Community Voices: Turriff

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Younger speakers

Scott: It does not look like a great place to stay.
Liam: It wasn't going to be for the price, to be fair.
Scott: Yeah I know, it's a two star-- two star hotel we're staying in.
Liam: Luxury.
Interviewer: You'll be-- you'll be on the beach.
Liam: Yeah.
Scott: Oh yeah.
Liam: Pay for what you get at the end of the day.
Scott: I'll-- I'll sleep on the beach, it's fine. Probably better than the place.
Liam: Just don't sleep.
Scott: I know, winna need to, I'll be partying and that.
Liam: No, it'll be good, it's our first, kind of, holiday away from our, kind of, families
Scott: Yeah. Mhm.
Liam: so it'll be a good experience, I think. Looking forward to it.
Scott: Be a-- it'll be a good laugh, especially with the lot of wis. Good laugh with the boys.

Older speakers

Edith: Oh dear, oh I better keep awa' fae the-- no cards, no, no. One man in the hoose playing cards is plenty.
Rose: It's hard. I never thought there was so much rules 'til it. But then the electrician that's working here just noo, he said to me the other day-- I says "okay, I'm awa' to my bridge, er, just, last oot, lock the door, put the key through the letterbox."
Edith: Mhm.
Rose: "Fitt you awa' til?" I says "I'm awa' to play bridge." "You're awa to play bridge? Godsake, up in Buckie it was just the doctor, the solicitors, the dentist,"
Edith: Aye, at your age.
Rose: "the accoontants, the lawyers, it was just them that played bridge."
Edith: Oh it was just them that played--
Rose: Bridge.
Edith: Fitt-- aye.
Rose: And I mean--
Edith: Fa div you think you are, like?
Rose: Fa div I think I am
Edith: Aye.
Rose: going awa' playing bridge? I says "you've to broaden your horizons once you get a bitie older."