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Definitely leave the light lying out, especially in a day or minute.

Well, a bit later. Keep you warm in a minute.

Yeah.

Anything going on over the weekend?

Um, no, not much, yeah.

Just going out to a... hopefully to a jazz spot.

Oh, nice. Yeah, I've got a few friends going together.

Oh, that'd be great.

Always. Yeah, no, we've got a quiet weekend.

Yeah? Yeah.

You watching anything special at the moment?

Um, not really, no.

Okay, have a good weekend.

Yeah, yeah.

See you later. I'm going to head off. See you on Monday.

You had enough?

Huh? You had enough?

Well, yeah, you know, it's the weekend.

Just give me a second.

Okay.

I don't think so. I mean, he's probably going to cook something, you know.

He likes doing a bit of fiddling.

What's your special milk?

Spaghetti. He likes a kind of spaghetti with a sort of, you know...

Carbonara or Bolognese, something like that.

What about you? What are you going to be getting up to? I was just saying I have

a few friends getting together.

Going out for a music gig.

Oh, that's good.

No, I know I need it. What kind of music?

A bit of jazz. Oh, lovely. God, I haven't listened to jazz for ages. Do

anything? No.

Do you?

Saxophone. How did you know?

I mean, I've had, like, three lessons.

Have you?

Really? Yeah, it's not like I can... There'll be no tunes coming out.

Just a load of noise.

Well, you might have to get yourself a gig, and then I'll come and watch you.

Well, if you're coming, then I'll definitely get one organised for you.

Oh, thanks, everybody, for all of this.

Really nice of you. Really lovely. Thank you.

Oh, good.

Yeah, have a good evening.

Thanks. Thank you.

Come on, John, John.

John?

Oh! Hooray!

Oh,

no, please, not the song again.

Come on.

Wait, wait, wait.

I'm looking forward to this today. Oh, darling.

Oh, darling.

Cheers. Cheers.

Thank you.

Can we skip that bit?

It's your birthday. Of course we can't skip that bit.

Right,

do you want to eat?

Yeah? Okay, well, get in on.

Who am I?

Okay.

Cheers.

To... To you.

To... Miracle Maria.

Maria the Miracle.

That won't be long.

I don't know.

Really? Really?

Come on.

No.

Just bring the nut a little bit.

Come on.

No.

Not now.

Maria, not now.

Really?

All right, come on.

No, come on. No, come on. Maria!

Maria!

I didn't mean not at all.

It doesn't matter. It's fine. Not now.

I'm not OK.

A spaghetti by the nose is fine.

I don't understand where that comes from.

Oh, please, John, enough.

Just leave it.

What do you mean, where does it come from? What kind of a stupid question is

that? Where does that feeling come from? We've been perfectly all right up till

now. Yes, we have. We've been fine. We've had a nice... Don't worry, I

the boat again. We've made love. We've made it beautiful. It doesn't matter.

It's romantic and lovely. John, please.

No. It doesn't make it... It

didn't seem like the Maria I

know. Okay.

It seemed like a different Maria.

Didn't? Oh, right. Was it a different Maria? No, it wasn't. It's this Maria.

This is Maria.

This is Maria. This is Maria who wants to go like that sometimes.

Who wants to take my clothes off in the kitchen. Who wants to have sex with my

husband. That isn't planned.

Well, I didn't... Is that so much to ask? I gave you exactly what you didn't

want. Oh, you're talking rubbish. I just wanted to have sex. I'm perfectly

capable of romantic sex. Yes, lovemaking. Just not in the kitchen.

You just wanted a fuck.

And what's wrong with that?

It's got to be all, you know, glowy, beautiful music. It can be beautiful

It can be candlelit. It can be romantic on your birthday.

Yes, and? But I don't want a dirty fuck.

Right, fine.

I'm not a dirty fucker.

Thank you.

Is there any hummus?

Just keep digging, you'll see something.

Ah. Oh, yeah.

I

fancied a little

dip.

I can do it.

It's not about opening the hummus.

Put it down.

Oh, I thought you were helping me to open the hummus.

What I was trying to say through the door when you were in

the bath is that I really love you.

I just want you to know that and just always hang on to that.

I love you too.

I really do love you, too.

Are we okay?

Yeah, we're good.

Yeah? Are we going to have a nice afternoon?

