[Fred:] What time will we go to Eve's tomorrow? If we left
[Florence:] She said Elizabeth and Mat Steven gonna fetch us, about er... quarter past one I think he said, have dinner round half past one he said, then
[Fred:] We're walking we're walking up it, at
[Florence:] We're walking up if it's a fine morning
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] get up there some time between one and half past
[Fred:] I didn't hear any, did you hear any weather on the news? oh yeah... I will hear it tonight
[Florence:] It'll be on again later
[Fred:] yeah... yes I wondered if David would be on bus, I saw Wendy having a... he worked later today because he's got so much done on front of the er... that weather he couldn't er, do any decorating outside... still we never got nobbled down street providing the er... canvassers
[Florence:] They'd all got too cold and run home I expect this morning, but
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] it was thick cold
[Fred:] He said there were three er, down there canvassing for the main parties and er, well quite a lot of people there and of course rich pickings for, providing they can get anybody to stop and talk to them... don't know, they'd drive around
[Florence:] I expect so... this is that said that people are losing all interest in the election and they've got no faith in any of parties they all seemed to much alike and all fund ranges
[Fred:] well, er in a, in a sense it, it's, it, it been known since
[Florence:] Who?
[Fred:] they're talking none about the, the economy and turn up before the end of the year, this, the, the, they've been hanging on and on and on, and er slagging one another off all the time
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] they've
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[Fred:] but er well both the Liberal Democrats put a candidate up anyway...
[Florence:] Yes, I remember seeing any
[Fred:] Well they didn't do
[Florence:] if they, well, be having, well, didn't have any meetings
[Fred:] They left it a bit late didn't they
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] really?... Maybe they had problems getting it
[Florence:] I wouldn't mind going to hear it if they do have a meeting
[Fred:] Well she's er, I don't know whether she still teaches, she did teach at Corby
[Florence:] Corby, yeah I saw a bit in the paper
[Fred:] well if she still does it didn't make it clear, and she lives at Knilton
[Florence:] Where's Knilton?
[Fred:] Well it's near I've, I've never been there, I mean years back when we went cricket in the football one, we, we went to playing football, but in those days Corby steel works
[Florence:] And you're only a village
[Fred:] And you're only, still a village
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] yeah, but it's a, a fair size down, but er Middleton I've never been there, I don't know where it is, but it must be near Corby... that worth finding on the er map
[Florence:] What?
[Fred:] We can find it on the map
[Florence:] Yes I expect so
[Fred:] To tell you the truth I've never heard of it
[Florence:] No
[Fred:] I just think that, there weren't many small villages in Northamptonshire that er well I didn't hear of, if, you know, I didn't know of, even if I hadn't visited them, but erm
[Florence:] Wonder if she'll be staying in Wellingborough, at least she'll have to travel
[Fred:] Pardon?
[Florence:] a lot to this constituency during the next few weeks won't she?
[Fred:] Did she what?
[Florence:] I wonder whether she would be staying in Wellingborough or
[Fred:] No telling, how she's got to, we all obviously she has to
[Florence:] Well these days in a car it's not many minutes drive is it
[Fred:] Yeah, no, no
[Florence:] from Corby and Wellingborough
[Fred:] makes several unless we get a usual three inches of wet snow and that'll stop everything [LAUGHTER], you never know do you?... There's one thing a man
[Florence:] No snow now
[Fred:] Pardon?
[Florence:] Hope we've finished with the snow now
[Fred:] But there's one thing you've got to
[Florence:] [yawn]
[Fred:] I've said to many years now about English weather in a sense it's, it, it, it's got a something of endearing quality, you don't like going through the bad weather, but the fact is that we do get generally good weather
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] at times well there's so many areas in the world where they get lots and lots of er
[Florence:] Yes you know, you know what the weather's going to be like
[Fred:] Well you know what it's going to be like, it's sort of a set piece each, each season
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] but er, you can't say that er... the British are
[Florence:] well we can do that we had some lovely spring, that day we went up to the park it was what spring like weren't it?
[Fred:] Oh yeah
[Florence:] Now it feels cold again
[Fred:] It were March, February too weren't it?
[Florence:] That's right
[Fred:] Yeah, fantastic
[Florence:] the snowdrops there
[Fred:] you know I remember ever so clearly, when I worked down the Totexas, Dentons
[Florence:] Mm
[Fred:] all those years back, in the late fifties were it?
[Florence:] It was the fifties yeah
[Fred:] I was down there in the late fifties
[Florence:] it was nineteen forty nine
[Fred:] and I remember one particular February, it will always stand out in my mind because er, it's a fairly long walk done to the factory from, from here and every day after the midday meal, when I set out to walk down there as quick as I could it had been cloudy since, it was raining, every day without fail I used to get to work soaked, first
[Florence:] What February used to be sort of reckoned for rain didn't it?
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] The way, the way they talk about March winds it was February rain they
[Fred:] well you see, first in
[Florence:] yeah
[Fred:] when I got there, several times he used to scruffle into the er packing room and come out with those two, three of those well a couple of those large sheets of brown paper that they pack, yeah, pack the few boxes in and I'm not used to that, shove them up
[Florence:] and, but, but
[Fred:] shove them up their trousers and pull the trousers up, expose the leg and wrap round paper around and that was a amazing
[Florence:] was that keep
[Fred:] and it dried the trousers out, and dried the leg and, it were lovely and cosy after
[Florence:] [cough]
[Fred:] half an hour or so
[Florence:] backward a bit when you walked
[Fred:] Aye it did, but it were a, it were a efficient way of er getting dry... mm and the next day there would of this evening
[Florence:] Does what?
[Fred:] I wondered if David had got this evening to catch a bottle of wine
[Florence:] Perhaps not
[Fred:] could be... the two of them they just, when er, when Lee set out... on a Saturday evening with er Kevin... and they often sit there and er have a, er a bit of a snack, supper, light supper and er
[Florence:] Well, although you get a in the evening anyway don't you?
[Fred:] Yeah, but a lot of the time have a main meal waiting... probably, have a lighter snack later on, have a glass of wine with it... Derby and Joans pair how old is Wendy? Is she older than David?
[Florence:] Wendy, she's just a little bit older than David
[Fred:] Is she?
[Florence:] four or five years I think
[Fred:] Ooh I didn't realize that... so Dave's forty one?
[Florence:] Forty, forty last June, he's coming up to forty one this year
[Fred:] forty one in May?
[Florence:] Yeah...
[Fred:] And Wendy's er
[Florence:] Wendy must be forty five at least
[Fred:] Ah, oh I didn't realize she was
[Florence:] unless she was, she's quite a bit older... than Dave
[Fred:] at least she's older, but er not to that extent
[Florence:] I wasn't very happy about it at the time, anyway, I was, her being, I think he was only... when were they married?... Seventy... three, the end of seventy three... and he was twenty... twenty two wasn't it they were married?... She'd already been married and divorced and she was quite a bit older than him and I, I wasn't very happy about it to start, but they seem to have settled down alright
[Fred:] Well she's made David a good wife actually...
[Florence:] Well they've never had any more youngsters go
[Fred:] Told me, she actually told me once that she considered herself lucky to er, have met David, I reckon she did because er, she, she was divorced then and er... of course, didn't she have a son?
[Florence:] She has got a son, yeah, I don't think she sees him much now, he did come here to that she sees much of him, he's er... about twenty or more now
[Fred:] Yeah... I was surprised that er Kathleen is it, when Kathleen told us down street about her, her son
[Florence:] He went in the army
[Fred:] Yeah, or rather
[Florence:] that's the older one, the one who's friend of Mat's?
[Fred:] That's right yeah, for a little bit, I was on about the reference to er Embassy Service though...
[Florence:] He'd a, he had some sort of operation or something, it's not, but at Debbie's wedding, Andrew weren't there because he... some operation on his jaw or something that, can't remember now what it, what he'd had done... were having his jaw bone
[Fred:] Oh yes I remember him, yeah, they were a bit concerned, well I would have been, and then lucky with their I was gonna say jolly lucky... whether they er, whether they all turn up on Friday to er, have a word with Eileen I don't know...
[Florence:] Ah yes I think they all know he's coming now.
[Fred:] Does Steve know?...
[Florence:] Well we told her last
[Fred:] Oh was she so
[Florence:] when she came up last Saturday
[Fred:] Oh did you? Oh, thank god for that... Michael knows, Michael's manager he knows, did you tell him?
[Florence:] Yeah I told Michael, I phoned him this morning
[Fred:] Brian knows
[Florence:] Yes...
[Fred:] come here
[Florence:] I've got some bits in there for her... a few kittens in there for a couple of days I, so they'd go up, pick them up and they get left...
[Fred:] Well we'll pop down, oh we can't pop down tomorrow unless we go before, get in the morning, before we go to work... across to Steve's, if it's fine it'll be a good walk over there
[Florence:] No I don't mind walking if it's fine, I said to Sandra
[Fred:] so, we take
[Florence:] providing it's not raining
[Fred:] we'll take, we will take that she ought to go
[Florence:] won't it be muddy?
[Fred:] well we know I shall go through the fields, but we can still take the short er cut through the estate up Bedford Road, by the cemetery
[Florence:] Yeah, doesn't pass up by there? So you go through the cemetery
[Fred:] I well, you can go through the cemetery, yes, you can go through there
[Florence:] Well I didn't know where it was near a path
[Fred:] and then you go
[Florence:] well is it likely to be in the
[Fred:] you go in at the top of
[Florence:] the church is
[Fred:] top of the road, what road's that running off from er High Street, South
[Florence:] Mm, yeah
[Fred:] can't remember
[Florence:] Stones Lane, I'd got used to Manners Lane, they call it something quite since they've built up there, Mannings, Mannings Street or Mannings
[Fred:] You, you put down that you escape there and
[Florence:] yeah
[Fred:] and that's the best way, it'll er, oh you'll save... ten minutes easy, it's a fair walk it, on the main road
[Florence:] I was hoping when they got that link road through they might connect up, but I don't suppose it, sort of roads gotta put parking towards the long piece of
[Fred:] Oh no, it won't be a
[Florence:] major road
[Fred:] it's just
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[Fred:] no I'm afraid there'll be no footpath there, in fact, it hurts me a bit that because they're cutting straight, they're cutting along in line with that pub public
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] footpath
[Florence:] One thing if they
[Fred:] it's nothing wrong with
[Florence:] if they put a cycle path along the edge of each road when they build them
[Fred:] No, they're not as sensible as they are you... remember in Prestley when we went there... so what er, perhaps, especially for solid places, solid with the roads in Germany
[Florence:] Oh in Germany yes there's you've got priority there, statue and cross over.
[Fred:] I mean it, it's incredible in we, we went to, we travelled about a bit while we were there... went into Holland and er came via through Belgium and Holland just to get there, and look how tidy
[Florence:] But before we went down into the
[Fred:] the towns were
[Florence:] tried to borrow a bike for us so that we could bike round, but when she
[Fred:] Oh she probably failed to er look
[Florence:] it's not as if there's anywhere where you can hire a bike I'm sure... you know, but, I suppose you're going along on the road, across the road I...
[Fred:] [sniff] course that's, that's the beauty of er biking it up the hill, that's some, there's so much scope for not being on the road, you've got special baths for someone
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] the only one I want to know in this area is a, you can
[Florence:] the one between the
[Fred:] that's it
[Florence:] they put that there when they built that new school
[Fred:] they did that for the school children
[Florence:] so that the children could find the school...
[Fred:] yeah and that's the only one I know of... it's incredible to me... either...
[Florence:] Is it raining again?
[Fred:] No it could do in a moment or two though it er, it looks a bit ominous, you rub one or two er doubts, they are similar colour to these actually
[Florence:] Is that, that the first one that's opening a creamy coloured one?
[Fred:] Yes... oh this Ellerdor is er playing around a bit now
[Florence:] Yeah...
[Fred:] but it's not as spectacular, not a very spectacular sight is it?
[Florence:] What that erm
[Fred:] Ellerdor
[Florence:] Oh it said in the, in the book when I read about it, it said it had green flowers, you say is that green flowers I didn't even know there were any green flowers...
[Fred:] I'd never even noticed the one next door, but the herb must have come from that
[Florence:] No, er Jane spotted cos she said that's where the seed must have come from
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] she said they seed freely, so we'll have to watch we shall have them all over the garden next year
[Fred:] Oh when you, when they've flown
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] she's cos er she said she's only got one she'd like another, and that we've got two, she should have this, smaller one down here
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] I'll dig it out for her
[Florence:] [yawn]
[Fred:] What time we taking
[Florence:] I don't know, when you like, back over with you, I'll sort something out while I've got some small change in me purse now I've been shopping, I'll sort it out... there's another five, there's another five
[Fred:] Mm, you've
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[Florence:] Is there two?
[Fred:] You've got some er, have much have you got upstairs to change? You've got er nine upstairs to change haven't you?
[Florence:] Yes I know I'll take it when I go down to the post office and I keep forgetting, don't like bothering with it on Thursday because they've always got a shop full and I... go any other day...
[Fred:] These tomatoes are a bit hard, did you know?
[Florence:] They're what?
[Fred:] The tomatoes you bought down the market
[Florence:] They're what?
[Fred:] They're a little bit hard
[Florence:] Well there was some marked firm tomatoes, then there were the others, I had some of the others
[Fred:] It looks more
[Florence:] well I skinned them
[Fred:] if they were firmer than these
[Florence:] I'll have skinned a couple of them
[Fred:] well these, these are, there, I mean in, they, they'll are without er, the other fruit
[Florence:] No, the ones at the front of the store were for seventy P and they were marked firmed tomatoes, the others at the back were sixty P and they didn't say firm on them so I thought well, firm probably means hard, I'll get the, get the others, so I'll skinned a couple of them for tea
[Fred:] Oh they're alright though
[Florence:] anyway, I've got to go upstairs, oh
[Fred:] I saw some nice Cox's orange on the market two pounds for a pound
[Florence:] Mm, I to eat
[Fred:] well these looked er really nice and ripe
[Florence:] Oh
[Fred:] [singing] If I worked magic, things that were tragic, would have no place beneath my waving wand. With great magicians I'll sit and converse, the whole universe would seem like a little pond, deer would swim by and as it swam by, ravage by war neglect and in great pain, I'll take it out just to wipe its poor face clean and then quietly put it back again, if I worked magic, magic [] Yeah, what do you think to it?
[David:] That was really good, yeah, good tenner
[Fred:] What have I, well I haven't to, I've got to fit the erm cord symbols, you know, get the sequence of cords, I've written it down you see
[David:] Are you gonna piano rise it then?
[Fred:] I, yes that's why I arrive, piano er score for it, and er it's a sort of fairy tale lyric you know, I've
[David:] Very Paul McCartneyish, reminds me of him.
[Fred:] A bit changeable but er
[David:] Yeah, sort of thing that he'd be writing down
[Fred:] it's not a bad melody, I thought I'd get it down, and record it.
[David:] It sounds good
[Fred:] But if Lisa er... would be plain and have a chat, put your
[David:] I think it might be a good id, I don't know whether, Lisa would like it better if you would let her know and let her get Kev talking on it, which perhaps be a better idea if she was in on it, but I'll, I'll have a word with her
[Fred:] Yeah, have a word with her and perhaps she'll like to listen to that to the er words sort of that, and then make her own comments, it's nice to get the opinions you know, the, the many of the family as you can
[David:] Really, I'm the sort
[Fred:] and er, it helps me to, it's only a hobby, you know, but er, it's one that I've had for donkey years, I want to er keep going with it as long as I can
[David:] Like somebody, somebody said on the radio the other day, everybody's got a song inside them
[Fred:] That's true
[David:] Some have more than one
[Fred:] Well I know
[David:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] but I mean I, I expect it's true, everybody does... well even those who er, well people who turn now, they must have, voices I'm told about work and they could er
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] write lyrics and er
[David:] well I refer
[Fred:] music
[David:] yeah, yeah, I suppose I'm what you call tone and deaf, I've got no music at all
[Fred:] oh you were telling me, you used to
[David:] Oh David and me, oh yeah
[Fred:] Oh Dave, yeah, have you heard from Dave, you used to make
[David:] Oh yeah
[Fred:] He did it on the guitar and you were simply found a few words and
[David:] yeah... yeah it's true
[Fred:] it was a long time ago but as I recall they weren't too bad, to even, if you'd have stuck at it, you'd have got better, it's the same with every job you get better at
[David:] Yeah, oh that's true, yeah
[Fred:] if you tackle it, even go out there, or wine making come to that
[David:] No everything painting and decorating
[Fred:] Even painting and decorating Dave as you say
[David:] yes, we're not in the rain no
[Fred:] no, no, why you not going to that anyway because er
[David:] Well I tried yesterday, but I got wet
[Fred:] How long were you there?
[David:] About four hours... came home when it rained and then it stayed dry
[Fred:] I think it must have rained in Erchester not here though
[David:] It poured, round about twelve, twelve thirty... not like this like heavy
[Fred:] No I don't record
[David:] poured but
[Fred:] like er
[David:] but this, we got some solid rain
[Fred:] we did have a bit
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] but er, you got more, you, of course you were nearer the river
[David:] Yeah that's true
[Fred:] It's time we could do with it
[David:] I know we need it, but, I would have been anywhere at the moment though
[Fred:] Ha, about twenty inches we need, is it two months?
[David:] Well, forget about that
[Fred:] Oh, we'd go down [LAUGHTER], just see them all paddling in the
[David:] well this is the most, this is the most rain we've had for... in such a period, no, in, in about a week something like that
[Fred:] Yeah, yeah
[David:] It's sort of rained
[Fred:] it's strange, because er last month and the month I wouldn't associate with rain and that November with distant fog, fallen leaves and
[David:] Yeah, well
[Fred:] just to It'll do a lot of good I mean I've put both plants out during the week, they were fairly dry then, but now if you'd see that, that, they've taken already
[David:] Oh definitely this is sort of herb job
[Fred:] Yes, this is what I mean
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[David:] Cor dear I wish I could
[Fred:] Tell when you gotta... have knowing
[David:] Is that, that plant, yeah...
[Fred:] usually down the front there, somewhere
[David:] Haven't got any have you? [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] No, I have not Oh, what a minute, what? I, well I the erm, what er, herbs up underneath the apple tree
[David:] Do what?
[Fred:] the herbs under the apple tree, what are they?
[Florence:] Sorry I can't, I can't see against the window
[Fred:] The herbs under the apple tree, what are they?
[Florence:] Chives
[Fred:] Chives
[David:] Oh
[Fred:] sorry
[Florence:] I thought we gave Wendy some last year
[Fred:] Yeah,
[Florence:] do what dear?
[Fred:] No, he wants some
[Florence:] Oh, I've never heard, well I've heard of it, but I've never seen it...
[Fred:] As for a recipe, you pick these recipes up and that's a stupid blooming herb
[Florence:] This paper's Taunton in Devon...
[Fred:] Good old
[Florence:] Hurry up then, come paying, there's a shopping precinct in Taunton, Devon
[Fred:] Did you see the name of
[Florence:] town of Somerset
[David:] Did you see
[Florence:] What?
[David:] the name of the erm
[Fred:] That's unusual for the Observer
[David:] the Raving Loony Party member who's Paddy Ashdown
[Fred:] Yes
[David:] Patrick Ashdown
[Florence:] Oh that's it Patrick I'm, I saw the Patrick Ashdown, I didn't know what his real name isn't Patrick, it's John
[David:] Yeah, I mean it's a bit, a bit naughty in a way innit?
[Florence:] Yeah
[David:] There could be a few older people that could make
[Florence:] it could be confusing cos people
[Fred:] Here you get
[Florence:] Although it does now say on paper what party they are, it never used to
[David:] No
[Florence:] but it does now, it does have a party as well as a name on the election paper
[Fred:] Well, a lot of old folk er, I don't think they're much bothered what they say, they know the name of the candidates and they seemed to
[David:] that's for the name, yeah so,so, some of them will be confused, but not enough for them to have any problems I shouldn't have thought. Did you get I think they hold the balance at the end don't they?
[Fred:] Oh I think getting in this er, seat it er
[David:] I bet it, as regards it cut down to about five
[Fred:] five, probably less
[David:] and Freda will get in as well
[Fred:] There's no doubt who the majority will go... well most of it
[David:] Powell will lose his seat but Freeman Fry will be
[Fred:] But I don't like the way he'd er, all this, all about er... how you'll be annually taxed under Labour because the truth is that even under the Conservatives, all the years they've been in, and all the years they've been reducing tax, taxes from time to time, indirect taxation increased
[David:] Oh I know, you only got to look at the VAT ain't you for starters
[Fred:] Yeah, taxation now if anything is harder than it was in seventy nine
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] they shouldn't talk I, I, I'd would teach them to stand up and tell them the truth, there don't appear to be too many of them about these days
[David:] Well it's just brought out a budget to paper over a few cracks and make it look good because they knew that, they've got no more chances this is it innit? I think...
[Fred:] Well do you think this really impress er Lisa?
[David:] I'll have a word with her when she's awake, she's still on a third dream I should think at the moment... but she's er, certainly good talking, I could, I could try and get her without her knowing about it and see what happens, just dinner time I'll take it down and try it, oh you're gonna take it round Steve's ain't you? Today
[Fred:] Oh yes well you can perhaps do it tomorrow
[David:] Yes, through the week some time
[Fred:] do it a good turn if you could er
[David:] Well they normally stay in now, er, Monday and Tuesdays usually Lisa and Kev stay in with us and watch the telly with us... they go, he plays pool Wednesday
[Fred:] Do they stay in on er, Sundays do they all
[David:] Well generally he comes up for dinner, but he ain't today so he'll be Rhys will come, be in for dinner, he'll turn up about three, and they sometimes stay, we sometimes play game in the afternoon, board game or something, it depends
[Fred:] Steve, you see, they often get
[David:] Why, why bother about the football this afternoon?
[Fred:] See he'll watch it and all
[David:] Man City and Southampton ain't it?
[Fred:] Yeah
[David:] Yeah, don't bother me none... as long as Southampton win mind you
[Fred:] Well Southampton er can pull er...
[David:] Reg see where Tottenham are in the league?
[Fred:] Pardon?
[David:] See where Tottenham are in the league?
[Fred:] No
[David:] They're about six from the bottom ain't they? They lost at home again yesterday... they shall find themselves some trouble if they don't buck their ideas up... whether they're lacking or not...
[Fred:] Well they're I expect
[David:] well they're
[Fred:] Well it, the way they started off in that cup final, last year
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] they're a danger to life aren't they?
[David:] Yeah it's terrible really
[Fred:] I've had him off with that first foul in the first minute, that he committed, ridiculous
[David:] Were Lineker weren't playing where he? No
[Fred:] Not yesterday?
[David:] No
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[David:] All raving about Rob Jones...
[Fred:] down again
[David:] yep afraid so can you
[Fred:] get wound up
[David:] I know,would wouldn't surprise me either
[Fred:] Pity you know
[David:] He said that's half the reason that Brian Tolbrook took over at Tettron ain't it?, I think he had his eyes, he'd got his eyes on Tettron replacing
[Fred:] Yeah
[David:] in the league
[Fred:] he probably looked into the future a bit and decided that er
[David:] yeah
[Fred:] well it cost them a hundred thousand to do it, but, I mean he's never been able to afford the yeah and he's deciding that Adam and he's deciding that Adam weren't worth it and
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] went for it, but
[David:] well he apparently spoke to erm, he had quite a lengthy conversation with Ron Atkinson apparently, cos Atkinson used to be the manager of Tettron didn't he? And he was telling them you know what a... a good club it could be, it's the ground they opened their own ground as well you see, but that was
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[David:] and, I mean don't, he's upset that a wound up, I mean if there was a league team like Kettering, Kettering like the fourth division, that would be brilliant... be nearer to go wouldn't it?
[Fred:] Why they all have such a large ground
[David:] I've never seen it
[Fred:] I remember going there
[David:] bet it's got four star pitches
[Fred:] after the war and there
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[Fred:] and they had a record gate...
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[David:] It isn't a ground
[Fred:] near a ten, near the ground size of Kettering's
[David:] but they've got to, I remember when Rhys played in that, the F A bars quarter final, two seasons ago down here, they got well over a thousand down there then, and you just couldn't move, that were brilliant, all the way round the ground there were about four of five people deep
[Fred:] there's ground, it's a shame because no point for promotion and weren't allowed to go off, cos of the state of the ground
[David:] I know that but they could win the league this, this season and not go up
[Fred:] That's right
[David:] The Taylor reports got a lot to answer for really
[Fred:] How did they get on yesterday?
[David:] Don't think they played
[Fred:] Well somebody said they're at Grantham
[David:] Were they?... It weren't in my paper this morning
[Fred:] Well check it on the er back page inside...
[David:] got to be the...
[Fred:] they weren't in the ordinary fixed roll re-arranged you see... I met an old work mate of mine he said they were at Grantham...
[David:] No
[Fred:] Well they're on the though, weren't he?
[David:] In the paper I saw they were supposed to been at Bury but they played Bilston, Bedford... Oh, that's right, you did say didn't you?
[Gemma:] Ann's gotta take my erm thingy in, my erm... what's it
[Marjorie:] Game
[David:] Your game oh well
[Marjorie:] Windfall was it?
[Gemma:] No, no
[Florence:] What's a what's it?
[David:] [LAUGHTER]
[Gemma:] erm, you, you know your computer, your thingy
[David:] oh the Amstrad?
[Gemma:] yeah ye, no, the Amstrad
[David:] The Amstrad?
[Gemma:] Yeah, I had a choice to take that in
[David:] mm
[Fred:] Do you want a biscuit Gem?
[David:] Were
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Gemma:] yeah
[David:] Oh yes, suppose so, fine dad, no
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] er, I'll leave them on there
[David:] Right-y-oh, help yourselves...
[Fred:] David's been up
[Marjorie:] Make sure somebody saying what
[Fred:] yeah
[Marjorie:] work
[Fred:] Check on the football results and that
[David:] Oh, I see
[Gemma:] Nan... he erm don't take them in every lesson
[Florence:] Oh
[Gemma:] takes them in like erm... turn it around every week, don't know yet
[Florence:] how often do you do french?...
[Gemma:] Four times a week
[Florence:] Four times a week
[Marjorie:] That's quite a lot for a
[Fred:] She said, she said four times yesterday
[Marjorie:] Oh
[Gemma:] Science we have twice a week, but, it's double lessons
[Florence:] Oh
[Gemma:] So I'd rather have it four times
[Florence:] yeah
[Gemma:] er... we have
[Florence:] do you do cookery?
[Gemma:] No
[Marjorie:] Well she done a bit didn't you?
[David:] You made them cakes that time didn't you?
[Gemma:] Mm
[Marjorie:] She's done
[Gemma:] on birthdays you go to a swimming club, at lunch time and your mates are there.
[Florence:] another year where your
[Marjorie:] mm
[Florence:] year ain't you?
[Marjorie:] Yeah, must be later on
[Florence:] I know Michael said Laura was doing some cookery, what was it he said? What see if I go, have I got something that Laura wanted cookery, I've forgot what she wanted now, I forget what she said it were, she was making... see that bit about you, about you
[Marjorie:] No not yet I've I didn't read the very far
[Florence:] Well she copes because she had the same problem as me with her hands if she's writing for long, her hands ache, so she can write a longer letter if she types, so I said I, I didn't really, I like a hand written letter best it seems more personal somehow, perhaps they do, having a typed letter means you can send a longer one, they all mean
[Fred:] Does she perhaps get with a, a
[Florence:] Well I do, I write, it's now I have to ache, I, I wait a few minutes and then I, go on again when me hands had a rest
[Marjorie:] Well my hands ache
[Fred:] been in the garden last week, about
[Marjorie:] Yeah, that's where the fun is
[Florence:] If I'm holding anything, so that I'm holding the hand in one position for a long time
[Marjorie:] Yeah mine do that
[Fred:] They inject it in into animals
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] and er, and satisfactory results
[David:] oh
[Fred:] and of course there's, there's a lot of the testing yet before they can er... decide to, inject into you
[David:] yeah
[Fred:] but they think that they could er be on the way to er... actually making a cure
[David:] I see asthma's wound up, they reckon they've found a cure for that
[Fred:] yeah
[David:] now
[Marjorie:] central
[Florence:] what's it, been on the television about it
[David:] There's now a cause Flo, it's a cause, they've found a cause
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] I saw something on the television today it's sitting there said they've a cause about it
[David:] Yeah, yeah, yeah
[Fred:] They say a cause
[Marjorie:] It won't be long
[David:] They can, they can work on it even further then, can't they, you know, to
[Fred:] They can look for something
[David:] yeah that'll be a brilliant breakthrough
[Fred:] Well it would several of us have rheumatoid arthritis
[David:] yeah
[Fred:] I'll never, never
[Florence:] And a
[Fred:] on went back to my unit during the war
[David:] yeah
[Fred:] I, I helped a young girl get an old lady onto the er train
[David:] mm
[Fred:] and I, I, probably only a youngster then, well I was about twenty six or seven, but er, I shall never forget... her fingers were like claws she couldn't move them they'd sort of set
[David:] Ooh
[Marjorie:] Oh how awful
[Fred:] clenched
[David:] lord terrible
[Florence:] this is different from the... sort that we get, it, it, it doesn't only affect older people, children get it, it's so
[Fred:] Yeah I know
[Florence:] crippled with hands and
[Fred:] Well this old lady well she was
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] terrible she was
[David:] yeah
[Fred:] helpless
[David:] I mean to tell you that I'd seen old Ken
[Fred:] Well how's he getting on?
[David:] Well, he's had several heart attacks, he's been in hospital
[Fred:] Well I knew he was going in, he told her
[David:] Yeah, he's had several heart attacks
[Fred:] How long they keep him in do you know?
[David:] He were in there eight weeks
[Fred:] sshh
[Marjorie:] oh dear
[David:] yeah and
[Florence:] well what the first thing he do and he has to go in the
[David:] no, no, they leave her in the home...
[Florence:] oh
[Marjorie:] It doesn't seem that long they'd taken her out
[Fred:] No he told me, he actually told me, they hadn't got a bed for him, they hadn't got a bed for him, so they looked after his own, the bungalow
[Florence:] Anybody in his er change of health, never looks after them afterwards
[Fred:] does she?
[David:] erm
[Marjorie:] They always have someone go in every day anyway
[David:] There's, there's a nurse goes in to bath her everyday, put her in the bath, so then there's the home help visit, the
[Fred:] yeah she's bedridden, she can't get out
[David:] no, no, oh no, no you can claim
[Florence:] she's bedridden, she can't do anything
[Fred:] you know as well
[David:] It's awful ain't it?
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] But I mean er, a man in his state of health never ought to be left to look after a woman like that, but different if it's an ablebodied
[Fred:] umping disgraceful
[Marjorie:] I think it's disgraceful
[Florence:] Christine's only my age, I was at school with her
[Marjorie:] Yeah
[Fred:] Yeah...
[Florence:] achieve don't I, but I mean
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] we knew Chris by error, but he's got a but he don't make any
[Florence:] she's been bedridden for twenty years now or whatever
[Fred:] no he didn't
[Florence:] perhaps when I see start thinking I'm getting old
[Fred:] yeah that's old er
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER], still
[David:] yeah
[Florence:] it's funny, you don't feel any older inside it
[Fred:] I'm not old you, you speaking for yourself, now you know
[Marjorie:] Why do you feel older?
[Florence:] What, what you mean [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] Well, oh, me eighty two years
[Marjorie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] and you just speak for yourself
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] imagine her when I'm eighty how I'll feel
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]...
[David:] Yeah he done a real good time
[Fred:] Gemma's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty
[Florence:] You're not twelve yet are you?
[Gemma:] No
[Florence:] When she goes back she didn't say anything about Kevin, it must have been a come to England, she, she said
[Marjorie:] Probably see Deborah soon
[Florence:] but er she didn't say
[David:] probably make sure when she's coming
[Florence:] anything about coming, and yet Jenny came up and told me that she was coming on Friday, er before I got that letter, got that letter the next day
[Fred:] Oh, didn't know they were coming
[David:] Mhm
[Marjorie:] She must of erm got
[Florence:] I don't know how long the letters take, when they come by air
[Fred:] You'd think she'd got
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] A nice little red wine
[Marjorie:] It is nice
[David:] Yeah very nice Oh yeah
[Florence:] Yeah
[Marjorie:] Yeah, I'd like to go
[Gemma:] And me
[Marjorie:] and you, yeah... take the animals with
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] said I was gonna try and learn a bit of German before I went again
[Marjorie:] [LAUGHTER] Laura's learning German and she's at school...
[Fred:] Bloody, Ruth left er, were they married? She left him, hasn't she?
[Marjorie:] Yeah
[David:] Yeah, that's right, yeah
[Marjorie:] yeah, they do these days
[Fred:] They've erm
[David:] he tried to get into the house Rhys were
[Marjorie:] I didn't know
[Fred:] But she came back
[David:] yeah but couldn't get in though
[Florence:] Well you'd have somebody had to go in with her to make sure she didn't take anything that belongs to him
[Marjorie:] Well
[Fred:] Didn't he run a market stall?
[David:] Yes dad, but, apparently enough he got into a lot of trouble with the tax Oh, they're, they're after him like you know
[Marjorie:] The policeman up several times
[David:] The police have been up several times, you know that attache case I said the dustman found that time?
[Fred:] Yeah
[David:] Well that was something to do with him apparently enough
[Marjorie:] Police came up, they've been up, we've seen them up there several times
[David:] yeah, so
[Florence:] What, been selling dodgy or something
[David:] Pay your tax a day as you must
[Marjorie:] Oh
[David:] He's not been paying, but I suppose, with a business like that it'd be V A T wouldn't it?
[Marjorie:] Yeah, I bet you
[David:] Wouldn't it?
[Marjorie:] dodgy stuff
[David:] yeah V A T, be V A T thought it would
[Florence:] Get paid in tax and er don't have to make any record up
[David:] That's right yeah, yeah...
