| F631 |
So, you got married recently, Louise.
//Tell us about your,// |
| F689 |
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
the whole experience. [inhale] |
| F689 |
The whole experience? Oh I don't know.
//I don't remember much o it now. [laugh] Sort o wiped from ma memory.// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
Ehm, it all started, I think, it must have been September or something like that, and David just decided one day "I think we should get married soon".
//An I says "Ehm,// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//really?" [laugh]//
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//How romantic! [laugh]// |
| F689 |
Och, it was just, I never really thought about it, cause erm, I was quite happy ploddin along, but we'd said like years ago before Rosalyn was even born that we should perhaps get married at some point, [laugh],
//so it just sort o// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
got put on hold and put on hold.
And then what with the movin house and stuff.
Ehm, so it originally turned out that we'd just go for a really really small do. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
And [throat] of course I told Mum and she was like "Oh, we'll need to have a reception" [laugh] and things like that.
//So,// |
| F631 |
//Right.// |
| F689 |
it just started out ehm tryin to keep it as simple an as sort o cheap as possible. [laugh] |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
Ehm, but it was quite horrendous tryin to find like a place that would accept children,
//and stuff like that.// |
| F631 |
//Really?// |
| F689 |
Mmhm, it was like erm, totally, erm, "You're only allowed kids until half past eight and that's it.
No exceptions."
//[laugh] Uh-huh// |
| F631 |
//Up until half eight, right.// |
| F689 |
And, so we tried about four different pubs and phoned other places and it was "no no no no"
//[laugh].// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
So, and a lot of them were just really small as well,
//so I was,// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
by the time we sort o counted heads it was gonna be like fifty plus, [laugh]
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
that's what it started out like, so erm, [throat].
Pa- [tut]
What else is there? Eh |
| F631 |
But it was a nice place that you had, in the end.
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
//Our hotel, uh-huh that was Mum that//
sort o said, "Right, we'll go for this", even though it wisnae the cheapest
//place.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
Ehm, so,
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//And what about ehm//
booking the registrar's? Di- when did you do that, for, |
| F689 |
Eh, it was as soon as David phoned out and found sort o the, he was like "What date shall we go for?" I was like that "Oh, any date", sort o, "preferably at the end of the month."
Ehm, [tut], and,
he just phoned up and they told him what dates there [laugh] were an
//that was it. [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
oh I just sort of randomly picked that one, the Friday.
and I had specifically said to him "Don't pick a Friday", [laugh] or a
//a Saturday, [laugh] because you'll never find anywhere like// |
| F631 |
//Oh right. [laugh]//
//Oh for a reception?// |
| F689 |
//that would uh-huh//
like for a function in a pub, which was what I was wantin. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
Erm
so,
//that// |
| F631 |
//Oops.//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//wis that [laugh]//
that caused a wee argument, so |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
ehm |
| F631 |
What's the whole thing about ehm, you know, your banns have to go up for is it like two weeks or something, you know that |
| F689 |
I don't know, what thats about, they didnae, they didn't really explain it at the sort of registry office, ehm.
//We just// |
| F631 |
//I think it's some// |
| F689 |
paid for everything sort o upfront, at the time, kind of thing. [laugh] |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
Ehm |
| F631 |
I think it's some sort of old Scots law thing though, you know, that you have to ehm make it sort of publicly known that you're gonna be gettin
//married for like// |
| F689 |
//Mmhm// |
| F631 |
I think it's like two weeks or
//four weeks or something.// |
| F689 |
//I think it's,//
I'm not sure, I think it's a week now. |
| F631 |
Right. |
| F689 |
Ehm, I think a week's what you've got to do all the final things, but I didnae really pay much attention to that kind
//of thing.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
It was just the things like you're not allowed to marry your sort o somebody that used to be your mother-in-law,
//and things like that an// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
the adopted family and special circumstances and stuff like that, there was stuff like that
//on it.// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
An of course your witnesses need to be over sixteen, don't they?
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
But it was quite
dauntin, cause you sit in this wee room, an there's bright lights, an [laugh] an you have to fill in this thing and come back in two seconds,
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
and wait for to get called, an |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
look at all the various adverts that they keep in their wee room,
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Right. [laugh]// |
| F689 |
cheesy tunes, hire the bands, an all that kind of thing.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Uh-huh//
Ah
Just so many photographers as well, isn't there?
