Escape to the Chateau: Make Do and Mend (2020–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Episode #1.3 - full transcript
- Five years ago,
Angel and I fell in love
with a derelict 45-room chateau.
This is truly beautiful.
And since then,
we've spent every spare moment
bringing it back to life.
- This is beyond better
than what I've imagined.
(all laugh)
(all cheering)
(hammer knocks)
- Now, at a time
when so many of us
are tackling jobs at home.
(steam pops)
- We want to use
Angel's creativity.
- See the vision?
(tool buzzes)
- And Dick's ingenuity.
(wood thuds)
- That is the basis of a bed.
To solve your design
and DIY dilemmas.
- We want your help
sorting out our front door.
- From crafty conundrums.
Magazines are great to use.
The ink is waterproof.
- To entire room renovations.
- We've all got our power tools.
(drills whir)
- We'll be on hand to help.
We're gonna be drinks
twirling partners in this.
- Amazing.
(both laughing)
- You got your bus too?
- Yeah, bus to bus.
(Angel laughs)
- Because if we can do it.
I am an average crafter.
I've just got the
mindset of having a go.
So can you.
- Stage one complete.
(Angel gasps)
(Dick laughs)
- That's just giving
me goosebumps.
- Look at that smoker.
That's phenomenal.
- And because we're
stuck at home,
we're filming it ourselves.
I'm filming me, filming you,
being cross with me.
I love it.
- Frazier you brace for cold.
Now that really is
Make Do and Mend.
(light-hearted music)
When we first moved
to the Chateau,
I didn't know anything
about chickens.
- Come on, let's go
cock-a-doodle-doo's.
- Luckily, Dick did.
And today we have
six hens, a Cockerel,
and four to five fresh eggs
to collect every morning.
- Is there any in here?
Should we say,
eggs are you ready?
- Arthur, let me see.
- Oh, right here.
- Wow, look at those.
- Arthur Donald, you go
collect two eggs, please.
Okay.
- Oh, in one hand.
- Course they were.
(kids clucking)
- Come past me, come past me.
- Oh, she's gonna lay an egg.
- Oh, no, uh-oh.
- She's gonna lay an egg.
Look behind you.
(Dick laughing)
- Egg collection
done for the day.
It's time for us to help you
with your projects.
- Hi, Dick and Angel.
This is Helena
and I need help
with my stereogram.
- Look at that.
- Oh, that's gorgeous.
- A Pye stereogram.
- When I bought it,
it worked perfectly.
The rubber on the record player
has started to perish.
The records weren't
panning at the right speed.
I tried to fix that
with some rubber bands,
but it didn't work.
I've completely destroyed it.
I'd be really happy
to hear your ideas.
Thank you.
- Wow.
- It's gorgeous.
But this is a big you one.
- And that needs to be
brought back to life.
Did you ever have
a deck like that?
- Yeah, I did.
- I thought you would.
- I always, actually, always.
I worked in a secondhand
record shop for 11 years.
- You've never sat and
played old disks for me.
- I did.
- No, you didn't.
- Didn't I?
- No, you didn't.
- Oh, we'll just let that
one pass very quickly.
The Pye stereogram
was in its day,
a suburb sound system
consisting of a
radio, record player
and big stereo speakers.
It'll be fantastic if we
can get it to work again.
But first, I need to
find out from Helena,
which bits broken.
I can't see myself here.
(Angel laughing)
Well, I've got to do what?
What?
This is being filmed by the way,
just so you know,
just so that everybody does know
at 60 years of age,
he's incapable of
making his hair.
It doesn't start there.
That's called a comb-over.
- I know.
It starts up there.
No, no, it starts up here.
Look, it doesn't
start down there.
- Quite on the set please.
(Dick laughing)
(Skype call tune)
- Hi.
- Hi, Helena.
How are you?
- I'm fine.
Really well, thank you.
- Okay, so the Pye stereogram.
What is broken?
- So, it's not turning.
So, I can hear,
something happening,
but it's not going,
turning the table.
- There are a number of ways
that the actual record
gets driven around.
It can be a belt or it
can be an idle wheel.
That's the two of
the most likely ones.
Do you know what the drive is?
- I have no idea.
I tried to attach elastic bands
and super glue them together
to help it grip to the
sides of the turntable.
It just hasn't worked.
- All right.
So you're talking about
a wheel going around
like a rubber wheel.
- [Helena] Yes.
- Okay.
- Yep.
- That's an idle wheel.
All right, it's all
making sense to me nearly.
Okay, start taking things
apart with it unplugged.
- Yep.
- Do me a favor, get
a tray or something
and then take apart your
record playing capability
and see if you can also take off
the actual idle wheel.
- Okay.
- Okay, then I'd like you
to get rid of any of the gunge
that you stuck on to the wheel.
That makes sense?
- Yep, perfect sense.
I'm really looking forward
to having a go at fixing it
because things just aren't
built to be fixed anymore.
- I have a major issue
with everything ending up
in landfill after a year.
Anything that's
nearly as old as me.
(Helena laughs)
My wife's come to say hello.
- Hi.
- Well, this is really exciting.
Honestly, I really
appreciate it.
- It's really
exciting just thinking
you can get it back working now.
So I think between
you two you can.
- We will.
Take care darling.
See ya.
- [Helena] Bye.
Bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye.
I think if we can get the
idle wheel spinning again,
we'll be making
music pretty soon.
Sadly, I don't have a
Pye stereogram here.
We may fix that at some stage.
Well, it's something that,
they've been around
for 50 years.
Hers' is over 50 years old.
It's only 60 years
old, for goodness sake.
- Isn't that old?
- Oh, hurtful, hurtful, hurtful,
but, okay.
She has a problem.
And the problem she
has is that she has
an idler wheel and her
idler wheel is a thing
of great beauty and engineering.
And is driven by
the drive wheel.
Watch.
The metal drive wheel
(drill whirs)
on the rubber.
And the idea is it
makes it spin around.
Now that involves the friction
between the metal here
and the rubber there.
This is where our problem is
because the outside edge of that
it's been out in
the air all the time
and it's perished slightly.
So Helena's problem is
to just very delicately,
take a little bit
off this outside edge
to make it softer rubber.
And that soft rubber
allows the drive wheel
to actually drive it.
- You have explained
that gorgeously,
even I understand that.
- Whilst Helena cleans
up her idler wheel,
Angela and I are going
to watch another request.
I'm getting really excited.
- Stop it, stop tickling
me under the table.
- Nobody can see,
oh, here we go.
- Hi, my name's Shusha.
- And I'm Simon.
I'm a really big crafter.
I am obsessed, I've
got way too much stuff.
- I don't know anybody
like that, do I?
- I've got stuff down here,
I've got stuff upstairs.
I've got stuff in the shed.
- I can relate to this.
- We basically
have a lot of beds.
- Alot.
- We moved in this
house five years ago.
And when we moved in, we
were told it had a shelter,
air shelter in the garden.
- Oh, I love that.
- What a great location.
Hold on those steps,
they look like a
death drive, actually.
- They look and chanting
at the same time lethal.
They have something they
need to be sorted out.
Yeah.
- Dick and Angel,
I need your help
to make this my craft room.
- Basically Shusha
wants everything
you've got in the Chateau
in a tiny air shelter.
- I actually adore my crafting
because to me it's both
beautiful and practical.
Every inch is
covered in shelving
with different types of storage.
Even all drawers have been
reused into handy holders
and ladders use for
hanging fabrics.
It means everything I
need is in one place,
but more importantly, it's
a lovely space to work in.
This room just
fills me with joy.
It's not only just
got my memories from
decades and decades,
but there's some
functionality in here
that just makes me feel relaxed.
Let's give her a call.
(Skype call tune)
- Hi.
- Hi.
Shusha, do you have a vision
of what your ideal craft room
is going to look like?
- Draws, storage.
- What sort of things do you...
- Oh hi gorgeous.
- We're gonna be friends.
Don't apologize.
- But I would really like it
if there could be a
special place in there
for her as well, because
we do do a lot together.
- It's so bonding,
isn't it doing it?
I would like you to get
all of your stuff together,
maybe do a bit of rationalizing.
