] Maybe she's []!
[speaker016:] Now then
[June:] I'm at work.
[speaker016:] she can afford to r... can't afford to ring you!
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker016:] What's it she said the other day... something about
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker016:] oh well if you come and stay the night she said I was only saying
[Jonathan:] Mummy!
[speaker016:] about him!
[Geoffrey:] Well do you know now... if you were cut off
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] the telephone
[Jonathan:] Mum!
[June:] Just a minute!
[Jonathan:] Will you tell daddy to pull the cord.
[Geoffrey:] not only... do you have to pay
[Jonathan:] Please?
[Geoffrey:] thirty six pound to be cut off
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] but they also can ask for two hundred and fifty pound, for... up front er as a
[speaker016:] Ready for when you use it again?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Can they?... Ooh we better make sure we pay ours on time then.
[speaker016:] They all do
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] cos I've sa
[Jonathan:] Mummy, can you tell daddy to put in
[speaker016:] I do, I pay mine.
[Jonathan:] the figure four?
[speaker016:] I say to daddy, when I got the money mate... and I've now... I'm now putting ten pound a week for fat Harry.
[Jonathan:] I got a bigger ball.
[speaker016:] So I shan't have to worry there
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker016:] any more. And if I win anything
[Jonathan:] Ooh!
[speaker016:] up there I shall put
[Geoffrey:] Mind out!
[speaker016:] it upstairs.
[Jonathan:] Mummy what are you
[June:] Yeah that's a bit of a worry, the rent, isn't it
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] for you?
[Geoffrey:] No, come off there!
[speaker016:] Well she's a horrible
[Jonathan:] Mummy
[speaker016:] That's what Ann said... ooh if we ever owe her rent the dear old soul will say oh well next week'll do
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER] Oh []!
[speaker016:] then I take this over
[June:] There aren't many people say that nowadays
[speaker016:] No!
[June:] is there?
[Jonathan:] Mummy?
[speaker017:] No, that's right, you go up there
[Jonathan:] Why did you tell you daddy, but why can't I
[speaker017:] and she won't have it!
[Jonathan:] either... come in the figure four
[speaker017:] she
[Jonathan:] or let me lay on my belly
[speaker017:] now!
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Jonathan:] And put Woofy over my shoulders.
[speaker017:] Everybody's.
[Geoffrey:] Forensic examination.
[June:] No don't be silly!
[Jonathan:] No
[speaker017:] South Africans.
[Jonathan:] When you have to put in a bit of
[speaker016:] I bet you Blackie's... full length of a... man.
[June:] I bet she is.
[speaker016:] That's where she wanted to go.
[Geoffrey:] What did I say erm
[Jonathan:] She's ain't on the mantel piece.... Mum can
[speaker016:] She won't be able to
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah
[Jonathan:] at all.
[Geoffrey:] no erm... Jim was saying that old
[June:] He don't want to.
[Geoffrey:] boy who works for him
[Jonathan:] Please?
[June:] I don't like him Geoff!
[Geoffrey:] he's married... again.
[June:] That dark haired one
[speaker016:] There's two of them.
[June:] I don't like him!
[Geoffrey:] This one's got blonde curly hair.
[June:] Ooh no that's the dark one.... I'm not keen on him.
[speaker016:] Well we get alright with him don't we?
[Geoffrey:] There's
[speaker016:] There's two.
[June:] A biggish feller, with dark hair.
[Geoffrey:] Tall?
[June:] Well fairly tall, fairly... sort of stocky build.
[speaker016:] Stocky.
[Geoffrey:] Well you know, you know who that is?
[June:] No.
[Geoffrey:] Well you know erm
[speaker016:] 's son!
[Geoffrey:] Toffee apple bloke
[speaker016:] Yes, it's his eldest boy he's alright.
[Geoffrey:] It's his son, who's... related to... Jim through marriage.
[June:] Well this is... her... is it her brother, is?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] We only found that out the other day!
[speaker016:] Was a what?
[June:] A Pogey
[Geoffrey:] That's right.
[speaker016:] Oh yeah.... Mm.
[speaker017:] Well she
[Geoffrey:] She used to live down Southall Road.
[speaker016:] Did she?... But he's a nice old boy isn't he?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] I have a chat with him
[June:] Well that policem... that police woman was telling us about Southall Road di
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] weren't she?
[speaker016:] Well that's always been a rough
[June:] She's ever
[speaker016:] area.
[June:] so nice, she lives in the village, she's erm... what is she, Indian or something?
[Geoffrey:] That's right she
[June:] or
[Geoffrey:] yeah but she comes, she's... well she's a... originally Indian isn't she?
[June:] Yes but
[speaker016:] Where does she live then.
[June:] She lived in Walton Pier
[Geoffrey:] Opposite where Mrs lives now.
[Jonathan:] Will you tickle
[June:] In them bungalows, little bungalows.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah lives down the side.
[Jonathan:] Will you tickle me to death!
[speaker016:] Oh!
[Jonathan:] Will you tickle me to death and put
[June:] Well she co... and cor, do you know she'd got... beautiful nails!
[speaker016:] Yeah?
[June:] Yeah I couldn't really help no, I thought to myself ooh my God, I put mine like that!
[speaker016:] [LAUGHTER]
[Jonathan:] Daddy.
[June:] But, she was extremely nice weren't she Geoff?
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] The first time I see her in the... police station, no, will you pack up please, now pack it up!... [shouting] Pack it up []!
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] So erm
[June:] Get your shirt on.
[Geoffrey:] the time I saw her in the police station, she looked... she'd got... jeans on
[speaker016:] Oh yeah.
[Geoffrey:] and a cardigan.
[June:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] What the hell's she then, you know?
[speaker016:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] She wore exactly the same clothes when she come to June.
[speaker016:] Mm.
[June:] Oh!... I said to her
[Geoffrey:] got a
[June:] I said I don't mind this doing statement, I said, but I am not going to court!... So she said well I'll put that on the thing, but she said if it goes to Crown Court you'll have to, I said well
[speaker016:] Mm.
[June:] they'll have to take me, I said but I'm not going.
[speaker016:] Who was that through then?
[June:] Erm
[speaker016:] Not?
[June:] No, who was that I'd gotta... a statement about then?
[Geoffrey:] It was them erm
[June:] .
[Geoffrey:] .
[speaker016:] Cos he's in the paper isn't he, old?
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] Yeah.... Well I said Geoff might have to go to that because he was driving Geoff's car, if I remember rightly!... Without us knowing, weren't he?
[speaker016:] Yep... he hadn't got a license or
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER] Poor man []!
[speaker016:] something had he?
[June:] [shouting] No []!
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[Geoffrey:] He, he
[June:] She did, and he drove it!... Alan said another bugger!
[speaker016:] Mm.
[June:] They're all at it!
[speaker016:] Well that's what I've been saying to dad as well, I said the times I said we've had cheques come back!... Oh well I don't write your cheque!
[June:] I said... I ta
[speaker016:] I said no, cos I said I won't accept it!
[June:] Well that's a funny thing
[speaker016:] Now then he said! I said no I wouldn't... I said cos I don't accept cheques.
[June:] that's a funny thing on the phone when he said about... paying... I said a hundred a six pound complete... so I said and don't give me a cheque cos I don't want one!
[speaker016:] No... he said I don't... ready money is what I like to get.
[June:] Do you know where was he gonna pay the money from?
[speaker016:] Dunno
[June:] If he ain't got it!
[speaker016:] dunno whether he has or not do you?
[June:] He thought he was gonna have it on tip again I think.
[speaker016:] I went to that boy... but he was a lovely boy!
[June:] Well we all see the other tenner but that don't make any difference, as long as we got the main.
[speaker016:] Mm, well you don't know, you never know do you?
[June:] Well what have
[speaker016:] I should
[June:] we gotta say if he comes to want to hire a car? No?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] No.
[speaker016:] Ooh I shall, I told him!... I, he won't come to me hey, he might to you, but he won't come here!
[June:] He won't get one off of me!
[speaker016:] I said no I got on the phone
[June:] I shall say to him you was rude to my mother-in-law and
[speaker016:] I sa
[June:] that's it!
[speaker016:] I said that's... business I said and I'm afraid we can't... carry on like that.
[June:] But i, I don't think he can go to anybody else.... I think that's why he comes here cos nobody
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] else wants to entertain him.
[speaker016:] So I said have you tried Healey He said er... no I haven't got time for doing that.... I thought no!
[June:] Well he told me he nearly strangled him!
[speaker016:] But I thought it was Rent-a-Van?
[June:] No, Healey
[speaker016:] Oh.
[June:] No he said, I can't bear him, he said I nearly bloody strangled him!
[speaker016:] Oh.
[June:] I thought to myself it's a pity someone didn't strangle you mate!
[speaker016:] He... he come right in the farm... back to the farm... you'd be surprised the people that walk in my house, don't they daddy?
[speaker017:] Mm.
[speaker016:] They walk straight in you know!... Into the kitchen.
[June:] They shouldn't really should they?
[speaker016:] No but they do!... And very often at night, if I don't lock up that first door... they're through there
[June:] Yeah you're wise to lock it really.
[speaker016:] ah well there's like a second one
[Geoffrey:] Mr always come in in the conservatory.
[speaker016:] Yeah... yes he does... yeah... he always does.
[June:] He's a rough and ready man isn't he?
[speaker016:] Yes.
[June:] Mind you, your money's always there
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] and you know where you stand with him.
[speaker016:] She's erm
[Jonathan:] Come on,
[speaker016:] one of the head te, well her, I don't know what happened!... Cos they were supposed to move you see!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Cos his... house was! And it
[Geoffrey:] No, you do what you want with your house!
[speaker016:] Well Aunt Sadie said a long time ago
[Jonathan:] Ohhhh!
