'Honestly, mam, it's all a load of rubbish. I mean, I read me horoscope and things like that, for a joke... but this.'

Adie and Astral share a taste for literature and freedom, but Zena has long since set the jam just the way she likes it.

Dogs are like their owners - grey-hounds are nasty, staffords are for fighting. You can't blame the dogs - it's nature.

'The way to get on, son, is to accept the kind of jobs you have to grit your teeth to do.' Martin enjoys moving furniture, but not bodies.

'Most fellers, if they'd seen a mate go under that press, they'd never go back.' Can Brocky?

'Two million years wasted making leather bags. For what? For what? There's more to life.' Harry Ravitz suddenly sees the world in a new light.

Another chance to see David Cregan's first television play "That Time of Life" with John Neville and Peter Bayliss 'There does come a time, I know, when age knows less than youth. I don't think I've reached it.' (from Birmingham)