[Jean:] Excuse me. Could I buy erm... a biscuit please?
[speaker002:] You want a biscuit? Do you want a Hob-nob or a Punguin?
[Jean:] Oh a Punguin? I'll have a
[speaker002:] Penguin. Sorry!
[Jean:] Alright. I'll have a... a Hob-nob please.
[speaker002:] Oh so you don't want your Punguon!
[Jean:] A Punguon. Now there's twenty P, I need eighty P change.
[speaker002:] Yeah we we kee we kept getting twenty Ps today. Er, there's your Hob-nob. There's your Hob-nob.
[Jean:] Merci!
[speaker002:] It's right down there.
[Jean:] Eighty P change. I'll be in the staff room... recuperating after a hard morning's work.... This is David... to show you... Fran. Right, I'll put it there so... see? [in the staff room with lots of people talking in background]
[speaker002:] Oh yes. He's a
[Jean:] I know.
[speaker002:] Ah ah!
[Jean:] You know what happened to him though? He sa [LAUGHTER]... he's just discovered everybody's gonna be colouring in... so you could see the deterioration in the wi
[speaker002:] And so he's taken off the and wa wants to do
[Jean:] But
[speaker002:] that.
[Jean:] I thought that was a brilliant attempt from a boy who really finds it hard to keep on the line, you know. And look oil
[speaker002:] Oil!
[Jean:] he got...... he got today nearly. He got O and he got i
[speaker002:] Oh let us have a look.
[Jean:] That's quite a good attempt though isn't it?
[speaker002:] I would have ta taken the coffee down to erm
[Jean:] Right thanks very much.
[speaker002:] Let me just take a coffee down to er....
[Jean:] I've actually spilt... in the hole.
[speaker002:] You haven't had a coffee yet? Get the Yes. They've
[Jean:] Was David... not very good last ye last year? I mean
[speaker002:] Oh no. No.
[Jean:] No? But I thought... when he puts his mind to it... he can really try can't he?
[speaker002:] A big [reading childs spelling] fuminal
[Jean:] Animal. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] No. Animal, yeah.
[Jean:] Well you can the A is the wrong way round.
[speaker002:] A, yeah, yeah.
[Jean:] An im mal. I, I mean I can understand.
[speaker002:] What is the matter with you today? You see thing is, they'll have a go now... because
[Jean:] Mm.
[speaker002:] they've got the comics, even if they don't get it right they... they're... they'll have a go, whereas, this is why, this is why I usually teach with comics.
[Jean:] Mm!
[speaker002:] Because otherwise they're scared to sort of try aren't they? They don't know how to go about things.
[Jean:] Really, if you look at it... what there is
[speaker002:] What's the then? Two.
[Jean:] It's two... no two, a good two wrong.
[speaker002:] Well that's a dec I mean... he isn't any, I mean that's good for him. I wouldn't
[Jean:] Mm mm.
[speaker002:] have even put him at two, you know, so... that's brilliant!... [sigh]
[Jean:] But that's either right or wrong. Say this is level two, level three spelling... right?... She's the best... at language, but she never used to write anything did she? She
[speaker002:] No.
[Jean:] hated writing stories but she likes reading them.
[speaker002:] Can't remember.
[Jean:] Mm.
[speaker002:] He is, don't... is that tot I mean it's, it's unaided is it?
[Jean:] Oh yeah. Totally.
[speaker002:] Very good. Bloody marvellous! They're not doing very well. They're missing out that.
[Jean:] Don't they?
[speaker002:] Mm.
[Jean:] They have to get five er to six very long words with
[speaker002:] Appeared... bored.
[Jean:] Oh.
[speaker002:] I mean, they're quite difficult spellings actually. Mm. Must be a. I can't, da da da.
[Jean:] They can't think.
[speaker002:] And I don't want you to be disappointed next year and get a....
[Jean:] Well that's why
[speaker002:] Could you do us something mummy?
[Jean:] What?
[speaker002:] Tell me, the to those three little ducklings and the duck.
[Jean:] Three
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Jean:] little ducklings?
[speaker002:] Yeah. Three little ducklings on there and a big duck and one of those ducks in there.
[Jean:] One
[speaker002:] That's right.
[Jean:] two, three
[Niall:] One... and the duck.
[Jean:] and the big duck. Right. There's somebody at the door. Hang on, I'm just going downstairs.
[speaker002:] Tell me who it is.
[Jean:] Be careful. Turn that hot water off now please. Thank you.... Yes? Hello. Mrs? Yes. I'm calling on behalf of Barry the Labour candidate. I wonder Yes? if you're... are you su supporting, gonna sa be supporting him? Yes, we both are. Ah, I got a note here because... obviously somebody knows you. A we whether you er a whether you can help... o on the, on polling day at all? Erm... I don't think I can cos I'll be at work. Erm, my husband might be able to. Erm, I'll leave a note. Ca could I contact you somewhere? Er, yeah. Erm... he might be able to help. Er, maybe I could... after five o'clock. You know Yeah, well... le just let me... have you got somewhere I can write a telephone number on? Yeah, sure. Come in. Erm... I'll get us a piece of paper. Right. [sigh]... Right. Mm. There we go.... Right. You don't know Elizabeth...? I don't actually. Should I? Oh! Oh! Sorry. She's er... yeah I no I don't. I don't know her.... The phone number is... Right. Okay. So if you could telephone her some time and Right. say whether you co Just say whether we can or we can't. whether you can do anything. Yeah. If you can, she'll tell you where to go, what you can do. Okay. [LAUGHTER] Right you are. [LAUGHTER] Thanks very much then []. Bye-bye.... What are you doing?
[speaker002:] Nothing! Dee dee dee dee. Dee dee ee ee [screaming] oh oh []!
[Niall:] Mummy.
[Jean:] Yeah?
[Niall:] What's that little microphone?
[Jean:] Eh?
[Niall:] What's that microphone?
[Jean:] Just a microphone taking erm... ju just... I just have it on just to have conversations with people. That's all. Okay?
[Niall:] I don't.
[Jean:] Might be, later on. Right. Now. Wash your faces please.
[speaker002:] Hey you!
[Niall:] Da da!
[Jean:] Right.
[Niall:] That's it. Okay.
[speaker002:] Yeah, I've got to
[Jean:] See you later algigator.
[speaker002:] [singing] Oh! []
[Niall:] Am I allowed to wash my hair?
[Jean:] You can, but Keira's got too long a hair.
[speaker002:] Well I.
[Jean:] What?
[Niall:] What did you say?
[Jean:] I said, well you wash your hair but Keira... erm... leave yours will you? And Keira... what do you do with your cuffs? They're absolutely filthy dirty! Who wants a crumpet?
[Niall:] Yeah. Me!
[Jean:] Mm. Keira?
[Niall:] [clears throat]
[speaker002:] And me.
[Jean:] Well put it
[Niall:] Is this burnt?
[Jean:] No.
[speaker002:] I da I want to have one.
[Niall:] [reading book] No it... will melt. And in, a, a... when daddy
[speaker002:] Mum!
