The Repair Shop (2017–…): Season 7, Episode 19 - Episode #7.19 - full transcript

Welcome to The Repair Shop, where
precious but faded treasures...

This is bad.

I don't think I've ever seen a chair
quite so broken as this.

..are restored
to their former glory.

That's lovely. It is, isn't it?
That's lovely, isn't it?

Furniture restorer Jay Blades...

Bringing history back to life

is what makes The Repair Shop
so special.

..and a dream team of expert
craftspeople...

Amazing.
It's a bit like brain surgery.

Go on!
..come together to work their magic.



Yahoo! When you look at something
that looks so hopeless like this,

it makes me even more determined
to get it back. That's teamwork.

Employing heritage craft skills
passed down the generations...

It is a privilege to be able to do
something for somebody that means

so much to them.

..preserving irreplaceable
heirlooms...

To bring those pieces back to life
is just the most wonderful thing

and I'd like to do it forever.

..the team will restore the items...

Whoa!

..the memories...

I'm so happy to see it!

..and unlock the stories
that they hold.

That's made it all worthwhile.



In The Repair Shop today...

I've got this green malachite stone

and then I've got
the mother-of-pearl.

..a gem of a job for Kirsten.

This is unbelievably fiddly,
even for me.

This is going to be the back
of his jacket.

And beautiful bespoke tailoring...

But he's also going to have
his little curly tail in there!

..for a toy. Tailor made for a pig.

But first, Jeff
from the East Midlands

has brought an item that provides
a fascinating glimpse

into his family history.

Hello. Hello. You all right?
I'm Jay. Hello, Jay, I'm Jeff.

So, what you got in the bag?
This is my grandad's camera.

Oh, camera. Brenton,
do you mind joining us?

Come have a look at this.
Got Grandad's camera.

That's nice.
I believe it's from about 1913.

Who's the picture of, then?
So, this is my grandad's family.

And the photo was taken on this
camera? Yeah. That's my grandad. OK.

That's Vic. And about six months
after this photo was taken,

baby Kathleen, who's in the middle,
she passed away. And then,

a year later, her mother, my great
nan, Edith, she also passed on.

The story in the family was
she died of a broken heart,

leaving basically all the boys.
All the boys.

And this is basically where
their lives all kind of went

in different directions. So who's
the gentleman right in the back?

So that's my great grandad, George.

There was no way he would be able
to look after four young boys,

so they all split up.

That's...some history there.
That's unbelievable.

It's the only connection we have
with my grandad's family.

So you want to get this camera
working? Yes.

So if you can, that would be
amazing. OK. That would be amazing.

I understand it's a very old piece
of equipment. LAUGHING: Yes.

So this is a Vest Pocket Kodak

and it goes into your vest pocket.

You see old cameras

but to actually know that one's been
in the family for a long time

and see a picture that it's taken
is really special.

So this is the last photo
that this camera's taken

of your family all together? Yes.

And it's just sad
cos they're all so young

and I can't imagine being such
a small child and losing everything.

Yeah. You know, my grandad was a big
family man and he loved his family.

He's gone now. As he's going
further and further away

from...from when I knew him,
it's objects like this

that still keep me close to him.
Yeah.

So I can see that, it means a lot.
Yeah. OK.

We'll do something, so thank you.
Thank you both.

Nice to meet you.
Take care now. Bye. Bye-bye.

The camera represents, to me,
family history, a connection

to the past and to my grandad
and I miss him a lot,

and every time I talk about him
and I see the camera, it brings

all those memories back -
and they're good memories.

It's so sad what's happened
to this family. It is, isn't it?

Just, like... Incredible story.

And I guess because of this camera

he's got that story
because he's got that photograph.

Yeah. That's what makes
it so important. Yeah.

But over 100 years old, it needs
a good cleaning, doesn't it?

What else does it need?

The bellows have got holes in them.
Have they?

Have to replace or repair
the bellows. OK.

And if I have to take the bellows
off, it means the whole thing

has to be stripped down. So it's a
little camera but it's a big fix.

It is a big fix.
Quite complicated, yeah.

Sounds like you've got a lot
of cleaning to do. OK. All right.

The Vest Pocket Camera was made
by Kodak from 1912 to 1935.

As the first compact camera,

soldiers were able to carry them
during World War I,

giving those at home an insight
into their experiences

and revolutionising war photography.

You can see that there's years
and years of dirt coming off of it.

