First cut

This is the first cut of the film. Due to not being granted reasonable adjustment for another week, this is the cut that will be submitted for marking, however, I will continue to work on the film for the grad exhibitions in Bristol and London.

Making the film

I know my way around Adobe Premiere Pro quite well now as I have used it for two previous projects and am confident with my use of it.

To begin with, I made "bins" for all of my content, including Visuals, Atmos, Dictaphone recordings, Tascam recordings, and titles, and imported the content into the corresponding bins. This is to keep my project window organised and easy to navigate.

I followed my storyboard to edit the film. To do this, I opened up the desired clips in the source window, scrubbed the playhead to where I wanted to begin my cut and clicked the "mark in" button to begin, and the "mark out" to finish the clip, before exporting it to the timeline. I also the cut audio in the same way using the source window.

When the clip is exported to the timeline, it is linked to the audio recorded in the camera. As I don't want that I can get rid of it by right clicking and choosing "unlink". This then separates the audio, and it can be deleted. 

Some of the shots had movement due to camera shake. I had not rectified this on Premiere Pro before but it was pretty easy. I simply dragged and dropped "warp stabiliser" onto the clip from "Effects" in the project window. I then selected "no motion", as there was no movement in the frame that needed to be smoothed. The program then scans the clip and rectifies it.

I also straightened clips, which I had not done before, but found to be pretty easy. I selected the clip I needed on the timeline and opened "Video Effects" in the source window. I used the "rotation" slider to adjust the frame until the horizontal lines were straight, and then scaled the image up slightly to remove the black lines around the side from the crop. 

I utilised the "channels" (video 1, video 2, audio 1, audio 2, etc) on the timeline by using video 1 for all moving image clips, video 2 for titles and stills, audio 1 for atmos, and audio 2 for dialogue. This allows me to overlay sounds and visuals for a multilayered, multimedia piece.  

Ilfracombe Weekend audio transcriptions

Mother in law - hotel

How long have you lived in Ilfracombe?

15 year.

And how did you come to find Ilfracombe?

Well, I worked at a garage, and one of the drivers came in, and I said I wanted to go somewhere different and he said “oh I'll give you a place”, and he just give me the address, and I wrote to the lady, and we came down to stay, and we loved it, so we came year after year. We came for about 40 years.

And then you ended up with the hotel, how did that come about?

Well, when we brought Sharon, she said “when I grow up I'm going to live in Ilfracombe”, so when she married Jeff she said “I'll take you to a place you'll love”, so she brought him down here and he fell in love with it you see. And as years went on they decided they wanted to move because he wanted to change his job, because it was getting a bit fierce, you know, and they just got estate agents to send them different things, and they sent him this hotel, and they came and had a look at it and we all came.

What's your favourite part of Ilfracombe?

I don't really know, Ilfracombe's just a nice place, I just love Ilfracombe.

And are there any areas you think need work?

I don't know because I stick to certain parts. I go down to harbour because I do the lifeboat shop, and of course I go up to bowling green because I play bowls. So you get involved, you get involved in Ilfracombe, so I'm involved in bowls and skittles and mother and toddlers, so it just snowballs.

What do you think of Damien Hirst and his affect on Ilfracombe?

Well I think it's bringing a lot of business, because he's got 2 or 3 places on the harbour. It's a bit pricey, to my way of thinking, but on the whole, I mean he lives in Combe Martin, so he is bringing business here.

And what do you think of Verity?

Well I'm a bit mixed. One side she looks lovely, but when you go to the other side... I think it's in the wrong place, I don't think it should be on the harbour. I think they should put something ore in keeping with the harbour, you know, like fishing and things like that. But it's alright, people come and have a look. I think a lot of them come out of curiosity, they just want to see what it's all about, and it' surprising how many people don't know, cos they'll pop into lifeboat shop, and I'll say “have you come to look at Verity?” and they go “Verity?” and you just point them in the right direction, they come back and they give you their opinion. People are very good about it, a lot of people love it, but I suppose it's everybody’s opinion. I mean, you can't say “well, I hate it”, I don't hate it but as I say I think it could be put in a different place.

Do you think it's had a good affect on Ilfracombe, do you think it's improved things around the town?

I don't know because some people just drive in, have a look and drive out, but we do have a new car park, so that's going to encourage people to stay, because there was nowhere to park and now they've built a lovely car park on the harbour, so that could encourage people to stay in Ilfracombe, which would be lovely.

