M: So, Granny, do you remember what I was like as a little boy? F: Oh, do I remember! You were a one, I can tell you. M: A bit of a ____? F: Aye, just a wee bit. You were ____, you were. Always getting up to ____ M: I loved swimming, didn’t I? F: You know, when you turned up at my door every holiday, because of course you lived in London and I was up here in Scotland, which is a fair old way … M: Definitely! F: … well, when you turned up the first thing you’d do is jump in the loch, spring, summer, autumn, winter, it was the first thing you’d do … M: … I know, that loch in winter was a warm bath, believe me! F: Oh, you wouldn’t ____ me taking a ____ in there in winter, I can tell you. M: I just didn’t seem to care. I loved coming up here, to your house … F: Aye well, you were a happy wee lad with a stubborn ____ M: I know. I was very stubborn, wasn’t I? F: Very! M: Life was so simple then. And do you remember when I ran away from home as a teenager? F: Aye, just a wee thing you were still, thirteen was it? M: Fourteen! F: And you made your way up here all alone. M: I think I’d had a ____ with Dad … F: Aye, he’d ____ you out, hadn’t he? That’s why you came up here. M: He hadn’t exactly kicked me out but I definitely didn’t feel welcome for a while so I thought, well, I’ll act on my own ____ and go somewhere where I am welcome … F: Aye, you could always stand on your own two ____. M: So I hopped on the train and came up here to see you. F: And oh, your mother was happy about that, let me tell you! M: She didn’t know where I was, did she? F: Worried ____ she was! And I can’t blame her. M: But you looked after me F: Aye, well, I could hardly send you ____ back home now, could I? M: No … And then of course we didn’t see so much of each other for a few years … F: No, well, that’s only natural, isn’t it? You being a young man and me just an old woman. M: Granny! F: No, well, that’s how it is now, isn’t it? Young men don’t have much time for old women and you were busy travelling around the world and then ____ down with your girlfriend … M: What a great choice that was! F: Well, never ____ though, I mean, it’s all good life experience, isn’t it? M: I suppose so. F: Maybe she wasn’t the right one for you but there are plenty more fish in the sea! M: That’s what you always say, Granny! Plenty more fish in the sea! F: Aye, well, it’s true now isn’t it? And I ____ you never imagined yourself living up here now, did you? M: Hmm … no, I guess not, but you know, when I thought about it, it just made ____. F: Aye … M: Like coming back home. I wanted to live where I felt happiest and that had always been here. F: Here in Scotland, where the sun shines every day! M: Hmm, not sure about that. F: But you’ve got a wee lass up here, haven’t you? M: Rachel you mean? Yes. F: And she’s a smart girl for choosing you. Very on the ____, she is. M: Aww, thanks Granny. I think the relationship has definitely got ____

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