We got told we weren't allowed to sit our exams, did we not? If we did it. If we messed it up.
Lauren:
Yeah, we got told like-- 'cause every year we did stuff and then it got to our year and they were like, "no, right, you're not doing anything this year" and we're like "well, yeah we are, like, we're not gonna go by your rules." And then they said something like "okay, you can do-- like, if you do nothing during the day then in your last period you can go and have, like, an egg and flour fight." And we're like "well, we'd do that anyway." Like, every year the-- the last year's always had an egg and flour fight. So, what did we do? We put-- we did-- we hung a big, em, like, bit of, em, material that said like "The Chamber of Secrets has been opened."
Shannon:
Oh wait, I- I'm sure-- did we not try and that and they took it down? I'm sure we did.
Lauren:
And we put it, like, outside the toilets and then we just did, like, balloons and stuff everywhere. And then they had an egg and flour fight last period but I was like "I'm not going, I'm not getting dirty for that." Like, "No thanks" but-- They never really said anything, they were like "ah right, okay. Bye."
Older speakers
William:
Whereas we-- we were-- we were always in the-- it's eh, the-- the world has changed in that respect but, you know, where of course the people spend such a time online
Interviewer:
Mhm.
William:
and games and stuff like that, you know? But eh, so-- so no, so-- so you-- you-- the whole-- your-- your-- your playground was a three mile radius from your front door and I-- I-- and I was very involved in the boy scouts as well right through, so. In Kilmacolm of course.
Interviewer:
Yeah.
William:
You know but we-- we-- I always-- always remember this great adventure we had
Interviewer:
Mhm.
William:
when I would have been about 13 or 14. 14 I think I would have been when we-- actually, we all went to Denmark with the scouts and in those days, of course-- I'm, you know, I'm gaan back nearly 60 years,
Interviewer:
Mhm.
William:
nobody was gaan away to Spain for a fortnight or a weekend or
Interviewer:
Mhm.
William:
a-- a hen do or a-- a stag night, you know?
Ian:
Well, in the-- in the middle 80s-- in the middle of '84 I had worked wi a company at the airport and Monarch plane.
Interviewer:
Mhm. Mhm.
Ian:
It was the-- they called it the Spanish plane. Tuesdays and Thursdays. One plane.
William:
A-- now there'll be several a day.
Ian:
And that was it "oh, there's the Spanish plane."
William:
Aye.
Ian:
Aye, I'm not joking. One plane. The Monarch. Aye, that's it.
William:
And gaan back-- gaan back to the late 50s, you know, there was nobody. My parents had certainly never-- never been out of Scotland I don't think.
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Ian:
Mhm.
William:
And whereas we were gaan away to Denmark with our kilts on and our Baden Powell hats and-- and eh, the whole-- there was-- it was very good. Aye, it was a great-- great-- I look back on my childhood and youth in Kilmacolm with great fondness and you had a great, happy time. And of course, you probably only remember the happy times. You don't remember when you're out delivering milk at six o'clock in the morning, it was chucking down wi rain and pouring a gale, and you didn't have the best of oil skin suits then, of course. So it was a different-- different life. My-- my own children, like yourself, never did anything like that, you know.
