Coun Adrian Findley has described his year as Mayor of Skegness as the best experience of his life. Here we speak to him ijn the final hours before he hands the chain of office over to Coun Jimmy Brookes at the Mayor Making ceremony.
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00:00ad just a few more hours before you hand the chain of office over to councillor jimmy brooks how are
00:11you feeling very sad it's been such an honor such a privilege in life to be the mirror escape mess
00:20and it's something that you could you can't imagine how special it is unless you've actually
00:25done it and it has by far been the greatest greatest year of my life that's without a doubt
00:31i've met so many fantastic people i've been you know you meet people and you learn different
00:38stories about people's lives and what they're doing and why they're doing it it's just an
00:42incredible journey now it has been a busy year for you do you know how many events you've attended
00:49i think diary i've kept the diary obviously ones coming up ones that have done just for you know
00:54just for historical purposes so i can look back on it because i mean not that i'll forget any of it
00:59because it's been amazing but i think i read about 100 910 something like that so and do any of them
01:07stand out for you uh it's a kid i always used to watch the carnival and then when you're a kid you
01:14don't really know what you're looking at when you see them there you just know that he's the public
01:19figure and i as a kid i always used to think wow that what that must feel like
01:24so that was definitely one of the highlights of my year you know tens of thousands of people lining
01:30the streets and proudly wearing that chain right at the front of the carnival was just a huge moment
01:36in my life and a v80 as well that's been quite an emotional week for you hasn't it
01:42it's a phenomenal end to my year i mean we did that we did the town council event on uh which was
01:49you know privileged to be a massive part of on thursday and then on saturday uh we um we lit the
01:56beacon thursday night and then on saturday it was just the finale of spending the day on the tower
02:03gardens for the rbl 80th anniversary of the spit fire and just so much going on so many people there
02:10it was you know with the axe the stalls just i mean what they did the rbl and that was an incredible
02:16achievement to pull that off and to be a part of it was just so emotional i was full of emotion on that
02:24day knowing that was it my last event now you are handing the chain of office over to
02:32councillor junior brooks what will your advice to him be
02:39i would give advice as i got it soak up every minute and enjoy it because it takes a lot of time
02:48a lot of commitment but every single minute is worth it without a shadow of it and what next for you
02:55well i've got i'm always at the summit you know i'm we'll look at me and myself and sarah we're both
03:03looking at uh joining another organization in the town as volunteers maybe on the committee we don't
03:09know yet um we're hoping to get a part of that obviously i've got uh i'll continue with me uh
03:15counselling role so you've got a new role as as the new reform counsellor on the county council
03:24are you looking forward to that challenge
03:27uh yeah i'll do it because obviously i mean we've got a very um very tough learning program to go through
03:34lots of courses and stuff like that so but um yeah you've got to get through that first and then
03:39we'll see what we can do for skeg if we can do anything so hopefully we you know we'll be able
03:44to get some you know make that change