[Niall:] comes down you ask daddy.
[speaker002:] You have to see... so much
[Niall:] mummy, ask daddy which is my bouquet I'll have it now.
[speaker002:] we haven't been to the
[Niall:] Put, put quite a lot of
[speaker002:] er the thing.
[Niall:] on. Er
[speaker002:] We haven't been to
[Niall:] it's daddy's under the table.
[speaker002:] the... er
[Niall:] Ge go under, under the chair.
[speaker002:] Oh, what's that?
[Niall:] I want a small and I'll put the
[Jean:] Pardon?
[Niall:] milk on.
[speaker002:] Mm.
[Niall:] The boy dragon Joshua said
[speaker002:] Wait a minute.
[Niall:] to his mother, he sat down he ha he had to
[speaker002:] Mummy?
[Niall:] and then
[Jean:] Yeah?
[Niall:] can you tell me what time? Did you hear it, erm erm
[speaker002:] Er er
[Niall:] him. No.
[speaker002:] Where's that
[Niall:] . But no
[speaker002:] But why a we haven't be
[Jean:] Well we've had one and... two.
[Niall:] It's time
[Jean:] We're in a hurry now, we've only got
[speaker002:] we haven't been to the
[Jean:] five minutes and I'll have to go.
[speaker002:] we haven't been
[Niall:] and
[speaker002:] to
[Niall:] they met her just now. And because
[speaker002:] er er ca
[Niall:] she needs air.
[speaker002:] for a lo
[Niall:] and now
[speaker002:] a lot of days.
[Niall:] the people
[Jean:] I know, we'll have to throw some more over the won't we?
[Niall:] with a little extra
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Jean:] Come on, hurry up you two.
[Niall:] [reading story in background]
[speaker002:] And instead of going to get money, cos you don't need money. Money's not behind here. Throw it away
[Niall:] I dunno why
[Jean:] That's.
[speaker002:] You can rent money.
[Niall:] Because, so and then
[Jean:] Can you?
[Niall:] you work hard
[speaker002:] Yeah!
[Niall:] for a little
[Jean:] Keira.
[Niall:] while.
[Jean:] Keira. Do you want erm... a vitamin tablet? Right. Eat your cornflakes because we've gotta go now!
[Niall:] mother.
[Jean:] Okay?
[Niall:] On Saturday, Joshua's mother... headed for the
[speaker002:] Haven't you done
[Niall:] and
[speaker002:] some writing?
[Niall:] she all happy. But to be rather
[Jean:] Yeah.
[Niall:] busy and all that
[Jean:] I think I prefer buying.
[speaker002:] Some
[Jean:] Mm mm.
[speaker002:] When?
[Jean:] Tonight, here.
[Niall:] and baby Jenny will have lots of toys bought for her.
[speaker002:] Instead of just going
[Niall:] Now I have
[Jean:] Urgh!
[Niall:] the actually one
[speaker002:] all day at car boot sales!
[Jean:] Yeah. It's only to get rid of junk though mind.
[Niall:] Erm... maybe.
[Jean:] Isn't it?
[speaker002:] You're not getting rid of my bike! Hey mum!
[Jean:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Tea... there. I better tell dad. Better remind him.
[Jean:] Remind him to do what? Now, put your shoes
[speaker002:] Tell
[Jean:] on please!
[Niall:] Oh my God! It's gone dark while he's waiting for us outside.
[speaker002:] [shouting] Dad []!
[Niall:] It'll have to be dark.
[speaker002:] [shouting] Dad []!
[Niall:] How do you know that Joshua is? It's got all the
[Jean:] Just finish that page off love.
[Niall:] dark and
[Jean:] Okay?
[Niall:] Joshua, for the baby dro or dragon. Outside the den it was almost... Joshua challenges. A emer er... Emily. By Josh, but Josh that's a girl's name. I know but... she's a Chinese dragon
[Jean:] There's your car.
[Niall:] and like to have girl's names and rings. May I see him? No, he's too shy. But... you want to see him.
[Jean:] Here you are Keira. Put that on please. Whose is this orange juice here? Yes? Why not? Well, I'll think about it okay? Another word.... Right. Now
[Niall:] Mummy... I have Miss [LAUGHTER]
[Jean:] What's to be done?
[Niall:] I have Miss, I got a trip to Magic.
[Jean:] Yeah.
[Niall:] Erm, so
[Jean:] Whose is that that's... like that?
[speaker002:] Mine was already
[Niall:] Mine.
[speaker002:] there.
[Jean:] Best of luck Vaughn. Okay. Okay. There you are. I'll open the car.... See you later. Alright. I'm coming home at lunchtime. There's milk on the step. Bye-bye.
[speaker002:] But... lunchtime
[Jean:] Right. We'll have to get cracking.
[speaker002:] what d'ya mean lunchtime?
[Jean:] Well lunchtime I'm going to go in and pop back to get things. I've locked it, it was unlocked. Right.
[Niall:] Can I go in the front?
[Jean:] Tie your belt up please. Tie your belt up.... Okay. Speedily. Now
[speaker002:] Oh crash, bang, wallop you're a
[Jean:] but both doors were open, you know. Start the car.
[Niall:] [screaming] Ah []! You happy
[Jean:] See the co
[Niall:] now?
[Jean:] can you er zip your zips up please? Keira. Can you zip your zip up?
[speaker002:] I can't.
[Jean:] What do you think you'll be doing at school today?
[speaker002:] Recorder concert!
[Jean:] Oh! Have you got your recorder? In school?
[speaker002:] No! Er, yes, yes
[Jean:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] yes.
[Jean:] Now, what you gonna be playing?
[speaker002:] Joe Joe stubbed his toe. Joe Joe stubbed his toe and... Indian Warrior.
[Jean:] Oh!
[speaker002:] [singing] Big chief, Indian warrior, warrior, warrior. Big chief, Indian warrior. High... ho! High... ho! High... ho! oh! oh []!
[Jean:] Right.
[speaker002:] And erm... the skateboard ride.
[Jean:] [crunches gears] Ooh! That gear. Keeps changing with the
[speaker002:] Mummy. You know what I've
[Jean:] Skateboard ride?
[speaker002:] you know what, that I
[Jean:] What's that one?
[speaker002:] ca just can play that, I couldn't do recorders that well?
[Jean:] Yes.
[speaker002:] Well now erm, I'm really good at it.
[Jean:] Can you do all the musical notes?
[speaker002:] Yeah. Every green bus drives fast.
[Jean:] Pardon?
[speaker002:] Every, every green bus drives fast.
[Niall:] Ha!
[Jean:] Does Mr still teach you?
[speaker002:] Yeah, if you look at it.
[Jean:] Keira?
[speaker002:] Pardon?
[Jean:] Does Mr still teach you?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Jean:] Now... hang on, hang on. How are we gonna get past here when the
[speaker002:] There's a one here.
[Niall:] Are those rolls of grass?
