David Miller
“It’s nice, we like it down here. This is our wee domain, our wee hidey-hole.”
Denise Farrell
“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.”
Elaine Brown
“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.”
Emma McLeod
“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.”
Frances Wood
“It’s a lovely staff room – I sit in the comfy seat – there’s the big windows – it’s quite therapeutic, just sitting and chilling and reading your phone.”
Gemma Turnbull
“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.”
George Galbraith
“I like sitting there. There’s a lot of nature there actually, herring gulls and wee dipper birds.”
Hannah Godfrey
“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’.”
