INTVER includes a brief description of the interior decoration which includes lots of artificial flowers and fruits. The summary consists mainly of anecdotes about life in Lapicide Place, Leith. INTVEE was told it was riddled with bugs when she first moved in but thought the younger women had cleaner houses because of labour saving devices but the older women thought the opposite because they would scrub the stair instead of just mopping it. She has a number of friends who she drinks tea with, although one was frequently scalded by her mother to go and get on with her chores. INTVEE's own mother had a temper and regularly hit her, she remembers one time when she hadn't set the table because she had lost track of time playing and her mother "half killed me, pulled by hair, battered me".