And I’ve heard as well that since she's come in there’s a lot less empty shops on the high street and there's a lot more art galleries as well...

There's some beautiful art galleries, there's a lot of art galleries. A lot of them, I’m not... but I do have a look. It's worth going and having a look round because I’m surprised how nice some of the things are. There's even one at the side of the lifeboat shop, and some of the figures in it are beautiful, really beautiful.

Do you think it's bringing a different type of tourist to Ilfracombe?

Well I don't know because I don't... Apart from going to lifeboat shop and people popping in to buy things and look round, I don't really know what type of people come. I just don't.

Jeff – hotel

How long have you lived in Ilfracombe?

15 years

And how did you come to find Ilfracombe?

I first met my wife 35 years ago, she brought me down here and I fell in love with the place.

What do you like about Ilfracombe?

It's easy going lifestyle, no pressure, no big town atmosphere, very friendly, warm, inviting town.

How did you get the hotel?

Because of the job I was doing which was a highly stressful job I needed a change of life totally, and the environment down here we thought it was a good thing, and we looked at somewhere to work where we could bring our skills here, and somewhere to live, we needed to occupy. Brought me mother and father in law with us, so we needed somewhere big enough to house everybody and the hotel was the best option. It was only a small town, probably a temporary thing, we were going to stay in here until we got ourselves established. But 15 years in we're still at it and going strong.

What's your favourite part of Ilfracombe?

Probably the Tunnels beach area, and the seafront, around the Quay.

And why do you like these places?

Mainly the history that's in behind it, thinking that how the roads were named after the ship building history that was here, things like Ropery Row and things like that. It's just, when you live somewhere you don't always want to know the history of the place, but when you move to Ilfracombe, it's history is shouting out to be looked at, and that’s what we did. I've always had a keen interest in looking at the museum and seeing what's happened here and where people, famous people have come from.

And would you say there's anything that needs improvement?

Probably the traffic system. I've always been one shouting for a one-way system because the streets are quite narrow and there's no good knocking buildings down to make it easier for cars to drive past. It just needs a better road system and better parking, that’s the one thing that's really amiss with it.

What do you think of Damien's restaurants and Verity?

Marvellous, it's very... I don't think we're going to become a Padstow or anything, we're not going into Rick Stein-ville or anything. He's investing money in other ways, this is a big show-piece which is great. Up North you've got Angel of the North and down here we've got Verity, and she's so many inches bigger, people don't realise that until they come and stand and look at her, and then realise what size that is. It's quite an impressive statue, and for that to be in somewhere that's supposedly run down because there;s not the fishing fleets and ships and ferries backwards and forwards that we were thinking were going to happen, this has brought a new focus back onto the quay, and people are looking to... it's improved the restaurants and there's a bit of competition there. Wetherspoons have moved in, they're going to be an uplift for the town as well.

What do you think of Verity personally?

Think it's lovely, marvellous. It's a bit like, coming from Yorkshire I know about Henry Moore, and a lot of people look at his sculpture and thought what's it all about and couldn't understand anything with it but with Damien you go in his restaurants and with Verity as well it's got a little cutting edge with it there's something there. It's good to look at but it's challenging as well, it's what's its meaning, people wonder why she's stood on a load of books, etc. a lot of people don’t realise that until they get close to it. I think it's a good thing, he is investing a load of money in here on the quiet, it's not big advertising, there's money being invested in he Ilfracombe Academy, there's gonna be a new football pitch up there, all weather that’s gonna hep the Ilfracombe Ladies that I support anyway, so there's gonna be an all weather football pitch up there which is [unintelligible] he doesn't want that called, you know, “Damien's ground” or something, it's all just for the community. And he lives here as well, it's not... he has to manage to hold his head up high and walk around. Nice man, hell of a nice man.

Have you met him?

Mm, couple of times. Yeah, nice bloke. He's got plenty of businesses elsewhere, he's got restaurants and such like in Soho, he's doing hotels here but he's doing them at his own pace, he's never in any rush to do anything. But it's good for the town, it needs something.

Have you been in the restaurant? And did you like it?

