Survey of English Dialects recording in Pitminster, Somerset

[Side 1] Clara reflects on lack of sick pay in past, recalls mother frequently helping at births, discusses severe winters incl. walking to Blagdon to fetch bread, compares standard of living and relationships between working class and gentry now and in past, briefly mentions Sunday school teacher. [Side 2] Clara talks about 'short cheese' [= hard cheese] and blue cheese, recalls getting 'hiding' [= beating, thrashing] for getting wet (in stream?) on way home from school, memories of Club walk incl. swing-boats and 'standings' [= stalls] selling 'fairings' [= gingerbread] and 'conference' [= type of round, hard sweet], discusses home-made cider, mentions father's job as wood-cutter in winter and farm worker in summer and prize for long service, compares cost of living now and in past, recalls fetching coal from station by horse and cart, recalls farm workers drinking two quarts of cider a day from 'firkin' [= cask] re-filled every morning, mentions wages in past of shilling a day.