 #
Er er got them last week from Freeman Hardy and Willis . #
Ooh oh ! #
I know what I forgot to get in town . #
Damn ! #
What ? #
A comb . #
I did a classic #
A pocket #
the other day and dropped all my dinner down me . #
Oh no ! #
I put it on the arm on the chair , I was trying to be clever and I sat down and it had like material there and I caught the material and I just sort , all fell down here , it's a lovely smell . #
Wah ! #
Wurgh ! #
Of what ? #
It's just #
God ! #
It's #
mushrooms and tomato and yuk , it just #
Alright . #
Have you got a #

comb here ? #
Erm #
Or a brush ? #
No . #
I haven't got anything . #
I've got a travelling brush . #
No I don't brush my hair . #
Oh . #
So you must have to get one from somewhere then ? #
Yeah I know , it's the sort of thing that tired . #
I what's the shops up here in fact ? #
Are they reasonably near at hand ? #
Yeah . #
Fine . #
If one walked up there ? #
Oh yeah , walk down there in a little while . #
Okay . #
I'll get the stuff in first anyway . #
Yeah , I'll give you a hand . #
Is it all in the car ? #
Can you move that one ? #
Yeah . #
Well then when you're driving along you , you haven't got any music . #
Yeah , it's not nice in the car without a stereo . #
So I'll leave #
Aha . #
I'll leave you to put that down there . #
Yeah , I'll put put it in my room actually . #
We didn't know what to get Marion . #
Oh #
So I might get one of these . #
I think it's open . #
But er #
It floats in your bath when you put it in the plug . #
Oh ! #
Right . #
Oh . #
The 's on which will just here . #
And I bought two secondhand books yesterday and she wanted one of them so #
I might give one of them to her . #
Oh I see . #
Right . #
Only one pack . #
Where's your T V aerial ? #
It's got a connection . #
Went and I saw some monkeys though . #
in cancer research . #
Mm mm . #
. #
Oh is that all ready ? #
Oh yes , I should hope it's all I need . #
So if I get that adaptor out ? #
Well I dunno , I should do , just fit in there . #
There we are . #
You got the other one ? #
What the adaptor ? #
The other ca no the other lead . #
What have you got here , whatever you've got . #
That was left here ? #
Mm . #
I know . . #
Your thing's winding in here . #
Mm ? #
Your Walkman , your thing's winding . #
Yeah , leave it . #
Right . #
Yeah . #
Ah ! #
It's a lovely table . #
How come they use this then Cath ? #
Oh . #
Just tied it round the ta erm table . #
So that's se and I want you at the other end . #
See both ends are the same . #
Okay . #
I see it . #
Now for the stereo . #
Oh excellent ! #
Mm . #
If I get the darn thing in . #
Excellent ! #
There isn't any other way dad ? #
To set this on to that #
No , but erm , that #

shouldn't be , no . #
I've adjusted it that wants a bit of that's it , one two . #
That's right . #
There we are . #
Excellent ! #
So , I plug this with this oh the stereo as well . #
Yeah , I've just gotta get some small #
Mhm . #
screwdrivers . #
Aha . #
Mhm . #
Right . #
Ah . #
God ! #
My fire gives me such a fright . #
I'm lying in bed and I sud just little , little erm bits er the #
Soot in it ? #
come out . #
No ,th the . #
Yeah it suddenly bits of like there . #
But it all comes shooting down in one #
It's the #
go . #
yes the erm whatsername ? #
And I get such a fright cos I keep expecting a bird #
That's the soot . #
to come flying #
No . #
out . #
Usually erm it er #
Thank you . #
it probably needs erm probably cleaning , or at least looking at . #
I'm too scared to look up there . #
Oh bloody hell ! #
No , I , I shouldn't . #
Why won't you go in there ? #
Right . #
Any luck ? #
No not yet . #
Was it ? #
I'll just take #
Oh it's a good one , I haven't seen this in there . #
That's your broad edging . #
Screw that , #
So the , cos apparently it reaches right into the erm like living room but all around the #

the house . #

Which is quite go ooh ! #
Picture's quite good until you get a play . #
Yeah . #
Can you get the telly down for me ? #
Might have to . #
Oh is something in the way ? #
Appears to be . #
I don't know why #
Yeah . #
Ooh . #
Anyway #
Let's find the other side here . #
Have a go . #
Nothing's ever simple in this house . #
Oh . #
That one's gone in . #
Hooray ! #
Well perhaps that one played that way then . #
Zippy doo ! #
In that case I've er you put that . #
Put that back up and I'll wire round this to connect #
Well that one , is , is up . #
That's it . #
That's that . #
Right . #
Put that back on . #
Just there . #
That's that on with those . #
I'll move this out the way . #
Oh that doesn't look too bad . #
No . #
It's it's fine when you see it . #
Oh , oh , oh , oh ! #
Right ? #
I believe James could even be a dentist . #
Yes . #
Be quite happy . #
I expect that #
I got my N H S thing back . #
Oh yeah ? #
Erm #
They were crap ! #
crap really . #
Was it ? #
Just money or or nothing . #
No free prescriptions . #
Oh ! #
Don't know what they expect . #
How much they expect you to #
Oh well #
pay out . #
I'd probably best to put it all in a all in the corner there . #
Okay . #
I was gonna shove it #
Can you get it behind there ? #
Want to sort of put on the top of the wardrobe and then make it drop #
Oh I see , I'm with you . #
back . #
Okay . #
Alright , well you run what you want round there . #
Hold on . #
Let me undo this a wee bit . #
There we are . #
Yeah so it's , it's on the floor just just chuck it over there . #
Okay . #
Hang on love . #
Oh it's no #
That's fine over there . #
Okay . #
It's right behind the #
Yeah , that's fine . #
Right be #
crate there . #
And where d'ya want it ? #
On top of the on the top of the cupboard d'ya think ? #
Out the way . #
Erm yeah I , just at the back , or #
Or , or just , or just up a bit ? #
Or if you can sort of #
Wedge it in there . #
leave it in . #
Yeah , well let's have a look . #
You take the curtain and that hook . #
That's it . #
Do you want me to hammer that cos it's pinned ? #
All over there . #
Is it ? #
I think you might be wrong . #
Not that good , but it looks good . #
Yeah . #
Yeah . #
there . #
Now , just underneath that fuse box just kept it low . #
Oh lovely . #
Cheers . #
It's done ? #
All you've gotta do is hope now that you get a decent picture . #
Turn it on . #
Do you like my wardrobe ? #
I did it last Saturday . #
Hey ? #
Watching the doctors . #
Oh right . #
I changed it . #
Half my photos are still on the wall at home #

but erm no wonder I couldn't find them . #
Thought I'd put a few of them up . #
Hooray ! #
Good . #
Yes . #
It's a clear picture . #
That's alright . #
It's a clear picture . #
Keep on the football I shall be alright . #
Tt ! #
Perfect . #
Yes , I wanna see whe the good goal one . #
Put it on tape then . #
Arsenal nil , Manchester City nil . #
Ah oh ! #
Not so bad . #
God ! #
Dad ! #
England did really well didn't they ? #
Oh God ! #
Chronic ! #
Terrible ! #
Why are they doing so badly ? #
Is it Graham Taylor ? #
Oh Ferdie wasn't playing was he ? #
No . #
No . #
That's sad that . #
Cos I think he would have made a bit of difference up front there wi er er cos they would have the defence #
They put in Mottley . #
Yeah . #
The defence was very bad . #
Old Graham Taylor's mate . #
Yeah . #
I realized old , old Ferdie wasn't playing . #
Yeah . #
The defence was very slow as er er , when who was it ? #
Merson ran at them #
Yeah . #
er but er , they and also Platt I mean , Platt got pulled down . #
Okay , next job on the agenda yo you got some trouble with the radiator ? #
Yeah , it just doesn't #
Which one's this ? #
My one . #
Is er , I don't know if there's something wrong , but it doesn't the heat isn't well Angie's one's like boiling hot #
Yeah . #
Susanna's one doesn't really work at all , but my one's just like lukewarm . #
Oh well , let's have a look . #
Let's have a look at this #
So #
then , this #
we did , we did try to pu well , as I say , with the trouble we had upstairs , we just thought it just wasn't worth our while to sort of mess #
No . #
around and try and do any more . #
No , no . #
That's right . #
Cos we just got a real fright when we couldn't stop the water pouring out . #
Oh . #
It's the little washer thing . #
Just turn the tap . #
Well I'll get cleaned . #
Come on , you take the stuff down and rather me just try and . #

And then er , once I've done that I've gotta nip up the top and get a comb . #
I know I do I forgot to take one down to the place with me I checked the then that , now we go #
It's alright , I'll get you one in Twickenham and I'll pay in that money as well . #
Okay . #
Alright . #
Fair enough . #
Could do . #
Well , do you normally walk in or , or , or do you expect a ride ? #
What do you wanna go #
You #
on the bike ? #
Oh I see . #
Oh just as easy to erm #
What go by car ? #
go by car . #
Oh . #
It takes about well #
About two ticks , ya . #
Alright . #
Fair enough . #
I've still got oh no , ticket's run out now . #
What , four pound for one hour ? #
Oh I'll just run in . #
Okay . #
Right now . #
The alternative is , do you wanna si this is where you running here , you #
Dunno what I just done with the key actually . #
Tt ! #
Boy ! #
That's bad . #
Not to worry . #
Not to worry . #
Erm what we can do is er use something here . #
I bought this lot down with me . #
It might be in the other room actually . #
Now so the thing , and that goes in here , can use #
Oh ! #
What , is it a spanner ? #
It's a sa kinda ratchet type thing . #
Oh . #
Just that I think Susanna wants to spanner to work , her bike's not here otherwise I'd have if she gets back in time , fair enough . #
Just thingie that #
Still , do you think you better bleed it completely and let all the water out ? #
No , not let the water out , you let the air out . #
When you bleed #
Oh I see . #
it you let the air out , that's what , that's the idea behind it . #
Oh I dunno , I don't know what we did at that #
Oh it's alright . #
but it just doesn't seem to be working very effectively . #
I mean , obviously it's off now but erm #
Is #
Angie's one is really like hot and will dry things whereas this one takes a bit longer . #
Hello ? #
That's got a a key down there . #
Oh . #
Oh . #
Yeah I said we'd erm drive over to Marion's on our way out and then give her a pressie . #
Mm . #
I had a really nice meal actually in erm tt a place in Teddington . #
Oh yes ? #
It's just li #
What's it like ? #
It's a sort of Italian place . #
I had a really nice chicken erm Mexican pasta thing . #
Really nice ! #
It's a really smart place . #
Mhm . #
And er you'd better get that key actually . #
Oh . #
I hope it's in the other room hopefully . #
Mm . #
While you're doing that chuck us my thing over there as well . #
Oh great ! #
We won ! #
Can't hear ya ! #
Oh gre oh lovely ! #
Whoopee ! #
We won ! #
We won ! #
It could ne it could have been two two , but er Stejskal saved a penalty in the last minute . #
Oh dear ! #
Oh lovely ! #
Oh , I think I must , I'll give her a ring . #
I really don't know I'll see where she's put it . #
Well where is she then ? #
At home . #
Where does she live ? #
Sheffield . #
I'll give her a ring . #
I can't think where well it must be somewhere in the office . #
I can't think where at the moment . #
I haven't got , da da , da da #
Right . #
She's not in . #
Mm . #
Yeah . #
Hello Angie ? #
Hello . #
I hope you don't mind me phoning you , but where's the radiator key ? #
Yeah . #
Yeah . #
Oh ! #
Oh if you did , I've got it . #
Oh right then . #
Aha ha . #
Oh yeah , . #
Oh ! #
Seven #
Aha . #
seventeen ! #
Really good actually seeing as it got so much smaller . #
Yeah . #
That's right . #
But I was really phoning you up erm met Julie and . #
Yeah it was really nice . #
It was , it was nice . #
Erm I think Joe and Ray had a great time . #
Erm it was really . #
It's just . #
But er #
Good Lord ! #
no , no , in the garage . #
Twenty six . #
Oh that's not bad . #
Just practically put on a down there . #
It's not very far . #
But , well go now so that doesn't really count . #
You'll have to trust me , it'll be alright on the night . #
he wanted to take it anyway . #
So , we're gonna have to come an agreement of what she's got there . #
Yeah . #
Of course ! #
Yeah they , erm . #
Going down to Pizzaland . #
.Yeah . #
I said when she did it , she goes oh my God ! #
Didn't she know ? #
Yeah . #
No . #
No ? #
That's what I said . #
It's just crazy ! #
Yeah . #
Tomorrow . #
Yeah . #
Mm . #
Oh I said , I just want to . #
Can't you just take him out ? #
Oh yes , I think you were quick . #
Yeah . #
Well he didn't say goodbye Dad . #
Dad ! #
Yeah ? #
Do you want it in there ? #
Yeah sure . #
They actually went home because erm it's her friend's twenty first #
Oh I see . #
and erm she li she's in Egham and her boyfriend came down and was driving her back to Sheffield and then driving back again here on Monday so she got a free journey home . #
Oh I see . #
Which basically I mean she's had so she thought it would be nice for her to get away just to sort of sa you know have a breather from it all . #
Does that make sense actually . #
I dunno . #
Oh look ! #
Q P R ! #
That's it . #

