INTVEE lives with her two adult children who are also present during the interview. The house is semi-detached with a small garden at the front and a large garden at the back which INTVEE says is too big for her to manage. There are three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs and two rooms downstairs, the kitchen leads of the back downstairs room which is the only room with a coal fire. The front downstairs room has an electric fire and is used as a sitting room and dining room. INTVER writes "the room was conventionally and comfortably furnished and decorated, buffy-cream wallpapered walls, patterned carpet, grey moquette three piece suite, modernish conventional dining room table and chairs, a radiogram that looked like a highly polished bureau". After marrying in 1939, INTVEE gave up work and moved with her husband to a rented property in Sighthill, it was a rural district at this time with a Rural Institute. The Admiralty took over all the houses in Sighthill which were vacant and filled them with English dockers who were bussed to Rosyth every morning. She enjoyed working there. The moved to their present house in 1953 buying the house from her father in law. INTVEE returned to work when her youngest child was 5 years old. INTVEE and children listen to the radio in the evening particularly Radio Luxembourg, once a month they go to the SNO Symphony concerts. INTVEE describes the district as working class, the residents are working class people who have saved and bought their own houses. The people moving into the district now are younger, they have more money earlier which she thinks is a good thing, it's important for young married couples to get their own house and not live with in-laws. There are plenty shops nearby. INTVEE uses the shops at the west end, the local butcher, the co-op in the Boswall Parkway and Hebburns, a greengrocer on Granton Road. The No. 19 bus is one of the best routes in Edinburgh and the No. 21 one of the most interesting. She knows her neighbours but they are not in and out of people's houses. INTVEE knows a teacher at Craigmillar School who says it's a tough district, the phrase for going to prison is "in England".