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wow

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after four long years of war the men are

coming home

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hundreds and hundreds of houses are

becoming homes once more

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hey

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welcome to number 17 mrs gibbons and may

all your days here be happy

i'll be happy when i get a cup of tea

well you won't have to wait long here's

the removal

you go on in mother and i'll evolve with

the stuff

well you couldn't have timed it better

you're all right now

this house smells a bit damp to me i

hope it isn't i don't see why it should

be it's not nearly water

well you never know mrs wilcox moved

into that house in lebanon before she'd

been in it for three months she was in

bed with rheumatic fever that's right

dear

look on the bright side

that's right thank you put it here

exciting day young man

it'll only be out in the pipe yeah put

these in the living room

they may need shortening oh i do hope

not

there's a hand with this crockery mother

it should have been put in the kitchen

i'm not supposed to move anything at all

you know

not anything oh come on mother it's not

heavy give us a hand

you'll feel better when you've had a

nice cup of tea if i ever do have a nice

cup of tea well the kettle's on the boil

but sylvia is not here yet

sylvia well she had to go all the way to

the uk stores you know that's quite a

way

she wouldn't have had to do that if she

hadn't forgotten off the things we told

her the water

i don't need me can't help her need me

can she now

i don't know you and frank put up with

him that's a thing

now you know as well as i do mother that

i couldn't let my own sister know it all

by herself now could i

especially after all she's been through

sylvia hasn't been through no more than

anyone else

what she needs is a job at work she

couldn't stand it she's too delicate

you know what the doctor said that

doctor would say anything look how he

went on over queenie's open course

frighten us all to death

you've taken your time i must say we

thought something had happened to you

well i'd like to see you benny quicker

with a lot like this to carry

give us the milk

oh me poor back it was your feet this

afternoon

well it's midnight now so there this

house smells a bit damp if you ask me

all houses smell that when you first

move it

oh shut up oh dear

i thought i was going to have one of my

texts just as i turned it to aberville

road

i had to lean against spiller box i

suppose you didn't think to remember my

picnics

yes i did in my bag

here well thank giving for small nurses

what one

no thanks i dance

i'm just going to take this cup of tea

up to frank

oh we'll have to butter percy's poor

sylvia we'll have no rest till we let

you know

peace for the wicked

his cup of tea dear tom i'll just take

them up for the time being i'll put them

up probably when we've settled in

yeah you look tired you've been doing

too much oh i'm all right

well you've been at it all day you know

for what you expect me to do sit down by

the farm read a nice book

all right savvy oh frank did you like it

like what well the house silly you

haven't said a word well of course i

like it

i can't hardly believe it you know it's

all been so quick

you coming home and being d-mobbed

oh dear what's up i can't get used to

not having that awful weight in my mind

all the time

how'd you mean well you know what me

perishing on a field of slaughter

oh what a chance there was a chance

every minute of every day for four years

and don't you forget it

i used to feel sick every time the

postman came every time the bell there's

no senses going on about it that's all

over and done with

we are lucky just know we're done with

for some people look at mrs worsley

husband and two sons gone and mrs cross

that boy of us she was so proud i've

done in for life

we ought to be grateful oh too now then

frank

give me a headache talking like that

doesn't make sense well what does make

sense i'd like to know

lots of things there's me and the

children isn't there and there's a job

in this house and the laugh we're going

to live in it

it's cruel to make me even think well

what's the use of upset in yourself

there isn't going to be another war

anyway they'll always be wars as long as

men are such fools just to want to go to

them

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no sense in butter and that cat's paws

he knows when he's well off

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what i like about that cherry tree oh i

never noticed it

yeah you wouldn't that lot of time i've

had to stand about looking at chili

trees

that's a bit of luck they fit perfect

here there's percy who let him out

mother must have

he's up to no good should wonder yeah we

ought to have him arranged when he was

little

that was a falcon

poor old girl you must be glad to have a

home of your own again

living four years with your mother kind

of being all jam i will say i think i

was better off in the trenches

to be ashamed saying such things oh your

mother's all right in her way but

and i surveys in batman oh dear gave me

the will is after five weeks let alone

four years

at least we've got a bath here that

doesn't scratch the eye dolphin let me

rank it

yeah i'm just gonna help mother and

still get the supper yeah let's have a

look at you before

just to see what's happened to your face

you know i don't seem to have had time

for a really good look at it not since i

got there stop it leave guys

don't steal a minute now see here frank

gibbons yeah it's not such a bad face as

faces go i will say

oh thanks very much i'm sure of course

it's not quite as young as it was when a

man leave hold off me but taken by a

large i wouldn't change it

i might uh wipe some of the dirt off the

side of it but i wouldn't change it

where yeah hold still

yeah that's better now then now then

what give us a kiss i'll do no such

thing

and why not marry ourselves we haven't

got no time for fooling about william

now turn in nasty are we

we'll soon see about that shut up

oh dear oh i hope i don't intrude i live

at number 15 next door and my missus and

i thought if you needed anything in the

way of gross

well i'll be blown mitchell

bob mitchell that's right but don't you

remember me

frank gibbons the buffs bee company

festival 1915

strike me pink it's all given you old

son of a gun

zombie i thought you says that is

nothing after that night attack when

we've gone on to convention left you lot

in the mud but me dennis button

i'm tougher than that only one small l

through my leg in four years

here take a chair thanks how did you

make her well not so bad

got guest in 17. all right now though

let me chest a bit weak that's all well

i'll say it's a small world of no

mistake

don't you think you better introduce me

frank of course this is the wife bob

pleased to meet you mrs gibbon oh it's a

pleasure i'm sure well what a

coincidence i can't get over it how long

have you been here well over a year now

we took the ass when i got me discharged

in march 18. nora

it's my missus she would have come

herself tonight only she's feeling a bit

under the weather you see we're

expecting a little stranger anyway no

it's not our first is it no no no we've

got a boy dean wants to be a sailor

here we gotta celebrate this summer well

i'll tell you what i've got to bother

donnie walker next door i won't take a

minute

you two sit here and i'll go and get

sylvia's win card is

oh dear it won't take a minute to get

the johnny walker yeah who's dug out you

think this is

you sit down all right i'll uh i'll pop

in and have one with you later

you got a job yet yes i had a bit of

luck a chap called tickler in my

regiment was running the sort of travel

agency knoxville street before the war

well he was the first one i run into

when i got back last april he started

his business again things was beginning

to pick up and he gave me a job a travel

agency eh

it turns out the battlefields i'll thank

you that's a good one yeah some people

certainly do have queer ways of enjoying

themselves don't they

here you've got kids haven't you

remember you're talking about them yeah

three two girls and a boy

they're with ethel's aunt in broad

stairs we didn't want them under our

feet while we was moving in

how old are they uh rage's the boy he's

12. queen is 13

and why she's 40. yeah you are

sup will be ready in a minute you sure

you won't stand take part luck with this

mr mitchell thanks very much mrs gibbons

but i really must get back

will you ask your wife when it be

convenient for me to pop in and see her

anytime

any time at all well i'll be saying good

night mr mitchell aren't you gonna never

dropped you no yeah we'll spawn miss

upper now don't be long don't forget

there's anything you're wanting thanks

very much i'm sure good night good night

hey alvin thanks it tastes a bit funny

but it's better than nothing

happy days happy days

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took me four years to learn the words of

this song

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there's our luck oh doesn't make you

wish you hadn't been demolished

hey

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wembley four times next quarter's right

every time have you got your mat queen

it's not a mac it's a burberry

ginger beer it'll never vegeta for

thanking me why got me pouched yeah take

it easy today we're going to wembley not

the batman

good morning billy good morning rich

good morning

well what are the plans i thought we

might start off at the palace of

engineering

oh we haven't got any plans but we're

just gonna have a good time good old mum

when are we going or we're gonna stand

here all day talking about don't be

saucy queenly

say goodbye to your mom gentlemen come

on ola come on owner

so you can't come well i've been eating

six and i'm gonna spend every penny

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they should be sinking out here doing