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//[laugh] I should actually have got a professional photographer, cause that was a bit annoyin.//
Everybody sort o
//"say cheese" at the actual thing.// |
| F631 |
//Yeah. Uh-huh// |
| F689 |
And there was only supposed to be sort o one person allowed to take photographs, ehm,
but of course [CENSORED: forename]'s family couldnae
//resist standin up an// |
| F631 |
//Yeah, [laugh]//
//Mm [laugh]// |
| F689 |
//"right you, stand there, and you stand there". [laugh]//
//"Look at me" [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Uh-huh [laugh]//
//I know.// |
| F689 |
//so that was a bit, it was like,//
sort o, a "Hello" photoshoot or somethin
//like that.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm//
I thought you did well.
//[laugh] You bore up well. [laugh]// |
| F689 |
//[laugh]//
My expressions are something else though. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
Sort o starin blankly into space. [laugh]
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm//
//[exhale]// |
| F689 |
//[inhale]// |
| F631 |
So what did Rosalyn make of it, do you think? |
| F689 |
She enjoyed it.
She was sayin to ma pal Davina, she was just "Oh, this is really good, isn't it, Davina?" when she
//was sittin there.// |
| F631 |
//Uh-huh//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//Like "Mummy". [laugh]//
//But no, she thought it was good.// |
| F631 |
//[inhale]//
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
//The actual//
ceremony, and she enjoyed herself at the reception. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
I obviously didnae see her the whole night.
Cause she was playin wi her, her sort o second cousin, if that's what you call it.
//Sohaila.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
But, of course. |
| F631 |
So is that David's cousin's daughter? |
| F689 |
That's his auntie's
//daughter.// |
| F631 |
//Right.//
//Right.// |
| F689 |
//[laugh]//
It gets a bit
//confusing, there's that many of them. [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah. Uh-huh// |
| F689 |
The [CENSORED: surname] clan. |
| F631 |
Yeah.
[laugh]
Yeah, oh no she was good. |
| F689 |
Och aye she was. |
| F631 |
Probably enjoyed gettin all dressed up, eh? |
| F689 |
Ah, she was the cleanest actually, when her dress
//came back it was// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]//
//[laugh] Ah// |
| F689 |
//sort o spotless, compared to mine.//
An ma flower fallin off it, an
//what not.// |
| F631 |
//Yeah, you should//
you should tell us about your shoes. [laugh]
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//Oh right! [laugh]//
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Cause you had that lovely dress on, didn't you?//
[laugh] |
| F689 |
Like ma high-heeled shoes. I couldnae wear them any more; they were just totally doin ma feet in. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
Ehm, I'm not a person for high heels at all.
I've got to have somethin flat an
//comfortable.// |
| F631 |
//Yeah, I don't think I'd ever seen you wearing//
high heels before. Like me, I never |
| F689 |
I think the last time I wore high heels was at sort o Bedlam, the Gothic club.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
I sort o borrowed ma pal's once for a night, to see how they were, but I just couldnae |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
get into them, so I put ma biker boots back on again.
//Naw.// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
Got tae have ma trusted Doc Martins with me [laugh] at all times. [laugh]
//But.// |
| F631 |
//[inhale] Yeah.//
And you had ehm, did you not have [CENSORED: forename]'s mum's shoes on for a while? |
| F689 |
Oh she wanted to swap me,
//for some reason; I think it was// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
too much alcohol at that point.
//I don't know. She was// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
convinced that she was sober, so.
//[laugh] I'll just let// |
| F631 |
//Uh-huh// |
| F689 |
her believe that. [laugh]
But, aye her shoes, they're a laugh as well.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah. I know. [laugh]// |
| F689 |
That's all she wears, is high heels. Even in the snow, it's high heels and her bare feet
//usually. [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.//
I know. I couldn't believe it. I just couldn't couldn't have walked in these, an, she broke one, didn't she, at one point?
//I think, yeah.// |
| F689 |
//Did she? I can't remember.// |
| F631 |
I think there was a wee accident [laugh] towards the end. [laugh]
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//Too much dancin, probably.// |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
But no, it was pretty good. |
| F631 |
[click] |
| F689 |
And everybody was impressed with my Mum's beautiful
//creation! [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Oh yeah, the cake was really good.// |
| F689 |
Aye, it was. |
| F631 |
Yeah.