[Fred:] It could be direct tax as well they may not, they'd may not have declared er
[David:] Oh that's correct, yeah
[Fred:] He's probably earning you see, I mean
[David:] yeah
[Fred:] with a lock up in store and a around, yeah you'll get round do you good and well in work
[Florence:] When Betty left, I, I
[David:] He went, he went the clothes mostly had in London oh he went all over the place with that
[Fred:] What thirty quid market
[David:] I don't know whether Pettitcoat Lane, but I know he went up to London
[Florence:] Honest, honest
[Fred:] well he always seemed to me to be a bit of wise guy
[David:] Oh yeah he is, he is
[Fred:] long, long conversation of
[Florence:] I've corrected her once about it [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] er, he told me how
[Marjorie:] Ah, shame that
[Fred:] Well he's got a lot of fishing equipment and I said you're a keen fisherman then, all walk in and mentioned it in passing, you know, and he said er, yes, he said er I've started would you like one? I said well, of course I would
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] how much do you want? But I never got one
[David:] no, no
[Fred:] I didn't expect one either [LAUGHTER] so naturally I wasn't disappointed
[David:] [LAUGHTER] no
[Fred:] well although he told me he'd er, he'd, well he'd had a reasonable catch he'd er, remember them, bring one up...
[Florence:] Well that's a trout we had Wendy gave us didn't she?
[Fred:] Yeah, it was nice weren't it? But her fellow got two
[Florence:] That's right
[Fred:] a sea fisherman in Erchester and
[David:] Yeah, yeah
[Fred:] what's his name?...
[Florence:] mm
[Fred:] was it, no it's Church isn't it?
[Florence:] What?
[Fred:] the chap at er
[Florence:] I don't know his name
[Fred:] I think he's name's Church... [music]... see I work with a, a young chap from Wellingborough, Graham and er, he and his brother in law always went round the reservoir, Ramsthorpe, Grantham
[David:] Oh I know
[Florence:] that your dad was working
[Fred:] Solhall
[Florence:] Then we came out by Buckingham Palace and somebody had or the queen's home, the flag was flying
[David:] Ah
[Florence:] so Lisa said can we go in to see her
[Marjorie:] [LAUGHTER]
[David:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] She's only six, I said yes we'll just knock on the door and say I'm Lisa I've come to tea
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[David:] Anyway cheers
[Fred:] Cheers Dave
[speaker003:] ...
[Marjorie:] Is that the
[Fred:] Well they're sparkling over
[Florence:] Mm, they're nice
[David:] They're better for you that way though ain't they?
[Fred:] Oh You could produce them or the bananas, scrub out er, quarter of an hour or so
[David:] Mm
[Fred:] then strain the usual, and just use the juice
[David:] oh
[Fred:] use a chopper all the way
[David:] oh I see
[Fred:] it'll give you
[Florence:] Put plenty of lime in
[Fred:] wine with a stronger body
[David:] oh
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]...
[David:] How's your growing in [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] What about that dragon trap?...
[Marjorie:] Too many long
[Gemma:] Haven't seen it yet
[Fred:] Oh
[Marjorie:] I mean it's not what you can tell that time we went with him, we saw the
[Fred:] It needs don't it?
[David:] [LAUGHTER] oh...
[Florence:] When Gem was up here the other day she was telling us about one of them teachers who plays computer games instead of giving lessons
[Marjorie:] Oh
[David:] Ah
[Florence:] who
[Gemma:] Amstrad
[David:] Ah Amstrad eh?
[Florence:] In science I think she said wasn't it?
[Gemma:] Yeah
[Marjorie:] Well that's alright innit?
[Florence:] Yeah, they were playing Batman games it's a new computer
[David:] [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] Yeah I think some of the teachers
[David:] Do you like them
[Fred:] Would you like a biscuit too with your wine?
[David:] Yes please dad, you can, yes please...
[Gemma:] Yeah, do you remember that time with
[Marjorie:] What?
[Gemma:] bought a ticket then.
[Sandra:] Right, who's where?
[Steven:] Doesn't matter really, don't think it matters.
[Sandra:] Well I've put the two girls on the end.
[Steven:] Oh right
[Emily:] No
[Sandra:] No Emily don't want it... where do you wanna sit then?
[Emily:] Here
[Sandra:] Alright well go there
[Steven:] Alright
[Sandra:] Where you gonna sit?
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] There or there? This one or that one?
[Fred:] Make your mind up
[speaker003:] She's not sitting near me
[Fred:] You'll be a rose in between two thorns there
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Sandra:] Right I'll bring a cloth in so you can get start
[Emily:] Can I have er drink mummy?
[Steven:] I say, go and get yourself something
[Sandra:] You'll have to get yourself something
[Emily:] Oh, can I have wine and lemonade?
[Steven:] No you're not having wine and lemonade
[Emily:] Can I mummy?
[Steven:] No
[Sandra:] You're not big enough to drink wine
[Emily:] Can I?
[speaker003:] Can we?
[Steven:] No
[Sandra:] Say please
[Emily:] Can we daddy... mummy, mummy
[Sandra:] What?
[speaker003:] can we?
[Sandra:] No
[Steven:] No I said
[speaker003:] Pardon?... ...
[Sandra:] There was in there, there's a table in there
[Fred:] Oh you could
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Fred:] Not much though is it?
[Sandra:] unfortunately
[Steven:] No, if, if
[Emily:] What?
[Sandra:] It's only about three ain't it?
[speaker003:] What?
[Sandra:] How old's your dad?
[speaker003:] Three, he's twenty, thirty seven
[Sandra:] Right, always have to ask how old he is, ah love? [LAUGHTER] ah?
[Fred:] Right, that's old
[Florence:] I never know when anybody is, I know what year they were born, I have to count it up and see how old
[speaker003:] I know how old mummy is
[Sandra:] I'm meant to be twelve
[Fred:] Here are
[Emily:] I'm eight nan, I'm eight in April
[Florence:] You'll be eight this year
[Emily:] eight
[Florence:] you'll be eight in May
[Sandra:] April
[Florence:] April, April
[Emily:] and I want, mum I want
[Sandra:] Yeah help yourself
[Fred:] I will
[Emily:] I know how
[Sandra:] Peas, carrots
[Emily:] I know how I want, an onion
[Sandra:] sprouts and a bit of cauliflower
[speaker003:] I know how old mummy is, she's forty
[Sandra:] Sshh...
[Fred:] Roast potatoes?...
[Steven:] Here are, go on...
[speaker003:] I'm not having carrots
[Sandra:] Why not?
[Fred:] Roast parsnip, do you want some roast potato?
[Emily:] No
[Sandra:] Thank you
[Fred:] Mash potato?
[Emily:] Please
[Fred:] How much do you want?
[Florence:] Pass me
[speaker003:] ......
[Fred:] oh dear
[Emily:] cat fish
[Fred:] will that do?...
[Sandra:] I didn't bring the
[Emily:] Ben...
[Steven:] How are the roast potatoes done? Do you want one?
[Sandra:] Yeah please, I've done two each for us
[Emily:] Why is he
[Fred:] George, why, we'll swap over
[Emily:] I want, I want the gravy, can I have the gravy?
[speaker003:] Oh that reminds me mum, where's my shoes, where's my diet pepsi?
[Sandra:] I, still haven't got it
[speaker003:] You get don't you?
[Sandra:] I got cake...
[Fred:] Er...
[Sandra:] yeah... I want
[Florence:] What?
[Sandra:] Have a bit more, no they they've got them, cos they don't like it when it's done round the meat
[Florence:] Yeah alright
[Sandra:] and mum and Steve got a leg so you can help yourself
[Fred:] Don't you want some coffee?
[Sandra:] Yeah, I will have a bit...
[Steven:] Do you want a roast mum? Er a roast potato?
[Florence:] Er no thanks
[Steven:] Try and
[Florence:] I'm supposed to, watching me diet and I haven't been eating roast potatoes
[Emily:] Why you been on mummy
[speaker003:] What else haven't you got?
[Sandra:] Peas and carrots
[Steven:] What you want?
[Emily:] Gravy...
[Sandra:] do you want
[Fred:] yes please er Sandra...
[speaker003:] ...
[Sandra:] Er parsnips, Fred parsnips?
[Fred:] Yes, I've a... had two roast parsnips... it a
[Sandra:] You got gravy?
[speaker003:] Mm, yes thanks...
[Fred:] I'm rather partial to parsnips I'm
[Sandra:] Brings the flavour to it
[Steven:] Yeah
[Emily:] Once we had, once we had big ones better
[Fred:] They're big enough aren't they?...
[Emily:] You want
[Florence:] Er they're amazing these seeing
[Sandra:] Oh I know
[Florence:] I know when he was a kiddy he'd never eat them
[Sandra:] I know, have you got your parsnip?
[Florence:] Me, I
[Sandra:] it is tasty isn't it?
[Steven:] no, have some more
[Sandra:] right
[Fred:] Steve call it gravy, I call it
[Steven:] Doesn't, why?
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] I thought it was
[speaker003:] ...
[Emily:] I call circles squircles
[Steven:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] You call what?
[Steven:] Pass the
[Emily:] Circles squircles
[Fred:] Squircles?
[Emily:] Mm
[Florence:] Oh that comes from that game you play with the cards don't it, when you call it
[speaker003:] What She doesn't call it squircles
[Emily:] No
[Fred:] I should think a squircle is an irregular circle is it not?
[Sandra:] No, it came about because she put down a what card and I to say squares and circles
[Florence:] Squares and circles
[Sandra:] oh, she couldn't make up her mind and it come out squircles
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] Innit?
[Florence:] It's funny how names like that stick when, you know, it's the child will say something
[Sandra:] yeah
[Florence:] and you, you pick it up...
[Fred:] It's obviously
[Emily:] Squircle
[Sandra:] What?
[Emily:] Can we play a game after din-dins?
[Steven:] Lindard
[Sandra:] What's that?
[Emily:] Oh...
[speaker003:] ...
[Emily:] Mum...
[Sandra:] You got pepper, you want pepper?
[Fred:] I've had some thanks er Sandra yeah
[Sandra:] Oh you've had some, where's the top to that one?
[Emily:] I don't know mum
[Sandra:] Oh it's over here
[Fred:] What don't you know?
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]... Daddy...
[Fred:] Are these the garden parsnips?
[Steven:] Yeah
[Fred:] Very nice
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Steven:] Yeah we picked them yesterday
[Emily:] Once you had big, big, big ones, didn't we daddy?
[Florence:] Got early potatoes then yet?
[Sandra:] No not yet
[Fred:] Well it's pretty quick yet
[Steven:] Er there ain't no trays...
[Sandra:] Bit late for ain't it?
[Emily:] Mum is that one more, one, four, one, four, one?
[Sandra:] Yeah that, no I can't
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] You'll want to wait till the end of the month before I put mine in
[Emily:] Have I got alcohol?
[Steven:] I've probably put them in
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Fred:] Well that's the foremost for August
[Steven:] Oh dear
[Fred:] Mm...
[Steven:] well I'll have to work out how many I need, I might need some more yet...
[speaker003:] More what?
[Steven:] That broom I've got, cos I, I took the rest of them bushes out Did he?
[speaker003:] No
[Fred:] What are you gonna put in with them?
[Emily:] Are we gonna play a game afterwards?
[Steven:] I spoke to
[Sandra:] If you like, what do you want to play?
[Emily:] Erm... Cluedo?
[Sandra:] Mm
[Emily:] Cluedo?
[Steven:] I can mix it around and carrots and the
[Sandra:] Cluedo
[Steven:] parsnips and the fruit and veg
[Sandra:] Yeah, I don't mind
[Steven:] will be on this side, and the
[Sandra:] or see what the others want to do
[Steven:] beans and peas and
[Emily:] Do you want to play a game after this?
[Steven:] all the will be main bit
[Sandra:] Yes when we're finished.
[Fred:] Good idea rotation plot
[Emily:] Cluedo? We're gonna play a game of Cluedo
[Fred:] What now?
[Emily:] after... din-dins
[Fred:] I can't play it
[Emily:] dinner and din-dins
[Fred:] I can't play Cluedo after all these roast potatoes
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Florence:] I've only ever guessed that right once, a day over at Marion's once and that'll be break [LAUGHTER]...
[Fred:] Did you work it out or was it a guess?
[Florence:] Mm?
[Fred:] Did you work it out or was it a guess?
[Florence:] I worked it out from what cards I'd got and what I knew somebody else hadn't got...
[speaker003:] We all went round with and we're all pounding this little dad's go and he got the wrong weapon, he crossed out the wrong one on his list ...
[Emily:] I went, the last time I played it, which was erm, about few weeks back, few weeks back, I had all the... I had all of the... cards... and
[Florence:] All at one time?
[Emily:] all one time cards, all of them and it, there was a thing in, but, and, you took
[Sandra:] those were weapons, yeah
[Emily:] weapons, and it was the dagger and you couldn't work it out and kept on asking
[Steven:] I did
[Emily:] her, I kept on asking her
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Emily:] I've got there first
[Sandra:] Only because I got, I had to go out of it...
[Florence:] Have you done any with your lace making kit yet?
[Emily:] Mm
[Sandra:] Not a lot
[Emily:] You haven't, you haven't
[Sandra:] seem to have had, like, enough spare time to sit down and
[Florence:] No
[Sandra:] you know, really study it...
[Emily:] Can I have some more gravy please mum?...
[Fred:] Not too hot is it?...
[Steven:] Where did they come from?
[Sandra:] It was when they had it at
[Steven:] Oh
[Sandra:] at Christmas, I got him the beef
[Florence:] Nice beef
[Sandra:] from Budgen's, when erm ah, you know at Chris, Christmas they had it down at one seventy nine a pound, didn't they?
[Florence:] Mm
[Sandra:] And I got this big bit then, put it in the freezer
[Florence:] Lovely...
[Sandra:] I wished I'd have bought some more now
[Emily:] Is it
[speaker003:] So do I
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER] He didn't go out
[Florence:] That's one advantage of having a big freezer you can get things when, when there's a bargain going
[Sandra:] Mm, yeah
[speaker003:] We've got two little freezers we have
[Fred:] Oh they've got a couple of erm these down the market don't they?
[Sandra:] Mm, I've never been there
[Fred:] We went round it... I often er
[Steven:] Have you ever been to that Corby market?
[Fred:] No, David has though
[Steven:] Yeah, supposed to be good
[Fred:] erm, one of the er chaps that come to work and he's always on Corby... that's what David told us...
[Sandra:] What sort of stall?...
[Fred:] Oh a stall of mixed each you know?
[Sandra:] No
[Fred:] I think he provides game as well, like parsnip
[Florence:] Got a bus pass token now, so you can travel round by the bus, or round the neighbourhood
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Florence:] fares are already paid now
[Sandra:] got that
[Florence:] Mm... on the bus a bit when the weather improves I shall like to go to Harrendle
[speaker003:] But whether it was still
[Florence:] you can get, get to Harrendle and Peterborough on the bus now
[Sandra:] Oh can you? I didn't know
[Florence:] what all those yellows well they go in the week, you can on a Saturday
[Fred:] You get six pound seven pound fifty, on these
[Florence:] thirty pounds worth ain't it?
[Fred:] Oh yes, thirty
[Florence:] Thirty pounds with each, were fifteen pound
[Fred:] Mm
[Sandra:] For fifteen pound?
[Fred:] about sixty, yeah, because, say you pay out a quarter of the price from, you there
[Steven:] What you get a book of tokens or something?
[Florence:] No it's
[speaker003:] No they're, they're little silver thingies
[Steven:] Take them out as you use them?
[Florence:] Well they're useful
[Sandra:] No
[Florence:] on that little rider that's always so far, and then we go on that at least once a week when we've been shopping
[Sandra:] Mm
[Florence:] it's it stops outside the gate
[Sandra:] Are those the
[Fred:] Those are they
[Emily:] Let's have a look
[Florence:] They're like toy money aren't they?
[Fred:] You get, you get them in ten pound batch
[Emily:] Yeah
[Steven:] Aluminium
[speaker003:] How do you know?
[Emily:] What?
[speaker003:] That it's safe
[Steven:] Oh you can tell...
[speaker003:] How?
[Steven:] against the light
[Sandra:] The difference how, for erm... as well, can't you?
[Florence:] you can use them as
[Sandra:] you've got a list of with a list of firms you can and
[Fred:] and you
[Sandra:] so you can take them as well, don't they?
[Fred:] Mm, mm
[Sandra:] If you book Serve
[Florence:] Serve, yeah Serve takes them, yeah I know
[Fred:] You can use them on
[Sandra:] Oh can you?
[Emily:] Ooh
[Fred:] Well er Fred and his wife went several times on them last year
[Sandra:] Oh...
[Florence:] Is that, I thought that the card and Serve take it out for the doctors a few weeks back when he got your bronchitis and you weren't too well and erm, car picked him up and took him up there, then you get he walked back, it was a nice day
[Sandra:] Oh no
[Florence:] he walked back [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] You'd pay for that, ride back
[Florence:] I wrote to Eileen I said about your dad had a hundred and four and I said er, I'd a, sent a taxi from Serve to take him up, I said then he dismissed the driver and see he walked back, and I before I left, is er, got a mental pict, when you said dismissing the driver, mental picture of the, this chap in a cock cap and that, and your dad saying alright James it's enough I'll walk back
[Sandra:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] I don't know how long you'll be in there, but I'll just go off now to er, old well I said well you mean are you? No problem mate I'll walk now, are you sure he say? I said yes, I've walked
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] it were that nice... well I tale it all the veggies were your own produce?
[Sandra:] Oh not bad, no not the cauliflower...
[Fred:] Oh
[Sandra:] I bought that yesterday, over the market, this spreads hard nan cos we run out
[Steven:] Oh, oh we've run out of 'tatoes as well we've run out of carrot and peas
[speaker003:] We're I thought we'd never end them
[Steven:] That's right
[Sandra:] Right but we did
[Emily:] Mum carrots are
[Steven:] Carrots are, yeah
[Sandra:] Carrots are, yeah
[Emily:] Oh
[Sandra:] Emily eat a bit more please
[Steven:] We do more carrots next year
[Sandra:] Goody...
[Steven:] Got to get me parsnips out
[Fred:] So your spuds have lasted well haven't they?
[Sandra:] Yeah, yeah
[Emily:] Yeah, erm
[Steven:] Perhaps I'll, I'll pop it down not at much room this year, so
[speaker003:] What put more carrots
[Steven:] I've got twenty one pound of seed, I had
[Emily:] Mum
[Steven:] twenty eight pounds last year...
[Emily:] can I have a tissue please?...
[Fred:] Well I've got fourteen pounds
[Steven:] I should have more peas and beans this year
[Emily:] And carrots
[Sandra:] And carrots...
[Fred:] Yeah I think I'll give those er beans you grew last year will grow this year Steve...
[Emily:] Oh
[Steven:] Yeah
[Fred:] aren't they?
[Steven:] well...
[Emily:] Mum
[Sandra:] Mm
[Emily:] if I eat this, can I er, can I leave the rest? Oh...
[Steven:] Some more mum?
[Florence:] Mm little
[Emily:] Yes please, [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] for nan
[Emily:] yes please
[Florence:] I had a glass and a half of your dad's home made wine before we came out
[Sandra:] Oh I [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] I'll be half asleep all afternoon...
[Fred:] What is it Spanish?
[Florence:] Don't, Debbie usually come in er, Sunday morning, but er what, they've got somewhere else to go today
[Emily:] What's that there?
[Florence:] so they didn't come, and I didn't go out and Gemma came up and I was sitting there talking and they had a drop, drop of wine and I had one with erm... [cough] and Gemma finished her biscuits up, we've got to get some more biscuits now... Gemma brings her right up to me now
[Sandra:] Oh does she?
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER], well I didn't, I didn't do it for her I just gave her a bit of a hand and... these sort of questions where they've got so many alternatives answers to fill the spaces
[Sandra:] Yeah
[speaker003:] Finished them at school
[Sandra:] You finished them at school?
[speaker003:] Yeah...
[Emily:] Are they ripe?
[Steven:] Do you want any more mum?
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Florence:] Mm
[Steven:] Anything else, any more?
[Emily:] Aagh
[Florence:] Erm, well I couldn't really, pudding then?
[Emily:] Oh
[Steven:] Yeah
[Florence:] Mm, very funny yorkshire pudding [LAUGHTER], that's one of the things I, say I shouldn't eat that is on that, those yorkshire puddings, but I'm having a holiday today Actually, actually had a fried egg for breakfast today for the first time
[Emily:] Nan
[Florence:] in a couple of months
[Emily:] [cough]
[Florence:] scrambled in the morning
[Emily:] Nan... nan
[Florence:] Mm
[Steven:] There's some more meat if
[Emily:] can I have
[Steven:] anybody want's it, I
[Emily:] nan
[Florence:] Yeah
[Emily:] why, erm, at Dawn's we erm done this thing, and it was sort of, there was four sides of it and it was one, then there was two inside, well there was one at the back, erm, Henry and Mrs said when you get these back you'll see what you've got, and people, she said, people who have got over twenty of er, the better than the people who are lower and I got twenty one
[Sandra:] Oh did you? What was it then, a test?
[speaker003:] Yeah we had a French test and, erm
[Emily:] no thirty out the lot
[speaker003:] I was very, Martin got forty three, then White got forty one, Lorraine only got forty
[Emily:] [sigh]
[speaker003:] and no one else got that many, forty one
[Florence:] Alison is in Amsterdam
[Sandra:] Oh is she?
[Florence:] gone with the, the, from the college there, she's been on an art course and they're going round er, art galleries and museums and places like that
[Sandra:] Oh yeah
[Florence:] for ten days she's there
[Sandra:] Oh
[Emily:] I'm leaving that mum
[Sandra:] Eat your veg
[Florence:] actually married and said she wasn't looking forward to going, but I'd imagined she would enjoy it when she got there
[Sandra:] Mm
[Steven:] She wasn't?
[Florence:] Mm?
[Steven:] She wasn't looking forward to go
[Sandra:] Yeah that's right
[Florence:] How
[Steven:] Is it compulsory, yeah?
[Florence:] Well it was part of their course I think, I, they didn't they paid the full cost of it, they contributed a bit, but I think Colin stood
[speaker003:] That's what we're doing innit mummy?
[Sandra:] Yeah, she's going through they, is Gemma going?
[speaker003:] No
[Sandra:] Oh, she's going to, on day trips to France in July isn't she?
[Emily:] I'm going to London
[Florence:] Oh
[Emily:] I'm going to London museum
[Florence:] What they charge for that?
[Sandra:] No
[Emily:] Mum when are we going to London museum?
[Sandra:] Thirty five I shall have ten pound deposit and I think there's twenty five pound left to pay.
[Florence:] Oh
[Sandra:] Thirty five, but that includes the meal as well, they'd have had a meal in the restaurant there won't you?
[speaker003:] Yeah
[Steven:] It's a long day though
[Sandra:] It is
[Florence:] Yes I know
[Steven:] and leave what half past?
[Fred:] Yeah it used to be
[Steven:] They leave at half past four in the morning and get back just after midnight
[Florence:] Yeah
[Sandra:] Five past
[Florence:] Yes I remember some of the others going. Sarah went when she was at school
[Fred:] When you going next Friday?
[Florence:] She said They usually go from
[Emily:] I know
[Florence:] somewhere close, Bouloigne or somewhere on the
[Sandra:] I suppose they're going to Bouloigne
[speaker003:] Yeah we're going to Bouloigne
[Emily:] Mum I know Julia's trying to find out I needn't go to school on Thursday so I can have a lie in
[Florence:] So why she'd like to go to France on
[Sandra:] one of those day trips to
[speaker003:] Wish we co, if we're going on Friday yeah
[Sandra:] Too much of a strain going over and back
[Florence:] She's still at school, she's not at home...
[Sandra:] You don't miss a day off school just because you're going to France for a day...
[speaker003:] Yeah, but the next day we'll have to have a lie in
[Sandra:] No
[Steven:] Only if they speak English
[Emily:] I'm going to London
[Sandra:] Only if they speak English
[speaker003:] to speak English?
[Sandra:] What with the school? Round London, yeah
[Steven:] British museum?
[Sandra:] The Toy
[Fred:] Which British museum they going to?
[Emily:] Famous one
[Sandra:] Oh no.
[Florence:] First time I went to London, I was about as old as Emily, I went with, we went with the Brownies for the trip, we went to the zoo [LAUGHTER]
[Emily:] They have
[Sandra:] A museum of childhood...
[Emily:] Why?
[Sandra:] within childhood I think it's called
[Florence:] Oh, what's it like, toys thing
[Sandra:] Toys yeah, yeah
[speaker003:] First time I went to the zoo I was... erm
[Florence:] I've never seen, the queen's doll's house at Windsor Castle
[Sandra:] No
[Emily:] Bethnal Green, Museum of childhood
[Sandra:] see erm, when we went to Windsor on the boat wasn't it, when we were going up and down the Thames
[Emily:] Thursday March
[Fred:] Oh
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Emily:] Thursday March, twenty fourth
[Sandra:] a week on Tuesday
[Florence:] Tuesday March the twenty fourth
[Emily:] Mm
[Sandra:] When's Mother's day?
[Florence:] Very nice
[Sandra:] Two week's today
[Florence:] should be nice
[Sandra:] twenty ninth?
[Florence:] a full set of toys that people used to play with in the old days, and that sort of thing
[speaker003:] Jolly
[Sandra:] That's gonna be a long day because the don't get back until about six o'clock at night
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] What time do they start?
[Sandra:] Well I presume, it doesn't say, I presume round about nine o'clock
[Florence:] Mm
[Fred:] Is Emily?
[Florence:] Do they get them there or does take pack
[speaker003:] ...
[Sandra:] I'm going as well
[Florence:] You're going with them?
[Sandra:] Yeah, penny and I, I'm going to help
[speaker003:] Lucy had, I've had frog's legs
[Sandra:] You have not
[Florence:] Now then, what about Penny do you want
[Sandra:] Mum's having Penny
[Florence:] Oh, mm
[speaker003:] How about, have you ever had frog's legs?
[Florence:] You put some gravy on that
[Fred:] No, but they're very nice you can take it from me
[Steven:] Snails eat snails, escargot
[Emily:] I'm, I had, I used to
[Sandra:] What?
[Florence:] Don't know if I want to go to
[Emily:] have frog's legs
[Sandra:] No you did not
[Emily:] I did, well
[Florence:] On one of these trips to London when I was at school, good when we went with the Brownies, I went two or three times and er, one time when I was a bit older, I mean the first time I went as I say I was only about seven, but, when I was a bit older I went again, they said if
[Emily:] Me, oh
[Florence:] if we'd got any young brothers or sisters if we wanted we could take them with us, fine, so I said to me brother Vic who's three years younger than me
[Emily:] Mum I'm leaving that, I'm leaving that, I'm
[Sandra:] Mm
[Florence:] and that
[Sandra:] I know
[Florence:] we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we'd moved on and I, I suddenly realised I hadn't got Vicky with me, so I looked all round, couldn't see him, had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons
[Sandra:] Oh god
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Fred:] Wonder if pigeons
[Sandra:] That, that, that, oh put those away we're having dinner
[Emily:] I know
[Sandra:] come and sit at the table and wait, come on, put those away... Usually have it pork and
[Florence:] We don't have beef very often, but you get a bit small enough for just the two of you, by the time you've cooked it
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Florence:] it's a bit sort of
[Sandra:] shrunk innit?
[Fred:] Tends to shrink
[Sandra:] Mm... how can you eat any more? That's a burnt bit...
[Fred:] Roast potatoes were very nice
[Florence:] But I tend to eat more chicken and fish and things like that now
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Florence:] than I do red meat, don't eat
[Sandra:] We don't eat that much red meat do we now?
[Florence:] Supposed to be trying to watch me weight
[speaker003:] I like bacon
[Florence:] I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck
[Sandra:] Oh yeah
[Florence:] for three weeks now I've been stuck on eleven stone, I got, I lost nearly a stone in first five or six weeks, now I've stopped
[Sandra:] Yeah...
[Florence:] I think it's mainly because I don't really get enough exercise this time of the year I don't
[Fred:] Ah maybe when you can get out in the summer
[Florence:] I'm just hoping
[Sandra:] I'm losing weight as well, I was, fortnight ago Friday
[speaker003:] Oh yes, my
[Florence:] Mm
[Sandra:] I cut out all me, in, eating in between sweets and chocolate
[speaker003:] I couldn't [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] I think I've lost about half a stone so far
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] Yeah you will do, it's surprising
[Sandra:] Yeah even low fat
[Florence:] Well I, I do
[Sandra:] on me bread and what have you
[Florence:] I've tried to cut out chocolate, but er, get a bit now and again, hard weekends
[Sandra:] Yeah, I shall, I'm gonna treat myself at the end of each month
[Florence:] You, you dad, dad usually gets
[speaker003:] Dad
[Florence:] some chocolate on the weekend
[Sandra:] Yeah, at the end of each month I'm gonna treat myself to some
[Florence:] Two, two or three week's running Jenny came up on a weekend and brought us a bar of chocolate each
[Sandra:] Oh [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] I said you're undermining my principles...
[Fred:] Well we didn't see them this week, they told us that they wouldn't be along didn't they?
[Florence:] Oh they were
[speaker003:] How much do you weigh nanny?
[Fred:] They told us they wouldn't come this week
[Florence:] They said they wouldn't be up this week they've
[Steven:] Eleven and a half stone
[Florence:] got somewhere to go
[speaker003:] Ten and a half stone
[Florence:] forget where it was they were going
[Steven:] Eleven and a half
[Fred:] They were going Dunstable
[speaker003:] Eleven?...
[Sandra:] But you worried about the Oh yeah...
[Florence:] probably why they were going out
[Sandra:] well no, no not... no it's, it's miserable innit really?
[Florence:] Yeah, yes you've got a car and you can go and visit somebody and go door to door
[speaker003:] I like
[Florence:] too bad
[Sandra:] Right
[Florence:] but if you've got to go and get a bus and
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] sort of spend the day out
[Steven:] Would you like some more wine dad?
[Florence:] in the blinking rain it's not
[Fred:] you ought?
[Steven:] Yeah
[Florence:] but when the weather improves we shall, we shall go as far as Harrendle on the bus
[Sandra:] Mm
[Florence:] I wanna go Black butchers on the square, last time we went to Harrendle Bob and Delph took us in the car
[Sandra:] Bobby
[Florence:] and it was market day, and on the square near, where they have the market there was this er butchers, and I went in there and I got some sausages, oh, er nobody said anything about these sausages I just thought well I'd better take something back for Fred's dinner so I went in and got these sausages, well they were the nicest sausages I've ever tasted in my life
[Sandra:] Really?
[Florence:] they were just like the old fashioned kind... and er we've never been to Harrendle since and whenever I get to Harrendle I'd get some more sausages.
[Sandra:] More sausages
[Florence:] That's if it's still there [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] They were lovely...
[Florence:] One of these family butchers, butchers who makes his own
[Sandra:] Yeah, I
[Steven:] from erm erm, there's a butchers at Kinbolton
[Florence:] Mm
[Steven:] you know the, the S bend by the school?
[Florence:] I don't know, I don't remember Kinbolton, I've been through it I think
[Steven:] Oh well
[Florence:] I don't think I've ever stopped there
[Steven:] there's one of our supervisors and because they work all over the place, you know, they, they travel around and he's
[Florence:] Yeah
[Steven:] he's sausage buff
[Sandra:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] Yeah
[Steven:] and he reckons they're the best sausages he ever, he's ever had, from Kinbolton... I don't know the name of it, I know where it is, you know that S bend the tight S bend, Ferrari's club it's on there, it's on that side
[speaker003:] Side, left or right?
[Steven:] On the right as you come down this way, on the left if you go out there...
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] Couldn't have been our paper this morning they've moved on to [LAUGHTER] oh he's picture, one of the politicians, campaigning, said in Taunton, Devon,
[speaker003:] Please may I get down from the table?
[Florence:] Somerset
[Steven:] That's right
[speaker003:] Please may I get down from the table?
[Steven:] How close is it to the
[Fred:] It's not far
[Steven:] and that bloke
[Florence:] it isn't all that because er, Tavistock er
[Steven:] No
[speaker003:] Why?
[Florence:] Tavistock, that's it Tiverton went in the, that and that's not all that far from, from Taunton...
[Fred:] No Taunton can't be very far away
[Florence:] Have to write to Hilda or ring her up or something, she can't write now her hands are so bad she
[Sandra:] Oh
[Florence:] she can't write now, I haven't written to her for weeks
[Sandra:] No
[Florence:] I said I'd ring her up on her birthday and I didn't
[Sandra:] Oh it's my brother's birthday today
[speaker003:] Yeah
[Florence:] Who's?
[Sandra:] Graham's birthday.
[Florence:] Oh is it?
[Fred:] How old's Graham?
[Florence:] How old's he?
[Steven:] Thirty five I should think
[Florence:] What you got there?
[Sandra:] Thirty six
[Steven:] No thirty six even
[Sandra:] thirty six, he's about three and a half
[Florence:] Cake, what happened to the cake?
[Emily:] Ow...
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER] That's a nice one isn't it?
[Sandra:] We had er
[speaker003:] I like the doggy
[Sandra:] Thursday afternoon me and mum looked after Daniel and Benjamin, cos erm, a relative of Sarah's died a week before and the funeral was Thursday, so, I said to mum yes I'd go up and help her
[Florence:] You had them over here?
[Sandra:] We had them over here and when they brought, they'd come about quarter, tea time I think and they said Benjamin's tired, he'll probably go to sleep
[speaker003:] But he cried
[Sandra:] and he cried and cried and cried
[Florence:] How old is he?
[Sandra:] He'll be one in a week
[Florence:] I told you he was only about a year old
[Sandra:] Yeah, erm, we, we thought we'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily and that's quarter past three
[Florence:] Porky pig, [LAUGHTER] that's lovely, that is
[Sandra:] but he was, he was that tired but he wouldn't give in, he kept wanting to see what was going on
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[Emily:] Mummy
[Sandra:] but oh dear but he, mum did get him off to sleep in the end
[Florence:] Oh that's nice isn't it?
[Sandra:] Dan, Daniel was alright, he came with me to fetch Emily from school
[speaker003:] Ah
[Fred:] Wasn't it James who was
[Sandra:] Oh I was shattered, I was shattered by the night time
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker003:] I think it's his neck the dodgy one
[Sandra:] We'll just cut
[Florence:] it is an unusual cake isn't it?
[Sandra:] We gave him a drink, we gave him some chocolate buttons, we gave me a big shoved to one side, ooh dear
[Emily:] What about the buttons?
[Florence:] Oh that's nice isn't it?