What you're gonna put in there
because it is a small space.
Has to be the creme de la
creme of your craft room.
- I've got three glue guns.
- I've got 12 glue guns.
I'm not glue gunning
you out here,
but you know, I can't resist.
That is your homework
and my homework,
I'm going to work out how we
make this place a sanctuary,
but functional.
- What size is it?
- We haven't
actually measured it.
How about this whole process?
And I can't even tell
you how much it measures.
- Take care bye.
- Bye.
- You don't even
know how big it is.
- I know.
- That's important.
- Yeah, I just forgot to ask it.
- As well as helping
others with their projects,
we've also been doing our own
and I've been busy
in the walled garden,
converting an old stable
into a new potting shed.
So far I've cleared a path,
knocked a rather large
wall through for a door
and built a new frame for it.
It's quite a wide door.
Now I'm going to try
and fix the hole.
Nice and wide.
She's just as well because
the door is not small.
We're gonna put the
first set of hinges on.
(drill sound)
Didn't fall off,
that's a good start.
Obviously it's not
the right size.
So what I'm going to
do is grab me a pencil.
Nice, easy way to mark the door.
We're getting close to
having a potting shed
that's actually a shed.
So for me to make this large
door fit a smaller space,
cut off the excess
and put it back on its hinges.
Luckily as it's from
my potting shed,
I don't need to
be 100% accurate.
That's is now the right
size door, he said.
It's my turn, looks good.
(drill sound)
Lets see if it works.
Love when a plan comes together.
Oh the door, that's silly.
Let me in.
Okay, so probably
needs painting.
- A little sand.
- No, no, no.
It doesn't need a sand.
- No, it doesn't look too bad.
- My pointy shed here.
I reckon it's time
for a tea break.
Thank you very much.
- You're welcome.
- So we're dealing
with airy shelters
and you've gone all
World War II for me.
- As we're about to find
out how Shusha and Simon
are getting on,
I thought a vintage tea set
made in an old Spitfire factory
was rather appropriate.
- Right, shall we?
- Yeah.
- Let's see what
they have to say.
- Hope it is spider free.
- This looks a bit precarious.
- I think it's a water pump.
- Getting straight in there.
- The girls working.
- She's my girl.
- First coat paint.
- It's not bad condition.
The floor looks dry.
- Yeah.
See, it is better already.
It's like, this is the key pile.
- Well, I didn't realize
that I had quite so much.
- Then we just need to sort
of have a bit of a plan
for how the areas work.
- Yeah.
I now know that their
shelter is just 1.3 meters
by two meters, smaller
than a ping pong table.
So to fit everything in
and half room to work,
I need to be clever
with the space.
I'd like to have one wall
that has every single inch
of it used as storage, shelving.
Work areas that
could be folded away
are gonna be key.
So what you're saying is
actually it's a cupboard
on this side that potentially
comes down into a workspace?
- Yes.
- To see what's possible,
I need to mark out the
space and shelving areas
and even dress them a little.
I'm going to get a
little rug, okay?
And draw me out
a couple of lines
and then do something with
jam jars and bit spaces.
- I might not load
back in my cellar
until you've actually got
this all squared away.
- No, no, I'm gonna
do it quite quickly.
I've got some mugs.
- I got some rugs.
- Well, let me see
your rugs first.
Oh, stop it.
Just get out of my
shot, its gross.
- She didn't like my
rug, far too practical.
- Where's the masking tape?
- Make it parallel
cause I can make parallels
where you use it.
- I absolutely know how
to do this sort of stuff.
- I'm filming me, filming
you, being cross with me.
I love it, it's getting smaller.
- I know without storage,
it won't be any use to her.
We're talking shelves
and shelves of all
this sort of stuff,
aren't we?
- All these boxes though?
- Its stuff to make slime.
I'm there, I think I'm there.
- Is there enough storage?
- Yeah.
- Does it feel claustrophobic?
- No.
I've just got get a
drawer in over to her
and I need your help
on engineering stuff.
So to plan a small space,
fit fold down desk,
but always leave
enough room to work.
A shelf racking system allows
you to alter shelves as needed
and they don't need to be deep.
10 centimeters is
still very useful.
And finally make sure you use
the full height of the room.
- Angel is not the only one
who knows a thing or two
about space management.
I have a new potting
shed to cut out.
Oh, this is something this
is as old as the hills.
Just screwing the lids of
jam jars in to the bottom
of the shelf then we
can fold these up.
- That's a great idea.
- Yeah, that's one shelf,
I'm getting twice as much
from it, simple but it works.
This is a bit of an
old door coming down.
This is going to be
my repair station,
but slight problem is, look
at that, it's a bit wobbly.
So all I've done is there's
a little separating hinge.
And if I pop this in here now,
comes back to that, done
it but I need more shelves.
This is a palette.
I think I'm going to
have a shelf here.
I just need a screw in it,
it's not going anywhere.
I can just see you
twitching your,
you want it sanded and
painted, don't you?
- No.
Yes.
- I knew she wanted to do it,
she wanted to paint it up.
Back in my study,
its time to find out
how Helena's getting on
with her broken stereogram.
- So I've just been doing
some of the homework
that was set for me,
which included getting this
off and cleaning it properly.
But I've done something
really stupid.
It was held on with
one of these clips.
And as I was taking it off,
it's gone flying
into here somewhere.
And I can't find it.
- I can't find it?
I told Helena not
to lose anything.
- Dick's not gonna
be very happy.
- I'm gonna be very
grumpy, but it's a circuit.
We can always get a new one.
- Okay, so the wheel is
the edge of the wheel
is like a completely
different texture now.
You can see where the
original rubber was.
So I'm gonna have a go at
setting the record player now.
Okay, so put the idler wheel
back into the stereogram
and it's not working at all.
And I think that the problem
is that the idle wheel
needs a bit more texture
to like grip to the
outside of the turntable.
So it's not sticky.
- Right.
It's a couple of
things we need to do.
- Hi.
- Hello?
The clip.
What was the last
thing I said to you?
Don't lose anything.
- No, I found it.
I found it though.
I just didn't have
it for a moment.
- Okay, you don't
want to lose any bits.
The texture I must admit,
I may not have communicated
correctly to you.
The texture does not have
to be sticky, all right?
What we need to do is we
need it to soften it slightly
because we get more
surface area when you push
against the inside
of the platter, okay?
So soft is what we were after.
So we would need to get
rid of the hard stuff.
- I've gone off piece slightly.
- Well, what have you done?
- I looked on the internet
which is always a bad idea
and found that if you rub it
with olive oil or castor oil,
that it can
replenish the rubber.
So I tried it and it
has softened it up.
- Okay, I must admit,
I don't know what the reaction
between vulcanized rubber
and olive oil is.
- I'd give it a go.
- Yep, I'm with you
100%, I think its great.
But the big thing is,
from my perspective,
the rubber has been revitalized,
but there's another
element to it.
What we need to think
of, can we get more grip
of the idler wheel
against the platter?
Now there's a spring that
actually pulls the idler wheel
onto the inside of the
platter, isn't there?
- Yeah, there is.
- We could think about
possibly shortening that spring
and putting more pressure
to hold our idler wheel
against the inside
of the platter.
- Perfect, thanks very much.
- Take care, bye-bye bye-bye.
The secret is going to
be slightly soft rubber
and the tightened up spring.
This is getting
close to happening.
She's going to get musical.
In the meantime,
Arthur and Dorothy,
a volunteer to help me
move my bits and pieces
out of the walled
gardens on Foley
and into my new potting shed.
- Can I take pick at?
- What?
- A pick at.
- Be so careful
with that young man.
- Arthur's got this thing
about the dangerous ones
and Dorothy just
wants the clean ones.
- That's a bit oh, babes,
that is a mummy's
worst nightmare.
That it didn't sell tell
me this would be quite,
it's not a stressful
exercise for mummy.
- Right.
Trolleys, two of you let's
get totally over there.
Well done, good job children,
bring in some stuff.
We've got lots to
take in, haven't we?
- Thank you.
- Oh, here we go.
- This is gonna be
a proper man shed.
- Could we do haircuts in here?
- We could.