Looked very professional. |
| F689 |
An it was tasty as well, which is the main thing in ma opinion.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
Er |
| F631 |
So how di- how do you do all the wee flowers and stuff, I mean, do you, do you just buy these as they are, or. |
| F689 |
I bought a packet of er, I found this new weddin shop up the town,
//[laugh] ehm// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
and, they're quite, och, it's about eight pound for a packet o twelve it was, |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
but, ah they were quite nice, wee paper roses and
these wee silver ball
//things.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
So, they're a bit hard trying to stick onto the actual cake, so I just sort of pressed them right into it. |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
Ehm, but it looked alright. It wisnae |
| F631 |
No, it was really good. |
| F689 |
as good as I thought it was gonna be, but I did my best, it was
//quite hard,// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
tryin to do everything. |
| F631 |
I thought it was great, when you see, you know, these wedding cakes cost hundreds of pounds usually, you know if you buy them, sort of
//fr- from// |
| F689 |
//I know, there was//
ones that were gonna cost me like three hundred quid, for just like two
//tiers, and they didnae look that// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
big, and I thought, "Mm God, |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
everybody gets a wee tiny, sort of inch square
//[laugh] an that's their lot."// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
But no it was quite good, it was
quite a good wee shop that. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
An I got the sort o almonds out
//as well.// |
| F631 |
//Oh yeah.// |
| F689 |
You know, they're li- like favours, |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
so is it for wealth, health, happiness, love, and one that you'll never be apart fae each other, sort o thing. [laugh] |
| F631 |
Right. |
| F689 |
That's what they're supposed to signify. |
| F631 |
I wonder why it's almonds, eh, do you know? |
| F689 |
I don't know; it's an Italian thing,
//apparently.// |
| F631 |
//Uh-huh// |
| F689 |
Ehm, don't know why it's almonds though, [laugh] I suppose it could be anything,
cause they do like wee sort o chocolate things as well, |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
an you can have mints,
//but// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
Thought I'd keep my Mum happy;
//she wanted proper// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//favours.//
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Uh-huh//
[laugh] |
| F689 |
Och no, I agree with her now, cause it was, och, I didnae see the fuss, it's cause me an David had been together for so many years, an. |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
It's
I don't know, I don't like being felt on show, if you know what I mean? [laugh]
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
But |
| F631 |
I know, I understand. But it was nice, cause it wasn't too big. It was just a
//a// |
| F689 |
//Uh-huh// |
| F631 |
nice size, I think. |
| F689 |
One of ma friends, she was invited to be a bridesmaid for one of her pal's weddins, and they were havin like seven
//bridesmaids,// |
| F631 |
//[inhale]//
Really? |
| F689 |
an like all these sort of page boys an
//flower girls an// |
| F631 |
//[laugh] God! [laugh]// |
| F689 |
it was like a proper church do an
//she was, you know,// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
there's no way I'm walkin down the aisle in a big
//huge fancy church,// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]//
//[inhale]// |
| F689 |
//she's like that cause she's//
quite nervous about things like that. |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
I thought I would but I wis I wis okay, an my dad he rushed me down quite quickly though. [laugh]
//He was more nervous than me, so.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm mmhm//
Did you sort of change any of the stuff that was said in the ceremony, or was it just
//the standard, mmhm?// |
| F689 |
//No, it was just repeating what she said, yeah.//
[laugh] |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
No, I would have been too nervous; I was sort of close to tears at one point. [laugh] |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
The-, as soon as I just started laughin at the registrar, she was quite
//austere, an sort of mm [laugh] I know! [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah, she was. She was quite bossy, wasn't she? That was her her domain. [laugh]//
[inhale] |
| F689 |
It was like that, was it, is there any, what is it they say, serious impediment or somethin, for you getting married, or something
//like that? I don't know.// |
| F631 |
//Yeah, if anyone knows of any//
//impediment.// |
| F689 |
//It was like sort o//
"Speak now!" [laugh]
[laugh] |
| F631 |
David wasn't your mother-in-law then?
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
That's
//okay. [laugh]// |
| F689 |
//Father-in-law. [laugh]//
Not that I know of. |
| F631 |
[exhale] |
| F689 |
Oh dear. |
| F631 |
Mmhm, it's just, I think, you just see so many weddings in films and sort of TV shows and stuff like that, that a lot of that just seems quite clichéd now, and you
//think, I can't believe that's what// |
| F689 |
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
they really say, you know, you just
//expect someone// |
| F689 |
//I know.// |
| F631 |
to jump up and go "No, Louise,
//Marry me!" [laugh]// |
| F689 |
//I know, we were sort o//
talkin about that one day, I was sort of saying "What would happen if somebody did do that?" |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
David was like "Well surely they'd need to cancel the weddin" I said "But, why," I said, "if it's just like a one second interruption and they say 'I'm only kiddin' ". |
| F631 |
Yeah.
