Hobbies and identity transcripts

Able:

00:01 – 00:04

So, So I hear you’re in the Sea Cadets.

Ben:

00:05 – 00:43

Yeah, the Sea Cadets in Dartmouth. Yeah, they do. It’s a charity. It’s a charity, and they do a lot of sailing and boating and outdoor things. Yeah, yeah. I used to be a Sea Cadet, and you used to wear all this uniform and cap on your head and lanyard and thing over the top and shiny shoes. And I used to get a medal. I used. I got a trophy for the shiny shoes and er, yeah, rig because when because when you’re at Cadets, you have to have shiny shoes and a smart uniform. Yeah.

Able:

00:45 – 00:45

Cool.

Jan:

00:47-00:48

[Whispers] Did you enjoy it?

Able:

00:49-00:50

Did you enjoy it?

Ben:

00:51 – 01:23

Yeah, I was there for 20 years. A good 20 years, yeah. I had different badges down my side as well, like different red bad- badges. Yeah, and yeah, I had different colours on the lanyard as well. Yeah. I went up different ships with TS Royalist and er going up rigging and all that. All good. Going to HMS Rally as another one. Cold Rose, seeing all the helicopters and all that. Going up Britannia Navy College. Yeah.

Jan:

01:24-01:01:26

[Whispers] Did you go in a helicopter?

Able:

01:28 – 01:31

Did you. Were you able to go in a helicopter?

Ben:

01:31 – 01:39

Unfortunately, not. Because there was a certain age to er, yeah. A certain age to be in one, yeah.

Jan:

01:43-01:45

[Whispers] Why did you leave the Cadets?

Able:

01:46 – 01:48

Wh- why, Why did you leave the Cadets?

Ben:

01:48 – 01:56

Because I was getting too old. You have to be between. You have to be between 16 and 25. So, yeah.

Jan:

01:59 – 02:00

Okay.

Ben:

02:00 – 02:11

I did I did. I was. I was. I was. I was in the Navy a bit as well. I did carry a rifle. So. With blanks. So, yeah. Yeah.

Jan:

02:15-02:18

[Whispers] Tell me more about it.

Able:

02:18 – 02:21

Tell me about more about being in the Navy.

Ben:

02:21 – 02:45

Well, I’ve been on a. I’ve been on a. I’ve been. I’ve been. I used to. I used to carry like a um a gun by my side for being a being a guard on these ships. So when people would come up the game plank, you know you have to search them. Yeah. It’s quite scary. Yeah. See me all dressed up in this thing all tied up with a big gun and my hat on. Yeah.

Jan:

02:48 – 02:52

[Whispers] You talked about going up the rigging. Was that scary?

Able:

02:52-02:56

Y- you, you, you, you talked about going up rigging. Was that scary?

Ben:

02:57 – 03:15

Wasn’t scary. No, I went up to the crow’s nest, right to the top to put the sail up. It was like a T-shape like that, and it’s got rigging on it. So on the Royalist, you’ve got like a T-shape. You put the sail down. It goes all the way down to the bottom of the ship. Yeah, and you put it in, and it, and it like tips over one side. Yeah, it’s really scary, but it was good.

Lewis:

00:00-00:09

What do you look forward to? Er do you think about, think about the future and make plans?

Brett:

00:10-00:12

Think about the future.

Lewis:

00:13-00:13

Yeah.

Brett:

00:16-00:19

Knowing I’m going to achieve them goals in life.

Lewis:

00:23-00:28

Tell me more about being a DJ.

Brett:

00:34-00:48

That um you play music that people want to hear.

Carole:

00:00-00:03

I only did a small amount. This has gone that big.

Donna:

00:03-00:06

Oh, wow. So, so, so, so, did, did.

Carole:

00:06-00:08

A lot of. A lot of circles.

Donna:

00:08-00:09

A lot of circles?

Carole:

00:09-00:09

Yeah.

Donna:

00:10-00:11

Did that not hurt your hand doing a lot of circles?

Carole:

00:11-00:18

No. You do. You do. So you follow the. Follow the um pattern.