I'm feeling it's
coming together.
Come on children, you got
to get some more bits in.
Then we'll ready
for a cup of tea.
(classical music)
Now it's time to see
how Helena has got on.
- Really excited, my Nana
used to sing this song to me
when I was little,
so very emotional.
- It's going around.
Here we go.
(song playing on stereogram)
Wonderful.
Oh, wow.
I'm so chuffed for her.
- This is the song.
- Oh like it.
- Its gonna make me cry.
(song playing on stereogram)
- That's a real result.
That's a real result.
Oh, bless her bless her.
You are very, very clever.
- Thank you.
- Does it feel good
to have done that?
- It's brilliant.
Really, fantastic.
- Angela has come
to say hello anyway.
She was crying her eyes out.
- Oh my God, me too.
- I had to go and stand in
my kitchen for five minutes.
- It felt very, very emotional,
but actually thank
you to you as well,
because you inspired us
to go up into the attic
and actually get
our old records out.
- Well done you, you've
done a cracking job.
Very few people would
have had a go at that.
So that makes it very
special, you remember that.
- Thank you so much for
your help with Dick.
I really, really,
really enjoyed it.
- Take care, enjoy your music.
Bye, bye bye.
How good was that?
- It's summer at the Chateau.
And even though we don't
have any weddings issue,
I do have a VIP to organize,
a very important party.
On grandma's birthday and
we have a party for her
if you're wondering.
- Yes, yes, yes.
- Okay.
That is epic, yes.
Grandma told me
she loved sweetie.
And I think we should
sit down with grandma
and work out what
sweetie she used to love
and make some of them.
But I know you two are not
the best secret keepers.
How about we call it operation.
- Love.
- But as I want to keep
operation love a secret,
I going to have to subtly find
out which sweets mum liked.
I used to go down
to that sweet shop
next to the charity shop
and buy penny sweets.
Did you have anything similar?
- It's very much, from the
eldest to the to the youngest,
we used to line
up every Saturday.
And my dad used to give,
Pat used to get six
pens and then Jeffrey
probably got a penny less.
And by the time it got to
me, I got about a penny.
- I didn't know that you
went down to a sweet shop.
Does it have all the jars?
And please tell me there was
like a big slided ladder.
- Those slided ladders
were in the sweet shops
so even in the 60s darling.
But we used to have fudge,
jelly babies and all sorts
and American heart
gums, and the honeycomb.
I used to love the coconut ice.
- Oh, coconut ice.
- And they used to sell
it in quite big slithers,
but they had full of
sugar, wasn't there?
- Coconut ice.
Now I know what
ingredients to get.
We have time for
another request.
And it's from a
dad and daughter.
- Hi, Dick and angel.
My name's James.
How old are you Lyra?
- Seven.
- Lyra is seven.
She's Lyra's favorite chicken.
I mean, what's not
to love about that.
- That's a silky.
- Oh, it's a silky.
Ideally, we'd like to
get some more chickens.
We'd be keen to build
a new chicken coop.
- This isn't my area.
- You'll have a
say, you always do.
- Hopefully Lyra is gonna
be the project manager.
I'll be her co builder.
She's gonna have some
probably pretty strong ideas
of how she'd like it to go.
- It could be like
the queens house.
- Yeah, it could be Buckingham
Palace, wouldn't it love?
- To find out what shape
henhouse they'd like,
I've decided to call James
and Lyra from outside ours.
Beautiful evening.
Excuse me, ladies.
What's going on?
Hello you two, how
lovely to see you.
- How you doing?
You all right?
- James good.
Hello, beautiful girl.
You're looking lovely.
Can you see behind me?
With the forest
I can see chucks.
- Wow, you've got quite
a lot of chickens.
Lovely.
- We're sort of talking
about maybe sort of changing
our chicken coop as well,
which is quite interesting.
Lyra, I never, ever,
ever thought of
buck, buck, buck, buck,
Buckingham Palace.
That is just so great.
- Changed it, it's
cluckingham palace now.
- Oh its cluckingham palace.
- Wanna show these
to Dick, Lara?
- Lovely.
- That's the rainbow which is
hanging from it is a swing.
There's a disco ball
hanging inside it.
- Of course there is.
- We are going for
a triangle shape.
So basically an eight break.
Strong triangle shape but
hopefully that'll work.
- So just so I understand,
you've got one of,
that's grumpy Dick the cockerel
decided to prove
he's in charge today.
Okay, from my perspective,
actually that triangular
shape is going to be,
it's great for the weather.
Bet 10 on the top, you
know it's going to work.
Okay, I think we're ready to go.
Dad and I will be doing
some of the fabrication.
You'll be making sure
it's beautiful Lyra.
And I've got my
girl Angel there's,
she's my beauty consultant.
That's why I look so
pretty all the time Lyra.
- Lyra has done my nails,
especially for today.
- You're a winner.
Do you know what I'm gonna do,
and this is unheard of on
no, no watch watch, watch.
Wait, hold on.
I don't even know
what color these are.
Are you ready?
I'm gonna turn them around.
Can you see my toenails?
- Yeah, it's not just me then.
- There you go.
- I feel so much better.
- Hold on.
What is going on?
I'm being heckled by a bird.
Come here beautiful ones,
they are my helpers.
Lyra this is Dorothy,
Dorothy and Arthur and Angel.
Take care and we'll
speak to you very soon.
Bye bye.
- While Lyra and James go
off to find the materials
for their hen house, I now
have all the ingredients
to make a traditional
coconut ice.
Arthur and Dorothy though,
want to give it a
slightly modern twist,
adding unusual colors
into the condensed milk.
Dorothy, you have
gone for sky blue.
- That's beautiful.
- Arthur, you've gone for violet
which is very nice as well.
You ready?
Give me a stir young man.
Now desiccated coconut.
So you mix this in.
Now I'm putting in 200
grams of icing sugar, okay?
So we're making coconut hearts.
Now Arthur, delicately and
I've seen you work delicately.
There you go.
Yeah, you see all right?
You've done it Arthur.
That's amazing.
Oh, I like that.
Grandma's other favorite
sweet though, I'm going to do.
I'm making honey combs.
Now it's a ridiculously
easy recipe.
In here there's 200
grams of caster sugar
and five tablespoons
of cold syrup
and I left it kind
of get a bit runny
because you don't want
it to go all grainy.
And then I'm gonna put
have the pie cup in.
It's very exciting.
I'm going to fit in, I have
my sweet ready to stir.
Three, two, one, hold on.
Hold on and then
let's get in there.
Turn it off.
- Good.
Whoa.
- Wow.
See, it's a real mixture.
This is a real fine balance.
- Wow.
- Give me the second tray.
Whoa, look at this kids.
Its going over, its going over.
Give me the second
tray, I told you.
- I told you.
- Look at that.
That's gonna be so good.
That's totally cool.
- And it'd be perfect
for mom's birthday
if I haven't eaten it by then.
If the kids haven't it by then.
- Lyra and James have now found
some old pallets and decking
for the rainbow themed henhouse.
-SoLyrais
building a new frame
and we're gonna hopefully
build the chicken coop
around that.
That's it.
Hey.
Has that got in?
Looks good.
- Yes.
- Give the tongue and
groove a little tuck
and make sure it's just
a tongue and groove
and not your fingers
all the way along.
- Whatever the shape and
size of your chicken coop,
it always needs to provide
space, ventilation,
protection from the
elements, somewhere to perch
and a nesting box for the
hens to lay their eggs in.
We've got to do some
changes now to our henhouse.
In fact papa Steve is due
to come out and help me.
We know that the
hands rest about here.
- Okay.
- And the perch going across.
If we make a little hole there,
where do they poop
all night long?
- On the poop shelf.
- So what we're gonna
do is we're gonna put
a tray in there the whole width.
They're going to poop on it.
When it comes to clean time,
we're gonna whip it out.
Because they're like, oh, I'd
rather be lucky than smart.
I'm lucky now.
Did you do that your self?
Don't encourage him,
don't encourage him.
Watch, here we go.
Look, we bring it out.
Look, there even a
poo on it, hello.
As if we did that on purpose.
Now we just need to
build a nesting box
that we can also access
from the outside.