[Emily:] That's the one I like, the doggy
[Sandra:] I like the dog one
[Florence:] It difficult to make to look as realistic as that I'm
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Emily:] and the, when that's after that the penguin
[Florence:] Ah [LAUGHTER]
[Emily:] I wanna penguin for my birthday mummy
[Florence:] Do you know what you're gonna get demands for some of these for birthdays
[Sandra:] I know
[Steven:] Yeah
[Sandra:] yeah
[speaker003:] I wanna penguin
[Florence:] I like that
[Sandra:] got a lot now
[speaker003:] Ooh, yeah
[Sandra:] I ended up using black you can't very, you can't get black very well
[Florence:] Ice cream cones those
[Emily:] Yeah
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] difficult
[Florence:] Ooh that's good the aeroplane...
[Sandra:] Yes
[Emily:] The wafer things
[Florence:] Treasure Islands... [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] Plastic
[Florence:] What are they Matchmakers?
[Emily:] Oh yeah
[speaker003:] Yeah
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker003:] I like Matchmakers, I like there's
[Florence:] Wicked witch
[Emily:] Julia
[Florence:] wicked witch of the west
[Emily:] don't tell us
[Fred:] Is
[speaker003:] The garden I like
[Florence:] You used to have a story book when I was a kid, there was a witch called Jenny Green Thing
[Sandra:] I can't drink it you, I still have a drink yet
[Emily:] Yeah it's a
[Sandra:] Yeah, that's why I can't that's why I have different
[Fred:] That's alright
[Sandra:] cos I'm on erm low alcohol wine
[Florence:] They're made with swiss rolls cos it's
[Steven:] It looks very nice
[Emily:] Ooh, ooh, ooh
[Fred:] Ha, yeah it is a good wine
[Florence:] Cut the swiss rolls into slices
[Fred:] a ros, erm
[Florence:] cos half of them don't need icing
[Sandra:] Yeah, no
[Florence:] and the others are chocolate, and they've put them in a
[speaker003:] I hate chocolate
[Sandra:] it's low alcohol
[Florence:] That's nice
[Sandra:] they've only got five percent
[Florence:] not, that wouldn't be very I know you have to cut the cake up with all those little bits
[speaker003:] Ooh I could do that
[Emily:] Ah
[Florence:] Yuck Valentine cake
[Sandra:] Getting used to it now though, it don't bother me really... I didn't do much for it anyway so
[speaker003:] Like it, mm swiss roll in there, yeah
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker003:] Oh keep turning
[Florence:] Oh that's nice that, thatch cottage with the garden
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER], I like that one
[Florence:] A big red bus
[Sandra:] Yeah that's good innit? I like that one
[Florence:] It is good innit?
[speaker003:] Yeah I mean
[Sandra:] No you're not [LAUGHTER]... look... about all that meat you give her
[Steven:] No, Penny will have it
[Florence:] Freddy frog
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] What? Mm, she doesn't eat a lot of meat
[Florence:] Chuffa train
[Emily:] Choo, Choo
[Steven:] She never eats all her meat she eats all the potatoes
[Florence:] Dinosaur
[Emily:] Choo, choo, choo, choo
[Florence:] Toadstools
[Sandra:] Goblins
[Florence:] and the goblins
[Sandra:] I like the lamp shade
[Steven:] Goblins in there
[Florence:] Yes that's nice... bumble bee
[Emily:] And flowers
[Florence:] Vegetables that's unusual, do I
[speaker003:] Fred do you want that?
[Fred:] No
[Sandra:] your dad's birthday like that
[speaker003:] Dad you gonna open one of them for your birthday?
[Steven:] All of these are a lot quicker than any of those dog food
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker003:] Dad
[Steven:] What?
[speaker003:] You gonna make a
[Sandra:] A cake for your birthday with the guards on it
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]... Rosie rabbit... Tommy turtle
[Emily:] Tommy turtle
[Florence:] Concorde, it's breaking
[Emily:] [mimics aeroplane]
[Florence:] Sandcastle... athletic's track [LAUGHTER], they cater for all interests in here don't they, discus
[speaker003:] That's the one I like
[Florence:] the swimming pool
[speaker003:] that's definitely the one I like
[Emily:] Yeah... [LAUGHTER] steam
[Florence:] The steam roller
[Emily:] Yeah...
[Florence:] Noah's Ark, that's good, what do they do with the animals they can't make them out of
[Sandra:] No, those plastic mounds
[Florence:] they must be model animals
[Sandra:] Yeah, yeah cos erm I like that
[Florence:] Snooker table
[Sandra:] you can have that...
[Florence:] Ozzy owl
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] that's nice
[Sandra:] We lost one
[Florence:] you had an owl cake once did you or was it a cat?
[Sandra:] An owl one
[Steven:] It was an owl
[Sandra:] a birthday cake like an owl
[Emily:] [whistling]
[Sandra:] I like that one
[Florence:] snail
[Steven:] ooh, er
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER] somebody who loves camping...
[speaker003:] I want to go camping with some of my friends
[Florence:] Paddock, that's for somebody who likes horses
[Sandra:] Gemma
[Florence:] Yeah Gemma's potty on horses... Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow
[Fred:] What did they all the Julia were there?
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Steven:] Yeah
[speaker003:] What, what what?
[Sandra:] Shall we start right at the beginning?
[Fred:] What's he like, is he alright?
[speaker003:] No, I don't like teachers
[Florence:] I think Porky pig that was the first one I saw, that's always good
[Sandra:] That's alright, yeah very nice
[Steven:] We saw him at Old Trafford
[Florence:] What super match?
[Steven:] Not the last time we went, the time we went to see United against West Ham we, we went and you know park where we normally park and went down to the United chip shop and er we got our chips and stood outside
[Florence:] Have a chip shop?
[Steven:] and this bloke walked passed
[Florence:] Yellow and white [LAUGHTER]
[Steven:] No, they were brilliant
[Emily:] Mum
[Steven:] Manchester United chip shop yeah, and it does, I tell you, it does a concert business from about er
[Fred:] It would do
[Steven:] I should think about half past ten until about half past two
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Steven:] and there was a cast of flow of people cast a queue out of the door and going in
[Emily:] Do you like this
[Steven:] there must a tremendous and they were nice chips as well
[Florence:] Don't it make the sounds?
[Steven:] I mean we stood outside and
[Sandra:] No it makes one sound
[Florence:] Oh
[Sandra:] this duck came past and er I heard Mick
[Florence:] Have you seen this thing you put the button at the top to make their
[Steven:] two years headmaster and he was up there, he's got two kids, one of them's a West Ham supporter and the other is a supporter
[Fred:] Oh dear...
[speaker003:] Who were they playing?
[Steven:] West Ham
[speaker003:] West Ham
[Fred:] A lot of rivalry there then I suppose
[Steven:] Did he tell you he didn't have his side of support, I told him as long as he shouts just United that's alright
[Fred:] well there you are the boys teams, so What he do a smile that backed
[Steven:] [LAUGHTER] and it shook his little lad back
[Florence:] Don't make the same sound every time doesn't it?
[Steven:] West Ham supporter, the best
[Emily:] Yeah
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]...
[speaker003:] Who won?
[Steven:] United did...
[Fred:] Two, none
[Steven:] No, two, one
[Fred:] I was a bit worried yesterday it was
[Sandra:] Only if they're out in that pot in that little cupboard
[Steven:] They, they played a lot better second half than they did first apparently
[Fred:] I'd have banked for a draw actually
[Steven:] Yeah
[Emily:] What's this?
[Sandra:] I don't know, I can't drink
[Steven:] I let her do it all
[Florence:] It's nice out there
[Emily:] No
[Sandra:] It used to be all green that's better
[Steven:] I'll try and catch the goals this afternoon, cos
[Emily:] Mum can I leave it?
[Sandra:] Not now, put it away, put it away
[Steven:] They're bound to show all the action replays afterwards
[speaker003:] Oh no
[Sandra:] birthday
[speaker003:] You can watch the football in there why we tape
[Sandra:] Right there's erm... it's a tin of fruit salad but I've put in some er kiwi and grapes... so it's fresh fruit, it's in its own juice, so it's not in a heavy thick juice, there's Viennetta or you can have a bit of each
[Florence:] Well I'll have a little bit of each then please
[speaker003:] The Viennetta isn't spoilt, squashed side
[Fred:] I'll go out and got to do that
[Emily:] [whistling]
[speaker003:] What?
[Sandra:] Oh is there?
[speaker003:] Oh
[Emily:] Aagh
[Florence:] What are they?
[Sandra:] What does that mean then?
[Florence:] Meringue
[Emily:] Mum I
[Fred:] The only thing that still qualified
[Emily:] er, don't want any of that
[speaker003:] It's been beaten yet has it?
[Steven:] Yeah
[Sandra:] Er, that's whipped cream and that's like whippy cream that hasn't been whipped [LAUGHTER] but that's, that erm
[speaker003:] Unwhipped cream
[Sandra:] er the
[Florence:] Elmlea
[Sandra:] Elmlea
[Florence:] I'll have this
[Sandra:] Dad what do you want?
[Emily:] [whistling]
[Sandra:] Do you want the same as mum or a little bit of each or
[Fred:] Ah yeah, I'll have the same as well similar to mum's please.
[speaker003:] Can I get mine please?
[Emily:] Mum I I know what I want
[Sandra:] What do you want?
[Emily:] I want, I want some of that, a big bit
[speaker003:] No
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[Emily:] I want all of it
[Steven:] You can't eat it all
[Emily:] I can
[Sandra:] It's different, it used to be all green ice cream, but it's now got all white layers, got a white, white
[Emily:] Yeah
[Fred:] I think it's lovely
[Sandra:] Erm,
[speaker003:] [whistling] I prefer it like that
[Emily:] Oh
[Sandra:] Yeah I
[Emily:] Yeah I want in there as well
[speaker003:] Are there any strawberries?
[Steven:] Anybody else want a meringue?
[Emily:] Me
[Sandra:] Dad?
[Fred:] Yes thanks Sandra
[Sandra:] Right ordinary which I believe
[Steven:] Dad
[Fred:] Er, ta
[Emily:] It's like your gonna have to have the
[Sandra:] No, no I don't want it
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER], mummy's going to have the broken one
[speaker003:] Broken one
[Steven:] I'll have the broken one
[Fred:] No it's mine
[speaker003:] I'll have mummy's
[Emily:] No... oh I want one
[Sandra:] Oh
[Emily:] as well
[Steven:] I was
[Emily:] Got to
[Steven:] hoping I'd have it myself today
[speaker003:] Mum what to it be in there to all fruit salad bowl
[Emily:] You've got one as well
[Florence:] This is nice
[speaker003:] Yeah, well I don't want
[Florence:] Long lost
[Emily:] Oh
[Florence:] That's yours
[Emily:] Where?
[speaker003:] ... [whistling]
[Sandra:] Come on go on...
[Steven:] Ta...
[Fred:] Of all the fruit I've never bought before, a couple of weeks ago, now you know, a mango.
[Florence:] I think I know who done it now
[Sandra:] I think I'll stay here actually
[Florence:] six
[Sandra:] I'm staying there I accuse myself in the kitchen with the revolver or whatever it is, the revolver
[Florence:] Who?
[Sandra:] the revolver
[Florence:] The revolver, where is it?
[Sandra:] Emily
[Florence:] Have you got the revolver?... Miss Scarlet in the kitchen with the revolver
[Sandra:] No myself in the kitchen with the revolver
[Florence:] Oh yourself Colonel Mustard did it... no I haven't got any in there...
[Sandra:] Have you got any of them
[Florence:] I haven't got any in there
[Sandra:] the kitchen... oh no, I hate the have you?... Have you?...
[Steven:] Who's winning?
[Sandra:] Me
[Florence:] I think I know who done it, but I don't know what with
[Sandra:] Oh I know who's done it, I don't know who, what with
[Emily:] I ne
[Steven:] Do you want a game of this?
[Fred:] Oh, watch the match that's why we came in, put that on
[Steven:] Oh I was gonna say we can put telly on in here if you like, if you want a game...
[Sandra:] In a minute when we've finished this...
[Fred:] Weren't that
[Emily:] There's not enough in we need three more pencils dad, if you want to play that
[Florence:] They're going to see the football...
[Sandra:] Finish that game first
[speaker003:] Emily have you got
[Florence:] I think I know who done it but I don't
[speaker003:] kitchen
[Florence:] no where or what
[Sandra:] where, with what
[speaker003:] I know
[Sandra:] yeah
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker003:] I know who's done it, I think I know what with and I'm, I think I know what, where. Emily have you got kitchen, mustard or ... have you?
[Emily:] No
[speaker003:] Ya ho, I know what it, where it is...
[Sandra:] I don't...
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Florence:] My turn?
[Emily:] Yes...
[Florence:] Two, where am I, two... I've got two...
[speaker003:] I'm gonna go
[Emily:] Meow, meow...
[speaker003:] I [cat noise]...
[Emily:] with the banner in the
[Florence:] Banner coming through
[Emily:] Come on Julia
[Sandra:] Got that, Professor Plumb in the study with a spanner
[speaker003:] ...
[Emily:] [singing] know who it is []...
[Sandra:] I think I know who
[Emily:] Oh anybody shown who
[speaker003:] ...
[Sandra:] Well I know that
[Florence:] Six, one, two, three, four, five, six... who turn?... Your turn?...
[Sandra:] Who's playing then?
[Emily:] Three...
[Sandra:] Got to go back
[Florence:] Oh [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] I don't know what they're up to, I'll say
[Emily:] Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
[Sandra:] I choose myself in the kitchen with the spanner
[Florence:] Spanner, where's the spanner?
[Sandra:] Myself in the kitchen with the
[Florence:] er, Mustard, kitchen, spanner... no I've only them
[speaker003:] ...
[Emily:] Julia...
[speaker003:] ...
[Sandra:] Have you?
[speaker003:] No, you've got to
[Emily:] cos I've got
[Sandra:] no it's mine... I took... three and I don't know where, who and what, five, settle down Emily
[Florence:] One, two, three, four, five...
[Emily:] I choose Reverend Green in the hall with the lead piping
[Florence:] With what?
[Emily:] Lead piping...
[Florence:] What?
[Emily:] hall, Green, piping
[Sandra:] fine...
[Emily:] I wished somebody would show me a weapon
[Sandra:] Four
[Florence:] Four, where are you?
[Sandra:] staying there
[Florence:] Staying there
[Sandra:] I'll say it, in the kitchen with the revolver revolver
[speaker003:] I just have
[Florence:] Tell you what, Mustard, kitchen and gun
[speaker003:] No I say the, Reverend Green done it
[Florence:] No I haven't got any of them
[speaker003:] Green, kitchen, gun
[Florence:] So, sorry, I thought you said Mustard, kitchen, gun, oh alright
[speaker003:] got any?
[Florence:] No I still haven't got any...
[speaker003:] Do you, do you, do you Elly yes or no? Oh ooh goody, I know who it is and where it is now
[Florence:] Who's turn is it? Can I stay where I am?
[Emily:] I know where it is and
[Sandra:] I know everything
[Florence:] Can I stay where I am?
[speaker003:] Yeah
[Florence:] It's the Reverend Green in the kitchen with the spanner
[Sandra:] Right
[Emily:] I haven't got any
[Sandra:] Yes that's it
[Emily:] Cos, cos I've got
[speaker003:] I've got, got, look, kitchen, spanner and Reverend Green
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] I got that about two rounds ago, but I'm not sure if it was either
[Florence:] Well I knew it was Reverend Green some time ago, but I couldn't decide which it, I just got that
[Sandra:] that, about three goes ago
[Emily:] I did, I didn't know
[speaker003:] But I wasn't sure if it was Reverend Green, cos that
[Florence:] what you do rub them, rub them out and then use them again
[speaker003:] yes I know that
[Florence:] mm
[speaker003:] I know that
[Florence:] oh, should, do you not much play when we've finished
[Emily:] I had
[speaker003:] I think so yeah
[Florence:] I don't know whether they all want to play or whether your dad and granddad wants to stay and watch the football
[speaker003:] Yeah I think they say they want to play
[Florence:] Go and find out what they're doing... turn the sound down a bit
[Emily:] Julia
[speaker003:] Yes
[Emily:] we need the
[speaker003:] ...
[Emily:] we do
[speaker003:] I'm eating my penguin... but, weren't that mine, that blue one?
[Emily:] No
[speaker003:] ... there
[Emily:] Yeah, here are mum, we're gonna have to share them
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Emily:] me and dad... Florrie will have that one [tv on] one for her and
[Florence:] We've only got three in there
[Emily:] me and me mum
[Florence:] these have got to be mixed up together... is there nobody else coming in?...
[speaker003:] I'll have Man City erm... I think... ...
[Emily:] Mummy... we're sharing I wonder what piece, what are, where's two centre
[Sandra:] They're little Ritz crackers... help yourself.
[Fred:] I've a erm
[Florence:] We're spoilt for choice here especially when you're supposed to be on a diet
[Fred:] The best of cheese
[Sandra:] No I got that down Budgens
[Fred:] I've never had selection of Budgens
[Sandra:] Yeah, no I get me cheese from Budgens...
[Emily:] Can you get some for me?
[Fred:] Alright, we had fan on er Wednesday night
[Florence:] Nice is Wendy house, that we got when we were up in Yorkshire weren't it?
[Sandra:] Why
[Fred:] Oh yes
[Emily:] You know I only want white
[speaker003:] Rubbish here dad. How many erm, it
[Sandra:] Well I've got some more out there...
[Emily:] Taste this, anybody want
[Sandra:] Emily leave it...
[Emily:] Look, ding, dee, dee, dee... granddad... granddad, teddy bear
[speaker003:] Can I have some teddy bears?
[Steven:] Say please.
[speaker003:] Please...
[Sandra:] Pickled onion?
[Fred:] Er, no thanks
[speaker003:] [singing] Teddy bears, teddy bears, ooh teddy bears []
[Emily:] [singing] da, da, la, da, da, la []
[Sandra:] Salmon, ham from the bone
[Fred:] Er, I'll have a piece of ham please...
[speaker003:] Can I have some egg?
[Sandra:] Please.
[speaker003:] Please.
[Steven:] Manners
[speaker003:] No, I like egg
[Sandra:] Do you want that little tomato?
[speaker003:] Ooh, I don't, I've got enough does anyone else, want, else want any eggs, tomato... does anyone else want any more egg?
[Sandra:] Look, wait and see
[Fred:] Well I shan't er Julia...
[Emily:] I want some more, I won't, well want some more
[Sandra:] Oh, well there's ham, there's ham oh I've got a shell, no I can't have one, cucumber
[Fred:] Now I've had none
[Sandra:] Here it is, is
[speaker003:] ...
[Sandra:] Tomato anyone?
[Fred:] Do you want a tomato?
[Florence:] I've got one I've got
[Fred:] Anything else?
[Florence:] No, I've got some more out there
[Sandra:] Erm...
[speaker003:] Dish of ham?
[Steven:] Please
[Sandra:] No Julia
[Emily:] Ah look a teddy bear without a head
[Florence:] Oh, are they supposed to be teddy bears? [LAUGHTER]
[Emily:] Yeah, a teddy bear without a head Julia, Julia he's lost his head... mum
[Sandra:] What?
[Emily:] a teddy bear without his head
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Emily:] he's lost his head
[Fred:] You've beheaded him
[Emily:] Oh
[Fred:] poor old blighter
[speaker003:] Poor little thing...
[Emily:] Soon they'll, we'll be in half term with Julia [humming] [singing] If you go down to the woods today []
[Sandra:] Do the song
[Emily:] [singing] da, da, da []
[Sandra:] Go...
[Fred:] Yes please, thank you
[Emily:] Mum
[Sandra:] What?...
[Emily:] I don't have tea
[Sandra:] No I know you don't have tea, you'll have to go and get yourself a
[Emily:] coffee
[Sandra:] You don't want coffee do you?
[Emily:] Yeah
[Fred:] Oh can I have a brown roll Steve please?
[Steven:] Yeah
[Fred:] That's it
[speaker003:] ...
[Sandra:] Oh, erm I want May to December taping
[speaker003:] Oh the Cable Simpsons
[Steven:] What time's it on?
[Sandra:] Quarter past seven
[speaker003:] Why can't we watch it?...
[Emily:] Yeah, why can't we watch it?
[Sandra:] Cos I watch it Tuesdays when your dad's out, there's not much else on
[Emily:] Oh...
[Sandra:] Do you watch May to December?
[Florence:] Do what?
[Sandra:] May to December
[Florence:] Yeah, as a rule
[Emily:] Oh good
[Sandra:] Put it on while you're here then
[Emily:] Where?
[Fred:] Tell I'll erm
[Sandra:] Oh yeah
[Fred:] What time does it come on?
[Sandra:] Quarter past seven
[Florence:] When they changed the girl in it? I didn't think I could get used to it again, but, it's surprising how well she's fitted in
[Sandra:] Mm
[Florence:] with the role.
[Sandra:] yeah, that's right
[Florence:] Mm
[Emily:] It's seven now
[Florence:] Little red head the first one and I remember her face
[Sandra:] Mm
[Florence:] I can't put a name to it...
[Sandra:] No
[Emily:] It's seven now
[Sandra:] cos she was in a new series not long afterwards wasn't she?
[Florence:] That's right, yeah
[speaker003:] Mum... mum, it's seven
[Sandra:] I said quarter past seven
[speaker003:] Oh...
[Fred:] Got a quarter of an hour... what's the old lady's name do you know?
[Sandra:] Stock, Stocker? Is it Stocker?
[Emily:] Ah, ho
[Sandra:] Mrs Stocker I think...
[Fred:] It must be very fine...
[Sandra:] She actually
[speaker003:] Mum
[Sandra:] Right
[speaker003:] Can I have the salt please?
[Emily:] Does anybody want to see a teddy bear? Anybody want to see a teddy bear...
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER] got no feet
[speaker003:] My teddy bear just disappeared
[Florence:] It's only his feet
[speaker003:] Can I have some, erm, cucumber?
[Emily:] Yeah it is
[Steven:] Please
[speaker003:] ... use this mug?...
[Sandra:] Quite hungry
[speaker003:] ...
[Emily:] Mum... that roll please...
[Fred:] The storm's getting a bit promising now
[Steven:] Right
[Sandra:] About the erm, with this erm Cotswold news, I think it's about two pound seventy a pound
[Fred:] More like
[Sandra:] no, I only have a small slice
[Fred:] Mm
[Sandra:] every now and again
[Emily:] Thank you dad
[Sandra:] I just treat myself
[Emily:] Where's teddy bear? Weeee
[Sandra:] Budgens do er, erm, cheddar with onion and chives as well now, that's quite nice
[Emily:] Huh, where's his arm gone? We had a teddy bear without a head, a teddy bear without, with only feet, and know I've got a teddy bear with an arm, without
[Florence:] very much
[Emily:] without an arm, see there's only one arm left and that
[Sandra:] This teddy bear's doing the can can.
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER] This teddy bear's sitting down
[Sandra:] Oh yeah...
[Emily:] I knew you saved this
[Fred:] What they gonna do with the old post office?
[Steven:] I think it's being used now
[Emily:] Don't have any bum
[Sandra:] I still use, it's still used
[Emily:] he didn't have his bum, mm
[Sandra:] as a sorting office
[Fred:] Oh I thought
[Steven:] Yeah after the run down
[Sandra:] Just aft, yeah
[Emily:] This one's going for a walk
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] I couldn't see how it was gonna work at Budgens to be quite honest, that new post office
[Fred:] Oh I've seen it, but I haven't through, you know, been round front when we go to I passed up there and we go left
[Sandra:] Mm
[Florence:] but here we, we never go up and go in the general by the anyway...
[Fred:] Has he watered down the stock?
[Florence:] for me a quicker service there, than in the post office, I don't know
[Sandra:] Mm
[Florence:] I, as I say I haven't been
[Fred:] Couldn't get any slower
[Sandra:] No it's
[Emily:] What?
[Sandra:] they have got some new staff, yeah
[Florence:] But that is Budgens' staff who are being trained
[Emily:] This one's angry
[Steven:] Oh are they?
[Florence:] Yeah
[Sandra:] Oh are they?
[Emily:] This one's angry
[Sandra:] They've got a security guard in there now
[Florence:] Who?
[Sandra:] in Budgens
[Fred:] Who?
[Sandra:] chap walks round as a security guard now
[Fred:] That's right, I thought there was one
[Florence:] New, a security guard
[speaker003:] I saw it
[Florence:] walking round
[Emily:] Look... this one's walki, no angry
[Sandra:] I don't go in Budgens all that often, that's why I don't spend more if I go in it
[Florence:] Yeah
[speaker003:] I went in there and bought some chewing gum... when I went down to see it
[Steven:] That's what you got in there?
[speaker003:] Mm
[Sandra:] You could have got that from the little shop...
[Steven:] Our
[speaker003:] Yeah
[Steven:] little shop you went down?
[speaker003:] Six
[Steven:] Who was that?
[speaker003:] Me, Laura, Laura's mother, Sam, Sam
[Florence:] Two Sams?
[speaker003:] Samantha and Samantha ... Don't know her last name What?...
[Fred:] Oh,
[Emily:] Huh, why she went on
[Sandra:] Do you want coffee Emily?
[Fred:] Have a cup of tea
[Emily:] I don't like it
[Steven:] Never heard of anybody who don't like tea
[Fred:] Does she ever drink tea?...
[Steven:] No
[Fred:] Why?
[Sandra:] Cos she won't
[Fred:] I'll her
[Emily:] Yours around here...
[Fred:] What is it you don't like about tea then?
[Emily:] I'm not sure, I just don't like it
[Sandra:] You're not that keen on coffee
[Florence:] I don't think Gemma eats as well as these two do, she's ever so finicky worse than you used to be.
[Steven:] I'm surprised they eat sometimes...
[speaker003:] Tut huh
[Steven:] Well she's not so much now, but she... Julia would eat all day if we let her
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Fred:] I know er, who she takes after though... what is
[Emily:] I'm
[Fred:] it you do like?
[Emily:] coffee
[Fred:] Yeah, what drink?
[Emily:] Blackcurrant
[Fred:] To eat, to eat
[Sandra:] Food
[Emily:] Ham
[Fred:] Ham
[Emily:] rolls
[Fred:] rolls
[Emily:] them
[Fred:] cheese
[Steven:] teddy bears ah?...
[Emily:] I'm scoffing them
[speaker003:] I love gammon I do, gammon and pineapple, fish and chips
[Steven:] [LAUGHTER]
[Emily:] Julia I've got a teddy bear hopping on one leg
[speaker003:] Have you?...
[Sandra:] You like how I make chips?
[speaker003:] Not as much as the chip shop though
[Emily:] They are
[Sandra:] They are aren't they Emily?
[speaker003:] What?
[Sandra:] Of course they are better than the chip, chip shop aren't they?
[speaker003:] No...
[Emily:] They, they're the best in the whole world, I've ever tasted
[speaker003:] No I prefer chip shop bought
[Emily:] Oh... I like the sausage and chips you get from
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] I've never yet met a child who didn't like chips
[Sandra:] they used to when they were younger, neither of them
[speaker003:] Me?
[Sandra:] No you didn't use to eat chips when you were younger...
[Fred:] When you were younger you'd
[speaker003:] Don't any more...
[Emily:] Ah, I don't want any chips thank you
[Sandra:] We only have them once a week...
[speaker003:] Fish fingers, yoghurts
[Emily:] Only a oh look this is gonna do, this one's gonna do the splits
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Florence:] We don't have chips very often, I make them now and again, I haven't bought any chip shop chips for some time, [LAUGHTER] we're having some Friday, cos er Eileen rang up Derek to say they were coming and said tell mum not to get anything ready we'll bring her some fish and chips.
[Steven:] Can they get fish and chips in Germany?
[Florence:] Yes, there's a nice fish and chips at that van that came round in
[Fred:] Oh yeah, on the camp
[Steven:] Oh
[Fred:] but erm
[Florence:] I don't know about the shops whether they sell chips
[Steven:] Do the towns and villages have them?
[Fred:] What?
[Steven:] Fish and chip shops
[Fred:] Didn't see any
[speaker003:] We see a lot of English sheep
[Sandra:] Fast food
[Fred:] There's some nice little, er German villages down and around the campers... began the camp, there all around this er village... and they took it into the er
[Steven:] Is it a big camp then?
[Fred:] Oh yeah, the largest camp in Europe I should imagine.
[Steven:] Is it?
[Fred:] There's one in America, Belgium, French, British,
[speaker003:] Does anybody want that egg?
[Fred:] Dutch
[speaker003:] do you want that egg? Well mum, do you want that egg? Well mum, do you want that egg?
[Sandra:] Mm
[speaker003:] Do you want that egg?
[Sandra:] I don't want any more, thanks
[speaker003:] Can I have it?
[Sandra:] Yeah
[Emily:] Have it all
[speaker003:] I'm going to
[Emily:] I don't want it, I don't like it
[speaker003:] I know, that's why I didn't ask you
[Fred:] It reminds me of
[Emily:] Me?
[Steven:] Julia
[Emily:] Do you eat it all?
[speaker003:] Yeah thanks
[Emily:] A whole day, a whole afternoon, a whole morning
[Fred:] Yeah, think we will
[Emily:] a whole, do you eat all this feed, food on this table, in the morning, afternoon and the night? She'd be, she'd be starving...
[Sandra:] How long are Eileen and Tony going to be over there for then?
[Florence:] They'll only be there for about twenty four hours, they'll go for about a week but they're spending most of it with er, Deborah down at erm, Bambury
[Sandra:] Oh
[Fred:] I'll be over for lunch
[Florence:] He hasn't seen a lot of Deborah and Sarah
[Sandra:] No
[Florence:] so they're coming erm Friday just before dinner time they said between eleven and twelve and er they're leaving Saturday afternoon about three
[Emily:] Julia do you want any of these?
[Sandra:] Oh
[Emily:] Any more of these?
[Florence:] But they'll
[speaker003:] Yeah
[Florence:] just be here overnight
[Fred:] They're bringing fish and chips, it's Tony's favourite meal
[Emily:] Share them out
[Fred:] and er mum I'll make erm
[Emily:] dad do you want any? Do you want any?
[Steven:] No
[Florence:] Well will I please make them an apple pie
[Emily:] Mum
[Florence:] he likes apple pie
[Emily:] do you want any grandma? grandma?
[Florence:] Have we got any apples?
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] No, well, we've got a few wine haven't you?
[Emily:] grandma
[Fred:] I thought you'd got some on the weekend
[Emily:] do you want any of these?
[Florence:] No thank you
[Fred:] You said you was gonna
[Emily:] Grand granddad, do you want any of these?
[Steven:] We've probably got some
[Emily:] Gran
[Sandra:] How many do you want?
[Emily:] gran
[Sandra:] I've got some apples erm I stewed and stuck in the freezer, to make
[Florence:] Oh
[Sandra:] to make apple pies, you can have some of them
[Florence:] oh, well I erm, I did do a few but I've used most of mine up I think, I can look in the freezer to see if there's any there, but I don't think there is
[Emily:] mum, do you want any of these?
[Florence:] You know, I've only got that little bit on top
[Emily:] Dad do you
[Florence:] of the fridge, it doesn't hold much
[Emily:] oh well
[Florence:] it's not worth, supposed to be a freezer, it's mainly for storing frozen food, but you can freeze small amounts in it.
[Sandra:] I've got quite a lot of apple, so you can have some
[Emily:] There's yours Julia
[speaker003:] ain't it?
[Emily:] No
[Sandra:] I've got some bags of rhubarb as well
[Emily:] not a whole one
[Fred:] Oh
[Sandra:] Mm...
[Florence:] If I took that with me, they'll be alright in the fridge till Thursday would they?
[Sandra:] Yeah, yeah, cos they've been in the, yeah. They're frozen so I'll get them out
[Emily:] So I've had three whole ones
[Sandra:] remember get them out just before you go and then you put them in your freezer when you get back.
[Florence:] Yeah...
[Fred:] Yeah Tony's very partial to your mum's apple pie.
[Florence:] Last time I made one he ate nearly all of it himself didn't he?
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Emily:] Watch...
[Fred:] I'll buy for a cost of bottles of his favourite beer Grosche
[speaker003:] What?
[Steven:] I've never had any of that
[Fred:] Tony likes it, he said it
[Florence:] Deb likes that too
[Steven:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] Deb always asks him to bring us a Grosche back
[Fred:] Mm
[Florence:] it was er, couldn't get it here then
[Fred:] it's a nice beer
[Florence:] but you can now
[Steven:] Is it strong?
[Fred:] I don't know I don't know what the strength is
[Florence:] They've got beers from all over the world in Budgens, Mexican, goodness knows what
[Steven:] Is there?
[Emily:] Ah
[Florence:] Mm, I couldn't buy it from there because it's too much expensive
[Emily:] Er
[Florence:] to buy
[Emily:] are we gonna play a game?
[Sandra:] No
[Steven:] Not at the minute, no
[speaker003:] Whoops
[Fred:] I would buy a, er a four pack, so er Ton, Tony wanted to be
[Emily:] Oh
[Steven:] Oh well, I'll try them with yeah
[Emily:] I'm gonna read this book
[Sandra:] No you're not put it down, go away that's for Benjamin's birthday, I don't want it getting dirty while were having er tea...
[Emily:] And afters OK
[Sandra:] I don't know, teapots
[Emily:] teapot
[speaker003:] lid
[Emily:] where
[speaker003:] got a teapot in here
[Steven:] Let's have some more tea love
[speaker003:] I've put my tea up there
[Emily:] Where's the teapot?
[Florence:] This one please
[Emily:] Oh... [LAUGHTER]... er I'm glad there's enough room to put it all on
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] Have you seen any magpies up top of the garden lately?
[Steven:] No, I haven't
[Sandra:] I haven't
[Emily:] I have
[Fred:] Your mum says we've got some
[Florence:] It'll be nice when these are grown up and you can sit back down and wait on you
[Sandra:] Mm
[speaker003:] Mapgies are such a
[Florence:] it'll be nice when these are grown up and you can sit back and let them wait on you
[Sandra:] Huh, I can just see that coming off
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] Ta
[Emily:] Mummy and daddy can wait on us... aren't you?
[Sandra:] That's miss lazy nineteen ninety two that is...
