(unclear) you realize in Coronation Street that Charlie's going off with Tania

I know (laughter)

and u ehm Racquel marries Curly

I know

and then Des just disappears

that's terrible I've just had (NAME) on the phone because you know I rang (NAME) up right just before you came to see whether she would do it but she was in the shower

mm

so I was waiting for her to ring back so that she just rang back then ehm just before you came and ehm she was saying 'oh I saw (NAME) when he came back from your house like' I goes 'oh did you speak to him' she went 'oh no he just we just sort of like smiled'

was that the other night

ehm what day is it

it would have b

Friday

it would have been not last night but

Wednesday

yeah she said that she saw him

yeah

because I was out with her last night

because he rang up when was it think it was Wednesday morning or Wednesday afternoon

mm

and he just went 'what are you doing tonight' and I went 'nothing' he went 'oh I'm coming round' I went 'okay'

aye (unclear)

'fair enough' (laughter) 'just do what you want' so he came up here stayed here until about half ten

aye because ehm we went round to ehm they called on us about

who was there (NAME) and (NAME)

just (NAME) and (NAME) yeah it was about nine o'clock maybes quarter past nine and ehm he went 'oh what you wearing tomorrow night' and this and I was 'show them your dresses' doing my bit fashion show

(laughter)

and all this and ehm we were walking down

mm-hm

and ehm in the end like they're deciding what to wear so they were there until about it would have been about quarter to ten and then we went out

mm-hm

and ehm (NAME)'s mam and are away that weekend so everyone was going to go back to (NAME)'s but ehm

oh right yeah

instead they've decided to ehm stop at (NAME) aye (NAME) no (NAME)

(NAME)'s (laughter)

(NAME) (unclear)

(NAME)'s

and ehm so they're stopping there so the they w had to go to The Jingling Gate to find them but I mean I had my jeans on and my short T shirt (laughter) and ehm

(laughter) great

everyone's 'are we not going in are we not going in' and all this

mm-hm

so ehm ended up going in her and (NAME) were there (NAME) didn't say a word like and then eh

(NAME) never does (laughter)

she's lost a lot of weight mind but like

has she oh well never mind

she's in all new dresses and all that but ehm she's ehm so we were just sorting that out so we're standing outside (laughter) and we was just so like we were looking in the toilets for them and everything

mm-hm

and then we just went down The Bridle Path

you were you were there with (NAME) when you went in saw (NAME)'s dad weren't you

is that the time when we went with (NAME) when we went to see (NAME)

you went to see (NAME) yeah

yeah

she came in she says 'oh I saw (NAME) (NAME)'s dad' I went 'oh no' (laughter)

I like

didn't mention me (interruption) did you

she didn't because we were sitting here there was like a panel there and then they were on that side

mm

aye because ehm (NAME) and (NAME) rang that night they were ehm she's ehm

oh

oh he was in the paper (NAME)'s dad

was he again

for fund raising

oh he always is

so he's probably done something

(unclear) my hair curly

(laughter) aye how f come it isn't that curly at the top or is it just because you've brushed it out

it's just because I've brushed it back

aye it's nice

thanks so are you still going out tomorrow

tonight

tonight I mean

yeah but it's (NAME)'s (NAME)'s apparently having a party tomorrow from half four so I don't know if I'm going there or not we're going to

where at his

yeah

well I (interruption) don't know about it so

got his card but well I didn't until ehm yest yeah last night when (NAME) mentioned it the other day

that's why they would have been getting all the drink in and we were (unclear) sat over in there (laughter) watching them (laughter) like 'what's that they've got in their hands'

yeah from about half four because (NAME)'s baby sitting so she's going to be there the early part of the night but if I go it's just going to be from half seven eight o'clock after church so (pause) good

I might come along see what I'm doing

mm I've got his card but ehm

I need to get it

I don't know whether to get him a present or not

no don't bother

because (NAME)'s got him a big badge and then mam and dad have got him (unclear) Michael Bolton tape

mm-hm (unclear) happy with that then

aye

(laughter)

and ehm (NAME)'s got him The Cranberry's tape

mm-hm

(NAME)'s (pause) she's either copied the Brian Adams or she's actually bought him one because he's got hers oh he's still got hers

mm-hm

and ehm I don't know what else he's getting but it's like family and friends on (pause) Saturday night

mm-hm

so I might go down to (NAME)'s if I feel like it

I'll see what I'm doing I'm dancing tomorrow

aye

until half six half six

did (NAME) get off all right

half five he's not gone until ten o'clock tonight (NAME) went

oh

(NAME) went this morning at four o'clock

oh (pause) and then the

and then (NAME) goes tonight at about ten he said he was going to ring today

will you see him or not

I doubt it

has he

his mam'll probably be making him pack (laughter)

has he got any brothers

he's got a sister

is she going with them

no ehm actually I don't know (pause) she might be

how old is she

no I don't think she will be she's twenty

oh

she goes to university in Manchester

what's she taking

French (pause) I think something like that she's going for a year to work for a year in France

that's what my cousin's doing at the minute she's taking a year out and like she's got a pen pal there

mm-hm

but she's ehm (pause) she's actually like working in restaurants I don't know who if she's staying with her pen pal or not but (pause) seems good

yeah she ehm I was (pause) sitting at (NAME)'s house and she was (pause) looking at all the brochures and stuff because it's part of her course to go out

mm

to work for a year and she's ehm teaching it was a right laugh because we were looking through all these things and all it is is just fields and fields and farms and more fields

(laughter) I could never do it

and we saw this cow and she's going 'look that's going to be my only people' (laughter) 'I'm going to have to speak French to a cow' (laughter) (unclear)

how many is in the class that she's teaching does she know

she doesn't know she hasn't even got accommodation yet she's got to go over for a weekend or something to sort it all out

mm I know that ehm (pause) I don't know actually I don't know what she's doing I don't even know if she's still away I know she's taken a year out and then she's doing French at ehm (pause) Leeds and English (pause) Literature I think I don't know but ehm

(NAME)'ll be there by now (pause) she left at four o'clock

how long does it take

ehm well she left at four o'clock she's got well her flight was at four she had a three and a half hour journey so she'll be there by now

it's not where's she going

Corfu three and a half hours on the plane and then about an hour (pause) on coach to where she goes