[speaker016:] there was two of them
[Geoffrey:] I don't care what Aunt Sadie said, he's had sixteen thousand pounds
[Jonathan:] Rargh!
[Geoffrey:] spent on his house and had it all.
[speaker016:] Now?
[Geoffrey:] No, this was done a long while ago,
[June:] Who paid for that then Geoff?
[Geoffrey:] Well, there's been a court case over it. In the end... he isn't they who, he sued the insurance company... and this, the er... solicitor he had weren't getting on very good and they suggested this bloke... and he got onto it and he got on it, fifteen thousand quid out of sixteen thousand quids.
[speaker016:] Well I know a long while ago
[June:] Good God, that's good innit?
[speaker016:] Aunt Sadie said
[Geoffrey:] better than, yeah.
[June:] Who's his solicitor, I think we ought to get in contact with him?
[Geoffrey:] telling me.... But he said erm
[speaker016:] Aunt Sadie said they've had to move out
[Jonathan:] ...
[speaker016:] But she's coming to the
[Geoffrey:] That was nothing to do with it!... Erm
[speaker016:] Well that's what she said.
[June:] Yeah
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] that's what I was saying about Geoff's car really... you know that chap taking it and... righting off... and we didn't got a penny for it, I ca, I can't see how that's right!
[speaker016:] And what do you pay insurance for?
[June:] Well that's it!... Well erm
[Jonathan:] Mummy!
[June:] well I suppose their motto is, she had a C D ten on her driving licence, I suppose she shouldn't of had it in the first place... so... if she hadn't of had it, he wouldn't of got it!
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER] []!
[June:] But that still ain't the point! Geoff did not hire it to him!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] He hired it to her... whether she'd got a C D ten
[speaker016:] Well that's that girl that had the
[June:] yeah but... if she'd of had the accident... they could of said... no, she's got a C D ten on her driving licence, she shouldn't have been driving it!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well fair comment.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[June:] But he weren't even supposed to have it, so
[speaker016:] No.
[June:] that ma, I said to Geoff, to me,... you know, we'd like to get a solicitor on it... but you see we
[speaker016:] But you weren't aware she'd, he'd got it was you?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] No!
[Geoffrey:] .
[June:] Oh well she
[speaker016:] I mean she, she really should of been summonsed for
[June:] Well I tell you something, I think you ought to... compile a letter together to somebody, and try and sort some... it isn't gonna cost you nothing to write a letter!
[Geoffrey:] To who?
[June:] Well I don't know who!... I just don't know what to think!... I don't know who... well I don't know whether you ought to write to the chief constable and explain the situation, all the
[speaker016:] I reckon she should of
[June:] aggro we've had of... and forms and then writing letters to him
[speaker016:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] and being lost and
[speaker016:] she should of took them keys out shouldn't she?
[June:] Well... that wouldn't of helped i
[Geoffrey:] She had, you see but... see it's like... shall we say... dad hiring a car
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] pack it up Jonathan before I get bloody cross!
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] It's like dad hiring a car... come home here and put the keys on the mantel piece
[June:] And somebody taking them!
[Geoffrey:] And then me picking up the keys... living here... and taking it down the road!
[speaker016:] Yeah well I mean he must have gone in the hospital to her mustn't he?
[Geoffrey:] No, no, no, no... he lived with her... and she, she was
[June:] She di, she didn't ha
[Geoffrey:] at work.
[June:] The car was at home.
[speaker016:] Oh I thought you said it was in a hospital yard when he took it!
[Geoffrey:] No!
[speaker016:] Oh!
[Geoffrey:] It was in the caravan where they lived.
[June:] And he took it.... Yeah but then he knew he had
[speaker016:] Well she must of left the keys in!
[Geoffrey:] No!
[June:] No she left the keys in the house.
[Geoffrey:] In the caravan where she wo, lived!
[speaker016:] Well I mean she must have left he keys at home.
[Geoffrey:] Well yes.
[June:] Yeah but you don't t, if you're not using the car
[Geoffrey:] As far as I know.
[June:] you don't carry a... well a
[Geoffrey:] ours at home.
[June:] And he picked it up
[Geoffrey:] She'd left them... in the caravan, and he just see the keys
[June:] Well that's it, as far as I'm concerned, it's theft!... And that is all
[speaker016:] Well it is!
[June:] And he was convicted of theft!
[Geoffrey:] He was, see that... they are saying, it is not theft... to be theft
[June:] Well course it is!
[Geoffrey:] he would have to break into that caravan
[speaker016:] To get the keys.
[Geoffrey:] and take the keys.
[June:] Well then yo, you should have rung her up and said did he break in the caravan? She should of said yes, and then we perhaps would of got paid out!
[Geoffrey:] He lived with her!... It was his caravan!
[June:] Yeah but she'd kicked him out anyway, hadn't she?
[Geoffrey:] No!
[June:] Well that's a pity she ain't said she had!
[Geoffrey:] No, they was living together... they'd only been living there a fortnight!... Cos they
[June:] Well I'd I'd I just cannot see how it's fair!
[speaker016:] You see
[Geoffrey:] What isn't fair?
[speaker016:] who was that man come here about insurance? He said they're alright
[June:] Until you want paying out!
[speaker016:] till you want some money
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] he said, I find mine... just the same, I've dealt with them for years... but as soon you want anything... although, I must say, with the break in... we've got on alright didn't we?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well that's a different sort of kettle of fish.
[Geoffrey:] when you think about it.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] You claimed, both of you claimed... they were straight away gonna chip you back... and offer you about sixty pound for them....
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] And if hadn't of got on the phone and... sort of made a song and dance about it, and told one or two things, and said one or two things... they come up with a bit more money, but again you have to lie through your teeth to get back what you're really entitled to!
[speaker016:] Mm, but I mean when I showed that bloke them... first time, when I showed him them... cuff links
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] he said, now look... you lost eighty pound out of that draw... I said yes I did... they'll only allow you fifty... so he says I'll say... these cuff links are worth thirty pound, so he was on my side weren't he?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] He said they won't know no different... he said then that'll rectify you're eighty
[June:] Well that's bloody right,yo...
[speaker016:] and he was with me weren't he?
[speaker017:] Have you told
[June:] Well I'd
[speaker017:] have you told them big insurance company... come and unstuck a little and what he had... like Gail done, was like we had last year
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] and the... they... th,th,th, it nearly, they said it would nearly bankrupt two or three... these are
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] big companies.
[speaker016:] Well you see Mr once told us
[speaker017:] Well they said they will, they think will be by the time they've... paid up... cos they hadn't really paid up... for, for last years yet!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] I mean he said down Southall Road... they was always claiming down there for an armchair
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] I said to Pete... he went one Saturday morning, there was grass under one of the chairs!... He said oh I've come a bit too early have I?... He said well don't you claim off us any more!... [LAUGHTER] She'd doesn't put up with them []!
[June:] Bloody hell!
[speaker016:] It's because I've... I wi... filled the form in and... and he said well you have to be more careful!... Well... they'd always got an excuse... but he said, she couldn't deny that cos I [LAUGHTER] see it []!... So he sa, I said to her well I'd rather you not be insured with us!... So he said [LAUGHTER] whether she do have somebody else, I don't know []!
[June:] Ooh!
[speaker016:] He said
[speaker017:] these... these... fireman today they can, they can tell you whether the fire was
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] With
[speaker017:] Yeah. or not.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah
[June:] With all this er
[speaker016:] They can
[speaker017:] they're pretty smart
[June:] this forensic stuff and that, they can do anything.
[Geoffrey:] now Jonathan... we are going.
[speaker016:] You gotta go home now.
[June:] Are we now?
[Geoffrey:] And I mean going!
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[June:] Right I'll get my coat on then.
[Geoffrey:] We aren't gonna hang about for you... cos you, I will
[speaker016:] You'll have to stop.
[June:] Yeah mum's gotta wash up and pack the sandwiches.
[speaker016:] You'll have to stop... the night.
[Geoffrey:] Come on!
[speaker016:] And I'll put you on
[Jonathan:] [shouting] Ahhh []
[speaker016:] I'll put you on my bike.
[June:] You'll have him from Friday.
[Jonathan:] Ah!
[speaker016:] Why I'll Friday night?
[Jonathan:] Ha I'm hurt!
[June:] Well the I ain't gotta bother to bring him down [LAUGHTER] Saturday morning []!
[speaker016:] That's alright with me.
[Jonathan:] Do you wanna stay with grandma Friday night?
[Geoffrey:] Put your pullover on... please.
[June:] Dad bring you sometime Friday.
[Jonathan:] Why can't I
[June:] no
[Jonathan:] stay Thursday as well then?
[speaker016:] No you can't stay Thursday night cos I go out.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] That's grandma's night out... and that's
[speaker017:] Cheerio.
[June:] grandma's birthday.
[speaker017:] what you wanna do in Wisbech... no?
[Jonathan:] Yeah,.
[speaker017:] Build an.
[speaker016:] What a shame!
[June:] Come on!
[speaker017:] Like a...
[Jonathan:] Shall I turn it off now?
[June:] No leave it, that's alright for a minute!
[speaker017:] No we...
[Jonathan:] Have we put, oh no!... I've pressed play daddy
[June:] Come on else you'll get your dad cross.
[Jonathan:] Well I've
[Geoffrey:] Well yeah.
[Jonathan:] pressed play and I've
[June:] He's gonna do what?
[speaker017:] ...
[Jonathan:] Mum, I've pressed
[June:] Come on!
[Jonathan:] play, I haven't pressed record!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] Yeah.
[speaker017:] and then went up
[speaker016:] Come on!
[speaker017:] up er... pleasure boats and all that.
[speaker016:] Oh!
[June:] It's cold when you get in the car innit?
[speaker016:] Yeah... well I ain't been out since
[speaker017:] Well I should
[speaker016:] Ooh I got my washing to do.