good after that she put away

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thank goodness we ditched them i hate

going around in a mob yeah nice to be

alone for a bit

the water lovely and clear look you can

see the bottom it's a lovely blue

isn't it lovely are you a good sailor

i don't know well you'll soon find out

who you are awful

oh do shut up friend where can they be

they promise to meet us here at six

i don't know or care i brought him here

to see the glories of the empire and all

they think about is going on the dodgers

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mrs witness bronchitis is worse ethel

they had to have a kettle

shh oh frank give it a rest do you've

been at it all day

i've never given you the beast to think

if i thought it was going to spoil

christmas for the rest of us

oh dad can i have the port now he was

talking to your father already might

just as well not be here

oh i'm tanking okay thanks mom

i think all these things

without the struggle well struggle over

here and pour it out

come on now who's with a couple of

cheers i'll have a drop yeah sam don't

even have to get your throat yeah that

means pineapple i made him myself oh

thanks

dad to be nice you letting me come and

spend my christmas day with you i don't

know what i would have done all by

myself in that house in wandsworth what

with auntie ill and everything is she

ain't there huh no she just goes on

about the same

mrs watts is looking after till seven so

i don't have to get back till about then

i will now call upon my old and valued

friend sam ledbetter to say a few words

oh value friendship only known as some

sort of spent holiday chuckles the

nutcrackers kill

speech speech come on sam

ladies and gentlemen comrades well make

up your mind

comrades in thanking you for your kind

hospitality on this festive day

i would like to say that it is both a

pleasure and a privilege to be here

area though as you know

holding the views i do it is really

against my principles to obnob to any

great extent with the

bourgeoisie what's that i think it means

common in a nice way oh

order i cannot help but feel that today

what would be christmas and

one thing in another it would be but

right and proper to put aside

all prejudice and class hatred very nice

of you i'm sure

but as you well know there are millions

and millions of homes in this country

today

where christmas is not but a mockery

where there is neither warmth nor food

nor even the bare necessities of life

where little children

old before their time huddle around the

fireless great well they'd be just as

well off if they stayed in the middle of

the room then wouldn't they oh shut up

queenie sounds quite right

that sort of remark queenies brings from

complacency arrogance and a full stomach

you leave my stomach out of it it is

people like you apathetic unthinking

docile supporters of a capitalistic

system which is a disgrace to

civilization

who are responsible for at least three

quarters of a cruel sufferings of the

world

as long as you can earn your miserable

little salaries and get out of the

pictures and enjoy yourselves the rest

of suffering your manatee going can't it

you're too busy getting all weepy over

rudolph valentino despairing tears for

the workers of the world don't get

excited sam queen he didn't mean it i am

not excited and queenie doesn't mean

anything to me anyway

pardon me all while i don't commit

suicide but what she represents

what she symbolizes means a great deal

she is only one of the millions who when

the great day comes will be

swept out of distance like like so much

chaff on the wind

well it's nice to know isn't it i've

said my side thank you very much

here here bravo well i don't know what

you're saying brother but i'm sure i

think sam's been very rude oh come on

sam

come up to my room minute and have a

cigarette don't let your father catch

you why i'm sorry if i was rude oh it

doesn't matter sam but you can't expect

everybody in the world to feel just the

same as you do you know

oh come on sam all right to clear away

yes but you needn't stay and wash our

beady we can do it later

you were all for queenie if you wouldn't

have gone on at sam the way you did you

would have got so excited

absolutely grateful

how's your father's neck edie i was up

all night poulter singing

still painting him terrible when i left

this morning they say if you have one

you generally have seven well this is

his third so we only got four more to go

there's some crackers left in the box on

the side body you might have to take

them to your little brother

get for a queen thanks ever sir you are

eating you can file them on the top

that's right now you two drop the sofa

to the fire

right phil give his hand with this one

right here front door answer it somebody

come on trick yourself

hello billy i'd love to give him i

thought it was your father

have you come to see queenie oh well uh

i thought as a matter of fact that rage

wanted to do you'll find her in the

living room

no thanks

yeah hello queen hello billy

what a surprise thought you was going

back this morning no not tonight

what's your name miss blake mr mitchell

pleased to meet you hello chuck no

thanks i'm gonna eat madoff

where's rage upstairs with sam oh he's

here is he

we ought to be going back into the other

room mum would be wondering what's

happened to us

well be a sport and go on in there will

you i want to talk to queen a minute

oh so that's how it is is it well i

don't know what you're talking about i'm

sure

come on phil we know when we not want it

well i don't see why we don't all go

well i want to talk to you a minute i

just said so didn't i oh well maybe i

don't want to talk to you

come on phil see you later billy don't

go down saying goodbye to mom and dad no

you bet i won't

oh now fancy asking bayern phil to go

out and leave us alone you ought to have

known better than that

i shall never hear the last of it oh so

that's what's worrying you is it

oh it's not worrying me at all i just

thought it sounded sort of silly that's

all

well i don't know what's silly about it

if i knows we went to the majestic on

friday night and she saw us with her own

eyes walking down elm park road on

sunday

she must guess there's something doing

well if she dies she's wrong so there

there isn't

you know half a minute what what's got

into you i haven't done anything wrong

ever

well i don't like being taken for

granted no girl does how'd you mean take

him for granted

you can't hold hands with someone all

through desert love and the next minute

expecting to treat you like the empress

of russia

don't talk so silly you are silly

i'm going into the drawing room hey wait

a minute aren't you going to kiss me

goodbye

we shall be able to in there i should

think not indeed

look here queenie if you think i want to

say that about wanting to talk to you

alone in front of fire

i'm sorry see i can't say fair on that

no can i

no i suppose not willing

all right

i do love you queenie you know that

don't you

yes and i wouldn't do anything to upset

you that is not meaning to

you know that too don't you oh billy

i wish it weren't going away so soon

well you know write to me every now and

again

even if it's only a postcard yes if

you're right to me

all right it's easy promise

cross my you're the heart girl i ever

met in all my life

or ever will meet either oh that's easy

to say but how do you know

huh whenever you mind is true anyway

i say queen a little later on

when i'm earning a bit more

you think we might have a shot of

getting married

oh bill how do i know

or you might be in china or anywhere you

might have got more about me by then

more likely to be the other way around

pretty girl like you working at being a

manicure he's talking to all sorts of

different fellas all day long

it is normal jam being a sailor's wife

is it well it wouldn't be so bad you

know if i get my promotion right and get

on

or don't say anything about it now just

think it over

oh no billy i wouldn't be the right sort

of wife for you really i wouldn't

i want too much i'm always thinking

about the kind of things i want and

they wouldn't be the kind of things you

want me to want well how do you mean

oh i know it sounds silly but i'm not

like vice she's a quiet one

i'm different sometimes says that all i

think about is having a good time but

but it isn't only that well i don't see

any army wanting to have a good time

that's what everybody wants one way or

another

i'll tell you something awful i hate

living here

i hate living in a house that's exactly

like hundreds of other houses

i hate coming home from work on tube i

hate washing up and helping mum down

dead socks and

listening to aunt still keeping on about

how old she is all the time

and what's more i know why i hate it

it's because it's all so common

there

i suppose you think i'm getting above

myself and i can't blame you

maybe i am but i can't help it

and that's why i don't think i'll be a

good wife for you however much i loved

you

and i do i really do

hopefully

yeah oh london uh

isn't anything to cry about i know you

mean all right

gently naturally you should feel that

way about things

and you don't think i'm awful then do

that me

yeah of course i don't come on that

cheer up

you don't want to have red eyes on

christmas day now do you oh

i'm sorry please forgive me

was that queenie oh i love mrs yeah yes

i think it was

oh i see it must be a bit miserable

going back to work on christmas night

didn't you oh i don't know

that's all right once you're there you

know why'd you come into the drawing

room

no thanks mr gibbons now i'd rather not

if you don't mind all right son

i'll walk down to the gate with you i

could do with a breath of fresh air

myself

how old are you billy getting on for 22.

