Grandma Talks

Episode 1: Grandma Audrey

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TRANSCRIPT

Saturday, June 13, ‎2020
Qualicum Beach, Canada
📞 Vancouver, Canada

GRANDMA AUDREY:
It’s, yeah, I just, I can’t get into it, I mean, someone said, well there’s a good chance, good time to write your memoirs or something. And I said, I just can’t get into it. I just can’t. I don’t know why. I have plenty of time with that when I’m old!

ALEXANDRA:
Yeah, exactly haha.

GRANDMA AUDREY:
Yeah, when I’m in my new little room. That’ll be the time when I’ll…How is it coming along, does it look good?

ALEXANDRA:
Yeah, it’s great. Oh my gosh. 

GRANDMA AUDREY:
The shower looked really nice. 

ALEXANDRA:
Mmmm Yeah, that’ll be…

GRANDMA AUDREY:
Yeah. Is dad still out there working? Or is he taking some time off?

ALEXANDRA:
No, he’s pretty, like every day out there doing something. I don’t really understand what’s all involved. But yeah, I think he’s really loving it, honestly. 

GRANDMA AUDREY:
I got the feeling that yeah, I think he’s a frustrated builder really. He seemed to like putting that little shed up didn’t he too? 

ALEXANDRA:
Yup

GRANDMA AUDREY:
Asia wanted to go to Topanga right afterwards and that no way I could have gone there and then it burned down, you know that do you?

ALEXANDRA:
What? No.

GRANDMA AUDREY:
Yeah, Topanga? Oh, you didn’t know that oh. Do you know it was honestly Alexandra…

ALEXANDRA:
That’s so sad.

GRANDMA AUDREY:
I know. And I think it was, I think it was only a week after he died. 

ALEXANDRA:
No, that is so spooky.

GRANDMA AUDREY:
And I thought that was so symbolic to me. And it’s still just a vacant lot. Nothing has ever has ever been built on it.

ALEXANDRA:
Oh my god.

GRANDMA AUDREY:
And I don’t think they’re ever going to build the Topanga again. I don’t think so. Oh it as awful. It was so convenient. It was just up the road there. And we had such a good times from the times you were little right. You know, were little kids doing your colouring.

ALEXANDRA:
Yeah, Wow.

GRANDMA AUDREY:
They never did find out, what at least in the paper they didn’t, they said cause was unknown.

ALEXANDRA:
Wow, holy crap.

GRANDMA AUDREY:
Yeah I thought that was very symbolic and so that would have been 2018 that was happened. Oh well, here we go… So yeah, I must get on I guess and do this laundry. I changed my sheets today so.

ALEXANDRA:
Yeah, Oh good.

GRANDMA AUDREY:
I’ve got sheets and laundry as well so I have whole loads. So it better be spinning right today!

ALEXANDRA:
hahah.

GRANDMA AUDREY:
Thank you for FaceTiming or whatever it’s called. What’s it called?

ALEXANDRA:
FaceTime. Yeah, you’re right. Yeah.

GRANDMA AUDREY:
Yeah. Oh good I got the right word. Okay, you take good care of yourself sweetheart. 

ALEXANDRA:
Thank you, you too. Love you. Bye.

GRANDMA AUDREY:
Bye my love, bye.

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Grandma Talks is an online audio archive of anonymous phone conversations between grandmothers and granddaughters. The intention behind this archive is to allow the listener to witness the transforming experience of womanhood, captured in the exchanges between generations of women.

This website was created by Sonya Mladenova and Alexandra Knowles with the Digital Originals Canada Arts Council Grant.

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September 2021