But it's good, like, see at, like, Christmas time, we aieways end up with an away trip on Christmas-- like, Christmas eve and things like that or, like, the week afore Christmas.
Ross:
Just hae your Christmas night oot down there.
Mark:
And that's what we do, we hae our Christmas night oot. But the last time we had an away trip it was at Peebles so it was like an hoor and a half away, two hoors away, eh, I came back absolutely steaming, walked in and she just looked at me and she went "you're-- you're mortal" and I went "want a hand with the Christmas tree?" and just started flinging Christmas baubles at the Christmas tree, she's like, "I've been--"
Interviewer:
I like drunk people. See when somebody comes in I'm like "yes." It's like "you're much more fun than sober."
Ross:
Aye, ken, totally.
Older speakers
Ken:
When I was four and a half I was, like, that wee and fat. I never-- because there was, like, six of a family, I had my cousin's troosers-- short troosers. And his short troosers were long, they were, like, fair near scraping on the ground on me. I had wee short legs like that, I was tiny. Right, so she taen me roond every class, like, said "look what's starting the school" going like that, I was like a wee baby.
Interviewer:
That's a shame, imagine getting to-- paraded around when you go for a--
Ken:
Aye, aye. Aye I was-- but everybody had an instant like for me, you ken,
Interviewer:
Aye.
Ken:
'cause I was that wee I was sort of
Interviewer:
Get-- get protected?
Ken:
liked at the school. Aye, aye, I was never bullied
