Frank and Billy in Sunningdale Sept 24

22 Sept 2024 · 3 min

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In this informal family interview recorded on Sunday, 22 September 2024, the adult host chats with two children, Frank and Billy, about their weekend while staying with their grandparents in Sunningdale. The boys recount a series of activities: playing golf at Lavender Park (8-hole course, 100‑yard drive), competing in Scrabble (Billy winning by 30 points), Billy’s football match where he scored a goal, and an English test for which he earned two teachers’ signatures on his paragraphs. They also discuss their current TV obsession, the detective series Monk, praising its humor and mystery resolutions. The children describe a visit to an art gallery where they saw a painting valued at £1,200, followed by a walk and a Sunday roast lunch featuring roast chicken, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, and mash. Throughout, the tone is light‑hearted and enthusiastic, highlighting family bonding, leisure pursuits, and the children’s achievements and preferences.

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Today is Sunday the 22nd of September 2024, and we have, uh, Frank and Billy staying with us here in Sunningdale while their parents are in New York seeing baby Dot, uh, and, uh, Jackie and Al and Hannah and Sam. So what have you been doing this weekend, uh, Billy?
Well, um, we've just been, um, staying at our nan and granddad's this weekend. We've We've gone to a golf park to play golf, Lavender Hill.
Lavender Park.
Lavender Park, and it's very nice and it has 8 big holes, and, uh, I hit 100 yards with, um, a driver. Good for you.
What game have we just been playing?
And we've just played Scrabble where I won by, uh, 20 points.
Yes, you won.
No, actually 30 points. And then, um, And then, uh, we just, um, we just finished playing Scrabble and, um— All right, yeah, Frank, what else?
What have you got to say for yourself?
Well, I had a football game on Saturday which was really fun and I scored a goal during that. Good. And then also on Saturday I had a test, an English test, and I haven't got the results yet but I'm anticipating them.
Well, somebody got some good test results, didn't they? Billy, what did you get?
I got 2 good TSs, which are teachers' signatures, and it means that they're very good ones. For what subject? I got them both for my English paragraphs.
Jolly good. And what's the TV series that you're absolutely addicted to right now? Why do you like Monk so much?
Because we like his, um, funny attitude towards Yeah, and the theory at the end always cracks us up.
The mystery, solving the mystery. Very good. Where did we go today?
Uh, we went to Lavender Park actually, and, and we also went to a, um, an art gallery, and that was really fun. And then we went for a walk after that. Yeah, it was a painting worth £1,200 at Sunningdale Park. Yes. And we went for a walk then. I brought my golf balls from earlier on today. And for lunch we had a Sunday roast with roast chicken, cabbage, potatoes, carrots.
So do you like coming to Sunningdale? Yeah. Okay. And mash. And mash. Thanks very much, boys.