Survey of English Dialects recording in Great Dalby, Leicestershire

[Side 1] Frank recalls butcher slaughtering pig and describes troughs used in past for salting and curing 'flitches' [= sides of bacon], talks about home-cured bacon and ham, gives recipe for stuffed 'chine' [= meat around pig's backbone], briefly mentions father also worked as waggoner, recalls drinking 'small beer' [= weak/inferior quality beer] at work, describes using 'barm' [= brewer's yeast] for home brewing and baking, comments canal previously well used but now overgrown. [Side 2] Frank talks about pastimes in past including fishing on canal, cricket, 'duck-stone' [= traditional chase game] and marbles, reflects on leisure time now and in past.