Hari Ramakrishnan [HR]: Hi, and I’m Hari with the Desh Project and we’re interviewing.

Jagdish J: Jagdish.

HR: And hopefully this is – we’re going to go again – thanks for helping translate with the previous guy.

J: That’s all right.

HR: So you’ve been driving here?

J: Hmm-hmm.

HR: Do you – has that formed like a close relationship with you like picking up everyone with everyone who comes in?

J: Yes, yeah, very close relationship with them, very close.

HR: Yeah, and I –

J: And takes me shopping, takes him – people like that, picks their dry cleaning up for them.

HR: Yeah?

J: Sometimes they phone me at weekends, “Can you please do a bit of shopping?” I take them, I don’t mind. When lives locally, takes them in my car.

HR: Do most people live locally as well then or how far away do they come?

J: I go right up Bradley Stoke.

HR: Oh yeah.

J: Right over Emersons Green.

HR: Ooh.

J: Right to Bedminster.

HR: Yeah.

J: So it’s quite a pitch I do [both laugh].

HR: Yeah, that’s quite a long journey to go around, but I think I saw a leaflet. [Telephone ringing] One sec, we’ll just pause there. Or we can just – just go ahead if you like.

J: [Answers telephone].

HR: Business call or family?

J: Family.

HR: Ah, well speaking of which anyway technology, when I went over to India I saw all my relatives had like phones, tablets, everything, like Skype has helped change everything, is that something you’re happy with, or do you find it annoying?

J: No, it’s all right, it’s all right.

HR: That you’re able to stay in contact with everyone?

J: Hmm, yeah.

HR: No I was just saying I saw a leaflet over there as well saying that there was a cruise apparently later this year.

J: Go, April going.

HR: April, is that something that happens quite often, I heard someone say they went to Peru as well.

J: We went last, well five years ago on one, every year we go abroad, and the reason we’d done it, they all stay together you see, that’s a good thing about it, you know, don’t want to disappear, all over anywhere, something like that, so some are really fragile you see.

HR: And what do you sort of do when you go over there, so just normal touristy things going around, shopping, beaches?

J: Yeah, make sure they’re – we go, we look after clients when we go over there, me and the manager we go there to look after, make their own way, but we go and look after clients, and make sure they’re all right.

HR: How out of hand or troublesome can they be, or are they usually well?

J: No, very good, yes, like sometimes with Spain last year, like had to for the suitcase to take them upstairs, and take them like that, and sometimes they didn’t like the floor, it was too high up, so changed the rooms for them, stuff like that.

HR: So nothing, no troublemakers?

J: No trouble, no, not like.

HR: But you said so you don’t watch films, or listen to music, or that kind of thing?

J: I listen to music, but I don’t like Indian films, too long aren’t they, too long.

HR: Yeah, yeah.

J: I don’t like it.

HR: So what music then do you listen to?

J: Punjabi music, yeah.

HR: Punjabi music, so no film music or anything, it’s very pure or traditional?

J: Yeah, Punjabi music, that’s the one.

HR: Did you go to the Dhol Foundation, I think they had an event last month, I think.

J: No.

HR: With some Dhol drummers and they had a large performance there.

J: No, I didn’t, no, no.

HR: Okay, is that anything you do as well, or is it something you prefer to listen to more than anything?

J: No, listen that’s all, yeah.

HR: Yeah. Okay, I can stop it if you like, all right.

J: Yeah.

HR: Thank you very much though.