I don't know, this is the problem with having a flat of 12. You've-- almost got enough for everything just as a flat, you know like-- You know, like, quiz teams and things, you know. We-- we don't need to double up with anyone else, we just have enough people there to-- It's like yeah, there's-- there's some little benefits to having basically no food 'cause you can't put it anywhere and you've got to wait in a queue to cook. At least you can all be there for a quiz.
Millie:
Yay, look at the silver lining.
Felix:
Yeah I don't know, it's-- I don't know, it's-- it's-- it's nice, it's-- it's fine but I think em a couple of people have been back and it feels like a hotel where you're, like, walking down this long corridor and there's, like, doors on both sides and it's like "oh right, is this the next flat?" And it's like "no, this is still ours, it's still ours, just hold fire, hold fire."
Older speakers
David:
How we doing do you think?
Interviewer:
Oh, we're getting there.
David:
Oh it's timed on there is it?
Interviewer:
Yes, it is yeah. I can see how we're-- how we're doing.
David:
Oh my goodness me. We'd better speak some broad scots anoo then. See if-- see if they ken fitt we're saying.
Interviewer:
Mhm, yeah. Well, I-- I don't know if I can join you.
David:
Yeah, no. You've been in Ballater a' the time, you canna speak Scottish, broad Scotch. Well no no (inc), I'm-- yeah, yeah, yeah-- at home yeah.
Anne:
Oh but she-- but [name]'ll-- yeah, but [name]'ll be like me. It's what-- what you speak at home, isn't it?
Interviewer:
Yeah, yeah.
Anne:
You know, 'cause I used to get home, mum used to say "don't talk like that" and yet soon as-- you could understand it
David:
Yeah.
Anne:
but you're not--
David:
As I say, I just speak like that amongst (inc) menfolk.
Interviewer:
Yeah, yeah.
Anne:
When I hear [name] speaking
David:
Oh [name] is yeah, he's a real broad--
Anne:
and he speaks broad Scotch. I was kind of taken aback 'cause I'd only ever heard him talking at the clinic, you know.
Interviewer:
Oh.
David:
That's the way he speaks to the Queen in the-- Aye.
Anne:
Is it?
Interviewer:
Is it?
David:
His broad Scotch. No.
Anne:
Don't-- no I-- no I think-- no, he speaks to the Queen like he speaks to us,
David:
Yes.
Anne:
he just speaks normal but I've heard him down at the farm speaking with other farmers and he's really very, very broad.