The bit where they're
going to be laying eggs.
- Yes.
- It's going to
be here somewhere.
That's marks where
the inside is.
I would like to take the
bottom three of those off.
That's the floor there, right?
Let's see that up to
up, up, up, up, up, up
so it's level with the floor.
Okay.
Look at this.
Here we go.
- Well done, done a great job.
You did a good job.
- Well its a team.
- It was a joint effort.
- There's no me
in team, isn't it?
- No.
- It's time to see how Shusha
and Simon are getting on
with that air raid shelter.
And I'm glad to see the steps
are looking a lot safer.
Hopefully the plan I
gave them for the inside
is also working.
(light-hearted music)
- As Shusha's already
putting pictures up,
I'd now like to show her
how to make something
that's not only useful, but
also ridiculously sentimental.
I thought it could be fun
if Shusha made a vogue
so the kids got
somewhere to sit,
but actually make it
out of things that maybe
mean something to her,
t-shirts and the
kids baby grows,
a vogue of memories, is it?
So essentially any
t-shirts you cut up,
you want to make them
into a rectangle shape,
then you're going to fold it
into two, all quite simple.
And then I'm gonna
go over it again,
but I'm just leaving a
little bit at the top, okay?
And I'm gonna cut, so
I just cut past there.
All right.
And you can do thin, you can
do it now for a nice thick one,
last cut.
So then I've got
my, you see here.
And I'm gonna do this.
Yes.
Okay.
So then I'm going
to open it up, okay?
They're still
attached at both ends.
So I'm gonna cut
number one, okay?
And then I'm gonna miss one and
cut number three, miss that,
do that one.
Then I turn it around.
Dah, dah, dah, dah,
dah, dah, dah, dah.
Then I do second one.
This one.
Cut this one.
Cut and miss one.
And are you ready for this?
Okay?
Dah, dah, dah, dah,
dah, dah, dah, dah.
One long piece.
That is so fun, I
could do it again
and again and again and again.
What is great about this
is that when you give
it a little pull,
it just rolls itself around
and you've got lovely
material to crochet with.
- My Nan used to sit in that
when she used to crotchet.
- I've got this chair
top poster one day.
It's very comfortable.
The word crochet comes from
the old French word for hook
and was first used by
17th century lace makers.
This is a half double
crochet stitch.
I liked this stage
because number one,
once you get into a
rhythm, it's easy,
but it gives really nice finish.
So whenever I end it,
it will have a
lovely edge to it.
And a bit quite comfy.
We can all go out and buy a rug,
but having something
that just made from
pieces of clothing from the kids
and just knowing you've done
that is quite lovely thing.
I'd have to say, it's
very, very relaxing.
- What's all this
about relaxing?
After hearing Helena's
stereogram, I reckon
it's about time
Arthur understood the
principles of sound.
So to show him,
I've got a needle,
tape, sandpaper
and an old gramophone horn.
You don't have to
love your big boy.
Now pass me the
black tape, please.
- Black tape.
- I'm about to make
a record player.
We've got here,
whoa, what's this?
I'm putting this onto here.
See, this is my gramophone
record needle, okay?
This is actually a record player
because this is my record.
That's the needle
that picks it up.
And that's the bit
that makes it louder.
And we've made that from
stuff in our kitchen.
How clever are you?
- You're clever.
- This is smooth.
Yeah, then feel that.
It's not very rough, is it?
That's quite gentle.
That's quite smooth,
see that one there?
That's rough as well.
Because what they're gonna do
is they're gonna make my
needle, the scrape on it,
which means if I hold this
like this, hold on one second.
Watch.
Hear different noises?
What has happened is the
difference or roughness
make different noises.
Head Arthur so mummy can listen.
Lets see if mommy thinks
it sounds like hello.
Right, mommy.
I'm gonna say hello, I love you.
Does that sound?
Of course, it's not worked.
We just scrunched
a piece of paper,
but it meant hello, I love you.
(Dick and Arthur laughing)
(light-hearted music)
- We are helping others
with their projects
and as James and Lyra
creating a rainbow theme
chicken house, I thought
we'd lighten up ours too.
You're just gonna start, ooh.
Okay, but Dorothy,
she's just going for it.
That's it, perfect.
You're doing an
absolute brilliant job.
- Arthur, you got the technique.
They get it in the corner,
come all the way across.
- Its like the Christmas tree.
I'll let them go for it.
And then I'll
tweak if I have to.
- Here's the question.
Do you think it's gonna
stand out a little bit
in this walled garden?
- Yes.
- Do you?
- Even if I'm like super
far away I can be like,
oh yeah, that's our shed.
- It's also time to reveal
James and Lyra's
rainbow chicken house.
- Look at the colors.
- Oh fantastic.
- Wow.
- The grand opening
of cluckingham palace.
- The grand opening
of cluckingham palace.
She's cutting a ribbon.
Wow.
- Yay.
- Look at that.
- The project manager
who I'm really proud of
is gonna talk us through the
bits that she's designed.
So what have we got here Lyra?
- Firstly, we have disco ball.
- Loving that disco ball.
- We've got swinging
from the bottom of it.
And then this here
is emergency eggxit.
- Brilliant.
- Round of applause for Lyra.
- Well done project manager.
- Lyra is not the
only one feeling good
about the hard work.
My new potting shed is
now open for business.
-Ilove it.
- I'm worried you're gonna
spend too much time in here
and you're gonna
forget about us.
Careful.
- Ah my present,
thank you very much.
This is lovely.
I can put this anywhere
or are you going to sit?
- Anywhere, that's
for your potting shed.
- There.
That's where I'll put it.
Look that, its you
and me sweetness.
Then we've got the monsters,
finally, my favorite
put them here.
Right, it's all different zones.
I've got a high shelf
to stop anybody fiddling
with my goodies, my
repair station is here.
Little bits of
string, I like that.
This is actually my potting
part of my potting shed.
I have find a use for my manger.
Look at that for pot storage
meant to be, I love it.
It's just nice and calm
and a nice place to be.
Can we just keep that door shut
so people don't know where I am?
- Shusha and Simon also
have something more special
to show us.
I'm super excited to see this.
- Look at the steps.
That's what they were like.
- Oh yes, wow.
Oh great, oh, that
vogue looks fantastic.
- Oh, look.
- They've just done
a fantastic crafting.
This is a brilliant
space for the family.
All the fabrics there.
- It wasn't just enough
to wait long for Luna.
So I decided that
he needed one too.
So it just piles up.
These are amazing, they
work really well in here
and I'm so pleased to
have a me and a mini me.
It's just a lovely, lovely
room that we can display
one of our lovely things that
we get to create together
as a family.
-Ilove it.
- How beautiful, look
at how happy she is.
It may not be huge,
but it's a great area.
- And they've used it really.
- Yeah, it's kind fun there.
- Yeah.
- Hi.
- Hi there, that was brilliant.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, yeah.
- It looks magical.
It looks organized
and it looks special
and there's loads
of little touches.
I love the rugs.
- I can't believe that
a very short time ago
that was a horrible
very concrete box.
So to be able to go down
there and just sit in there
and in a little pot,
we're about done there
because I can now.
- Its your space, isn't it?
I didn't see a
desk for you Simon.
- No, I'm done with it now.
- You put the work into it
and it looks very, very special.
Well done.
- Thank you.
- Hey listen, look
after yourselves.
It's been lovely
seeing you, take care.
- Bye bye, take care.
- I think it's time
for a celebration
and inspired by Helena
stereogram, we've
got the vinyl out.
Okay, here we go.
Are you ready?
Listen.
(song plays on stereogram)
Dorothy, would
you care to dance?
- I don't know how to dance.
- Mommy gonna have
to touch with Arthur.
- I'd love to dance
with you, thanks son.
- We used to dance like this.
- We used to dance all the time.
- 'Cause I was way too tiny.
- Arthur, you're supposed to
lead mummy, but no chance.
See in front on my feet.
You know how to dance.
This is just all dancing.
- Beautiful, beautiful.
- We're going around and I'm
gonna stop and twirl you.
That's more like wrestling.
(song plays on stereogram)
Mademoiselle.
