We went down to Argyle Street in Glasgow city centre to ask Glaswegians what they’d like for Christmas this year.
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00:00 What's the best present you've ever received and what do you want this year?
00:03 I don't know if I can answer that.
00:06 Why not?
00:08 Well it might seem surprising, I don't really want anything this year. I'm content with what I've got.
00:18 A divorce for the first one and a new wife for the second one.
00:26 I've got a certain amount of money in the bank, I can cover my obligations you know and
00:31 I don't really need anything. I'm being honest, it's not like 'oh I must be a saint', I'm not a saint.
00:38 I don't do Christmas, we do solstice so we always have the...
00:43 My mum doesn't really do presents.
00:46 The best present I've ever had?
00:47 Well that would go right back to when my parents were alive, you know,
00:52 and we'd have Christmas dinner and you know as a child. I remember I kind of
00:57 didn't believe in Santa for a few extra years in case I wouldn't get any presents.
01:01 My sister got me like this massive crystal singing bowl and it just like, you like
01:09 bong it and it goes 'whoa'.
01:10 I've just got a divorce last year, last Christmas.
01:13 You've just got a divorce?
01:14 Yeah.
01:14 So you've got a new partner now?
01:15 I've got a new partner but she's not ready for white material yet.
01:18 We'll see what she's like for cooking Christmas dinner this year,
01:20 if she passes muster.
01:22 And then what I'm getting this year, getting like a casting set to make silver jewellery,
01:29 so that'll be at the stall.
01:30 If she can cook a Christmas dinner, there's a chance.
01:33 Did you ask what we want this year for Christmas?
01:35 Yeah.
01:36 Oh I'm getting a 18-inch shamanic drum.
01:39 Cool.
01:42 And I used to wonder how Santa would come down the chimney because I go right back to when we
01:45 did have cold fires, you know, and I said 'how do you get down there? I better pretend I still
01:50 believe in Santa in case I don't, you devious person'. So those are the kind of happy times.
01:55 Big drum.
01:56 Big circular drum for leading circles.
02:01 Life goes on and you just have to adjust to whatever's happening, you know. It goes by
02:08 very quick. So you're a young lady so enjoy each day because you might say 'I've got years
02:14 ahead of me' but nobody really knows.
02:15 What are you going to use it for?
02:17 I'm starting women's circles in Dumfries and Galloway, so it's a good thing to have for
02:22 meditation, sorry, for meditation or for drum circles.