Dialect recording in Digby, Lincolnshire

[Side 1] Bertie talks about early childhood and living with grandmother till aged 4, discusses extreme fear of cold water, recalls incident as very young child when he returned home messy and grandmother dumped him straight into water tub, comments cannot swim and will only paddle at seaside, mentions favourite holiday destination (Skegness), enjoys beach and visiting show every night. [Side 2] Bertie talks about work with threshing-machine, recalls early starts at four o'clock in morning and long days, describes different roles of gang of workers, explains traditional method of building stack, supplies names of stack parts in interviewer's photograph, incl. 'roof', 'eave', 'rig' [= ridge], 'steddle/steddling' [= base layer of straw], describes how to 'thack' [= thatch] stack in 'welts' [= overlapping sections of straw] to encourage rainwater to run off. Continued at 1LL0015045 S1.