(unclear) went off last night as well (unclear)

did she where to

she's gone to Kos with her sister

mm nice for her (laughter)

just her and her sister then there was all those sixth formers went off as well

(laughter) (NAME)'s made a pact to get brown before (NAME) and (NAME) get there (laughter)

you mean she's got a few hours (laughter)

mm-hm (laughter) (pause) she's got a day

is (NAME) going with (NAME)

yeah

oh

there's who is there there's (NAME) his mam his dad and just and (NAME) I think

and then (NAME) and her mam and dad

unless (NAME) might be going with them (NAME)'s mum and then (NAME) and (NAME) and her mam and dad

mm and (NAME) and (NAME) (laughter)

well we'll not talk about (NAME) and (NAME) because (NAME)'s got no

no he's stupid like well no he's not she is

(laughter)

but (laughter) since I don't know (NAME)

oh he's a good laugh I've known him for ages

so is he

everyone thinks it's dead strange (laughter) sitting at dancing and everyone's going 'oh (NAME) who are you going on holiday with' and she's going 'her boyfriend' and they were like 'your (pause) best friend's going on holiday with your boyfriend'

aye

and I was like 'it's a long story'

I would have been going but instead (NAME) took another friend

mm I know never mind

when's he due back

ehm fourteenth it'll be

and when do you go away

twenty second there's we've got a week in between

oh and then you're away for a fortnight

no I'm just away for a week

are you

uh-huh

so when's twenty second of July

mm-hm

that's when I'm going

is it

about I think yeah

yeah it will be

because (NAME)'s finishing school on the Thursday and then we're going to stay with my granddad for a week have you heard where we're going

no

have I told you

no

right Manchester for a week me and my sister

mm-hm

and then mam and dad drive down and pick we up we're going to Nottingham for a week to stay with you know (NAME) (NAME) well it'll be a laugh and everything because he just moved there recently

mm-hm

so mam'll tidy his house out and we'll go round

(laughter) as usual

well that's what she did the last time (laughter) and then after that we'll go down to Wiltshire for a week I went to Wiltshire last year for three weeks and (pause) where we're staying it's not that big so probably well I think I'll get bored

it was you that did was it you that stayed in the boy's home wasn't it the boys' school

the school yeah with

went on trampolines or something

well that was the first time

(laughter)

because the trampolines weren't out this time but ehm yeah because it's a school for s eh (pause) disturbed well not disturbed people but they've got problems and like they've got like rich parents who travel abroad and all that

mm-hm

and ehm he's (pause) I think he's like a social worker but he lives there

it's a bit like what (NAME) was meant to go (laughter)

aye probably

(unclear)

but ehm it's nice it's got like loads of videos and everything and tennis court the big field and you cycle down in the morning (pause) to get the paper

well I'm going to go on holiday twenty second of June so that's about three weeks and I'm just going to go and I'm just going to lie beside the pool and bake for a week (laughter)

I haven't

and that's all I'm going to do

I haven't been outside you know since we've broken up not like sunbathing or anything

I have I have been out for a couple of days just lying around

can you not tell

(laughter)

I mean ehm I haven't I've been been doing my room (pause) I think I've only been out like to pick up (NAME) from school and to cadets and everything (pause) but

mm I've been out in the bottom of the garden a couple of times I (pause) the week I was out when the weekend before the history I was out all weekend that weekend just

oh the exam

sitting in the garden revising uh-huh

was that when we had the week off was it that or was it the

no

second history

the second

oh

the second history and then the week after that like when I had my just last week

mm

when I had my geology I was just out revising that in the back garden

(unclear)

even if it wasn't sunny it was just warm

yeah (unclear)

I was just sitting out the back for something to do

you don't need to do too much of it anyway because you had a week

I know

(laughter)

didn't need to do too much of it in any case (laughter)

I'm glad they're over like

you are

just (pause) two more

(NAME) my last exam was (pause) yesterday morning

no it wasn't it was Wednesday morning (laughter)

well Wednesday morning I've lost track of all days Wednesday morning was my last exam

I did my I know it's the first of July today but I was getting lost on my dates and days and everything

mm have you heard about the new biology teacher

is it a man with a beard

yeah well I don't know whether he's got a beard or not but it's a man

somebo I heard somebody say that there was a new man in school with a beard it might have been (NAME)

I don't know because I was talking to Mrs (NAME) after the geology she said oh do you know how Miss (NAME)'s going up to deputy head

so it is definitely her

uh-huh she said 'ehm you've got a new biology teacher' she went 'you'll like him' I went 'why' she went 'he's a man' (laughter) I went 'oh typical'

aye he's probably about forty odd ehm (laughter)

mm (pause) sh he's meant to be a really good teacher and all

so is he taking A level

I think so

because it used to be Mrs (NAME)

I know

(unclear)

I'm not having Mrs (NAME) again I refuse I'm moving to college if I get her again

(NAME) said that if ehm (NAME) doesn't if (NAME) doesn't get the grades good enough and they're not going to let her in her mam's going to go straight to the board of governors because have you seen the bit of paper where it's mostly

mm

like A's and B's

no

I mean (NAME) and them were there

I know (laughter)

there was unless they're doing GNVQ but

they must be that's the same as me I mean I looked at the thing and I thought I mean physics you have to get an A or a B a C is negotiable I thought 'oh well that's all right then'

mm

at least a B in maths I thought 'oh with that paper I'm never going to get that'

thing is though if everyone found it difficult I mean Mrs (NAME) did say that it was hard

a hard paper mm-hm

so they might bring the grades up

they've all been hard though

it's like the languages it says A and B by discussion but I think I'll probably get a B in German so I mean

(unclear)

French I'll probably be all right in French but I think well there's only about two other people taking German that I know of so they (laughter) might welcome anyone with open arms

it's like there's there's only about four of us taking physics

you're doing geology as well aren't you

mm-hm

how many are doing that

seven there's quite a big number

who's doing that

me (NAME) (NAME) (NAME) ehm

is (NAME)

