Community Voices: Mayfield

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Younger speakers

Kayleigh: When we were on holiday-- when we were in Lanzarote, me and [name] went mad on it 'cause, like, the shots in the pub-- I've got a picture, like, literally, like, you got a shot and it was, like, that-- that big.
Interviewer: Mhm.
Kayleigh: It was like "that's not a shot, are you crazy?"
Interviewer: Aye but they-- they dinnae measure.
Toby: Aye there um-- they just--
Kayleigh: Like, they were like "just tell me when to stop" and we were like "well then keep going then!" We had drunk tequila all that night and then the next again day we were lying by the pool, ken we were in the shade we were that bad. And they done a competition where, like, they had like a cup full of straws and you had to guess how many was in it and like they shook them in front of you so you couldnae really, like, sit and count. Like "oh, you've won a drink fae the all-inclusive bar" and I'm like looking at my all-inclusive band like "It's not really won." I was like "I could have bought that myself for nothing with my band" and he came over and he handed me-- it was like a cocktail and it was tequila and I was like-- pure boking at the side of the pool it's like I was "put that under the sun lounger." It was just-- oh my God, I couldnae even drink tequila again now.

Older speakers

Tina: I'll tell you folk used to laugh at the Lada though. Mind we had a Lada and see you used to get stuck at the bottom there, ken on the icy roads and that and all the folk would be at the side of the road, revving their cars, trying to get up the hill, second gear. Right up past them in my old Lada, ken.
Interviewer: I take it they dinna make them anymore?
Gary: No.
Tina: Built for-- built for the cold weather.
Interviewer: Are they no Russian?
Tina: Mhm.
Gary: Mind of Skodas when they used to be-- they had a bad name
Tina: Mhm.
Gary: and the--
Interviewer: And now they're made by--
Gary: the joke was, why does a Skoda have a heated rear window?
Tina: Aye so's you can get your hands cold when you're pushing it, aye.
Gary: It's to keep your hands warm when you're pushing it. But now they're-- they're-- but they've been taken over with BMW,
Tina: Mhm.
Gary: the same as the Mini.
Interviewer: One of them's Volkswagon as well, int they now?
Gary: Jaguars are Ford.
Tina: Are they?
Gary: A Ford in disguise.
Tina: Aye.
Gary: That ain out there that I've got, it says Qashqai Nissan, it's a Renault engine that's in it.
Tina: A Renault engine, aye. Aye I like the-- Qashqai's are nice though.
Gary: Aye, beautiful to drive. See when I sat in the first time I thought "I'm having that."
Tina: Mhm.
Gary: Boy says "What one do you want?" I say "I want that one."
Tina: That yin, aye. That boy that we bought that car off of, the what's it called? Citroen--
Interviewer: Citroen.
Gary: the Picasso.
Tina: Picasso. He bought a Qashqai.