Speaker 1: You know, usually when I come, I have a big box with me. Well, today, I decided to do something different, so, all my bits and pieces, are in my old shopping bag. Because, I'm going to get you, to put your hand in today, and pull something out.
Have a rummage. What do you fancy? Oh, I thought you might go for that one. What have you got?
Donna: Well, my mother had a mushroom, as they called that.
Speaker 1: You used to darn socks with it, didn't you?
Donna: Everybody mended stuff, and darned years ago.
Speaker 3: With four sons, I had to.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes I bet you've done a few, haven't you?
Speaker 4: A mushroom. Goodness. I haven't seen one for years.
Speaker 1: Come on, Lillian, have a look. See what else you've got in the basket. Stick your hand in. Pull something out.
Isn't that nice? That's a rabbit skin glove.
Lillian: Oh yeah. Lovely and warm, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Lovely and warm. And then this side of it, is sort of leathery, so that would keep the rain out.
Lillian: Yeah. I remember these.
Speaker 1: Do you? Did your mom have some?
Lillian: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They were very, very, popular back in the 1940s.
Speaker 6: I've had some gloves, rabbit gloves.
Speaker 4: Ooh.
Speaker 1: Lovely.
Speaker 7: [inaudible 00:01:39].
Speaker 1: Do you want me to show you what it is?
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 1: No. [inaudible 00:01:51].
Speaker 7: We used to have the pigtails when we were little.
Speaker 1: Did you have the ones that you swung across the ceiling—
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 1: …that all pulled out? And then they'd get all folded up, and put away for next year.
Speaker 7: Oh yes.
Speaker 1: Kept them year after year.
Speaker 7: [inaudible 00:02:12].
Speaker 1: Did you have some, Donna?
Donna: Yes. And the big one.
Speaker 1: And a big ball?
Donna: Yes.
Speaker 1: That you used to put in the middle of the ceiling.
Oh, what have you got there?
Female: Oh, you know what that is.
Speaker 1: Do you know what that is?
Female: A mixer, isn't it?
Female: Yeah, well no.
Speaker 10: Egg whisk.
Speaker 1: It is an egg whisk. It's a very strange one.
Speaker 10: I've never seen on with [inaudible 00:02:37].
Speaker 1: You go up and down like that to make it work.
Daphne: Well, I've been thinking about it all the time I've been here. I've been here nearly three and a half years. But I was just thinking, people can come in sometimes just for a respite. Respite, you know, for two or three weeks. But you don't learn anything about them. And, you know, it gives you something to think about, when you go back to your room, if you can find out more about the people you're with.
Lillian: Like this.
Speaker 1: That's it. Careful. Is that better?
Lillian: Yes. Like that.
Speaker 1: They would make them, wouldn't they, Ann, with just one piece of wood, and split it up the middle. Do you remember having those?
Ann: Yes, I remember that.
Speaker 1: Everybody's got something out of the basket, and we've covered a lot of ground this afternoon. Well, we talked about a lot of things.