[Maggie:] I says, oh she'll give me a little nod like. He says, well I'll give you little nod I want sex! She says
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] I says yeah but... I wanna help Kath out cos she's helped me out. What does she want? I dunno! I says. Oh!
[Kathleen:] Has Jacqueline gone?
[Maggie:] Yeah. She seemed alright when she left.
[Kathleen:] She were alright when she were with me today.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] It's... she never attempted to go... she just wandered all round till she met me
[Maggie:] [cough] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Then I says to her... eh up duck!
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] I says, eh up! I said, what you doing right up here? She says, I'm looking for you. I says, well I picked them forms for you and everything.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I said, but I'm gonna fetch them back. I says
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] drop them off at our house, I said, and fetch them back like.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] So, she says, oh it don't matter. She says er... will you help me fill them in now? I says, can I ask you a question? She says what? I says, these forms things, I says... d'ya know how to fill them in? She says
[Maggie:] Ah.
[Kathleen:] no. She said, somebody's always done it for me.
[Maggie:] Annette's done them.
[Kathleen:] Well, apparently, they must of done it. Cos I said
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] to Steve on t'phone, I says, I helped her fill all the forms in, you don't mind do you? I says, because
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] she didn't know. I says
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] has she never filled them in before?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] So he says no, when I've been there I've always done it.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] So, I, cos I had to do talking for her and all! I says, they asked her age of kids and, that.
[Maggie:] Yeah. And she forgot.
[Kathleen:] I says, [LAUGHTER] and she forgot []! I says, I had to tell them they were three and one year old.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Anyway, er... they were talking to her, they explained about... that money
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and... is your Steve, he must have thought she'd come back here with me.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And... he's been in contact, he's after them
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] or summat
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and... he's been and gorrit, he's took his half... and it's going,i cos I thought I'll come to your house and tell you in front
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] of Bill.
[Maggie:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Kathleen:] That it were coming down and then
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] if she says it's not, then
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Bill will say, well hang on a minute! I know it come down because Kath come over, you know.
[Maggie:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I thought well, I'll take pot luck and hope she's
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] at your house. That's
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] why I come straight across.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] But he hadn't put
[Maggie:] He never to my house. Cos he knew his dad were there.
[Kathleen:] Well, he'd seen her with me hadn't he?
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] So he automatically thought... she'll have gone home. She never left me... at all! Never left me! Cos I thought well if you were me
[Maggie:] She just says, I didn't like he walks past. I says to her
[Kathleen:] They're only ninety nine pence!
[Maggie:] Yeah I know. She says, I didn't feel th right about taking, I says, well when you get yourself straightened out, I says, if you pop into town and Kath's in town, you bump into her, I said take her for one of them meals.
[Kathleen:] They're only ninety nine pence!
[Maggie:] Yeah but... she's... she's like that.
[Kathleen:] Oh! I made her. First of all, I says to her... I'm gonna have a sandwich.
[Maggie:] She had that little bottle of pop. Oh!
[Kathleen:] Yeah, I know.
[Maggie:] Look what I found. They left it on Doug's wall, I had to tell you after cos er
[Kathleen:] Oh!
[Maggie:] Right. I've had her in stitches!
[Kathleen:] I forgot about that. I meant to pick it up. You've had who? Jackie?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Why?
[Maggie:] On Sunday I put some sprouts on, right... and... doing summat, I forgot all about the bloody things! And I burnt them. So
[Kathleen:] Has she burnt sprout again! [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Yeah but, it was only on the bottoms of some of them so I said cut the bits off and er, I shut the door to, and Bill said, why are you shutting the door? I says, I don't want the burglar alarm, the smoke alarm going off.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] So I'm cutting them all off, put them in some fresh water again. Right?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] And he says, I got a lot of sprouts! A o they turn me off! [LAUGHTER] He were being silly []!
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] I didn't want bloody burnt sprouts! So, and he eat it all!
[Kathleen:] Did he?
[Maggie:] Mm. He eat it all. And I'm telling Jackie about this, I says, d'ya know, I says, I must be getting bloody worse! See to, the liver and bacon casserole stuff
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] got the cabbage, and the taters... crucified!
[Kathleen:] You burnt them again?
[Maggie:] I burnt the taters! She went flying upstairs! You did that! She went flying up the garden!
[Kathleen:] Did she?
[Maggie:] She said, honest! Honest! I did. And anyway, I said, you put the bloody mockers on me!
[Kathleen:] Did she have her tea before she went out like? Did she have summat to eat?
[Maggie:] No. No.
[Kathleen:] She must have been full.
[Maggie:] She's gonna do meatballs and er... hot dogs for the kids. Do two tins
[Kathleen:] Oh! Yeah.
[Maggie:] you know, and she'll have some of them. Cos I says to her, I says, do you want a turkey sandwich... and well, there was only like a quarter of a tin left.
[Kathleen:] We only had it at half past twelve.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Cos I hung on, and hung on
[Maggie:] Unless she's took three quarters of turkey back.
[Kathleen:] Has she?
[Maggie:] Yeah. I says, well you can make some sandwiches while they're... you're making a dinner like.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] If they ain't had nowt to eat. So she says er, do I have to go that thing tomorrow? I says, well no, not if you're gonna get that money. She says, ooh! I'll go and buy a bag of coal and some more milk.
[Kathleen:] She has to if the money ain't arrived.
[Maggie:] Well that's what she'll probably do. She'll have to come back up and see me.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. If she comes back up
[Maggie:] She'll get it off of Ray.
[Kathleen:] Is she
[Maggie:] Give it her.
[Kathleen:] er, you see, he never said owt he just says, I'm gonna put it in an envelope and get it down to her... but he never said how.
[Maggie:] Yeah. He'll probably get... what's his name?
[Kathleen:] Who?
[Maggie:] Er... tt... him!
[Kathleen:] Which him? Him that lived on caravan site?
[Maggie:] That's him!
[Kathleen:] I don't know his name.
[Maggie:] I don't. I forgot it. I've had some bad news.
[Kathleen:] Why?
[Maggie:] He says what's the date? Says the thirtieth. This is shit! So I says, what's the matter? He says, no it don't matter. So I says, come on! What's the matter? He says, I don't know if there's gonna be any money in the bank out of my wages tomorrow.
[Kathleen:] Oh! And you're not gonna get no housekeeping?
[Maggie:] No. I says, nothing? He says, if wo if I can get, he's go I mean he's got to get some sleep... so he says, well I'll get up about twelve or one and says, and then I'll go down there.
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Maggie:] Cos he don't want me going there cos I fell arse over tip earlier! My leg's just going like weak.
[Kathleen:] Well you got that thing on your chest haven't
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] you?
[Maggie:] Anyway, he says er... we'll not be able to manage. I says, we will.
[Kathleen:] Course you will! I'll buy you a sack
[Maggie:] I jus
[Kathleen:] of taters! You can have that.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] A sack of taters! []
[Kathleen:] No, I meant
[Maggie:] But bloody useless chuffing taters!
[Kathleen:] The one I've got's alright. I always get reds.
[Maggie:] I've got them from down there. They're crap!
[Kathleen:] I always get reds. Always get reds.
[Maggie:] I ain't stopping too long tonight cos I'm gonna definitely watch... an Home, not an Home and Away, a Neighbours cos I don't know what
[Kathleen:] I'm watching
[Maggie:] the bloody hell's happening!
[Kathleen:] I ain't seen it.
[Maggie:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] So
[Maggie:] Er
[Kathleen:] Just hang on a sec. I can still hear you.
[Maggie:] Well where you going?
[Kathleen:] I'm gonna put kettle on.
[Maggie:] I'm gonna have a wee.
[Kathleen:] Oh!. I'm always standing on them!
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Always do
[Maggie:] But did Steve seem alright?
[Kathleen:] Yeah! Great! I seen him in town and er
[Maggie:] He bought me.
[Kathleen:] hey up Kath! Are you alright? I wanna be. Went over the doctors for them and said, can I help? And then er... Jacqueline put her head down. And then J J and shouts, I told her! I've never met J J. And just, she just put her head down and walked by.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] So I don't know. [talking from other room]... but, but he said he paid the way... she must have worked it so that he
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] he, cos I never saw her... he just said to say are you alright?
[Maggie:] Ah.
[Kathleen:] er... they walked past. Hey up Kath! Are you alright?
[Maggie:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] ... So she said... she never cottoned on.
[Maggie:] [sneeze]
[Kathleen:] Yeah,sh she could have gone with him.
[Maggie:] I dunno.
[Kathleen:] She said er, didn't notice what she looked like? I said, well I couldn't see her very well. [LAUGHTER]... And left it at that!
[Maggie:] Ah.
[Kathleen:] I thought that's one way to do.
[Maggie:] It's too cold to stand in there.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. You know... unfortunately
[Maggie:] Bill says... you know, after you left. Cos,th sa the moment he walked in the door, I'm still awake when he come to bed.
[Kathleen:] Are you?
[Maggie:] And I thought, well I'm not
[Kathleen:] Don't you go to sleep at all?
[Maggie:] Yeah. I'd had about... as soon as he come to bed I cuddled up to him... and I got up at ten to eleven.
[Kathleen:] What well are you thinking about?
[Maggie:] Erm
[Kathleen:] It ain't no money and that?
[Maggie:] No! It's, that and all... is chuffing cold! I bet them kids are cold com walking down that road. I hope to God nobody's acce a you know, going down the road and
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] somebody's mugged her or
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] mugged,yo my mind goes wa works overtime.
[Kathleen:] You think all sorts, yeah.
[Maggie:] I hope
[Kathleen:] But
[Maggie:] them kids don't
[Kathleen:] she apologized! She says, I'm ever so sorry for coming up at that time she says, but I did notice Maggie's light weren't on that's
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] why I answered you
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] you know. And, she says, because if your light ha hadn't of been on she were going straight home. If it hadn't of been for Steve's car breaking down and him having
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] to jump the battery and everything
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] would have been alright. So, but they're alright.
[Maggie:] But Bill said they
[Kathleen:] She had summat to eat.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And she had a drink and that. She had a laugh with our Arthur. He... thumped her! [LAUGHTER]... When he thumped her I'd thought he'd seen her before.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Erm
[Maggie:] Well, you don't have to see him... before do you? Not with Arthur.
[Kathleen:] And then he accused her, he says, keep your hand a... keep your... knee off my fist!
[Maggie:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] He did. Keep your knee off my fist! I says, you cheeky git! And then they were grilling Jean. And then he insulted Jean. I thought, oh great!
[Maggie:] [sniff]... Yeah. Is he in? I've come to find out
[Kathleen:] No.
[Maggie:] your problems.
[Kathleen:] Ain't got none!
[Maggie:] But has he talked to ya?
[Kathleen:] Did I tell ya, I told you what he did last night? I mean... stupid!
[Maggie:] What did he do? He was mad!
[Kathleen:] I was not out. I told you when
[Maggie:] He was mad? Yeah. But
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Maggie:] you didn't tell me that.
[Kathleen:] I told you, that's it!
[Maggie:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] He were in this morning... he's er... had summat to eat, well he's made it obvious.
[Maggie:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Erm... I come in, and I went upstairs to see if he were in bed or not?
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Cos he's getting a bo he's Cadets tonight
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] like
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] it don't matter how bad he is, off
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] he goes to this stupid Cadets! Anyway, I come in... ah, I went int kitchen, and I thought oh, there's a loaf out of freezer, and I looked at the loaf but there's only about four sandwiches in it.
[Maggie:] I... this morning, I was telling you, he come in... and he says to her, how come you're still awake? I says oh! I says, I've been coughing all night. Well
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Maggie:] sort of, but I weren't coughing all night like that. So... he says, get yourself back to sleep. I says, I've gotta have a wee. He says, and then you'll go downstairs for a cup of tea and then you'll... he says, get back into bed! Sort of, but his tone changed. So, I says, oh by the way, I said, I just thought I'd tell you... Steven's back with J J... and Jackie called up last night. I thought
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] I'll tell you two things
[Kathleen:] What's he say? say?
[Maggie:] That's all I told him and then you come in.
[Kathleen:] Oh!... Well she said she were gonna call and let you know how she got on.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] So... it's about her lass as well. Cos I said seeing as you've got to go into town tomorrow
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I says, don't take your money out the house,a
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] because you'll need that to get back in.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And so that's what I were doing you see.
[Maggie:] Ah.
[Kathleen:] I've run out of such a good dog food again!
[Maggie:] We had!
[Kathleen:] I forgot to order it.
[Maggie:] Guess what the dog had?
[Kathleen:] My dog's having bacon and egg and that.
[Maggie:] Guess what my dog's had?
[Kathleen:] Liver. And
[Maggie:] No.
[Kathleen:] them taters?
[Maggie:] No. Burnt taters and gravy.
[Kathleen:] taters and gravy?
[Maggie:] A full pound full, and he's wolfed them!
[Kathleen:] Will he? Oh! Chuffing hell! Oh!
[Maggie:] But, he chewed them up! No, I says to her, I says... Saturday, I says er... if you get stuck, I says... we're supposed to be going to see his nan... into Ashley House up... anyway, I told Bill... I says, eh! I just thought... just before er, I come over, I says, just thought I says, I... suppose he'll take her over there Saturday won't he? Well... him doing that job for Sue
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] and left it and walked off in the kitchen.
[Kathleen:] There you are! You said it all. Just a bit of this and bit of that. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Ah. So
[Kathleen:] It's better innit?
[Maggie:] But... he says her... has Steven told you... anything? And I says... only that he's gone to back to J J and I says, and... that he'd had enough. So he says, well he's not married to her.
[Kathleen:] He's changed his mind again?
[Maggie:] No, not like that. He says, what was it, he says, I says... J J's coming back. She said, well she's daft! And... I didn't tell him that he came banging on the bloody door and all that. And er... what did he say? He says, oh he'll make up his... we er, same us as, make up his bloody mind but... he's no he's not interested Kath. He ain't interested in the least! Like he says the other week, he said
[Kathleen:] You've got enough problems of your own life
[Maggie:] That's it.
[Kathleen:] no bugger else's!
[Maggie:] I says to Jackie, I says, you come up and see us, I says Jack, but don't push your problems on us.
[Kathleen:] No. What I was on about me ringing is, she were talking in town, I says, oh, you know we're Bi I says if ever, I were talking about you first off
[Maggie:] She told me.
[Kathleen:] and did she tell you what I said?
[Maggie:] Er... oh, she says er... oh yeah, you've got to ring before you go up to Maggie's... or something
[Kathleen:] Cos Bill's on shifts.
[Maggie:] Yeah. That were it.
[Kathleen:] And you'll know, if he's in bed or owt?
[Maggie:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I told her that. She says, well I'm gonna ring Maggie anyway, she says, to make sure he's not there, she says, cos at the moment
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] if he's there, she says, it's not fair on Maggie so I'll ring her first.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I'm not going if he's there. So
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] it must be when she's coming.
[Maggie:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Anyway, er... she come about... aye, that's what I were on about, I says, d'ya know I feel right sorry for Maggie out the lot of you!
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] So, he says... she says, why what d'ya mean you feel sorry for Maggie? I said I feel sorry for Maggie, I says, cos she always ends up in the bloody middle, I says, and she whittles to death, I says, till the minute you get some money to feed them bairns, I says... she'll be awake nearly all night! I says, and it's not fair on Maggie. I says, one time she thought she'd lost you and kids.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] I says, then she gets you back, I says, and now she'll be thinking you're never gonna come down and see her, and this, that, other! I says, she were just making arrangements to come to your house depending
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] what shift you were on.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And, she say, oh no! She says, I won't fall out with Maggie or owt like that. I says
[Maggie:] Mhm.
[Kathleen:] well... she'll be thinking that, I says, that's why I feel
[Maggie:] Oh! I, I, well there are you! [LAUGHTER] I says to her, I says, half past ten Monday morning.
[Kathleen:] What's that for?
[Maggie:] For her to come up.
[Kathleen:] Oh! Will
[Maggie:] But
[Kathleen:] she see them like?
[Maggie:] Dave is
[Kathleen:] But she's coming Monday?
[Maggie:] She's coming Monday. I says, if it's cloudy... storming, pissing down a rain... don't come down.
[Kathleen:] No.
[Maggie:] She says, well what I'll do is, I'll phone you when I get my
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] and let us know if she's coming down or otherwise I shall have to call down there.
[Kathleen:] Well, I heard you say it were either Monday or Tuesday.
[Maggie:] But at least she can get food here
[Kathleen:] Leave, what what?
[Maggie:] At least she can get a bit of food, even if it's only summat
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] summat warm for the kids.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] But... he says... you're not upset are you? I says, no! I'm not bloody upset. I says, what have I gotta be upset... you know.
[Kathleen:] He said I thought if Bill could
[Maggie:] Cos if Bill knows that I get upset over it... he won't have any of them there! He wouldn't.
[Kathleen:] No!
[Maggie:] So I says, what I have gotta be upset for? I says, he's gone his way, she's... she's down there. I'll see her.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] And I'll see him.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Er
[Maggie:] [clears throat]
[Kathleen:] chuffing hell!
[Maggie:] But I ain't
[Kathleen:] Well they're alright. I'm not bothered now. She's getting some money, and I know for a fact she getting it. She found her family allowance book.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] That were first thing I said to her this morning, I says... d'ya ask
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Maggie? I says, did you look for it? She says, yeah, she says, she, I had a look I found it our.
[Maggie:] Yeah. And she says, soon as she gets the money she's gonna... give it to me to give to yous. I think she might give you it Monday.
[Kathleen:] That fiver?
[Maggie:] Yeah. I says, don't forget. She says, oh I'll not forget.... [cough]
[Kathleen:] Now, she were a bit upset cos I bought her dinner and that, and she were... weren't too happy cos I paid her bus fare.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] But I were trying to get through to her.
[Maggie:] I thought she were gonna cry!
[Kathleen:] She looked it didn't she?
[Maggie:] No! Cos she ran up the garden.
[Kathleen:] Oh!
[Maggie:] You know sh hid round the car. I says, yeah it's you, you've put the bloody mockers on her!
[Kathleen:] When did she go?
[Maggie:] She didn't wanna go. Er
[Kathleen:] Didn't she?
[Maggie:] No. Er... about five minutes before you did the lollipop. And she was looking across to here like, are you gonna call me in? I don't think she's wants to go home. [phone rings]
[Kathleen:] D'ya know, that phone has non-stop rung! It gets worse!
[Maggie:] Yeah. [sniff]
[Kathleen:] [phonecall starts] Hello. Hello. Hello! Well... D'ya know you get daft! [LAUGHTER]... I'll ring you back then. So ring me back. Okay?... Okey-cokey. Bye [phonecall ends].
[Maggie:] [cough]... You what? Ring her back so she can ring you back?
[Kathleen:] Er, she rings me up to tell me to ring her back up
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] to ring her back
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and then, she tells me to put the phone down, and she rings me back. So tha that is, mam picks phone up at other end.
[Maggie:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] So
[Maggie:] But she could still pick it up.
[Kathleen:] Yeah I know.
[Maggie:] [cough] Can I have this bottle Kath?
[Kathleen:] What bottle?
[Maggie:] That one?
[Kathleen:] It's only one I've got left.
[Maggie:] Mm. Shouldn't have fetched it.
[Kathleen:] [phonecall starts] Hello! Is Sarah there? Yes please. It's Kath. Yeah. [LAUGHTER]... I saw you at party. That Kath. Hello! Ta duck [phonecall ends].... D'ya know, he sounds right like his dad! That was Dave's dad. I thought it were Dave!
[Maggie:] Oh!... Oh Oh!
[Kathleen:] I wonder if she's got her inheritance she's... [phonecall starts] Hello! just talking about you to you Maggie actually Dave. I were just talking about you to Maggie then. Have you got your inheritance? Go on. Tell me! Tell me! Tell me!... You we okay then. Right. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] What?
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] [phonecall ends]... I told you, this phone drives me nuts! Because often
[Maggie:] What's that in aid of?
[Kathleen:] Eh? Well, she lives with her boyfriend's parents
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and it's their phone
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] but they've had ten pound a week telephone stamps
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] but she doesn't like ringing. She likes to ring you [phone rings] to tell you, to do it
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] [phonecall starts] Well go on then. Hello! [LAUGHTER]... you're not gonna do nowt! You, getting yoursen a pair of boots, and you're put it int bank you said.
[Maggie:] Tell her, I want a Ferrari!
[Kathleen:] Maggie wants a Ferrari.... Yeah.... You want them high interest ones. Yeah.... I thought [LAUGHTER] you were gonna spend it then []!... What were that?... Yep. Oh yeah! Yeah. And then you're gonna by yoursen a car? Oh smashing [phonecall ends]!
[Maggie:] And my car?
[Kathleen:] A what a?
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] My car [].
[Kathleen:] Oh. [phonecall starts] Maggie says you've gotta buy an a car. An a car [phonecall ends]. What's an a car?
[Maggie:] Ne'er mind.
[Kathleen:] [phonecall starts] Ne'er mind! [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]... How much d'ya get?... Smashing! I'm pleased for you.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] Ya. Ya.... Ya. Did you? Yeah. To make sure you were you.... Ya. Oh!... Ya.... Yeah. Well I don't blame you! I would. Why?... Well what's wrong with that?... Ah! That's not fair.... Yeah. I'll ask them. [LAUGHTER]... Yeah. I am, pleased for you. Course, you've got your thousand of your own. So you're rich! You can actually do what you want. You can sit there and say, I could go so and so if I want, but not bother. Well... what happened with your dad?
[Maggie:] That's a fact!
[Kathleen:] Did you ask him? What er, what happened?... Ya.... Ooh! Sounds like... they had barney. Dunnit? Well
[Maggie:] [sigh]
[Kathleen:] she might. Yeah. Yeah. Oh! Well, so long as you're happy. I'm not on about money, so long as you're happy, yourself.... Yes. That is a good idea! There's one thing, if you sleep in, you can jump int car and drive in. Yeah. Aha.... Oh smashing! I like that!... Yeah. Yeah.... Yeah.
[Maggie:] [sigh]
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... Yeah. Well, she's got plenty of time.... Yeah.... I should hope you are!... Yes.... Oh! Yeah. I've been to our Arthur's today. He says, have you seen Sarah? I says, yeah, I told her yo told her that you wanted to see her. He says, I've got a letter here for her you know. I said, well, you could have told me that to tell her! [LAUGHTER] [phonecall ends]
[Maggie:] I'm still waiting for my cake! I'll starve to death!
[Kathleen:] She wants her cake. Hang on! Hang on!... [phonecall starts] Cos he showed me, and then says, I'm sure that's from a bank. But that's what... that's one of reasons he wanted you to go up cos he's got this letter. So now you know.
[Maggie:] Tell her I'll starve to death, cos I've not had a bit of cake!
[Kathleen:] That's why I said, it looks like it's from bank. It's in a white envelope wi you know where you've got that clear plastic thingy... and it's got your name and address? Well, it's one of them. Not a thing.... I said it's from bank.
[Maggie:] [sigh]
[Kathleen:] But that's why he wants you to go up, to get your letter. Well he goes to work at half seven... so if you go before that... you'll be alright.
[Maggie:] [sigh] [sniff]
[Kathleen:] Have you?... Yeah. Yeah. Oh you're alright. I'm waiting for Home and Away and that so I can start the tape. And having a... and having a gossip with Maggie. Oh yeah! Tha I got a message. She says, she's starved to death because she [LAUGHTER] hadn't had no cake [] [phonecall ends]!
[Maggie:] Say, I'm counting my calories for that bit of cake!
[Kathleen:] And she says, tell her, tough! [phonecall starts] And she says, tell you, she's counting the calories for that bit of cake! [LAUGHTER]... Will be a bit an'all.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]... Tell if she wants
[Kathleen:] Eh?
[Maggie:] a week off she can have it. [cough]
[Kathleen:] Did your mam... no she didn't, the cake weren't even cut. Yeah, she did. Well, you got some. I would take... well you could still take her some. Have you? What you got?
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... That's a good one! I like that one.... Well, take her with you today.... What time's... the... thingy? Good!... It's about time you treated yoursen.... Yeah. Oh! Good. Maggie's got hers bad. Maggie's right bad! She's got a funny thing on her chest and she can't breathe properly [phonecall ends].... Don't you shove them germs in this house, she's got to come here!
[Maggie:] Yeah, well tell her, she can come to my funeral next week cos I've got to do my lollipop tomorrow night!
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]... [phonecall starts] [LAUGHTER] You can go to her funeral next week []
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] cos she's got to do my lollipop tomorrow night! I'm going to collect my winnings tomorrow! Yeah. So Maggie's doing lollipop. You see... i my appointment's at half past two... and... lollipop's at half past three, well I won't be back will I? It's a two hour presentation. Well... yeah, half past two... us appointment's for... but Steve's got to put his car int garage to have it wheel bala ba ba balanced
[Maggie:] Balanced
[Kathleen:] tomorrow morning. And, then he's coming home, getting a bath, and we're getting ready and going.... Yes. He... no he can't, he's got to go to garage at half past nine. Northbridge.... Well, it's better than five o'clock in the morning int it? Yeah.... Yeah. Ye... ah! Yeah.
[Maggie:] Your coffee's cold. And it has gone cold. It is cold.
[Kathleen:] She's saying my coffee's gone cold. [LAUGHTER]... I'll left it open. Yeah.... Yeah.... You're gonna get married. Oh! Smashing!... I should hope so! That's it. Well you do, that's true.... No. Not a thing!... Er, he were in all day yesterday... and, then he disappeared this morning. I went to town, come back and he'd gone. So I don't know. So... well, there'll be somebody before weekend! [LAUGHTER]... Yeah. Oh I hadn't told you he'd met anybody yesterday. Didn't I? Anyway, I'll let you finish your dusting and that and er
[Maggie:] Yeah. Cos I'm gonna see to my Gary.
[Kathleen:] get watching your Home and Away.
[Maggie:] [sniff]
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... Yes. Well I'll be in! No, I've been today. Okey-cokey. Let me know what your letter is, it might be a big massive cheque again! [LAUGHTER]... Bye [phonecall ends]! Four thousand, one hundred and seventy something.
[Maggie:] Ooh!
[Kathleen:] That's what she got. So, she didn't do bad did she?
[Maggie:] No.
[Kathleen:] No, I thought I won't cos she
[Maggie:] And it's just an uncle that... give them
[Kathleen:] I'll got
[Maggie:] that for you.
[Kathleen:] I'm gonna get... get on that settee and I ain't moving when I've seen to her.
[Maggie:] Ooh! I've gotta have my Lemsip.
[Kathleen:] Have you watched your Home and Away yet?
[Maggie:] I've watched that. Ain't much good.
[Kathleen:] I ain't see any because I were with Jacqueline weren't I?
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Trouble is, I don't know.
[Maggie:] Boring! Cos I'm on
[Kathleen:] I did er
[Maggie:] bloody fed up of watching that now!
[Kathleen:] I want to see what happened, er, it finished just where he says that he'd been accused of something. Mm.
[Maggie:] Yeah. Taking money when he'd got erm... he accuses him of taking a bribe when
[Kathleen:] Thanks!
[Maggie:] Oh! I thought that's what you wanted to know.
[Kathleen:] I know I want to know, but I'm gonna watch it in a bit!
[Maggie:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]... I've seen, that's where it finished!
[Maggie:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] Where he were being accused. What time's Gary going?
[Maggie:] About quarter past.
[Kathleen:] Mm. Well she's waiting for Home and Away to come on as well.
[Maggie:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] Cos she's been out in town all morning. And I thought, ooh! Jolly good!
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] What were you sa d'ya know, I pulled yo er wrong ones out. I pulled them out of Tuesday paper.
[Maggie:] No different to on front of there, cos they're exactly the same numbers as what's
[Kathleen:] Yeah. I
[Maggie:] on
[Kathleen:] know, I've seen them.
[Maggie:] the back.
[Kathleen:] I don't even know if I'd like to jump them. I can't be bothered.
[Maggie:] Well I don't mind doing one card, but I hate it when I've got about seven or eight of them chuffing things!
[Kathleen:] Oh! I know. They get on your nerves.
[Maggie:] Make a bloody song and dance of it!
[Kathleen:] Don't half get on your nerves! It gets on my nerves anyway! [LAUGHTER]... I chucked them all off last week.
[Maggie:] I've gotta make the bloody bed yet!
[Kathleen:] I ain't made my bed.
[Maggie:] Well you've got out of it ain't he?
[Kathleen:] Well I er... come in, picked all stuff up off the floor... lit the fire... and I think that were it. That's all I've done. And I washed the pots. Cos he hadn't washed the pots. So I washed them... er... went out lollipop... come in, been answering phone on and off. Cos them from Thirsk they've rung twice.
[Maggie:] Why?
[Kathleen:] Er, first of all to confirm that we're still going tomorrow.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] And I says, yeah, we'll still be there tomorrow... er, same time and everything.
[Maggie:] Mhm.
[Kathleen:] Then she phoned back about ten minutes later and she said wondered if we could come at eleven o'clock in the morning.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] And, I says no, definitely not. That's out.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] And... I explained that Steve were taking to
[Maggie:] Car.
[Kathleen:] car into garage.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] I says to her, I don't know how long it's gonna be int garage, I says, so... she says, well can you change it to a different day then? I says, no, I says cos my husband gets three days off once a month, I says, and tomorrow... Saturday, and Sunday, are the only three days.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I said, and it'll be a month... before like
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and he'll have changed his mind, and he'll say
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] oh no, if we can't go in January
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I'm not going in February!
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] You know how he goes on.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] So... I told her that, and she says, oh fair enough then. So... left it
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] at half past two tomorrow.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] But, Jacqueline were worried to death about lollipop! You're supposed to be on lollipop, she says, what you gonna do? We're still sat in... thingy at
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] we walked out of there at twenty five past twelve... and all she kept saying is, what about your lollipop? What about your lollipop? What
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] about your lollipop? I says, what about it?
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] She says, ain't you got no kids? I says, no, I says
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] there int none, I says, we're alright.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] I says, I'm only doing morning tomorrow.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] And I says, I'm not doing dinner tomorrow neither!
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] So... we'll see how that goes off.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] She'll give you a description, when you get there, walk towards where the building, down the steps, and main reception area's in front of you. Oh and... got to park in main parking lot.
[Maggie:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] I must remember to tell Steve that.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] But, I don't know.
[Maggie:] I'm gonna have to... phone our Sue
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] Tell Sue to phone Steve
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] I'm leaving Steve to phone me.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Yeah, he only shoved ten pence in to tell me about that giro. And I explained that er... I'd met her in town, which I did, didn't I?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I says, and er... we got it all sorted out, I says, but she doesn't get nothing till next Wednesday.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And that, straight away he come back and said that he'd got it. Well, we knew he'd got it because
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] they told her
[Maggie:] Well they told him yesterday didn't they?
[Kathleen:] Well I don't know about that. But they told her
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] that he'd got a form and he was fetching it back in this afternoon and they was handing it over... this afternoon.
[Maggie:] Three.
[Kathleen:] Now, they told her that you see.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] And... cos I says, well what does she do int meantime? I says, she ain't got anything!
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Cos... he might have said... sod it! I'm not gonna give her it. Or... it could be three or four days before it arrives.
[Maggie:] No, it'll be here today. Either today or tomorrow morning at the latest. Because
[Kathleen:] Well what does he do? Just shove it
[Maggie:] He'll probably put it, poke it through the letter box.
[Kathleen:] Ah, well she's alright then.... Well when he said how much he'd got, I thought seventy six and seventy three... is hundred and forty six.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Right. So he's took seventy three... and he's giving her seventy three... she would have earned sixty three pound on her own! That's a tenner a week they're giving for him!... That book she sent back, it
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] were sixty three quid.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] She got seventy three cos of Jonathan. Only ten pound different! Someone's at the door!
[Maggie:] Is that my babe?
[Kathleen:] I don't know. It's Florence Nightingale!
[Flo:] Hello dear!
[Kathleen:] Florence Nightingale!
[Flo:] Mm mm.
[Kathleen:] Well
[Maggie:] Don't say nothing.
[Flo:] Every other time like... either he's... been too late
[Kathleen:] Er, you have to give it a kick!
[Flo:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] It don't shut.
[Flo:] Oh! I'm trying duck.
[Kathleen:] Er, say that again.
[Flo:] I've always been either too late or... whatever
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] to call
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] so I thought if, er, I bet you seen me dashing past thinking, she's an ignorant pig her, not calling in!
[Kathleen:] I've seen you on t'bus and I've er, seen you sculting, and I thought
[Flo:] Yeah! So
[Kathleen:] Well
[Flo:] I thought, well... I better go and see her else she'll be... playing around with me.
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Maggie:] Then how's Florence?
[Flo:] Alright. How are you?
[Maggie:] Not too bad.
[Kathleen:] And it's tea
[Flo:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] with
[Flo:] still
[Kathleen:] no sugar in it this time!
[Flo:] That's right. Thank you.
[Kathleen:] I were miles away! I were making a cup of tea, I'm chucking in a cup. She went, brurgh! [LAUGHTER]
[Flo:] I went... Oh!! [cough]... I can't stand it with sugar in.
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Flo:] D'ya know, I got weighed on my scales other day, and I thought, I were eleven stone... again. And I thought, well, I'm gonna have to do summat about this! Anyway, when I got on the scales I'm ten stone three. Kevin said
[Maggie:] They vary don't they?
[Flo:] No that were my scales.
[Maggie:] Oh!
[Flo:] With the home scales. So I were ten stone three. I thought well, I've only put stone on. But, I put most of that on since I moved.
[Kathleen:] Have you?
[Flo:] Since just before I moved and it triggered it off.
[Kathleen:] Oh!
[Flo:] Getting all... stressed up.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] To move.
[Kathleen:] Do you like it where you are then?
[Flo:] Oh yeah! I love it.
[Kathleen:] Good.
[Flo:] Have you changed your colour of your hair?
[Maggie:] It's my own colour near enough.
[Flo:] Is all that blonde out now then?
[Maggie:] Yes. But that
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] that hadn't had no sun you see.
[Flo:] Ah!
[Maggie:] It's been cut, but it's never had no sun. All this has.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] And it ble sun bleaches my hair to start off with.
[Flo:] Oh!
[Maggie:] But, you can't see no roots, and I ain't done it since way before Christmas.
[Flo:] Aye, I know. Cos you were cutting a load out weren't you?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Flo:] Ah!
[Maggie:] And I cut... I've cut it twice since I've had it cut... just
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Maggie:] before Christmas.
[Flo:] I like it that colour, don't you?
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Flo:] So
[Kathleen:] Natural like.
[Flo:] Thought you'd had it done.
[Maggie:] I know.
[Flo:] Looks nice.
[Maggie:] I keep thinking, well shall I colour it again or shall I just go for that bit there?
[Kathleen:] Ooh no! It looks nice.
[Flo:] Have you heard off Mrs Oogypip?
[Maggie:] Who's Mrs Oogypip?
[Kathleen:] Cow bag!
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] That's before you start!
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER]... So what
[Maggie:] Her. Yeah. I, I didn't get in while er... I thought she were ten to four and I got a phone message off my daughter-in-law... would I ring her. So I rang, and she said er, oh it don't matter now I've got somebody else. I thought well, I can't do it anyway.
[Flo:] Where were that for?
[Maggie:] For staying in. She said, well we've got somebody to travel to it. I said, well what d'ya think I'm gonna do like?
[Kathleen:] I know.
[Maggie:] Bloody... crackers she is, that woman! Honestly! She's crackers! She's never asked me to go since before... the... big holidays.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] They rang me up at eight o'clock one morning to be there
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] at Stainforth... and then that'll be about quarter past eight
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] and I were still in bed
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] at five to eight it were! And I'd got to get up, get dressed, get out
[Kathleen:] [cough]
[Maggie:] catch a bus
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] by time I'd of got to Stainforth, it'd been nine o'clock ready for
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] coming home!
[Kathleen:] Yeah,
[Maggie:] But I didn't realize that once... they'd said it like, you know, I just
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] said, oh I said, nay I've got a dentist appointment this morning.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] He says, oh! He says have you got your own... transport? I said, no. He said, oh! Then he must have realized that it would be too late anyway.
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Maggie:] And then when I got up and saw time, I thought oh bugger me!
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Well that's a bit bloody late weren't it?
[Maggie:] Yeah!
[Flo:] Tt! Oh! Stupid buggers! Oh! You got some new curtains missus. They're nice!
[Kathleen:] Marie.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Flo:] Eh?
[Maggie:] Marie.
[Flo:] You crafty pig!
[Kathleen:] I were down at their house and she'd got these... and she'd
[Maggie:] They were too long weren't they?
[Kathleen:] she took them down. They were for our house but not hers.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] She took them down and that, and washed them... and... d'ya know, she's daft as a brush! Honest! She's daft as a brush. She come round, she says, do you like my curtains? I'm just about to put them back up. She got a blue three piece suite, a blue carpet, there's blue int curtains, and I says... them curtains don't match your three piece suite, they look stupid! So she says, what d'ya mean they look stupid? I says, pure white backgrounds! I says, with them co
[Flo:] They're not pure white.
[Kathleen:] I know, it's green.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] And she believed me... that it... didn't match three piece suite or carpet and it was stupid, and that sh and she says what shall I do [LAUGHTER] about them []?
[Flo:] No!
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] I said []
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER]... You've got enough cheek for another set of teeth you!
[Kathleen:] Yeah. I know.
[Maggie:] Her and Gary took all the bottoms off to make... tie backs
[Kathleen:] Yes. Me and Gary
[Maggie:] didn't you?
[Kathleen:] altered them. We did well!
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Flo:] Here, we haven't done this. Get the, telephone for it. But I thought it were good!
[Maggie:] Mm. Mm.
[Flo:] What did you say?
[Kathleen:] Trying to decide whether to take them down off my windows and put some poles up.
[Flo:] Well what you gonna do?
[Kathleen:] Don't know. Cos I were gonna have these off you weren't I?
[Flo:] Aha! These metal ones?
[Kathleen:] Cos I were gonna have your wooden ones weren't I?
[Flo:] Yeah, I said I would probably get you some.
[Kathleen:] Oh!
[Flo:] Right. And I don't know whether they've got... with the... I don't know whether they're wide enough... that way
[Kathleen:] I've shoved them in.
[Flo:] for my blinds... to pull out.
[Kathleen:] Yeah but... my other don't come out like, long enough.
[Flo:] Don't it? Ee oh! Cos they've got to be, I thought it would actually cos the
[Maggie:] Right, I'm gonna go and see to my little'un.
[Flo:] blinds are five inch wide.
[Kathleen:] Oh eh! Yeah. Them drop things. Yeah.
[Flo:] Unless I put them on the outside wood. But there again, they're gonna be about, what?
[Kathleen:] What?
[Maggie:] Phone me tomorrow night.
[Kathleen:] Okey-cokey.
[Maggie:] So I can see your winnings.
[Kathleen:] Oh yes!
[Flo:] And they're about six inch away from my
[Kathleen:] Tell you all about it.
[Flo:] windowsill.
[Maggie:] She's won a bloody Ferrari int she?
[Flo:] Eh?
[Maggie:] Ask Doreen for our
[Flo:] She tells me fibs.
[Maggie:] winnings tomorrow.
[Kathleen:] I told her!
[Flo:] Not yet!
[Kathleen:] A secret.
[Maggie:] She's not sure if she's gonna take the Ferrari or the Jag are you?
[Kathleen:] No. I'm gonna have one of those.
[Flo:] Oh! Well, come on. Tell me.
[Kathleen:] I won
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] another competition.
[Flo:] You jammy ratbag! What you won?
[Kathleen:] A thousand pounds worth of holiday accommodation in the U K.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] England.
[Flo:] In where?
[Kathleen:] In England.
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And, I really had to answer these questions.
[Maggie:] Int she bloody jammy, eh?
[Flo:] I don't know how you do it!
[Kathleen:] Cos I'm clever!
[Maggie:] I must be
[Flo:] What you gonna do with that one then?
[Kathleen:] I don't know.
[Maggie:] They haven't told her that.
[Kathleen:] Not seen it yet.
[Maggie:] Ah! See you Flo. I'll see to Gary.
[Flo:] Yeah, okay then. Right. I'll see you later Maggie.
[Maggie:] Bye.
[Flo:] Bye duck.
[Kathleen:] That record player don't bloody play!
[Flo:] Oh! That's perfect is that one innit? That one.
[Kathleen:] My records... nee go it... it plays for a bit, then it goes... brurgh! Er! Ee! Ee! Ee! Ee! Brurgh!
[Flo:] Is that your belt?
[Kathleen:] And then it goes alright.
[Flo:] Might be your belt?
[Kathleen:] No. There's something to do with the... slow, fast thing.
[Flo:] Ah! Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I'm sick of it! Can't listen to my records.
[Flo:] Gee!
[Kathleen:] What time do you start in that place?
[Flo:] About half... in between half past five and quarter to six.
[Kathleen:] Oh!
[Flo:] Supposed to start at six, but we go in earlier to get stuff ready.
[Kathleen:] Yeah, I've seen you going in about half fiveish.
[Flo:] Ya. Cos I've sometimes caught bus up from other end, if I've gone our Neil's or summat.
[Kathleen:] I won another competition as well!
[Flo:] Wha what for?
[Kathleen:] I won some money.
[Flo:] Eh?
[Kathleen:] I won some money.
[Flo:] What did you win?
[Kathleen:] I don't know till February. I got... we
[Flo:] Well how d'ya get these competitions like?
[Kathleen:] I do them int papers and all sorts. But I were right disappointed at that thousand pounds worth of holiday accommodation! I won second prize.... I got that and a midi hi-fi system.
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] But presentation's tomorrow. People going and collecting and I'm hoping first prize winner's there. I'll swap er, midi hi-fi system and that... for her first prize. Now, you know Irene?
[Flo:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] And she's sixty five. Well you know Chris is in Africa? Well her granddaughter gets married in July. She got invitation and everything, there's no way on God's earth she can get six hundred pound.
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] No way! If her and Fred go it's twelve hundred quid. So I, every time it says... win some Air Miles and things like that, and that
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] competition I entered was win a thousand pounds worth of Air Miles. And I thought, oh great! I'll enter that competition, you never know I might win it. I'll give it to Irene... so she can go to Africa.
[Flo:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] And, cos it's twenty seventh of July... you know, wedding.
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And I thought, if I can win owt like that... it'll be... nice for her. Cos she's got a great grandson she's never laid eyes on.
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] So, I thought, I'll do that. And I won second prize which is England! Tt! So, that one must have been for abroad
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and this, second prize, is for England.
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And I got England. You see, first prize hasn't got, you see, because, they put your number in a draw, for the person to win the midi hi-fi system
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and I got the midi hi-fi system. So I've got the
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] thousand pound, and that. But I've got to use mine int U K.
[Flo:] D'ya know what Ma May did?
[Kathleen:] What?
[Flo:] Told you about her having that... dish... and it went funny.
[Kathleen:] Satellite?
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] And it were a, one of them four hundred and odd pound ones. Right? So, the bloke, the young lad that put the other one in said well... you know, I'll mess about with these. Says how much would... you want to get rid of it for? She says, oh I don't know. He says,wha she says, how much d'ya think it's worth? He said about a tenner.
[Kathleen:] You what?
[Flo:] Cos, there was something wrong with the... receiving part of the dish. Right?
[Kathleen:] Mhm.
[Flo:] So what did she do? She give him a tenner and she give him that box with bloody channel change on! Kept
[Kathleen:] Oh! She is
[Flo:] And, and the remote... the remote for it... and all she were left with was the decoder. Now that don't work on its own.
[Kathleen:] I know, you need another one.
[Flo:] So I'm gonna buy it off her.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] I've got that decoder in my house.
[Kathleen:] You need that system for it... like our Arthur's got. Like we've got.
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] That one and that one.
[Flo:] I know. It's no good without the other. I know.
[Kathleen:] You'd have kept it if you'd have had that.
[Flo:] I know.
[Kathleen:] Oh!
[Flo:] And I kept saying to her, I need summat else. She said, no I don't then. She said, oh yes! She says i she rang me up later, she says ooh I remember now! I give him it wit her, with dish.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] I said you dizzy swine! I said, it were hundred and odd together. She said no, that was worth hundred on its own. I said, no it isn't. Cos it's no good on its own.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... D'ya know he never does this! It's a good job I always remember to pick it up innit?
[Flo:] Well, cos er... tt, oh I'm so... peed off! I've left my
[Kathleen:] I bet you were.
[Flo:] or I've lost it on t'way... running for bus.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. So what you got to do?
[Flo:] Cos I had to go to doctors, you see, at quarter past two. Then I were talking to our Karen to about quarter to three
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] and then I sa I looked in... bag. I don't know what made me look in the bag, but it weren't. So I went over to... thingy... said oh! She's just gone to your flat to take it, she's just gone to your... house to take it you.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] I says, oh well I better wait here for her coming back, cos I'll probably pass her on t'way.
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Flo:] So I waited here, I waited nearly half an hour!
[Kathleen:] And didn't she come?
[Flo:] So the woman come back mine here and I went home with it. And I thought, oh! I walked, er, you know, get on bus and come straight to after I
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] and then I thought well I can't cos, I've got er... calculator in this bag... and I haven't got it on me you see. So I went home for it. I don't know whether I put my bus pass in my pocket. Cos I come downstairs, I thought, well I'm gonna... start coming downstairs and upstairs when I'm not in a hurry.
