Community Voices: Dunfermline

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Younger speakers

Vicky: They live just-- I don't really know how far actually but they're not too far outside of the actual city.
Interviewer: Yeah.
Vicky: Maybe a half hour train journey, sort of the same to here and Edinburgh.
Interviewer: Mhm.
Vicky: And my uncle had said to us, like, almost every Saturday we were there, he's like "if youse-- if youse want to go out" he's like "I'll come and pick you up at four in the morning" or something like that. So we had the opportunity but every time [name]'s "oh I dunno, cannae be bothered", "oh I'm too tired" or "no, I don't want to."
Vicky: So that was probably the reason why.
Interviewer: Yeah, but I did want to go out, I wanted to experience it but [name] wasnae game, so.

Older speakers

Fiona: That's right.
Brian: Aye, he loved it on Christmas day-- on Boxing Day. He was ben getting the cream over him and and everybody was in here getting--
Interviewer: All joining in.
Brian: putting that thing on your heid and the water comes oot and everything.
Fiona: It was Wet Head we had. And he had a shot.
Brian: He was sitting on the flare and he--
Fiona: He did take a shot.
Brian: he got caught and the water was running doon his face and--
Fiona: Yeah.
Brian: You ken?
Interviewer: Quite the thing.
Fiona: He did come through and have a shot. He did, I must admit.
Interviewer: Doesn't-- See when he does, right, and, like, when [name] spends the day smiling, it's kind of like a-- a privilege, isn't it?
Fiona: Yeah, yeah.
Interviewer: Cause it's-- it's just a bit more special.
Fiona: But we kept going through and asking him to come through.