[speaker001:] Is that nice?
[Lee:] Yeah I didn't realize how long ago it was till I'd eaten that.
[Jill:] but I forgot I had me T-shirt on.
[Rachel:] No I mean I opened but I forgot I had to switch it on. I thought that would work. Erm Jill can I see please.
[Jill:] No.
[Rachel:] Philip.
[Lee:] That was nice that was.
[Rachel:] Is that the.
[Jill:] Is she alright.
[Lee:] [belch]
[speaker001:] .
[Rachel:] People don't belch in this house.
[Lee:] Don't they?
[Rachel:] .
[Lee:] Next thing I know you'll be telling me people don't fart.
[Sarah:] They don't. You're a naughty boy you are.....
[Rachel:] Jill let me see.
[Jill:] Oh my God.
[Rachel:] [LAUGHTER]
[Jill:] Oh my God.
[Rachel:] Oh my God. [LAUGHTER]....
[Jill:] What did you say? You'd better have a snog?...
[Rachel:] Has she has she met anyone? has she met anyone?
[Sarah:] ?
[Rachel:] Mhm.
[Sarah:] Aha. You know that is the most.
[Jill:] Is it there? Is it turned off.
[Lee:] Aye that was a nightmare, I thought.
[Jill:] It was because you belched and the house didn't like you.
[Lee:] [belch] That's what I think of the house....
[Jill:] Rachel we've got to be nice to it. We didn't wait for very long in the did we?
[Sarah:] When you phone your order and they say twenty past they really mean twenty past don't they. I mean we arrived at quarter past and she said, Oh you're a bit early.
[Lee:] Mm.
[Sarah:] They just don't like even attempt to make it before then really do they?
[Rachel:] Mm.
[Jill:] Mind you it was that early so they might not have had everything sort of on the go and stuff. You've got. Oh that's good wasn't it and how much did that cost you?
[Rachel:] ....
[Jill:] Can I borrow it a minute?
[Rachel:] Yeah
[Jill:] Blimey,.
[Lee:] What have you got there Jill? Ooh I fancy that, shall I nip round there and get some? That was... Do you want any? Oh no I just wanted to know if you wanted any that was all. You would not you would not believe what I ate this afternoon
[Jill:] Sorry?
[Lee:] .
[Jill:] Yeah you know like a lasagna Tell Rachel.
[Lee:] Oh yeah, the dish right,... the dish is about this this long, this wide
[Jill:] That's not that Oh yeah.
[Lee:] It is. And it's about that deep. And I make that on Thursdays, nice big lasagna. And I ate it all [LAUGHTER] by myself all in one go.
[Rachel:] That's.
[Jill:] Yeah. Yeah it's so annoying innit.
[Rachel:] .
[Jill:] Yeah. I think I might try it one one night, yeah?
[Rachel:] It's dead nice.
[Jill:] You liked it.
[Rachel:] Mm.
[Lee:] What with a walkman? Is that the microphone.
[Rachel:] I'm gonna take it to be.
[Lee:] What are you taping?... Testing one two three. [belch]
[Rachel:] Oh Lee.
[Jill:] [LAUGHTER]
[Rachel:] never mind 's Dictionary.
[Lee:] Put that in your dictionary. Under B for belch. Shit, I'm expecting a letter.
[Jill:] They obviously don't teach you manners in Somerset.
[Lee:] I I expect a letter from
[Rachel:] They do Jill cos I have.
[Lee:] I expect a letter from her saying how nice that belch was and what what perfect notational quality it was.
[Jill:] You're not coming to this house any more. Rachel. What didn't they get on?
[Rachel:] She's got.
[Jill:] Yeah she has. She could look nice.
[Lee:] That's stupid isn't it? Going back to wedding bells after it.. Wheyey.... We should go on that?
[Rachel:] Why?
[Jill:] Why
[Rachel:] Yeah but you wouldn't get chosen.
[Lee:] Yeah we would.
[Rachel:] You'd set it up and like they'd choose someone else or something.
[Lee:] I would. Cos the other two are burks and you wouldn't.
[Rachel:] How old is she? Fifty?
[Lee:] Cheek on what?
[speaker001:] [recording ends] Is Madge still on it?
[Rachel:] Yeah.
[Lee:] Oh.
[Rachel:] How did you realize we'd gone across so early.
[Jill:] What time did we get across at half seven?
[Rachel:] I dunno I thought it was about Half seven?
[Sarah:] Eight.
[Jill:] Good grief.
[Rachel:] Half seven to eight, what do you think Jill? Any different?...
[Jill:] Yeah.
[Rachel:] Mm. I always find the erm confectioners w you know the ones you buy it far sweeter.
[Sarah:] Yes.
[Rachel:] Because they add er
[Jill:] Sugars and stuff.
[Rachel:] Yeah. Whereas that is sort of straight from the
[Jill:] It's got more taste to it, the other one's sort of
[Rachel:] Mm. It's they're more artificial aren't they? I mean that is from rape seed, we've got a rape seed field behind us.
[Jill:] Yes.
[Rachel:] They yellow stuff It crystallizes.
[Sarah:] What are we watching?
[Jill:] I don't know what
[Sarah:] There's a whole one in there.
[Rachel:] No that's mine.
[Jill:] Oh I didn't have a whole one, I bought a half one. If I'd bought.
[Rachel:] No there was half.
[Sarah:] Yes there's a half one in the bag and there was a little bit left.
[Jill:] Oh I'm not saying you nicked it I'm I'm I'm thought I bought one. So I might have seen yours
[Sarah:] No I.
[Jill:] and thought that I'd bought it. You know what I mean, when going through the shopping bit.
[Sarah:] No I'll see how I'm feeling the thing is I do want to go to enjoy it.
[Jill:] When's that, in the afternoon?
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Jill:] Go in the afternoon then.
[Rachel:] Get a lie in.
[Jill:] Yeah. Yeah it's what you've got.
[Rachel:] Is he old?
[Jill:] quite good looking actually. In his erm late thirties. Hair? His hair's thinning. Well quite short very s smart dresser, quite trendy. [recording ends]
[speaker001:] He got he had really interesting ones like erm old people speaking, erm what else? Loads of different conversations.
[Jill:] Here everybody's gonna have the same transcript though aren't they, they're all gonna have conversations at home, they're all gonna have lecture conversations.... That's a good idea. Is Louise alright now?
[Rachel:] The things is though, I was saying, Are you sure, I mean you don't know what c contacts made so you don't know how tall she was. You don't know how tall John was when he you know. And he's really pissed off.
[Jill:] John who?
[Rachel:] John. You know, the one who broke his leg.
[Jill:] Well doesn't Sarah remember.
[Rachel:] Sarah wasn't listening, she was the one she was with another guy. Sarah was talking to John she knew that Louise was staying at Dave's and he said, Yeah yeah I will do. And then
[Jill:] She might have been drinking.
[Rachel:] Yeah but
[Sarah:] is a odd girl.
[Rachel:] I'm just saying that.
[Jill:] Mm....
[Rachel:] [singing]
[Jill:] Perhaps it would be better if.
[Sarah:] Well she's because like we'd just like to Cos she's gonna spend most of her time with Dave and the people living with
[Rachel:] Won't she live with Dave?
[Jill:] It's so annoying.
[Rachel:] Why doesn't she wanna live with Dave?
[Jill:] Why doesn't she want to?
[Rachel:] Why doesn't she go live round there or something? She just wouldn't like it?
[Jill:] No.
[Rachel:] [LAUGHTER] She standing up against the racial stereotype with purple hair.
[Jill:] Oh is she?
[Rachel:] I dunno.
[Jill:] Perhaps.
[Rachel:] seen her doing programmes and this sort of thing.
