[00:00:00] interviewer: And this the toffee tin
[00:00:02] narrator: That's your grandmother's, Margaret's, buttons. She cut the buttons off everything before it went for rags, every coat, every school shirt. You could tell the whole story of this family by tipping that tin out on the table, and she did, on wet afternoons. Your mother learnt to count on that tin.
[00:00:23] interviewer: How did you two meet?
[00:00:25] narrator: At the bus stop in Camborn in the rain 1968, I asked her the time, I had a watch on, she
[00:00:33] narrator: looked at my wrist, and she looked at me and she said, it's about time you thought of something
[00:00:38] narrator: better, there's a green glass button in there, off that coat.
[00:00:43] interviewer: I always wondered about the green one.
[00:00:47] narrator: She had it in the pancreas, 4 months start to finish, about 3 weeks after the funeral
[00:00:52] narrator: I went to the tin to mend a shirt. I took off the lid and there was a bit of card on top in her
[00:00:58] narrator: writing. Arthur, it said, the green one is for Nell when she marries or when she doesn't. She
[00:01:06] narrator: knew she was going, you see. She'd gone through the buttons and she never said. I sat on the
[00:01:12] narrator: stairs for a long time with that card.
[00:01:15] interviewer: I didn't know that.
[00:01:18] narrator: No, well, now you do.
[00:01:19] narrator: That's what this is for, isn't it?