Oh er , hey ! #
Hey ! #
Look ! #
Yeah , but there's seven teams in front of them dad . #
Yeah I know but er I don't mind that . #
Q P R . #
Now this is the key is it ? #
It is . #
Right . #
That's it . #
Now can you get some me some matches and tape something like that ? #
Erm , I don't #
And this doesn't turn is it ? #
What ? #
It does turn . #
Yeah . #
Well , well it just gets dirt because erm #
Okay . #
You get some kitchen paper and I'll bleed it . #
I don't . #
Well I might need a hand . #
You have to make a move in #
Do you need a tea towel ? #
Well can't we do it when we get back ? #
Bloody hell !of confidence . #
I'm not going to do any drinking . #
Yeah because when we get upstairs I think something in here fell out so we're trying to get it back on . #
It's all this went down here . #
Now I can see why the water comes out and then air so #
Oh so you don't really lock it ? #
. #
And is it on , er , is it on properly down there ? #
I don't #
Well if , if you can just . #
There , there , there's no #
No . #
no air in there so so what's happened here ? #
This is open . #
Er get in this you see , if you wind it down #
Yeah . #
the thing'll go down so the er #
Yeah . #
that should be open . #
Right . #
So that's all open . #
I don't , I do I think he's set it to come on later so #
Is it ? #
Well I can , well I can put it on earlier so we can see if it works . #
Okay . #
If I leave your key there . #
Let's go #
Alright . #
then . #
Right . #
Cheers . #
Er ye erm #

don't pay all your money ,ye you got some cash yourself ? #
Yeah . #
What do you want it for ? #
Why don't you take another one . #
Take that one . #
Well it's . #
Pardon ? #
No , you have to ask though . #
We opened it all . #
We always open our post . #
We get C V's printed up cos I send them to my dad . #
Cheques ? #
I'd cash those . #
Who are they for ? #
So , you opened them . #
Ah ! #
Yeah , we got something for boys there and it could have been a that they were being sued or something . #
I know . #
Oh yeah ! #
What i , what did you get your contacts lenses ? #
Go for it . #
Really haven't seen her this week . #
Dunno . #
He's gotta phone me . #
He's gonna phone me . #
Martin's phoning me at eight o'clock . #
Martin ! #
No ! #
There's not one ticket left in the entire planet ! #
So annoying ! #
Crowded House . #
I'm so upset . #
My brother's going and he doesn't even like them . #
Cos he's going with his work . #
And Sharon . #
Yes . #
They're gonna come and see me next week . #
No , she's Sharon from Australia . #
She's allowed . #
That's the only reason I'll forgive him . #
Cos she's not born in this country . #
Otherwise she'd be banished from our house ! #
It was so cold this morning . #
So I'm buying a car definitely . #
Oh yes . #
Oh yes . #
No I have to sort of . #
She said to sketch balloons just go like that . #
I'll go down to get though . #
Excuse me ? #

He could be a toy boy . #
I was so ill the next day Gill . #
And I just felt really ro , was she sick ? #
Ha ! #
Ha ! #
I felt so rough . #
Yes . #
I had about two mouthfuls and then I just thought , no ,I'm going home . #
I haven't #
Yeah ! #
Oh I forgot about that actually . #
Oh well , never mind eh ? #
It's all for a laugh , a drink . #
Were you ? #
Could wait hours . #
Won't #
it ? #
I was gonna make a little basket for it like a hot air balloon . #
Yeah . #
That's alright . #
And then I have to set fire to the bottom bit . #
Did you ? #
Well you should have invited me round and I could have been the guy . #
What's wrong with it ? #
No well I was a bit gutted that they had loads of post , I didn't get any , and like #
they were even living there . #
Some of them are , but #
some of them li , I think one of them's #
the landlady #
I dunno . #
I think er , I would . #
I wouldn't want to ,but you have to do it . #
That's terrible ! #
I had to clean my erm my new desk out in this room before I bought it with me #
And found these erm pack of cards of page three girls . #
Eighteen . #
Eighteen . #
Pack , erm page three pack of cards . #
No , only one , with that girl in from er , Baywatch . #
I think she's gorgeous . #
Erm #
Bob , yeah . #
She was in , in that porno magazine . #
Yeah . #
Nice ! #
Quite sweet . #
Oh ! #
Peculiar bunch aren't they ? #
Urgh ! #
It's hot . #
There you go . #
We don't come in next week . #
It'll be Shakespeare or #
That's what I was thinking . #
Yeah . #
I think #
Chaucer poetry ? #
You did Chau , #
Oh . #
It'll be yeah , Paradise Lost #
Yeah . #
Well I missed , I missed #
so I think so #
do I , do they allow you to miss the week as well ? #
You're allowed ? #
I got my ba , interim report . #
You had to phone up . #
It came the next day . #
Yeah . #
Shocking ! #
Post ! #
I got a mass of parcels as well before for the , for the house for our house all the girlies . #
No ! #
I just said oh can I have some reports of all the students ? #
They said , how many do you want ? #
I said have you got anything else ? #
So she sent me sort of leaflets as well ? #
You know about those #
Oh you're not in our group . #
Ah ! #
Ah ! #
Can't tell you . #
Nah ! #
Our group . #
There's Angie . #
Give her wave . #
She's looking . #
Really ? #
What that one on , when you say #
Blimey ! #
That's a quite a lot . #
And lo , Lucy's said eh ? #
I might change actually . #
Really ? #
well so long as I can easily change . #
Hi smell ! #
What did they say ? #
Oh ! #
That much ? #
You intend to tell Aunty Catherine all about it . #
Is that what it is ? #
You feeling better #
Angie . #
! #
Be cagey why don't you ? #
Really ? #
What ? #
Mm . #
Tired . #
Are you ? #
The other day I had cos I er , dreaming about brain scans #
every form imaginable . #
And I was , I dunno , but erm , I must have been run down as well and it's a bit like going to #
it was just everything #
just in one go . #
I was asked that #
and nearly died ! #
I laughed my socks off ! #
My mum was sitting in the room . #
Ah ? #
Funny ! #
So what did they say ? #
Really ? #
So what's he given you ? #
Well I've gotta go . #
I don't like that . #
! #
Are you sleep #

a sleeping pill . #
It's awful ! #
There's nothing worse than #
that . #
Why ? #
You bored with it ? #
I like that top . #
Oh . #
Gill , you going to Kingston ? #
Will you buy me one of those from Mark One for three pounds please ? #
Whatever they got . #
Whatever you think would look nice . #
Whatever . #
When did you get them ? #
Is it still in there ? #
Three quid ? #
Oh that's good . #
What else did you get . #
Erm this is gross ! #
No , I think you should #
go personally . #
I get about thirty quid if you stand on the right corner . #
Ha ! #
Sorry . #
Sorry . #
Oh ! #
Cheap ! #
Mustn't be a very good job then Gill ? #
Urgh ! #
Yeah , she's coming . #
Mm . #
Oh ! #
I could do that . #
Da da . #
Oh it was so cold this morning Angie cycling in . #
I nearly died ! #
Then met up with Carl and about ten other people so we had a little , a little erm convoy . #
Ha ! #
Ha ! #
Ha ! #
A convoy into college . #
I'd be alright as long as I could go on a route where all I had to do was turn left but as soon as I turn right #
Get into trouble . #
Yeah . #
That'll be alright . #
And roundabouts , roundabouts are bad news . #
What right through the middle ? #
He'll be up , I presume Wednesday or Thursday . #
Marion ! #
Don't be such a nerdo ! #
They'll see you coming a mile off ! #
A car . #
She's just gonna go #
and buy one as you do like a jumper . #
Just see one that she #
likes the colour of . #
Yeah ! #
My cousin . #
Yeah . #
Well , yes . #
C reg C reg Fiesta , how much do you reckon a C reg Fiesta costs ? #
, just don't be impulsive . #
Yeah . #
They've changed the whole of the shopping precinct . #
No , major trauma is Martin's got a girlfriend ! #
Major trauma ! #
I was writing to my friend Darren moaning about it . #
I know , it's exciting isn't it ? #
But he didn't tell me he'd been going out with her for three weeks and he's never . #
I wasn't happy . #
Might do . #
I'm seeing if I could be bothered or #
! #

You know what Marion's like . #
I'll do my best . #
What ? #
! #
No . #
No . #
No . #
That can't be right . #
Surely ? #
Surely there is a mistake there ? #
What actually ge , what did you get from Marion ? #
A what ? #
! #
A plug pet ? #
Ah ah ah ! #
Float , you pu , you put your plug in and it's attached to the plug and it floats on the top of your bath when you're having a bath . #
It's excellent ! #
So excellent ! #
Yeah ! #
Oh oh , well , I nearly bought you one for your birthday . #
Ah oh . #
Yeah I know . #
That's why we got one I think . #
And I think my shower costs about ten P cos I'm not that quick . #

