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“So when you go for your break or for fifteen minutes; morning break, I usually have it here and just, you know, just relax.”

“Sometimes you want to socialise, but other times, you just want peace. Like reading a book or just watching TV. Or just calm.”

“Sometimes Suzy will come with me and we’ll just be like; ‘that’s it, we’re just taking a half an hour.’ And we’ll just go and we’ll sit somewhere and we’ll just put the world to rights.”

“Sometimes it’s very hot in the hospital and just coming out and getting a breath of fresh air makes it so much better. The air just blows everything away.”

“Sometimes I put music on and just listen to that while I’m tidying stuff up – I quite like to order things and organise stuff – just making a list of things and working my way through, ticking things off quietly with nobody disturbing me.”

“The noise of the water’s quite relaxing. You get away from all the beeping, the hustle and bustle. I just come outside the hospital, sit outside next to the river. It’s nice to get fresh air when you’ve been inside for so many hours.”

“I like sitting there. There’s a lot of nature there actually, herring gulls and wee dipper birds.”

“I didn’t know where to go and I thought ‘okay’. And it was really close. So I started from there and I walked in and I was like ‘ahhhh’ – big sigh. Got myself together and then walked back out. And I was like, ‘right, let’s do this’.”