(NAME) possibly (NAME) (NAME) (NAME) (NAME) and someone else (pause) six or seven

because (NAME) I know (NAME) was thinking about it

she's not anymore after that exam (laughter)

so what's she doing

did you hear what she did

no I haven't

we had we had three specimens and out of the three specimens she got one right

oh g the other two muddled up

no ehm it didn't tell you what they were you had to identify them

oh right

and there was a granite ehm a spotted rock and something else a calcite

right

and she she put something like ehm a gabbro a schist and a calcite instead of the other two (laughter)

so how do was it just like using your acid and like (unclear)

we didn't have any acid that's what she's going to complain about because the w calcite

to Mrs ehm thing

Mrs (NAME) because it gave you a specimen of calcite and it said like it didn't didn't say whether it fizzed or not with acid and that's like the one diagnostic test for that

mm

and it didn't tell you of it you only had to do it like by tiny little (pause) sort of like (pause) cleavage and (pause) strange little things

oh right

like really (pause) but you wouldn't understand that (laughter)

yeah

you know it's just

and licking the rocks

yeah strange little things like that and it didn't tell you the obvious ones that you would have got it from straight away

so was it hard was that your practical just

mm-hm

identifying three rocks

no you had map work to do and you had to (pause) do that which was it gave you a really complicated map sh sh Mrs (NAME) said to us ehm 'you won't get a thrust fault on A level I've never seen it on GCSE I've never seen it anywhere in GCSE and I've seen it once in the whole A level course'

mm

what did we have a thrust fault (laughter) I was like 'typical'

what's a thrust fault

oh it's just

(laughter)

you know there's a fault that goes down it either goes up or down like that a normal fault

oh in the rock

yeah in the rock

right

and if it's a thrust fault like you've got it on diagonal and one goes on top of the other

so had yous actually done anything on that

we'd skimmed over it and she'd said to us 'right we'll do this just in case it's in'

mm good job you did

and it was (laughter)

so was that just all your practical was it the practical

yeah

so did (NAME) do all right in that or well you wouldn't know would you

in the practical I think that was the practical she said it was hard well everyone thought it was hard Mrs (NAME) said it was harder than the NEAB A level

mm is the Welsh board the best board for geology

it's the only board for geology they've all

oh

like joined together

is that is the sa is that the same as A level

ehm no it's NEAB A level

do you need to do the Welsh oh you do the NEAB A level

mm-hm and the thing is she said it that gives us and advantage now because one NEAB is based on you only doing dual science and not having done geology GCSE so it goes like right from the beginning

yeah and it s sets you up with the basics

and so that's basically a year of doing the same as what we've done and ehm (pause) it's like with the Welsh board being harder than the NEAB A level that'll make the A level seem easier

mm (laughter)

do you know what I mean because I mean with these exams being so hard

that's like the maths with you because this like ne this September you'll just be covering what we've basically what we've done so that should be all right

yeah was it level ten stuff

(laughter) aye and is it level nine as well

probably

that's all right

that's sorted some of it

I don't know whether to do maths and stats or maths and further maths pure excuse me

if I was doing it I'd do maths and stats because I think that's easier

I like stats but th on the thingie I got so muddled up

muddled up with it

it was the frequency distribution like I can remember it

mm-hm

I could remember it but the way I was working it out I was getting a a totally wrong answer

mm-hm

but I don't know what it was

well I did it in my in my head first like well on the paper

mm

and then I did it by the calculator and I trusted the calculator more (laughter) so I just put that answer down so I'll still get marks for method even if I don't get marks for (unclear)

yeah oh I should get marks for the method but ehm my calculator it's weird

strange (laughter)

it really is I was trying to use my sister's but ehm it was too comp well it the when I decided to try it out I didn't have enough time to like look at everything and decide and all that most of the keys were in the same place though

I had p I had a panic attack I thought my calculator had (pause) broken half way through the exam

(laughter)

I was 'oh God I'll have to go through half a maths exam higher maths without a calculator'

I could imagine (NAME) because you know how her old one where you used to have to bang it

bang it (laughter)

I could see her like banging this ehm calculator to get it on during the exam but she got a new one so

oh well that's all right did you put the trousers in for the

oh yeah do you know what it was ehm should have cost three ten

mm-hm

I didn't put the did I have I spoken to you since Wednesday

(unclear)

oh right well I went on Wednesday and it was shut

oh God

typical so ehm my dad finished work early on Thursday because he s hadn't slept well on

mm-hm

Wednesday night so about three o'clock we went round

mm

and it should have cost three pound ten per trouser s but like with the discount thing it was four sixty five

for two

so ehm

that's quite good really

yeah but if we'd got yours there was a bus ticket (unclear)

hiya (NAME) come in just come and sit down this is (NAME) that was meant to come in (laughter) we'll just (unclear) oh same shoes (laughter) where've you been

where have you been

I was standing at the bus stop (laughter) anyway we're just going to keep on talking

uh-huh

and ehm (laughter) what were we saying

what bus stop

where you said Ladybank

I was standing there for an hour

well I I got off the bus at quarter to eleven

well that's probably why because I'd just left then (laughter)

and have you been standing there all did you not see me walk by

no well someone sent us to the shops for a phone and then it was a phone card and then I didn't have a phone card

oh

so I went and I waited again and this man give us his phone book because I didn't know where you lived

uh-huh

so I looked up your address and then I eventually found somewhere

ah

ah (laughter) never mind eeh well anyway I've got my trousers so I'm going to bring them I'm going to put them in this afternoon I think

at West Denton there's ehm it's there's something wrong with the machines so they can't do one hour services or something so it'll take like two days so they'll probably be ready Monday

oh well that's all right then

you'll have to get them in now (laughter)

mm-hm I will I'll either do that or I'll go up to Westerhope and do it in the one there

I don't know where you mean

just beside Lotus beside the Chinese

Harton is it Harton Clean there

no it's something else I don't think it's Harton Clean something something else but they usually do them they'll do them for the hour I suppose

oh aye that's all right

I should get them done but I I I've got some old trousers to wear tonight in any case

(unclear) there's not going to be many people there

I know that's why I'm going because I'll need to get the any information for you two

(NAME) said that ehm he's got to pack for his (laughter) holiday (NAME) said he's working I don't think (NAME)'s going out

