george wife

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I grew up in Woodside and we moved

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to Maastricht,

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to Long Walk Place,

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because my mother was ill and got a house.

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She had cancer and we got the

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house there.

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And then when I got married,

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we moved to Gettleful Crescent.

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And that's Northfield,

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yeah.

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That's the street there.

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What makes this community special?

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Special?

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Well, I don't know.

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I mean,

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again, people have got bad vibes and everything.

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But we've never,

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ever had any trouble.

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I've never had anything stolen or anything like that.

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We've been really...

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The neighbours are good.

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People look after one another,

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you know, mostly.

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It's just younger people

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seem to know how to communicate with older people,

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if you know what I mean.

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It's an age gap.

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There's a community centre down there that used to have a lot of classes

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on.

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But then there's not the money now to run

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it, you know.

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Is it enough for people of your generation

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to do here in Northfield?

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Is

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it enough for people of your generation to do here in Northfield?

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Well,

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it would be difficult for me to say because I don't stay in the Northfield area now.

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But there is...

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There is, in the community centre,

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there's the bingo and that.

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I don't go to it,

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but I mean, I used to go to bingo when my husband was,

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but I don't have anybody to go with now,

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so I don't go.

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But there's a lot of classes down there.

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They used to have pensioners'

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groups and all that kind of thing.

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If you went tilting about,

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you would find quite a lot to do.

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They do their food banks,

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they're well supported by the churches round about and the

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businesses.

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A lot of people support them.

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Is there anything that would make a difference

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for you?

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Anything that you would like in the community that you would enjoy?

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That I would enjoy.

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I'm a bit past it now on my feet.

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I think I used to be dancing and everything,

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doing it.

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I mean, when I was young,

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they used to have,

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the pensioners club used to sort

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of put a show on,

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like a pantomime at Christmas time,

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and have it in the church in the square.

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But of course,

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they've knocked it down.

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They've knocked the church down.

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I mean,

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it's just happening all over the place.

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But there was hundreds of folk who went to see their concert.

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It was good fun.

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And for a while,

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the Aberdeen...

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The orchestra,

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you know, the band for the schools.

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It was at Middlefield Church,

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but then it's closed now.

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Well,

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it used to be,

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it used to be done rehearse every Monday down at the

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community centre,

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in the church hall down there.

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And then they used to have a concert every so often to raise

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funds for them to do,

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to go to different places.

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And it was really,

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really good.

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And all that stopped.

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because of the lack of funds and knocking down all the churches

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and everything,

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changing them.

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Do you think there should be money put into more places

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to go or more buildings for people to go to?

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Well,

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I don't know if you'd get the people to go nowadays.

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They seem to be working on their computers.

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It's very difficult,

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I think.

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It's very difficult nowadays to keep

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everybody happy.

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A lot of the young people didn't want community

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things for a while,

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but they're coming back to the thoughts of wanting it again.

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They're beginning to find that there's more to life than

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just sitting in front of their TV screens or speaking

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on their phone.

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They want to meet together.

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So I think that it needs to be thought about for

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the young people.

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The things that are now not being able to be done are

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because you can't get enough people to run them.

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All the restrictions and things.

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You need so many adults first.

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And that's what's put a stop to a lot of the things

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that there used to be.

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Because there used to be community for...

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at Smithfield and at Northfield and a few places when

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we were young.

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See,

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we used to be,

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like the Gildery,

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and we used to have,

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a place was called the Play Centre,

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which we went to on a Monday night and a Wednesday night,

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and they were in the schools.

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But then they started charging them for the schools.

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And it cost too much money that they gradually just stopped having them because they

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couldn't afford it.

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We are very fortunate.

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We still have a girls' brigade and a very good girls' brigade.

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But it costs them so much money to run that now.

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They're always trying to get funds from somewhere.

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We used to have the boys' brigade as well.

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And was that here at the church?

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Was that at this church?

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Yes.

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But there was the other churches you see as well.

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There was Middlefield and Northfield,

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the parish church along at Barron Square

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there. And they all closed.

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And our wee church here,

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as we call it,

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the wee church on the hill,

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was the only one that was left in this area.

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So we've now come into contact with other people to try and

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get things revived again.

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Because when that church is closed,

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a lot went with it,

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such as the orchestra and other things

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that they ran in their churches.

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When they had...

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What was

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that thing that they closed?

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You get injections for the flu

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when there was COVID.

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Covid.

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I think it just stopped.

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Is there enough facilities like shops or

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even things like medical?

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S… Speaker 1 (george wife)

No.

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I haven't got a doctor's surgery up here at all.

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I mean,

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I know you see this.

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Sorry,

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Evie.

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Along at the bottom there,

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it's just a hub for getting

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your bloods done or something.

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It's not a doctor's surgery up here at all.

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They were going to build one over in Spring Hill or something,

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and my daughter went,

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it was a meeting about it,

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it was supposed to be,

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and the only person that turned up was my daughter.

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So they just gave up.

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They were ground and everything's over there,

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beside the new school in Springfield,

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no,

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Spring Hill, over that way.

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She was the only one that turned up at the meeting,

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so they didn't bother.

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But then we've actually got to go to Woodside,

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but that's a needless doctor.

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And it's a fair bit,

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and you can't get out,

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it's not a bus here.

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I mean, there is buses,

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but they don't go to Woodside.

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You've got to go into town and then out or get a taxi or

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somebody gives you a lift.

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It's not easy accessible.

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So if the council came and they had,

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say, a quarter of a million pounds in their pocket and they were to hand it to you,

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what would you put that towards for your community?

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Well,

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that would be a good thing.

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a doctor surgery because you see a lot of people,

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if you go to the doctor,

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like I'm always a doctor,

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and you see a lot of people in this area going there.

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It would be a lot easier if I had one here.

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It would be good for you.

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As I say,

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I'm not in the same area now.

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I used to be a doctor down at the surgery there.

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They just made it a hub for people to go and get your

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blood done or something like that.

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You can't get...

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Too many old people now.

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That's the problem.

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We're all living too long.

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And that's the doctor's fault because they keep getting us other tablets

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to make us well.

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What do you think

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would encourage more people to get involved in their community?

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S… Speaker 2 (george wife)

You were saying that only your daughter turned up to that meeting.

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Just lack of interest,

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is it?

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Just lack of interest.

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They don't want to commit themselves.

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like volunteering things,

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they didn't want to commit themselves.

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A lot of them don't want to be involved.

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They want it to happen but they don't want to have any involvement in it.

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And as we said earlier,

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many of these things they can't have them because

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they need a certain amount of responsible adults to be there before

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it can start.

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So it's a bit of

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a difficulty really.

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You know,

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there aren't the adults to...

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Well, we find that with this church now because,

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unfortunately,

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most of us are getting too old to be involved in some

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of the things now.

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And there's not enough young people.

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So we need more young people to get involved,

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to get things going.

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What makes you proud of your community?

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You've lived here many,

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S… Speaker 1 (george wife)

many years.

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S… Speaker 2 (george wife)

What makes you proud of where you live?

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S… Speaker 1 (george wife)

It is a nice place to live.

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I wouldn't have liked to live anywhere else.

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I like it here.

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And if I'm on holiday or something,

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I can't wait to get back.

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I mean,

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if you're away for a fortnight after 10 days and went home,

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you know,

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I like it here.

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