Are you ready um just going to start with some random questions and whoever can answer (laughter) um where are your parents from originally?

Both my parents have always lived in Newcastle so, I've lived here all my life as well

Where are your parents from?

Um my Mam's from Guisborough, I don't really know where that is, but no- not all family live there now and my Dad's from Sheffield

Do you know when and why they moved up here, roughly?

Um (pause) um ugh, well my Mam's from like Newcastle, well she lived in Newcastle for a while when she was younger and then they moved back to Guisborough and then she met my Dad and they owned a pub in Sheffield, and then (pause) they moved up here to where my Grandpa lived

Do you, I was going to say do you know where your grandparents grew up or lived before they lived where they are now?

mine all lived here, like in Scotswood and stuff

I think mine -- my Grandpa lived in South Africa, but I don't know where -- like he did live there for a while, and my Nan and Grandad are from here

Ok do you enjoy living in Newcastle do you like your house and neighbourhood and everything

I like it, I think it's good

Are there any neighbours that you know really well

Yeah I do

Yeah like, well my next door neighbour goes to the same school as us so, I just, I get on with her quite well so it's good

I (unclear) my next-door neighbours I just walk in their house and they come in ours just like (laughter)

(unclear)

Yeah

Who are your best friends? How long have you known them and do they live close to you?

Her (laughter)

Yeah, we've known each other forever

Yeah like, how long, about

Sixteen years, well about

No well, well it wasn't, well, when we started school

About twelve years

Yeah abou- yeah about twelve years, but yeah I know her well

And we live quite close, we used to live closer (interruption) but then you moved

(interruption) Yeah (laughter)

(laughter) Well who are your other best friends Do you have any other really good friends?

Yeah

(NAME), who we work with

Yeah There's like five of we, isn't there

Yeah group of five friends (pause) It used to be six but we don't talk about that

Yeah (laughter) we don't talk about her anymore

Oh do we not? Am I not allowed to know? (laughter)

No (laughter) it's a long story

Fair enough!

Um yeah and then -- there's -- we've got other friends but we're always just us five together aren't we really

Like yeah

Just the five of you

Yeah It's always just me and you who go out places and stuff though

Yeah, (NAME), (NAME), (NAME), and us two

Ok um where do you hang out in the evenings or at weekends do you usually go to town or is there somewhere close to home you can socialise?

It's town (laughter)

Yeah at weekends

Like, yeah at weekends

Metro

Yeah

Know it like the back of we hand (laughter) Um, that's it really, there's not really, we only go to town and the Metro

(laughter)

And school

Um do you get on well with your family are your parents strict?

No, don't think mine are, well they're not really but I get, I, I've

Your Dad is more than your Mam

Yeah, yeah

Yeah

But um, yeah I'm no- I don't really, well I get wrong a lot, but just for like stupid things

Have you ever been grounded or anything like that?

When I was younger like, only once though I think, but then I just got let out, so, wasn't really grounded

(laughter) Are your parents strict?

No, I wouldn't think so, sometimes they are a bit 'cause I'm the youngest, and like I've got two sisters and a brother and they're all older, but then I get to do more stuff as well 'cause they forget that like (interruption) (unclear)

(interruption) And they, they know that they haven't done anyth- nothing's happened to them when they do anything (unclear) when they were younger

Yeah, yeah

Uh-huh um ok well how old are your brothers and sisters? Do you fight a lot with them or do you get on well?

Um, I get on well with one of my sisters but my other sister and my brother I don't. Um, they're nineteen, twenty-one and twenty-two

Which one do you get on well with?

The nineteen-year-old, 'cause she's the only one that still lives at home

Oh, where -- what do the others do?

Um my bro- my brother lives in a flat and he's a welder and my sister's got a baby, I've got a niece

Aww

She's lush (laughter)

Have you got any brothers and sisters?

One brother but he's younger he's fourteen, so we do fight and that but like, I'm not bothered about him

You do get on well

I do get on well with him yeah (pause) We do fight sometimes

What's his name (laughter)

(NAME)

Oh right (laughter) Um do you have any pets? What was your first pet called if you had one

I've got two guinea pigs

Aww

Daisy and Pancake, don't ask about their names (laughter) I've only -- I've had a hamster before that, but then um, that ran away, and then that's all I've had. But I, I want -- I always wanted a dog but my Mam and Dad wouldn't let us have one, which I'm glad of now

'Cause you wouldn't want to look after it?

Ooh no, I don't like dogs like I'm scared

(laughter) So why did you want one?

I don't know, well when I was little like just I wanted a dog, 'cause it was like, just people had dogs and like it looked good (laughter)

I've only ever had one pet and it was a stick insect

(laughter)

(laughter)

And it was called Sticky, I was never allowed a pet

Aww

I know

I bet you're relieved now

Yeah 'cause you're sick of your guinea pigs

I am (laughter)

(laughter)

Aww

I do love them though, just -- just for the record

Aww are they just yours or are they your brother's as well

No, Daisy's mine and then Pancake's my brother's but I don't look after them, (laughter) my brother does

(laughter) Um do you see much of the rest of your family? Aunts, Uncles, Cousins

I'm like dead close to my family like, it's quite, like, I've got like an Aunty, like Aunty and Uncle and Cousins that live in America but like, like we are still close to them even if they live in America like we talk to them all the time and that, but I've got like other cousins who are like young, like the oldest one's nine, so like but like, we see them quite often so, I think we've got quite a close family really

'Cause you live close to your Aunty and Uncle

Yeah

Where do the ones in America live?

Boston (pause) I've been, quite a few times so that's good (laughter)

Um I don't, yeah I see them but I don't really see my cousins as much 'cause they're all -- I'm like the second youngest one so they're all off doing stuff and -- but they live in Newcastle, they live in Heaton so it's like (pause) but I see my Nan and Grandad all the time and stuff

Um, do you go on holiday with your family? Where's the best holiday you've ever been on?

Yeah um, went to Florida one year for three weeks I loved it

Who did you go there with?

Um just my Mam and Dad and my brother it was like, through like, (interruption) two or three years ago

(interruption) It was two thousand and four

two thousand and four then

'Cause when (NAME) was born

Um yeah um, yeah it was really good (pause) but I'm not very good on rides and theme parks and stuff but I still thought it was good 'cause it's like

I hated it when you went away

Once in a lifetime

It was so long

Aww

Yeah um I go, I've been to Majorca for like the past three years, but like different places just with my Mam and my Dad and my sister and my niece

I haven't been on holiday for a while, but I want to go

Yeah next year you're coming with me

Yeah

Where would you go?

Oh I don't know

Anywhere hot

Yeah hot, sun, sea, sand, clubs

(laughter)

(cough)

Er that was the next question, if you had the opportunity to travel where would you most like to go?

