Community Voices: West Linton

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Younger speakers

Claire: She-- Aye, she made soup and it was half blended half not, so you were coming across huge lumps of turnip and stuff and you were, like-- Honestly, it made you want to be sick, it was so disgusting.
Jack: But is it alright for them there?
Claire Well, yeah, yeah, it's not like poisoning them but--
Jack: No, but I mean, like, the actual place.
Claire: Oh god yeah, it's brilliant. Yeah, it's really nice. Residents are great, they get to decorate their own rooms, they get to do whatever they like and even the-- like, they have workshops and stuff for them.

Older speakers

Linda: And last night I was watching Landward on there and that girl Sarah Mack that is in that, um, crew, she was visiting somewhere that makes rosettes.
Pat: Oh right.
Linda: Mainly for first prize Aberdeen Angus or something, you know.
Pat: Oh right, yeah, so where-- where were they about?
Linda: It was this factory--
Pat: Where was it about?
Linda: Eh, oh I've forgotton where it was but it was one woman that owned this wee factory and all the girls that make them.