(NAME) might come to cadets

I think he is

I hope he does he's got to help me (laughter)

and ehm (NAME) (NAME)'s not there (NAME) won't be there (pause) ehm who else is there

(NAME) is on holiday (laughter)

well he's on holiday

in Turkey

mm

aye in the sun he'll come back with a

in the sun with the bombs

really good tan (pause) oh y eeh yeah

(laughter) did you not know (laughter) I came in

eeh I never thought

I came in you know how it the bomb went off and then he went on the plane like about two hours later (laughter) I was like 'oh great' and (NAME) came up and said 'oh (NAME)'s away at this place where the bombs have just blown up'

I didn't think aye because I forgot about that

that's nice (laughter)

when's he due back

I don't know but he's away for a he's away for two weeks and then he comes back and he's off to Ibiza for another two

eeh is it that soon they're going away

yeah I think it's he's been away for a week already hasn't he

yeah he went a f

yeah

week on Wednesday

he comes back next

(unclear)

week or something and then he's like got a week and then I go away and then I come back and then

and then they're away

the night that I come back they go

is that o oh and they're off to Ibiza

mm-hm there is there isn't an overlap like because you know how we thought there was

yeah

that I'd be in the same place there isn't because (pause) I come back on the twenty ninth at about eight o'clock at night and they go on the twenty ninth at about (pause) seven o'clock at night (laughter)

aye so like there is

(laughter) so it's sort of overlapping

oh

but (unclear)

didn't realize that

have you got your (pause) cooking lecture sorted out

(laughter) no (laughter)

do you know what you're doing shall I see if I can sort something out tonight for you

yeah I think I'm just doing soup (NAME)'s bringing us a gas stove because ehm she doesn't (pause) think that the cadet ones are good enough

(laughter) I'm

and ehm

not surprised

because I saw her on ehm (pause) Wednesday we were at school wasn't it

mm-hm

saw her on Wednesday and ehm she said 'oh I'll bring mine' because like cadet's I think they're small the ones there as well and Mr (NAME) just said that I'd be making ehm soup or beans or something

(laughter)

ehm (pause) just sitting there

(unclear)

you're at work on Saturday aren't you so you can't come to Killingworth Lake

no but if there's anything happening on Sunday

I'll tell you

if they need a hand or anything or even practising the guard

well the thing is I've I've turned down work on Sunday because like I thought I'd be going to cadets my mam's going to kill me

(laughter) you idiot

but (unclear) I'm not going to the cadets

(laughter) oh

because I'd be getting fifteen pound or something

I wouldn't turn down work

(interruption) well it was only a casual thing and I couldn't be bothered to

that's why I suppose it

be really polite and overly (interruption) 'oh yes ma'am' sort of thing

I suppose I I suppose in this weather as well

it'll be

it's dead hard

really hot up in the kitchens as well

because if you're wearing like blouses and (pause) tights (pause) do you put tights on

black skirt tights

(unclear)

flat shoes blouse

at least I can wear short tops

and you've got you've got to have your hair tied back so

(laughter) minimal amount of make up

(laughter)

aye no (NAME)'s last day on Saturday

oh yeah it is can I not c come in for the holidays (laughter)

I don't know if he wants anyone you know

well if if he wants anyone to temp for the holidays I'll do it right (laughter)

I don't know but ehm (pause) apparently because (NAME)'s cousin she's no (NAME)

(NAME)'s the plumpish one isn't she

yes

I saw her

she's dead canny

saw her yesterday when we were with (NAME) and I waved I waved to her

she's so

she knew who I was

but she oh no that was that was (NAME) on the early one ehm no but her boyfriend's cousin (pause) wanted the job and ehm then (NAME) got one so (NAME) was like really angry at (NAME)

mm-hm

and ehm so I think if like any jobs do come up there'll be her next but I'm not really sure

why is (NAME) leaving

(laughter) because of (NAME) (laughter)

I thought it was because (NAME) (NAME) said to me goes 'eeh why is (NAME) leaving' she goes 'oh because she doesn't like working with (NAME)' (unclear) fair enough

but she's stupid because I mean they don't work I mean every three weeks (NAME)'s over in Gateshead anyway

mm-hm

and she's hardly with her but and when she's with her she's fine like well she's not horrible

I think it's just an excuse to pack it in really

using (NAME) she can blame me

yeah

and anyway th I mean this job's got more money it pays better money she's well she's got enough class

mm

and ehm there'll be different types of people and she starts

she works better with children as well

she's not working with children

which one's she doing like

oh (unclear)

I'm talking about nursery nursing thing

the nursery one oh no this is just

is it just a summer one

it's Saturday and maybe Thursday night it's

where's this at

you know the like restaurant 'Choux' like C H O U X in the Metrocentre opposite the UCI

oh yes

well it's a part of that and I think it's a restaurant thing but I'm not sure

how's she going to get across to there full time just get the hundred

well it doesn't start until half nine

at night

no in the morning

oh right I get you

and I think it finishes at f half four or five

oh so she'll be able to get the hundred along

but she's going to be shattered because she's got Monday to Friday at the nursery course mind you that it starts at half nine finishes at three or half three

mm-hm

when she's on nursery nurse when she's like at her placement

placement

it's the same times so like she's going to be finished earlier but if she's got night classes for her exams as well

why resitting them

her mam's already signed her up for maths and English

(laughter) has she ah

well then (NAME) she didn't even turn up for one of her maths so I mean she's she'll have failed that

oh I know and she made (NAME) (NAME) late as well

aye

I said c I saw (NAME) when was it when I was going in for the geology exam in town was it no it wasn't it would have been j just when I was after the geology exam when I was coming in for sixth form day

oh

and I saw her in town she said 'if you see (NAME) tell her to ring me' but (pause) she didn't come in so

she's her they saw each other in town because you know how (NAME) went

mm-hm

well ehm (NAME) and (NAME) met them as well because (NAME) was saying 'I'm wearing beige tights tonight don't laugh at us' and all this because she couldn't afford cream ones

mm-hm

but ehm yeah because ehm

have you heard what's happened with her and (NAME)

they're still seeing each other aren't they

apparently (NAME) is mucking her around a bit

who told you

(NAME)

oh good because (NAME) told me because (NAME) said that ehm someone when she was at work one day

mm-hm

ehm (NAME) was with this lass and ehm (pause) you know what (NAME)'s like she's 'oh ehm are you seeing (NAME) tonight'

mm-hm

and all this and like they walked away and he was holding her hand and it's the barmaid who he likes

mm-hm

so

where from

from Central

oh right

girl he works with I didn't know he liked anyone but

neither did I

that's what (NAME) said

it's just ehm apparently (NAME) rang up from town one night and was saying 'oh have you seen (NAME) he was meant to meet me and he hasn't come' which is typical (NAME)

aye (pause) definitely I'm surprised he's lasted as long though

(laughter) two weeks is usually his limit

he's like he's like (NAME) (NAME) used to be

I know

one night (unclear)

