It's-- it was-- she wanted to play the bagpipes and she never got to
Ruaridh:
Oh.
Leigh:
so this is why she's buying it for [name].
Ruaridh:
I suppose it's a' right for her to buy them to [name] 'cause she's gonna bide wi him.
Leigh:
Aye exactly. He's so cute though. He's a cute kid.
Ruaridh:
Bagpipes will be a cool thing to learn though, I mean, nae abody plays the bagpipes and--
Leigh:
It's pretty cool for a Scottish person.
Ruaridh:
It's the one thing I'm lacking being a ginger Scotsman.
Leigh:
You should go and learn now. It's never too late.
Ruaridh:
I think it is for me. I-- I could barely learn the guitar and that was five odd years ago.
Leigh:
Do you think it'd be too hard?
Ruaridh:
I na ken. 'Cause it's nae-- it's nae about blowing air into it, it's aboot squeezing it oot and tootarooing.
Leigh:
Like a recorder.
Ruaridh:
Mhm, like a recorder.
Leigh:
It's cute though. Bagpipes are, like, I dinna ken, they just make you feel patriotic, do they?
Ruaridh:
They're just well cool. Like, Highland Cathedral, it's awesome.
Older speakers
Joan:
There was a lad on-- this was again that he was on The Chase. A young loon and he had daen some kind of exams for this-- this musical-- for daeing musicals. He says "you see, I could get a hour's notice."
Jane:
Aye.
Joan:
And he could get, er, chosen to ging on because if somebody's ill or fittever's happened
Jane:
Aye, aye.
Joan:
in an emergency.
Jane:
Aye.
Joan:
And it, er, er [name] says til him, eh "and fitt would you do with the money if you--" Ken if he won any? He says, "well first of all I would buy a new pair of shoes." Fitt he'd on was a' that that loon had.
Jane:
Is that right?
Joan:
Aye. He'd on denims-- doon-to-earth loon, what a bonny loonie.
Jane:
I ken, aye.
Joan:
and he'd on denims and like a-- a checkered shirt and he'd this-- it was like-- it wasna like shoes, it was like-- mare like booties. He says "you see, they're split"
Jane:
Mhm, me.
Joan:
but he says, you see, afore he paid for this and thon thing and the next,
Jane:
I ken, this is it, aye.
Joan:
different things, he says, he hadna much and he had gien to some kind of place to pass a' this for musicals and he says "you see--" He says he hadna actually gotten, like, a main part but he could be taen-- "Hour's notice" he says "and sometimes" he says "less than that and I have to be ready"
Jane:
Aye, to go.
Joan:
"to step in." And gosh what a nice loonie and of course the poor crater, he never got nothing, I'm saying "oh what a-- what a shame."
