But I was thinking 'cause I-- I've not even really looked at it but obviously you'll get a choice if you're with all girls or, like, mixed. I think I'm gonna go all girls, just purely because, like, I know that, like, your flatmates are really good
Interviewer:
You're like-- yeah.
Ashley:
but, like, I've heard of other stories that, like, they aren't so good and I-- I think I'm gonna be already really homesick so it's, like, the last thing that I need.
Lauren:
Yeah, you'll meet the-- you'll meet the guys through other people anyway so it's that case of
Ashley:
Yeah.
Interviewer:
Yeah, exactly.
Lauren:
you can all go to each others, but--
Ashley:
Yeah. So yeah, I just really need to, like-- I don't really know what to do, and, like, I don't really understand the whole uni life thing, but.
Lauren:
All you have to do is just make your room,
Ashley:
Yeah, I know I was thinking, like, I'm gonna get like
Lauren:
your room.
Ashley:
fairy lights, I'm gonna get-- You know those, like, fluffy,
Interviewer:
Rugs, yeah.
Ashley:
like, rug things? I'm gonna get one of them. Gonna get, like, a really nice duvet, like, pillows and, like,
Lauren:
Yeah.
Ashley:
obviously put pictures up, just make it my own.
Lauren:
Yeah, that's the thing, it's your own wee hide away so no matter what the outside looks like
Ashley:
Yeah, yeah.
Lauren:
As long as your room is
Interviewer:
Yeah exactly.
Lauren:
your room, you're fine.
Older speakers
George:
Aye, these were the days.
Agnes:
And then we had a coal fire here.
Interviewer:
Oh yeah?
Agnes:
Aye.
Interviewer:
And does this-- what, does this fire-- fire work now or is this, like, an electric one?
Agnes:
Well there used to be an open fire
Interviewer:
Okay.
Agnes:
and we had an oven at the side.
George:
Oh aye, old oven.
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Agnes:
Aye, an oven.
George:
Aye.
Interviewer:
What, and that's where you done your cooking?
George:
Aye, where-- where you could um-- bake your cakes and all of that, you know?
Agnes:
But, no, I didna use it for that.
George:
It was a big coal range.
Interviewer:
Right.
Agnes:
I used to put all my clothes in there for the heat in the morning.
George:
Mhm.
Agnes:
And all my underwear was scorched. They were all burned. But I still wore them.
Interviewer:
Aye, quite right. That's the way to do it.
George:
Aye. Aye. Well the young yins now, they don't know they're born
Interviewer:
Mhm.
George:
tell you the truth.
Agnes:
But in these days winters were winters.
George:
Oh, six feet of snow.
Interviewer:
Oh yeah?
George:
I've seen us opening the door-- front door,
Agnes:
Mhm.
George:
all you got was a sheet of snow.
Agnes:
Oh aye.
George:
And you had to, like, knock it over.
Interviewer:
Oh my goodness, really?
Agnes:
Mind the one year that we went-- went a walk with the dogs up-- up the hill? With [name]