I know (laughter)

but

well they make a strange couple but if they're happy

is she taller than him

probably (laughter)

that's (unclear)

I wouldn't put it past her

because ehm I was talking to him and he you know (NAME)'s barbecue (NAME) (NAME)

mm-hm

well ehm he was dead he was getting like 'I don't know anybody' and all this

did he go

I don't know if he did go because I saw him on the Saturday but the barbecue was on the Sunday (pause) and I didn't go (NAME) didn't go either

I haven't seen him for ages (unclear)

(NAME)

no ehm not (NAME) (NAME) I haven't seen him for ages the last time I saw him was in the Central Library before the exams

I saw him once (pause) that's ehm (pause) when we finished our exams he came into work and I was talking to him

mm-hm

and ehm (pause) I said 'oh I'll get the bus with you home if you want' like just (unclear) all by ourselves and everything it was late it was about half three

mm-hm

so he went 'all right then' but I got to the bus stop and he wasn't there and my bus came so I thought 'oh well I'll just get on the bus' (laughter) so ehm went to see him that night and ehm I don't know what happened but that was the last time I saw him haven't seen him well I haven't really been out since then

I haven't been out for in i in town for ages and ages

been cooped up in my bedroom tidying it all out

I've been cooped up in my bedroom working (laughter)

oh revising

revising (laughter)

mm I know all of that

aye another ten weeks

is that how long you've got off

well it's nine now you've had eleven

(laughter)

I've had nine

yeah but y everyone I mean we've all been off since the middle of May anyway but it doesn't seem like that

we we were just saying we were just saying we've already had a summer holiday off we've been off time tabled school for six weeks

doesn't feel like it (laughter)

doesn't it not you realize how sh how short you's how short the summer holidays feel when you say it like that

I'll be glad of getting back to school though but then again

oh I'll be

I won't be

I'll be oh dying to get back by then I always am by the end of the summer holidays

I think this year (pause) w we must be away for three weeks and if it's six weeks I'll be we'll have the three weeks back so I'll probably be all right but (pause) saying that

you see what happens I've got I've got this three week summer holiday I'm away for a week and then I've got another like a month

mm

a month and a bit (pause) before (pause) we go back

thing is I didn't really want to go away this year I said 'oh dad let us stay by myself' and he's going 'no no' and I said 'well I'll get (NAME) to look after us or (NAME)' that's ehm his goddaughter

mm-hm

and he's 'I wouldn't trust her alone with you'

(laughter) (unclear)

and all of this so but then he said that I'd probably be allowed well it would be the last holiday with them this year but I doubt that I'll still be with them next year I know

(NAME) goes away in two weeks

where's he off to

Tenerife with (NAME) and (NAME)

who's (NAME)

(NAME) he's just one of the sixth formers

oh (NAME) (NAME) isn't it (NAME)'s cousin

he's a right laugh he's hilarious

never met him

especially when he's drunk he's so funny

(laughter)

just him and (NAME) when they get together when they're drunk they just start singing and once they start singing you can't stop them (interruption) start singing all the Queen songs

(laughter) oh

like duets and stuff eeh it's really funny and they've both got absolutely abominable voices

what when they sing

mm-hm the dog wants to come in she's not going to

is it your dog

what that one yeah (laughter)

no does how could you tell like

how like (pause) I just

oh (laughter)

(laughter) because she's in the kitchen

I thought thought it sounded as if it was coming from out there that was all

(laughter) have you heard her the poor thing (laughter) she's dying to come in

do you not want to go and let her in

no (NAME) is outside

oh yes has he finished his A levels

finished (pause) the day of my (pause) g geology theory so (interruption) a week ago

was that the first or second

first

how did he find them oh hey

ehm he thinks he's failed his chemistry which knowing him he hasn't but he had to do eight essay questions did I tell you in three hours he had to do eight essay questions in chemistry

mm

and he only managed to do five of them which I think is pretty good

had he to do eight

yeah

but does it matter if you don't finish them I know like in English it does

Honey be quiet shh shh Honey (laughter) Honey come on outside

active dog

I know

does it matter if you don't finish them though

I don't know come here

because I know in English (NAME) failed

shh (laughter)

her English because ehm in the mock

shh (pause) at last Honey come on out oh she's looking at me as if I'm cruel (laughter) 'you've left me out here'

you can bring him her in soon

I know she's just it's because there's people in the house she's barking

how did he find his physics

fine physics was fine according to him ehm and his

what else did he do

maths

oh what did he think of that

thought it was all right

what did he do maths and stats

no maths and pure

did he

mm-hm

oh so that was all right

mm-hm he said it was one of the w it was the it was the he said it was probably the easiest out of the three of them

yeah because like the pure it's ehm (pause) it's higher than an A level the further one or something

mm-hm

Mrs ehm (NAME) was explaining it but I couldn't really understand her

yeah he's done maths and pure maths

I might it's either that or maths and stats

he's got a whole diary you know like they're like slim line diaries you can get

mm-hm

got a whole one of those of maths equations physics equations and chemistry equations

that he had to learn

that he had to learn and I had to test him on them

how many maths equations were there

(laughter) quite a few (NAME)