[Kathleen:] Yes. What's that? To help you get in?
[Flo:] Try and that... lose some weight. So, whether I've lost my bus pass running down the stairs and then running through town, I don't know.
[Kathleen:] Have you had to pay full fare then?
[Flo:] Yeah. Eighty five pence.
[Kathleen:] Oh! Urgh!
[Flo:] And I've just paid four pigging quid! It starts today.
[Kathleen:] D'ya have to go and pay again?
[Flo:] If I've lost it, I don't know what'll happen.... I'll have to pay again, yeah. I'll have to pay full fare on Sunday now, both ways.
[Kathleen:] Tt! Oh!
[Flo:] Cos tonight, I get a lift home.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] On a Thursday I get a lift home, but Sunday I have to go up here and back.
[Kathleen:] It's gonna cost you a fortune cos you need photographs and everything for it int it?
[Flo:] I know.
[Kathleen:] Oh! Bloody hell!
[Flo:] Choo!... I hope I ain't lost it. Well I did a quick trip to our Arthur's cos I lent him some money today. Do you know, I wish he'd get paid same week we do! He gets
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] paid monthly, and we get paid monthly.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] And we get paid... the week before he does.
[Kathleen:] Oh well!
[Flo:] And you can guarantee, he was on t'phone on Saturday, he phoned me up on Monday, he phoned me on Tuesday and said, now I remember what I wanted. I says, well I can tell you what you phoned up three times on t'row for, I says, you've no money again have you? I says, Steve gets paid this week, and you know that for a fact! I says, you're after some pennies aren't you?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] He said, well are you gonna come down on Thursday and drop me fifty? I says fifty! What d'ya think I am, a multi- millionaire you? And then I took pity on him and lent him forty.
[Kathleen:] Well you might know you would!
[Flo:] I thought, I'll lend him forty. Well he gets paid next Friday so I'll
[Kathleen:] Mm mm.
[Flo:] get it back on Saturday. Only trouble is, it's me that pays four quid, you know, a quid here, quid back to lend him it, and then I've
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] got to pay it again to go and collect it back off him!
[Kathleen:] Oh! You should get it off him.
[Flo:] Well I'm gonna say to him in future
[Kathleen:] That's fifty four quid... bus fare.
[Flo:] I'm gonna say to him in future, it's costing me four quid You know Linda?
[Kathleen:] Linda? Yeah. Oh I know who you're on about. Yeah.
[Flo:] It's out
[Kathleen:] I never ever call her that.
[Flo:] Yeah well... that's the name anyway. And er... anyway, I forgot you wouldn't know her as that. But, you see I called her that because... everybody else called her that.
[Kathleen:] Mm. Well Excuse me. You're not allowed in this entrance at all. There's another one just round the corner. See, this one's for kids only. For cars, if you just go to end
[speaker004:] Mm mm.
[Kathleen:] it's... Discount, there's a few houses then there's a gateway, back entrance into school.
[speaker004:] Okay then.
[Kathleen:] Okay?
[speaker005:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Timed that just right then. Come on Krista!
[Alice:] She's still got Weetabix all over her top.
[Kathleen:] Has she? How did you manage in this fog this morning?
[Alice:] Weren't so bad.
[Kathleen:] Better than before?
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Said it's right bad up other
[Alice:] It was
[Kathleen:] end.
[Alice:] It were this greyish thing... you know, if I got, as long as I got my car warmed up... it took frost,i ice off of window.
[Kathleen:] Er, it weren't locked up again though were it?
[Alice:] No.
[Kathleen:] Cos you had trouble didn't you?
[Alice:] I know. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] Well, you see, one car, one door unlocks all of them.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[speaker005:] Morning!
[Kathleen:] Morning!
[Alice:] Morning! You see, you don't let your back doors or inside or outside.
[Kathleen:] Oh!
[Alice:] You have to make it
[Kathleen:] Oh aye! Yeah, they are, yeah.
[Alice:] So you see when it i when I had, I'd got one of thems done but... you can't o help others out.
[Kathleen:] No.
[Alice:] It's like
[Kathleen:] You having a coffee this morning?
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] If I'm not here, I'm int house.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Okay then.... Wait! You'll get a smack you will! You, pardon? Alright. Well, you frightened him to death then!
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Kathleen:] I don't, you must have been miles away this morning.
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER] Oh []!... Just thinking, I'm not all there.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Oh ho []!
[Alice:] It gets going and I'm at... I actually was
[Kathleen:] I
[Alice:] gonna say something. [whispering] [].
[Kathleen:] Oh I'm always saying that. A lot of people do that a
[Alice:] Yeah, but he... does talk broad Yorkshire!
[Kathleen:] It's like er... who were it? Er, Charlie.
[Alice:] Charlie er
[Kathleen:] He goes none of those northeners!
[Alice:] That's it! But Charlie's Scottish and I've... saving bags of money, you know. You don't think they talk like that.
[Steve:] Why not?
[Kathleen:] You ju well
[Steve:] You talk how you talk, and that's it.
[Kathleen:] Well yous do. Yeah, but I mean... they're not just... you know, just well off, he are well well off!
[Steve:] Are they?
[speaker005:] Yep.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Steve:] I just think they work.
[Kathleen:] Yeah well
[Steve:] He worked at Lincoln don't he?
[Alice:] No, no.
[Kathleen:] Yorkshire.
[Alice:] [whispering] Put it back over there. Cos when I went
[Kathleen:] Cos when I went
[Alice:] to my mother's... in Lincoln... he used to always say to me... go on, say summat.
[Kathleen:] You should have heard what they were doing to him. They were right rotten to him! You know, when Donny lost against Lincoln?
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Well they were up the road from Donny and they.
[Alice:] We always said that he had a yellow belly!
[Steve:] Who did?
[Kathleen:] He says, I'm not bothered. I don't even like [LAUGHTER] football []!
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Cos what they
[Steve:] Poof!
[Kathleen:] He had summat to pick up, so they picked up
[Steve:] What are they?
[Kathleen:] That's what
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Steve:] I'm all for getting... er... tape recorder.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Steve:] Tight sods!
[Alice:] Leave the poor girl! He had to chuck in summat.
[Kathleen:] Twenty five pound voucher.
[Steve:] That's no bloody good! I want that! And twenty five quid.
[Kathleen:] He's not, he's after microphone. I'll tell you what he's after.
[Steve:] I'm after all of it. Bloody marvellous!
[Kathleen:] You've got all of it! It's same as your one.
[Steve:] It isn't.
[Kathleen:] Yours don't have Sellotape all over it. That has. [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] It's got... patches on it. I had taxi driver on it this
[Alice:] [sniff]
[Kathleen:] morning.
[Alice:] Oh you did taxi driver did you?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Again! And I says to him, you're not supposed to use this entrance.
[Alice:] What at school?
[Kathleen:] Er I told him about the other one. It's a different one. They're sending a different one every bloody week! I thought, marvellous! I'm spending week after week after week. Why don't the one driving the week before tell the one the week after... that they've got to go in drivers' entrance and not in bloody one!
[Alice:] Daft!
[Kathleen:] Thingamabob nearly got run over this morning!
[Alice:] Who?
[Kathleen:] You know,wi green coat? Dark hair. Sometimes she talks to you, sometimes she don't. He says... she's awful sometimes.
[Alice:] Ah! Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Her.
[Alice:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] She come miles away!
[Alice:] Is she a copper's wife?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Alice:] Wait till she tells her husband she nearly got run over.
[Kathleen:] That young lad coming on a bike.
[Alice:] Yeah. That's him.
[Kathleen:] It's Chris. I shouts, eh! What you doing? And she went, get back! Quick! Quick! She saying, come on. Come on. Car coming. And I'm going to car... I thought you idiot!
[Alice:] Yeah, she's was a copper's wife.
[Kathleen:] Mm. I never knew that. I knew it.
[Alice:] In a way... Steven. Her hair's cut like that, she gotta have it cut.
[Kathleen:] And she pushes a pushchair and she's got a little lad about...?
[Alice:] I'll show you her anyway. But I don't think you've ever seen her cos you always come about ten to. Oh.
[Kathleen:] If it's the one that I mean
[Alice:] What?
[Steve:] I know what I meant to ask you.
[Kathleen:] Aha.
[Steve:] Why do you come for that... alarm?
[Kathleen:] Cos it's his... not Marie's.
[Steve:] Well he's selling it.
[Kathleen:] It was a, he bought it... he's not selling that one. He's selling the Widgie He's got a Widgie a posh
[Alice:] Widgie
[Steve:] Yeah. Seventeen quid.
[Kathleen:] Yeah, he's got a posh one... which... the rest of the alarm... he's putting with that. He bought it for that erm er her...
[Steve:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] what, the caravan?
[Steve:] Yeah.
[Alice:] What, did she have it on t'?
[Steve:] Astra.
[Kathleen:] He bought it for the Astra.
[Steve:] Yeah but, she says she bought it him for Christmas.
[Kathleen:] Well he says he bought it. So I don't know who bought it. Somebody must have bought it!
[Steve:] I were gonna take out of that too.
[Alice:] Well... he's still got Astra then?
[Steve:] [sigh] Did you know about that?
[Kathleen:] He never mentioned it. He just mentioned caravan.... Well Marie just said that he'd got it. Cos I says, you have seen it in passing.
[Alice:] Have you got a house?
[Kathleen:] Ah! Maggie's still having trouble with that.
[Alice:] Aye.
[Kathleen:] Apparently, they keep getting er... this erm... what was it? Bill phones up... says, can I speak to somebody? Right? And I says, er I'm sorry they're not available at the moment. You see, they've got a card of the fella that did the thingy... so, when they put him onto this other fella... he says, er, yeah, his name were Mr so and so. So, they says, well I'll tell you what we'll try and find this Mr so and so, and, we'll get in contact with you. So, he waited in for two days... nothing! So, he's rang every day since and he keeps getting this person, that says er... er, we'll pass your message, we'll pass your message, we'll get back to you, I'll get back to you. I says, you know what you want to do now? I says, you want to phone up and say look, I want to speak to someone in authority and I want to speak to him today! Because, if not, I'm going to see my solicitor in the morning, cos if you won't speak to me, you can speak to him instead! I says, and I bet they call you back.
[Alice:] Well er,wha er what has done about it then?
[Kathleen:] They won't ring back.... But I said, just threaten with solicitors then.
[Alice:] You can't understand anybody signing summat and not reading it can you?
[Kathleen:] He can't bloody see! He's blind as a bat!
[Alice:] Can't she see?
[Kathleen:] Maggie wears glasses, but she won't outside. Nearly two hundred quid he paid for a pair of glasses and she sat on them didn't she?
[Steve:] Yeah.
[Alice:] Well I don't give a damn what I look like in bloody glasses. In fact,, I feel naked without bloody glasses on now.
[Steve:] If I've got to wear them, I've gotta wear them! At the moment I haven't
[Alice:] Has any more then? Your glasses.
[Kathleen:] No.
[Steve:] I don't put them in my bag.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [cough]
[Alice:] It is, I know, I do this... just get legs out of bed and
[Steve:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] T-shirt. Right. Here are.
[Alice:] Where's my goggles? As soon as I get my legs out of bed, that's first thing I pick up, my glasses.
[Steve:] Oh it int. I'll tell you what it ain't exactly
[Alice:] Yeah, I
[Steve:] except jumpers.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] That's so as you can watch it looking at telly! [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah []!
[Kathleen:] More than likely! More than likely!
[Steve:] Don't be daft! It's always me what's
[Alice:] And I was a young men in my prime! [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Steve:] Can't see his blooming!
[Kathleen:] Well he's got someone to talk to his [LAUGHTER] while
[Alice:] Oh yes!
[Kathleen:] he's in there []!
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER] Oh he's just []
[Steve:] [clears throat]
[Kathleen:] I expect you'd be alright if he talked back to you. [LAUGHTER] You'd know about it then []!
[Alice:] I thought he was gonna take the rest of this off. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]... Yeah, you blank er... bits off. I've got headphones and everything so you can come back to a certain and take it
[Steve:] Why?
[Kathleen:] She said
[Steve:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] to leave swearing and all that on. And she says to leave swearing on. She says, but if you listen to it, and then if you don't think that should be there... you can go over it. You could
[Steve:] Bloody than listen to them myself.
[Kathleen:] No, Flo come... I stopped her conversation half way through.
[Steve:] Oh she's
[Alice:] No, if I'd have cut time they wouldn't hear no conversation!
[Kathleen:] It's a bit like
[Steve:] [clears throat]
[Kathleen:] with John and Janice. You don't hear nowt.
[Alice:] Cos you can gather as soon as Paul gets in I think I was asleep.
[Kathleen:] He's like that aren't you? He's
[Steve:] Yeah but
[Kathleen:] he sat up last night, he sat up last night we was gonna watch the ten o'clock movie on telly with me. Cos it finishes at half eleven, so I says to him, oh great! You're not working tomorrow you can watch movie wi me. He says, yeah, alright. So I got my cushions and I laid here... and he got his cushions and he were laid there... and he says to me, are you taping this? I says, no I'm gonna watch it. I thought... he's going to sleep again. Quarter past ten, turned round, snoring away!
[Alice:] Paul we were dreaming last night.
[Steve:] Yeah. But sh... I've been, I work out, I feel. Working outside.
[Alice:] Is that it?
[Steve:] Aye. In this weather.
[Alice:] Yeah. When you get in
[Steve:] I get int car, and it's warm so I end up switching heater and winding window down. When I get in here there's nice fire.
[Alice:] That's it.
[Steve:] And then it gets me.
[Alice:] Stay in the car then!
[Kathleen:] Then, he were being a pig last night. I says to him, with him breaking down other night... his dinner went to dog.
[Steve:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] The night before I kept it hot, and hot, and hot, and hot, and by time we did get it at quarter to eight... I says to him, oh this is horrible, this!
[Alice:] Ooh! I had some
[Kathleen:] So last night, I thought, I won't do anything till he comes in... but we'd got company... and er, they went outside, they were having a look at car engine and that, telling us what were wrong, you know. And, so I says to him d'ya fancy going to fish shop? So he decided he wanted chips, pie, curry, loads of scraps and bread and everything and he eat every bit of it up! Didn't you?
[Steve:] I were hungry!
[Alice:] I bet you get as fat as a pig!
[Steve:] I am! So what?
[Kathleen:] He's not bothered! [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] Well he says, said to me... I don't know why you're going to keep, er th to slimming thing cos you, because... I can't tell no difference with you.
[Steve:] Can you tell?
[Alice:] You what? I can tell, yeah.
[Steve:] That's all that counts.
[Kathleen:] I can tell.
[Alice:] Said it's a waste of bloody money going!
[Kathleen:] You used to have two buck teeth but you haven't now.
[Alice:] Oh! I don't know. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Yeah. You know, before you couldn't see your... thingy... that
[Steve:] Right! Where am I going?
[Alice:] No.
[Kathleen:] You're going to National Tyres on North Bridge.... And they're going to balance your wheels.
[Steve:] Oh I know. Checking and balancing.
[Kathleen:] I don't know about checking and balancing, I just says balancing. I'll let you
[Alice:] Can you get insurance to pay for it?
[Kathleen:] It's four pound something a wheel... there.
[Steve:] Oh! That's dear.
[Alice:] Is
[Kathleen:] So
[Alice:] that dear?
[Kathleen:] well they says to go there, get an invoice... take it into the insurance... and they will send us a cheque back out.
[Steve:] Usually, when they balance your wheels they... they check the tracking.
[Kathleen:] They're gonna deduct it. I phoned up... put Maggie on t'phone, told her sa tell her what this bloke had said... and, they said, just a minute, that they'll get in touch wi insurance and phone us back. Well they phoned back... and... they said, can you tell your husband to take his car to National Tyres... er, that insurance has sent him, and could they give him an invoice... for the insurance company. Like, we pay, give
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] them an invoice, he's got to take the invoice into insurance
[Steve:] [clears throat]
[Kathleen:] they will... deduct that off... the value
[Steve:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] I think
[Alice:] The value.
[Kathleen:] send us it, and they can have the rest.
[Steve:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And they says, check it. Well they won't give him it straight away, they'll see to you first. They always do.
[Steve:] We haven't finished yet.
[Kathleen:] But I says, that they were, I, that he weren't satisfied when it were vibrating and that. And he says, gerrit checked or summat.... So... he's gonna ask them what he does about the vibrating.
[Steve:] National Tyre, I don't think they'll do bonnet.
[Kathleen:] No! I dunno. But, you're going in insurance.
[Steve:] I know.
[Kathleen:] You're telling them yoursen. I'm sick of telling them! I'm sick of car! [LAUGHTER]
[Steve:] Wish we'd never heard of car dealers. Kirksandle Car Care
[Kathleen:] They're no good! D'ya know, everybody we've spoke to since then, they says, why the heck didn't you say summat? You shouldn't have took it there! One fella were told... they did his erm... summat to his engine... and it blew up didn't it?
[Steve:] Blew up, yeah.
[Kathleen:] His engine blew up! Er, Dennis, who we were talking to last night, he says, you must be absolutely mental! He says that his mate bought a car from there... and, he were a... undecided about this clocking... this time, what's, what call it?
[Steve:] He'd er... wound the clock back... thirty thou.
[Kathleen:] But you know on his log book, last person... that had the car he went down to see them, and they told him that it were thirty thousand over from when they sold it.
[Alice:] Yeah, but when they got it, you don't have to ask for owt er, M O T.
[Kathleen:] He went to see person who selt it.
[Alice:] Might have got old M O T.
[Kathleen:] And, they were on, more on about that. I says, ah marvellous! I says, you don't hear a word about anybody... till you go.
[Steve:] Until after.
[Kathleen:] And then afterwards
[Alice:] Well, I mean, look at me, me with my motor car
[Steve:] [clears throat]
[Alice:] I mean, it hadn't done all th as many miles.
[Kathleen:] True. Mine has, mine's
[Alice:] Actually, it's not been on t'road. I mean, you tell somebody that and they're forced to believe you are you?
[Steve:] Well that mini, we got it from Hutchins.
[Kathleen:] Guess what? Mine
[Steve:] [clears throat]
[Kathleen:] wants two more miles on my clock and I've done a thousand mile on my.
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]... I was looking at it other day.
[Steve:] Chuffing hell! I... I'm doing... a thousand mile a week!
[Kathleen:] I know, but... well mine's a W registered, yours is a D! [LAUGHTER]
[Steve:] I know.
[Kathleen:] It shows tha
[Alice:] It's not much.
[Kathleen:] I only go a fair way. I only do Irene's on it, and that's my lot. And it's
[Steve:] Well I do more miles.
[Alice:] Well you, I mean to say that I've had mine a long time and you ain't done much mileage on it.
[Kathleen:] Well mine's... according to my log book there's three on it. I've heard of
[Alice:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] and I've had it three year. And I ain't done, I ain't got it to a thousand yet. But, it's all ready for M O T now. Supposed to take it in for M O T.
[Alice:] Well mine ain't been used for... three month.
[Kathleen:] It's your electrics innit?
[Alice:] Yeah. Mind, usually after three years.
[Kathleen:] I've had it three years.
[Alice:] They'll get a bit of the... an holiday round here sometimes, you never know, might be able to come down.
[Kathleen:] Well, if you're in... knock before you go and start it.
[Alice:] Well if I come down [LAUGHTER] and see Steve and Kelly []!
[Kathleen:] That's right.
[Alice:] There's a story of mine can't go away. He says, we've got... in caravan.
[Kathleen:] Have you? Where you going?
[Alice:] Skegness.
[Kathleen:] I shouldn't have asked should I really! [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] It's a lovely place Skeggy! Did I just give him some money, I didn't did I?
[Alice:] Don't know. I think so.
[Kathleen:] Oh! Better give him some money. I was gonna give him cheque book and then I thought, no.
[Alice:] I tell you summat, if I don't get one of them bags off of.
[Kathleen:] No. Cos you've already told her. Er, cos she come today and she says forgot book.
[Alice:] Eh yeah. Aye, if I don't get one of them bags she'll not no, I'll can't get no more. There's plenty of folks don't either.
[Kathleen:] That's true. I know quite a few. Sarah does it. My mate... she does it.
[Alice:] Er well
[Kathleen:] She did up to moving but she lived at Anthorpe and she's not mentioned it since, so I'll have to ask her if she does Avon. Cos I used to get it off of her.
[Alice:] The cat.... He's got a hump. He's quite hairy ain't he?
[Kathleen:] You what?... [clears throat]... She says she's only five bags didn't she?
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] No! She's not allowed five bags, she's got to have an order of five bags. One for hersen, and four other people.
[Alice:] Yes, I know. That's her
[Kathleen:] Five bags and over.
[Alice:] I thought she might have five.
[Kathleen:] No, if she ain't got five bags... then, the what you call it? She can't have any.
[Alice:] I thought she said well I'm allowed five bags.
[Kathleen:] No, she can't have anything. I got a sarong. Er... an Avon bag... actually I got... er three bags with Avon. Handbag... er
[Alice:] Three?
[Kathleen:] Yeah, a shopping bag... that's alright
[Alice:] I've got like a fly bag, a blue one.
[Kathleen:] well mine's whi it's a yellow bag. I got, a shopping bag, that were a creamy colour with wi A's all over it.
[Alice:] The handbag is navy blue, with white on, and it's, like little navy blue dots on it.
[Kathleen:] Let's have a look, I don't think I've got that one.
[Alice:] Er... Oh! Umbrella.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. I've got umbrella, a blue one. I got... oh I got a what they call an'all! Erm... erm... I did!
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] It's... [sighing] Oh []! You know when er, you're going on away or on t'beach or summat and you put your toiletries in and you can put a towel and that?
[Alice:] Yes.
[Kathleen:] Like that.
[Alice:] Ah yes! Like you brought Caroline for her, cos she's literally... to cut Paul's hair.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Sort of, with that figure
[Alice:] It's this one int it?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Alice:] Yeah. And you just draw
[Kathleen:] I got her one of them.
[Alice:] them in.
[Kathleen:] What I do is, I roll a towel up... and that, and put, take them down on t'beach, you know, cos I could put my purse in and that.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] A bit of money. That's what I do.
[Alice:] Er... it's got handle at head int it?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Alice:] And you bought Caroline's. She can put her, her cutters in.
[Kathleen:] Mm.... Cos she had them in a plastic bag.
[Alice:] Mm. [cough]
[Kathleen:] It's erm... Yeah! I'm looking at you!
[Alice:] I call them a beach bag, but it's not.... It's like a
[Kathleen:] A
[Alice:] toiletries bag, but it's twice
[Kathleen:] toiletry bag, yes.
[Alice:] as big though innit? With, for men.
[Kathleen:] Are they for men?
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Oh! Cos Steve got one and I got one. I got a blue one and he got a black one.
[Alice:] Yeah, I got a black one. And mine keeps disappearing though. I lent it Steven and that were it! Off it went. And mine's black.
[Kathleen:] ... You know, it sounds I spent.
[Alice:] D'ya know, he stuck in all day Wednesday.
[Kathleen:] Well it past half past ten, you think he'd be up and getting ready for work. He might be up.... He don't know his dad's in this morning.
[Alice:] He's hiding.
[Kathleen:] He's always hiding.
[Alice:] Er, what time is it? Quarter past nine?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. He'll go out and get that... five to ten bus or five past ten bus. Stops upstairs all the time.... Cos I've upset his girlfriend!
[Alice:] Is that Amanda? Which one?
[Kathleen:] I don't know. I told him... he'd better tell his friends, or his girlfriends, that when they call at our house if they don't give names, they're not talking to him! I says, cos I haven't the faintest idea who they are. I've says... your Mark, I says, he always says, is that Mrs? It's Mark. Will you ask Steven if I can talk to him please? And, there's one called Gavin, he rings up, and... the girlfriend, he did have, whether it's still same one, I don't know... called Sarah. [clears throat]... Well, I says to him, I'm getting sick of these calls cos... you don't know if it's for... him or him. We have the same name. And er... I picked it up other night, says, can I ta speak to Steven? I said, no! So she di still didn't say her name! So, she says, will you give Steven a message? I says, no! Talk to him when you see him. Well will you ask Steven to call me back? I says, no! She give me no telephone number, no name... nothing! So, she said, oh! Alright, and put phone down. And I still didn't know who it were. I thought, if I keep saying no... she'll say, well it's Sarah... or... whoever... but, no chance! No name! No phone number! No nothing!
[Steve:] Ee! It's bloody cold out there!
[Alice:] I know. And it's foggy.
[Steve:] Oh, it weren't bad. Just washed my eyes, I can see now.
[Alice:] We had a struggle this morning coming out, my windows were all mucky outsi go it got, a car, van had passed me. I put my window washers on and my windows froze up!
[Steve:] They will do. Yeah, see me come up
[Alice:] Yeah but it didn't seem as though it were freezing though did it?
[Steve:] coming home last night, I stopped... half way
[Alice:] [sneeze]
[Steve:] home... bloody needed checking the lights!
[Alice:] Oh! Don't mention lights. Keep flashing me to say that I've got my headlights on so I, when I, I give them flash back to say no I haven't.
[Steve:] Oh. They do that with me.
[Alice:] When I've been taking Paul to work in the morning... they've been giving me flashes and then... if I, you know, flashed them back... they haven't put their headlights on so I thought oh bugger yous! So I put mine on. They don't like mine.
[Steve:] Don't like mine. Mine, my beams shines
[Alice:] So
[Steve:] into the cars.
[Alice:] Mine does.
[Kathleen:] He's got six lights up front.
[Alice:] Paul, I says, your lights aren't set properly! I says, yeah but it's passed its M O T for lights.
[Steve:] Exactly!
[Alice:] It did!
[Steve:] Cos mine had.
[Kathleen:] He's just had to alter them hisen!
[Alice:] Somebody, if they were wrong you'd think they'd tell you wouldn't you?
[Steve:] They're supposed to.
[Alice:] But there's no mention of lights!
[Steve:] I sent mine, I took that... it was out. I said give us screwdriver, I'll do it here and now. He says, why? I says, well it seems daft taking it back, to fetch it back. He said, I'm not failing you on it. I said no, but yo... you've got your marks on your wall I said I can cha do it now. But this one... I can do mesen.
[Alice:] But
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Alice:] I mean
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Dipped lights though, it's just like a guess.
[Steve:] Not if I've got it set. We know they're wrong.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Yeah I know.
[Alice:] Yeah, they're just like headlights mine is. I've got the same, but usually I have eight on front of car. So I says, Paul, I says, get me some spotlights.
[Kathleen:] That's what's missing ont front of ours. When he crashed we've not had anything replaced. Cos, before you crash... we had six lights on t'back and we had eight on t'front. Cos he's got... them four headlights... with
[Alice:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] the either side, then below... the bumper thing, we had the fog lights... and above the bumper we had two spotlights. Now, on the back... I bought him some extra fog lights for back... and I bought him them fog lights that goes int window. D'ya know? So if
[Alice:] Yeah
[Kathleen:] the light int window, and on bumper... and fog light. He come back, we've got... headlights on t'front... two fog lights... and we got brake lights on t'back. No fog lights, no nothing. That's all we've got! I says, to him, there's six lights missing off here. I says, they cost me over two hundred quid, I says, for the six lights! But, them at Car Care turned round and says, it's not on t'invoice. All we keep getting off them is... I says, you mean to say, we're paying two and half thousand pounds worth of repairs, I says, and they're not done? And then when we went for wheel balancing... told us to take it back for balancing and tracking, they turned round and says we're not doing it. Take it to another garage. We told Maggie that. So I says to Maggie, we'll phone insurance, I put her on t'phone, and she said he were, he were right clever with her! And er... that's why they haven't got in contact and that. So he, took it back before and put brand new bonnet that they've put on. Didn't fit! And he says, when he gets it up to sixty mile an hour on t'motorway it's still vibrating.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] So, he's gonna go int insurance this morning, tell them that er... bonnet's still vibrating and they've supposed to have done it twice... and that, because of er... ask them where he can take to have all these repair jobs done. You know, checked over. Cos, he went in there... summat to do wi headlights or summat, one were... like up and down or summat. And he went in and he said... they haven't even bloody welded this! They've done a tack. I says, you're alright, I said, front radiator's gonna bleeding drop off! So... he's gonna see about that this morning. I says to him, take a day off work for, I says, for God's sake! So... he took today off.
[Alice:] So you were saying, he's only upstairs just now.
[Krista:] Grandma.
[Alice:] Steve.
[Krista:] You got that that bag.
[Alice:] Could you fetch my keys from upstairs please?
[Krista:] Grandma. You've got
[Alice:] Ta.
[Krista:] that.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Krista:] Grandma.
[Kathleen:] [cough]
[Krista:] Grandma's got that bag.
[Alice:] Has she?
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Alice:] [clears throat]... Kath's got a lot of bags hasn't she?
[Kathleen:] I've got another one upstairs. Do you know, fellas, who'd have them?
[Krista:] Oh! That's
[Kathleen:] One minute, she starts collecting one thing... then you start collecting another thing Christmas, he come home with one of them. That lad at work, that John what they call him?
[Krista:] And that, and that's
[Kathleen:] He give him one. And er... he's got hundreds of them apparently. So he's decided... he wants to collect them now.
[Krista:] Wow!
[Alice:] I've got Tetleys tea.
[Krista:] Is that the
[Kathleen:] I've got so
[Krista:] then?
[Kathleen:] I've got Kelloggs. Is it Kelloggs?
[Krista:] Don't know that
[Kathleen:] No don't touch them.
[Krista:] No I won't.
[Kathleen:] That was the er, last one that she'd seen they said that. Them Kelloggs.
[Alice:] Yeah. Got a lot of them.
[Krista:] That's like granddad.
[Kathleen:] They're Walkers crisps. They're Walker crisps.
[Alice:] Kelloggs. I don't know what that
[Krista:] They're like grandma.
[Alice:] one upstairs is. [cough]
[Kathleen:] And er
[Krista:] Like grandma's.
[Kathleen:] I said to Maggie... I says, Steve's collecting cars... I says, it don't matter if it's int box or not, I says, if they're int box they're staying in a box. I says, and I'm buying him a rack... for the ones... not in a box.
[Alice:] With Tetleys tea now you send away and get a... like a little minibus thing.
[Kathleen:] Oh. We don't get Tetleys teas though. We don't get that at all. I always used to
[Alice:] I've just got enough for one, er one car. One car.
[Kathleen:] He couldn't stop buying. He says, there's not much point in getting P G or Tetleys from one tea bag and making four
[Krista:] Look!
[Kathleen:] cups. Cos what he does, he puts a tea bag in a cup... pours about that much water on... takes the tea bag out and tops it right up with water so he can see bottom of cup. And then he uses same tea bag again. That's why
[Alice:] Well that Tetley tea bags taste strong though.
[Krista:] Hot. Hot.
[Alice:] One tea bag does me and Paul.... That's all we put int teapot, one tea bag.
[Kathleen:] That's just not strong.
[Alice:] Well that's good that Tetleys tea stuff. I'm sure you do get a... a
[Kathleen:] I doubt it like. Cos you never do do you?
[Krista:] Well, no! So... got wo.
[Alice:] Get four cups.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Alice:] Can I have it?
[Kathleen:] What?... It's been there a fortnight... and I keep asking everybody if they want to try it. And I told Steve to drink it, and he says no, and wi you mentioning Tetleys and I don't
[Alice:] Oh, he'll not drink Tetleys.
[Kathleen:] You have been in my bag again!
[Steve:] I haven't been in your bag!
[Kathleen:] I can tell you haven't!
[Steve:] I have not been in your bag!
[Kathleen:] So, in that case, you've dropped it.
[Steve:] I picked it up and it were... th the er... strap got the wrong way round.
[Kathleen:] Tt!
[Alice:] So it all went out?
[Steve:] So I had to pick it all up. And how come he's good enough to go the Sea Cadets but he's not good enough to go college?
[Kathleen:] Because he don't go till half past ten this morning.
[Steve:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] Changed my mind.
[Alice:] But I know Tetleys tea bags... er... one tea bag does me and Paul. And I have it stronger than what this coffee is.
[Kathleen:] You'll have to save it till Paul comes back... [whispering] for the car [].
[Alice:] I've got enough for one car for mesen.
[Kathleen:] Ah! Will you save some more... and then you can send for
[Alice:] Okay.
[Kathleen:] a... gonna save me some Tetley tea tokens for a car.
[Steve:] Oh thank you.
[Kathleen:] Cos she has Tetleys, and we don't.
[Steve:] Oh Right. Don't like it.
[Kathleen:] Just give her that tea, it's Tetley tea. Save. D'ya know
[Steve:] And if you don't like it you can keep the jar.
[Alice:] Can actually, yes.
[Kathleen:] Yes! That's what it says on't telly.
[Steve:] Mm.
[Krista:] I'm gonna buy
[Alice:] Well
[Krista:] what's that?
[Alice:] I don't know whether you do with like
[Kathleen:] It's not. Cos Jack does and all... cos he's got one. In fact, I'm gonna get his present.
[Steve:] [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] [cough]... Well it's not even a proper bloody jar is it? It's a plastic thing.
[Kathleen:] That's what it says, if you don't like the tea, you get a free [LAUGHTER] jar []!
[Alice:] What the bloody hell can you do with that?
[Kathleen:] Did I give you a diary? I can't remember if I did cos I've been picking them up.... Every time I go int bank... they, just leave them on t'counter, they've been there weeks and weeks. And normally, they're all gone so, and I thought, oh! I got one though. I give Maggie one for, today.
[Steve:] Say, you ought to say oh.
[Krista:] Where did you put your bag?
[Kathleen:] It's there.
[Krista:] Oh!.
[Kathleen:] Put it back in there.
[Krista:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] Under there look.
[Krista:] Oh!
[Steve:] Get my key ring?
[Kathleen:] Under there.
[Alice:] Your key ring, I've just
[Kathleen:] Ah! Like that.
[Alice:] What's that say?
[Steve:] Risking.
[Alice:] Is that off
[Steve:] Come off a panel. We got about twenty panels at work... and on the panel there's a little plastic thing... stuck on... and it needs four keys... and one.
[Krista:] Wow!
[Kathleen:] So now it hasn't got nowt with it?
[Alice:] There's no keys, there's no key rings?
[Steve:] There's no key rings. I got the last of them.... Er, that were before they come in to our place.
[Alice:] Oh yeah.
[Kathleen:] D'ya know, I ke I've had them in my bag I keep forgetting to give them to anyone.
[Steve:] Well I will. I'm never there.
[Kathleen:] Got your?
[Steve:] Yeah.... Which one?
[Alice:] Eh?
[Steve:] Aye, give me this....... See if we can use that?
[Kathleen:] No, it's that one, big'un's in my drawer. Ooh! It might be in there.
[Steve:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] If I did that with my rings, just threw them like that, he'd go absolutely apeshit! Wouldn't you?
[Steve:] I go to work in them, and I'm pulling cables.
[Kathleen:] Well you're not working for three days, you've got three days off!
[Steve:] No I haven't.
[Kathleen:] No. You've got a day off of work, a day, and a day off.
[Steve:] Yeah. You said, you wanted some money.
[Krista:] Wow!
[Kathleen:] Yeah. I do.
[Krista:] Are they?
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Steve:] I shouldn't be taking
[Alice:] Do you know, that's cost me for thirty nine quid!
[Kathleen:] Oh!
[Krista:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Well that makes your total to four bags of coal.
[Steve:] Well we'll do... twenty quid with that thing.
[Krista:] Down there.
[Kathleen:] Oh aye.
[Alice:] But I, but I didn't get a meter on. I
[Steve:] It is a meter.
[Kathleen:] It's a meter.
[Steve:] It's a.
[Kathleen:] Token meter.
[Steve:] Token meter.
[Alice:] No. Our, our Carole's got a fifty pence meter. An old one.
[Kathleen:] it can't be done. A quarter meter for the.
[Alice:] Yeah, well as soon as they get
[Steve:] Don't go saying this a right good crack.
[Kathleen:] No alright then.
[Steve:] And it smells.
[Kathleen:] As usual.
[Steve:] I might have to go for a recall.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] D'ya know
[Alice:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] you get worse you do! Would you like a cig?
[Krista:] Hello.
[Steve:] Go on then!
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Aren't I kind to you?
[Steve:] No.
[Kathleen:] I spend all your money on you... and you say no!
[Alice:] I think he's got a cheek!
[Steve:] Coal? That's not for me! That's to keep you warm.
[Kathleen:] No it int, because I never ever light it in the morning do I? I light
[Steve:] Sometimes
[Kathleen:] it later on... so it's ready for you coming in.
[Steve:] Aargh!
[Alice:] We ne'er sit in kitchen with Calor gas on.
[Steve:] Well why not?
[Kathleen:] I would if my kitchen.
[Steve:] Thou would.
[Kathleen:] Got the fridge in kitchen. Our fridge is in there.... If I run fridge from there back into conservatory, I could put this there and sit in kitchen and shut the door.
[Steve:] I thought the fridge were going in cubbyhole?
[Kathleen:] It was. But somebody put shelves in and everything else and... [clears throat]... what have you, so... it don't fit. It's all full.
[Steve:] Ah! Ah!
[Kathleen:] And then, they've just had the gas tank down... the full'un.
[Steve:] Has he got another one in as well, in there?
[Kathleen:] I know. Yeah. I want another one.
[Alice:] What?
[Kathleen:] I've got three gas tanks and they were all empty over Christmas... so... last time he got paid, I filled two up.
[Alice:] Where d'ya get them from?
[Kathleen:] You know er
[Steve:] Opposite Tescos.
[Alice:] Oh yeah!
[Kathleen:] , nineteen pound.
[Steve:] Last time we got them filled... we got them from down here, thirty odd quid.
[Kathleen:] Yeah!
[Alice:] Mine's... twelve ninety five.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.. I gi him a twenty pound note and he give me some change. For two.
[Alice:] This is Calor gas?
[Steve:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. You know, Tescos?
[Steve:] Yeah. Garage opposite.
[Kathleen:] Straight across road there's a garage there. They sell them. And it's... nine pound, did I say nine pound fifty a tank?
[Steve:] That's
[Kathleen:] Either nine or nine pound fifty a tank. That's where I get it from.
[Steve:] And down here it's thirteen quid.
[Kathleen:] About thirty nine quid they charged me for three.
[Alice:] Yeah well... I get so it's a pound cheaper than I, you know, others I've been going to.
[Kathleen:] You wanna go here.
[Alice:] So mine's twelve ninety five.
[Kathleen:] Bloody hell! That's three quid cheaper.... I'd go there if I were you.
[Alice:] I'll take one wi you on Saturday.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Get it filled.
[Alice:] I got twenty in my bag cos I haven't got one on other room.
[Kathleen:] So this has been running a month hasn't it?
[Steve:] I don't know. I don't know how you
[Kathleen:] You got paid a month ago.
[Steve:] I don't know how you work it. We only have it on... one bar, two bar
[Kathleen:] Every
[Steve:] three bar, four.
[Kathleen:] I start off with three.
[Alice:] I sometimes have one on, then I put two on. Wait till I'm a bit cold.
[Kathleen:] Oh I reverse. I start with three... and then, I think, phworgh! It's getting hot in here. And turn it down to two. And then, I either leave it like that or turn it to one.
[Steve:] See we I were, I did this morning, I put two on... kept door shut. Had my breakfast int kitchen. I thought, it's warm in here.
[Kathleen:] Don't spill it.
[Steve:] What if she comes in.
[Krista:] .
[Kathleen:] Yeah. On a dinner time... when I go out on a dinner time I leave it on. And I don't know why. I just leave the one bar on
[Alice:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] and then it's right warm when I come in.
[Steve:] It's bound to be.
[Kathleen:] I use it all morning.... I've usually got it on when you're here all morning haven't I?
[Alice:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Sa it saves coal. But so far, that's why I chitted at him this morning... about that coal... because I've been using this all morning, I've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock. And I have four... so far it's... four weeks, haven't I? That's a four, a four, a three, and a three.
[Krista:] I need to go back.
[Steve:] Yes.
[Krista:] What like me?
[Kathleen:] And I use the fire too.
[Steve:] Who still haven't got that aspirin have we?
[Alice:] No.
[Kathleen:] That what?
[Steve:] That's. It's been blowing... water out.
[Kathleen:] Somebody's nicking them!
[Krista:] I want to help
[Steve:] Like the... chuffing!
[Kathleen:] So
[Steve:] But we'll catch them. She she says,. I says, he won't cos they've been feeding him.
[Alice:] Well th
[Kathleen:] You see, they know him don't they? You see, if Bill comes over he has a go at Bill, even though he knows Bill, but because he don't see him that much... he has a go at him. But at least
[Krista:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] ... they're, and they're not.
[Alice:] Oh I see. Well
[Kathleen:] [cough] And what we noticed, is, we've got a spring there but what... and there's been a trail of coal... right up our
[Krista:] Ah ah! Oh! Oh!
[Kathleen:] He's lost as much
[Krista:] Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah, ah ah ah! Ah ah!
[Kathleen:] I bought
[Krista:] Ah ah ah!
[Kathleen:] I had the two of them for Christmas... and it didn't
[Krista:] Ah!
[Kathleen:] didn't even last us into New
[Krista:] Ah!
[Kathleen:] Year.
[Krista:] Urgh! Urgh!
[Kathleen:] And I says, I'm not having this!
[Krista:] Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
[Kathleen:] So I thought, well... he knows I know.
[Krista:] [yawn]
[Alice:] Because I let them know that I know.
[Kathleen:] Oh they do! You just tell Maggie.
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Cos I heard Maggie... so someone the someone's thieving Kath's coal. And she's going mad about it! Well we've locked the bottom half, cos Steve got a lock and we locked the bottom half. And, but the... it broke. So, gonna have to buy one. Well Johnny's supposed to have had one... that were a fortnight ago. And I says to Steve, I says, I can't keep affording this! I says, between the electric and that, I says, thirty nine pound a week, I says, every week, I says, is getting a bit ridiculous! Cos in that electric meter, I don't know what they've done to it! I phoned it up and says the fella had been out, you know, they change, update it
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] every so often, they've got these little card things... well they shove them in... and... it clicks all these numbers up... so I used to buy one token
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] so... every fortnight I bought twenty pounds worth.
[Krista:] Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah [screaming] yes []!
[Kathleen:] Well, I've got to buy twenty pounds worth one week
[Krista:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and ten pound week after, and ten pound week after
[Krista:] Who is that granddad?
[Kathleen:] to last me for one month, because we've got to put it on.
[Krista:] Where is that?
[Kathleen:] I keep.
[Krista:] Wah!
[Kathleen:] And my bill, like, come in and seventy odd!
[Krista:] Who's that granddad?
[Kathleen:] I paid hundred and twenty quid on top of this for electric, and they billed me seventy odd! And er They says, that fella's coming to me, he's supposed to be coming out. And reset it to. And I says, I'll tell you what, I said, wait till this quarter's over I says, you make the bill up.
[Krista:] Don't you!
[Kathleen:] I says, if there's owt owing to you
[Krista:] Oh! Oh! Oh!
[Kathleen:] or owt owing to me, I says, we'll do it that way and then you come
[Krista:] [singing] []!
[Alice:] Well I'd thought you'd winter?
[Kathleen:] That's what she wanted.
[Krista:] Look at me!
[Kathleen:] What's that, after six o'clock? After seven?
[Alice:] Yeah. It's just
[Kathleen:] Half past seven?... I usually only put it, put it on a bit before.... After I heard that, I said
[Krista:] It's not!
[Kathleen:] I've normally got telly on in the evenings.
[Alice:] Yeah. Things, still
[Krista:] !
[Alice:] got your fridge int you? Your freezer.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Krista:] [singing] [].
[Alice:] There's your lights.
[Kathleen:] True.
[Krista:] [singing] []
[Alice:] I mean, ours is, ours, ours is terrible, ours is a hundred and what?
[Krista:] [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] Hundred and
[Kathleen:] [cough]...
[Alice:] It were hundred and ten pound seven pence.
[Krista:] [singing] Happy birthday to you
[Kathleen:] Once we got to sorted, I'm gonna take her.
[Krista:] [].
[Alice:] And ye we've got all things outside. We've got... a great big bloody spotlight outside! That lights all yard up.
[Kathleen:] Well, before they put that token in it, then my bills used to come in about fifty, sixty pound. But since they put the token meter in, I've just found they're charging me nine pound for token meter as well as the meter! You know, you get charged for your meter? Cos I ca I were querying on t'bill, I says, why is it... two meters? Er, because he's got to come out and read it. I says, he don't have to come out and read that at all! I says, there's nowt on it! I says, I shove cards in, I says, apart from it telling how much you've put in, I says, there's nowt to read on it! They swear black and blue, they charge you for that meter as well! I'm being charged for two meters. So it pushed bill up.
[Krista:] Oh!
[Alice:] I'm whacked!
[Krista:] Ah, ha ha!
[Alice:] As soon as, if you're gonna go... gas for this... when smokeless comes in
[Kathleen:] At the price the coal is, I am, because if I'm buying four bags at nineteen pound for four bags
[Krista:] [singing] [].
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and it's eight pound fifty a bag for smokeless, I can't afford
[Krista:] Oh! Oh!
[Kathleen:] four of them. I says to Steve, I may as well buy a ten pounds worth of anything else Ain't got radiators have you?