//[laugh] If they retract it [laugh] quickly. [laugh]// |
| F689 |
//Or, [laugh] I said, "I think it would be stopped//
if I said "naw, well if I slept with the best man, or somethin".
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//[laugh] Well maybe no the best man, the the sort o bridegroom!// |
| F631 |
Uh-huh |
| F689 |
That would be acceptable to
//stop it but if it's just somebody playin around, cause// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
I half thought that ma pal, Davina, her sort of fiancé John, he would do somethin like that cause he's that sort o guy, but [laugh]. |
| F631 |
Is that the guy that was playin with Henry?
//Yeah, he was nice.// |
| F689 |
//Uh-huh that's Jamie that//
burped durin the ceremony,
//his wee boy.// |
| F631 |
//Oh right.//
//Uh-huh [laugh]// |
| F689 |
//So that was quite funny.//
//That was a wee sort of ice-breaker, [laugh], "burgh!" [laugh].// |
| F631 |
//[laugh] Yeah, uh-huh, that was good. [laugh]//
It's a good thing about having babies at weddings, you get some sort of sound effects. |
| F689 |
Och, I know.
Och, it was an alright turnout. It was just our side of the family that wisnae
really showin, like ma auntie fae England. [throat] She was a bit, "Oh, I'll come, but I don't know, who's gonna watch the dog?" and stuff
//like that so.// |
| F631 |
//[tut] Aw// |
| F689 |
But, ma Mum's like that, "Just bring the bloody dog, with you." [laugh]
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
But och, didnae hear back fae her, so. |
| F631 |
Cause you don't really have that many relatives in Scotland, do you? Th- |
| F689 |
We'd, I, we used to, a lot of them have died now.
//Ehm,// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
[tut], it's just er the folk that stay on Islay. There's only about, I don't know, I think there's only one left. [laugh] |
| F631 |
Right. |
| F689 |
On Islay.
//Och, that's// |
| F631 |
//In Islay, right.// |
| F689 |
ma Mum's cousin, |
| F631 |
Uh-huh |
| F689 |
Flora.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Uh-huh, of course. [laugh]// |
| F689 |
But a lot of them have died, erm.
Och, I think there's a few, like really distant, it's like Mum's cousins kin o thing that are still sort o kickin about. |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
But, you kind o never hear o them, so. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
And of course if she invited like sort o one side,
//she'd need to invite the whole lot, anyway, [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah, yeah.// |
| F689 |
and she disnae like a lot of them, so. |
| F631 |
Mmhm
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
What about your Dad's family; is it just one sister he's got?
//Mm// |
| F689 |
//No, he's got,//
God, how many has he got? Er,
Right, there's ma uncle Mick, ma uncle Neil, ma uncle Paul, Denise, Linda,
//[laugh] Janet, Janet, ehm,// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//[laugh] I can't//
//remember any of them! [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//Did I say Philip? I don't remember.//
Aye, there's seven of them, I think.
//There must be.// |
| F631 |
//Right.//
//God, didn't realise that.// |
| F689 |
//A sort o mixture.//
Aye, ma auntie Janet and uncle Paul, they're twins,
//so,// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
but, no there's loads o them. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
I think there's some, They've got a few sort o nieces and nephews, cousins, of mine, but
och, you never hear o them.
//That's the thing.// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
Just sort o in a nice wee sort o towns and villages in England, an that's
//it.// |
| F631 |
//Uh-huh// |
| F689 |
Sort o stuck in the one place.
Mm but. |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
It's only close family, sort o, and friends that matter to me these days anyway, |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
or else it gets too complicated an |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
noisy!
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
Like ma hen night, when er [CENSORED: forename]'s [CENSORED: noun indicating family relationship] were up.
//Oh God, it was like a witches' coven.// |
| F631 |
//Oh yeah, what was it like?// |
| F689 |
[laugh]
//It wi-.// |
| F631 |
//Was it at your Mum's house, or?//
//Right.// |
| F689 |
//It was at ma house.//
Mmhm
but naw, they showed up sort o quite merry an
//they were just totally laughin all night and screamin and shoutin, [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//just cause they all talk at the one time, an//
you cannae get a word in edgeways. [laugh]
//So I just sort o// |
| F631 |
//Uh-huh// |
| F689 |
"Mm, well, whatever".
