Community Voices: Johnstone

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Younger speakers

Simon: Em, where is it now? Aye, there it's there. That's a drum there.
Interviewer: Oh right okay. Right, I get it, I think I get-- I get it now.
Simon: And you use the touchscreen and it just-- you put the recipe in or whatever-- the hides go in for maybe four or eight or ten hours, right.
Interviewer: Mhm.
Simon: But I'm sure I've got other photos here, hold on, what did I do with them? Uh, aye. There they're there. Right. That's what a horse looks like, full of hides, that's what a' the hides go in.
Interviewer: Christ, that's a lot.
Simon: Right, but, that was the one I done the other day.
Interviewer: Jesus.
Simon: That was the one that took me 45 minutes to unload and load.
Interviewer: You must have been pure sweating surely, like.
Simon: I was, I was-- 'Cause the guy went like that, I says to him "d'you think I could unload and load in an hour?" and he's like that "well now's your chance, do that one."
Interviewer: Aye, try it.
Simon: I just done it in 45 minutes, just blasted it.

Older speakers

Maureen: Well, when my auntie came here and she could not believe she-- I mean, you're in the country and the train's ootside your door. She thought that we just "toot toot toot" and waved the-- Because she lived in Glasgow all her days, you know, all her days, you know. And eh, she used to tell everybody eh, about where her-- her niece and her-- her nephew stayed and it's--
Interviewer: Stayed in the country.
Maureen: it's got fields and it's got cows and it's got-- you'd have thought we were country yokels. You know.
Interviewer: As if you're country, like--
Maureen: But, eh--
Interviewer: That's hilarious.
Maureen: Och, I mean, you could tell a billion stories.
Interviewer: Oh my God.
Maureen: And I mean, we're comparatively modern.