Ooh ooh ! #
What ? #
A novelty . #
Er what ? #
Knowing Louise it's until midnight #
She has what ? #
What she makes herself ? #
Did you ? #
She was ill . #
Yeah but we don't mention that , we just have cos she was pissed . #
Well it's supposed to be drying at the moment . #
Look at this . #
I'm only joking . #
Yeah . #
So did I ? #
So did I ! #
Oh it was lovely ! #
It was so nice ! #
No , Gill didn't , but she's , she's the odd one out . #
It was really nice . #
Yeah , it had tortilla chips with it . #
That was really nice ! #
You had that last time . #
That rice was too hot when I had it . #
The rice is really hot , like spicy hot . #
No . #
She didn't come with me . #
She wouldn't leave early Marion . #
She wouldn't leave early in case she missed anything . #
I said I'm going , she said I've gotta stay . #
No , not #
. #
She got rid of him . #
How weird ! #
Does he know all about Ben then does he ? #
Does he ? #
He's jealous . #
Who's got #
a black felt tip pen ? #
Oh you have there . #
Do you spend a lot of time at Alison's ? #
They must know to phone you there . #
Huh ! #
Really subtle isn't it ? #
And like , delicately hanging in the #
corner . #
This massive balloon thing . #
I am actually . #
No art next week . #
Planning for our #
assignment . #
So what she's doing drama , continuing drama or #
did she have a choice ? #
Really ? #
Oh right . #
She'll be alright . #
She'll love it ! #
Yeah . #
I'd go mad . #
Yeah . #
Cos Like I , I have Mondays off and I'm in the house on my own . #
No . #
Mondays is alright #
but that's #
I don't get , well I'm not really scared #
I just cook my food and do washing #
and anything but work . #
Do you ? #
Yeah . #
Thinking about what you're having for you tea , that's what I do #
all day . #
Are they ? #
I have lovely dinners . #
Sweet corn ? #
Mm mm ! #
Oh yum ! #
Mm mm ! #
I made sweet and sour chicken yesterday and put it in the freezer . #
Oh oh ! #
There we go . #
Never mind . #
I know I keep saying never mind , never mind . #
I wanna see the Tina Turner Story . #
That looks quite good actually . #
Oh well I really want to see that . #
It's alright , they're our lot class . #
Perhaps I could call you Sarah ? #
I meant Sarah . #
I meant #
I hate going to the cinema . #
I'm always and I was frightened so much . #
Seriously though , . #
Go , let's go . #
Yeah , that's what I reckon . #
And I'll help her . #
Yeah , actually I'll #
Yeah ! #
Me . #
I'm such a good friend . #
I'm taking Angie out to cheer her up . #
Got yourself a new top ? #
Where from ? #
Two ninety nine ! #
Yeah . #
I like that one . #
I'm sending Gill off to get it all . #
I'm sending Gill to get me loads of tops back . #
That was two ninety #
that top . #
And she's got a polo neck . #
Yeah but two ninety nine is a MacDonalds #
meal . #
Yeah . #
And you wouldn't you'd spend it on a bottle of wine . #
D'ya know what , whenever I feel guilty about spending some money now , I just think about how much I spent at home . #
I did . #
What else have you bought , clothes then ? #
Oh ! #
How much did they cost you ? #
Are they #
Exchange it . #
Say I wouldn't believe #
that . #
Have you got it all in pine ? #
Where ? #
Who did you see ? #
Sarah . #
If you bre , if you break that one #
You can put your leg on that now if you want . #
Just get nabbed to do something else by them . #
And the bloke with #
Yeah . #
We have got to . #
Yeah . #
Oh it's so cold , I've gotta get warm . #
Just have a game when you go round Sainsburys . #
And the first couple arguing over which brand of #
toothpaste to get #
let them . #
Did he charge ya ? #
There you go . #
What you going on about ? #
Oh yeah . #
Oh good . #
Well we had massive Yings yesterday ! #
Ying . #
They were massive ! #
It's much better than Ying Yang Yongs . #
No . #
Oh it's #
really nice ! #
I had lots of it . #
I don't like garlic . #
I think , I think Mike said it all really . #
I was going to Mike , go on have some more . #
Honestly , I felt so bloated . #
Yeah . #
You what ? #
We thought it was terrific #
Marion . #
He's seen us before . #
I had a boyfriend once like Tin-tin . #
Met him on the way to Kingston . #
Yeah . #
Looks like Tin-tin . #
Yeah , he dragged me all the way to London to go and buy some beef . #
And she was just like #
You told us not to tell you . #
Weird ! #
Why ? #
She is coming from . #
Because she's got no friends though . #
No . #
Yeah . #
Nothing . #
I don't think I could . #
Do they ? #
What has that girl got on ? #
Ah ! #
Oh well #
So what do we need to hang these up or something ? #
Right , we need to get something to put it up with . #
How are you gonna carry it home Zoe ? #
You'll #
look like a right wally ! #
Marilyn , buy me cream cake on the way home . #
No I'm won't share ! #
Well , well , well mm mm mm , what did you say ? #
See their remnants . #
Yeah , actually , I think I will do . #
Ta darling ! #
See ya . #
What ? #

Yeah , it's so much extra time . #
Yeah . #
You just waste so much time . #
It's like half , half an hour , well I mean casually like #
about half an hour , a good half an hour sort of waste every morning , every afternoon . #
You wasted two hours a day in and out and in and out of college . #
Yeah . #
Well cycling takes eight minutes . #
I keep going ooh ! #
Ooh ! #
Trying to see how , how quickly I can get home . #
When you're in a rush . #
Yeah . #
Yeah . #
Yeah it doesn't seem worth it sometimes . #
I must start using the library . #
I'm so bad . #
I must do . #
Gotta try and do some transcription transcribing #
tonight . #
Yeah . #
It's really annoying . #
But erm I must start reading those books as well . #
But I'm gonna find it a real bummer . #
Gotta tr , like Shakespeare . #
And I've gotta try and look at some poetry . #
You can , you ca , yeah , see I haven't got a clue . #
Yeah . #
Well yo #
you can sort of bluff your way through to a certain extent . #
In Shakespeare . #
Yeah . #
It's all very strange . #
Erm Dunn , erm Kitty said . #
Don't know what he's like . #
Bought my Paradise Lost in a second hand book and I ga , shop , and I gave it to Marion . #
Well she kept moaning saying , oh I wanted those books ! #
So I wrapped them up and gave them to her for her birthday . #
With her pet plug , or plug pet even . #
It's so cool . #
Pet plug . #
Yeah . #
Hello darling . #
Pet . #
Have you got change on you ? #
Oh I'll just have to go to the shop . #
Groovy ! #
And buy some sweeties . #
Ha ah . #
Ah ! #
Which is better ? #
Ha ha ! #
Ah ah . #
Oh it's not so cold now actually , it's not #
it's not too bad . #
Oh it was , ah , it was so cold this morning ! #
And I was like joining the traffic trying to do my coat up and I heard this , Cathy ! #
I thought , bloody hell is that ? #
And I was Carlton . #
And there was like a massive convoy of people behind him . #
There's me like in a , trying to do my erm jacket up and trying to keep warm . #
My hands were freezing ! #
Yeah . #
So #
You'll have to excuse us a sec . #
Oh dear . #
It's really such a nice smell . #
All this Indian music . #
They got to . #
No this is , cos Marion and Matthew they like Indians and they go both me ma , start again , they like Indian meals and they've been round to quite a few and they said this is the best one they've been to . #
This is really , really nice . #
Mm mm . #
They were really impressed with it . #
What do you want to drink ? #
Coke or something like that ? #
Yeah I'm driving . #
Just get me a Coke . #
Oh right . #
It's easiest . #
Mm . #
I don't think I could handle it . #
Lovely . #
You can never see , it's so dark out here you can't see #
Yeah that's right . #
like , coming in and like the windows are so dark but and and #
Ah . #
one thing about these places they're nice and warm . #
They want you to drink more apparently . #
Oh . #
Don't normally go for Indian much actually do we ? #
Mm . #
Don't really think of it . #
One of the things we're learning to cook indoors aren't we ? #
Not like this . #
This is proper , proper stuff . #
Oh . #
We had nice erm when I went to Angie's they did like proper Tandoori chicken with , they made up and erm all these other , they did a er chick pea and something else like Indian thing . #
Really , really nice . #
Oh she's , so she's up in Sheffield ? #
Yeah . #
Really nice . #
Lovely thanks . #
Er , can I have er two Cokes please ? #
Diet Cokes . #
Diet Cokes . #
Okay . #
On the tab again please , thanks . #
Diet Coke ? #
Ooh ! #
Is your eyesight getting bad mate ? #
Definitely . #
Erm , I asked if they were having it in braille and then , and then er #

feel my way along the page . #
Why you're lovely ! #
Actually I had one of the , when we went out with Robert I had a Phall which is erm it's like you get all , all those different di , dishes #