[Alice:] Eh?
[Kathleen:] Ain't got radiators are you?
[Alice:] No, I'd have to have a radiator fitted and... [clears throat]... da you have to have that pump on, so I mean... pump'd gone all out of
[Kathleen:] Yeah. True.
[Krista:] Clip clop!
[Kathleen:] But he says we're moving.
[Alice:] Oh you can't!
[Kathleen:] He's been saying that over a year. And he's still insisting that he wants to move. He don't like it
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] down this area.
[Krista:] Well don't bust it!
[Kathleen:] Have you noticed
[Krista:] Nope!
[Kathleen:] I ain't put in token.
[Alice:] That's to make me a cup of tea.
[Krista:] Well don't... what about me?
[Kathleen:] Well, take back that twenty pence token.
[Krista:] It's like my.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I were gonna say... I thought it had. I weren't sure.
[Alice:] That's to make me a cup of tea when I get home and can try it.
[Krista:] And I can try it.
[Alice:] Yes. Well, give me it back and you can try it then.
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] You can have two cups can't you?
[Alice:] That's two cups for you and two cups for me. Right? Right?
[Krista:] Right.
[Alice:] Right.
[Kathleen:] [yawn]
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Have to tell Maggie that she can't do the lollipop.
[Krista:] That's yours.
[Kathleen:] I had a phone call, and you know that place I were going this afternoon?
[Alice:] [whispering] [].
[Kathleen:] Midi hi-fi and all that.
[Alice:] . No.
[Kathleen:] I told you I'd won one didn't I? Er
[Krista:] Hey!
[Kathleen:] I've won... a midi hi-fi system... and a thousand pounds worth of holiday accommodation.
[Alice:] Oh! Well how?
[Kathleen:] Well what I did, there were a competition, win a thousand pounds worth of Air Miles... and I, I entered every single one of them because of Irene. You know, she's been invited to that wedding in Africa? And I thought... well she's got two chances that way, either... I could win, or she could win, or... neither of us' ll win. And I thought, if I got that... I could give it to Irene and could go wedding. And er... I forgot all about it, entered it last year. And I got it, of course, that says you've won second prize! Now, I've won a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom. Not abroad. And we can't go.
[Steve:] I keep thinking it's Friday.
[Kathleen:] It is Friday.
[Steve:] Yeah. Exactly!
[Kathleen:] And I'd won
[Steve:] That's why I asked if you were babysitting last night. Anyway
[Kathleen:] Ah!
[Steve:] I'm going.
[Kathleen:] Okay. [kiss]
[Steve:] Bye!
[Alice:] Bye.
[Kathleen:] He's not with it!
[Steve:] Bye!
[Alice:] I know. Er, bye!
[Kathleen:] He's not used to having Friday off.
[Alice:] No.
[Krista:] Bye bye.
[Alice:] Say tutty-bye!
[Krista:] Tutty-bye!
[Alice:] Bye! She always says that to her gramps in the morning.
[Kathleen:] Does she?
[Alice:] Yes. I say eh, I want a kiss! So if you kiss her on t'cheek, she's on t'lips!
[Kathleen:] Is she?
[Alice:] [cough]... Has he gone? Then she'll
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Alice:] say, take care granddad. Watch what you're doing. Be careful.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. He's supposed to have been there at half past nine!
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] I told him that he's
[Krista:] Ooh! Ooh! Ya!
[Kathleen:] You watch, he'll get there and say I can't find it! He's never been to National Tyres.
[Krista:] Ee! Ee! Ya!
[Kathleen:] He'll come back and say it cost more than that, give me some money. It costs
[Krista:] Ooh! Ooh! Ya! Ah ah!
[Kathleen:] That's for all wheel balancing.
[Krista:] Ee! Ee! Ya! Aargh!
[Kathleen:] But, when you have it
[Alice:] Ah! Eh, come out! You don't do that!
[Kathleen:] What did she do?
[Alice:] Pulling the curtains [LAUGHTER] down []! Come on!
[Krista:] Where's the
[Alice:] Come on!
[Krista:] ?
[Alice:] Come on then. Good girl. Please!
[Kathleen:] She's alright on t'chair.
[Alice:] Please.
[Kathleen:] No, but he said four pound odd's dear innit? Well it's only front that's got to be tracked. And balanced, innit? That's not bad. Well, I'm assuming it's not bad.
[Alice:] They can balance your back wheels though don't they?
[Kathleen:] I don't know.
[Alice:] Cos I've got summat pu they used to have anyway, summat with a piece of... metal on.
[Kathleen:] Yeah, he has. Erm, Charlie puts them on, they took his others out and put these on to balance it.
[Alice:] That's
[Kathleen:] Oh! Cos he said, look at these out the thing! Cos he give him them to fetch a... a thing or summat and she went. Whatever.... Int it quiet after?... All that traffic on, right early, and then it just disappeared! Watch you don't burn yourself on that lady! Cos it's hot.
[Krista:] Erm... she... I'm not a lady!
[Kathleen:] What are you then?
[Krista:] Krista.
[Kathleen:] You're Krista? Oh!
[Alice:] I thought you was a lady?
[Kathleen:] I thought you was a little lady?... Aren't you a little lady?... Are you a little boy then? You must be a little lady!
[Krista:] No. Daddy's a little lady.
[Alice:] Daddy's a little boy. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Daddy's a little boy. Mammy's a little lady.
[Alice:] That mister at hospital calls you a little lady. Well he did.
[Krista:] I'm not a lady!
[Kathleen:] Oh!
[Alice:] Ah well! A little monkey then?
[Kathleen:] She's a bloody maggot!
[Alice:] She's a maggot! [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Is that what you are? What are you then? Are you a little girl? No, she's not telling us. And you said that
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] You!... Can you hear him creeping now? Can't you hear him?... Just heard go cos the seat's dead quiet.... [LAUGHTER]... He's avoiding his dad like the plague!
[Krista:] Daddy's... a good boy.
[Kathleen:] Yes! And why he's doing that, we don't know.... Cos he says, Steve says to me, is he in? I says, no. He says, he's not in? I says, no. And a bit later on I says to him... I think he's at Cadets. He says, he's not, he's in. I says, eh? He says, he's in. And he's just walked past me. I says, well you could of told me he were in. He says, he's gone and done summat. I'll tell you, he's gone and done summat. He says, he never said hello, tarrah, nothing! He says, just walked by and ran up [LAUGHTER] the stairs []! I says, he's either hiding summat or he's done summat. But, he won't say nowt. Not a word.
[Maggie:] I've never even heard of it
[Flo:] Towards Beverley, you go towards Beverley.
[Kathleen:] Oh I've heard of it when er Alice has mentioned it.
[Alice:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Er I don't think I've ever been.
[Flo:] As I said I'm, I'm, I got them out at... I think it were twenty one ninety nine... or were it twenty five ninety nine?... they were twenty one ninety nine or twenty five ninety now, I can't remember off the cuff.... Me thing to have at the bed end you know
[Alice:] Mm.
[Flo:] drape
[Alice:] Aye.
[Flo:] And these I got our Carole for twelve ninety nine.
[Maggie:] Bloody big difference innit?...
[Flo:] He says slight seconds, well I looked at them last night and there's, I can't see nowt wrong with them.
[Alice:] Well I, other week I got this beds er not bedspread... duvet cover... and he's supposed to be slight second and I can's see nowt wrong with that.
[Flo:] Can't see nowt wrong with it.
[Alice:] And it were nine ninety nine.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Flo:] and that was... pillow covers, well shams
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Flo:] well we've
[Maggie:] yeah.
[Flo:] so yesterday when I went I got myself another drape
[Maggie:] Yes.
[Flo:] and I got an
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Our 's having coffee.
[Maggie:] I, I put water in it didn't I? I put a cup in....
[Kathleen:] Oh I thought... that were light when I picked it up then that was quick.
[speaker005:] ...
[Maggie:] Well I've got a crafty Roger because he's took the cheese three times.
[Kathleen:] Yes, I've got one of them.
[Flo:] Eh now then listen to this, yesterday I'd er some beefburgers had er must've dropped out me box when I were getting me things out of the c freezer and there were this er six beefburgers and two... ch chicken breasts
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Flo:] and I thought well I'm not gonna eat them now they've been out of bag, so I thought oh I'll boil them up for dog
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Flo:] So I boiled them in pan for the dog and I put some taters in and a few peas and carrots sort of thing... and some Oxos and made him a r a right good dinner.
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Flo:] So I took it over to Paul I said I brought this for Blackie I said, I just cooked it, it smells nice. So I told him what were in it
[Kathleen:] Mm?
[Flo:] so he says... I'll give him it after. Well I said I'm not leaving me bloody pan outside
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Flo:] so I, I went back in house and fetched him a little bowl back with me taters in, peeling taters,
[Kathleen:] [cough]
[Flo:] scraped it all in... and I said I'll leave it in dish... cos it's a dog doggy dish... went back in house and, oh what did I come back for?... Oh it were to tell him that dinner were ready... and there's this cheeky little mouse sat on top dinner, and he ain't half eaten it [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Flo:] And he, he sat there for ages
[Alice:] [cough]
[Flo:] off it. Er and it, it kept looking at me [LAUGHTER] [] and I thought cheeky little bugger.
[Maggie:] Seems like every bugger's got them though.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] Well it jumped up there and run down building brick
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Flo:] on to floor and it runs, it just, it ran down into corner, there's a... a wheel, thing, and the cheek well it's a... a pulley wheel, and it, it were looking round the big handle at pulley wheel at me. And then it run back out, up brick and back in chicken.... So I shouted to Paul to come and have a look at it and he says well the cheeky bugger.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Flo:] He said I bet it's that that's been, oh and then it jumped down and ran... corner at g where ch caravan is, he said I bet that's what's been eating your bloody... daffodil bulbs and that.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Flo:] So I goes in the house and fetches this trap didn't I? Put some cheese on and we set it... I said to Paul I said anyway your dinner's ready when you are.... So he said alright so he come in and had his dinner so he said... I said we ought to be going this week [cough] for a ride out instead of last week.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Flo:] So he says oh I said I weren't taking you this week.... I tell you what, if you're not taking me I'll take me bloody self, I said, but I'm taking your car.... I thought I'm not using my diesel [LAUGHTER]. So I says I tell you what I'll do, I'll take you only he can drive it.
[speaker005:] Mm.
[Flo:] So anyway we had us dinner... so he says... he said it'll take thee half an hour to get ready won't it? You must be bloody joking. I said you must be bloody joking. I said you watch me, how quick I can be ready. So I run into bathroom picking me sweatshirt up as I'm running in [LAUGHTER] got, had me hands and face washed [LAUGHTER] out again [] into bedroom, got me trousers and me other jumper on and me pan knickers, I said I'm ready. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Flo:] He said what's your chuffing rush?
[Kathleen:] [cough]
[Maggie:] Are you coughing?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. I've been coughing on and off.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] ...
[speaker005:] I've put the kettle on. Is it for... is for here?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[speaker005:] Oh.... Yeah. Look. Look. Look at her.
[Kathleen:] Look at who?
[speaker005:] A fairy.
[Kathleen:] Let's have a look. Oh int she pretty?
[Maggie:] What's her name?
[Kathleen:] I bet she's no knickers on.... Pretty....
[speaker005:] She, she hasn't got no knickers on now.
[Kathleen:] Look you've pulled all this thing out again look.
[speaker005:] It's my book.... It's my book on there.
[Kathleen:] I finished them books
[Maggie:] Yeah
[Alice:] And you told Kath that we wouldn't have to go this weekend. Don't take your coat off cos we're not stopping. No we're not stopping, are we Kath?
[Kathleen:] No, gonna get some shopping....
[Alice:] Have you told Kath that you've been a naughty girl?
[speaker005:] I'm not very naughty.
[Alice:] She's been swearing.
[Kathleen:] Have you been swearing! Oh dear me! That's naughty....
[Maggie:] Haven't you posted that bloody thing yet? [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] [cough] You could get your
[Kathleen:] Yeah I went and got it yesterday but they'd had a break in... and you should've seen it they'd smashed the front door, it were all smashed in.
[Alice:] So did you get it then or what?
[Kathleen:] Well what they had to do, they give us a receipt and they're gonna send it through parcel post. That's the only thing they can do.... So they had all these letters printed up, that they owe us one
[Alice:] Aye
[Kathleen:] and they're gonna send it through like that.... I'll get it, I'll read it to you.... And they give us a, like a cheque type thing what you've got to fill your name and address in back
[speaker005:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and you send it off and they send you a booklet where you pick a holiday and... this go-kart... worth a thousand pound... on the... so they're having to do that you see.
[speaker005:] [shouting] []
[Kathleen:] I meant to ask if they'd had the go-karts nicked and I forgot....
[Alice:] So can you just use that, is it in England or abroad?
[Kathleen:] Ooh I don't know yet. It said U K on mine. That's England int it?
[Alice:] Mm yeah.
[Kathleen:] They don't tell
[Maggie:] Don't U K come under England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales an'all?
[Alice:] No?
[Kathleen:] It says [reading] dear Mr and Mrs due to turnover of stocks we regret that we are... that there are no mini hi-fis. We're waiting for new stocks to arrive and will forward the mini hi-fi to you as soon as stocks are delivered. Yours sincerely [] and they've signed it. They've had to give us one of them.... And if it hasn't arrived within week, telephone number's on bottom... and we've got to ring to say we haven't got it yet. [sniff]...
[Alice:] Were it like a timeshare?...
[Kathleen:] God [LAUGHTER] you'd've laughed [] they were on about that as well at same time and he says to Steve what do you reckon to idea, he says it doesn't sound bad, he says what do you reckon to idea as I says no. He says oh well you're honest [LAUGHTER] I says well you've got it straight away No....
[speaker005:] Look on here.
[Kathleen:] left it at that.
[speaker005:] Look on here.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[speaker005:] Int it?
[Kathleen:] [whispering] I don't know []....
[Maggie:] I bet my Bill somebody at work today.
[Kathleen:] Yeah, cos cough can't sleep.
[Maggie:] I've been, I've been like this for three nights.
[speaker005:] I think so,
[Maggie:] upstairs and warm the bloody brandy we just, you know that brandy gives off fumes when it's been heated up? Got it at work the other night didn't it?
[Kathleen:] Yeah?
[Maggie:] And he come down about three o'clock in the morning
[Flo:] some mentholyptus and
[Maggie:] I've had it.
[Kathleen:] She's had it all.
[Maggie:] I've had it all
[Kathleen:] been to doctors and all sorts.
[Maggie:] I've been to the doctors, I've had that erm... what do you call the bloody stuff in that purple bottle?...
[Kathleen:] Actifed and all sorts.
[Maggie:] Actifed I've had everything.
[Flo:] And what's doctor give you then?
[Maggie:] Actifed...
[Kathleen:] You see what it is, it's stuck here. If she can get that out of here they could find out what's wrong with her, but it won't come. It's been there five, six days now.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Five or six days. And in instead of it coming off it's adding on and adding on and by night time she can hardly breathe so she's cough cough cough cough cough cough cough all night. And on
[Flo:] My Peter and they've got rotten coughs.
[Kathleen:] on Friday night she were pathetic. O only word for it weren't it?
[Maggie:] Bill thought I'd died on him the other night... cos I was, you know, me breathing and everything, and then all of a sudden I must've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] She frightened him half to death....
[speaker005:] I
[Kathleen:] ... I say and we cleaned all fire and everything out this morning didn't we do well?
[Maggie:] Fire. I mean I've cleaned my fire out. I have peeled the potatoes, they're in the stew pan, and the onions and the carrots... and the beef's all in the stew pan and it's had about quarter of an hour....
[Kathleen:] How long's that take, about an hour?
[Maggie:] Yeah that's having dumplings in it.
[Flo:] Ah. But the taters' ll go to nowt.
[Maggie:] Yeah they go to mush... and then I put more taters into it... later on, about twenty minutes before I need it, but it thickens it... so... they'll eat it. It's the beef what were left from yesterday.
[Kathleen:] Well you said you were gonna use it up didn't you?
[Maggie:] I'm not wasting it. bit of beef so
[Kathleen:] We called in Little Chef and we had a meal in there, urgh yuk... It were, tasted like shit. [LAUGHTER] She fetched it and []
[Maggie:] Rubber eggs, mm.
[Kathleen:] she fetched it and put it on table
[Flo:] Eh blooming them places are, fifty pence apiece for one flipping egg.
[Maggie:] Yeah, yeah.
[Kathleen:] Two pound eighty five, it says, for bacon, sausage, egg, fried bread and tomatoes which, anywhere, that's reasonable, right?
[Maggie:] You get half a slice.
[Kathleen:] So no you got a full slice... she fetched it, put it on table and I looked at it and I says... she says what's the matter, int everything alright? I says what's that?... She says pardon? I says what's that? I says if I'd've wanted a slice of fat and I'd've want burnt tomatoes I says I would've ordered them.... The tomatoes were black... as though they'd forgot they were frying them, they looked like they'd stuck them on a grill and just left them there
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] and there was about that much bacon... on the bacon slice, the rest were fat, I says I'm not paying for that....
[Flo:] Did she take it back then
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah. And she fetched tomatoes back and I says here Steve you can have these tomatoes, I says they're bloody disgusting. And every so often they kept coming up, everything alright? I says it is now.... Ooh you've never seen nowt like it, you know when your tomatoes are stuck on and then you shovel them off and I thought... they were like that! I says even I don't cook tomatoes like that, they were disgusting.
[Maggie:] I've already done my, got all my shopping in....
[Kathleen:] Yeah once you find this Nettos you wanna go because it is cheap.
[Maggie:] You, you wanna go all the time cos it's dirt cheap.
[Flo:] Well on Sat Sunday we went ou out I spent all most of me money on bloody stuff for our Carole's and that.
[speaker005:] got a
[Flo:] Pillows. Eh smashing pillows a pound each!
[Kathleen:] Where from?
[Flo:] From that Cabin Market.
[Kathleen:] Ah we don't know where it is.
[Flo:] Well it's up Beverley Road...
[Kathleen:] Going towards the bridge?
[Flo:] [clears throat] We get on motorway, no it's not bridge... you get on motorway and we go, go up to Beverley... I'll ask Paul
[Maggie:] Thank you.
[speaker005:] Thank you.
[Flo:] to write down directions.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] But I know you go on erm m on motorway and go towards Beverley.
[Kathleen:] that no bloody good is it?... I borrowed it off Maggie this morning cos she said you were coming up.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [in another room]
[speaker005:] What's that?
[Maggie:] [shouting] Coffee Kath []?
[Kathleen:] Yes please.
[speaker005:] [whingeing] []
[Kathleen:] Oh Jake sod off....
[speaker005:] [young child speaking]...
[Kathleen:] Yeah, chocolate.
[speaker005:] ...
[Kathleen:] Who fetched your money?
[Flo:] Came through post.
[Kathleen:] Oh he posted it?
[speaker005:] Sweets.
[Kathleen:] And you get another one on Wednesday?
[Maggie:] What do you mean, sweets? I've just give you bar of chocolate.
[Flo:] int he?...
[Kathleen:] Get another one on Wednesday. Thank you very much.
[Maggie:] That was just done, I put the kettle on and just I see you coming up the road.
[Kathleen:] I know [yawning] I were showing her alarms and that [] she wanted to see how they work.
[Maggie:] Ah. Come on sunshine.... Do that fire in a minute.... Come on babe, [LAUGHTER] []. Oh is that Matthew's?
[speaker005:] What?
[Maggie:] You eating Matthew's chocolate?
[Kathleen:] Just been to stupid Nettos, do you know you can't cash a cheque?...
[Flo:] Ah?
[Kathleen:] Just got to counter, she started putting it through and I looked up and there were these signposts, and it says cash only. So I asked her and she'd already started
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] ringing it through hadn't she?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Cash only. So I had to borrow it off Maggie.... I says oh you're alright, Jacqueline's coming up, I'll give it back after that didn't I?
[Maggie:] Yeah. [cough]
[Kathleen:] I've never heard of it.
[Maggie:] All shops normally have one of them
[Kathleen:] Well I've got a Switch which, I've got a Switch card.
[Maggie:] doopher things now.
[Kathleen:] She could've used Switch card but they hadn't got one of them neither. Stupid.
[Maggie:] I like the way you invited me as well.... You says eh shall we go then?
[speaker005:] Still too hot.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] It's not too hot, it's just right.
[Kathleen:] Well fair's fair I were having a coffee with you, I'm not just gonna walk out. Bugger that....
[Maggie:] [sigh] Hello fat-a-lump! She's been up to his shop and John says,sh she's come up early
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Mm. Well you were you saying you weren't coming till half past ten, well we'd've gone, come back and been in by then. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] That's what I just said, weren't it?...
[Kathleen:] Cos straight away we says what time, it were ten o'clock weren't it when
[Maggie:] What's his name's lending her the washing
[speaker005:] Mum
[Kathleen:] Who?
[Flo:] Right.
[Maggie:] Right.
[speaker005:] Mum.
[Kathleen:] Then get your washing done. Good....
[Maggie:] Put it in the bin. And when you've finished I hope you know that that was Matthew's bar of chocolate you've just ate.
[Kathleen:] Oh he halfed it.
[Maggie:] Oh did he?
[Kathleen:] Yeah he give him half.
[Maggie:] Yeah but he's had one and a half then.... Haven't you?
[speaker005:] What?
[Kathleen:] Oh the Kit-Kats.
[speaker005:] What?
[Maggie:] Yeah
[speaker005:] What?
[Maggie:] I get them for Bill for snap.
[Kathleen:] She were trying to attract your attention
[Maggie:] [cough] I'm coming. Is Jacqueline
[Kathleen:] and I'm saying you're alright, she'd have left buggy at your house [LAUGHTER] anyway cos [] you were walking, you wouldn't have had buggy with you then so you'd gotta come back this way hadn't you?...
[speaker005:] [moan] [shouting] What []?...
[Maggie:] What is it?
[Kathleen:] So you got your coal and your tokens and everything?
[Flo:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] Are you back to normal now?... Good
[Flo:] I get the giro Wednesday
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Flo:] and I get my book the following Monday.
[Maggie:] Oh that's alright then innit?
[Kathleen:] They should have it for cash for Monday shouldn't they?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] Pass me cup... [cough]... And I might go and...
[Kathleen:] Yes she were having a look at a lamb, seeing if it were alright for the thing... and er we decided that they wouldn't be alright because where her... shed thing is, it's too far away from house.
[Maggie:] I'm not getting toys. Not yet. There.... Have you been a good boy for your mum?
[speaker005:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] Yeah?
[speaker005:] Mum.
[Maggie:] What? Has he been good?... What about that one?
[Flo:] Yeah....
[speaker005:] Sweets.
[Maggie:] You've had sweets! Your mum just bought you a packet of Smarties at shop each.
[speaker005:] Mm?
[Maggie:] Yeah you've had sweets. bye. Bye if you're going home.
[Kathleen:] He said I've had me sweets, I'm off. [LAUGHTER]
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Mm home.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] So what you been doing with yourself, owt or nowt?
[Maggie:] Washing [LAUGHTER] I should imagine [].
[Flo:] Yeah washing.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Is that all you've been doing []?
[Maggie:] Catching up....
[Kathleen:] Oh God. Is he fetching it round to your house or
[Flo:] I've got it, I can keep it for two week.
[Kathleen:] For two week?
[Maggie:] So do everything what you've got
[Flo:] I can, you, I can keep it for two week till... Johnny wants it again, not this Wedn not this Wednesday, the following Wednesday.
[Kathleen:] Does he only wash once a fortnight?...
[Flo:] Oh
[Kathleen:] Right. [LAUGHTER]
[Flo:] not really wash is it,?
[Kathleen:] Oh well that's once a month. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]... Is that the dirty one?
[Kathleen:] Yes, the one they call smelly....
[Flo:] Even give me a box of soap powder.
[Kathleen:] Did he?
[Maggie:] Bloody hell.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Flo:] Mm I, I goes to Ry I goes can I have washer...
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Flo:] so I gave him a couple of quid, three quid, for lending me it plus the spinner cos spinner don't work on washer
[Kathleen:] Yeah?
[Flo:] and he goes oh I'll give you a box of soap powder as well.
[Kathleen:] Oh well that's not bad then.
[Maggie:] That were alright then wasn't it?
[Kathleen:] Jolly good.
[Flo:] He goes you can keep it till I need it again.
[Kathleen:] You would Poo! Get out. Straight on tissue.
[speaker005:] Oh dear.
[Flo:] So I did all their clothes last night and got them all dried
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Flo:] and I'm doing all me today.
[Kathleen:] Ah well.
[Maggie:] Yeah but every time you go to the shop you wanna just keep buying an extra little bag of coal... so you can stack up under your... back bit, you know, so you can get them all dried.... tired Joe....
[Flo:] He slept with me last night cos of that wind.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah weren't it windy?
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Oh God.
[Flo:] And he slept with me, he wouldn't go to sleep so I took them both downstairs, made them a drink, made them something to eat, come [LAUGHTER] back to bed [].
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]... That's one way to do it.
[Maggie:] Mind you that wind keeps you awake though doesn't it?
[Kathleen:] It does, yeah....
[Maggie:] What you want then? I'm not gonna rock.... Take their coats off Jackie then they'll feel warmer when they leave....
[Flo:] Stewart take your coat off....
[Maggie:] What's he eating, still eating Smarties?
[Kathleen:] Yes, Smarties and he's got a piece of chocolate in his hand.
[Flo:] Come here.
[Maggie:] finished all his....
[speaker005:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] Well it don't take him long does it?...
[speaker005:] [crying]
[Maggie:] You can have it in a minute.
[speaker005:] ...
[Flo:] Sit down....
[Maggie:] Have you seen your mum then?
[Flo:] No.
[Maggie:] Oh.... I thought all your neighbours would have phoned her up and told her.
[Flo:] Well it shouldn't be much longer.... I found out who grassed on me.
[Kathleen:] Ooh er.
[Flo:] Ray.
[Kathleen:] You said it were him....
[Flo:] He told me, he told me the other night. Of course we all tol all rang me mum and told me mum said I did it.
[Kathleen:] If he hadn't a done that you'd have had your washer and everything still.
[Flo:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] What'd he do that for?...
[Flo:] I'll be moving to... Apton Road.
[Maggie:] Where's that?
[Kathleen:] You are? Oh y it's nearer up here. It's erm, erm is it five streets up this way?
[Maggie:] What's it near?
[Kathleen:] Er
[Flo:] Oh it's the second street down... no
[Kathleen:] No it's not second, it's erm er Norwood Road... it's summat beginning with a C, is Apton following that or the one after? Third or fourth one in.
[Flo:] I don't know.
[Kathleen:] Third or fourth one i you know from this end, top?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] It's third or fourth one coming this way right from top.... It's in between top and Regal.
[Maggie:] Oh that's not bad then is it?
[Kathleen:] Two rooms aren't there?
[Flo:] Three.
[Kathleen:] No, downstairs....
[Flo:] Oh I dunno Kath.
[Kathleen:] Two rooms.
[Flo:] I haven't had a look yet.
[Kathleen:] I think it's two rooms.... If it's like the one we lived in, cos when I, I lived at home with mum and dad we lived in Craigan Road... and they're two rooms. But then again in Poplar Road, they're one room. Big kitchen.
[Flo:] I'm moving to Apton Road.
[Kathleen:] You're definitely swapping with that girl? Her that come round to see you and Steve? Yeah. I don't know her name but I can remember him saying it....
[Maggie:] Don't spill it....
[Kathleen:] Do you know, it's a wonder he ain't fat as a pig, him.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] He never stops
[speaker005:] Oh I wanna play mum.
[Maggie:] What?
[speaker005:] Look.
[Maggie:] Nice.
[speaker005:] Mum bad.
[Maggie:] Yes nice.
[Kathleen:] Mum mad.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] One way to do it....
[Maggie:] Don't you spill it kid.... No. Hey look at this.
[Kathleen:] I always took that off.
[Maggie:] He's made one, he's got, nearly making the other one for it.
[Kathleen:] Has he got?
[speaker005:] ...
[Kathleen:] Hey that's not bad.
[Maggie:] She was making them for him, then he's making him some an'all.
[Kathleen:] Smashing.
[Maggie:] Cos he's fed up of seeing
[Kathleen:] Getting clever him int he?... You chuck it at me and I'll do you over! Yeah....
[Maggie:] You can Craig, you're not getting nothing else. You've had chocolate, you've had more chocolate and you've got your pop.
[speaker005:] Hey! Hey.
[Maggie:] Stop it....
[speaker005:] [crying]
[Kathleen:] You've got your pop here.
[Maggie:] Drink that pop.
[speaker005:] [whingeing] No []
[Maggie:] Matthew'll have it.
[speaker005:] Mm. What?
[Maggie:] What pop? Yeah y well you have the bottle first.
[speaker005:] What?
[Maggie:] You don't have fizzy pop you don't, orange.
[Kathleen:] When did you get Smarties?
[Flo:] Went up to shop.
[Maggie:] We went up to the shop.
[Kathleen:] Oh you got them?
[Flo:] Yeah
[Kathleen:] I were gonna say I seen you get chocolate but I didn't see you get Smarties.
[Maggie:] No I bought Smarties this morning at top shop for them
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Maggie:] cos I knew they were coming. And they went and bought some more....
[Flo:] I went in John's shop and I goes to John have you seen Maggie? He goes oh she were in earlier on but she weren't feeling very well.
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[speaker005:] [shouting] []
[Flo:] probably in bed.
[Kathleen:] No she says that she wanted to go to Nettos this morning so I says are you coming?
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] I didn't ask her if she could, I just says are you coming [].
[Flo:] So he picked the Smarties up and walked out.
[Kathleen:] So you had to pay.
[Flo:] So I goes come here, and I give them to John I goes I'll take them John... and I paid....
[Kathleen:] Kids are like that though aren't they?
[Flo:] Then he football
[Maggie:] Mm yeah but I'm surprised
[Kathleen:] It's o that's the only trouble with shops, all sweets are always low so kids can get them.
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And they know for a fact the minute your kids grab them that you've got to pay.
[Maggie:] In the bin. In the bin.... In the bin.
[speaker005:] Sweets.
[Maggie:] Sweets.
[Flo:] Oh when are you going to Nettos again... Kath?
[Kathleen:] Well I didn't know we were going today. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] It's only cos she mentioned she wanted some bread.
[Kathleen:] I'd give her directions and everything. She says it's for ducks.
[speaker005:] mum!
[Maggie:] Well that's
[Kathleen:] Cos she says is it soft and fresh? And I says soft and fresh, for ducks? I said it's soft and
[Maggie:] I'll do it.
[Kathleen:] soft and fresh for you not for ducks.
[Maggie:] Yeah. Drink that and you can have some more.
[Kathleen:] You give ducks hard bread don't you?
[Maggie:] Yeah, for the ducks!...
[Kathleen:] That's one way to do it say it's for ducks.
[Maggie:] He's a good boy.
[speaker005:] Ah!
[Kathleen:] He's lost them under his leg.
[speaker005:] Ooh!
[Maggie:] You what? You drink that and you can have some more in a minute. [cough] Oh cough it up. [sigh] Our Suzanne's having a sort out by the way... maybe next week or the week after but
[Flo:] I'm getting I'm getting, I'm getting for dog.
[Kathleen:] Are you?
[Flo:] Yeah. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Is he still at coal hou [LAUGHTER]
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER] No [].
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] she threw the thing in coal house, her [].
[Maggie:] she said she was gonna put it in coal house.
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] When we went to Donny on Thursday... I met her and er I says how's
[Maggie:] Craig!
[Kathleen:] I says how's things?
[Maggie:] Craig.
[Kathleen:] She says I put dog in coal house, I couldn't believe it could I?
[Maggie:] That's it.... Right you can have some in a minute when it goes flatter. Drink that....
[Kathleen:] Well
[Maggie:] You don't want that babe, you drink your bottle first and then you can have some orange.... You're not having fizzy pop, hurt your belly. So when you thinking of moving then?...
[Flo:] They're going in for papers Wednesday.
[Kathleen:] Are you going with her?
[Maggie:] Very good.
[Flo:] Yeah. And her husband's having these two for me with his kids.
[Maggie:] Very good.
[Kathleen:] Smashing. That's what I like to hear.
[Maggie:] Pick that up for us...
[Flo:] Cos I was to ha because I had nobody to have kids, she goes, she goes fetch them down, husband'll have them. Watch Jake....
[Kathleen:] I know where it is. What number?...
[Flo:] Fifteen.
[Kathleen:] Fifteen, that's... left hand side... half way down.
[Maggie:] Oh that's not too bad then.
[Flo:] The toilet's upstairs... and bathroom.
[Maggie:] Good.... [shouting] You dirty chuff-bag [].... Bloody coffee and pop, get your hands out!...
[speaker005:] There.
[Maggie:] No thank you.
[speaker005:] There.
[Maggie:] There, yes. Do you want some spaghetti in a bit? Your face is coming out in them blotches again innit?... Look at his face.
[Kathleen:] She's going to Nettos on Friday, Al is.
[Maggie:] Is she?
[Kathleen:] Yeah....
[Maggie:] Bill prefers Nettos.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Oh [].
[Maggie:] But I wanna go, I've gotta get something for me freezer, me freezer's empty.
[Kathleen:] Oh I went down there other day, I paid twenty quid. I've got a bloody crave for that broccoli.
[Flo:] Urgh!
[Maggie:] No darling that's right. What do you want now?
[Kathleen:] Oh I love them.
[speaker005:] On.
[Maggie:] On what? What do you want? Have they had breakfast Gill?
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] Well you've been fed. Now what do you want!
[Flo:] He's had two chocolates...
[Kathleen:] Packet of Smarties.
[Flo:] Packet of Smarties. Biscuits.
[Kathleen:] Pop.
[Maggie:] I'll make you some dinner in a bit.
[Kathleen:] It's not dinnertime. Make him wait till dinnertime else you'll cock her system up.
[speaker005:] [whingeing] []
[Maggie:] [sigh]
[speaker005:] [whingeing] []
[Kathleen:] It's alright him having breakfast and an hour later saying mum I want me dinner.
[Maggie:] [cough] Do you want this?...
[Kathleen:] He hasn't has he?... Oh God.
[Maggie:] Oh my little dumpling's gonna take his coat off.
[Kathleen:] He's busy he is....
[Maggie:] He's alright as long as he's eating.
[Kathleen:] He moved cos he was sat on them. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Don't you dare take his sweets, you've had yours.... No you've had yours.
[speaker005:] [shouting] []
[Maggie:] No not one. They're Craigy's. ones.
[Kathleen:] ... So you should be rich then?
[Maggie:] She will be now won't she?
[Kathleen:] Plenty of money all to yousen....
[Maggie:] As long as she pays the bills.
[Kathleen:] Well she's got her seventy odd, it should be sixty... what should it be?
[Flo:] What's that?
[Kathleen:] Your money.
[Maggie:] How much do you normally get?
[Kathleen:] Sixty summat.
[Flo:] Sixty three.
[Kathleen:] She should... she should get sixty three so she'll get a seventy three today, were it today you got it or Saturday?
[Flo:] Saturday.
[Kathleen:] So she got it Saturday... Wednesday and Monday, [LAUGHTER] I bet you hadn't had that before eh []?
[Maggie:] No.
[Kathleen:] All three in a week.
[Maggie:] Very nice....
[Kathleen:] Aye that's not bad, nearly two hundred pound. [LAUGHTER]
[Flo:] Only with your help.
[Kathleen:] Well I couldn't see you with no money....
[Maggie:] Can't we get some money from somewhere else? [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] No we've got it [LAUGHTER] we've got it from [] everywhere we could think of didn't we?...
[Maggie:] And let's face it when they go to school they can have free school dinners and then we can get them free clothes as well can't we?
[Kathleen:] Yep. Oh that's easy that one. I know how to do that one, that's a doddle. Dead easy....
[Maggie:] That's
[Kathleen:] Yeah as soon as they start school write in and you apply for him, when does he go to school?
[Maggie:] Next June is it?
[Kathleen:] Next September int it?
[Flo:] No this September.
[Maggie:] No he's only three.
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Next September, gotta be four.
[Maggie:] Gotta be four to go to school.
[Flo:] Gotta be four now?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Four.
[Flo:] Thought it were three.
[Kathleen:] Four.... You've got another year to suffer, you're not getting off that light, we had to.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] So you're gonna suffer an'all. [LAUGHTER]
[Flo:] I thought it were three when they went to school.
[Kathleen:] No they, they go four and stop till they're sixteen now.
[Maggie:] You can't have the other kind cos the other kind's our Gary's.
[Flo:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] They altered it, you used to leave at fifteen didn't you? Now they lea you've got to l stay till you're sixteen. I heard they were on about moving it to eighteen....
[Maggie:] It were fourteen when my dad left school, and I were fourteen when I left cos if your
[Kathleen:] I were fifteen.
[Maggie:] birthday was on the eighth of September or before, if it was in the summer holidays or up until the eighth of September, you could leave school... and my birthday was the eighth of September so I left school at fourteen.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... That's true.
[Maggie:] Hello my little dumpling. [kiss]...
[speaker005:] Where, where?...
[Maggie:] Did your boots come down to your house?
[Flo:] What boots?
[Maggie:] His boots.
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] Oh. I knew they were in a bag, I couldn't remember if you took them....
[Kathleen:] It's third of February today.
[Maggie:] Where's me anniversary card?...
[Kathleen:] It's her anniversary on Thursday. Twenty six, seven?
[Maggie:] Seven.
[Kathleen:] Seven, twenty seven years.
[speaker005:] pop, pop pop.
[Maggie:] Jake got up this morning I goes going down then? He goes yeah. He goes downstairs and goes up, up.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Ah!
[Flo:] Matthew up. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Well that's one way to do it int it?...
[speaker005:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Look at me.
[Flo:] Dog nearly drownded herself.
[Kathleen:] Is it a girl?
[Flo:] Yeah. Nearly drowned herself, put a bowl of water down for her
[Kathleen:] Fell in it?
[Flo:] and she'd fell in it and she were having right fits.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] I should think she was []. [LAUGHTER]
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER] what's up with dog []?... And she were wet through, she were laid in... side of cooker
[Kathleen:] Yeah?
[Flo:] in gaps of cooker, she were laid there. What's she whining at? I picked her up and she were wet through, had to put fire on and I laid her in front of fire
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER] and I thought dog's having fits [].
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Flo:] Cos he picked it up and he gets it bad tempered doing this.
[Kathleen:] Now if you'd've told us that last Thursday we'd've thought
[Flo:] He picks her up and he's throwing her.
[Kathleen:] she'd thrown it. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] No you've gotta look after your doggy.
[Kathleen:] She's gotta keep it in kitchen....
[Flo:] Yeah cos it ch it chews everything.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Maggie:] Yeah. Get it shot.
[Flo:] And it, it... pooing all over, the house stank
[Kathleen:] Yeah so at least in kitchen you can clean it up easy.
[Maggie:] So they have, people come down and they have looked at it have they?
[Flo:] Yeah and they're having it. They're gonna give me fifteen on Thursday.
[Kathleen:] House she's on about.
[Maggie:] No house.
[Flo:] Oh house?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] They've been before haven't they?
[Flo:] Oh yeah she's been a couple of times to see if I'd swap.... And now I've decided to swap.
[Kathleen:] You're definitely moving?
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Good.
[Maggie:] You're getting out of the street anyway aren't you?
[speaker005:] ...
[Flo:] Cos she's got got gas central heating in house.
[Kathleen:] Oh well that's even better for you.
[Flo:] And I goes well... we're smokeless and and she goes I'm not bothered she says... I'll do you a swap.
[speaker005:] Mummy.
[Kathleen:] Ah well.
[speaker005:] [whingeing] Mummy []
[Maggie:] What?
[Kathleen:] Well within next six week we should hear you're moving?
[Flo:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Cos it only takes about six week dunnit?
[Maggie:] It don't take long now does it?
[Kathleen:] Yeah it's only about six week.
[Flo:] She's coming Wednesday to to help get these down
[Kathleen:] Dirty!
[Flo:] to her house, her husband's having these and we'll go to council.
[Kathleen:] Wednesday.
[Maggie:] Oh that's alright then innit?...
[Flo:] She's leaving me her... she's leaving me... automatic washer in for me.
[Kathleen:] Is she? She having a new one?
[Flo:] And all her carpets.
[Maggie:] What, you leaving yours and she's leaving hers?... Well it's best innit really?
[Kathleen:] Well carpets never fit one house to another anyway.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Cos I know mine, my living room carpet, I had it cut up for me stairs didn't I? And er the big bedroom carpet ended up in small bedroom down here....
[Maggie:] Are you alright? You take his coat off Joe. Are you cold anybody?
[Kathleen:] No I'm just, finish me coffee
[Maggie:] Do you feel cold?
[Kathleen:] I'm off. I'm gonna light a fire.... I'm gonna go mad and tidy up I think. It's about time I hoovered that dump.
[Maggie:] I were tidying up at half past six this morning.... [kiss]...
[Kathleen:] You just talk as you normally talk, you know?
[speaker005:] Yeah. I were with them blokes... Saturday at work... and er one of them said to me where are you from... and I says why?... He says I bet you're from Yorkshire I said well what makes you say that?...
[Kathleen:] He could tell by your accent couldn't he?
[speaker005:] Yeah. He says well I used to work in er er Doncaster
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[speaker005:] I said that's just down bloody road from where I, where I live like cos er... I used to work for their rival, G E C... well they were A E R when I worked for them.
[Enid:] Yeah I worked at A E R yeah.
[Kathleen:] ...
[speaker005:] Oh he said oh!...
[Kathleen:] Yeah it's er... watch it, empty one in cupboard, it usually is, yeah.
[Enid:] Some on the top table anyway.
[Kathleen:] Oh. there it is, he's stuck it at back.... My beloved son hides everything.
[Enid:] I know he were here other day when I come up.
[Kathleen:] What day was that?
[Enid:] Don't know, can't remember.
[Kathleen:] Well he hasn't said you'd been.
[Enid:] Erm... on a Wednesday or Thursday.
[Kathleen:] He were in bed on Wednesday.
[Enid:] when I come down.
[Kathleen:] Yeah supposed to have been bad, it were just er a con so he didn't have to go to college.
[Enid:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] As usual....
[Enid:] But he come in to sussed out?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... I'll tell you that later.... Yeah erm... yeah he come in Thursday, he'd got an headache and er Tuesday but he'd got an headache, a sore throat and I don't feel well and I don't want to go to college, you know, and all this rubbish. So I told him to take these tablets and says if he felt no better he'd better get to doctors, well he didn't even move out of bed, apart from summat to eat
[Enid:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and I got up on Thursday morning and the little get had pissed off, went to Cadets and everything. So on Friday he tried to pull same stunt again so I says oh no you're not, I says we're not playing at that, I says chuff that for a lark, I says what do you think you're playing at?... So he didn't like it cos I made him go.... It sounds a bit weird this, you know, when you carry it about?
[Enid:] Ooh I hate it, me....
[Kathleen:] I've got fire on, I left it on [LAUGHTER] all dinner while I were outside [].
[speaker005:] Can I have a look? [playing with microphone]
[Kathleen:] Yeah, I'll show you it in a bit.
[speaker005:] Mhm exactly what I... [sighing] Oh God []... Got a...
[Kathleen:] What?
[speaker005:] Oh I'm, no I'm... being what you call
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah.... Yeah, yeah I'm just finishing that tape up. She give me twenty!
[speaker005:] Twenty? How long did she think you were gonna bloody tape like?
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] God knows []. I'm only second one now, it took me about three or four days to do that.
[speaker005:] Take it down our street, that'll enlighten them. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Ooh yeah. I ain't taking it down your street, you're mental.... You're cracked.
[speaker005:] Well we've got a meeting this week, I'm gonna have a go at him again.
[Kathleen:] I thought you'd of heard something by now....
[speaker005:] Bloody rubbish all over garden, Gilly's over back was...
[Kathleen:] ?
[speaker005:] He said have you seen Kevin out in street I said I'm not... fucking hell would I want to see Kev for? And I hadn't been out of bath long... [LAUGHTER] I says don't knock on my bastard door again I said, I'll wring your neck [].
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]... What did he think you were still going out with him like or what?
[speaker005:] must think I've nowt else to do and watch down street.... Better things to do with me time than sit and watch the up and down street.
[Kathleen:] Well that's it. You're not usually in, you're down at your mum's.... Or out shopping.... I've just been shopping with Maggie this morning.
[speaker005:] You have?
[Kathleen:] Went to Nettos.
[speaker005:] Not bad
[Kathleen:] Did you know
[speaker005:] there is it really?
[Kathleen:] you can't pay by credit card or cheque.
[speaker005:] Can't you not?
[Kathleen:] No. I only had about seven pound on and me bill come to about fourteen quid. Alice were having I said just lend me that twenty pound note cos you, and God knows what she thought the bill was... I says I've got seven pound, I says just lend me your twenty pound note, I says you'll still have enough to pay I says and I'll give you it back when I get home, you know?
[speaker005:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Oh I'll pay for mine first and sh she'd already rung mine through till like, little dickhead. Anyway Maggie says oh bugger it she says here you are I'll pay for it so I give it her back as soon as I come home. And Alice was saying well I'd never been before, I didn't know it were that cheap. Hers only come to six pound summat....
