The Repair Shop (2017–…): Season 12, Episode 3 - A crushed terrerium - full transcript
The team set to work reviving a painting from Bermuda, a crumpled terrarium damaged in transit, a precious clay keepsake of a baby's footprints, and an arctic thermometer.
Welcome to the Repair Shop...
Oh, my goodness!
..where precious
but faded keepsakes....
That is proper crushed.
..are restored
to their former glory.
Zhuzhing. Zhuzhing.
"Can I get finished now, please?"
Yes! A dream team
of expert craftspeople...
I'm absolutely chuffed to bits!
Fantastic! Brilliant!
Yes! Look at that!
..using traditional techniques
passed down the generations...
Perfecto! It's almost magic.
Nothing better than a plan
that works.
..restore irreplaceable treasures...
Oh, my God, look at that!
EMOTIONAL: It's perfect.
..and unlock the stories they hold.
DING
EMOTIONAL: Happy tears.
It feels more magical.
I just want to hug everybody!
BIRDSONG
The first hopeful visitors
are Patricia Dangor
and her daughter Rokeya,
who have brought a repair to honour
a trailblazing
civil rights activist
for the artful mastery
of conservator Lucia Scalisi.
Hello! Hello. Hello.
How you doing?
Fine, thank you very much. Good.
So, what have we got here?
What is this?
This is a painting of
my grandparents' house.
Um...the house where my mother
grew up.
This isn't the UK, though, is it?
No. All right.
This is in...this is in Bermuda.
My father, Edward Trenton,
had it built for my mother
before they were married.
She was not allowed to come and look
at the building, what was going on.
But on the day
that they were married... Yeah?
..he carried her over the threshold,
and they lived in it till they died,
really.
That's proper romantic.
THEY LAUGH
Yes.
What a story!
That's the way to do it. Yeah.
And what job was he doing?
When he built the house... Yeah?
..he was a teacher.
Then he practised law. OK.
Er...he'd always been interested in
the difficulties of Bermuda
in politics.
Right. And he was persuaded
to run for parliament, and he did.
When you say the difficulties
in Bermuda...?
Bermuda, at that time... Yeah.
..was a totally segregated,
um...island.
Black and white children
didn't go to school together,
the churches were separate.
You were in a different part
of the church.
This is the place of worship, people
were supposed to come together.
My mother was mixed race,
and people thought she was white.
Took me into a restaurant
in a pram... Right.
..and they said, "You can come in,"
to my mother,
"but you can't bring this baby in".
Really?! Absolutely right.
And your father won't let you go to
the films, the movies,
because black people had to sit
somewhere else,
um...in the front, and white
children used to throw paper at you.
Wow! He wouldn't let me go.
I mean, I wasn't allowed
to go to the cinema.
But he was very interested
in trying to get that put right.
So, stop the segregation? Yeah.
He was very vocal about the ills
of discrimination and injustices.
Yeah. After he entered politics,
he then became the leader of
a party,
and then he became the first
black Premier in Bermuda.
That's a big deal. Yeah.
For a segregated country, and then
for him to get into politics...
Yes. ..and then become
the head of Bermuda!
Yeah. It... Not "Yeah"!
It's a big deal! It was a big deal.
And it was after that
that he was knighted by the Queen.
Wow! Did you ever meet your grandad?
Oh, oh, yes.
He was a very larger-than-life
character, and very charming.
Right. And you could see the impact
that had on everyone he met.
And I remember I would go into town
with him,
he would be hailed left, right
and centre by people in the street.
And I could then understand
how he'd been able to make
the changes he'd been able to make
in persuading people
to change legislation...
Yeah. ..and make things different.
And he stayed here his whole life?
Oh, yes.
Well, his whole married life.
THEY LAUGH
Yeah.
Your father must have been
very proud of the house to have
a portrait painted... Exactly.
To me, the house looks very happy.
It was. As a child, it was magical.
Who's this little fella here? Oh!
That's Spot, the dog.
He was really part of my childhood.
And when Rokeya started to,
um...visit from the age of two,
he was still there.
PATRICIA LAUGHS
So, what would you like Lucia
to do to it?
Really stabilise it.
There are lots of bits flaking off
and the colours are not as vibrant
as they should be.
Spot is gradually disappearing
out of the picture. Yeah.
The whole family would be so pleased
to have it preserved.
It's a picture of a house,
but it's also the memories
of my grandparents.
And it would be something
that we could then ensure
the future generations are
able to see what it was like
and have the stories
told about my grandparents.
I think it's beautiful. Yeah.
Yes. Sorry, it's made me
actually feel quite emotional...
Ah, bless you. ..all that.
And so you should.
I mean, it's your history, isn't it?
It is my own individual history.
Thank you both...
Thank you. ..for bringing this in.
Thank you. Bye-bye.
Fantastic!
How great is that? You see,
every picture tells a story.
Tell me about it. It does.
Just amazing, eh? Amazing.
BIRDSONG
This is lovely. Really nice to get
up close and personal
with this lovely little painting.
It's quite floppy, the canvas.
Er...it needs tensioning.
It's got a few dents in it.
I can get rid of those.
But really, primarily,
I have to make sure
that this flaking paint
isn't going to get worse.
So I'm going to secure that and then
I'll be able to do the cleaning.
So I'm going to apply the adhesive
over the areas of flaking.
You want the adhesive to flow
under the lifting paint.
So I'm going to use
my acid-free tissue,
and then I'll just be drying it
with this heated spatula.
It's a challenge, because it's
quite a sensitive paint surface,
but...it's going to look really good
at the end.
BIRDSONG
Pinning their hopes on
the delicate touch of Kirsten Ramsay
are Emese and Luke Carter-Whittley,
hoping she can save
the most precious of mementos.
Hello! Hello!
Lovely to meet you.
Lovely to meet you, too.
So, what have you brought in for us
today?
It's our baby boy's footprints. OK.
David's footprints.
Ooh...! This is David on one side
and his footprints
on the other side.
But as you can see, it's cracked up,
um...on the footprints,
but also, on the side, it shrank.
Oh, dear! It's shrunk there.
So David, um...was our son,
and he, um...he passed away
at five months.
I'm so sorry.
And, um...we did the footprints
at the hospital
a couple of days
before he passed...he passed away.
Um...so it's really precious to us.
David and Joshua, his brother,
they are twins, and they were born
pre-term.
They were born at 26 weeks.
26 weeks. So three months early.
So they actually spent almost
three months in the hospital
at the neo-natal unit. My goodness!
So we actually only had him
for two months at home.
Um, and I do remember increasingly
how worried I was about David,
because I noticed that he wasn't
doing as well as he should.
And obviously, I had his brother,
who was thriving.
And then I took David to A&E
because we had a very bad night
with him and I was really worried.
And that's when he had
the cardiac arrest. Whoa!
And one day after, we found out
that he had this very serious
heart condition
and the doctors couldn't do anything
for him, sadly.
That's really devastating.
In a sense, the hardest was...
Cos they said, um...
..that we could decide when we
wanted the life-support
to be turned off.
And I said to Luke, "I can't
decide that." As a mother, you...
..you should never...! Yeah.
Those last days are just etched on
your heart forever, you know? Um...
They're just precious,
to be able to, er...
..to say goodbye to David.
Yeah. Because we were so shocked,
we didn't think of making memories,
apart from taking photos.
But the hospital were really good at
giving us this kit,
so that's when we made
the footprints. Made the footprints.
He's a beautiful, beautiful boy.
I can see that.
But that must just break your hearts
to see that, like that.
Yeah. Cos the way we remember
David is,
he was a precious little boy.
Of course. Yeah.
And we want to remember the joy
of having had him.
Yeah. So I guess, for us,
it's that...what...
..it would represent to have
the footprints repaired.
Yeah. I can absolutely understand
that. Yeah.
I tried to fill it, um...and then
we....we noticed that the cracks
were becoming bigger
and I didn't dare to touch it
any more,
cos I thought I would just
make it worse.
We would just love to see
our little boy's perfect
little footprints
as they were.
It's going to be genuinely
very tricky,
but I will do everything that I can
to try and make it look as good
as possible.
Thank you so much. Thank you so
much. We really appreciate it.
You take care now. Thank you. Bye.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
HE EXHALES SOFTLY
This is really daunting.
I really don't know
how you're going to do this.
This seems really tricky to me.
I would rather have something
in 500 pieces
than the weight of responsibility
for...for doing this.
Yeah. It's so precious.
And I've never done anything
like this.
I wish you all the best. Thank you.
I can only imagine...
..how heartbreaking it must be
to see this really precious memento
looking like this.
This is different to the material
that I normally work on.
I think it's an air-drying clay.
It therefore hasn't been fired,
it doesn't have a glazed surface.
So it's extremely soft,
porous and vulnerable.
I'm guessing that perhaps
because it's stuck on to a backing,
as it's shrunk,
it hasn't been able to move.
And therefore,
these cracks have occurred.
I think my initial work is going
to be just trying to...remove
the fill that Emese did
around the sides.
Once I've cleared it away
from the edges,
I'm going to do a couple of tests,
just to see how it reacts
to my filling medium.
Then it's going to be a process
of trying to blend these edges in
with the frame,
and then I'm going to do
the really difficult task
of trying to fill these footprints.
With the flaking paint on
the Bermudian picture stabilised,
Lucia can set about
flattening the undulating canvas.
I'm going to turn it over and work
on these bumps,
these dents that are in it.