(laughter)

quite a few

that's one thing (unclear)

it's like the inverse of (pause) something like the inverse of cosine is sec and the inverse of sine is cosec and all this

and sec and sac or something

uh-huh

I've read something about that I'm just going to have to itch my foot

(laughter)

oh no ehm

he said it was all right though

ah well I'm definitely doing maths

but the thing is to go to to go to Leeds where he wants to go he only needs a B and a C so he doesn't actually need his chemistry

what's he doing oh he's doing f something physics isn't he

he's doing physics theoretical physics

and is he taking a year out

I I don't know he hasn't decided

does it cost him

no it's part of his course

I'd do it then

he can either go to somewhere like Germany Canada or the United States

I'd go to Germany but then I'm biased (laughter) because I prefer it there

ehm I was looking at the geology well I was looking at the prospectus before and ehm you can do geology with a year out in America

mm

yes I'll do that one

is that with eh with our school or is that at a l university

university

mm

yeah (laughter) with our school you're joking (laughter)

(unclear)

I wish you could get a year out with our school I don't think so

no I'd love to go to Germany I was look (pause) what was I reading oh I got this book out from the library career careers using languages (pause) and I was looking at all like the places

mm-hm

universities and it was saying like you could do a year out in all these like (pause) they had a place in Germany and a place in France and all that it sounds good (pause) but I don't know if I'm actually going to do that so

well you see if I'm still seeing (NAME) next year then if I can just say 'oh I'll just pop along to (NAME)'s for a week' (laughter) because she's going to Toulouse

oh is she

mm-hm that's where she's w that's where she's doing the teaching in Toulouse

oh well that'd be nice

beside the Pyrenees

you're not doing ehm French though are you

nope (laughter)

they had jobs advertised in ehm (pause) The Telegraph the appointments section

mm

in the Alps and then there was some in ehm Germany and French people wanted and that au pair I wouldn't mind being an au pair for a year or something

it'd be good that or even just like summer holidays

yeah just oh (pause) berry picking fruit they do loads of that

(laughter) I'm a bit hungry (unclear)

when did you have your (laughter) breakfast

I haven't had it yet (unclear)

how can you go without breakfast

I always do

that's unhealthy that

I know but that's just me I'm just an unhealthy person

one of the best meals of the day I love it

I have it on have it on Saturday because I need energy to dance

but you don't need energy any other time

no I'm just lying about the house doing nothing (laughter) at the minute

sounds like me

dog's going to come running in I can tell

no it was just the wind

I know but knowing (laughter) she'll find out if the door's open

oh and then come in

and come bounding in (laughter)

no ehm (pause) I was I have to have breakfast I don't mind not having any tea

it's going to do it again don't do this to me stomach have you heard it (laughter)

it's louder than mine

it was doing this the other day upstairs (laughter) I was with with (NAME) (laughter) it's going strange (laughter) my stomach's turning on me

it's telling you it wants breakfast

I know there's nothing to eat in this house though it's Friday

I hate what I hate is when we go shopping we stock up in the fridge and the fridge is the first thing that everything goes down

(laughter) yes it's the same as ours

we we would (NAME) was talking to (NAME) and (NAME) were talking about this last night and they're saying that ehm their fridge is always full and like their mam has to throw out like (pause) tubs of things that are out of date and haven't been used

mm-hm

our fridge I mean (pause) it's got tons of apples in at the minute because my mam bought loads at Tesco's

mm-hm

because that's what we're eating and ehm (pause) our fridge apart from that it's got that about three kiwi fruit and (pause) tins of tuna and Coke

they don't even go in our fridge they're eaten the minute they come out of the bag from the shop (laughter)

what the apples

the kiwi fruit

oh we haven't had them for ages

I love them

but ehm

I could eat them all the time

they're gone quite quick and then then you have to start in the freezer and all the c tins in the cupboards

mm

can't be bothered to cook half the time

I'm expected to clean out the whole every cupboard in the kitchen over this holiday

(laughter)

I always do it every summer holiday just because I'm so absolutely bored (interruption) by the time it gets to about a week before school

what and you just sort out the out of date stuff or

just (pause) take everything out of the cupboards clean down the cupboards take all the stuff that we never have like (pause) you know the mince meat you get in hampers and that sort of thing

mm

that's like there for about ten years throw all that out and put it all back nice and neatly

what we do we end up doing half the time is ehm just getting things and hoying them together and having meals like s with weird combinations but my dad what he's been doing recently is saying 'right we're not going shopping until we've used up some of the stuff'

mm

'that we never use' (pause) but then we run out of cereals so we have to go (laughter) which is good

we always do that end up having these weird weird things it's amazing what you can make out of left over food

it's like y you're having pizza slices and beef burger or something

(laughter) I know

and then you have your beans and sweetcorn my sister's got a craving for sweetcorn at the minute

(laughter)

quite nice though that mixed with peas

we never have sweetcorn never

we never normally do but I mean she's she was even adding it to the meatballs

(laughter) (NAME) your sister's strange

(laughter)

we all know that (laughter)

she had a tin of meatballs in the cupboard and I ate them for dinner

uh-huh

and they were in chicken gravy and she's going and she must have mentioned them in the car it was on Thursday night she was going 'you haven't ate my meatballs' and I'm 'no no' like this but she went mad because it was the second time I'd done it

she's going tonight isn't she

yeah I don't know ehm

we'll probably do both though

I'm dreading I don't know about my dad he should be in

well you did you took them brought them back on Tuesday so (unclear) do it tonight

I meant to have an early night (laughter) last night but I didn't get to bed until half twelve

I don't know what time I went to bed I want to watch Whose Line Is It Anyway tonight

mm the advertisement for the shampoo

new series eeh I think it's hilarious I think it's really funny

we got in about eleven quarter past eleven and then (NAME) was there

mm-hm

and like I was just talking and then dad came in so he was telling us about the football and ehm (pause) by the time well my mam wanted a cup of tea or something and then I just ended up saying 'goodnight' quarter past twelve and then I had to tidy up and go to bed

(laughter)

woke up this morning my mam had came in and opened my blinds opened my curtains opened the windows so there's a bright light shining through

well I did absolutely nothing yesterday apart from go out into town in the morning (laughter)

mm

that was that was about it but

I haven't done anything

because we we went out what time did we go out about

met at eleven

met at eleven and then we went and just stuffed our faces at (pause) Burger King

(laughter)

and (unclear) walked round for a bit then I came home and then (NAME) decided that he was going to come and lie on my bed with me and watch (pause) Wimbledon

oh

so we sat and watched the two semi finals and he wanted (pause) ehm Gigi Fernandez to win but she didn't

