Community Voices: Kelso

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Younger speakers

Zoe: And we did-- yeah, we did the Grand Canyon. Now that I've seen it though I wouldn't go back, It's just a big hole. And we got a plane there and I thought we were, like--
Megan: Oh yeah, that was the scary one for you.
Zoe: Yeah, it was a tiny plane with like, eight people and you had to get weighed to decide where you sat. And then this man who wasn't on the plane on the way out was on it on the way back and he was told-- yeah, he was told to sit at the back of the plane. So, after the plane took off he got-- and like, come and sat in front of me. And I thought "this plane's gonna crash because of him." It's like "you need to not move." So yeah, that was fun. And then we got a-- 10 hour journey back from Vegas to London.

Older speakers

Donald: I always remember the-- the second-- the second week of summer I was there, I was to make the pies. I was to make the dough and that for the pie. And eh, I got the flour in, got the marg in, I-- and I got the yeast in and I switched on the mixer. Oh, it was a great big thing.
Robert: Oh, yes. Aye, it would be--
Donald: Aye, but unknown to me I-- it was in the wrong gear.
Robert: Industrial. Oh no.
Donald: It's got to start in the low-- in the high gear. And there was a boy making eh, like, a wedding cake. Yin boy was making a wedding cake and the other boy, he was making-- you know these little wee pineapple tarts?
Robert: Oh yes. Oh aye, the pineapple yes, the-- in the cream-- the cream inside.
Donald: With eh-- Aye. Little wee ones in the-- aye, that's right. They had cream inside. And the other boy was making them and I switched the machine off. Well, the whole place was covered in dough and floor and lumps--
Robert: It went everywhere.
Donald: lumps of marg. Eh, there was bits of yeast. There was everything. It was hanging a' over the place.
Robert: Oh no.
Donald: So I only lasted aboot a couple of weeks at the bakery. I didnae last long at the bakery. What was good fun though, at the bakehoose, was you could eat whatever you wanted.
Robert: Oh right.
Donald: Oh, if you fancied a pie you just lifted a pie and et it
Robert: Aye, is that right? Oh my goodness.
Donald: and they actually encouraged you to eat pies
Robert: Oh aye. You'd-- so you'd get fed up-- fed up with them.
Donald: so you'd get scunnered with it and then you-- you never ever et a pie.
Robert: That's right. That's right.
Donald: But oo-- oo eh, oo-- I must admit, oo et a lot of pies, like.
Robert: Well, if you were just there for a fortnight.
Donald: That's right, aye. Aye, oo couldnae believe it.
Robert: Oh dear.