[Jean:] Oh yes! He's gonna lay a lawn by the looks of it. Er
[Niall:] They're trying to pick it off... and doing it... on the big grass.
[speaker002:] Oh! You rude boy.
[Niall:] Oh not William?
[speaker002:] He's pain in the neck! He hurts girls.
[Jean:] Who's William?
[speaker002:] That boy out there. That's the one there.
[Jean:] Does he go to your school?
[speaker002:] Yeah. See... look.
[Niall:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Do you like Scott?
[Jean:] And you've got a play on today haven't you?
[Niall:] He's a pain in the neck!
[speaker002:] Pardon?
[Jean:] But there is a play on today isn't there? In your school.
[speaker002:] Oh yeah.
[Jean:] Right.
[speaker002:] Miss.
[Jean:] Now... it's very cold out there.
[Niall:] [singing] Mr []. No it ain't.
[Jean:] Very windy and cold.
[Niall:] Mr... Mr pooey-wooey poo. The man
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[Niall:] Mr poo!
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[Niall:] Mm, mm
[speaker002:] You rude, revolting boy!
[Jean:] Oh look!
[speaker002:] Guess what Kirsty doing when
[Jean:] What?
[speaker002:] we was just practising for recorders?
[Jean:] What?
[speaker002:] She was going like this, and the music was on, she put her feet out and she put the music on her feet.
[Jean:] Oh well.
[Niall:] [LAUGHTER]
[Jean:] Is Kirsty in recorders as well?
[speaker002:] Yeah. I'll show you what it was like.
[Jean:] Right.
[speaker002:] Re it was like that.
[Jean:] Let's have a look. Ooh!
[speaker002:] And Virginia was standing up.
[Jean:] [LAUGHTER]... Right.
[speaker002:] I didn't because it made her feet ache.
[Jean:] I'll call your names out.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Jean:] and then, you know... who was doing what. Until then, can we all sit on the mat, please. Ben... where did you get that? Is that your book?
[speaker002:] Yes, Mrs.
[Jean:] Oh! Is that what you brought in... erm... today? Oh I see Kevin. Very good. Right.
[speaker002:] It was.
[Jean:] Yes you do don't you? It's very nice.
[speaker002:] But I don't, I don't do the book because that's boring.
[Jean:] Right. Can I take the register. Look! Why don't you sit down and read a book for five
[speaker002:] I got
[Jean:] minutes
[speaker002:] ten minutes.
[Jean:] until we get started? Katy? What did you have to do yesterday then? You to the disco? Oh dear me! Okay. I hope you're feeling better now. I never have that problem Katy. Yes.
[speaker002:] Are we not doing that then?
[Jean:] Now... there's Alexander off with erm, with chicken pox.
[speaker002:] Chicken pox?
[Jean:] Erm... Kieran, sit, read please. Thank you. Jonathan. Ian's on holiday.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [classroom chatter]
[Jean:] Right girls, sit down please. Thank you. Have you got a reading book?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Jean:] Are you all ready to work?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Jean:] Anita... would you get a reading book love and sit and read it? Beg your pardon?
[speaker002:] Do you buy lipstick?
[Jean:] No well some of it is whale oil, particularly those extracted from sperm whales us used in the manufacture of certain... expensive lipsticks. But I don't buy expensive lipstick.
[speaker002:] Oh!
[Jean:] ... Right. And an mine's made out of vegetable fat. Because in the ones that I buy it says, not harmful to animals. Alright? Right. Who's ready to sit down and read? What's that you've got in your hand?
[speaker002:] I've got it in my hand.
[Jean:] Now where did you get that from Simmone?
[speaker002:] It's my one.
[Jean:] I know it is. Let's have a look at it. Simmone has brought in her own personal dictionary. Erm, a Ladybird dictionary. And remember, we did all the dictionary words yesterday... well Simmone... has got some with pictures in. That's a fantastic... that, I wish I had one like that. And at the back
[speaker002:] We've got a game.
[Jean:] That's brilliant! Yes. Beautiful. Thank you. Have we got a David?
[speaker002:] No. Yeah.
[Jean:] Have we got a Mr?... I'll go and get one. I think I've got one to read in the. Why don't you read your dictionaries? A couple of other children's names. That'll be nice wouldn't it? Clare? Sarah? And Lesley?
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [classroom chatter]
[Jean:] We've got David? Have we got a Dean? Just in time. Just in time. Right lads... sit down and read until I tell you what we're doing. Thank you.
[speaker002:] I've got.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [classroom chatter]
[Jean:] Horrid cold day today isn't it? I must say. Now... is there a Gemma...?... Mark? Mark?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Jean:] Katy? Shh! Shh! Shh!... Kimberley.
[speaker002:] Kirsty.
[Jean:] Anita.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Jean:] And er... is there an Andrew in that
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Jean:] corner? Yes.... Mandy.... Ben?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Jean:] Carl?
[speaker002:] Yep.
[Jean:] Carl? Yes love. Simmone. Martin. Are you going to be a good boy today Martin? Be better. Paul. Nadine. Joanne. Nadine. Claire. Okay then. You weren't off yesterday were you? Right. Pardon? She keeps asking for her. I dunno why.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [classroom chatter]
[Jean:] Has anybody seen Nadine?
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [classroom chatter]
[Jean:] Gemma and Brian have you seen er the?
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [classroom chatter]
[Jean:] Erm, Martin, Martin and Peter can stay behind.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [clapping]...
[Jean:] Shh! Settle down please. Quiet please. These people can stay behind when assembly's out. People! Andrew! Listen carefully please. These people are staying behind in assembly's out. Gillian... Ben... Kimberley... Joanne
[speaker002:] Oh!
[Jean:] Paul... Mark... David, Dean. And... there... well those people are doing the test first. I can't tell you everybody, two more to do. So those people, when we go for assembly they stay behind... and I'll do the work with them first. And I want somebody to help the little ones later on. It's much easier that way. Okay? Right. How do you spell... box? Anybody know? What? Now this is a hard one. So think about it, don't just throw your hands in the air. Can anybody spell... er... between?
[speaker002:] Between?
[Jean:] Yes Candice? Stand up and see if you can spell between.
[speaker002:] [spelling] B E T W E E N [] [spelling phonetically]
[Jean:] Excellent! Sit down. Well done. Can anybody spell, I'll think of some easy ones shall I?
[speaker002:] Yes.
[Jean:] And?
[speaker002:] [spelling] A N D [].
[Jean:] Thank you. The? Paul?
[speaker002:] [spelling] T H E [].
[Jean:] [spelling] T H E [] or [spelling phonetically] T H E []. Erm, let me think of another one. When. When is not as easy as you might think. Andrew! Can you spell when to the class?
[speaker002:] [spelling] W E N []
[Jean:] Well a lot of people would fall into fall into the trap of thinking that. Yes. Gillian's got it right. Wa it's [spelling] Wa ha... E Na []. It's a silent... Ha. Thank you. Now another one I'm going to try and catch you out with. Knee. David?
[speaker002:] [spelling] Na [] It's a funny one. [spelling] E E E [] Kne knee.