(laughter) I know

and so he got in a mood and decided that he was going to throw me off my bed so we had this sort of fun fight for about an hour and a half (laughter) (unclear) where we both basically tried to throw each other off my bed

oh well

but you know what (NAME) is like

aye

he's mad

did he win

yeah actually well he got this letter or something that somebody r I think it was (NAME) that had written to me and he decided that he was going to read it but I wouldn't let him so like I was jumping all over him trying to get this letter off of him

you had no idea what this letter was (laughter)

no I didn't (pause) no he grabbed it from my memory box or something

oh

(laughter) and so that was quite funny

I hate that when people look at things that you don't like I hide things especially when we're tidying out wor room I (NAME) and my mam coming across something that I've forgotten not that I've got anything

(laughter)

like that worth hiding but (laughter)

eeh do you know what I did last night I sat and took all my first year second year and third year books I threw them out and I put all my GCSE stuff in like to the drawers instead I ca I couldn't even carry the bag down the stairs

(laughter)

the the big plastic thing full of bags I was like

books

I didn't think I'd done this in my life all this work

I got rid of we mine were (pause) above my TV on the shelf above my TV

mm-hm

and ehm (pause) I I had quite a few but I must have got rid of some of them

mm-hm

and ehm so if I I like I was tearing them up and then for some reason I've kept I'd teared up all my GCSE ones as well

mm-hm

but I kept my physics and chemistry and I kept my biology with it being in a folder

I've kept all of my GCSE stuff (laughter) in case I have to resit and I don't think I will but

I'll not resit I don't think

just

I would if I had to unless it was something I really wanted to do

that's the thing as long as I get the grades that I want to do my A levels

well I kept my physics and chemistry mam was saying 'well' and I was saying 'no I'll tear them up' she was saying 'well what if you want them to do it next year' and I'm going 'I'm not going to do the physics or chemistry' and she's going 'well what if'

(laughter)

and I went 'well I won't need the books anyway' so I've torn them up so I've got like maths books there's about seven maths books from first no from fourth and fifth year and then I've just torn out pages that I need from the others and then all my French and German ones

mm-hm well you'll need those next year

(unclear) I haven't been getting to bed until after half ten every day I wanted an early night as well but

what was I doing last night

I don't know

I was listening to Night Owls I think

I listened to that one night

oh 'what dogs don't understand' you had to ring in and say (pause) what dogs don't understand

was that the ehm challenge thing

mm-hm

oh (laughter)

it was quite funny

I went and I went into bed listening to it the radio until there was a song I didn't like and then turned it off

(laughter)

so

that's what I usually do or I fall asleep and get my mam to turn it off

one ehm must have been this week I've I was listening to my radio but it was on dead low but you could still hear it

mm-hm

and I fell asleep and I was dreaming and then I w like I was in a dream and I was (laughter) singing this song and then I woke up and there was the song on the radio and everything but I was amazed

(unclear)

that no one had heard it

who was it oh it was (NAME) m me and (NAME) were upstairs

mm-hm

I turned round and like I looked at my shelf and I had a massive deja vu I had it was really scary I was I'm sure I've I've like done this before

(laughter)

he thought I was mad he was sitting there going 'what are you going on about' and I was like 'oh no that was scary I didn't like that' because he just just doesn't believe in anything like that

oh I do

I was reading I was reading his stars to him and he was just laughing

they're funny but half the time they never come true

mm I know you don't you don't take them like

mm

as day to day rules do you

'romance is just around the corner' but you've already got a boyfriend or 'your boyfriend is often' but you haven't got one and all that

mm-hm

they're daft

it says that me and (NAME) are the perfect couple (laughter) (interruption) (unclear)

what's when's his birthday

ehm February the twenty first he's Pisces

oh because it's (unclear) because I'm Aquarius (unclear)

mm-hm but he's Pisces so they

so is that

said that it's meant to last

what are you

Scorpio

mm yes because you can get the compatible charts can't you

it's upstairs (interruption) it was in Mizz

oh is that what it you were looking at

uh-huh I was reading it when I was when we had the lesson on Tuesday the geology lesson

oh

bought it like from the bottom shop before before I went out

what a surprise

I haven't bought Mizz for ages I thought 'I'm going to have to I'm going to have to live up to my reputation'

aye because every every fortnight you used to drag me off the bus

every fortnight

ehm my sister's gone up to another school up to middle school

oh what today

today but they're going up right and they're having no more lessons

mm-hm

but they're staying in their form classrooms like where they're based

oh right

for that day

what's the point of that

so they're not going to get to see any of the school really

no they must they must be having like a tour of the school or something

I know they've got well they normally have an assembly on a Friday so they'll probably see Mrs (NAME) and all that there

are they (unclear)

they must be because I mean we're getting Mrs (NAME) now and it starts at third year and works up now

yeah

like the first

well like ours did

it's like in the lower school now Mrs (NAME) she's head of first year and she moves up with you to second year and then like so she yes I think that's right

well that's that that's horrible if you've got a really like horrible (pause) year head isn't it

yeah but none of them are really that bad

I know I wouldn't like Miss (NAME) though

actually do you know what I like her

do you

have you not seen her at the dinner time she's dead like

she knows everyone's name

yeah and she's strict but she's not strict

eeh I just think it's hilarious how we sit there and she goes 'T S V W'

(unclear)

and you're like 'QVC'

aye she's

'ITV'

she's I think she's nice (pause) I don't think any of them are that bad really

Mrs (NAME)'s meant to be horrible

well just wait (laughter) and find out

she's meant to be really bad (NAME) hates her when he when they came over for the (pause) production the sixth form production

did he have much contact with her

yeah well they're always round all the y all the like sixth form heads and (pause) Mrs (NAME)'s round he liked Mrs (NAME) he thought she was (pause) canny

I think she's down to earth that's

mm-hm

good for her

I liked her in third year when we had her I (interruption) got on with her

she loved (NAME)

I know (laughter)

(laughter) she if we're like walking down to our house and she's walking up she'll always say something to (NAME)

