Community Voices: Lerwick

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Younger speakers

Nicola: And what's-- what's the biggest thing you're looking forward to, just now?
Lewis: Probably the Premier League season starting.
Nicola: Really?
Lewis: Probably, why?
Nicola: What day's that start?
Lewis: Oh or then-- and then Denmark.
Nicola: And then also moving into your first flat.
Lewis: Yeah. No, it'll be the season then Denmark then flat.
Nicola: Why not flat first?
Lewis: No probably is actually, so. It's just stressing about it.
Nicola: Mhm.
Lewis: Ken?
Nicola: So what kind of couch do you think you want to get?
Lewis: I don't really know. Just, white one-- light-- a light coloured one if it's comfy. That looks sweet.
Nicola: Um, my only issue is when I've been looking at couches, because your floor is tiled, all this couches seem to all have wooden
Lewis: Legs.
Nicola: legs. Which I know is something that really is, like, a really little detail but they all have wooden legs and it's annoying me 'cause you don't have wooden anywhere else. So I don't really want you to have wooden legs.
Lewis: Just paint them white.
Nicola: Yeah, you could do that but it's just a bit of a waste of time, really. Just wish that they would come in white in the first place.

Older speakers

Doris: But everybody was really so similar because it was the minority that had plenty of money. Ken, dir wasna-- I mean the average family a' just kind of were at the same level, du kens, they werena-- There were mare that wasna so well-off as what was well-off, yeah. So, I mean, folk, you just really-- just made the best of what you had, I mean, there was nay "I have to get this" and "I have to get that" because we-- especially my family 'cause my dad was an affa bad diabetic and he had to stop working when I was just aboot maybe nine years old. And my mother, she used to go to gutting, and to the herring board, and any job that was going. And so that was really-- She was, er, was like what they have noo, my dad was like what you ca' a house husband 'cause he was the one that was always at home and-- when we were young and that. Eh, well, I mean, what mare can we say about wir youth? We--
Ena: Um.
Doris: I wouldna change it for a--
Ena: No, I wouldna changed--
Doris: I would never changed wir youth even though we had so little
Ena: No.
Doris: but we really had really happy times and really-- well I
Ena: Yeah.
Doris: found that with my parents and that, du kens, we were really lucky because we were always allowed to have our friends at-- at-- in wir hoose and ones coming for counties and that, they were able to stay and-- and just lots of things that they're missing oot on noo. That they're no getting that chances.