Yeah. It's fairly, it is a little bit upmarket for this area, people think we're just a fish and chips town, but there is a good variety now of different restaurants, which oh well adds to the flavour of the place. Only thing we need to get back to now is the shops being open at night like they used to when we took our kids round. All the shops reopened at 6 after everyone had their evening meal, they'd promenade the kids round to make sure they went to sleep, and all the shops were open and you could visit, that's the next step Ilfracombe needs to take. Start getting shops open later on at night, it gives it that atmosphere.

Lynne Thorne

How did you come to live in Ilfracombe?

Oh I was born in Ilfracombe and lived here all my life.

What's your favourite part of Ilfracombe?

I guess on top of the hills where you can see he lovely views. You know, when people sometimes or maybe quite often, run Ilfracombe down, they can't have been up on the top of Hillsborough or the Torrs and looked you know, out at sea, and seen what a beautiful place it is. But the beaches are lovely, the seafront is lovely; I love this part of the town too, Bicclescombe Park, it's lovely, peaceful, lovely and green at the moment, and beautiful really.

Are there any parts of the town that needs to be improved upon?

Well, yes. I do, especially at the moment, the potholes need sorting out, some of the potholes are dreadful. And of course it would be nice to have the high street back the way it used to be, but I think it's sort of fairly general these days that high streets aren’t what they used to be because of all the out of town shopping that people do; and we used to have lots of, well you could buy anything in Ilfracombe: clothes shops, furniture shops, shoes shops, you name it. Didn't really have to go anywhere else, but of course nowadays we've got Superdrug and a hardware store, and a couple of factory shops, and bakers and a couple of butchers and that's about it really. So the high street is a little bit sad, but I guess like I say, that's fairly general.

And what do you think of Damien's influence on the town?

Well so far it's been positive. I mean, since we've had Verity it's brought a lot of visitors to the town, and also we've got several nice smart shops since he's opened his nice restaurant and his art shop, and we've got several art shops open now, and along the harbour the shops are becoming a little bit more upmarket. They've got very much like bucket and spade rubbishy type things but we've got a nice new clothes shop open up down there and there are two or three nice art shops and nice ice cream parlours and a wine bar has opened up this year. And also, everything used to close down, they used to say Barnstaple fair which is the middle of September, pretty much all the shops down at the seafront would shut up shop for the whole of the winter and not open again until after Easter, but nowadays, a lot of them if not most of them are open all year round. And the little aquarium on the pier, it must have made such a difference to them because they would have been closed all winter and you can go down there any day during the winter and there are people there having coffee outside if it's a fine enough day, the aquarium seems to be always open so it's brilliant seeing all the people about, even on the coldest, maybe not the wettest day, but the coldest wildest day there's always people out and about, it's really good.

What do you think of Verity?

Personally, I think she's wonderful. She stands there on the pier with her sword aloft, looking as though she's guarding Ilfracombe. There is a legend that during the Napoleonic war, the French fleet tried to invade Ilfracombe and the men were all away fighting, and the women got their red petticoats, put them around their shoulders and paraded around the hills, Capstone and Lantern Hill and the seafront looking as if they were soldiers, and frightened the French fleet away, and I just think Verity is carrying on the tradition of Betsy Gammon and her ladies, and she's there looking after us, and I think she's wonderful. In the winter, when all the boats are out on the pier, the yachts are all taken out of the harbour and lined up in lines on the pier, their masts and Verity's sword all seem to fit in so well, and she just fits in between Hillsborough and Lantern Hill, and well, she's just fantastic, I love her to bits. I wasn’t always so keen, before she came I thought she was gonna be a monstrosity, we'd heard descriptions of her, how you could see her insides, and I’d seen the sculptures that Damien Hirst had done of completely skinned people, there's one of I think St Sebastian in Canterbury Cathedral and he's got his skin over his arm and I thought oh that's really gruesome, I didn’t like that, but Verity, especially from her left hand side where you look at her most of the time, you have to go out of your way to look at her right hand side which is her skinned side which really only shows the structure of muscle and her unborn baby, and it's not as gruesome as I thought, and she's not as big or as ugly as I thought shed be, in fact I think she's quite beautiful.

And you also play the Verity photo bingo...

Oh yes, there's a game... We're retired now, and two or three times a week if not a bit more if we're out for any reason we'll drive round to the pier – we probably would have done that anyway to look at the sea, but we call it “going to see Verity” - and we pull up in the parking spaces near her and we play a game where we aren't allowed to drive away again until we've seen someone take a photo. Well quite often we've not even pulled into the parking space and someone's taken a photo, but we've never had to wait more than a couple of minutes; in fact quite often I say “oh lets not go just yet” - someone’s taken a photo - “lets stay a little bit and just watch the sea” or whatever, but yeah we do play that game.