Oh I don't know like I would want to go places like, like cultural places if I was going to travel like, like places like, like places in Asia and stuff 'cause I haven't been there, like Africa and stuff like but, obv- obviously I want to go to like holiday holidays as well like hot places but like if I -- if I was actually travelling then I would go like places like that like Africa and that

I want to go to Australia

Yeah Australia as well, New Zealand and stuff

'Cause yeah I had a friend who lived here we were really close and then she moved there like when we littler and I haven't seen her in like ten years, so if I could go I would

And try and find her (laughter)

Aye well my Mam still speaks to her Mam all the time and that so like -- but like, we've just never been (laughter)

Oh right (laughter) um, where did you go to primary school and do you remember your first day?

Um, I can't remember my first day but I can remember like some bits of it, like I loved it (pause) and like um, well I went like in Winlaton like where I live, so it was like, quite close to where I live so it was good, but I used to love it like, it's so much better now you've been like

Yeah wish you could go back

(unclear) go back

You had nothing to think about

I know, no worries

We went to the same school as well so

Yeah that's where I met her

Who was the first person you made friends with?

(interruption) I don't know

(interruption) (cough) Well we -- we weren't that close when we dead young

No, no I had like, two friends called (NAME) and (NAME), and like, I -- I proper hanged round with them all the time so

But they've changed now

Yeah

Um I can't really remember

I don't see them anymore

I can't really remember who my friends were, I think I was just friends with everyone

Mm

I can't remember

No I cannot either (laughter)

Is your sixth-form in the same place as your high school, like when you went to high school

Yeah

Like it's attached to the school

Yeah

Yeah it's like part of it

So how do you get there, how far is it from your house?

Bus it's about, how long do you think it is like

Well it's like, five minutes in the car

Yeah

But then you have to -- there's stupid buses and you have to get like two buses to it

Yeah it's ridiculous

So it takes like half an hour

It's act- it's not that far away from the house but it's 'cause you have to get buses it takes long

Yeah like around the world and back

Yeah

You couldn't walk it

No (pause) well you could, but your hair wouldn't be very good (laughter)

(interruption) (laughter)

(interruption) (laughter)

Do you wear a uniform? What are the advantages of being at sixth-form as opposed to at school?

Not well like yeah uniform but not like strict, like it's quite

It's just black and white

Yeah just black and white really like black pants or skirt and like a white, uh, shirt so you can like wear stuff that you want really. I just think it's good 'cause you've got more freedom than like in the lower school and that like, you have got more responsibility but you've got more freedom as well so, it's good, and you -- there's more parties

Common room

Yeah

Yeah

What responsibility have you got?

Like handling deadlines and stuff like that and like the work's so much harder like than you thought it was going to be like when you were in Year Eleven and that

You have to do it by yourself like, they don't tell you what you have to do, you just have to do it

Yeah you have to do like research and stuff like

You're meant to make all your notes outside the lessons and stuff, not that anyone does really

(laughter)

Have you been on school trips, where have you been?

Derbyshire

(laughter)

(laughter) Stayed in a youth hostel, bad experience (laughter)

Yeah worst place I've ever stayed

Been to Germany and stuff as well, that was good

Been to Germany twice

Where was that

Black Forest and

Yeah like Cologne, places like that yeah

The Rhine Rhineland

Yeah yeah Rhineland

Just with the school?

Yeah it was really good though wasn't it

In year seven and in year nine

Was it year -- was it year nine oh Yeah it was year nine

Yeah it was

Yeah that was, that was good

The second time was definitely better

Yeah it was

Wasn't it, think it was just 'cause we were older though

Yeah

Where would you like to go, with school

Oh right

I don't know really (pause) Ethiopia

Yeah there's an Ethiopia trip (interruption) for three weeks

(interruption) Yeah like, um

That we're going on, hopefully

You go to Ethiopia and you like, they've been before in like previous years and you -- they built like a day-care centre there but like they've um travelled round as well didn't they like um, stayed in the mountains

Wow

We've got like, it's like, the school sponsor like so many people there, to go to school and stuff

I really want to go

And like we've set up a centre, so you have to write a letter to get picked to go and stuff though, 'cause loads of people want to go

I hope we get picked

Mm

And what else are we going on, um I'm supposed to be going to Germany again this year

Geneva you're supposed to be going (laughter)

Yeah Geneva, for some physics exhibition thing, couldn't tell you what it is

(laughter) oh God, physics

(laughter)

Are you planning to go to University after your A-Levels or what do you, what do you want to do after sixth-form?

Um go to university

Do you know where?

Um I was thinking, well I don't know really, I want to move away, so not like Newcastle or Northumbria anywhere like that like quite far away, so (pause) I don't know really (interruption) I haven't really thought

(interruption) What do you want to do at uni or for a living?

Um I want to do biochemistry or medical chemistry and I want to be um like a person like that does cures for diseases and research and stuff and pharmaceuticals and stuff like that. I know it's boring I know but I love it

(interruption) (laughter)

(interruption) (laughter)

And um

It's not boring to save people's lives!

I want to go away as well and I want to do aeronautical engineering

(interruption) (laughter)

(interruption) (laughter) And I want -- I want to be a pilot

Oh right

(laughter) That's so cool, you've got good ambitions (laughter)

(laughter) Is that three years or

I don't know 'cause there's different ways you can do it like you can join the army and get trained for free but then you have to actually be in the army (pause) or then you can go with British Airways and do it through them and stuff, if you -- once you've got a degree so

So would you go to the same place at uni, if you're moving away

I don't know

I would want to, but I don't (laughter)

Yeah I've never really thought about it

Yeah

Not thinking about that yet

No

Um, can you picture yourself in ten years, if you're a pilot or saving lives?

Oh God

No

I don't know really

Ten years time we'll be old (laughter)

Oh God I know (unclear)

Ok do you have a part-time job, how long have you been there and what do you do?

Currys, three months (laughter) But I work at um St. James' Park as well, like a waitress, so, but it's -- it's good like for the money so

On match days

Yeah and I need the money as well for going out and stuff so it's worth it really

So how long have you been working at St James' Park?

Um I don't know probably about (pause) I don't know about two months?

It's been like four matches so it's

Yeah not -- why not, yeah about two months I'd say

Oh, so you started one and then got another one as well?

Yeah so, it's good though 'cause I get two wages so

So h- how many hours do you do at both of them?

