When I was younger, Mum and Dad were always keen enthusiasts of charity shopping.
Oliver:
Oh yeah?
Brodie:
Picking up big frilly skirts for 50p.
Oliver:
Bargains?
Brodie:
But I always like-- I always turn my frown down it as I go, "well that's not very good is it?" But last year I was shopping for clothes before my holiday, know how we went on holiday in the past, always with heaps of Asics shorts and t-shirts.
Oliver:
Aye loads of stuff from Topshop or something.
Brodie:
Aye.
Oliver:
Topman.
Brodie:
I couldn't dae that this time.
Oliver:
Why not?
Brodie:
'Cause I spent a' money.
Oliver:
Spent a' your money?
Brodie:
Aye.
Oliver:
On fitt?
Brodie:
Probably grub. Anyway.
Oliver:
I'd love to see where your money goes. But carry on.
Brodie:
Aye, anyway. What we on about again, what we talking about?
Oliver:
Clothes. Charity shop.
Interviewer:
Clothes. Charity shop.
Oliver:
Before your holiday.
Brodie:
Aye charity shop. There we go, aye. So eh, [name] and Mum offered to take me into town the week before I went Cancún with [name].
Oliver:
Aye.
Brodie:
And, um, I was skint so [name] bought a few items and Mum bought a few items. I managed to gather about 14 items of clothing.
Oliver:
Okay.
Brodie:
And I was fair trickit.
Oliver:
Fair--
Interviewer:
It was well cheap though. It only cost, like, 40 quid or something. Fair trickit.
Brodie:
Aye. Yeah it was only 40 pound.
Oliver:
Do it for the-- do it for the [name].
Brodie:
Aye it was only 40 pound and I got, like, heaps of-- uh, two pair of jeans and some deid manie's jumper.
Oliver:
Some what?
Brodie:
Some deid manie's jumper.
Oliver:
Deid manie's jumper. Oh that's gruesome.
Older speakers
David:
We'd travellers for-- my mum and dad had a shop. Traveller would come in, he'd-- he'd hae a whisky, as well as a tea. But they all had a chat, it was a whole room full of folk. Now you-- you wonder how they manage to--
Interviewer:
So naybody was in a rush?
David:
Aye, aye, well. But-- but they swapped stories.
Interviewer:
Mhm.
David:
"Mrs. So-and-so down the road said so-and-so's deid", whatever. Or "did you ken this is happening?" So it was a jungle telegraph.
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Andrew:
It was.
David:
As a kid it was great because you got the odd shilling or thrupenny bit fae the guy.
Interviewer:
Mhm
David:
Give something to you loonies and he went oot the door.
Andrew:
and--
Interviewer:
21 grocers and a brewery, that seems like-- it's--
Andrew:
And there was six-- seven butchers. There was.
Interviewer:
Seven butchers?
Andrew:
Mhm.
Interviewer:
Wow.
Andrew:
But, eh, the milk man used to come round wi a cart. Wi a-- a churn, wi a tap. And the housewife went out wi a-- a jug.
David:
Mhm.
Andrew:
Just filled oot of the churn.
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Andrew:
And you paid fittever.
David:
And delivery boys on bikes.
Andrew:
Aye.
David:
For groceries, butchers.
Andrew:
Oh aye.
David:
Saturday morning, the local grocer [name] used to phone my mum up. And she had a little bookie, little red book. And she read off, or he'd say "just the same [name]". And "just the same but all we need now is a couple of bits." Now that guy would be up, the message boy would be up in-- within half an hour on his bike, and big basket in front of it. And he'd come in and have a fly cup as well. But he'd deliver the-- the groceries.
Interviewer:
Must aie been keeping him fit, (inc) bike. That must have been (inc)
David:
Butcher boy's exactly the same, so.
Andrew:
Well but it was a (inc). He-- he carried-- as [name] said, he carried all the news.
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Andrew:
And-- and when he went round the-- the farm cottages he would tell them who's started the harvest. And who was going with who.