Ray Thorne

How did you come to live in Ilfracombe?

Well, because the family was here, the family came here from Exeter in 1920, just before that I think, the end of WWI. They were master hairdressers, they opened a shop down at Broad St in Ilfracombe, and obviously my dad was born in Exeter and I think he was about 2 years old when he came up or something like that.

What's your favourite part of Ilfracombe?

I think at the moment, cos I live here and overlook, his is a beautifully quiet part of Ilfracombe, the Bicclescombe Park area, but seeing as I worked for many years on the boats as a professional I do love the harbour, I still love me fishing, don't do it so much these days, but yep, I spent so much time down there back in the 70s and 80s, yeah it's very dear to me that part, and obviously because my father, fathers family had a business down there and they were all called “quay-ites” because they lived and worked down on the quay.

Are there any areas you think could be improved upon?

Well some of the areas over the years have fallen into decay, mainly what we call “Flat Land”, where you get big old houses turned into multiple flats and they tend to be very run down areas to a certain degree, but I think even now they're coming up and the houses are being done up and there's a bit more money being spent on it. There's very few places now that you can see that they're degrading, really, so simple as that really.

What do you think of the Damien Hirst effect?

I think it's brilliant. When, if you're talking about Verity, when we first heard that Verity was coming which was in the North Devon Journal, the councillors were saying Damien Hirst – that no one had really heard of – was going to possibly put this large bronze statue down on the pier, there was a sort of debate on that and the actual artist impressions we saw in the local papers were quite gruesome and a lot of people didn't like it at all. There were petitions to stop it, councillors had rows and got upset about this, but to be honest, when more and more interest became and when it was realised that businesses down on the seafront would benefit from the arrival of that, which was proved to be correct actually, even the council, the car parking in winters there's something like 30000 cars up, parking tickets, in the winter months where normally lots of shops would be shut sort of October time stayed open all the winter, because people, even local people, I would say from Biddeford, Torringotn, mid-Devon, would be coming up on a Sunday to see her and obviously they'd have a fish and chips or a bar meal or something, so it really did actually do what it said it would, and it still does; and I think we said earlier on that when you see a coach load of old age pensioners show up on the pier and they all spill out and swarm around the bottom of Verity, all taking photos on their mobiles and everything, when you see someone of 80-odd years old doing that its quite remarkable, to take home and show their families what they'd seen down on the end of Ilfracombe pier, yeah its brilliant.

What do you think about Verity?

Well I think originally what we were shown in the first place was a bit gruesome, they always seem to show the worst side of her, but that is pointing out [unintelligible], and it's quite an incredible thing and lovely, and as you go through the pier gates and you see this big bronze statue looking up to the north east it's quite incredible, and it's certainly a crowd puller, there's no question about that. A lot of people I’m sure down the front can only say “thank goodness for Verity”. Because times have been hard in Ilfracombe, we've had problems, we always do in the winter months, but businesses have done well. And I think it's great and hopefully it'll stay there its fill 20 odd years and hopefully something else will be there to keep the ball rolling, it's very good.

Tell us about the game you play.

Oh yes, Lynne and I we always, if we're down shopping in the town or wherever, we always go down the seafront to have a look around, and we, this sort of little game, right from day one, we go down and park on the pier and we wouldn’t leave until somebody took a photo of it. And I can honestly say we probably have never got to wait more than a couple of minutes until a car pulls in alongside us, somebody gets out, steps clear of their car, takes a photo of Verity. It doesn’t matter what age, it just seems that people just pull in, take a photo and then go and pay for their car parking and wonder off up into town. And that's the game that we do and I don't think we've ever had to wait more than 5-10 minutes before somebody somewhere takes a photo down there. We always have a chuckle about that. 

Storyboard reasoning

To begin my storyboard, I transcribed all of my audio so I could pick out the most relevant or interesting quotes by highlighting the text. I also made notes of which tracks featured background noise. I then organised it in a way that I found logical: starting with how long they had lived in Ilfracombe, their favourite places, places that need work in the town, what they think of Verity, and the effect Hirst has had in the town. I then tried to pair the audio with images that either matched what was being spoken about, or was more subtle to the subject matter. I named the film "Curious Coastal Charm", as this was the tagline for a tourist board campaign a few years ago and it was suggested to me by someone who works for the tourist information. Atmos audio of the sea is used throughout as Ilfracombe is of course a seaside town.

