Community Voices: Inverness

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Younger speakers

Interviewer: You having a birthday party this year?
Gemma: Oh yeah.
Interviewer: Word is
Lewis: Who?
Interviewer: you're having a-- You.
Lewis: Me? It's the first I've heard of it.
Interviewer: You said to me and [name] a couple weeks ago, "yeah, I'm gonna have a birthday party," and now you're like, "I might--"
Lewis: I would like to have a birthday party.
Gemma: "Might do a theme. Like toga again."
Lewis: Oh, oh right, yeah okay I-- right yeah I-- no I'm-- I would-- I would like to have-- My idea was to have, like, a dress up one and it was gonna be something from, like, television themes. So things like series and stuff like that. But I just need to get the okay from the folks before I have it. But I'm actually working, like-- I- I- I get my rota total far in advance for the new job which is great, and I'm, like, working the day of my birthday, like, the early shift from, like, seven in the morning til, like, three in the afternoon but then I've got, like, four days off after it
Gemma: Oh that's decent.
Lewis: so party could definitely be on the cards.
Gemma: That'd be fun.

Older speakers

Douglas: But Abbey we played twice home and twice away and, um-- and there was a lot of good, um, comradeship, eh, with the Abbey school and when we were all ready to get the bus, eh, back, our sports master had been with the monks. He was always late getting on the bus, he had to be helped on the bus with the monks and their brews or whatever-- whatever homemade liquor.
Henry: Really, with the monks?
Douglas: Ah, he was good craic.