[speaker017:] cos...
[June:] I shouldn't bother with it.
[speaker016:] Ooh yes I shall be.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... yeah.
[speaker016:] I'd better get it done
[June:] That was lovely grandma
[speaker017:] I should
[June:] thank you.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[speaker016:] And there's the letter.
[June:] [shouting] Jonathan get your shirt on cos we're ready
[speaker017:] otherwise
[June:] to go []!
[speaker016:] Tell him
[speaker017:] I don't know why they
[June:] Did you really?
[speaker017:] ...
[Jonathan:] Can I have some more shandy please?
[speaker016:] and I'll just put my clothes and go.
[speaker017:] They go round to Dartford.
[Jonathan:] Grandma!
[Geoffrey:] Yes.
[Jonathan:] Can I have some more shandy please?
[June:] You can see the little light look Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Well you can turn it off now Geoff.... [yawn] Ooh I'm cold!
[Jonathan:] I did.
[Geoffrey:] Did you?
[Jonathan:] Do you know we won't... mummy.
[June:] What's that mate?
[Jonathan:] I bet that don't work.
[June:] Well we'll see.
[Jonathan:] Cos I'll tell you why, is quieter... he fell over from the ground!
[June:] Well I don't, I wouldn't like to say would you Geoff?
[Jonathan:] You haven't.
[June:] This is pretty this car innit?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] All them lights! That must cost a fortune to have them on!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Ooh!...
[June:] We'll be going into a warm house, that's one thing.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I don't find it very warm at your mum's, do you?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Jonathan:] Cor!... I'm sweating!
[June:] Well you've got a bit of a cold.
[Jonathan:] [yawn]
[June:] Well you can't have not medicine because you've had erm
[Jonathan:] Mm.
[June:] alcohol.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Oh why
[June:] Oh I shouldn't say that, should I really?
[Jonathan:] medicine.
[June:] Well it wouldn't do you a lot of good with erm... sherry.... I think she was pleased to see us.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I don't suppose they get a lot company do they?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Not at all.
[Jonathan:] Mum.... What's on tonight? Specials innit?
[June:] Oh I ain't bothered, I'm not watching telly anyway, I want to get the... you two will have to help me out, when I get home.
[Jonathan:] Doing what?
[June:] Well dad can start packing his lunch up while I wash up if he likes.
[Jonathan:] Good idea.
[June:] Erm... you can get yourself to bed!... Ooh no you can get in the bath!... Ooh look he's got all his lights up... ooh blimey they've got some lights!
[Jonathan:] Oh, a special ain't on tonight is it? That's on Thursdays.... [singing] dun dun dee dun
[June:] What is the time?
[Geoffrey:] half past eight.
[Jonathan:] doo doo doo [] dee dun.
[June:] Well not unless you want to get up in the morning and have a bath Jonathan, it's up to you.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] But you mustn't hang about in the morning then, neither!
[Jonathan:] No I won't.
[June:] I'll wake you up at quarter past seven, you can get straight in.
[Jonathan:] Oh yeah.... Are you... ooh you've had a bath haven't you?....
[June:] Dad did, yeah just before he went out today.
[Jonathan:] Why do you?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah I've.
[Jonathan:] Oh... I wondered where he was... did you get home early?
[Geoffrey:] Er... I was home at quarter to three.
[Jonathan:] So you'd beaten me?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] .
[Geoffrey:] [yawn] I was pleased really cos er... that way I never sort of missed any overtime.
[Jonathan:] [singing] na na na na na na noo ooh ooh [].
[June:] Well yeah that's right.
[Geoffrey:] after a couple of hours overtime,.
[June:] Well I don't know, it's fairly important Geoff.
[Geoffrey:] Well yeah, but I mean I got the si... it's another you can't afford it to live then!
[Jonathan:] [singing] nee now now now na now now now
[June:] Well not that's right.
[Geoffrey:] It's only there for a certain amount of time.
[Jonathan:] [singing] you look neat, talk about a treat... talk about... you look better than... doo doo doo, doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo... you look smart... oh []
[June:] You think of all the... lights what are on... all them electric bills!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] All the po... the population, you'd think blimey there must be... billions
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] of pounds spent on electricity mustn't there?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] [singing] dressed in style, []
[June:] Mind you can't mana... well I suppose you could manage without it but... that wouldn't be so easy would it? Well yeah.
[Geoffrey:] They managed them years ago.
[June:] Well I'm surprised people don't do that.
[Geoffrey:] Well... now you've gotta generate it... you gotta have electric going outside so you don't... you gotta put these in ain't you?
[June:] Well yeah.
[Geoffrey:] So it's no cheaper... just
[June:] Well no, that's right.
[Geoffrey:] [yawn]
[June:] They never did sell that did they?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] I'm surprised Pete didn't try and get that.
[Geoffrey:] They were talking about it.
[June:] Oh did they tell you what he was on about erm
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] i... who's that firm at the side of him who's just gone
[Geoffrey:] Oh I know
[June:] liquidation or whatever it is.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... I know... Stokes Barton
[June:] Yeah, he wants to buy that bit of land, he said I don't care if I have to mortgage myself up to the hills he said!
[Geoffrey:] Well that's nothing to do Stokes Barton anyway.
[June:] Who's it to do with?
[Geoffrey:] Russell, he owns it.
[June:] Oh, I shall have to tell him then he a
[Geoffrey:] Just Stokes Barton rent it.... Doesn't it.
[June:] Ahhh yeah, I shall have to tell him then.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah I'm sure he'll find Russell own that...
[June:] Ahhh I shall have to tell him then, he said cos that'll come up for sale then.
[Geoffrey:] I don't think so.
[June:] Oh he wants to go to Russell then don't he?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... well... well actually Russell don't own, cos she's still alive, and his mother owns it, and she's still alive.
[June:] What was that just shot round that?
[Geoffrey:] Dunno.
[June:] Some boys with white trainers on, I thought it was a cat!
[Geoffrey:] [yawning] Yeah [].
[Jonathan:] No they're holding the cats.
[Geoffrey:] Oh dear!
[June:] Do you know poor old Nicky wanders about that bloody place, you don't know what to do with yourself!
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] He had Jason's car today!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah?... Ah that's... I think... I dunno, perhaps it isn't because he was on about having his car serviced weren't he?... And I thought he said something about his car, that's why today.
[June:] Oh!... cat's in the hall look.... Wait a minute Geoff!
[Jonathan:] Have you got the tape on?
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Oh... [singing] Mm mm [].... Well where's that thing
[June:] You'll have to have Marmite Geoff, in them.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah that'll be fine.
[Jonathan:] What is that tape actually for then?
[Geoffrey:] Just a research thing that's all innit.... Could you move your arm out please?... Or let me come underneath.
[June:] Well I said what he ought to do tonight, is be going to bed and have an early because do you know every flipping
[Geoffrey:] I think I shall have one of those.
[June:] night... he's been going to bed at ten, eleven o... see that was... quarter past ten last night before you went to
[Geoffrey:] Ah what do you, what did you do with the bit of paper you had, for me?
[Jonathan:] [singing] I'm in the mood... [].
[June:] That's a good job I found... now you said it was a letter head paper, well that ain't a letter head paper!
[Geoffrey:] I thought it was but
[June:] Well I would of probably found that, if I'd known.
[Geoffrey:] You said had the
[June:] I'm gonna put out that blooming old stuff... these old
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] bu bu.
[Geoffrey:] I said I'll wash up.
[June:] Oh no I'm not ready.
[Geoffrey:] Now then let me have a look.
[June:] Oh my knee, it feels like I've pulled it out of joint or something!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] ... oh well you sleep on sherry though... it makes you sleepy, you can't not sleep.
[June:] Well mummy's going to bed too, and I'm tired.
[Jonathan:] What is it?
[June:] I'm gonna read for a little while but I feel
[Geoffrey:] Now
[June:] like a.
[Geoffrey:] where does this come out?
[June:] I likes them all nice.
[Geoffrey:] Oh that's perhaps not on there anyway.
[Jonathan:] Mm mm.
[June:] You what?
[Geoffrey:] Hello!
[June:] Hey! lot to wash up!
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Jonathan:] Harry's mum is usually nice and cheerful isn't she?
[June:] You what?
[Jonathan:] Harry's mum is usually nice and cheerful.
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Not when I'm round there!
[June:] Why?
[Jonathan:] The other t, the last time... yeeh!
[June:] Why what was the matter with her?
[Jonathan:] Dangerous!
[June:] Why?
[Jonathan:] And deadly!
[June:] Why?
[Jonathan:] Woh man!... She turned dangerous!
[June:] Why?... What was you doing?
[Jonathan:] And nasty!... Nothing!
[June:] Who was she nasty with then?
[Jonathan:] Harry.
[June:] Why what did yo... well what was he doing?
[Jonathan:] Well we were just.
[June:] Well I should think she did, I'll... if you'd have done that in my room the... and filled my room up with with a gas I shouldn't of been very pleased either would you Geoff?
[Jonathan:] But not with gas.
[Geoffrey:] No
[June:] Old sofa weren't it?
[Jonathan:] Going.
[June:] Was it some sulphur thing or something?
[Jonathan:] What sulphate?
[June:] Something like that, well
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Well I don't think I would of been very pleased if you'd put a... go in the room for an hour!
[Jonathan:] Hey right... we spilt a bit on the table and it goes
[Geoffrey:] [cough]
[Jonathan:] cheee... have a guess.
[June:] Yeah well you shouldn't do things like that!
[Jonathan:] But it literally... sort of burnt the edge of the corner!... The edge of the table I mean.
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] It just went black!
[Geoffrey:] Are you going to bed then?
[Jonathan:] In a minute.
[Geoffrey:] Well can you shut up a minute cos I think straight with you rabbiting in my ears!
