I used to work in the hospital. So, in the hospital taught me from a really young age that, okay, somebody's had their lunch but they're not getting anything for four, five hours. So make sure that they've got a cup of water, a cup of tea, you know? A sweetie, or, you know? Depending obviously on the person. So now this is my thing. Like, you go in, you get them up, dressed, washed for breakfast, you give them their breakfast. Leave them with a big glass of juice. They might not want it right there but least they have it. And then some people's like "but they're independent", you know, they can get-- but they might not think. They've got dementia, like--
Interviewer:
They might nae be-- might nae be seeing anybody else that day.
Zoe:
Yeah.
Interviewer:
Could be their only--
Zoe:
So I always give that, an extra cup of tea 'cause again, if they dinna drink it, they dinna drink it.
Interviewer:
Aye, yeah, yeah.
Zoe:
It's nae gonna kill them. Um, leave them oot, ken, some fruit, some whatever. 'Cause that's how I would leave my Grandma and Granda
Interviewer:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Zoe:
so I'd want to leave somebody else's.
Older speakers
Kathy:
I mind fann I was little my-- my ma and that used to take us doon there to roll wir Easter egg.
Interviewer:
Aye the Broad Hill, aye.
Kathy:
Aye.
Irene:
Aye and the Dons stadium. Nae fitt it is now.
Kathy:
That's supposed to be closing.
Irene:
Fitt I mind of it there used to be, like, a place farr manies would get their things for golfing.
Interviewer:
Okay.
Irene:
Aye, but old fashioned. And then there was a little ice cream shopie. And then there was a hill. And then it was all-- all fitba' stadium, and half time we used to crawl underneath and-- go in and watch the game.