This one's quite pronounced,
so I'll do that one first.
I'm going to do a moisture
treatment. It's very gentle,
and it's just using blotting paper.
Wet the blot, shake off the excess.
And I'm going to use
my heated spatula
to drive the moisture
into the canvas,
but in a very controlled way.
So it's not flowing,
it's just getting the canvas damp.
It allows the fibres to release.
It's a bit like ironing,
but very gentle.
And I can actually feel the canvas
give.
Take dry blotting paper,
take a piece of card, and...
..leave it weighted to dry
under its own,
literally, a little bit of steam
that's going on under there.
So I'm going to carry on working on
the dents that I can find.
We've got a lot of slack
in the canvas,
and I'm hoping that I'll be able to
tension the canvas
by just tapping in these wedges.
Once all the structural stuff is in
place and it's well supported,
I can turn it over and work on
the front of the painting.
And that's when all
the picturesque things start.
SHE CHUCKLES
These wedges open this, er,
joint in the stretcher.
And it's called a stretcher
because it stretches the canvas.
I can see the canvas
starting to actually tension now.
It's going.
It's not as floppy as it was.
The cleaning is actually more
straightforward than I thought.
It's an aqueous cleaning method,
but I need a little bit more
than water,
a little bit more oomph
to do a surface clean.
Otherwise, I'm just rubbing
the surface.
So, basically, it's distilled water
with a tiny bit of ammonia.
And the beauty of that is there are
no surfactants in here or anything.
The ammonia evaporates.
I'm pleased with the way that
it's cleaning very, very nicely.
The fact that we've got
this little tiny portrait
of Spot the dog,
obviously a family favourite,
so it's really quite important.
Spot has lost, like,
his central tummy area,
but by the time I've retouched it,
Spot will be fully formed.
So that will be a nice little thing.
It's lovely working on something
like this,
because it's such a personal thing
for them.
It's just full of love, really.
Love and memories and sweetness.
And for me, it makes me think,
maybe I should have a painting made
of my house.
From sunny Bermuda
to Arctic adventures.
Former nurse Pat Emmel
and her son Nick
have brought Steve Fletcher
an intriguing souvenir
of a life less ordinary.
Hello! Come on in.
Hello! How are you?
We're fine.
We're good, thank you.
Dying to see what's in that box.
We've got a thermometer in here,
but it's not a normal thermometer.
It's designed for cold, cold
temperatures.
And this is the sensor that measures
the temperature.
It's a thermocouple thermometer.
It produces electricity
in the sensor.
So, there's no mercury in it at all?
No, no.
Mercury's unstable in the
cold temperatures it was designed
to record.
Oh! So it's minus-100
degrees Fahrenheit
and it runs through
to plus-100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Minus-100 Fahrenheit.
In Celsius, what's that?
Around minus-70. Minus-70?!
Minus-70.
So that's the coldest temperatures
recorded in the world,
which was down at Antarctica.
So, how come you've got
a thermometer that does all this
extreme temperature?
In the 1960s,
my husband Malcolm and I
went to live in the Arctic.
And it was given to Malcolm
by some scientific friends
who also lived in the Arctic.
That's amazing!
What took you out there?
I had been living in Nigeria.
I was working in a leper colony.
I was the Sister of a leper colony.
And I was home on leave,
with every intention of going back
to Nigeria. Right.
And the local vicar
sent the local curate to visit me.
I opened the door, and I hadn't
intended getting married,
I was really a career girl,
but a voice said to me,
"You're going to marry this man".
And at the same time,
something said to Malcolm,
"You're going to marry this woman".
First time you saw him.
Malcolm had already decided that
after he'd finished his curacy,
he would like to have a parish
elsewhere in the world.
And so he decided he'd go and work
with the Inuit people in Canada.
And he had already arranged to go.
So I had no alternative.
If I wanted to be with Malcolm,
I had to go to the Arctic.
You're going to the Arctic,
that's it.
You do daft things
when you're in love, don't you?
THEY LAUGH
And it all worked out,
and we had 59 very happy
years together.
As I said to him, really,
right till he died last year,
"You never really proposed to me,
"all you said was, 'Will you
come to the Arctic with me?'"
THEY LAUGH
I had two babies
when I was in the Arctic.
The first year was extremely hard.
You had to adapt to
a different way of living.
We didn't have any fresh food,
so we ordered our food in January
and it came up by boat in August.
So we lived on tinned food. Cor!
I can do things with tinned food
that nobody else can do!
THEY LAUGH
It isn't just the cold,
it's the isolation.
Our nearest neighbours were, like,
200 miles to the west,
another 100, 200 miles to the east.
Wow! And we had a nursing station.
So my job was to do a lot of flying.
So I used to fly out
to smaller settlements
if there was patients to pick up.
But the parish was enormous.
Bigger than England.
Whoa!
He would travel every year
by a dog team with the Inuit people
to visit the outlying settlements.
There would be babies
to be baptised,
there'd even probably be a wedding
to do.
So, how did this thermometer
feature in...in your lives?
Well, it was... Malcolm
absolutely loved it, of course.
He used it in the Arctic.
Every morning, he'd have a look
and say, "Oh, it's minus-40 today.
"Better put an extra layer of
clothes on if you're going out."
And then he brought it back
to England,
and he still used to like it,
didn't he, very much? Yeah.
Right through my childhood,
it was mounted in the garage.
I think anything
connected with Malcolm
becomes more important
when you lose them.
And I do miss him, tremendously.
There's so much of Malcolm
wrapped up in this, isn't there?
Yes. Yes. Yeah.
In the act of...of looking at it,
you have that time just thinking
about my dad, as well. Yeah.
Do you know what's wrong with it?
No, I don't know what's wrong
with it.
It recorded this temperature on
a very hot day, and then it's stuck.
It hasn't moved
since that very hot day.
What about cosmetics?
This is the patina of its...of
its life.
It can stay much as it is.
My dad made the box. The box is
packing case wood from the Arctic.
Everything that came to the Arctic
was used.
So the box is important.
I cannot wait to get inside
to see how it works.
I've no idea at the moment,
so it's quite exciting.
Thank you so much. Thank you. Lovely
to meet you both. See you later.
And thank you very much.
Bye-bye now. Bye-bye.
What an amazing life, isn't it?
Wow!
Right, I'd better get cracking.
This is just a wonderful
scientific piece of equipment.
I'm not sure how this works at all.
I know how a thermocouple works.
It's a safety thing in a boiler
or on a cooker,
or an appliance like that.
But I'm intrigued to see
how this works.
Right, let's have a look.
It's really a very delicate
mechanism inside here.
And at this stage, I don't know
whether the fault is...
..in the thermocouple itself
or in the actual mechanism.
I'm really quite nervous about going
any further,
and I've got to really scratch
my head
about how to get into the mechanism.
Because it's so fine,
I don't want to cause any damage,
so I've got to be
very, very careful.
Also working with extreme delicacy,
Kirsten is facing one of the most
daunting repairs of her career,
preserving the imprints
of two tiny feet.
I'm going to stabilise what
I've got there using a consolidant.
And what this will do is stabilise
these broken bits of clay,
and also make a seal,
so that when I fill around
these edges,
there's a barrier between
the original material
and my fill material.
I'm now tackling the worst
of the cracks
that run through David's feet.
If I...get any of this
on to the surrounding area,
it could change its appearance.
So I'm just working slowly,
methodically and...and carefully.
I've got a two-part
epoxy putty here.
What I want is a fill material
that has an adhesive quality
I can manipulate and push into
those voids underneath the clay
and give a really good, firm
foundation.
I completely understand
what Emese was trying to do.
These cracks
appearing around the edge
must have been really
quite upsetting.
All the preparation that I've done
up until this point has been...
..leading towards the filling
of these
really unsightly cracks
through the clay.
I've done my test fillers.
The acrylic with the onyx powder
looks good.
Got a nice surface feel,
very similar to the clay.
I've just got the one opportunity
to get it right.
The colour's got to be right,
the texture's got to be right.
I can't really go back to it
once it's in and it's cured.
I'm just offering up my fill
to see how it looks, colour-wise.
Tiny bit more titanium white in it.
It's really quite nerve-racking
doing this.
I'm just going to go
really cautiously.
I need to just try it. I've...I've
got to make a start on this.
Colour-wise,
I think that's looking good.
And the material seems to be
going in very nicely.
I'm not out of the woods yet.
I quite often have this
with my work.
You have to almost hold the faith,
believe that it is going to work.
This is really starting to look like
a lovely pair of footprints now,
but I have still got a little bit
of refining to do.
I want this to be perfect when it
goes back to Emese and Luke.
In an effort to decode the Arctic
thermometer's intricate workings,
Steve has traded time and hours
for temperature and degrees.
So I can see the way this actually
is supposed to work.
You've got the thermocouple,
which creates a charge.
And at the end, the thermocouple
is attached to a bourdon spring.
You'll see those in barometers.
And...and you'll get
the air pressure
that will change the pressure
in that coil.
That coil will then try and unwrap.
And that turning effect will
actually turn a hand on a barometer.
In here, you've got
the bourdon spring
that's connected to some levers
that does turn the hand.
So it looks as if the bourdon spring
has closed down
and just has hit a stop.
And that's where that hand
has stopped.
There's an adjustment screw here.
If I just undo that...
..move the lever around.
If the hand was attached,
the hand would be coming up
to almost the centre here.
So...I'm going to tighten that up.
And now, when I move this...