[Jonathan:] But
[June:] [cough]
[Jonathan:] we've put another tape in.
[Geoffrey:] Well I ain't gonna sit here listening to you rabbit on just cos mum wanted that filling up!
[June:] Well no, well turn it off while dad's doing his books he So you really had an enjoyable day yesterday.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Did you then?... I fed erm... er Ginger.
[Jonathan:] Have you?... Well every morning I say goodbye to her, I say bye bye Ginge!
[June:] You don't!
[Jonathan:] I do, I say bye bye Ginge!... He goes meow!
[June:] Bet you don't wake him a lot!
[Jonathan:] Right, every time I say bye bye Ginge he goes meow!
[June:] You look tired today, are you?
[Jonathan:] Yes.
[June:] That's all that sherry you had last night I should think... isn't it?
[Jonathan:] Yeah probably.... I like that little duck.
[June:] Yeah I do, I think it's lovely, but you shouldn't of spent your money, I told you!
[Jonathan:] I was gonna buy dad a little camel.
[June:] Well we've got a little camel ain't we? What you bought us... what, what you got once before when we out for the day.
[Jonathan:] Yeah, a really small one.
[June:] Well it don't matter.... He won't le, expect you to buy us anything, I gave you the money to spend on yourself you don't ha
[Jonathan:] John bought everybody in his family something, for him, his mum, his sister and his dad.
[June:] Did he now?
[Jonathan:] And it was his money!
[June:] How much did he spend then? Blimey he did well!
[Jonathan:] He couldn't do the last thing... cos
[June:] [cough]
[Jonathan:] because... I was gonna buy you... it was ninety five P.
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] And that one was one forty but... this, it was a little ball.
[June:] Oh yeah?
[Jonathan:] And
[June:] But you shouldn't of spent your money, I told you it was for you, not for me!
[Jonathan:] Yeah, you did yeah.
[June:] The thought is there, I know, that's very nice but... your coat?
[Jonathan:] Cor they had load of pencils... they were forty five
[June:] Have you got your trousers done up?
[Jonathan:] they had big, that big... that big... and that big.
[June:] Pull your trousers up properly! Why don't you wear that belt?
[Jonathan:] No oh!
[June:] Why?
[Jonathan:] No!
[June:] Oh.... What have you got all over your jumper?
[Jonathan:] The wool!... I dunno.
[June:] Oh dear... I didn't know that, well the other one's in the wash so you'll have to wear it... won't you?
[Jonathan:] Mm mm.
[June:] I've only just got it in the washing machine.
[Jonathan:] Mm mm mm.
[June:] That's yogurt I should think... come here, see if I can get it off... with a cloth.
[Jonathan:] No!
[June:] Why?
[Jonathan:] Can't be!
[June:] Well course it can, from yesterday!
[Jonathan:] Oh I thought put it on washing machine.
[June:] No I've got the other one in the washing machine you got dirty.
[Jonathan:] ... cor!
[June:] is there?... Come here, let's help you on with it.
[Jonathan:] Right, yesterday... on the way to scho, on the way to the bus... we had to wait about five minutes I was slowly going... see and I fell onto Christopher because wurgh er er... and
[June:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] he bumped into Lee and he went er er er!...
[June:] Here are, don't try and walk around with them then.
[Jonathan:] Cor yeah, it was excellent!
[June:] Alright then, bye bye.
[Jonathan:] The best bit... like I say, was when
[June:] Did you have your lunch on the bus?
[Jonathan:] No.
[June:] Where did you have it then?
[Jonathan:] Out on the si, outside, you could either have it outside or in the bus.
[June:] And you went outside did you?
[Jonathan:] Yeah cos I was hot.
[June:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] They didn't have any windows open!
[June:] Didn't they?
[Jonathan:] Nope, not one!
[June:] Oh... alright then, bye!
[Jonathan:] Bye bye!
[June:] then.
[Jonathan:] I will.
[June:] Ooh Jonathan, what about your spellings? [shouting] Yeah don't forget []!... Bye!
[Jonathan:] [shouting] []!
[June:] Hey?
[Jonathan:] What's the day?
[June:] What's today, Thursday.
[Jonathan:] Ooh....
[June:] Alright, bye! I don't think so.
[Jonathan:] No... and... right and their people they've uncovered... a path to the bigger.
[June:] No I don't think so, I think it's all fiction.
[Jonathan:] How do they get a things about fifty foot tall then?
[June:] Well I don't know Jonathan. I don't know much about the whole subject.
[Jonathan:] Cos it is... it looks a bit like Fudge.
[June:] Does it?
[Jonathan:] But with... cracks... sort of thing.
[June:] Fudge?
[Jonathan:] And this boy's just opened the path.
[June:] He what?
[Jonathan:] He's just opened the... how long have we got to finish the tapes?
[June:] Oh I don't think.
[Jonathan:] Nine, ten of them.
[June:] I don't know whether I shall or not, but I'll... they're completely full anyway.
[Jonathan:] What tape are we on?
[June:] Seven I think... nearly finished seven.
[Jonathan:] Oh we'll never do it!
[June:] Well I'm doing my best!... Well you see I ain't seen many people today.
[Jonathan:] We might get some more tomorrow.
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Have we got tomorrow?
[June:] Yeah, till half past three.
[Jonathan:] Half past three! We won't do it then.
[June:] Well I'm doing my best!
[Jonathan:] No doubt about it, we'll never get it finished!... So that means we gotta do... when, finish that one and another one today, and two more tomorrow.
[June:] I shall have to talk to myself Jonathan!
[Jonathan:] Can you?
[June:] [LAUGHTER] No []!
[Jonathan:] , won't they let you?
[June:] No!... They'll think
[Jonathan:] Why not?
[June:] I'm cuckoo if I do that!
[Jonathan:] Three!
[June:] What?
[Jonathan:] So!
[June:] Well do you want them to think your mother's cuckoo?
[Jonathan:] Yeah, well they're not gonna know who you are, are they?
[June:] Well I think so cos I have to write in the book, I have to put myself!
[Jonathan:] Yeah but you don't put... who you are on it!
[June:] I put myself.... Well who else is myself?... If that isn't me!
[Jonathan:] Yeah but they don't know who you are do they?
[June:] Well I know!
[Jonathan:] Well then!... They gonna think you're a terrible idiot but at least you get the tapes done!
[June:] Well I don't want to be a total idiot thank you!
[Jonathan:] I would!
[June:] Well I know you wouldn't care!
[Jonathan:] Can I talk to myself?
[June:] No!... It's all about conversation Jonathan, you'd hardly have a conver
[Jonathan:] Ginge!
[June:] What?
[Jonathan:] He was outside!
[June:] cat flap.
[Jonathan:] Hello!... He's oh... mum I... I'm going!... Oh!... Ah!... Ooh!... [singing] Love bite [].
[June:] Did anybody get for not behaving?
[Jonathan:] Only two people.
[June:] Who was that?
[Jonathan:] Erm... that was Mark and Jeremy... and unless somebody owns up... they were pinging a... dried pea at Lee and nearly hit Mr!
[June:] Ooh crumbs!
[Jonathan:] We won't have any more plays... ever!
[June:] What sort of plays?
[Jonathan:] All plays.
[June:] Well I, it wouldn't worry you, you aren't gonna be there!
[Jonathan:] Yes I am!... All the year.
[June:] What you mean, play time?
[Jonathan:] Yep.
[June:] Well that's hardly fair if you didn't do it!... Who did it?
[Jonathan:] They don't know who did it!...
[June:] Who do you think did it?
[Jonathan:] He's got a good idea.
[June:] Well I think the person's very selfish not to own up.
[Jonathan:] And do you know who he thinks it is?
[June:] Who Jeremy
[Jonathan:] Jeremy.
[June:] I wouldn't be surprised!
[Jonathan:] And he won't, and he wouldn't own up... ever!... He would never own up.
[June:] Well that isn't very fair on the rest of you though is it?
[Jonathan:] Mr has got... he said... if you're... don't own up... you'll put everybody in doubt.
[June:] Matthew didn't do it.... hasn't he been very well?
[Jonathan:] Dunno.... Probably, cos he wouldn't of missed a trip would he?
[June:] No.
[Jonathan:] Has that tape nearly finished?
[June:] I've no idea Jonathan... I'm not looking.
[Jonathan:] On side B.
[June:] ... well dad'll probably ha, he usually has a lot to say when he comes home from work... he's been home and rushed out so I
[Jonathan:] Oh.... [singing] []
[June:] He's had to go and get a battery for the... minibus.... I'll tell you what you can do... on the freezer there's some cat food for the cat... you can feed him that.
[Jonathan:] All of it?
[June:] No not all of it!
[Jonathan:] It's only half!
[June:] I don't know how that tin got left out there.
[Jonathan:] Nor do I.
[June:] And then you can bring yourself a couple of pizzas in.
[Jonathan:] But I can't reach the pizzas.
[June:] Yes you can, they're on the top, you reached them the other night.
[Jonathan:] These will do.... from down the bottom.
[June:] Will you please try them?
[Jonathan:] But it hurts my belly!... It hurts!
[June:] Oh go on Jonathan!
[Jonathan:] But it hurts!
[June:] Why does it hurt your belly?
[Jonathan:] Well cos I have to lean over!... On my belly!
[June:] Well how do you think mum does, she isn't half much taller than you anyway!
[Jonathan:] Yeah but you can go like that... cos you got long arms.... Would you go down a hole if it was life or death... that was just enough for you to get into
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] and
[June:] Stay in there Jonathan cos.
[Jonathan:] erm... it was about... a foot wide.
[June:] ....
[Jonathan:] Wouldn't you? Not if it was life or death?... Wouldn't you ever do it if it was life or death?
[June:] Pardon?
[Jonathan:] Would you do it if it was life or death?
