Interview with a retired Montserratian man (narrator), January 18, 2005:
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KP: Um, [6 second pause] What do you normally do on a typical day now after the volcano and now that, I guess, starting to move into session of rebuilding?
Narrator: Now?
KP: Yeah.
Narrator: Uh, hmm [laugh]. Now! Right now [KP and narrator laugh]. Uh, as I said to you, my daughter is here, at home. She’s got a six-month old baby. Ah, when we built, we built two separate unites but on the same footing so that downstairs is her house and the upstairs is our house. She is, is a surveyor. She works at the um, survey department. So we baby-sit the, the baby in the daytime. So my wife, [laugh] my wife uh, is the principal babysitter, but I am an assistant babysitter [KP laughs]. And, uh, very willing to be an assistant babysitter. So I spend most, I mean, I have no, no, uh, outdoor activity, I mean I go to the shop, the stores and go up and down, but I spend most of my day at home assisting, taking, as a matter of fact, I’m the cook at the moment, while my wife, wife is principally involved with the baby I cook, so I am housekeeping, as it were…
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