The opening shot of the coast at the Tunnels Beaches establishes the subject of the film as a seaside place. I overlaid the opening titles on this shot to have a more visually interesting introduction to the film. I paired this with the dialogue about finding Ilfracombe by coming on holiday, as the Tunnels are a popular tourist spot. I moved away from the natural coastal shots for the next two quotes and instead showed some of the harbour to show more of the town, before going on to show more of the coastal charm to match the quote about how beautiful the views are. There is a short sequence that follows this of the Tunnels Beaches, comprising of the directions sign, a close up of a rock under a shallow stream, and a shot of the ladies pool. This accompanies the dialogue about a lady's son-in-law finding Ilfracombe beautiful. I felt like the visuals of natural beauty fitted well.

To introduce the next segment of the film I used a shot of the newpaper headline outside of a newsagent about regeneration and improvements for Ilfracombe. This was paired with "Is there any improvements to be made? Yes, lots and lots." I contradict the next quote (there aren't any improvements) with a shot of a run down shop that seemingly sells everything. The next piece of dialogue mentions that there are patchy areas of business on the high street (blocks where shops are filled and parts where there are empty stores), and the visuals that match this is shots of empty and working stores to match the audio. More shots of the high street follow with more dialogue to support the notion of maintaining the high street. Upcoming improvements to the town are mentioned briefly (a new Wetherspoons pub and tearing down the old bus station to make a new car park) with the footage to support this.

The subject then turns to Verity, with the quote "Up North they've got the Angel of the North but down here we've got Verity". Clips from newspaper articles about Verity - charting her proposal to after her erection - appear on screen while a voice talks about the opposition and difficulty that happened during the process of gaining her. Signs for Verity lead up to our first glimpse of her as a voice says that she makes the harbour ugly. More shots of Verity accompany the majority of dialogue about her. The audio includes views that she would be better off somewhere else in the town, and one person who says she reminds her of the women of Ilfracombe during the Napoleonic war who wore their red petticoats around their shoulders to appear as soldiers from a distance and stopped his Navy from invading. A shot of Lantern Hill is shown to illustrate where they would have marched. Distanced shots of her in the harbour accompany dialogue about how she looks from a distance.

The topic then moves on to how Verity and - by extention - Hirst have affected the town. This segment begins with shots of his restaurant and Other Criteria gallery as a voice says that it has brought more visitors to the town and has also inspired shop owners to up their game to keep up with Hirst's modernisation of the harbour area - there are now more galleries and nice restaurants due to Hirst's influence. Another voice talks about the galleries, while shots of the galleries show on screen. Another says that Ilfracombe will never be Padstow "Rick Stein-ville" but is moving away from the fish and chips reputation. Explicit shots show the exteriors of fish and chip shops and the nicer restaurants in comparison. One voice focuses on how the presence has affected the local aquarium - this is accompanied by exterior shots of the building and of a rockpool to tie in with the sealife theme of this dialogue.

Finally, one last shot of Verity appears as a voice concludes "A lot of people I'm sure can only say 'thank goodness for Verity'. 

I believe this storyboard will help me to make a strong piece of work.

Storyboard

OPENING TITLE

Well, I worked at a garage, and one of the drivers came in, and I said I wanted to go somewhere different and he said “oh I'll give you a place”, and he just give me the address, and I wrote to the lady, and we came down to stay, and we loved it, so we came year after year. We came for about 40 years.

I think Ilfracombe's a beautiful place to live, the scenery is fantastic, the people are really friendly and nice and to be honest I wouldn't want to live anywhere else!

It's easy going lifestyle, no pressure, no big town atmosphere, very friendly, warm, inviting town.

You know, when people sometimes or maybe quite often, run Ilfracombe down, they can't have been up on the top of Hillsborough or the Torrs and looked you know, out at sea, and seen what a beautiful place it is.

Well, when we brought Sharon, she said “when I grow up I'm going to live in Ilfracombe”, so when she married Jeff she said “I'll take you to a place you'll love”, so she brought him down here and he fell in love with it you see.