//But, some o [CENSORED: forename]'s [CENSORED: noun indicating family relationship] were there, so that was alright; I was talkin to them.// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]//
Yeah. |
| F689 |
An, [CENSORED: forename] couldnae make it cause her wee boy wasn't well, so.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Oh right.// |
| F689 |
But, so it wisnae that quiet.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]//
At least you were, like, at home, rather than
//being trailed around with a sort of learner's plate on. [laugh]// |
| F689 |
//[laugh]//
//They threatened to do that.// |
| F631 |
//[inaudible]// |
| F689 |
They were like that, "Is that an old pub?" and I've got a pub sort o next door to me, an
"Is that the only pub you've got?"
"Do you no want to come in to Shawlands or the toon",
//or whatever, an I wis// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm//
//No!// |
| F689 |
//thinkin, no. [laugh]//
//[inhale]// |
| F631 |
//[inhale]//
//M-m-// |
| F689 |
//It's like "have you got a//
a we- a veil, a net curtain, and I'm like goin "naw". |
| F631 |
[laugh] |
| F689 |
Er, I said well I've only got three pots, so you cannae take a
//pot oot with you, or there's nothing to cook ma dinner in.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm//
Mmhm |
| F689 |
But [throat]. |
| F631 |
And you get people with the sort of buckets, collecting money as well, which kind of annoys me because |
| F689 |
Oh they're do- they were wantin to do that as well.
//She used to do it,// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
[CENSORED: forename]'s [CENSORED: noun indicating family relationship] used to do it, ehm for a laugh, with her mates when she was younger.
//Like even though she was just divorced.// |
| F631 |
//Just pretend.//
//Ah that's terrible!// |
| F689 |
//[laugh] Just go about, just totally//
blaggin it,
//intae like pubs an clubs,// |
| F631 |
//[laugh] No!// |
| F689 |
with buckets, saying "Right, I'm getting married, give us cash, give generously,"
//and all that.// |
| F631 |
//Right.//
Oh, I'm gonna be even more suspicious of it now.
I just think, I mean you can totally see why people would have done it long ago, you know, when
//people// |
| F689 |
//Mmhm// |
| F631 |
like wouldn't have had any money an
//needed money to sort// |
| F689 |
//I know.// |
| F631 |
o set themselves up, but, ehm, sometimes when you're out, you know, you see groups of women goin around and they're all totally dressed to the nines and they're sort of asking for money from me in my sort of scruffy
//jeans and [laugh] I think "No, you've// |
| F689 |
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
probably got more than I do," [inhale] but
//that's just my// |
| F689 |
//I know.// |
| F631 |
bad mindedness. |
| F689 |
Don't worry I've never seen anybody out for a while, that's cause I've stopped goin to sort o trendy bars now.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//[tut]// |
| F689 |
I just go to ma two wee pubs in the toon, an that's me. |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
Student places that don't get stuff like that. |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
You just get the woman with her roses comin in, usually. |
| F631 |
But yeah, the guys sellin the roses. |
| F689 |
Up in Sleazy's an
//an that.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
[laugh] David was like that, "Mm, naw." |
| F631 |
Have you got any good locals beside where you are? |
| F689 |
Pubs?
//Na.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
Na.
Not at all. I don't know. I've never been in that sort of pub next to me. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
It seems, it's like a, one of these pubs that have got a sign that says "No football colours", |
| F631 |
Right. |
| F689 |
at the door, sort o thing, so I don't know whether it would be any good. |
| F631 |
Yeah.
//Cause you really like// |
| F689 |
//But they used to do like// |
| F631 |
wearing football colours,
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//[laugh] I know. Cannae get enough of ma Celtic top, you know. Oh no.//
[throat] Naw it's just whenever you see that kind of sign, it's as if they're expectin trouble,
//like, that's what you have to expect, but,// |
| F631 |
//Yeah, I know what you mean. Mmhm// |
| F689 |
erm, I'm sure it's very nice,
//[laugh] cause in the summer, like// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
they've got all these sort o, they've got a kind o roof garden sort o
//over it.// |
| F631 |
//Oh right.// |
| F689 |
So it seems, and it's dead nice; it's always like freshly-painted ootside but |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
I've never had the inclination to [laugh]
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Uh-huh// |
| F689 |
go an see what it's like, cause it's like sometimes these locals you've gotta watch, like when you go in it's like a old Western sort o saloon.