Of course we are.

Do you want me to open the hummus? No, you don't.

I've been opening hummus by myself for years.

Let me do the others.

I absolutely can't open the hummus. Yes, you can. Come on. No, I've done it.

I've done it now.

Take a knife to it if you can't. That's what I do.

Anyway, I've got...

I've got things to do that involve flour and things.

We'll enter Bake Off.

No, no, no. We've done this.

We did birthday yesterday.

The children haven't done it. They don't need cake. They're not six and eight.

I'm just saying, we're going to have a late lunch. We're going to have nice

wine. We're going to have the kids here.

We're going to celebrate the birthday, I'll open my presents. We don't need a

cake.

I'll just have candles on top that I've got to blow out and be embarrassed

again, all over again, after work.

We don't need a cake. I'm just trying to celebrate you.

You don't need to do anything to try and celebrate me.

Whatever I do just turns to dust.

No, it doesn't.

Come and eat hummus with me and drink your wine.

You don't have to do anything else to make me happy.

I'm perfectly happy.

Ah!

Good.

Yay!

The cavalry have arrived!

Come in!

Happy birthday!

Hello, darling.

How you doing? Come in.

to see you. You must be David.

It's so nice to meet you.

Thank you, thank you. I never have to hear that song again. Speech, speech,

speech, speech, speech!

Oh, God, they sung it at work yesterday. I just wanted the ground to open up and

disappear. And then I got back yesterday and then Dad started singing it to me.

Why didn't her husband sing to his wife's shock? He did get me a really

painting. Isn't that nice?

Yeah, that's nice.

So, how's things going?

How long have you two been seeing each other?

About five, five -ish months.

Oh, wow.

That's a fair old while, isn't it?

And how long have we been together?

Oh, God, nothing.

So let's go there.

How long have you been now? Oh, my God. Well, 13.

I don't mind saying 31 years. Oh, thank you. You're doing well already.

So which bit of Ireland are you from?

I'm from Dublin.

Right. Yeah. I was born and raised in Dublin.

Yeah. But I have family in Canada. I have family... Oh. Yeah, over in

Oh, wow.

Yeah. My dad actually lives over there now. My mum is in Ireland. Are they not

together anymore?

No, they're not. They were together for...

20 years or so. Where do you think you'll settle?

Where do you feel like home is?

I don't know.

I'm just curious.

Where are you going to put it?

Come on, you've got to make a decision.

Where will you hang your hat? He doesn't know.

He can hang his hat wherever he wants.

He might hang it here for a bit and then there for a bit.

What inside is your home? That's what I'm saying. What spiritually is your

Yes, it is a big question.

It is an important question, isn't it? I guess.

Do you have any? Some people don't know and might never find where they're going

to hang their hats. And that's the great thing about their lives. They'll just

be roaming around and they're not looking for a place to hang their hat.

they're very happy not hanging their hat. If you remember this time, wherever

hang my hats, my home.

You can roam.

You've got your whole life ahead of you. You can roam... What?

You've got your whole life ahead of you. You roam as much as you wish.

Sooner or later, you'll... It's a real theme for this weekend,

isn't it? What? Who calmed down?

Goodness me.

Well, I mean, honestly, it's...

Sorry, the last 24 hours have been like this.

We're at loggerheads about where we should be, where we want to be, where we

want to go, what we want to do, what kind of adventure we want, what

kind of fantasy. What are you on about?

I'd just like to say, in a very calm and collected way, that nobody's at

loggerheads at all.

Well, I'm not.

I've just been saying, you know.

Come on, maybe we could do something and travel or we look at

what we've got so that we are not just... Yeah, yeah.

...stayed. But anyway.

Anyway, look, tuck in and get yourself some food. There's plenty of food.

I'll use a fork. Oh, thank you.

France or Italy?

Ooh. I don't know, whatever you think.

I'm not a... connoisseur of animal works. I'll leave them with you. You can

decide which European country you can travel to. Thank you.

So we've, I don't know what, we've found a place.

Oh, stop.

Stop. Hot news.

Hot news. Breaking news. No, no, no. It's not hot news.

It's not hot news. Just Philippa and I have found a place.

Oh, wow.

Nothing's happened yet. But I didn't know you were going from that kind of,

know, we'll live here for a bit, maybe. It's about the right time.

We've been together five years.