Lets put it this way, I wouldn't live anywhere else. I can't put my finger on what it is, but it's just a lovely place to live.

Ilfracombe's just a nice place, I just love Ilfracombe.

"Are there any improvement?" Yes, lots, lots and lots.

“Are there any improvements you think could be made?” Not really, there's the place is as it is, there's holiday season and a quiet season, and I don’t think there’s any improvements that need to be made.

I think there's certain parts of the town that could do with a bit of improvement. For example, I think the high street, you get one end where all the shops are occupied – fine – then you get another little but where they become vacant, and it just makes the town... not sort of flow, if you know what I mean. 

of course it would be nice to have the high street back the way it used to be, but I think it's sort of fairly general these days that high streets aren’t what they used to be because of all the out of town shopping that people do. So the high street is a little bit sad, but I guess like I say, that's fairly general.

We are actually having Wetherspoons built now down on the front, which is fantastic because the Collinwood hotel was a bit of an eyesore. The council are now, or have demolished the bus station in ilfracombe which was another really bad part of Ilfracombe and that's all being done, so I think, you know, they're doing their best to bring the town up to a certain standard.

BLACK

Up North you've got Angel of the North and down here we've got Verity.

NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

when we first heard that Verity was coming which was in the North Devon Journal, the councillors were saying Damien Hirst – that no one had really heard of – was going to possibly put this large bronze statue down on the pier, there was a sort of debate on that and the actual artist impressions we saw in the local papers were quite gruesome and a lot of people didn't like it at all. There were petitions to stop it, councillors had rows and got upset

“What do you think of Verity?” I haven't really got any views on that, it doesn't affect us and I think it looks hideous on the harbour, I think it actually ruins the view of the harbour.

I wasn’t always so keen, before she came I thought she was gonna be a monstrosity. it's not as gruesome as I thought, and she's not as big or as ugly as I thought shed be, in fact I think she's quite beautiful.

One side she looks lovely, but when you go to the other side... I think it's in the wrong place, I don't think it should be on the harbour. I think they should put something ore in keeping with the harbour, you know, like fishing and things like that. I mean, you can't say “well, I hate it”, I don't hate it but as I say I think it could be put in a different place.

When I’m doing my job as an estate agent I’m out around with people and it's quite interesting when you're in some properties that look down onto the harbour how amazing she actually looks.

She stands there on the pier with her sword aloft, looking as though she's guarding Ilfracombe. There is a legend that during the Napoleonic war, the French fleet tried to invade Ilfracombe and the men were all away fighting, and the women got their red petticoats, put them around their shoulders and paraded around the hills, Capstone and Lantern Hill and the seafront looking as if they were soldiers, and frightened the French fleet away, and I just think Verity is carrying on the tradition of Betsy Gammon and her ladies, and she's there looking after us, and I think she's wonderful.

I was in America last year in a pub, as you do, and we've been talking about Verity to some friends we'd met on holiday, and the barman in the bar was doing an art degree and he knew all about Damien Hirst , and these people said to him “Patsy, she knows Verity because she comes from the town where she is”, and he could just not believe that I come from the town where Verity was and where Damien Hirst lives, so I thought that was quite interesting. So it is a world, well-known all over the world about Verity, so yeah, I think it's great.

I mean, since we've had Verity it's brought a lot of visitors to the town, and also we've got several nice smart shops since he's opened his nice restaurant and his art shop, and we've got several art shops open now, and along the harbour the shops are becoming a little bit more upmarket.

There's some beautiful art galleries, there's a lot of art galleries. A lot of them, I’m not... but I do have a look. It's worth going and having a look round because I’m surprised how nice some of the things are. There's even one at the side of the lifeboat shop, and some of the figures in it are beautiful, really beautiful.

people think we're just a fish and chips town, but there is a good variety now of different restaurants, which oh well adds to the flavour of the place. I don't think we're going to become a Padstow or anything, we're not going into Rick Stein-ville or anything.

And the little aquarium on the pier, it must have made such a difference to them because they would have been closed all winter and you can go down there any day during the winter and there are people there having coffee outside if it's a fine enough day, the aquarium seems to be always open so it's brilliant seeing all the people about, even on the coldest, maybe not the wettest day, but the coldest wildest day there's always people out and about, it's really good.

A lot of people I’m sure down the front can only say “thank goodness for Verity”. 

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