[Jean:] Nearly David, but not quite. Er, who hasn't had a turn? Abigail?
[speaker002:] [spelling] K N E E [].
[Jean:] Thank you! Because of course it's a little trick one again.
[speaker002:] Because it's a silent K.
[Jean:] It's a silent K. Try to get this over to you. It's a silent K. Now, a lot of people have trouble when they spell words that have shh... or ba in them. So, Kimberley, could you spell the word... shoe.
[speaker002:] [spelling] S H O E [].
[Jean:] Yes. Because all the shh words have... [spelling] sa ha [] don't they? Shh. Katy what did I just say? All the shh words, what, what do they begin with?
[speaker002:] Er... they er er A [spelling] sa [] capital S. [spelling] sa ha. Sa ha [].
[Jean:] [spelling] Sa ha []. Okay? Right. Now... other problems that might come up are... when people spell words and they've got double letters on the end, you can forget the double letters. Can anybody spell... well?
[speaker002:] [spelling] W E L L []. [spelling] W E L L [].
[Jean:] Yeah. [spelling] W E L L []. Can anybody spell, spell? Candice? Again.
[speaker002:] [spelling] S P E double L [].
[Jean:] Correct. Don't forget your double
[speaker002:] I know one.
[Jean:] Ls, please.
[speaker002:] Erm
[Jean:] Right. Now... what are we going to do? If you want to. Miss. I wish you'd start behaving yourself! Thank you. Right. If anybody have any spellings who can't help them. Okay. You just put down how you think that they are spelt.
[speaker002:] Does it matter how, about the spellings?
[Jean:] Well yes it does Kevin. But don't worry about them. Just put them down the way you think that they're spelt. Okay? How you think they're spelt. And you know, the chances are you'll be right.
[speaker002:] If you put. It won't be... Paul.
[Jean:] He can write. You all can write very well. That's the whole... thing. Excellent! Well done. Really looking forward to this.... Right. [sighing] Ooh []!... Remember, bearing in mind the story we did yesterday... could be quite interesting. But what happens?... Or you could just write about... how you... enjoyed the story or you didn't enjoy the story, or you think it's a great story, or what actually happened in the story. Was it another story entirely?
[speaker002:] I don't know what we have to put.
[Jean:] No, just put down how you think you do it. Okay? That's all I want David. Just want you to try your best. Now this is what we're going to do. Let us think.
[speaker002:] Please may I go to the toilet?
[Jean:] and I will speak to you individually. Now, individually. One at a time. Now... this is what you can do if you want to. You may... Shh! Kevin. Kevin. Yes, Carl. You may do some maths if you want to.
[speaker002:] No.
[Jean:] You may do your language work if you want to.
[speaker002:] I thought you said anything?
[Jean:] If you don't want to do... either of those things... and you are... keen on writing a story, you may write
[speaker002:] Miss I've written a story.
[Jean:] a story. Right. No you may not draw a picture. This has got to do with... work. If you want to do some carrot maps... those children who didn't do carrot maps, you may do some. Carrot maps is really good fun for the making of the carrot.
[speaker002:] Shall we do carrot maps?
[Jean:] You may do letters but don't mess it up.
[speaker005:] We're doing
[Jean:] Er, Clare!
[speaker002:] Miss!
[Jean:] You make a song about Noah's Ark.
[speaker006:] Miss, I don't want to do language. I want to
[Jean:] One for you, oh! Well that's the same. I haven't got my new stories today.
[speaker002:] Well how about... er, Miss. Miss. Miss! Miss! Miss! Miss!
[Jean:] Sorry love?
[speaker002:] I'll do some dominoes.
[Jean:] Erm... dominoes?
[speaker002:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Jean:] Do a.
[speaker002:] Please may I go to the toilet? Mrs... can I go to the toilet?
[Jean:] Yes you may? Erm
[speaker002:] Miss.
[Jean:] yes you may.
[speaker002:] wanna do English. Miss can I do maths please?
[Jean:] Yes you can. I beg your pardon?
[speaker002:] Green one.
[Jean:] Oh it's in the green box. Clare's going to do the green box. Now
[speaker002:] I'll do it then.
[Jean:] I'm going to be speaking to people on the little red round table. So come over here one at a time. Right. Erm... Candice and Jackie? Go to the staff room. You may go in the staff room and on the round table there is... two sheets of paper, one's yours and one's David, bring it to me. Right. Good! Good! Good! I shall listen to readers as well. Gonna be doing a lot of Thursday. Alright? Yes okay.
[speaker002:] Miss, are you writing this book? Did you say I'm allowed to go and get my book?
[Jean:] Yes.
[speaker002:] Di did you say I'm go and get my?
[Jean:] Er.... Paul and Dan. Are you sitting with me Clare? Alright. Good girl. Have you got your face jigsaw in your card? Mark have you got your jigsaw in your drawer?
[speaker002:] Shall I make the envelope?
[Jean:] Yes at least, then the face jigsaw, well what do you need? everything they need is on the result table over there
[speaker002:] Miss I'm, cut it off
[Jean:] Katie's come across a problem she's got too many bits, so she's going to go up and along, this time she's right, is that a jigsaw? Well how you going to cut it up?... Isn't it gonna be hard to get all those things stuck up, ah now
[speaker002:] Cut it
[Jean:] this is it, now where's your envelope to make it? Does it fit together?
[speaker002:] Yeah
[Jean:] Let me take a photograph instead... mm eh?... yeah... right Mark, brilliant, have you got card to make eh? You want some card? to make an envelope
[speaker002:] Miss can I have another piece of card
[Jean:] have you got your name on?
[speaker002:] please? No
[Jean:] Does it fit together, does it need a picture to follow?
[speaker002:] No
[Jean:] No, right, you see, put that away, this is fine then, you're happy with it? no, what I'd like you to do is, I want you to put it on the erm, you can take it home later, put it on the windowsill with your plan, [shouting] don't lose your plan please [] put it on the windowsill your plan... you need to have your plans with you, now you can start tidying up your mess and and Andrew why? well Andrew how's that gonna fit in the envelope? Do you need an envelope? You have to make one, go and make a proper envelope about
[speaker002:] I've got a purple one
[Jean:] Yeah... have you got a pencil please? Have you got a pencil?
[speaker002:] This is my picture, there's my
[Jean:] right, now, when it's dry, right are you gonna start making the envelope now? So you're gonna put that back and make an envelope, P, R, P, E, put that out, cos that's gonna be an envelope... right, are you alright with that?... Oh no... yeah... that's very nice indeed, but are you gonna cut that one up?
[speaker002:] Well I'm gonna put
[Jean:] but don't put too many, that's nice, now you need your plan, you need to put it over there with your plan put it over there with your plan, put it over there with your plan, okay, is this a jigsaw?
[speaker002:] Yeah
[Jean:] Erm, are you gonna put Happy Easter on? a big... alright then... oh it's on the board
[speaker002:] Where of?
[Jean:] very good Jonathan, are you gonna cut it out and into your jigsaw then?