[speaker005:] Yeah it's not bad.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[speaker005:] I was, I got one of them big soap powders before Christmas, I'm still using that.
[Kathleen:] Did you get that? Is it Je
[speaker005:] ?
[Kathleen:] Yeah I got one today cos Maggie says it's alright
[speaker005:] Is it summat? It's not bad....
[Kathleen:] Well that I've got is Daz, that Daz Ultra
[speaker005:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] and... I've just, all I've had in washer is one nightie, a T-shirt, a jumper, three pair of trousers and a coat
[speaker005:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] that's all I put in. White patches all over the bloody coat with that soap powder.
[speaker005:] I did that once with erm... that bloody Comfort, I were using that.
[Kathleen:] And that did it as well?
[speaker005:] And, no it were all bloody big grey streaks and that on me, it were on the sheets.
[Kathleen:] Ooh heck.
[speaker005:] White cotton sheets that I'd had bought as a wedding present.
[Kathleen:] Mm.... Didn't mark come off?
[speaker005:] But it come all out in grey streaks all over it, I wrote to them. Erm... I think they sent me money for a new pair of sheets, can't remember... that long ago....
[Kathleen:] Oh I haven't done nowt like that for ages.... I've only done it once with crisps... I had some were soggy and sour and horrible
[speaker005:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] and they sent me a box back.... Mm I enjoyed that.
[speaker005:] Yeah.... I'm pregnant, me.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] I hate it. Second of March I go to hospital.
[Kathleen:] Do you?
[speaker005:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Chuffing hell.
[speaker005:] I don't really wanna go but...
[Kathleen:] Our Arthur's been clear clear clear.
[speaker005:] Is he alright?
[Kathleen:] Yeah he's fine now.
[speaker005:] Erm oh I asked him about that... when I went and he said it were nothing to worry about, it's just...
[Kathleen:] Just precautions or something?
[speaker005:] He said said oh he didn't know what she mentioned it for he said when did she mention it? I said first time I came.... So anyway he looked back through and flicked through and he, he looked... well it, it's nothing to worry about.
[Enid:] So she frightened you half to death
[speaker005:] she's bloody mental, what's the point in saying that? I said and there's... there's me panicking like I said I said I'm going grey as it is now I said without worrying about
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] silly cows like her
[Kathleen:] Yeah well
[speaker005:] trying to be a doctor.
[Kathleen:] Is she a doctor or just a student?
[speaker005:] No she's a doctor, I think she's a junior like, she's under him but...
[Kathleen:] Do you know there's more g gaps on this tapes than... on off, on off, on off.
[speaker005:] [cough]...
[Enid:] Oh dear. twenty first
[speaker005:] I got the reminder this morning. Oh.
[Kathleen:] I should say can't be bothered.
[speaker005:] there's no need for due concern. every frigging month.... Mind you Dr
[Kathleen:] Don't you like me smellies?
[speaker005:] I'm not bothered Kath because er er as I look at it... it's more for me to put in front of him when I get to him
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[speaker005:] in March.
[Kathleen:] Yeah true, true.
[speaker005:] Do you know?...
[Enid:] smelly.
[speaker005:] Eh?
[Enid:] It's smelly. Can you smell it?
[speaker005:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Forty five P for a full bag.... Nettos
[speaker005:] Yeah you know you can buy stuff to put on it when it's dried up.
[Kathleen:] Yeah I know but I can't find it....
[speaker005:] I want some in mine.
[Enid:] It's peach.
[Kathleen:] Well they shrink surely, shrink a bit don't they?
[speaker005:] Yeah they dry up.
[Kathleen:] Yeah....
[speaker005:] Yeah well you can buy little bottles of oil and just put a drop in
[Kathleen:] Is that what it is?
[speaker005:] to freshen it up, yeah erm...
[Kathleen:] I've seen the little bottles.
[speaker005:] Yeah and er somebody was saying on market somewhere cheaper to get it off market erm
[Kathleen:] Cos they sell it at Cleethorpes market with little pot pou pure, yeah them.
[speaker005:] Pot pourri
[Kathleen:] That's them. They sell all sorts....
[Enid:] I've got some...
[Kathleen:] But that basket were only half full and it cost me a quid for what were in the basket.
[speaker005:] I had mine in kitchen and I kept knocking it over every time I opened up [LAUGHTER] []
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] and mine's all little bits like
[speaker004:] Morning Kath, alright?
[Kathleen:] Yeah not too bad, are you?
[speaker004:] Not so bad love.
[Kathleen:] Have you got any stamps?...
[speaker004:] No I don't think I have, in fact I know I haven't.
[Kathleen:] Are you out?
[speaker004:] Cos I've got one to post.... Can you, are you going up to post office?
[Kathleen:] I'm just going there and getting a pound book.
[speaker004:] May I give you twenty four pence? Have you got a... you only want three
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah []
[speaker004:] [LAUGHTER]... So if I give you that and that can you put me a stamp on please?
[Kathleen:] Oh you are kind John.
[speaker004:] Or if you want to leave them with me and then I'll, I've got to have a walk up to post office in a bit.
[Kathleen:] No well I'll go there, I'll get a pound book and then it'll give me a spare stamp and I'll not run out no more. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker004:] Rightio. Yous gonna use them all now aren't you?
[Kathleen:] Do you only get four in it?
[speaker004:] You get four twenty four pence stamps and two tuppeny stamps, I tell you what you get. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Mm but it don't matter anyway, I'll get them then. Okay ta- ta John.... Usually they ring before ten past
[speaker005:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] but they've had quite a good dinnertime today so I think they're letting her stop a bit longer.... What time do you usually go in?
[Krista:] About twenty past one. Yeah I usually like give them chance to get in class and get
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Krista:] and then I go in you see.
[Kathleen:] Have you been helping out like?
[Krista:] Yeah on a Monday afternoon, I enjoy it. I've been doing it for
[Kathleen:] Yeah cos
[Krista:] about three or four weeks. Nice int it?
[Kathleen:] It is, yeah, cos they do painting and all sorts don't they?
[Krista:] Yeah I enjoy it really
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Krista:] but er
[Kathleen:] Have you done it with your little'un yet or is it bigger ones you do it with?
[Krista:] No we, we're in our Lisa's class.
[Kathleen:] Are you?
[Krista:] Yeah I'm in her class right.
[Kathleen:] Oh I bet she looks forward to that doesn't she?
[Krista:] Ah yeah she loves it
[Kathleen:] Yeah, pleased as punch.
[Krista:] Yeah. Yeah. I think I might carry on next year though like i in the same class
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Krista:] I might carry on.
[Kathleen:] Oh you can go on from year to year? Even when
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] your kids leave school you can go.
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Steve:] Oh can you?
[Kathleen:] Yeah course you can. Used to be one about
[Krista:] I think it's nice, me.
[Kathleen:] fifteen years, Veronica she took bad and weather held her back
[Krista:] Cos it gets you it's summat different.
[Kathleen:] It does. They enjoy it, everybody
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] that has volunteered, they enjoy it.
[Krista:] I do I love it. alright, mind you I still get a bit nervous now, I get a bit don't know why, I always
[Kathleen:] You get used to it.
[Krista:] always have done, do you know what I mean?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] You get used to it though don't you?
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I think you do.... Well... what you doing helping them paint, drawing and all that?
[Krista:] Well I've er I've done, just done something er different every week, last week I were like er listening to them all read
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Krista:] on computer with them. So
[Kathleen:] Have you learnt them to bake yet?
[Krista:] No I don't cos I can't frigging bake myself so I'm hopeless.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah when Joyce went she were learning them to bake she says []
[Krista:] ...
[Kathleen:] I think she got that used to baking on her own and then they all tried to dive in it you see [LAUGHTER] and she were saying [] don't do that.
[Krista:] Oh my God
[Kathleen:] Supposed to be showing them what to do and
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] you know, making it... get a cake each.
[Krista:] No they haven't done well I haven't done it with them yet anyway, put it that way.
[Kathleen:] Ah. Well I know er it were Wednesdays Joyce used to come in.
[Krista:] Well I'm supposed to have Wednesday mornings... that was the arrangement, Wednesday then I had to go into hospital
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Krista:] somebody took it, you see
[Kathleen:] Oh!
[Krista:] and so I'm excited then, do you know what I mean? I were just so psyched up on Wednesday and then I had to go in on the Friday before so I didn't
[Kathleen:] It's a shame you weren't helping out at Christmas, you'd've been able
[Krista:] That's it.
[Kathleen:] with costumes and everything, you'd've loved that.
[Krista:] Oh I did I went in, I went in to help them with anyway, I went in and did that with them anyway.
[Kathleen:] I think that's best bit of helping them.
[Krista:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Their faces when they see them with costumes on
[Krista:] Yeah it's nice int it?
[Kathleen:] it's great, yeah. Well it's quarter past any road
[Krista:] Is it?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Krista:] Oh I'll just have a walk up I think.
[Kathleen:] Just have a steady walk.... Ta-ta
[Krista:] She's being a little shit-arse cos she
[Alice:] Noel Edmunds
[Krista:] She's not she gets me woke up in middle of bloody night.
[Alice:] I don't woke you up in middle of night, it's before
[Krista:] No
[Alice:] bloody midnight.
[Krista:] [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] You're telling big whoppers again.
[Krista:] Well I like to tell bloody whoppers.
[Kathleen:] I know you do!...
[Krista:] I'll get any bugger into trouble if I can. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] I know []. [LAUGHTER] Maggie does that. No I had kids on it other day, you'd've laughed... but that tells all about it, all God knows what
[Krista:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] what have you... all different things....
[Steve:] Oh you get a twenty five pound gift voucher?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... And then when you've finished doing it you just fill a book in.
[Steve:] How long are you supposed to have it for?
[Kathleen:] Just for a week.
[Steve:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] Only one week....
[Steve:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Well it seems easier that way when you think about it dunnit? Mm it's a lot better.
[Krista:] Well they only pratt about with mine now and again.
[Kathleen:] What, your dictionary or your microphone?
[Krista:] Nay... s scanner....
[Kathleen:] Scanner?
[Krista:] Yeah I do.
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah, she's got a thingy... erm what is it?
[Steve:] Who do you work for, K G B?
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah [] [LAUGHTER]
[Steve:] Ca can I borrow it? [LAUGHTER] Have it down our street. You got a tape recorder and frigging hell.
[Krista:] No, no, they automatic
[Steve:] What is it?
[Krista:] It's a scann you know what they use on tills when your goods are going through?
[Steve:] Oh aye.
[Krista:] One of them. Oh I've been doing it for a long time haven't I?
[Kathleen:] Well over a year haven't you?
[Krista:] Ooh I've, yeah, I've been doing it about three years.
[Kathleen:] Is it three year now?
[Krista:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Yeah she's, she's got it plugged into phone socket on wall and when she buys these things it's got a and it goes
[Krista:] You know them codes?
[Kathleen:] dib dib Mm.
[Steve:] Bar codes mm.
[Kathleen:] Yeah and she gets points for doing it don't you, you've been saving them up haven't you?
[Krista:] Yeah three three hundred points a month.
[Kathleen:] That's what she gets. So she's saving them up for a...
[Krista:] Erm... one of them Black and Decker Workmates for Fred
[Kathleen:] Workmates. Yeah that's it.
[Krista:] to save him nagging at me. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Yeah, shows you how to fill it in and everything.... Anyway
[Alice:] How the hell can you fill it in, cos you can't bloody write!
[Kathleen:] Well I can try hard can't I?
[Steve:] [LAUGHTER] She copies it out of book.
[Krista:] London?
[Kathleen:] Maggie comes from London, that's her real accent.
[Krista:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] Cos if you see on top it says regional accent. That means where you got it from.
[Krista:] And you think that we're going to... fill this in?
[Kathleen:] No you don't fill that in, [LAUGHTER] I fill that in [].
[Krista:] Well she's not having my bloody name in here is she yours?
[Alice:] mine's down. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] She says I could put hers down, you says I could put yours so stop telling [LAUGHTER] big whoppers again []. [LAUGHTER] It gives you an example how to fill it in and everything.
[Krista:] Well yours isn't down for today. Oh
[Kathleen:] No it goes further on than that, I'm on tape three.
[Krista:] Oh I see.
[Kathleen:] She's on tape two aren't you? Cos I changed it over It's er Alice's granddaughter.... She can't half talk, she's only two and a half but aye and when she sets off that's it.
[Alice:] Mind you Terry's the same.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... Well I got er Craigy on it... today... er but he don't talk. It's er er
[Krista:] Stephen, college? Do you know a Stephen?
[Kathleen:] Stephen's mate. He come to call for Stephen this morning so I collared him while I'd got him. He's got er a video box of mine so I were him asking about it. I got John in shop.
[Krista:] Bloody housewife....
[Kathleen:] That's it. If she's on, her name, that's on that, that means I've just started tape.
[Krista:] Well when's yours on?
[Kathleen:] One before page.
[Krista:] Oh. Oh Linda, housewife....
[Alice:] I know. Degrading me.
[Krista:] Why do you have to put the bloody age down? Tell them to shit.
[Alice:] What's she put on for me?
[Krista:] [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] Thirty plus?... Tt ooh alright.
[Kathleen:] If I'd've put your real age... you'd've said
[Krista:] You put tw twenty one plus for me, mine.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. What twenty plus sixty five?
[Krista:] No, just put twenty one plus.
[Kathleen:] Oh I'll put twenty one plus for you. I'm not, that's cheating!
[Krista:] I'm not sixty five yet.
[Alice:] You are next month. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Alright then I'll put sixty four plus.... So are you gonna do it?... Are you gonna have a go?...
[Krista:] I'll think about it. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Oh she's at it again. Do you know she says she'll do it and then she says she won't. She does that just to upset me don't you? [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] Well... I had a phone call, well... it was there on Tuesday they asked me, they asked Fred... asked me to ring back Wednesday morning... so she rang me
[Kathleen:] Oh! I know who you're on about
[Krista:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] I was just thinking who you were on about then.
[Krista:] Who am I on about?
[Kathleen:] Mrs.
[Krista:] Yeah.... She rang me at half past ten, I'd forgotten all about it till phone went and I says ooh I've lost your phone number.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] [LAUGHTER] Do you want to take it again?... And will I do Cuckoo Lane on Thursday and Friday.
[Kathleen:] What this week? All day?
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Well
[Krista:] Mind you it's a, I've be I've been and had a look rou er round there this dinnertime, quarter to eleven sh er quarter to twelve she's supposed to start.
[Kathleen:] Cuckoo Lane?...
[Krista:] Mm Travis
[Alice:] You know the middle school and round there int there?
[Krista:] there's Travis Road and Manor Road school. Travis School.
[Kathleen:] Oh right up there. I'm just thinking
[Alice:] Near church.
[Krista:] Round near church.
[Alice:] Near church down Cuckoo Lane.
[Kathleen:] Yeah I know where you mean.
[Krista:] I went to see where, she puts... lollipop in school like and I went to see exactly... she's supposed to start at quarter to twelve so I went round there for quarter to twelve... about five past twelve when she, it's like yours.
[Kathleen:] No kids?
[Krista:] No bugger comes. But she's re been reported no end of [LAUGHTER] times []
[Kathleen:] That's it.
[Alice:] Aye cos
[Krista:] Quarter to twelve while gone one o'clock.
[Alice:] You what?
[Krista:] No breaks, supposed to do.... Well I'll sit in car. I might not stop [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] If there's no kids what's the point of
[Krista:] There's nobody comes out she says.... And then it's... well it's fi about five to three in afternoon.
[Kathleen:] Five to three?
[Krista:] This Travis School is a nursery school
[Kathleen:] Oh you've got babbies.
[Krista:] and you've got some er some comes, most of them comes out at half past three from this, from Travis School, and then you've got to wait while... Manor comes out.
[Alice:] Manor comes out....
[Krista:] They don't come out, well about ten to four.
[Kathleen:] Mm....
[Krista:] Not too and I'm putting bus fares now.
[Alice:] Yeah I would do, what is it, thirty five, forty five?
[Krista:] No not just around there,
[Kathleen:] Eh it is you know.
[Alice:] It is after half past three.
[Kathleen:] They charge you know that er bus stop at bottom of bridge? I got on bus here and he charged me thirty five P!
[Alice:] After half past three it is Irene.
[Krista:] Well I've only been from
[Kathleen:] Don't forget, bus fares change.
[Alice:] Make no difference.
[Krista:] and round to church.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Hey that's only one
[Krista:] five.
[Kathleen:] bus stop in between me and you. There's only that bus stop and then it turns down you... yet they charged me thirty five pence and that weren't even half past three.... That were in afternoon that.... So I bet that's thirty five to forty five, is it forty five after... thirty five before, forty five after?
[Alice:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Cos they charged me twenty five on Little Nipper and it's cheaper on Little Nipper than bus.... But they didn't half charge. Cos I nearly died [LAUGHTER] I got on bus other day and they charged me eighty five pence []... I looked at me clock and it were twenty past nine.
[Krista:] See I, mind you whenever I'm late you see I can get on it for twenty pence... except for first thing in morning.
[Kathleen:] Well that's beside the point. That's beside the point.
[Krista:] Oh aye I always charge them bus fares.
[Kathleen:] Well that's it, I don't blame you.... I don't blame you at all.
[Krista:] I don't see why I shouldn't.
[Kathleen:] I've been to Nettos this morning.
[Alice:] Have you? Who with?
[Kathleen:] Alice took us.... So now Steve's got to take me to bank, mini bank, to get some money cos I've got none....
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]... What did you buy?
[Kathleen:] Er I got some tinned stuff... sugar, sugar's fifty one.
[Krista:] How much is their sugar? Is it still fifty one?
[Kathleen:] Fifty one. Bread's twenty five
[Krista:] I don't buy that kind of bread.
[Kathleen:] For twelve cakes it's thirty... two, for twelve cakes. Beans are seventeen, tomatoes are sixteen
[Krista:] Yeah well
[Kathleen:] erm I'm on about big tins.
[Alice:] They've dropped them
[Krista:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] you get little'uns.
[Alice:] they've dropped them H Ps down again in... thingy.
[Kathleen:] Have they?
[Alice:] Seventy seven for a four now.
[Kathleen:] How much is that, twenty
[Krista:] Where, in Kwik Save?... They're all doing it, they're all buying three now, putting them in threes.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Krista:] Tesco is, all that.
[Kathleen:] Trouble is they're that expensive. People just keep buying the buggers.
[Krista:] Well you see Fred will only eat H P beans so
[Alice:] Oh we only eat H P.
[Krista:] Well there's only Fred has them you see cos I don't like them so I only buy medium size tins to start off with.
[Kathleen:] Bill only likes H P beans and I give Maggie a tin of them seventeen P beans and I says throw the tin away before he sees it... and he couldn't tell the difference.
[Krista:] And, well... Fred opens them himself you see because it's only now and again he has them.
[Kathleen:] Oh....
[Krista:] See it's very rare, it's only probably once a month.
[Kathleen:] Yeah I got me coffee
[Krista:] So I don't... it don't bother me.
[Kathleen:] I got some of that washing powder these were all on about... and a few of them had got it, automatic washing powder, it's only one ninety nine for a three point five box.... And your washing comes out alright doesn't it?... Maggie's has come out alright, she got it.
[Krista:] Well now what, er it's only bloody names that's difference in bloody washing up powders
[Alice:] That's it, cos it's all the same stuff.
[Krista:] in washing up powders.
[Alice:] It's all the same stuff.
[Kathleen:] Aye I were reading that they did a survey on it didn't they?
[Alice:] Yeah they're all one.
[Krista:] They only put different names on.
[Kathleen:] Yeah this one's called
[Krista:] There's about, yeah there's about two
[Alice:] Ooh!
[Krista:] there's about two companies.... There's Lever Brothers int there?
[Alice:] Then there's Proctor and Gamble int there, the other one?
[Kathleen:] Mm. I don't know.
[Krista:] And they cover a multitude of them.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... They don't say. I noticed, I were looking at prices, they're all different prices.
[Krista:] I mean it's same with Marks and Sparks, you buy owt at Marks and Sparks it's only because when they have them packed, they've got to put their name on it.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] You're paying for name aren't you?... That's the only trouble.
[Krista:] Because they do with potatoes, with crisps and that. When Fr when Fred worked at Higgins... packets of potatoes
[Kathleen:] Did they?
[Krista:] Yes!
[Kathleen:] Tt crafty bleeders aren't they?
[Krista:] All them pre-washed potatoes that's in bags...
[Kathleen:] Yeah cos when we went to Cleethorpes you were on about they were Fred's taties.
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Cos I, I were asking if they wanted a baked tatie and that and we stood waiting for them and you noticed on sack
[Krista:] you had them didn't you? I didn't.
[Kathleen:] Yeah you didn't want one.
[Krista:] No
[Kathleen:] And we were stood waiting, she noticed sacks and she says these are from Fred's where he used to work. He used to work at Higgins.... Yeah I remember you saying that now.
[Krista:] But er...
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] I wondered what that was then []. [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] Video.... Four hour tape, one ninety nine.
[Kathleen:] Where?
[Alice:] Where?
[Krista:] and Britannia.
[Alice:] ...
[Kathleen:] Mm have to get some. I prefer the four hours.
[Alice:] I owe your Arthur one I'll have to get one, get one
[Kathleen:] Aye he mentioned that. I got accused for you!
[Alice:] did he give me a bollock did he give you a bollocking over it or...
[Kathleen:] He give me a bollocking over you.
[Alice:] Tell him to, tell him to
[Kathleen:] Well he didn't know it were you. He, who did he accuse?... Me in first place and then somebody else.
[Alice:] It were that Blind Fury what he give babby.
[Kathleen:] Oh I went down and he says to me have you got my Blind Fury? I says no, I says you give it to erm and I'm trying to
[Alice:] Give it to
[Kathleen:] think of your lad's name and I'm saying you give it to erm tt erm... oh yeah I remember, but he'd already told me off. He... he says I give it to Maggie, I says you didn't give it to Maggie I says you give it to Linda's lad.
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Oh aye little'un, he come down he says, she's gonna give me a tape in return. I says yeah, he says I remember now, it doesn't matter.... I thought thanks
[Alice:] Get one and give it him and then I'll give you money for it.
[Krista:] One nin one ninety nine.... Mm...
[Kathleen:] I'll have to remember that, cos they're better than the three hours aren't they?
[Alice:] I have to say I prefer the four hour cos I can get eight hours' taping on mine.
[Krista:] Mm.
[Alice:] That means I can get about three or four films on, on one tape.
[Kathleen:] You're aren't you?
[Krista:] Yeah, our Ken's is.
[Alice:] Yeah. And me mum's is long play an'all now.
[Kathleen:] What's yours?... Just same as mine int it?
[Krista:] Mm
[Kathleen:] Ordinary?
[Krista:] Yeah mine's same make as yours.
[Kathleen:] Yeah I know.
[Krista:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] I got instructions [LAUGHTER] off you to be able []... do you know I couldn't do that timer for love nor money.
[Krista:] Well they'd never, they hadn't made a long player... Amstrad did and now one or two of them are now aren't they?
[Alice:] Sharp mine....
[Krista:] Amstrad were first weren't they? Well I mean it's same where they've brought a double one out haven't they?
[Kathleen:] Oh Bill's got it.
[Krista:] What the double video?
[Alice:] Yeah you can only play on them can't you?
[Kathleen:] Yeah, yeah it's not compatible or summat er it's compatible with his telly when he hasn't got the Sky on and if he's got the Sky on he's got to mess about... I sat watching him for days messing with it and then I says to him... have you got it on your V U channel? He says what V U channel?... I says your V U channel... I says your video channel. I didn't know there were a video, I says get your [LAUGHTER] he just tuned it on any channel, I says get your remote control for your telly I says and click
[Alice:] Yeah you bring up the spare channel.
[Kathleen:] I said downwards, I says normally it's the last channel backwards. So he clicked it all way and it come up... I says now get your green line I says straight down middle and tune it in. Anyway day after I says have you done it?
[Krista:] Well that's it it shouldn't cos they take
[Kathleen:] Well they take it in to set it up
[Alice:] I've got Tyne Tees on mine now.
[Kathleen:] the other one, so we left it on that channel, channel nine I think it were. You've got what?
[Alice:] I said I've just tuned Tyne Tees in to mine
[Kathleen:] My Tyne Tees has gone funny
[Alice:] so I can get it on video now.
[Kathleen:] Mine's gone whacky... it's gone stupid and spotty and......
[Krista:] fags have gone up a penny.
[Kathleen:] When?
[Krista:] Today.
[Kathleen:] Again?
[Alice:] Who said?
[Krista:] Pru what they call it.
[Kathleen:] Do you know they're supposed to only go up in budget these bloody things
[Alice:] Yeah they are.
[Kathleen:] and I, John's put his up three times since.
[Krista:] from Kwik Save?
[Kathleen:] One fifty six, they'll be one fifty seven then.
[Krista:] Cos Fred says to me
[Alice:] More than Conways?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Krista:] Fred says to me fa fags have gone up a penny.
[Kathleen:] Down in this shop they're one... eighty nine for a packet of cigs. They started at one seventy seven after budget, cos what were they? One seventy four weren't they?
[speaker005:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] No
[Krista:] I don't know
[Kathleen:] One seventy nine he put them up to.
[Krista:] I buy now.
[Kathleen:] Yeah one seventy nine he put them to, and then he put them up to one eighty two or summat and then they've gone up to one eighty nine I think they are.
[Krista:] keep telling me they're putting them up a lot in the budget.
[Kathleen:] They're trying to get them up to three pound a packet, that's what they're trying to do.
[Alice:] stop people.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Alice:] I think it's a load of cobblers me, it's frigging wrong.
[Krista:] It's not fair.
[Kathleen:] Innit? I'm not paying three pound a packet
[Alice:] Well
[Krista:] I'm not either.
[Alice:] frigging it's trying to do working class out all frigging time.
[Krista:] Well there's a lot of these old people never move out of house
[Alice:] Well that's it.
[Krista:] and that's all
[Alice:] And they've worked all their bloody life.
[Krista:] that's all
[Kathleen:] They can't afford
[Alice:] Yeah I think it's bloody disgusting.
[Kathleen:] It's not fair.... Make you sick.... I've still got that irritation
[Alice:] [sigh]...
[Kathleen:] No she did it at doctors. I got an eyelash stuck right inside fold, and I couldn't er shift it for love nor money, it were there about two or three days before I went to doctors. So he saw it, told nurse it were right in folds down there
[Alice:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] and to get it out. And she got this ginormous magnifying glass and she nipped me face, just there.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] You know that skin just underneath? Well she had some... they were like right slim at end and then went like that, and she got the fat bit and went crrrk... and it hurts like mad. Well she said she'd got it out but
[Krista:] Do you know what... er soothes sore eyes and that, and it's an old fashioned remedy
[Kathleen:] Tea bag. Dead tea bag.
[Alice:] cold milk.
[Krista:] T cold cold tea.
[Kathleen:] Cold tea
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I thought it were a tea bag.
[Alice:] Cold milk as well.
[Krista:] Well you could use tea bag, cold tea.
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Alice:] I always used to use that on babbies for, you know when they get cold and weepy eyes?... Use cold tea bag or cold milk.
[Kathleen:] Mm. Never tried it. It just irritates, it's not sore now, it irritates.
[Krista:] I don't like to go and see
[Kathleen:] So I keep trying to get me eyelashes and push up.
[Krista:] eyewash things. I just use cold
[Alice:] I've still got that on.
[Krista:] Put it in a basin and...
[Kathleen:] Ooh.
[Krista:] stick tea bag in it now, cos I mean it used to be tea didn't it, all at one time?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Krista:] Stick tea bag in it now and then just keep...
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Krista:] bagging it with tea. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] [LAUGHTER] splash it out.
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Well I put me clothes out at twelve o'clock, I says to Linda if it holds out for a couple
[Krista:] No I haven't bothered to put mine out.
[Kathleen:] if it holds for a, well it's jeans, I thought well
[Krista:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] it'll get mainly dry and I can finish them off in here can't I?... Which is a lot better.... Have you been to that Nettos?
[Alice:] [cough]
[Krista:] Pardon?
[Kathleen:] Have you been to that Nettos then?
[Krista:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] Freezer's still empty. They had some of them chickens in for one pound thirty odd, you know when it's got sign up on video?
[Krista:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Two pound eight ounces, that's all they were.... I thought no wonder they're one pound thirty odd! See size only of them, little scrawny spoggies...
[Alice:] [yawn]
[Kathleen:] You may as well as go in garden and pick all these spoggies up, you'd get more meat on it.
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Kathleen:] And they'd got some funny things but they'd got foreign names and I thought well...
[Krista:] Well it is a foreign shop.
[Kathleen:] Well I know that but there is English names on a lot of stuff except certain stuff and then it's in foreign and it's
[Krista:] I think it's er... Denmark
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Krista:] It's Danish....
[Kathleen:] It's not so bad if it's got picture, you know what's inside it then.
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] [LAUGHTER] Open it.
[Kathleen:] Oh aye yeah they'd make me buy it. Eh you can't use a cheque, Access Card, nothing.
[Krista:] Can't you?
[Kathleen:] No, I had to borrow some money off Maggie this morning to pay me bill. Cos I didn't quite have enough.
[Alice:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] So I straight
[Krista:] Probably cos they've been done that much.
[Kathleen:] So you've gotta pay cash.
[Krista:] Mm I say probably cos they've been done.
[Kathleen:] Well that's stupid having a ginormous supermarket
[Alice:] They've cut price an'all int it?
[Krista:] Mm. Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Well they're all half price virtually aren't they?
[Krista:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] Cos what's a loaf of bread, fifty eight innit?
[Krista:] Then you see cash... they can fiddle.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Krista:] They can put half down through books and other half...
[Kathleen:] Yeah true.
[Krista:] in their pocket.
[Kathleen:] So no matter what they do they're lumbered all way round aren't they?...
[Krista:] You see but with cheques, they can't
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Krista:] they've got to go through books.
[Kathleen:] It would annoy me that.... Ooh!
[Krista:] Mm
[Kathleen:] Cos me bill were fourteen quid....
[Krista:] Have you lost some weight love?
[Alice:] No I fucking haven't.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] And she's just complaining she's put some on, I've got a fat belly [] [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] I'm like a pregnant duck.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Krista:] Yet you're looking as if you've lost a bit off your back.
[Alice:] No.
[Kathleen:] It's all walking she does. Up and down, up and down.
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER] Walking [] bloody walking I do.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... I'm taping you even though you said I couldn't.
[Krista:] Are you?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... So I did it anyway cos later on you would have said well you could've taped me if you want [LAUGHTER] like you always do [LAUGHTER] so I did it anyway []....
[Krista:] [whispering] []... Mind you I wouldn't say owt.
[Kathleen:] No, no I've gotta talk later, well I'll talk to you when I've switched that off, talk for about five minutes and I'll stick your voice on.... Cos where's your accent from?...
[Krista:] [LAUGHTER] Yorkshire [].
[Kathleen:] I thought so.
[Krista:] I were born and bred in Donny. Fred
[Kathleen:] I know but you could've been fetched from Grand Canaries. [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] Fred
[Kathleen:] Well I haven't got Fred's voice so I can't put
[Krista:] I was saying Fred weren't.
[Kathleen:] I know he weren't, Durham weren't he?
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Mm yeah.
[Krista:] He's a Geordie.
[Kathleen:] Is that the one, have I filled it in?... See I've got to remember, you see a few of them... I had a load of them all talking, you know when I were at school?
[Alice:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] So I just put mixed, school, male and female, mixed strangers
[Alice:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] so that'll cover for people that... I don't know.... I've lost me pen now. Do you know I put that pen down and everything else and it disappears.
[Krista:] Thank you for taking time for this interview, well that's a load of crap cos I didn't give time.
[Kathleen:] It's not yourn it mine. [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] Well you're supposed to have showed it.
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] I've showed you it! The people to be interviewed
[Alice:] oh!
[Krista:] Yeah but you don't!
[Kathleen:] [shouting] []
[Krista:] You don't!
[Kathleen:] You're telling fibs.
[Alice:] [shouting] Didn't know you were getting a voucher [].
[Krista:] Who's getting a voucher?
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER] she says she gets a twenty five quid voucher.
[Krista:] Aye she does.
[Alice:] She ought to buy us something didn't she?
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] I reckon she ought to share it.
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] Half a pair of knickers and a new bra [].
[Kathleen:] Oh right. Oh put your order in.
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] She ought to share it.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Krista:] Don't you put my age, just put a plus there.
[Alice:] Twenty one....
[Kathleen:] Well you're sixty four, can I put sixty four?
[Krista:] No.
[Kathleen:] Oh. Can I just put four, plus four? [LAUGHTER]
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] Twenty one plus....
[Kathleen:] Twenty one plus sixty four? [LAUGHTER]
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] She's got the, she's had the on a long time oh I know that.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] I know what she's like
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] So I'm allowed to put it now cos I've said it?
[Krista:] No.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Alice:] aren't I?
[Krista:] She's a bloody shit
[Kathleen:] Well I told you didn't I? Yeah. I'm saying yeah I never looked at it, I automatically put it down
[Krista:] I didn't give my consent.
[Alice:] No you didn't Irene, I never heard you, her give you your consent.
[Krista:] No I didn't I says I'll think
[Kathleen:] Linda will you stop siding with her. [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] I said I'll think about it didn't I?
[Alice:] Yes you did didn't you Irene love, yes.
[Kathleen:] I know her thinking.
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] She says no you can't, I might do and then when she's ready to go out she'll say you could've taped it.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] I done it. [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] Well that babby's jumper's not coming on.... I've got two thirds of back and I've been doing it a month.
[Krista:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Ooh. You're not doing very well then are you []?
[Alice:] I keep going wrong with me cable, I keep pulling it to front instead of back....
[Krista:] I can't do that bloody thing, it goes arsehole upwards and all over the place.
[Kathleen:] What cabling? It's easy.
[Alice:] And I've been, yeah it's easy enough but
[Kathleen:] You've put me off now, do you know what I'm putting in your age? [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] What?
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Thirty plus [].
[Krista:] Well that's alright.
[Alice:] You're right.
[Kathleen:] It is?
[Krista:] Aye.
[Kathleen:] [whispering] Thirty plus thirty four [].
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER]
[Krista:] Thirty plus thirty four.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Get lost you
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER] Question mark []
[Kathleen:] if, if they add them if they add them together [] she's gonna stab me with screwdriver now [LAUGHTER] cos I put that []
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] She's crossing it out, she don't want [LAUGHTER] her age, she's crossing thirty four out []. [LAUGHTER] I bet she changes it to twenty one or summat. Have you crossed thirty four out? Right.
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] We'll say you're thirty plus then. [LAUGHTER]...
[Alice:] Right I'm going.
[Kathleen:] Okey-cokey, I'll see you later.
[Krista:] Right I can put me feet up now.
[Alice:] And I shall see you when I see you.
[Kathleen:] Yes.... So take care.
[Krista:] Right love, tarrah.
[Alice:] see you.
[Kathleen:] See you later duck, bye.... [shouting] It sticks [].
[Alice:] ...
[Kathleen:] I'll turn it off for you now then.... Shall I turn it off?
[Krista:] Yes please.
[Kathleen:] Right. that baby, she's only got seven weeks left.
[Maggie:] Well you can't
[Kathleen:] Cos I says what you doing still working here, you know, that's what we'd just been on about
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] cos... she told us er Tommy said she had to pack jobs in
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and er apparently she's packed that cleaning job at...
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] cleaning job at oogie erm er... ooh Samantha's been at me coat again.
[Maggie:] Yeah.... I know.
[Kathleen:] she packed that cleaning job in at er, what do they call it? Doctors
[Maggie:] Oh yeah?
[Kathleen:] she used to do at doctors or summat
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] she packed that one in and she's packed the one in at, you know disabled school?
[Maggie:] Oh yeah.
[Kathleen:] She packed that one in and she says she's still doing this for another two... two week I think she says... and that's erm... what you call it? That'll, she's got seven weeks to go so that'll leave her five
[Maggie:] Five weeks to go.
[Kathleen:] But it's er leaving it a bit short notice innit? Just for five weeks.
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] Cos I thought, I thought I'll take it out, I finished that tape, this is a new one.
[Maggie:] Oh you're doing well then.
[Kathleen:] So I put them two and a half up to press with this one and then I can turn it over and I'll be on to third side. So ready and just
[Maggie:] And I've got the dumplings done
[Kathleen:] I've just gotta
[Maggie:] three dumplings.
[Kathleen:] Three! When I put
[Maggie:] Three. Terry don't eat them.
[Kathleen:] When I put three or four in my pan I can't get nowt in.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] Well you can't, there's only three dumplings for Bill.
[Kathleen:] Aren't you doing none?
[Maggie:] He won't eat dumplings, if he sees dumplings in a stew he'll puke.
[Kathleen:] Will he?
[Maggie:] Yeah. So I've gotta get them cooked before Terry comes home.
[Kathleen:] What, take them out?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Weird!
[Maggie:] Yeah he... ooh no, he don't like dumplings.
[Kathleen:] Oh I'd've thought he would've done.... But then again they like all different things.
[Maggie:] Mm. Jackie was about to say well I'll see you then tomorrow and before she could get the tomorrow out I says about Thursday, alright?
[Kathleen:] Er who's fetching... thing home?
[Maggie:] She's coming up tonight, she's getting what's his name to look after... the boys and she's coming up
[Kathleen:] Oh she's coming by
[Maggie:] on the, on the two fifty or the two
[Kathleen:] Did you notice she says she didn't have owt and she'd left it at home?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Anyway she went to shop she bought sweets and nappies.
[Maggie:] And yeah I were gonna say she went up to shop and had nappies.
[Kathleen:] Yeah I know I saw her.
[Maggie:] Cos she had er
[Kathleen:] Cos I shall go for it
[Maggie:] one pound eighty odd
[Kathleen:] I shall go for it mesen tomorrow, you see I've got five pound in house which
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I'm giving you
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and that is the other two pound I owe you, leaving me three.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Cos I knew I'd got enough to give you back, that's why I wanted to borrow it
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and I thought bugger that I shall go over and get it mesen tomorrow.
[Maggie:] No let her come up with it tonight.
[Kathleen:] No I mean if she don't.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] I shall be up for it tomorrow.
[Maggie:] Well she says she's phoning you...
[Kathleen:] So I thought no, you're not getting away with that one.
[Maggie:] No, don't do it again.
[Kathleen:] No, definitely not. She stated today.
[Maggie:] Yes.
[Kathleen:] And I thought
[Maggie:] Well I think I think she's spent all that money what she's got off already because
[Kathleen:] She got her Family Allowance this morning as well.
[Maggie:] No she ain't got the Family Allowance, she says oh I was gonna leave that cos I says to her I says... have you drawn your Family Allowance? She says er no then she... afterwards I says well don't forget to get Kath's money she said tell her I'll phone her and I'll be up about half past six, I'll have to go and draw me money. So it's the Family Allowance she's got to draw today.
[Kathleen:] So she's spent all that seventy odd quid?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] It's a hell of a lot to spend in two days and the shops are shut on Sundays....
[Maggie:] She's gone and owed a telly and a video, God knows how much that cost her.
[Kathleen:] Oh good God!...
[Maggie:] Ha! I didn't realize it was still on.
[Kathleen:] No it's nearly finished.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] That side of tape's nearly gone, a few more minutes and then it's finished I think.
[Maggie:] Sing a song.
[Kathleen:] Oh aye yeah, I can't sing.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Eh you should hear it with Irene [] I thought she were gonna stab me with screwdriver.... Taping her earlier and she ke it's cos I kept going to put sixty four on to tt you know that thing I fill in to say who's on it? That I know
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] who's on it?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And er she picked screwdriver up, well she thought it were a pen and I thought [LAUGHTER] God she's got a screwdriver and she's gonna stab me [] and I put thirty plus thirty four
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and did it like that, so she scribbled thirty four out and left thirty plus. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Thirty plus.
[Kathleen:] I thought ooh dear me. It were funny. I thought it were funny anyway.
[Maggie:] Our Steve's got eye patch on now, he's had the doctor out.
[Kathleen:] Have you been talking to him today?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Did he tell you if he's seen Stephen?...
[Maggie:] He never mentioned him.
[Kathleen:] Oh.... [sigh] I thought... doesn't this take a long time just for a little tiny bit?
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Do you know... it is, it's a little tiny but it's going on for ages and ages.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] It's to stop me turning tape over I'm sure I think it said five six seven eight nine ten or summat on one side and then it said six seven [LAUGHTER] eight nine on [] other side. It sort of doubled up, or summat like that, so she crossed them all out and changed them.
[Steve:] Ooh she's a.
[Kathleen:] Why?... There were two sixes and... two nines
[Steve:] Well
[Kathleen:] and two eights and what have you.
[Steve:] well still ca she can't just in ten.
[Kathleen:] Well she didn't do them.
[Steve:] Oh
[Kathleen:] Somebody else did. She just picked boxes up and delivered them.
[Steve:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] So it was like
[Steve:] Well can't they count to ten?
[Kathleen:] I don't know.
[Steve:] They didn't bleeding look it, the... Well you can have half an hour in the morning and half an hour at night, that's an hour.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... I got Michael to finish filling other one up [LAUGHTER] today []. Just talking about owt and nowt and
[Steve:] I know but if she s she starts talking she never bloody stops.
[Kathleen:] No er when Maggie's talking, if she knows it's on... she always tells me when to stop it.... Depends what she wants to say.... Same as you, only time when you didn't know what you thought and you've got to call everybody names and everything cos you don't know what to say, you can't think of forgetting it's here.
[Steve:] I know. Well that's your fault.
[Kathleen:] No it isn't.
[Steve:] If you'd've just switched it on when I come in it'd've been totally different. I wouldn't've known.
[Kathleen:] I know but... we've got telly on and everything haven't we?
[Steve:] So? They've got background noise. You don't worry about that.
[Kathleen:] Oh I always turn telly off.
[Steve:] Why?
[Kathleen:] I don't know.... I don't know if it can pick voices up with telly [LAUGHTER] on [].
[Steve:] Well it should pick it all up if it's a good, good enough mike.
[Kathleen:] Well
[Steve:] They've been bloody computer games in work, the chuffs.
[Kathleen:] What them little hand held ones?
[Steve:] No, on computer.
[Kathleen:] In office?
[Steve:] No in... tt... tur erm... turbine we're building, we're building three big'uns, right?
[Kathleen:] What, for abroad?
[Steve:] Yeah.... They're going to France, well one's going Thur gonna set off, start moving it Thursday, we've got most of it up. Well they've got a computer up in number two, and I went in tonight... they're playing chuffing Grand Prix.... I said Christ you're chuffing mad, no wonder you stop till ten o'clock. He said what you on about? I should have thought you were flogging on I says, you skiving [LAUGHTER] sods [].
[Kathleen:] I thought you could only er do two hours?... I thought....
[Steve:] That's the impression I've been under but according to form you can do what you bloody want.... I do two hours
[Kathleen:] Yeah I know you do.
[Steve:] for the simple reason
[Kathleen:] You've got a long way to travel.
[Steve:] Yes.... [yawning] If I didn't have so long to travel I'd do two and a half hours [].
[Kathleen:] Ooh....
[Steve:] to talk to Gavin
[Kathleen:] Oh is he this new one you've?
[Steve:] No... he's foreman.
[Kathleen:] Oh....
[Steve:] permanent position.... I says cos there ain't none....
[Kathleen:] Why, has he already been told?
[Steve:] Well
[Kathleen:] I know you've been told different people different things....
[Steve:] I'll go and have a word with him... See what he says. chance of that.
[Kathleen:] Mm yeah well I posted that one today for you.
[Steve:] Yeah well.
[Kathleen:] Oh you got ashtray quick, I haven't even got!
[Steve:] Well d I was gonna say it's your...
[Kathleen:] I've got three....
[Steve:] Ta.... [sigh]... So what did y she say when you told her? You ought to a told her we'd bought one....
[Kathleen:] Bought one what?
[Steve:] Timeshare.
[Kathleen:] Oh... no! She falls for it l hook line and sinker. Then I forget that I've been joking with her... then she tells me off so... I don't bother any more. She gets too serious.
[Steve:] So what?
[Kathleen:] She were on about Graham, she's seen him loads of times this week.
[Steve:] But it's only one week.
[Kathleen:] Last week. Oh....
[Steve:] [sigh] That talk I had to Johnny's not done m a blind bit of... good....
[Kathleen:] Waste of breath.
[Steve:] So, but, I know that, yeah.
[Kathleen:] They're getting old. But then again Irene and Fred's old and they're not like that. They argue like hell them two now, Irene and Fred.
[Steve:] Because he's at home.
[Kathleen:] No.... He's done er erm... tt what did she call it?... Summat like a takeover bid.
[Steve:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Now she's been having an argument with the council and... while she's been arguing, you know she's got a grievance, while she's [LAUGHTER] been arguing [] she takes her anger out on them and tells them what she thinks of them. So since Fred's been retired, he says leave it to me and, because he's that soft, nothing's done about it.
[Steve:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] And then she starts demanding to know what they're going to do and he keeps saying they're gonna write, they're gonna write, they're gonna write. She says no they're not gonna write, I'm gonna phone them. No don't you phone them, I'll phone them, she says well phone them now.