..there is adjustment
both ways that,
hopefully, if I heat the
thermocouple, the hand should move.
So the next stage, I need to get
hold of an electronic thermometer,
put it side by side
with the thermocouple,
see whether this one is reading
correctly or not.
I can't wait to do
that scientific experiment.
It's all good fun.
As Steve prepares to test
the thermometer,
Lucia is keeping a cool head
as she precisely colour-matches the
infills on the Bermudian painting.
It's coming up really quite nicely.
I'm using my synthetic resins
and mixing dry pigments in with them
to get the shade that I want.
A lot of them are teeny-tiny,
just scraped-off losses.
So I'm dotting those in,
and then these larger ones, I shall
do some small brush strokes.
I'm just letting it flood
into that loss,
and it's working quite nicely.
I'm saving the best bit till last,
Spot the dog,
who's more or less in the centre
of the painting,
and the focus, I guess.
It's a really nice emotional touch
to put the dog in,
because I know how much
that dog meant to the family.
I mean, it's a beautiful portrait
of a house
and it's a lovely thing to have.
I love it.
This painting was commissioned
by Bermuda's first black Premier,
Sir Edward Trenton,
who campaigned against segregation
and became a national hero
in the process.
For his daughter Patricia
and granddaughter Rokeya,
it holds dear memories of the man,
and the place they called home.
Hello! Hello again. Hello! Hello!
Hello! How lovely to see you.
And you! How are you keeping?
Fine, thank you very much.
We're good. Oh, good.
Are you excited to find out
what happened...?
We are really excited! Yeah.
It did well up a lot of lovely
memories for me.
Things we talked about that
we hadn't talked about for years.
So, all those memories just laying
dormant until this moment in time?
That's right!
So, you ready to see it?
Yes, I-I think so.
Yes, yes, we are. Very excited.
Great, cos I am, too.
SHE GASPS
Oh, my God! Oh, thank goodness!
Oh, it is just lovely!
It's amazing! It's absolutely...
It's amazing what you've done.
I don't know how you've managed
to bring out all the colours.
I don't remember the grass
being that green,
or the sky being that vivid.
Yes.
Oh, look at Spot! Look at Spot!
SHE LAUGHS
Look!
He's got his head back!
PATRICIA LAUGHS
Yes.
And...and that part of
the flower garden...
That was sort of lost.
Yes, that was completely lost.
Oh, it's wonderful! It is lovely.
Oh, it's really wonderful!
Thank you. Thank you so much!
It's all just so clear! Isn't it?
Mummy, um...she loved to...
Sit on the terrace.
With her feet up. Yes.
Can almost see her walking down
there. We can.
And of course, she walked down there
as a bride.
She had us and her life
with this house.
Her husband, who she loved dearly.
Grandpa would be very proud. Yes.
And he would have loved the fact
that something that he thought
was important to capture on canvas
is preserved.
It represents joy and happiness,
that house. Yeah.
A part of me that still yearns
for Bermuda, really.
That's the emotion that I have
when I see this house.
Yeah. In its glory.
ROKEYA LAUGHS
Yes. In its glory!
Well, if you're happy with it,
please take it away.
Thank you. Thank you.
I feel like, sort of...
THEY LAUGH
A little worried. That's wonderful!
Bye-bye! Bye-bye. Lovely to see you.
Bye-bye. Thank you. Bye.
It's just so lovely!
SHE CHUCKLES
Yeah. I will look at it every day
and will be reminded how lucky I was
to live in that house.
At the time of quite severe
segregation,
that house was a solace for us.
Everything that my parents taught me
about life was in that house.
It was such a house full of joy.
And love.
Yes. Love and joy, yes.
Bringing some class with glass,
Matt Nickels is back in the barn.
Excited to see what's coming through
the door.
Bless you. I think you're going to
like this one.
Bekki Forrest, from West Sussex,
has brought something she hopes Matt
can get from flat to fabulous.
Hello! Hello. How you doing?
Good, thank you.
That's definitely broken. Wow!
THEY LAUGH
That's really squashed.
It's been sat on by an elephant,
hasn't it?
So, what we got in the box, then?
We have a terrarium.
A terrarium? Yes.
So a bit like an indoor greenhouse
for plants. Yeah.
So, what is this meant to look like?
So it's a beautiful glass structure
with curved tops,
lots of individual pieces of glass.
Yeah.
Nice slidey door so you can go in
and tend to your plants.
Yeah, it was very beautiful.
How tall was it, originally?
Um...roughly about here.
So it's really... OK.
It's really been flattened.
Yeah.
THEY LAUGH
Yeah. So, how come you've got this?
Where did you get it from?
So it belonged to my grandparents...
OK.
..who are no longer with us. Right.
They'd been married for, I think,
68 years.
Wow! They moved to Spain in '99,
where they absolutely loved being.
Yeah.
They spent a lot of time
tending to their plants in here,
and also their plants
in their garden.
And it was decided that I should
have the terrarium
as I share the love of plants
with them. Right.
My nan was amazing.
She could literally take a leaf
and the next time you saw it,
it was the most beautiful plant
you've ever seen.
And was you close with your
grandparents? Very close, yes.
Every, probably six weeks or so,
I'd fly to Spain just for
the weekend to see them.
So, what are your early memories
with the terrarium?
It was in the middle of
my grandparents' house.
So, whichever room you were in,
you could see the terrarium,
which was lovely.
So how did it end up
looking like this?
When they passed, I had it couriered
back to the UK
and this is how it arrived.
Really? Ooh! Yes.
So, how did you feel
when you got that?
Absolutely heartbroken.
It was the final piece of them
that I thought I could have
in my house.
A bit of them with me every day.
Yeah.
And, yeah, that's not the case.
So I can see that a fair amount
of the glass is broken,
but we've got lots of glass in here.
Yes, some glass that I have
been able to save.
OK. Well, that's good. Seems like
a fair amount is still there.
It would be so nice to see it
in my own home
and have the memories of
my grandparents,
and just remembering it
in their house,
and then bringing that into my house
would be really special.
OK. It seems like you've got a job
to be doing, then.
Yeah. A lot of work on my hands.
THEY CHUCKLE
Thank you for bringing it in.
Thank you so much. All right? You
take care now. Take care. Thank you.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
The first terrarium was developed
in 1842
by botanist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward,
and was initially known as
the Wardian case.
They made global plant transport
possible,
shipping plants, trees and spices
around the world.
But Bekki's terrarium has not fared
so well with international travel.
I feel really nervous about
this repair.
It's such an important job
for me to get right.
There's so much history
and family embodied in this piece.
And now that I'm looking at it
and seeing just how mangled it is,
this is quite genuinely one of
the worst disasters I've ever seen.
Um...I've got these two finials
here,
and the base to those,
I'll definitely be able to keep.
But I'm not sure if I'm really going
to be able to keep
much else of the lead.
All the lead is mangled.
And once it gets mangled, you can't
really stretch it out again.
You can't put it back together,
unfortunately.
But first of all, I need to start
taking it apart
and make some good templates,
and also start working out
which bits of glass there are
that I can keep,
which bits are broken.
Things are hotting up
on Steve's bench
as he prepares to test his handiwork
on the Arctic thermometer.
I've managed to get hold
of an electronic thermometer,
and it's showing at the moment
that the room temperature
is 67 degrees Fahrenheit.
So what I've done is set the hand
at that room temperature.
So I'm going to put the thermocouple
and the probe into the oven.
What I'm really hoping to see
is this hand moving up now.
If it doesn't move, then there
is something else wrong with this
that I haven't spotted.
The new thermometer has reacted
really quick.
The old Arctic thermometer here
is turning very, very slowly.
But I can see it's reacting now,
which is brilliant news.
I need to just test it
for the cold now.
So I'm going to pop the thermocouple
right down into my bucket of ice,
and I'm expecting that needle
to fall like a stone.
I hope it will, anyway.
And there it goes.
That's amazing!
I'm just going to cross-reference
the temperature
with the modern thermometer.
There we go, that temperature
is again falling like a stone.
32, which is freezing point.
And then it just goes down to low.
This, I have to say, is a much
better thermometer. Love it to bits.
I just need to get it all
cleaned up now. I'm so chuffed.
BIRDSONG
It seemed like an impossible task,
but Kirsten has all but erased
the devastating cracks
that had marred this most precious
of keepsakes.
I'm using these really tiny bits
of sandpaper
to smooth back the fills
without disturbing or damaging
any of the really fine detail.
I thought it was so incredibly brave
of Emese and Luke
to leave this with me.
And I hope that they will be pleased
with the work
that I've carried out for them.
These tiny footprints represent
the short life
of a beautiful baby boy
called David.
I'll be really happy to hand
these back.
There you go. Wow!
That is...amazing!
Emese and Luke entrusted
their son's memorial to Kirsten
in the hope she could restore
its perfect form once again.
Hello! Hello. Morning. Hello.
How are you doing?
All right, thank you.
Yes, good, thank you. How are you?
Yeah, good, thank you.
Lovely to see you both.
Yeah. Been waiting excitedly...
In anticipation. ..for this moment.
THEY LAUGH
Waiting excitedly? Yeah!
It seemed like such a big task,
that it could get back
to what it was originally.
I felt the weight of responsibility,
shall we say, with these feet.
Yeah, absolutely.
OK. Kirsten... OK, yeah.
Oh.
Oh, look at that!
Oh, it is beautiful.
Yeah.
Hmm!