[speaker002:] Where of?
[Jean:] Wait a minute and I'll go and get you one... you've not start making your envelope, here are big pieces of paper for people to make their big envelope... erm, have I got any here are some big pieces of paper for people who want to make envelopes... okay now, now you've made yours in, how you gonna cut it up
[speaker002:] Made it
[Jean:] into a jigsaw?
[speaker002:] miss I've made it
[Jean:] Yeah, are you happy with this card?
[speaker002:] Yeah
[Jean:] Now, where's your plan? Go and get your plan... Mrs erm ... right do you need paper or do you need card?
[speaker002:] Must have card there
[Jean:] Are you happy with this?
[speaker002:] Yeah
[Jean:] Just have to finish the card, now how does she know who's it to? Are you gonna make an envelope Clare? Who's it to?
[speaker002:] My mum
[Jean:] Your mum... glitter yes, I'm not getting it done, it's for your mum so
[speaker002:] Can I use it?
[Jean:] we're having no you can't just leave it there, right... are you going to put some on over that, or there on the printed bit? Where you gonna put
[speaker002:] Er
[Jean:] oh, are the right handed pieces are on?
[speaker002:] Yeah
[Jean:] Alright then, I think that's brilliant, erm... now your plan has to go, you didn't need same piece of card, right, that's for the envelope as well, put your name on the back
[speaker002:] Miss
[Jean:] next put your name on will that fit into there?... I beg your pardon, if it won't fit in what? no you have to have an envelope for that to fit into, what you gonna do with that to make it fit? Yes
[speaker002:] Miss will you do that for me? Wait a minute, Miss will you do that for me? Because it keeps on coming out Miss
[Jean:] This paper?
[speaker002:] Yeah
[Jean:] Why don't you use the other one then?
[speaker002:] it's out... that's what it keeps on doing Miss...
[Jean:] I'm having nightmares with this paper today
[speaker002:] Oh
[Jean:] I don't know why
[speaker002:] funny how I just er
[Jean:] I never have it's mine actually I told them they have to be very careful, I'm wondering if they put the right size in, excuse me can you go right out the way they're not the right size, because the, the it's just the second one that's got jammed no, it's just that people are borrowing it and ripping it apart, it is a ve it is an extremely expensive stapler
[speaker002:] Miss my mum's got a bigger one at home and
[Jean:] nothing I can do about that...
[speaker002:] Shall we try the other one? Miss...
[Jean:] Jean's got it...
[speaker002:] oh dear
[Jean:] now, not now, somebody's knocked it, there's all these droppings on the floor
[speaker002:] slightly to one side
[Jean:] Yes, mm... mm does... right... right I'm sorry about that, yes
[speaker002:] I've done the envelope
[Jean:] let's staple the card, for mums, are you gonna put anything inside? What are you gonna put on the front?
[speaker002:] All of it
[Jean:] Yes I know, but who's it to?
[speaker002:] Mummy
[Jean:] Go and test your jigsaw yes, go and test your jigsaw good
[speaker002:] Need staples
[Jean:] Oh you need staples well Mrs has the stapler, if you go and borrow it, how you going to cut that up? Think about it... Now if she's passed that level, then she's er, it's ten points reading
[speaker002:] I see.
[Jean:] the chronological age is eight, but her reading ability is ten point six plus
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Jean:] depending on which one she used
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Jean:] but when we come to testing them for reading erm on the national curriculum to say level one, level two, level three
[speaker002:] Yeah and the, I know from
[Jean:] and you're going up
[speaker002:] you know she said she was sort of level three plus when she did that
[Jean:] Right.
[speaker002:] I understand.
[Jean:] Well when she's level Clare means she's well ahead of herself and now she's got, you could give her books that were appropriate for a ten year old and she could read them
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Jean:] because she, she had that ability
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[Jean:] she's very good, whatever but you, I don't know which we, you just have to say next time you see her oh which reading test do you use and you can work out, how, what, you know, I've got a reading test somewhere I'll see if I can find it for you, just show you well you don't just pop it next to it with your name on, good Jean
[speaker002:] I wanna take it home
[Jean:] I'm gonna let you take it home
[speaker002:] we, we, we stick it together?
[Jean:] No, I'm gonna let you take it home okay people if you've finished tidy up, you two go and tidy up please, thank you Can I sit next to you? And I promise I won't fall on you, no I know, I keep, well I'd, you get worried because if it came on gently, you know, smoothly you know what, to come on so quickly I'm
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] ...
[Jean:] Right we'll just have a
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] ...
[speaker007:] Who's sitting there, anybody there?
[Jean:] No I've just brought one over
[speaker007:] Oh okay
[Jean:] Are you cold Dolores?
[speaker008:] Not at all we actually had a very cold Christmas
[Jean:] Oh
[speaker008:] we've had the coldest year
[Jean:] I thought you were over for that
[speaker008:] seventy five degrees I mean, and it was really cold and when we got back it was cold as well, it's only the last four weeks that we've been able to use the outdoor pools again it's a good life, yes
[Jean:] Is it? You'd recommend it then
[speaker008:] the standard of living is
[Jean:] would ya?
[speaker008:] Definitely yes, we wish we'd done it sooner
[Jean:] How you getting on with the erm, you know, being a second class citizen?
[speaker008:] Erm
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker008:] you can watch for them, oh gosh well, in a while respect their religious beliefs and they're at terms to
[speaker009:] Yes, but they don't respect yours.
[speaker008:] They don't actually
[speaker009:] No
[speaker008:] no, erm, I mean when, you're not allowed to practise any religion out there, so any
[Jean:] Really?
[speaker008:] religious services we go to have to be done in secret and
[Jean:] Really?
[speaker008:] Oh yes it's ver I mean the priest, it says it has the British Embassy, he has, he is an American serviceman and he actually has his own bodyguard, a driver who's been trained.
[Jean:] Good God
[speaker008:] Yeah, so, and, the who were the religious police who were actually watching, so we haven't gone back for a while erm, so that the well the thing is you go to somewhere like Dubai which is in the same peninsular and within half a mile of the, of the college there, there's an Anglian church
[Jean:] yeah
[speaker008:] and every one just gets on with it.
[speaker006:] Well I just thought as a woman not, you know as a person
[speaker008:] oh yes, honestly some shops you're not allowed to go into, you have a window yeah that's right
[speaker006:] Is it because you're a woman or because you're a foreigner or?
[speaker008:] Because you're a woman like an ice cream shop, no women allowed inside women aren't allowed into video stores or erm
[speaker007:] Oh you can't imagine it [LAUGHTER]
[speaker008:] tape stores that sort of thing
[Jean:] You can't drive your car
[speaker008:] You can't drive the car
[Jean:] that's one of the worse I think
[speaker008:] I mean if, if you go shopping all on my own but you, they, they are, they're very sweet, the second class citizens of all, I mean they say they're cherished and looked after and but they're not allowed to drive, they're not allowed to work
[Jean:] oh they're not allowed to work?
[speaker008:] No.