Donna:

00:18-00:21

Oh, and the patterns. Oh, wow. So, so you follow a pattern?

Carole:

00:21-00:23

No. You do your own.

Donna:

00:23-00:27

Your own patterns. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. S- s- oh, wow.

Carole:

00:27-00:28

Where’s he gone? Her.

Donna:

00:29-00:34

I think. So, so, so do you like drawing?

Carole:

00:34-00:35

Yeah.

Donna:

00:35-00:36

What do you draw?

Carole:

00:36-00:38

Everything. Different things.

Barry:

00:41-00:41

Sorry.

Donna:

00:43-00:46

So, so so do you draw like um sketches and stuff?

Carole:

00:47-00:47

Yeah.

Barry:

00:47-00:49

Her drawings are

Carole:

00:49-00:49

Yeah

Barry:

00:49-00:51

unique to her.

Donna:

00:51-00:52

Unique to her?

Barry:

00:52-01:21

Um she, she starts off with a blank piece of paper, won’t you? And she’ll just draw something. And it will grow. It would grow. Almost like a living, living thing. It would just grow. She’ll add this bit and add that bit and change the colours. She knows what colours she wants. And um and sometimes the result is quite amazing.

Donna:

01:21-01:25

Is it? Oh, wow. So she’s quite creative. She’s an artist.

Barry:

01:25-01:26

Well, I can show you.

Donna:

01:32-01:37

Oh, wow. So, so, so do acrylics, oil, or watercolour?

Carole:

01:37-01:39

Um pens.

Donna:

01:39-01:42

Pens. Oh, wow.

Barry:

01:45-01:50

Here was an example of some unfinished things that she’s done.

Donna:

01:50-01:51

Oh, felt tip pens. Oh, wow.

Barry:

01:51-01:56

See it, and it’s you just yes, it’s all kind of.

Donna:

01:56-01:57

Oh, wow.

Carole:

01:57-01:58

Do you like it?

Donna:

01:57-02:00

Oh wow! That’s quite good.

Barry:

02:00-02:03

And it grows. It just sort of starts off.

Carole:

02:01-02:05

With the black, pink and mauve and grey.

Barry:

02:04-02:05

She doesn’t know.

Carole:

02:05-02:06

And you put it together.

Barry:

02:06-02:07

What she’s going to draw.

Donna:

02:06-02:09

Oh, wow. Look at all this. That’s quite good.

Barry:

02:09-02:11

And it just grows and grows.

Carole:

02:10-02:11

Do you like them?

Donna:

02:11-02:12

Yeah.

Dan:

00:00-00:16

I was 14, 15, around that sort of age. Um, er. The York City Knights Rugby um League, they created this Learning Disability League, which was tag rugby.

Will:

00:16-00:17

Yeah

Dan:

00:17-00:45

Non, like non-competitive league. And er we had our school got an email say, “If anyone interested in joining us for for for a game, er we’re at Bootham Crescent on this specific day.”

Will:

00:46-00:48

So you got asked to go to the stadium?

Dan:

00:46-00:58

So, so I, so I so I went to the stadium. I played at Bootham Crescent. Even the mascot got involved. It was brilliant.

Will:

00:59-01:02

I loved Bootham Crescent. Proper stadium.

Dan:

01:02-01:09

Yeah, it was a very good stadium. I only ever went in it once, and that was the day of that.

Will:

01:10-01:12

But you did the rugby for quite a while, didn’t you?

Dan:

01:12-01:13

Oh, I’m still doing it.

Will:

01:13-01:14

You’re still doing it.

Dan:

01:14-01:15

Oh, I’m still doing it.

Will:

01:15-01:20

Because I remember last year you brought in a video you’d created for it. So you’re still doing it.

Dan:

01:20-01:21

Yeah, I did it.

Will:

01:21-01:23

You’re still enjoying it to this day.

Dan:

01:22-01:30

Oh, love it. I recent- I, I, I recently got my first ever award.

Will:

01:30-01:31

Congratulations.

Dan:

01:31-01:38

Um for the rugby. Er I got the Coach’s Player of the Year this year, which was good.