obviously not got , you get like little amounts , I don't know how big , erm #
Yeah . #
and little pots with each one . #
Oh I see . #
Really , really nice . #
Is that for one then or #
Yeah , no one . #
Is it ? #
That's great . #
Really , it's really nice . #
You get everything there that you want . #
I was really impressed . #
I think the last time I came I had erm a chicken thing . #
A chicken no a king prawn korma I had and it was lovely . #
Which is like #
korma , it's very mild . #
Oh it actually , didn't , yeah . #
We had a medium I think we might have had a , or a king prawn curry or something . #
Medium is just , is just nice . #
What do you normally have with that then ? #
Just erm , some sort of pilau rice or something . #
And where is it ? #
Oh yeah . #
Pilau rice or any , well any rice really . #
Get , get a get a couple of poppadoms . #
Get a couple of poppadoms . #
Or get four actually cos they're lovely . #
You get all the little erm they bring you around all yo , the little chutneys and things . #
You know , like like pickle #
Oh I see . #
and stuff . #
And erm #
Oh that's great . #
onions and other stuff like that . #
It's really nice . #
Very nicely done . #
Get four of those . #
And oh next to my house . #
Can you , can you not see ? #
Not really , but no . #
Oh what can I have then ? #
Dunno . #
Have the lunch . #
Er er I had duck yesterday #
It was so long ago . #
Did you ? #
I had duck yesterday , you know . #
Was it nice ? #
What sort ? #
Very nice . #
What Peking or #
No , no , no #
Oh just like roast ? #
Yes . #
Very nice . #
. Oh well what are you going to do ? #
Oh actually I I think I would go , I'll go for this er mild korma chicken . #
Oh ! #
What are you gonna have #
Mild . #
with it ? #
Very #
Erm #
mild . #
Oh . #
Yeah , well I don't want #
Very mild . #
Yeah , very mild . #
Oh . #
I might have the king prawn one actually . #
King prawn ? #
That's the , that's the medium is it ? #
No , I might have the king prawn korma , but I dunno . #
But don't #
I see . #
Where were we ? #
Yeah okay . #
I think #
Well what's #
I'll have the king prawn korma actually . #
Erm four poppadoms #
Yeah . #
And then we can get two different rice . #
You can get pilau rice and a mushroom rice ? #
Yeah sure . #
Be nice . #
Pi , pilau #
And that's and a , and a paratha but I dunno what they are , we haven't had those I must admit . #
Erm just ask them . #
Some sort of bready thing . #
Paratha Where are they ? #
Paratha #
In the starters ? #
No . #
Okay . #
Okay ? #
See what that #
Can we have four pla , of the #
Four , four please . #
plain ones ? #
Yes please . #
Cheers . #
It's really nice as well because you when you got they like hold the door open for you and you know give you a #
Oh ! #
you feel very like you know #
Mm ! #
what's the word ? #
Chivalrous ? #
Is that the , I don't know . #
Yes . #
Chivalrous . #
Cos when you get your takeaway they erm they carry it to the door for you and give it to you when you get to the door , and they hand #
Oh ! #
it to you . #
It's very nice actually . #
Oh ! #
Whe , when we went to the one in Twickenham , James really like it sort of go out for a ni Indian meal and stuff . #
Quite enjoyed it . #
Lovely . #
Thank you . #
Thank you . #
Thanks very much . #
Thank you . #
So when's his tour ? #
Oh er , it's er late July early August of ninety four . #
Oh ! #
Not long really . #
No . #
Oh . #
Lovely thanks . #
Thank you . #
Alright , thank you . #
I'll take the first one , that one is sweet . #
It's so nice . #
You just dip in like that do you ? #
Yeah . #
Or sort of put it ,wha however really . #
Or put bits on your plate and then just like put this is a , I think this is a lime one . #
Mm ! #
They taste a bit different actually to the ones we had . #
They don't like , used to have a little . #
That one's quite hot I think . #
That's erm something or other . #
Or just put it onto your poppadom like that . #
Easier to put it straight on . #
Mm . #
So we , with your pensions and things is mum , what about mum does she know what about the state pension and stuff ? #
Well mum can draw a state pension when she's sixty or something on what I pay in into the scheme so you #
Oh . #
get it on one . #
Because she hasn't worked , nothing ? #
Mm . #
Well , so and th , and the husband #
So married woman's like if their husband left them and they're at work well how do they , how are they covered ? #
Or are they not ? #
I don't know . #
I don't know , it's , it's er it's a little harder to say the least . #
Is , if they we , if he's left I suppose she would get the , the single , single person's thing . #
Oh right . #
But it's not so much nowadays though . #
You have a the problem if the husband remarries . #
Yeah . #
Er , er , you know , who gets the #
I suppose it's pretty difficult really . #
No you can't . #
Sorry . #
Erm , with mum i i i is fine because she could from my point of view so , and also as regards the , if anything happens to me , then she gets a pension from the bank she gets #
Oh ! #
a widow's pension from the bank #
Oh right . #
so that she doesn't so we get nothing for #
Oh right . #
It's quite good to work for a big concern like that then really ? #
Oh yeah . #
And of course even that's going to change as time goes on . #
Really ? #
So what happens like , with me ? #
Like teaching ? #
Do I need to do I , they don't do anything #
Well you may have , you may have to look after yourself in fact . #
Yeah . #
Cos obviously it's different for you . #
That's the thing . #
Erm er it will be see if you can pay into something #
Mm . #
er soon after you start your job . #
Yeah . #
I'll think about it #
So , say as , say erm , say by the time you're you're probably , mm , I dunno , thirty . #
Yeah , cos I'll be working well I'm twenty one . #
I'm doing a third year I'll be twenty four #
Mm . #
when I qualify . #
Seems sensible to start as soon as possible really . #
Well you can start off with you see , a small sum as regards an insurance policy . #
Yeah . #
Then take the twenty five or thirty years . #
Is that what you've done ? #
That's how you're paying ? #
No . #
The two , the two insurance policies I had of erm er the house were on #
Oh right . #
and when we moved I think we had a new insurance policy to cover and the others became mine . #
Oh right . #
That's why it's very important cos I haven't got my early matured pay from Roberts and the other one in fact matures next year with everything attached to it except for one #
Oh right . #
of you , for you . #
Yeah . #
And the lump sum I can then could put in mum's name to avoid . #
Yeah . #
paying tax on the interest . #
Oh right . #
And then just utilize a little each year . #
Yeah . #
Oh right . #
We should get help with James though shouldn't we ? #
Well at the moment , I'm working on a nil return for #
Oh . #
James so , if there is something , all well and good . #
Oh yeah . #
I don't see how they can justify I mean , anybody , unless you'd got mega bucks #
Mm . #
you're just paying out that amount of money and suddenly in one goes' a big ,bi , like quite a shock . #
And you might like , on paper , have the money like , by the end of the like , year or whatever but paying it out in one go or #
Well the thing is they're not gonna get any wind of erm what so he's gonna get sacked . #
Gone into erm money . #
And that way , any interest on erm it becomes tax free . #
Yeah . #
Oh ! #
So again , I have to be careful because real interest is gained on this money that's in grand mama's name . #
Or grand mama's account which is in Claire and er Nigel's . #
Yeah . #
There's not that much there though is there ? #
There's enough . #
Really ? #
Yeah , it's erm #
Did you have a good time when you went up to King's Lynn ? #
Yes . #
It was very pleasant . #
The the journey up there was erm #
Mum said , your mum's going a bit mental ? #
Oh , probably is . #
To put it politely . #
I expect she is . #
Does she see your brother much ? #
She sees Geoff , yes , but when she calls round . #
Really ? #
Mm . #
Oh good . #
Well my , my brother , well I , I'm , I'm happy she's er that she's comfortable #
Yeah . #
er i in her place . #
It's been wonderful ! #
Mum said it's really nice . #
Mm . #
What is it ? #
It's not is it an old people's home or is it something she paid for ? #
Along , along th that sort of line . #
Erm you have a war , warden who lives on , the premises you have contact with the wardens and if there's any problems you can #
Yeah . #
pull a cord and they erm use a #
It's a bit like the one we we , went to see Aunty Mary's when we to #
Oh that's true . #
tidy it up . #
And this is really what #
So is it , is it private or or erm #
Well it's her trust . #
Oh . #
It's her trust . #
So she pays ? #
She pays a certain amount , but erm you get erm #
Subsidised . #
That's right . #
Yeah . #
This is really what Ma-in-law should have done . #
Yeah . #
About the same sort of thing . #
Oh yeah . #
Well , just to sit there it's a , I , I , know mum was fed up . #
Sorry ? #
Mum's fed up . #
Oh yeah . #
She was telling me the other day . #
But it's just #
But erm #
I dunno , it's just so awful ! #
Well #
It just turned everything so sour . #
Mm . #
But it probably was , I mean probably deep down if we didn't see her , probably got on quite well with her . #
But you , you just see to much of her that now #
Yeah . #
that it's just got no got no wanting to talk to her or #
Mm ! #
or no , you know , anything . #
Well no , you see #
Well perhaps she's got nothing to say , but she doesn't do anything . #
I don't know . #
But the problem I became very angry years ago with that because , I mean Irish Close and we had the three of you we found that she'd , she just kept on telling us off . #
And , oh , I'll go in , get th Catherine's present , I mean , it wasn't and , there was no thought at all toward #
No . #
the children . #
Yeah . #
And as I say , there was always one I remember that sticks passively in my mind when she came over in one December five weekends on the trot ! #
Yeah . #
Mm mm . #
I was going mental ! #
Well that's it . #
So what did she say to you ? #
Nothing . #
Well , #
I do , I hope but we appreciated Claire and Steven had her more than we had , but you know , we've had the odd times we've virtually been across there a month or something like , but but when you have a position where you have five #
Yeah . #
people in the house #
It's very stressful . #
I'm sorry , you know , the woman , I , er , I've tried to tell her in no uncertain terms there #
Yeah . #
isn't a space there . #
Well not if it's not designed for it . #
I said to her , I was saying it to Mum earlier , if that was me with a family , I'd wake up to the fact that you're pa , I , I I , there's too many here . #
Mm . #
And course it's reached the point of no return now where she she can't do anything for herself . #
Well there's nothing , yeah . #
You just can't do it . #
But if we , what she has done is soured the relationship with us #
Mm mm . #
between Claire and Steve , and also between Claire , Steve #
Well it's #
and herself . #
Yes . #
Which is such a shame because like , we all ,wi , we all get on really well with William . #
Sure . #
You know , like more , more brother ,si #
Yeah . #
brother sort of sister thing sort of thing than anything else . #
But , you know , you don't wanna keep her off . #
Mum and Aunty , you know , Mum and Aunty get on well , and we all get you know , you get on with them as well , and all types of stuff . #
But there is an underlined current there #
Mm . #
which is erm , Mum is aware of . #
Oh definitely . #
But you know the situation is it's like Mum should not expect just because Claire and Steve go away that it's immediate pack your bag it's gonna co #
Yeah . #
and , and settle down in Brentwood . #
I'm , I , I'm sorry . #
It's happened too many times now that she's #
You can #
really just , you can't break it . #
You can break it but the thing is that I warned her , er , you know , as long as they get through to her hold on that that's very nicely set up if she twiddles her #
Yeah . #
and will continue to , to , to , erm so that the , the , the set-up should never have been created by her . #
Very , very difficult . #
