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Oh, no. I used the last this morning.
It seemed daft buying
op full.
Well, pass us a packet, and I'll go and put the kettle on.
You'll be all right on your own.
[Bell rings]
I'm Mrs. Sharples.
I'm very pleased to meet you.
I'm a neighbor.
Oh.
Are you a widow woman?
l, ye
I thought so.
I'm the caretaker at the Glad Tidings hall.
That's j the stre
What's your place of worship?
I don't really do much about it.
, I know--C of E.
It's like my sister's husband.
He was made head umbing
and it give her ideas.
She said,
aries now.
We must have a church."
Within a week, they'd been received,
christened, and confirmed.
she was sitting up
es.t,
I'll take a packet of baking powder.
Where are you being buried?
I don't know that I've given it much thought.
. Think on go to
that crematorium down the road.
While coffin's rolling away, they play Moonlight and Roses.
I spoke to the superintendent particular.
He said, "Moonlight and Roses?
That's not Moonlight and Roses. That's Andantina."
I said, "Well, Andantina or no Andantina,
I'm rolling away to Crimmen."
Are them fancies today's?
Yes.
I'll take half a dozen, and no eclairs.
No eclairs.
You're from Esmerelda Street, aren't you?
Yes, that's right.
Thought so.
Weren't you on the bar at the Farrier for donkey's years?
I was there a tidy while.
Got any kids?
No. No, I haven't.
You're better off without them. A bottle of bleach.
They're more bother than they're worth.
Esmerelda Street, eh?
Very bay-window down there, aren't they?
You'll find it very different up here.
There's some very funny people in this street.
You come across a Mrs. Tanner yet?
I can't say I have.
You will. You want to watch her. She's a bad one.
Oh, while I think on, you owe me an egg.
Hey?
One of them I had this morning was off.
You should have brought it back.
Brought it back?
I had to hold a pot towel to my nose
before I could so much as take it to my back end.
And if my word's not good enough,
you're quite welcome to come smell at my dustbin.
The other things will be 3 and fourpence.
Put them on slate.
You've no need to worry.
I'm not thinking of running away.
[Bell rings]