[Florence:] When I was Julia's age I used to have to take my little brother and sister with me everywhere I went I used to say to Emma, that little girl of yours she's a proper little mother, must have been er, see in the future I should think [LAUGHTER]...
[Sandra:] Used to have to take erm... my youngest one, was it, uncle
[Emily:] Grandma
[Sandra:] Pete, she was then
[Emily:] granddad, granddad
[Sandra:] or was it uncle Phil, one of the two
[Emily:] granddad
[Sandra:] she always had to take him out
[Emily:] have you heard this before?
[Fred:] Mm
[Florence:] Yeah
[Sandra:] She couldn't go out and play with the other kids, she had to take him round for a walk
[Emily:] That is the same as pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food
[Florence:] Yeah
[Sandra:] so
[Emily:] it just popped up to say hello, and now it's gone back down below [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] Say it again
[speaker003:] Pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food, it just popped up to say hello, and now it's gone back down below
[Emily:] it was not me it was my food, it just popped up to say hello, and now it's gone back down below
[Florence:] but we used to take them to the pictures on Saturday afternoon my mum used to give me nine pence
[Sandra:] Oh
[Florence:] penny to get in the pictures, and a penny [LAUGHTER]
[Emily:] Pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food
[speaker003:] Pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food
[Emily:] it came back up to say, say hello and now it's gone back down below... hello [LAUGHTER] hello [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] No I've never, never heard that before
[Emily:] Pardon me for being rude, it was not me it it was my food, it just popped up to say hello, and now it's gone back down below
[Sandra:] Slowly
[speaker003:] pardon
[Fred:] Pardon
[Emily:] Pardon me for being
[speaker003:] ...
[Emily:] Pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food Come on Julia, I need some help
[Steven:] Sometimes
[Emily:] come on Julia, I need help
[Steven:] Shouldn't help No Julia
[speaker003:] How would you ... What's that, how do you ask when it's your birthday?
[Emily:] [speaking french] [speaking french]
[Florence:] [speaking french]
[Emily:] [speaking french]
[Steven:] [speaking french]
[Florence:] [speaking french]
[Emily:] [speaking french]
[Sandra:] [speaking french]
[speaker003:] [speaking french]
[Steven:] Yes, we know you know...
[Fred:] Thank you Sandra
[Emily:] [speaking french]
[Florence:] French is weird when you get to the highest don't they When you get to, to eighty it's four twenties
[Emily:] and then it's
[Steven:] [speaking french]
[Emily:] What? What's a hundred?
[Sandra:] Cent, C E N T, cent
[speaker003:] Cent, cent de une [LAUGHTER]... we had to try and remember all them.
[Emily:] God, can't remember
[Steven:] It's
[speaker003:] ... Don't know
[Steven:] [speaking french]
[speaker003:] Yeah
[Emily:] What's a hundred and twen what's a hundred and ninety nine?
[speaker003:] Don't know, it's
[Steven:] [LAUGHTER]
[Emily:] What's two hundred?
[Steven:] I don't know [speaking french]
[Florence:] [speaking french]... yeah [speaking french]
[speaker003:] ...
[Emily:] What a strange thing
[Sandra:] What a mouthful just saying that in ninety nine
[Emily:] dad do you know
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[Emily:] Germany
[Sandra:] German
[Steven:] Not much no
[Florence:] I told myself I was gonna learn a bit of German before I went to see Eileen again
[Emily:] German
[Steven:] Has Eileen, has she learnt any?
[Florence:] But er, I can count up to about seven, I can say yes and no and please and thank you and
[Fred:] Hard work, you know, Tony knows a fair
[Emily:] Say something
[Florence:] good morning
[Emily:] thank you in German
[Florence:] [speaking german]... please is [speaking german]
[Fred:] [speaking german]
[Florence:] The term [speaking german] please and thank you and ya is yes and nein is no Very popular in
[Sandra:] I'm going to start learning some german
[Steven:] Yes that's right
[Sandra:] and [speaking german] is it?
[speaker003:] What's that for
[Emily:] Ya
[Florence:] Mother and father
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]
[Sandra:] Not very
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER] [speaking german]
[Sandra:] It sounds awful doesn't it?
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]
[Steven:] Nein, for no
[Emily:] Oh
[Steven:] [speaking german]
[Fred:] They spent time in Luxembourg, did you know?
[speaker003:] Luxembourg
[Emily:] What was it?
[Florence:] They had a weekend there
[Emily:] What was it for father?
[Steven:] Sshh
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER] hello [speaking german]
[Sandra:] What's wrong with that ham that's on your plate?
[Emily:] Oh
[Sandra:] Come on, pass it over come on...
[Emily:] I want to know why daddy I'll remember that one [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] Haven't you got
[Sandra:] Come on Julia
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]
[Steven:] Poor old Penny ain't gonna get much out of that
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] I thought you wanted a
[Sandra:] Oh May to December
[Steven:] Too late
[Florence:] What time was that on?
[Sandra:] Now, quarter past seven, it's not worth taping the rest of it
[speaker003:] Why? Put T V on
[Fred:] What's er, do you want, do want put it on here?
[Sandra:] Put T V on
[Emily:] [speaking german]
[Sandra:] Yeah put it on in here
[Emily:] [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] Have you got any homework?
[Gemma:] Yeah
[Marjorie:] Have yeah, what you got then?
[Gemma:] Question, only one question
[Marjorie:] One question?
[Gemma:] Yep... he sh, shouldn't of given it
[Clive:] That is a lot that is isn't it?
[Gemma:] Shouldn't of given any
[Marjorie:] Oh, so you've got nothing else?
[Gemma:] Mm, mm.
[Marjorie:] Nothing, did you get any homework to do for tomorrow?
[Gemma:] Mm, mm.
[Marjorie:] Cos
[Gemma:] that bit...
[Marjorie:] Come back yet, have they?
[Gemma:] No
[Clive:] Why cos they're
[Marjorie:] Yes
[Gemma:] I'm going to take another one off him I am
[Clive:] Can't
[Fred:] Yeah, it's Julia it's Julia, I said to Julia
[Gemma:] Yeah
[Marjorie:] No, not now I have to take this
[Fred:] I do a, well I suppose it's twenty eight days like everything else, that's what it is
[Clive:] Mark at work he's always a
[Fred:] Where from?
[Clive:] Don't know where they're from
[Marjorie:] What's this you're saying?
[Fred:] Is that the one with the
[Clive:] Bigger that that
[Fred:] He won't set it out and call it a No
[Marjorie:] Right, fine
[Clive:] Yeah, I
[Fred:] No, no
[Marjorie:] No I thought you said
[Clive:] They lost
[Fred:] Oh I don't know
[Marjorie:] No, I
[Clive:] Oh don't worry I'll get it...
[Marjorie:] No, I'm alright
[Clive:] Yeah I
[Fred:] You know I ain't had a look at them yet, I shall have to have a look
[Marjorie:] You don't do it
[Fred:] Ah, but they are now, been that one we laid the
[Marjorie:] Yeah
[Fred:] I think I'll go and have a look this afternoon
[Marjorie:] it's the
[Clive:] yeah
[Fred:] the female does as
[Marjorie:] Oh you've got to cut brown colour aren't they all over?
[Fred:] No they're a light a bit nasty as well, but they're just not big
[Marjorie:] Oh I thought they were, oh
[Fred:] No Who's is this?
[Clive:] Paul's big erm
[Fred:] This afternoon we'll... it says in the instruction, at the end of every third tape change the batteries, so er, we'll take them two out tomorrow
[Clive:] Yeah
[Fred:] and chuck them away
[Clive:] right
[Marjorie:] OK
[Fred:] That's what she said, she said you'll want a...
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] I think bloody batteries So er [dog barking] so er, talking for half hour
[Clive:] Yeah
[Fred:] and er... I thought er, I've been playing about with the old ear for a song for a long time, but I ain't worked the cords out so, well between the and er, I was saying to old and we had a conversation about it
[Gemma:] Hello, yo, hi, how you doing
[Marjorie:] No, don't do that Gemma that's why, that's why you're not supposed to know
[Fred:] but, and er Dave would our conversation we had, we were talking
[Clive:] Yeah
[Fred:] and then in the afternoon you come up didn't you?
[Clive:] That's right that's correct, yeah.
[Fred:] Yeah... and then er... I'm told he works there up there all day and
[Marjorie:] You can have it on later
[Clive:] Oh yeah
[Fred:] so this is the third of it, so have you got plenty of Yeah I will do Well on that one
[Marjorie:] OK mate
[Fred:] But, I mean the ten tapes and and er, she said she needn't of left them, but er... only the last batch you got, only if you get twenty tapes oh, right oh then, she said it's been done all over the country
[Marjorie:] Oh
[Fred:] or whether she's covering Lancashire or
[Clive:] No, no, I think it's innit?
[Fred:] They've just been Yeah
[Clive:] Yeah Direct, yeah
[Fred:] If, should she come here at our house I mean, does she go and pick people at random? However she wondered about our pensioners
[Clive:] Oh
[Fred:] she just been over some house in Trafford Road... and er, I think she left some, some by there by what she said or to who, who it were, but it must of been them who put them onto us, because she come in and she said er, I understand you write a lot of letters in the paper, I said well, I,
[Marjorie:] It might of been a man.
[Fred:] so she asked us if we would like to do this
[Clive:] Oh, that's
[Fred:] seeing as we've got a big family, I thought well
[Clive:] Well yeah, that's right
[Fred:] Get as many as I could possible
[Marjorie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Yeah, I'd have done.
[Fred:] Anyway, we'll all go down in posterity
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] I should think we will
[Fred:] Do you want a tea ma? Three years is no time
[Clive:] No
[Marjorie:] Three years?...
[Fred:] He's had all his hair cut and he's shaved his tash off
[Marjorie:] What short, short?
[Fred:] Yeah
[Marjorie:] Oh
[Fred:] and he's shaved his tash off as well and he's always had that tash ever since I've been there, it was really funny
[Marjorie:] Yeah, it's funny when someone's always had it. I remember when Sue worked behind beard and that all the time and he shaved that off, oh
[Fred:] My boss was telling me about some old boy right he had a beard for all his life yeah?
[Marjorie:] yeah
[Fred:] a really long beard right?
[Marjorie:] yeah
[Fred:] And one day he shave it off, it took his wife three hours to notice and it took his mum all day to notice
[Marjorie:] I think that's terrible and he's always had it?
[Fred:] Yeah he's always had it, always, and they never noticed
[Marjorie:] That's terrible, poor bloke... oh dear
[Fred:] mm
[speaker003:] ...
[Marjorie:] ain't she?
[Gemma:] What?
[Clive:] No
[Marjorie:] Thought you were asleep
[speaker003:] ......
[Gemma:] Mum
[Marjorie:] What?
[Gemma:] have you got
[Clive:] Can you go and get her please?
[Marjorie:] I'll get her
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] Chew shut up That's enough Chewy Chewy...
[Marjorie:] Ah, I called you
[Fred:] Look mum
[Marjorie:] What?...
[Fred:] there it is
[Marjorie:] it's just that
[Fred:] Yeah it's but it's going white
[Marjorie:] It's cert, it's going very pale yes
[Fred:] it's certain in it bleach innit?
[Marjorie:] Oh yes it's lots of
[Fred:] Oh Yeah
[Marjorie:] Ah which was
[Fred:] probably it were not
[Marjorie:] Yes I hope so, that one
[Fred:] Did I?
[Marjorie:] Yeah I didn't notice it until later on
[Fred:] How's it spelt then?
[Marjorie:] A M E M D E I
[Fred:] Oh... I thought I'd catch his more than that
[Marjorie:] Yeah, he'll probably come back, probably have lots to eat, who knows, he looks friendly, I don't know, oh you know at ruggers his mum came up to me and
[Fred:] yeah Yeah
[Marjorie:] he's
[Fred:] Is it? Yeah
[Marjorie:] I still don't know a few ideas though
[Clive:] It's prob, probably got the odd market
[Marjorie:] and I thought well, I, I asked cos I was so sure that was a male
[Clive:] It's been a male and female
[Marjorie:] Just a male
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] big
[Marjorie:] I ain't been out
[Fred:] Shall I go and have a look to see if there's any
[Marjorie:] Yeah you could do... I don't think or not
[speaker003:] ...
[Clive:] Try now then...
[Marjorie:] Is that better Chewy?...
[Clive:] [LAUGHTER] ouch...
[Marjorie:] Oh Chewy
[Clive:] I know it sounds quieter
[Marjorie:] Is there any in there?
[Fred:] No No
[Marjorie:] I don't know, mind you it's early yet really, cos they're all ain't they?
[Clive:] Yeah, lines
[Marjorie:] yeah pulled it up to the shed and I've left it there I didn't know what to do about that, I put and they
[Fred:] I know it's not in there unless it's under the but I doubt it
[Marjorie:] Maybe I doubt it anyway
[Fred:] Perhaps it's sold
[Marjorie:] yeah they do, I
[Fred:] they all love that there
[Marjorie:] Right I give you it, it's the same old
[Fred:] Could be
[Marjorie:] I mean six months been out there
[Fred:] Long time
[Marjorie:] Yeah
[Fred:] Yeah six months, not having no
[Marjorie:] right
[Fred:] may as well
[Marjorie:] alright don't want them
[Fred:] fix my
[Clive:] Were they
[Marjorie:] Thank you very much
[Gemma:] I'm tying up shoes,
[Marjorie:] OK, do you want these Chewy? Finish all the lunch off.
[Fred:] That's nice
[Marjorie:] Yeah
[Fred:] Oh
[Marjorie:] Should think dear [LAUGHTER] anything Some more
[Fred:] I'm going upstairs to listen to some music How big were they?
[David:] About two, some of them were about two foot some of them were about four
[Florence:] How much were they each?...
[David:] Er twenty two pounds fift, er twenty two pounds fifty
[Florence:] So, dear ain't it?
[David:] Worked out less than, I don't know... and they give us all the posters and everything, so weekend I'm gonna send away for another seventy
[Florence:] No
[David:] Yes, seriously
[Fred:] You ain't got enough room in your garden
[David:] Course I am...
[Fred:] that beginning of the extent or the end of the extent of the fish pond...
[Florence:] That's trying for them, twenty two inches apart There is a saying ain't they?
[David:] Yeah, if you want a hedge six, if you want a hedge six foot high, a good solid hedge six foot high, plant eighteen inches apart, so I've had, I've planted them between twenty and twenty two inches apart
[Florence:] They take years to grow
[David:] No they don't
[Florence:] How long?...
[David:] Er, they reckon they grow two to three foot a year... they're the fast grow ones, once they get a hold, they start growing and they shoot up each week and when they start shooting up, that's when, you've got to keep them watered, and you've got to feed them with that plant stuff do you know what I mean?
[Florence:] Yeah
[David:] Got the old watering can and then you get down on this plant, and then when they get a gist of that first time that they go whooo, you wake up in the morning, you've got co, conifers like Jack and The Beanstalk coming
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Fred:] I was gonna come over and see you about, about
[David:] Mm, mm.
[Fred:] I could find out where you did your, that, that hall, I know people in know where it is in it?
[Florence:] Yeah, but that, I don't know whether it's knew anything
[David:] See I told you they would
[Fred:] No I don't think so, nobody does
[David:] What, what did they say about your tash?
[Fred:] Do you know, I went in there right and the majority of people never took no blind bit of notice then suddenly one person walked through the door, you know, he's always playing next to me... and he sits down, puts his trumpet there, gets his trumpet on ya, sits there, turns round and the next thing he were laying on the floor going and that was it, everybody else turn round and... oh, blah, blah, blah, blah and that's how it goes and that that actor oh blimey he's we say no, what does he remind me of? And going oh he looks like a bloody poofter know ooh, ooh
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] and then that was it and then a bit later on, that was all they said about me haircut and then during the break somebody else said, there's something else gone as well and they couldn't make out what it... what done mine in, my musical director he come, he says you know what will look nice now with that haircut don't you? I said what? He said a patch, I went... I said little one, he said no I've never noticed
[David:] [LAUGHTER] never noticed you had it?
[Fred:] no...
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] I can't believe it's Thursday...
[Florence:] So you've got plenty of food on you? Yeah, I see, you could possibly
[David:] for a fiver...
[Florence:] I think
[David:] Ah?
[Florence:] I think er, that
[David:] Same with my missus, don't get suspicious I know she thinks I'm picking you up, but, [LAUGHTER] I and Mark are gonna give you some money for I said yeah, he is, I said he could do where do you think you're going, I said London
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER] You always tell her we're going to London don't you?
[David:] I think one night, right, I'm gonna say Carol were gonna be out late, right, I'll tell her we've got two down, down buyers and sneak out
[Florence:] Sneak out
[David:] down
[Florence:] He, he wouldn't serve me though in the pub, cos he knows how old I am
[David:] No, you'll be on it easy won't you?
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] Yeah, I'll on his won't it?
[David:] Yeah it would as well, he'll probably bar me as soon as we walked in, he don't like me, does he?
[Florence:] You won't be able to drink now you're driving
[David:] So
[Florence:] and over, my
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] and the car registration number is oh, oh, blah, blah, blah
[David:] You always say
[Florence:] You ain't got your Garrot Turbo sticker on your car.
[David:] I know.
[Florence:] I thought you said you had yesterday.
[David:] No.
[Florence:] You said, you were going on about, something about, when they sing oh Garrot Turbo sticker
[David:] Yeah, but I haven't stuck it on yet.
[Florence:] Where you gonna put it?
[David:] I don't know yet.
[Fred:] There ain't room is there?
[David:] No.
[Fred:] Anyway
[Florence:] Oh, want to stick it on top of that dome like cowboys do
[David:] [LAUGHTER], I want, I want, I'm gonna laugh, yesterday and there's all these
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] Yeah slapped all over his car [LAUGHTER]
[David:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] There might be a load slapped on your car.
[David:] Oh, it's walks down about eight o'clock, talk about long legs, she's got really long legs right, this one.
[Fred:] Get all the components done and that just leaves me to do the joints....
[David:] What you gonna do them on your own?
[Fred:] Oh I see, I mean, if we're still doing components tomorrow
[David:] I will be won't I? Monday...
[Florence:] Well even if they
[Fred:] They just want to check over
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] Yeah Yeah
[Florence:] Great... I know the er, Dave has said about the er
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] they get them out because I mean they really are gonna be, you know, in a hurry to get stuff out the door...
[Fred:] Is that it, is that all of them?
[David:] No, there's some here if you want
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] Oh... are they the last ones?
[David:] Over there
[Fred:] What? Where? The
[speaker003:] ... Erm, can you get Jeff to do the first soldering for you? can you, you get them close, just say twenty clean and then start to finish them
[Fred:] Yeah
[speaker003:] alright? And then Jeff just carries on finishing
[Fred:] yeah, yeah
[speaker003:] But just, as soon as, er, er, when soldering, I take it you haven't just checked any over yet
[Fred:] No
[speaker003:] before they go down?
[Fred:] got these about four, four to put in, then we'll start checking them over
[speaker003:] Right and then get them down there, the machine won't be ready until about half past nine.
[Fred:] Yeah If Jeff doesn't get those soldered allows you to get You'd better come in Monday morning, you won't through that will you?
[David:] Yeah...
[Florence:] I don't really I think people who drink from the bottle want their bollocks chopped off.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah
[David:] You got any more of that?
[speaker003:] Yes please
[David:] Pass, pass me a couple, one, or something
[Florence:] I'd like to say hello to Ben, hello to all Ben's friends
[David:] Bend friend
[Fred:] Ben's car's going off the road in two weeks...
[Florence:] I'd like to say hello to Mr Major, hello then Mr Major I think your
[David:] It's election soon
[Florence:] Yeah it's the election soon
[David:] yeah
[Florence:] I don't think Major Morgan's gonna, gonna win, I think he's gonna be out, out, out
[David:] yeah
[Florence:] out the door
[David:] out the door, throw him out, get rid of him, up the vote Labour, Neil Kinnock, leader of the Labour
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]...
[David:] On this I can't pay
[Florence:] No you don't wanna
[David:] I wonder who took that poster what that they had?
[Florence:] Somebody good, vote, vote what, right to the white, out the nig nogs...
[Fred:] You got one of these?
[Florence:] Why won't it come out?
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] that's good cos I want it
[Florence:] I think there's just enough for those
[Fred:] got some stairs anyway...
[Florence:] What we doing checking them over aren't we?
[David:] Yeah just er, you know what's supposed to be missing don't you?
[Florence:] Yeah that's right
[David:] Yes, resistors and things like that, you see well that one's going in the
[speaker003:] ...
[David:] just make sure the, R C's are round the right way
[Florence:] Yeah, that's what I do again, this time check the R C's innit?
[David:] Yeah... cos I've still got that card
[Florence:] Of the red caps it should be twelve, thirteen, seventeen, twenty, twenty two, twenty three and twenty fours, no I'm thinking of
[David:] I was gonna say you're reading and I'm thinking I ain't got them ones [LAUGHTER].. e.
[Florence:] And another thing to do is just make sure these caps are still straight, there's some on the left get pulled out when we
[David:] on the blue ones?
[Florence:] And on the yellow ones...
[Fred:] This is an excellent song this is
[David:] Mm
[Fred:] Chariot's of Fire ain't it?
[David:] Mm
[Fred:] Excellent
[David:] brilliant
[Fred:] Yeah brilliant like Queen they're brilliant Wembley
[David:] Yeah.
[Fred:] I hope the I R A don't plant no bombs in Wembley Stadium, time they all get together,
[David:] Mm
[Fred:] the Government ought to get at Wembley Stadium, cos I don't want, I don't want to get blown up... I hope you're listening
[David:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] Mr Government
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] was quite big we went to see last night, there was quite a few people around...
[Fred:] Well Jeffery... [humming]...
[Florence:] How
[David:] Which way does that green cap go in?
[speaker003:] Erm
[Florence:] My mitt's just about come back to reality, last night when I was playing my trumpet right, it was numb, my fingers, I'd got no feeling in it, it was as though it was dead.
[Fred:] It's horrible when you get that innit?
[Florence:] Mm
[Fred:] It lasts ages and ages no matter what you're doing... it come back
[David:] Me and my missus are actually going out with me in the next couple of weeks,
[Fred:] That's our future
[Florence:] For your band?
[Fred:] Mm... he was on about it last night, he says well I think all we really need is to look at is two hundred pound up front, buy the equipment, couple of decent speakers, a graphic equalizer and the twin deck tapers
[Florence:] Mm
[Fred:] and a foot switch press it and it starts the tape, it stops the tape
[Florence:] Yeah, that's all we want. Marcus has got loads of ideas going through his head No, these are though, want them?
[speaker003:] Er, yeah alright
[Florence:] yeah... so I mean he said we're gonna have to go out for a drink and sit down and discuss it, you know...
[David:] Cos if you really want booking on his own at the moment, three hundred pounds on bookings he's got, coming up in the next three weeks...
[Florence:] What just, what for him and you?
[David:] No, just him
[Florence:] Just him, mm, what's he play?
[David:] The trumpet. You know I told him the other week
[Florence:] Yeah
[David:] I told him there was some, I said somebody was interested in, well he's got back in touch and he said can you come and do a twenty minute spot at this hotel in Bedford... and he said really, I mean he's doing it...
[Florence:] That is
[David:] easy money, twenty minutes...
[Florence:] I ask him if come in Monday... and he could say
[David:] Don't know... so I'm getting really excited about, really serious... you know there's some times when you can get two cabaret spots in the night, you do one, one somewhere and then
[Florence:] Yeah...
[David:] and the best thing is that nobody's doing it, everybody's doing cabaret spots along the line... jokes and stuff like that, but nobody's not doing cabaret spots with trumpets...
[Florence:] You're gonna see Andrea tonight ain't you?... Remember to say hello...
[David:] There's a resistor there that was in that tray I don't know whether it's fell out the board or
[Florence:] Oh yes,
[speaker003:] ...
[David:] Ah surely we ain't got to
[Fred:] But don't you get anything for your wife for your anniversary?
[Florence:] No.
[Fred:] Not at all?
[Florence:] No.
[Fred:] What, not even a card?
[Florence:] Oh I got her a card, yeah.
[Fred:] You're meant to buy present though?
[Florence:] No.
[Fred:] Yeah, you're meant to
[Florence:] I ain't got no money have I? What if you, if you lent us some dosh I suppose I could be with Louise tonight, right, I could go home with a big bunch of flowers cos I'll have a guilty expression on my face.
[Fred:] I could do
[Florence:] Mm, well it's what you thought
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]... Are you sure you two are playing at
[Florence:] No not there out via satellite...
[David:] Right, then you look video tape they're gonna slap in the machine
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[David:] the seen when the machine is
[Florence:] They could just say no
[speaker003:] ...
[David:] [singing] Why do birds fall in love, why do birds sing so gay, why do they sing that song, why do they []
[Florence:] Ah Phew what's that smell?
[Fred:] You want me to, what, what have I got to put down on these then, they all be I shouldn't need to push anything down
[David:] Well yeah they should be, should be packed, tack down in fact should be
[Fred:] So I should without having to worry about pushing any down
[Florence:] Yeah, right-oh
[David:] Yeah, but you know just when you have fingers over the R C, just to make sure
[Florence:] well they're just, you know, don't push them hard though Jeff you'll bend the legs... and snap the board...
[Fred:] About time you got on the I think... He's going to go loopy, he's gonna go are you accusing me of drinking and driving? [LAUGHTER] Just don't, but if they say oh yeah, you're gonna say he's gonna say, and then when they breathalyse me, he's never, he never drinks anyway, he'll be negative, he'll say right see you that'll be too much, he says take you to court, try to harass me
[Florence:] Yeah that's a nice word harass me
[David:] Mm
[Florence:] same tone yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that's a good word, that'll be the thing oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, mm, yeah, you'll see, mm, wicked, wicked, mm Erm, I'm just sitting in the front of the car last night and erm...
[Fred:] Have you got my
[Florence:] yeah
[Fred:] do you know what time
[Florence:] the four of them working
[David:] Was it the car wouldn't
[Florence:] I was sitting in front of the car and erm... everybody, everybody started beaten her up like
[Fred:] Beating you up?
[Florence:] Yeah, Georgina goes to me aren't you gonna stick up for her, stick up for her, so I did [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] You did, stuck it up for her?
[Florence:] Yeah, they got aerated started
[Fred:] Aerated
[Florence:] beating me up
[David:] No, our
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] I don't want to see them tonight
[David:] Who's them?
[Florence:] dude, cos I'm only going to get the piss taken out of my hair aren't I?
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah
[Florence:] He told them?
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] No
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] What did you say?
[Fred:] I just told them you'd had your hair cut really short
[Florence:] What's he say?
[Fred:] Does look funny and I said yeah
[Florence:] If I get the piss taken out of me tonight and I look more hard especially if you're
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] I'm really I'll send you round her house, I know where she lives knock on the door
[Fred:] I ain't going round
[Florence:] You are, still a monkey wrestler
[Fred:] Oh yeah, I remember you saying...
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] ah well
[Florence:] Ah, got that record again Freddy, that's not good enough, mm could warn him Marcus would, wouldn't like, one, one would quite fond of you prince charming
[David:] Yeah, yeah
[Florence:] leader of the Labour party Neil Kinnock Wentworth Dock
[Fred:] It would, must be...
[Florence:] and then up early
[Fred:] Have you got both keys missing?
[Florence:] Mm, I ain't had one board yet with anything missing, I must have your boards
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] I found that board with half
[Florence:] oh yeah
[Fred:] I bet it's not, it's neither these, neither of them...
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] Mm, that is
[Fred:] Mm that's in ten there
[Florence:] I've got a power supply at home I want to bring in and have it checked out.
[Fred:] Have it checked out, you want me to check it out?
[Florence:] See if it works.
[Fred:] Mm
[Florence:] Ever since I check that what's your board
[Fred:] no
[Florence:] I mean look that
[Fred:] See look all that down there, you've blown it all up, and you're supposed to be clever
[Florence:] Clever, I am clever... I'm the cleverest one here
[Fred:] Oh is checked at the
[Florence:] innit?
[Fred:] Mm
[Florence:] It's only like a C B power supply
[Fred:] Ah missing as well
[Florence:] it's not me, it must be your boards... What's the weather like today?
[David:] It's sunny today.
[Florence:] Well what's it meant to be like?
[David:] It's supposed to be dry, warm and sunny, hello, hell what the time is erm, Marcus
[Fred:] What?... Mm it's quarter to ten already...
[Florence:] Well
[Fred:] Well
[David:] I love summer, summer time you know it's special about summer time
[Florence:] I like it when it gets dar, dark
[David:] Ah?
[Florence:] I mean I like it when it's still light at night
[David:] [LAUGHTER] light at night, yeah so do I, mm... well, oh I'm glad he moved away, I ain't telling
[speaker003:] ...
[David:] oh dear...
[Fred:] So what we doing tonight then?
[David:] What we doing tonight then? Well what, what do you want to do tonight Marcus? I mean if you like, I mean, I'll pick you up at normal time, then we'll just
[Fred:] I don't
[David:] What?
[Fred:] You see, I'm, I'm not sure where I'm gonna be
[David:] Oh I see...
[Fred:] Glen's picking me up at half six, yeah
[David:] Mm
[Fred:] I don't know if we're going to
[David:] alright then, you know, get, I ain't bothered I mean I'm fine if you wanna, I'll kill a butcher somewhere
[Fred:] I'll ob obviously be over in Attenburg or in Rushton
[David:] Well I can't go down the square that'll be too much, but I mean oh yeah I've been going bowling
[Fred:] I can't believe got up this morning, but I, Maria must of told you that
[David:] No she didn't
[Fred:] I
[David:] I'm going, I'm going get a P A for my car and gonna drive past the square and
[Fred:] And baa, baa
[David:] baa, rah
[Fred:] baa, baa, baa, baa
[David:] is she really busy?
[Fred:] Yeah
[David:] Don't she know nothing?
[Fred:] She's like, accident prone
[David:] No
[Fred:] Yeah, she's, for the last three nights running, right, every night she's tried to get out of Ben's car when we drop her off home
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] she's smacked her head [LAUGHTER] on top [] it's so funny, silly bitch
[David:] Oh, she's scatty ain't she?...
[Fred:] Oh you know I tried to find out her phone yesterday
[David:] Mm
[Fred:] She ain't on the phone
[David:] [LAUGHTER] Oh Marcus
[Fred:] she used to be, but she got a bill for erm five hundred pounds, so they had to have it cut off...
[David:] [singing] Little girl []
[Fred:] Mm
[David:] [singing] yes we're at Wembley, Wembley, Wembley, we're going to see Freddy Mercury and we're off to Wembley []
[Fred:] I don't think I'd go and see Freddy Mercury
[David:] Oh, I do, he'll be there, you'll be safe, he's only, he's not really gay, I think do you really think
[Florence:] Is that all that's left just them twenty five?
[Fred:] Mm, what's Jeff on about when we'll keep up with him?...
[Florence:] He didn't say that did he?
[Fred:] Yeah... [LAUGHTER] I bet he does as well shall we send a blank board up there, get that spare out, do put it in the tray and see what he says?
[Florence:] No, he might be able to solder it, if we do
[Fred:] course he wouldn't, just, put the blank board in.
[Florence:] No, it takes ages down there big straight Dave, that's their manager, Dave the manager he's the one with the dodgy voice
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] dodgy voice, he, he, that voice, Birmingham accent, oh David
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] oh David
[Fred:] Ah?
[Florence:] Don't you dare tell my Prince Charles impression, don't you dare say anything to Ben about it
[Fred:] No
[Florence:] I nearly said it too loud then... when does one, one could have one, one, [LAUGHTER] Diana
[Fred:] I reckon you should let me have one of your cappuccinos... Oh yeah
[Florence:] Oh no
[Fred:] Oh yeah
[Florence:] Oh no
[Fred:] I'll buy if off you.
[Florence:] You can't can you because there's only two there
[Fred:] So?
[Florence:] and I want one at dinner time and one this afternoon.
[Fred:] No you don't, you only want one at dinner time and that's it.
[Florence:] No I don't.
[Fred:] normal cup of coffee this afternoon
[Florence:] No I couldn't do it, you wouldn't like it
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] No
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] No
[Fred:] They look nice
[Florence:] Mm they are nice, they're dear though.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] How much are they?
[Florence:] Ah?
[Fred:] How much are they?
[Florence:] Two twenty five for ten.
[Fred:] How much?
[Florence:] Mm
[Fred:] So how much does that work out each?
[Florence:] Two twenty five for ten, twenty five P each innit?
[Fred:] Oh, let me buy one off you.
[Florence:] Oh no
[Fred:] I'll give you thirty P, five P interest, five P interest
[Florence:] Oh go on then thirty P
[Fred:] Bloody hell
[Florence:] Bloody limited this month right
[Fred:] I ain't got thirty P in change I'll give it you in a minute
[Florence:] Mm
[Fred:] I've only got pound coins
[Florence:] That's all right
[Fred:] Do you
[Florence:] you just add water, you don't need sugar in that, that's got sugar in there
[Fred:] Why is it sweet or not?
[Florence:] No, not really sweet, no, you don't put extra sugar in if you want, but I you don't fill your cup right up with it because it'll make it too watery in your cup, cos them cappuccinos come very little
[Fred:] Yeah they are aren't they?
[Florence:] You only wanna fill half your cup up... with water, otherwise it'll just come out like running hot water?
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] Running hot water
[Florence:] Cos those little, cos they're only little cups about that big, the proper cappuccino really, it's watery enough in my cup, it's bearable.
[Fred:] Mm, they're nice.
[Florence:] Yeah, I wouldn't fill that up right at the top...
[Fred:] Mm
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] I reckon they should do tea here, I'm getting really bored of coffee I tell you... I heard Georgina scratched Ben across the arm
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] Right that's
[Fred:] yeah, wouldn't need it, finished
[David:] These are done over here are they?
[Fred:] Mm, mm, is for us yet?
[David:] No, you'll have to clean it, I've started taking the stuff off
[Fred:] Cleaner on?
[David:] Yeah, cleaner's on, yeah, by the time you've finished there, there'll be some, some, some, some
[Florence:] right
[Fred:] I thought Dave said Jeff would clean them?
[Florence:] So did I, but he obviously hasn't...
[David:] What time did your come then last night?
[Florence:] They didn't come last night.
[Fred:] What did they come in the day?
[Florence:] They were already out when we got home
[Fred:] What just left on the drive?
