Community Voices: Lanark

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Younger speakers

Interviewer: What do you do in your spare time?
Erin: Don't know, go to the pub.
Interviewer: Just go to the pub?
Erin: Aye, but we have band nights and things, like, our friends play in bands so we go and listen to them.
Interviewer: Ah right.
Erin: We don't just go and sit in, like, a--
Marc: In a danky old pub.
Erin: in a sooty-- a sooty wee pub.
Marc: Dank.
Erin: We go and, like, listen to-- we go and listen to music and watch our friends perform and that.
Interviewer: That's cool. How have you gotten friends with them, then?
Erin: Just, it's a small pub. Everybody knows each other. All the locals know each other.
Interviewer: Mhm.
Erin: And we were sitting by ourself one time and one of the boys shouted us over and we went and sat with them and eventually we sat with them every single time we were there.

Older speakers

Joanna: Aye. Eh, and, eh, we um-- It was Father [name] that took the service.
Maggie: Oh, that was nice. Aye.
Joanna: He was-- he was brilliant.
Maggie: Brilliant, aye, aye.
Joanna: He really-- he got a clap when he came out the pulpit
Maggie: Well that was nice.
Joanna: after the--
Maggie: That's unusual,
Joanna: I say.
Maggie: a minister getting a clap.
Joanna: I say.
Maggie: It's unusual to sit and clap in the church.
Joanna: Aye.
Interviewer: Absolutely.