How old are you now, 27, 28?

And what does that mean?

It's a good time to start thinking about those things. It's a good time to stop

living, is it? No. It's a good time to say, OK, let's stop now.

Did we stop living when we were 27?

Well, there's that debate. We lived in a...

It's a chapter, isn't it? You turn the page and you move into the next chapter.

Yeah, but you need to think about the next. Thank you. Yes, that's my failure.

I know. I'm just saying, you know, don't rush. How much is the deposit?

No, don't ask that.

Why not?

I don't want to tell you.

They're looking for like a 15 % deposit or something.

Okay. Are you all right with that? Yeah, yeah, we're good. You got that?

Yeah, we're good for it.

You've always been good with money, haven't you?

Planting it away.

Planting it away. I'm not sure about that.

Spend it.

Spend it. Go wild and spend it.

Get your place.

Thanks for that reckless advice, Mum. I'll bear that in mind.

You can always rely on me to be reckless.

Cheers. Cheers.

To the birthday girl. To your... To mortgages.

Yeah, to mortgages for your home. To your home and to Philippa.

Thank you. Good for you.

It feels like the right thing to be doing. Good.

As long as it's the right thing for you, that's important.

That's good. That's really good. It's lovely, isn't it?

Is she pregnant?

Better not be. Is she?

She is? No, she's not. But you're thinking not pregnant. Better fucking

because I can't wait to be an auntie. That's what I call an adventure anyway.

That's very exciting news.

Congratulations. Good luck.

Good luck. Perhaps it all goes well for you.

How are you guys? What's going on?

Well,

we might go to Canada for a bit, see how we like it. Oh, God, that's amazing.

Yeah, yeah, and you know David got family out there from like it's got

there Yeah, I'd love to introduce it all my cousins. My cool cousins out in

Toronto. And just see what it brings.

Yeah, I can like a gorgeous lake with mountains.

Girls going to Canada!

You're excited then, that's good.

When are you guys thinking of going?

We're thinking even getting a little cheeky bus. Yeah, maybe going around.

do you mean a bus?

Like maybe rent out a bus and kind of just go along the parks. Oh, that's so

good. That's so good.

I was telling Dad yesterday about this woman that I used to know who, long

short, every year.

What?

The woman who went through America in a burger van.

Is that the one? No, it wasn't a burger van. Why are you so judgmental about

that? I'm not. I've just heard this story many times. Sorry, you carry on.

There was this woman. I didn't know her very well. Friend of a friend.

Every year. She was married, happily married, happy, had kids.

Everything was great. It wasn't because she was trying to rock the home boat or

anything like that.

Every year, she took herself off.

She flew to New York. She hired a big motorhome.

And she drove across America. On her own. To L .A. On her own. Through the

desert. That's fucking cool.

Look, I'll just keep... I'm just going to take five down.

I'll just... Sorry, go on. What I was saying was...

That I just started to feel that you want every day to be, not your birthday,

for Christ's sake, but every day should be something, you know, you should feel

that you're having your best life.

That's it. That's what I'm meaning to say. You should feel that you're having

your best life or your best possible life, whatever that means to you. You,

fabulous.

off to you thinking of going to Canada for a bit maybe it'll work out maybe it

won't but you're open amazing you you're having the best the life that you want

you know you've made a choice that's very no but you know what I'm saying and

I respect that I respect that no I'm joking your choices are different

and I'm just saying that

There's such a lot.

There's nothing wrong with this. There's so much a lot I haven't done.

I'm just scared, I think.

I'm coming in.

There's absolutely... There's absolutely nothing to be scared of.

Are you OK, Mum?

Yeah, I'm good.

I'm good, actually.

I really am good.

That seems a bit... No, no, no.

I wish I could go to Canada.

You should go to Canada. I know, you see, that's my point.

is my point exactly I don't feel remotely old you

know I really don't I mean god forbid there might come a day when I am

incapacitated when I my who knows what knees hips but

at the moment I feel absolutely alive and

capable and fit

I feel fit.

I feel... I

feel...

Sorry.

What's wrong?

Nothing.

It's just nice to say it to somebody who listens.

full of potential.

I don't want to think any aspect of my life is

over.

It's not.

I know. I know.

I really know that.

I know it isn't.

And I'm not going to let it be.

I'm not going to.

