Episode – The neighbour
Neighbour talking straight to camera:
You know if it hadn’t been for my man, they weans would have never been put into a home…it was him that phoned the social that time.
I told him no good would come of it…but I miss them so I do…but there’s not much I can do about that is there?
I mean she was no use as a mother was she? I ended up looking after the weans twice, maybe three times a week. In fact in the last few months they stayed with me more than they did with her. In fact I can’t remember a weekend when they weren’t with us.
And the state they where in when they came over. Tired and hungry. Jack was always starving and Jasmine was always trying to look after the wee one. But she’s only a kid herself.
If it hadn’t been for us giving them a good scrub, feeding them, buying them a few wee things, what would they have been like? Oh, I would have looked after them full-time so I would…but my man wouldn’t put up with it. Right enough, the social would have never let us…I mean that’s not for the likes of us is it?
And wee Jack…see the stories he would come out with about his mum. And poor wee Jasmine, loyal and sticking up for her until the last.
She phones some times but not for a while right enough. Last time she phoned she sounded desperate, said that she was doing great and that they would be home soon. I knew that she was just saying it, she knew it. I think she was in tears when she put the phone down.
I only wish…they could have stayed here with us…(starts to cry)