[Jean:] Oh it's not that bad
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker008:] No they're not allowed to work
[speaker007:] You've changed your mind now
[speaker009:] Are they allowed to have the babies?
[speaker008:] That's all they're there for.
[Jean:] Oh
[speaker008:] That's all they're there for is to breed basically
[speaker006:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker008:] I mean it's a lovely way of life for them I suppose, but I mean within a fifty kilometre er outline of the Riyadh city there are police check points and the people are checked going in and out, none of them allowed yeah, they're not even allowed free travel in their own country, but they are, it's a police state, they are checked and double-checked, and I mean the things we hear now about, they have a lot of Philippine workers there
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] Mm
[speaker008:] a lot of Indian workers, all the construction workers are Indians and all sort of shop people are all Filipinos, all the supermarkets are Filipinos in checkouts and the shelves, and that's the, a lot of the Filipino women that go out, go out as servants and of course the husband
[Jean:] Oh they have a hell of a life haven't they?
[speaker009:] Mm
[speaker008:] The minute she becomes pregnant and can't hide it any more she's actually put into prison yeah, they're just, they're just disposed of, they're sent into prison, they're, the, the prisons er any food, they have their babies in prison
[Jean:] Hell
[speaker008:] a Victorian prison and after services have been done and collection for the prisoners, erm, you know that was the international they were getting
[speaker006:] Yeah
[speaker008:] they would, I mean we've heard stories one of the, John one of the school drivers who's an Indian, he couldn't bel they bring them out in big large groups. erm, he said one of the friends he'd come out with he became a house boy in a house, and the lady took a fancy to him, took him to bed, the husband found him and he was later found
[speaker006:] Oh my
[speaker009:] God
[speaker008:] That's the way that they deal with men
[Jean:] ooh
[speaker008:] So really nothing's moved since Moses' time
[speaker006:] No
[speaker008:] has it, in that respect?
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker008:] Definitely not, there's nothing you can do, no there is nothing you can do, and the restrictions on the I mean the Matawa who are the religious police they have a lot of clout, a lot of clout, erm, we were in the gold souk down the old markets before we came away and there was two Matawa and they have big sort of straggly beards and they are shorter than everybody else's and, but this one had a, a cape on with a gold braid which meant he was a big high up one, and he was just absolutely paranoid, I mean they reckon that the Matawa are such fanatics that they are just Greeks, you know they just, you know these ones that just
[speaker007:] Yeah
[speaker008:] themselves and cut themselves and for, for Allah and whatnot hit and he had two policemen, now if they had, they're, they're not allowed to stop you and ask for your identification unless they have policeman with them, but they can arrest you and take you to their police station and they can be quite intimidating and, but they were going round, there was American service in there who have little cards written on it, they said they don't have to cover their heads they, they're allowed to do just as well as they please
[speaker007:] Oh, are they allowed to drive?
[speaker008:] because they said I believe they're not, erm and he stopped these two American servicemen
[speaker006:] Mm
[speaker008:] and he shouted at them to cover their heads and, cos of Ramadan and erm... you know they, they really took the Mick out of them you know, and then, when was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me, this means nothing to me, cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away, but he, he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans, and socks and said her jeans were too short they're just crazy people and very hypocritical, very hypocritical, there's no respect for them whatsoever
[speaker009:] Mm apart from that you had a great time
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker006:] Definitely
[speaker009:] in the compound?
[speaker008:] Yes it's very nice
[speaker006:] It's very nice with friends if you could of gone out there
[speaker008:] Yeah made a lot of nice friends yeah, there's a lot of friends teaching the school, there's a lot of, there's sixteen Irish erm a lot of Australians, er two Americans, there's a lady from Sweden and, you just meet so many people in some, different countries.
[speaker009:] Is there a lot of social life do they organize that?
[speaker008:] There is a lot of social life there, people do tend to, to entertain more in their homes
[speaker009:] Yeah
[speaker006:] Yeah
[speaker008:] and the people worked in the big hotels
[speaker009:] but I mean would any, is there anywhere, where they could come can you drink on campus?
[speaker008:] Oh yes you can drink
[speaker009:] Is that alright?
[speaker008:] you, you be very careful about driving drinking your parts
[Jean:] Pick it up now, go on
[speaker007:] Yeah
[speaker008:] cos if you were stopped or you had an accident
[Jean:] I say pick it up now
[speaker008:] erm, but everybody home brews, I mean there's some people who've been out there who make beautiful Cointreau
[speaker009:] Oh
[speaker008:] er
[speaker006:] That religion?
[speaker008:] yeah on estate, er the big, big compound they have stills and there's a lady who actually does it as a living
[speaker006:] Oh right
[speaker008:] she, gets pure alcohol that's called and then you buy it all first to make your Cointreau and all the wine is ever so easy, this, the big bottles of grape juice you buy there, go in the sugar, plenty of yeast, there you go, you have thirty six litres
[speaker009:] I dread to have grape juice over there, they must think when they go to shop
[speaker008:] Well
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker008:] you buy one case in one supermarket and then
[speaker007:] And then another there
[speaker008:] but you don't go in and buy five cases of
[speaker009:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker008:] and you don't know what you're gonna do with it
[speaker007:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker006:] Thirsty work, eh?
[speaker007:] Yeah
[speaker008:] But everybody home brews
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] ...
[speaker009:] Homemade gin
[speaker008:] There's another one called Jeddah gin, which is gin made with potatoes and oranges, grapefruits, lemons
[speaker006:] is that powerful?
[speaker008:] I haven't had Jeddah gin yet, I've had but I haven't had the Jeddah gin yet
[speaker009:] Just leave the recipe with us
[speaker006:] write it on the blackboard
[Jean:] [LAUGHTER] It's the new technological thing
[speaker007:] horizontal
[Jean:] do you wanna change anything in your site [hiccup] I don't know
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker009:] So how long you back for?
[speaker008:] Till twenty fifth
[speaker009:] Oh are ya?
[speaker006:] Have you made any plans?
[speaker008:] No just having no it's fine, I had a lovely drink over there, I've just left it
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker006:] Fine...
[speaker009:] And what about the actual teaching there?
[speaker008:] It's very good
[speaker009:] Is it?
[speaker008:] Yeah
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker009:] It's not important
[speaker008:] The maximum number of children you can have in a class is twenty and I have a maid for one day a week and she does all my backing up, wet the walls and and she does all that sort of work for me
[speaker009:] What nationality is she?
[speaker008:] Er, she's English, they're all, their husbands are all out in British Aerospace contracts and, and... I get which is quite nice
[speaker009:] What you do the national curriculum then?
[speaker008:] Oh yeah we do the national curriculum yeah
[speaker006:] What year did you end up with?
[speaker008:] Er first year juniors
[speaker007:] Have ya?
[speaker008:] which is quite nice because I've never taught that so I want to stay there next year
[speaker006:] Do you have a lot of changes with staff? Are there some people who don't kind of like it?