[June:] Well I suppose I would have to.... I certainly wouldn't like it.
[Jonathan:] Nor would I!... It's got a load of rat holes in!
[June:] Can't smell in that.
[Jonathan:] [singing] I can get to the [].
[June:] Hurry up!
[Jonathan:] Shut the door, I want to garden.
[June:] No I ain't gonna talk to myself!
[Jonathan:] Well just keep saying something, keep talking to me!
[June:] I can't you berk, you're right outside the door!
[Jonathan:] [shouting] No I can still talk []!... Don't he look cute!
[June:] Well I'm not really keen on having a box of Lego on the dinner table.
[Jonathan:] Oh oh!
[June:] Well I don't really think it's right do you?
[Jonathan:] Yes.
[June:] Well I don't!
[Jonathan:] I do.... I'm just getting out all the good bits.
[June:] I hope dad's not gonna be too late
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] cos we was late home for tea last night weren't we?
[Jonathan:] Yep... that's my dad!... [singing] That's my daddy... he is always la la la la la late... he never comes early... early on
[June:] He's always late, that is true.
[Jonathan:] doo doo doo doo doo da [phone rings]
[June:] Oh God!
[Jonathan:] what does it mean sugar []
[June:] There goes the phone.
[Jonathan:] Wha shall I turn it off?
[June:] No, that's alright.
[Jonathan:] [singing] My I wanted to do, is said my name is Jonathan... do do, doo doo doo... doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo... do... da da da da da da da money dee da... my name is Jonathan ee ee ee dee doo doo doo... doo doo doo doo doo doo din din din din din din... my name is Jonathan din din din and it's mine... and it's mine... oh oh oh mum... mum bom bom bom bom bom, bomby om bomby om... doo de doo doo doo doo dee dee dee dee doo doo doo dee doo doo dee dee dee... I said my name is Jonathan...... come on mum []... I kept the cassette going.
[June:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] It hasn't started yet.
[June:] I want that pen.
[Jonathan:] Just so you know... [singing] mm mm, mm mm mm mm mm mm [].
[June:] All these people want cars, I can't understand it normally they don't want... this time of year.
[Jonathan:] Yeah... they've changed their mind haven't they?...... [singing] catch me up and... [].
[June:] Renault's out... that's on there... the cars he's got that
[Jonathan:] [singing] You can catch me but you can't catch me yet... []... Come on mum, they want you talking!
[June:] I know,yo, I can't talk every five minutes of the day.
[Jonathan:] Well you've got to if you want to keep the money.
[June:] Is that all you think about is money Jonathan?
[Jonathan:] Mm... I thought that's all you thought about!
[June:] No... I could do with a lot more.
[Jonathan:] That's what I mean.
[June:] That is the more I think about it though.
[Jonathan:] That's all I think about.
[June:] What?
[Jonathan:] That's all I think about... mm.
[June:] I know it is.... I hope daddy will be
[Jonathan:] Right, Clare... she said... it's not fair!... My sister... is getting the... compact disc... for five hundred and ninety nine pound... and I'm only
[June:] She's lucky then!
[Jonathan:] getting a computer for a hundred and ninety nine pound!
[June:] The price isn't the point.
[Jonathan:] Blooming heck... four... she, her blooming sister's getting five hundred, she's getting four hundred.
[June:] Well, I don't know where they get their money from!
[Jonathan:] Nor do I!... And they got a Skoda!
[June:] Well that, precisely.
[Jonathan:] Well they just gone to, they're going to Europe.
[June:] Oh are they?
[Jonathan:] Mm... that's what she said.
[June:] Did she?
[Jonathan:] Yep.
[June:] She's a funny girl isn't she Jonathan?
[Jonathan:] She's weird!... [singing]... [].
[June:] Cos she erm... she's throws a wobbly quite often don't she?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Is she like that in class?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Is She?
[Jonathan:] Yep.... [singing]
[June:] for doing it?
[Jonathan:] [].... Oh no she doesn't do it in front of Mrs.
[June:] I shouldn't think, she hates Mrs don't she?
[Jonathan:] Does she?
[June:] Yeah, I dunno why.
[Jonathan:] Mm, I bet [LAUGHTER] I do, ha []!
[June:] Why?... Well Mrs only tells her off when she's naughty.
[Jonathan:] Well she ain't really
[June:] I know she's not the most popular person, but she is right a lot of the time.
[Jonathan:] Not all the time though.
[June:] Well not all the time, nobody's right all the time, but she is a right... she is right a lot of the time Jonathan because some of them children misbehave
[Jonathan:] Who?
[June:] terribly!
[Jonathan:] Ooh they had a lot of bangers this morning!
[June:] Bangers?
[Jonathan:] Smash, crash, bash!
[June:] What was is then?
[Jonathan:] Everybody fell over.... In the first play.
[June:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] Cor right, there was one little boy... I felt sorry for him... right, he went... up, down, up, down, weee!
[June:] Want Ben... you know Ben don't you?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] He fell over, Jonathan could you take that Lego box off my table!
[Jonathan:] Mm.
[June:] He fell over... and his tooth went straight through his lip!
[Jonathan:] Urgh!
[June:] We had to take him to hospital and he had three stitches in it.
[Jonathan:] weren't it?
[June:] Yeah Ben.
[Jonathan:] I thought it was Ben?
[June:] I don't know who took him.
[Jonathan:] No it weren't Ben.
[June:] It was!
[Jonathan:] Ben... you know Lisa?
[June:] That isn't Lisa, that's erm
[Jonathan:] Emma.
[June:] no, what's her name now?
[Jonathan:] Helen?
[June:] Nope... I can't think of her name.
[Jonathan:] It is, Lisa!
[June:] It isn't Lisa... erm... she's got blonde hair hasn't she?
[Jonathan:] Dunno.
[June:] Oh, I can't think of her name now cos... I got a mental block.
[Jonathan:] It isn't Ben!... Are you talking about a boy that plays with Sarah?
[June:] Well I don't know, he only comes part-time.
[Jonathan:] Oh.... Yeah well maybe in the
[June:] Gemma... Gemma.
[Jonathan:] That isn't Ben!
[June:] Gemma and Ben are brother and sister...
[Jonathan:] How do you know it is Ben though?
[June:] What is it then?
[Jonathan:] Not Ben.
[June:] Well anyway, him then.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Did you know?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Was a lot of blood.
[Jonathan:] Mm....
[June:] How did he fall over?
[Jonathan:] Oh he'd been tripped.... Cor right, he went... woosh!
[June:] Woosh!
[Jonathan:] Woosh!... When he got up they was like that.
[June:] What?... He had a tooth, that went straight through his bottom lip.
[Jonathan:] Yeah you could see the tooth outside, I thought... Ahhh!... Yorrible!... [singing] My name is Jonathan []
[June:] Mrs said he was ever so good.
[Jonathan:] Mm.
[June:] Well I think we better have our tea if daddy's here in a minute.... So get that Lego off the table and you tea.
[Jonathan:] [singing]... My name is Jonathan, I am a boy I'd like to be a big fat boy []!
[June:] Don't be silly Jonathan!
[Jonathan:] [singing] I've got an ambition and it is to grow fat... I'd like to grow like a big fat []. [LAUGHTER]
[June:] You're not funny, that's ever so silly!
[Jonathan:] Can you guess what the last one word was gonna be?
[June:] No. Now where's Fudge in or out?
[Jonathan:] In.
[June:] Is he?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Was she still?
[Jonathan:] No.
[June:] You all going down Robert's tonight.
[Jonathan:] Yeah!
[June:] Alright.
[Jonathan:] [singing] Doo doo [].
[June:] I think tea will be virtually ready.... Well come on dad if he comes. I suppose I'll have to put his in the microwave, I can't keep messing about like this.
[Jonathan:] If he comes now it'll be perfect timing.
[June:] What?
[Jonathan:] If he comes now it'll be perfect timing.
[June:] Well he did the other night didn't he? Walked in as I said it.
[Jonathan:] Yeah you go... well if dad don't walk in, any second now... and he walked in!
[June:] I know he did. Come on now I want the Lego off the table... please!
[Jonathan:] And I said in a minute.
[June:] Don't be so cheeky!
[Jonathan:] isn't cheeky!
[June:] I warned you the other night, me and you gonna fall out if you keep being cheeky.
[Jonathan:] That ain't even cheeky!...
[June:] Remember what erm... two christmas cards today look!
[Jonathan:] Who from?
[June:] One from Mrs next door
[Jonathan:] Mrs?
[June:] You know, who used to be there?... I said hello from the.
[Jonathan:] Oh blimey!
[June:] Hope life is treating you well. We shall have to pop in one of these days and surprise you.... I've got a headache.
[Jonathan:] I can't remember what they look like.
[June:] Meantime we wish you a very happy nineteen ninety two, our warmest wishes Carole and Ian... P S... Julian bought his own place two years ago.
[Jonathan:] Who's Julian?
[June:] That boy, their son, the young one.
[Jonathan:] I can't remember them!
[June:] And that one's from Michael and Nathan and Gareth.
[Jonathan:] Gareth?
[June:] You know Michael?... Didn't they come down here, them two boys one night... with their dad? To pick up a... well they come here one afternoon to pick up a car.
[Jonathan:] What when we ni, when played that football game?
[June:] Yeah that's right.
[Jonathan:] One of them was about my age weren't he?
[June:] Yeah I think he goes to when you go.
[Jonathan:] Does he?
[June:] I think so, I'm not quite sure.
[Jonathan:] I liked him.... I bet he can be.
[June:] I tell you who else goes when you go, erm
[Jonathan:] Who?
[June:] Dale.
[Jonathan:] .
[June:] Is it Dale?
[Jonathan:] Dane?
[June:] Dale.
[Jonathan:] Yeah... he goes.... And Dale... Dale.