oh i wish i was

you're not mr gibbons nice to meet you

good night

mr give him your son if in uh two or

three years time well when i worked my

way up a bit

queenie and me got married would you

mind well if queenie wanted to it

wouldn't matter that i minded or not

she'd get her own way you know she

always does

next commission i may be drafted

overseas by the time i get back i ought

to be earning better pay

yeah that is if i've been behaving

myself what does queenie think about it

well that's the trouble i think she

thinks that being a sailor's wife might

be a bit hard going

yeah she likes having a good time our

queenie but maybe she calmed down a bit

later on

he is open in here if you get the chance

mr gibbons you might sort of

put in a word for me now again right

there son i'll do my best

now go on up it thanks good night good

night

oh and uh good luck sam

honestly you're just in time to turn

over for me

when i was a girl i played with that

music at all

he was occupied on

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oh frank you are awful not coming back

like that you knew sylvia was going to

sing

what about you can you find you yeah we

know all about that

i love the lighter no it's all right as

it did yeah come and see that

it's a nice cigar edge gave me is he in

there

yes he came in just now with that sam

ledbetter what's the bit and they

haven't been smoking themselves silly up

in reggie's room

oh well it is christmas i don't think

much of that sam led bitter taking all

around he seems a bit soft to me

i wouldn't call him soft exactly but

he'll grow out of it

but it's wrong isn't it all this down

with everything

business well there's something to be

said for you there's always something to

be said for everything

but where they go wrong is trying to get

things done too quickly

we don't like doing things quickly in

this country it's like

god once said we was a nation of

gardeners

yeah they weren't far wrong we like

planting things and

watching them grow looking out for

changes in the weather

you and your gardening what works in

other countries won't work in this one

we got our own way of setting things

maybe a bit slow and it may be a bit

down

but it suits us all right it always will

i do listen to sylvia she's off on bird

of love divine now

you know that it always makes french

laugh

poor elsa we'll be getting back really

it'll be tea time in a minute

it's cozy in here it's got quite dark

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all right

feels sort of flat now doesn't it all

being over i mean

it's wicked that's what i call it

downright wicked upset in the old

country like that

i'm going upstairs to watch a pair of

stuff he's out for the morning

i wish fred should come home i wish i

knew where he was

i'll give that sam ned bitter a piece of

my mind when i see him mr rogers says

that conditions up north are something

terrible

he says the government may have won this

time but next time it won't be so easy

you and your mr rogers mr rogers is a

very clever man he's been very kind to

me and i like him so there

like him i should just think you did we

get nothing but mr rogers this and mr

rogers that from morning till night

i should like to know what mrs rogers

has to say about it i must say oh look

here mrs splint if you're insinuating

you'll give me a paint sylvia really you

do the way you keep on about that man

just because he pays you a few shillings

now and again for designing them

christmas cards and calendars

you're doing nothing more or less than

throwing yourself a disney mrs flint how

can you oh do be quiet you two i've got

quite enough to think about without

listening to you two snapping at each

other all the time

sylvia can go and live with mr rogers

for all i care that's a nice way to talk

ethel i must say now look here sylvia

i'm tired see we're all tired and what's

more i'm worried to death about reg

i haven't slept properly since he had

that row with his dad and slammed out of

the house

if on top of all that i have to listen

to you and mother go on nag nag nag at

each other about nothing at all i shall

lose my temper and that's a fact

i'm sure i haven't said anything oh yes

you have you're always giving

sylvia side digs about mr rogers and if

he's taken her fancy to her so much the

better she's old enough to look after

herself heaven knows

and if he murdered his wife and

strangled his children and ran off to

australia whether it still wouldn't be

anything to do with you so shut up

oh me up help me up i'm not going to

stay here to be insulted by me oh no

it's insulting you sit down

it's all my fault i'm in the way in this

house i always have been you needn't

think i don't know it's a pity you

stayed so long then oh ethel how can you

i'll leave tomorrow i'll never sit in

this house again and a good job

too oh boy take your grandmother up to

bed for him and i'll help you upstairs

stop crying sylvia

i didn't mean what i've said i'm an old

woman and the sooner i'm dead the better

i know you're all itching to see me in

the coffin oh what's happening i thought

the strikers have gone in no it's only

your grandmother than old sylvia as

usual that's right lady

everything's always my fault

have another cup of tea mum it'll back

you up oh all right

beg of your aunt sylvia cup i don't want

anyone to put themselves out on my

account

i'm sure nobody is aren't still here you

are the sugar's just by you

you are mum okay you better pop up to

bed it's after 11. no i'd rather not

i'll wait till dad comes he won't be

longer would you like me to stay up

ethel and

you go to bed oh no thanks dad i

couldn't sleep anyway

farewell i'll take my tea up with me

that's right there nothing like a nice

cup of tea in bed good night ethan

good night queenie good night good night

so sleep well

afraid there's not much chance of that

come on mom i know what you want

oh thank you dear yeah

thought oh silvia she's a bit of a trial

sometimes i must say

well i don't know how you stand up it

hadn't been for paul bertie getting

killed in the war she'd have been all

right i expect

what was he like but soppy i always

thought still she seemed to like him

how awful to be so dependent on a man

living or dying at coroon your whole

life

i don't think i ever would be well

shouldn't be too sure

if your dad had a gun i wouldn't be the

woman i am today far from it yes but you

wouldn't have gone on moping about it

always though would you

about rightly no my heart would have

broke i suppose i should have put it

together again as best i could

oh mum what is it

but you do make me feel awful sometimes

what happens to

our no you just do

have you heard from billy lately yes i

had a postcard with a camera on it

a camel yes a ship stopped somewhere

with his camel so he sent me a picture

one

his poor mother misses him something

beautiful

we all do really don't we yes i suppose

we do

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who is it it's me mrs gibbons i just

popped over to see a bridge has come

back yet

he hasn't come in there and have a cup

of tea thanks very much

have you heard from reg mrs gibbs no i'm

fred i haven't dead mom's afraid he

might have got himself into some sort of

trouble oh he'll be all right mrs

gibbons don't you worry well i can't

help it i'm afraid

you read about houses being burned down

on rats and people being arrested in all

sorts of horrors

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you'll wake up the whole stream who