Now I've got to get the camera
disassembled ready for cleaning

and getting it working properly.

Next, Amelia from Monmouth, Wales,
is hoping The Repair Shop

can pick up the pieces
after an unfortunate accident.

It will be an unusual assignment

for ceramic specialist
Kirsten Ramsay.

How are you doing? I'm Jay.
Hi. Amelia.

I'm Kirsten, nice to meet you.
Hi, nice to meet you.

So tell me you've got

pizza in there. Oh, no, it's not...

LAUGHTER

What is that? It's hard
to know what to call it, really.

A marvel decorative platter.

So where'd you get that from, then?
Because that looks really nice.

It is lovely, isn't it? Yeah.
Dad actually got it in India.

He went on a work trip, about
ten years ago now, and he was away

for three or four weeks.

Some of his colleagues
took him to the Taj Mahal.

He really, really enjoyed it
and it was a really special
experience for him,

so this was what he brought back
as his piece of that trip to share

with us when he got home.

And supposedly this is made
from the same stone

as from the Taj Mahal.
OK, wow, that sounds impressive.

And it was pride of place
at the front door so that everyone

could see it. He was so proud of it,

he loved telling people where
he got it from. So hold on.

How did it break?

About two years ago, my mum
had a stroke and people

were very kindly bringing flowers
and I was in charge of the flowers.

So I had a lovely vase on here
and I went to change the flowers

and I think it must have
suctioned on with some water under,

so I took the vase away
from the table,

noticed that this was still
attached...

Oh, no! ..but I couldn't get back
quick enough. It was slow motion,

everything was slow apart from
this smashing to the floor.

Oh. I can just see that whole
thing happening. It was awful.

And Dad, he was absolutely gutted,
but he knew that I didn't do it

on purpose and he knew there's
nothing I could really do about it.

Yeah. So he was just like, "Oh,
you know, it's OK. Don't worry."

That makes you feel even worse
because he's being so OK about it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Before I really
told him what happened, I tried to

get everything back together. So
has it been stuck, then? No. No, OK.

I just... Assembled it.

"I'll just put it together and try
and hide it." It's so fresh.

Oh, what a shame.
It looks like mother-of-pearl

and this looks like...
inset with a variety of stones.

It's really, really pretty,
isn't it? Mm. Yeah.

It's been two years you've been
looking at this broken. Yeah.

So why now? I had just moved home
to retrain as a teacher.

It was about a week after I moved
home that Mum had her stroke.

It meant that I was there to help
and I have stayed since.

She's doing amazingly well. It's
not like she even needs me around.

I don't know how she's managed to do
it. She's had the family as well
to support her? Yeah.

So your dad's helping out? Yeah.
And you've been helping out as well.

Dad's been brilliant. Well,
he was everyone's rock, really.

He was the best.

LAUGHTER

That's what I like to hear.

Good dad. This would just be
the icing on the cake

if I could arrange this
to be sorted out for him.

I'm itching to get my hands on this
and just have a look and see

what I might be able to do to help.
Brilliant.

We know how much this means
to you and your family. Yeah.

So we're going to get this back
to you as soon as possible, OK?

Brilliant. I can't wait to see it.
Thank you very much.

You take care. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

Having felt guilty for two years
about breaking the marble stone,

I think hopefully by getting
it fixed...that will be the story

that everyone's told, not the fact
that I broke it, but the fact

that I managed to get it fixed.

Even though it's broken, one good
thing is they haven't stuck it
together. Thank goodness.

That's good, innit? Yeah.
You haven't gotta take it apart.

No, that's a real plus. It's
probably picked up a little bit

of dirt along the way, just through
being handled. Yeah.

I'm going to have to clean
those edges really carefully

cos, if not, when you put them
together, you're just going to see,

like, a shadow. Yeah.
Then I'm going to bond it

and then I'm hoping to fill in

these little areas
that have popped out.

They've been lost
when it was broken.

The decoration that's on top? Yeah.

I can see why Amelia wants to get
this fixed for her parents.

So it's over to you now.
Thank you. All right.

This decorative platter
is absolutely beautiful.

Having said that, it is going to
present me with a few challenges.

It's quite a soft, crumbly material

and I've been trying to examine it

without getting any
of the break edges

rubbing up against each other

because that would just flake off
more little pieces.

The first thing is really to try
and get all these edges as clean

as I possibly can.

I don't want to use water
because it's actually quite porous

and it could stain.

So I'm just going to try with
a solvent and see what happens.

