The speaker reminisces about past family memories, including their granddad’s generosity, experiences at their grandparents’ home in Cape Town, and the familial bond and traditions that characterized their visits.
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A says:
We've been doing some remembering, haven't we, Mum?
B says:
Yes.
A says:
And we've been remembering things like, do you remember your dad and how much fun he was? And how he used to have peppermints in his pockets for us when we were children? And when we saw him in Cape Town, he would give us the peppermints in his pockets and we were remembering how he used to give things away. Do you remember like he had. When he was. When he. The neighbor didn't have a carpet and the neighbor came to the door and saw the carpet in your house and your dad thought, I've got a carpet and the neighbor doesn't have a carpet, so that neighbor can have my carpet. And he gave the carpet to the neighbour. And when your mum came home there was no carpet in her house. And she said, why is there no carpet in my house? And your dad said, well, the neighbor didn't have a carpet with her. Did you remember that?
B says:
Yes.
A says:
Yeah. And you told me that he did things like that. He gave things away to other people, didn't he? Yes, because he was very generous. So and so. He was a very kind man. And then you said your mum was very good at cooking and you had Auntie Mary living in your house, didn't she? Didn't. That was your mum's sister and she stayed in your house for a long time, didn't she?
B says:
Yes.
A says:
And she. You said she helped a lot with the washing and she had that bent over finger. But even though she had a bent over finger she was able to help with the dishes a lot, wasn't she?
B says:
Yes.
A says:
Yeah, you remember her. And the toilet was outside in the, in the. There was a like a yard at the back, wasn't there? And. And so when you needed to go to the toilet in that house, you needed to go out the back door and there was the toilet at the end in the little yard at the back. I remember that. And I remember when we went down, we traveled for three train to get to Cape Town from Salisbury in Rhodesia. And when we stayed with your mum and dad in Cape Town, there was all five of us in one bedroom for six weeks. We used to stay in the house when we visited them. Do you remember us visiting in Cape Town? Yeah. So all those things that we did. And we used to go to the beach. We used to go to fishhook beach and we used to go to St. James's beach. We used to do. And I remember the fruit and vegetable van would come to the house and our granny, your mum, used to go out and get fruit and vegetables and then she used to make a guava pudding and she used. That was my favorite fruit. And she would slice all the guavas up and she would. She would put sugar between all the layers and had a delicious guava pudding. So that used to be lovely, wasn't it? It was nice having all those things with your mum. Did she make roast dinners? Do you remember? Did she do roast dinners? I think she did. She did lots of things like that, didn't she? So they were all lovely things that she used to do. So we used to enjoy our visits to Cape Town where you lived when you moved, when Uncle Arthur had to go to school there. So we remembered. We've been remembering all those things, haven't we, that you used to do when you lived there. So. Yeah, so that was her inn in Cape Town when we were little and when you went to live there as well, so we'll just leave that little bit like that for the moment.