cares we've come unscathed my friend and

i through until perils

and you grumble about a bit of noise

you've come unscathed through a few

public houses too or i'm no judge

well there's no denying mr g we had a

couple at the power with captain

burchell and one more next door with me

that makes three all tell

not bad considering we've saved this

country from the honors of petty

revolution

don't swear either you better sit down

and have your supper you still have a

bite with a swedish bob no thank you all

same noise

unfortunately next door here have a

drink you've had quite enough to drink

frank and will you know it no not old

man that was quite right

women are always right that's why we

cherish them god bless them you better

cherish yourself next door bob noah will

be having one of our upsets if she's got

something out for you to eat and you're

not there to eat it that's right drive

me best pal out of the arts

well good night and i'll see you

tomorrow no man come on good night

hello everybody living dreams

mr gibbons and mr mitchell were in the

war together weren't they yes and to

hear them talk you think they were the

only ones that were

mum thanks dude

rage whatever's happened he's all right

mrs gibbons oh rich whatever have you

done to yourself

i don't fuss mum i'm all right you're as

white as a sheet you better go straight

up to bed

there's a bit of trouble in the white

chapel road and you got it by a stone

that was yesterday

what was he doing in the white chapel

road yesterday or the other time

oh hello phil what are you doing here i

just came over on my bike to find out

where you were

i see thanks what's going on here it's

reggie's been hurt it's nothing serious

i took over the hospital last night the

doctor said it was only a graze this is

all your fault you know that sam don't

you

shut up a minute bye do you feel all

right son i feel fine you didn't worry

about me

oh that's good news anyway don't go for

him tonight frankie looks wore out

i'm not going for anybody i'm gonna

finish my summer

well i think i better be getting back

now all right dear but be

careful how you go there's sure to be a

lot of people about tonight good night

bye

good night quinny good night

i hope your head will be better in the

morning thanks for coming around

see you tomorrow oh all right

good night ridge good night sam thanks i

think i'll be getting along too

not till you heard what i've got to say

you're not now listen sam ledbitter

rage thinks you're wonderful he's

younger than you and easily led

you've been filling him up with your

rotten ideas till he can't see straight

there may be a lot of things wrong but

it's not a noisy great gas bag like you

that's going to set them right

and the next time you come here on a

sunday evening and start pouring me

about and saying love's the most

glorious thing in the world for rich and

poor alike

you're going to get such a snack in the

facial wish you've never been born

well that's the way you feel there isn't

any more to be said you're dead right

there isn't

go on get out i don't ever want to see

you again as long as i live

yeah queen

i enjoyed that dear i just think you did

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pass well stop out then

i'll promise me you i'd be too hard on

him tonight frankie looks really danny

you leave this to me yeah

hello son hello dad

got a cigarette oh yes

thanks

thanks dad

well let's have it and get it over with

him well that's easier said than done

you and me don't uh quite see things the

same way do we

no i suppose not it's a pity too and i

don't see what there is to be done about

it

have you got any ideas well i'm not a

kid anymore you know dad i'm grown up

now i realize that all right

i know you think everything i believe is

wrong that's just where you make a

mistake son

i don't think any such thing you've got

a right to your opinion same as i got a

right to mine

anyone with any sense knows all about

the injustice or some people having a

lot and other people having nothing at

all

but you know where you make a mistake is

blaming it all on systems and

governments

you've got to go deeper than that to

find out the cause of most of the

troubles of this world

and when you've had a good look you'll

see likely as not

that good old human nature's at the

bottom of the whole thing yes well if

everyone had the same chance as

everybody else

human nature would be better wouldn't it

well it doesn't seem as though we're

gonna get the chance to fight that out

does it

looks like a bit of a deadlock to me oh

it's no good talking dad

you don't understand you never will well

you're right there

arguing never got anyone anywhere but i

will give you one bit of advice and then

we'll call it a day

how does that sue what is it well it's

this son

i belong to a generation of men most of

whom are dear anymore

and we all did the same thing for the

same reason no matter what we thought

about politics

well that's all over and done with and

are carrying on the best we can just as

though nothing had happened

but as a matter of fact several things

happened and one of them was that this

country suddenly got tired

she's tired now but the old lady's got

stamina don't you make any mistake about

that

and it's up to us ordinary people to

keep things steady

that's your job and just you remember it

and the next time you

slam out of the house without a word and

never let your mother know where you are

and worry at to death

i'll rather than live in daylight out of

you all right then

are you up in the bed and get some sleep

no i did

good night son good night

thanks dad

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give us a nice smile come on come on sam

we haven't got much time

it's no use crying you'll make your nose

red besides it looks as though we got to

get used to having weddings in our

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family

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so

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[Applause]

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ladies and gentlemen the management have

pleasure in presenting the winners of

our pali charleston competition who will

give you an exhibition

mr cyril eliado and miss queenie gibbons

[Applause]

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right what's

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a few seats still left up out of three

oh nevermind let's try the picture drone

don't be silly i can afford it

capitalist safes

a lifestyle

you know i don't understand a word they

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say

well they're cutting down the navy and

they're cutting down the army the only

thing they don't seem to be cutting down

is the unemployed

need a waffle about poor mrs flint's

dress what's the matter with it percy's

been curled up on it all night

covered it with asia

the whole house has been in that broiler

since eight o'clock oh we don't have

weddings every day but we do it no but

we're not doing too badly

here i'm just going dress do you mind if

i change the clock

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i went then mrs gibbons to the plow last