Will:

01:40-01:43

So was that the Learning Disability?

Dan:

01:43-01:46

Yeah. Learning Disability Rugby League.

Will:

01:46-01:51

So that would have been just before you got your diagnosis, right?

Dan:

01:51-01:52

Erm

Will:

01:52-01:53

If you were around 15.

Dan:

01:53-02:10

Well, it was yeah, it was kind of. It. It was. It was always one of those that there’s not enough evidence to say I’ve got it, and there’s not enough evidence to say I don’t have it.

Donna:

00:00-00:02

What else do you do for fun?

Debbie:

00:02-00:26

What else do I do for fun? Right. Right. I go out. I like dancing. I do love my dancing. You can’t get me off a floor. You never can get me off a floor since I’ve always loved dancing since I was young. So because I used to do ballroom when I was young.

Donna:

00:26-00:27

Oh, you did ballroom.

Debbie:

00:27-01:01

Mm. In London. I think there’s a hall in London somewhere. I don’t know. A long, long time ago I did that. So since I’ve done dance, I like dancing. So I thought, “Ooh, discos. Ooh, I love discos. Ooh.” It’s a fun something to do, something to meet friends and go out and chat with them. And I’ve got friends anyway. So I go out on Wednesdays in the evening and do that. I do that.

Deborah:

01:02-01:03

Music Man.

Debbie:

01:03-01:04

Huh?

Deborah:

01:04-01:05

Music Man.

Debbie:

01:05-01:20

I do. Oh, yeah. I didn’t mention that did I? I do things called Music Man on a Sunday. If you have a Sunday play band in the band, we do it to sign music, to signs.

Donna:

01:20-01:22

Oh, do sign.

Debbie:

01:22-01:26

Sign to music. And there’s quite a few of us go.

Deborah:

01:28-01:30

What happened in April?

Debbie:

01:30-01:37

I went to Royal Albert Hall in London. That was in April I went there.

Deborah:

01:37-01:38

And you performed.

Debbie:

01:39-01:42

We performed on stage in London at the Royal Albert Hall, yeah.

Deborah:

01:44-01:46

And who was on the stage with you?

Debbie:

01:48-01:49

Michael Ball. Yeah, Michael Ball.

Donna:

01:49-01:50

Oh, Michael Ball.

Debbie:

01:50-01:51

If you ever met Michael Ball.

Sam:

00:00-00:02

What do you like to wear as a child?

Flo:

00:02-00:23

Um well, as a child and now, I’ve always liked wearing like sort of like colourful things. I have had like favourite things I’ve I enjoyed wearing when I was a child, like I had a favourite cardigan and a favourite T-shirt, which I liked wearing a lot.

Sam:

00:23-00:24

So what is your favourite colour?

Flo:

00:25-00:34

Um, I like like any sort of bright colours, like pinks or like purples or, yeah, anything bright. I like.

Peter:

00:34-00:39

Because you said you liked your favourite cardigan as a child. Can you, can you remember what colour the cardigan was?

Flo:

00:39-00:52

Um it was, it had all sorts of different colours on it. Like it was, it was, it was pink, and then it had like I think it was like a knitted cardigan. It had like loads of different colours on it.

Peter:

00:55-00:58

How did you spend your summer holid- summer holidays?

Flo:

00:59-01:12

Um we would normally go on. I’ve been on a lot of holidays, which have been fun, to a lot of different places.

Peter:

01:13-01:15

Can you remember where you’ve, where you’ve been?

Flo:

01:15-01:26

Um I’ve been to Greece before, which was fun. We went with some friends that like lived that used to live next door to us.

Sam:

01:26-01:28

What was your favourite thing about Greece?

Flo:

01:29-01:35

Um I liked the food there. They had really nice food there.

Sam:

01:37-01:40

Where did your family go on holiday?

Flo:

01:41-01:52

Um well, we would normally go on holiday together, but I’ve been to like, as I said, Greece, and I’ve been to Italy a few times, and I’ve been to Spain quite a lot.

Sam:

01:53-01:56

What do you. What was your favourite thing to do in Italy and Spain?

