INTVEE lives with her husband, children and father. The kitchen has been repainted in yellow and green which INTVER describes as "a little bit flashy". He also comments that "the general appearance of the living room is extremely scruffy with rather dirty dull wallpaper and stain on the woodwork and very tattered lino and bits of mat on the floor. The furniture is rather rickety and worn as well". INTVEE says they want to re-do the whole house. INTVER comments on the numerous interruptions by other people's children including one 12 year old boy who came into the sitting room and started reading the paper which INTVER thought was interesting as he appeared to treat it as just another room to his house. All the other women in her block work full or part time as the only woman around during the day she gets the keys to the other houses. They all look after each others children and the wives don't mind other mothers hitting their children. She thinks the local shops are poor and it's worth paying the bus fare to Leith or into town. There is a Toy School at the community centre which takes children for 10am -12 but there is a year long waiting list and she thinks corporation nursery schools are too expensive, however she doesn't think children should be at nursery all day and doesn't agree with mothers working full time. The local children are friendly "There's no getting away from it, there really is a community of children here". She breast fed her first child for two weeks and the others for between six and ten weeks. Weaning was done at about 15 pounds. She hadn't been keen on breast feeding because she was never sure if they'd had enough. Last time interviewer had seen her she had said four children was enough but she was now pregnant. She doesn't think family planning is much good and is quoted as saying "The last one we call the Durex baby - it burst". She had the cap before that but it had a hole in it, so she's given up hope. She would like there to be a park like there was in Abbeyhill where all the mothers could meet and let their children play together. The park here has no swings because a girl had been hurt some time ago and the big kids break all the swings, at Abbeyhill there was a keeper. She also enjoyed the wash house at Abbeyhill - she could get all the washing dried and finished in a day and have time for a gossip as well. She works in the evenings and thinks it is important for women to have an interest outside the family, she thinks her work does her a lot of good.