SHE SNIFFLES
Just in those last hours,
he opened his eyes for us,
looking at us, and just...
That's what I think of when we see
these...these feet.
Yeah. Those last
sort of hours that we had with him.
Yeah.
This will be now a rem...
..a reminder of him,
and a comfort. Yeah.
Putting your fingers in and feeling
where his feet once were...
Yeah. ..it's really lovely
to do that.
Yeah, yeah. That's right.
And for Joshua as well, isn't it,
that his brother was really there?
Oh, you've done a very, very
good job. Thank you.
Thank you so much.
We're so grateful. Yeah.
Coming home!
THEY LAUGH
Thank you so much again.
Great pleasure.
You guys take care. You, too.
Bye now. Bye. Bye-bye.
Well done. Hmm. Thank you.
It's lovely to have
David's footprints back.
Every contour of his foot
just seems to be there, still.
The footprints now can continue
to be that comforting reminder
of how perfect and how precious
and how loved he was,
and he still is to us.
BIRDSONG
Faced with the challenge of making
a brand-new leaded structure
for the terrarium, as well as
replacing some missing glass panels,
Matt has got his work cut out.
Fortunately, most of it
is actually intact,
but there are a few pieces
which I need to replicate.
Cutting straight lines
is quite straightforward,
whereas when you're cutting shapes,
like this section here in the top,
it just gets a little bit
more complicated.
And that's when a little bit more
skill's involved.
I follow the curve on this,
keeping a nice, even, fluid motion
as I do it.
There we go.
Now I need to tap the underside,
which breaks the glass a little bit.
And once you've tapped it
all the way through,
you hear a very slightly different
sound.
There we go. I just heard the pitch
change a little bit.
And I know now,
with the next couple of taps,
I'll be able to just knock
that bit of glass off.
There we go, it's just fallen off.
I'm very fortunate to have grown up
working with stained glass.
My dad and mum ran a stained-glass
company when I was growing up,
and it's one of those things
that you kind of learn
without really realising
that you're learning.
You just end up picking it up.
TAPPING CONTINUES
I'm starting to get the structure
for this top section
of the terrarium together now.
So, normally, the stained glass
would slot in like this,
whereas this 3D structure,
I'm having to turn the lead
this way,
but it's going to be so much
more fragile to touch
just because the glass can just
fall out, like that.
Right, hopefully,
I'm going to be able to bend
this bit of lead nicely.
Right, so that feels like
the angle's OK.
I'm just going to see
how this sits there.
There we go.
That looks really nice.
There's just going to be a lot
of trial and error with this.
CROWS CAW
Now what I need to do is start
putting the vertical lead struts in.
So that's slotting down.
It's going nicely in.
I'm getting the hang of putting
all of the glass in nicely.
I'm really happy with the way
it's going.
How's it going, Matt?
It's all coming together nicely.
Looking really good. Yeah.
Although it is a bit of
a house of cards at the moment.
THEY LAUGH
So, it's all balancing there?
Yeah. Pretty much so, yeah. Wow!
So I've got these finials
that are going to go on the top
of the terrarium,
but they've got a bit of a bend
to them, and...
They look like they're brass.
Yeah. I was worried
that I might snap it
if I just get some pliers on it.
Yeah, you would.
It really is bent, isn't it?
Would that be something you'd be
able to look at for me?
OK, I'll give it a go for you.
All right. Thanks, Brenton.
I'm about to start soldering
all of these joints together.
And what that's going to do
is it's going to strengthen
the entire window, by making
all of the lead network connected.
One of the main issues, though,
with making a 3D structure
is that solder, when it's hot enough
to form a joint, it's a liquid.
So I'm really trying not to drip
this solder
over the rest of the lead.
There we go. I've got that one.
Nice!
This is really the most fiddly
soldering I've ever had to do.
I'm having to hold the iron,
having to put the solder on it.
Have my glove, have this wood.
So many different factors involved.
This terrarium is going really well,
but this is the first time
I've put this top section on,
so I'm just going to have to see
how it goes.
Once it slots in one side,
then it's probably going to need
to be then slotted into the other,
kind of the glass
teased around a bit.
Now, I think this side...
There's something that just needs
to fall on this side a little bit.
I think there's a bit of glass
in the way. Maybe that bit there.
There we go. Great!
Now, you know what?
This is the first time
that this has actually felt like
a proper structure.
What I need to do now is start
working on this top section
with the decorative finials on top,
and it's going to really finish
it off nicely. I'm so excited!
Sheltered from the inclement
weather outside,
Steve's meteorological masterpiece
is almost ready.
I'm just popping a little bit of oil
on to all of the...
..the moving parts of the mechanism.
The oil's just going to help it move
smoothly.
It's very, very rare
that I will...
..repair anything...
..but I don't know how it actually
works properly. Um...
It's all too scientific,
with electrons whizzing round
here, there and everywhere.
But I've got it working,
and that's the main thing.
HE CHUCKLES
I just need to...to pop
the front on.
Having seen a young family through
sub-zero temperatures in the Arctic,
it was a hot day in the UK
that caused the vintage
thermometer's seizure.
But keen for it to keep its place
in the household
and provide a reminder of their
intrepid husband and father,
Pat and Nick.
Hi! Hi, Pat. You OK?
Yes, I'm fine. Hello! Come on out
of the rain. Goodness me!
Cold out there. It is cold, yes.
Yes. How do you know
it's cold out there?
You haven't got a thermometer
to tell you.
We don't know!
THEY LAUGH
I'm afraid I've been
of little faith.
I didn't think you could mend it.
What, you thought it would just be
a lost cause?
It would never work again?
I thought it was obsolete.
Oh. That would have been a shame,
wouldn't it?
I was more confident, I have to say.
Do you want to have a look?
Oh, I do! I really do.
Go on, Steve. OK.
Wow! There it is.
Is it really 57 degrees in here?
It is. It is.
And it says... Fantastic.
..57 degrees. Yeah.
We could get it to go warmer,
couldn't we?
Nick, I'll tell you what, we can do
a little bit better than that.
You can? If you go the other way,
we've got a little bit
of a surprise for you.
Right. You ready? OK.
Come on, Steve. OK.
What is coming?
This is quite exciting. It is.
It is.
Very exciting. They've got some
dry ice or something.
Right. So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to put some of this
dry ice into some water,
in this container here.
Wow! Look at that!
It's super cold, the dry ice.
So hopefully... Yes. ..this should
get this back around
to at least zero.
Look at that! Wow! Look at that!
Right, here we go.
Yes. Wow! Oh, it's working!
The speed at which it's going back!
Oh, it's going really mad!
Look at that!
Are we down to zero yet?
No, not quite. Quite exciting...!
Do you remember what it used to
get down to at the Arctic?
Minus-40. Minus-40.
But then, when we had the blizzard,
it was even lower.
Wow! So...
..five, four, three,
two, one, zero!
Zero! Excellent!
Oh, Steve, it's really working.
It really is.
It's been a long time since
it's been that far to zero.
It's been a very long time
since it's been down there.
It's made me think about the first
few years of our married life
in the Arctic, you know,
cos this was part of the story.
I wish Malcolm was here to see it.
He'd have loved it.
He would. He'd be over the moon.
Well, it's yours to take away.
Well, thank you very much.
Right, I'll carry it out for you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
It's been lovely to see you.
See you later! Bye-bye.
I was just absolutely amazed
when I saw that dial moving.
It was a lovely feeling.
I thought, "My goodness,
this is so old,
"and here we have it working!"
It will be part and parcel
of my life, my children's lives.
Um...it'll be...it'll be there
to be seen.
BIRDSONG
I'm getting to the final stages
of this terrarium.
I'm just polishing these
copper pieces here
with some very fine wire wool.
I really want to bring this back
to how it looked
when Rebecca would visit
her grandparents.
Really bright, really eye-catching.
Wow! This is looking
absolutely fantastic!
Now, these are the finials
that Brenton has really kindly
straightened for me,
and he's polished them
up absolutely beautifully.
These finish it off so well.
They're a bit like candles
on top of a cake.
Due to some careless couriers,
the terrarium that once held
stunning displays of horticulture
in miniature had been crushed
into an unrecognisable mess.
That...is...perfect!
I'm so happy with this. Well done.
Compared to what it was before!
I mean, it was flat, wasn't it?
THEY LAUGH
For Bekki, it holds dear memories
of her late grandparents,
who kept it in the heart of
their home.
How you doing?
Hello. Good, thank you. How are you?
Very good. Hiya. How are you
feeling? Excited.
You can tell from the...
It's definitely a better shape!
THEY LAUGH
Have you been thinking about your
grandparents? Yes, a lot. Always.
But just have a piece of them
back with me will be amazing.
I think you're ready to see it,
aren't you? I think so.
Yeah.
SHE SNIFFLES
I've never seen it so shiny!
It's so beautiful!
SHE SNIFFLES
I can't thank you enough.
It's amazing!
Thank you.
It just brings a lot of
memories back. Yeah.
Going to the house in Spain. Yeah.
There'd probably be my nan
pottering around in the background
in the kitchen,
my grandad telling me some story,
or what he's been up to.
Yeah. Yeah. Just lovely to have
a piece of their home at my home.
So, this is the way you remember it,
then? 100%, yes.
Yeah? Just, as I say,
a lot shinier than it was.
OK.
THEY LAUGH
I just can't believe, what
a difference!
THEY LAUGH
Amazing!
I honestly never thought
it was going to be
a standing structure ever again.
