Community Voices: Benbecula

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Younger speakers

Shaun: I don't really mind all that stuff. It's what like--
Kyle: I'm not keen.
Shaun: It doesn't-- well, I suppose it kind of originates from here
Interviewer: Mhm.
Shaun: and that so it's-- it's just part and parcel of being from here.
Kyle: Well, it just depends, like, in the likes of Westford, like, you can't dance and they're playing like teuchty music
Shaun: Yeah, that's true.
Kyle: so it's pointless there.
Shaun: That's a bit true.
Kyle: But like halls and stuff it's-- I don't mind it then.
Shaun: Yeah, 'cause in Westford it just drowns, it's-- Westford's so small anyway that it drowns out what you're trying to say though and like
Kyle: It's so loud.
Shaun: that's the kind of place you go to so you can speak to someone.
Interviewer: Mhm.
Shaun: But yeah, if you've got that music in the background then-- then you can't-- you can't hear each other.
Interviewer: Eh, were you still there on Saturday night when that guy started playing the accordion in the car park?
Shaun: Yeah, I was still there.
Kyle: I wasn't.
Shaun: I think I was dancing with, em [name] to-- to-- to like-- to the canadian barn dance outside to that guy playing the accordian. He also had a bottle of white wine in his boot of his car which I drank. Very handy. Very handy guy to have around, accordian and wine in the boot.

Older speakers

Jim: Just like-- just like you. You don't like the plane.
Isabel: Aye. I know. I don't. I can't stand the plane.
Jim: I-- I'm-- I'm not very keen either but--
Isabel: And I've been on it so often, I've had to
Interviewer: Mhm.
Isabel: but at the same time I cannot understand how it stays in the air.
Jim: Mhm.
Isabel: That big thing.
Jim: Mhm. Well it does.
Isabel: I don't like it.
Jim: If it starts to come down, you'll no go back up again.
Isabel: I know.
Interviewer: Don't make it worse.
Isabel: I can't-- I can't understand.
Jim: Well, it works anyway.
Isabel: Obviously. But, no, it's not-- and I've been on it so often.
Jim: I know. Aye, it's amazing the weight they take, the big planes now. Oh my.
Isabel: How does-- but how does it get off the ground?