Um, six or twelve hours a week at Currys, and um like about six hours like every other weekend like and match day at -- at St. James' Park

Oh right

But it's really hard work though, like they do actually make you work hard for the money

So what's like a shift like, if it was on a Saturday

Like well it depends what the kick-off is really I always hope that the kick-off's at three 'cause then I get to go at twelve, but if the kick-off's at like quarter to twelve I've got to go in at like quarter to nine or something like that and um like start -- I've got to start three hours before the kick-off and get everything sorted and that so it's like, it is hard work, you never get to sit down really you always -- and people are always shouting at you like to get drinks and stuff and you're like 'oh I'm sorry' and you're trying really hard and that and you're doing loads of things at once just it's dead tiring like after you finish and stuff you're really tired

Do you have a job?

Yeah, I work at Costa Coffee

How long have you been there?

Um I've only done two shifts, so, I got the job like two weeks ago, but before that I had a job at St. James' Park as well but in a different bit, in the kiosk selling pies (laughter) and um it was the worst job I've ever been to so I'm glad I got a different one and I don't have to go back

How long were you there for

One time

(laughter)

Oh

One match (laughter)

Right (laughter)

And I absolutely hated it but nobody told us what to do or anything they just left us standing there for ages

And she got a lush cap didn't you

Yeah and I had to wear a cap and a jumper that was about ten sizes too big

(laughter)

(interruption) And people were shouting pies

(interruption) And it was freezing and everybody there was really thick and so I just couldn't talk to anyone or anything so I was just like, and then I got a different job so I just rang and said I wasn't coming back

(laughter)

But I haven't been paid for it yet so, I want my money

Make sure you (unclear)

Yeah

(laughter)

So, at Costa what do you do?

Um well I've just started so

Are you going to be doing weekends and stuff

I do, Wednesdays and Saturday and Sunday, well I have been (laughter) um, um, wash lots of dishes, put them in the dishwasher, clean tables, and I do serve on the tills but I don't -- I'm not like -- I can't do it all on my own yet like somebody has to be there and I'm not getting trained on the coffee machine 'cause I'm only Christmas staff at the minute

Oh right

(laughter)

So they might keep you on

Yeah I've got like a finishing date in like the middle of January but she said she might keep we on so, hopefully

Better than selling pies

(laughter)

Yeah

Um, tell me about what you do outside of school, are you in any sports or clubs or do you play any musical instruments?

Um, no, nothing like that like, I haven't really got a hobby but um, I used to go to jujitsu club, like, um, it's like judo really

Yeah I did as well

Like martial arts sort of thing I was the uh purple belt I was really pleased with myself

I went for like five years, was it five, it wasn't five years like four years

Four years yeah four years

And I was brown belt but then, the man who did it was an idiot (laughter) didn't like him very much

Yeah he's

And then like one day he just wound WE up and we said right I'm going so I did

We just walked out, it was great

(laughter)

We had to -- we had to go

We had an argument and then

We had to go two nights a week which was just like, it was taking up too much time

Yeah yeah and then he was just like we wanted to go 'cause we had a good time and that and he was just making it too (pause) so we just though ah, so we took great satisfaction in saying I'm not coming back (laughter)

Just walked out, it was great

So you don't do anything now like that

Um what do we do

We don't

Since we got into sixth-form really, because last year we -- I used to do netball and I was like the captain of the team and

But you've got like jobs and stuff now so

And just like, there isn't a team for sixth-form and just like everyone's too busy at work and at the parties and

No

It's just getting older

Going out yeah

Yeah (laughter)

You just, your hobbies go out the window really

Um do you ever go and see bands that tour round here or? Have you ever seen your favourite band if you've got a favourite artist?

Um, I've been to see Hear'Say, like a wh- quite a while ago, but um

You're going to see Pendulum

Yeah I'm going to see Pendulum on the sixteenth of November and I cannot wait I'm so excited I'm going to get glow sticks and everything and um, I'm going to see Take That on the twenty-seventh I think

I'm so jealous

Of November so I'm really looking forward to that as well and um (pause) no like I don't really go to many gigs or anything like it's not my sort of thing

The last one I went to I think was like (pause) Steps or something

Steps or something aye

(laughter)

I been to Steps and S-Club-7, think that was like the last time, don't really go

(laughter) Do you not want to go and see anyone

Yeah just yeah just, never get round to it!

Just don't get round to it, we just, always end up like out in town just like spending money on other things

Who would you like best to see like live

Oh I don't know that's hard that

Paolo Nutini

I'd like to go and see Paolo Nutini yeah I like yeah

And Lindsay and Lily went to see Kate Nash, and that sounded good

Yeah oh I really want to go and see Kate Nash and Lindsay went to see The Fray as well so I would like that yeah and I'm jealous of you going to see Bill Bailey as well even though he's not a singer but I still want to go

(laughter) Do you go to the cinema very often? What's the last film you saw?

Um, I went, um, two week -- no, a week -- two weeks ago today, Friday, I went um to see (pause) what did I see?

Run Fatboy Run

Run Fatboy Run yeah

And I went to see the same film with Dean

With a certain gentleman I went

What when did you go

A few weeks before that (laughter)

Yeah

Not at the same time

Oh right (laughter) ok

Yeah we'll move on (laughter)

(laughter)

Do you like all different types of films or not

Yeah I do, like I -- I like stuff like, I know you don't like things like that

No

I like like girly films like romcoms and stuff like that but I also like films like Star Wars and um Lord of the Rings and stuff like that

James Bond (laughter)

What, James Bond oh James Bond, oh God yeah

Daniel Craig

Ooh Yeah, um, and I like films like, well I do like stuff like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings and stuff like that and like, like also like, thrillers and that as well like I just -- all different really I don't like horrors though I'm not a big fan of horrors

Do you not want to go and see Saw Four then

That's what I was going to see last -- two weeks ago and I was like -- I got too scared when we got to the pictures so we went to go and see Run Fatboy Run

(laughter) Bit different there

I don't like loads of types of films, I just like

Quite picky (laughter)

Yeah just girly films

What's your best film, what's your favourite?

Oh (interruption) Save the Last Dance

(interruption) Save the Last Dance (laughter)

Or Dirty Dancing, or the uh Mary Poppins, or The Sound of Music (laughter) um, yeah what else has there been

Armageddon

Armageddon

Oh Armageddon's the best film ever I love it

Yeah but Save the Last Dance, that's really good (laughter)

(laughter) Um, do you have a computer in your room? How much time do you spend on the internet like in a week?

