Flowerworks of Swanley owner Michelle Avery speaking about the business
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00:00Myself, I started there originally. It was Stephen's Flowers at the time. I started there as a Saturday girl, at the age of 15, and then I worked my way up to then in 2011, the current owner then retired and I took it over.
00:17Then obviously Brexit, you know, with like anything, fresh produce, fruit and veg, flowers, everything then comes, obviously that's come over via passports, then obviously that was more costly, then obviously that's when crisis started arising then.
00:37Obviously, we all kind of overcome that one. It was hard, but we all overcome it. And then obviously COVID, I mean, a lot of flower shops or businesses went down and never did recover. I mean, we never did fully recover. It was just sort of making ends meet, basically. It's just, yeah, it's just gone on from there.
00:58You know, deeper and deeper, you saw me, basically all my savings I did have has gone into the business just to keep me afloat. And I had to make that decision as much as I didn't want to, and it still kills me now that I'm not working, because I've always done it.