[Florence:] Mm
[Fred:] In a big bag? Ten in a bag?
[Florence:] Oh my god
[Fred:] I'm surprised they just left them there
[Florence:] They were on the front doorstep, or round the front doorstep, probably say on the front doorstep, trouble is they found the front doorstep on the side plastic bags... being warned about perishable if delayed
[Fred:] Perishable?
[Florence:] Mm... I mean they are perishable if delayed aren't they? I mean perishable means, they'll perish, they'll perish
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] die well wouldn't they if they were delayed...
[Fred:] Why you whacked them in the garden already?
[Florence:] I only bought ten in last night, I've got some more to put in tonight, it got too dark
[Fred:] It didn't get dark till about just gone seven
[Florence:] Yeah I know, but, well I got home, I didn't get back till five cos we went round me mum's we got back at five and oh dear me, there they were. I was putting them round the back and sat thinking about it and I said well we ain't got no peat, so we had to rush over to Hetford and bought some very good peat, and erm, by the time I got back and started digging hole for them to go in
[Fred:] Mm
[Florence:] quite at first of them, on a small one
[Fred:] Do they look nice?
[Florence:] Mm, they're alright, they will do when they're, when they grow big... I think they're excellent actually
[Fred:] Well they're cheap and once they start growing
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] you know, will, make will real good screen
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] better than a bloody fence
[Florence:] Look better don't they?
[Fred:] They do, and they give off a nice piny smell as well
[Florence:] Mm, mm
[Fred:] Big style give me some boards to look at
[Florence:] Er, what about them twenty there?
[Fred:] I've done them
[Florence:] Ah?... [singing] with you [], is this U 2?
[David:] No
[Florence:] I don't know who this is... Jeffery and the five
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] [singing] always take the weather with you, everywhere you go []
[Fred:] [singing] with you, everywhere you go always take the weather, everywhere you go always take the weather with you, everywhere you go always take the weather []
[Florence:] Next week's gonna be really Oh...
[Fred:] ten to eight
[Florence:] No
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] Why?
[Fred:] Dunno, had to me Theresa weren't ready, didn't expect until eight o'clock, I thought yeah I've got ten minutes, sitting in my bedroom drinking a cup of tea and I heard this bing
[Florence:] Why's he do that then? Oh I know why, I bet he thought if he's right that I'd be going over to and he'll be sitting up here, but he never got or anything
[Fred:] Quarter past right and
[Florence:] Mm
[Fred:] gosh, couldn't you see this coming?
[Florence:] No, the next bit I looked over me bit and you were parked up alongside me, why?
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] OK...
[Florence:] I haven't done that
[David:] Yeah, sorted all the didn't you? [LAUGHTER]...
[Florence:] It's gonna take fourteen days to build this, this stage at Wembley
[Fred:] Really?
[Florence:] Yeah, there's got in, it was in the paper the other night... the team of a hundred people gonna take fourteen days to erect this mega stage for Queen that's gonna build at Wembley...
[Fred:] Build the stage must be a good one
[Florence:] Mm... no mate, not
[Fred:] Mm... Comic Relief soon ain't it?
[Florence:] Mm You've got any more, boards to inspect?
[David:] No No, right
[Florence:] Robert Plant
[Fred:] Mm, can't remember what band he is out of, he's out of a big band...
[David:] That's what I he said he didn't know whether it was Pink Floyd
[Florence:] It's not Pink Floyd....
[Fred:] I know what it is.
[Florence:] What?
[Fred:] Led Zeppelin.
[Florence:] Is it?
[Fred:] Mm... yeah... I think he's the lead singer out of Led Zeppelin
[Florence:] Mm...
[Fred:] Is Joey singing Queen?
[Florence:] Yeah, er no, they're all gonna sing with Queen I think, they're all gonna do ten to fifteen minutes each
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] then they, it'll be a mega band for singing for an hour, hour and a half, but what they've speculated is that, Queen's gonna be on there for an hour, hour and a half and then the like David Bowie will sing with them and... everybody will take a turn singing with them, like that, that woman that sing that Barcelona you know, er whatever her name is... I suppose she'll, she'll sing at erm, er and somebody else might sing that Barcelona you know that one
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] there's one, that Italian singer as well.
[Fred:] I ain't heard about
[Florence:] whatever his name is, he's that big fat opera singer.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] Oh, la, la... somebody called Brian Murray you know
[David:] I've heard them before, I don't, you know, and, Roger Taylor and you, John Dean
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] They're gonna be there, they are, and if, if, if
[David:] I wonder if Roger Taylor's getting married?
[Florence:] Of course he's getting married.
[David:] He's out of Pink Floyd.
[Fred:] No he's out of Queen, Roger Taylor.
[David:] Is he?
[Fred:] Mm... he's the drummer, it depends on Roger Taylor I mean, there's one in Duran Duran as well
[David:] What's wrong with this board? I bet there's loads of them like it in there, these should be tapped in by both leads
[Florence:] Mm, have to remember that in future... Do you mean she's got over her illness then?
[Fred:] I don't know, I suppose so, she hasn't said anything to me...
[Florence:] I haven't got patience for people who are ill
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]... Most of my babies are my fish
[Florence:] mm
[Fred:] cos one of my fish swim really near the bottom, on the gravel
[Florence:] Yeah, that'll be alright
[Fred:] I wouldn't know whether that is pregnant or not, it's taking deep breaths [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] Mm
[Fred:] she's laying on the bottom going [heavy breathing], but I didn't move her cos it she's been like that for two days now
[Florence:] Yeah...
[Fred:] Do you know anybody wanting baby rabbits?
[Florence:] No, why you've got some?
[Fred:] Well one of our bab, er one of our rabbits thinks it's pregnant, whether it is or not
[David:] Better not if it is, you're gonna have to get rid of them pretty sharpish, as soon as they're old enough mate, you've got to anyway...
[Fred:] Still ain't got rid of that cockerel... don't know where to, to get rid of it to.
[Florence:] The bird's gonna have to be ended up on a Sunday dinner somewhere innit?
[Fred:] No, that's why, that's why we don't want to get rid of it to anyone, just in case they chop it up [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER] Have it for dinner... Couldn't do it could you?
[David:] Mm
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] Neat
[Fred:] Yes yeah, you gonna have to speak at
[David:] No
[Fred:] Take that cowboy one off
[David:] Can't do that
[Fred:] Why?
[David:] More than my life's worth
[Florence:] What, cor girl walked all the way from America
[Fred:] Is that You've got to cut dead square across the back ain't you?
[speaker003:] Mm
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER], I'll shave him for you Mark
[Florence:] No way... well, well it's a bit long you see, but it's just
[Fred:] Well you should of had it shaved.
[Florence:] Er, no I don't want it shaved, no
[Fred:] Not a lot, just, you know, take a little bit off
[Florence:] There's a funny programme in a couple of week's time
[Fred:] Is there?
[Florence:] She only did it as a temporary measures just to
[David:] Get it out
[Florence:] sort it out, just to sort it out, it's like, it's like cutting a lawn innit? You never cut it straight down low to start with
[Fred:] No [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] You've gotta, you gotta chop big bits off and then, sort it out later...
[David:] So you shouldn't wait two weeks now
[Florence:] Mm, or whenever...
[Fred:] How is it going Jeffery?
[David:] Dunno
[Florence:] Wiggler
[David:] I'm not a wiggler
[Florence:] wiggler, wiggler...
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] he let them have that, yeah, as soon as he starts crying [LAUGHTER].
[Florence:] I'm gonna bring in a hair tong today
[Fred:] A what?
[Florence:] A hair tong
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] Grecian Two Thousand What's
[Florence:] This, this don't taste like coffee
[Fred:] What's it taste like?
[Florence:] Mm, hot water...
[Fred:] You've put too much in it.
[Florence:] No I didn't do it, I only filled it up
[Fred:] Of course it taste like coffee
[Florence:] It ain't, it ain't, it ain't got a real coffee taste
[Fred:] Mm...
[Florence:] You've still got your other tomato seeds tomorrow ain't you?
[David:] Yeah
[Florence:] You're useless, what about that? Too hot to handle
[David:] Yeah, it has to be on a day when I'm ready for it
[Florence:] Ready for it
[David:] cos I'm
[Florence:] ready
[David:] it might take me by surprise It won't obstruct no light though because I told you the sun is more er, without the back it joins down the car you don't get no light between the two houses anyway, we always have to have
[Florence:] Does she get on alright do you know?
[Clive:] Yeah.
[Fred:] Well they ain't going to anyway does a... two or three years, they're old age pensioners, the house is too big for them cos they're waiting for a place to move, that's why I want to get it, get this hedge grow before the next one comes in
[Florence:] What size, what size is, is
[Fred:] oh the old boy next door he's alright, and the woman next door she's alright you'd never think much of them Why?
[Clive:] Well you wanna go on holiday
[Fred:] Yeah, well he's already turned round and told my mother he's not knocking... mm they said for a near six foot high plant eighteen inches apart, for a near ten foot high plant twenty four inches apart, anything over that plant
[Clive:] Yeah but you
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] yeah [LAUGHTER] So I've, I've got the actual main table for the pond and all that, went along that edge... that should be in the ground actually, but, I just all the way along yeah, a big size electric
[Clive:] Yeah, but can you imagine it
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] That's mine this, this, they only start from sort of like, there's the house, and it goes half way up the garden, so I want fifty up at one side, and put fifty to go up other side, I want fifty to go across the garden, and they're gonna go across the garden and cut the garden in half no they haven't, they're gonna go all the way round the top section as well, but I just wanted to get the bottom section built first, get some of that plant food in when the old boy comes round and see what you've done with the old horse manure, spread some of that around and that'll make them grow as well
[speaker003:] ...
[Clive:] this one completely
[Florence:] but they do last for years and years don't they?
[Clive:] Oh yes
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] Are you gonna come home and help me dig this pond out then Mark?
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] Yeah
[David:] Was that plastic any good?
[Fred:] Well no not really, but [LAUGHTER]
[David:] Not good
[Fred:] No I'll get some, you know, what I'll do I
[Clive:] Use
[Fred:] they've got holes in it Dave
[Clive:] Have they, oh I dunno, I dunno
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] I just grabbed it from underneath the garage
[Fred:] Yeah... there's no, I, I use that of the actual
[Florence:] You'll find two without, caps missing
[Fred:] Mm
[David:] Well can't we go down and packaging...
[Clive:] Buy yourself, buy yourself a plant because when it, when you open this all out it's a huge great er
[Fred:] Yeah
[Clive:] squares yeah, well, you know, these even if you put two or three layers
[Fred:] Mm
[Clive:] to stop, so if one goes at least you've got another one to save underneath you know?
[Fred:] See I want to get the same sort of material though as what the other liners, I want to stick the two liners together... to make all one great big pond you see right the way across the garden... but the other pond might be about two foot deep, this one's gonna go down down to about five, five foot deep I think, four or five foot deep
[Clive:] Right, so
[speaker003:] ...
[Clive:] well what do you want a pond four or five foot deep?
[Fred:] So you can see the fish in it, me cousin's is five foot deep, maybe six, I think it is six
[Clive:] Do you get it in the garden?
[Fred:] No ain't gonna no it's gonna be none of that
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] were never know
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] got a, a
[Fred:] That's why you needed it that deep
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] for the carp
[Florence:] that's right, and then I
[Fred:] You know what you're gonna keep all carp and that
[Florence:] Yeah all carp in it, I've got all carp in me little one
[Fred:] Have you?
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] I thought you only had just normal goldfish in there
[Florence:] No, I've got, there is goldfish in there, but they've got Koi, I've got three Koi in now I think... I need that
[Fred:] you do... definitely...
[Florence:] It's nearly, it's nearly as deep as me
[David:] Oh, oh, I'll probably be down about four, four, cos I'm five seven, as Mark?
[Florence:] We'll see, we'll see how deep you can get.
[David:] You can start digging about six foot though, start, start digging a long time... is your missus now helping you?
[Fred:] Sorry, yeah I said Mark's gonna come over and help me dig it.
[David:] What's she say?
[Fred:] Oh really... are you getting cloud, smoke wafting up
[David:] over there
[Fred:] Ah? What's been over there?
[David:] Getting teas in and stuff
[Florence:] Getting the teas in
[Fred:] Oh yeah
[Florence:] tea's in
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] Yeah I'll definitely come over if Andrea's there
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] it'll be at the weekend won't it?
[Fred:] Mm
[Florence:] What this one?
[David:] Yeah
[Florence:] it's nearly empty Jeff
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] really bad for my stomach, ah, it's staying all hot...
[Fred:] When you burp in a minute, you'll get all the acid
[Florence:] Ah, that's horrible that is
[Fred:] just stay in your throat
[Florence:] Mm
[Fred:] for about two hours...
[Florence:] Ah, my stomach's getting so hot...
[Fred:] I'm only gonna get it four foot deep with it anyway... it wouldn't be four foot deep all over, it'll start off at two foot and then slightly slope down to the deep part
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] I might go I might just plant some, we'll, we'll see, we'll see, we'll, we'll design a piece of
[Florence:] I'll design a piece of
[Fred:] oh
[Florence:] yeah, that'll do keep the old garden
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Florence:] You'll have to come over and pick me up though
[Fred:] Mm, I can do it, on a couple of days when Tel's at work, you sit in a box, on a chair
[David:] What
[Florence:] No, no
[Fred:] I was gonna say decide when you're gonna do it and have the days off work, but they won't, they won't let us both have days
[Florence:] No, no, no, oh no I ain't having days off work cos he's altering bloody garden
[David:] Why?
[Florence:] Why ain't I off
[David:] I can...
[speaker003:] .........
[Fred:] Yeah, you definitely want a slope one better...
[Florence:] Cos if you have it deep, that deep all over the fish will just swim at the bottom you'll never see them
[Fred:] No, these carps at, my, my cousin, they're really weird, you go to feed them, they come to the top, oh the water stays crystal clear
[Florence:] Does it?
[Fred:] Mm... the water in my other pond is crystal clear, see straight down to the bottom, and another thing I want this hedge quite high cos keep the sun off my pond, if you let the sun on the pond it'll just go green
[Florence:] Yeah, if you shade it
[Fred:] like my cousin's it's well shaded, he started mind you he's got a good filter system, he's got a U V light in it, see when the water comes back out the filter it goes through this pipe right, a big unit type of thing
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] the water flows by, it's got an ultra violet light in it and the ultra violet light rays kill off the er...
[speaker003:] ...
[David:] can have enough of these you know.
[Florence:] Enough of what?
[David:] These insulator bits
[Fred:] Ah?
[David:] I dunno, there's about thirty boards left
[Florence:] I've got ten here... there might be enough... don't worry... what, what time are you coming out tonight?
[Fred:] Probably be at Ruth's by about eight I suppose...
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] If Brenda wanna go over here, or what, I'll go over anyway...
[David:] I can never
[Florence:] Wrong L E D
[David:] No, that, that L E D has been all the way round
[Florence:] Well change it then, ain't you change that yet, you found that this morning early
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] all you have to do is pull it off, they do come off you know?
[David:] Yeah but I can't be doing with it... I'm only going by what this
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] They ain't very far apart... they do grow big you know
[Florence:] Yeah I know
[Fred:] There's this old girl at er the top of the road you know, got them, she planted them half way down her garden, right, when they'd grown to about six foot high she said we could have the rest of their garden, so we did, that's how come our garden's so big cos people give our, give us the garden
[Florence:] Mm...
[Fred:] Council come round our house they'll say yeah your garden looks big...
[Florence:] If you can't plant them closer together, instead of their roots going outwards they'll probably go downwards...
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] Oh er
[Florence:] Yeah, might do, there must be a reason why they say plant nineteen inches apart
[Fred:] Of all the hedges I've seen they've been about eighteen two foot, about that far apart
[Florence:] I'll have a look see how far ours are apart in the garden
[Fred:] yes and they've put in there and they're about two foot apart...
[Florence:] Could be ages to grow like that, now it's grown a real good hedge, in fact no it ain't a good real hedge it's got massive great gaping holes in it
[David:] Who's that old man?
[Florence:] Mm round their summer house... at least they've got a summer house
[David:] Who's got a summer house?
[Fred:] We were gonna have a summer house built in our garden
[David:] Are you?
[Fred:] Yeah, that's, once the conifers are all growing up, we're going to have a garden shed a greenhouse and I'm gonna build a summer house up the garden, that's by, by round where the pond is
[David:] What a proper greenhouse?
[Fred:] Yeah, but we want a proper greenhouse... don't have one in the stock room do you?
[Florence:] No
[Fred:] One of those aluminium greenhouses
[Florence:] they cost a lot of money they do
[Fred:] Mm, I know, that's why I was
[Florence:] cos it's made out of aluminium and you've got to put the glass in, it's really expensive I tell you
[Fred:] Mm...
[Florence:] No, sheds are pretty expensive as well they're a couple of hundred quid aren't they?...
[David:] My mate used to fix sheds, the garden sheds, had this little card with Chad on it said what no shed [LAUGHTER]...
[Florence:] I remember that record this morning, let's think
[David:] Yeah, fine... I'll bring it tomorrow... I even got it out
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] No I want the green, I want the garden chair, I was thinking of getting a big garden chair and stick it in one of those lean-to and lean it up against the garden shed, you know what I mean?
[Fred:] Yeah...
[Florence:] If a, bloody greenhouse on it's own, when they
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] seriously
[Fred:] When we had the gales a couple of years ago, I was in the kitchen making a cup of tea and I could hear all this glass smashing, and I went ooh what's going on, and the wind whistled across the field, it's all open field
[Florence:] Yeah
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] it flies down their garden and in between the two houses it acts like a wind and you get gale force winds blowing down there and of course I opened the back door and there were panes of glass flying past
[David:] No
[Fred:] Yeah, swinging around us, literally big panes of glass and they were flying down and as soon as they got away from the houses, it opened up again, they were crashing down all over my drive and all over the road out there
[David:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] What were they from?
[Fred:] From the greenhouse
[Florence:] Oh
[Fred:] Something fell in greenhouse and broke the pane to allow the wind to get into the greenhouse, which is oh dear me, as soon as the wind got into the greenhouse as I say blowing the other panes out
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] and as soon as the panes been blown out, it was such a force, it was blowing them between two houses, smashing on the road, and in the end, once a few more panes had gone that was it the whole greenhouse, I sat there watching this greenhouse, it just suddenly launched itself off the bit on it, over our fence, it went, there was glass everywhere for weeks afterwards, when I was cutting the lawn, oh dear the glass shattered...
[Florence:] I'm not surprised, glass is really expensive now
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] Dave Lee Travis...
[Florence:] Having their secret talks in there ain't they?
[Fred:] Mm... there not very secret with this mike
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]...
[David:] Is that recording?
[Florence:] Yeah
[David:] Oh...
[Florence:] you didn't lend him another one, [LAUGHTER] easier than that
[Clive:] I suppose Carol rented that place with you
[Florence:] mm, so do I, I would of said oh by the way, Dave wants to borrow that Keith come back here and say have you bought out a video and I'll say oh no I couldn't, Carol wouldn't let me bring it, they oh no hen pecked, ooh, ooh
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] I'm not hen pecked
[Clive:] And does erm
[Florence:] I'm not under the thumb no way am I under the thumb...
[speaker003:] ...
[Clive:] Right, who's finished on them boards?
[Florence:] No one round here like
[Clive:] ah?
[Florence:] There's no one round here big and strong
[David:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] only me and I'm busy
[Clive:] Sure
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER] mm... alright What's happening? What's happening? Might as well get the boards couldn't they?
[David:] Well that didn't last long did it ah?
[Florence:] How long were they made for?
[David:] About five minutes... what?
[Florence:] I never want nothing on the side Dave
[Clive:] You could if you have half the chance
[Florence:] No I wouldn't
[David:] Yeah
[Florence:] No, oh, er, you'll be seeing Jeff when you're married... Ah? I ain't coming, I ain't doing after no I am actually I'm going over Ruth's to pick Marcus up, I'm taking Marcus to see somebody... oh, oh, oh, what does he think I am?
[David:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] Ah?
[David:] I don't know
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] Andrea...
[David:] I seemed to have a thing about people with the name's A yeah, beginning with A
[Florence:] Mm
[David:] Andrea, Ann...
[Florence:] Annette [LAUGHTER] Annette who?
[David:] Oh yeah I told er this old girl yeah, who told I told her that I had you at work then yesterday, right, she says oh no another one, right, and ended up I'm going no I already know that, you must of got that, where did you hear that from?
[Florence:] Oh that's olden... Yeah
[David:] You know Lydia?
[Florence:] Lydia at reception?... [LAUGHTER] Quite funny really
[David:] ...
[Florence:] Yeah I know...
[David:] Where are all those boxes gone?
[Florence:] Don't know
[David:] I bet
[Florence:] Mm
[Fred:] How do you know?
[Florence:] Cos I heard him say yes
[Clive:] Do what?
[Fred:] all those record sleeves I used to have loads of records, they're all gone now, scrap
[Florence:] Are they?
[Fred:] Mm
[Florence:] I would of had them... that's why the UB40 record's down there
[Fred:] Mm, I know
[Florence:] I could of done with them, I like UB40
[Fred:] No
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] [singing] I've got a rat in me kitchen what am I gonna do, I've got a rat in me kitchen what am I gonna do, I'm gonna get that rat that's what I'm gonna do []
[Florence:] That's done me in lifting those boxes...
[Fred:] likes UB40
[Florence:] Yeah I know yeah, I know she likes UB40
[Fred:] How do you know?
[Florence:] Cos when I come over here, that was when Andrew was there you know, and she was going through all those records
[Fred:] Mm
[Florence:] she got a UB40 record out and I said there'll
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] she said then... Elvis Presley record
[Fred:] Elvis Presley?
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] Mm, [LAUGHTER]...
[Florence:] Oh well soon be Easter...
[Fred:] April the twentieth...
[Florence:] You got them? Oh er, it works
[Fred:] Seriously
[Florence:] Well
[Fred:] mm, this weekend I think Easter were last year
[Florence:] How things can move back?
[Fred:] It's a late Easter this year, they never have Easter Sunday
[Florence:] Don't they? I never knew that, well, learn something every day innit?
[Fred:] I don't know why they never have Easter
[Florence:] You know I said we were gonna run out of these
[Fred:] Mm
[Florence:] I'm right
[Fred:] You're right
[Florence:] Mm... where do you think any will be?
[Fred:] No idea spots
[Florence:] What rivets
[Fred:] no plastic
[Florence:] How many are you short?
[Fred:] I dunno, I'll tell you in a minute, we'll have a count... nearly dinner time
[Florence:] It can't be, twenty minutes yet
[Fred:] So that's nearer than, what it were half hour ago
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]... Have you got salad again?
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] Oh, how long you gonna keep this salad lark up for?
[Fred:] Mm, you'll see, when I'm as skinny as you
[Florence:] Oh are
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] you'll never make it
[Fred:] course I will, you'll just see...
[Florence:] Oh, well, you're gonna have to keep it up for about a month before you notice any difference
[Fred:] Mm, I'm already noticing the difference
[Florence:] Ooh
[Fred:] you might not be but I am
[Florence:] Instant loss of weight
[Fred:] I'm feeling... healthier... nice to feel healthy packed up smoking, that makes you feel healthier, you'll feel healthier if you packed up smoking, mm... everybody ought to pack up smoking, I think smoking ought to be banned, ban smoking ban smoking if you've given in you're wishing
[Florence:] Oh er, anybody can stand for an M P
[Fred:] You can
[Florence:] When I Mr mayor
[Fred:] mayor?
[Florence:] Mayor, is he?
[Fred:] When I become the mayor of I'm gonna ban cigarettes
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] and I'm gonna ban... ban all single men will have to be shot... over the age of forty
[Florence:] That's Jeff gone... what you doing Jeff?
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] I ain't going over
[Clive:] Everybody's going
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER] no I [LAUGHTER]... You'll do Louise, she comes out at eight o'clock, by nine o'clock I wanna go anyway...
[Fred:] Yeah
[Florence:] yeah... and
[Fred:] do I?
[Florence:] Oh, you, er
[Fred:] No honestly I try not to it's only the last week before I went back to I was out
[David:] Oh yeah
[Florence:] Yeah she did, cos you went out with Gavin
[Fred:] Yeah, but that's all she thought, she, she still didn't realise that after Gavin had gone that I got in me car, come home and seen you, didn't she know?
[Florence:] No... good innit? None the wiser
[Fred:] Very good, the only way she, say, stop me going out tonight
[speaker003:] ...
[Clive:] Can have no room for conversation
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] Where do I put these Marcus?
[Fred:] Anywhere you like
[Florence:] Well I don't know where you want them so they wanna go over here then don't they?
[Fred:] Yeah...
[David:] A nice day out
[Fred:] Yeah...
[Florence:] Cold though
[David:] No, cold
[Florence:] It is...
[Fred:] Do you like it here?
[Florence:] What?
[Fred:] Seen, have you any in this box?
[Florence:] There might be there might be a
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] there's three packets short
[Clive:] Ah?
[Fred:] there's four packets short
[Clive:] No, look, there's loads here
[Fred:] Where?... There's some anyway... Why how many's in a pack?
[Clive:] Ten ain't there?
[Fred:] I don't know... don't say... I'll put them ten... it looks like more than ten there though...
[David:] Why don't you take this down er How much is it? How much are they expensive? We went past a garage yesterday they wanted fifty two P a litre that was erm, where were we?
[Clive:] Motorway?
[David:] No, it was on the way to erm... on the way to Earthenburg that the garage just before Earthenburg, last one on the
[speaker003:] ...
[David:] yeah, I think, yeah I think it was cos it's a small garage innit? yeah er, no they can fill it up for you...
[Florence:] There are villages, there are villages sometime in
[David:] what those
[Florence:] yeah up, up the Northampton road
[David:] Not the Northampton road
[Florence:] Yes we have no it's Northampton road
[David:] Oh, on the way to you turn left there, the other side of the green, where that cartoon character is
[Florence:] Yeah
[David:] yeah
[Florence:] Just up there on your left it used to be... when I was a young lad, with their little forecourt with a little office in the middle... two petrol pumps, I always remember that They've built houses on top of it now though...
[Clive:] They must of transferred it though
[Florence:] Mm built, built the houses on top of them
[Clive:] What did they do built it out of concrete or sand?
[Florence:] I don't know There a bit, years, twenty odd years ago since the garage was ever used so
[Clive:] yeah
[speaker003:] ...
[Clive:] supermarket
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] You got your paving stones Mark?
[Florence:] No way, bloody hell, they cost about four hundred quid the paving stones
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] Seriously, more than four hundred quid cos they're two pound something each
[Fred:] Each slab?
[Florence:] Mm
[Fred:] No
[Florence:] Yeah, six hundred by seven hundred that's two pounds thirty nine for and I want two hundred...
[Fred:] Is it worth it?
[Florence:] Yeah... I thought, I thought that they used to be cheap, there was a lot of one pound seventy, they're only a little slab, drive me boring doing the little ones, so you might as well get two of the big ones... once you've done
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] no they will still go won't they?
[Clive:] I say I would have found you the cheapest ones, and they were good quality ones as well, you know you go to some of these garden centres and well half of them price of them, you know you go into er cos they've got the big thick ones there
[Florence:] That's what I want six of them by six hundred
[Clive:] What's that thirty two?
[Florence:] yeah they are
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] but that they're not
[speaker003:] ......
[Fred:] Why is he always going and telling
[Florence:] Mm
[Fred:] why does he always tells
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] Still gonna be short of these, there was more than ten in that pack
[David:] How many were there?
[Fred:] I dunno, I ain't used them all yet... still reckon we're gonna be short though oh yeah, ow, [singing] na, na, na, na [], we're still out of grey ones, couldn't use them though can we?
[David:] What?
[Fred:] Those grey ones
[David:] No
[Fred:] cos there not for this board are they? That's for that other dodgy board... did they ring up about just gonna leave it?
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] no, I didn't know him, well, no we were some short on boards, Dave picket, and when they go out we all come back, reject work, such and such a component were missing, they sent us different components through
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER] What did you say?
[Fred:] Said bloody do them he said... dodgy board though, he looks shifty don't he?
[Florence:] Mm
[Fred:] Above the eyes... yeah, we're still quite a few of these short aren't we?... I know they want these in the bin Snapper, well and but I can put it in can't I?... I'll put it in, cos I sent some boards up last time
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] Yeah I know, didn't count hardly any of them did we? Only the R C's, there would of been nothing really... ah need another six and that's it
[Florence:] Six?
[Fred:] Yeah
[David:] Have a look there might be some more in there...
[Clive:] If not have a look down the bottom
[Fred:] Have a look in those bins innit?
[David:] Mm
[Florence:] There's bound to be some in there, well there might not be, but
[David:] Turning right
[Florence:] Going round roundabout backwards
[David:] go to the, the one with the A forty five, A forty three lane, with the two and there's suddenly to the next lane, another one went there
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[David:] at the side of him, it's eeeerrrr, hand on hooter and all of a sudden he goes back over again, he, he just didn't even know I were there, no signal, no nothing. I had visions it's for the thirty and they still, they don't have a don't they?
[Florence:] Yeah
[David:] They were he's gonna have me in a minute, you know, and I thought hand on hooter... at all, but he weren't, you know, he weren't signalling where he was going he was just talking
[Florence:] Mm
[David:] so, I couldn't of got out the way if I'd of wanted to, cos I was about that much from the curb, I thought he's
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[David:] wandering a bit, you know, no one
[speaker003:] ...
[David:] He was obviously looking for directions, but he certain to the inside in, working his way round it, he came from the outside and then he was coming in, you know.
[Clive:] Ooh, ooh, there is some maniacs driving, huh
[David:] Well you're alright if you're concentrating, but you might
[Florence:] Mm,
[David:] mm
[Florence:] Mm... we thought we'd see your Capri this morning
[Fred:] You did, mm, mm
[Clive:] It's a D reg
[Fred:] no I'm alright, you can see
[Florence:] Was it clean when you sold it? What you got?
[David:] I won them,
[Clive:] You trusted next thing he knows after a week it er, finds it and then it's gone innit?
[speaker003:] ...
[David:] Is there a price on it?
[Clive:] Mm
[David:] How much?
[Clive:] Three, five, nine, five... how much did he say for you saw it?
[David:] Three, five
[Clive:] So they're making ninety five quid?
[David:] Yeah they'll make their money on them
[Clive:] Is a knock on the price, you don't get a full profit with get ten vehicles before you get your profit
[David:] They
[Fred:] Wherever they pick my car up from auction
[Clive:] Probably worked it out
[Fred:] Mm?
[Clive:] probably worked it out...
[Florence:] Well I don't see buying the car off er, them at Burton Lane, there's, there's, somehow you've got a good picture at Burton Lane...
[David:] What, because they want these vehicle raffle thing?...
[Clive:] it might not be their car... could be a load of raffle
[Florence:] Oh no... Yeah the company who owned this Products or whatever they're called
[Clive:] doesn't mean to say that's not proof of ownership Mm, yeah but it doesn't make a difference... if you think about it, technically you buy a car on H P, that ain't your car... you pay for it, then it's your car, but it's still registered in your name
[Florence:] Mm, that car is mine out there, it's not the H P
[Clive:] No, but you know what I mean the log book doesn't mean anything really
[David:] they, they, well they just send what it for to the car, they didn't know what, what sort of car or the registration of it or something, they want to know, you know.
[Florence:] They wanted to know what it roughly what it was for
[David:] They said it doesn't matter what it's for mm, holiday even or just money to spend
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] My hair...
[David:] I bet you take ten minutes on your hair now won't you?
[Florence:] No it stays like it permanent, when I wake up in the morning
[David:] What it's like that?
[Florence:] Yeah
[David:] Oh er
[Florence:] it is seriously, it's like that blindfold
[David:] Oh er
[Florence:] It is, it is...
[David:] So you're not cutting it off?
[Florence:] No
[David:] So if I mess it up then now, when you come over to pick me up later it shall still be messed up?
[Florence:] No, alright, yeah
[David:] Alright then, we'll see, I ain't got no aftershave to put on tonight, you're gonna have to bring a bottle out with you Mark so I can slap some aftershave on
[Florence:] Why?
[David:] Cos I ain't got none
[Florence:] Well, you don't have to whack it on
[David:] You do, you do when you're entertaining
[Florence:] You said you don't
[speaker003:] Ah [LAUGHTER]
[David:] Oh I ain't I might not be, I doubt if I will be
[Florence:] Have to buy some
[David:] I don't like Orion
[Florence:] I do, I've got some Lynx spice at home
[David:] You smell that and it smells like sweaty armpits
[Florence:] It's horrible... I wanted Jarva but they didn't have it
[David:] Oh I like Jarva
[Florence:] Mm... mm I can feel little prickles coming through under my nose, mm
[David:] Probably just nipped the skin when you've erm
[Florence:] No start growing again
[David:] No you've probably nipped the skin when you took your moustache off
[Florence:] Mm, it went numb yesterday, completely numb, and dead [LAUGHTER]
[David:] I'm surprised up there for ages, have you?
[Florence:] No for years
[David:] It's all couldn't take it...
[Florence:] Like, whack, whack, like oh dear... [LAUGHTER]
[David:] Have you some of them Mark?
[Florence:] I might
[Clive:] Oh
[David:] Well if you wanna see me tonight [LAUGHTER] no I watch that tomorrow night Oh I don't watch that, it's a load of rubbish, [humming]
[Florence:] Enjoyed it last week
[David:] Yeah, but Jeff I might be getting the real thing tonight, er, ah, you'll be Mm
[Florence:] On the way home we'll pop round the evening telegraph, tell them
[David:] oh, er dogs recorded [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] That's alright
[David:] What
[Florence:] didn't it?
[David:] What did? No, sure you can record it as much as you like, it don't matter, mm I'll be getting it tonight [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] She'll be too tired after her aerobics
[David:] She said she's working till six, and then going to aerobics
[Clive:] Mm, mm...
[speaker003:] ...
[David:] been on ages
[Florence:] We're gonna play these tapes in my car tonight, have a good laugh, especially if somebody does turn up, I'll say here are listen to this, this is what I think of about all at work today, what I'm gonna do, mm she'll say come on then, better get on with it, and I'll go, yeah baa, baa, shepherd, baa, baa, baa shepherd
[David:] You'll be seeing
[Florence:] humpty [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] I had about that last night, Marcus Peter
[Florence:] He reckons that he didn't say nothing
[Fred:] No
[Florence:] How did you know then?