- That was great.
(song plays on stereogram)
(light-hearted music)
Angel and I fell in love
with a derelict 45-room chateau.
This is truly beautiful.
And since then,
we've spent every spare moment
bringing it back to life.
- This is beyond better
than what I've imagined.
(all laugh)
(all cheering)
(hammer knocks)
- Now, at a time
when so many of us
are tackling jobs at home.
(steam pops)
- We want to use
Angel's creativity.
- See the vision?
(tool buzzes)
- And Dick's ingenuity.
(wood thuds)
- That is the basis of a bed.
To solve your design
and DIY dilemmas.
- We want your help
sorting out our front door.
- From crafty conundrums.
Magazines are great to use.
The ink is waterproof.
- To entire room renovations.
- We've all got our power tools.
(drills whir)
- We'll be on hand to help.
We're gonna be drinks
twirling partners in this.
- Amazing.
(both laughing)
- You got your bus too?
- Yeah, bus to bus.
(Angel laughs)
- Because if we can do it.
I am an average crafter.
I've just got the
mindset of having a go.
So can you.
- Stage one complete.
(Angel gasps)
(Dick laughs)
- That's just giving
me goosebumps.
- Look at that smoker.
That's phenomenal.
- And because we're
stuck at home,
we're filming it ourselves.
I'm filming me, filming you,
being cross with me.
I love it.
- Frazier you brace for cold.
Now that really is
Make Do and Mend.
(light-hearted music)
When we first moved
to the Chateau,
I didn't know anything
about chickens.
- Come on, let's go
cock-a-doodle-doo's.
- Luckily, Dick did.
And today we have
six hens, a Cockerel,
and four to five fresh eggs
to collect every morning.
- Is there any in here?
Should we say,
eggs are you ready?
- Arthur, let me see.
- Oh, right here.
- Wow, look at those.
- Arthur Donald, you go
collect two eggs, please.
Okay.
- Oh, in one hand.
- Course they were.
(kids clucking)
- Come past me, come past me.
- Oh, she's gonna lay an egg.
- Oh, no, uh-oh.
- She's gonna lay an egg.
Look behind you.
(Dick laughing)
- Egg collection
done for the day.
It's time for us to help you
with your projects.
- Hi, Dick and Angel.
This is Helena
and I need help
with my stereogram.
- Look at that.
- Oh, that's gorgeous.
- A Pye stereogram.
- When I bought it,
it worked perfectly.
The rubber on the record player
has started to perish.
The records weren't
panning at the right speed.
I tried to fix that
with some rubber bands,
but it didn't work.
I've completely destroyed it.
I'd be really happy
to hear your ideas.
Thank you.
- Wow.
- It's gorgeous.
But this is a big you one.
- And that needs to be
brought back to life.
Did you ever have
a deck like that?
- Yeah, I did.
- I thought you would.
- I always, actually, always.
I worked in a secondhand
record shop for 11 years.
- You've never sat and
played old disks for me.
- I did.
- No, you didn't.
- Didn't I?
- No, you didn't.
- Oh, we'll just let that
one pass very quickly.
The Pye stereogram
was in its day,
a suburb sound system
consisting of a
radio, record player
and big stereo speakers.
It'll be fantastic if we
can get it to work again.
But first, I need to
find out from Helena,
which bits broken.
I can't see myself here.
(Angel laughing)
Well, I've got to do what?
What?
This is being filmed by the way,
just so you know,
just so that everybody does know
at 60 years of age,
he's incapable of
making his hair.
It doesn't start there.
That's called a comb-over.
- I know.
It starts up there.
No, no, it starts up here.
Look, it doesn't
start down there.
- Quite on the set please.
(Dick laughing)
(Skype call tune)
- Hi.
- Hi, Helena.
How are you?
- I'm fine.
Really well, thank you.
- Okay, so the Pye stereogram.
What is broken?
- So, it's not turning.
So, I can hear,
something happening,
but it's not going,
turning the table.
- There are a number of ways
that the actual record
gets driven around.
It can be a belt or it
can be an idle wheel.
That's the two of
the most likely ones.
Do you know what the drive is?
- I have no idea.
I tried to attach elastic bands
and super glue them together
to help it grip to the
sides of the turntable.
It just hasn't worked.
- All right.
So you're talking about
a wheel going around
like a rubber wheel.
- [Helena] Yes.
- Okay.
- Yep.
- That's an idle wheel.
All right, it's all
making sense to me nearly.
Okay, start taking things
apart with it unplugged.
- Yep.
- Do me a favor, get
a tray or something
and then take apart your
record playing capability
and see if you can also take off
the actual idle wheel.
- Okay.
- Okay, then I'd like you
to get rid of any of the gunge
that you stuck on to the wheel.
That makes sense?
- Yep, perfect sense.
I'm really looking forward
to having a go at fixing it
because things just aren't
built to be fixed anymore.
- I have a major issue
with everything ending up
in landfill after a year.
Anything that's
nearly as old as me.
(Helena laughs)
My wife's come to say hello.
- Hi.
- Well, this is really exciting.
Honestly, I really
appreciate it.
- It's really
exciting just thinking
you can get it back working now.
So I think between
you two you can.
- We will.
Take care darling.
See ya.
- [Helena] Bye.
Bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye.
I think if we can get the
idle wheel spinning again,
we'll be making
music pretty soon.
Sadly, I don't have a
Pye stereogram here.
We may fix that at some stage.
Well, it's something that,
they've been around
for 50 years.
Hers' is over 50 years old.
It's only 60 years
old, for goodness sake.
- Isn't that old?
- Oh, hurtful, hurtful, hurtful,
but, okay.
She has a problem.
And the problem she
has is that she has
an idler wheel and her
idler wheel is a thing
of great beauty and engineering.
And is driven by
the drive wheel.
Watch.
The metal drive wheel
(drill whirs)
on the rubber.
And the idea is it
makes it spin around.
Now that involves the friction
between the metal here
and the rubber there.
This is where our problem is
because the outside edge of that
it's been out in
the air all the time
and it's perished slightly.
So Helena's problem is
to just very delicately,
take a little bit
off this outside edge
to make it softer rubber.
And that soft rubber
allows the drive wheel
to actually drive it.
- You have explained
that gorgeously,
even I understand that.
- Whilst Helena cleans
up her idler wheel,
Angela and I are going
to watch another request.
I'm getting really excited.
- Stop it, stop tickling
me under the table.
- Nobody can see,
oh, here we go.
- Hi, my name's Shusha.
- And I'm Simon.
I'm a really big crafter.
I am obsessed, I've
got way too much stuff.
- I don't know anybody
like that, do I?
- I've got stuff down here,
I've got stuff upstairs.
I've got stuff in the shed.
- I can relate to this.
- We basically
have a lot of beds.
- Alot.
- We moved in this
house five years ago.
And when we moved in, we
were told it had a shelter,
air shelter in the garden.
- Oh, I love that.
- What a great location.
Hold on those steps,
they look like a
death drive, actually.
- They look and chanting
at the same time lethal.
They have something they
need to be sorted out.
Yeah.
- Dick and Angel,
I need your help
to make this my craft room.
- Basically Shusha
wants everything
you've got in the Chateau
in a tiny air shelter.
- I actually adore my crafting
because to me it's both
beautiful and practical.
Every inch is
covered in shelving
with different types of storage.
Even all drawers have been
reused into handy holders
and ladders use for
hanging fabrics.
It means everything I
need is in one place,
but more importantly, it's
a lovely space to work in.
This room just
fills me with joy.
It's not only just
got my memories from
decades and decades,
but there's some
functionality in here
that just makes me feel relaxed.
Let's give her a call.
(Skype call tune)
- Hi.
- Hi.
Shusha, do you have a vision
of what your ideal craft room
is going to look like?
- Draws, storage.
- What sort of things do you...
- Oh hi gorgeous.
- We're gonna be friends.
Don't apologize.
- But I would really like it
if there could be a
special place in there
for her as well, because
we do do a lot together.
- It's so bonding,
isn't it doing it?
I would like you to get
all of your stuff together,
maybe do a bit of rationalizing.
What you're gonna put in there
because it is a small space.