[Steve:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] So he'll phone her and she'll say [shouting] and I'm still sat behind him rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, moan, moan, moan [] you see. So er they says to him who's that? He says it's me wife and she's as mad as hell, and they says yeah we can hear her from here... and s must've said summat about writing and she... starts bawling and shouting, oh summat about... you've got to write... I want a letter by Friday, you're not messing me about no more, you're not talking to him you're talking to me. And then she ran upstairs and grabbed the other phone [LAUGHTER] and Fred had to put phone down cos she wouldn't shut up []. So you see they were having a... difference of opinion over that and he's saying you shouldn't, you should've left it all to me and she says [LAUGHTER] I've done it for last fifty year [] and, you know, all this.
[Steve:] Yes.
[Kathleen:] And she says you're stupid, you don't know how to talk to them and then they start, you see Fred won't row.... And same as she says, she needs a row to clear the air, so picks on him and he just ducks.
[Steve:] Why do you have a go back at her?
[Kathleen:] Well I went in and I says where's me cup?... And Fred said see, I told you you'd got to tell her.... I took off. I says where's me cup? She says I threw it at him. [LAUGHTER]
[Steve:] Why didn't she throw her own?
[Kathleen:] That's what I says, that went an'all apparently.
[Steve:] What about his?
[Kathleen:] That went an'all.
[Steve:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Cos I'd been there that morning
[Steve:] Oh well.
[Kathleen:] and er my cup were out, her cup, Ev's cup and... Fred's cup
[Steve:] So all four went?
[Kathleen:] Aye, she were washing them or summat and he were annoying her so she threw them all. And she phoned me up and says what are you doing? I says nowt, she says good I'm coming. Every time she gets arsey now she comes down here....
[Steve:] Oh well.
[Kathleen:] I thought she were gonna stab me with screwdriver today.
[Steve:] Which screwdriver?
[Kathleen:] Yours on table.... Thought bloody hell.... Tormenting... you know how she torments, says yeah you can do it then you can't, then you can, then you can't?
[Steve:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Well when she come in I asked her if we could tape... so she says yeah course you can. Then she decided to be awkward, like she always is, and said... I says oh it's still taping you know and I s... she said summat, I can't remember what it were now but I was saying, I knew that'd happen, one minute yes then no, then I'll think about it, I says and if I didn't start it when you went out you'd be saying you could've done this and that... and er so she were chittering, pretending she said I couldn't... do it. She said I could and then she were messing about you see. And then I went and showed her all forms, all these form things that they've got... I were letting her read it. And
[Steve:] What form things?
[Kathleen:] These that are in this bag. And
[Steve:] I haven't seen them.
[Kathleen:] Haven't you seen them? That's what I've got
[Steve:] I don't get shown owt like that.
[Kathleen:] Oh well, you know.
[Steve:] All I do is get mike shoved under me nose.
[Kathleen:] It's not under your nose!
[Steve:] No it's under me
[Kathleen:] don't tell lies.
[Steve:] [LAUGHTER] no it's under me arse farts [].
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Anyway er... it were what you write down, you're supposed to write who you've been talking to, tt what the occupation is... er you, how old they are, female, male... regional accent and that's, if you were born in London that's your accent you're using int it?
[Steve:] [mimicking] Och aye the noo [] Geordies.
[Kathleen:] Oh well I don't know. Aye all that jazz, and er
[Steve:] You couldn't tell whether a Geordie's frigging Irish or Scottish.
[Kathleen:] Well if I know who they are and I don't know where they come from... I'll just put who they are... day I were talking to them and dash it.... I can't fill all answers in I only
[Steve:] Why not?
[Kathleen:] I only fill them in that I know for a fact.... Cos sometimes they won't tell you.
[Steve:] That's, well if you're going to J J's Saturday
[Kathleen:] Yeah she filled
[Steve:] tape it.
[Kathleen:] about ten in.
[Steve:] Aye a load of garbage.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Steve:] Well if you've got a cross-section of
[Kathleen:] I were telling you about Irene, I were filling this thing in and I put right, sixty four... I were gonna put sixty four, that were it.... So she didn't want sixty four putting down, she wanted twenty one plus putting down. [LAUGHTER]
[Steve:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] So what I did is I writ thirty plus thirty four, adding up to sixty four and she [LAUGHTER] jumped up and she's grabbing thing off table and she had hold of the screwdriver and I says to Linda thought she was gonna stab me with screwdriver [] and she weren't, she were looking for a pencil so she could rub it out, well she couldn't and she found this pencil and she scribbled thirty four out.... So it says thirty plus now even though she's sixty four.
[Steve:] The cheeky sod.
[Kathleen:] Yeah that's exactly what she did.... I couldn't stop laughing. Linda were going in hysterics....
[Steve:] What did she have to say?
[Kathleen:] Nowt much, just fetched her club money up, had a pratt about... all about family and that, different things.... [yawning] Cos I thought oh dear []...
[Steve:] Yes it has swolled...
[Kathleen:] Have you left it,wh what did you actually do?
[Steve:] I slipped on scaffolding up... which is that bigger machine
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Steve:] and all that frost we've had all last week I never slipped once
[Kathleen:] Made it slippery.
[Steve:] this morning, bit of water, and I w I found it.
[Kathleen:] Mm yeah well you would.... Straight on your leg again.
[Steve:] Straight on me knee.
[Kathleen:] Your knee? Oh.
[Steve:] Yeah.... So... tt I'll report it tomorrow. I were gonna report it today then I got talking with gaffer [sigh] I were sorting this job out...
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Steve:] the crafty sod is er off tomorrow....
[Kathleen:] How come they can take time off yet you can't?
[Steve:] He's been there longer than me.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Steve:] I can, I might have two holidays now, two days' holiday....
[Kathleen:] Well... I don't get that, me.
[Steve:] What?
[Kathleen:] All these two days' holiday and this, you've had Christmas.
[Steve:] You get two point summat days per month worked
[Kathleen:] Oh so you should've got them for January?...
[Steve:] right?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Steve:] And I worked three month before Christmas so I got six point summat days
[Kathleen:] For Christmas.
[Steve:] so then I had all Christmas off.
[Kathleen:] Oh! Yeah I get it now.... I thought you got Christmas off like we got Christmas off.
[Steve:] No. You gotta earn them....
[Kathleen:] I'm on holiday in three weeks, this, fortnight this Friday.
[Steve:] Yeah well two days' holiday so
[Kathleen:] ... [door knock] [sigh]... That's a fella's knock.
[Steve:] Probably Shane or somebody.
[Kathleen:] You can tell.... [at front door] Oh thank you very much. Goodbye.
[speaker005:] cold out here.
[Kathleen:] It is a bit. Ta-ta. [door closing]... Don't look like we're watching we're watching this....
[Steve:] What is it?
[Kathleen:] I says if they lent me it... erm well they might want us to watch it now and lend it to someone else. Naked Gun Two And A Half
[Steve:] Oh yeah.
[Kathleen:] so she says they were getting it but weren't watching it till eight. And I says oh Steve can't watch it at eight.... Er can't watch it after you've watched it at eight, [LAUGHTER] I'm getting right odd here []
[Steve:] I were gonna say.
[Kathleen:] but... she must've told him...
[Steve:] Why what are you getting?
[Kathleen:] Nowt....
[Steve:] Well you were gonna get a video to
[Kathleen:] heck....
[Steve:] I thought they were chuffing hard up?
[Kathleen:] They are, they put a pound each....
[Steve:] Well they can't be that chuffing hard up then.
[Kathleen:] She's... can't be, she had two ten pound notes in her purse this morning.
[Steve:] Tt...
[Kathleen:] See I can tell knocks.
[Steve:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] Knocks. Whether it's a fella or a woman.... Fellas always do a fancy knock.
[Steve:] [sigh]
[Kathleen:] We just bang on door. [LAUGHTER]
[Steve:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Kathleen:] Oh er telly's got a buzz on it and I couldn't get it off, I think I made it worse. Cos I pressed colour by accident and
[Steve:] Oh you pratt!
[Kathleen:] Well it's stupid that telly.
[Steve:] Is it chuff!
[Kathleen:] It is, it's got that many buttons on it I can't find which is which.
[Steve:] Ooh!
[Kathleen:] Well they've only got little tiny bits of writing on.
[Steve:] Give us it here.
[Kathleen:] No I've done it now.
[Steve:] Well you said it's got a buzz on it....
[Kathleen:] Well you can't use that for a buzz, you use that for a buzz don't you?... [break in recording] for a buzz?
[Steve:] Yes.
[Kathleen:] Rubbish....
[Steve:] What on?
[Kathleen:] All of them.... If you turn sound off you can hear buzz.... But then again it could be that.
[Steve:] It's video!
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] I know it just dawned on me [].
[Steve:] You dozy sod!
[Kathleen:] I just looked down, I seen it then and... ah nelly.
[Steve:] You're getting worse....
[Kathleen:] I'm going senile before me time, it's Irene
[Steve:] you've gone.
[Kathleen:] Do you know one minute they're alright... daft as a brush, and next minute they can't get on with er other people.
[Steve:] Oh why worry I can't get on.
[Kathleen:] You never do.
[Steve:] Why should I?
[Kathleen:] Cos they're women.
[Steve:] They're not my age group.
[Kathleen:] Linda's your age group, Maggie's your
[Steve:] Oh I've, who?
[Kathleen:] age group, Linda.... She's younger than me.
[Steve:] Is she?
[Kathleen:] Thirty four, thirty five.
[Steve:] She don't bloody look it.
[Kathleen:] Well she is, she's thirty four or thirty five. Maggie's only forty two, she's only three years old no hang on... six years older than me... you're two
[Steve:] [clears throat]
[Kathleen:] she's three and a half years older than you. Her birthday's in September... you'll be nearer before
[Steve:] She's a bloody woman!
[Kathleen:] She's still your age.
[Steve:] [LAUGHTER] []
[Kathleen:] They want fellas that's different ages.
[Steve:] I know they're all old bogies, bogies....
[Kathleen:] I noticed.... Irene's alright.
[Steve:] Irene gets to be a pain in arse....
[Kathleen:] She's a good lass, I like her. And you like her.
[Steve:] Nobody's saying that. She gets to be a pain in arse though.
[Kathleen:] Yeah I know.
[Steve:] She shoves her nose in when it's not wanted.... Then she don't like it when I snap at her.... So
[Kathleen:] You want that on don't you?...
[Steve:] What is it, Roaring Thunder?
[Kathleen:] I don't know....
[Steve:] Well I don't, you t
[Kathleen:] Michael Douglas.... Shooting people.
[Steve:] Ah.
[Kathleen:] Looked like a
[Steve:] ...
[Kathleen:] It's supposed to be good er tomorrow
[Steve:] Ah look at bleeding time.
[Kathleen:] Yes I know.... They're always doing that...
[Steve:] Yeah well cos if that'd be Johnny, he'd stop up.
[Kathleen:] Mm.... [LAUGHTER] Then pick on for it [].
[Steve:] Yeah but... they bought a brand new video....
[Kathleen:] She says he was still up at quarter past and didn't get up for work until seven this morning, that's what he said in note anyway, summat about he didn't fetch her a cup of tea up this morning cos he didn't get up till seven....
[Steve:] Well that's his chuffing fault.
[Kathleen:] I know.
[Steve:] I went to bed at half, well between ten and eleven past
[Kathleen:] I know.
[Steve:] Only time I go later is on a weekend when I... I don't have to go in.
[Kathleen:] I know you don't. I were on about that today, I can't remember who I talked to.... Were it Irene or Maggie?... We were on about Saturdays, having Saturdays to oursen finally... you know, instead of having to go here there and everywhere... not bothered about afternoon, I meant night times and that
[Steve:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and er she says yeah it's about time and I think it were Irene, about time. And we were on about it and... working it out. That's what I says to her, like on Friday when you come in by the time we've got yo got you summat to eat and a bath and your petrol and everything ready for the next week... filled your car up, that we could call in then... but... like if we have Saturday night you can either go to bed, sleep on floor or do virtually what you want... cos you don't have to go on Sunday if you don't want.
[Steve:] True.... Only times that I've got to go is Monday to Friday... you've got to go.... Oh aye there were an enquiry today
[Kathleen:] Why?
[Steve:] Why I weren't there Sunday....
[Kathleen:] It were you day off!
[Steve:] I says hey, I says Friday were my day off.... He says you come in Saturday. I says so? I want a bit of extra money for car.... He says why were y weren't you in Sunday?... I said I didn't want to. I says there'll be a few more I don't want to either, alright? He says no it isn't. I says tough.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Oh dear....
[Steve:] He says I'm a granddad I says you look it as well. He said what do you mean by that? I says you're showing your age now granddad.... So that's what we've called him all day.
[Kathleen:] Granddad?
[Steve:] Granddad....
[Kathleen:] Do you know, it dawned on me, I went in shop this morning for some stamps and he didn't have any and I were gonna go to garage... you only get er four stamps in them books now.
[Steve:] For a quid?
[Kathleen:] Yeah and two one P stamps or summat or two P stamps or summat
[Steve:] Aye you might as well
[Kathleen:] And er I says... ooh never mind. And he conned me into posting his mail!... It's only just dawned on me, he conned me into posting his mail.
[Steve:] Don't you charge him?
[Kathleen:] No.
[Steve:] You oughta charge him with spice or summat.
[Kathleen:] No I'm charging for spice when I go in
[Steve:] But you owe me a penny Spanish.
[Kathleen:] for going shopping for you. Yeah he'd got some letters, apparently he were going to Post Office later for stamps and everything... and er... got this letter and seeings I'd only got three he give me his, give me twenty four pence for a stamp so I walked to Post Office, I thought well I don't want no penny or tuppeny stamps.
[Steve:] Well that's true.
[Kathleen:] They're no good cos you leave them laying about and they get lost.
[Steve:] Yes mine did.
[Kathleen:] What your penny and tuppeny stamp?
[Steve:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Or your full stamps? I used your stamps on card.
[Steve:] I know you did.
[Kathleen:] Stephen left some laying about and I used his an'all. And then when you wanted them I give you mine.... Didn't I?
[Steve:] Well...
[Kathleen:] Mm....
[Steve:] [sigh] Oh going back and get these sweaty socks off.
[Kathleen:] Yeah I know they smell.
[Steve:] Aye.
[Kathleen:] Do you know why they smell?
[Steve:] Why?
[Kathleen:] It's, you know with heat from fire?
[Steve:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Well when you first come in they didn't smell, it's only last five minutes.
[Steve:] [sigh]... I've always had sweaty feet ever since you married me so don't start.
[Kathleen:] I'm not starting I'm just saying that's when they smell most... when you get near fire.
[Steve:] What's she doing in shower with a bleeding towel?
[Kathleen:] She hasn't got a towel has she? It's a flannel.
[Steve:] It weren't earlier, it were a flaming towel....
[Kathleen:] Mm....
[Steve:] You should stop that, I'm going in bath.
[Kathleen:] I know.
[Steve:] [talking directly into microphone] I'm gonna have a right good wash
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Steve:] and I know it's too close but I'm still getting a good wash....
[Kathleen:] Yes and I wonder what that sounds like.
[Steve:] Rubbish.
[Kathleen:] Now I don't know where microphone is. Rubbish.
[Steve:] Rubbish.
[Kathleen:] Rubbish.
[Steve:] Rubbish. I want the Walkman.
[Kathleen:] I know you want one. [LAUGHTER] Irene [] she were after it today
[Steve:] She's not having it, it's mine.
[Kathleen:] It's not
[Steve:] You can you can give me it.
[Kathleen:] it's that it's that lady's, she gets it back on Friday.
[Steve:] No she doesn't. She's not having it back, not at all, at all, at all.
[Maggie:] You got him on the C B or something dad says and er he says she won't be up cos gotta take her to the doctors or something
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Maggie:] [yawn]
[Kathleen:] No I'm buggered.
[Maggie:] Where's me anniversary card
[Kathleen:] I haven't got any money yet love....
[Maggie:] You're a tight fisted sod Bill, an anniversary card.... make sure I've got a bloody card for birthdays and everything.
[Kathleen:] [sigh]
[Maggie:] Her birthday's coming up soon.
[Kathleen:] Yeah about
[Maggie:] Yeah get me a card, it's Thursday, don't forget.
[Kathleen:] Thursday don't forget.
[Maggie:] No.
[Kathleen:] Thursday.
[Maggie:] Or she'll hit you.
[Kathleen:] Has your Da has your Dawn seen that video? What video's that?...
[Maggie:] You have, yeah. You took your video back?
[Kathleen:] Yeah, but one of my videos is out... oh what video's that that you've got?
[Maggie:] Naked Gun Two And A Half.
[Kathleen:] Oh! Ha have you seen? No. It is hilarious, I seen it, Mary's got a pirate... and it's er... anyhow I re it weren't a brilliant recording like but it's, you know, it's watchable and it's fantastic. Oh. Oh.... Do what?
[Maggie:] cough.
[Kathleen:] Do you know that bit in that er Top Gun where he, where they hit them air brakes sort of thing and the plane was going like that? Yeah. Well it, it shows... come on I'm gonna hit the brake, he's got a chuffing accelerator pedal, a clutch and a bloody brake pedal there and [LAUGHTER] he's banging like this and it's []... brake's not working prop it's, it's funny, but there was a bloody... tent there as well er where the Charlie Sheen is like an indian, and he's in this tent and this bloke calls to thingybob and he presses this bloody doorbell on it... on this tent, it's funny, I tell you it is funny when you wa er when you actually watch it.
[Maggie:] . He's bought some cheap and nasty medicine for about thirty five pence got rid of.
[Kathleen:] Yeah she's been on about it.
[Maggie:] His dad spent a bloody fortune on all different stuff for me.
[Kathleen:] Yeah she just went out yesterday into pharmacy he says right er she told him what she'd got he says right, he give her some... Benolin stuff
[Maggie:] Oh for?
[Kathleen:] No for, it was for Sharon so
[Maggie:] Oh has she got it an'all?
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah she's getting it, it's all round
[Maggie:] [cough] Steve's got it, coldsores and all into his eyes, he's got eye infection. Oh it's [cough]
[Kathleen:] I know I went down to see him, he's got a really... everybody's dying aren't they?
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] I'm not. I've still got it only, I've got the immunity system inside me now. I've had it. I must be good I've been round your mum every day but I haven't got it. Oh. You know when I'm gonna get it? Two weeks on Friday.
[Maggie:] Why what happens then?
[Kathleen:] I'm on holiday. Hmm.
[Maggie:] Oh that'll be alright then, don't wanna get it before.
[Kathleen:] Yeah two weeks on Friday. Never fail I always get a day or two before holiday starts. What's that Mutant like, any good?... It's alright. Ah well... I ain't, I ain't bothered getting any videos recently, I just haven't. I thought
[Maggie:] What's it like at that shop then? Greens... Paki now innit?
[Kathleen:] Is it a Paki who's got it now?
[Maggie:] Yeah they took it over.
[Kathleen:] [cough] that time he took this fridge and you kept asking him if he were selling it cos w it were empty weren't it, and he says no it's a load of rubbish. Well he did, he sold it. Oh. Paki shop, the Pakis are everywhere now aren't they?
[Maggie:] Yeah. But at least they put stock in the bloody shops don't they?
[Kathleen:] You can get summat can't you?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. It's not they're loaded. Urgh... oh that's bad!... No... February tenth, poll tax. Oh. I'm not, mine's paid. Yeah. Oh we, I'm gonna go erm I'm going to It said something in paper today on Friday. they've sent said fifty odd thousand out but if people go in and make arrangements Yeah. it can stop them going to court or if they go in and pay it off they don't go to court. Yeah. Well I'm making arrangements to pay mine er but... when I get paid on Friday it were going through, gotta pay him twenty five pounds and then fifteen pounds every fortnight thereafter... and it'll take seven months to pay but that's all he can get off us. Mm well that's not bad.... [sigh]... [sniff] And me rent's all off now. All because I got a, I got a job, you know, I got that security job and everything Yeah. the rent went up, right? And by the time I finished that job, I worked for about two month... and I were four hundred pound in rent arrears. Yeah but you've got all that sorted now. Oh yeah. I only owe about six quid.... You haven't done bad. No. Haven't done bad at all.... Mm have you not been working then? Yeah I'm working in Oh. Went back yesterday, tomorrow I'll carry on, Thursday I might have a lay in
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] Yeah I heard it were a right frigging had an argument with Chinese bloke... [sigh]
[Maggie:] What didn't they pay him then or what?
[Kathleen:] I don't know what w er what had gone off, Mark put, Mark had parked his ca right, he went in his shop he, Chinese is part of a shop of three
[Maggie:] Yeah?
[Kathleen:] right? And there's a Paki shop and another shop and round there there's a wall
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and cars park in there, you know?
[Maggie:] Yeah. Anybody that goes to the shops?
[Kathleen:] Yeah but it's a public
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] for the public. Right, Mark come in, pulled his car up nea er right near the Chinese but more chinky er more
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] thingy like. We were parked Chinese like, you know, waiting cos they normally wave to us if there's any things comes
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and Mark, Mark pulled in, went to Ch went to the Paki shop, come out and started talking to us. Anyway tapped on window for... told me to come in and says will you tell your mate to move his car.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] He says pardon? Says what, it's a public place this is isn't, this, this, this area is ours you know
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] that's right he says... this is Mark, he says come in here a minute, says will you move your car and he says no I won't move my car, he says this is a public area and my car is parked there I've been, been into the shop and I'm talking to my mates.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Says you will move your car now this is our property... you know, the Chinese.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And he says, he says er... he says I will not move my car and I don't get told anything, you know, I'm not doing nothing for you, you don't belong in this country and all this stuff [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] you're bloody Chinese, you know.
[Kathleen:] He says you don't belong in this country, he says you're a bloody Chinese, get back to bloody your own country, you don't tell me what to do in my own bloody country and all this lot.
[Maggie:] Oh bloody hell you don't say nothing like that.
[Kathleen:] Anyway he, he says, he says right he says Tony, he says to Tony, Chinese boy says do you wanna keep your job he says no, keep your fucking job.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Towed his car off and [] they, you know, they, they've got a car like and Yeah. er it were this mechanic who lives in who's, who knows a good mate of Tony's and he's told Tony... Tony told him like and he says right, he said leave the car to me.
[Maggie:] Tt....
[Kathleen:] He hasn't, they haven't paid him for this car yet
[Maggie:] Yeah?
[Kathleen:] to be done, they owe the er owe the bill Mm. they're trying to haggle with him now Mm. but he doesn't take, he don't mess about and they'll lob the car back. Mm.... [sigh]
[Maggie:] if you were alright, we've not seen anything of you.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Fine. Going up to chinky er chinky, going to ch chippy in a bit. Well, one o'clock.... [sigh]
[Maggie:] the chips' ll be fresh then Bill.
[Kathleen:] Why's that? Oh.
[Maggie:] Well they've not warmed them up.... If I'd known you was coming I would have done that bit of chicken.
[Kathleen:] I've got some sausage rolls here. I needed some change so I got two sausage rolls, I'm gonna wire them up on microwave in a bit right? Er... mixed with some beans and
[Maggie:] Er got bread Bill.
[Kathleen:] [yawning] Oh aye []. Oh what's, what's the difference between a penis and a works bonus? I don't know. The wife don't mind blowing the works bonus. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] I were told that other day.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] I like that one. Do you wanna hear another one? Steve'll like that one.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Er why d... why do women parachutists wear jockstraps?... To stop them whistling on the way down. Tt [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] told that one as well [] and why, why do... oh what's other one? Why... why don't blind people parachute? Don't know. Scares the shit out of guide dogs. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] Cos I read these in a paper [] and I thought hey these are very good ones here, I thought... I'll get them, I'll remember them. You get worse. [LAUGHTER] It's like our Albert, he tells that many jokes I can never remember half of what he tells me. He told me one twice [cough] I still can't remember the bleeder. [cough]
[Maggie:] He's pillock brained, your father, yesterday. There he is with the car, drives straight into the garage and the aerial goes ping! So he's waiting for you to come up and have a look at it.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] the aerial off [] the car hasn't he?
[Kathleen:] Snapped it?
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Well if he's snapped it the aerial
[Maggie:] I don't know whereabouts it's snapped.
[Kathleen:] though innit? probably snapped it and If Steve's going to have electric aerial he'll be doing the same thing. He never ever puts them down.... Or is it his C B aerial?
[Maggie:] The C B one says I've only just let you have it!
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] He's forgot it's there [].
[Maggie:] He's not had much sleep though, poor sod.
[Kathleen:] You've got a spare bedroom you know.
[Maggie:] He won't sleep in it cos I won't sleep in it.
[Kathleen:] What's up with you... why?...
[Maggie:] It's still got everything chucked on it.
[Kathleen:] Well...
[Maggie:] It was emptying but it's started filling up again....
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... Now we got our drier other day, it come through.
[Maggie:] Ah did it?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. [sigh] We can dry dry now, I just leave it, I leave both doors shut and it keeps kitchen warm.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Yeah they do. Yes.
[Maggie:] But you've gotta watch the con mind you it won't make no difference, condensation, will it?...
[Kathleen:] ... Yeah they don't half make kitchen warm though. Mm. I used to have one but he got fed up of me using it so he cut plug off
[Maggie:] Ah
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] and we ended up selling it [].
[Maggie:] How's your hoover now then?
[Kathleen:] Working so so. It's the moment. Mind you er
[Maggie:] Yeah well at least it's
[Kathleen:] it's working
[Maggie:] better than it was.
[Kathleen:] Yeah well next thing is a new hoover. [sniff]...
[Maggie:] So are you doing the one o'clock or not bothering?
[Kathleen:] No... can't be bothered to do owt to be honest. [LAUGHTER] That's just how I feel. Can't wait for me holidays. You going to stay for Tom's thing? No I'm going to Where?
[Maggie:] Or
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Or I'm going to Rome [LAUGHTER] innit, Rome? Yeah. cos it's somewhere [LAUGHTER] []
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] I'll wait for me gold card to come through and then I can go somewhere hot.
[Maggie:] That should be here before then shouldn't it?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Got a holiday. [cough] [cough]
[Maggie:] Oh yeah that thing might come so I'll keep a check out in case I see a
[Kathleen:] Yeah, parcel post coming in.
[Maggie:] big parcel post.
[Kathleen:] midi hi-fi system.
[Maggie:] Yeah she's won in everything.
[Kathleen:] You won it? Yeah.... I won a gold card worth a thousand pound Mm. and er
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Ah well you're alright.
[Flo:] That's..., hasn't had much of a rest today so
[Kathleen:] Has he been out all day then?
[Flo:] No, he'll be out... went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I've been up since seven, I've not really sat down all day.
[Kathleen:] Oh!
[Flo:] Quarter of these?
[Kathleen:] Yes please. Oh I haven't had none of them for ages packets of them. [sounds of things being tipped and weighed]
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER] That's what everyone says, oh I used to have those.
[Kathleen:] Yeah erm Alice at school, she give me one but hers weren't called them and I said they were called Imps
[Flo:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] and these were called summat else but they was exactly the same.... Oh I want a bottle of pop... have you any in fridge, no?
[Flo:] What bottles? No.
[Kathleen:] Oh I'll have a bottle of milk then. [LAUGHTER]
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER] Well it's cold
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... [whispering] Orange []... Bet you're ready for shutting aren't you?
[Flo:] What?
[Kathleen:] Thought you said about you're ready for shutting.
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER] Forgot what I said then [] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] You're cracking up. Oh look at that, I'm gonna be a pig.
[Flo:] Mm that's what I've... cos I've not been very busy I've been picking, you know like a few peanuts [LAUGHTER] there's chocolate peanuts, there's []
[Kathleen:] He's mending car, he's been working all day and now he's mending car it conked out other day conked out other day and he thought it were points, he changed points and I says to him have you changed plugs? He went [clicks fingers] I knew there were summat
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] now he's changing plugs. [LAUGHTER]
[Flo:] What, in the dark?
[Kathleen:] He's got one of them clip-on
[Flo:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] oogifibs... Oh a couple of them.
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] to do with it.
[Flo:] Well that's what I, that's what I've been doing.
[Kathleen:] Nibbling?
[Flo:] Nibbling, that's the worse thing I can do.
[Kathleen:] I know.
[Flo:] I were just like that when I were at home on me own at night, John used to play dominoes on a Friday night, the kids were in bed I'd be in and out of kitchen
[Kathleen:] Yeah I did
[Flo:] picking.
[Kathleen:] too... but this one, he hasn't been on nights.
[Flo:] Three twenty three please....
[Kathleen:] I've got three... I haven't got the twenty but [LAUGHTER] I've got the three []
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Kathleen:] Ta.... I've just informed him that he can work longer if he wants, I thought smart move.
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Have you got a bag I can put these into... oh there's one over here.... I thought I don't see enough of him now, till half past seven and then he says home all day [LAUGHTER] like he was before []. I think I prefer that actually.
[Flo:] Do you?
[Kathleen:] I do, yeah. [bags rustling too much to hear]
[Flo:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Tarrah. Yeah that's true. [LAUGHTER] You can't win no matter what you do. Ta-ta. I know, it's just that I remembered picking milk up this morning to make Maggie a drink, and there didn't seem a lot... so I thought I must remember
[Steve:] a new bottle isn't there?
[Kathleen:] No. There never is is there?... So when I see it... cos I thought I have Alice and... them, so I and in the room and I fridge.... [yawning] Oh dear [].... I wonder where my torch has gone, as if I didn't know like. It were on windowsill in corner.
[Steve:] You know using it.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... Shan't worry about it
[Steve:] That's not the point, he knows damn well it's me snap.... There's your spare light up here.
[Kathleen:] I know, I wondered why you'd left it on table....
[Steve:] That were mine.
[Kathleen:] Where?
[Steve:] In car.
[Kathleen:] Oh and it fell out of your pocket?
[Steve:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Ah I just wondered, shall I turn this light off?
[Steve:] Er yes.
[Kathleen:] Why did you fill this up and leave it on table?...
[Steve:] I don't know to be honest.
[Kathleen:] It were sat
[Steve:] I took it to work one day
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Steve:] and used it....
[Kathleen:] Oh I wondered,...
[Steve:] Mm oh I thought light were in there then,...
[Kathleen:] It is a bit dark innit?...
[Steve:] You've been to shop, did you get?
[Kathleen:] Ooh! Me memory don't work any more, it's shut down for Christmas. [tv on]...... Where is me pen? There's always a pen in me bag.... Do you know, you could've filled that in, I could've shoved it in post box....
[Steve:] I know....
[Kathleen:] You'll end up with about a dozen letters on mantel again cos I always forget to post things.... Well I'll post that tomorrow....
[Steve:] Well there's no rush. Aye you can, yeah....
[Kathleen:] Well usually if there's not a stamp wanted, is there a stamp wanted?
[Steve:] No.
[Kathleen:] Yeah usually if there's no stamp wanted I get one of lasses while I'm at work, they'll drop it off for me. I always say will you do me a favour and they shove it in box.
[Steve:] [sigh]... Erm... ah
[Kathleen:] ?
[Steve:] No, shower.
[Kathleen:] shower?
[Steve:] Why do you want your hair washing?
[Kathleen:] No.... I'm gonna have a proper bath later. See you later.... Well I says to her, I says what,do won't they have a big gap?
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] But some of these tapes are funny.
[Maggie:] Why's that?
[Kathleen:] Well you know where they're working outside all time?
[Maggie:] And traffic.
[Kathleen:] Traffic and all sorts, see I were talking to Joyce this morning
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] and, I meant to listen to it but I forgot
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] and there were buses and lorries and, quite a lot of the tapes, they've got buses and lorries and all sorts, with working outside.
[Maggie:] With you being a lollipop lady it's bound to happen innit?
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Maggie:] [sigh]
[Kathleen:] Haven't you thought of going back to doctors?
[Maggie:] [sniff]... Haven't you thought it costs three pound bloody sixty a prescription?... Yeah, and he always writes me out a couple and I ain't got the money. Tt. He never decides to leave me one thing.
[Kathleen:] How did
[Maggie:] Whereabouts did you say your mum were born?
[Kathleen:] Me mum?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Durham.
[Maggie:] And your dad was born here?
[Kathleen:] No.... Scotland.
[Maggie:] Scotland?...
[Kathleen:] So I'm... er I've got Durham, Scottish... er me grandparents come from Lee Lancs
[Maggie:] Lee Lancs?
[Kathleen:] Yeah, me mum always said Lee Lancs
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Or was she born in Lee Lancs?... Anyway they were born one place and moved one place and then they come to after I were born.
[Maggie:] Well let's hope they can try and decipher my bloody dialect, because
[Kathleen:] I
[Maggie:] my granddad yeah, yeah but my granddad, he's Scotch... my other granddad was a German, me grandma were Jewish... and I were born in London so let them fathom that out. Favom
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] Mm
[Kathleen:] Yeah I just write where you were born, where your... cos it says regional accent, I'm assuming that means...
[Maggie:] Kensington I were born, London.
[Kathleen:] I just put London.
[Maggie:] Yeah well it's London anyway.
[Kathleen:] It's easier.... It's like your Billy he
[Maggie:] Where did you put Billy was born?... Hong Kong.
[Kathleen:] No.
[Maggie:] He was.
[Kathleen:] It says regional accent, well he's Yorkshire int he?...
[Maggie:] He's a Chinese
[Kathleen:] He's a Chinese what?
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Ah it's, I've got one to fill in, I must remember, Nadine's.
[Maggie:] She's Turkish isn't she?
[Kathleen:] She's Turkish yeah, they come to London.
[Maggie:] Ah.
[Kathleen:] Cos the accent she's got is London.
[Maggie:] Is it?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] Doesn't sound like mine....
[Kathleen:] Yeah but there's different parts of London, you all sound different don't you?
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Cos don't forget there's people who's moved from Donny and had their kids in London
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] and they sound different.
[Maggie:] Our Billy don't sound like... Steve and Gary does he? Where they're proper Yorkshire-ified, our Billy's... like a posh sort of Yorkshire.
[Kathleen:] Well he were born in Hong Kong weren't he?
[Maggie:] Yeah but he g er came here at fifteen bloody months old didn't he?
[Kathleen:] He were talking.
[Maggie:] [sigh] Only mum and dad.... Couldn't say much more....
[Kathleen:] Ah there she is.
[Maggie:] Who's that?
[Kathleen:] Nadine.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] There's a bit on bottom [reading] please write their first name... are there any people mentioned above who's first language is not English []... and that's Nadine
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] cos she talks both.
[Maggie:] Does she?...
[Kathleen:] Yeah. I've heard her talking to her dad.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] And I s that's when I says to her where do you come from? She says me dad's Turkish. [LAUGHTER]...
[Maggie:] I remember when we stopped out in Bahrain at er
[Kathleen:] How do you spell Turkish?
[Maggie:] [spelling] T U R K I S H []... I mean they
[Kathleen:] You missed summat. [spelling] T U R K
[Maggie:] [] [spelling] K I
[Kathleen:] I []... missed I again, I tell you I'm rubbish at spelling, me.... Mm they originate from Turkey and then they moved to London.
[Maggie:] But when we stopped in Bahrain out in Hong Kong, well when we got into Hong Kong, you get this little tiny cup... it's about an eighth of the size of that bloody thing, and it's thick and it's horrible, their coffee.
[Kathleen:] What is it?
[Maggie:] Coffee. We stopped at the airport and they says... who wants coffee or who wants tea? And you thought... they're coming round with bloody kiddy's toy cups. But it w it was thick, it were bloody rank it was. You've never tasted coffee like it.... Thick coffee.
[Kathleen:] I've heard about that before.
[Maggie:] Oh it's horrible....
[Kathleen:] I like making me own coffee, at least I know I can drink it.
[Maggie:] Aye....
[Kathleen:] Yeah. [sigh] I'm hoping that washing dries.
[Maggie:] It'll dry, the sun's out anyway innit?
[Kathleen:] It's going in again, it saw me put socks out.
[Maggie:] Don't say it's going in again!
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Do you know it's never failed me yet, I put socks out
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and it always ends up going right, so they don't dry, right funny so it don't d... or it rains. That's why I thought I'll get the stupid things out this morning and then them, they'll all be dried by tomorrow.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] I can't remember if I've been in bathroom and picked them up, Steve's getting a sod... with him getting bath every night
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] he's er just dropping them.
[Maggie:] Did I tell you, had Gary paid for his er... insurance on that, that er... tt if anything happens to him going over to France, he's insured
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah.
[Maggie:] twenty one quid,
[Kathleen:] Well how long how long's he going, for a week or a fortnight?
[Maggie:] Fortnight.
[Kathleen:] Fortnight?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] When's he go, May?
[Maggie:] Sixteenth or nineteenth, somewhere around there.
[Kathleen:] Comes back in June? No?
[Maggie:] Oh I dunno, he comes back when he feels like it.
[Kathleen:] End of May, beginning of June.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I've got summat for your Gary.
[Maggie:] For his ear?
[Kathleen:] No, oh no. Erm... he bought that car off Steven didn't he?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I found instructions.
[Maggie:] Ah.
[Kathleen:] And I think, I know where they are, I think they're on bed.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] Cos I got them out and I thought I must take them downstairs and give them to Maggie for her to give them to Gary.
[Maggie:] Right.
[Kathleen:] twisted round then gonna say something
[Maggie:] Oh. [sigh]
[Kathleen:] Thought while I'm thinking about it I'll do it....
[Maggie:] [yawn] [cough]... [shouting] You what []?
[Kathleen:] [speaking from another room] Just saying I'm a stupid bugger.
[Maggie:] What you done now?...
[Kathleen:] I checked Steven's bedroom for washing
[Maggie:] Mm. But you left
[Kathleen:] round, I've, I have checked bathroom, I took it out of bathroom and guess what, I didn't check?
[Maggie:] What?
[Kathleen:] Our bedroom....
[Maggie:] [yawn]
[Kathleen:] That's on pile in bedroom. I thought ooh! Aren't I. Yeah that belongs to that car.
[Maggie:] Ah. He played with it once, it's stuck on top of the bloody cupboard like everything else he buys.
[Kathleen:] He's saving it for his kids, that's what he says....
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Or he'll end up giving it away as a present, there's nowt wrong with box, car, nothing.
[Maggie:] He'll save it for his own.
[Kathleen:] Well that's it.
[Maggie:] If he gets... gotta get a bird first. [LAUGHTER] Ah
[Kathleen:] Your Gary's happy as he is, he's enjoying life.
[Maggie:] He is.
[Kathleen:] That's the mistake Steven's made... girlfriends....
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Knowing he can't afford them with him being in college
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and then he's just gone mad, I think they've gone to his head. Did I tell you they call him Juan now?
[Maggie:] Yeah that's a new one innit?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] Be alright if one of the birds turn up here and you say oh hello Florence, oh no I'm not Florence I'm Zebedee.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] You know?
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah that's true.... I'm wondering what that thing is on Maureen's wall, have you seen it?...
[Maggie:] No, ain't been looking.
[Kathleen:] It looks it flaps about, if you look at Maureen's wall near drainpipe you can see this thing
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] flapping all over. I keep meaning to
[Maggie:] Whereabouts are you looking?
[Kathleen:] You know drainpipe
[Maggie:] Yeah
[Kathleen:] you've got that little window, then drainpipe?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] At side of drainpipe. You can see it flapping about, you watch in a sec... it starts flapping.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] Can you see it?
[Maggie:] Mm don't know what that is.
[Kathleen:] I don't know. I keep meaning to
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] see if it's a vent or summat or a... piece of plastic.
[Maggie:] Might have put one in.
[Kathleen:] They've put it in the sun whatever it is.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] Unless it's that cooker thing, I think her cooker's there. She's got one of them oogies... them erm... tt fan things.
[Maggie:] Oh it might be an extractor.
[Kathleen:] That's it.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] She's got one of them.... Mm and that's about right place where it is, I wonder if it's that.
[Maggie:] [cough] I dunno but I like her curtains. [cough]
[Kathleen:] Yeah they're nice aren't they?
[Maggie:] [cough] Oh.
[Kathleen:] I didn't like them when she first put them up
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] but they're alright now.... Flo's trying to con me.
[Maggie:] Why?
[Kathleen:] She wants me rails, these metal rails that I've got.
[Maggie:] She mentioned that the other day didn't she?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. She wanted them so I says to her if she wanted them
[Maggie:] [cough]...
[Kathleen:] I was after wooden ones
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] now I says, now I've seen some wooden ones in her house, I said
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] if she wants to swap I'll swap her.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] The crafty [LAUGHTER] bugger says [] to me, what did she say, they're fourteen pound summat... I think she says, these wooden ones
[Maggie:] Ah, I dunno.
[Kathleen:] and er I says well I thought you'd got some. Now
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] I'm sure I've seen one in her house
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and she says no, she says one I've got's only a thin one, you want that thicker one, you know with these being thick
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] she says so I thought if I buy you one... she says you give me them two, I says whoa hang on a minute, I says I've got two windows
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] not one window, I says I'm not giving you two for one.
[Maggie:] Two for one, that's bloody daft.
[Kathleen:] I says and at that price why don't you buy them yourself
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] you know? And she says well I thought if I buy you one you can buy other one, I says go and naff off.
[Maggie:] Well that's daft innit?
[Kathleen:] I says I don't, I says when am I gonna be able to go to town I says and afford fifteen quid for another bloody rail? I says you
[Maggie:] When you've already got some up.
[Kathleen:] Yeah! She wants me to take them down and swap them for one. Steve'll go mad.
[Maggie:] Yeah. Bloody would an'all.
[Kathleen:] I thought you crafty sod.... She wants them to extend to eight feet, well these don't extend to eight feet, they extend to seven.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] And I thought no I'm not, Steve's just cleaned them up.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] He spent about two hours in with them. Have you seen what he's done to ends of them, they've gone silvery, he's rubbed and rubbed and rubbed
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] Rubbed too bloody hard [].
[Kathleen:] and he's rubbed all colour off it. They've got silver ends on them ones. I said I says can't you rub harder on other piece.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]... He ain't done them ones yet.
[Kathleen:] He's done these ones.
[Maggie:] Well they, are they not silvery then?
[Kathleen:] Well he washed this one first and then he went over there and er then it dawned on him that the ends pull off...
[Maggie:] Ah!
[Kathleen:] on ends, so he took the two ends off, cleaned the rails and he was sat on settee watching telly rubbing away and rubbing away and I says hey you gonna put them ends back on? And he'd been rubbing for that long they'd gone that colour.
[Maggie:] Like my Steven with my new non-stick pans.
[Kathleen:] I remember.
[Maggie:] He took all the black off.
[Kathleen:] He scrubbed and scrubbed till it all come off didn't he?
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] How old were he then, about thirteen?
[Maggie:] No he were younger than that.
[Kathleen:] I can remember that, he come over and told me.
[Maggie:] How did you get them all black mum, I said [LAUGHTER] they're bloody new ones [].
[Kathleen:] Not now.
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] I want a new frying pan. I keep using me best pan.
[Maggie:] I ain't got no best pans, I've had my pa most of my pans, they've all near enough come from either Embassy cigarette coupons or Number Six coupons, and I've still got them and I've had some of them twenty bloody years, all them pans.
[Kathleen:] Have you?
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] [cough]...
[Kathleen:] You know when we saved them Berkeley packets?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Can you remember what we saved them for?... Marion asked me other day what we were saving them for, I said well we saved them... oh I remember! We saved them, they were on about cameras and that and then we found out inserts inside it that you got it with that didn't you?
[Maggie:] Well it was, it was, yeah yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. I've still got stacks of them in kitchen.
[Maggie:] I think I threw all mine away. Oh we did send for something... but I can't remember what....
[Kathleen:] She got one. You know like we got?
[Maggie:] What did I send off to get Gary them radio earphones?...
[Kathleen:] Regal.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] You know them that we got to send off for that, I got head bag and you got that?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Well I s I were saying to Irene, I says did you ever get one?
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] She says yeah I'm sure we did
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] I says well... if you don't smoke them I says me and Maggie'll get them for you
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I says she'll get Gary to collect them at work and that I says
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and I'll ask... you know
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Dave and them to save for me again
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I says and... get yoursen summat. Anyway er she rooted about in drawers yesterday and er
[Maggie:] She find it?
[Kathleen:] she found this booklet and it were like a cheque book
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] it's got the picture on but it's a cheque
[Maggie:] Yeah?
[Kathleen:] please send me one blah blah whatever it is.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] Anyway I were looking and I looked and I looked and I looked and I says well what cigarettes do you use for it? Cos it didn't but same
[Maggie:] Yeah, yeah.
[Kathleen:] all prizes were the same but it didn't
[Maggie:] Yeah, yeah.
[Kathleen:] Bloody cigar packets. I said ooh we can't help you with them, I says I haven't the faintest idea of anybody that smokes them.
[Maggie:] Not cigars.
[Kathleen:] Cos she says don't you? I says no I says I don't know anybody at all.... So I couldn't help her there at all.
[Maggie:] Well I give Gary them ra that radio earphones, he's got it in upstairs in the box on top of all the other bloody boxes.
[Kathleen:] Do you just keep collecting it?
[Maggie:] Well.
[Kathleen:] Wouldn't bother. I banged my finger on
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Didn't half hurt. Thought bloody hell.... It's a bus.
[Maggie:] A bus.
[Kathleen:] A bus.
