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Description

This is a monologue of an elderly country character in Old Bones by Helen Kitson

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Senior (55+)

Accents

British (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
I couldn't have fancy a bowl of porridge, Antonio says on Sunday morning with salt and milk. Like in the old days, the whole taste. Don't talk daft. We never had salt on our porridge. I might be a dreamer, but it's Antonio who tries to romanticise our childhood. She thinks they were the best times, and she might be right. But I don't see the point in living in the past, happy though some of those days were They are gone and can't be recaptured. Nevertheless, I make Antonio's porridge the way she claims to like it in a puddle of milk and without the brown sugar. That is the only thing that makes porridge edible. Everything in the house speaks of Antonio's taste. The frills, flowery fabrics and fussy little details have even found their way into the kitchen. Finicky, useless things. The milk jug cover, for instance, a circle of fine linen waited with coloured glass beads. Antonia's world, not mine,