[June:] Well I don't know his name!... I
[Jonathan:] [singing] Er lee ee ooh...
[June:] I don't know them all.
[Jonathan:] ee ee ee ee ee ooh [].... Hey right... guess how they put We Three Kings, it goes... this is how Gary put it on the sheet, he goes... [singing] We three kings [], no... [singing] is bitter perfume... he will die and go in his tomb [].
[June:] Who said that?
[Jonathan:] I read what it said!
[June:] People die and what?
[Jonathan:] Go in their tomb.... Something like that.
[June:] Well that ain't very nice!
[Jonathan:] And i... and instead of Ma [], no... [singing] Frankincense to offer have I [], he goes, [singing] Frankincense to o [], no, [singing] Frankincense to Jesus... to []
[June:] Well you'll singing
[Jonathan:] o
[June:] for the infants aren't you?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Well that's gonna be in the church then, that
[Jonathan:] Yeah... [singing] We three kings of Orient I, []
[June:] What.
[Jonathan:] That's in a week!... It's next week!
[June:] No it isn't, it's the eighteenth.... Well it ain't the eighteenth next week cos the.
[Jonathan:] We're doing it next week!
[June:] Well I don't think you are.
[Jonathan:] Next Friday I think!
[June:] I don't think so.
[Jonathan:] What's today?... What's the date?... What's the
[June:] Well it says on here look Jonathan, if you look!
[Jonathan:] What's today?
[June:] It says a Christmas service will be held in the... oh no it isn't... the juniors are now helping the infants with their nativity story on Wednesday the eighteenth of December... this was originally... a... advertised, by me, at taking place at six thirty in Walton St. Peter Church, I'm afraid this was a mistake on my part, as in fact the performance is rather ten thirty on the da... on that day at Walter St. Andrew Church.... This timing will enable even the youngest children to take part.... Mum'll go to that... cos I like carols.
[Jonathan:] I'm not!
[June:] Well course you are going to it!
[Jonathan:] Don't want to!
[June:] Why?
[Jonathan:] I don't like them new words!... They're rubbish!... Right, and the other story goes... [singing] The angels go to Be
[June:] Can you get off
[Jonathan:] to sing to him
[June:] I'm ready!
[Jonathan:] the angels going to sing to him.
[June:] I'm ready Jonathan!... Now quickly!
[Jonathan:] Get them in, get them in, get them in, them in... get them in, get them, get them in, them in... doodle oodle ooh,... [].... I'm sitting here tonight.... I'm sitting over there mum.
[June:] Why?
[Jonathan:] I like sitting over there better.
[June:] Well then why did you let me put all your things you have that side?
[Jonathan:] [singing] nee nee nee nee nee nee nee [LAUGHTER] nee nee nee... [].
[June:] Right, let's give you some chips.
[Jonathan:] [singing] [].
[June:] Is that enough?
[Jonathan:] Who was that first one from?
[June:] What?... That first what?
[Jonathan:] fit four people in there won't we?
[June:] Where?
[Jonathan:] This, 's, Auntie Val.
[June:] Yeah a lot of people have been there, I do agree.
[Jonathan:] Helen... or
[June:] Yes.
[Jonathan:] is that who that was from?
[June:] Yeah, Helen, yes.
[Jonathan:] Oh.
[June:] Ooh that ball isn't half noisy, I hate that ball!
[Jonathan:] Where's my beans?
[June:] I think I'll t
[Jonathan:] [singing] Beans, beans beans
[June:] please!
[Jonathan:] beans, beans, a beans, a beans [].
[June:] Where's your manners just lately, you've lost them since you've been to school!
[Jonathan:] Mm.
[June:] How many do you want?
[Jonathan:] That's enough.
[June:] Thank you.
[Jonathan:] What?... [LAUGHTER] What are you me for [].
[June:] Don't show your ignorance please!
[Jonathan:] Don't you mean... I don't what you mean!
[June:] Well there is a please and thank you word!
[Jonathan:] Yeah... thanks.
[June:] Oh dear!
[Jonathan:] Uncle Ken went up there.
[June:] Up where?
[Jonathan:] The play. [door knock]
[June:] Oh no that's all I need!
[Jonathan:] .
[June:] Yeah?
[speaker005:] Can I just ask you.
[June:] Yeah well he's not home yet.
[speaker005:] Isn't he?
[June:] No.
[speaker005:] Oh... alright I'll come, pop back later then.
[June:] Yeah... he shouldn't be long before he's home but Yeah.
[speaker005:] pop back.
[June:] Erm... I can't tell you what time he'll be home really... erm... well say in the twenty minutes he's bound to be home cos he... he's been home and then he's had to shoot out again, he's gone to get the battery so he won't be long.
[speaker005:] No, alright then.
[June:] Alright?
[speaker005:] I'll give him a bell... about... in half hour... about six o'clock?
[June:] Yeah... yeah that'll be fine, yep, yeah.
[speaker005:] Okay then thanks a lot.
[June:] Okay then... yeah, bye!
[speaker005:] Bye!
[Jonathan:] About half five!
[June:] Silly git!
[Jonathan:] It is half five!
[June:] say that about people... mum's awful saying that!
[Jonathan:] Especially when the tape's on!
[June:] Ooh... I forgot about that!
[Jonathan:] [LAUGHTER]
[June:] Yeah well mum can't... he looked alright.... Ooh!... I burnt myself!... I've done you one as well.
[Jonathan:] Oh no!... What are they?
[June:] Oh well me and dad will have to have more each.... I don't think you'll like them anyway Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] I've had one before... didn't like it.
[June:] That's what I thought... I should think dad'll come home now that he's gone.... Erm
[Jonathan:] Put it on the table cos he's bound to walk in.
[June:] I bet he doesn't.
[Jonathan:] Yeah, if you put it on the table he won't, and if you don't
[June:] Well I'll leave... I can't wait any longer, I'm hungry.... Mr went to the dentist this morning didn't he?
[Jonathan:] Dunno... probably.... He... just after dinner... or this morning.
[June:] Who did you have teaching you this morning then?
[Jonathan:] Not all morning.
[June:] Well part of the morning, who taught you this morning?
[Jonathan:] Mr.
[June:] I thought you said he went to the dentist?
[Jonathan:] Mm... nobody... we just had to get on with my work.... Oh Mr kept an eye on us.
[June:] Which classroom was he in then?
[Jonathan:] Mr...... next door... next door.
[June:] Oh he's gone back in his own classroom now has he?
[Jonathan:] No... it's just they need a teacher.
[June:] You need a lot of teachers don't you?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] What teacher do you like the best?
[Jonathan:] Miss.
[June:] Do you?
[Jonathan:] ... Ooh that's nice!
[June:] Well you can't have it, you've eaten yours!
[Jonathan:] Oh.
[June:] Have it next time.... Did Kelly go on about her teeth?
[Jonathan:] No.... Never.
[June:] What?
[Jonathan:] Oh I had a giggle!
[June:] Oh!
[Jonathan:] I had a tiny bit of a giggle!
[June:] Why?
[Jonathan:] Poor... she didn't actually go to the museum... at all.
[June:] No she went to the dentist instead, I mean the hospital.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.... She was gonna go erm... when next door went weren't she?
[June:] Mm.... Have, enough of her Jonathan.
[Jonathan:] And I thought... wergh!
[June:] Is it?
[Jonathan:] No... she's only having her teeth out!
[June:] Yeah but she's diabetic.
[Jonathan:] She was really worried, she was going
[June:] Yeah but she's under anaesthetic.
[Jonathan:] Cor I wouldn't!
[June:] But she has to cos she's a diabetic.
[Jonathan:] So!....
[June:] Mm... just a sec.... Here's comes your dad. [door opening]
[Jonathan:] Talk of the devil!
[June:] I should think.
[Geoffrey:] ... that's er... staying outside.
[June:] to his stuff.
[Jonathan:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[June:] They want it about eleven but... I said, can you get down to get it?... Because your dad won't be there, will he?... I have a your dad can
[Geoffrey:] I thought it'd be back by now.... Aha.
[June:] And also that young chap's been here for the van.
[Geoffrey:] Oh yeah.
[June:] It was a nice little feller.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... and... he's... he's gonna ring you about half past six.
[Jonathan:] Was that that bloke that rang me up?
[June:] or anything like that.
[Geoffrey:] No...
[June:] Dunno!
[Jonathan:] What colour coat has he got on?
[June:] Got jeans on him.
[Jonathan:] hasn't he got a red coat?
[June:] He had another boy with him... might
[Jonathan:] But who's got a red coat?... Had he got a red coat?
[June:] I dunno.
[Jonathan:] Cos if he had a red coat, with a little white patch on it... I see him walking round the village.
[Geoffrey:] I have had them erm
[June:] Mm.
[Geoffrey:] you like them do you?
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[Jonathan:] I don't mind them.
[June:] Where's your other half then?
[Geoffrey:] You what?
[June:] not needed, give me that half.
[Geoffrey:] Don't like the peas.
[June:] Oh I thought you was on about the pie.
[Geoffrey:] No, don't mind the pie... no I meant don't like them new peas.
[June:] They ain't got a lot of flavour have they?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] I've done all inside that van.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] Just gotta wash the outside.
[Geoffrey:] you wanna charge for it.
[June:] Yeah, cos it's Sun, Saturday.
[Geoffrey:] No he don't, Mr has it tomorrow!
[June:] Ooh crumbs!... What are you gonna say to him?
[Jonathan:] Sorry you can't have it.
[June:] Well he's moving furniture as well.
[Geoffrey:] Well you said to me he could have it... he said I'll have tonight.
[June:] Yeah but he must bring it back by nine!
[Geoffrey:] Why?
[June:] I forgot Mr was having it.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] So your mum won't be able to go shopping till nine then?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Well they don't normally go till about nine anyway... well they can't... cos the post office don't open till... do you want a coffee?