Has to be the creme de la
creme of your craft room.
- I've got three glue guns.
- I've got 12 glue guns.
I'm not glue gunning
you out here,
but you know, I can't resist.
That is your homework
and my homework,
I'm going to work out how we
make this place a sanctuary,
but functional.
- What size is it?
- We haven't
actually measured it.
How about this whole process?
And I can't even tell
you how much it measures.
- Take care bye.
- Bye.
- You don't even
know how big it is.
- I know.
- That's important.
- Yeah, I just forgot to ask it.
- As well as helping
others with their projects,
we've also been doing our own
and I've been busy
in the walled garden,
converting an old stable
into a new potting shed.
So far I've cleared a path,
knocked a rather large
wall through for a door
and built a new frame for it.
It's quite a wide door.
Now I'm going to try
and fix the hole.
Nice and wide.
She's just as well because
the door is not small.
We're gonna put the
first set of hinges on.
(drill sound)
Didn't fall off,
that's a good start.
Obviously it's not
the right size.
So what I'm going to
do is grab me a pencil.
Nice, easy way to mark the door.
We're getting close to
having a potting shed
that's actually a shed.
So for me to make this large
door fit a smaller space,
cut off the excess
and put it back on its hinges.
Luckily as it's from
my potting shed,
I don't need to
be 100% accurate.
That's is now the right
size door, he said.
It's my turn, looks good.
(drill sound)
Lets see if it works.
Love when a plan comes together.
Oh the door, that's silly.
Let me in.
Okay, so probably
needs painting.
- A little sand.
- No, no, no.
It doesn't need a sand.
- No, it doesn't look too bad.
- My pointy shed here.
I reckon it's time
for a tea break.
Thank you very much.
- You're welcome.
- So we're dealing
with airy shelters
and you've gone all
World War II for me.
- As we're about to find
out how Shusha and Simon
are getting on,
I thought a vintage tea set
made in an old Spitfire factory
was rather appropriate.
- Right, shall we?
- Yeah.
- Let's see what
they have to say.
- Hope it is spider free.
- This looks a bit precarious.
- I think it's a water pump.
- Getting straight in there.
- The girls working.
- She's my girl.
- First coat paint.
- It's not bad condition.
The floor looks dry.
- Yeah.
See, it is better already.
It's like, this is the key pile.
- Well, I didn't realize
that I had quite so much.
- Then we just need to sort
of have a bit of a plan
for how the areas work.
- Yeah.
I now know that their
shelter is just 1.3 meters
by two meters, smaller
than a ping pong table.
So to fit everything in
and half room to work,
I need to be clever
with the space.
I'd like to have one wall
that has every single inch
of it used as storage, shelving.
Work areas that
could be folded away
are gonna be key.
So what you're saying is
actually it's a cupboard
on this side that potentially
comes down into a workspace?
- Yes.
- To see what's possible,
I need to mark out the
space and shelving areas
and even dress them a little.
I'm going to get a
little rug, okay?
And draw me out
a couple of lines
and then do something with
jam jars and bit spaces.
- I might not load
back in my cellar
until you've actually got
this all squared away.
- No, no, I'm gonna
do it quite quickly.
I've got some mugs.
- I got some rugs.
- Well, let me see
your rugs first.
Oh, stop it.
Just get out of my
shot, its gross.
- She didn't like my
rug, far too practical.
- Where's the masking tape?
- Make it parallel
cause I can make parallels
where you use it.
- I absolutely know how
to do this sort of stuff.
- I'm filming me, filming
you, being cross with me.
I love it, it's getting smaller.
- I know without storage,
it won't be any use to her.
We're talking shelves
and shelves of all
this sort of stuff,
aren't we?
- All these boxes though?
- Its stuff to make slime.
I'm there, I think I'm there.
- Is there enough storage?
- Yeah.
- Does it feel claustrophobic?
- No.
I've just got get a
drawer in over to her
and I need your help
on engineering stuff.
So to plan a small space,
fit fold down desk,
but always leave
enough room to work.
A shelf racking system allows
you to alter shelves as needed
and they don't need to be deep.
10 centimeters is
still very useful.
And finally make sure you use
the full height of the room.
- Angel is not the only one
who knows a thing or two
about space management.
I have a new potting
shed to cut out.
Oh, this is something this
is as old as the hills.
Just screwing the lids of
jam jars in to the bottom
of the shelf then we
can fold these up.
- That's a great idea.
- Yeah, that's one shelf,
I'm getting twice as much
from it, simple but it works.
This is a bit of an
old door coming down.
This is going to be
my repair station,
but slight problem is, look
at that, it's a bit wobbly.
So all I've done is there's
a little separating hinge.
And if I pop this in here now,
comes back to that, done
it but I need more shelves.
This is a palette.
I think I'm going to
have a shelf here.
I just need a screw in it,
it's not going anywhere.
I can just see you
twitching your,
you want it sanded and
painted, don't you?
- No.
Yes.
- I knew she wanted to do it,
she wanted to paint it up.
Back in my study,
its time to find out
how Helena's getting on
with her broken stereogram.
- So I've just been doing
some of the homework
that was set for me,
which included getting this
off and cleaning it properly.
But I've done something
really stupid.
It was held on with
one of these clips.
And as I was taking it off,
it's gone flying
into here somewhere.
And I can't find it.
- I can't find it?
I told Helena not
to lose anything.
- Dick's not gonna
be very happy.
- I'm gonna be very
grumpy, but it's a circuit.
We can always get a new one.
- Okay, so the wheel is
the edge of the wheel
is like a completely
different texture now.
You can see where the
original rubber was.
So I'm gonna have a go at
setting the record player now.
Okay, so put the idler wheel
back into the stereogram
and it's not working at all.
And I think that the problem
is that the idle wheel
needs a bit more texture
to like grip to the
outside of the turntable.
So it's not sticky.
- Right.
It's a couple of
things we need to do.
- Hi.
- Hello?
The clip.
What was the last
thing I said to you?
Don't lose anything.
- No, I found it.
I found it though.
I just didn't have
it for a moment.
- Okay, you don't
want to lose any bits.
The texture I must admit,
I may not have communicated
correctly to you.
The texture does not have
to be sticky, all right?
What we need to do is we
need it to soften it slightly
because we get more
surface area when you push
against the inside
of the platter, okay?
So soft is what we were after.
So we would need to get
rid of the hard stuff.
- I've gone off piece slightly.
- Well, what have you done?
- I looked on the internet
which is always a bad idea
and found that if you rub it
with olive oil or castor oil,
that it can
replenish the rubber.
So I tried it and it
has softened it up.
- Okay, I must admit,
I don't know what the reaction
between vulcanized rubber
and olive oil is.
- I'd give it a go.
- Yep, I'm with you
100%, I think its great.
But the big thing is,
from my perspective,
the rubber has been revitalized,
but there's another
element to it.
What we need to think
of, can we get more grip
of the idler wheel
against the platter?
Now there's a spring that
actually pulls the idler wheel
onto the inside of the
platter, isn't there?
- Yeah, there is.
- We could think about
possibly shortening that spring
and putting more pressure
to hold our idler wheel
against the inside
of the platter.
- Perfect, thanks very much.
- Take care, bye-bye bye-bye.
The secret is going to
be slightly soft rubber
and the tightened up spring.
This is getting
close to happening.
She's going to get musical.
In the meantime,
Arthur and Dorothy,
a volunteer to help me
move my bits and pieces
out of the walled
gardens on Foley
and into my new potting shed.
- Can I take pick at?
- What?
- A pick at.
- Be so careful
with that young man.
- Arthur's got this thing
about the dangerous ones
and Dorothy just
wants the clean ones.
- That's a bit oh, babes,
that is a mummy's
worst nightmare.
That it didn't sell tell
me this would be quite,
it's not a stressful
exercise for mummy.
- Right.
Trolleys, two of you let's
get totally over there.
Well done, good job children,
bring in some stuff.
We've got lots to
take in, haven't we?
- Thank you.
- Oh, here we go.
- This is gonna be
a proper man shed.
- Could we do haircuts in here?
- We could.
I'm feeling it's
coming together.
Come on children, you got
to get some more bits in.