//Everybody sort o stares at the door, [laugh]. I know.// |
| F631 |
//Uh-huh [laugh] Music stops.//
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
//Mm but,//
I might try it when I'm a bit older. |
| F631 |
[laugh] Uh-huh
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//[laugh]//
//in twenty years' time. [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]//
Take Rosalyn to protect you.
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//[laugh]//
//Ach no, Shawlands used to be okay, used to go up there sometimes, but it's bit too trendy now, aw these fancy.// |
| F631 |
//[cough]//
Yeah, it's got quite upmarket there, eh? |
| F689 |
Ach I know, and it's like nearly three quid for a pint, so mm.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
Ach an I neve- what annoys me is they've got all these big screen TVs
//everywhere,// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
so if you want to go in and just have a chat, it's impossible cause you've got this big huge [laugh] sort o
//the God lookin down on you.// |
| F631 |
//It's really distracting, isn't it? Yeah.//
I know.
I was in the Clockwork at the weekend, for the first time in ages,
and they've got ehm, it's not huge screens, but it's big TVs and they've got kind of like a lot of them goin across the ban-,
//the back wall now.// |
| F689 |
//Oh right, they never used to have//
//stuff like that.// |
| F631 |
//No, they didn't.//
I know, I was kind of disappointed in them, cause I thought, that wasn't the kind of pub that would have
//done that, you know,// |
| F689 |
//Mmhm// |
| F631 |
but they had them on, just the sound down, it was just on like,
//you know, BBC1 or something, you know. Mmhm// |
| F689 |
//I don't see the point in that, turnin the sound down, I mean//
they should have the common decency to put the subtitles on, if they're gonna do that. [laugh]
//If you really want to sit and watch// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.//
//Yeah, or// |
| F689 |
//telly.// |
| F631 |
play music videos or something, but it was just, you know, someone reading the news.
//[laugh] With the sound down. [laugh] It's not exactly,// |
| F689 |
//[laugh] I know.// |
| F631 |
you know, visual entertainment, really. |
| F689 |
I know, the Solid Rock used to be bad for that, they'd have like "Stars In Your Eyes" on,
//with the sound down an this// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
heavy metal blarin in the
//background, [laugh] you're like "No!" [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah. [laugh]//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//[laugh]//
//I think somebody actually asked// |
| F631 |
//Me too.// |
| F689 |
someone, it's "Can you turn that off an put the telly up so I can hear it" [laugh]
//[laugh] cause it was like// |
| F631 |
//Yeah. [laugh]// |
| F689 |
a celebrity special, I think.
//Coronation Street stars sing "Stars In Their Eyes".// |
| F631 |
//[laugh] Uh-huh//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//[laugh] Aaah.// |
| F631 |
Excellent.
So where do you go now? You go to Sleazy's an
//where else do you go?// |
| F689 |
//Sleazy's,//
and theThirteenth Note usually. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
I went in Mono, the day after our weddin, but that was a bit too,
I don't know, there was something dead cheesy and trendy about it, I don't know what it wis, but I just couldnae
//put ma finger on it.// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
[laugh] Cause there's a lot o sort o these, what do you call them, yummy mummies out with their babies an |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
sort o |
| F631 |
For their vegan lunches.
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//Aye, an they were just sort o lettin their kids//
do wh- whatever they wanted,
//like wander about// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
the bar an that, an, this wee guy, I felt sorry for him, he was wantin to play wi the sort of football table.
Ehm, honestly his mum just goes "right, here's some money, you can play it", so he's sittin there tryin to do it himself, he couldn't see over the sort o side of the
//table. [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
You know there were a bunch of them, surely one o them could have came down and sort o played with him for
//only the// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
five minutes it takes. |
| F631 |
Uh-huh |
| F689 |
So I ended up helpin him, so I let him stand on the chair and [laugh] |
| F631 |
Right. |
| F689 |
see, so , but.
Ach, it was alright, it was just a bit, there was somethin just I couldnae quite put ma finger on it,
//you know?// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
Maybe it smelt too good, or somethin.
//[laugh] Compared to the Thirteenth Note. [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//[laugh] Yeah. [laugh]//
//[laugh] Do you not go to the Clutha an, the Scotia and places like that?// |
| F689 |
//[laugh]//
I used to pop ma head in fae time to time, but it's too, och, I don't know, it's just a bunch o sort o drunk men that are in there
//these days.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
An, och I don't know, the Clutha's got air-conditioning so that's alright like, it's not
//too bad with the smoke an stuff.// |
| F631 |
//[taps pen top]// |
| F689 |
Ehm,
//but the Scotia, mmhm.// |
| F631 |
//The Scotia can be really smoky, cause it's got such low roofs, eh?// |
| F689 |
An it would be alright if you could take your pint outside it,
I suppose you can in summer but |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
it's too cold at winter
//[laugh].// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
Och they're alright, they've, I mean, they're supposed to be very Scottish an that, but they're sort o, I don't know, they just become like wee old men's
//pubs even// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
more so the now. |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
Cause like they're just no attractin a younger crowd. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
It's just sort o
och, I don't know. I think it's since it changed hands as well, the bar staff are a bit mair sort o stressed-out and overworked
//an// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
no allowed to sort o relax an stuff. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
An the beer's no that great anyway.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//[laugh] Oh well.//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//It was off. [laugh]// |
| F631 |
It's the oldest pub in Glasgow, isn't it, the Scotia, or? |
| F689 |
Uh-huh |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
I think so, I think it still is, well obviously it can't be, well if it is oldest, it's oldest!
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
they'd have to dig up one fae
//under the ground, excavatin, [laugh] up at Townhead or somethin like that.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm [laugh] "Time Team" [laugh]//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//I know.//
Och, I don't know, it could do wi, jazzed up a wee bit more maybe. [laugh]
//Och it's a bit hard, I mean.// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
It is what it is, I suppose. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
If you're wantin somethin flashier, whatever, just go into one o the new pubs.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.//
So that was the erm day after your wedding you were in Mono?
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
//Uh-huh// |
| F631 |
What else did you do that day, sort of?
//Did you do things that you// |
| F689 |
//Oh right, we started out//
sort o gettin up quite early, cause we had to get out of the room for eleven o'clock it
//wis! [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
So it was up for eight o'clock gettin ready an stuff.
Then we went home, took our goodies back to the
//flat.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
We were totally knackered and wonderin what else to do, so we just ended up goin straight out to the town. [laugh]
Go in to Bloc for a sort o big burger meal that they do. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
An of course an that's when David broke his sort o vegetarianism.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Oh yeah. [laugh]//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//After being a good boy an no bein tempted by the buffet an stuff like that.//
//Ehm.// |
| F631 |
//How long's he been//
vegetarian for? |
| F689 |
It wis, it must have been, it was after we moved, eh, so that was since August. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
He's been sort o flirtin with the idea, cause we've seen loads o sort o documentaries on the telly, about ehm like chickens, that was the one.
I think it was on Channel Four or somethin like that.
Ehm, an it was just totally showin you how they're treated.
It was like these big huge, I mean they're supposed to be barn hens, but they're stuck in a big huge sort o pen thing inside a barn. |
| F631 |
Mm |
| F689 |
There's like about a million o them or somethin, [laugh] just these wee heads and beaks [laugh] peekin out. |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
Erm, och just totally, I mean they're soaked in their own urine an stuff
//like that an// |
| F631 |
//Yeah, an given steroids an// |
| F689 |
urgh. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
And then, when you see them, it was that thing, if you look at the chickens on a supermarket shelf, |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
you see like the hock burns they were calling them
//on their legs and stuff// |
| F631 |
//Right.// |
| F689 |
like that, and it's like sort o sores.
//It's almost like nappy rash or something, it's like worse// |
| F631 |
//Aw. Uh-huh.// |
| F689 |
an that's the sign o don't buy this chicken,
//so// |
| F631 |
//Right.// |
| F689 |
I kept lookin an lookin I'm like that, uh-huh can see like loads an loads o them |
| F631 |
Right. |
| F689 |
like that an
like that means you can't even buy like the breasts because
//you don't know where they've came from, so// |
| F631 |
//Yeah, it's come from the same, yeah.//
//[inhale]// |
| F689 |
//[inhale]//
I just decided och, may as well no buy chicken then, so I just started off like that and then |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
David's like that "I'm just not eatin meat at all". [laugh] |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
So I was like "Mm", but I do like ma bacon so
//I tried// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
various vegetarian versions; they're just totally
//stinky, [laugh] like sort o// |
| F631 |
//I know, they're just not as good.// |
| F689 |
frozen bacon slices
//an they're like// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
they're like Quorn except you cook them.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]//
//[laugh] Mmhm// |
| F689 |
//an they're like totally urgh.//
So I started makin just totally meals fae scratch again, well I did before wi meat an that,
//just// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
meatless.
alternative but I can never get the measurin out the peas an beans, an that, like dried stuff. |
| F631 |
Yeah.