night to see the upstairs room they've

done it up lovely we took a look at the

cake too

it's ever so pretty mrs gibbons says i

can have a bit to take home to early

catch and he must be getting quite a big

boy huh

each turn 16. but you'd never think it

he short like dad you know

oh i see you started trying to shave

yourself with dad's razor

you'd have died of laughing if you'd

seen him did he cut himself not badly

just took the top off one or two spots

hello bob well you got a nice eye for it

yeah you

it rained cats and dogs when i got

married how's nora

oh bit more cheerful this morning doctor

says she won't get no better nor no

worse neither just stay about the same

where's the happy bridegroom uh-huh the

epic braggers be locked in the bathroom

for the last hour

anyone would think he hadn't had a wash

for the month oh well natural anxiety

old man

i said it's a bit posh going to the

south of france but honeymoon they spawn

uh wee-wee

oh dad come up here a minute will you i

want some help with my time friday son

i'll see you later bob all right how are

you feeling reg

nervous my legs feel a bit funny is it

billy nelly ready

yes and he's got the ring too i saw him

put it in his pocket myself this morning

he'll be here in a minute

well tell him to get a move on bye-bye

kabob see in church zero reg

sorry then that's all right sir which

tie do you think that the

the bow or the long one let's have a

look

try the bow it uh it's more dressy i'm

no good at tying these things dead

all right well i'll give you

well son well done i uh

i suppose i ought to be giving you a few

bits of uh fatherly advice my rights

what about then well uh because the

effects of life for instance

i could probably tell you a few things

about them yeah i bet you could at that

uh reg yes sir and i'll trouble you to

wipe that innocent look off your face

before i say what i've got to say

listen what have you got to say then

that's right make the old thing easy for

me

i don't know what you're talking about

well i'm not talking about anything yet

all right far away well uh

would you say taken by and large that

you've been a good boy on the elves

since you've grown up

it depends on what you mean by good now

you know quite well what i mean so that

dogs are soft

women yes oh i've had my little bits of

fun every now and again you uh you have

never got yourself into any sort of

trouble have you ever not tell me about

it

oh no marriage is a bit different you

know from just having a bit of fun

yes i expect it is women aren't all the

same you know not by any manner of means

some of them don't care what happens so

long as they have a good time marriage

isn't important to him

beyond having the ring and being misses

whatever it is

but your mother wasn't that sort and i

don't think phyllis is either

she's a nice girl and she loves you a

lot i know that

when a woman loves a man that much she's

uh out to be a bit over sensitive you

know

it's well to remember that no remember

that then just you go carefully

be gentle you've got a long time

together all your lines i hope

and it's worthwhile to go easy and get

to know each other great

and if uh later on a long time later on

you were you should get yourself caught

up with someone else well just see to it

that phyllis doesn't get it right

put your wife first always anything

that's liable to bust up your own in

your life with your wife and your kids

well it's just not worth you remember

that and you won't go far wrong

all right dad thanks a lot yeah i can

only hope that uh you will have as good

a wife as i have

i can't see more than that can i know

that well i better be getting myself

told up

and uh good luck son

oh dad how does this look from the back

don't worry old man you look

gorgeous hello billy oh it's you is it

and about time too

you know we're going to be late

here give us a brush all ready for the

ball and chain

you're too runny cheerful by half well

of course i am i'm a sailor aren't i

all sailors are bright and breezy you

know it's in the regulations you must be

the life and soul of your ship

oh i am i am only the other morning the

admiral sent for me

mitchell he said make me laugh so i uh

told him the one about the parrot

mitchell he said the ship's yours well

what shall i do with it i said

scuttle it he said and cut his throat

from here to here have you got the ring

all right

well as a matter of fact i dropped it

down the washer oh don't worry we sent

for a plumber

well i better go up and get me at the

gloves we'll be starting in a minute

oh why don't you look where you're going

you nearly knocked me down i'm sorry

olga

oh it's you yeah yeah well it's a nice

day anyhow isn't it

fine

you haven't said anything to anyone no

of course not

i'm awfully sorry about last night bill

really i am no need to be sorry

not your fault yes but when you've gone

back they'll all be asking me questions

and

i don't know what to say telling the

truth

i love you and asked you to marry me you

don't love me and said no

simple enough sounds awful when you say

it like that

now he's pretending is there no i

suppose there isn't

i am sorry they're all the same you do

believe that don't you yes i believe it

all right

i never did say i would did i i mean i

never let you think i'm not blaming you

i told you that last night

it's just that i um well i can't help

feeling a bit low

it's natural enough isn't it i suppose

you won't write to me anymore now will

you

you're a funny girl i must say i don't

see anything so very funny in that

you want everything don't you you know i

love you more than anyone else and want

to marry you

you turn me down flat then want me to go

on writing to you

if you've uh taken the trouble to read

my letters up to date you might remember

there was mostly about the future

that's all gone now isn't it i'll send

you a weather report every so often if

you like

oh well if you're to turn nasty about it

there's no you're saying anymore is

there

there's someone else in there i don't

know what you mean

i mean what i say you're in love with

someone else aren't you

well it's no business of yours if i am

it's true enough though isn't it now

look here billy i've had quite enough of

you

why couldn't you tell me last night or a

long time ago

what's the matter don't you trust me

well you haven't any right to ask me

things like that

now listen here queenie we've not seen

much of each other on account of me

being away at sea

but you've known all the time that i was

thinking of you and hoping that as the

years went by you might

grow out of some of your highfalutin

ideas and think me good enough to be

your husband

all that gives me the right to ask you

anything i like no it doesn't

is there somewhere else or isn't it

yes there is if you must know sir there

are you going to marry him no

why not that's my affair

is he made already i wish you'd leave me

alone is he yes he is now you're

satisfied

oh queen you're an awful fool

i do wish you one who are you calling a

fool people can't help their feelings

no but they can have enough sense not to

let their feelings get the better of

them

ah what you're doing is wrong whichever

way you look at it

there's your mother and father to start

with we'll break their

hearts if they ever find out about it

then there's the man's wife whoever she

is you're laying up trouble there

but most important of all is you you

won't get much out of it in the long run

and don't you fool yourself oh you're

not that kind of a girl really whatever

you may think

looks to me as if you're on the way to

mucking things up all around

for yourself and everyone else thanks

very much for the lecture

you're right never going to be saying

anymore

i'll uh i'll go up and talk to reg

goodbye queen good luck

cool these boots are giving me what for

all right they're like this uh what are

they gonna be like by the evening

hello queenie you've been talking to

billy yes and a couple of weddings in

one year is a bit too much of a good

thing if you ask me

yeah well he has that when you get off

soon and make the third i'll never be a

bridesmaid again anyhow as long as i

live

look at this dress and the hat oh you've

done something to it haven't you you

bet i have i wasn't gonna wear it as it

was but you look different from all the

others

so i should hope oh margery will be

upset she and phil took such a lot of

try and they don't know anything about

clothes either of them

well thank heavens none of the girls at

the shop can see me looking such a sight

it seems to me there must be a pretty

fancy lot them girls at your shop we're

always being told what they like and

what they don't like

all right dad there's no need for you to

be sarcastic don't snap at your father

queenie

i don't know what's come over you lately

nothing's come over me i just don't like

looking common that's all i shouldn't

worry about that if i was you it can't

be helped

you don't believe in people trying to

better themselves do you just because

you're content to stick in the same

place all your life and do your bit of

gardening on saturday afternoon in your

shirts

don't you dare speak to your father like

that living in a suburb and doing your

own cooking and washing up may be good

enough for you but it's not good enough

for me i'm sick of this house and

everybody in it i'm not going to stand

it much longer

you'll see you're a wicked ungrateful

girl you ought to be ashamed of yourself

well i'm not so there

if it wasn't for being registered i'd

lock you in your room till you came to

your senses well a few years ago we had

reg nagging at us because we were living

on the fat of the land while the poor

workers were starving

now we have queenie turning on us

because we're not grand enough for it

i don't know what's wrong with our

children ethel my girl it strikes me the

advise the only one who's got any real

sense

bye va is different from me can't you

see she always has been

she doesn't like the things i like i

want the things i want she's perfectly

happy and that major little flat of us

doing her own housekeeping and making

her own clothes

she likes bossing sam about too oh he's

a changed man since he married her

and a good job too hmm seems to me all

the spirits gone out of him he's just

like everybody else now just respectable

well what's the matter with that no

nothing what's the good of arguing with

you you don't understand what i'm

talking about

don't waste your breath on us then weird

as we are and that's how we're going to

stay and if you don't like it well you

can lump it

but one of these days when you know a

bit more you'll find out that there are

worse things than being just

ordinary and respectable and living the

way you've been brought up to live

but in the meantime as long as you're

with us i mean your mum and me be much

obliged if you keep your tongue between

your teeth and behave yourself

now you better pop upstairs slap as much

paint on your face as possible and do

the girls at the shop credit

go on op it thanks very much i will

there now she'll be snapping on itself

for the rest of the day we spoiled that

when she was little we've always spoiled

oh it's not only that frank she's upset

about something sort of strung up

she has been for a long time i will show

you what it was

the bridegroom will be out in a minute

it's here it's here the cars here it

looks ever so nice all done up with

white ribbons good uh let's have a look

careful uh better call rage eddie

rage the car's here come on raise the

cars here

i don't know

about time to hear we want the blushing

bride to get there before we do

hello son are you feeling nervous yes a

bit oh reg oh cheer up mum

see you at the church sure don't you

know son and don't forget to send it

straight back

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i come off you detail there's nothing to

cry about i can't help it

well you make your nose really i don't

mind if i do he's our only son isn't he

he's going away from us isn't he

it's enough to make any woman cry well

they'd be back from the honeymoon in two

weeks and live in just around the corner

it was all very fine for you you didn't

bring him into the world and hold him at

your breast

i should have looked a proper fool if i

had

don't know anything about it you haven't

gotten it felix come on uh

stop crying and put your head straight

if i could lay my end on that cat i'd

kill it

half an hour it took to pick the ears

off and the front of the skirt all

crease too well it doesn't show

is that the act we verse that you're not

about yes

it is oh why

is there anything that matter with it i

think it's very nice don't you frank

yes it looks fine from here is something

a bit funny about the crown isn't there

i don't know what you mean well of

course

if you're satisfied oh do be quiet

mother don't take any notice of herself

yet that'll be no change here's vine sam

nobody ever does taking any notice of me

sure you're feeling all right dear i'm

fine it's only just first thing in the

morning you know

do hope i look all right stop fuzzing

dear you look nicer than anyone there

oh bye pretty you look dude i only

finished it at 11 o'clock last night the

old flat's been covered in paper

patterns and bits of stuff and pins for

the past 10 days

we're all in the pilot go on in hello

uncle bob with everybody good morning

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[Laughter]

edie yes mrs gibbons watch out for the

car

yes mrs gibbons don't hang out of the

window though it looks silly

on my wedding day there was a

thunderstorm and a man got struck by

lightning just opposite the church

well that must have cheered things up

one side of his face was all twisted

that carl to be back by now i suppose

billy remembered to tell the driver all

right

i don't fuss ethel

better sit down and we all love us

there's no sense in standing about

oh mrs baker miss whitney just come out

of number 12.

got up to kill there miss whitney

stuck-up thing

seems only yesterday what does mother

the day you and frank was married i can

see your poor aunt connie now coughing

her art out in the vestry

it was only three months after that she

was taken that's right

i should be lucky if i last out another

year oh dear oh dear

i don't suppose anybody had mined much

there's many as might say it was a

blessing in disguise i shouldn't wonder

no then mother none of that dr spearman

said my art was subtly worn out

ever since that bronchitis i had in

february dr spearman

he's a lot better than your doctor lewis

any day of the week if it hadn't been

for him

in presence of mind mrs spooner would be

as dead as a doornail this very minute

that's what you say at 11 o'clock she

was doing her shopping she was put in

the joint in the oven at 12.