Thank you so much.
Rebecca,
thank you for bringing this in.
And now I think it's time
to get it home, safely.
Yes, please. I'll get the door.
Thank you.
Don't worry, Rebecca,
he's got it. He's got it.
THEY LAUGH
Come on.
It feels absolutely unbelievable
to have the terrarium
back in one piece.
I think my grandparents
would be very proud
that I'm now taking on the terrarium
in my home.
Just having the memories coming back
will be really lovely,
and make it feel like
they're part of that, too.
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BIRDSONG
The first hopeful visitors
are Patricia Dangor
and her daughter Rokeya,
who have brought a repair to honour
a trailblazing
civil rights activist
for the artful mastery
of conservator Lucia Scalisi.
Hello! Hello. Hello.
How you doing?
Fine, thank you very much. Good.
So, what have we got here?
What is this?
This is a painting of
my grandparents' house.
Um...the house where my mother
grew up.
This isn't the UK, though, is it?
No. All right.
This is in...this is in Bermuda.
My father, Edward Trenton,
had it built for my mother
before they were married.
She was not allowed to come and look
at the building, what was going on.
But on the day
that they were married... Yeah?
..he carried her over the threshold,
and they lived in it till they died,
really.
That's proper romantic.
THEY LAUGH
Yes.
What a story!
That's the way to do it. Yeah.
And what job was he doing?
When he built the house... Yeah?
..he was a teacher.
Then he practised law. OK.
Er...he'd always been interested in
the difficulties of Bermuda
in politics.
Right. And he was persuaded
to run for parliament, and he did.
When you say the difficulties
in Bermuda...?
Bermuda, at that time... Yeah.
..was a totally segregated,
um...island.
Black and white children
didn't go to school together,
the churches were separate.
You were in a different part
of the church.
This is the place of worship, people
were supposed to come together.
My mother was mixed race,
and people thought she was white.
Took me into a restaurant
in a pram... Right.
..and they said, "You can come in,"
to my mother,
"but you can't bring this baby in".
Really?! Absolutely right.
And your father won't let you go to
the films, the movies,
because black people had to sit
somewhere else,
um...in the front, and white
children used to throw paper at you.
Wow! He wouldn't let me go.
I mean, I wasn't allowed
to go to the cinema.
But he was very interested
in trying to get that put right.
So, stop the segregation? Yeah.
He was very vocal about the ills
of discrimination and injustices.
Yeah. After he entered politics,
he then became the leader of
a party,
and then he became the first
black Premier in Bermuda.
That's a big deal. Yeah.
For a segregated country, and then
for him to get into politics...
Yes. ..and then become
the head of Bermuda!
Yeah. It... Not "Yeah"!
It's a big deal! It was a big deal.
And it was after that
that he was knighted by the Queen.
Wow! Did you ever meet your grandad?
Oh, oh, yes.
He was a very larger-than-life
character, and very charming.
Right. And you could see the impact
that had on everyone he met.
And I remember I would go into town
with him,
he would be hailed left, right
and centre by people in the street.
And I could then understand
how he'd been able to make
the changes he'd been able to make
in persuading people
to change legislation...
Yeah. ..and make things different.
And he stayed here his whole life?
Oh, yes.
Well, his whole married life.
THEY LAUGH
Yeah.
Your father must have been
very proud of the house to have
a portrait painted... Exactly.
To me, the house looks very happy.
It was. As a child, it was magical.
Who's this little fella here? Oh!
That's Spot, the dog.
He was really part of my childhood.
And when Rokeya started to,
um...visit from the age of two,
he was still there.
PATRICIA LAUGHS
So, what would you like Lucia
to do to it?
Really stabilise it.
There are lots of bits flaking off
and the colours are not as vibrant
as they should be.
Spot is gradually disappearing
out of the picture. Yeah.
The whole family would be so pleased
to have it preserved.
It's a picture of a house,
but it's also the memories
of my grandparents.
And it would be something
that we could then ensure
the future generations are
able to see what it was like
and have the stories
told about my grandparents.
I think it's beautiful. Yeah.
Yes. Sorry, it's made me
actually feel quite emotional...
Ah, bless you. ..all that.
And so you should.
I mean, it's your history, isn't it?
It is my own individual history.
Thank you both...
Thank you. ..for bringing this in.
Thank you. Bye-bye.
Fantastic!
How great is that? You see,
every picture tells a story.
Tell me about it. It does.
Just amazing, eh? Amazing.
BIRDSONG
This is lovely. Really nice to get
up close and personal
with this lovely little painting.
It's quite floppy, the canvas.
Er...it needs tensioning.
It's got a few dents in it.
I can get rid of those.
But really, primarily,
I have to make sure
that this flaking paint
isn't going to get worse.
So I'm going to secure that and then
I'll be able to do the cleaning.
So I'm going to apply the adhesive
over the areas of flaking.
You want the adhesive to flow
under the lifting paint.
So I'm going to use
my acid-free tissue,
and then I'll just be drying it
with this heated spatula.
It's a challenge, because it's
quite a sensitive paint surface,
but...it's going to look really good
at the end.
BIRDSONG
Pinning their hopes on
the delicate touch of Kirsten Ramsay
are Emese and Luke Carter-Whittley,
hoping she can save
the most precious of mementos.
Hello! Hello!
Lovely to meet you.
Lovely to meet you, too.
So, what have you brought in for us
today?
It's our baby boy's footprints. OK.
David's footprints.
Ooh...! This is David on one side
and his footprints
on the other side.
But as you can see, it's cracked up,
um...on the footprints,
but also, on the side, it shrank.
Oh, dear! It's shrunk there.
So David, um...was our son,
and he, um...he passed away
at five months.
I'm so sorry.
And, um...we did the footprints
at the hospital
a couple of days
before he passed...he passed away.
Um...so it's really precious to us.
David and Joshua, his brother,
they are twins, and they were born
pre-term.
They were born at 26 weeks.
26 weeks. So three months early.
So they actually spent almost
three months in the hospital
at the neo-natal unit. My goodness!
So we actually only had him
for two months at home.
Um, and I do remember increasingly
how worried I was about David,
because I noticed that he wasn't
doing as well as he should.
And obviously, I had his brother,
who was thriving.
And then I took David to A&E
because we had a very bad night
with him and I was really worried.
And that's when he had
the cardiac arrest. Whoa!
And one day after, we found out
that he had this very serious
heart condition
and the doctors couldn't do anything
for him, sadly.
That's really devastating.
In a sense, the hardest was...
Cos they said, um...
..that we could decide when we
wanted the life-support
to be turned off.
And I said to Luke, "I can't
decide that." As a mother, you...
..you should never...! Yeah.
Those last days are just etched on
your heart forever, you know? Um...
They're just precious,
to be able to, er...
..to say goodbye to David.
Yeah. Because we were so shocked,
we didn't think of making memories,
apart from taking photos.
But the hospital were really good at
giving us this kit,
so that's when we made
the footprints. Made the footprints.
He's a beautiful, beautiful boy.
I can see that.
But that must just break your hearts
to see that, like that.
Yeah. Cos the way we remember
David is,
he was a precious little boy.
Of course. Yeah.
And we want to remember the joy
of having had him.
Yeah. So I guess, for us,
it's that...what...
..it would represent to have
the footprints repaired.
Yeah. I can absolutely understand
that. Yeah.
I tried to fill it, um...and then
we....we noticed that the cracks
were becoming bigger
and I didn't dare to touch it
any more,
cos I thought I would just
make it worse.
We would just love to see
our little boy's perfect
little footprints
as they were.
It's going to be genuinely
very tricky,
but I will do everything that I can
to try and make it look as good
as possible.
Thank you so much. Thank you so
much. We really appreciate it.
You take care now. Thank you. Bye.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
HE EXHALES SOFTLY
This is really daunting.
I really don't know
how you're going to do this.
This seems really tricky to me.
I would rather have something
in 500 pieces
than the weight of responsibility
for...for doing this.
Yeah. It's so precious.
And I've never done anything
like this.
I wish you all the best. Thank you.
I can only imagine...
..how heartbreaking it must be
to see this really precious memento
looking like this.
This is different to the material
that I normally work on.
I think it's an air-drying clay.
It therefore hasn't been fired,
it doesn't have a glazed surface.
So it's extremely soft,
porous and vulnerable.
I'm guessing that perhaps
because it's stuck on to a backing,
as it's shrunk,
it hasn't been able to move.
And therefore,
these cracks have occurred.
I think my initial work is going
to be just trying to...remove
the fill that Emese did
around the sides.
Once I've cleared it away
from the edges,
I'm going to do a couple of tests,
just to see how it reacts
to my filling medium.
Then it's going to be a process
of trying to blend these edges in
with the frame,
and then I'm going to do
the really difficult task
of trying to fill these footprints.
With the flaking paint on
the Bermudian picture stabilised,
Lucia can set about
flattening the undulating canvas.
I'm going to turn it over and work
on these bumps,
these dents that are in it.
This one's quite pronounced,
so I'll do that one first.
I'm going to do a moisture
treatment. It's very gentle,
and it's just using blotting paper.
Wet the blot, shake off the excess.
And I'm going to use
my heated spatula
to drive the moisture
into the canvas,
but in a very controlled way.
So it's not flowing,
it's just getting the canvas damp.
It allows the fibres to release.
It's a bit like ironing,
but very gentle.
And I can actually feel the canvas
give.
Take dry blotting paper,
take a piece of card, and...