[Maggie:] My little'un said bus... er our Cr Yeah Craigy were on about a bus, a bus... and erm little'un said bus.
[Kathleen:] Oh, she
[Maggie:] And then our Craigy said erm Home and Away nan... Home and Away nan.
[Kathleen:] Did he?
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Chuffing hell.
[Maggie:] Thought ooh bloody hell.
[Kathleen:] His speech is getting a lot better.
[Maggie:] It's not clear though Kath.... And he, he'd shout and
[Kathleen:] I thought that were that Brian now....
[Maggie:] Where?
[Kathleen:] I don't know.... Can't see where they've gone. Oh... it looks like him.
[Maggie:] What the crippled Brian?
[Kathleen:] He's looking at your house.
[Maggie:] Crippled Brian?...
[Kathleen:] He's looking at your house. Or is he looking at the bus? He's looking at the bus.... He walked up here, walked to your house, looked at the bus... I don't know... where'd he come from
[Maggie:] [cough]...
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]... And do you know that's only trouble with these nets
[Maggie:] I'm gonna have a wee... Bill's bloody worse, he stands there, he looks out the bloody window as much as any bugger.
[Kathleen:] He has he's just parked car, walked up here, looked at bus and walked back again.
[Maggie:] Is it Brian?
[Kathleen:] No, this one's driving a car.... He were looking at that bus.
[Maggie:] He might be another one of them from the er... from the council. [gone out of the room]
[Kathleen:] Yeah, well it's, they've done nowt but look at it for last three month.... [shouting] I like his registration [].... Well he parked car there
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] walked up there right to your house, eyed bus up... and then walked back again.
[Maggie:] Yeah because what they did they... they've done it a few a times though different people, look and see how far it is before it's a blind spot....
[Kathleen:] Your Bill nearly hit it other week he were telling me.
[Maggie:] I dunno but like er... say the d a driver's coming this way, he wants to see how far down the road it is before it's a blind spot again. And if they're from the council or whatever, or whoever does the roads or whatever... they'll probably get in contact with him again.
[Kathleen:] I should imagine they are from the council.
[Maggie:] [cough] [sneeze] That weren't too bad that one. Oh [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] That was only a oner.
[Maggie:] [sigh]
[Kathleen:] It sounded better.
[Maggie:] have a real good do. Wouldn't mind if I could just bloody bring it up. [sniff]
[Kathleen:] And it won't?
[Maggie:] No it won't shift.
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Maggie:] Bloody come up one way or the other. [sigh]... Oh I could fancy a nice horse.
[Kathleen:] I like leg.
[Maggie:] I don't want corned beef, that's, that, I don't want that.
[Kathleen:] I like leg.
[Maggie:] You like leg?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] Mm. [sigh]
[Kathleen:] I'm just debating whether to run in that kitchen and put that kettle on again, what do you reckon? [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Well I checked, you're alright, you're safe.
[Kathleen:] [sighing] That's alright then [].
[Maggie:] I checked cupboard.
[Kathleen:] I'm not going in cupboard
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] everything's on top []....
[Maggie:] [cough] [sigh]... [cough]
[Kathleen:] I'm gonna have to go and get some more milk.
[Maggie:] Some miluk
[Kathleen:] Yeah, I'll nip this afternoon and get some....
[Maggie:] I got strawberry or raspberry, I've got one of them.
[Kathleen:] [sneeze]... Normally I er... put a banana and a strawberry together to give it a different taste. [LAUGHTER] Oh yeah, pocket money....
[Maggie:] It's increased. What about last week's?
[Kathleen:] Yeah [LAUGHTER] [] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] I owe you a penny now.
[Kathleen:] I know you do, that's next week's.
[Maggie:] Have to save a penny.
[Kathleen:] Yeah that's next week.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] Yeah I put it in me pocket last night and I thought right I'll give her her two P and I bet your life she says what about other one....
[Maggie:] fifty pence the other week. gets a fifty pence but she don't like a fifty pence, she likes it all in change.
[Kathleen:] So she's got loads.
[Maggie:] Yeah so she's got a lot of money. Anyway she left twelve pence on the floor and Gary says whose is this money, said you leave it there, it's for Enid's... no nobody touch this chuffing twelve pence.... [sigh]...
[Kathleen:] She left twelve pence on floor and what?
[Maggie:] She left twelve pence on the floor and Bill put it in the cubby hole in the fireplace... and Gary says whose is this money and Arthur was going to pick it up an'all, he says leave that he says that's for Enid's money. Her twelve P.
[Kathleen:] Well there are.... Twelve P.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] What's sh what's Billy do, take her to shop?
[Maggie:] He gives... no Bill gives him fifty P, fifty P to, for whenever he sees her
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] and then he, he goes and buys her Smarties and crispies.
[Kathleen:] That's what I says to
[Maggie:] Mm
[Kathleen:] does he do that on the way out?
[Maggie:] Mm.... Unless Bill's gone to the shop and he brings them for her....
[Kathleen:] Ooh.
[Maggie:] So how far have we got now?...
[Kathleen:] Not far to go. Have to change tape.
[Maggie:] [cough] Ooh.
[Kathleen:] It'll have more coughs and splutters and er traffic and everything on this side.
[Maggie:] Well never mind. [cough] Oh gawld.... [sigh]...
[Kathleen:] Well it's bound to be hot I've just made it.
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] I'm alright doing it in pencil.
[Maggie:] You've gotta go over it all....
[Kathleen:] Oh I don't know.... I've gotta ring anyway, nine sixteen
[Maggie:] You've gotta d
[Kathleen:] twenties... thirties, forties.
[Maggie:] Is that the eldest is the forties?
[Kathleen:] No Irene's the eldest the crafty bleeder.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] That's what I'm looking for, I'm hoping she's rubbed it out in pencil.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] She scribbled it out. She doesn't, she didn't mind taping or owt, she were pretending that
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] she said... cos she were talking, she knew tape were still running and she were pretending to say that she didn't say I could do it but she did
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] erm what she were arguing with me [LAUGHTER] about [] is her age. Now she's sixty four
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] so she didn't want me to put sixty four down, but that's cheating
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] cos if you know the age you're supposed to put the age down
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] cos some people'll tell you and some people won't. So I put sixty four down so... well I didn't put sixty four, I put thirty plus thirty four
[Maggie:] Yeah, sixty four.
[Kathleen:] so that made sixty four. So she jumped up, grabbed the pencil and everything, she got a screwdriver first, [LAUGHTER] I thought she were gonna stab me with screwdriver [] and she were looking for a pencil
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] erm but luckily she's rubbed it out with thingy so...
[Maggie:] You're putting it back in.
[Kathleen:] I'm putting it back in.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] . So there. Now it's back again, it says thirty plus thirty four. She wanted me to put twenty one!
[Maggie:] Bloody hell.
[Kathleen:] I says get lost, I says that's cheating.
[Maggie:] I'm sixteen I am....
[Kathleen:] I put your age in. Forty seven.
[Maggie:] You cheeky cow!
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Forty seven, I'm not that old.
[Kathleen:] It's a good job I put forty two then innit? [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Oh that's being generous....
[Kathleen:] Have you already turned forty three?...
[Maggie:] I were born in forty seven. You work it out. I'm twenty eight.
[Kathleen:] I thought you were forty... well it were your birthday in September weren't it? You're forty four this year?...
[Maggie:] Am I? I dunno. I have to work out how old Bill is, Bill's
[Kathleen:] Fifty, that's three year. Sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, that's forty three... forty four this year.
[Maggie:] Forty four then this year.
[Kathleen:] If your birthday er I keep getting mixed up, it's your anniversary in February and it's your birthday in September.
[Maggie:] That's it.
[Kathleen:] So I'll have to change yours to forty three, I put forty two....
[Maggie:] Well... one year ain't gonna make no difference.
[Kathleen:] I forgot you've already had your birthday.
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] Oh... I'll just put a plus sign at it.
[Maggie:] No, no pluses!
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] That'll make me bloody double it!
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]... I can try hard can't I?
[Maggie:] Plus one then.
[Kathleen:] Plus one. No I'll leave it at forty two. I'm, got... you only had your birthday three month ago. Or... somewhere around there.... I'm thinking it's your birthday tomorrow, and it's not it's your anniversary tomorrow.
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] September eighth.
[Maggie:] That's right.
[Kathleen:] And February the sixth. Yeah.... So you'll have a right good anniversary tomorrow cos nobody'll be in....
[Maggie:] bed.
[Kathleen:] Yeah more than likely.... I had a good anniversary....
[Maggie:] How do you work that out?
[Kathleen:] Well I kept me own present, I stayed in bed [LAUGHTER] half a day didn't I []?
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] You swore on my machine.
[Maggie:] Did I say knickers or a worser word?
[Kathleen:] No. It were goo that's good compared to some of them.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] I says to her when she were leaving it, I says to her there's people that swear and that. She says it don't matter.
[Maggie:] [cough]...
[Kathleen:] And there's Fs and there's Bs.
[Maggie:] Oh well they ain't got Fs and Bs on
[Kathleen:] It's Linda that Fs and Bs' d. Steve swore. Er... and there's somebody else... somebody else swearing....
[Maggie:] If you rub out all the swear words you'll have n no bloody tapes left will you?
[Kathleen:] Oh no it's not bad, I think it were... er the first swear word I remember that went, went on it were... wait a minute... tape two, tape one ain't got none on that I know of.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] Tape two has... tape three has.... Tape two and tape three.... And this is tape four int it?
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] There's a lot of people won't let you do it.
[Maggie:] Won't they?
[Kathleen:] No.... I think they think you've got to have a conversation where you
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] talk about all what you talk about
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] but I don't, I stop it... when you get there.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] If they don't want
[Maggie:] No but that's personal innit?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. So I don't.... I'd've filled all twenty up now if they 'd 've all let me.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] But you can't be doing that can you?
[Maggie:] No....
[Kathleen:] If they got five tapes off everybody by the Christ they'll have some listening to do won't they?
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] Cos what's four tapes?... When I've finished this one I'll have one side left
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] ninety minutes a tape, that's an
[Maggie:] Three hours.
[Kathleen:] hour and half, that's... three, that's six hours.
[Maggie:] [cough] How do you work that out?
[Kathleen:] Well I taped six hours.... Ninety minutes a tape, that makes six.
[Maggie:] Oh yeah. [cough]...
[Kathleen:] Do you know what I've just noticed?
[Maggie:] What's that?
[Kathleen:] Cough.
[Maggie:] Er
[Kathleen:] Er watch that light, cough....
[Maggie:] Well you just said cough and it went off.
[Kathleen:] [cough]... I were watching it, every time you cough it starts flashing.... Dinky!... Steve keeps saying [LAUGHTER] he were [] he says I'm having that tape recorder, I says you're not she's coming to take it back.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] I'm gonna tell her I'm having that tape recorder, I says you're not, she's coming back for it on Friday.
[Maggie:] It's only a cheapo anyway innit?
[Kathleen:] I know, we've got that one.... We've got four Walkmans in here... like it, there's one at top there, I think that's same as this one. That one's a radio thingy, the one Steven's got's a, a radio thingy, this one isn't. But what he likes about it is microphone.
[Maggie:] What's that one?...
[Kathleen:] That's what my brother's son did to his father....
[Maggie:] bloody having them then is he?
[Kathleen:] I paid fi fifteen bleeding quid for that... and I sai cos this year, I didn't know he'd done this... cos he sits it like that
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] or clips it like that and you can't tell
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] anyway he give it to his father and, well I'd already bought the other one I'd
[Maggie:] Mm
[Kathleen:] cos I says if he looks after it I'll buy him one with radio on as well
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] so... I just paid that one... with radio.... But I wish he'd stop nicking my bleeding torch, he's getting a swine for that. I only got it back, you know when I got it back?
[Maggie:] When he moved out.
[Kathleen:] No when batteries are dead.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] I get all me torches back when battery's dead. I got one with a big chunky battery, it should've lasted about six month to a year
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] a right good'un it were, our Arthur give me torch and I had to buy a battery, I paid about three pound odd for this battery
[Maggie:] Tell you what I bet he had it under the blankets... reading his books.
[Kathleen:] He did. You've got it. Exactly....
[Maggie:] I wondered what that was? It's something clanging round in your washing machine.
[Kathleen:] It'll be zip on his erm... tracksuit. I found jacket, did I tell you?
[Maggie:] No.
[Kathleen:] I got jacket and bottom.... And some underwear....
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] I can't stick that.
[Maggie:] [cough] I like that.
[Kathleen:] I can't stick it.
[Maggie:] [cough] I like it if I do it with bacon and sausage.
[Kathleen:] Ooh no. I got your Billy yesterday and I says oh do us a favour I says will you... say owt, anything, just
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] tell us about breathing, no you're not getting my voice on that thing he says, I, I don't like [LAUGHTER] hearing me voice and everything, and he threw it on the settee []. [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Oh we had a right laugh about it []. Couldn't stop laughing. Me and your mam did one this morning, I had about twenty minutes left on it and she helped me finish it off
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] so I could swap tapes over.
[Alice:] Oh very good. Very good.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Alice:] Yeah. [shouting] Yeah, what's yeah mean []? Yeah
[Kathleen:] I don't know.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah, yeah and all that, bloody hell. What have you been doing?
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Have you been to your mam's?
[Alice:] Yeah I've been to me mam's, I've just had a cup of coffee and some fairy bun summat or other and... ate these fairy buns.
[Kathleen:] The crafty get, she didn't give me one. I've been over and she didn't give me one.
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Yet she comes in here and eats me cakes and biscuits. She had toast and tea this morning.
[Alice:] Bloody hell.
[Kathleen:] I stood in kitchen and I smothered this slice of toast and butter were just literally running off it and it were
[Alice:] Running off it.
[Kathleen:] all soggy and floppy
[Alice:] Oh God.
[Kathleen:] but we had to do that with her having a sore throat.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] God....
[Alice:] Mm.... Shoes want polishing Kath.
[Kathleen:] I know, Steven's nicked all polish
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] and I had another one, you know one of them with sponges on?
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And he snapped sponge off end.... sat and got [LAUGHTER] going like that
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER] Ooh.
[Kathleen:] Couldn't stop laughing. What's J J doing anyway? Gone to her mam's?
[Alice:] No she's going somewhere... we went to Donny other day... all money we've been getting like, when I first, she, when I first, before we got that giro for me
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Alice:] and J J, she got one week's money didn't she?
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Alice:] So I went and I give her that
[Kathleen:] That that you got.
[Alice:] sixty two
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Alice:] right? Out of that other money
[Kathleen:] Your seventy odd?
[Alice:] Yeah. Then I got my seventy odd and she got another week's money... and we just put it all together and we split it down the middle... said right there's your half, there's mine
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Alice:] erm she says er... right do what you want with yours, I'll do what I want with mine. Anyhow I went out and I got this baby nest shawl thing
[Kathleen:] Oh for baby?
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Alice:] Thirty quid.
[Kathleen:] You what!
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER] Thirty quid [] it's gorgeous, I looked at it... she picked this one up, white, and I says don't like it
[Kathleen:] Is that the one in
[Alice:] I says tight get, only eight quid.
[Kathleen:] is that the one in pushchair where their feet are all covered up and
[Alice:] No it's a baby shawl thing, you know, where you carry, to come out of hospital in
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah.
[Alice:] Like w a qu quilt thing with a zip. You know what I mean? And it's got like a hood thing.
[Kathleen:] And you can put them in pushch er pram, sorry
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Alice:] Well I got one of them and it's pure silk, pale green and white and with all lacy I thought I like it.
[Kathleen:] Are you keeping that for all of them now?
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] That's your special one?
[Alice:] Yeah that cost us thirty quid.
[Kathleen:] Good God.
[Alice:] And er I says are you going out? She says what on? I says that. Says... no that's your money, you buy whatever you want for baby, I'll buy... she bought her one for eight quid and I says let's have a look at your one, yours are only eight quid I says, well how much were yours? I says... thirty, she went
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] you paid thirty quid [LAUGHTER] for that []
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] I says yeah. She says you... [LAUGHTER] []
[Kathleen:] Ah.
[Alice:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] Bloody hell.
[Alice:] So anyway... I went to Index cos I want [cough] I want and a watch... [cough] I'm looking for a watch cos, and I thought oh aye... I come to rings, I thought well I owe her a ring [cough] so I thought oh better half eternity ring [cough] they're cheap anyway.
[Kathleen:] yeah.
[Alice:] [cough] And anyhow twenty nine ninety nine so I bought her one. I says here don't say I don't buy you nowt. Says it's me birthday on twenty seventh of February, I want a watch. Anyway she says which one do you want? I says that one, sixty four er er pound something
[Kathleen:] Bloody hell!
[Alice:] and, oh it's gorgeous, great big, you know
[Kathleen:] Did she get it?
[Alice:] No she's buying it for me birthday.
[Kathleen:] She'll have no money by then.
[Alice:] So, oh she will, she's got some in
[Kathleen:] When's baby due?
[Alice:] April
[Kathleen:] Ah.
[Alice:] April, May time.
[Kathleen:] Shame you couldn't have it for your birthday.
[Alice:] I know.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] I'm having me watch for me birthday anyway so
[Kathleen:] You're having your watch?
[Alice:] Yeah, for me birthday. And er
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Alice:] says that one should last me just over a year, that one should. Well she bought me one last year
[Kathleen:] Sixty pound for a year!
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Bloody hell!
[Alice:] And the one cost me twenty quid and that lasted me just over a year. I was
[Kathleen:] Stephen's last him about six week. If it starts going funny he takes the back off to have a look, no matter how much you pay for it.
[Alice:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] He dismantles the lot, he's stupid. I've got more straps and bloody cordless watches, everything, all over the place.
[Alice:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] Cos Wayne give him one, he paid seventy quid for it... and he dismantled that one in three week of having it.
[Alice:] Tt... yeah it's in Index. Have you got Index book?
[Kathleen:] Yeah it's in cupboard.
[Alice:] I'll show you it. I'll show that ring I got her as well....
[Kathleen:] in cupboard.... My beloved's been in this cupboard and messed it all up. I've got Sarah coming down this afternoon
[Alice:] You have?
[Kathleen:] Yeah she slept in for work again.
[Alice:] Ha!
[Kathleen:] She's gonna get sack her by time she's finished....
[Alice:] Mm well
[Kathleen:] She's more at home than she is at work.
[Alice:] that one.
[Kathleen:] Did I tell you she got her inheritance?
[Alice:] Inheritance?
[Kathleen:] Yeah she... twenty one other week and
[Alice:] And how much she get?
[Kathleen:] Four and a half thousand....
[Alice:] Four and a half thousand pounds! Did she?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... She's chuffed to death. Only thing she weren't chuffed about is she couldn't cash cheque, it had to go all through bank and everything.
[Alice:] Yeah it would have done, yeah.... Thirty three.... Mm that's the one I got her.... That one.
[Kathleen:] Oh you got her mine. I were looking at that one
[Alice:] Yeah, thirty three quid.
[Kathleen:] so I can take that middle'un off and get it to match.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] That's what I were gonna do.
[Alice:] Yeah I got her that one, over there.
[Kathleen:] It's nice that. Thirty
[Alice:] Thirty three quid. Er twenty nine ninety nine.
[Kathleen:] Twenty nine ninety nine.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Is it real gold?
[Alice:] Yeah it's real gold and diamond.
[Kathleen:] Nine carat gold. Diamond set. Good God.
[Alice:] Yeah diamonds and sapphires it, it's got... half, half er
[Kathleen:] Half eternity.
[Alice:] eternity, that's right.
[Kathleen:] One two three... three of one, four of other.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Oh it's nice that.
[Alice:] And then I thought well it's, it's got, it says diamonds and sapphire, I thought they can't be real but it says, you know
[Kathleen:] If it says diamonds they're real.
[Alice:] Yeah they're real.
[Kathleen:] It's only cos they're chips
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] diamond chips, they'll be little tiny ones
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] smack in middle are they?
[Alice:] Yeah they are.
[Kathleen:] Yeah I thought they are er... smaller than that. Ah there they are, there.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] That's a diamond and sapphire just a bit bigger than yours
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] that one.
[Alice:] Aha.
[Kathleen:] It's nice that,
[Alice:] But it looks nice, yeah, I bought her that one.
[Kathleen:] There it is, I think that's it, twenty six, twenty six, twenty six, twenty si yeah that's it. See that?
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] That's erm erm er er Sarah's engagement ring....
[Alice:] Sar Sarah's engagement ring?
[Kathleen:] Yeah she got engaged.
[Alice:] Twenty six.
[Kathleen:] Couldn't remember if I told you.
[Alice:] Thirty four quid. Mm very nice.
[Kathleen:] Cos I says thirty odd quid, she says yeah they're on special
[Alice:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] cos they're knock-down prices aren't they?
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And er... she says that she didn't want summat expensive when she could be buying summat for kitchen, you know, like a microwave or summat like that.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] So I don't blame her really.... I've buggered me alarm clock up. I got mad because
[Alice:] How did you do that?
[Kathleen:] it wouldn't set so [LAUGHTER] I hit it [] [LAUGHTER] and you know buttons? I went... [thumping noise] like that on top and I said bloody work! And all buttons went inside. [LAUGHTER]
[Alice:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] Steve looked at it, he said I think you'd better go to shop and buy yoursen a new one. [LAUGHTER]...
[Alice:] ...
[Kathleen:] I don't know. Sometimes they've got some in that book, they're in them leaflets....
[Alice:] I would have picked that one as well
[Kathleen:] Like Steve's.
[Alice:] That one?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Alice:] Yeah I that one as well.... There were that one and this other one but I like this other one because it's like that.... there.
[Kathleen:] It might be on one of them leaflet things, you know they make the leaflets?
[Alice:] Yeah. Not in there.
[Kathleen:] Might be on that. But they've got some nice things in there.
[Alice:] Yeah they have.
[Kathleen:] I were looking for an alarm clock, I thought [LAUGHTER] I better have a new one else I'm gonna start sleeping in [] for work.
[Alice:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] But they're usually cheap in here but I want one that
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] plays music, I can't hear an alarm clock. It's got to
[Alice:] Be a radio alarm clock?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Otherwise I can't get up.... Cos Steve always had to wake me up for work
[Alice:] yeah.
[Kathleen:] and er then he decided to buy me a radio alarm for Christmas.
[Alice:] Mhm.
[Kathleen:] And it worked, I've heard it ever since... till I hit it.... Haven't you done owt like this, things like this? Can't you have them sort of thing?
[Alice:] Oh aye yeah we've got a toaster and one of them Bra er Breville toaster things and
[Kathleen:] ?
[Alice:] Er I got rid of that thing.
[Kathleen:] Did you?
[Alice:] Yeah. I've got me microwave now though.
[Kathleen:] Oh cos... ain't you got one summat like this?
[Alice:] Eh?
[Kathleen:] Didn't she have a two ring burner or summat like that?
[Alice:] Yeah she had a two ring cooker thing, yeah.
[Kathleen:] She got rid of it?
[Alice:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] Ah. I thought you weren't supposed to have one of them?
[Alice:] You're not.
[Kathleen:] But you can have microwave?
[Alice:] You can have microwave, yeah....
[Kathleen:] Can't you have a deep fat fryer and things like that?
[Alice:] No it's a fire hazard.
[Kathleen:] Oh. Oh that's not a fire hazard, you can have it?
[Alice:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Kathleen:] They're cheaper in here I know. Mm.... My
[Alice:] It's with condensation of fat and everything... er with them just decorating all rooms and that it's
[Kathleen:] Ah. so you can have microwaves, toaster, kettle
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and things like that and that's about it.
[Alice:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] Oh I were just wondering. Can't find clocks.... Can't find bugger all....
[Alice:] [whistling]
[Kathleen:] Oh so they'll be round here somewhere then won't they?
[Alice:] Yeah, radio alarm clocks.
[Kathleen:] I just wondered how much they are cos that one that er just disintegrated on me, I got it from Britannia. It's rubbish.
[Alice:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] It's never worked proper
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] it sort of played about two or three minutes of music and then it went crrrkkkkkk for a few minutes, that's why I kept hitting it. [LAUGHTER] And then music, if you hit it, music come back on.
[Alice:] Oh well
[Kathleen:] Stupid it were.... Have to have a proper look later, I can't find it.
[Alice:] [whistling]
[Kathleen:] Ah found one. I says I can't find them, I found them. Here we are
[Alice:] [whistling]
[Kathleen:] what's that one, number four, number four... [reading] digital clock, mains operated, fast time, alarm set, snooze feature, battery back-up [] four ninety five.
[Alice:] Not bad
[Kathleen:] That's not bad at all that.
[Alice:] No.
[Kathleen:] Seven ninety nine. Six ninety five. Six ninety five and a six fifty.
[Alice:] Very good.
[Kathleen:] Look.
[Alice:] Yeah.... Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I might have that little'un.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] You can stick batteries in it, I prefer them with batteries. At least if battery goes out...
[Alice:] You mean if electric goes off?
[Kathleen:] Yeah if electric goes off.
[Alice:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] That was supposed to be battery back-up system, the one I threw on floor. Cos I dismantled it [LAUGHTER] and threw it on floor []. Tt I got right mad. It's a good job I've got two. So I shall have one of them I think.
[Alice:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. There you are. I'll turn this tape off now, let you listen to yoursen.
[Alice:] Oh God
[Kathleen:] I'll have this one Ted.... Looks a good'un, futuristic one
[Krista:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Steve likes them....
[Krista:] You buying this duck?
[Kathleen:] Yeah please.... I've got, I, I had a rough idea of what he'd got and what he hadn't now.
[Krista:] Ah.
[Kathleen:] I'm getting there. I'm doing well so far, I haven't fetched one back have I?
[Krista:] No.
[Kathleen:] That must be good.
[Krista:] It is....
[Kathleen:] See a few of them, you know right at beginning where it shows you preface?
[Krista:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] That's where it's jumped, not on the film itself.
[Krista:] Yeah you know why, it's, it's because of cont continuous rewinding. You always get damage at front of tape. Best thing to do is just cut it off.
[Kathleen:] Ah we will do later cos
[Krista:] Well or yeah.
[Kathleen:] he uses cuts it all off and gets rid of it.
[Krista:] Yeah it's erm... any damage on tape, nine out of ten times i is the first foot... it's because when they wind them back i it, it's a jag
[Kathleen:] tight innit?
[Krista:] complete jag all the time when they wind them back.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Aye well that doesn't bother us.
[Krista:] No.
[Kathleen:] Ta-ta.
[Krista:] Ta-ta love....
[Kathleen:] shorts and... so I thought right, clean or mucky, you're in the wash. So, thought I'll get them all washed and put back in bedroom before he notices they're missing. So that's what I did.... Now what we're on about... yeah as I were on about, that er... what I do is, with days like this, cos you can never guarantee... if they're gonna be dry, wet or what, so I watch to see if it rains, if it don't... they're virtually dry when I fetch them in. So that's what I've been doing. I don't know whose T-shirt's whose. That one's mine.... So that's what I've been doing. I fetch them all in, stick them on clothes horse, they're all round fire while I'm on lollipop and then nip to shop and when I come in within half an hour they were bone dry.
[Enid:] Easy....
[Kathleen:] That's one way to do it innit? Fetch them in at half past three.... But if they're dry I just fold them up and put them away anyway. I'm just transferring socks.... [sigh] So, how come you managed to sleep in again?
[Enid:] [yawning] I didn't sleep in, I were up [].
[Kathleen:] You were up?
[Enid:] breakfast and cup of coffee, I just didn't
[Kathleen:] You didn't?
[Enid:] I didn't fe I felt wide awake but I was tired
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... So you thought... nah I'm not going, I'm stopping at home.... Third time that's been in the washer since Christmas day. And that's only cos last twice I've thinked of it....
[Enid:] Where is his lordship anyway?
[Kathleen:] I haven't the foggiest idea. I don't keep track any more, I let him get on with it. It's easier.... How come Dave's home?
[Enid:] What?
[Kathleen:] How come Dave's home?... I thought you says he were working... on them... mate's car?...
[Enid:] Which one?
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Mate's car....
[Enid:] Oh he's finished doing, they've finished doing that one.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Enid:] Yeah when did they finish that? Monday I think, he's got ano the bloke's been sacked an'all, he's got another one to do.
[Kathleen:] Ah well that's not too bad. It keeps him from getting bored. Dunnit?
[Enid:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Socks. Oh I'm doing well, I've got one odd sock so far. Brill. [sniff]...... Stephen Oh he's gone back to J J.... I told you he went back to J J did I?
[Enid:] Yeah....... he'll make his chuffing mind up.
[Kathleen:] Oh aye it don't bother me.
[Enid:] Hey?
[Kathleen:] I give up on them. I give up on them all.... I sent him to doctors. He come in, his eye's right out here, and it's streaming with water... and he says he's been to hospital, they dripped some water in it, washed it out... must be mine that, what do you reckon?
[Enid:] It is.
[Kathleen:] Oh. I can never tell cos he pinches them all. If it's a T- shirt it's his. So he says. [sniff] Anyway it was streaming with water so er... I told him to get down to doctors, he asked if, that's why I said oh Stephen's been back. It must've been while I was stood up there. And he's er what you called it? [sniff] Er... went to nurse so I lent him bike....
[Enid:] [clears throat] It's a bit dangerous driving round if his eyes are like that.
[Kathleen:] Well mine's got a visor and everything on it. One of them... comes right down there. So... Just airing these off. That's what they're like when I fetch them in,... it's not bad is it?
[Enid:] No they're dry.
[Kathleen:] So I just air them off.... What you been doing all day? On knock?
[Enid:] No.
[Kathleen:] Not a thing?... Not gobbing, nowt?
[Enid:] No.
[Kathleen:] You're having a right lazy day?
[Enid:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Bet you get fed up with that job don't you?
[Enid:] Yeah, I don't like it
[Kathleen:] Oh
[Enid:] It were nice Monday cos she come round hygiene on time
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Enid:] she goes, she started being a cocky little bitch, she's only fucking nineteen
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Enid:] she started being a cocky little bitch, and she wears make- up, really plasters it on
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah.
[Enid:] and she started gobbing, I says oh go and take your fucking make-up off you tart.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Enid:] So she took me off hygiene. Stupid cow, she
[Kathleen:] Is she a supervisor a chargehand or summat?
[Enid:] Chargehand.
[Kathleen:] At that age?
[Enid:] And do I give a fuck? No.
[Kathleen:] No I bet you don't, I wouldn't neither.... Cor.
[Enid:] I quite liked it where I were yesterday... cos he were alright, him.
[Kathleen:] Are you in mucky end or other end?...
[Enid:] In between.
[Kathleen:] In between? Well that says [LAUGHTER] a right lot that does []. All I know there's a mucky end and another end.
[Enid:] Aye
[Kathleen:] Oh well that's not bad.
[Enid:] I just needed a day's recovery.
[Kathleen:] They'll say every time she's on days she doesn't turn up....
[Enid:] I rang up.
[Kathleen:] Have you rung up already?
[Enid:] Yeah. Can't say owt if you
[Kathleen:] Tt. What you tell them? Slept in?
[Enid:] Told them I had migraine....
[Kathleen:] Tt.
[Enid:] I'm running out of fucking excuses now, I'm going to write book out.
[Kathleen:] You'll have to remember what you've used. Your grandma's dead four times.
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Poor old grandma []....
[Enid:] I'm a rotten bastard aren't I?
[Kathleen:] No. Everybody does it. You're not on your own. I tell you summat... I'm getting fed up because every time I don't feel absolutely great, and I go over there and say will you stand in for me, I don't feel well, I don't want to. It was an arrangement we had I, I wouldn't phone in... cos you have to wait three weeks for your wages... if I phone in. So I says I wouldn't phone in, I'd let you know and you could do it and I'll pay you myself, I don't mind, you know, losing a day's pay. I said I'll pay you mysen. So er... she says yeah fair enough then she won't have to wait three week, cos it's only me that's losing, not her.
[Enid:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Anyway she's been going out on and off for quite a while now. So I thought well I don't have to wait three weeks for mine so... next time I don't feel great... I'm gonna call in and take a couple of days off. According to them I have had four weeks off in ten years.... That's it. That's all I've had off.... No I'm lying, four weeks in nine years.
[Enid:] Why's she looking at excuses not to do it like?
[Kathleen:] Er apparently they phone her up or summat and ask her if she'll go and stand in for other people and she turned round and says if I can't have this school I'm not doing any.... That's what she's been doing.... So they've not, yeah, they've not phoned her up for God knows how long.... Irene's been doing it. Cos Irene says give me a ring I says no, I says that's it, I said I've already made the arrangement once and it backfired I says so I'm not doing it no more. I says when I'm not feeling well or slept in I says I'm gonna phone police station, I'm gonna go from there, see what they say. Let them find somebody.... I says I'm not messing about no more.... Do you know everybody's had flu and God knows what and I can't catch it.
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER] I thought I had it again other day, I felt bleeding awful.
[Kathleen:] I had that at Christmas which made me bad all over Christmas [LAUGHTER] right []? And everybody, I says marvellous cos I can have some time off,, it's not fair.... I'm not having that, that's cheating. If they can have some time off I can have some time off, fair's fair.... It dries right quick, it just takes that chill off
[Enid:] Kath you've got alarms all over the bleeding place, what are you up to?
[Kathleen:] I ain't done nowt. [LAUGHTER]
[Enid:] You div!...
[speaker005:] Look have you seen this one?
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER] No you're on front of cover.
[Kathleen:] No she hasn't seen that one....
[Enid:] Well I don't believe you!... Oh alright then.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] It must be on back....
[Enid:] I've seen her ugly face somewhere, I don't know where.
[Kathleen:] It might be on that one you had upstairs....
[Enid:] Did you do your mum's car then?
[speaker005:] Yeah.
[Enid:] What were wrong with it?
[speaker005:] Nowt. I was just checking it over before test.
[Enid:] Eh?
[speaker005:] Just checking it over for test. Just testing it over for test.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]...
[speaker005:] Are you deaf?
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah. [LAUGHTER]
[Enid:] No....
[Kathleen:] We try hard.... I hear you're going on holiday with your mum and dad?
[speaker005:] Am I?
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] Get rid of
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Enid:] Do you know summat?
[speaker005:] What?
[Enid:] I just wish you'd talk instead of just sitting there sometimes.
[speaker005:] I'm reading.
[Kathleen:] He never talks when he reads....
[speaker005:] What?
[Enid:] Talk to me....
[speaker005:] Yeah....
[Enid:] Do you know summat?
[speaker005:] Yeah.
[Enid:] I could slap you sometimes.
[speaker005:] You do anyway....
[Enid:] Talk to me!...
[Kathleen:] Why are you going on holiday and leaving Sarah behind?
[speaker005:] Cos it's Sarah's idea that.
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] How come it's her idea?
[speaker005:] She wants a bit of peace and quiet....
[Kathleen:] So you've got to go?
[speaker005:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] Tt.
[speaker005:] I know.
[Kathleen:] Isn't it awful?...
[speaker005:] Aye she get rid of me tomorrow cos she's going to work she says.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] If she gets up [].
[speaker005:] She got up this morning.
[Kathleen:] Oh aye you said you did didn't you?
[speaker005:] But she said I hate that place, I'm not going. [LAUGHTER]... And stayed in bed.
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] I made her a cup of coffee, she went to sleep.
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]... Hey now for the past three mornings... I've got up out of bed, I've made you a cup of tea every morning and breakfast on a tray, so don't you come complaining to me.
[speaker005:] Only cos you beat me up.
[Enid:] Pardon?
[speaker005:] Only cos you beat me up.
[Enid:] What! It's me who's brought your breakfast to you.
[speaker005:] Yeah.... But if I'd've, if I'd've been up I'd've got it.
[Enid:] You don't bloody well have to. It takes me half an hour to kick you out of bed. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] Well
[Enid:] Answer that one....
[speaker005:] ...
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]... Do you want a cig?
[Enid:] Don't give him one, he smokes too much.
[Kathleen:] You smoke too much, do you want a cig?
[speaker005:] Go on then.
[Kathleen:] I'll be kind to you....
[speaker005:] Why are you picking on me?
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER] We're not picking on you we're just trying to get a conversation going here like, but it's very hard when you just sit there and say nothing. No ta
[Kathleen:] Oops....
[speaker005:] Always picking on me, always beating me up.
[Enid:] Oh God.
[speaker005:] No it's alright
[Enid:] I'll go if you want.
[speaker005:] I quite enjoy it.
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] You're a sado-masochist you....
[Enid:] You know I love you, what more do you want? [LAUGHTER]...
[speaker005:] Breakfast in bed every day. [LAUGHTER]...
[Enid:] Have you got any more car jobs to do?...
[speaker005:] Not yet.... Erm back brakes but......
[Kathleen:] Well if it don't stop you [LAUGHTER]... How old's your mum and dad?...
[speaker005:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] He don't know neither....
[speaker005:] They're in their forties anyway I think....
[Enid:] That's what I said
[Kathleen:] Well we come to that conclusion didn't we?...
[speaker005:] Me dad's... think me dad's forty seven.... Me mum's about forty three, forty four.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] I thought your mum were older than your dad.
[speaker005:] No.
[Enid:] Your mum looks worn and knackered....
[speaker005:] She always does.
[Enid:] Ah but... you know what she does though?... You tell her what she does when she works nights, next day... when she comes home in morning.
[speaker005:] Well it just depends if it's market day... she goes to market... stays up till two or three in afternoon and then goes to sleep for six about six hours.
[Kathleen:] What time does she go to work?
[Enid:] Half nine at night.
[Kathleen:] Bloody hell that's a long day.
[speaker005:] I know. It's gonna er be even worse when she's going, working in Thorne. She's moving to Thorne or summat.
[Kathleen:] Ooh how's she gonna get there?
[speaker005:] Got a car.
[Kathleen:] Can she drive?
[speaker005:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Oh I thought she went on bus. [LAUGHTER]
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] No.
[Kathleen:] Does your dad drive?
[speaker005:] Mm, everyone up wall.
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Kathleen:] Er yo your car she's using then?...
[speaker005:] No she's got her own.
[Kathleen:] Oh you've got a car and a pick-up?
[speaker005:] And a bike.
[Kathleen:] And a bike?
[speaker005:] Yeah. Well me dad's on about getting rid of car... for summat else but I don't know yet. He hasn't made his mind up. Me mum's on about getting rid of hers and getting a Volvo.... I've told her to get an Astra... they're better.
[Kathleen:] A little'un?
[speaker005:] Yeah. Same as mine but a new car....
[Kathleen:] No.
[speaker005:] with the same front... but it's this long.
[Kathleen:] She don't want a big'un does she?
[speaker005:] No she doesn't like driving big cars.
[Kathleen:] Why's she want a Volvo, it's ginormous!
[speaker005:] Oh you can get small ones.
[Kathleen:] Can you?
[speaker005:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Oh....
[speaker005:] nowt to do with him, Metro.
[Enid:] Why?
[speaker005:] Mm?
[Enid:] Why?
[speaker005:] Cos er... they rot. [LAUGHTER]
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] ...
[Kathleen:] Tommy's next door a little red light keeps coming on.... A little red light.
[speaker005:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] A little red light as though he's got no oil... but he has....
[speaker005:] It might be his erm... tt oil filter's blocked or summat.
[Kathleen:] Mm. They're prone for that, little red lights.
[speaker005:] Oil filter
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] Mine is an'all.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Have you got a little red light []?
[speaker005:] Yeah, it keeps flickering on and off. On me dad's van, that's a pick-up, when she's
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[speaker005:] been running for about half an hour or so, you know when you come to a junction flicking on and off....
[Kathleen:] I thought you were a mechanic.
[speaker005:] I am.
[Kathleen:] Well get rid of your little red light then! [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] I've done it now [].
[speaker005:] It'd cost a lot of money....
[Kathleen:] What, to get rid of a little red light?
[speaker005:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] Well I would do, I'd walk back for, me.
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] I'd say it's not on now....
[speaker005:] Well me dad's needs an oil pump on it.... Er... and he won't pay out for it... cos he's a bit tight. [LAUGHTER]... Er there's mine needs a few bits and bobs I can't do it though cos I haven't got enough money. Me mum's... me mum's is alright, it's just me dad g keeps saying oh there's these noises... and I'll, and I'll go in it and there's no noise.... But it's
[Kathleen:] His ears are getting old.
[speaker005:] I know.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]...
[speaker005:] He's supposed to be getting a hearing aid or summat.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER] Soon as [] soon as he starts talking about cars yap yap yap yap yap yap... he doesn't stop.... Don't worry love it's nice to hear you talk, you carry on.
[speaker005:] You're picking on me.
[Enid:] I'm not picking on you.
[speaker005:] You're picking on me again. Picking on me again.
[Enid:] You carry on....
[speaker005:] No I'll be quiet now.
[Kathleen:] quiet. You come to see me and sit there and say nowt. [LAUGHTER]... What you been doing?...
[speaker005:] Nowt.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Enid:] help me!
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Oh dear []. Where you been?
[speaker005:] At home.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Well you've got a right interesting life, you've got [].
[speaker005:] I know.
[Kathleen:] Cars, home and done owt.
[speaker005:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Is that it? Full stop?
[speaker005:] Just about....
[Kathleen:] Should go pub....
[speaker005:] I can't afford it....
[Kathleen:] Should save up and take Sarah on holiday....
[speaker005:] I've gotta get a job first....
[Kathleen:] Thought you'd got one. [LAUGHTER] Sort of.
[speaker005:] Sort of.... I keep asking them but... they're not ready yet. [cough]...
[Kathleen:] I was just telling Sarah Steve's written for another one
[speaker005:] Is it? It's a bit nearer then int it?
[Kathleen:] Sugar. Sugar plants... Sugar
[speaker005:] Oh fixing machinery?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Enid:] be alright.
[Kathleen:] Doing owt else but that he wouldn't know what he's doing. Stick owt electrical in his hand and he's cracked it....
[speaker005:] Our erm Michelle come round... Tracey's sister...
[Enid:] Yeah?
[speaker005:] erm with an application form......
[Enid:] Where is it?
[speaker005:] It's in house.
[Enid:] Oh er.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] ?
[Enid:] Yeah?
[speaker005:] She come round this afternoon....
[Kathleen:] Is that for you or for her?
[speaker005:] It's for her....
[Kathleen:] Well that's Optic Fibres.
[Enid:] Who else is... oh she's getting Bovril one an'all.
[speaker005:] Is she?
[Enid:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Who's Bovril?
[Enid:] Potty Avril,sh she's gone in head.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Oh I thought you said Bovril [].
[Enid:] I did, we all call her Bovril.
[Kathleen:] Oh, where's Optic Fibres.
[Enid:] Shaw Lane industrial estate.
[speaker005:] It's just behind that
[Kathleen:] Is it?
[Enid:] Oh my God! Who'd have believed, I were at other night right?... It were getting on late and I says... and er were there, oh we'll walk you home Sarah... said alright then says come on let's go through woods. Well anyway it gets half way through this wood I couldn't see couple of yards in front of me
[Kathleen:] When it were foggy?
[Enid:] they starts running off!
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Enid:] Well I crapped mesen me, I started running back towards road and they're going Sarah, Sarah come back. So I carried on walking and they start going through this bleeding wood, well they had me climbing over three fence things, all like them metal... you know like them metal fences at wood? Climbing over them, I nearly cut mesen in half. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] park....
[Enid:] Oh yeah we walked past park cos he asked me if I wanted to go on swings... and it led up to his back gate, well, you've never seen me put a sigh of relief on me face, I went [sigh]
[Kathleen:] Is it a longer or a shorter?...
[Enid:] It's shorter but it's scarier. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Scarier?
[speaker005:] They're on about putting a road round back of there. Around back of the gardens....
[Enid:] I tell you something if they put lights up down here I reckon it'd make it even more scary though you know, I don't know why.
[Kathleen:] Scary. I hate that road. Just think there could be dead bodies in [LAUGHTER]
[Enid:] You know what it made me think of?
[Kathleen:] What?
[Enid:] Parts of flipping Evil Dead, and they're going ooh there's a house [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Oh I couldn't walk through a wood on a night time. No way.
[speaker005:] We found a tramp in wood once.
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Dead?
[speaker005:] No. He were under these covers and erm
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER] Well you were then []. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] we walked up we, we thought oh what's this? Lifted cover and there were this fella underneath.... And erm we ran off, I were, we were about sixteen or seventeen... and er... we kept chucking bricks at him.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] He, he was going piss off, piss off. So you know Dallas? He chucked this bit of glass, it cut him so we ran over here.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] And erm... I don't know who it was, he set fire to his quilt
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] so he come running after us. He'd, he'd escaped from one of the prisons.
[Kathleen:] Eh?
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] [LAUGHTER] He'd escaped from one of the prisons [].
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Well no wonder you were chucking bricks at him, I would have done an'all [].
[speaker005:] We didn't know until we got out to woods.
[Kathleen:] Didn't you think he were dead?
[speaker005:] No.
[Kathleen:] When you first found him?...
[speaker005:] I don't know. He had this suitcase.
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] threw it. It stunk.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] Er he'd escaped from Leeds or summat.
[Kathleen:] What did he do?
[speaker005:] I don't know.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] You'd've been alright if it'd've been a mass murderer slept for years [].
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] You never that one again. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] It were right funny though.
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER] I bet he didn't think it was.
