# 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 . #