..leave it weighted to dry
under its own,
literally, a little bit of steam
that's going on under there.
So I'm going to carry on working on
the dents that I can find.
We've got a lot of slack
in the canvas,
and I'm hoping that I'll be able to
tension the canvas
by just tapping in these wedges.
Once all the structural stuff is in
place and it's well supported,
I can turn it over and work on
the front of the painting.
And that's when all
the picturesque things start.
SHE CHUCKLES
These wedges open this, er,
joint in the stretcher.
And it's called a stretcher
because it stretches the canvas.
I can see the canvas
starting to actually tension now.
It's going.
It's not as floppy as it was.
The cleaning is actually more
straightforward than I thought.
It's an aqueous cleaning method,
but I need a little bit more
than water,
a little bit more oomph
to do a surface clean.
Otherwise, I'm just rubbing
the surface.
So, basically, it's distilled water
with a tiny bit of ammonia.
And the beauty of that is there are
no surfactants in here or anything.
The ammonia evaporates.
I'm pleased with the way that
it's cleaning very, very nicely.
The fact that we've got
this little tiny portrait
of Spot the dog,
obviously a family favourite,
so it's really quite important.
Spot has lost, like,
his central tummy area,
but by the time I've retouched it,
Spot will be fully formed.
So that will be a nice little thing.
It's lovely working on something
like this,
because it's such a personal thing
for them.
It's just full of love, really.
Love and memories and sweetness.
And for me, it makes me think,
maybe I should have a painting made
of my house.
From sunny Bermuda
to Arctic adventures.
Former nurse Pat Emmel
and her son Nick
have brought Steve Fletcher
an intriguing souvenir
of a life less ordinary.
Hello! Come on in.
Hello! How are you?
We're fine.
We're good, thank you.
Dying to see what's in that box.
We've got a thermometer in here,
but it's not a normal thermometer.
It's designed for cold, cold
temperatures.
And this is the sensor that measures
the temperature.
It's a thermocouple thermometer.
It produces electricity
in the sensor.
So, there's no mercury in it at all?
No, no.
Mercury's unstable in the
cold temperatures it was designed
to record.
Oh! So it's minus-100
degrees Fahrenheit
and it runs through
to plus-100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Minus-100 Fahrenheit.
In Celsius, what's that?
Around minus-70. Minus-70?!
Minus-70.
So that's the coldest temperatures
recorded in the world,
which was down at Antarctica.
So, how come you've got
a thermometer that does all this
extreme temperature?
In the 1960s,
my husband Malcolm and I
went to live in the Arctic.
And it was given to Malcolm
by some scientific friends
who also lived in the Arctic.
That's amazing!
What took you out there?
I had been living in Nigeria.
I was working in a leper colony.
I was the Sister of a leper colony.
And I was home on leave,
with every intention of going back
to Nigeria. Right.
And the local vicar
sent the local curate to visit me.
I opened the door, and I hadn't
intended getting married,
I was really a career girl,
but a voice said to me,
"You're going to marry this man".
And at the same time,
something said to Malcolm,
"You're going to marry this woman".
First time you saw him.
Malcolm had already decided that
after he'd finished his curacy,
he would like to have a parish
elsewhere in the world.
And so he decided he'd go and work
with the Inuit people in Canada.
And he had already arranged to go.
So I had no alternative.
If I wanted to be with Malcolm,
I had to go to the Arctic.
You're going to the Arctic,
that's it.
You do daft things
when you're in love, don't you?
THEY LAUGH
And it all worked out,
and we had 59 very happy
years together.
As I said to him, really,
right till he died last year,
"You never really proposed to me,
"all you said was, 'Will you
come to the Arctic with me?'"
THEY LAUGH
I had two babies
when I was in the Arctic.
The first year was extremely hard.
You had to adapt to
a different way of living.
We didn't have any fresh food,
so we ordered our food in January
and it came up by boat in August.
So we lived on tinned food. Cor!
I can do things with tinned food
that nobody else can do!
THEY LAUGH
It isn't just the cold,
it's the isolation.
Our nearest neighbours were, like,
200 miles to the west,
another 100, 200 miles to the east.
Wow! And we had a nursing station.
So my job was to do a lot of flying.
So I used to fly out
to smaller settlements
if there was patients to pick up.
But the parish was enormous.
Bigger than England.
Whoa!
He would travel every year
by a dog team with the Inuit people
to visit the outlying settlements.
There would be babies
to be baptised,
there'd even probably be a wedding
to do.
So, how did this thermometer
feature in...in your lives?
Well, it was... Malcolm
absolutely loved it, of course.
He used it in the Arctic.
Every morning, he'd have a look
and say, "Oh, it's minus-40 today.
"Better put an extra layer of
clothes on if you're going out."
And then he brought it back
to England,
and he still used to like it,
didn't he, very much? Yeah.
Right through my childhood,
it was mounted in the garage.
I think anything
connected with Malcolm
becomes more important
when you lose them.
And I do miss him, tremendously.
There's so much of Malcolm
wrapped up in this, isn't there?
Yes. Yes. Yeah.
In the act of...of looking at it,
you have that time just thinking
about my dad, as well. Yeah.
Do you know what's wrong with it?
No, I don't know what's wrong
with it.
It recorded this temperature on
a very hot day, and then it's stuck.
It hasn't moved
since that very hot day.
What about cosmetics?
This is the patina of its...of
its life.
It can stay much as it is.
My dad made the box. The box is
packing case wood from the Arctic.
Everything that came to the Arctic
was used.
So the box is important.
I cannot wait to get inside
to see how it works.
I've no idea at the moment,
so it's quite exciting.
Thank you so much. Thank you. Lovely
to meet you both. See you later.
And thank you very much.
Bye-bye now. Bye-bye.
What an amazing life, isn't it?
Wow!
Right, I'd better get cracking.
This is just a wonderful
scientific piece of equipment.
I'm not sure how this works at all.
I know how a thermocouple works.
It's a safety thing in a boiler
or on a cooker,
or an appliance like that.
But I'm intrigued to see
how this works.
Right, let's have a look.
It's really a very delicate
mechanism inside here.
And at this stage, I don't know
whether the fault is...
..in the thermocouple itself
or in the actual mechanism.
I'm really quite nervous about going
any further,
and I've got to really scratch
my head
about how to get into the mechanism.
Because it's so fine,
I don't want to cause any damage,
so I've got to be
very, very careful.
Also working with extreme delicacy,
Kirsten is facing one of the most
daunting repairs of her career,
preserving the imprints
of two tiny feet.
I'm going to stabilise what
I've got there using a consolidant.
And what this will do is stabilise
these broken bits of clay,
and also make a seal,
so that when I fill around
these edges,
there's a barrier between
the original material
and my fill material.
I'm now tackling the worst
of the cracks
that run through David's feet.
If I...get any of this
on to the surrounding area,
it could change its appearance.
So I'm just working slowly,
methodically and...and carefully.
I've got a two-part
epoxy putty here.
What I want is a fill material
that has an adhesive quality
I can manipulate and push into
those voids underneath the clay
and give a really good, firm
foundation.
I completely understand
what Emese was trying to do.
These cracks
appearing around the edge
must have been really
quite upsetting.
All the preparation that I've done
up until this point has been...
..leading towards the filling
of these
really unsightly cracks
through the clay.
I've done my test fillers.
The acrylic with the onyx powder
looks good.
Got a nice surface feel,
very similar to the clay.
I've just got the one opportunity
to get it right.
The colour's got to be right,
the texture's got to be right.
I can't really go back to it
once it's in and it's cured.
I'm just offering up my fill
to see how it looks, colour-wise.
Tiny bit more titanium white in it.
It's really quite nerve-racking
doing this.
I'm just going to go
really cautiously.
I need to just try it. I've...I've
got to make a start on this.
Colour-wise,
I think that's looking good.
And the material seems to be
going in very nicely.
I'm not out of the woods yet.
I quite often have this
with my work.
You have to almost hold the faith,
believe that it is going to work.
This is really starting to look like
a lovely pair of footprints now,
but I have still got a little bit
of refining to do.
I want this to be perfect when it
goes back to Emese and Luke.
In an effort to decode the Arctic
thermometer's intricate workings,
Steve has traded time and hours
for temperature and degrees.
So I can see the way this actually
is supposed to work.
You've got the thermocouple,
which creates a charge.
And at the end, the thermocouple
is attached to a bourdon spring.
You'll see those in barometers.
And...and you'll get
the air pressure
that will change the pressure
in that coil.
That coil will then try and unwrap.
And that turning effect will
actually turn a hand on a barometer.
In here, you've got
the bourdon spring
that's connected to some levers
that does turn the hand.
So it looks as if the bourdon spring
has closed down
and just has hit a stop.
And that's where that hand
has stopped.
There's an adjustment screw here.
If I just undo that...
..move the lever around.
If the hand was attached,
the hand would be coming up
to almost the centre here.
So...I'm going to tighten that up.
And now, when I move this...
..there is adjustment
both ways that,
hopefully, if I heat the
thermocouple, the hand should move.
So the next stage, I need to get
hold of an electronic thermometer,
put it side by side
with the thermocouple,
see whether this one is reading
correctly or not.
I can't wait to do
that scientific experiment.
It's all good fun.
As Steve prepares to test
the thermometer,
Lucia is keeping a cool head
as she precisely colour-matches the
infills on the Bermudian painting.
It's coming up really quite nicely.
