“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’.”

“Once I just sit down in the sun, it’s like someone’s just recharged me. It just feels like this abundance of energy.”

“It only takes five minutes sometimes just to have some peace and quiet, a cup of coffee on your own, and then you can go back out refreshed.”

“It’s just nice sitting here, forgetting what’s going on in the ward.”

“If we’re actually here in the linen room for any length of time, we’re laughing and joking and things like that, I mean, we try and keep the morale up as much as we can.”

“It’ll take you across a little river and down across like the trees and through the greenery and then back through a different part of the hospital. So it’s really nice – by the time you’ve done it, you just feel like you’ve completely reset.”

“Or when it’s just me, I just come up and wither sit on the grass, or on the benches, usually sunglasses on if I want to be just me and noise-cancelling headphones in so I can listen to some music. Chill out on the grass for a while.”

“I come up to the terrace because it’s a breathing space and I get the sun in my face, I can smell the rosemary. I can look at the plants, look out over the rooftops.”