[Geoffrey:] No I'll have a cold drink... I don't mind what it is.
[June:] Do you know I've been so busy, I done that van this morning, I've done... my housework and two loads of washing... been over Petes'... did I tell you?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] rang you?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Jonathan:] Do you need salt?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Do you the pies?... Make a change didn't it? I quite like them.
[Geoffrey:] Yep.
[June:] Not a lot of meat in them though is there?
[Jonathan:] Oh, I'd have this then... I
[Geoffrey:] Who's is that?
[June:] Them ones we got from.
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[June:] Posted them letters did you?
[Geoffrey:] Ha!... No.
[June:] Where are they?
[Geoffrey:] to post tomorrow.
[June:] Well I'd have done them myself!
[Geoffrey:] Well I got a post office aren't I?
[June:] We ain't heard a word from Jimmy have we?
[Geoffrey:] No... I got.
[June:] Pardon?
[Geoffrey:] I got.
[June:] Why, what you gotta do?
[Geoffrey:] that car back from Fiesta... got the minibus going out... got the estate car,... he and... Jimmy's look, he talks about Mr, he has left that like a tip!... It stinks of... kid wee!...
[June:] But to work this morning, I could of done it!
[Jonathan:] Mum?
[June:] I said take the bus.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but you said you'd be busy!
[June:] Yeah but I could of when I got home!... Now I've gotta do it in the dark!
[Geoffrey:] tell me.
[June:] Well the hoover won't, except I had to scrub that mini... that erm... that van, it was so filthy!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And now who?
[Geoffrey:] He did.
[June:] Jimmy did.... I wonder where he's getting his vehicles from this week?
[Geoffrey:] He's got his ain't he?
[June:] I thought you said they stopped the?
[Geoffrey:] Well, he isn't supposed to be using it.
[Jonathan:] Can I have a spoon please?
[Geoffrey:] The bailiff said he couldn't use it.
[June:] Bloody ridiculous that man!... So someone bought the bailiffs in for sixty two quid!
[Geoffrey:] A T S.
[June:] Who's A T S?
[Geoffrey:] Tyres and.
[June:] You don't owe them nothing do you, I hope?
[Geoffrey:] Nothing to do with A T S, don't like them.
[June:] Precisely for that reason I should think!
[Geoffrey:] Well wha... what he said was... he went up there... there's erm... could they... put on the front wheels... to the back... and the back wheels to the front... didn't say anything... the bloke said, well we can't charge you.
[June:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] And the bloke said well we can't charge you for that.
[June:] So this is isn't what it's all about?
[Geoffrey:] Well, that's how it all come... see he owes them a hundred and seven pound... and er when he asked them change the tyres over they wouldn't do it.
[June:] Oh.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah but they said we can't charge you for it... he said we sell a new tube or sell you a new tyre he said... we can charge you... but we can't charge you labour.
[June:] That's ridiculous innit?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, so he said well... charge me for wheel balancing then or something... no he said, we can't do that.
[June:] He's just being awkward by the sound of it.
[Geoffrey:] So he said will you do it for nothing? And he said it's not a charity case!... Could you pay him to do it?... He says no.... Said fair enough... he said and with that I come out the garage.
[June:] Well why don't he use that bloke at St. Johns, who you use?
[Geoffrey:] He does now.... So erm... he's phoned up me... your money... cos he said they daren't put me in court you see.
[June:] Well that's a ridiculous... thing to do!... Well they say they're gonna put you into court, you get it paid don't you, before anything goes further?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... yeah well you see what he said was... he could not see how they could warrant... him... that sixty odd come as interest... justify doing it.
[June:] It will all depend how long has he owed them it.
[Geoffrey:] Possibly about a year I think.
[June:] Cor!... My God!
[Geoffrey:] So he said, I'm not having that!... And walked round... ah so they er... got a, sort of court bailiff involved.
[June:] For sixty two pound, it must of cost them more than that!
[Geoffrey:] Cost a lot of money I would of thought.
[June:] They obviously don't like him do they?
[Geoffrey:] No... well... erm... it's a big firm so
[June:] Perhaps it's
[Geoffrey:] what they did in is er....
[June:] Yeah but he's got his self a bad name now isn't he?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] It made me laugh when your mum kept on about him last night, about having all his hampers stolen.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.... Twenty two grand!
[June:] Ridiculous innit?... The blokes on the make isn't he?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.... You see he's and then he had the cheek to charge me for insurance!... Well I expect him to pay the insurance.
[June:] Who did pay the insurance?
[Geoffrey:] did, but I gonna give it back.
[June:] Well I should think so, gonna get twenty two grand out of it!... Cos he'd have taken them to court and said well he didn't even pay it, I did!
[Geoffrey:] Well actually they erm... I think the... maximum they'll pay out is eighteen thousand.
[June:] Yeah but I don't think that's gonna be such an easy case to.
[Geoffrey:] Well, I don't.
[June:] You know it looks to me
[Geoffrey:] They said they'd got it.
[June:] they think that it's all cut and dry, well... they haven't got the... then people will come round and investigate yet!
[Geoffrey:] No.
[Jonathan:] Mum that'll come out on the tape!
[June:] Well I can't stop it cos the kettle's boiling!... Don't be silly!
[Jonathan:] Mum is there any shandy please? [singing] Baby [].
[June:] Jonathan put that straight in the bin for mum, will you please?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.... [singing] You yum
[Geoffrey:] You know
[Jonathan:] [].
[Geoffrey:] Colin?
[Jonathan:] Yum.
[Geoffrey:] Who's got a.
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] he was saying
[June:] , they're going to Yarmouth.
[Geoffrey:] Ah!... I see.
[June:] that's where they're going... cos he said they... he's not actually for the itself
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] it's... you know, for the workers, they're going out on a meal.
[Geoffrey:] So who's paying it then?
[June:] He is gonna pay his self.
[Geoffrey:] Tomorrow?
[June:] Yeah.
[Geoffrey:] Oh that's.... Well they can.
[June:] Well I presume so.
[Geoffrey:] What did he er
[June:] He ought to have done it through the college... got it cheaper.
[Jonathan:] Ah oh oh!
[June:] He said this is nothing to do with the college.
[Geoffrey:] Why don't he er
[June:] Well I suppose he's, the man's got his reasons.
[Geoffrey:] I was gonna say... what you mean, put petrol in it?... Seems stupid!
[June:] Yeah cos you gotta lay out money aren't you?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah so if I decide to
[June:] Oh he said, when he's finished... I don't whether he's not picking it up till later on.... Ooh and another... that's what I wanted... to tell you about... well I don't think we can help him out.
[Geoffrey:] Oh well.
[June:] Gentleman wanted a minibus
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] now, he talked rather nice... erm... with having four
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I can't remember his name at all I can I can't think of it now.
[Jonathan:] I'm gonna go and watch T V.
[June:] Well what he wanted, he wanted a minibus from there... to there and there... well we can't can we?... We can have one from there... to there... but he can't have one here.
[Jonathan:] Daddy, mummy
[June:] Can he?
[Jonathan:] thinks the key was down
[Geoffrey:] I
[Jonathan:] the
[Geoffrey:] Jonathan I don't really
[June:] Just a minute Jonathan, let mum... because the college has got one there
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Toby's got one there... and got the other one there.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Well what time is Toby coming back? Well so he can't have that one then?... And the Isle of Ely college is going out for a meal, so that won't be back, so he can't have that one, so we haven't got one!
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] For Friday night, but he can have one... sort of, first thing Saturday morning.... But otherwise we haven't got one.
[Geoffrey:] No... er
[June:] ... erm, and that lady's gonna ring about the Fiesta and then that young boy's gonna ring about the van.
[Jonathan:] Hooray!
[June:] But that means that won't get cleaned outside for Mr
[Jonathan:] [singing] []
[June:] Mr.... Well but it's... very clean inside, I scrubbed it.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] And polished it.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] I wouldn't of thought he'd of worried too much about the outside.... Well it isn't that bad, it's only down the bottom anyway.
[Geoffrey:] No, under the right hand side, there's none the left hand side... Well I said I only washed one side.... I started washing my.
[Jonathan:] Who turned the light out?
[June:] I did!
[Jonathan:] Why?
[June:] Well that's gotta be back by nine in the morning.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] As long as he's got that back in the yard by nine.... Well I did see him, he seemed alright... but you see you can't tell what people are like,yo you may think they have... ni
[Geoffrey:] I know.
[June:] nice personalities... but he could... now do a runner with our van couldn't they?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I reckon that's what honky tonk was on the other night though.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.... Was he?
[June:] I reckon he's in trouble.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.... So... let me just think.
[June:] So well, he could have the van... well how much would you charge him for tonight?
[Geoffrey:] Twenty quid.
[June:] Yeah cos Mr 's got the Renault.
[Geoffrey:] I told my mum...
[June:] Oh in... decent state... he didn't last time I scrubbed... well I wou
[Geoffrey:] go on Monday?
[June:] No.
[Geoffrey:] Oh....
[June:] Yeah well they sho... I said I'd... I was looking through this
[Geoffrey:] Mm
[June:] and I was thinking cor... we say we haven't been doing very well, but look at that week there!... And then... look... it's not
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] too bad for this time of... I bet we're doing better this year, this time of the year than we did last.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah....
[June:] Well you see you... do that minibus want cleaning up, that blue one... or was that clean before we put it in the shed?
[Geoffrey:] No... that's... part of the... the windows washing but I'll... quickly washed over them... just to spruce them up a bit but I thought if I put Mrs in that, is she driving, or is she not?
[June:] Erm, I should imagine so. Yes, she is.
[Geoffrey:] Is she?
[June:] Don't she like the column change?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Oh God!
[Geoffrey:] Well I can't help it.