I'm using my synthetic resins
and mixing dry pigments in with them
to get the shade that I want.
A lot of them are teeny-tiny,
just scraped-off losses.
So I'm dotting those in,
and then these larger ones, I shall
do some small brush strokes.
I'm just letting it flood
into that loss,
and it's working quite nicely.
I'm saving the best bit till last,
Spot the dog,
who's more or less in the centre
of the painting,
and the focus, I guess.
It's a really nice emotional touch
to put the dog in,
because I know how much
that dog meant to the family.
I mean, it's a beautiful portrait
of a house
and it's a lovely thing to have.
I love it.
This painting was commissioned
by Bermuda's first black Premier,
Sir Edward Trenton,
who campaigned against segregation
and became a national hero
in the process.
For his daughter Patricia
and granddaughter Rokeya,
it holds dear memories of the man,
and the place they called home.
Hello! Hello again. Hello! Hello!
Hello! How lovely to see you.
And you! How are you keeping?
Fine, thank you very much.
We're good. Oh, good.
Are you excited to find out
what happened...?
We are really excited! Yeah.
It did well up a lot of lovely
memories for me.
Things we talked about that
we hadn't talked about for years.
So, all those memories just laying
dormant until this moment in time?
That's right!
So, you ready to see it?
Yes, I-I think so.
Yes, yes, we are. Very excited.
Great, cos I am, too.
SHE GASPS
Oh, my God! Oh, thank goodness!
Oh, it is just lovely!
It's amazing! It's absolutely...
It's amazing what you've done.
I don't know how you've managed
to bring out all the colours.
I don't remember the grass
being that green,
or the sky being that vivid.
Yes.
Oh, look at Spot! Look at Spot!
SHE LAUGHS
Look!
He's got his head back!
PATRICIA LAUGHS
Yes.
And...and that part of
the flower garden...
That was sort of lost.
Yes, that was completely lost.
Oh, it's wonderful! It is lovely.
Oh, it's really wonderful!
Thank you. Thank you so much!
It's all just so clear! Isn't it?
Mummy, um...she loved to...
Sit on the terrace.
With her feet up. Yes.
Can almost see her walking down
there. We can.
And of course, she walked down there
as a bride.
She had us and her life
with this house.
Her husband, who she loved dearly.
Grandpa would be very proud. Yes.
And he would have loved the fact
that something that he thought
was important to capture on canvas
is preserved.
It represents joy and happiness,
that house. Yeah.
A part of me that still yearns
for Bermuda, really.
That's the emotion that I have
when I see this house.
Yeah. In its glory.
ROKEYA LAUGHS
Yes. In its glory!
Well, if you're happy with it,
please take it away.
Thank you. Thank you.
I feel like, sort of...
THEY LAUGH
A little worried. That's wonderful!
Bye-bye! Bye-bye. Lovely to see you.
Bye-bye. Thank you. Bye.
It's just so lovely!
SHE CHUCKLES
Yeah. I will look at it every day
and will be reminded how lucky I was
to live in that house.
At the time of quite severe
segregation,
that house was a solace for us.
Everything that my parents taught me
about life was in that house.
It was such a house full of joy.
And love.
Yes. Love and joy, yes.
Bringing some class with glass,
Matt Nickels is back in the barn.
Excited to see what's coming through
the door.
Bless you. I think you're going to
like this one.
Bekki Forrest, from West Sussex,
has brought something she hopes Matt
can get from flat to fabulous.
Hello! Hello. How you doing?
Good, thank you.
That's definitely broken. Wow!
THEY LAUGH
That's really squashed.
It's been sat on by an elephant,
hasn't it?
So, what we got in the box, then?
We have a terrarium.
A terrarium? Yes.
So a bit like an indoor greenhouse
for plants. Yeah.
So, what is this meant to look like?
So it's a beautiful glass structure
with curved tops,
lots of individual pieces of glass.
Yeah.
Nice slidey door so you can go in
and tend to your plants.
Yeah, it was very beautiful.
How tall was it, originally?
Um...roughly about here.
So it's really... OK.
It's really been flattened.
Yeah.
THEY LAUGH
Yeah. So, how come you've got this?
Where did you get it from?
So it belonged to my grandparents...
OK.
..who are no longer with us. Right.
They'd been married for, I think,
68 years.
Wow! They moved to Spain in '99,
where they absolutely loved being.
Yeah.
They spent a lot of time
tending to their plants in here,
and also their plants
in their garden.
And it was decided that I should
have the terrarium
as I share the love of plants
with them. Right.
My nan was amazing.
She could literally take a leaf
and the next time you saw it,
it was the most beautiful plant
you've ever seen.
And was you close with your
grandparents? Very close, yes.
Every, probably six weeks or so,
I'd fly to Spain just for
the weekend to see them.
So, what are your early memories
with the terrarium?
It was in the middle of
my grandparents' house.
So, whichever room you were in,
you could see the terrarium,
which was lovely.
So how did it end up
looking like this?
When they passed, I had it couriered
back to the UK
and this is how it arrived.
Really? Ooh! Yes.
So, how did you feel
when you got that?
Absolutely heartbroken.
It was the final piece of them
that I thought I could have
in my house.
A bit of them with me every day.
Yeah.
And, yeah, that's not the case.
So I can see that a fair amount
of the glass is broken,
but we've got lots of glass in here.
Yes, some glass that I have
been able to save.
OK. Well, that's good. Seems like
a fair amount is still there.
It would be so nice to see it
in my own home
and have the memories of
my grandparents,
and just remembering it
in their house,
and then bringing that into my house
would be really special.
OK. It seems like you've got a job
to be doing, then.
Yeah. A lot of work on my hands.
THEY CHUCKLE
Thank you for bringing it in.
Thank you so much. All right? You
take care now. Take care. Thank you.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
The first terrarium was developed
in 1842
by botanist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward,
and was initially known as
the Wardian case.
They made global plant transport
possible,
shipping plants, trees and spices
around the world.
But Bekki's terrarium has not fared
so well with international travel.
I feel really nervous about
this repair.
It's such an important job
for me to get right.
There's so much history
and family embodied in this piece.
And now that I'm looking at it
and seeing just how mangled it is,
this is quite genuinely one of
the worst disasters I've ever seen.
Um...I've got these two finials
here,
and the base to those,
I'll definitely be able to keep.
But I'm not sure if I'm really going
to be able to keep
much else of the lead.
All the lead is mangled.
And once it gets mangled, you can't
really stretch it out again.
You can't put it back together,
unfortunately.
But first of all, I need to start
taking it apart
and make some good templates,
and also start working out
which bits of glass there are
that I can keep,
which bits are broken.
Things are hotting up
on Steve's bench
as he prepares to test his handiwork
on the Arctic thermometer.
I've managed to get hold
of an electronic thermometer,
and it's showing at the moment
that the room temperature
is 67 degrees Fahrenheit.
So what I've done is set the hand
at that room temperature.
So I'm going to put the thermocouple
and the probe into the oven.
What I'm really hoping to see
is this hand moving up now.
If it doesn't move, then there
is something else wrong with this
that I haven't spotted.
The new thermometer has reacted
really quick.
The old Arctic thermometer here
is turning very, very slowly.
But I can see it's reacting now,
which is brilliant news.
I need to just test it
for the cold now.
So I'm going to pop the thermocouple
right down into my bucket of ice,
and I'm expecting that needle
to fall like a stone.
I hope it will, anyway.
And there it goes.
That's amazing!
I'm just going to cross-reference
the temperature
with the modern thermometer.
There we go, that temperature
is again falling like a stone.
32, which is freezing point.
And then it just goes down to low.
This, I have to say, is a much
better thermometer. Love it to bits.
I just need to get it all
cleaned up now. I'm so chuffed.
BIRDSONG
It seemed like an impossible task,
but Kirsten has all but erased
the devastating cracks
that had marred this most precious
of keepsakes.
I'm using these really tiny bits
of sandpaper
to smooth back the fills
without disturbing or damaging
any of the really fine detail.
I thought it was so incredibly brave
of Emese and Luke
to leave this with me.
And I hope that they will be pleased
with the work
that I've carried out for them.
These tiny footprints represent
the short life
of a beautiful baby boy
called David.
I'll be really happy to hand
these back.
There you go. Wow!
That is...amazing!
Emese and Luke entrusted
their son's memorial to Kirsten
in the hope she could restore
its perfect form once again.
Hello! Hello. Morning. Hello.
How are you doing?
All right, thank you.
Yes, good, thank you. How are you?
Yeah, good, thank you.
Lovely to see you both.
Yeah. Been waiting excitedly...
In anticipation. ..for this moment.
THEY LAUGH
Waiting excitedly? Yeah!
It seemed like such a big task,
that it could get back
to what it was originally.
I felt the weight of responsibility,
shall we say, with these feet.
Yeah, absolutely.
OK. Kirsten... OK, yeah.
Oh.
Oh, look at that!
Oh, it is beautiful.
Yeah.
Hmm!
SHE SNIFFLES
Just in those last hours,
he opened his eyes for us,
looking at us, and just...
That's what I think of when we see
these...these feet.
Yeah. Those last
sort of hours that we had with him.
Yeah.
This will be now a rem...
..a reminder of him,
and a comfort. Yeah.
Putting your fingers in and feeling
where his feet once were...
Yeah. ..it's really lovely
to do that.
Yeah, yeah. That's right.
And for Joshua as well, isn't it,
that his brother was really there?
Oh, you've done a very, very
good job. Thank you.
