People-watching and date-witnessing in the Dingle, on the award-winning Hello You

I was thrilled and very surprised to be recognised in Shrewsbury’s Mayor’s Awards for Hello You the Shropshire podcast. I’ll now be using the phrase ‘award-winning’ as often and as gratuitously as you’d expect.

I picked up an award in the ‘Courtesy’ category, which is basically the ‘Vibe’ category. It recognises people whose work, volunteering or passion makes Shrewsbury a cool, exciting, supportive and good place to live. I’ll take that, thank you!

Huge congratulations to the other award winners too! There’s a full list on Shrewsbury Town Council’s Facebook. The Gold Award in the ‘Courtesy’ category went to Shrewsbury Street Pastors, and the Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Maggie Love, Shrewsbury’s queen of theatre, dance and spectacle who set up the Shrewsbury Ambassadors scheme among so much else.

On a bench in the Dingle

On Tuesday afternoon I took myself off to a bench in the Dingle, in Shrewsbury’s Quarry (Park). It was a particular bench, suggested by Denise on BlueSky who said she thought it has the best view of any in the county. But was it a prime spot for talking to people? It was certainly a good location for watching them …

You can hear what happened in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast.