Community Voices: Leven

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Younger speakers

Jacob: That's where I wanted to book and I was like "oh, you fancy-- you fancy going to Madrid next year?" and she's like "oh" she's like " I wouldnae-- I wouldnae--"
Mhairi: No, I never said no, I said it's no the first placed on my list.
Jacob: Aye, so I was like "well that's that out the windae then."
Mhairi: I would have still have been grateful for the trip to Madrid.
Jacob: She was like "I'm--" Aye I was-- she was like "I would have-- I would have loved to go to Barcelona though." So I was like "well that's where we're going then."
Mhairi: It just looks like a beautiful city.
Jacob: Aye.
Interviewer: It is.
Mhairi: We were gonna do-- we were in Cabo Roig in April so we're gonna go to Valencia 'cause I don't think it's that long away fae Cabo Roig.
Interviewer: Where is that?
Mhairi: Um, where [name]'s mum and dad, like their place, yeah.
Interviewer: Oh right, that bit. Yeah, that's not too far.
Mhairi: It's not far.
Interviewer: And the trains are rapid in Spain as well, like. Far better than here.
Mhairi: Yeah 'cause we were gonna do, but the weather was-- it genuinely rained
Jacob: Aye, literally--
Mhairi: the five days out of the seven and it was just horrendous. It was so cold, it was colder than it was back home.
Interviewer: Aye?
Jacob: Mhm.
Mhairi: So that was-- we never done nothing at all, did we? Just went to the go karts and that.
Jacob: Aye, we went to the go karting, that was good.
Mhairi: I don't think it is far to Valencia at all 'cause you see the buses stopping in Cabo Roig that are heading for Valencia and you see-- there was the trips as well. 'Cause you were wanting to go and see the football, weren't you no?
Jacob: Aye.

Older speakers

Donnie: Aye that's lies noo, that's lies, eh. Automatics in the flaming terries were automatic.
James: Aye but they were-- they were different, ken, they were different in a sense, eh?
Donnie: It was a plant squadron we were in.
Interviewer: Right.
Donnie: So we're used to driving tipper trucks, wheel tractors,
Interviewer: Mhm.
Donnie: excavators,
Interviewer: Aye.
Donnie: cranes.
Interviewer: Heavy stuff like, aye.
Donnie: Aye. Eh, you just-- you ended up having to jump fae one to another, like, you were doing jobs, you know. Eh, somebody didnae turn up today, you know, work with somebody, like, you know
Interviewer: Mhm.
Donnie: that was a digger driver you'd have to flaming, you know, adapt yoursel and go in and dae it yoursel so I mean-- A lot of the modern machinery that we're getting before we left
Interviewer: Mhm.
Donnie: was starting to be, like, automatic or semi-automatic,
Interviewer: Aye. Aye.
Donnie: things like that, like, you know.
Interviewer: Aye.
Donnie: You know, eh, ergonomically, eh, suited flaming, eh, seats, you know.
Interviewer: Alright.
Donnie: Eh, athing like that, you know
Interviewer: Mhm. Mhm.
Donnie: that, eh, you could-- you could, eh, sit and were easier to drive. You know, I can remember the flaming first ones that we used to get, like, you know, the old barfords?
James: Mhm.
Donnie: You know. Five gears but only-- only could dae 32 mile an hour.
Interviewer: Right.
Donnie: Right? Crash gear box and if you missed the gear you had to flaming stop and start fae scratch again.
Interviewer: Did you, aye?
Donnie: So--
Interviewer: Fifth gear's up to 32 mile? You'd really have to train your brain how to do that, like.
Donnie: Well, aye. I was-- I sat my test, class two HGV, through Dundee by the way
Interviewer: Aye.
Donnie: on a Saturday morning at 11 o'clock.
Interviewer: Oh aye.
Donnie: Right, so you can imagine how busy it was, right, on a vehicle that could only dae 32 mile an hoor.
Interviewer: Aye.
Donnie: So, I'm driving along Riverside, you know the--
Interviewer: Mhm. Mhm.
Donnie: the front-- the old front at that time.
Interviewer: Mhm.
Donnie: You know? You would think that there was a 40 mile an hoor speed limit at that time,
Interviewer: Aye.
Donnie: right, and the guy was looking at the speedometer and he was gonna fail me 'cause I was only doing 31, 32 mile an hoor. And I tell-- and I seen him looking at the speedo and I thought "you realise that this is the top speed that this vehicle can do?" "Oh, is it?" "Aye." "Oh. I was gonna fail you."
Interviewer: Very good, aye.