But it's a funny time of year though, April, because it's like-- it's nae so cold as winter but even summer here is--
Aria:
Like, I hate fann you, like-- you look oot your window and the sun's shining, and you think "fit a right bonnie day"
Melissa:
And fann--
Aria:
It's freezing and then you're just like, fit do you wear? Do you put on a jacket or do you nae put on a jacket?
Interviewer:
Or when you go ootside wi nae summery clathes on but you're-- off you go, and then you realise, oh it's colder than you thought.
Aria:
I ken. It's like, do you put on sandals or do you put on boots?
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Melissa:
Mhm.
Aria:
Ken.
Older speakers
Interviewer:
And what type of dancing? Was it like ceilidh dancing or was it--
Barbara:
Oh you're joking.
Interviewer:
So was it dance dancing?
Bruce:
Oh no.
Barbara:
Oh it was boogeying.
Bruce:
Rock and roll and all that.
Interviewer:
Oh I see.
Bruce:
Oh aye, we was the rockers. We-- I used to wear
Barbara:
Winklepickers.
Bruce:
winklepicker sheen and athing. Your bell bottoms.
Barbara:
Three inch heels, ken.
Interviewer:
Oh I see. And did you hae, eh, dresses for--
Barbara:
Oh you wouldna have gien--
Bruce:
You was aie dressed.
Barbara:
You was aie dressed. Always dressed. And-- and the boys had a' suits on. Naybody would have gien casual.
You wouldna have seen somebody with jeans at a dance.
Bruce:
Seriously.
Barbara:
Jeans would've been dungarees for working in.
Bruce:
What about this gaan about with holes in your knees and a', that to me's appalling.
Interviewer:
I know.
Bruce:
That should get the wheely bin.
Barbara:
I ken and they're going and buying-- buying breeks that's torn.
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Bruce:
No, we was aie bonnie dressed.
Barbara:
But no, I would've
-- all the-- all the-- the-- the boys would've haen their suit on, their white shirt and a tie.
Bruce:
Or the fishermen.
Barbara:
You would never have seen them with a coloured shirt on. They had a' white shirts.
Bruce:
But the fishermen would've haen maybe on their-- their gansies.
Barbara:
Nae to a dance.
Bruce:
No, but through the week.
Barbara:
I've never seen lad wi a gansie on to a dance.
Bruce:
We was aie bonnie dressed. Well, to the degree you would thought we was going awa' to a wedding.
