Community Voices: Lochee

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Younger speakers

Ashley: Who's-- who would I find a yearbook from, who has one?
Interviewer: I've got one.
Jack: I've got one.
Ashley: Have you actually? You'll need to give me a shot.
Jack: Yeah.
Ashley: I was the first person to hand in a baby photo and they never put my baby photo in it.
Interviewer: Did they not?
Ashley: No, I was boiling.
Interviewer: No wonder.
Ashley: I looked for that photo for ages.
Interviewer: Was it a specific one, like? A specific photo you were after?
Ashley: No, just I thought that one's cute. But never put it in.
Interviewer: So did you not get a yearbook then or did you just not bother?
Ashley: I never got one. 'Cause I thought, like, there's no point in, like, all wih getting them, thinking that me and [name] and that are gonna be pure best pals forever. That never happened.
Jack: Yeah, I've got one in the house. I might have a read of it actually.

Older speakers

Isabel: That was the day that, um, we won on the horses.
Donald: Oh I mind of that, yeah.
Isabel: Oh, now, the man next door to me owned racehorses, right, and I had said to him "now any time you've got a dead cert, you better let me ken." So he did and I put money on this horse and he came in, it was the Saturday dinnertime, and he was-- he were-- you were just passing, maybe we were going oot that night and you came in and I'm standing watching the racing and he says "oh, what are you dae-ing? You've no got a horse." I says "I do, I do, waiting on this horse." Anyway, um, it's probably still running but we decided to put a horse on. We had a couple of pound each, it was whatever and you-- Yeah, yeah.
Donald: Yeah, we put-- there was four horses all the-gither and we put on a £4 bet and, um, then I came back and we watched them, mind? We sat with the bairns and watched them.
Isabel: Yeah, yeah.
Donald: I always remember the last horse-- the first three won and the last ain was called Tickety Boo.
Isabel: That's right.
Donald: And, um, we were a'-- a' the bairns and athing we were like that "yeah" ken with the-- We got something like 350 quid back or something off of-- off of £4.
Isabel: But you says to me, um--
Donald: I'd worked it oot wrong, I thought we'd get a lot less, eh?
Isabel: But you went-- oh you said "I'll away to the bookies" and you phone-- no you phoned me and you said "we've got £100" or "£105" something like that and I says "oh, we'll have a braw night the-night." So we went out and then you gave out-- look at wir winnings, over £300, it was amazing.
Donald: Yeah, yeah.
Isabel: But that was the night, well, we must have been so hyper, the whole lot of wis, that, um, the jokes started and it was a' the jokes we'd heard before but we still laughed at them to the point that we were decided we'd just say "oh, number 23" "ha, ha, ha, ha, ha" ken? We were just calling oot numbers and we were a' killing wirsels.
Donald: Yeah, alcohol.
Isabel: Oh, those were the days.