Community Voices: Aboyne

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Younger speakers

Alex: So.
Interviewer: What did you do this weekend?
Elliot: Oh, I'm getting neck cramp. Eh, nothing. Just went to the Huntley and
Interviewer: Yeah?
Alex: I went to Banchory.
Elliot: got hooned.
Alex: We're like-- came back and we're like "oh, we're not going out this weekend." I'm going out in town this weekend. Just like oh save and whatever.
Interviewer: What, this weekend coming?
Alex: Yeah. And then, like, I got sort of, like, a pint in or something we ended up like "yeah, let's go out."
Elliot: I didn't even finish my pint and I was already telling people I was going out. On the way to football I--
Alex: I was telling everyone I'm not going out and then like, it was like half way through my pint
Elliot: We were contrasting.
Alex: yeah and I was like "ah, actually I'm going out."
Elliot: I was te- yeah I was saying to folk that on the way to football I was just gyming in Darrick and then
Alex: Yeah.
Elliot: got a pint deep and--
Alex: Tables turned.
Elliot: laldi with it.

Older speakers

Elizabeth: Fann we used to ging with the-- the Monday club, we used to ging awa' for a weekend
Jannette: Oh aye, different places.
Elizabeth: and she said to me "will you bring back a thimble to me?"
Jannette: Aye.
Elizabeth: 'Cause she has hundreds of them and a'.
Jannette: I ken.
Elizabeth: No.
Jannette: What a thimbles.
Elizabeth: Aye. Fae a' different-- and then if anybody was awa' on holiday they would bring me back a thimble.
Jannette: Aye. Oh god there's an affa thimbles eh?
Elizabeth: Mhm. There's naybody wants them.
Jannette: Naybody ever wanted thimbles.
Interviewer: I remember when we were-- when-- when I was really little and we'd go away, and we'd always-- we'd always have to buy a thimble to bring back.
Elizabeth: Aye.
Jannette: Oh aye.
Interviewer: It's funny.
Elizabeth: Aye.
Jannette: You've some lot of them anyway.