I know we always used to take the mickey out of her eyeshadow (interruption) remember half split down the middle

(laughter) remember when we used to sit in ehm textiles and she used to tell we all this and none of we were interested in it

(laughter) I know

but (pause) it was just something you had to do

do you remember the first thing that we had to do when we had to like (pause) get measurements and stuff

aye

was it (NAME) she got up and she was start started to measure (NAME)

aye with (pause) the ehm (pause)

pair of shorts

yeah with your hips and your waist

yeah

and all that

I've still got my shorts somewhere

I have I haven't got buttons on them but they're all right

they still fit me

well mine didn't have buttons so I don't know whether th well they still fit us but whether like (pause) they're (pause) tight or loose I don't know

they're mine are fine on me I wore them last year for the holiday because they were quite good I was quite chuffed with them (laughter) I was quite proud (laughter)

I'd take mine if I'd if I'd got the buttons on they're all right just for even going around the house

mm-hm well you can just sew the

(unclear)

have you got button holes in

mm I've got the holes in

I was going to say because if you didn't you could just come up and use mine (laughter)

have you got a

sewing machine yes

oh my mam's got one I don't know if it still works but my mam she was saying she was saying 'look at this you don't turn this this way' and all that and I'm 'all right mam sorry' (laughter)

(NAME) yesterday came in he decided he he'd picked all the sewing off his trunks

mm

because of course he's got a he's got to use he's got to like wear them for his holidays

aye

so I had to like you know the double seaming you can get you well you can do it on the

mm with the two lines

uh-huh I had to (pause) go (pause) all the way round his trunks doing that and he was sitting there watching Wimbledon going 'have you not finished yet' and I was like 'no I've got to get it straight' (laughter)

I think you must have we've got it's one that's in a cupboard so you pull it open and

mm

there's like the table for that and then you I think you lift oh no you take the lid off the thing and the machine comes up

mm-hm

and ehm I think the most problem with that is ehm (pause) getting it out and putting it away

well mine's just in a sort of like a carry case

aye like the ones that we used the Bernina

mm-hm

(unclear)

I wanted a Bernina but it's not it's a Johnson or something but I got it for Christmas

aye I remember

and it's not a new one it's like a refurbished old one I mean it's still got everything on it that you need it's just not (pause) like sort of sort of like a nice brown colour (laughter)

ah that's all right it doesn't matter

but it's

what colour

it's fine it's got all the (pause) like up to date stuff on it

I can remember when my mam was going to get me one (pause) she didn't and

I didn't like

I can't complain (laughter)

I didn't like the Singer ones at school I liked the Bernina ones better

there were some that were easier (pause) I think that was probably because they were older so they were simpler well

yeah (laughter)

I don't know whether like the technology hadn't (laughter) advanced

I know the way we were with sewing when we first started (laughter)

mm Miss (NAME) 'listen and think'

'listen and think' (laughter)

it's all she ever said

mm I don't know where my doll went I haven't got a clue (interruption) what did y

I gave mine to my sister

what did you do

eh a night dress a Japanese

did you I did an Asian

I think the hair I think the hair I didn't do too good with the hair

mm-hm

I think it was falling off or it was cut off or something eeh I don't know where mine is (pause) I did give it to my sister

how did I can't even remember how I put the hair on it (laughter) I can't remember (laughter)

you stitched it you got it all in the side and then you did the sewing (interruption) machine ac across it

halved it or something

and then you I don't know how you followed on after that

oh yeah I got I got some I dyed my fabric and I made an Asian girl I had her with a nose ring and dark dark hair

oh yeah

I plaited it down the back

I can remember

and I got all the sari material from the shop down at the bottom of our school the Indian shop

did you actually go there

got the sari material from there and made a sari with it

I got material from the box in the corner (laughter)

(laughter)

aye yeah that w they were good them that was the best thing the cushion I don't know oh it was a cushion cover

yeah

still got that somewhere

Miss (NAME) loved that l she loved mine I d I hated it I could not stand the thing

(laughter) I can remember the t I was ehm you were trying to d trying to design them

mm-hm

oh what was yours

it had two lines going like it was all diagonal

mm-hm

and there were three lines two like in either corner

mm-hm

not far from the centre and then one down the centre so I mean

see what I did is I had had a big ehm like pink diamond in the middle

middle (unclear)

and I had quilted the diamond and then from each of the corners like going down had lace

mm

and I had lace going round the outside of the diamond

oh well that's nice

so have you still got it

oh somewhere (laughter) it's God knows it's up in the loft somewhere probably in the attic

one good thing about tidying your room is you find out loads of things that you never like (pause) knew you had or you'd forgotten about

I was sitting in hysterics yesterday it was so funny it was looking at all the stuff that we had written in the books like little messages from first and second year (pause) little pathetic stuff that you think is so important then (laughter)

aye sending messages I was looking through my English from first and second eeh some of the things we did then and poems I was reading them and mam was 'oh that's good I'll stick in on the ehm kitchen'

mm-hm

the door leading into the garage

yeah

from the kitchen I think I've still got something else there

my writing was abominable then (unclear)

my my class seven report '(NAME) app appreciates varied styles of writing'

(laughter) I remember that

it was true but

I remember someone else say saying that you had to improve your writing I can't remember who it was it was one teacher

probably

Mrs (NAME) or someone like that

mm-hm

English

could have been anybody

(NAME) got wrong for hers being too small

too small

(unclear)

who told was that Mrs (NAME)

mm-hm hers was minute it was like

it still is though isn't it

well it's bigger than it was but I mean it got to when it was literally two millimetres it was really tiny

(unclear)

couldn't read it

(unclear) that small I'm quite small but not I'm not like it's not big writing but it is better than what it used to be (pause) definitely (laughter)

mine's just a mess now I've just done so much writing (laughter)

you get sick of it don't you in your hand eeh exams I mean how can they mark you on neatness when

(laughter) I know

they give you a time limit

(laughter) I know by the end of it you just

you just (unclear)

(unclear) one big long line (laughter) (unclear) about five words

it's really ridiculous

it's terrible especially in my history essay

mm

that was (laughter)

I made a right muck up well I don't think I made a muck up of it it was just

what did you do it on

the League of Nations but (pause) there was only so much you could write