What else do you remember from when we were younger [name]? Don't try and pretend you don't remember anything 'cause you remember everything from when we were younger.
Finlay:
Tidal wave.
Interviewer:
Well, tell that story then.
Finlay:
No, you tell the story.
Interviewer:
No [name], you tell the story.
Finlay:
No, you tell the story.
Grace:
You've got a better memory, what's the tidal wave? What happened with that?
Finlay:
It was getting too windy and whatever and [name] wanted to go-- go back and I didn't and then she says "it's a tidal wave" and it wasn't, it was a wind-chime.
Interviewer:
No, what-- Explain the story properly. Where were we? And what happened? And where did I make you go to?
Finlay:
Back to the-- back to the lodge and got me in brace position under the table.
Interviewer:
No, well--
Grace:
How long did you lie like that?
Finlay:
Just for about two minutes or something.
Grace:
And then did she tell you she was joking or did--
Finlay:
Aye.
Interviewer:
Sorry [name].
Grace:
No, he--
Finlay:
Aye.
Grace:
He does have a ridiculously good memory 'cause every time me and [name] see-- you tell these stories about you and [name], what was it, when you were wee? Playing some game or something?
Finlay:
Finding Nemo, and I was laughing at her and she went radge.
Older speakers
Bruce:
And we were sitting at Christmas dinner when the old guy come up to the door, wanting me to go back, he was apologising and all the rest of it, a carry on, eh. He had his son with him and he-- he was driving the work's van, his son, and he-- he handed me the keys of his-- the car, eh, the old Ford Anglia Estate. He says "there's the keys of the car, I'm wanting you back when your holiday's finished." He says "and you can put your tools in the back of my car and here's the keys, now be there" he says. Just laying out Christmas dinner, eh.
Interviewer:
So, em, and did you go back?
Bruce:
I went back for a couple of year then as usual happened, you know, arguing and carrying on. But I-- I missed it, though, but the thing was [name] didnae want to go out there and live. There was a house with the job. "I'm not taking it. You're do not take on that job with the house, what happens if--"
Margaret:
I-- I thought, you're no always-- it's no secure if-- if--
Bruce:
This is how she carried on.
Margaret:
He can throw you out any time, sort of thing, that was in my mind.
Bruce:
She didnae-- she didnae want to go. It was in Juniper Green and it was a villa. There were aboot six bedrooms or something. That was the-- the boss's old house. He had got into a bungalow in Balerno. So, by the time that, eh, I was away well-- oh, that's when I went on shuttering, eh.
Margaret:
Don't know.
Bruce:
The old yin died and left the house to the-- his handyman, just a labourer, a guy that I had working for me. He got the house and she went and said "I don't want it."
