We catch some sun rays in Quarry Park Shrewsbury, and chat to a few people with the same idea.
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00:00Macquarie Park, the Dingle and Kevin. Yes. You're part of the reason this looks so great. You're on the gardeners here.
00:05Yes, one of the team, yeah. There's a team of three, four of us that do all the maintenance, yeah.
00:10And how long have you been involved working down here then?
00:13I've been on this site about eight years now. Yeah?
00:16Yeah, so it's been an experience.
00:19You know, everyone's enjoying it in the sun, but it makes it hard work in this heat for you, I should think.
00:23Yeah, it's very off this time now, isn't it? This time of year.
00:26And, yeah, it's a lot of watering and to keep everything going, like, till they finish off, you know, the last few days of, you know, they're starting to go over now.
00:36So what happens then? So you do what, how many different, like, layers of planting is there?
00:42So there'll be two?
00:43Yeah, and then we have all the stuff for the summer will go in during the beginning of May.
00:48So we'll be stripping all this, beginning of June, sorry.
00:51Yeah.
00:51We'll be stripping all this out and getting it all ready for the planting, yeah.
00:56Yeah, then we'll all be empty and prepared for that.
01:00So you spend so much time here working and grafting, getting it nice.
01:05Is it quite nice for you, you know, do you kind of, do you have a little glance up and think,
01:09oh, there's loads of people enjoying this and that's thanks to my hard work.
01:12Do you kind of...
01:12It is nice to see everybody that's, yeah, taking it in and seeing all the nicer colours and, you know, commenting and everything.
01:19And that's how good it does look, yeah.
01:21And do you get your fill of it for work?
01:23I mean, on your day off, do you stay miles away from here or do you kind of still come here on your day off and with a, you know...
01:29I do find the other pleasures to...
01:31Yeah, yeah.
01:32Yeah, yeah.
01:32I was probably gardening at home.
01:34I was going to say, yeah, do you have your...
01:36Obviously, is your garden at home?
01:37There is flowers there then.
01:38Yeah, yeah.
01:39Do you still spend a bit of time on your own?
01:40Yeah, yeah.
01:41It's like a busman's oldie though, isn't it?
01:43That's the thing.
01:43Yeah, it is, yeah.
01:44Well, thank you, Kevin, to you and all the team.
01:47We love it down here and so do all the visitors.
01:49So, thank you for your hard work, boss.
01:51Thanks very much.
01:51So, I've stumbled into a fellow black countryman like myself.
01:54Hello, sir.
01:55Hello, sir.
01:56What's your name, boss?
01:57Daz.
01:58We've got Daz and...
02:00Hello.
02:01Cool.
02:01And enjoying the shop, she's here, son.
02:03Beautiful.
02:04What a beautiful place.
02:05Especially the pub.
02:06It's absolutely fantastic.
02:07It is, isn't it?
02:08You can't really get a better beer garden than this, can you?
02:10I've been to Shrewsbury a couple of times, but I've never actually found this place before.
02:13Yeah, I bet you're glad you found it now, can't you?
02:15Yeah, it was mainly in the town, so we actually Google searched it, so it's been really, like,
02:20you know, lovely.
02:22It is, isn't it?
02:23Yeah.
02:23Cool.
02:23Well, I'm very jealous.
02:25I'm working.
02:25I am in the sun, but that beer looks so inviting.
02:29Well, we're late.
02:30We might number four, but we might be late.
02:33Yeah, fair play, fair play.
02:35Cheers, guys.
02:36So, we've got a lovely couple here from Bymayheath.
02:38Introduce yourselves, guys.
02:40I'm Mark.
02:41And I'm Linda.
02:42And do you come here very often?
02:44Sounds like a chat-up line, doesn't it?
02:46Yes, we do quite a lot, yeah.
02:48We usually have a picnic at lunchtimes.
02:50It's gorgeous, isn't it?
02:51It's beautiful.
02:53Yeah.
02:53It takes me back to the, I mean, I'm not that old myself, but it takes me back to those pictures
02:57that you see of the old traditional Victorian gardens.
03:00Yeah.
03:01Yeah, like Chester Zoo, that type of scene.
03:04Yeah, yeah.
03:05So, what's your garden like?
03:07Is there much colour going on at the minute?
03:08Not as good as this, for definite.
03:10Yeah.
03:11You do kind of, with my own garden, I think, well, it's not summer yet.
03:14That's my excuse for not having the colour.
03:16And then you come here and you think, well, I haven't got an excuse now, have I?
03:20So, what do you tend to do?
03:21Just have a stroll, have a sit down and a relax?
03:23Is that what it's all about?
03:24Yep.
03:24We usually park out of town, walk along the river.
03:27Yeah.
03:28And then sit here and just enjoy the flowers.
03:30And obviously the nice weather is a bonus.
03:33So, right.
03:33Well, we'll let you continue to enjoy them flowers.
03:36Cheers, guys.
03:37Okay.
03:37Okay.