We've been, like, best mates ever since we were tiny.
Interviewer:
Wow.
Sinead:
Since we were three. We'd be, like, them kids that would be running about together at the swing park, no one else about, playing Power Rangers.
Simon:
Yeah.
Sinead:
And hiding in the porch, we used to have a porch, and saying--
Simon:
We used to play-- play-- what was it? Ed, Edd, and Eddy. We'd play that a lot.
Sinead:
Yeah.
Simon:
I always used to play Kevin.
Sinead:
"Hey Plank."
Simon:
Just 'cause he had a cool cap. I think that's why I always wear caps now.
Older speakers
Janette:
There's not a lot to do in the winter.
Margaret:
There's not a lot to do here apart from the odd ceilidh we get maybe once a month or something if you're lucky.
Janette:
Or going out for something to eat.
Margaret:
And that would be it. Otherwise you just sit and watch your television, don't you?
Janette:
Yeah.
Interviewer:
I feel like we do that in Glasgow anyway.
Margaret:
You know, I mean probably if-- if you were thinking of moving back here or moving here-- Again, you're young. So therefore you would have the pubs to go out to. You would probably meet friends, go to the pub, there's a swimming pool, you would probably go swimming, there's badminton, um-- You know, so there's probably quite a lot for young people.
Janette:
There's-- there's certainly a-- much, much more to do now for our age group, well, most of youse, I'm past it. More for you.
Margaret:
Not yet.
Janette:
There's lot of things you can do now that-- that wasn't there, you know--
Margaret:
When-- when our parents were--
Janette:
See when I was your age, well, younger than you, there wasn't a lot of-- there's like pilates and there's--
Margaret:
Oh aye, well, pilates, there's linedancing,
Janette:
Linedancing.
Margaret:
there's yoga.
Interviewer:
Love yoga.
Margaret:
There's yoga, what else is there? There's zumba.
Janette:
Well there's--
Margaret:
But the only thing is you've to travel for these. So you need to drive and you've gotta travel 10, 15 miles to get the classes.