[Fred:] I was just going aahh
[Florence:] no way you saw
[Fred:] do this, yeah, no way did you get it
[Florence:] Marcus pewtall wood, pewtall Marcus's nick name is pewtall wood [LAUGHTER], pewtall
[Fred:] I don't look like flumps
[Florence:] You do
[Fred:] You look like humpty dumpty
[David:] Does he?
[Fred:] Yeah
[David:] No I don't
[Fred:] Yeah and the we we
[David:] Er?
[Fred:] weeble No he don't
[Clive:] I bet he does
[Fred:] He wouldn't, next one though I'm gonna stick a mark up me backside and do it, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
[Florence:] You'll hear it coming down the anal passage... There's still a penguin in that bottle
[Fred:] I know there is
[Florence:] Ain't you gonna eat it?
[Fred:] No, a pick up a penguin
[Florence:] A pick up a penguin... right, great, come on then Jeff say something... pardon it didn't pick that up... he said bollocks, Jeff just said bollocks [LAUGHTER], that's good... oh if tonight we would, see me driving along in the car and got that on, oh no, it'll be really funny, we're gonna be sitting there going come on as if we'd said that today
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]... Ben
[Florence:] I won't have this tonight though
[Fred:] Why?
[Florence:] Cos I have to give it back
[Fred:] Ah no, still got that other tape you taped from last night haven't you?
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] You'll bring that out with you
[Florence:] I ain't listened to it all myself yet
[Fred:] Yeah we can listen to it in the car, I wanna hear what was going on...
[Florence:] I took this out last night Jeff, right, and er, I put it in my pocket and I put, put the mike, strap the mike to it, it's gone like that, no one knew, I was driving the car and I recorded everything that was in the car all night [LAUGHTER] no one knew until the end of the night, I got the tape home, I go this is gonna be interesting [LAUGHTER]... I had to do it on one of my tapes though
[David:] Cor a conifer's still in that bag...
[Clive:] It'll be alright cos they've been sealed in a plastic bag
[David:] there ain't no muck on the root, it weren't the root, it were washed...
[Florence:] must be when I looked at it they'd been grown in the field, because it's burnt, you can see it's got this reddish muck where all the mud down that area is reddish anyway, when you'll, and they've been washed you see, they've been rinsed off in water, to get all the muck off, and then put in bags of ten... cos when you touch them you get all this red stuff all on you, red muck, they come through the post
[David:] In a big, big bag
[Florence:] in a big plastic bag with a big warning perishable if delayed mm, so there... it ain't bad though I mean twenty two pounds for fifty, work that out... yeah, plus I didn't charge for postage either...
[David:] two or three quid isn't there?
[Florence:] Mm mm, cos the bag how long where you seen them? About that round, massive great bag mm
[David:] You know he didn't take it in
[Florence:] Mm... well the little piece of had been kind of, or whatever they are Mr F and then on the back it's got for Peggy's six foot high and under plant eighteen inches apart for high six foot plus plant two feet apart I mean Christmas ones are only a couple of foot apart, there's only about that much between them, you know?
[David:] And then, they grow together
[Florence:] Mm?
[Clive:] Yeah...
[Florence:] She gives you a better ground, ground cover if they're two far apart, you get big gaps at the bottom
[Clive:] Yeah, that's why you keep the tops chopped, cos they actually comes out by themselves, they'll come out and into the garden as well you see, not only longways, but quite wide
[Florence:] Yeah I'll be planting mine right up against the metal fence
[Clive:] Yeah
[Florence:] so hopefully they should grow through the fence, come out the other side and eventually the fence will be hidden such as well it's got my electric cable running through that fence you see
[Clive:] Oh...
[Florence:] Well it actually doesn't very, it doesn't touch the actual fence it erm... all along the concrete poles they've got holes through them where you can put some wire different higher of fence you see wire through each lead, you know, put back through each one, where you going?
[Clive:] The shop
[Florence:] What for?...
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] Thanks a lot, bye...
[David:] Mm, that's right though, there should be a... they make out,wh,wh, what's all that about then, vote for at the next election or something?
[Clive:] No
[David:] mm the B N P party...
[Florence:] What happened to the B N
[Clive:] I thought it was the National Front actually...
[David:] B N P huh...
[Florence:] British Nationalist Party... mm that sounds a good party to vote for...
[Clive:] Have you had your leaflet through the door yet?
[Florence:] No
[Clive:] You're obviously the last people to have them then, I think everybody else has had them
[David:] I want the phone bill to lob into them as well, but I ain't got one all round the trees, like that woman did with her husband... cos she, she was a bit of a lunatic and er and er so one night she gave him, come in a bit paralytic, wanted a drink, so she give him a drink with a load of tranquillisers in
[Clive:] Mm, mm
[David:] he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden, it took four years to find him
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER] really?
[David:] Whenever, anybody asked where he was, oh he was abroad working abroad
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Oh those trees will grow really quick anyway, cos they're so many goodness in the ground in their garden, it's bloody amazing never think to and I reckon what it is they spray the fields with all this stuff and all that lot, yeah, and then when it, when it rains you see cos it's a lot of clay
[David:] It can't be washed away so easy
[Clive:] Yeah it does, it all washes down into the garden you see cos the garden's on a slope and the field, the field slopes straight into the garden, and when we have, when we really have lots and lots of rain, you look out your back windows and there's about that much lying there, cos it's running down and it can't get past the houses, so it just builds up and floods
[David:] Yeah, I shall make sure the er path between your houses is lower than anything else, so it takes it away
[Fred:] Mm, my patio's going down there
[David:] Oh you can't patios
[Fred:] No, it'll be alright
[David:] Mm, you wait until we have that heavy rain
[Fred:] Er want, it want by the time I spent just it's gonna be flat to the, and I'm gonna build a wall about two foot high and level the garden
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] and level with the top of the garden
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] so it'll all be level so that
[David:] Yeah, it'll still come down though won't it?
[Fred:] No it wouldn't, can't, can't not at the ground level, it will sit at the top
[David:] No it won't, no it won't, seep through earth eventually
[Fred:] No, but it wouldn't seep through that wall though will it?
[David:] No it'll go round it, won't it? Down it or under it
[Fred:] It'll go in next door's garden then, mm
[David:] It'll either go round it or under it won't it?
[Fred:] Mm
[David:] What about size, right up to the house innit?
[Fred:] Mm
[David:] right up to the house
[Fred:] Mm
[David:] the patio, not the wall
[Fred:] No
[David:] you can either go round it or, or under it
[Fred:] the wall just going to go straight across the garden
[David:] Yeah, what are you gonna have some steps up?
[Fred:] Yeah, steps in the middle, yeah
[David:] That's it and that's where the water will come through
[Fred:] No
[David:] come down them steps and straight through your house
[Fred:] Er, er, er I'm going to put a drain in anyway, in the middle of the patio
[David:] Yeah, but where?
[Fred:] What?
[David:] Where you gonna
[Fred:] Into the sewer, cos there's a drain bit just where the patio's gonna be and the drain what comes out the outfill the washing machine away
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] and I just have, well
[David:] put another pipe in
[Fred:] just put another pipe in it... knock a couple of bricks out and knock a pipe in and that's no I didn't want to leave a little, only want to leave a proper little drain things, you know...
[David:] It's probably a six high inch pipe underneath there I should think...
[Fred:] Mind you, them, actually they straight underneath the back door
[David:] Then they all go along the back
[Fred:] Mm
[David:] with them along the back
[Fred:] Mm
[David:] I ain't worked out how the sewers goes to the
[Fred:] Mm
[David:] I think it goes underground nex, our next door neighbour's house, and out, the only we've got, is at the back of the house right, and then it goes up there, then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road, so er
[Fred:] I didn't know
[David:] no, no, no, that's what I can't understand, no I think it's about a hundred years old you see, probably erm thinking about sewers ain't they?
[Fred:] Yeah, probably not, it'll pocket out the window job [LAUGHTER] mm
[David:] so as long as they er didn't actually have
[Florence:] You had toilets out in the garden, didn't you?
[David:] Yeah, that's why you see, we've converted, put a wall up where the door were and knocked the wall down and had a door into the house...
[Fred:] That's chaos that is innit?... Yeah, see all these trees as well, clean all the air, all... the air and the ozone and
[Clive:] convert carbon dioxide not, not, not carbon dioxide back to oxygen can't they?
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] them might not even go straight to but half way from the lawns here, I'm thinking actually about having a round lawn, right,
[David:] Yeah, that's harder
[Florence:] even on the
[David:] to keep cut easier to cut it square
[Florence:] well have a square one, but where, half way up in between the fish pond and the lawn I was thinking of come in, in again with the edge both sides, sort of like, where it goes, where they go straight, come in sort of like plant two there or three there, two there, one there, you see so it does it into a point again, both sides you get two
[David:] I wanna plant a maze actually in my garden [LAUGHTER], that's what I want, you'll be amazed Mark wait till I start digging my pond cos Marcus is coming over to help me, yeah he is...
[Florence:] No problem
[David:] ten minutes
[Florence:] no it's not this gonna be twenty foot wide and four foot deep, no not twenty foot wide, twelve foot wide, twelve foot square and four foot deep
[David:] where you put all that earth?
[Florence:] Mm, it banks up the other side... banks up the other side you see and then once the pond's all in you sort of landscape it all down and you use it as a rockery, I want the
[David:] anyway to go the other side on the other no it's been there two years
[Fred:] I'd just chuck it over fence and that's where all the
[Florence:] All the rubbish goes
[Fred:] all the rubbish out of our garden is over there, in the field
[Clive:] Yeah
[Fred:] lots of all, lots of wire and bricks and stones and old potatoes, you want to see potatoes that grow in that field, there's never been potatoes in that field before, but there is, we throw all the dicey ones over the fence
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[David:] Why don't you throw it in the dustbin?
[Fred:] The dustbin's round the other garden, the field's nearer
[David:] I bet the farmer loves you.
[Clive:] It's alright growing potatoes in his field
[Fred:] Mm
[Florence:] It is when you've got another crop there innit?
[Fred:] We, we, we said it's about time they grew potatoes in that field
[Florence:] So you could pinch them
[Fred:] Yeah, so we could, yeah, you know, it'll, it'll be a lot better, I mean all they do is grow either that grain or corn
[Clive:] Erm they wouldn't grow, they can't grow grain or use two or three times in succession, but then for that another seven years because it takes so much goodness out the erm thing, there's so many diseases and they got to change their crop after a while
[David:] There's been corn
[Clive:] Yeah, grain's horrible because it's smells terrible, it really gets to you.
[Florence:] They bale it all up through, when you go and nick a load of bales
[Clive:] Like they use in the big railway days
[Florence:] No, no they've got a square
[Clive:] Yeah
[David:] Ooh, yeah, you'll be seen
[Fred:] I would my conifers are gonna go across the garden in between and then they're gonna go round the top, so nobody will be able to get into it, out the back anyway unless they're, unless they climb through them, you can't climb through the conifers when there
[Florence:] Yeah
[Fred:] you can't get through, no possible way
[Florence:] No, I really wanna, liked to have you will cos it wouldn't get through will it?
[David:] It will, they'll make a hole through it
[Florence:] They can't cos I've got that metal fence through it
[David:] They'll go above the metal fence
[Clive:] That's right they will do, how high is the metal fence? Two or three feet?
[Florence:] Three feet, it jumped it at the moment, but when the conifers are there it can't though in the middle of the hedge
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] It can't do that, hello it's only me
[speaker003:] ......
[Florence:] [singing] Ben you're always driving here and there []...
[David:] I tell you we ain't got no more of these
[Clive:] No
[Florence:] Ah, yeah... Ah it smells horrible Yeah I'll help you do your erm
[Clive:] Yeah fine, OK
[Florence:] Fine if Andrea's there
[speaker003:] ...
[David:] If Andrea's there I bet
[Florence:] cos while I'm doing that I innit? no
[speaker003:] ......
[Florence:] God knows how they do
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] Hard core you know the score... it's so dodgy behind my house where's the odd five gone?
[David:] Ah?
[Florence:] Where's the odd five?
[David:] I don't know...
[Florence:] I think done them all now
[David:] What?
[Florence:] done all these I could... Lucozade, Lucozade...
[David:] Oh wow, no way I'm not hundred percent
[Fred:] Yeah
[Clive:] I tell you what when you packed up smoking it was last cigarette you
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[David:] Yeah, well I thought it was
[Fred:] Yeah I know that The money I've spent on cars, I mean Can do, it does you know, so I don't smoke now cos of my breath you see, if I had a fag she'd go straight away
[David:] Oh dear me
[Clive:] Oh that bloody crap
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] Well how did she know, ah?
[speaker003:] ...
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] What's that?
[Fred:] I said you'll be seeing when you watch that and you'll start crying [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Do what?
[Fred:] When you start crying when you watch that video
[Clive:] Oh sure
[David:] Yeah
[Fred:] Yeah I bet you do
[Clive:] You bet I do, do you?
[Fred:] Yeah
[Clive:] You must be joking
[Fred:] Bring tears to the eyes, all that
[Clive:] Yeah, no, yeah
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] been kick in the bollocks
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER], you'll have to take that off there [LAUGHTER] yeah you can... [LAUGHTER]... You cried didn't you Mark?
[Florence:] No
[Fred:] Oh yes you did.
[Florence:] No, no I didn't.
[Fred:] I know you did, you did.
[Florence:] No I didn't.
[Fred:] Carol told me
[Florence:] Oh, er
[Fred:] yes she did
[Florence:] no, so did you
[Fred:] It's a sad film though
[Florence:] It is sad...
[speaker003:] ......
[Fred:] When that white light comes down at the end
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] Turn this up a bit cos my missus
[Fred:] Get the tissues out
[Florence:] Get the tissues out, that's it
[speaker003:] ... [music].........
[Florence:] Have you seen it?
[David:] Yeah
[Florence:] Show the bit in when he starts going, you think I've jumped [LAUGHTER]
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] Yeah that's all it were Yeah it was far weren't it? No, but if you noticed right, the only people who got them, yeah, were the people who killed people
[David:] Mm
[Florence:] and the only people who and everybody who killed people got those nasty ones, cos I was sitting there thinking that, and I watched it through again... [singing] why []
[David:] I might get a there's that old boy sits there and go he does it every time
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER] and he's sitting there you know going blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, there and there's that
[Clive:] Hell of a good film though, it's the best film I've seen in a long time.
[Florence:] Oh yeah Yeah and there's that old boy in the leave me alone, he obviously did jump didn't he?
[David:] Yes, when he run off, he jumped in front of it didn't he?
[Florence:] Mm, he reckons he was pushed
[David:] Yeah I know, he, you think I jumped, I was pushed...
[Florence:] That was Annie Lennox... You should be Prince Charles [LAUGHTER]...
[speaker003:] ...
[David:] I said yeah
[Florence:] This one a complete prat
[David:] No, just a
[speaker003:] ...
[Florence:] help me out
[David:] No No
[Florence:] say right, yeah Freddy Mercury you can come up on the stage, don't you think?
[David:] No
[Florence:] Why not?
[David:] Cos they'll see you and think yuck oh, you look nothing like him, you've got blond hair for starters
[Florence:] I'll dye it... [LAUGHTER] she's done a runner, oh dear me, naughty, naughty innit?
[David:] Who's she running off, some other bloke?
[Florence:] I don't know
[David:] An American millionaire or something
[Florence:] Who she, who, who, who is it?
[Fred:] Fergie
[Florence:] No I didn't like her anyway
[David:] That ginger hair thing?
[Florence:] Yeah
[David:] A bit like
[speaker003:] ...
[David:] I've only putting these green
[Florence:] yeah
[David:] Obviously cos I've got the green ones... oh... Don't know, no [LAUGHTER] I don't think so somehow Mark
[Florence:] Don't know
[David:] O N D
[Florence:] I listen to O N D
[David:] Do you like O N D?
[Florence:] Yeah, they're alright aren't they?
[David:] I like a couple of their songs... How about Depeche Mode, have you ever heard of them?
[Florence:] Yeah
[David:] Do you like them?
[Florence:] No
[David:] No, oh, I've got one of
[Florence:] Ah, what? no How about the do you remember them?
[David:] No
[Florence:] No
[David:] No...
[Florence:] They're saying that remember?
[David:] No...
[Florence:] Don't you remember that other one, the one
[David:] No
[Florence:] It whistled virtually all the way through, it went [humming] don't you know it?
[David:] No
[Florence:] Where have you been?
[David:] Where have you been?... Not on this planet
[Florence:] Try and remember Boney M
[David:] Yes...
[Florence:] Well then...
[David:] don't remember the old era
[Florence:] yeah, why not?
[David:] What you gotta ask Andrea later?
[Florence:] For the tape
[David:] Nice
[Florence:] ah, got
[David:] will you remember when she gets there?
[Florence:] Probably not
[David:] What if I write it on your forehead and then she'll see it won't she? God she's gonna have something to say to you about your hair
[Florence:] No I was thinking
[David:] no you've gotta let her see your hair
[Florence:] No
[David:] no, Carol will tell her
[Florence:] she'll got
[David:] tell Andrea I've had all my hair cut off as well
[Florence:] Oh no, what have you done to your hair it's all coming out
[David:] Where?
[Florence:] What have you done to it, on top?
[David:] Just there?
[Florence:] No the other side, all on top it comes sticking up
[David:] Ah
[Florence:] Oh dear me
[David:] has it gone down again?
[Florence:] No it's, it's sticking it way out there
[David:] No
[Florence:] It is seriously it's got a big curl sticking up on there
[David:] Oh er
[Florence:] it's all at the back
[David:] where?
[Florence:] All on top, you see, it's quite weird
[David:] No it ain't sticking up, you liar
[Florence:] It is
[David:] You're a liar and I'm gonna have a look in the mirror in a minute... I know it ain't sticking up.
[Florence:] It weren't at first but it is now
[David:] where?...
[speaker003:] ......
[David:] I drive into the, I'll drive round into the tower park... then drive straight back out again, I'll make you run after me
[Florence:] I wouldn't run after you... not this time
[David:] You'll go OK, good enough
[Florence:] If I ain't in the square then don't ask me where I will be
[David:] Why I won't will I, I won't ask them where you'll be will I, cos you won't be there, so I can't ask you can I?
[Florence:] Ha, ha, ha, you know what I mean
[Marjorie:] and he's there for four to five hours... with just live entertainment, you know during the meal. So you know it's er... quite a big thing.
[Florence:] Right so don't get enough.
[Clive:] Mm yeah it's a shame innit? Loads there
[Marjorie:] I tell you what a lot of it is erm... if, if they're gonna get married, people won't want for anything. They, they'll drop literally everything.
[Clive:] It's nice innit?
[Florence:] Mm.
[Fred:] Well it's like you say, if they work there they work. If they don't they don't do they?
[Marjorie:] You, you know it must be just like er the Mexican manyana, you know.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah [] yeah yeah.
[Marjorie:] Erm Alexandro, the bloke who lived next door
[Fred:] Yeah?
[Marjorie:] Well, he lives in a shed. He says er do you like hazelnuts? Yeah. And I thought he was gonna come up with, you know, a dish. He's got a bloody Tesco's carrier bag full.
[Fred:] He didn't!
[Clive:] I've got loads of erm
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] Yeah! Tons of it, you know.
[Clive:] loads of negatives of those see them. Where are we? This is
[Marjorie:] No, well come about Christmas time, you know
[Clive:] That's... that's all taken in that's all taken in the gardens. Are you alright?
[David:] Mm.
[Clive:] Down there?
[David:] Yeah.
[Clive:] Do you wanna sit here?
[David:] No I'm alright....
[Clive:] That's all taken in the gardens and and inside the building of the palace of. . During the war... the princess or the queen of that area... and all her and everything, they all left. They just abandoned it. And the place has been left ever since and they just look after it. If you step inside it's really... ooh
[David:] ?
[Clive:] No no, these are, these are not waterfalls. They're all steps dad. There's about... twelve steps. And in each step as you walk along it, and it's a, it's a goldfish pond. [cough] It's lovely. You'll see the fish.... It's lovely though innit. Here you are dad, sit here.... Dad, sit there.... come along.... Come on. the right sort of lifestyle. you know. If you've got opportunity, place, but not work again.
[Fred:] That would be nice wouldn't it?
[Marjorie:] Of course, the problem in that area is it's a, the earthquakes
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] There's a lot of tremors. But this Alexandro, his house is er... cracked from corner to cornerl
[Fred:] Is it really?
[Marjorie:] Yeah. And it's... about that wide. So they've got to re-do the foundations and everything
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] So... he's been for two years. And I couldn't stand that.
[Fred:] No.
[Marjorie:] If it's I want to get it fixed again.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] Get it back to normal.
[Fred:] Mm.
[Marjorie:] the weather's lovely, you know?
[Fred:] Yeah it is innit?
[Marjorie:] And even the, the winter's are not basically cold. They go down to about... fifteen degrees.
[Fred:] That's mild innit?... [LAUGHTER] That's mild [].
[Clive:] We've gotta go soon anyway.
[Marjorie:] When we was there in October, it was twenty four degrees.
[Fred:] And like you say, they've got jumpers on
[speaker003:] [dog barks]...
[Clive:] Who's a lovely boy?
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] I've moved that, I moved that so he didn't knock it over cos he were knocking it with his tail.
[speaker003:] Well it don't matter. I've gotta find where they were though first. Where were they?... Which one did I have them in? This one.... That's... This is a place... now from Tony's on some of those photos you're looking at when he was in the garden see the mountains. This is a place called. It's a mountain that you can see, one of these four mountains. Now this is, Rocetta is the first campsite that Hannibal had when he went through the alps with his el elephants. Oh. Oh.
[Clive:] if you like.... And we went up there, oh dear, driving up there you're going up on this little tiny when you've got a big car. Like this. Little tiny road about this wide, you go round a corner and you think your wheel's gonna fall down the side and then you meet somebody coming down. Ooh it's... horrifying. Oh it's, it is, it's lovely. I shall de I shall go back. Driving through Italy is an experience.... You know I mean they're terrible drivers.
[Florence:] Well yeah they've got a reputation haven't they?
[Clive:] Well they. Now you've got... I mean the autostradas that they build aren't as good as, as, nowhere near as good as the autobahns in er in Germany and through th you know, Switzerland and that. I mean Switzerland in Switzerland the roads are. You get into Italy. You've gotta pay to go through, all these tolls... which we did okay cos what we done we bought a pack which gave us... petrol coupons. And got money back, the ones we didn't use We used all our time, we ended up having to pay in the end. It's only about like a pound But when it rained, going down... I mean going down it rained so much I thought we'd never, never even going to get there. I mean the car stopped once. Went through water this deep....... I went to... erm the guy I work with is a Belgian and I was invited to his birthday party. In Munchengladback the Belgians community. And er this man, Patrick, his m parents came up and his mother started talking to me. And I was trying to explain something to her in German.
[Fred:] Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
[Marjorie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] was about maybe twelve degrees. she were drinking, it's called Trappiste And the beer was from eight to degrees to si sixteen degrees.
[Fred:] Ooh.
[Marjorie:] And she was
[Fred:] Yeah, yeah.
[Marjorie:] But er the blokes were looking at her
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] just sitting there []
[Marjorie:] Yeah. It looks like this, Trappiste A bit sharper in the colour but
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] Ooh.
[Fred:] I like given it up now. British during the day.
[Marjorie:] It's not too bad, Germany but I mean it's not as good as
[Fred:] No it ain't. Ooh.
[Marjorie:] But I would like to
[Fred:] Yeah, very nice.
[Clive:] But erm... when the weather's
[Florence:] Oh yeah, pretty place that isn't it?
[Clive:] fine yes it's a lovely place.
[David:] How did you find Tony? Is he er coping?
[Clive:] Well he weren't too bad dad but he's been really poorly. I think he... I think he does too much.
[Marjorie:] He he worries too much.
[Clive:] Yeah but he does too much as well. He does loads of jobs.
[Marjorie:] No, he worries about not worrying. You say to him don't worry about it. You know, it'll be alright just... have a good time. But he doesn't, he worries
[Florence:] Where is that?
[Marjorie:] ... about not worrying. I mean, you know, what... what can you do about it?
[Clive:] That's Monte Casino Oh if you've heard of Monte Casino. Well it's a place in Italy where the Germans tried to take it.
[Fred:] You're best not worry
[Marjorie:] But you see with him being ill, he worries about not being able to bring money in. You know, to the family. And Philomena says well it's alright you you're ill. You can't bring it in. So she works and the, the two kids work and they get by and there's no problem.... But erm he does, he he worries a lot and I think that's half his trouble.
[Fred:] Yeah, yeah.
[David:] Is it the er... is it the family house? You know a
[Marjorie:] No erm... they sold Philomena's family out. But... when she was over here, she sold up and her sister sold up at the same time. And they went back and they bought this really big house, well... it wasn't a house it was a shell. Just you know, floorboards and a roof. And they've converted it to two flats. Philomena and Tony live upstairs and the sister lives downstairs. And it's... three big bedrooms er... a small kitchen. There's a, a living room and a lounge. Big bathroom and toilet you know, and verandah... To value it over here you're talking about fifty thousand pound. But there I think it's thereabouts... twenty thousand, between
[David:] More probably sixty or seventy in this area if you've got a good house.
[Marjorie:] Did it as they want it sort of you know?
[Fred:] Yeah, yeah. I bet it's beautiful innit?
[David:] What are houses going for in the old Yorkshire way?
[Marjorie:] I don't know. Haven't got a clue.... I know my sister's mortgage has just gone down. Do you know how much she pays a month? Eighteen pound.
[Fred:] Cor!
[Marjorie:] Because she bought the house in the, you know,six in the sixties.
[Fred:] Phew.
[Marjorie:] Mid to... mi mid to late sixties she bought her house and... just... this is their second house... and, you know, that's all the mortgage was. And that's just showing you what inflation's like.
[Fred:] What's the rent on these now?
[Florence:] Er
[David:] six pounds.
[Fred:] Six pound weren't it? Yeah, yeah.
[David:] thirty now. And they stormed it, it's built up on a high, you'll see the photo of it when, where it and they protected, there's a film about it, where the erm
[Florence:] Well the name rings a bell. I expect
[Clive:] Yeah. old films really but I don't like war films. I like the old fashioned I don't like the modern stuff. But erm this was... cos the Germans were so angry cos they couldn't get up there and they lost so many men up there.
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] But erm... they were so mad they bombed it. They, they took all their stuff. All their special, you know, relics and that and they put them all in the cellars so when it was bombed, all the precio all the treasures and that were kept. came back up again and they rebuilt it.
[Florence:] Mm.
[Clive:] These are all the old erm... armed forces' old shells and hats and things you see. All the different hats, there's German's, Italy's British
[Florence:] Oh yeah.
[Clive:] all sorts of hats there. Tony, not my Tony but Tony who is Maria's son, Maria is Philomena's sister.
[Florence:] Oh yeah.
[Clive:] Her son... said he hadn't... see that, he said,.... so I said go on then so he said, well he He came to England, his mum had lived in England in Bedford. Went back to Italy. He'd only been back there about three or four weeks and they conscrip conscripted him. Conscripted for two years.
[Florence:] Mm.
[Clive:] And they get terrible pay though.
[Florence:] Mm.
[Clive:] Terrible pay. It's only. See there he is up there.
[Florence:] Oh yeah.
[Clive:] So
[Florence:] Yeah it's thirty nine a week. actually but... Well when we came in... forty odd... forty odd years ago it was twenty three and six a week.
[speaker003:] Mm.
[David:] For these houses. Now we're thirty odd pounds....
[Fred:] your maximum's only about a hundred and ten to a hundred and twenty a week.
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Fred:] And you've got your tax out of it. And when you get a rent like that.
[Marjorie:] Really you pay eighty pound a week haven't you?
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] your stoppages.
[Fred:] Stoppages, yeah.
[Marjorie:] at least fifty pound a week to pay for your food
[Fred:] Yeah.
[David:] and living costs.
[Fred:] Yeah. Then you've got your water, your gas.
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Fred:] . You can see why people don't work in this country.
[Marjorie:] Well this is what
[speaker003:] That's it. You can, yeah. I mean
[Marjorie:] you'd be surprised. I mean it's chea effectively it's cheaper to live over there.
[Fred:] Yeah, Yeah.
[Marjorie:] The taxes are high mind you.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] And you pay for your er your medical expenses and things but... it's cheaper.
[Fred:] but they were cheap.
[Marjorie:] Yeah. And you pay for quality. It's
[Fred:] Quality, yeah. Yeah. We didn't go into... we passed the leaning tower of Pisa. But it was... sort of let me think... it was over and it only looked about that big.
[Florence:] Oh yeah.
[Clive:] But it really amazing just to see it, you know?
[Florence:] Yeah.
[Clive:] We're driving down this road and I said well Pisa's down here
[Florence:] Yeah. [LAUGHTER]...
[Clive:] Oh it's a lovely palace, it really is.
[Gemma:] That reminded me of Versailles.
[Clive:] That's the Polish cemetery and all the way round... This is the erm Canadian and British, all this the joint you know forces.
[Gemma:] Allied forces.
[Clive:] Allied forces, that's right. That's the Polish and there's an Italian one.
[Florence:] Oh yeah.
[Clive:] And a bit further away the German one. [cough]...
[Fred:] Yeah yeah, I won't be long.
[David:] That's a nasty cough you've got.
[Clive:] Yeah look this is... I know. This is... I know it's terrible innit? This is Tony, Maria's son.
[Florence:] Oh yeah.
[Marjorie:] chest
[Clive:] And there's Tony. And there's my Tony.
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] And we all had dinner that night, and every time somebody said Tony, well...
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] Oh dear [] I'm ready if you are then... Get some wood shavings and Yeah. [LAUGHTER]... That's full time job that is.
[Clive:] I can't get over him, he looks just looks like.
[Florence:] What's he actually do, for a living? What does he...
[Clive:] Well he's, he works in some factory... and the partner he does, he does erm chimney sweeping with the old. He earns quite a bit of money from that Vino... vino, whatever you know? And he used to go round the side get through bottle a day. no more. So he never drinks no more. He is thin really cos he looks, he looks... he looks twenty years older than me.
[speaker003:] ... [dog barks]
[Clive:] He sounds just like Alan
[speaker003:] I know they do.
[Clive:] Yeah just like them.
[Gemma:] Well Clare reckons
[Clive:] Sally... Sally [cough] That's Sally Dunno.
[Gemma:] Emily, that's Emily yeah.
[Clive:] Is it?... Is it?
[Florence:] Yeah.
[Clive:] Doesn't she look like Sally?
[Gemma:] So does er Deborah looks like Sally when she's got her glasses on. And Laura's got glasses now
[Clive:] Look at this Tony, look who... Well I've got it it's Sally. And it's who?
[Gemma:] Emily.
[Clive:] Emily. Steven's little... here we come past Steven's house.
[Gemma:] Oh did you?
[Clive:] Which one is it?
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] She says it must be one of them along there. You know.
[Gemma:] It's got daffodils all up the side of the rails.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] this bloke, he cracked up. There's a wall stands about this high... and he's do he does his duty on top of the wall.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] Sits down like that and he does a dooberry on top of the wall []. Yeah, tell you what he does, he gets his back legs up on top of the wall and he does it on top. This bloke he cracked up. He couldn't stop laughing.
[Florence:] Either that or he backs into reverses into a hedge. [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] Yeah, yeah. He never does it on a path or nothing, he always reverses in somewhere.
[David:] Yes he is, very
[Gemma:] Nearly long enough for a dress innit?
[Clive:] I had another one, came right down here mum. A lovely one. And I picked up a load of washing the other day and put it in the washing machine and I washed it. And it come out. Eh?
[Gemma:] Well that one's nearly long enough for a dress
[Clive:] Oh, I can't wear them that short now. Not with my legs.
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER] Well they wear them with these leggings don't they? Coloured leggings and sh ever so short dresses the youngsters.
[Clive:] Yeah. Mm....
[David:] Is this Tony's dog?
[Clive:] Yeah that's Sally. Oh we had such fun with her, that curtain.... What were you, what were you doing? Oh he flashed the camera and it didn't, she didn't like the flash. You know you can just flash it?
[speaker003:] Mm.
[Clive:] Yeah so we just went... pretended to take a photo... and she'd psshoooow and she'd shoot off. And then she'd peep her head under the curtain to see if it had gone
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] [LAUGHTER] so we took a photo of her and off she'd go again []. Ever so funny.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]. Italian doggy [LAUGHTER]...
[Clive:] Oh my bum's still sore.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] It it's sitting in those chairs I was... yeah sitting on them, on them sloping chairs
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] Oh my bum hurts []
[Clive:] sitting on those sloping chairs on the, on the ferry. I c we we bought these two sloping cha
[Marjorie:] I reckons she's got blinking piles. [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] We bought these two sloping chairs right... and Tony, where our seats were there was a big light in the ceiling, a big round light there, and it shone straight in the side of me eye I said we can't sit here. How are you supposed to go to sleep with that flipping light there? I kept moaning. So in the end I went upstairs, left Tony to it... and I came back down and I tried to go to sleep again, I put me coat over me head and I couldn't sleep so I moved. I went three seats down
[Gemma:] Well you, you'd think it
[Marjorie:] what's, you know it's sunk into the ceiling. It just gives a, a glow off. We were sat
[David:] See it wouldn't affect some people but
[Marjorie:] It doesn't bother me
[Clive:] I can't sleep with a light on.
[Gemma:] I can't sleep with the light on.
[Clive:] No.
[Marjorie:] cos the, the gap between the chairs is about six or eight inches
[Clive:] And it hurts me eyes
[Gemma:] Well I don't you know, haven't got my hearing aid on, I don't hear any noises in the night. But if your dad switches the light on for anything
[Clive:] I always go to bed before Tony. I'm... I'm... I'm terrible. I'm sometimes in bed by half past nine. And if he comes to bed and puts the light on. He's got a lamp by the side of his bed
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] And then you wake up and walk sideways don't you []?
[Clive:] you can dim. So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom. Now if he happens to knock it or he, he lights it up or... I always wake up. Always.
[Fred:] go and do some work.
[Clive:] If I don't put that light on and he comes in and puts the light on, I wake up just like that.
