irish lass, page-20

Elaine rang me on behalf of Hardman and said the conversation was being recorded. I told her not to record the conversation. She said she would ring back from another phone but she has not done so. I don't think she will ring back.

SG. Elaine may have come to Australia from East Kilbride but she was definitely not born and raised in East Kilbride. Like me she may have spent a few years near Glasgow but not long enough to change her accent. There is just a slim chance she is from Islay or one of the other islands in the Inner or Outer Hebrides where the accent is softer and they have the Irish lilt but I think she is Irish.

I spent 10 happy years sailing at Largs off the West Coast of Scotland in summer and skiing at Glencoe or in the Cairgorms in winter but I could not lose my North of England accent.

Next person she rings, ask her where she was born.

regards

Complex