a nice bit of lego lamb it was too and

at our past one she was in the hospital

line flat on her back on the operating

table

and if it hadn't been for dr spearman i

wonder what's happened with that car

it's getting on you know shall i go

never look

there's no need to do that it'll turn up

in a minute

at those pains game the night ethel

something terrible they wear started

about two o'clock with all those sweets

you eat

there's nothing like sweets for giving

you wind it was not wind

morning queen hello queenie hello all

it's nearly 10-2 and if that car's not

here soon i'm going i've got to be on

time to meet margarine dorian weaver

well if it doesn't come soon we can walk

it's only just up the road

i do wish everybody had stopped fussing

it gives me the pip shouldn't have taken

reg and billy more than three or four

minutes to go there

i'm sure i hope nothing dreadful's

happened to them oh granny what could

have

accidents will happen some people seem

to think of nothing but horrors

morbid that's what it is oh thank you

not to call me name sylvia gibbons

you make me tired now don't answer back

so you'll be a lonely meaner

well i'm sure i don't want to say

anything to anybody but really but you

don't keep quiet then

who are you to talk to me like that i've

heard about enough of your nagging

ah shut up sylvia you know it's no good

arguing with her i don't know any such

thing

i tell you i'm sick of it morning noona

night is the same thing she's at me all

the time and i won't stand it

i've got as much right to be in this

house as she has just because she's old

and pretends her heart's weak she thinks

she can say what she likes

i'll tell you one thing here and now and

that is i've had enough trouble and

sorrow and suffering in my life without

having to put up with her eternal

nagging and unlust insinuations she's

nothing but a

you make me old cat if i have any more

of it older she is i'll slip off a

skillet

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raffle

are it's quite a long service well take

her to the outside one by it's quicker

i'll tell you i'm

all right come on everybody the driver

says he's got a funeral at 12

30. oh shut up edie

my boy my feather bow it's gone i've

lost

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wow

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i haven't helped poor sailors on a night

like this where's the light

over by the door it's likely this was

open with a woke up ethel if we'd come

in by the front

here we are

and what one more night kevin

you would off have a thick head in the

morning well how about you

i'm passed killing all that stuff

say wait hey hey go easy

hold it while i put the soda in your

eyes look

terrible all swimming whatever you mind

about my eyes yours don't look so good

for me

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now i've wetted my victoria cross don't

you wish i had one yeah a fat lot of

goodies have done me if i had

i'd like to take this opportunity of

saying that my old regiment

is the finest in the world next to the

east surreys it is

ears to the buffs here's to the east

side

and uh you're our regimen it's the

finest in the world too

that's right here's to the east side

here's to the buffs

here what was that one that chap told us

about the couple in the park

[Laughter]

shut up that little sewer so he can't

laugh tell him a little mistake about it

you know it's not too much what he says

is the way he said it

dry you know that's what he was dry that

reminds me

what one more

hey ain't go easy go on it'll do you the

welder good

bango yeah if you heard from billy

lightning

yes he writes once a week is he molten

huh good old billy he's a fine boy

you know i haven't said much about it

but i've often thought that maybe

a young queen he might wonder she gives

me a headache all her ears and graces

a good idea is what she needs that

wouldn't be any use

girls get like that no doing anything

with them

i think billiards stick to whatever she

did how'd you me

he just loves her that's all it's funny

in it

having kids and seeing what they grow up

like

hmm if you're pushing off in a minute

yeah

have one more for the road the road i

only got three yards to go

yeah well we don't have a binge like

this every day of the week

uh it's a strange world and no mistake

you know i was thinking tonight looking

at all those chaps in your regimen

one or two of them looked a bit under

the weather yeah we've been lucky

you said it i wonder when the next war

will be

not in our time or our sun's time thing

bank on that there couldn't it be

everyone's disarming

we are what is a good old league of

nations yeah

well they don't seem to stop japan

turning nasty

japan who worries about japan nice long

way off that's one thing yeah well a lot

of trouble can start from a long way off

ah don't you worry about about japan

we've got a nice new government now and

everything in the garden is

lovely stanley baldwin

ramsey macdonald

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that's right leave your best pal to face

the barrage alone

put yourself together we're foreign

chin up

and what do you think you're doing if

emma makes a bone bob was just going out

oh just going home was he sorry i woke

you up ethel i suppose you know what the

time is don't you well who cares

time was meant for slaves you go on up

to bed frank gibbons i have something to

say to you later

what was that you broke it was only the

poor old johnny walker

it's all my fault ethel you're to be

ashamed of yourselves men of your age

coming home

drunk and waking up the whole house

you're not an old isis

logo you're just a little bungalow

come on bob it's time you was going home

yeah now don't be hard only methyl he's

my best pal

yeah he may be looking a bit silly i'll

admit but he's my pal all the same who's

looking silly yeah you

are what about you you both look silly

but it's not only what you're going to

look in the morning now come on bob

i'm not going to stay here much longer

all right all right i can take you in

good night mrs g good night sergeant

it's been a pleasure

steady the buffs

all right all right you don't have to

say nothing i know

stop it frank the next time you go to a

regimental dinner you can go to a hotel

afterwards and sleep it off i won't have

it julio

this is my dining room this is not a bar

parlor

go on get up to bed and don't make a

noise either

what's this what's what

this letter oh i've written no letters

it's queen is rajan yeah

you can't open the girl's private

letters it's addressed to you and me

she's gone

it

who is this man have you ever seen him

yeah i'll fetch her back i'll give her

the idea of her life

can't find her doesn't say where she's

gone

we love each other his wife

won't divorce him we can't live without

each other

so we're going away

this is our fault we ought to have known

something like this would happen

we let her have her own way too much

ever since she was a child

queenie

wheel tracer all right don't you worry

we'll find out who the man is through

the shop it must have been there that

she met him

we'll get her back i don't want her back

she's no child of mine

i never want to see her again as long as

i live don't talk like that

i mean it i've done my best to bring her

up to bay respectable to be a good girl

but it hasn't been any use

if she loves this man that much maybe it

was too strong for her

maybe she couldn't help herself you

don't see what she's done same way as

what i do do you

oh i don't know you and me never have

quite seen eye to eye about what's right

and what's wrong

you'd have her back tomorrow if she'd

come when she'll but i wouldn't

we've always encouraged her tell how

clever she was that i twist you around a

little finger

all i've done is to try laughing at her

instead of scolding

well you've got something to laugh at

now haven't you don't go for me

she's my girl as well as yours i'm not

going for anyone

i've done my best i can't do no more you

can't stop loving the girl all at once

even if she has done wrong

i can try what's the sense in there it's

nothing to do with sense it's how you

feel

i've never seen you like this before

hard as

nails you are why did you expect me to

be

oh i don't know i suppose you've never

cared for queenie as much as you did the

other two

it's not fair to say that it's true

though no it's not

she's always been the most trouble

that's true enough and she's certainly

never put herself out to help me the way

var has that's true too

but i've cared for her just the same as

i have the others and don't you start

saying i haven't

there's no use laying the blame for this

at my door what she's done she's done on

her own

and i'll never forgive her for it till

the end of my days

oh well if you feel like that it's not

much good talking about it is it

will you turn out of shallow air

i'm going back to bed now you better

tidy up a bit before you come up

so

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okay

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about five minutes the kettle's on you

know the two things

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why are you auntie so early plus thanks