[David:] What's the er in the background.
[Marjorie:] Well that's some erm... it's no significant it's it's just
[Florence:] innit?
[Marjorie:] No it's the other side of
[Clive:] Which way is it? Oh it's the other side. Lovely innit?
[Florence:] Yeah.
[Fred:] Have you got any money on you?
[Florence:] Not on me, no.
[Fred:] No,. Oh alright I'll got and get
[Clive:] So I wanna next time I wanna go to Berne. I wanna go on holiday and I wanna go somewhere near Berne.
[Marjorie:] Yeah she always wants to go to the expensive places....
[Clive:] Yeah but it's I wanna go there because you can ski. I wanna learn, I skiing.
[David:] Where?
[Clive:] At Berne.
[David:] Switzerland?
[Clive:] Yeah. Or even staying in Germany.
[Marjorie:] She wants to
[Clive:] I just wanna have a go at skiing. My friend's just had a go at skiing.
[David:] Skiing?
[Clive:] Oh she, Julie thought it were lovely. Well I'd... I'd like to just try it you know? Cos you get a lot of snow in Germany but we haven't had much in the last two years.
[Gemma:] are you taking yourselves somewhere?
[Florence:] I'm going now.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] But I used to like my little Hillman Imp.
[speaker003:] yeah, yeah. mine's only... it's only a... you know... about nine hundred and sommat C C engine
[Clive:] No I don't like big cars but I
[Florence:] I like a car where I'm in charge.
[Clive:] Well if, I tell you, if I thought... if I thought for one minute... that we were gonna come back to England like in the next year, which we won't cos Tony's got another year to do now, it's a bit longer than we thought it was
[speaker003:] Mm.
[Clive:] but... if I thought we were coming back, I'd get myself a little car.... You know I, I can't drive that big Well I can. I mean I can move it and I can make i but I, I don't don't like it. It's too big for me. I like it being a passenger... oh I don't like driving and the wheel's on the wrong side.
[Gemma:] Are you getting used to the opposite side of the road now? It's easy
[Fred:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Marjorie:] When you think it's nearly two years since I've been here.
[Fred:] Yeah, yeah it is innit?
[Marjorie:] [LAUGHTER] Last time we came home we, we came off the motorway... and. And wrong side of the road so chap coming round met us...
[Fred:] It is confusing, yeah. It is confusing that is. Oh well I... opposite side of the road's nothing to me now cos I, I live on my bike. I'm always on me bike.... We came out the, out the ferry port... and you're alright going straight on to the boat, it's when you've gotta turn right. Very easy to simply turn into this lane instead of going right the way over to the other side.
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] You do it without thinking. That's where I fall down straight away.
[Gemma:] Mm.
[Clive:] When I'm on me bike. I'll be down there in front of them cars.
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] And we've got right of way now.
[Gemma:] why they don't change over in this country because we're the odd one out and if they make cars they've gotta make them... with the steering wheel one side or the other
[Florence:] Well yeah but think of the chaos it would cause, swapping over
[speaker003:] Yeah.
[Florence:] ooh think of the chaos it would cause
[Gemma:] What you need, cos I remember reading about when they changed over, I think it was in Denmark or somewhere
[Florence:] Eh?
[Gemma:] and at a certain time... everything stopped. All the traffic, it was all sort of er... arranged that at a certain time all the traffic stopped to the other side.
[Marjorie:] To, to change this, the British road system to the same as the continent would be easy. You take away all the road
[Gemma:] It would be easier for the car manufacturers wouldn't it?
[Fred:] That's it yeah.
[speaker003:] Yeah.
[Gemma:] have to make cars with the steering wheel one side or the other.
[Clive:] Well I think it would be ideal
[Florence:] take away the roundabouts.
[Clive:] I I think
[Florence:] Roundabouts are better off
[Marjorie:] congestion.
[Clive:] but I mean
[Florence:] No way. No way.
[speaker003:] I prefer them. traffic lights I do.
[Marjorie:] No, they're no good.
[Florence:] Prefer them to traffic lights.
[Marjorie:] Well over there you see we don't get many traffic lights.
[Clive:] You don't get many traffic lights or roundabouts.
[Marjorie:] Although in Germany
[Clive:] amazing roads. You don't see any cars
[Marjorie:] three or four roundabouts.
[Florence:] Well you see i i... yeah but it's a bigger country and I mean it's so congested in England. You've gotta have some sort of
[Marjorie:] Even in town you don't have roundabouts.
[Florence:] traffic control haven't you?
[Marjorie:] Well there's no roundabouts in the town.
[Fred:] It's all filtered innit?...
[Marjorie:] It's all filtered on.
[Fred:] Mm.
[Florence:] Yeah but I mean I suppose it's what you're used to.
[Marjorie:] got priority.
[Clive:] I couldn't believe
[Gemma:] Well when was there that fortnight and it seemed ever so strange... when we car with the driver sitting that side and all the traffic coming by the other way, it seemed mad to me cos of... just those few weeks, I didn't get time to get
[Florence:] Ah... no.
[Gemma:] acclimatized to it.
[Clive:] You'll have to come longer. I told you you should come longer.
[Gemma:] Mm?
[Clive:] You'll have to come longer....
[David:] It's, it's, it's a thing that could be done in this country
[Marjorie:] It needs it.
[Florence:] Yeah but when wh
[David:] But er it would cause chaos for a time
[Clive:] Yeah.
[David:] especially with pensioners
[Clive:] Oh yeah, it would.
[Florence:] Right I'm gonna go
[speaker003:] But not only that but you, there'd be a point where
[Florence:] We're going
[Fred:] We'll see you later.
[David:] Did Marcus, did Marcus take that wine to work?...
[Fred:] No he really liked it.
[speaker003:] Yeah he liked it.
[Fred:] He got a bit flushed though.
[speaker003:] his face were all flushed.
[Gemma:] He didn't drink it all himself?
[Florence:] No he gave us a glass each
[Gemma:] Oh.
[Florence:] and then he had... he'd only had a couple I think before he went home but he doesn't drink much see. He come down, his face were all flushed Right... so I'll see you later mum
[Gemma:] Let Marion taste your medicine.
[Florence:] I'll see you again mum, okay? see you later
[speaker003:] Bye. See you later
[Florence:] Ta ta. Bye. See you later.
[David:] Ta ta Marje.
[Clive:] I named a duck... I had this letter come... no no no no, I had this letter come, right, and it said... now they've got this duck and they didn't know what to call it and so Gemma said well I think... erm Eileen, Auntie Eileen ought to name it so... I, I was asked to name this duck. So I said well I think Drucilla's a nice name for a duck.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] And now they call it Drucilla the duck.
[speaker003:] It's, is this it's a lady duck presumably?
[Clive:] Well I it's a lady.
[Gemma:] Yeah they'd have said a drake otherwise.
[speaker003:] Well yeah, true. I [LAUGHTER] I call them all ducks, but there you are.
[Gemma:] Well they all look like ducks. But they've got both you see and they refer to them as the ducks or the drakes so they
[speaker003:] Yeah
[Marjorie:] one of the main streets.
[speaker003:] Who is?
[Clive:] Right. I'd better go mother We should be,we we're only here for a little while cos I'm going to spend some time with the girls cos I ain't see their
[speaker003:] Yeah, yeah.
[Clive:] Sarah for as long as I can, well as long as I
[speaker003:] Well
[Clive:] I mean I've seen, I did see Rob last Ju... Ju
[Gemma:] Well I ain't seen Sarah since our party at least.
[Clive:] I ain't seen Sarah since the party, no. Same as you and, and Marje I... their Marjie she started to cry when I went [LAUGHTER] []. Didn't know what I were gonna do with her. [LAUGHTER]
[Gemma:] Ah,?
[Clive:] Yeah, bless her. She did, she started crying
[Gemma:] Well it surprised her I expect cos we weren't expecting you so early....
[David:] No I was surprised when I came in. [LAUGHTER]
[Gemma:] I rang up Derek and Jenny came up to tell us and she said er... Eileen'll be coming on the twentieth and she won't be here till between eleven and twelve.
[Clive:] Well I didn't think we would be.
[David:] I was surprised Tony
[Gemma:] never did get round
[speaker003:] You know, because he's. And he's. And he hasn't got anybody, anybody near him. But he thinks he has.
[David:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] And that's his trouble, he thinks Yeah but he won't you see, it's it's, it's his personal pride. But he's got to realize that he is ill... and the more he worries the, the, the worse he's gonna get.
[David:] conscientious.
[Marjorie:] when he does his, his... er chimney sweeping. You know, erm... he charges oh, fifteen pounds for labour. [cough] And he a funeral parlour. Fantastic job. so he must be doing good work. But... for him to go self-employed... will cost him more money... than doing it on the bl black market. So he doesn't go self-employed.
[David:] Well he were working er... weren't he, at one time?
[Marjorie:] Yeah, yeah.
[David:] What were he doing?
[Marjorie:] Labouring. It were just a labouring job.
[David:] Mm....... Look's nice.
[Marjorie:] Yeah that was. The the, the house is in such a position erm... it's, it's in a cul-de-sac, well... the road goes up this. There's a house at the end. And you can see
[David:] never did get round to hoovering the carpet. I did s bit of dusting and then they came in and I just le [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Well when you've had your holiday that's nice [LAUGHTER]
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] If you wanna come, drive over on the thing and come, what we'll do, we'll do what we do when we bring... Pat and Alan. Pat and Alan are coming right? They came and stayed with us when we but erm... they're coming over and they're coming to our house on the Thursday... and on the Saturday morning we're driving down to which is down near. It's a lovely part of Germany, you've got fields and vine valleys and oh it's a lovely area. We've driven down that's a s similar way to where we went to Switzerland
[Gemma:] Oh yeah.
[Clive:] down there. But we're going there, spending a week down there with them and then they're coming and spending a week... four days with us and then they're going back.
[Gemma:] Mm.
[Clive:] So do that. We'll go somewhere. Hartz mountain is supposed to be really wonderful.
[Gemma:] the Hartz mountain where you went
[speaker003:] Yeah that's where we went when we went on that... ferry
[Clive:] Yeah well I ain't been there yet, but we're near there where we're going.
[speaker003:] It is lovely there, yeah.
[Clive:] Yeah we're near there and, and... did you go down... near Bavaria there, did you go to Bavaria then?
[speaker003:] No, we only, we were just... you know
[Clive:] Or did you go up way?
[speaker003:] we were Hartz mountains and drove, drove and we we had a, rented a place, a flat
[Clive:] A place there called A Altenhow Altenhow, that's supposed to be nice, in the Hartz mountains.
[speaker003:] Well that's where we went, where erm... if I can remember, erm... er... what was the name? I can't remember the na oh that was an
[Clive:] Yeah, yeah.
[speaker003:] ancient town yeah.
[Clive:] Yeah that's
[speaker003:] Erm and some place that's a skiing resort in the winter
[Gemma:] is that the place you mean?
[speaker003:] Yeah. Yeah that's a really old
[Clive:] Yeah.
[speaker003:] ancient sort of town. I'm trying to think of the name lots of little towns that were
[Clive:] Yeah they were all er all the way through, yeah. Cos they're easy to get to each of them, aren't they, apparently?
[speaker003:] Yeah, yeah.
[Clive:] Yeah that's what we [cough]...
[speaker003:] Well, yeah
[Clive:] Well I mean Ton well I'm alright. I just don't, I just don't like, if it was a little car I wouldn't mind. And I'm seriously thinking of getting something but I ain't gonna, not yet. Not till I can afford to go out and buy one.
[speaker003:] No.
[Clive:] I'm not gonna go and... right, well anyway I'm, I'm
[Gemma:] Well it's been lovely to see you. Alright? We'll see you again.
[speaker003:] Yeah. Pop
[Clive:] Well we're coming again this year but we don't know when.
[speaker003:] Well you'll have to come over ours.
[Clive:] Yeah we will do. We'll, we got we gotta go to... gotta go and see our Tim. He's really upset because... we haven't been to Devon. It's such a long way you know
[speaker003:] Yeah.
[Clive:] if I go to Devon I can't come and s up this end
[David:] Are you going this time?
[Marjorie:] No.
[Clive:] there's more people this end, we can't get there dad.
[Marjorie:] It's a, it's er it's a long old drive.
[Clive:] I promised him I'd go this year though.
[David:] I know it is. It's it's a long way.
[speaker003:] How long you got? Altogether?
[Marjorie:] Well just this week.
[Clive:] We've only got a week.
[David:] went down on the bus it would take him
[Marjorie:] That's right,
[Clive:] You see if we go we drive. We've gotta spend overnight and come back. There's two days. Well I promised our... our Sarah I'd spend some time with her... I ain't gonna say too much but she does get a bit upset at times
[Marjorie:] You see the thing is wh when we come home we've got such a... su such a, a distance to cover, you know it's, it's difficult.
[David:] I mean... the fact is when you're over here, how long are you over here for?
[Marjorie:] Well we're going back on Saturday.
[David:] Saturday. Well it means you don't have time.
[Marjorie:] No.
[David:] You've gotta travel
[Marjorie:] That's the trouble.
[David:] all over the country and you can't do it
[Marjorie:] You just can't no. That's what we said to Tim. We, we can't get down there because that's two days... you know? And I have... g I have paid for... English lights... just for the sake of a week
[David:] You can't satisfy all of them.
[Marjorie:] No.
[David:] That's the point....
[Marjorie:] Yeah well
[David:] It's just a question of you coming and doing your best.
[Marjorie:] Yeah. See the other
[David:] You can't do any more.
[Marjorie:] the other thing about coming over is it's bloody expensive in England.
[David:] Yeah I know.
[Marjorie:] You know? And er... w when I came over before and we did Hull... you know Warwickshire and... I did twelve hundred miles... in ten days.... Well it's a lot of driving
[David:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] you know? I needed a rest when I got back. [LAUGHTER]
[David:] And it's a strain
[Marjorie:] It is, you know?
[David:] Especially these days on these roads.
[Marjorie:] Yeah....
[David:] Well
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[David:] And they er adopted a scheme... last year... when they cut off part of the high street from traffic.
[Marjorie:] Mm.
[David:] And you went down the high street... and you turned sharp left... and went along Dock Street... and circling supermarket at the bottom end of town
[Marjorie:] That's right yeah. Yeah.
[David:] They've cut that out now.
[Marjorie:] Oh.
[David:] You go straight down again. And consequently the the high street... uncertain now
[speaker003:] Ooh
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[David:] And they're all doing their shopping.
[Marjorie:] I'm er I'm a believer in... er pedestrian precincts... you know? Because if you want to do shopping or... just... window shopping, you should park outside of the town... or on the outskirts of the town... and you can walk in or you can get the... the bus service
[David:] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[Marjorie:] It's just as easy.
[David:] But that's the problem, bus service
[Marjorie:] Well yeah
[David:] in this country today the...
[Marjorie:] Well... it isn't a bus service is it, you know?
[David:] No....
[Marjorie:] Because you feel obliged to them don't you? Providing a service.
[David:] been destroyed.
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[David:] I think the best move they made in in, in recent years has been the introduction... of what they call the... and it travels all the way in the town. And forty pence you can get on and go up to your home, they pull up outside our gate.
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[David:] And for forty pence
[Gemma:] It's been a godsend for us to go down the street shopping, if you've got a load of shopping you just stop... right outside the gate.
[Marjorie:] Yeah. They did that, they did that in er... yeah they did that in Levington with er
[David:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] taxis. You got and you, you... a taxi came along [cough] and you paid him forty P or fifty P, whatever
[David:] Mm.
[Marjorie:] and you went anywhere on that route, yeah? And if you said you wanted to be off the route slightly, no problem he'd go around.
[David:] That's it. Yeah.
[Gemma:] It has it's routes, it goes round and round
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Gemma:] and you can go on it... anywhere as far as you like for forty pence.
[David:] And you can do the lot for forty pence. It even takes you over the hill into
[Gemma:] We can get down on the high street any of these times and it drops us back up here.
[David:] Yeah.
[Gemma:] It's a circular route all the time, it keeps going back to... the town centre
[David:] Yeah.
[Gemma:] but it's ever so useful.
[David:] Yeah. I it's excellent. It's superb for
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[David:] for pensioners. But a lot of youngsters use it too.
[Marjorie:] Yeah but I, I think that youngsters... can abuse the system as well.
[David:] Well... well so far it's it, I mean the chap, he's very obliging, he
[Gemma:] We got our own
[David:] get off.
[Marjorie:] Oh and you talk into the
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[David:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] ?
[David:] Yeah.
[Clive:] Our Marie's is a nice car innit?
[Gemma:] Nice little car innit?
[David:] It's a nice little car.
[Clive:] Yeah.
[David:] She's had problems with it though.
[Marjorie:] Talbot Solaro
[Clive:] Yeah, nice little car. I wouldn't mind one like that.
[Marjorie:] Talbot Solaro
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER] They've got three now [] they have to queue up. There's Alan's and... Claire's
[Clive:] Claire's.
[Gemma:] and Marion's and if the one that's nearest the house wants to get out first everybody else has to [LAUGHTER] move [].
[Clive:] It's cold out there now.... I've decided. Ooh so what time do you wanna be
[David:] Tony?
[Clive:] what time do you want
[Gemma:] What's the time now?
[Marjorie:] Not yet erm
[Gemma:] Nearly twelve.
[Clive:] Ooh yeah.
[Marjorie:] Do you ever have to er
[Gemma:] Well you go when you're ready. While you're
[Clive:] Can you drive with that?
[Gemma:] out I'll get some plates and all and er set the table.
[Marjorie:] chip shop...
[Clive:] Well he can't drive now mum cos he's had a beer.
[Gemma:] Oh.
[Clive:] So I'll go down here.
[Gemma:] Oh right-oh then....
[Clive:] Yeah. Okay
[David:] Where are you going?
[Clive:] What?
[David:] Where are you going?
[Clive:] Chip shop....
[David:] Oh this one here...
[Gemma:] Oh I forgot about that... when I said er...
[Clive:] Are they alright?
[Gemma:] They're alright down here, at least they were the last time we had them. We don't get them all that often.
[Clive:] Well I'll go and get them.
[Marjorie:] I'll get the case out the car.
[Gemma:] Now do you want me to give you something for them?
[Marjorie:] And when you get back
[Clive:] No no no.
[Marjorie:] er
[David:] I were a little bit shocked when I saw Tony though.
[Clive:] Don't he look old?
[David:] I hadn't realized he'd changed that much
[Clive:] Saying about Tony, how old he looks.
[Gemma:] . But he's been very ill. Well how old is he? He's not as old as you is he?
[Clive:] He's older than me.
[Marjorie:] Fifty one is it?
[Clive:] He's a year older than me.
[Gemma:] Year older than you? Oh I thought he was
[Marjorie:] Fifty one.
[Gemma:] between you and Marion?
[Marjorie:] He'll be... he'll be fifty two this year.
[Clive:] No no he's that year older
[Gemma:] Oh I get mixed up with their ages.
[Clive:] Yeah he's a year older than me isn't he?
[Marjorie:] He'll be fifty two this year, Tony.
[Clive:] Yeah.
[Gemma:] But when you're very ill like that it ma it does make a difference doesn't it?
[Clive:] Yeah it does.
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[David:] Oh aye yeah.
[Clive:] Wish I'd got me bike.... Ain't used to walking. I usually bike.
[Marjorie:] Hey! And don't stop and talk to anybody.
[Clive:] I won't on the way I won't on the way back.
[Marjorie:] . And put your coat on.
[Gemma:] Well look, I don't know what you're getting but one portion of chips' ll be enough between us.
[Clive:] Where's me coat?
[Gemma:] Eileen.
[Clive:] What?
[Gemma:] One portion of chips' ll be enough between us cos they give you quite a... generous helping of chips so I
[Clive:] Are you sure?
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] You want fish do you?... Any particular sort of fish?
[Marjorie:] Fried... and dead.
[Gemma:] No just a piece of fish.
[David:] [LAUGHTER]
[Gemma:] And a few mushy peas.
[Clive:] What you having?
[Marjorie:] Chips.
[Gemma:] Few mushy peas.
[Clive:] Mushy peas? Right, I'll get two tubs of mushy peas... and erm...
[Gemma:] Well see what they're like. They sell Chinese stuff as well. It's a Chinese place.
[Clive:] Well no, I want fish and chips.
[Gemma:] Oh. [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] We don't get proper fish and chips over there you see. It's the first thing
[Gemma:] Well we had some nice ones from that van that stopped near the
[David:] Oh we did.
[Gemma:] town the centre, we had some there
[David:] beautiful chips
[Clive:] Oh... who does? Oh yeah. I can make chips but... it's the fish, the fish is different. They
[Marjorie:] It's, it's not fresh fish
[Clive:] No it isn't.
[Marjorie:] in that sense because it you're so far in inland.
[Gemma:] Anyway I'll put some plates in the oven and er
[David:] Well that's the problem you see. We get a chap come down from Grimsby.
[Marjorie:] Aye. Used to come to Southam...
[David:] Oh did he?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[David:] Yeah well he comes down and he's here
[Clive:] really.
[Marjorie:] What for?
[Clive:] Cos it
[David:] Well he was here today. I could have got some, I don't know. I'd have got some this morning
[Marjorie:] [LAUGHTER]
[David:] He was there. He sells a good variety too, good er
[Marjorie:] no.
[Clive:] I should, I should at least by half past.
[David:] There's a good mix of species on offer, you know?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.... Oh yeah he's good
[Clive:] Here... I don't want that there, I shall
[Marjorie:] Well I don't want it either.
[Clive:] stab myself to death. Here you are.... I'll see you in a bit then.
[Gemma:] Okay.
[Marjorie:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Yes, put it that way. Have you got a bag?
[Gemma:] Wanna basket?
[Clive:] Yeah, I wanna bag or something. Yeah cos I'm... Erm well yeah but I want about... I don't want do I?...
[Marjorie:] Oh alright.
[Clive:] I want something
[Gemma:] they'll be wrapped up.
[Clive:] ...
[David:] fish and chips?
[Clive:] I don't
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Are you coming? You're coming back in are you Tone?
[David:] Pardon?
[Clive:] Well Tony's coming back in.
[David:] Oh alright, leave the door open....
[speaker003:] ...
[David:] Oh she's not gonna drive.
[Gemma:] What?
[David:] She's walking, well she's running [LAUGHTER]
[Gemma:] Well she said that
[David:] she's not walking.
[Gemma:] For a start when she was talking about fish and chips she said well we'll pop along in the car and get them from Moor Road... cos they have nice er chips there but then, being as Tony had had a drink he wouldn't drive so...
[Marjorie:] There's a bottle of wine here.... It's a Moselle.
[Fred:] Oh. Oh yeah, lovely....
[Marjorie:] And we've got one there for Marcus as well.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] [] Oh wine is just [LAUGHTER]
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Fred:] Well thanks very much Tony. That's er er... lovely.... Well.
[Clive:] Put it [LAUGHTER]
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] [LAUGHTER] Put it up in front of the window []. A string of beads of like that it was too low so I cut them down it was still too low [LAUGHTER] and they ended up [].
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] four beads long []
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[David:] Er well look, I've gotta go down the street. I shan't be long.
[Clive:] Do you want us to take you?
[David:] No. You stay till the end.
[Clive:] What?
[Marjorie:] put the back seat forward.
[Clive:] Oh yeah, yeah it's all full. Yeah we've got the back seat full. [LAUGHTER]
[David:] You
[Clive:] Are you sure?
[David:] Yes, I'll just stroll down and come back. I shan't be gone long.
[Clive:] If, if you pass Wills's shop... and you see Georgina, my friend, you know that girl I spoke to
[David:] Yeah.
[Clive:] with the long hair? If you see her, tap on the window and tell her I'm here will you? I might pop in and see her... if I get a chance but
[Gemma:] Look... look Jenny look at this, anybody's getting engaged or married. Look there's a little card there. There
[speaker003:] [dog barks]
[Fred:] Come on, biscuit barrel. Go on.
[Florence:] Get a biscuit.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] He loves it. Yeah he loves it.
[Clive:] now.
[Marjorie:] Oh just sit down.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] If I sit down I shall be asleep so... who's chair's this?
[Marjorie:] I don't know. You sit here.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER] I don't know!
[Fred:] Oh dear!
[Clive:] Yeah my job Marje it's, it's... it's er one of the cushiest jobs to be on camp really because... this er where we are, we're the people who dish out the furniture for the quarters.
[Florence:] Oh yeah?
[Clive:] You know like your... i if you move into an army quarter you can have it fully furnished if you want, I mean
[Fred:] Oh?
[Clive:] you don't, you don't have to buy furniture.
[Gemma:] He's out of luck, Gemma finished the biscuits the other night
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Poor sod. Well between Gemma and the dog you don't stand much chance do you?
[Gemma:] said he was gonna bring some biscuits up the street cos I still haven't got any. well I've gotta go down the street, I'll bring some biscuits back.
[Clive:] I was just telling Marje...
[David:] Oh it's not it's just and I'll walk down and er... I will bring him some biscuits back [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Oh he heard you, on tape.
[Gemma:] Don't bring the best chocolate ones,
[speaker003:] [dog barks]
[Gemma:] Well I didn't start getting any dinner cos Jenny's just on about getting fish and chips.
[speaker003:] Yeah we... we're gonna get some fish and chips [dog barks]
[Marjorie:] It's a Belgian drink.
[Fred:] Oh yeah? Oh?
[Marjorie:] When you pour it out it looks like ginger beer.
[Fred:] Does it?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] you don't, you don't even feel. twelve percent.
[Fred:] Is it really?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Gemma:] As I say I, that's why, that's really why I was expecting you... more towards twelve o'clock time. So I said well if they're gonna get.
[Clive:] . Don't worry about it, we'll go down and get some later on. With the car
[Gemma:] perhaps to that Moor Road
[Clive:] Yeah, we'll go up there.
[Fred:] That's strong.
[Marjorie:] Yeah well it... yeah it is a bit.
[Clive:] It is strong yeah. It's nice stuff. They said, they said it don't give you a hangover but don't believe it cos I had a... you have a
[Marjorie:] You s you serve it in a you know the big chunky glasses you can get? Well if you put them in the freezer
[Fred:] Mm mm.
[Marjorie:] up, pour it straight in... and down. Mm.
[David:] Do you still drink like that Brock?... Like in Budgens... few weeks. We'll get some of that when Eileen and Tony come. Went down yesterday and they're out of stock.
[Marjorie:] It's expensive over here though innit?
[David:] Er... I get it for three... quid, three... something like.
[Marjorie:] Is that the... the big bottle or the small one?
[David:] No, they're the small ones, small bottles yeah.
[Marjorie:] It's expensive that.
[David:] Oh yeah I know,
[Marjorie:] We... we'd pay about four pound for twenty four bottles.
[Clive:] This beer called
[Florence:] Yeah.
[Clive:] It's, it's er Belgian.
[Florence:] Oh. [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] And it's it looks like ginger beer. When you pour it out you get a big head on it like this and it's, it's... lovely stuff. It goes down like wine. It's, it's... smooth, real smooth.
[Gemma:] Yeah. They have quite a few er foreign beers in er... in Budgens these days cos the other week we saw some of that Brock
[Clive:] Oh yeah that's erm that's
[Gemma:] then when he went down he said well he couldn't see any yesterday.
[Clive:] No don't... [cough]... I don't... I, I just get, I mean I, sometimes I have some like but... it's so easy to get hold of it out there mum. I mean... we've always got drink in the house and s and occasionally we'll have a drink at night but sometimes we just don't touch it for ages unless anyone comes round. It just sits there
[Gemma:] Well I mean your dad's got
[David:] Anyway, I'll be gone and I shan't be long.
[Clive:] [cough]
[David:] Give us a kiss
[speaker003:] See you in a bit.
[Clive:] Eh, where's my purse?... Dad will you bring me some cough medicine?
[David:] Cough medicine? I've got some.
[Clive:] Have you? Oh that'll do then. I'll have some later.
[Gemma:] We've got some in the... pantry.
[David:] But I can bring you some if you want some. Come and taste mine.
[Clive:] Oh no, no.
[David:] When you've tasted mine you might not want, you might want me to bring you [LAUGHTER] bring you back a different sort [].
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Why, where do you get yours from?
[David:] From the doctor.
[Fred:] The vets.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[David:] No he...
[Clive:] look at these in bits.
[David:] Eh?
[Clive:] Are you going down the street now?
[David:] Yeah.
[Clive:] Well you want some money don't you?... This is, hang on... this is a part of Italy. This is the time we went to the beach in Italy.
[David:] I'll just look at these.... And the sun setting.
[Clive:] Let me show you ones with Tony and them on then.
[David:] It's a nice big beach isn't it?... Is this down in the? Is it Tony?
[Marjorie:] Er... no
[Clive:] No it's over towards Naples.
[David:] Oh I see.
[Clive:] This is Tony's street.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] You can't get two cars down the street.
[Fred:] Can't you really?
[Marjorie:] Could just get his car down it. And they had to park it in a... a, an alley on the side.
[Fred:] Oh yeah?
[Marjorie:] It took me... six turns to get it, get it reversed in. Because there's no room at all.
[Clive:] Shall I show you a picture of Tony? [cough] These. these pictures... are all round Tony's village.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Clive:] See what his village is like.
[Gemma:] If dad starts looking through there he'll never get down [LAUGHTER] the street [].
[Clive:] Well he he's gonna look at the rest when he comes back.
[Gemma:] See them when you come back.
[David:] Right-oh
[Gemma:] Well he won't be long unless he sees anybody to talk to. He's like you for that.
[David:] Er... did you want anything else?
[Clive:] No thanks dad.
[Gemma:] I can't think of anything.
[David:] ...
[Gemma:] I can't think of anything... except for the biscuits because I've run out of biscuits.
[David:] I was Eileen. I know what you want.
[Clive:] No no I'm no I'm... I'll just get some cough medicine.... Me money's around though, I don't know where it is.
[David:] No I'll bring you some back.
[Marjorie:] It's in your bag. Your bag's over there.
[Clive:] Oh, alright. Any s... something, chesty stuff, you know?
[David:] Well that's what mine is for. Taste it first.
[Clive:] I'll have some of yours then.
[David:] No, go and taste it first.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[David:] And then you'll know whether you like it....
[Florence:] That's it, he's settled down now....
[Fred:] Here you are....
[Florence:] There. Lay down.... That's it....
[Gemma:] [cough] Do you want another cup of tea Tony? There's probably
[Marjorie:] No thanks.
[Gemma:] another one in the pot if you want one.
[Marjorie:] No....
[Fred:] It's on the Adriatic?...
[Marjorie:] Erm... the other side.
[Fred:] The other side is it?
[Marjorie:] It's the western coast.
[Fred:] Oh the west.
[Clive:] It tastes like liquid salt! Ugh... no wonder he said
[speaker003:] You what? [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] It tastes like liquid salt.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Gemma:] I know your dad said he didn't like it.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] []
[Gemma:] That's why I didn't say anything before you tried it but your dad said he didn't like it.
[Marjorie:] It acts as a mouthwash as well. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Gemma:] Is there any particular kind you do like?...
[Clive:] Erm... I don't care as long as it ain't that.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] I'll have any sort but that.... Right. This is all rou this his village. You know he's surrounded by all these mountains.
[speaker003:] Ooh.
[Clive:] Right? This is his back garden. That's the house, that's his back garden. Part of it. That's looking out of erm...
[Marjorie:] big garden.
[Clive:] that's looking out the... front window
[Fred:] Oh yeah.
[Clive:] over the... rooftops next door.
[Marjorie:] I mean... you know, sometimes you... you see a picture of a place... when you've been there and it doesn't even resemble it. you know, as it is now... it's very lovely.
[Clive:] Over the road I mean.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Clive:] They're practically touching actually if, if they, if they had a balcony and Tony had a balcony you could shake hands
[Gemma:] Oh.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Clive:] That's opposite Tony's front window
[Fred:] It looks nice.
[Gemma:] It looks nice
[Clive:] where he... a man's growing his tobacco look. Well
[Gemma:] Tobacco?
[Clive:] growing his tobacco. Yeah.
[Gemma:] Ooh....
[Clive:] And that one's same as the other one. That's the other one like that. We've got loads the same....
[Gemma:] I think you usually tend to get
[Clive:] Yeah.
[Gemma:] when we, we come back from holiday
[Clive:] That's
[Gemma:] your dad usually finds he's taken the same picture two or three times or more or less and
[Clive:] Keep them in the same bits won't you?
[Marjorie:] Yes
[Gemma:] same place but a different angle.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Clive:] This is this is all out of his back window the views out of upstairs, out of his kitchen window. All these.
[Marjorie:] That's the photos I took of it, yeah... at the palace....
[Gemma:] It's only like a little village isn't it? It's not a, not a big town.
[Clive:] Oh it's, well it's three little villages together.
[Marjorie:] See there's no difference really from the postcards.
[Clive:] Erm there's erm
[Fred:] Mm....
[Marjorie:] Yeah, oh yeah. It's boiling there though. they're walking round in... er woolly jumpers.
[Fred:] Were they really?
[Marjorie:] It's about twenty four degrees. I was sweltering, I was wearing a t-shirt and they were out you know with jumpers on and all sorts. They wear pyjamas at night... and all sorts they do.
[Clive:] there's Carbi Resorta and... his village itself is called Viapechio something like that. I can't really say it.
[Fred:] No.
[Clive:] . That's their dog, Sally.
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Now this is where you can see... this is... their step's there
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] well you know you look down into that, onto that flat, the one?
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] Well there's another one over this side.... That bit there is the under part to Tony's house where the cousin lives.
[Gemma:] Oh.
[Clive:] No, hang on... what is she?
[Marjorie:] Sister.
[Clive:] She's... she's Maria's sister, Maria's his...?
[Marjorie:] No, it's Philomena's sister.
[Clive:] Philomena's sister... lives there.
[Gemma:] That's a big plant isn't it?... Crikey it's as tall as you.
[Clive:] Yeah it's elephant ears or something isn't it? Elephant ears.
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] love that.
[Clive:] Now these
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] if you've got good eyes you might There's one of them.
[Fred:] Oh yeah?
[Gemma:] Oh yeah.
[Marjorie:] All these things on the wall you can't touch it.
[Clive:] This is Tony with his camera.
[Marjorie:] If you touch it it rots.
[Florence:] Does it?
[Marjorie:] Yeah. It hasn't been touched for hundreds of years.