Yeah I've got like a laptop, I don't -- I used to go on more, like go on like msn and stuff like that but I don't really go on that much anymore unless it's like for um homework or anything like that like I don't know really like it depends, I -- I do but I probably go on like everyday to just check Facebook and stuff like that but I don't go on as much as I used to, but I love having a computer though it's good

I used to have my laptop and then it broke, so I have to use the other computer now which isn't in my room, or my Dad's laptop or my sister's laptop (laughter)

(laughter)

Um but yeah I go on quite a lot (pause) If I'm at home I just think like, think I'm missing something if I'm not like in touch with people (laughter) so I'm going on checking everybody's Facebooks and stuff

Do you er, do you communicate with people like over the internet or more phones and stuff

More by (interruption) texting and stuff I'd say

(interruption) Yeah texting

but I do like talk to people on msn as well but not as much as I would like texting and stuff, I think it's just easier like 'cause I don't ring people either like I don't do ringing

No I don't really

It's just texting, yeah just, I think it's easier to just text 'cause you just get the one point you want answered down instead of having like a proper long conversation and that

And there's no awkward silences

Yeah (laughter)

(laughter) What phone do you have and what network are you on, who pays for your phone bill?

Um my Mam and Dad pay for mine, (laughter) um I'm on Orange, and I've got a Samsung D800 and I absolutely love it to bits and I don't -- don't ever want to get a new phone (laughter)

When did you get it?

Um, I c- I can't remember it must have been (pause) quite a while ago probably a few months but I still love it though I don't want to trade it in yet. I've broke it so many times though smashed the screen everything like that I'm so clumsy with it (laughter)

I've got a Sony Ericsson K750i

Do you like it?

No, I'm getting a -- I've lost the back so the battery falls out all the time

Aww

So um, but I'm getting a -- It's on Pay As You Go on O2 but I'm getting a new phone 'cause I've just got my job so, and I have to pay for it myself, so I'm getting a contract phone (laughter)

Right (laughter) Um what's the best birthday you've ever had, like what did you do

Oh I don't know really

Did you used to have sleepovers and stuff when you were little

Yeah ah

We used to Yeah like with one bottle of alcopop and you thought it was like -- you thought you were a rebel, yeah but, I don't know what my best one really

I'm trying to think, when (NAME) and (NAME) went out with (NAME) and it was like ooh there's boys at the sleepover (laughter)

Yeah I had boys at my sleepover that was like a big issue at the time (laughter) it was like it was shocking

Did you ever have a clown? (laughter)

No I -- I've had a magician but I haven't had a clown

Ah

I've never had a clown, we -- we always used to go the Centre

Yeah that's when I had my magician

The, Community Centre, and have parties and discos in the hall

Yeah l- little discos of like Steps songs and all that kind of thing

Is that like right near where you live

Yeah

Yeah and in Monty Zoomers in the Metro, like the soft play thing

Oh yeah, oh many a good party in there

Yeah everyone once -- once someone had a party somewhere everyone had their party there

Yeah like

And at the swimming baths

Skiing as well

Skiing yeah

Like on dry ski slopes and that, yeah we've had quite a few parties (laughter)

Yeah (laughter)

It was all good

(laughter)

What would you, what do you want to do for like your twenty-first? Are you going to have a big party or

Probably Yeah we'll probably just like, go to town and get ratted like (laughter) that's what we normally do

I want to have a

Would you not want to have a proper party

I don't know

I think with a party it's like too much responsibility, like being the host it's like uh (laughter)

But if you

Yeah whereas in -- like in town, people are -- people are just doing their own thing anyway whereas like

Yeah I think I want to have a party though, I think it would be good

Yeah

'Cause it's a big occasion

A party and then town (laughter)

Yeah a party and then town after, and get a stripper at the party first

(laughter)

Yeah our friend had a stripper, for her eighteenth, it was a fireman

(laughter) Oh my God

It's quite embarrassing actually

Yeah it was

(laughter) Who booked that did she

Her friends

Yeah

But she knew

We each -- we each paid like a quid for it or something like that

Yeah everyone in the common room like paid

But, we got our money's worth

(laughter)

No he was there for like three minutes or something ridiculous

Yeah he was there for quite -- quite a short time like

And he came earlier than he was meant to so everyone missed it and it was like uh

Yeah oh well

That's disappointing (laughter)

(laughter)

Um where are your favourite places to go in the evening like if you go into town what kind of music do you like to dance to?

Um, just dance really

Bodyrox

Bodyrox everywhere we go request Bodyrox yeah yeah that's just w- wor thing, I like it, like I like it in Players and Mushroom as well it's good, and we always go to Madisons so I might as well say Madisons

I don't like Madisons, not really

It's quite boring really, but

Yeah um

But if you're with good company it's good

Everyone from school goes to Mushroom so you always see people you know in Mushroom

Yeah

It's like, everyone's there

You can't go without seeing someone you know

No, um

Have you been to all the places that you want to go

No, there's loads of places people talk about

Yeah like

We tend -- we tend to go to the same places all the time

We tend to go to the same places, yeah

Just 'cause like, you think you're missing out if you don't (laughter)

Yeah I know

Yeah, do you think you drink a lot of alcohol, do you think you drink too much

I don't think I drink too much, I just think I get drunk too easily, like a few drinks and I'm drunk, or -- like I need to like, stop being such a lightweight

I'm like

Have you ever woken up and not been able to remember bits

Yeah

Is that not scary?

Yeah (laughter) like, things you've done with people

(laughter) I'm totally the opposite, I just like, I don't get drunk really, I don't know I -- I used to be really didn't I?

Yeah you can't get you drunk anymore

I -- I can, it's just, I never -- I don't embarrass myself like I used to or anything

Yeah being sick (unclear)

I'm always like the sober friend

Yeah I'm like the drunken friend that people have to carry home

(laughter) Have you ever been in or seen a fight when you've been out

You have on holiday haven't you

Mm-mm

On holiday

I haven't

In a fight over us (laughter)

Oh!

I was with my sister and her friend and there were these Spanish people and English people and it was like (laughter) and then they just started saying stuff, somebody said something about us and the other people didn't like it and it got into a fight and

Where was this?

Um in Majorca, and so, it was quite scary

Oh

So you were just watching them

Well yeah I got hit in the face

Oh!

I know I was like, I was shocked! But and like -- but I don't think they realised, and then -- but it was just like us standing there with these people, but then -- and then our friends came like ten minutes later we were like and then, but it was all right in the end, they made friends like the next day or something they shook hands and that so it was -- it was just a spur of the moment thing, but it was quite scary at the time

(laughter)

It was quite scary at the time

Huh

Um, well can you, can you imagine if you had, or if someone started on you in town, like what would you do, would you actually run away or?