Well that's why I said to you , and , and Laura , er to James , no way would we get ourselves in that position for you you have your lives to lead #
Yeah . #
get on with it . #
There's no point ruining a good relationship by #
That's right . #
Yeah . #
things like that . #
Just turns everything sour . #
So how was your weekend #
Ah . #
in Sheffield ? #
Did you go wa , get around to see much at all ? #
Erm , not much . #
What did we do ? #
The Friday we finally got there at about the traffic was so bad because Friday night as well . #
You'd gone up in , oh yes . #
Erm #
Do you want a bit more ? #
No , I've had , I've had erm two already . #
Erm we went out #
Go on . #
Can't remember . #
Can't remember what I want now . #
Right erm could I have the er the mild korma down here please ? #
Yep . #
And the king prawn korma . #
And the king prawn korma . #
Not for me thanks , no . #
Erm what do you want the , the the paratha #
Pi , pilau , yeah . #
One of those do you ? #
Yeah , just one . #
And , we wanted ? #
One pilau and one mushroom #
One pilau and #
one mushroom #
and one mushroom rice . #
And one mushroom rice . #
Yes thank you . #
Do you want any nan bread ? #
No , I'm fine thank you . #
No , thanks a lot . #
Right . #
Thank you . #
Okay ? #
That's it . #
Lovely . #
Thank you very much . #
Lovely , thank you . #
Yeah so , Friday night we went out with her friend Helen and another friend where she works , and this other guy . #
It was really good actually . #
We went into Sheffield right into the city and went to a pub . #
It was pouring down with rain though . #
So heavy ! #
We got so soaked . #
We couldn't find a taxi so we thought well we may as well start walking . #
Yippee ! #
Oh there is it ? #
Oh ! #
What's happened now ? #
Looks a bit dead to me . #
! #
I had a little chat with an old man today about his flowers . #
So he smiled at me . #
Yeah , so he was cutting his like flowers off , so I said oh they're really nice . #
He was telling me that they'd died of the frost or something . #
But he gave me a good smile and a big goodbye when I left him so . #
Oh I see . #
Where was this , down Lincoln Avenue ? #
Jus , just there Gloucester Road , I was just coming back from Witham . #
It's the roads you know where our house is ? #
Just #
Yeah . #
the road sort of , sort of here . #
Oh ! #
I see . #
Yeah . #
That's where it was . #
Only takes about takes about ten , not even that , to get to Witham station to get like to London and Kingston and e all your other sort #
Oh I see ! #
of stuff . #
Just sort of up that way . #
Oh yes . #
So that's good #
So it's quite good #
isn't it ? #
So it's quite , cos I mean Strawberry's Hill's about twenty five , twenty minutes , like the station , walk away . #
So it's easier to go to Witham . #
You have to change #
Mm . #
at Twickenham though , that's not too #
Oh oh . #
bad . #
But you can get to London in about twenty , twenty five minutes by car . #
Oh . #
That's alright . #
And as well , as Vicky's on that line as well . #
Vicky . #
So I can get straight down , she's about four or five stops away from Witham . #
Oh yeah . #
So I must go and see her . #
I was thinking maybe next weekend I might or meet her for the day #
Yes , you must . #
or something . #
Yeah ! #
Well you'll have to go down there . #
And she goes to Richmond quite a bit as well . #
And Dave , her boyfriend's just started at Roehampton . #
So we're all sort of in the same , very #
Yes , oh yes you must #
close vicinity #
well #
so we're all gonna go out for dinner or something . #
We said #
Yeah . #
when we're all settled in . #
So I must give her a ring this week actually . #
I didn't realize how close we were . #
I'm so , I've #
No . #
got no sense of geography , like , I just , didn't really , haven't got a clue . #
You should , you should ge , if you look on a map you can , you can judge where #
I know you can , but really I can't I just want a detailed like , even a detailed train map . #
Yeah . #
Cos er , all the ones they have on the trains have got like Strawberry Hill and all the , that's all included , but then you buy a general map and we're all sort of cut off . #
Well then #
Yeah . #
I haven't got a clue where I'm going . #
No . #
As for buses , I er , just haven't got a clue . #
I never used one before until I came here . #
Well , it's one of things you have to , I think you learn fast about er u using a #
Honestly I #
train for #
I really haven't got a clue . #
a form of transport . #
So I don't even know names of roads , just tell people where I'm going . #
Yeah . #
Haven't you supposed to er , er , have bought a local map yet ? #
Yeah , but I'm hopeless ! #
Mm mm . #
I just like , I just like , I know places , like I was told when I was meeting the girls yesterday , I didn't know what road I was going on I was just telling like , people names of the pubs and luckily this , like , bloke behind me getting on the bus , said oh you need a like , a seventy P or something and that's when I knew where I was going and everyone's like telling me where to get off , everyone gestures to me . #
I'm , they must think I'm so thick ! #
I just sit there looking completely lost waiting to see this pub go by before I know I can get off the bus . #
And that's the way it goes . #
Oh right . #
Bit of a hopeless case come to think of it . #
Maybe you should take a map with you Cath , because then you're able to follow the , where you are . #
It's just such a worry though . #
Well no , no . #
No , no . #
Take the , take the map with , stick it in your bag . #
I just tell everyone I'm new in the area . #
So I just say I'm really new in the area . #
So my taxi driver like whizzes past my house , I go , oh I'm new in the area . #
The thing is do , I don't think I'd know . #
I wouldn't know how to get a bus . #
I wouldn't have a clue where to go . #
Oh no , I'd , I'd , I probably wouldn't either but er er , the thing is , it's the he e , having to live here for well say , at least three #
Yeah . #
years it's really matter of getting hold of a map #
Oh yeah . #
a a and using it . #
I'm working my way slowly but surely #
Ye you should #
sh how to get around . #
How we doing for time ? #
Mm . #
Not bad . #
It's always busy . #
It's twenty five to ten . #
Ho oh ! #
My God ! #
Mm mm . #
Oh ! #
It smells so nice . #
Well , okay . #
You'll have to take mum out for a nice Indian once she feels better . #
What's happening for James' birthday ? #
I don't know at the moment . #
I haven't even thought about it . #
At least he doesn't want a party . #
You're safe #
No , oh #
with that one . #
Well the thing is , er , I , I can #
It's quite nice how sensible he is in a way . #
I , I think he's drawing into his shell there as regards friends outside the family . #
I think he realizes that er there's a heap lot of trouble out there #
Yeah . #
er er he could become involved #
Yeah . #
with if he just let go #
Yeah . #
Cos he's quite good in a , but it's so easy to get wrapped up with , obviously at that age it's very impressionable and very like they , they must look so big to a lot of people that they go out #
Yes . #
drinking or whatever , and causing trouble . #
The thing is that , really , that they all they've done is show themselves up . #
Cos #
Mm . #
I , I was surprised when I heard of sort of the things that had happened . #
Yeah . #
I'm sorry , but , you know , they're #
I'm impressed with the warnings . #
For phonings , warnings and phoning everybody up though . #
Yeah sure . #
Sure . #
I think that's re , cos that's #
He #
the only way #
Yeah . #
cos the majority #
Yes , you're right . #
haven't got a clue #
Yeah . #
No . #
what anybody does . #
Yeah I know . #
Ah yeah , I , I would think myself that I was also , er rather sorry that the boy doing had just shown how silly they #
Silly . #
are . #
Even in somebody else's house you #
Yeah . #
just show respect . #
Oh , yes . #
I mean , no matter what you're doing yo , or where you are you just show respect for other #
Yeah . #
people's property or #
And the other thing is what , I just wonder what's gonna happen on this trip because erm , some of them are away aren't they ? #
Mm . #
I hope the master #
I think the teachers are gonna have to be there . #
Well , they'll be #
I think they're gonna have a tough time . #
Thank you . #
Thank you . #
Have two more Cokes I should think . #
Yeah , two more , do you want another Diet Coke ? #
Yeah . #
Can I have a another two Diet Cokes please ? #
Thank you . #
I think the teachers co , but I think the teachers realize what they are like . #
I think they're just gonna have to be really , really strict with them . #
Well , #
Well they would be o , they're representing too many people for them to misbehave . #
Well I , . #
I , I hope , in fact , that i , if one does th #
It's no ignoring it #
yeah , well the #
till it #
thing is , if one does in fact , they , they'd , they'd kick him off in fact and straight back #
Yeah . #
to the U K . #
But it's such shame cos it's , I mean it's such a chance of a lifetime I just wish the trouble #
Mm . #
would stop . #
I think you #
Cos I don't think , er no , I don't thi , there didn't seem to be any hassles with William's lot . #
No , well but er it , it , it's it just strikes me as being a very , very immature when you're in another person's house #
Yeah . #
Lovely thanks . #
Thanks . #
Another person's house and you really just start wrecking the place systematically . #
Yeah . #
It's sick ! #
You can turn them off . #
Well it's very jazzy in the surrounding . #
Oh yes . #
I think I'll have those in the bedroom window . #
Did you put my red light up yet ? #
I was telling Adrian that , you were putting a red light up in my bedroom that I as long as your brother kept coming home with all his friends . #
And then Martin turned up , and then you turned up and my dad's like I'm sorry , what's going on ? #
Yes . #
That's it . #
Come on mate , I'm starving ! #
No , no advances on his , on his salary soon . #
It reminds me a bit of , d'ya remember that place we stayed in Brussels ? #
Like und , that was underneath ? #
D'ya remember that res , you know when we went to Brussels and stayed above the sort of Indian restaurant ? #
Oh yes ! #
Yes I do . #
Thanks very much . #
Yes that was a little bit out . #
But , ah yes , I remember . #
Yes . #
Yeah . #
Cor ! #
You have a long memory . #
Certainly have . #
It's there somewhere . #
Do you remember it ? #
Yes . #
That's erm , that's quite a while ago actually . #
Well yes , a couple of years ago . #
It was when James went to Russia . #
Oh ! #
That was it . #
Er near , near er Skiptia #
Oh yeah , that's why he wasn't there . #
near Skiptov #
Oh that was it . #
Robert was in , at , at , University . #
Yeah . #
Oh that was it . #
She must have been away so we took flight . #
Yeah . #
That was good actually . #
It was quite nice . #
Except of course , I er , I , I couldn't read my road map there in , in Brussels . #
My goodness me ! #
Was a bit of a mare wasn't it ? #
Ah ! #
It was terrible . #
Because the thing had changed so ma , so dramatically from when I was across there , that was the first thing that stopped me . #
Yeah . #
And secondly , as regards where they were the road maps didn't seem that didn't coordinate that #
Yeah . #
well . #
Has he got a job ? #
I do , I er , well I presume he's still working in fact , with this er with the bank . #
Well I think the problem with , with what they have in Brussels now , they have so many underpasses in fact , and er , motorways that if you you come off the wrong it's a nightmare trying to get back #
Mm . #
on the damn thing again . #
Well I can't even find the M twenty five ! #
No . #
I was surprised it to ,we well going to this place yesterday er , on the directions we were with Tammy , she was reading them out and we come off the M twenty #
Yeah . #
five on the M four , the M four we look for er er exit eight is it eight ? #
Yes it is . #
After that , we started in trouble . #
We went into the village of that's right , we went to , saw the signpost for Bray , they said , when you come al , along the road , erm you'll find a signpost before the motorway , er , sign for the motorway on yo , to , to , to Bray . #
Oh yeah ? #
Bang ! #
We were on the motorway #
where's this bloody sign ! #