Then we'll ready
for a cup of tea.
(classical music)
Now it's time to see
how Helena has got on.
- Really excited, my Nana
used to sing this song to me
when I was little,
so very emotional.
- It's going around.
Here we go.
(song playing on stereogram)
Wonderful.
Oh, wow.
I'm so chuffed for her.
- This is the song.
- Oh like it.
- Its gonna make me cry.
(song playing on stereogram)
- That's a real result.
That's a real result.
Oh, bless her bless her.
You are very, very clever.
- Thank you.
- Does it feel good
to have done that?
- It's brilliant.
Really, fantastic.
- Angela has come
to say hello anyway.
She was crying her eyes out.
- Oh my God, me too.
- I had to go and stand in
my kitchen for five minutes.
- It felt very, very emotional,
but actually thank
you to you as well,
because you inspired us
to go up into the attic
and actually get
our old records out.
- Well done you, you've
done a cracking job.
Very few people would
have had a go at that.
So that makes it very
special, you remember that.
- Thank you so much for
your help with Dick.
I really, really,
really enjoyed it.
- Take care, enjoy your music.
Bye, bye bye.
How good was that?
- It's summer at the Chateau.
And even though we don't
have any weddings issue,
I do have a VIP to organize,
a very important party.
On grandma's birthday and
we have a party for her
if you're wondering.
- Yes, yes, yes.
- Okay.
That is epic, yes.
Grandma told me
she loved sweetie.
And I think we should
sit down with grandma
and work out what
sweetie she used to love
and make some of them.
But I know you two are not
the best secret keepers.
How about we call it operation.
- Love.
- But as I want to keep
operation love a secret,
I going to have to subtly find
out which sweets mum liked.
I used to go down
to that sweet shop
next to the charity shop
and buy penny sweets.
Did you have anything similar?
- It's very much, from the
eldest to the to the youngest,
we used to line
up every Saturday.
And my dad used to give,
Pat used to get six
pens and then Jeffrey
probably got a penny less.
And by the time it got to
me, I got about a penny.
- I didn't know that you
went down to a sweet shop.
Does it have all the jars?
And please tell me there was
like a big slided ladder.
- Those slided ladders
were in the sweet shops
so even in the 60s darling.
But we used to have fudge,
jelly babies and all sorts
and American heart
gums, and the honeycomb.
I used to love the coconut ice.
- Oh, coconut ice.
- And they used to sell
it in quite big slithers,
but they had full of
sugar, wasn't there?
- Coconut ice.
Now I know what
ingredients to get.
We have time for
another request.
And it's from a
dad and daughter.
- Hi, Dick and angel.
My name's James.
How old are you Lyra?
- Seven.
- Lyra is seven.
She's Lyra's favorite chicken.
I mean, what's not
to love about that.
- That's a silky.
- Oh, it's a silky.
Ideally, we'd like to
get some more chickens.
We'd be keen to build
a new chicken coop.
- This isn't my area.
- You'll have a
say, you always do.
- Hopefully Lyra is gonna
be the project manager.
I'll be her co builder.
She's gonna have some
probably pretty strong ideas
of how she'd like it to go.
- It could be like
the queens house.
- Yeah, it could be Buckingham
Palace, wouldn't it love?
- To find out what shape
henhouse they'd like,
I've decided to call James
and Lyra from outside ours.
Beautiful evening.
Excuse me, ladies.
What's going on?
Hello you two, how
lovely to see you.
- How you doing?
You all right?
- James good.
Hello, beautiful girl.
You're looking lovely.
Can you see behind me?
With the forest
I can see chucks.
- Wow, you've got quite
a lot of chickens.
Lovely.
- We're sort of talking
about maybe sort of changing
our chicken coop as well,
which is quite interesting.
Lyra, I never, ever,
ever thought of
buck, buck, buck, buck,
Buckingham Palace.
That is just so great.
- Changed it, it's
cluckingham palace now.
- Oh its cluckingham palace.
- Wanna show these
to Dick, Lara?
- Lovely.
- That's the rainbow which is
hanging from it is a swing.
There's a disco ball
hanging inside it.
- Of course there is.
- We are going for
a triangle shape.
So basically an eight break.
Strong triangle shape but
hopefully that'll work.
- So just so I understand,
you've got one of,
that's grumpy Dick the cockerel
decided to prove
he's in charge today.
Okay, from my perspective,
actually that triangular
shape is going to be,
it's great for the weather.
Bet 10 on the top, you
know it's going to work.
Okay, I think we're ready to go.
Dad and I will be doing
some of the fabrication.
You'll be making sure
it's beautiful Lyra.
And I've got my
girl Angel there's,
she's my beauty consultant.
That's why I look so
pretty all the time Lyra.
- Lyra has done my nails,
especially for today.
- You're a winner.
Do you know what I'm gonna do,
and this is unheard of on
no, no watch watch, watch.
Wait, hold on.
I don't even know
what color these are.
Are you ready?
I'm gonna turn them around.
Can you see my toenails?
- Yeah, it's not just me then.
- There you go.
- I feel so much better.
- Hold on.
What is going on?
I'm being heckled by a bird.
Come here beautiful ones,
they are my helpers.
Lyra this is Dorothy,
Dorothy and Arthur and Angel.
Take care and we'll
speak to you very soon.
Bye bye.
- While Lyra and James go
off to find the materials
for their hen house, I now
have all the ingredients
to make a traditional
coconut ice.
Arthur and Dorothy though,
want to give it a
slightly modern twist,
adding unusual colors
into the condensed milk.
Dorothy, you have
gone for sky blue.
- That's beautiful.
- Arthur, you've gone for violet
which is very nice as well.
You ready?
Give me a stir young man.
Now desiccated coconut.
So you mix this in.
Now I'm putting in 200
grams of icing sugar, okay?
So we're making coconut hearts.
Now Arthur, delicately and
I've seen you work delicately.
There you go.
Yeah, you see all right?
You've done it Arthur.
That's amazing.
Oh, I like that.
Grandma's other favorite
sweet though, I'm going to do.
I'm making honey combs.
Now it's a ridiculously
easy recipe.
In here there's 200
grams of caster sugar
and five tablespoons
of cold syrup
and I left it kind
of get a bit runny
because you don't want
it to go all grainy.
And then I'm gonna put
have the pie cup in.
It's very exciting.
I'm going to fit in, I have
my sweet ready to stir.
Three, two, one, hold on.
Hold on and then
let's get in there.
Turn it off.
- Good.
Whoa.
- Wow.
See, it's a real mixture.
This is a real fine balance.
- Wow.
- Give me the second tray.
Whoa, look at this kids.
Its going over, its going over.
Give me the second
tray, I told you.
- I told you.
- Look at that.
That's gonna be so good.
That's totally cool.
- And it'd be perfect
for mom's birthday
if I haven't eaten it by then.
If the kids haven't it by then.
- Lyra and James have now found
some old pallets and decking
for the rainbow themed henhouse.
-SoLyrais
building a new frame
and we're gonna hopefully
build the chicken coop
around that.
That's it.
Hey.
Has that got in?
Looks good.
- Yes.
- Give the tongue and
groove a little tuck
and make sure it's just
a tongue and groove
and not your fingers
all the way along.
- Whatever the shape and
size of your chicken coop,
it always needs to provide
space, ventilation,
protection from the
elements, somewhere to perch
and a nesting box for the
hens to lay their eggs in.
We've got to do some
changes now to our henhouse.
In fact papa Steve is due
to come out and help me.
We know that the
hands rest about here.
- Okay.
- And the perch going across.
If we make a little hole there,
where do they poop
all night long?
- On the poop shelf.
- So what we're gonna
do is we're gonna put
a tray in there the whole width.
They're going to poop on it.
When it comes to clean time,
we're gonna whip it out.
Because they're like, oh, I'd
rather be lucky than smart.
I'm lucky now.
Did you do that your self?
Don't encourage him,
don't encourage him.
Watch, here we go.
Look, we bring it out.
Look, there even a
poo on it, hello.
As if we did that on purpose.
Now we just need to
build a nesting box
that we can also access
from the outside.
The bit where they're
going to be laying eggs.