(cough)

Yeah I'm a wimp

Yeah I wouldn't -- I wouldn't -- I wouldn't like fight back

No

I would 'cause you hear like all these stories of people getting stabbed and that, I would just run away

It wouldn't be for a reason would it though they would just start on you

Yeah I would just -- I would just run away, like

I'm a -- I'm a wimp I would run away, no

Uh, I'm -- I -- That's what I'm worried about what'll happen like people starting on us and stuff and I'll be like, every time I bump into someone I'm like 'Ooh sorry, don't start on us please!' (laughter)

Aw, do you get annoyed when people like bump into you when you're dancing and stuff

I hate it when people like walk past you and like feel you up and that you're like no, you could just walk past like

People always do that in like when -- in crowded places and you're like no

Uh I know

And they're always like old men, oh I know

I know you're like

It's fair enough right if you like them, but like if you -- they don't take the hint it's like no (laughter)

Oh it is, uh

Do you remember when we were out that time and that lad kept coming over and he was a total charver and

Oh my God and he proper fancied you

And he was just like

He was like jumping around you and that trying to show off and I was like no you're not getting her

And you just said in the end like no, you were just shouting in his face go away

Oh where were you

Um, City Vaults

Yeah City Vaults upstairs in City Vaults (pause) I like it better downstairs though

Yeah

(laughter)

Have you ever met someone when you've been out that you've like liked or got with or seen again (pause) do you not.

Um (pause) well

You haven't have you (pause) have you?

I don't know

I have

Well I haven't no because I've met, like

People that you already knew, but spent like -- been out in town

Like I don't -- I don't want to say names I don't know if I can say names like

Just say it yeah you can

Like, Mac, like I met him in town but nothing happened then and like just after I got his number and stuff

Yeah so you saw him again

Do you know what I mean? So sort of, but not like in the way like, no, not

I have, but then you always regret it the next day. I've never met anyone there apart from like (NAME), actually yeah (NAME), but I never really saw him again, and that's it really

Haha, (NAME)

Who's (NAME)

Oh my sister's friend's friend, it was just like he was there in town, that was a mistake (laughter)

(laughter) Aww

I know

Do you remember your first kiss, or your first boyfriend

Yeah

Aww

He's the love of my life, still

Yeah he is

He's called (NAME) and he's Spanish and I love him and I got sep it was in Ibiza and um and I was thirteen and um, and he went home and I was dead upset and I still love him (laughter)

Aww, so how long did you, were you with him for, did you see him for?

Like a week (laughter) because yeah I had two weeks there and he -- but he was going home and, but I proper loved him (laughter)

Aww how old was he, was he much older than you

Um, I was like -- he was like fifteen I was like thirteen, like

Aww (laughter)

Ah it's so cute

I still talk to him actually like on MSN

Are you still in touch?

Sort of, I've got his MSN and he's sometimes on, but like, I can't really understand him, he does speak English, but

Not very well

Like dead standard English, so it's like, we can't really talk

Haha aww

I'd really I -- I'd love to see him again though

Haha love of your life (laughter)

Was he your first kiss as well

Yeah

Aww

Aww he's so cute (laughter)

Aww mine was a disaster I'm not even going to talk about it (laughter)

Aw go on you've got to tell the story

Oh no I cannot it's too embarrassing but I just

You can tell it to me

I -- I don't -- I don't talk to him anymore

How old were you

Um

Fourteen

Fourteen and he was, eighteen (laughter) I know, but um, no he was

He's got a child! (laughter)

Yeah he had a child (laughter)

(unclear)

Yeah a son, I know I shouldn't have got involved but he was lush and I couldn't

Where did you meet him?

In a skate park in Greenside

And he was there that shows how mature he is

Um, he was there and he still goes now

And he's like twenty

Like, like that's like

(unclear)

No

Oh he's been going for years

Yeah like uh-huh

That was like three years ago two years

And he used to buy we like alcohol and that, like one pound a bottle of cider for a litre and that but um, no like, I -- we don't go there (laughter) I don't talk about that (laughter)

Ok well one of the next questions is do you regret anything that you've done

Yeah

I think we've sort of answered that one

Well no I don't really regret it 'cause it was just like

Yeah

It wasn't -- it's not -- I don't know

It wasn't a major disaster but

No I don't regret it, some things I regret

(laughter) Are we allowed to know this?

I can't remember anything (pause) what were you going to say

What?

What were you going to say there?

Oh just going out with (NAME), that's all I wasn't like, meaning anything secret like

Aww, (NAME)

How many boyfriends have you had?

Not like, I don't have like boyfriends

I've never been with anybody like seriously

Like, I don't

Officially

Not as a serious boyfriend

I have but like they're always just like a few weeks and then they just fizzled out

Like I was seeing the person we were talking about before but like only for like a few weeks like, just went (pause) wrong (laughter)

And you should have listened to me, who told you

I know I should've, I know I should've, oh well

And you'll never not again

No

You told her it wasn't going to work

Yeah I told her after the first time, no (laughter)

But you know I still kept going back

Yeah

Oh, dear me

And then um, (NAME)?

Oh, dear me, oh dear me, (laughter)

There's this lad and he lives in Scotland and he's at uni in Scotland, and I met him on holiday and then like, his sister's really nice as well and like I met their family

His sister is really nice yeah

Mm-mm and then, we went to stay with them in Scotland, and he lives like in a house with like four other lads in a flat and then we went and stayed

We -- we really liked them at first we were like dead friendly with them and that

Yeah me and (NAME) and like two other friends we went and stayed with them and me and him had a bit of a thing and then

(laughter)

Uh I'm actually disgusted, 'cause I really, he's just, he was actually obsessed. He sent us

He really is obsessed with her

A bouquet of roses right, but it was

Aww tell h-

And do you know what he did right he sent us like lyrics through the day right of Westlife's um The Rose right, lyrics, a new -- like a line all day right

Like in -- in instalments

In instalments, and then the last lyric was like on the thing on the roses

It is so romantic but like

But I was -- I was -- I was fourteen

Like so

Was I fifteen?

Fifteen or fourteen I can't remember

And he was like eighteen and it was like

But it was just, he was like really obsessed with you though

Yeah and I was like no, so that fizzled out as well

Like I still keep in touch with one of them, like two of them

Yeah I wouldn't mind seeing them again but (unclear)

No, Like I do like, I do like them but, they're a bit

Yeah not as much as we did (laughter)

No we like, really liked them but we don't anymore, Yous go through phases

Yeah we do

'Cause we thought it was cool to hang out with people who were in university when we were like fifteen

(laughter)

How did you meet them on holiday?

I met them on holiday, and like, but like at the time I didn't really know them that well, and then I started talking to them and apparently he really like us and like

But we hadn't met them before we went to stay like

Yeah I just took them on this wild

Like me and two other friends went with her to like meet them and that and we just went to stay at their house overnight when I had never met them and that, like but we did get on really well so

Yeah we really did

That was lucky!

