It was monotonous. ‘Cos I mean after they got it all washed out, like all the cracks in, we’d to plaster all the cracks up and every little bit. ‘Cos there was one or two of the Field Officers you know the senior men, used to, we got them round once and he was ‘gan about with a toothpick like and if he found the least bit hole, it would got, you know got a bit of muck out on it, he says he’ll fail it.
[Farm]
And there was an outbreak there and you drove down to school, was it after half term? September, October? I would think she went back, no it was in October, there was a scare then. And I drove through two disinfectant point stations on the way down and they didn’t wash me. And I came back through one because the outbreak was here and I drove through that one, past the outbreak and I could see all the wagons and the men in white suits and they just waved me through the next one, and I thought, “bloody hell”, they waved me through the next one, and this one, I had to go back and say, “you have to wash me because I am going back to a farm” and sure enough, they gave me a good washing but I was very wary if I went anywhere, I made sure that I washed and disinfected when I came back.
[Health and veterinary]
The people on farms who went to her school, obviously didn’t go to school and they were quite sort of happy that if you didn’t want to send your child, they would send work home, but the bus goes quite a direct route and she catches it at the bottom. And you know, you think, they’re better off. . . .She wasn’t coming into contact with any animals, so she herself was not dangerous. So really you’re better off. You know, life goes on doesn’t it, you’re better keeping some normality.