- Yes.
- It's going to
be here somewhere.
That's marks where
the inside is.
I would like to take the
bottom three of those off.
That's the floor there, right?
Let's see that up to
up, up, up, up, up, up
so it's level with the floor.
Okay.
Look at this.
Here we go.
- Well done, done a great job.
You did a good job.
- Well its a team.
- It was a joint effort.
- There's no me
in team, isn't it?
- No.
- It's time to see how Shusha
and Simon are getting on
with that air raid shelter.
And I'm glad to see the steps
are looking a lot safer.
Hopefully the plan I
gave them for the inside
is also working.
(light-hearted music)
- As Shusha's already
putting pictures up,
I'd now like to show her
how to make something
that's not only useful, but
also ridiculously sentimental.
I thought it could be fun
if Shusha made a vogue
so the kids got
somewhere to sit,
but actually make it
out of things that maybe
mean something to her,
t-shirts and the
kids baby grows,
a vogue of memories, is it?
So essentially any
t-shirts you cut up,
you want to make them
into a rectangle shape,
then you're going to fold it
into two, all quite simple.
And then I'm gonna
go over it again,
but I'm just leaving a
little bit at the top, okay?
And I'm gonna cut, so
I just cut past there.
All right.
And you can do thin, you can
do it now for a nice thick one,
last cut.
So then I've got
my, you see here.
And I'm gonna do this.
Yes.
Okay.
So then I'm going
to open it up, okay?
They're still
attached at both ends.
So I'm gonna cut
number one, okay?
And then I'm gonna miss one and
cut number three, miss that,
do that one.
Then I turn it around.
Dah, dah, dah, dah,
dah, dah, dah, dah.
Then I do second one.
This one.
Cut this one.
Cut and miss one.
And are you ready for this?
Okay?
Dah, dah, dah, dah,
dah, dah, dah, dah.
One long piece.
That is so fun, I
could do it again
and again and again and again.
What is great about this
is that when you give
it a little pull,
it just rolls itself around
and you've got lovely
material to crochet with.
- My Nan used to sit in that
when she used to crotchet.
- I've got this chair
top poster one day.
It's very comfortable.
The word crochet comes from
the old French word for hook
and was first used by
17th century lace makers.
This is a half double
crochet stitch.
I liked this stage
because number one,
once you get into a
rhythm, it's easy,
but it gives really nice finish.
So whenever I end it,
it will have a
lovely edge to it.
And a bit quite comfy.
We can all go out and buy a rug,
but having something
that just made from
pieces of clothing from the kids
and just knowing you've done
that is quite lovely thing.
I'd have to say, it's
very, very relaxing.
- What's all this
about relaxing?
After hearing Helena's
stereogram, I reckon
it's about time
Arthur understood the
principles of sound.
So to show him,
I've got a needle,
tape, sandpaper
and an old gramophone horn.
You don't have to
love your big boy.
Now pass me the
black tape, please.
- Black tape.
- I'm about to make
a record player.
We've got here,
whoa, what's this?
I'm putting this onto here.
See, this is my gramophone
record needle, okay?
This is actually a record player
because this is my record.
That's the needle
that picks it up.
And that's the bit
that makes it louder.
And we've made that from
stuff in our kitchen.
How clever are you?
- You're clever.
- This is smooth.
Yeah, then feel that.
It's not very rough, is it?
That's quite gentle.
That's quite smooth,
see that one there?
That's rough as well.
Because what they're gonna do
is they're gonna make my
needle, the scrape on it,
which means if I hold this
like this, hold on one second.
Watch.
Hear different noises?
What has happened is the
difference or roughness
make different noises.
Head Arthur so mummy can listen.
Lets see if mommy thinks
it sounds like hello.
Right, mommy.
I'm gonna say hello, I love you.
Does that sound?
Of course, it's not worked.
We just scrunched
a piece of paper,
but it meant hello, I love you.
(Dick and Arthur laughing)
(light-hearted music)
- We are helping others
with their projects
and as James and Lyra
creating a rainbow theme
chicken house, I thought
we'd lighten up ours too.
You're just gonna start, ooh.
Okay, but Dorothy,
she's just going for it.
That's it, perfect.
You're doing an
absolute brilliant job.
- Arthur, you got the technique.
They get it in the corner,
come all the way across.
- Its like the Christmas tree.
I'll let them go for it.
And then I'll
tweak if I have to.
- Here's the question.
Do you think it's gonna
stand out a little bit
in this walled garden?
- Yes.
- Do you?
- Even if I'm like super
far away I can be like,
oh yeah, that's our shed.
- It's also time to reveal
James and Lyra's
rainbow chicken house.
- Look at the colors.
- Oh fantastic.
- Wow.
- The grand opening
of cluckingham palace.
- The grand opening
of cluckingham palace.
She's cutting a ribbon.
Wow.
- Yay.
- Look at that.
- The project manager
who I'm really proud of
is gonna talk us through the
bits that she's designed.
So what have we got here Lyra?
- Firstly, we have disco ball.
- Loving that disco ball.
- We've got swinging
from the bottom of it.
And then this here
is emergency eggxit.
- Brilliant.
- Round of applause for Lyra.
- Well done project manager.
- Lyra is not the
only one feeling good
about the hard work.
My new potting shed is
now open for business.
-Ilove it.
- I'm worried you're gonna
spend too much time in here
and you're gonna
forget about us.
Careful.
- Ah my present,
thank you very much.
This is lovely.
I can put this anywhere
or are you going to sit?
- Anywhere, that's
for your potting shed.
- There.
That's where I'll put it.
Look that, its you
and me sweetness.
Then we've got the monsters,
finally, my favorite
put them here.
Right, it's all different zones.
I've got a high shelf
to stop anybody fiddling
with my goodies, my
repair station is here.
Little bits of
string, I like that.
This is actually my potting
part of my potting shed.
I have find a use for my manger.
Look at that for pot storage
meant to be, I love it.
It's just nice and calm
and a nice place to be.
Can we just keep that door shut
so people don't know where I am?
- Shusha and Simon also
have something more special
to show us.
I'm super excited to see this.
- Look at the steps.
That's what they were like.
- Oh yes, wow.
Oh great, oh, that
vogue looks fantastic.
- Oh, look.
- They've just done
a fantastic crafting.
This is a brilliant
space for the family.
All the fabrics there.
- It wasn't just enough
to wait long for Luna.
So I decided that
he needed one too.
So it just piles up.
These are amazing, they
work really well in here
and I'm so pleased to
have a me and a mini me.
It's just a lovely, lovely
room that we can display
one of our lovely things that
we get to create together
as a family.
-Ilove it.
- How beautiful, look
at how happy she is.
It may not be huge,
but it's a great area.
- And they've used it really.
- Yeah, it's kind fun there.
- Yeah.
- Hi.
- Hi there, that was brilliant.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, yeah.
- It looks magical.
It looks organized
and it looks special
and there's loads
of little touches.
I love the rugs.
- I can't believe that
a very short time ago
that was a horrible
very concrete box.
So to be able to go down
there and just sit in there
and in a little pot,
we're about done there
because I can now.
- Its your space, isn't it?
I didn't see a
desk for you Simon.
- No, I'm done with it now.
- You put the work into it
and it looks very, very special.
Well done.
- Thank you.
- Hey listen, look
after yourselves.
It's been lovely
seeing you, take care.
- Bye bye, take care.
- I think it's time
for a celebration
and inspired by Helena
stereogram, we've
got the vinyl out.
Okay, here we go.
Are you ready?
Listen.
(song plays on stereogram)
Dorothy, would
you care to dance?
- I don't know how to dance.
- Mommy gonna have
to touch with Arthur.
- I'd love to dance
with you, thanks son.
- We used to dance like this.
- We used to dance all the time.
- 'Cause I was way too tiny.
- Arthur, you're supposed to
lead mummy, but no chance.
See in front on my feet.
You know how to dance.
This is just all dancing.
- Beautiful, beautiful.
- We're going around and I'm
gonna stop and twirl you.
That's more like wrestling.
(song plays on stereogram)
Mademoiselle.
- That was great.
(song plays on stereogram)
(light-hearted music)