[Jill:] Who is she?
[Rachel:] Some woman who's got a hangup about racial problems....
[Sarah:] Marion hates. Cathy and Angie hate
[Jill:] Who's, is she living with her?
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Rachel:] I heard her say to Cathy, can I come round to your house tonight, I just want to get away from.
[Sarah:] She was gonna come round to ours. Marion ways gonna come back with me this afternoon.
[Rachel:] Oh what a desperate state of affairs.
[Jill:] .
[Rachel:] Sarah and Shelley are very quiet. They quietened down I thought.
[Sarah:] Do want and egg?
[Rachel:] Yes please. Erm
[Jill:] the first two or three weeks.
[Rachel:] Did they?
[Jill:] Yes they were saying like....
[Rachel:] And what was that about Cathy and Angie don't get one with?
[Sarah:] Yeah, Corrinne.
[Jill:] Corrinne?
[Rachel:] Her and Susannah go up into their room, lock their door with Sally. Sally, Corrinne, Susannah all go up there to Corrinne's room to smoke hash all night.
[Sarah:] Oh.
[Jill:] Who else is there?
[Sarah:] and who's the other one?
[Rachel:] Sally.
[Jill:] Sally, Corinne
[Rachel:] Sally, Susannah, Corrinne smoke hash.
[Sarah:] Is Susannah the one with dark hair?
[Rachel:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Sarah:] Oh cos she's the Angie's friends isn't she?
[Rachel:] And Cathy and Angie just don't get on with them or something. They just sit up in their rooms and smoke hash and never speak to each other.
[Sarah:] But but apparently and Susannah are extremely tight with their money and it's like you know,
[Rachel:] She was fussy to begin with wasn't she?
[Sarah:] And she gave up her telly for the lounge. But she was offered it and like I said she.
[Jill:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] Cos every time they use it, she reminds them that it's her telly and that she er could have sold it and got the money. picky about people.
[Rachel:] . Who does Marion live with?
[Sarah:] Er erm Lucy and Sarah.
[Rachel:] .
[Sarah:] Lucy's the one.
[Jill:] Oh the one gave you a lift home?
[Sarah:] Yeah and Sarah's the one with blonde hair.
[Jill:] Oh God she isn't half
[Rachel:] Yeah yeah she would.
[Sarah:] She's about.
[Jill:] She's alright, Ruth seems a bit bitchy.
[Rachel:] The pair of them together I should think.
[Jill:] Who else is there.
[Rachel:] You live with three people. Compared to what? You don't have to.
[Jill:] I here about nine.
[Rachel:] So did Nicole after that?
[Sarah:] I went in the shower.
[Jill:] After you let Nicole in?
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Jill:] Oh right cos I
[Rachel:] They always don't they. I just thought she was she's got a cold and Shelly was very quiet, didn't say a word. not exactly talkative.
[Jill:] I don't know who she is.
[Sarah:] She's got blonde hair and sh
[Jill:] Oh I know who she is.
[Sarah:] She's quite stylish for her age.
[Jill:] Who is that, do I know her?
[Rachel:] She was the one who used to She was the one who used to s sell pullovers He can talk a lot
[Jill:] It it really made me furious. So she was a bit annoyed about him and she sort of Can you be quiet please, you know and.
[Rachel:] Who was he talking to? Steve.
[Jill:] No. he dropped his donger on his And then he was singing Frere Jaques right and I didn't know the words to it so I just sorry I can't remember the words and he goes. ding dong dong or whatever it's called and that is. So she went
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[Jill:] And she sort of we went through it a couple of time and then she said, I didn't say it, and neither did Jeff so I don't know where she got it from. Because we used to sing at school, [singing] School dinners, school dinner, concrete chips, concrete chips, soggy semolina, soggy semolina, I feel sick, toilet quick, it's too late, I've done it on my plate [].