[Kathleen:] If you'd've known then... what you knew after you wouldn't've thought it were funny, [LAUGHTER] you'd've not been chucking nowt... you'd've been off [].... Bloody hell....
[speaker005:] Well we come out of woods and someone had phoned police up or something... escaped from Leeds.
[Kathleen:] Did they get him?... [LAUGHTER] He should of bloody stayed []...
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER] We're going soon cos I'm starving. Aren't you hungry?
[speaker005:] A little bit.
[Enid:] A little bit, I bet you're starving really aren't you?
[speaker005:] Yeah.
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] He tells fibs an'all [].
[speaker005:] Well a little bit means a lot.
[Enid:] Tell me darling, what have you really had to eat today while I've been away?
[speaker005:] While you've been away? Had erm... a chopped piece of raw carrot
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [LAUGHTER]...
[speaker005:] that's about it.
[Kathleen:] Are you on a diet?...
[speaker005:] No. wait for
[Enid:] Cos I always wait for him if I have a meal that's why. I'm ever so considerate....
[Kathleen:] Did I tell you Steve's car conked out last week, again?
[speaker005:] The Capri?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Points.
[speaker005:] No. Points?
[Kathleen:] Yeah he had to put new points in. Last night he had to put new plugs in, they were brand new before he crashed it weren't they?...
[speaker005:] It's probably cos
[Kathleen:] Could've been. They refused point blank and he had to take it to another garage.
[Enid:] Did you send another bill?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... No i I phoned insurance up and told them what they'd said, cos I got Maggie to phone, it were Maggie that said, they told Maggie that they were gonna put a second hand wheel on and everything instead of a brand new one so she told insurance [LAUGHTER] about it []. They went mad, they told us that we'd got to take it to National Tyres, took it there, twenty three pound fifty it cost us.
[speaker005:] What's that for, tracking?
[Kathleen:] Tracking and balancing it, none of it were done.
[speaker005:] [sigh]
[Kathleen:] They had to do the lot so they give us an invoice, we took it in to insurance and they're gonna write a cheque, deduct it off that thing
[speaker005:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] and send us the cheque back. Cos they should've done it.
[speaker005:] Send you cheque back?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. That twenty three pound odd what we had to pay, they said we should pay nothing.
[speaker005:] Oh you're gonna pay
[Kathleen:] Anything to do with the crash, we don't pay nothing for it. So everything that we've got to pay out we invoice them
[speaker005:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] they deduct it and send us it. And that's what we've been doing.
[speaker005:] Oh....
[Kathleen:] So it weren't bad, especially the money back....
[speaker005:] pulling their hair out once they get cheque.
[Kathleen:] You what?
[speaker005:] They'll be pulling their hair out once
[Kathleen:] It's their own fault.
[speaker005:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] They should've made arrangements, we phoned up, asked them if we could take it in. That were on... Tuesday we phoned up....
[Enid:] ...
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] What's the matter []?...
[speaker005:] You going on holiday?
[Enid:] No.... I wish I were. Will you take me then will you? Eh what?
[speaker005:] Took you to Scotland didn't I?
[Enid:] Yeah. That were last year, we're in nineteen ninety two now.
[Kathleen:] Where you going?...
[Enid:] Greece?
[speaker005:] Don't know yet.
[Enid:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker005:] We were on about going weren't we?
[Enid:] Yeah.
[speaker005:] ...
[Kathleen:] Go camping.
[speaker005:] Haven't got a tent.
[Kathleen:] There's a trailer tent in garden.
[Enid:] Camping with you! You've gotta be joking.
[Kathleen:] There's a bed each. You can either have a double bed or you can have a double bed each.
[Enid:] We'll have a double bed each.
[Kathleen:] Yeah....
[speaker005:] Tell me then.
[Enid:] What?...
[Kathleen:] I said shall we tell you, I never said we were gonna tell you.
[speaker005:] Oh
[Enid:] No leave him in suspense.
[Kathleen:] No. Shall we?
[Enid:] No. Sod him.
[speaker005:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Do you wanna have a listen then?
[Enid:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Go on then. Here listen to this Dave Apple pie?
[Steve:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah, it figures....
[Steve:] I says bollocks John.
[Kathleen:] pie.
[Steve:] writing letters... upsetting today.
[Kathleen:] What, that new one?
[Steve:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] No?
[Steve:] No. Not yet, washing first.... [water running making it difficult to hear]
[Kathleen:] Well go like that then. Ah I just wondered.
[Steve:] They want washing first.
[Kathleen:] I can see that, they're dirty. Oh, do you wear them or summat?
[Steve:] Yeah.... Ah went in to where John were working cos I wanted to borrow a spanner, he said I could just murder a cig... and his, his mate said ah I could as well. buy your own bastard. He said I could murder a roll up I said could you?... I said buy them.
[Kathleen:] we don't buy them for him.
[Steve:] John looked at me I says I says... I've got enough bloody debt without keeping pair of you twats in cigs. John just laughed.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Steve:] He says you meant it didn't you? I says yes I did, I am not supplying cigs to him. He says why? I said I don't get them bloody back
[Kathleen:] If he can't afford to smoke he should not smoke. If he can afford to smoke he should buy them himself.... Shouldn't he?
[Steve:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] See this time, weren't I clever?
[Steve:] Yes. I thought... no I thought... I'll... reason I've got a big box I thought... two weeks, cracked it....
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Ah []. Let me just go and get me erm
[Steve:] bleeding thieving little twat.
[Kathleen:] [in another room]...
[Steve:] He knows it's me s snap for work... and if there's none left... I go with bloody out. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Well
[Steve:] Did you give him his book?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Steve:] He's got it?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Steve:] Alright how much was it? One pound twenty... one pound...
[Kathleen:] I were supposed to tape twenty.
[Steve:] I want eighty pence off him.
[Kathleen:] No you want it off me, that's the whole idea of it.
[Steve:] No.
[Kathleen:] Yes!
[Steve:] Er... no.
[Kathleen:] That's the whole idea these for me.... These were one pound five
[Steve:] [shouting] Whoo [] expensive
[Kathleen:] Five, six...
[Steve:] I want er eighty pence. How much were?
[Kathleen:] Thirty I think.
[Steve:] That big'un?
[Kathleen:] Oh I don't know... sixty, seventy, I don't know.
[Steve:] I want one pound twenty off him....
[Kathleen:] They're cheap
[Steve:] I don't care... it's me snap, that's what annoys me. There's all that.
[Kathleen:] I know....
[Steve:] It might boil
[Kathleen:] Oh it's boiled.... Sorry I'm miles away.... Got Dave.
[Steve:] Eh?
[Kathleen:] Got Dave.
[Steve:] Oh what's he say?
[Kathleen:] No he didn't know cos Sarah says not to tell him till we've done it.
[Steve:] Why, has he been down?
[Kathleen:] He come to pick Sarah up.
[Steve:] Has she been down?
[Kathleen:] She didn't go to work today.
[Steve:] The idle sod.
[Kathleen:] Oh I'll tell you later why she's... not been... sort of I'll tell you in a bit. Yeah er... I told her all about it so she did some for me right? And she says to get Dave when he comes in, I says yeah but I'm supposed to tell people about it. She says no don't tell him she says you told me, just do it... she says and then when we stop it you can tell him. Well he were killing his sides a laughing. We were talking about cars and holidays and his mum and dad, ta, and I ke I says to Sarah shall I tell him? Give me that plate.
[Steve:] Erm I'll have these.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Well I thought you'd've ate them before now.
[Steve:] I thought I'd've got them for me bleeding snap.
[Kathleen:] Won't fit!
[Steve:] What do you mean don't fit? What's up with plastic bag like?
[Kathleen:] Oh I never think of putting them in that. Anyway it takes more.
[Steve:] Eh?
[Kathleen:] More stuff to put in.
[Steve:] Oh!
[Kathleen:] ... [cough] What, what... sorry?
[Steve:] Dirty sod.
[Kathleen:] What about cheese and tomato?
[Steve:] Alright....
[Kathleen:] Oh that.
[Steve:] cutting knife... Did you tell him about car?
[Kathleen:] About conking out?
[Steve:] Mini.
[Kathleen:] Oh no.
[Steve:] Why not?...
[Kathleen:] Cos we were messing about.
[Steve:] What he say when he er heard himself?
[Kathleen:] He were killing his sides a laughing. Cos I, I says to Sarah go on we'll have a listen to it and we stopped it... anyway I says I'll t I'll take it off if you want, he says no leave it.... He says you crafty pair of sods he says, Sarah knew all about that didn't she? I says yeah [LAUGHTER] I says she told me to do it, I says and then let you listen to it. He says nah leave it, he says any case he says this thing you get he says now you've got my voice he says [LAUGHTER] do I get some of it []? I says no you don't....
[Steve:] No I get t tape recorder.
[Kathleen:] You and that tape recorder!
[Steve:] I get the Walkman, I get the Walkman, I do.
[Kathleen:] You can't have it.
[Steve:] Why not?
[Kathleen:] Cos it don't belong to us.
[Steve:] No but I'll, if I say it on every tape she might get the hint.
[Kathleen:] It don't belong to her.
[Steve:] Dunnit?
[Kathleen:] No does it heck. It belongs to that company, that
[Steve:] Alright, when company hear it I might get the bleeding tape
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER]
[Steve:] they're not frigging hard up.
[Kathleen:] All you want that tape for is cos it's got a microphone innit? Yours ain't got a microphone.
[Steve:] Mine int as good.
[Kathleen:] I thought yours were same make. Ah that's got a radio on
[Steve:] It's got a radio on, yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. I'll buy you one.... It depends where I can spend voucher, I'll buy you one with voucher, how's that?...
[Steve:] So I'm not having that one then?
[Kathleen:] No it's not yours, it's got to go back on Friday.
[Steve:] How many have you done?
[Kathleen:] This is five.
[Steve:] Out of what, ten?
[Kathleen:] Twenty.
[Steve:] Chuffing hell fire.
[Kathleen:] Well if they say no it's no that's it, there's not a lot you can do about it.
[Steve:] Oh well I know that.
[Kathleen:] Once they say no that's it.... There's only you know people that come like and that that I have never said no to.... They were on once.... Apart from that... Are you hungry? Bloody hell.
[Steve:] No I'm just doing this jam sarnie... to er... make things happy. Alright? You daft sod, course I'm bleeding hungry.
[Kathleen:] Well your tea's nearly ready, that's why I asked you....
[Steve:] What, what mood you in?
[Kathleen:] Me? Alright.... Been shop and I treat you to summat.
[Steve:] [shouting] Ooh []... I just thought of summat you
[Kathleen:] What?... What have I done now?
[Steve:] done four hundred and sixty nine on that tank of petrol....
[Kathleen:] That's short.
[Steve:] What?
[Kathleen:] It was five hundred and odd last time....
[Steve:] Bloody hell.
[Kathleen:] It were.
[Steve:] No it weren't.
[Kathleen:] It were. Where's that envelope? It says five hundred and twenty summat on it.
[Steve:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] It weren't thirty odd quid don't go in.
[Steve:] It does when I chuffing... empty it and fill it up.
[Kathleen:] I've got your petrol money for tomorrow anyhow. Cos you've got enough for today, tomorrow haven't you?
[Steve:] I've got enough for tomorrow to get me there, get me home
[Kathleen:] Yeah
[Steve:] but
[Kathleen:] then straight to garage.
[Steve:] it's Thursday tomorrow. I don't finish early do I?
[Kathleen:] Oh. Oh I'll have to give you a fiver. Stick a fiver in. I'll give you your pocket money and then you stick a fiver in and I'll give it you back.
[Steve:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] I said then I'll give you it back....
[Steve:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Mm? And then we'll fiddle instead. Where you going?
[Steve:] Put these in ro I'm coming back, don't worry. Wouldn't pissing leave you....
[Kathleen:] What you doing?
[Steve:] I see Maggie's been....
[Kathleen:] Why?
[Steve:] Went out to empty my bloody ashtray.... Urgh....
[Kathleen:] that's mine.... I've been doing that.
[Steve:] Well why ain't you emptied the chuff?
[Kathleen:] Mm no I couldn't be bothered. I usually empty them but I've been busy....
[Steve:] Thank you for posting me letter.
[Kathleen:] You're welcome. I'll do it again tomorrow for you.
[Steve:] Yeah!
[Kathleen:] I've got a letter to do and I keep forgetting to do it.
[Steve:] What's that?
[Kathleen:] It's just to that medical thing to say I don't want to. It's not what I thought.... It's not what I thought at all. No it's a
[Steve:] It's not
[Kathleen:] I thought it were one of them, you know when you go in hospital and you're off work and that?
[Steve:] Mm yeah.
[Kathleen:] I thought it were one of them, watch what you're doing, I thought it were one of them but it's not.... It's not.
[Steve:] Snot snot.... [lots of kitchen banging around noises]
[Kathleen:] No.... No it's not
[Steve:] Oh aye so
[Kathleen:] dropping it.
[Steve:] Yeah. I've had a go, I've had a new mate today.
[Kathleen:] Ooh you've got one for yourself?
[Steve:] Yeah, foreman.
[Kathleen:] Oh....
[Steve:] ask him you got owt to do? Yeah I've got plenty
[Kathleen:] Do you want all this?
[Steve:] Yeah get it whacked on.... see Sarah? don't forget to switch it off.
[Kathleen:] I won't....
[Steve:] [moved in to another room to eat and watching this is your life on tv]
[Kathleen:] Ooh he's got all his fucking life that bugger, that's what this is.
[Steve:] I know....
[Kathleen:] Who's he supposed to know like.... He's erm Clapton.... So how come you were working with gaffer?...
[Steve:] Cos I wanted three hands... and I only had two.
[Kathleen:] Ain't you been outside like today then?
[Steve:] Yeah, all outside.
[Kathleen:] All of you? Flipping hell.
[Steve:] Well not all of them but...
[Kathleen:] There were an accident at top road today.
[Steve:] Anybody hurt?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Steve:] Who?...
[Kathleen:] A young lass. She were, she'd got a scooter... bit similar to mine and she er were coming home and it were one of women from school... actually one of women from school. She picked four kids up and you know right at end here where it's that criss-cross?... Well whether she never saw her indicating or owt but she pulled straight out at end straight into her... crushed her legs.... Bike's perfect, nowt wrong with bike.... But lass is right bad.... They had a motorcycle cop... er one of them Range Rover thingies... erm... an ambulance and somebody went and fetched a man. She only lives in Hatfield.... And her that, I were watching, that hit her... you'll never guess what she did?
[Steve:] What?
[Kathleen:] She must've left her statement, walked over to her car... and she checked the car before she checked the four kids. I were watching her do it.... I thought bloody hell you'd check your kids first.... Maggie only stopped about an hour this morning, she's not feeling well. She hasn't got rid of it. Bill told her to stop in bed this morning and he'd w he'd get her up when he come in at two o'clock this afternoon. She wouldn't....
[Steve:] Cos you get pissed off of
[Kathleen:] Only she's coughing that bad it's keeping him awake. And that's why he says to sleep and then if she couldn't get to sleep she could like sit up tonight so he could get... some sleep instead....
[Steve:] What I want to know
[Kathleen:] Fair enough not stop in bed... but er... stay in house, light fire and stay in
[Steve:] that little twat getting up in middle of night.
[Kathleen:] [mouth full]... I know that by clock in kitchen.
[Steve:] ...
[Kathleen:] It uses about twenty pence during night, not forty.... [mouth full]... It's not Eric Clapton is it?
[Steve:] I don't know who it is.
[Kathleen:] Doesn't look like him. I've seen him before.... I've heard name before but I don't know who he is cos I weren't watching it, I were upstairs, I've only just come... Hey guess what!
[Steve:] What?
[Kathleen:] I got to bottom of washing basket.... And he can't spoil it.
[Steve:] Why? Have you in his bedroom?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. I went in and got it all.... Got me torch and me pen.
[Steve:] You got them?...
[Kathleen:] Mhm.
[Steve:] ... Were where it?
[Kathleen:] Same place it usually is
[Steve:] Where?
[Kathleen:] Cadet uniform. Anyway... I were, I were talking to that lady and er she were on about you, and she says about putting your name...
[Maggie:] How?
[Kathleen:] cos you're never here. Anyway I get a twenty five pound voucher for doing it.
[Maggie:] Ooh.
[Kathleen:] Mm. But what I thought if you're going... to leave and you're going in bed and breakfast, I've got that sandwich toaster, cos get your breakfast, bed and breakfast right?
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] And then you get your dinner at college
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] and then I thought well er... tt if you get this sandwich toaster... I'll give you sandwich toaster, you can get egg, beans and all, bacon and all this crap... and er we'll go from there.
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. [whispering] oh shit [].
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Kathleen:] Go in cupboard and get me another.
[Maggie:] Oh
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... Oh look at that, I'm all wet....
[Maggie:] This is lovely ain't it?
[Kathleen:] Oh...
[Maggie:] They're full, they're empty. I know cos I looked.
[Kathleen:] I know but you've not been thinking of me.
[Maggie:] Pardon?
[Kathleen:] You've not been thinking.
[Maggie:] Can't say
[Kathleen:] Ah.
[Maggie:] all like me Walkman
[Kathleen:] Where is it? In your bag with your kit!
[Maggie:] It is in me bag and with me kit now.
[Kathleen:] I know I've seen it. Where did you get it from?
[Maggie:] On top of wardrobe. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] You're a thieving little get.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] My Walkman [] he's got Braddock
[Kathleen:] Do you know why?... Hey whoa whoa! I paid you four ninety nine for Braddock
[Maggie:] Yeah but he took
[Kathleen:] Yeah but I'm honest.
[Maggie:] Yeah but what he did take my Walkman for though?
[Kathleen:] Because you went in our bedroom and nicked my torch, my torch which is on that table.
[Maggie:] No I took that
[Kathleen:] And do you know what you did? You nicked my bestest pen and nacked it.
[Maggie:] It int your pen now I'll have you know.
[Kathleen:] I'll have you know I've got a full frigging set of it.
[Maggie:] I'll have you know I'll have me Parker back. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] What Parker?
[Maggie:] That's the bestest pen.
[Kathleen:] What Parker?... I remember you getting a pen and saying oh mam the ink's run out on it.... You can have it. And nicked my pen.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah [] hang on hang on, hang on, hang on... no no no, I have every Parker in this house except for two sets.... One's yours
[Kathleen:] Well that one
[Maggie:] and one's me dad's. And every other
[Kathleen:] The blue one's your dad's, the black one's mine.
[Maggie:] and every other Parker in this house belongs to me.
[Kathleen:] Fair enough.
[Maggie:] Well why do they keep disappearing then?
[Kathleen:] Why do you nick mine. Why do you nick my black one? And nack it.
[Maggie:] It's not nacked it's just that I've lost seven pens like.
[Kathleen:] They're in garage, I've seen them....
[Maggie:] And they keep going.
[Kathleen:] Aye and they keep going.
[Maggie:] And like er... what is it, victor book were nineteen ninet
[Kathleen:] It's not victor book there, you can pick it up any time you want.
[Maggie:] nineteen ninety two.
[Kathleen:] Are you gonna stop home or what?...
[Maggie:] [sigh]... And what, see it's gonna be the same as it is now... never in.
[Kathleen:] Ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, do what you want.... Can't you... space it?
[Maggie:] Space what?
[Kathleen:] Aren't your girlfriends good enough for that?... College ten o'clock, eleven o'clock forget it.
[Maggie:] Oh aye college until eleven o'clock at night, nah!
[Kathleen:] Mm mm mm mm mm mm
[Maggie:] It finishes about
[Kathleen:] You're at college right?
[Maggie:] Aye.
[Kathleen:] At sixteen years old don't you think ten o'clock is good enough?
[Maggie:] No. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Why?
[Maggie:] Cos I've got a life to lead [LAUGHTER] and my life don't start till about ten [].
[Kathleen:] Don't when you think you're seventeen, eleven o'clock good enough? You're seventeen in nine weeks' time.
[Maggie:] It isn't nine weeks. It's only February....
[Kathleen:] Your birthday's in May... third week in May. Oh that reminds me, remind, Aunty Margaret, it's her anniversary.
[Maggie:] March, April, May...
[Kathleen:] Eight and a half weeks.... And it's not good enough for
[Maggie:] Eight
[Kathleen:] ten o'clock to eleven.
[Maggie:] eight and a half weeks, two month [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] How old's your girlfriend?
[Maggie:] Thirteen....
[Kathleen:] Don't you think she's supposed to be in cos if she were my daughter I'd slap her fucking daft.
[Maggie:] She is in.
[Kathleen:] In what?
[Maggie:] What? In house, in bungalow I mean....
[Kathleen:] At what time?...
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] When she gets there []. About half nine, quarter to ten....
[Kathleen:] Yeah!...
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] What []?... She catches quarter nine bus to get there for half nine, quarter to ten....
[Kathleen:] Well you could be home for ten.
[Maggie:] Get out of it! If her dad's erm... a cop well
[Kathleen:] I don't give a monkey's shit, I work for the cops.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] He is a cop and he's always on sick []. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] He's not much of a cop then is he?
[Maggie:] He is [LAUGHTER] he cops a right lot
[Kathleen:] Did I tell you about accident at top tonight?
[Maggie:] No, he cops a right lot of money....
[Kathleen:] Where do they live?
[Maggie:] ...
[Kathleen:] No... I'm not having that.
[Maggie:] What?
[Kathleen:] I'm not having that. I'll smack her me bleeding sen.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] You won't touch her [].
[Kathleen:] I chuffing will.
[Maggie:] You can touch Emma,
[Kathleen:] No
[Maggie:] or Sarah.
[Kathleen:] Who?
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] Or Sarah [].
[Kathleen:] Sarah's gone hasn't she?
[Maggie:] Sarah's the ex girlfriend, I don't know where she is. [LAUGHTER]...
[Kathleen:] What happened to all these girlfriends and this person that had phoned up on... Stephen phoned up er it's Wednesday right, and Stephen phoned up Tuesday... and twenty five to eleven and says can I talk to Stephen, says hang on a minute... who is it?... He says Steve... I says oh eh up cock are you alright? Right? Aye... anyway I says seeing's it's you... I'll go and tell him... and I come upstairs [moan] so I come downstairs and I says... he's asleep, he says the idle get....
[Maggie:] Well it's... he's, he gets up at six in the morning and I get up at about... five o'clock... and I go to bed later than him anyway normally, so... it must be
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... I'm still trying to find the conclusion, are you leaving or aren't you?... I can get you to stay you know.
[Maggie:] How?
[Kathleen:] I can.
[Maggie:] Go on then....
[Kathleen:] It's not funny.
[Maggie:] Well how can you get me to stay?...
[Kathleen:] Do you want to?...
[Maggie:] Look how can you get me to stay?...
[Kathleen:] You've got two weeks left haven't you?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Do you want to stay or don't you?... That's what I wanna know.... What you got in your hand, you? Batteries! You've nicked the fucking batteries you.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] And two tapes.
[Kathleen:] Do you know all these five tapes and everything, I never swore on these till I talk to you.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] I forgot the tapes.
[Kathleen:] You nicked the friggers.... I'll tell that lady when she come.... She's two tapes short cos me son nicked them, he walked off with them.
[Maggie:] What you on about? I could've walked off with one to eleven there....
[Kathleen:] You just may do before she comes for them.
[Maggie:] Nah. Don't think
[Kathleen:] Oh we're being kind, you're not, you nicked two and... pissed off with them.
[Maggie:] Don't need that many tapes. [LAUGHTER]... But I want me Dirty Dancing tape back. And I'm gonna get Top Gun
[Kathleen:] You see I can't understand you...
[Maggie:] What?...
[Kathleen:] cos you... say you love me... do you or don't you?
[Maggie:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] [mimicking] Yeah []....
[Maggie:] What's to laugh at, I've got a deep voice?
[Kathleen:] [mimicking] Yeah []. Do you or don't you?
[Maggie:] That's what yobbos say, [mimicking] yeah []
[Kathleen:] No don't mess.... Are you stopping here or not?... You see I say are you stopping here or are you not, does your dad?
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] Does he heck....
[Kathleen:] He will do....
[Maggie:] He will do.
[Kathleen:] If I know....
[Maggie:] Costs a fortune in bus fares from town you know....
[Kathleen:] We could move.
[Maggie:] What, [LAUGHTER] into town []?
[Kathleen:] We could move.
[Maggie:] Into town? Nah.
[Kathleen:] Oh don't be silly Steven....
[Maggie:] Do you know it costs... thirty five pence from Bentley into town
[Kathleen:] I know.
[Maggie:] and thirty five pence from Bessacarr into town....
[Kathleen:] What's Bessacarr got to do with it?...
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] It costs us at least eighty five pence... and we don't live as far, well we don't... don't live that far.
[Kathleen:] Who's in Bessacarr?
[Maggie:] Mark....
[Kathleen:] Mark who?
[Maggie:] ...
[Kathleen:] Run upstairs... on your windowsill, in the corner, cos I've seen it... Stephen, go and get his number... and while I'm thinking about it, go on.
[Maggie:] Yeah I've got it,
[Kathleen:] Just go and get it. Yeah she told Christie that I were going with her.
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] Oh I only just put number seven in there, surely.
[Maggie:] You what?...
[Kathleen:] I think I've mixed these buggers up.... I'm supposed to be on tape number six.... I'll have to t try that number seven. [sniff] Yeah so I got all me bits
[Maggie:] ...
[Kathleen:] Ah that's what I said, did you get?
[Maggie:] Yeah. He only had fifty in the bloody shop, I thought oh good at least we've got ours.
[Kathleen:] Oh he's never got any though has he?
[Maggie:] No,... Was your tape any good when you got further into the film?... Or did you take it back?
[Kathleen:] I took that one back. It'd, I'd got this weird line on it... one eighty nine... I got this weird on it
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and er I tried getting it off, anyway I thought I can't be bothered... messing about with it
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] so I er... what you call it, I took it back and I says er there's summat wrong with this one, I says it's got a line or whatever it is, I says I can't get it off. So he says oh well fair enough then. He says just put it over there he says and get yoursen another one so I picked that one up
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] we sat and watched it last night.
[Maggie:] What was it? What's it called?
[Kathleen:] It's there...
[Maggie:] [cough] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] I got that one. He says sometimes they do get rogue tapes or summat....
[Maggie:] , who's in it?... I can't see the bloody thing without me glasses. [sniff]
[Kathleen:] He's a good actor....
[Maggie:] Oh....
[Kathleen:] No Christie's got with me.
[Maggie:] Cos you didn't go to town?
[Kathleen:] Apparently Alice had told her that I were going to town with them
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] but Sarah, as I says, I were sick last night
[Maggie:] yeah.
[Kathleen:] after me tea.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] I were alright till I had me tea
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and I'd got a bit of an headache, well I took two tablets and it had gone before Steve come in... and er I had me tea and I w I went like that and I thought God almighty!
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And Steve says you got a pain? I says yeah, he says I've got one there an'all, he says I've had it on and off all day. Anyway about [sniff]... we had tea about what, half seven?... I think it were about half past seven, and then about an hour after it started. He never said.
[Maggie:] Cos you had... the other didn't you?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. But that were nowt to do with it twenty four hours later.... It should've been first thing in morning if that would happen.
[Maggie:] Mm. Mm.
[Kathleen:] Yeah it were after I'd had summat to eat. Anyway I says to Alice it's not fair getting in somebody's car feeling the way I feel I says and... puking in car.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] So she says no so I says so I'll
[Maggie:] [cough] Mm.... Oh my. Has he gone to college or is he in bed?
[Kathleen:] He went about twenty to nine.... I heard kettle and I thought... he's still in house, him.... Which normally he's took off
[Maggie:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Anyway he come up he says there's a cup of coffee there for you mum, and walked out.... I thought bloody hell.
[Maggie:] Ooh. Very good....
[Kathleen:] So I thought...
[Maggie:] Oh
[Kathleen:] Oh you should've heard him other day, all Parker pens that are in this house are his he says
[Maggie:] Oh great.
[Kathleen:] and that pen... that he broke weren't mine it were his. I says oh yeah, I says have you got the rest of them with it like?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And he says oh no, I says no I says it's a full set so keep your bleeding hands off, he says well all rest in house are mine.
[Maggie:] Oh my.
[Kathleen:] ... Got to add your name to that one. No, I can leave your name off that....
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] I am on number six, I s I thought I were. Reason they're mixed up he, he must've been in there messing about with them.
[Maggie:] Did you not mark them? Which ones you've been on?
[Kathleen:] It's there, what it is it's on these pages
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] like this one that's playing now is side
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] A on number six tape
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] but I've just took number five out and put it back in box, cos it tells you... number five, number three
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] and it tells you which one you're doing. It's just that Stephen's been rooting about in boxes. He's been nosy.... He were that nosey he's nicked all pens, everything. I haven't got a pen!
[Maggie:] Tt.
[Kathleen:] I've been filling it in
[Maggie:] It's like our house.
[Kathleen:] I've been filling it in in pencil.
[Maggie:] Well it don't matter as long as have to go over it.
[Kathleen:] So I don't usually fill it straight away anyway till I'm finished and... but I always put the date... like today's date.
[Maggie:] Well I can't see one either.
[Kathleen:] No, can't even see a pencil. He's got an answer from that sugar place.
[Maggie:] Who we talking about?
[Kathleen:] Did I tell you Steve
[Maggie:] No.
[Kathleen:] wrote off for another job in?
[Maggie:] No.
[Kathleen:] Oh well i somewhere ne... I thought it were Scunthorpe but it's not Scunthorpe it's Newark... it's up
[Maggie:] Oh yeah. Yeah?
[Kathleen:] And er... it's summat sugar, I don't know what it is but it's electrician's job and he asked me to post that, when did I post that?... Were it Monday?... Did I post all them letters on Monday?
[Maggie:] I dunno they've been up there
[Kathleen:] Oh I know I've started accumulating again. I always do, I always get about three or four letters and then end up posting them. It's cos I can't be arsed to go for one stamp. That's all it is.... I know there's two up there but one's free.
[Maggie:] Mm. And I even forget to post the free ones.
[Kathleen:] Do you?... Oh it's summat about erm... yeah it is you know erm... where you vote for them union things... I meant to ask you if they'd got a stamp [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] [cough] I doubt it. [cough]
[Kathleen:] I got a letter from my... er phantom writer
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] sent this home yesterday
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] and it goes... apple pies or, great big line, wrapped round... I think it's bread pudding.... [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Oh he wants something else now does he?
[Kathleen:] Yeah apple pie or and a circle round bread pudding. I says he gets bleeding worse him.... Please, it says please
[Maggie:] Helen were just er me and Helen were just talking about our bread pudding yesterday when she come round.... Cos she does them bread and butter ones
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] nah I can't
[Kathleen:] lose eight pou eight pound in fourteen days
[Maggie:] [cough] Oh.
[Kathleen:] Oh it's give you breakfast for fourteen days.
[Maggie:] Yeah it's been in paper that.
[Kathleen:] It's yesterday's.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah....
[Maggie:] Tt talking about that...
[Kathleen:] Yeah I know, I've got to get numbers as well, I ain't done them yet. I'll do them when you're erm... cos I meant to do them and I forgot all about it.... He's you know not talking to me now....
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] Why?... Cos of the other
[Kathleen:] He no... it's summat entirely different, cos I says he were being sarcastic and keep your mouth shut if you can't speak normal.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] What was it? We watched that last night... don't matter... we watched that last night and he were chittering away about summat, I weren't taking a lot of notice
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] and then it finished and... he always turns video off but he never turns telly off, so I turned the telly off
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] and he says you're not telling me you're coming to bed are you? says well
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] that's what you normally do on a night time, he says oh so you're not sleeping on settee? I says if you can't think of nowt better to say just shut your mouth.
[Maggie:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] He says it every time I fall asleep on settee. Every time.
[Maggie:] Mm. Well Bill won't let me fall asleep on the settee.
[Kathleen:] Well I says to him, I says if you were that interested I says while I'm watching I says why don't you come and see, I says, give us a shake
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] but he never does.... And I thought no, I'm not playing. So he wouldn't give me a kiss and he wouldn't say goodnight so I thought nah... I'm not bothered.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Kathleen:] He were tired anyway, minute his head hit pillow he started chuffing snoring. Him and that snoring, it's driving me nuts.... [clears throat]
[Maggie:] I must be driving Bill nuts with my snoring. Cos I don't normally snore unless I get a cold but when I get a cold I fucking
[Kathleen:] I s
[Maggie:] wake myself up!
[Kathleen:] I snore when I get a cold. And I'm getting it. Can you tell?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Slowly, but I'm getting it.
[Maggie:] That side of me's... it's this side of me now.
[Kathleen:] You've like half cleared?
[Maggie:] Er all that side's alright and I'm getting... me eye's starting here and this one nostril.
[Kathleen:] Mm. I were telling you about that sugar place, we're doing it again.
[Maggie:] Yeah go on. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Erm I only posted it, I'm sure I posted it Monday
[Maggie:] [sniff] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] cos he filled it in at weekend and I posted it Monday or Tuesday, one of them two
[Maggie:] Well it's nearer anyway innit?
[Kathleen:] Anyway er he's got a reply this morning.
[Maggie:] What's it say?
[Kathleen:] I don't know. I've got to wait till half past seven tonight.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] No I haven't I've got to wait till half past five, it's Friday int it?
[Maggie:] Friday innit?...
[Kathleen:] He got two six one this week....
[Maggie:] What's that make it in four weeks? [sigh]...
[Kathleen:] One thousand one hundred....
[Maggie:] That's not bad. That's not bad at all cos you thought it might've been about nine hundred with them other two didn't you?
[Kathleen:] Oh no, they've gone now.
[Maggie:] Oh. [cough]
[Kathleen:] This is start of a new one.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] Get there at end of... twenty eighth.
[Maggie:] Well Bill's just been on his s er tt... supposed to be going over to see to... Sue's laying her paving slabs and everything
[Kathleen:] Tomorrow?...
[Maggie:] Yeah tomorrow. [sniff]... so he says but I don't know what to do he says cos if there's a job... you know, if there's any overtime, cos there ain't been none... but if there's any overtime he says I don't know what to do I said bloody do the overtime, let her hang about.
[Kathleen:] Aye he mentioned it yesterday, working on
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Saturdays and that.
[Maggie:] Yeah. He says he don't know yet... with it being like his first complete week... but he says if there's overtime he says what shall I do? I says bloody do it, I says she can wait till Sunday.
[Kathleen:] Aye....
[Maggie:] But it'll be... they'll nick them, they'll nick them, you know cos... they can still nick them once they're laid!
[Kathleen:] Well have you been reading in paper, what were I reading?
[Maggie:] I'd read something about slabs
[Kathleen:] Nicked nicked a full street.
[Maggie:] Slabs or something, yeah.
[Kathleen:] No a street.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] Erm Steve fetched Star as well yesterday
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] and I'm sure it said they'd nicked a full street in this one. That Sun is getting ridiculous.... They get their teeth into summat and they do about ten pages on it.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] So, and I'm sure it's this one, they nicked a street
[Maggie:] [cough]...
[Kathleen:] You know you park?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] They nicked a full pavement. I were reading
[Maggie:] Well they've got a bloody cheek then int they, to do a full street?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. I don't know if it's erm... tt... a con... cos it seems a bit unbelievable, nicking a street.
[Maggie:] Yeah but let's face it, if you're gonna do a street... so they think oh well we're gonna get a new pavements down, you know,
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] wouldn't you?
[Kathleen:] But they don't. [clears throat]... Cos it's all about Paddy Ashdown int it?
[Maggie:] Oh who's bloody interested?
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] I picked it up, I says to Steve who's Paddy Ashdown? He says you and your politics, I says that's right, me and my politics [LAUGHTER] I says I don't think a lot of notice of them, me [].
[Maggie:] [cough] Oh
[Kathleen:] It don't matter what you read about, what you say, they're gonna do what they want anyway.
[Maggie:] Course they are....
[Kathleen:] Yeah there's about... just a minute...
[Maggie:] Too much.
[Kathleen:] Too much? You're not kidding... er page nine so far
[Maggie:] [cough]...
[Kathleen:] Nine pages of same person. Surely to God they can find summat better to write about? Like this woman who's won two million, eighty odd er... how old is she?
[Maggie:] She's knocking on, she were on the other day
[Kathleen:] Sixty two.
[Maggie:] yeah....
[Kathleen:] She's comfy for life now, she can afford a operation on her hip.... Where is it?... Do you know it annoys me, I know I've read it.
[Maggie:] [sigh] [cough]...
[Kathleen:] They nicked whole street, and I only read it last night.
[Maggie:] Hmm.
[Kathleen:] It annoys me when [LAUGHTER] I can't find it []....
[Maggie:] [sniff] Ooh God we're gonna start now, I can feel it. [sniff]
[Kathleen:] What, your cough or your run?
[Maggie:] No me runny nose.... Wouldn't mind if it were both bloody sides but it's only one. [sniff]
[Kathleen:] Mm.... I can't find it.... and then you can have it.... I'll find it. I'll do what I usually do.... Ah there's pencil!... We have a pencil! Makes a bloody change.
[Maggie:] No pen?
[Kathleen:] No.... No cards neither by looks of it.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]... Been alright if you'd come up because you can't... claim it can you, after four o'clock.
[Kathleen:] No.
[Maggie:] Mind you I need thousands.
[Kathleen:] I want Saturday paper, I get that on time anyway so it don't matter.... If I ever won If.
[Maggie:] If?
[Kathleen:] I'd er... oh I've got one out of pool numbers. Wow
[Maggie:] How many numbers?...
[Kathleen:] There's quite a few actually.... Two, four, six, eight, ten, eleven.
[Maggie:] Monday Tuesday and Wednesday I didn't get any on one card.
[Kathleen:] I've got two [LAUGHTER] and it's Friday today [].
[Maggie:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] It's summat to do. Do you know I've had a blue pen, I've had a black pen and now I'm down to a bloody pencil....
[Maggie:] Be a bloody crayon next. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Oh you'll not find a crayon in this house.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Everything, if it writes it's his for college.
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] Cos that's what he'll a done... gone out and then come and pinched
[Maggie:] [cough]...
[Kathleen:] It's not bad but he don't use them till they've run out... he just uses them and leaves them laying about and come and takes some more....
[Maggie:] I'm gonna get a little packet of felt tips....
[Kathleen:] I had a tin full of them.
[Maggie:] Just for our Craigy, I had an orange one and er another colour one... and the orange one ran out the other day and he went potty.
[Kathleen:] Did he?
[Maggie:] Yeah cos he, it was a different colour to his pen.... So I've gotta get a little packet of felt tips.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Maggie:] lots of pencils or something....
[Kathleen:] I couldn't get them any closer. I've done it again.
[Maggie:] What darling? Broked it?
[Kathleen:] Yeah you know what I've done, it's that er thing there... well before I had it I used to put them on floor at side of ashtray, and now I leave it on settee and you know when I put me legs up, you know when you move over and watching telly?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] You end up sitting on it.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] And I'm sure that's what's doing it.... It's about five I've done in in two days.
[Maggie:] I'm not going to Nettos today... I'll make do... just go down the bottom.
[Kathleen:] And I can't get these papers tight on these, they're stupid. This one broke altogether this has.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Completely snapped it.
[Maggie:] Mm.... Tt I was meant to bring you over a couple of chocolate biscuits and... fifty pence for you to give to Craig... cos he's bound to want something.
[Kathleen:] To give to Craig?
[Maggie:] Yeah...
[Kathleen:] Oh! Yeah.... I've got to collar him over weekend to see what he's doing.
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] I think he'll be a lot better anyway.... Well he likes it better there.... And he were always chirpy.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I don't think I heard him whinge once.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] And he left your fridge alone.
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] And I bet he's been down to see ducks.... He would of done.
[Maggie:] Yeah well I don't know about yet... I think it's too... Steve might be taking him to see his nan on Saturday... cos he knows Bill's going Saturday.... That's if he's got any money, I dunno....
[Kathleen:] I couldn't get over it. I still can't believe it actually....
[Maggie:] But she phoned up once at our house... is Steve there? I says yeah... and then I heard, I didn't hear what she said... and I heard him say look if you want me to have him it's got to be legal.... But by all accounts she's phoned up to the house four times....
[Kathleen:] Yeah he says that there were a right slanging match going off in town. [LAUGHTER] But I couldn't stop laughing, me [].... Has he phoned up since he's gone?
[Maggie:] No.
[Kathleen:] I were gonna say how was he doing.
[Maggie:] No he ain't phoned up. I tried phoning him yesterday... but there were no answer and then I thought oh bugger it, forget it.
[Kathleen:] He'll a took bairn out cos they'll of gone for extra funds, social and got, they'll be doing that at moment won't they?
[Maggie:] He wou he would've been down there. takes him, to that green... with...
[Kathleen:] Avenue Road yeah....
[Maggie:] Just as the bus goes into town
[Kathleen:] Yeah, I know where you mean.
[Maggie:] you've got fields well he goes and takes a ball or something and... throws it and... tires him out a bit.
[Kathleen:] That should... cheer them all up, down there....
[Maggie:] Gets on alright with the landlady and that, no problem. Cos I went down there one day and I says... where is he? got him... she's giving him some cake and milk.... But they all treat him good....
[Kathleen:] Well he sleeps with them doesn't he?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Maggie:] No well what they've got is they've got that... little settee thing... that two seater
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah.
[Maggie:] so... he can either sleep in bed with his dad and J J or... but they make him up a bed on that. But they will give him a bed if he's got him right, right?
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Maggie:] Cos they, they normally [cough] the others [cough]
[Kathleen:] When does he get to know then?
[Maggie:] I don't know it's all gotta go through. He went to that thing didn't he?
[Kathleen:] He's done it all right.
[Maggie:] He's done it right up till now anyway.
[Kathleen:] And that were the mistake he made last time.
[Maggie:] Yeah. So it's all going... be right anyway.
[Kathleen:] Well actually she's wrote the letter she's signed everything and everything so
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] he can't say he's doing it wrong.
[Maggie:] No....
[Kathleen:] Wonder if her mother's been....
[Maggie:] No idea, bloody twisted. [cough] She knows she can come up, he knows he can come down and that's it, I don't wanna know anything else.
[Kathleen:] That's it.
[Maggie:] [sniff]
[Kathleen:] Still nosey though aren't they?
[Maggie:] Yeah as long as i... nothing else is happening.
[Kathleen:] Mm....
[Maggie:] He says she's, no way she'd move to Hampton Road....
[Kathleen:] Well I ain't seen her since erm
[Maggie:] I haven't. And she ain't phoned
[Kathleen:] possibly Wednesday, well I told her I were going up Thursday or Friday... so I might nip up this aft
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] I'll go get me cigs... from
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] Kwik Save
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] so
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] I watched him fetch me coal this morning and made sure he filled the bleeding bag....
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] I still had to buy three. I got about two left in bunker
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and I bought three and I thought there should be five... cos I didn't have a fire... on Sunday at all and twice this week I haven't lit it till fi you know them four buckets
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] that I had in there? Well that were two days ago....
[Maggie:] Yesterday I said that to you, cos I says oh who's been good and filled them
[Kathleen:] No it were day before, you said it Wednesday. I said I had.
[Maggie:] Was it? Oh.
[Kathleen:] We didn't go in there yesterday did we?
[Maggie:] I can't remember....
[Kathleen:] Cos I come back to your house.
[Maggie:] Yeah, where's me fags gone?
[Kathleen:] You've just had them... they're in your coat pocket.
[Maggie:] Oh I'm looking in here, I'm not looking in there....
[Kathleen:] No I've still got one of them left... haven't touched the coal since. So you can say from Wednesday till today... there's all coal that was in the bunker plus what they put on top.... Sh I should have at least half a bunker left.
[Maggie:] Put that in the fire.
[Kathleen:] Mm. Yeah if he gets an interview for this job he's taking day off to do it.
[Maggie:] I don't blame him.
[Kathleen:] He says he is now because April's coming up.
[Maggie:] Yeah.... That's area innit?
[Kathleen:] Newark. Other side of
[Maggie:] Yeah Newark it's not far. It's not that far. Cos that's, we go to Newark then Grantham... going down south to me mum's we go all that way....
[Kathleen:] Well it says Newark on front.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] I says Scunnie but it's not Scunnie is it?
[Maggie:] [cough] No it's past Scunnie [cough] past Scunnie.
[Kathleen:] I thought it were on... past Worksop....
[Maggie:] I dunno. I know it's past Scunnie....
[Kathleen:] Flo didn't call last night. She said she would.
[Maggie:] Maybe she's poorly. Everybody you talk to is poorly.
[Kathleen:] I spoke to her on Wednesday, she seemed alright, never mentioned she were poorly.
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] I were talking to her for about half an hour. And I says are you still working tomorrow? She says yeah she says I'll pop in for a quick cuppa. Cos I boiled kettle at quarter to five cos normally she gets here about five
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] and I boiled it about quarter to five and I thought...
[Maggie:] She didn't come.
[Kathleen:] She didn't come, no.
[Maggie:] Maybe she missed bus....
[Kathleen:] She's always doing that.... I thought ooh. Well I think Sarah's gone to work, sounds like it cos she hasn't phoned and said owt.
[Maggie:] Mm.... I got up at ten past eight.
[Kathleen:] I seen curtains open when I got up....
[Maggie:] Well I looked at the clock, it said twenty to eight, I thought sod it I ain't getting up.