(interruption) I know

(interruption) We really did get on well 'cause they're all really nice and like they're dead easy to talk to and stuff aren't they

Yeah

And then they came down, and we went out drinking during the day (laughter)

Aye

In the Union Rooms, and then we went up again and stayed for like four days

That was good though, (interruption) that was good

(interruption) Like last year, and um (pause) it was good, and then it was after that that it kind of got

Yeah we fell out with one of them and then you had that thing with (NAME) and it was just like, just fizzled out really didn't it

Mm-mm

So you don't think you'll see them again

No, probably not

He's got another girl -- he's got a girlfriend now

Aww but

She's like, he's like twenty nearly and she's like fifteen I think maybe fourteen (laughter) don't really know So I don't know

It's like

No

Um have you ever asked anyone out or would you, or has anyone ever asked you out that you've turned down

Like, w- yeah, like um when we were younger and that like you just asked people out when you were younger like just, you not bothered but like not recently, like I haven't asked people out recently but there's a few people who I wouldn't mind, but like, I wouldn't, I wouldn't ask anybody out I'd be too embarrassed

Too shy

Yeah I would want like (pause) them to ask me and then I'd be like oh yeah but yeah I've rejected a few people, (NAME) (laughter) in particular

But I thought you went out with him

Yeah I did, like but it was a mistake (laughter)

And then he keeps asking, still

Oh

But um, yeah he still -- he still keeps asking us and I'm like uh go away

He still likes you

Yeah

Yeah

Aww

And then I was with this boy from school not that long ago

Oh no

And um, it didn't really end it just like -- I just got bored and just didn't really text back and stuff, but like, I'm in all his classes at school and stuff and so it's quite awkward now and then the last party he came over and asked us to dance and I had to dance 'cause I couldn't say no and my Mam said if anyone ever asks you to dance you have to say yeah 'cause it takes a lot of courage for them to ask you to dance

Aww (laughter)

So I did, but I think he knows that I'm not -- I don't really like him (laughter) so I do, I do -- we do get on but you know when you know there is something quite embarrassing, but no-one else really knows so it's all right (laughter)

(laughter)

(laughter) Is there someone you like at the moment?

Yeah I've met the love of me life (laughter) I'm sure he's got a girlfriend though, so

How do you, why do you say he's the love of your life

Just, he's not the love of me life he's just so gorgeous and so nice

Of this week

Yeah he's -- he's the man of the week (laughter)

(laughter) Why do you think he's got a girlfriend?

Well he had a necklace on with a like a diamond letter on it, and then I said, whose is that, 'cause like obviously his name doesn't begin with an 'L' and um he was like 'oh just this lass' and I went like oo like, I was gutted but I acted like I wasn't bothered and he was like oh no nowt like that and acted dead upset so I was like ee God it's like it's someone who's died or something like that do you know what I mean, so I was like, but I don't know like I feel like, well he's so gorgeous so why wouldn't he have a girlfriend, do you know what I mean, I mean I hope he hasn't but I mean, nowt I can do

Aww, I think you should find out

I will I'll find out tomorrow man, I'll be dead drunk I'll just go up to him and be like 'hiya I fancy you'

(laughter)

So are you going to see him tomorrow?

Yeah he's coming to the night out, and I'm dead excited (pause) I'm going to wear my new dress

(laughter) That's the best bit, you can't wait to wear that can you

I cannot wait no

Did you get it on purpose for tomorrow?

Yeah, 'cause I needed a new outfit and I'd just got paid so I was like, oh I may as well

It'll be gone in like a week that, that money

Is there someone you like at the moment?

Um no, not really, there's no-one in particular (pause) The whole thing with (NAME) was like last week so

Oh

It's just kind of like, um no. There's people always turn out -- the nicest people are always, you really can't fancy them 'cause they're just not good looking (pause) but like you wish you could, but it never works out (laughter)

Like looks aren't everything but you've got to

I know but like that's what I went for last time and it didn't work

Exactly

And um so, not really no

Um, do you feel like you can talk to your parents or you- your Mam about guys or do you usually talk to your friends about it?

Friends

You never talk to you Mam

I don't

If -- my Mam like once you tell her about someone she talks about them all the time so it's like

I do, well I

The basics but nothing like

The basics, yeah

Yeah I just yeah, sort of

Keep most of it quiet

Yeah I would tell her -- if she asks, I'd tell her like most things, but like I wouldn't offer the information, mostly friends

Yeah

What did you do at Halloween, anything interesting?

(laughter) Took my cousins trick or treating

With me, and my niece

Yeah and -- and I got dressed up, in -- as a pirate, it was really cool, and she didn't get dressed up

I was the boring one

Was everyone else little

But yeah

But they were all little kids (laughter)

But we took, we took my little cousins out and her niece and like her niece was so scared of this mask that my cousin had on

Yeah, she's only three (laughter)

And I was like take it off! She was like hysterical crying I was like

But she was fine after like half an hour wasn't she

Yeah

Aww

My niece is three

How old were the nieces and cousins

My niece is three

Well I took my cousins, four of them, they're um, four, five,

Eight and nine

Eight and nine, yeah

(laughter) (interruption) Like babysitting

(interruption) And that's the oldest one

So where did y- did you just go round where you live?

Yeah just round my street like round my estate like

Then we had a mini tea party didn't we, Halloween cakes (laughter)

Yeah we had like a little tea party and stuff, it was really fun

Did you get much from your trick or treating

Like we didn't have any, we shared it out (laughter)

Yeah

No we didn't have any 'cause like we didn't actually go we just took them round and like, I just got dressed up for the crack, so um yeah, so like, they shared it out, but we did get quite a bit

Yeah you'll be getting dressed up when you die you, you love it!

Oh I will, I'll be getting dressed up when I'm forty, don't worry (laughter)

What did you wear for your pirate

Like a skirt, like a short, like flarey skirt, fishnet um tights, a um, big knee length boots with like loads of buckles on they're horrible but you know, and um like this top that says like pirates arrghh cool, (laughter)

(interruption) (laughter)

(interruption) (laughter)

It's really cool, and then like um this see-through black thing over it so it looked like, you know like, and then I put like a little hat on and I had a sword and I had my hair in bunches with like colours in and stuff it was really cool

You went to quite a lot of effort

I did, I love going all out for Halloween

(interruption) (laughter)

(interruption) (laughter)

What's Christmas like in your family, do you get a real tree? Or, do you go and choose one or

I -- I had a real tree one year but then my Mam couldn't stand it 'cause the needles fell off and she was like, she

Clean freak

Like clean freak yeah and um she couldn't vacuum it up and the vacuum cleaner exploded and all that kind of thing so we just have a fake tree now, but y- I like love Christmas I'm like a little kid, like I proper, I love it, think it's mint

Do you get up really early or

I used to, but, not any more I'm a bit, you know I'm not that excited about it (laughter) but um yeah I do like Christmas though I think it's cool

When do you open your presents?

In the morning really, and then like my family and that come round so

Do you have a big lunch and stuff

Yeah, oh Christmas dinner, it's lush

Um, I'm not that bothered about Christmas (laughter) I do like it but, my niece lives with us so it's all about her really, 'cause like it -- it got to be like 'cause we were all older and it was like different and then she came, so it was like, she was born and now it's more like Christmas again 'cause it's like Santa again, and like

Yeah

But I've got like, there's like me and my two sisters and my brother and my Mam and Dad so it's always -- like quite a big family and then Ellie, and then my Nan and Grandad and my cousins and stuff as well, so it's

Do you have a big Christmas lunch

Yeah (laughter)

Do you have it at lunchtime or in the afternoon?

Yeah lunchtime I do

Yeah I have it at lunchtime yeah, but I don't like turkey so I have quorn, 'cause I'm weird (laughter) so I have a quorn roast

(interruption) She has quorn to talk like -- to talk? (laughter)

(interruption) You're not vegetarian?

I'm not vegetarian

To taste like turkey (laughter)

I'm not um, vegetarian but I only like chicken, I don't like any other meat

Really?

Yeah

You like sausage rolls

I like sausage rolls, yes, but not sausages (pause) I'm weird, I'm weird (laughter)

Right (laughter)

I'm sure there's something else, you like bacon

Actually, I like sausage rolls, bacon and pepperoni that's the only meat (pause) I couldn't eat like a joint

Not a whole one anyway

No

A steak

Aye couldn't eat that kind of thing like I just don't like meat like that (pause) mm

Do you like sprouts and things?

I love sprouts oh my God

She loves vegetables veggie freak

Uh-huh I pro- proper love sprouts like they make, oh they're just so lush, like sprouts and mashed potatoes and gravy's like my ultimate dream

That's what she'd have on a plate

(laughter)

Yeah I know, I love vegetables

Just like bread and peas and that, just like together on a plate (laughter)

Ok (laughter)

Yeah, I'm plain, plain but content

Easy to please (laughter)

Yeah

What's your ideal meal, what would be your favourite

Um, oh that is so hard, um lasagne, love lasagne, um

I can't answer that

I love it um

I like -- I love

Um, (interruption) McDonalds (laughter)

(interruption) I love food too much to answer that question

Pizza, it's all food that's bad for you really

What about a pudding?

Cheesecake

Ahh, ch- sticky toffee pudding, oh my God that is a dream, that's a dream on a plate

Um hot cookie dough dessert from Pizza Hut

Ah that's so nice, it's a sharing dessert for two people but I have it to myself

(interruption) (laughter)

(interruption) (laughter)

Like I'm a -- I'm a pig

We got away with it for a while, getting it just for one like the price for one

Yeah

But then they worked out it was for two and like aww

Yeah so, I'm gutted now

Aww

And um

I know but it's so nice, ah

Aww did you go often to Pizza Hut?

(interruption) We used to (laughter)

(interruption) We used to, when we didn't used to go to town, when we never used to be able to go out and stuff, we used to do more stuff like that, but now we all go out, so not really

Now we're just out all the time (laughter) so, not really

It's different isn't it

Mm

Going back to Christmas, did you used to like write lists to Father Christmas and stuff of what you wanted?

Yeah, like, my Mam still wants us to write Christmas lists like, so she can know what to get us and that, but like yeah I used to like send my lists off and that

We -- we tried to do a trick on Santa one year right

(laughter) Oh yeah that was so funny

To find out if Santa was real right, and we s- we wrote a letter, asking how -- we were only little this was quite a good thing to do, and we got -- we left saying Santa please sign here and somebody else did

(interruption) Like we all did it

(interruption) So we were going to compare the signatures right (laughter)

To see if he was actually real, 'cause (unclear)

But it didn't work, I was stupid and I told my Dad about it, so he wrote on the form Rudolph, Santa is busy

Aww

So we couldn't compare (laughter)

I know, and I forgot to do it so like a few people had done it and like

One of our friends had Santa, I had a Rudolph signature and she didn't have any, so it didn't work

So we didn't -- we never found out if he was real or not (laughter)

That was quite clever! (laughter)

I know wasn't it? We were only little, well quite little

Ingenious plan

Did you leave mince pies out for him or anything like that?

Yeah

Yeah, carrots for Rudolph

My -- honestly, my -- my dad won't admit Santa isn't real, even now like he won't admit he's not real, but like he's

Aww

Yeah says well I think he is!

I know he's like well I think he's real, you won't get any presents if you don't think he's real, it's so funny, and um we're just like no and then he still says put a carrot out for Rudolph and that and put some whisky out for Santa and stuff and we're like oh God, we just know you're going to drink it when we go upstairs, it's so funny

My Dad last year, we all went to bed and he was going down the stairs going Ho Ho Ho! (laughter) Was like, we're not even going to pretend anymore

Do you put your stockings out, do you have stockings?

Yeah I do it's really cool

I don't, I've never had a stocking

I'm such a child when it comes to Christmas honestly, hanging up the stocking and that, proper

I've never -- I never ha- we never have stockings, I don't know why

I always get an apple and an orange in my stocking as well, it's so cool

Do you open it before your other presents or after?

Yeah before my other presents, it's so cool I love Christmas

We always used to have like, a chair each that we always used to have our presents on

Yeah

Like, one of we always had the same chair every year and we used to make signs like

Yeah I used to have that

Such-and-such's chair and stuff like that

We used to do that as well, that was cool

Who decorates your tree does your Mam do it or

Oh my God we always have arguments about the tree

Your Mam likes the tr- your Mam likes the tree to be like symmetrical doesn't she

Yeah but it's -- it's never -- it never is, like we -- we have this idea it's going to be like dead like lush and lush tree and that and then um my brother gets wrong 'cause he's never helping 'cause he's always on his computer and doing things like that and then I'm trying to like organise it and that my Mam's always in a mood 'cause things aren't right and that, my Dad's just trying to put like new decorations on and that my Dad goes out and buys new decorations every year, these leafy ones like holly and that like all the nature decorations and that they're horrible he brings them in and goes ooh look what I've got and that and it's like it's really bad and like we always have this massive argument about it and that and then it's just like uh so I just -- I just let my Mam tell us what to do now I'm just like right fine just follow you

My tree's like a mish-mash of everything like things we've made when we were little and like, stuff like that, do you know when you used to bake things but they

(laughter) Like clay

Yeah where it goes hard yeah

Yeah

Ours is just like every colour put on 'cause we all do it

Yeah that's what ours used to be like

It's just like, it's not organised, it's just like everyone puts stuff on (laughter)

Aww I used to love decorating the tree it was really fun

How soon before Christmas does it go up?