[Rachel:] [LAUGHTER]
[Jill:] And I never knew there was actually a proper song to it, I thought it was one we'd made up junior school. So she was saying, If
[Rachel:] He was like was trying to speak and he kept sort of saying, Pardon, pardon like this, he's done it to me when I was trying to speak. [singing] Come on Eileen []
[Jill:] Did you?
[Rachel:] grey skirt and grey jumper. Well it's been there for the past two weeks but now he's gone to l get a house.
[Sarah:] Has he got a job yet?
[Rachel:] He's at London Poly or something doing two year electric electrici
[Sarah:] Oh yeah.
[Rachel:] electrical
[Jill:] H N D.
[Rachel:] H N D or something....
[Sarah:] You could never imagine Eileen or Catherine getting frustrated like that though can you.
[Rachel:] Catherine's sister down there flirting in her
[Sarah:] And reading Vogue.
[Rachel:] It was something like Laura Ashley yeah. I'm surprised she didn't get I know it's a horrible thing to say but
[Jill:] Mm.
[Rachel:] Do you suppose they cater for such a range of sizes
[Sarah:] Laura Ashley will do.
[Rachel:] Louise. Cos that was a size sixteen and she. rejects box, it had a mark on it. Because she took it in, she's got rid of the mark.
[Sarah:] .
[Rachel:] I can't remember what she wore now. It was green wasn't it?
[Jill:] No it was a black t black top long sleeves and like a V neck.
[Rachel:] I can't remember.
[Jill:] I can imagine it being a sixteen cos you know there was a lot of it and then it was just.
[Rachel:] Mine was had no sleeves or anything.
[Sarah:] Why you looked gorgeous.
[Rachel:] Oh it was horrible.
[Sarah:] I liked it.
[Rachel:] Well n I hate wearing stuff like that, I always have done.
[Jill:] Yeah.
[Rachel:] Hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it. I had a scarf round my neck and stuff round my shoulders. Drop one, pick up one, do this, do that.
[Sarah:] Yeah I'll do some little holes in it as well for you Jill.
[Rachel:] I used to love knitting until I used to make loads of mistakes.
[Sarah:] I was gonna crochet a table mat
[Rachel:] She's doing a striptease. denies having any girlfriends or anything. He says, only one girlfriend I've ever had netball queen and how many other people has he snogged.
[Sarah:] Lisa found out about that erm Mark was going to. And then he was supposed to meet her there he he went there and she wasn't there and then he went to the Red Lion and she was And erm she was like with him and she said and she said something like, Oh I'm going. But she said Mark said that she was flirting.
[Rachel:] When did you see Mark?
[Sarah:] Wednesday night.
[Rachel:] because she paid so much for it, over fifteen pounds right, because she paid so much for it because they're usually fifteen pounds each and so two would cost you thirty pounds and because those were so expensive. So that girl must have paid er twenty pounds for hers.
[Sarah:] She had her dress was slit all the way up. You could see everything. knickers on cos you like see the line.
[Jill:] Are you sure it wasn't me.
[Sarah:] No it wasn't you.
[Jill:] Oh that must have been what it was then.
[Sarah:] Yeah it was. I tried to say to him, Mark I think you're wasting your time. But he wasn't having any of it. And like I'll try to him basically I wouldn't waste your time
[Rachel:] Yeah.
[Sarah:] because But then I thought then I thought well I'll Here's Rachel do you want to and then like it's be like Oh I'm spoiling it for him. And I sort of said, Well you know I can't really say obviously cos I'm not Rachel.
[Rachel:] Oh gross.
[Jill:] Did I tell you that Mark's. And I was trying to tell him
[Rachel:] How did you know it was me?
[Sarah:] How did you know it was Rachel?
[Jill:] He said you. He said, I've only got eyes for one person. It was obvious it was.
[Rachel:] Maybe it's someone else though.
[Jill:] No he said.
[Rachel:] [LAUGHTER] No Jill don't look at me like [] And yet she openly admitted it the other day.
