well it was a town then but since then it's been made a city, you see, and i got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there, used to come every evening and write a book  and er, i used to look after him if i happened to be that end and er, you see, and then he'd say, oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then i'd leave him and he'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me.