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//It's just too, [laugh], you just end up puttin a wee tiny bit in a bowl and you soak it overnight an it//
//it would be like a vat o the stuff, [laugh] but I don't want to throw it oot cause that's a bit of a waste, so I end up puttin it in, it's like// |
| F631 |
//Uh-huh, yeah, [laugh], all the water's gone, uh-huh.// |
| F689 |
a banquet for twenty, you end up eatin it for the next week.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
So, [cough], but it's no too bad now.
I've discovered that tuna's actually better than chicken.
So I'm puttin like fresh tuna intae like Chinese meals that I'm cookin an |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
so I might try Italian with it an see if it tastes any good, |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
cause it just tastes like chicken, to me anyway, |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
the tuna, so,
I'll see how that goes on but |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
He's been a naughty boy, so.
//recently [laugh] Naw. Aye, he is sort o back on meat, cause we've been gettin, had a few// |
| F631 |
//So is he is he back on meat now, or it was just that one, [laugh] right I see.// |
| F689 |
take-aways, I think it was, for the past month. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
cause of how busy we were an stuff,
And David was like that "Oh go on I'll have a sort o chicken curry
//Yum, yum!" [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//I was like "chicken"? Well, lamb then.//
//[throat]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
Sorry, ma throat's dryin up in here
It's dead warm |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
[throat]
But |
| F631 |
And then, the rest of your day,
//that day, did you// |
| F689 |
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
was it bowling, you went to, or?
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
//Yeah, we went to bowlin,//
up at Finnieston,
//an that was a lot o fun.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
We stayed in there for about three hours, an totally knackered after it.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
So, I only got one strike in the game. It didn't get registered, because he forgot to press a button to switch the thing on, so.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Right. [laugh]// |
| F689 |
It was good fun. |
| F631 |
Yeah. |
| F689 |
We played some video games an that was us,
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
back into the town. |
| F631 |
Mmhm |
| F689 |
And that's when we went to, I think we went to Blackfriars first. [laugh]
//[laugh] Another// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
old quaint pub
//in Glasgow.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
Erm, didnae like that, so we went to Mono, and that was us, and then up to Koh-i-noor for some dinner.
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Uh-huh// |
| F689 |
[laugh]
And then, went to the off-licence, got a bottle of Midori, it was, I fancied Midori for some
//reason.// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]//
//[laugh] Is that that green stuff?// |
| F689 |
//I don't know why. [laugh]//
//Aye, it's like supposed to be like// |
| F631 |
//[inhale] Yeah.// |
| F689 |
melon liqueur, but I don't think it's even seen the juice o a melon. |
| F631 |
Uh-huh |
| F689 |
I think it's like sort o food colourin an sort o wine mix,
//or whatever, I don't know what the hell it is.// |
| F631 |
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
I'll need tae look in to
//it. [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//[laugh] Maybe you'd best not, no.//
//[laugh]// |
| F689 |
//It's probably like ehm,//
that Twenty-Twenty stuff you used to
//get.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
You probably still get that.
//Never seen it for a while though.// |
| F631 |
//Mm// |
| F689 |
[laugh]
//[laugh]// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.//
//Mad Dog type stuff. [laugh]// |
| F689 |
//[laugh] Mad Dog.//
I know, that's actually American, believe it or not,
//Mad Dog.// |
| F631 |
//Yeah.// |
| F689 |
I didn't know that until I went to
//America.// |
| F631 |
//Mmhm// |
| F689 |
And it was like cases o the stuff, that an that Thunderbird [laugh]
//stuff. [laugh] Was like that, "Oh no!"// |
| F631 |
//Yeah, I know. That's what all the sort o youngsters drink, eh?//
People that drink Buckie here. [laugh] |
| F689 |
Urgh I know.
Oh that's quite funny.
My wee brother was sayin that they put it into plastic bottles, for like, you can buy like litre bottles o it, in a sort o plastic bottle.
I was like, God, don't know it'd manage to stay inside a plastic bottle, I'd
expect it to melt through it,
//or somethin. [laugh]// |
| F631 |
//[laugh] Yeah, corrode! [laugh]// |
| F689 |
But, mm yuck! [laugh] |
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