taking us some majestic

oh somebody to turn that wireless off

it's getting on my nerves

there's a debit plane all day just cause

reg gave it to her

skies will fall next i shouldn't wonder

you doing something i asked you with air

grumbling now mrs flynn

don't stealth it was a lucky day for all

of us when you met that mrs wilmot

well we won't argue about it will we

you're not as touchy as you used to be

flying off at the least thing i'm very

glad i'm sure

you haven't had one of your headaches

for weeks have you no

i have not there you are then perhaps as

soon as happy as i was before

not sleeping a wink at night and

suffering and

being an error in what error

oh so that's what it was you needn't

sneer at mrs wilmot either

she's a wonderful woman she must be to

make you believe there isn't anything

that matter with you it's what i've been

saying for years

well then we won't say anything more

about it we'll win we will if we feel

like it

sylvia yes frank telethon to start t

without me i got one more beard to do

where is she upstairs laying down

frank's been a changed man since queenie

left i haven't noticed much difference

do you think she'll ever come back

she'll have a piece of my mind if she

does

bring a disgrace on all of us he had a

letter from it the other day

how do you know well it came by the

midday posts along with that letter i

had from mrs wilmot

i recognized the handwriting thingy told

apple oh not very likely

it had a french stamp disgusting what

was disgusting

gracias said for what a start you gave

me what was disgusting

a french stem a french stamp what are

you talking about

about the letter that frank had from

queenie oh were you

then it was from queenie you know

perfectly well i won't have queen his

name spoken in this house she's gone her

own way and that's that she doesn't

belong here anymore

i always knew that girl come to no good

once and for all mother will you hold

your tongue

i'm sick and tired of you and sylvia

gabbing and whisping behind my back

here's the tea

you coming over the table or shall i

bring it to you i'll stay here

the less i open my mouth the better

where's frank in the garden he's said to

begin without him

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i'm sorry i spoke to you like that

sylvia oh doesn't that i'm sure i looked

off to sleep in my bed this afternoon

had a bad dream

what was it about i can't remember

woke up feelings of the world had come

to an end well they say dreams go by

countries

yes they do don't they i'm gonna take

frankie's tea into the garden

once he starts watering he'd go on all

night if we'd let him

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no one who that is i don't know might be

reg and phil

oh can't they they've gone to seven

notes with that friend of theirs

hello bye

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hi five whatever's in there

where are mum and dad in the garden

it's been an accident it's rage and phil

i've got to tell mom and dad

what's that what sort of an accident

what happened they were in reggie's car

a lorry came out of a turning are they

badly hurt

they're dead mrs gordy was with them

she knew i had a telephone so she rang

me up from the hospital

she was in the back and got thrown out

please take granny upstairs almost tell

them hello

don't cry

i can't believe it

mr silvia please

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hey

so

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feel all right dear do you think

what are you thinking about oh

nothing can't see a cup of tea

yeah so i could always do with a cup of

tea please come to the corner ass of

marvel

shine

you know this is the first time you and

i have been for a walk together for

years

ideas hotline's changed for millions of

unemployment i think the great big

hotels now seems a shame

they won't be ashamed of that's all

they're doing over there

doing the same thing to our leaders they

once said to hitler in germany

everyone in germany used to say that

he'd never get in and he wouldn't know

how to regenerate germany if he did get

in

well there he is and a new life has

started for germany

when i saw those jews and communists

smack down in olympia the other day for

trying to silence

our leader let me tell you i thought

this

about that cup of tea all the day of

reckoning will come in this country too

the day will come when all the little

wrecks and might have thrown back into

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division of wheelchair w w wakefield

conservative

20 732 ah there's a face you can

trust

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a bulletin has been received regarding

the king's illness

which will be broadcast in a few moments

following bulletin has just been issued

from buckingham palace

the king's life is moving

peacefully towards its clothes

we invite you to join in recollection

and prayer for our king

ethel what are you doing it's near the

end of the year anyway

well that's that

there won't be nothing more to listen to

tonight all the stations have closed

down

well how's the library going out sylvia

oh all right

i'm leaving next month to help mrs

wilmot with our work in the temple

what temple the temple of spiritual

radiation oh i see

we'll have to begin in a minute bye i'll

pop up and get in the hat

left it in mum's room how the children

sam

well sheila's all right but joan's been

a bit seedy doctor told us to keep her

in bed for two or three days

did he indeed well i suppose if you

believe in doctors it's best to do what

they say

word stands to reason they know a bit

more about it than we do doesn't it

no i don't think it does

what would you do if you broke your leg

i suppose you'd sin for a doctor then

wouldn't you

i wouldn't break my leg but if you did

if you were run over through no fault of

your own i should certainly send for

treatment

they were then you don't understand sam

of course there's no reason why you

should

you haven't studied the matter have you

no i haven't it wouldn't be surgical

treatment i should send for

it would be spiritual treatment would

that eat a compound fracture

certainly frank where's that

she's in the kitchen we miss edie and

that's a fact i'm trying to make

get someone else but she won't

there's not so much to do since mrs

flint passed down

i don't talk so soft sylvia mother died

see first of all she got flu and that

turned to pneumonia

the strain of that affected that art

which was none too strong at the best of

times and she died

it's nothing to do with passing on at

all how do you know i know it's only

your new way of talking but it gets me

down

see what are you shouting about i'm not

chatting about nothing at all i'm merely

explaining to silvia that mother died

she didn't pass on passover or pass out

she died

dad you do make me laugh you do really

not a fit subject to talk about anyway

come on sam we better be going good

night mum good night

good night i'll come to the door with

you where's our cheerful i sleep in the

kitchen he's been out once tonight

there's a mouser arch he knocks poor old

percy into a cockpit i think i'd go to

bed now it's

all right how about the washing out oh

that's all right think of me i'll do it

i was looking a bit peaky wasn't she oh

she's writing about joan i think

i should get over it remember the

trouble we had with queenie when she was

tiny

yes i do sorry i forgot

you're lucky you got a funny woman ethel

and no mistake you expect i am

where's god made as i suppose there's

nothing much to be done about it well i

wouldn't be so sure

being bitter about anybody isn't a good

thing let alone if it happens to be your

own daughter

i'm not bitter i just don't think about

it anymore that's all that's one of the

things i don't believe well don't let's

talk about it anymore shall we

i wish you'll get someone else in place

of eddie i don't need anyone now there's

only the three of us

what anybody ever wanted a maria for

beats me no reason why they shouldn't

she was a good girl and a good worker

exactly the reason i married you she may

not be much to look at i said to myself

but there's a worker if ever i saw one

oh oh billy what a shock you gave me

frank frank billy's here sorry mr

gibbons no idea he was back well i got

in about an hour i guess i dropped in

for a chance oh we'll go on and i'll be

round in a moment right now

hello mr givens well well is a surprise

come on in got a couple of weeks leave

go on yeah

been transferred from a cruiser to a

destroyer do you like that you bet i do

oh billy i am glad to see you i'm sure

your father is too

it's been lonely for him by himself in

that house ever since your mother was

taken

nora died ethel nobody took her you'll

be ashamed of yourself talking like that

in front of billy

would you like me to make a cup of tea

won't take a moment uh no thanks mr give

us no there's uh

there's something i want to talk to you

about as a matter of fact yeah both of

you oh what is it sad

yeah i got a cigarette on you yeah my

next door i think

there we are thanks

well i feel a bit awkward really

i wanted uh dad to come along and back

me up but

he wouldn't a man of your age hanging

out with his father's coattails i never

heard of such a thing

here what have you been up to what is it

billy

it's about queenie

what about her does he still make you

angry even hear her name

i'm not angry have you seen her billy

yes i've seen it i wish fine

oh what was it you wanted to say about

queenability

i sympathize with how you feel mrs

gibbons really i do and what's more she

does too

she knows what her wrong she did in

going off like that and it didn't take

long to realize it

she hasn't had any too good a time you

know

the man she went off with went back to

his wife and left her stranded in a sort

of boarding house in brussels

how long was it before she found another

man to take her on there for

a long time over three years

she's all right now then isn't she yes

she's all right now

what sort of a bad time did she have

how'd you mean trying to earn a living

for herself you know getting in and out

of different jobs

she showed dresses off in a dress maker

shop for over a year and she got a job

looking after some english children but

that didn't last long

then she got ill with appendicitis and

was taken to hospital where

where was she taken to hospital how long

ago palace about a year ago

when she was in hospital she picked up

with an old scots woman in the next bed

little later on the two of them started

an old english tea room in mentone in

the south of france you know

just for english visitors that's where i

ran into it by accident

we were doing a summer cruise and the

ship i was in laid off there for a few

days

a couple of pals and i went to shore for

a cup of tea there she was

is she there now no she isn't there now

well where is she then she's here

here how'd you meet here next door with

dad

really we were married last week in the

registry office in plymouth

mary i've always loved you know

i always said i'd wait for her oh son

i can't believe it oh son

don't seem to have much choice do i i

always thought you'd like to have me for

a son

better late than never that's what it is

isn't it

better lately

should i get you a little uh nip or

something it's just

where is it it's like covered

uh

hello mom

so you've come back have you you bad

girl

yes mom

nice way to behave i must say upsetting

me like this

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standard chamber flies in munich read