So , we went along for , about five minutes , couldn't pick anything up so we stopped and asked this , someone where Mo Monkey Island was . #
Oh you have to go back down there and turn er , left underneath , underneath the motorway . #
But , when we came back , yes , there's a sign there , but it didn't tell you the other side , you have to come #
okay #
You have to lose your way , come back , yeah . #
That's it . #
So we we , we turned down this road , through the village and we couldn't find Monkey Island . #
Oh ! #
Oh ! #
Oh alright . #
Fair enough . #
So we stopped again . #
I went across and yes it's , you have to go back er a a a again , and when the road narrows , just after the , the , the narrow in the road , you take the first left . #
So , up we go the road narrows straight past the first left , there isn't a sign for Monkey Island at all . #
Mm . #
I said , what the bloody hell's happening here ? #
So went in the car park , turned back took the first er er , er well I did a right then #
Yeah . #
there it was , suddenly at the end of the road , Monkey Island . #
But you know , everything else said it would be signposted , yes it's great . #
Well it would be , yeah . #
Ah ! #
Really great ! #
And we weren't the only ones who said they lost out cos it er #
I'm not surprised . #
Terrible ! #
Terrible ! #
So what is it , a , an actual island ? #
It's an actual island , yes , and you see #
And how bi , quite big , it must be quite big . #
Is it big ? #
It's not that large , but it's ,yo yo get a #
You just take it over for the weekend ? #
Well , we , we , we ,mo most people there , there were nineteen of us , but there were a few other people there on , on the place itself , and what you have is er , a bridge from the mainland across to the island #
Yeah . #
the th , the , the Thames in fact , must go underneath . #
It's quite a fast ride and it's quite high too #
Oh I see . #
because of the water . #
But this was a boat was saw s , over the up the side of the mainland , in fact , which had been er whether it had been tied up too tight in fact I wo , now , now for leeway and the thing had just sunk . #
Oh . #
Oh blimey ! #
Yeah th , the water level's just #
Really ? #
just a , you know , way up above the the main er #
thing , yeah . #
But , there's the the main , er , hotel that you book into and you come away from there to the dining area and erm and the reception #
Oh I see . #
Oh quite pleasant . #
Must cost them a fortune . #
Mm mm . #
D'ya get everything paid for ? #
Everything paid for . #
Well I gather everything's paid for , all , all the #
all yo , if the clients had to pay for anything it would be for one newspaper and one telephone call home that was all . #
Erm #
Did they like your phone bill from erm #
Oh crikey ! #
They won't be paying for that . #
Where was it ? #
Oh bloody Geneva , er , Switzerland . #
That's it . #
I couldn't think where you'd been to . #
Oh . #
No ,i , it should be that . #
The worst of it in fact , er , as I say , Friday evening I didn't have a lot to drink I was determined not to have a lot because I , I find the reaction #
It's not worth it just for one week is it ? #
and then Sa Saturday , well , I went , well this morning I went through some , I got up at half past six I did some #
Why d'ya get up so early ? #
You know just to well ease myself in really . #
I , I , I woke up at half past six , I got a call #
Mental man ! #
er , no not really . #
Really ju , just , it just , I , I got everything ready , I was out . #
I had breakfast at seven sent up , up to the room , ah and then just watched the , I , oh yeah , watched a bit of television news , put some music on the television . #
Cos you can put the channel just to show the time and #
Oh right . #
and one or two others . #
Oh that's right . #
Erm , and then , I , I got out the room about er twenty to nine . #
Oh ! #
I was one of the lucky ones because they were having done that the others in fact left it until later and in fact they took , they , they called up for time . #
Ah oh . #
You know . #
You're not as dumb as you look are you ? #
No , no . #
Well the thing is , I got caught once before in the other place when I went to Manor of the Groves where I tried to book out erm and found I was late for the first erm #
, . #
first erm meeting . #
Give your apologies as you walk in #
Well yes , and I thought well , you know , okay , I did it because I was wondering if #
You know these , these , V P's #
V P's , yeah . #
sits down and says . #
So this time I was determined not to erm , get caught . #
And it's paid off . #
It was a , a nice place . #
Nice and sunny . #
Ba , I had #
Yeah . #
lunch , we , we had a , er er , from half past twelve through till till quarter to two erm and then went back inside . #
But you , you sat outside for the best part of quarter of an hour , twenty minutes , cos it was so sunny . #
And it was a #
When the weather's nice it's just lovely , really nice #
Oh it's beautiful ! #
Yes . #
It's just and it's so , it's like it was raining the other day when we went to go out and just could not be bothered . #
It was really #
Mm . #
pelting down . #
Oh it was when we were gonna go to the cinema and I phoned Marion and I said no , I really cannot be bothered , it's just pouring down with rain , had to #
Yeah . #
get the bus and I thought , oh er so luckily Lisa sa , like they said , oh don't be silly we'll come and get you . #
So luckily , they like drove round and picked me up #
Oh I see . #
and just brought me back again , which is fine . #
Right . #
But , just when you've got no transport and it's #
Mm mm . #
pouring down with rain it's it's just such an effort to motivate yourself to get up to #
Oh God ! #
Yeah . #
It's like when we had no wa , like heating or water , it was such an effort to get yourself up #
Yeah . #
to get ready to go out and the #
Yeah . #
just , cold showers and stuff are like #
Oh bloody hell ! #
not on my list of like pleasurable er #
No . #
things to do . #
Just like , no way ! #
No I I mean ,we , I say , we sat out there and the peacocks are there peahens . #
Oh yeah ! #
Oh really ? #
Mm mm . #
I see . #
I say , it i , it's nice , I mean , unless you you really know about it you have no idea at all . #
No . #
No idea . #
I suppose a lot of business might be done through word of mouth as well . #
Mm mm . #
If anything . #
The kind of thing you ought to do with with mum is like , you could probably go down one Sunday and have a , have a , you know , have a lunch . #
It'll be #
Yeah . #
visit #
It's not that far is it ? #
Well it took us , as I say , an hour and a quarter . #
Pick me up on the way . #
Ha , ha , ha ! #
Joke ! #
I see , so we go round the M #