[June:] Well you'll just have to explain to her, the other one
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] hasn't come back after you've
[Geoffrey:] Well no, no what I'm saying was, the fifteen seaters here you see but... I can't, I shan't be put the petrol in for the both shall I?... clean tomorrow night.
[June:] Well I don't know what time she's picking it up at actually.
[Geoffrey:] Oh.
[June:] I should imagine that's his number.
[Geoffrey:] What number?
[June:] I hope he paid you this week then.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah,.
[June:] Well you... with his money you can pay off them two bills.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Cos yo... you don't put them through do you?... His?... Have you
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] put any on?... Well then forget about this time, that won't hurt will it?... We've been doing alright otherwise.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] Pete was talking about his... Roly... he said... June, he said... he is such a character!... So I said, is he?... So he... he's been up... he's one of type of dogs, he said like a human... you wouldn't know if he went in the house they wouldn't know whether he was coming out with a double barrelled shot gun to shoot yourself... or
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] with a glass of sherry in his hand! He said he's
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] one of them types!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Pete was hoping they ain't drunken no... cider!... He must have had four glasses while I was there.
[Geoffrey:] Oh lo [cough] erm
[June:] I shouldn't talk about him cos that's not nice and he said, I said to him.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] ... and there's always loads of sherry glasses and wine glasses all over!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] They must both drink.
[Geoffrey:] Cliff erm
[June:] They're not even afford it.
[Geoffrey:] That's right.... Cliff had a do again tonight with Kim.
[June:] Whatever for this time!
[Geoffrey:] Well... same thing.
[June:] Well I thought he didn't go down there any more?
[Geoffrey:] No.... As we was just coming home.... She stood there... yabbing at the end of the counter, when are you coming out! He said oh for God's sake shut up Kim!... So she said er... shut up your fat... [whispering] []!
[June:] She didn't!
[Geoffrey:] He said I've told you before he said, if you ever say that again he said I was gonna knock your head off!... And anyway I... walked past him and he went back and he was sh... moaning at her... so erm... two of the old boys he'd been working with said whatever's all that about?... So there.... I said oh another one!... I want well out of it, so course she come in... got changed, so he said to me I would like you tomorrow... to have a word with Robin... about stopping her coming down... to us he said because erm... it makes me feel very uncomfortable he said... and we had that hassle he said... it's a load of nonsense he said... I've forgotten
[June:] Well I suppose it does make him feel uncomfortable. Yeah... he said I've forgotten about it... Blue's forgotten about it he said, but she won't let it rest he said... he said it's Well she's a child, she's only a child Geoff that's
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] why.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah he said I'm not having he says.
[June:] She's like a spoilt child, she's gotta learn to
[Geoffrey:] Yeah, he said
[June:] from there soon.
[Geoffrey:] That's what he said, he said she can throw a tantrum he said and get everybody sort of feeling sorry for her he said, as and when she wants he said.
[June:] Well I suppose it probably wasn't tha, a complete pack of lies Geoff.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... so he said I I want ca, Robin to stop her coming down here he said.
[June:] So you've gotta be the one who tells him.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah... so Ivan said
[June:] Well I think he's right.
[Geoffrey:] yeah, so Ivan said to me, he said er... he said well I do I suppose you have noticed he said but whenever she comes down here he said... the whole line stops... I said I quite agree... I said well let's be honest about it if he's knocking out the meat he, it's gotta stop... cos he... stops
[June:] [shouting] Jonathan []!
[Geoffrey:] he stops talking to, stops to talk to her I said and obviously if the meat isn't coming out the box, the meat isn't coming out of the box!
[June:] Well that's right.... Well that is right innit?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] But she's like a child really... you gotta pity her really haven't you?
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] But the point is, why should other people suffer her.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] You know, they shouldn't have to should they?
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] All that worrying!
[Geoffrey:] Terrible!
[June:] My best friend's lost his father and he said well I lay awake all last night thinking about it.... Well I thought
[Geoffrey:] Good God!
[June:] there's nothing you can laying awake.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Well oh he said it's... at work and... oh God!
[Geoffrey:] Well they ain't... bloody paranoid isn't he?
[June:] Well I wouldn't like to say he's paranoid but... I said well... that's like... cos he said you must our house is filthy June?... I didn't pass comment.
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] So I said well, that's like this Pete, you live the way you want to... and I'll live the way I want to, I said it's immaterial to me. Your paying me to keep it... a bit tidy, I said and that's what I'm paid for, I said I ain't... paid to pass an opinion whether it's clean or dirty... he said you sound just like me June, I said oh do I?... I said well I'm not bothered what other people do, I said they can
[Geoffrey:] Well if he was tidy you wouldn't have a job would you?
[June:] What?
[Geoffrey:] If he kept the place tidy, you wouldn't have a job.
[June:] Well I nearly said that to him, but I thought ooh no!... But, I thought to myself well... that's up to him how he li, he, he lives his life.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I don't want my house looking like a tip! But i... but he is bothered about it.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] He said... and that's Tricia, he said she... he said when I used to live on my own... with Simon
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] he said, and she used to come down... he said she used to think I've got another woman!... Li li whatever for! He said cos I used to keep the house tidy... he said I've been the in the army June an... he said I can... I can run a household... he said but we and then working the shifts I do... he said and go up the horses and that... he said I just don't get time to do it!... He said well you know I, I iron mostly, most of the ironing, I said yeah I know you do.
[Geoffrey:] Whatever does she do then?
[June:] Well... well he said... when he's not there she comes home... she cooks them an evening meal... but she's she she's... she's got a p, he said she's gotta give some time to Harriet, that's not fair
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] if she don't, I said well that's true... I said you can't... and we're not gonna neglect, which they don't.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And then he said er... by the time she's... sorted out... and washed up
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] and I thought, she don't wash up, she
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] leaves it for me!
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Erm... it's tha then getting towards... and she's gone down and done the horses he sh... he said it's then getting to Harriet's bed time so she baths her all... sorts her out... and he said... well she does work hard, he said and by the end of that she... she won't be able to do anything else!
[Geoffrey:] No.
[June:] Well I said I can understand that
[Jonathan:] Pardon?
[June:] I... I said well I suppose it's... I do... and he said but you work hard June, I said I know but... I said kno... I said what I do, I can only have hour out there and an hour inside.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] And I said I can sort of keep on top of mine, but I said... I am up early.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] He said well Trish isn't. I said well I get up early.
[Geoffrey:] Mm.
[June:] If I'm doing like my jobs.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I said I'm, most morning I said... sort of every other morning I'm ironing here at half five
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] I said because if I don't I can't pick up all this.
[Geoffrey:] Yeah.
[June:] Cor he said, I wouldn't wanna iron that time of the morning! I said well... I'm afraid if I don't, I said, I don't do it!
[Geoffrey:] That's right.
[June:] I said and I do... I said I can't bare piles and piles of ironing.... So he said well if you'd have come over this morning June you'd have fainted!... So I said why?... He said well there was
[Geoffrey:] Talking about fainting I still have my... I can't standing talking about bloody!
[June:] What're you gonna now then?
[Geoffrey:] Take this bloody car up!
[June:] Yep.
[Jonathan:] And he picked up four people on his, on that, imagine your the bus driver.
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] A man went to Edinburgh
[June:] Yeah, then.
[Jonathan:] and picked up... five people on his bus.
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] Then he got four off in Kings Lynn... three more got on at erm Queensgate
[June:] Yep, come on then, get your shoes on!
[Jonathan:] and a little boy nipped on to see his mum... the boy never got off... so he was still on the bus
[June:] Yeah.
[Jonathan:] so that
[June:] Here's your shoes.
[Jonathan:] then him and his mum got off along with the rest of the people... what was the driver's name?
[June:] [LAUGHTER] Dunno []!
[Jonathan:] Your the driver!
[June:] [LAUGHTER] Oh []!
[Jonathan:] James did that to me, me and John, I was thinking... I went Fred!... He goes, I didn't know your name was Fred!
[June:] James who? He was fighting everybody yesterday!
[Jonathan:] Yeah!
[June:] What was the matter with him?
[Jonathan:] They were giving birthday bunks!
[June:] Did you give him his card?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] He isn't having a party did he?
[Jonathan:] Yeah might do.
[June:] Oh I don't think he is at this rate na, Jonathan!
[Jonathan:] No he might... he's... he might get a few friends and go out... or.
[June:] That ain't tight enough mate.
[Jonathan:] Yes it is!
[June:] Right... do you wanna quickly do these up?
[Jonathan:] No.
[June:] Oh alright then, that's up to you.
[Jonathan:] No.
[June:] Now look Jonathan!... I'll put them in the deep part.
[Jonathan:] Okay.
[June:] Now look... you've got to give that ticket back to Mr otherwise you won't get a Christmas dinner!
[Jonathan:] Oh!
[June:] There it is in there, and there's ninety p, there's a pound coin in there and then I'll sort out about the dinner money with Mrs.
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Alright?
[Jonathan:] Yeah... go and leave it on the side for now.
[June:] Go and what?
[Jonathan:] Oh blimey....
[June:] Why?
[Jonathan:] If he gets he will.
[June:] Oh blow him!... Do you not wanna go to?
[Jonathan:] I don't mind.
[June:] Well this is for the Chris ins,
[Jonathan:] When have you gotta have it back by?
[June:] Well you can take that back now, as well.... That's on the twentieth of December in the evening time.
[Jonathan:] Yeah but why do I have to take it back?
[June:] Well you can take that one back Monday.
[Jonathan:] I'll take it back on Monday then.
[June:] Shall I wait and think about it?
[Jonathan:] Yeah.
[June:] Go on then.
[Jonathan:] Bye!
[June:] Be a good boy now Jo... [shouting] learn those []!
[Jonathan:] I will!
[June:] Alright, bye!
[Jonathan:] Bye!
[June:] Yeah see you!