Flo:

01:56-02:13

Um I remember in Italy, we went to the city called Florence. It was it was very hot there. But I I like Italy. It’s a nice place. And I like Italian food as well.

Peter:

02:13-02:21

Can you remember where you went the first time you ever went been on a plane, flown on a plane, been on a plane?

Flo:

02:21-02:48

Um I think the very first time was probably when I was a baby. But the time I remember, I’ve been to like I think I’ve been to Australia twice. And I remember like it was one of those planes that had like a a TV screen on it, and we could watch movies on it.

Sam:

02:48-02:50

Did you see any kangaroos in Australia?

Flo:

02:50-02:55

Um yes. And I remember seeing koalas and things.

Peter:

02:56-02:58

 Why do you want to go to Rio?

Flo:

02:58-03:22

Um I guess because I’ve heard that like it’s quite like a colourful place, and there’s like a lot of like parties and stuff that go on there. And there’s a movie called Rio, which is quite funny. I like that film, Rio. And it has a bird in it.

Dan:

00:00-00:02

What do you make in your art class?

Janet:

00:04-00:10

Well, I do like doing, doing the work.

Elaine:

00:10-00:12

What what are you making. What are you making at this minute?

Janet:

00:13-00:13

Making.

Elaine:

00:13-00:13

In your arts and crafts?

Janet:

00:14-00:34

Arts and crafts is er. Making cameras, painting cameras, doing that. I love that. It’s my favourite doing arts and craft and cooking and that on a Monday.

Elaine:

00:38-00:40

What do you do on a Tuesday?

Janet:

00:41-00:44

Tuesday. I’m out on a Tuesday.

Elaine:

00:47-00:49

She got free day on a Tuesday.

Janet:

00:49-00:50

Bridget it on a Tuesday.

Elaine:

00:50-00:52

She chooses what she wants to do.

Janet:

00:53-01:01:

So I’ve been saying to her, like er, “We’re gonna going in. Going to go on the bus.”

Elaine:

01:01-01:01

Train

Janet:

01:01-01:16

With Jane the carer or go on the train. On the, on the train. It gets us. It gets us. It gets us there and it gets us back. No problem with the trains. I like it.

Dan:

01:22-01:24

What do you do on a Wednesday?

Janet:

01:26-01:47

Wednesday er, karaoke. I like going to Café West. Doing anything like jobs and. But like doing stuff. Helping stuff. Doing some work. Doing some painting. Karaoke on a Wednesday.

Elaine:

01:48-01:49

Friday.

Janet:

01:49-01:51

Friday. Karaoke.

Elaine:

01:54-01:55

And what about your friends that are there?

Janet:

01:57-02:13

Yeah. My friends live with me as well. On a Fri- Wednesday. And Friday on the, karaoke on a Friday. I love it. It makes me happy.

Sam:

00:00-00:03

Have you achieved something that others don’t expect?

Kelly:

00:05-00:24

I think like taking part in choir. I think people. that’s different because I wouldn’t um normally do that. And like doing the acting and trying to learn all the, having to remember everything that we had to do in Cinderella as well. That had a big thing.

Sam:

00:25-00:28

How have you changed over time?

Kelly:

00:30-00:53

I think like being supported has changed because like you know before, when you’ve had support workers and everything, a lot of them did like break um promises. Said they were going to be like involved or said they wanted to do it, then they never stuck to their words. But now like people do stick to their words or they know not to like say they’re going to do something if they’re not going to do it.

Sam:

00:54-00:56

What have you learned about yourself?

Kelly:

00:57-01:04

That um I’m caring and kind and that people do enjoy being around me.

Sam:

01:04-01:07

Is there something you’ve over, overcome that makes you proud?

Kelly:

01:09-01:25

I think when like arguments sometimes get started in the friendships, like not taking it all on board and like trying to take it to staff to kind of help you do as well. So you’re not like saying, thinking it’s all your fault that everything’s going wrong.

Sam:

01:25-01:27

What would you like to do in the future?