twenty five , up to the M four #

yes ! #
Yes . #
Any minor detour . #
Any minor detour . #
There'll be convenient roadworks at Twickenham . #
I see . #
Well I got one or two postcards of the place , you know , the , I got er #
Yeah . #
a description of the place . #
It's er , only got really a hotel , Monkey Island , that's all . #
Oh oh ! #
So #
Very good . #
This is lunch Monday , oh it's Monday to #
Well you got the number anyway . #
Well , yeah . #
We'll have to make a booking . #
Right . #
Lovely , thanks . #
Er er now then #
Food ! #
here we go . #
This is hot is it ? #
That's a bit , yeah . #
Don't touch them . #
No , this ? #
Yeah . #
It is hot . #
Put your hand on and see if it's sticks on like burning flesh . #
No , I don't #
I don't know . #
No this is a wee bit hot . #
Oh yeah . #
Yeah . #
Okay . #
Fine , thanks . #
Lovely , thanks . #
The paratha #
Mm . #
Lovely . #
we can share it . #
Yes . #
Certainly . #
Yep . #
Lovely , thanks . #
Should have thought about it and got a different sort of erm temperature thing in instead of two kormas . #
Oh well not to worry . #
Well okay , not to worry . #
What korma's that ? #
Oh . #
Lovely . #
Thanks very much . #
Thanks very #
Thank you . #
much . #
Right . #
Alright . #
I'll just do half of this and then eat it . #
Actually I was gonna have that , that bit . #
Save it . #
Yeah . #
Cos , . #
Yeah , that's boiling hot . #
Help yourself . #
Ooh it's lovely ! #
No , I , the thing is erm I'm not a very hot curry man so I #
No . #
just sort of this is mild . #
Nice bit of bread . . #
Oh no . #
That's nice actually . #
Is it ? #
Bon appetit . #
Mm mm ! #
It smells , can you smell on the food , it's lovely . #
Mm . #
Weren't , although erm I was told that my father died of that so that er , I should do you mind #
What , from smoking ? #
cutting down ? #
From smoking . #
Did he ? #
Oh I didn't realize . #
I mean he died of , cancer , cancer of the lung , cancer of the lung , yes . #
Oh I didn't realize it was that . #
Oh I see . #
Mm . #
I didn't realize it was from smoking . #
And they said that er yo , you're you'll be war , the signs would then , in fact , that er there was a link up #
Mm . #
with that . #
And until that I didn't reali #
Oh I didn't realize he died cos #
I , I , I , carried on smoking for a number of years after that . #
Well you never think it's gonna happen to you as well , for , I mean , anything . #
You never ever think #
But the thing is , with a number of these older people that smoke I , I think they probably had mainly better tobacco , er , there's probably too #
Yeah . #
many bloody chemicals added #
Yeah . #
now that do have a , a , sort of a lasting effect . #
Yeah . #
I mean the majority of them now it's not even worth them stopping , and I mean , most of them are like in their eighties and not , er eighties and there's like the amount of damage they've done #
Well , it , it , it , it's terrible it's #
by them stopping it's not gonna really do anything . #
it's the only , the , well they probably ta spend about you know , half an hour of that trying to get up and stop the coughing #
Well ,Ma , you know Mark who stayed with us ? #
Oh yeah . #
His chest is so bad , it really ma , it's a bad smoker's cough . #
Oh . #
Horrendous ! #
And he , he reckons he smokes way too much . #
Mm mm . #
But basically that's because of #
Well yes , the #
his family , you know #
family , yeah sure . #
Sure that's always outlet . #
sort of understand , yeah , something you've , you know , why he does it . #
Which is really sad . #
He's a really sweet guy . #
But erm #
Just thinks too much and smokes too much . #
Well well I do , I heard it over the weekend in fact , that I can er , have er , another BUPA medical to start with . #
Really ? #
Er , yeah . #
At the place just not far away from er , where I work . #
Oh that's quite good . #
So I , I mean , I've got to go in for that . #
Did you , what , do you have to pay for it ? #
No , the bank pays . #
I see . #
Oh that's really good . #
Every , yeah , well one can have it every two year , er #
Oh . #
having said that , the last one I had was er I had at le , I think at least four years ago . #
Yeah . #
So yes , it was very nice indeed . #
That's lovely , thank you . #
Very nice . #
That's very enjoyable . #
That's alright . #
That's okay . #
You're a bit busy in here . #
That's okay . #
No problem . #
I see you've got quite a full house here . #
You came to us highly recommended anyway . #
Yeah . #
Thank you . #
Ooh ! #
Thanks . #
Thanks . #
It's quite nice to get checked out and then , to know that everything's alright or thin , that anything that's wrong can #
Yeah . #
be stopped if you get it , if you stop it early #
Well #
enough . #
well I think #
What's that for ? #
it has a , don't know what it is . #
I suppose they must put these in the the oven I would #
Yeah . #
think , is er right ? #
They have loads of them . #
Put them on most of the tables I think . #
Probably save them loads of money as well . #
Oh well . #
No thanks . #
Doesn't it ? #
Suppose #
What ? #
they've got loads of money if they they sort you out #
Oh sure . #
now ? #
Yes . #
Yeah . #
That's right . #
So what do you want for sweet ? #
I don't know . #
I might have a sweet actually . #
Mm mm . #
Mm . #
I think it , you've got to have one for a change . #
Oh right . #
Okay . #
Oh that's lovely . #
I'll just settle for that . #
They're steaming actually . #
Well you get them they're really , really hot . #
Lovely thanks . #
Right , which one ? #
Thanks a lot . #
They're lovely ! #
They're so nice . #
Phworgh ! #
Oh Lordy , Lordy , Lordy ! #
A novel way to use your oven isn't it ? #
Cor ! #
It's gorgeous ! #
Mm . #
Mine's not gorgeous . #
That's gorgeous ! #
Bit of a . #
Round the ears . #
Round the ears . #
Mm , it'll clean up . #
Yeah . #
Yeah . #
That's all we came here for , you know . #
Well , yeah . #
Cocktail . #
Cocktail . #
Really . #
No er , no it's #
No er #
lovely actually . #
It's all lovely . #
Yes . #
I'm really beaten now actually . #
Yeah . #
Well it's a #
It came at the right time . #
E each of them approved . #
Yeah . #
Am I still covered under BUPA ? #
I think so . #
Erm , I , I wa , when I get into work on Monday I'll have to find out . #
I'm not ill or anything so don't worry at the moment . #
Er , but I , I , I , I think erm I think had it out up until Robert is baby . #
He , he's joined his own wo , he's joined his own . #
He joined his own , but I mean when he was at college . #
Yeah . #
I think he said he was covered actually . #
Well I don't know . #
Well I'll find out so , at least then er , if there is , you know , you're #
Yeah . #
aware of , of what #
Yeah . #
one can do . #
Well , it's , it's very , very handy actually . #
Oh sure . #
It's a very good thing #
That's right . #
if you've got the money , sort of , the means to do it #
Well I think #
then do . #
the bank pays and it #
Yeah . #
comes out from from #
Ye #
from my tax . #
Yeah . #
I do , I'd , you know , from that point of view , as regards er health in this kind , but to know that you're covered rather #
Yeah . #
than er #
Oh yeah . #
er ha , have problems er er er , er when , when you #
Definitely #
require something . #
It's so much easier . #
Especially like my tonsils and stuff . #
That was like the day I had them out was the day that my first N H S appointment would have been and it it's like , you know #
Yeah , er , yeah . #
what's the point in waiting around ? #
Well #
Those tables things are quite good aren't they ? #
Those little hoover things they use ? #
Oh yes . #
Over there . #
Mm . #
Very interesting . #
Well it's different innit ? #
Mm . #
Much quicker though . #
.Not very big actually is it ? #
Big restaurant . #
No . #
I would have thought it would have ex extended by the door #
No I don't think it does . #
but it doesn't . #
It's the #
Ah perhaps to the toilet . #
There's loads er like , in the window when we , like newspaper articles and things where it's been recommended and stuff . #
Ah I see . #
For , you know , they all , all put them up . #
Well d'ya know what I haven't to your place yet , the , fireplace . #
I haven't put the up . #
Oh yeah . #
Well you can do that before you go . #
I just hate lying , when you suddenly hear these things come down on , just have visions of like a a po pouring out . #
Yeah I , I , I think what it is , it probably needs a clean . #
Definitely . #
And er I was gonna , er er , look up the thing . #
Don't , it doesn't work apparently . #
Cos Jim who was in there last year said it didn't work when he was there . #
Oh oh . #
So I don't , I don't know if it's attached or anything , I don't know . #
I'm not sure . #
I haven't been gassed yet anyway ,so I don't think any gas or anything's coming out . #
No . #
And you'll find your stuff's staying there ? #
No I kept a couple #