[Clive:] This is what I think is fascinating. This place here....
[Gemma:] Are these all lizards?
[Clive:] There's lizards on all of them.
[Gemma:] Here, that one?
[Clive:] Yeah. There's lizards on all of them....
[Fred:] They get in your bed don't they? [LAUGHTER]
[Florence:] Ooh.
[Clive:] Never got one in mine.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] Lizards []
[Gemma:] When we went down the south of France we saw lizards like that on the walls. They moved ever so quick
[Clive:] Yeah these do. Yeah. This is Tony's cellar.
[Gemma:] Oh.
[Clive:] No it's, it's literally chopped out of rock. You can see all the steps are all
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] stone. It's all chopped... it's like a cave. You go down and then... you walk along here, right to the end... right round, sort of round the bend there
[Florence:] Yeah.
[Clive:] and there's a well. He's got a well. [cough] And this is really deep ain't it Tone, this bit?
[Marjorie:] That's about forty foot down
[Clive:] This is about forty foot down and then it drops again
[Gemma:] Oh.
[Clive:] into a well, where he gets his all, his fresh water from it. There's a li he puts a light on and it lights it up down the, a long way down. But it never ever alters. You can draw water out, you can put water in, and the level never ever changes. Wonderful water. It's really nice, ain't it Tone?
[Marjorie:] Yeah. It's the only trouble though, they haven't got any mains water.
[Fred:] Oh I see.
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Clive:] These are the same again. These are over the rooftops.
[Marjorie:] And anything that... does come from the... you know the system?
[speaker003:] Mm.
[Marjorie:] Erm... it's bad. You know, it's really dirty water.
[Clive:] Lovely little villages though. I mean you can see how they live, I mean look at the roads. Ever such a job to get our car up there. That's Philomena walking up the street.
[Gemma:] Oh.
[Clive:] She's saying [mimicking Italian accent] no don't-a take-a one of me.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Switch-a the camera off! []
[Florence:] photos
[Fred:] Yeah.. Oh these are the actual
[Clive:] You walk down the road erm Marje it's really funny. And it's [mimicking Italian accent] hey Mario
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] Ciao.
[Clive:] Ciao Mario cappuccino? []
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] And off they go. It's really funny. I'd love to live there.
[Florence:] Yeah. It sounds really nice.
[Clive:] Fantastic....
[Florence:] Hughie... come here.
[Clive:] Oh that's next door's dog. Can't remember
[Florence:] Come and see me.
[Clive:] what it's called. But it ain't very nice.
[speaker003:] [dog growls]
[Clive:] That's next door's dog. These are all grapevines
[speaker003:] [dog barks]
[Clive:] she's got grapes... lemons... she's got a tree that's got lemon, orange and grapefruit on it ain't she Tone?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Gemma:] Growing in the garden?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Clive:] All on one tree.
[Florence:] On one tree?
[Clive:] Lemon and a
[Marjorie:] yeah on one tree.
[Clive:] They were all grafted on and they're all growing on the same tree.
[Gemma:] Derek's got an apple tree with different kinds growing on it. [dog barks] Derek's got an apple tree with three different varieties on it.
[Fred:] Marvellous innit?
[Florence:] That's clever.
[Clive:] That's... that's sunset.
[Florence:] Yeah I might have guessed that.
[Clive:] Yeah. Out of his kitchen window.
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Looks like a castle dunnit? But it ain't.
[Gemma:] It does.
[Clive:] And that's a shot... see... this part under here... is Maria's under part where the cellar... cellar goes down... no and... yeah, that's... No. This is where the cellar is. You go round through Maria's gate... then you go down the back and behind that little pole there
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] and down under here. That's where the cellar is isn't it?
[Gemma:] Oh.
[Clive:] And these are the steps. Go up there, up to their stairs, that's her kitchen window and there's a lo big sun lounge there that goes right along there and right along here. Their bedroom doors used to open up onto this balcony. You could come out in the morning
[Gemma:] Oh....
[Clive:] That's a nicer one of the garden. This is the... that's the lemon, orange and grapefruit tree there.
[Gemma:] Oh yeah?
[Clive:] The grapes are all along here... see behind the washing?
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] And she's got kiwi fruits and... peppers and all sorts of things growing in the garden.... There's Eleanor.
[Gemma:] to grow them. Climate for it
[Clive:] Do you remember Eleanor? She was a little dark-haired, curly girl. Beautiful curly dark hair she had. She was a little tiny dot.
[Marjorie:] Aubergines. little aubergines, they're like this. You know, they're the little ones she says. All fresh, picks them when she wants them.... They're all at er Monte Casino. There was a big battle there. The er... the Germans bombed the monastery.
[Fred:] Oh yeah?
[Marjorie:] And er the Italian government rebuilt it.
[Fred:] Oh yeah?
[Marjorie:] But the view cos you, you're going up... seven miles
[Fred:] Mm.
[Marjorie:] all, all the roads round, yeah? seven miles innit? [cough] It is.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] It's se seven miles of road... up to the top.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] And the view is lovely.... the actual cellars... they've got some of the old er... writings that the, the monks... and you're not allowed to take photographs. Yeah? And there's a book and it's... oh about quarter of and it's got the bible written in fourteen nineties. And it, it's there, you can see it. You can see the writing on the pages. You know, it's... fantastic.
[Fred:] Yeah....
[Gemma:] No I can't say I remember her. The only one I remember is the son, the oldest boy I think.
[Clive:] Oh dear, he wears me out Steven.
[Marjorie:] Steven! Oh god.
[Clive:] And she... she's, she talks more than me, and sh her voice is like
[Marjorie:] That's saying something. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] grapes, look at them.
[Florence:] Yeah.
[Clive:] Grapevines. You can see there's grapes on there.
[Gemma:] Derek's got a grapevine as well. Had forty pound of grapes off it last year.
[Clive:] Did they?
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah [].
[Clive:] These are all rou you see... they're all... these are all round that area. [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] What about Hotel Rodeo
[Clive:] Yeah. And that's all these are in Tony's hou I'm just trying to show them Tony's house first you see cos it's... it's all these tiles that fascinate me.
[Gemma:] Some of these look more or less the same don't they?
[Clive:] Yeah they are. We took them... look at the
[Marjorie:] Yeah... we used seven films.
[Gemma:] What's that, chickens or ducks?
[Clive:] Dunno. They keep everything round there. You look out one window you see a chicken, look out another window you see pigs. Another way you see goats.
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Clive:] They come round in the morning
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER] Marjie ain't had a goat yet [].
[Florence:] No.
[Clive:] You, you'd love it. You'd be in your element you would.
[Florence:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] These tiles are all throughout.
[Gemma:] Amazing aren't they?
[Clive:] Oh they're wonderful. All you do is, you get a mop and you just swish it over... and you get a dry mop and just polish it up. No polish or anything. And they shi... lovely aren't they Tone?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Clive:] Great big tall ceilings. That's Tony. Don't know quite what he's doing, pulling a funny face as usual.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]...
[Clive:] And that's me trying to learn me Italian. She's telling me these little bits to write down.... [LAUGHTER] Oh this is me, me and Philomena. Me []... This is me and Philomena. I'm right into the Italian soaps while I were over there.
[speaker003:] The what?
[Marjorie:] Oh Christ yes.
[Clive:] The Italian soaps, couldn't understand a word, they were ever so good. [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] They're Argen they're Argentinean... which are dubbed into Italian.
[Fred:] Oh.
[Marjorie:] Well
[Clive:] Oh dear me.
[Marjorie:] it starts at quarter to eight, goes off at ten. [LAUGHTER] It's
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER] What was you supposed to be doing there then []?
[Clive:] They're watching t... Oh I, I was messing about with Tony... so I, I flashed me skirt, flashed me knees.... Oh this is Alexandro's birthday.... Alexandro... he lives next door, right? And he's living in his garage mum.
[Marjorie:] This is going down, round the back
[Gemma:] Ooh er. Why?
[Clive:] He's got loads of money. Absolutely loaded isn't he Tone?
[Marjorie:] Who Alexandro?
[Clive:] Alexandro.
[Marjorie:] Oh yeah.
[Clive:] And he lives in this garage because... out there you get earthquakes, and when you get earthquake damage to your house the government will fix it. They say yes you're allowed so much money to have your house fixed and they fix it. But they only come when they're ready. And he's, he took all his stuff out because he thought er they said they were coming. Then they never turned up so now he's got his cooker and his sink, goodness knows what in his, in his garage.
[Gemma:] Ooh.... And that's their next door neighbour?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Clive:] Yeah. Ever so nice. Can't speak any English though, it's ever so funny.
[Marjorie:] You just get in, have your tea, and Alexandro'll come round, come for a beer.
[Clive:] There's Tony look. He ain't got no teeth now look.
[Marjorie:] Yeah. You can't just have one.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] No, no, no [].
[Clive:] No, I didn't recognize him.
[Marjorie:] Oh, you know when you've just had your tea, you like to sit down?
[Clive:] I never recognized him. He ain't got no teeth.
[Fred:] Yeah. No,
[Clive:] He's been ever so ill mum. Really ill.
[Gemma:] Yeah you said he had.
[Clive:] He's lucky he never died.... I tell you.
[Fred:] Are they war graves Tony?
[Marjorie:] Yeah, yeah.... Yeah in Monte Casino it's erm... there's the English, Polish... erm... ooh... and French cemeteries. There isn't a German one.
[Fred:] No. No.
[Marjorie:] No.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Now what's funny about this place is... they're all Italians that are in there but there's loads of them that live in this particular area, that lived in Bedford for a long time. So they all speak English.
[Gemma:] in Bedford I know. So there is
[Clive:] Well all these lived in Bedford for a while. She speaks with a Bedford accent.
[Gemma:] Ooh er.
[Clive:] Ever so funny.... Jean, was her name? Zina... Zita? What was her name? Zelda, Zina?
[Marjorie:] Veena.
[Clive:] Veena?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Clive:] Nice girl she was.
[Gemma:] No I remember Derek saying how many Italians there were living in Bedford....
[Clive:] This is the Hotel Rodeo at Garoteo where we stayed, where we... Rosetto where we stayed on our way down towards Tony's.
[Gemma:] Oh.
[Clive:] Oh mum it was terrible! No, the place was okay... but we had lizards outside our door, loads of them. I it were ca, it was, it was raining so much you see? There's more of S Sally... hiding behind the curtain.
[Marjorie:] Monte Casino where we... went straight into the pub and Tony says... three beer... and hallo he said, alright mate?
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] yeah really.... He said do you work? He says now and again.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] If he doesn't wanna go to work he doesn't.
[Fred:] No. That's good
[Clive:] They keep the nets down to keep the flies out.
[Gemma:] Yeah....
[Marjorie:] That was a hell of a trip, down through Italy.
[Clive:] Another one of Sally behind the curtain. Me and Philomena doing the potatoes.
[Marjorie:] It rained for three days.
[Fred:] Oh gawd!
[Gemma:] I like those shiny floors.
[Clive:] Lovely ain't they?
[Gemma:] Bit easier than hoovering carpets isn't it?
[Clive:] This is Guido.... Now he's learning to speak English. He's a
[Gemma:] Who's he?
[Clive:] He's a man who lives
[Gemma:] Is he a neighbour?
[Clive:] down the road. You'll see his family in a minute, hang on
[Marjorie:] Tony's friend.
[Clive:] He's Tony's friend.
[Marjorie:] Yeah... we got in to er Roseo and. And er... I heard this clanging. And I thought. You know, we were going for about ten minute. So I looked out the window and I see and they've all got these big bells round their neck.
[Fred:] Yeah?
[Marjorie:] string like, you know?
[Fred:] Oh.
[Clive:] He's my friend as well now. Some of these photos are terrible. That's his family. That's his mum... and his grandma and granddad... and his dad... and his brother and his brother's wife.
[Gemma:] Mm. [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] I've got some nice photos. I sent them one, they're ever so pleased.
[Marjorie:] They were all dressed up. You know not, not just... a cowboy belt. They've all got... flowers in the hair and all sorts.
[Fred:] Yeah?
[Clive:] That's me and Maria doing the potatoes.
[Gemma:] Yeah. [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] That's
[Marjorie:] Yeah that's my mate, Yeah.
[Clive:] Me and me and erm sorry not Maria, there's Maria. That's me and Philomena. Philomen
[Marjorie:] Phil, yeah.
[Clive:] Philomen. She used to come in, she'd say Antonio! Then Tony'd say bella!
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] He used to talk to her in English with an Italian accent. It used to crack me up.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] And she, and she used to [LAUGHTER] []
[Gemma:] You doing potatoes by the bucketful?
[Clive:] Well there was a lot of us for dinner.
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] They don't half eat though! Good grief. I mean, you got... dinnertimes it was erm typical pasta with her home-made, home-made spaghetti sauce and parmesan cheese, great big plateful... and loads of meat on the side. And then at night... egg and chips, cos she knows Tony likes chips... or chops and... ooh. Said didn't I, I'm gonna put loads of weight on?
[Marjorie:] Ha!
[Clive:] Ate loads.
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] That's a... that's a fresh fig off a tree. You can walk the roads and pick them.
[Gemma:] Ooh I've been told they're very nice. I've never tasted one but they say they're very nice.
[Clive:] Ooh. They taste so different to... the figs we get.
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] They're really nice.... Oh this is the night we arrived.
[Gemma:] Things like that [LAUGHTER]...
[Marjorie:] Like the cheese.
[Clive:] This is the night we arrived, we were looking at photos look.
[Gemma:] Oh yeah.
[Marjorie:] She brought this hunk of erm what is it
[Fred:] How far is it?
[Marjorie:] parmesan isn't it?
[Clive:] Parmesan yeah.
[Marjorie:] Oh a hunk like this.
[Fred:] How many miles actually is it Tony?
[Marjorie:] Where, down there?
[Fred:] From France to Italy.
[Clive:] How many did we do?
[Marjorie:] Oh dunno.
[Fred:] Or Germany to
[Clive:] Two thousand something?
[Marjorie:] I did two thousand... four hundred kilometres.
[Clive:] It was ooh it was, do you know, it's one of the best trips I've ever made.
[Fred:] Yeah it's
[Clive:] I've never been anywhere like that, to drive through.
[Gemma:] The, the travelling you know?
[Marjorie:] We did fifty what was it? Fifty three tunnels?
[Clive:] Ooh, look at me there look. I think I'd had a few, few home-made wines. Look at this home-made wine. Look what they've got here, the bottles
[Marjorie:] Think it was fi Eileen, how many tunnels was it?... Fifty odd wasn't it?
[Clive:] Er tunnel no it was se fif
[Marjorie:] Seven...
[Clive:] Fifty something going down, seventy something coming back I think.
[Marjorie:] That's right.
[Clive:] Oh you, cos they just dig through the mountains you see, so you don't have to
[Marjorie:] The, the longest... the longest tunnel is er... nineteen kilometres....
[Fred:] Ooh, some tunnel that is.
[Clive:] Yeah, what was it called though?
[Marjorie:] It was Gotard
[Clive:] S S...
[Marjorie:] It was Gotard weren't it.
[Clive:] No. No, the other one's bigger innit?
[Marjorie:] No, Gotard
[Clive:] Gotard
[Marjorie:] Yeah....
[Gemma:] You've certainly got a lot of photos anyway. [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Oh we took them all the while see.... See they're the only teeth Tony's got left.... Them ones there, that's all he's got left. He ain't got no more.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] And do you know what? Because he ain't got no teeth mum, you know they
[Gemma:] Well I, I can see it's him when they're
[Clive:] Yeah.
[Gemma:] a bit closer up but...
[Clive:] You know... when you ain't got your teeth in, how your face tends to s sag a bit?
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] Well you see, Tony's got them here but he ain't got them there so he's, when he sits there and he's relaxed his face goes...
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] sad.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] He got sad old Tone though. Every time I write a letter to him now I say... keep smiling, turn them corners up cos they all go on at him.
[Fred:] Oh there's them cows.
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Clive:] Oh there's Sally playing peep-o again.
[Marjorie:] There were loads of them....
[Clive:] That's one of the houses in the village look.
[Gemma:] What does he do?
[Clive:] He's
[Marjorie:] Tony?
[Clive:] Well he works in a
[Marjorie:] Jack of all trades.
[Fred:] Oh.
[Clive:] He does a bit of everything. He works in this company where they're something to do with material isn't it?
[Marjorie:] He's a labourer.
[Clive:] He's a labourer, but then he goes out sweeping chimneys.
[Gemma:] Oh....
[Clive:] These are the ones I like.
[Gemma:] That's a nice looking house isn't it?
[Clive:] Mm.
[Gemma:] Bit unusual.
[Clive:] Yeah there's loads of nice little houses round... there's another one round here with pictures on the walls somewhere.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] I see cow's got the right of way. [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] It's the streets I like. Look at the streets.
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] Oh dear []....
[Clive:] See this is Tony's street.
[Marjorie:] Ha Tony's street! Lane.
[Clive:] See look at Tony's.
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] We had ever such a job to get our car up there.
[Marjorie:] got a better
[Gemma:] That's the same one as this one on here?
[Clive:] And this one. That's Tony's street.
[Fred:] Is that Luxembourg?...
[Clive:] Look at that one.
[Gemma:] Ooh er, crikey. That's
[Fred:] Yeah, oh he's. No lie down.
[Florence:] That's it, lie down.
[Clive:] Here look at this house mum.
[Florence:] Good boy....
[Clive:] Look at this house.
[Fred:] Luxembourg there....
[Gemma:] Oh that's nice isn't it?
[Clive:] Yeah.
[Gemma:] Is that in the same village?
[Clive:] Yeah....
[Fred:] You can go the coach route can't you?
[Clive:] We wondered round the streets just taking photos.
[Fred:] You can go the coach route can't you?
[Marjorie:] Yeah well... we was, we was gonna go down the west coast... go and see Rome and then down from there.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] But the weather was terrible. I was driving through what, eighteen inches of water.
[Fred:] Yeah when you go through Switzerland.
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Fred:] It seems to be following you.
[Marjorie:] Yeah well Switzerland weren't too bad cos the road surfaces are pretty good.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] But in Italy there's no drainage.
[Fred:] Ooh.
[Marjorie:] but on, on a motorway... brand new motorway, no lines
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] no white lines, nothing.
[Fred:] No?
[Marjorie:] about eighteen inches of water. Right?
[Fred:] Cor!
[Marjorie:] And the cars are just... straight on. You know,
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Went round taking... photos of old and the new. See this is the new stuff that's going up.
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] And the old stuff is much more interesting, don't like the new stuff.
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] This is a... a rest home for the nuns. And they go there when they retire.... See that's... that's sort of there. That was built sort of there. That's the old stuff.
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] And this is the new. There's timesharing and...
[Gemma:] Different
[Clive:] And this one
[Marjorie:] It was bloody... we well I had to stop because I couldn't see my way at all.
[Clive:] This one's another one. That's in the next village. It's a nice street innit?
[Fred:] It is nice.
[Gemma:] Yeah....
[Clive:] And that's, that's the fish in the palace park. And that's Switzerland, coming out of Switzerland. And the other one is... what's on the front?
[Marjorie:] That's Monte Casino
[Gemma:] Very nice.
[Clive:] And that was Monte casino on that one.
[Gemma:] That's a nice box for photographs innit?
[Clive:] Oh this one ain't much good actually. This one ain't much good. It's a nuisance.
[Marjorie:] The other one's absolutely chock-a-block.
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] I'm keeping them together in their little bits because I've got them all sorted where they belong, so...
[speaker003:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Have you seen these?
[Florence:] No.
[Clive:] This is all, they're all the little houses and... and streets and... and that, that one. Right, what's the next lot?
[Gemma:] Alright, sit down you.
[Fred:] Sit down Joey. Good boy....
[Clive:] Right... now did you see the one with the sea on?
[Gemma:] Oh no.
[Clive:] Well that's the day we went to the sea.... When weirdo bought us a coffee.
[Gemma:] Which sea's that?
[Clive:] It's the... Mediterranean innit?...
[Marjorie:] I don't know, it's on the left hand side. [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] Or is it the North Sea? Naples side.
[Gemma:] Oh....
[Clive:] I think it's the Mediterranean.
[Gemma:] Did you see Naples?
[Clive:] No we never went
[Gemma:] No.
[Clive:] Even the locals won't go and park their car in
[Marjorie:] Right, Philomena's two brothers, both policemen in Naples
[Clive:] They're policemen.
[Gemma:] I kn know the traffic's er terrible.
[Marjorie:] and they don't even in, in the city.
[Clive:] Well they, they'll pinch them.
[Fred:] Oh is it that bad?
[Marjorie:] Yeah it is, it's sad.
[Clive:] Oh it's terrible!
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Gemma:] The sea looks nice though.
[Marjorie:] The cars get ripped off, if they park they'll take the car. [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] Will they?
[Marjorie:] Yeah. Yeah. I, I waited until I got back into Switzerland before I said... I've been to Italy and I haven't got a scratch on the car.
[Clive:] Oh it's lovely but see... now this is, when was this? Oct early October? Early October and it were end of season.
[Gemma:] Mm.
[Clive:] Wouldn't believe it would you?
[Gemma:] No.
[Clive:] And they just shut up and go.
[Fred:] Yeah. Yeah cos, cos
[Marjorie:] E everywhere you go they're using the horn.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] Now it's against the law to that in Germany.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] So I couldn't really get into the habit.
[Fred:] No.
[Marjorie:] You know?
[Fred:] No that's true, yeah.
[Clive:] I'm gonna sneeze in a minute.... I can feel it coming.
[Gemma:] How far is the village from the sea?
[Marjorie:] Twenty five K's.
[Clive:] I think if you know where you're going it's nearer than we went.... We do weren't too sure were we?
[Fred:] Was that was that hot air balloon following you by [LAUGHTER] any chance []?
[Clive:] It, it just came over, yeah it, it came up over the
[Florence:] It looks nice dunnit, that?
[Marjorie:] We were just standing there looking over the... the the
[Clive:] That's er
[Marjorie:] the parapet
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] and I turned round
[Clive:] there.
[Marjorie:] and this balloon came up from behind
[Clive:] This is all palace. In the gardens and inside the palace. The Cacerta
[Fred:] Yeah that's in that first photo innit?
[Marjorie:] Yeah. And I thought well I'll get that balloon and perhaps
[Fred:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Clive:] That's the gardens where all the fish, there's fish in all these steps.
[Gemma:] Oh....
[Clive:] You'll see some of the fish.
[Florence:] Where's that?
[Clive:] This is Cacerta
[Gemma:] Cacerta I heard the name but
[Marjorie:] Oh it's, it's there on the side of the box....
[Clive:] Sorry? Yeah I've shown them that, yeah. But there's some more as well in there.... You need a, a... you need to see it though really. You can't get it... it's such a sort of... panoramic sort of view, you know? All this is all in erm alabaster. Ooh it's lovely.
[Gemma:] Mm.... Fishes.
[Clive:] There's loads of them.
[Marjorie:] Yeah, every step in like in that house
[Clive:] Every step has got fish in.
[Marjorie:] is water. And they've all got fish.
[Gemma:] In the steps?
[Clive:] Well there's steps. You go up on a step and then you've got another pond.
[Fred:] Yeah. Yeah.
[Clive:] And it overflows coming down into another pond
[Marjorie:] There's a massive garden.
[Gemma:] Oh I see.
[Clive:] and they've all got fish in.
[Fred:] What, koi carp and all that are they Tony?
[Marjorie:] All sorts.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Clive:] There's all sorts.
[Marjorie:] Yeah....
[Clive:] I think they're goldfish actually.
[Marjorie:] There's some goldfish but
[Gemma:] These look like goldfish.
[Marjorie:] carp and, it's got everything in there.
[Clive:] I don't think there's any koi carp.
[Florence:] Look at it, there's millions on that one.
[Clive:] Yeah that's lovely innit? Cle and yet you look at the water. It don't look very clear when you look at it, but the sun... and that it was... it weren't half hot that day.
[Gemma:] Well the camera can probably see more than you do. [LAUGHTER] There's statues everywhere.
[Marjorie:] I was just testing the camera so I, I, I ordered a camera... and expected it to be... with us the week before we went. We were gonna leave on the Saturday morning, it arrived the Friday night.
[Fred:] Did it really?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Fred:] Oh, it didn't give you much chance then to get used to it did it? I mean you know
[Marjorie:] No. [LAUGHTER] I just, I just got seven films and I said well if they Friday if I don't, well
[Fred:] Well they worked good didn't they?
[Marjorie:] There's some that are a bit, you know...
[Fred:] No, they're, they're alright. They're nice. They're good photos they are.
[Gemma:] This reminds me of when we went round Versailles. That's all painted ceilings and
[Clive:] Yeah. This is like in a big glass case and it's other parts, there's like a little bit there looks like the nativity and then the rest is all parts of Naples in olden times. It shows you the
[Gemma:] Ooh.
[Clive:] the. And you walk round this glass case, it's all different... [cough]... But the curtains, it says please don't touch, if you touch them they'd fall to bits, they're that old.
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Fred:] Oh yeah, Tony was saying. They're hundreds of years old aren't they?
[Clive:] Yeah.... And look this, this room, you've got the... it was all like this, all gold filigree, it was all over.
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] The ceilings, all down the walls... furniture. Ooh it was
[Marjorie:] It was it was the er the throne room wasn't it?
[Clive:] Throne room, yeah. It was wonderful.
[Marjorie:] Mm....
[Clive:] And that's
[Gemma:] Er this sort of thing, as I say i it reminds me very much of Versailles when we went round there.
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Gemma:] That's all... painted ceilings and
[Fred:] How far's Tony actually from Naples?...
[Marjorie:] It's about... sixty kilometres.
[Fred:] Sixty is it?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.... But, cos you see Tony, he, he likes to take people out
[Fred:] Mm?
[Marjorie:] and h he's been to places... his memory's terrible.
[Fred:] Is it really?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Clive:] Oh yeah.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] He
[Clive:] He has been ever so poorly Clive. He, he... you see what
[Fred:] I, yeah cos last time you when come over he was supposed to have been ill weren't he?
[Marjorie:] Oh yeah.
[Clive:] Yeah oh he's er what happened to him, right... he used to like a drink when he were here. He went out there... and you see and, and they drink wine instead of tea.
[Fred:] Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
[Clive:] And he was going round and they made such a fuss of him cos he was Philomena's husband
[Gemma:] Is that a waterfall at the back there?
[Clive:] Yeah. Yeah. It comes all the way down. Did you see that first one, where they're?
[Gemma:] Yeah?
[Clive:] You'll see it quite a way up. You'll see it in a minute when you get... back to the end again.
[Marjorie:] You see it's not, not alcoholic the wine.
[Fred:] No.
[Marjorie:] And when it's pressed out of the grapes, the juice comes out, they allow it to stand for five days and then they put it into bottles.
[Fred:] Oh, I see.
[Marjorie:] There's no alcohol in it.
[Fred:] Isn't there?
[Marjorie:] No sugar, nothing added.
[Fred:] No. No it's just pure grape juice.
[Marjorie:] Oh god, really kicks you.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] It kicks. Does it
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] Well, see when you're drinking that all day long
[Fred:] Yeah yeah.
[Marjorie:] It rotted his liver.
[Fred:] Yeah, yeah.
[Marjorie:] And that's
[Fred:] Oh. So w without alcohol there wouldn't be no dehydration either would there? Not in
[Marjorie:] No
[Fred:] No, no.
[Marjorie:] No I should think it's... it's very potent. Even the, the locals add water to it.
[Fred:] Do they really?
[Marjorie:] You know they get a small glass like a whisky glass?
[Fred:] Mm.
[Marjorie:] Half of the... wine and they top it up with water.
[Fred:] Oh.
[Marjorie:] And, and th this erm... it's like the coffee. Italian coffee in little cups. more than four a day if you're a working man. If you don't work, one a day.
[Fred:] Yeah?
[Marjorie:] Because it, it... it would rot your stomach.
[Fred:] Ooh dear.
[Marjorie:] stuff [LAUGHTER]
[Fred:] [LAUGHTER] Ooh ooh. I didn't think it were that strong like, you know? I thought they drunk that all day,
[Marjorie:] I brought some back with us.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] And I've still got half a pack.
[Fred:] Have you really?
[Marjorie:] Yeah. It was only two hundred and fifty grams. Yeah we've got half.
[Fred:] Oh yeah.
[Marjorie:] It is strong. Really strong.
[Gemma:] These statues are everywhere aren't they?
[Clive:] See there it is. Look it comes
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] right down. All the way down. There's Tony, me and Maria....
[Gemma:] Who's Maria?
[Clive:] Maria's erm Philomen's sister.
[Gemma:] Oh....
[Clive:] That's across the gardens of the palace you know?
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] All the mountains all round it. That's what I like about it, all the mountains all over the place, you know?...
[Gemma:] Yeah.... Back to the beginning again.... Yes they're lovely.
[Clive:] And the weather was gorgeous. Well we did have some rain but
[Gemma:] Well for that time of the year it was remarkable really....
[Clive:] Er.... Oh that's at Rocetta. You can see Rocetta from Tony's garden. It's a little, it's a place. It's, it's a hill, a big... and this is where... Hannibal started his trek
[Gemma:] Oh.
[Clive:] with the elephants, across the alps. Rocetta was his first campsite.
[Gemma:] Oh.
[Clive:] You see?
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] That's why it's famous. Did you hear that Clive?
[Fred:] Sorry?
[Clive:] Rocetta the ones that mum's looking at now
[Fred:] Yes?
[Clive:] What I'll do, I'll pass you the box and then you can take them out a bit at a time cos I've sorted them. Ain't they? Oh.
[Gemma:] your dad'll wanna look through them I expect when he gets back.
[Clive:] That's where Hannibal... parked his ele... had his first campsite.
[Fred:] Oh Oh. That's a true story then, Hannibal?
[Clive:] Oh yeah.
[David:] I didn't er realize that actually, yeah.
[Clive:] Well where, where Tony lives there's that village... is over three thousand years old. There's tunnels under the ground.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Clive:] tunnels
[Marjorie:] Well you know the what was it, Romulus and Remus?
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Marjorie:] With the wolf.
[Gemma:] What's that then, hidden in the trees?
[Fred:] Mm?
[Clive:] Erm
[Marjorie:] Well apparently there's a, a golden wolf
[Clive:] That's the cemetery.
[Gemma:] Oh.
[Marjorie:] buried in one of the caves.
[Clive:] I'm not too certain which cemetery but it's
[Marjorie:] And nobody's ever found it.
[Fred:] Oh.
[Clive:] it's an important one.
[Marjorie:] But it's, apparently it's supposed to be there.
[Fred:] It's it's supposed to be there.
[Marjorie:] But every day they're finding something new.
[Fred:] Are they?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Gemma:] hills all round innit?
[Fred:] Are there still
[Marjorie:] Oh yeah they're still excavating it, yes.
[Fred:] archaeologists are still there doing it all you know?
[Marjorie:] Yeah. Oh aye yeah.
[Fred:] Oh.
[Marjorie:] Well the things they find, you know
[Fred:] I'll bet it is.... Oh as I say I've seen the film. I, I liked the film of Hannibal, with Oliver Reed. Now that's quite good.
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Fred:] Was it
[Clive:] I've never seen the film.
[Fred:] It's very good, the film is.
[Clive:] But I mean round there it's absolutely steeped in history. I couldn't believe it.
[Fred:] Mm.
[Clive:] I mean... er when they told... the tales of the... of the seven winds and the... was it seven winds?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Clive:] The seven winds and Romu Romulus and Remus and the, the, the wolf... it all happened round there. And they reckon the golden wolf is still down
[Gemma:] But
[Clive:] there somewhere.
[Gemma:] Rome is supposed to be built on seven hills isn't it or something?
[Marjorie:] It is.
[Clive:] Yeah, seven hills. Yeah we saw the seven hills as we drove past Rome because you
[Marjorie:] Yeah
[Clive:] can see it. Just like this can't you?
[Marjorie:] Yeah.
[Clive:] Amazing place. We didn't go into Rome, we went round it.
[Marjorie:] It spreads about twenty five mile
[Clive:] [cough]
[Gemma:] for the time of the year it's gorgeous isn't it?
[Clive:] Yeah look at the size of me though mum. I ain't half a fatso.
[Marjorie:] And that's the main town the city.
[Fred:] Yeah.
[Clive:] Ooh I put loads of weight on out there.
[Marjorie:] And then you've got all the outskirts around that, you know?
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER]
[Marjorie:] Cos you're talking about thirty, forty mile.
[Gemma:] I'm supposed to be trying to watch me weight now.
[Fred:] Yeah?
[Marjorie:] Yeah. It's massive.
[Gemma:] I've er, I've lost about a stone in... a couple of months or so, that's all, but it's er... better than gaining I suppose.... Back to where I started I think. Unless you've got two pictures of that same street, no
[Clive:] No, you're back to where you started. This is Rocetta Clive.
[Fred:] Mm....
[Marjorie:] Funny little place.
[Fred:] Ah.
[Clive:] Right Rocetta Now where's this? Oh this is the palace... this is the, the... Monte Casino This is where...
[Marjorie:] It's the abbey
[Clive:] The abbey at Monte Casino Do you remember
[Gemma:] Oh I've heard about the abbey yeah.
[Clive:] the war film. You know where it all got bombed
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] and what they took all the treasures down into the... cellars so they were saved and they rebuilt it. In the same style as it was years ago, using some of their old bricks and everything that they could but... it's been
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] rebuilt in the same style and all the treasures are still there....
[Marjorie:] Yeah it's amazing, all these
[Clive:] I've seen the film of this where they're trying to g and all around from outside you can see the graves... the graveyard.
[Gemma:] Yeah.
[Clive:] There's the German graveyard, the Italian... the, the erm British and Canadian
[Marjorie:] No, the German one's not there. The German one is not round Monte Casino
[Clive:] I thought it was.
[Marjorie:] It's further out. W way out. And it's only a small one.
[Clive:] Oh I thought it was. I want a tissue....
[Gemma:] [LAUGHTER]
[Clive:] handbag. Can you pass me my handbag, Marje please.... Oh dear me. Derek said he might come up tonight.
[Florence:] Yeah we saw Jenny down town yesterday, she said they were coming up tonight....
[Clive:] Ooh, can't stand this.
[Fred:] How, how high up were you there Tone?