Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Series 1

Vera:
Dennis?

Dennis:
Hi. Vera? Look, I've reversed the charges because it's such a nightmare with all them stacks of change.

Vera:
So, are you all right?

Dennis:
Yeah. How's the kids?

Vera:
Ahh, they're fine. If I'd know you were gonna call, I'd have kept 'em up.

Dennis:
Ah, well, don't keep 'em up, love.

Vera:
I'll not now, I mean it's difficult enough as it is trying to get 'em up!

Dennis:
How are ya, then?

Vera:
I'm all right. Did you get me letter?

Dennis:
'Ey, what's this about you comin' out here?

Vera:
Yes, well I thought it might be useful, you know, erm... I mean, I thought we could talk.

Dennis:
Well, there doesn't seem much to talk about. The solicitors, they filled in all the blanks.

Vera:
Yeah. I mean, I think that's the point, Dennis, you know? I think they took over. I mean, there was your lawyer and my lawyer and all these forms to fill in, statements to make...

Dennis:
Yeah, well that's the way they work, isn'it? Know what I mean?

Vera:
Absolutely, that's the point. I think that, in the middle of all that, somewhere you and I got lost, you know.

Dennis:
That's how they make their money, love.

Vera:
What?

Dennis:
I said that's how they make their money.

Vera:
I know, Dennis. Will you listen?

Dennis:
Okay, pet, I'm listening. What?

Vera:
I'm sayin' that I think that we got lost as people, as a couple. An' I think if I came out, we'd be away from all that pressure, all that procedure. I mean, we're still a family, aren't we?

Dennis:
Are we?

Vera:
Helen wants to take the kids up to the caravan in Seahouses.

Dennis:
Yeah?

Vera:
They could go to Bamburgh Castle and the Farne Islands, they'll have a whale of a time. It'd do them the world of good

Dennis:
I agree, I agree, that's good for them, yeah.

Vera:
Now, you sent us some extra.

Dennis:
Well, I've been puttin' in some overtime, y'kna? It's the least I can do.

Vera:
I really appreciate it. But I thought I could use that to fly out.

Dennis:
What? D'you think it's worth havin' you fly all the way out here on your own?

Vera:
Oh, Dennis, pet, please. Don't make it hard.

Dennis:
Well, okay. All right, if... if that's what you want.