Community Voices: Westside

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Younger speakers

Interviewer: My mum has become a crazy cat lady.
Catriona: Oh it happens, it's okay.
Interviewer: Here he goes. Just crazy in general.
Fiona: Do they get on, the two cats?
Catriona: Well I saw them walk past each other, my cats can't-- my cats just like move away from each other
Fiona: Yeah, my cats hate each other.
Catriona: and they attack each other, just, on the random.
Fiona: One of my cats put my dad in hospital with blood poisoning.
Interviewer: Oh.
Catriona: You were telling me that.
Fiona: Because my dad just was stroking and he decided to just turn into a psycho and like bit him and was like so hard that he was actually in his veins and put loads of dirt in his blood.
Interviewer: Oh my word that's awful.
Catriona: Oh cats.
Fiona: And his hand was so swollen it was literaly-- it was like a-- you know the gloves you wear when you're doing a punching bag? It was like that but it was his actual hand.
Interviewer: Oh that's horrible, I would've cried.
Fiona: He was.
Catriona: I know that would have been really really painful.
Fiona: I'm pretty sure he was. I just came home, my mum was like "oh your dad's gone to hospital with blood poisoning." Was like "okay."

Older speakers

Murdo: I liked the loom. Mhm.
Lynette: Keeps you on your toes, you have-- you have to--
Murdo: Yes. A lot of-- a lot of people was weaving that hated the loom.
Interviewer: Aye?
Murdo: Yes. Didn't like it at all. I was-- I-- I always liked-- liked the loom.
Lynette: You-- you have to be vigilant in case you get broken threads or-- or something.
Murdo: I dunno. Maybe-- I liked making money, you know, so. That was maybe why I liked the loom.
Lynette: I know and I like-- I like spending it.
Interviewer: Well you're well matched then.
Murdo: I've-- I haven't got much to show for it.
Lynette: You've still got me though. You've still got me.