Kelly:

01:27-01:56

I think I’m going to like do Greece. Still, still have day centre and everything because now there’s lots of changes happening in Notts County Council. So we don’t know whether there’s going to be a day service in a couple of years because we’re lucky in our area that we’ve got one because Derbyshire and other places haven’t got a day service no more. So we don’t know whether it could eventually just cease to exist.

Sam:

01:56-01:58

Are there any goals or dreams you’re working towards?

Kelly:

01:59-02:04

I want to go to Disneyland Paris. That’s one of my dreams.

Sam:

02:05-02:07

Why would you like to go to Disneyland Paris?

Kelly:

02:07-02:13

Because I really like Disney, and I think I want to go and see the fireworks that they do at nighttime.

Sam:

02:14-02:18

What advice would you give to someone in a similar situation to you?

Kelly:

02:19-02:35

That um like enjoy your support and like take everything. Or if you can be involved in your care and what you need, now there’s this nourish. You can be involved in it all. You can have your say what’s on there as well.

Will:

00:00-00:04

So what kind of stuff did you like to do as a child?

Kirsty:

00:04-00:05

Um

Will:

00:05-00:08

Did you have any hobbies or anything like that that you liked to do?

Kirsty:

00:09-00:13

Playing with dolls, playing outside. That sort of thing.

Will:

00:14-00:17

And that playing with dolls thing has obviously, continued.

Kirsty:

00:17-00:18

Yeah.

Will:

00:18-00:19

I love the line up. Do you have a favourite?

Kirsty:

00:20-00:21

I have a Lucy Doll.

Will:

00:21-00:23

Lucy Doll. How long have you had her?

Kirsty:

00:23-00:29

Sorry. Um I’ve had her. I’ve had her a long time.

Will:

00:31-00:33

Well, you’ve obviously taken good care of her. She looks in good nick.

Kirsty:

00:33-00:34

Yeah.

Will:

00:36-00:40

Was that a gift or did you buy it for yourself or was it made by someone?

Kirsty:

00:39-00:41

I got it given off somebody.

Will:

00:42-00:44

Do you know who gifted you it?

Kirsty:

00:45-01:01

When I went, when I went to the mental health hospital because I wasn’t very well. Somebody, what the patient called, Ashley, how he give it give it give it to us. Because she was going to chuck her out, and and I spoke up and said that I would take her.

Will:

01:03-01:08

Oh, that’s really nice. And you obviously care a lot about it by the fact that you brought it here.

Kirsty:

01:08-01:16

Yeah. I didn’t want to, I didn’t want to see her go in the um in the bin. So I spoke up and said I would take her and look after her.

Will:

01:18-01:21

Yeah. It would be a shame for something like that to go in the bin, wouldn’t it?

Kirsty:

01:21-01:21

Mm-hmm.

Will:

01:24-01:28

So what were your experiences with your mental health when you were growing up?

Kirsty:

01:29-01:36

Um I don’t want to answer.

Will:

01:36-01:45

That’s fine. Yeah. Do you have a happy memory instead that you’d like to. Like to share?

Kirsty:

01:46-01:46

No.

Will:

01:48-01:50

Did you have any pets? That’s always a fun one.

Kirsty:

01:51-01:53

Um no.

Will:

01:53-01:54

No? No pets?

Kirsty:

01:54-01:55

No pets.

Will:

01:55-01:56

Have you ever had a pet?

Kirsty:

01:56-01:56

No.

Will:

01:57-01:59

Oh. Do they allow pets here?

Kirsty:

02:59-02:00

Yeah.

Joanne:

02:00-02:01

You can do, yeah.

Will:

02:01-02:03

Oh, that might be something to look into then.

Kirsty:

02:04-02:04

Yeah.

Will:

02:06-02:12

Um did you have sort of a, a favourite doll when you were younger?

Kirsty:

02:14-02:17

I used to have a um, I used to have a pink lion.

Will:

02:19-02:21

What was its name? Did it have a name?

Kirsty:

02:21-02:24

It was just, it was just a called Pink Lion.

Robert:

00:00-00:08

I always think it’s a target for something to do. And it’s you want to do something, go and do it.

Scott:

00:08-00:13

It’s like having a goal. Once you’ve reached that goal, you’re setting yourself a new goal and then a new goal.