[speaker008:] Er, it's not so much that, there is a, a nucleus of contract staff which are there permanently, but erm, most of the staff are local contract, people, teachers who are out with their husbands.
[speaker006:] Mm, so they might be
[speaker008:] There's, we have a lot of Australians teaching over there, a lot of Canadian and a lot of British as well but they can come and go, I mean the year four they lost two teachers in the last two weeks cos their husbands got other jobs and the contracts were just terminated and, so it's quite a, a moveable circle of people, er, but just, they have actually sacked one of the lads that came out with us, they won't be renewing his contract next year, he only had a two year contract
[speaker009:] Why?
[speaker008:] He didn't really live up to expectations, he wasn't... he didn't work hard enough I feel, he was lazy and he was too used to teaching abroad class room, give the children an exercise to do and that was it, they did it, and no questions were asked and that's how they want and the other guy was... he just did it himself he, he wasn't abusive but he, he wasn't good with the kids and
[speaker006:] An attitude problem
[speaker008:] he had, he had a definite attitude problem so they said they would relieve him of his contract... oh that's fair enough, they're paying you good money and they expect you to work hard and that's it... but we finish at one o'clock next term
[speaker009:] why?
[speaker008:] Because of the heat
[speaker006:] So what time do you start?
[speaker008:] Ten to eight
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[speaker006:] What time do you finish?
[speaker008:] Normally it's half term
[speaker006:] You work straight through without
[speaker008:] No we have forty minutes lunch
[speaker006:] Mm
[speaker008:] and twenty minutes in the morning, but we work right through, skip lunch, finish at one o'clock then
[Jean:] ah that'll be much nicer way, good attitude isn't it? Mrs wouldn't like that would she?
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker006:] She'd say now you're really pushing it trying to get home early aren't you Mrs? [LAUGHTER]
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] ...
[speaker008:] no the English news only comes on at half past ten at night and then you'll get what they wanted to hear, so you don't have to listen to the World Service
[speaker009:] so they vet it do they?
[speaker008:] Mm
[speaker009:] Do they vet it?
[speaker008:] Oh very much so, yeah very much so, yeah, you only hear what they want you to hear
[speaker006:] But how do they vet it? Do they just say bad things, or do they just say good things?
[speaker008:] No they show only what they want to show, so if there's something they don't like they won't show it
[speaker006:] Mm
[speaker009:] so you don't actually get a true version of what happened
[speaker008:] So, no you won't know that we're trying to get the two pilots out of er
[speaker006:] Libya
[speaker008:] Libya and the only thing they would, they would tell us about is what's happening in Iraq, there
[Jean:] Did you know that erm, who was missing Arrorat Arafat
[speaker008:] they actually sacrificed their lives didn't they?
[speaker006:] They died didn't they?
[Jean:] They dived into the sand didn't they, so he would survive at the back of the
[speaker008:] well when the, the UN people, was it the UN people, were trapped in the raft
[speaker006:] Oh yeah
[speaker008:] he wasn't going to let them go, I mean we weren't told any of that on the news, there wasn't a word of that, it only be that from the papers that we'd got there's no problem there, erm, but because we don't actually have a radio that gets us the World Service, the people didn't know what was going on, the only thing that we knew was that the air, because Riyadh is a military city
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] Mm
[speaker008:] and there's a big air base there, where the big spy, the A W A C spy planes come in and out all the time and they worked constantly and the were going in like and there was a lot of military aircraft to be stocking up again because they thought they'd have to go in
[speaker009:] Did you get
[speaker008:] you don't actually it's just all goes up and it goes down, no one actually tells you but you can tell from the amount of aircraft and they train all pilots there as well so
[speaker007:] yeah I think so
[Jean:] if I put those on there would you like to pass them out and then I could refill that's right Dolores a little more red?
[speaker008:] No thanks I'm fine
[Jean:] John a little more red?
[speaker007:] Just a drop, lovely
[speaker009:] it's a nice blouse Penny
[speaker002:] Thank you
[speaker009:] is it Marks and Spencers' ?
[speaker002:] No it's erm
[speaker006:] What do you do?
[Jean:] So that it's like erm, a dough
[speaker006:] Yeah what you break off pieces don't you? It's not it's sort of
[speaker009:] Oh you cook and then you break them off the rest of them
[Jean:] Well no, you, you sort of mix it all up and it's like a, a piece of dough, it's like, it's like a pastry
[speaker009:] Yeah
[Jean:] inside it rather than and you just break
[speaker009:] really, oh no I'd never thought that would work cos I thought that would
[Jean:] You don't believe
[speaker009:] have to be a very low heat you know for microwaves
[Jean:] Yes yeah
[speaker009:] I mean tt meringues
[Jean:] it's amazing
[speaker009:] not that I'm a meringue fan of course, but erm
[speaker006:] I like the pastry, shortcrust
[speaker009:] no, I'm not a bundle on I tell ya, I just, I just had this sort of yearning for chocolate, ooh no I'm not [LAUGHTER] no when I am I can't eat anything, if I was like that I just couldn't bear to be even in the same room as anybody who's eating, so no the urge of chocolate is possibly to do with fat [LAUGHTER] we did the technology this morning anyway
[speaker007:] Oh were you alright?
[speaker009:] Well, the end results you can't get blood out of a stone can you? No I could hardly believe that there's nobody on level three... mm and you see we done the Easter eggs and they can't join in, I have to say no, it's a shame you know the and I can't even help them with that
[speaker007:] It's very hard for one or two of my small ones
[speaker009:] but it's alright if you're not doing the
[speaker007:] yeah that's right
[speaker009:] I just give them a little you know er some of them they did a five piece jigsaw easter egg things that when they take them and an envelope to send them off to put it in, so when they take it home and fit it together it says happy easter.... Katie cut hers up into five hundred pieces [LAUGHTER]
[Jean:] More detail
[speaker009:] and I said you'll have to fit it together again and she said I can't [LAUGHTER] they were all identical squares with squiggles on oh what a
[speaker007:] Put together...
[speaker009:] yeah don't worry John I feel fine [LAUGHTER] famous last words [sniff] I think it was just a bug and I think it was caused by
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] ...
[speaker009:] There seems to be an awful lot of people in this staff room today
[speaker007:] how much wine did you have?
[speaker009:] Julie [LAUGHTER] but she's
[speaker007:] It's still gotta be the
[speaker009:] yeah it's so diffi I mean, alright we're, we're gonna be okay because we're and we've, we've a steady occupation etcetera etcetera, but we just turn er, er, you know we're just blind to these people who've got nothing and there's more and more people have got nothing
[speaker006:] Yeah
[speaker009:] and we don't see it and it's disgraceful that for another five years they're going to get even less and less I know, but we don't see that do we?
[speaker006:] No, I don't know how some of them
[speaker009:] and you know, I mean I know I'm a Geordie, Geordies are hard workers, I mean they're noted for their hard work and it's, it's horrible because they've always, they always suffer
[speaker006:] Yeah
[speaker009:] when there's any recession they're the first ones to lose
[speaker007:] Yeah
[speaker009:] out.
