Day 159 - 20 Jul 95 - Page 23
1 Q. Did your husband -----
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3 MR. MORRIS: Sorry.
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5 MR. RAMPTON: Did your husband have a full-time job?
6 A. Yes.
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8 Q. Does he still work?
9 A. Yes.
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11 Q. In those days did he work during the day?
12 A. Yes.
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14 Q. What time would he get home in the evening?
15 A. Probably between half past five to six.
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17 Q. Did he cook his own tea?
18 A. Oh, never.
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20 Q. So you did it?
21 A. I had to do it, yes.
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23 Q. I want to have a brief look, if I may, at the hours that
24 you worked in your time at McDonald's. When you started
25 what hours did you work?
26 A. I worked from 2 till 5.
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28 Q. From 2 in the afternoon until 5 in the afternoon?
29 A. Yes, 15 hours a week.
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31 Q. Did that enable you to pick up the children from school?
32 A. No, no. What it did, it enabled me to give them their
33 dinners before when they came in.
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35 Q. So did they came home from school to dinner?
36 A. Yes, they came home from school, yes. They would not
37 stay for school dinners.
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39 Q. Did it enable you to get home in time to cook your
40 husband's tea?
41 A. Just in time, yes!
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43 Q. That, I think, was up until about 1984?
44 A. Yes.
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46 Q. How old -- you are probably better at this than I am --
47 were your children, your four daughters, still at home in
48 1984?
49 A. One would have been, 1984, 14, and one would have been
50 20 -- it is hard to think now -- and one would have been
51 about 22, and the other one would have been about 25,
52 I think.
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54 Q. So how many were still living at home by the end of 1984?
55 A. They were all living at home, still the four.
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57 Q. They were, were they? I think you changed your hours in
58 1984 from 2.00 to 5.00 to what?
59 A. 12.00 to 4.00.
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