of newspapers but er #
Well I've , I , I bought a stack with me in fact #
It's . #
so , so , if I #
I know , I wondered why you brought the Gazette , I thought strange ! #
No , you can have a read of it if you like , but I'll scrunched the others up there , stuff them in there , stuff #
Bit of local news . #
Eh ? #
Bit of local news . #
Bit of local news . #
Mm . #
Stuff . #
Oh . #
Seems like ages since I've been home actually . #
It's go #
Yeah . #
time's gone quickly really here , really quickly . #
But on #
Well #
the other hand i , it does seem , seem #
well you've been occupied here haven't you #
Yeah . #
really ? #
Er , that's the thing . #
But then , it just seems like ages since I've been home . #
I think I've spoken to mum nearly every day this week actually . #
Yes . #
She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she couldn't get any . #
I can't believe that we're not going . #
So gutted ! #
I mean , he doesn't like them ! #
No . #
He never liked the band . #
And he's going to see it . #
And I can't even get one ticket . #
Go and buy myself one . #
I'm gutted ! #
I really am . #
You'd think he would either apply for another one or , or let you have his . #
I've told him , if anybody's ill and his offers on there I'll be there . #
It's just such a shame because th , the one day I knew they were playing it was James' birthday . #
Oh . #
And it seemed to silly to get on because obviously something was gonna happen . #
Yeah . #
And I didn't know they'd done any extra days . #
But they added them and nobody told me . #
Oh . #
I'm not happy ! #
Are they that good ? #
Definitely . #
Only band I want to see playing in the world . #
How far are you up to ? #
Oh I think I might have finished my tape actually . #
No , no , it's still going . #
Only got a little bit left . #
Oh really ? #
Yeah . #
For Sat , for , for next week I've got to transcribe some of it and do it . #
As part of my project . #
What is your , is your ,ha ha , what happens then ? #
Yo you listen to this then do you and type up ? #
I , er er er #
Well yeah I've got to try to transcribe it . #
Oh . #
Lovely thanks . #
Thanks . #
Mm ! #
Well have a a cool thing . #
Actually Indian sweets , I don't fancy that at all . #
A Bombay Cassata Lemon delight , phworgh ! #
Orange Delight . #
That's sorbet . #
That looks interesting . #
Cointreau flavoured ice cream formed in a miniature replica of a Cointreau bottle . #
Erm Mella Mentha Creme de Menthe Italian liqueur ice cream . #
No . #
Yuk ! #
Coconut supreme . #
Coconut ice cream . #
Yeah . #
I don't fancy coconut thank you . #
And mango , exotic mango sorbet filled into a half mango skin . #
Oh dear . #
You like mango don't you ? #
Yes , I like mango , but I think I'm gonna go for one of these yo , had across here . #
I'm having er er , lemon . #
Yes , I , I was looking at that one just now . #
What's the other one down the bottom there ? #
Orange . #
Orange Delight . #
Or a Bombay Cassata . #
Delicate blend of #
Can't read this blood thing here ! #
mango , pistachio , and tutti-frutti flavoured ice cream sprinkled with cashew nuts . #
No , I tell you what it is , it's the light , it's too dim . #
It's like our one in the bedroom . #
No , no , you're just blind mate . #
Old age . #
Old age . #
Thank you Catherine . #
That's a Bombay Cassata , what's that then ? #
I've just read it to you , you blooming #
Okay . #
banana ! #
Yeah , what's it say ? #
Combining a delicate blend of mango , pistachio and tutti-frutti flavoured ice cream sprinkled with cashew nuts . #
Yeah I'm gonna have Bombay Cassata done . #
Yes . #
What's for you ? #
I'm gonna have a , a Lemon Delight , I do believe . #
A Lemon Delight . #
Okay . #
I do love a lemon sorbet ! #
Okay , one Bombay , one lemon please ? #
At the double ! #
Wo oh . #
That's a bit threatening there . #
On you get ! #
Mm mm . #
Right . #
And two elephants to take us home please . #
Indian , of course . #
Indian , of course , yeah . #
Er , er right . #
No , could we have one we , Lemon Delight and a Bombay Cassata please ? #
Is it possible just to have a glass water ? #
Lovely , thanks . #
You're splashing out there aren't you ? #
Oh ! #
It's gotta be done . #
It's gotta be done , yes . #
You're doing it . #
I can see that . #
Wahey ! #
The sky's the limit ! #
I only order water when I'm not paying . #
How would you know I'm not paying ? #
Cos I'm gonna run out of here ! #
I take it we're leaving pretty quickly ? #
No I , I had a feeling that I was gonna get landed with the bill there . #
Dear oh dear ! #
It's the reason you came to see me . #
I thought it was a matter of going Dutch . #
I dunno . #
That's only on dates , you're my father . #
Is , oh oh . #
You #
That doesn't count . #
Well let's see if I've got any money . #
My God ! #
I think I paid it in . #
Makes me laugh ! #
What a joker , eh ? #
Mm mm . #
But those tender young hands will be plunged in those dishes yet . #
I'm used to it . #
I do the dishes every day . #
Quite a dab hand at the washing up at the moment . #
Yeah . #
Yeah . #
Got a lot less at home than erm #
I'm not doing , I'm not doing it , I've piled it all up and left it . #
Yeah . #
Well a cup of whatsername stuff I poured down the sink upstairs rather than get it kicked over because if they come back in a silly state then they'll knock it all over books . #
Sure . #
Oh #
So #
don't worry about that . #
That'll be their books upstairs . #
Ah but it's silly because the thing is ,th the they're , well the ,th those ,th those two rooms look as if a bloody tip has hit it ! #
Oh yeah . #
Well that was the room as well that we had the leak from so then we had the neighbour up there . #
There's a massive erm I don't even know what you call it , of dope like #
Oh yes . #
this , er in there because I , I hid that because I mean , I don't know er like if anybody , I mean I only know what it was cos somebody told me #
Yeah sure . #
like if anybody else saw it it just looks like a piece of dirt . #
And it was , honestly , it was such a mess and Angie and I were like , oh this isn't our room . #
Oh this isn't our room . #
We had to like tell her about five times so they knew it wasn't our room as we like took this guy in it was like books , everything was , there was so much crap on the floor , we had to get through to get to the radiator so that our next door neighbour could try and like stop it from leaking . #
Oh dear ! #
So embarrassed in case they thought it was us , and you know like , really embarrassed . #
I saw him the other day and he said ah yo , have you , not leaking yet is it from that radiator ? #
He was really friendly actually , he got him out , and it was quite , sort of good to help us with it , you know , I just didn't have a clue . #
Especially when you have like , we had boiling water pouring out of there . #
You know , like trying to stop it with our finger #
Yeah , sure , yeah . #
and it was ju , it was burning our finger #
Yo , yes sure . #
And squirting #
And they #
the #
yeah , they had like like three towels . #
It's only , it's only a little thing isn't it , in fact , with the thread on ? #
Yeah , that's what fell out . #
Yeah . #
I mean , I dunno , obviously it hadn't been done , or maybe Angie undid it too much or whatever . #
Undid it too much , yeah sure . #
Yes you'd have to be #
And then just it was , it was literally spurting out #
Yeah . #
and it , we thought it would stop , but obviously , the water's #
No , no , no . #
been pumped through #
Pumping through , yeah . #
And course it's got , pushing it #
So we still had all this boiling water #
Yeah . #
and we didn't think , and sort of , then we realized that had to sort of like turn it off and that might help a bit , but boiling water , we're trying to stop it with our finger . #
And of course the pressure of the , the heat was just like killing us . #
Mm mm . #
Soaking wet towels everywhere , water spurting on the wall , and like everywhere #
Oh God ! #
Yeah . #
And you got , in the end we just laughed . #
And it , it came through to you ? #
It came through yours ? #
Yeah . #
Because , I suddenly , oh that was even funnier because I was I suddenly went Angie I think we've got a leak , and it was like all on the , all in my windowsill and sort of like came down and then , luckily , she said she only realized because of what I did last year , leaving my sink on , that it goes through the floor , otherwise , none of what , we wouldn't have realized . #
So , then she said , oh right , I'll get on your desk just to check that it's alright , so she got , took my work essays off , and she got on my desk and then I said , oh I'll help you down , so she sat on my desk to get off and of course it's not attached #
Oh ! #
No ! #
so she leant forward and whole thing went flying forward . #
Angie went flying off , my pens went everywhere ! #
Oh God ! #
And we just lay on the floor laughing because it was just getting from bad to worse . #
What happened to your word processor ? #
It was fine because I'd moved it , luckily , I'd #
Oh I see . #
And then about erm from about an hour , about half an hour later after we'd sat down we're just laughing our heads off because the gi , they'd gone down the pub and we said no , we'll have a quiet night in . #
And then about half an hour later Mark turned up completely out of his face ! #
Oh no ! #
Cut leg cos he'd kicked a car and his leg was all bleeding so he had to #
Oh ! #
like try and mend that . #
Then he went to go to the loo and nearly did a complete backward flip down the stairs . #
Oh God ! #
And then he went into the bathroom locked the door and it was just silent . #
And , like , we left him there for about five minutes and we just didn't hear a thing #
Yeah . #
cos we were wo , we all got really worried , we're like , Mark . #
Thank you . #
Thank you . #
I wanted a Lemon Delight . #
Yeah . #
Mm . #
Sorry . #
Thanks . #
Didn't think that looked like a Lemon Delight . #
And erm #
Delicious ! #
Oh ! #
Wanna take this stuff as a souvenir ? #
Well I'll take the umbrella , yeah . #
Oh . #
Great ! #
Tuck in . #
Start . #
No that's alright . #
It won't get cold . #
So of course , it was deadly silent in there for like erm oh it won't get cold ! #
I've just heard what you said . #
Oh dear . #
I'm on the ball tonight . #
Someone is slowing up . #
It's getting late . #
So , like we all , we're all set to barge the door down . #
We're banging on the door going Mark , are you alright ? #
And there was no answer . #
So we thought I , so we said look , we're gonna have to break it down . #
Course we like , started banging the door and all of a sudden we heard this really like , laugh , you know Mark #
Oh God ! #
having a laugh on our behalf . #
So he came out and we really slapped him hard ! #
We thought that was #
Oh God ! #
really out of order . #
But , and then he , he's like , we left him on the sofa and said oh Mark we'll be back in a minute , like , turned all the lights off hoping he'll like pass out you could just hear him like laughing to himself for another like twenty minutes and we're #
Oh God ! #
in the kitchen going , we just wanted him to pass out . #
And then luckily , it suddenly went really quiet and he obviously wore himself out and like was having a sleep . #
And we're just like , oh God ! #
And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . #
Oh no ! #
Oh dear . #
And then I , I was coming back from lectures at , as he was like leaving our house and he looked a really sorry state . #
He'd put this massive like , plaster on his leg and he was going oh I'm a nancy boy cos I've got a plaster on . #
So we wrote nancy boy all up his leg on this plaster . #
And he walking round with these shorts on from last night , and his like , dirty T shirt and this big plaster with nancy boy written on it trying to get home . #
Has he found a place now then or is he #
Yeah , he's gonna be in Isleworth . #
Which is quite a way out actually . #
It's #
What's #
on the way to #
and he's gotta , he's gotta come into here has he , every day ? #
Yeah . #
Bloody hell ! #
Yes . #
Yeah . #
I'm just waiting for a Lemon Delight . #
So , yeah it's erm I think he's living with Marion told him about the house , it's one of the girls who was in English last year with her , Maureen , he's living with her and another girl , and another boy . #
Oh I see . #
He seems to be fine so , it seems to be working out well . #
Too , too long a journey to get drunk every , each night won't you ? #
Oh eh ? #
Oh he does it anyway . #
I think he'll just crash at our house . #
He knows he's #
Yeah . #
he's more than welcome to crash at ours . #
I mean , it's quite , it's about yeah , I don't know , he said it's about a forty minute walk or something . #
Or a ten , fifteen minute cycle ride . #
Oh yes . #
Our cycle ride's just about long enough . #
And he's , he , he he doesn't #
It's get #
drive ? #
the worst bit is Lincoln Avenue and Meadway , once you get to Meadway it's sort of like you know , it's like #
Yeah , sure . #
Yes . #
that is , well that is , and that's like the longest , even #
Mm . #
like the longest bit , the walk into college seems to be , that bit . #
Yeah . #
Cos the rest of it is just basically straight across basically you're just cutting across . #
Oh I see . #
Well yo well basically all the ma , there's like three or four main roads and we just cut straight across it like it . #
Mm mm . #
And everywhere , like at Strawberry Hill Station and college . #
And that's you know , the worst bit seems to be Lincoln Avenue , just seems to go on forever ! #
Yeah . #
Luckily , we're no further down , I think we'd die ! #
There's quite a stretch though there . #
Yeah . #
You can ca , and it carries on for miles around as well doesn't it ? #
Joining on the motorway bit . #
Mm . #
Made it for me specially . #
Yeah . #
Quite nice . #
Is it ? #
It's beautiful . #
Mm . #
Bombay so ,si , er er up there will be out now . #
It's quite nice thought because it , you're getting exercise as well and , and you've got to do it to get into #
Mm . #
college so yo , you know ,yo whereas at home if you've got the home i , it's easier to get , you know , to get in a car . #
Oh sure . #
The weather's a bit grotty or you know , or you're not feeling too good , it's easier to get a car , you know , to get a lift in with someone . #
I don't mind cycling . #
What they've done they've put this onto a warm plate , that's why it's melting so much . #
Oh , oh ah ! #
Everything's kept in ovens round here . #
In these little Baby Belling type ones . #
I wonder how much money they make ? #
They do pretty well . #
Oh yes . #
Right . #
That's alright . #
Lovely , thanks very much . #
, I got a brolly as well . #
Mm mm . #
Take that off . #
Go on break it . #
Go on . #
No , no , no . #
I shan't break it . #
There you #
Oh well #
are . #
you win it . #
No , I'll have to give it to you . #
Cheers honey . #
Er Mm ! #
Gorgeous ! #
Is it ? #
Mm . #
Want a bit ? #
No I don't really like not really into those sort of flavours . #
You can have my cherry though . #
Mm . #
What is it , pistachio I might have a bit of pistachio actually . #
Nice actually . #
It's nice and light . #
Beautiful ! #
So what time do you expect your friends home this evening ? #
Don't know . #
If they've gone to the see this , to the see , Goats don't Shave then I doubt they'll be back till a , about midnight , one o'clock , if they get the train back if not , tomorrow morning or something . #
Mm . #
Well they're altogether so I suppose #
Mm . #
in that way they're relatively safe . #
So don't sit up worrying about them . #
But erm they're bloody daft if they did what they did last time anyway ! #
Oh yes . #
Cos I was gonna go with them and then a , just would have costed like , quite a bit it's about seven pounds to get in plus your stuff , like ,wai , transport there and transport back . #
Blimey ! #
Plus , you'll er , you'll have a , like a couple of drinks there , even if it's Cokes or anything , but your you know , it'll still be a long night . #
Yeah . #
But apparently , it's meant to be really good there . #
Really good erm like Irish , sort of pub . #
Mm . #
Pub . #
But I would , I will go there sometime . #
But I . #
Lovely . #
Mm . #
Is yours alright ? #
Very nice . #
Want a bit ? #
Oh that's nice . #
Something cold and refreshing actually . #
Mm . #
Cos next , well the week after the reading week we've got , we do the first visit to our schools that we're doing our T P in . #
Oh oh ! #
Will your transport be laid on or #
I don't know what , well the I mean it's all paid for so we'd either depending how many people are going away or whatever #
Yeah . #
then erm there #
What's #
might be a coach . #
If not , apparently , they've worked out how everyone will actually go to school . #
So , you'll see . #
So I'll just see . #
But we'll be told beforehand , or I'll find out . #
Cos also , I don't mind , mind going on public transport as long as I know how to get there . #
Yeah . #
Yeah . #
If I'm told to get the whatever bus . #
Yeah . #
Cos I , otherwise I'll be no good at working it out for myself . #
Mm . #
Wouldn't have a clue . #
But I think , I , I think I'd get a train straight through but I don't really know . #
How often do you that then ? #
Well the train . #
Cos a few people are further out than me so cos Angie's just up the road in Hamworth . #
Which is like just a se , it's about twenty minutes walk from our houses I think . #
Oh . #
So it's fine . #
Cos loads of us are gonna be getting back into like evenings when you're really tired . #
Cos what's , well what's quite good is you do a week and then we've got , it's our half term so we've got a week off . #
Mm . #
And then we do another four weeks . #
Oh . #
I think the first week is just sort of basically erm we share with the teacher and only do , say , a couple of lessons a we , couple of lessons a day #
Sure . #
and maybe like read to them at the end of the day or whatever . #
The , I think , well then after half term then it's more us , we're the teacher and we sort of take it after #
Oh I see . #
half term . #
And what sort of age ? #
I'm with erm nine and ten years olds . #
Mm . #
Year five . #
Yeah . #
I think so . #
Oh yeah . #
I know , but I've never ever taught that age group before . #
Well thump them one will you ? #
Every time they get cocky , thump them ! #
Yeah . #
I've only taught erm seven and eight year olds . #
So it'll be quite an experience . #
Mhm . #
It's gonna be so exhausting though . #
You get , we get assessed on it as well . #
Oh well . #
You fail those things and you're out basically . #
Is there a , is there , is that a fact ? #
So you really have to have a sort of strong character and in you go . #
And so #
Yeah . #
Basically lesson pattern stuff . #
Cos when we go in after winter break that's when we'll find out er what topics they're doing so we can plan our lessons and #
Oh I see . #
fit in with whatever , like their curriculum . #
Well if you want anything er er photocopied or put together let me know won't you ? #
Cos I can always sort of #
Yeah . #
nip down of a a weekend , collect it and then #
Yeah . #
erm bring it back to you . #
You know , if you need , it's a sort of trip of a an evening . #
Yeah . #
Oh cheers . #
Well you're nearer than Robert was , yes . #
Yeah . #
Cos it's not too bad . #
It's really handy . #
I , yeah , I don't mind two hours on the motorway , it's , it's , it's nothing at all . #
It's a you do a two and half hour stretch there and then a two and a half hours stretch back it's a #
Yeah . #
rather heavy going . #
Well it's so handy though . #
It's really like , like a big plus side to it . #
Mm . #
I mean , especially if James is gonna go in London as well . #
Just so much easier to get just to know that if ever like you know , eight or nine o'clock one night for whatever reason I wanted to come home I could be there like myself , in an hour . #
Oh sure . #
Yeah . #
Or people could be up within #
Yeah . #
an hour to see me . #
Well just , in another way , it's more of an effort or whatever to get people up . #
Most people that I know have got cars . #
Yes . #
Like Martin , and he's got no excuse for popping up . #
Well , I suppose er , he said he'd come down this time , so #
Mm . #
now he was at Richmond . #
And I phoned his house and he didn't phone back . #
Oh my God ! #
He was down the pub . #
Beast ! #
Dear oh dear ! #
And he doesn't even drink ! #
Him and Stuart go down , they have their half , half a Coke and , cos they know the landlord where we did our er #
Oh yeah . #
clay pigeon shooting . #
In , he loves it . #
Just goes there , chats to the landlord and comes back burning up down the country lanes as he goes . #