[speaker007:] the North East they've always, they've always
[speaker009:] They've always been a precarious, yeah, I mean me dad used to work down the shipyard and you know you'd live in fear for when they would close the yards down
[speaker007:] Oh yeah
[speaker009:] and it happened so regularly all the yards being closed and you'd just be laid off and no
[speaker007:] keep going back to
[speaker009:] mm
[speaker007:] You'd have one sense but when William the Conqueror came I think it was
[speaker006:] What windows?
[speaker007:] when he became the gaffer
[speaker009:] Yeah, do you want the windows closed?
[speaker007:] but most people
[speaker009:] Do you want a window open? Anyone
[speaker007:] because erm the North East was so far away I think they was
[speaker009:] oh no I've never heard that, no
[speaker007:] Yeah, er and was certainly he, cos he was a and er, you know
[speaker009:] I always thought that you see when the, er Normans came and you had the
[speaker007:] yeah
[speaker009:] they could and enter Scotland and a lot and then a lot came back from Scotland down to North and there was
[speaker007:] That's right
[speaker009:] relatively lush compared to London and Scottish
[speaker007:] Oh yes, aye
[speaker009:] the Normans and I think you've gotta
[speaker007:] I think there's lush
[speaker009:] and they've always had this complete divide, personalities apart from anything else you know
[speaker007:] Yeah
[speaker009:] mm, oh think that's got something to do with it
[speaker007:] mm, yes, maybe exactly like
[speaker009:] well you can be on another planet you know
[speaker007:] Yeah
[speaker009:] maybe North of Watford and you've had it couldn't you?
[speaker007:] Yeah
[speaker009:] It must be worse for the Scots who thank you Nationalist, they blame Labour for that for taking their votes away, mm
[speaker007:] they did very well in Scotland from what I've heard well
[speaker009:] did better than they thought they would
[speaker007:] Yeah...
[speaker009:] I think I despair of the society if voted come I'm gonna emigrate now
[speaker007:] Hmm
[speaker009:] it's just, this lot have voted for them again, I'm going... what are the red ones?
[speaker006:] erm, do you think it would, the company provide a photocopier at their school, they have an stuff on it and they have to have a pin number, so you put your pin number in and then it tells you exactly how many copies your pin number has copied
[speaker002:] That's what I was trying to tell you about
[speaker009:] It only costs a thousand pounds to get me [LAUGHTER]
[speaker006:] it would be a lot easier
[speaker002:] Yeah
[speaker006:] if it was a machine and you can only use your own pin number you see to do everything
[speaker009:] I have enough trouble trying to remember my Nat West one do ya mind? [LAUGHTER]
[Jean:] You'd be putting in your Nat West one do, do, do, do, do
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Jean:] sorry no money left Mrs [LAUGHTER]
[speaker009:] or you might be tempted to put if it's just one, one to ten or something, you might be tempted to put the wrong number in [LAUGHTER]
[speaker008:] Pass them round again so I can try one of the other ones this time...
[Jean:] The little ones this time
[speaker008:] that was nice
[speaker009:] this one falls out of your mouth you just need a couple of days to
[speaker008:] Dave and Julie have got this incredible new kitchen
[speaker006:] Yeah
[speaker008:] which, Julie still cooks everything straight from Marks and Spencers on it, I mean you only dirty the bowl, I mean you don't even dirty the microwave
[speaker006:] Oh that's a good idea, fine by me
[speaker009:] Mm...
[speaker006:] Who's making your kitchen?
[speaker008:] I've got my kitchen, it's in my drawing room
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker008:] it's a Martin kitchen
[Jean:] Martin
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Jean:] goodness me he's a
[speaker007:] They've expanded
[Jean:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker008:] If you, if you can visualize it's a long, as you're going in towards me, you pass the hotel then you come to the shops, on the left hand side about the third shop along
[speaker006:] Oh is that
[speaker008:] it's in there
[speaker009:] Mm, scrubbed pine?
[speaker008:] It's, it's maple
[speaker009:] Oh
[speaker008:] it's solid maple, it's got no chipboard inside
[speaker009:] oh the cupboards are brilliant it's just the fronts are so dated and the man in these reports in the house said erm, kitchen is satisfactory but it needs updating and it was only about seven years ago it was brand new, no, not seven, have we been in then, no eight, so nine or something, I know the fronts need sorting out.
[speaker006:] Get new doors for that
[speaker009:] I know, that's right, there's nothing wrong with the casings nothing
[speaker007:] People who live diagonally up the hill when we moved into and we could because the backs come together we could see the kitchen which was it was quite a nice one
[speaker009:] Mm
[speaker007:] and everyone
[speaker009:] has changed kitchen
[speaker006:] Has changed kitchen
[speaker007:] has taken it out
[speaker009:] what a waste of money,sa sa this guy was saying who did, who did the kitchens said he said all the actual boxes are identical and they're really good quality made and you can tell it's, it's a that was the fronts, I never liked them when I moved in
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]...
[speaker009:] Elaine how many erm film, how many film slots are on this film? Is it thirty six? Cos we're onto number thirty one now
[speaker002:] It's alright
[speaker009:] so have you got another film or shall I
[speaker002:] Yeah I've got another film
[speaker009:] I was going to try and take a photograph of er lot of 'em so I'm gonna try and
[speaker007:] yeah
[speaker009:] [LAUGHTER] maybe I could get two on a film, oh, eh, I don't need to use every single one do I? I just need er, some that I think are on level five and some of them I think are there
[speaker008:] all the children went there, I said it was kind of insulting wasn't it?
[speaker006:] Oh yeah I felt insulted actually she's going
[speaker009:] Oh it's a nice school
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Jean:] Self control
[speaker009:] A couple of weeks ago
[speaker006:] The day we were going out
[Jean:] Oh the day of the trip
[speaker006:] going out to erm Derbyshire
[Jean:] oh is she still going on about it?
[speaker006:] She, she really feels very vehement about it about it, I think it's because Steven lives across the road, do you not
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] ...
[speaker009:] you know the boy in her class er in class that used to come here
[speaker007:] Yeah
[speaker009:] er Mr said to me he said if you don't behave yourself lad you'll go straight back to the [LAUGHTER]
[speaker007:] it's funny erm
[speaker009:] oh what a classic child, yeah... I've never, ever
[Jean:] My, my little room, my box...
[speaker006:] Well erm, what do ya realize when you actually get your own badges and have a look at it, it's something like eighty five percent of it is taken up with and there's nothing we can do about that.
[speaker009:] Which was really what Len said originally wasn't it? There wasn't enough money that's actually worth arguing about
[Jean:] There's a little tiny bit to tinker with, but it's not... if we were to, we, we're canvassing at pressed about altering the length of the lunchtime break to break it down from an hour and a half and an hour and a quarter to an hour and a quarter to an hour which is being we would save some money on not paying our...
[speaker006:] Mm, well the government might get in our way now, that they've all elected back in
[Jean:] Mm
[speaker006:] to er have an after club er school activities where