00:00Paul, thanks for joining us. What do you love most about Woodsy's?
00:05It's a really nice friendly village, proper old-fashioned village, the school, the village hall, the shop across the road and the pub of course.
00:12And it's got that community spirit about it.
00:14Yeah, it's not the biggest places but the Cock Inn here, would you say it's a bit of a community hub really for everyone here that's here?
00:20Yes, definitely. We've extended the restaurant in recent years but we've kept the bar very much a traditional bar
00:27that sort of accommodates everyone, different age groups and something for everyone sort of thing really, yeah.
00:35As I said finally, it's not possibly the biggest place but what would you say to someone who didn't know Woodsy's too well
00:42if you were describing about it and its character?
00:46I'm not sure really. I mean like you say, a lot of people just drive through and sometimes people come here for a drink or to eat
00:55they've driven along this road many times, never stopped, didn't realise the pub was here or what it was like
01:01but when they do come in for a drink, find the locals at the bar usually very friendly and happy to chat to them
01:07and it's a place that people who live in a village can all get together and meet and get to know the people that they're living amongst sort of thing.
01:15We recently visited you for the Love Your Local, just tell everyone who may be watching this what you offer here at the Cock Inn
01:20if they wanted to stop off for a drink or maybe a bite to eat?
01:24Well, they said a combination of a proper traditional village bar with open fires, it's dog friendly, we have live music on occasionally
01:30and then a dining room next door which is almost like a separate place in a sense but we use local produce
01:38and we open seven days a week, breakfast on a Sunday, you can come in just for a bite to eat and a coffee or a full meal
01:47or like I say, just come and have a sack in the bar, so it's a good mix of everything really.
01:53Yes Sam, thank you for stopping for a chat, you've been a Woodseeds resident for quite a while now, what do you think the nicest thing is about Woodseeds?
02:01Probably the nicest thing is the various places you can go to really, because we have a dog and another dog of course as well.
02:08You go out to so many different places from here and the countryside is really nice here as well.
02:14And also another thing is the links in Stafford is really nice because you can get a car in Stafford, no time at all really
02:20and then you've got the train station there as well and that's like, you can go to like Liverpool, Manchester, go down to London if you want to wherever you want to go.
02:28So I think the main thing is probably the views out to the countryside, it's just so nice here and the residents as well are so friendly.
02:35So yeah, pretty much it.
02:37Yeah, if anyone didn't know Woodseeds, would you describe it really as maybe a place connected to farming and country life like that?
02:43Yeah, absolutely. Every time you go out for a walk, there's a farmer out somewhere doing something so totally agricultural here.
02:49And the fields are always being worked on, you know, every time a year you're here.
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