Let it be over.

As I've got a lot to give.

Are you off?

Yeah, I'm off.

How are you?

Hi, darling.

Thank you.

Lovely to meet you.

Lovely, lovely to meet you.

Really lovely.

Yeah, delighted.

How are you, darling?

Thank you.

Bye, drive carefully.

Take care. Oh yeah, don't forget that.

Happy birthday, Mum. Thank you.

Bye -bye.

He's really lovely, isn't he?

Well done, Alice.

This is great.

Well, I might be waving her off to Canada for a while.

Good on her.

That's all I can say.

Yes? No?

Hello?

Suddenly you've got nothing to say.

That's kind of weird.

Had a lot to say earlier, that's for sure.

Well, actually, let me rephrase that. A lot to criticise earlier.

As in me.

What are we doing with this? Chuck it?

Just leave it. I'll do it.

I said leave it, I'll do it. I'm just putting it down.

Yeah, just put it down and then I'll put some music on and have myself a jolly

old time and deal with it all.

Actually, how fucking dare you do that in front of my children?

How dare you patronise me? Leave my cards alone.

I'm just going to put them on the... Well, I'll do it.

Looking at what's been written, it's been written for me.

Can I have nothing that's mine? Me, me, me.

Aye, aye, aye. Yes, because it's my birthday.

Not that you'd know that with you.

Criticise, criticise, criticise. Everything I said today has picked me up

Everything I've done in the last 24 hours is for your birthday. Thank God

and David have got some kind of understanding of what it was I was

say. Don't call me stupid in front of my children. No way.

That's not happening. It's called you stupid.

Whereas you, everything I said was, you know, oh, well, look, she wants to do

this. And what's she saying? Like, I mean, really?

It's like I'm not allowed to say anything. You want me to put on a

jacket in the morning?

It's unbelievable.

Leave me alone for a bit. Just leave me alone.

Fine.

Just burn it off, all right? Just burn it off.

Fucking pissed off with not being listened to.

Just drink. Just have a drink, Maria.

Just have a drink.

Have a drink.

I really hate it. I know you hate it. Yeah, good.

Oh, good. Good that I hate it. Is that your intention? Is that what you're

trying to do? If you actually stopped and analysed what's happened and what

reaction has been, I think you might realise that it's not stupid.

All that's happened, listen to me, all that's happened in the last 24 hours is

that I've said, God forbid me, I've said a few things.

about not being blinkered, about seizing the day, about having freedom to do

anything that we want to do. That is all I've said. And you've taken such great

umbrage to it, which is one thing. I'm trying to understand it. Oh, really? I

not understand it. Well, then why don't you ever say to me, why don't you say to

me in a calm, quiet way?

Please tell me what you mean, Maria.

Please tell me what you're feeling.

You always fight me whenever I try and... No, I don't fight you. I'm

you now. Every time I try to speak to you, you fight me. I'm fighting you now

because of the way you behave today.

I was not allowed to say things to my children. I was not allowed to share my

feelings with them.

You said plenty to them. And why shouldn't I?

Why shouldn't I?

At my cost.

Why? It's me saying that I might want to have some freedom and have an adventure

at your cost.

Why is it?

Because every time I challenge it, you take the piss out of me. It was you who

was taking the piss out of me.

I started to tell them the story about my friend and you said, oh, here we go.

Here's this story about this woman who's it.

One crush.

Everything I said, one crush.

And I'm not.

to be crushed by you or anybody!

I'm going to apologise because I don't see why I should have to.

I don't want to shout.

I don't like shouting, but...

I would

like it if you could understand that...

What we did when we were young.

We got this home and we had the children and we absolutely did it.

But there was so much that I didn't do.

Things I really achingly wanted to do and just

couldn't do them.

And now...

We don't have those responsibilities.

And I'm not in my late 20s or early 30s, but I am absolutely

in my prime.

My prime.

And I'm not going to waste it.

I'm going to do this with or without you.

Sorry, John.

Please.

Nice room, very bachelory. You know,

the big TV and the big sofa and that's kind of

all you need.

All you need indeed.

Why are you here?

Why am I here?

Well, because there's this thing that passes between...

two people and I think it's passing between us.

And I'm not going to pretend it's not happening.

And I want it.

Hey.

Hey.

Maria.

Wasn't sure if you were coming back.