Thank you so much.
We're so grateful. Yeah.
Coming home!
THEY LAUGH
Thank you so much again.
Great pleasure.
You guys take care. You, too.
Bye now. Bye. Bye-bye.
Well done. Hmm. Thank you.
It's lovely to have
David's footprints back.
Every contour of his foot
just seems to be there, still.
The footprints now can continue
to be that comforting reminder
of how perfect and how precious
and how loved he was,
and he still is to us.
BIRDSONG
Faced with the challenge of making
a brand-new leaded structure
for the terrarium, as well as
replacing some missing glass panels,
Matt has got his work cut out.
Fortunately, most of it
is actually intact,
but there are a few pieces
which I need to replicate.
Cutting straight lines
is quite straightforward,
whereas when you're cutting shapes,
like this section here in the top,
it just gets a little bit
more complicated.
And that's when a little bit more
skill's involved.
I follow the curve on this,
keeping a nice, even, fluid motion
as I do it.
There we go.
Now I need to tap the underside,
which breaks the glass a little bit.
And once you've tapped it
all the way through,
you hear a very slightly different
sound.
There we go. I just heard the pitch
change a little bit.
And I know now,
with the next couple of taps,
I'll be able to just knock
that bit of glass off.
There we go, it's just fallen off.
I'm very fortunate to have grown up
working with stained glass.
My dad and mum ran a stained-glass
company when I was growing up,
and it's one of those things
that you kind of learn
without really realising
that you're learning.
You just end up picking it up.
TAPPING CONTINUES
I'm starting to get the structure
for this top section
of the terrarium together now.
So, normally, the stained glass
would slot in like this,
whereas this 3D structure,
I'm having to turn the lead
this way,
but it's going to be so much
more fragile to touch
just because the glass can just
fall out, like that.
Right, hopefully,
I'm going to be able to bend
this bit of lead nicely.
Right, so that feels like
the angle's OK.
I'm just going to see
how this sits there.
There we go.
That looks really nice.
There's just going to be a lot
of trial and error with this.
CROWS CAW
Now what I need to do is start
putting the vertical lead struts in.
So that's slotting down.
It's going nicely in.
I'm getting the hang of putting
all of the glass in nicely.
I'm really happy with the way
it's going.
How's it going, Matt?
It's all coming together nicely.
Looking really good. Yeah.
Although it is a bit of
a house of cards at the moment.
THEY LAUGH
So, it's all balancing there?
Yeah. Pretty much so, yeah. Wow!
So I've got these finials
that are going to go on the top
of the terrarium,
but they've got a bit of a bend
to them, and...
They look like they're brass.
Yeah. I was worried
that I might snap it
if I just get some pliers on it.
Yeah, you would.
It really is bent, isn't it?
Would that be something you'd be
able to look at for me?
OK, I'll give it a go for you.
All right. Thanks, Brenton.
I'm about to start soldering
all of these joints together.
And what that's going to do
is it's going to strengthen
the entire window, by making
all of the lead network connected.
One of the main issues, though,
with making a 3D structure
is that solder, when it's hot enough
to form a joint, it's a liquid.
So I'm really trying not to drip
this solder
over the rest of the lead.
There we go. I've got that one.
Nice!
This is really the most fiddly
soldering I've ever had to do.
I'm having to hold the iron,
having to put the solder on it.
Have my glove, have this wood.
So many different factors involved.
This terrarium is going really well,
but this is the first time
I've put this top section on,
so I'm just going to have to see
how it goes.
Once it slots in one side,
then it's probably going to need
to be then slotted into the other,
kind of the glass
teased around a bit.
Now, I think this side...
There's something that just needs
to fall on this side a little bit.
I think there's a bit of glass
in the way. Maybe that bit there.
There we go. Great!
Now, you know what?
This is the first time
that this has actually felt like
a proper structure.
What I need to do now is start
working on this top section
with the decorative finials on top,
and it's going to really finish
it off nicely. I'm so excited!
Sheltered from the inclement
weather outside,
Steve's meteorological masterpiece
is almost ready.
I'm just popping a little bit of oil
on to all of the...
..the moving parts of the mechanism.
The oil's just going to help it move
smoothly.
It's very, very rare
that I will...
..repair anything...
..but I don't know how it actually
works properly. Um...
It's all too scientific,
with electrons whizzing round
here, there and everywhere.
But I've got it working,
and that's the main thing.
HE CHUCKLES
I just need to...to pop
the front on.
Having seen a young family through
sub-zero temperatures in the Arctic,
it was a hot day in the UK
that caused the vintage
thermometer's seizure.
But keen for it to keep its place
in the household
and provide a reminder of their
intrepid husband and father,
Pat and Nick.
Hi! Hi, Pat. You OK?
Yes, I'm fine. Hello! Come on out
of the rain. Goodness me!
Cold out there. It is cold, yes.
Yes. How do you know
it's cold out there?
You haven't got a thermometer
to tell you.
We don't know!
THEY LAUGH
I'm afraid I've been
of little faith.
I didn't think you could mend it.
What, you thought it would just be
a lost cause?
It would never work again?
I thought it was obsolete.
Oh. That would have been a shame,
wouldn't it?
I was more confident, I have to say.
Do you want to have a look?
Oh, I do! I really do.
Go on, Steve. OK.
Wow! There it is.
Is it really 57 degrees in here?
It is. It is.
And it says... Fantastic.
..57 degrees. Yeah.
We could get it to go warmer,
couldn't we?
Nick, I'll tell you what, we can do
a little bit better than that.
You can? If you go the other way,
we've got a little bit
of a surprise for you.
Right. You ready? OK.
Come on, Steve. OK.
What is coming?
This is quite exciting. It is.
It is.
Very exciting. They've got some
dry ice or something.
Right. So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to put some of this
dry ice into some water,
in this container here.
Wow! Look at that!
It's super cold, the dry ice.
So hopefully... Yes. ..this should
get this back around
to at least zero.
Look at that! Wow! Look at that!
Right, here we go.
Yes. Wow! Oh, it's working!
The speed at which it's going back!
Oh, it's going really mad!
Look at that!
Are we down to zero yet?
No, not quite. Quite exciting...!
Do you remember what it used to
get down to at the Arctic?
Minus-40. Minus-40.
But then, when we had the blizzard,
it was even lower.
Wow! So...
..five, four, three,
two, one, zero!
Zero! Excellent!
Oh, Steve, it's really working.
It really is.
It's been a long time since
it's been that far to zero.
It's been a very long time
since it's been down there.
It's made me think about the first
few years of our married life
in the Arctic, you know,
cos this was part of the story.
I wish Malcolm was here to see it.
He'd have loved it.
He would. He'd be over the moon.
Well, it's yours to take away.
Well, thank you very much.
Right, I'll carry it out for you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
It's been lovely to see you.
See you later! Bye-bye.
I was just absolutely amazed
when I saw that dial moving.
It was a lovely feeling.
I thought, "My goodness,
this is so old,
"and here we have it working!"
It will be part and parcel
of my life, my children's lives.
Um...it'll be...it'll be there
to be seen.
BIRDSONG
I'm getting to the final stages
of this terrarium.
I'm just polishing these
copper pieces here
with some very fine wire wool.
I really want to bring this back
to how it looked
when Rebecca would visit
her grandparents.
Really bright, really eye-catching.
Wow! This is looking
absolutely fantastic!
Now, these are the finials
that Brenton has really kindly
straightened for me,
and he's polished them
up absolutely beautifully.
These finish it off so well.
They're a bit like candles
on top of a cake.
Due to some careless couriers,
the terrarium that once held
stunning displays of horticulture
in miniature had been crushed
into an unrecognisable mess.
That...is...perfect!
I'm so happy with this. Well done.
Compared to what it was before!
I mean, it was flat, wasn't it?
THEY LAUGH
For Bekki, it holds dear memories
of her late grandparents,
who kept it in the heart of
their home.
How you doing?
Hello. Good, thank you. How are you?
Very good. Hiya. How are you
feeling? Excited.
You can tell from the...
It's definitely a better shape!
THEY LAUGH
Have you been thinking about your
grandparents? Yes, a lot. Always.
But just have a piece of them
back with me will be amazing.
I think you're ready to see it,
aren't you? I think so.
Yeah.
SHE SNIFFLES
I've never seen it so shiny!
It's so beautiful!
SHE SNIFFLES
I can't thank you enough.
It's amazing!
Thank you.
It just brings a lot of
memories back. Yeah.
Going to the house in Spain. Yeah.
There'd probably be my nan
pottering around in the background
in the kitchen,
my grandad telling me some story,
or what he's been up to.
Yeah. Yeah. Just lovely to have
a piece of their home at my home.
So, this is the way you remember it,
then? 100%, yes.
Yeah? Just, as I say,
a lot shinier than it was.
OK.
THEY LAUGH
I just can't believe, what
a difference!
THEY LAUGH
Amazing!
I honestly never thought
it was going to be
a standing structure ever again.
Thank you so much.
Rebecca,
thank you for bringing this in.
And now I think it's time
to get it home, safely.
Yes, please. I'll get the door.
Thank you.
Don't worry, Rebecca,
he's got it. He's got it.
THEY LAUGH
Come on.
It feels absolutely unbelievable
to have the terrarium
back in one piece.
I think my grandparents
would be very proud
that I'm now taking on the terrarium
in my home.
Just having the memories coming back
will be really lovely,
and make it feel like
they're part of that, too.
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