all about it paper

chamberlain flies to munich paper

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oh just a minute ma'am

well i must say i just assume he bombed

him beyond two feet scratching down in

one of those

well you've chosen a nice time to be

born i will say

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so

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i always knew it you know always knew

what that there wouldn't be a war

well i thought there would be i must say

otherwise i shouldn't have sent sheila

and joan down to mrs marsh endorse it i

know you did dear

your mother was worried too about

queenie and little frankie but i wasn't

neither was mrs wilmot i don't see that

now mrs wilmot laughed at right when the

woman came to try my gas mask

take that stupid thing away she said

just like that quite simply

woman was furious i'm not surprised

hello good evening where's your mother

in the kitchen she's been upstairs with

queenie and the baby

oh nothing wrong with his lordship isn't

it oh no he's fine

queen is not feeling any too good so she

went to bed yeah i'll pop up and see her

in a minute

did you say a thing of the crowds i did

we heard him arrive at the airport on

the wireless

so did i sam's meeting me at the strand

corner house a little later on we

thought we'd have a look at the crowds

or to be exciting it's exciting all

right if you like seeing a lot of people

yelling the reds off without the fakest

idea what they're yelling about oh how

can you frank

they're cheering because they've been

saved from war yeah i'll cheer about

that but it's proved to me

you wouldn't care if there was another

war you're one of those people who think

it doesn't matter that millions and

millions of innocent people should be

bombed

just because you enjoyed yourself in the

last one now listen here sylvia

don't you talk to me like that because i

won't have it see i did not enjoy myself

in the last war nobody but a fool

without any imagination would ever say

that he did

and i do not think it doesn't matter if

millions and millions of innocent people

are bombed

so you can get them stupid ideas out of

it to start with but what i would like

to say is this

i've seen something today that i

wouldn't believe could happen in this

country

i've seen thousands of people british

people mark you carrying on like maniac

shout in and cheering with relief for no

other reason but that they've been

thoroughly frightened

and it made me sick and that's a fact

and i only hope to goodness we've got

guts enough to learn one lesson from

this

and we shall never find ourselves in a

position again where we have to appease

anybody

all you may never think about is having

guts and being top dog and killing each

other

i'm a woman i don't care how much we are

peace so long as we don't ever walk

war is wicked and evil and vile them

that live by the sword shall die by the

sword

is more blessed to give them to receive

well i don't think it's more blissey to

give in and receive a nice kick in the

pants for doing it

you're a warmonger that's what you are a

warmonger

judging by the every way you're

breathing sylvia i should say he was in

error you're no brother of mine

i don't ever want to speak to you again

it's no use arguing with her dad she's

getting sillier and sillier every day

well i must be off i'm picking up sam

we're going to see the crowds

oh sorry dad well you can cheer your

heads off for all i care why don't you

take a squeak away maybe i will

good night mum good night dear see you

in the morning night

good idea it's not dead good night queen

i brought my boots well i'll have to

clean them yourself

i've got my hands full as it is as

queenie

oh she's all right you think nobody'd

ever had a baby before

she had a letter from billy this

afternoon he wants her to join him at

singapore after christmas

but the baby won't be old enough to

travel or she'll leave him here

what with us and of course damn cecilia

who else would you leave him with oh

that'll be fine will it oh

fine for you maybe you won't have to

look after him

oh dear what a week i couldn't believe i

could be retired

poor old girl you do look a bit dunno

you run up and say goodnight to queenie

before she drops all

all right bossy that's enough

oh uh i'm expecting bob to pop in and

never farewell binge give me a shot yeah

when he comes will you

binge indeed one small one's all you're

gonna have my lad if i have to come and

take the bottle away from you myself

i'd like to see you try

hello ethel hello bob craig's just gone

up say good night quinn you'll be down

in a minute

what a week oh the prices and the

sandbags and we have to move the

furniture into the bargain

it's most of it gone he has went this

afternoon i'm sleeping on a camp bed

tonight

frank i'll miss you well socialize not

going so far

you both come down and see me won't you

of course we will

i feel a bit lost i expect living in the

country well i don't know i just left my

garden

the site better than the one i got here

and the seas nearby and

village pub we'll come down here quite

soon

well i'm gonna go and find frankie

promise to give me a drink oh well you

better be getting along

goodbye though goodbye bob

take care of yourself oh well

do you remember the first night we moved

in when we had silvia's wind carnis

going back a bit nearly 20 years and

here we are just the same

are we i suppose we're not

it's a strange way you said it all them

years

all the things that happened i wouldn't

go back over them again for all the rice

in china would you

not on your life

do you remember that picnic the boxer in

1923

when you got as tight as a tick and fell

over and sprained your ankle

whatever made you think of that i don't

know i was just thinking

you know that night went to your

regimental dinner

that was the night queen went off yeah

reg was alive then

maybe about a year before

i wonder what happens to rooms when

people give them up

go away and leave the house empty don't

you mean

i don't know i was thinking about you

getting away from next door after all

this time

and me and ethel go away too pretty soon

i'm wondering what the next people that

live in this room will be like

and whether they'll feel any bits of us

left about the place

yeah shut up and give me the willies

you don't think the germans will ever

get here do you

no of course i don't i'm feeling a bit

bad about all this business

i'm not feeling too good myself

i shall miss you a devil of a lot same

here

you'll be popping down to see me weren't

you you bit

happy days oh pal

every day's old pal

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now don't you worry about it thank you

we'll take care of him and don't forget

to give my life to benny no more your

luggage is all aboard and i've seen the

steward and you've got a cabin all to

yourself as far as my size and fast

friends

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that's us we better be going goodbye to

you

all visitors are sure come on please

goodbye mom goodbye take care of

yourself

and don't forget to send us a postcard

with a camel on it

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oh

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oh

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well that's that i never thought we'd

get it all in how's his launching oh

he's fine

again that postcard queen is sent with a

camel on he liked it

he's dribbling dirty boy well i expect

you dribbled when he was his age

i do still have happened to drop off in

the afternoon that's nothing to boast

about

bit snappy aren't we who wouldn't be

with all i've had to do today

poor old croc oh now then frank we

haven't got no time for fooling about

that's just where you're wrong we got

all the time in the world

have it your own way i shall miss that

garden

what's your own fault you're the one

who's wanted to move i know

you'll have the balcony anyway you can

put window boxes all around window boxes

you know sometime a bit later on when i

stop

working we might take a little place in

the country might we when might that be

my house well i don't know in a few

years maybe

we'll see about that when the time comes

yeah i think you'll like the country

i know you're frightened about it being

a bit too quiet but when people get

older they don't mind so much about

being quiet

not all that's all yet you

what do you think when you take

everything out of a room it looks bigger

but this one looks small must begin to

be out of it

so shall i sorry too though in a way

well we better be going

it's been a long time isn't it

i don't mind how many flats we move into

where we go or what we do

so long as i've got you

and toxicity

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you