[Kathleen:] What time did you finally go to bed?...
[Maggie:] About ha quarter past
[Kathleen:] Oh you only got up for a coffee?
[Maggie:] No I didn't even get up for that, I come downstairs, I made myself an orange juice... he Vicked me back and me front again... I tried to get back to sleep. It took ages.
[Kathleen:] You look like I looked yesterday.... You look terrible....
[Maggie:] Well I feel a lot better. It's just... if I lay down.
[Kathleen:] I had that, like a tickle, it starts off
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] a tickle and you cough cough cough cough cough.
[Maggie:] No this is still phlegm.
[Kathleen:] Oh mine's not it's a tickle. Cos I can cough, you can't.
[Maggie:] I can cough but it's not coming nowhere.
[Kathleen:] It's not doing anything?
[Maggie:] It just won't... get up there. It gets up to about there and it just won't come.
[Kathleen:] And then you choke?
[Maggie:] Yeah.... [sigh]...
[Kathleen:] What time's Bill home today, half past twelve?
[Maggie:] No he'll be home before that today cos they leave at half eleven, they clock off at half eleven now.
[Kathleen:] He'll be home between twelve and half past then.
[Maggie:] No he'll be home about five to twelve.
[Kathleen:] It only takes him twenty five minutes?...
[Maggie:] Well i if his mate comes in, like he's got a good mate, so if his mate comes in he releases his mate early... so if he releases him early, he could be er it takes him about thirty five to forty minutes. But like he might come in say twenty past eleven something
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Maggie:] like that... cos Bill goes early to release them on Fridays cos that way they can go shopping with their missus and everything.
[Kathleen:] Oh tha so it's only half a day's ever?
[Maggie:] On Fridays.
[Kathleen:] Is it only a thirty odd hour week?... Steve's is.
[Maggie:] Thirty nine. Thirty eight hour... thirty eight hours a week... Bill's.
[Kathleen:] Well if Steve goes for this interview he's working till, he'll not be in till half past eight because he says... all that week he can gain four hours... work... because erm... he's found out you don't have to finish after two hours, you can work as much you like, finish at ten o'clock at night if you want.
[Maggie:] Yeah but he don't wanna knacker himself out does he?
[Kathleen:] Well I says to him I says well make sure, well it's five past eight he'd get in instead of five past seven
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] cos all this week
[Maggie:] Yeah but
[Kathleen:] I've done well with his tea.
[Maggie:] [cough]...
[Kathleen:] I've been putting it out just as he's walked in, I said I'm getting good me at this tea. He says aye you wait till I change shifts. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] ... Mm.
[Kathleen:] just talk about [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] Oh
[Kathleen:] Erm... no little lad come for Avon money and everything from Alice but
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] he didn't, he give me it on Wednesday night and I should've give her it yesterday morning but she didn't get it till last night. And she didn't fetch money till this morning, she didn't have her purse on her.
[Maggie:] Oh I've got to get a birthday card for our Shaz, I've gotta get a birthday card for our Steve. [sigh]...
[Kathleen:] Darren and Sharon's. Not far.
[Maggie:] You what, say it again?
[Kathleen:] Not far, I've gotta get a birthday ca er tt... that's you and birthday cards!
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Our Darren and Sharon's arguing again. Sarah's seen Sharon in town she says how's things and she went... and she says where's Darren, haven't seen him for three days....
[Maggie:] Tt.
[Kathleen:] I thought bloody hell they're at it again. They were alright up to Christmas. But then again I seen them
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] last week, they went past me in car, they were pipping and they were both together, she were driving.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] He's been a good lad, he's not been driving.
[Maggie:] Good....
[Kathleen:] Shane's bought himself another car.
[Maggie:] What kind's he got this time?
[Kathleen:] A Metro. And he's a bi big lad for a Metro int he?
[Maggie:] Mm.... Mm....
[Kathleen:] Paid six hundred.
[Maggie:] That's not too bad then.... There's a nice little car up here, that Chevrolet thing... I don't know who's selling it like, dunno how much it is even but it's a nice little car. [sniff] Two tone brown, have you seen it?...
[Kathleen:] On front?
[Maggie:] Yeah just... going up
[Kathleen:] I think that's er
[Maggie:] Ruby's.
[Kathleen:] Colin's...
[Maggie:] Ruby.
[Kathleen:] Oh you mean out front here?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I thought you meant on High Street, I've seen
[Maggie:] No.
[Kathleen:] no I've not seen that one then.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] Well he's not bothered at moment, Gary, is he?
[Maggie:] No he's more bothered about France.... I'm pleased he's not bloody bothered anyway.... While we get all these icy roads.
[Kathleen:] Well that's it.
[Maggie:] [cough]... [cough] Ooh!... Well I haven't got a frozen chip and I haven't got a tatie in the house. [cough]...
[Kathleen:] I've got some frozen chips.
[Maggie:] I ain't.
[Kathleen:] I have.... Have you seen size of joints of meat down there?
[Maggie:] I ain't been down there for about three weeks since I've been going there.
[Kathleen:] I got a chicken... from there other day, I went for a joint of pork I thought oh I'll have a couple of them joints, fetch a couple back [sniff] and er... I says... it's not Christmas now you know. He says what you on about? I says look at size of these! You know that ginormous one I had?
[Maggie:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Well they're all still that size.... I don't know how much they are.... But you
[Maggie:] That one that we both bought the same size?
[Kathleen:] Yeah well these are bigger.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] It's like a... top of top of a leg,i it's a lot bigger. But
[Maggie:] Oh it's no good to me that size.
[Kathleen:] I thought well I'll pop down.
[Maggie:] Be alright getting one in for Easter.
[Kathleen:] Oh aye that size.
[Maggie:] But then again... they're not bothered. They don't like por well Bill don't like pork. [sniff]
[Kathleen:] I'm not buying Steven an Easter egg.
[Maggie:] When is it?
[Kathleen:] I don't know. It's in April.
[Maggie:] [cough] If I've got money they'll have one, if I ain't got money they can all do without.
[Kathleen:] Well I'm giving him a tenner.... I thought why spend it all on chocolate... because usually I buy about six or seven quid's worth of eggs, a mixture of eggs
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] and he ends up with Creme Eggs and then proper eggs and that... and I thought that's just a waste of money at his age cos when Easter comes up, four weeks after he's seventeen.
[Maggie:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] Do you know I calculate, I went on to him other night and I says you've only nine week
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] then I turned round and says no you haven't you've got eight and a half weeks and he hasn't he's got... twelve and [LAUGHTER] a half [].
[Maggie:] No.
[Kathleen:] Till he's seventeen....
[Maggie:] It were a nice age for me, seventeen.
[Kathleen:] You were married then weren't you?...
[Maggie:] Not dead on seven wait a minute were I... sixt...
[Kathleen:] I thought you got married when you were sixteen?...
[Maggie:] I can't remember Kath.... I were born in forty seven
[Kathleen:] No.
[Maggie:] then I were married in sixty five... I weren't fifteen!
[Kathleen:] Forty seven, forty eight, forty nine, fifty, fifty one, fifty two, fifty three, fifty four, fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven, fifty eight... and when did you get married again?
[Maggie:] Sixty five.
[Kathleen:] Sixty five.... Forty eight, forty nine, fifty, fifty one, fifty two, fifty three, fifty four, fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven, fifty eight, fifty nine, sixty, sixty one, sixty two... sixty two you were fifteen...
[Maggie:] Well I had Billy at eighteen.
[Kathleen:] That's sixty four. He were born in nineteen sixty four weren't he?
[Maggie:] No I weren't married until six he, Billy were born in sixty six.
[Kathleen:] Sixty six.... That makes you nineteen.... No that's right cos he were born in er
[Maggie:] Hong Kong.
[Kathleen:] you had him when you were eighteen, he were born in June and you was nineteen in September weren't you?
[Maggie:] In September yeah.... Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And it were sixty five you got married then?
[Maggie:] Sixty five I got married, I had Bill in sixty six... February I got married... sixty six, June, I had him.... So what's that?... A year and two months.
[Kathleen:] Sixteen month you'd been married.
[Maggie:] Yeah. Sixteen months.
[Kathleen:] That's a year and four month.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Sixteen month you'd been married.
[Maggie:] Sorry.
[Kathleen:] [cough] Do you want another cuppa?
[Maggie:] Yeah
[Kathleen:] Have you been picking?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Have you just done that?
[Maggie:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] I thought I were seeing things, blood. Urgh first bit
[Maggie:] Yeah I did that on the car the other day.
[Kathleen:] first bit of blood I've seen all.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Group Of Unknown Speakers:] [in another room]
[Kathleen:] Cough it up. It's all we've been doing innit?
[Maggie:] Yeah. [cough]...
[Kathleen:] I'm surprised I haven't had any of it till now.
[Maggie:] You've done well.
[Kathleen:] I've done ever so well.... But me luck don't hold out forever does it? [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] No.... I ain't got that horrible tightness it me chest now thank God.
[Kathleen:] Well that's what worri were upsetting you most weren't it?
[Maggie:] Yeah.... I'm bleeding well glad.
[Kathleen:] I know!...
[Maggie:] I was gonna wash me hair today if I felt better. Hmm! No wash.
[Kathleen:] Well you've got some colour... at least this morning you did have.
[Maggie:] It's blown me brains out that. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] That's one way to do it.... Have you seen Steve's fancy glasses? Come from work.... [LAUGHTER] Weird aren't they [].
[Maggie:] Wide int they?...
[Kathleen:] They're them safety glasses.
[Maggie:] Yeah Bill's got a pair but he's got a bi a little bit of plastic on the side of it.
[Kathleen:] It is it's there....
[Maggie:] Oh yeah, he's got some.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. I says they're only sun glasses.
[Maggie:] [cough]...
[Kathleen:] Yeah... just Mirage or summat they're called.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] ... Cos we were messing about with them other day when he fetched them in. Cos I says put them on and let's have a look
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] he looked right stupid he did. Hmm. Thought bloody hell. [clears throat]
[Maggie:] And I've gotta get some cornflakes today, my Gary must've used the last few this morning.... [sighing] Ooh []
[Kathleen:] Look at this carpet, it's a bloody disgrace.
[Maggie:] Mine's terrible.... I can't be bothered.
[Kathleen:] No I can't be bothered.
[Maggie:] When I feel better
[Kathleen:] It's the thought of shampooing it that I can't be bothered about.
[Maggie:] when I feel better it'll get done... feel like this.
[Kathleen:] Ah.
[Maggie:] I've gone down to one egg... in me freezer
[Kathleen:] I've got w I've got one.
[Maggie:] I dunno why I've got one though.
[Kathleen:] I know why I've got one.
[Maggie:] I don't.
[Kathleen:] Other night we had bacon and egg and I didn't fancy it very much so I just had two slices of bacon and one egg and made a couple of sandwiches out of it.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] But Steve always has two eggs.... Cos I thought bloody hell.
[Maggie:] Enjoyed their tea last night.... the big garden peas with the steak... and chips and I done them two fried eggs each....
[Kathleen:] Toby enjoyed that?
[Maggie:] Yeah.... Gary enjoyed it.
[Kathleen:] Did Bill go to sleep?
[Maggie:] Yeah for a little while. Not when I
[Kathleen:] How many cards did you get in end?...
[Maggie:] About six... Six or seven.
[Kathleen:] Six or seven. Did you get one off Steve?
[Maggie:] [cough] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Oh you got one this time?
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER] He were the first person to send one.
[Kathleen:] Did he post it? Or bring it?
[Maggie:] He brought it.
[Kathleen:] He brought it.
[Maggie:] He sent that one with all the roses over.
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah I've seen that, it's nice that one.
[Maggie:] [cough]...
[Kathleen:] I meant to ask him if he'd decided if he were getting married or not and I forgot all about it....
[Maggie:] He'll make up his mind.
[Kathleen:] I was that busy trying to convince him that he had to er... go to doctors... cos I says what did they actually do? He says they lifted his eyelid up and just poured water in it and when they finished he says that... he says
[Maggie:] Wasn't out.
[Kathleen:] it was still there, it hadn't done
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] he says and then they didn't do nowt else. I says you can't see like that you'll be walking in I says go on, get down to nurse.... And I convinced him to go to nurse, that's why he was so long.... I thought well he's better off going to nurse and then she'll get that magnifying glass and have a look.... It wouldn't've surprised me that that he could feel were an eyelash like mine was.
[Maggie:] I said that, but it is a mess though innit?
[Kathleen:] It is a mess. All this side of his face were puffing up with it weren't it?
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] I noticed the minute he come in.
[Maggie:] And all his eye's crusted.... It's gone crusty on top.
[Kathleen:] He's got some stuff to put in it though hasn't he?
[Maggie:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] Did they give him owt down at doctors?...
[Maggie:] He never said.
[Kathleen:] Oh. See I were that busy I never even noticed him come back cos I thought I'll leave back door unlocked... and he come in and he put me hat and me keys down there, cos I noticed
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] cos I walked in... somebody walked in with me... don't know, and I says oh Stephen's been.
[Maggie:] [sniff]
[Kathleen:] I know somebody walked in with me. I can't remember who. No I'd been to shop. Oh it was Sarah.
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] Cos I went to shops for milk.... And she wanted to borrow a couple of videos....
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] So I lent her them. Cos she says you wouldn't lend me none when I lived at Arthur's, I says no because every time I lent one at our Arthur's he swore black and blue it were his.
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] He was a swine for that.... complained how he says I've got one of his and I hadn't got it, it's Linda that had got it....
[Maggie:] What's she doing with his tapes?...
[Kathleen:] She went up with little lad and he were watching it and he says I wouldn't mind this, well Arthur says I'd al he'd already taped it off telly... and so he says I'll tell you what you can have it if you give me... a blank tape back.
[Maggie:] Yeah?
[Kathleen:] So he give it little lad. Anyway because I were there with them you see he thought it were me that had got it and I says I haven't got it.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] And then he said it were you that had got it, I says Maggie hasn't been.
[Maggie:] Cheeky sod!
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Well somebody's been he says, I says it were Linda, I says with little'un, I says you give it young'un, he says I did didn't I?...
[Maggie:] Cheeky sod blaming me.
[Kathleen:] Well he remembers you and Irene
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] if I hadn't've said Linda
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] he would've said Irene next.
[Maggie:] Mm.... [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] Cos you're only two that usually goes up with me....
[Maggie:] How long's it been since I've been there?
[Kathleen:] Oh God... two year?
[Maggie:] Fucking years.
[Kathleen:] Is it two year?
[Maggie:] If not more....
[Kathleen:] It's a couple a year ago.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Before you went on diet.... Yeah my earrings turned up I can't find cap. There it is.... I'm going to go to our Albert's on Saturday. [sigh] Mm so I shall get up and go.... I'm going to get me pennies back.
[Maggie:] Oh yeah.
[Kathleen:] Well they belong to Access card.... So I'll put it with it, that's hundred and forty.... My coalman turned up at twenty past eight this morning!
[Maggie:] I looked at... it was twenty past eight cos he pulled up as I drew my curtains.
[Kathleen:] Yeah at twenty past eight! Cos when he knocked on door and I thought oh I wonder if it's that parcel... midi hi-fi system I'm
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] waiting for er that's what I thought it were.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And I opened door and he says coal love I says [LAUGHTER] you're early aren't you []? I says I'll have three.... We still haven't heard nowt about that bloody coal.
[Maggie:] We ain't have we?
[Kathleen:] Not a thing and they said January, it's February now.... What date is it today, seventh?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah I were gonna write that in on this one I......
[Maggie:] Oh look she's getting her coal right up there
[Kathleen:] Her what?
[Maggie:] She's getting her coal and the board's right up here
[Kathleen:] They do that.
[Maggie:] walk.... [cough]...
[Kathleen:] They're crackers. Straight outside her house....
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]... [yawn]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Be alright, start off with a pen and end up with a pencil [].
[Maggie:] Never mind.
[Kathleen:] I it writes....
[Maggie:] [cough] I'm gonna sort my food cupboard out, see what I've gotta get [cough]
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... But you got extra didn't you though?...
[Maggie:] Yeah cos me freezer's empty innit? I've only got a couple of loaves.
[Kathleen:] I know you said you were extra and then going to freezer shop or summat....
[Maggie:] Yeah but I ain't got the extra cos they've ate it....
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] The more you get the more they eat? That's one way to do it....
[Maggie:] Oh by the way if you see Jackie say yours made one glove for Matthew and he's half way through the next one.
[Kathleen:] Oh has he gone on to Matthew's now?
[Maggie:] He's finished Craigy's, Craigy's got his.
[Kathleen:] Oh I didn't see them finished I only seen one.
[Maggie:] Well the other one looked identical to that one. [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Well it's bound to do int it []?
[Maggie:] Yeah. And now he's do he's done one for Matthew and he's half way through the other one.
[Kathleen:] I wonder if she hasn't been down because... she don't know if you know or not....
[Maggie:] She'll know.
[Kathleen:] Gonna say she should do
[Maggie:] It makes
[Kathleen:] Unless she's got a guilty conscience. Thinks you might get on at her.
[Maggie:] No. I'll not get on at her.
[Kathleen:] I know you won't. She's daft as a brush when she starts thinking like that.
[Maggie:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] Cos Matthew? August, September [whispering] December, January, February []... six er eighteen month old.
[Maggie:] Cos if you say, if you... talk to her, say we all thought you were coming down on Thursday.
[Kathleen:] He did he said while I were there.
[Maggie:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] Say it's nowt to do with us. You know, you could still come up.
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Maggie:] Mind you I've told her that before.
[Kathleen:] I know but you know how she is.
[Maggie:] Yeah well she can come up. As long as she comes first to make sure...
[Kathleen:] Oh she'll tell me about it.... Well thingy has her baby in A er er April.
[Maggie:] Yeah beginning of April....
[Kathleen:] How long's she got? Eight weeks or six weeks?
[Maggie:] About six weeks I think.
[Kathleen:] She have it middle?...
[Maggie:] Well you get first week off
[Kathleen:] about six, seven week off don't you?... I hope it's a girl.
[Maggie:] I ain't bothered what it is I don't think.
[Kathleen:] I hope it's a girl....
[Maggie:] Helen said that yesterday.
[Kathleen:] What exactly the same?
[Maggie:] She says Stephen could do with a little girl cos he's
[Kathleen:] Yeah. That's exactly what I were thinking. I thought well he's got a couple of kids so... he could do with a little girl.... It'd be spoilt rotten. That'll keep him on his toes.... All his attitudes will change....
[Maggie:] Don't matter what it is as long as it's alright.
[Kathleen:] Course it'll be, it'll be alright.
[Maggie:] [cough] Because the baby was only a w
[Kathleen:] Well she walked she walked by me in town and if I didn't know her better I wouldn't know she were pregnant.... I couldn't tell at all....
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] Whether it were coat she had on or not
[Maggie:] She's hippy though. She is hippy cos I mean before she was never no hips.
[Kathleen:] I never noticed.
[Maggie:] Mm. She is hippy now.
[Kathleen:] Oh bloody hell.
[Maggie:] I ain't seen her for about two months.
[Kathleen:] Is it that long?... December
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] it were December, yeah. Well you've heard her on phone, she's phoned you quite a few times.
[Maggie:] Oh yeah she phones up and that.... I'll get your cup of tea for you.
[Kathleen:] You had a good day? Yeah. Good. [dog howling at the same time] You'd think you'd emigrated.
[Maggie:] He's like this all the time so
[Kathleen:] Yeah he's I know I've heard him. [dog howls]
[Maggie:] Shut up It's er insurance, they wanna put up your insurance.
[Kathleen:] [dog howls]
[Maggie:] [dog howls]
[Kathleen:] And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road.
[Maggie:] It's been what?... Oh yeah?
[Kathleen:] little pump comes on,
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] pump. [LAUGHTER] anyway [LAUGHTER] probably get about three miles out [] er two or three miles of it before it runs out.
[Maggie:] She's going on fumes.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Steve's keeps doing that now. Since he's worked down there, it never used to do it before. First time I've had it, well second time innit
[Maggie:] What on fumes?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Oh. Oh oh
[Maggie:] What you been today,?
[Kathleen:] Driving.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] Digging out. six o'clock to nine o'clock
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] else to dig out....
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] Could've left it until Saturday
[Maggie:] Are you working tomorrow?
[Kathleen:] No. only one bloke there....
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] He got one other day.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] We thought it were a new card or summat and it's not.
[Maggie:] How many cards have you had?
[Kathleen:] I had loads but since I ain't had none.
[Maggie:] We've only ever had that one.
[Kathleen:] You got it same time as I got that one, that's last year's card that we've got.
[Maggie:] Ooh.
[Kathleen:] It's a load of rubbish.
[Maggie:] It'll start the fire off later....
[Kathleen:] Yeah she's gonna forward that this aft she says. I'll phone you from town, I says don't forget I'm on lollipop.
[Maggie:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] She's packing up I'm sure.
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] ?
[Maggie:] Me?......
[Kathleen:] Oh I gave Lloyd the coupons to give to Tommy, I hope he don't bloody forget....
[Maggie:] Well if we win a quarter of a mill you wanna take it out of his house.
[Kathleen:] If anybody does forg if anybody can forget [LAUGHTER] it's Lloyd []. [LAUGHTER]...
[Maggie:] [cough]...
[Kathleen:] [sigh] Me jeans dry?
[Maggie:] No I've not long put them out on the line.... I think we ought to ask for a pay increase, not from him, from the job... cos he comes home scruffy this is the cleanest that he's come home so far.
[Kathleen:] Steve comes home scruffy from this place.
[Maggie:] Oh yeah but yesterday and the day before he took his glasses off and he was like a black and white minstrel.
[Kathleen:] Wait till the bloody summer comes and the dust starts blowing.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] Are they sun glasses or your proper ones, your new ones? Proper ones. They're new ones? No. Gotta get them mended cos the erm whatsit's got in here... screw hole Oh I've been meaning to ask and I keep forgetting.... I can't, need wear them all the time, gotta [LAUGHTER] I never take them off now []. [LAUGHTER] Do I?...
[Maggie:] Well you don't look right without them now.
[Kathleen:] I never take them off,
[Maggie:] And then you've got them other ones, the white ones ain't you? What you use for reading.
[Kathleen:] Reading glasses.
[Maggie:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] Are you supposed to have two different pair like?
[Maggie:] He's got two pairs.
[Kathleen:] One's long distance and reading.... said yeah he said we can do some long distance ones. Go on I'll have them ones. [cough] have the two like oh they're weird them, Joan got some of them hasn't she? And she Bifocals innit? They drove her nuts. Took nearly a fortnight to realize that like that, she were like Noddy.... next week now. Nice.... Thank you. [singing] []
[Maggie:] Have you got me a pressie?
[Kathleen:] No I ain't got you a pressie. I got myself a pressie actually and I ain't bloody ate it yet. I might eat the bugger now, look at that, I bet it's gone... soft. Been in pocket since nine o'clock.
[Maggie:] Not for long, dog's seen it.
[Kathleen:] No you can't have it.
[Maggie:] He's gonna eat the paper instead....
[Kathleen:] [shouting] Get off []!... Swine....
[Maggie:] If his lordship comes up Kath, our Bill
[Kathleen:] Billy, yeah?
[Maggie:] Yeah. Tell him we're not ill.
[Kathleen:] We're not on C B. Oh.... Well he come up last Friday but you weren't in.... Weren't we? No. I knew you'd gone
[Maggie:] No we'd gone to Nettos
[Kathleen:] Oh. I knew you'd gone to bank but Maggie never said you were going to Nettos
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] tell him where you were....
[Maggie:] went down there till late.
[Kathleen:] It were about twoish.... Think it were about two.
[Maggie:] Yeah cos we're always back for then....
[Kathleen:] Oh well I'm gonna watch me Home and Away and nip downstair...
[Maggie:] But you want... to see Steve... get some money cos we're going down.... Save you ge getting the bike out and wasting petrol.
[Kathleen:] Oh alright then.... I want hundred.
[Maggie:] An hundred Conway Red, Conway Red. What about baccy?
[Kathleen:] I've got er
[Maggie:] You've got his baccy?
[Kathleen:] I've gotta get another one but I can get that from anyway, that's
[Maggie:] A hundred Conway Reds.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. What's that then?
[Maggie:] Cigarettes.
[Kathleen:] They don't sell them. They do.
[Maggie:] They do them, that's where she gets them
[Kathleen:] What, Nettos?
[Maggie:] We're not going to Nettos today.
[Kathleen:] Who ain't?
[Maggie:] We ain't.
[Kathleen:] Why?
[Maggie:] Cos I wanna go down there to get some frozen stuff instead.
[Kathleen:] [shouting] We always go in Nettos []. So there. I'll go down It's cheaper for dog food....
[Maggie:] We're going to Nettos.
[Kathleen:] It is, it's a lot cheaper.... Well she a lot cheaper and she fills the bloody basket up. She never does up there.
[Maggie:] You can't down there.
[Kathleen:] You can't afford it up there. It's gone. What's gone? Where's me ashtray gone out the hole?...
[Maggie:] Where's the ashtray gone out the hole Bill?
[Kathleen:] What? You're the only one you don't use them.
[Maggie:] Get stuffed.
[Kathleen:] You only use them when Kath's here.
[Maggie:] Yeah I know I like being posh then.
[Kathleen:] that bloody last night
[Maggie:] Blame me!
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] It was you, you were sitting there.
[Maggie:] I know, well I couldn't get up to get an ashtray could I?
[Kathleen:] Did you wanna get up and get an ashtray?...
[Maggie:] We've still got two big tins, them ginormous ones... so you'll only need four of them forty five P ones.... What er... he charges er is it fifty four or summat like that for them
[Kathleen:] Fifty five.
[Maggie:] fifty five for them little Bill. And that... a lot better dog food, that er... what he had and he woofs it all doesn't he? That forty five P stuff from Nettos.
[Kathleen:] No. Yeah. Yeah it's a lot cheaper there. Forty four.
[Maggie:] Well whatever it was, I know it was in the forties. But that stuff up there, Rufus, it stinks vile. [cough]...
[Kathleen:] Oh our Mike prefers his dry stuff. And his bones.
[Maggie:] Won't bloody have it no more.
[Kathleen:] Bones and his
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] I thought he'd gone off it but I got wrong bag.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] There's three different kinds, one with...
[Maggie:] stuff weren't it?
[Kathleen:] a right lot of cereal
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] er there's one that the dog has
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and there's this other one, well I went in shop, well I always get him to deliver it
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and I went in shop I said a sack of dog food I said German Shepherd... and got it home... and I thought this looks different, it were ginormous chunk things in it... and he were going... ptew, ptew [LAUGHTER] and they were all over garden [] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] What was it?
[Kathleen:] I don't know what it were, it were like great big bits of gristle or whatever it is but it were hard. You know when you stew it
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] and it soft it wouldn't soften up, it stayed hard and they were all over garden. He didn't want that.... So I went in and told them and they'd given me wrong sack.
[Maggie:] You know why I've gotta go Nettos cos he likes his Angel layer cake from there.
[Kathleen:] I don't. It's cheap there.
[Maggie:] You eat it! You ate it all!...
[Kathleen:] Well it's not my fault. Only a little bloody thing as it was.
[Maggie:] Yeah but you still ate it all.
[Kathleen:] Well not, somebody else could've ate it, there was a piece in the fridge for three days.
[Maggie:] Who ate it?
[Kathleen:] I did cos I thought well if nobody else was eating it, I might as well eat it....
[Maggie:] Cos you have that one, Gary likes his apple pies.
[Kathleen:] I like apple pies an'all.
[Maggie:] Yeah well you're not having both, you get one.... And I must get some Sweetex.
[Kathleen:] I know you must. You didn't listen to me when I keep telling you.
[Maggie:] Well I've got to get some. [cough] That's cheaper from the chemist.
[Kathleen:] Is it?
[Maggie:] If you get it round er Hatfield, you buy two you get one free.
[Kathleen:] Aye I've seen it on shelf, yeah.
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Yeah. I've seen it. That's Donny?
[Maggie:] No round Hatfield.
[Kathleen:] Hatfield.
[Maggie:] Doctor's surgery.... Cos it, I think it were one pound thirty nine or one pound forty six, something like that... not dear, anyway er to buy two and then you get the third one free.
[Kathleen:] I bought two Radox and got a free one. Never even had a bloody bath in it.
[Maggie:] Well we all know who uses it don't we?
[Kathleen:] Oh not me.
[Maggie:] Our Gary.
[Kathleen:] I don't get to use it in our house neither. Put it on windowsill and I think... ooh on a Friday I like using it, I think I'll go and get a bath and you pick box up, it's empty.... Always....
[Maggie:] I like the green one.
[Kathleen:] Pine.
[Maggie:] In the green box.
[Kathleen:] Pine, yeah. That's nice that one.
[Maggie:] That pink one's horrible.
[Kathleen:] It's with Steve getting a bath every day and Stephen, both of them's nicked it.
[Maggie:] Mm.... Well I've done another load of washing if you wanted to count how many units I've used....
[Kathleen:] You still doing that? more money. Oh.... It was nine point seven yesterday.
[Maggie:] I'm doing well.... On a Sunday and a Saturday, Saturday's me worst day he reckons.
[Kathleen:] Well Saturday is your worst day cos we have telly on till twelve o'clock at night.
[Maggie:] Yeah, we have telly on and I er I'm cooking and doing things in the kitchen, there's more cups of teas and everything. And Saturdays I use thirteen point something weren't it?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] So it averages out about eleven units.
[Kathleen:] A day?
[Maggie:] A day. [cough]
[Kathleen:] Is that including your heater?
[Maggie:] Everything.
[Kathleen:] Er n what heater?
[Maggie:] When we put the immersion on it were only that thirteen weren't it?
[Kathleen:] Yeah well that bugger.... I've had It's alright for ha put it on for half hour maybe, you know, but you forget it
[Maggie:] If we've got no coal.
[Kathleen:] you forget it and it stays on four bloody days. Yeah. And that's no good. Costs too much that....
[Maggie:] Mm....
[Kathleen:] What I'll do is get a little light... run down then you can see Yeah. if light's on then you can tell oh immersion's on.
[Maggie:] And turn it off.
[Kathleen:] Instead of going upstairs all the bloody time to look. Yeah ours is in airing, you've got to bend down and look at it to see if light's on. It's stupid.
[Maggie:] Olwen has hers on for half an hour of a morning, Joe puts it on at half eight and dead on nine o'clock that immersion's turned off.
[Kathleen:] Yeah that's okay... like when summer time comes and you don't want a fire
[Maggie:] [cough] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] cos you're saving on the coal then [LAUGHTER] we're you know [] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] [] Didn't you tell him? What? coalman in street.
[Maggie:] Oh now she even had him on... on something didn't you?
[Kathleen:] That Ken fella... the coalman.
[Maggie:] The different coalman.
[Kathleen:] He were parked up there well every coalman I've pulled him about this coke stuff... and I'd seen him other day and I pulled him, explained that I were going over on April first Mm. how much it is and he starts at five pound a bag. Oh we'll have his then.
[Maggie:] We'll find out
[Kathleen:] Yeah Ken he's called.
[Maggie:] [cough] What day was it?
[Kathleen:] Er... today.... Friday weren't it?...
[Maggie:] Can't remember what day it was. I mean if we tried one bag of that for a fiver.
[Kathleen:] cos a man called and I caught him instead.
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] So it's... in a minute... I should see him
[Maggie:] Can we afford a bag... this week?
[Kathleen:] At a fiver!
[Maggie:] Well we pay that for the other coal.
[Kathleen:] You pay five twenty five for that bloody...
[Maggie:] Well we could just get one bag and that
[Kathleen:] coke.
[Maggie:] and see if it
[Kathleen:] It's not April yet.... You can see what it looks like.
[Maggie:] See what it's like.
[Kathleen:] You've got to remember, you know when your fire's lit? I don't want to see what it looks like. You know when your fire's lit? [LAUGHTER] Yeah []. Once it's lit with that stuff you're supposed to shut your bottom all tight. Waste of time with ours, it wants bloody cementing in. [LAUGHTER] Well it wants a new grate. Well it's not the grate, it's the... I think when we've cemented it together... it wants a bigger fireplace for that Yeah. for that boiler
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] Eighteen inch.
[Maggie:] I think that is an eighteen
[Kathleen:] Well that's a fourteen inch... grate, fire... a fourteen inch grate but you've got the gap all round it like so I thought eighteen inch. I went to... bloke there didn't I?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] At er Wingfield Road and I said to them, I mentioned to them
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] fourteen inch that way. He says that's what you want but I said yeah but there ain't no bloody fit I reckon it ought to be them on legs maybe. Yeah, could be. You know Have you tried a sixteen? Wonder if we've still got ours.... I'll have a root in garage cos ours, you know when we had ours ripped out, Steve stuffs everything in garage and shed, and it had legs on, I'll have a look, that's a sixteen inch. See if I can find it.
[Maggie:] Cos you're an eighteen inch aren't you?
[Kathleen:] Yeah we went from sixteen to eighteen. What's that? What's that? Fourteen or sixteen?
[Maggie:] It's only little, it's little compared to Kath's.
[Kathleen:] Mine's ginormous.
[Maggie:] We can put a bucket on and it fills ours up, she can put a bucket on and it's flat.... Can't you?
[Kathleen:] Costs a fortune.... I just got me coal and I was looking solvent... and I've only got so many weeks and I've got to empty the stupid thing again. I shouldn't bother I should just carry on chucking a bit on here and there same as everybody does, I can't see many buggers... go for that bloody eight pound a bag. Ooh I can't.
[Maggie:] They'll all be buying briquettes.
[Kathleen:] Briquettes. They're called briquettes.
[Maggie:] Briquettes.
[Kathleen:] Yeah briquettes. Yeah, five pound a bag. It ranges from five to eight pound fifty. [shouting] Briquettes []... who's are they, briquettes? It looks like coal. Er
[Maggie:] Thruppenny bits.
[Kathleen:] How much how much did I tell you them briquettes were?
[Maggie:] I can't remember Bill. But he, that other bloke, he said they were briquettes for eight pound thirty didn't he?
[Kathleen:] Yeah. Yeah
[Maggie:] coalman.
[Kathleen:] yeah I told you a couple of weeks ago. Geoff were telling me I can remember you telling her.
[Maggie:] Oh yeah.
[Kathleen:] coalman? I don't know, all I know is Geoff was on about getting briquettes he said which were ever so cheap.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] I asked him er about them and he says his mate always uses them and he says they're right good. Yeah, they burn like hell do they? Yeah. Erm If you've got any left in top you use it to light again. Yeah Geoff was saying something, bloody hell make it last longer cos I was telling you I says ooh not Coalite it's briquettes he said Yeah. but I don't know if that was five pound a bag, I think that was cheaper than five pound a bag. Ooh.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] Cos every time I spot a coalman I pull them.
[Maggie:] Pour that in there Bill,
[Kathleen:] Stop smoking then.
[Maggie:] I haven't hardly smoked at all today.
[Kathleen:] Told you last night... smoked like hell yesterday afternoon, she coughed her bloody heart up last night. Yeah. She's done the same again now. You better sleep down here I tell you. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] [shouting] You won't let me []!
[Kathleen:] I will. [LAUGHTER] I think he's tired []. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] That's the only thing wrong with Nettos, they don't sell cigs and baccy and stuff do they?
[Kathleen:] I've never noticed. It weren't no cheaper if they did were it?... Garage is as cheap as anybody here for fags.... I reckon they must be buying them knocked off. [LAUGHTER] Well everybody else is four forty six for half ounce of Old Virginia. Her's is one forty two innit? Yeah has always been cheaper. How come the garage sells it cheaper? Well they buy it in bulk don't they? Gateways must do, places like that but Well theirs are cheap. Only one Yeah but I paid for mine. yeah, not as cheap as garage. It were.... Course the garage has gone up then. All cigs in garage has gone up.... Have they? They went up other week didn't they?
[Maggie:] Yeah all fags went up.
[Kathleen:] I haven't been there for oh I'm always going down there for petrol now.
[Maggie:] You went to for your petrol.
[Kathleen:] Well I've gotta fill tank up again now.
[Maggie:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] It don't last for long. [LAUGHTER] Oh dear []. I did well, I had hundred pound in me purse last night till Steve says can I have me pocket money and can I have me petrol and can I have this... and I paid for coal and I've got forty. I thought God I haven't even got shopping yet.... Then Access arrived, I thought bloody hell....
[Maggie:] Why don't you come to Nettos with us Kath?...
[Kathleen:] I didn't fetch money for it.
[Maggie:] He's gotta go and get the money first.
[Kathleen:] I only want cigs... and
[Maggie:] Oh. I didn't see any of that in there.
[Kathleen:] I got mine on Monday didn't I?
[Maggie:] Oh yeah.... Didn't she get flabbergasted?
[Kathleen:] She couldn't believe it. She had a panic.
[Maggie:] Whatsername took us to... right, Alice... and Kath didn't realize that you couldn't write a cheque, did you?
[Kathleen:] No.
[Maggie:] So she says give us your twenty quid, cos she only had a few bits didn't she?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.
[Maggie:] She didn there would've been enough change in that and Kath was gonna go straight to the bank and get her some money back, right?... Anyway, oh no let me get me mine first! And she got right flummoxed didn't she? I says here Kath
[Kathleen:] So I got it off Maggie and I went and got yours back, fetched it back over didn't I?
[Maggie:] Mm.
[Kathleen:] I've never heard of not being able to pay by, you can't, it was cheque, Access, nowt. Well it says on there, big notices that shows you Oh I've never noticed. that's why they keep the price low. I didn't notice that before. Cos every cheque they get and gotta put in it costs them money. Oh. So... just cash and... it's like a cash and carry innit? It is yeah. Cheap er cheaper stuff.... Well them dog biscuits, they're only a pound. One forty six I paid...
[Maggie:] Ninety nine pence wasn't they, for him?
[Kathleen:] Where did I get them other ones from then? Gateways, one forty six.... Well I got me shopping and it cost me... forty summat one. No it's not Gateways, them two tins, [shouting] no []. One forty six them other things, and he don't like them. Well he's not that struck on them.
[Maggie:] Well he's got two choices, he can either eat them or starve.
[Kathleen:] Well he ate them mix the gravy in with the meat steak... You always say that and er and you don't.
[Maggie:] What?
[Kathleen:] Starve. No.
[Maggie:] He'll never starve. Just some egg chips and beans he'll be
[Kathleen:] He sleeps all day now though.
[Maggie:] You what?
[Kathleen:] He sleeps all day now doesn't he?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Sleeps all day sleeps all bloody night, worse than a cat. [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] Well he came upstairs this morning, got on the bed and he went... flop! And his head went straight across me chest, I thought oh, oh it's made me chesty. He didn't wanna move his bloody head. Mm.... It's alright in the winter [cough] he keeps your back warm. When he gets out of bed he's straight up.
[Kathleen:] Yeah?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] Oh.
[Maggie:] [cough]...
[Kathleen:] It's alright, he'll sleep with you next week won't he?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] And then starts getting used to me coming back on days nex week after then.
[Maggie:] Yeah and then he growls cos he don't want him to get into bed.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] [] [LAUGHTER]
[Maggie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Kathleen:] He don't does he?
[Maggie:] Yeah, when he's ready for coming upstairs to bed he growls, he don't wanna move.
[Kathleen:] bed you see, get used to it, and when I come in in the morning and try and chuck him off... well he normally comes down like... but when I bloody go to go to bed with you, that'll be it cos he'll be straight there again.
[Maggie:] He runs up the stairs quicker than what Bill can get up there.
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Does he? Yeah.
[Maggie:] To fight for the space.
[Kathleen:] I never see him move so fast, the other night or the other week weren't it?
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] I was at the wardrobe, I'd just took me trousers off and the bloody door flew open and I turned round, he was on the bed! [LAUGHTER] That bloody quick he
[Maggie:] But he's go to sleep that quick though don't he?
[Kathleen:] Oh he pretends to.... You can tell when he's awake, his ears are straight up listening to everything you say....
[Maggie:] ... But he's never
[Kathleen:] I think I'll go fishing Sunday.
[Maggie:] Are you? That'll be nice cos we haven't been for a bit have we?
[Kathleen:] I'm not going if you come up. ?
[Maggie:] We're going fishing.
[Kathleen:] Fishing....
[Maggie:] Whereabouts we going?
[Kathleen:] Where am I going?
[Maggie:] Where are we going?
[Kathleen:] Where am I going?...
[Maggie:] Well you'd have to ask me if you can go yet!
[Kathleen:] I'm going anyway.
[Maggie:] No you're not supposed to say that. [cough]
[Kathleen:] I'll tell you. I'm going.
[Maggie:] [shouting] You can bloody go [].
[Kathleen:] Mm.
[Maggie:] Is it still fishing season like?
[Kathleen:] Eh?
[Maggie:] Is it still fishing season?
[Kathleen:] Of course it's still fishing season.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] It's only February
[Maggie:] Half past three Sunday then.
[Kathleen:] licence yet, fishing. No they ran out hadn't they? Not yet. Ran out of what? in March and one for an hour.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] Oh yeah. Cos I were looking at Steve's. Trent Yorkshire.... You know twin rivers? Yeah. When bailiff comes round you've gotta pay for fishing. Yes er a pound is it or what? Pound fifty I think it is. Day ticket? Yeah. Mm. Because somebody else has took over. Where do you go, twin rivers Crowle? Scunnie Road. Yeah, Crowle roundabout? Yeah.
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] bloody cars parked there all the time, early in the morning they're parked there. Yeah? Where it says cars on that bloody little... green bit Yeah. there. They've made a er when you go down Gainsborough Road innit? Yeah. Like a car parking space. Yeah a few get there. Ooh I don't know. Gotta get there early to bloody get your, you couldn't bloody park your car there I shouldn't think. Mm. He's been up. Yeah I've seen at six o'clock in the morning going there, fishing nights. There's a lot, we went night fishing and it were packed... there were loads. Well it must be doing well then.
[Maggie:] What's your bread situation if they've got any?
[Kathleen:] Eh?
[Maggie:] What's your bread situation if they've got any?
[Kathleen:] Ah... if they've got any just fetch us a couple....
[Maggie:] Cos I when I went, not last time the time before, they only had that thirty nine P and I wouldn't pay it. yeah.
[Kathleen:] [sighing] Oh []
[Maggie:] I'll wait till you come back.
[Kathleen:] Oh I ain't going yet.
[Maggie:] I'll wait till you come back.
[Kathleen:] ... Your cupboard looks like my drawers.
[Maggie:] Our drawers look like that an'all. [cough]... [cough] Get that fag out your mouth, you're choking me....
[Kathleen:] [LAUGHTER] Bill.
[Maggie:] I'm tr I'm smoking all your fumes here. [cough]... They don't sell taties in Nettos do they?
[Kathleen:] Yeah.... I found veg. Found what?
[Maggie:] Of course they do, yeah cos we bought them onions and carrots didn't we?
[Kathleen:] bloody sweet papers.
[Maggie:] If they cough once
[Kathleen:] They're yours.
[Maggie:] they're mine.
[Kathleen:] How come?
[Maggie:] Cos them Lockets you pick them up and take one out the packet and all the paper's all... they're not stuck to them.
[Kathleen:] Oh they just come out?
[Maggie:] Yeah.... I bet you didn't buy a paper today either did you not?
[Kathleen:] No I'll get one when I go down the road.
[Maggie:] [cough]...
[Kathleen:] Where's the light bill?
[Maggie:] I dunno. all the light bills.
[Kathleen:] the light things what you pay the light bills with.
[Maggie:] I know what you mean.
[Kathleen:] ?
[Maggie:] Yeah, every fortnight.
[Kathleen:] Oh I didn't know you could.
[Maggie:] Yeah....
[Kathleen:] There's more bloody letters here for Steven than any bugger else's.
[Maggie:] Yeah, make sure they're stuck all in one place. No not at the moment.... I accumulate all his mail together.... to know where he is before he gets all his mail.
[Kathleen:] He should be hearing something soon shouldn't he?
[Maggie:] Probably.
[Kathleen:] ... Last one, December the twenty seventh. December the twenty seventh? That's a spare one.
[Maggie:] That's an old one when you that's December twenty seventh today's date.
[Kathleen:] ... put it down, can't find it. I put that er I couldn't find that cheque book for love nor money.
[Maggie:] You found it in the end?
[Kathleen:] No I wanted two didn't I? I could only find one, so
[Maggie:] In the briefcase weren't it?
[Kathleen:] No I looked, that were empty.
[Maggie:] Oh.
[Kathleen:] So anyway I cancelled that one and I got another one this morning. They sent me another out and I thought oh right, but if I find it I've to let them know, either give them it back or
[Maggie:] Yeah.
[Kathleen:] tell them I've found it and they'll take the cancel thing off and
[Maggie:] You can use it.
[Kathleen:] I can use it but I've gotta find it first
[Maggie:] [cough]
[Kathleen:] but they'll keep sending me one till I've found the other.... Talking to Joan this morning.
[Maggie:] Is she alright?
[Kathleen:] She just wondered if we were going down. I says I've already told you about it, she says yeah I know she says but you're going for some petrol tonight, I just wondered if you were coming up for an hour tonight. Says yeah alright I says we'll call in for an hour. And she says oh well you're not coming tomorrow, she says how about us coming to your house tomorrow? I says well it's up to you....