Robert:

00:13-00:13

Yeah.

Scott:

00:14-00:16

Will you ever calm it down or?

Robert:

00:17-00:19

Sometimes it does calm down.

Scott:

00:19-00:21

Yeah. Because you get tired, obviously.

Robert:

00:21-00:26

Yeah. But the running side of it, that’s um.

Scott:

00:26-00:27

Still going?

Robert:

00:27-00:28

That’s.

Charlotte:

00:28-00:29

That’s the other set of medals.

Scott:

00:29-00:32

Yeah. So tell us a bit about the running medals.

Robert:

00:32-00:49

The running medals, that’s like how you mix in with because its in a mix some others. You mix them with all the locals. So you mix them with all come different directions from around them it’s then.

Scott:

00:49-00:52

So that’s nice then. So you feel part of society.

Robert:

00:51-00:53

You’re part of a group.

Scott:

00:53-00:55

Yeah. That’s nice.

Robert:

00:55-00:58

And, and then you go to different places.

Scott:

00:59-01:01

So you’ve done a lot of travelling in the group, yeah?

Robert:

01:01-01:01

Yeah.

Scott:

01:02-01:04

How many is in your group, Robert?

Robert:

01:04-01:06

There’s quite a few of us.

Scott:

01:06-01:06

Yeah?

Robert:

01:07-01:14

Because after Christmas, er we had lots of new arrivals. About 21 new arrivals.

Scott:

01:14-01:16

Oh, wow. So it’s quite a big list.

Robert:

01:16-01:18

But that’s and that was.

Scott:

01:18-01:20

That sounds like a gang, not a group.

Robert:

01:20-01:20

Yeah.

Scott:

01:21-01:22

 From London as well.

Robert:

01:22-01:29

Yeah. But its, I would say there’s about 40 or something or.

Scott:

01:29-01:30

It’s a small group then.

Robert:

01:30-01:32

Well, there’s about three groups.

Scott:

01:32-01:33

Oh, that’s goo-.

Robert:

01:34-01:37

So there’s a social five, and there’s a faster five.

Scott:

01:37-01:38

Okay.

Robert:

01:38-01:41

And there’s a 10K five.

Scott:

01:41-01:42

Okay.

Robert:

01:42-01:46

 And a 10K is not a five, sorry. It’s a 10K.

Scott:

01:46-01:46

10?

Robert:

01:46-01:47

Yeah

Scott:

01:47-01:48

or 20?

Robert:

01:48-01:48

10.

Scott:

01:48-01:53

10. So it’s all different groups, but like in your group there’s.

Robert:

01:52-02:02

In my group, at the moment, I, I’m doing quite well in my group at the moment. But I am in the social. But I was in the faster five.

Scott:

02:02-02:04

You were in the faster five, but now because of age and.

Robert:

02:04-02:05

And then I got back a little bit too.

Scott:

02:05-02:07

Too much for you.

Robert:

02:06-02:16

I went, I went a bit in. I had lots of problems and then. But now, slowly building back up again.

Scott:

02:16-02:18

And you want to go back in the fast group?

Robert:

02:18-02:27

But er if you’re coping very well in your own group, it’s still all right. You still see all the others.

Scott:

02:27-02:28

Yeah.

Robert:

02:28-02:29

Around.

Scott:

02:29-02:35

How, how, how long is is the purpose you want, like 5K, 10K?

Robert:

02:35-02:36

I have done a nine.

Scott:

02:36-02:38

You’ve done a nine, have you?

Robert:

02:38-02:40

Nine through a farm’s fields.

Scott:

02:40-02:43

How long did it take you to do a 9K run? Do you remember your time?

Robert:

02:44-02:52

So, so we did a nine from someone’s house. So we had to go through fields with crops sticking up.

Scott:

02:52-02:53

Okay.

Robert:

02:53-02:55

It was like farm crops.

Scott:

02:55-02:56

Okay.

Robert:

02:56-03:04

And we said, “Robert, we can’t see you.” I said, “Yeah.” And then they couldn’t see me because the crops was higher than me.