Members of Skegness Public Living Room, who are Platform Housing residents, have been busy creating poppies for Royal British Legion Remembrance display around the Clock Tower.
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00:00So we set up a public living room just over a year ago and we're always looking
00:04for ideas for the group to, you know, activities for the group to get involved
00:09in and it was actually Karen and one of her friends Elaine that saw that the
00:14Royal British Legion Skegness were advertising for people to create poppies
00:18for an exhibition in November. So we just thought it was a great thing for our
00:23group to do and in fact a few people from outside the group also got involved.
00:27And you've got them all here, just have a quick look at some of the work that's
00:31been done. Karen, you know, what led you to want to do this?
00:39I just thought with being local and also coming to the group it was a good idea of a project for the group to do.
00:46Because it's a coffee morning isn't it normally?
00:48It is, yes, it's a coffee morning, yes.
00:50And we do lots of other activities as well.
00:53So let's have a look at some of these stones, absolutely lovely aren't they?
00:59There's a lot of camouflage netting going around that clock tower so it'll be really useful to help weigh it down.
01:06And are the poppies, are they from the pattern that the Royal British Legion...
01:12They are, yes. We printed the pattern off and we handed the pattern out to different people, family and friends.
01:19So how many poppies are there?
01:22327 and 33 stones.
01:27Wow, and how long has that taken you to do?
01:30I don't know, a couple of months probably.
01:33Well they do need thousands and thousands.
01:36We are going to carry on.
01:38So I'm sure they'll be pleased, yeah.
01:40You must be really impressed with what they've achieved.
01:43I am, I'm so pleased that people have come together, not only from in this group but also from outside of our group.
01:52So yeah, it's just been really lovely for them to get involved and to create this for the group.
02:00And just another activity that they can do.