[Sarah:] Wednesday night.
[Jill:] Well he's going a good way of doing it isn't he
[Sarah:] Eh fucking hell, he's gonna get far like that. He was stood in front of me in the sandwich queue the other day and.
[Jill:] So what does the purl do cos this is different here isn't it. Why has it got lines in it like bumps like that?
[Sarah:] that's what it is because purl is.
[Jill:] But why is only lines like that?
[Sarah:] Because I've done two two and then knit two and then you
[Jill:] . Oh right.
[Sarah:] Yeah it's like it's not very good to do it with that because you can't
[Jill:] So if you wanna do a knit like
[Sarah:] If you're doing a purl
[Jill:] Yeah well hold on. Right you do it like
[Sarah:] Mhm.
[Jill:] Right.
[Sarah:] You see that stitch there?
[Jill:] Yeah. You that that was the other purl stitch because erm you put your needle
[Sarah:] in front then you just do like the stitch, same stitch but backwards.
[Jill:] Oh.
[Sarah:] Like that and then you just take it off.
[Jill:] Oh right.
[Sarah:] Then erm you just so you have to make sure you keep.
[Jill:] Can I put on?
[Sarah:] be quite. Your voice is so annoying..
[Jill:] You seemed a bit distracted last night.
[Rachel:] Me?
[Jill:] Mm. Oh of course she's home.
[Rachel:] I don't understand what's going on Prime Minister. Is Norman Lamont going has he been sacked.
[Sarah:] Yes.
[Rachel:] And is he the new
[Sarah:] He was the ex-ch he's the ex-chancellor.
[Rachel:] Yeah but didn't he say that he was gonna try and Tory party.
[Sarah:] I don't think he would because he's done in the past....
[Jill:] Oh Steve McQueen. Look look who it is. Hang on is this the one with Sylvester Stallone in?
[Rachel:] No no no that's erm yeah. That one's called
[Jill:] I can't remember.
[Rachel:] The one in the shower.
[Jill:] .
[Rachel:] Yeah I love that film it's brilliant.
[Jill:] Have you have you ever seen this? It's absolutely fantastic, you've got to see it. It's brilliant it is just the best. Did you see where I went today,. Do you know where I went today?
[Sarah:] You go through the other doors.
[Jill:] At the?
[Sarah:] Yeah.
[Jill:] Yeah. I would imagine so.
[speaker001:] cos the group's too big?
[Jill:] Because the group's thirty one people. it's like being back at school.
[Rachel:] Why haven't they got it in some of the afternoon groups then?
[Jill:] I don't know because I mean a couple of people have changed cos it's the only time that they can have it. Cos there's been such a timetable mess up this year. Erm so she said, she'd rather just have fifteen or sixteen of us and just do an hour cos we'd learn a lot more which is very true.
[Rachel:] This is what I hate about politics, it's just.
[Sarah:] .
[Rachel:] And she's a teacher. But she does. My mum does. She's never voted anything else in her life. Or my dad. My dad should be. Oh my God it is.
[Sarah:] neighbours.
[Rachel:] No don't aren't they both gonna marry the same Oh I love. He's still in Greece.
[Jill:] Gayle Robinson.
[Rachel:] Oh Des.
[Jill:] Who else did Des marry? He was gonna marry Melanie wasn't he? Wasn't he? Did he have a romance with Melanie? he used to live with Melanie.
[Rachel:] Educating Rita. Oh this is brilliant have you ever seen it? Did you watch that thing. when he was talking about Educating Rita. He is such an interesting guy. He was like came out of school at the.
[Jill:] Steve McQueen. Rachel, I'm sorry I'm leaving this here, I'll tidy it up.
[Rachel:] Who else is in it?
[Jill:] Charles Bronson,, Donald Pleasance, Richard Attenborough, James Garner, James Coburn, David McCallum. Loads of people, it's absolutely brilliant.
[speaker001:] [recording ends]