Two weeks

Two weeks before (pause) I don't like how decorations are up early

No

Like in the shopping centres and stuff when they're up in like October and that I don't like that kind of thing, think it ruins it

Do the trees just go under, I mean do the presents just go under your tree like on Christmas Eve or do they build up beforehand?

Well like,

We don't put presents under the tree

We -- I put my family's under like the ones that we've wrapped for like my cousins and my aunties and stuff

Oh we don't do that

But um like our presents don't go under the tree

I -- We only put presents under the tree like that are for my Mam and Dad, and like from my Nan and Grandad and stuff

Yeah

But not like, all our presents and that aren't under the tree

You just sort them out in the morning?

Yeah that's the same

'Cause Santa brings them

Oh yeah

Well when we go to bed my Mam and Dad put them out of their cupboards onto the sofa and that

Yeah

As if Santa's been during the night

Yeah, as if Santa's been, as if w- yeah

When you wake up and he's been (laughter)

(laughter) Aww

Like he's been! (laughter) We know what I've got! (laughter)

What's the best present you've ever had, for your birthday or for Christmas?

Probably my laptop, I think, 'cause more or less was expensive and that and it was just like (pause) it was all I wanted really, so, yeah that was good

My best one was for my birthday this year, it was off her and it was my bag

Oh yeah

I wanted this bag from Debenhams for ages and ages and ages and it was really expensive and

What designer was it again? It was

Matthew Williams, or Williamson, you know the butterflies

Yeah

Yeah

And I got a bag from her and I absolutely love it, it's the best thing I've ever owned

Oh and I got this thing for my birthday like a photo album that she'd made for us like it was absolutely lush it was all hand-made and that like all these little things stuck on and all these pictures from like ages ago and that and like all like um, all music I like all pictures and that ah it was brilliant, it was a proper home-made scrapbook, it was fantastic I was like oh -- I was -- I was so touched, it was brilliant

(laughter)

Aww, you put a lot of effort into that

Yeah I did

Yeah you can tell, it really is so good

(laughter) You're just saying your best presents are from each other aren't you!

mine was, I can't really remember past presents

Yeah like I really did love that though it was -- it was fantastic

I'm trying to think what else I've got

Did you not ever get like a bike when you were little or something?

Yeah but I can't really remember, like getting it

When I got a big yellow fun bus,

(laughter)

That was brilliant, I loved that

I got one of them electric scooters, do you know them things where -- where you pushed the button and it went

Oh, I used to love that

Do you remember that?

Yeah, (interruption) oh I used to love that

(interruption) Can't remember, (unclear) and we fell off

We used to bomb down your street on it

Yeah

Aww that was brilliant

Proper (unclear) like (laughter)

Oh that was so good, remember when we made a bogey at yours?

Aye

A what

A bogey

Like you know like a bo- you know what a bogey is?

No

It's like a ramshackle go-kart thing that you make with like

You know that you make you own and put wheels on and that

Right

Yeah

We made like -- it's called a bogey, well (interruption) they started making one in their street

(interruption) Like I was making one in our street

So I made a one (pause) but my cousins crashed it and it broke

Yeah

Aww (laughter)

But you never finished yours did you?

No 'cause, (NAME) was proper over-taking and that and she wanted to have a roof right and I was like it's going to look like a Simpsons -- (interruption) Simpsons?

(interruption) Flintstones

Flintstones car you know where the feet come out the bottom and that and like she was saying ah we can't have plastic wheels we got to go own to the tip and get these bike wheels and that I was like oh God we're making a go-kart for the street (interruption) it's not the bloody grand prix

(interruption) mine was proper good 'cause my brother's a welder, and he welded a frame together and we stuck wood on and that, it was canny good!

Oh wow (laughter)

But it got crashed (laughter)

I remember going on it as well it was -- it was really good, you got like a registration plate and everything didn't you

Yeah my brother got us a registration plate like not a real one like one from the scrap yard (laughter)

Yeah

Aww

Stuck it on

(laughter) Mm what do you usually do at New Year do you go to parties or out, have you ever been out to town?

I just -- I normally just stay in really, I know that's quite boring but like, we just normally stay in the house like I don't really go out

You don't just stay in you go with your cousins and that don't you?

Not really

Do you not?

Like only like the past few years I've been to like a party at my Auntie's but like a little party but like normally I just don't really do anything for New Year's like I'm not really bothered about it

It's not as important as Christmas

No

I'm like, out (pause) I go to parties and (pause) my friend's got a bar in her house

Ah it is really good

Wow (laughter)

Yeah she's (pause) quite rich

(laughter)

And um, she had a party the last couple of years and then last year I went out to like to this pub with my sister and her friends like, and then, that was it really, it was good though

Have you ever had a party, at any time, like in your house?

I've never had a big party like, no

No, I was going to have one in my Nanna's house

Oh yeah

Like rec- like recently, like a house party

That's actually -- that's still a proposal

Yeah 'cause my Nanna's house is like vacant now and it's got nothing in, so I thought ooh, so, might have a party there, but, don't know yet

I've only ever had like parties just with like girls like when we were younger

Yeah like sleepovers and stuff

Like sleepovers, I've never like a party party I don't think my Mam would go for that

Too much responsibility

Yeah and it's like, if it's your party you don't -- I don't think you have a good time, 'cause you're like trying to make sure everyone else is

No

And nothing gets smashed

Yeah

Yeah (laughter)

Ok have you ever seen or met anyone famous, around here or anywhere?

Who've I met?

Alan Shearer came to school (laughter)

Aye, Alan Shearer came to school to open the sports hall

Really

To open

I've met Emre I got Emre's autograph at um Newcastle, I've met -- we met Peter Beardsley in a lift

Yeah we were in a lift with Peter Beardsley

Um, I've met Pete from Big Brother,

Oh yeah

I got -- you know the one with Tourettes?

Yeah

I got -- I bought his autobiography he signed it and I got a photo taken with him

Was that in town?

It was in the Metro in um, Waterstones in the Metro

Oh right

And have I met anyone else? um

Saying you work at St James' you should have met all the players

I know I haven't met any

No you don't get to see the players

You just -- you just get the riff-raff

Aah

But um, who else have I met?

Why did Shearer go to your school?

(interruption) Open the sports hall

(interruption) Open the sports hall

Oh

It was like an opening

it was really good

Primary school or

No like this school high school

Everyone was like Shearer, it was mint

Aye everyone was chanting Shearer

It was proper good

Ah

Have I met anyone else, I don't think so

Um, no

Who would you most like to meet, that's famous?

Oh, that's a, that's a question (pause) (interruption) Johnny Depp (laughter)

(interruption) Johnny Depp, I knew you were going to say that!

I was just, yeah Johnny Depp

Captain Jack though not Johnny Depp

Oh yeah as Captain Jack of course, definitely, um I don't know, really, I can't really think of anybody just