I'm really not putting any
pressure on this at all.

It's incredibly delicate. Just
where you've got the break edges,

they can crumble away
just so easily.

And when I offer the pieces
together, the break is almost

disappearing, not entirely,
but quite nicely.

So I'm going to carry on just
cleaning, working my way

along the break edges.

Then it's going to be a case
of bonding the pieces together.

As Kirsten prepares to rejoin
the shattered platter pieces,

Brenton's determined to get
the century-old camera apart.

I've got to take the back off.

Sometimes these can be really tight

and hard to get off.

But I'm lucky with this one.

From this...how many years of dirt

have built up in here, it's hardly
surprising it doesn't work,

but I'm going to give it a clean up
and see if we can get it working.

A shutter is the thing that opens
and closes and lets an amount

of light in.

And at the moment, I'm pressing
the button and it's staying open.

I've sprayed alcohol on the shutter
blades and I'll just give them

a bit of a wipe. Basically, I'm
just going to keep flooding them

with alcohol and hopefully

we can get rid of
some of this dirt in here.

And, by miracle of miracles,

the shutter is now working.

That was easy, wasn't it? Phew!

So just a little bit of a clean and
I haven't spent much time on it

and this shutter is working again.

I've got to replace the bellows
in the camera. Over the years,

the bellows get opened and closed,
opened and closed, and they're only

material and they split on
the joints and that's what's

happened to these.

The reason we've got bellows is
the lens has to be moved away

so that it's focusing on the film,
which is at the back of the camera.

If the lens didn't have bellows...

..you'd have light pouring in

onto the film and it
would expose the film.

I'm just going to cut it
with the scalpel.

Now I can get to the tabs that hold
the back of the bellows in.

This one hasn't got tabs.

I'm now a bit worried
because the ones I've seen before

have tabs lift up and then you can
put the frame back in

and put the tabs back down.

This one's actually riveted in.

So I'm just easing
around with a screwdriver.

The risk is that I bend
this metal plate.

Unfortunately, this is aluminium
and it's really, really soft.

So I've just got to be careful.

The cameras with the tabs definitely
were designed to be replaced.

This one maybe wasn't.

Here we go, here we go.

OK, we've got that metal frame
that holds the back of the bellows

into the back of the camera,

so I've sort of forced it out
and I can't get it back in.

So I'm going to have to make this
a tiny bit smaller

so that it drops back into the slots
and glue it in

and I think it'll be all right.

That goes in really nicely now,
and I'm confident that,

when the new bellows
are attached to it, I'll be able

to glue that in place
and it'll stay there.

So I've got one go
at getting this right.

There we go.

That just slides into there.

So that's all back together now.

I just need to find some film now
and I can try it.

Hiya. I hope this is the pocket
camera I've been repairing

and I need some beautiful models.

Oh! Let's go. Yes. Thank you.

Steve, Dom?

And you two, do you want to hop up
on top? Of there? Yes, please.

This is the calendar picture,
isn't it?

Looks brilliant.

OK, biggest smile you can do.

CAMERA CLICKS

Right, and thank you very much.

Also hoping for a picture-perfect
outcome, Sally from Cheltenham.

She's calling upon the expert care
and attention of toy restorers

Julie and Amanda.

Hello. Hey.

Hello. How are you doing? I'm good.

Now that is a nice box. And it
perfectly fits what's inside it.

Let's have a look.

Oh, look!
I've heard of a pig in a blanket...

LAUGHTER

..more like pig in a basket!
This is Piglet. Of course.

How long have you had Piglet?
Tell us about him.

Piglet was given to me by my
Aunt Edna as a birth present.

So he's 65 years old. Wow.

Did she make it or buy it now?
No, she made him. Wow.

Yeah. He sat on the end of my cot,

and that's probably why I got
attached to him.

Yeah. Yeah. She was quite good,
then, at sewing.

She was very good at sewing. She did
quite a lot of other things for me,

yes, but Piglet was the special one.
He went everywhere with me.

Aw! Yeah, he did. That's adorable.

I cuddled him at night
when I went to sleep. Oh, bless.

Is there any specific memories
that you have of him?

Piglet's claim to fame is that
he was christened.

Really? He was christened?
He was christened in a church.

Wow! When my sister was christened,

I was probably about
five and a half

and I said to the vicar, "Well, if
you're going to christen my sister,

"can you christen Piglet?"
And instead of saying,

"Don't be ridiculous,"
he said, "Yeah, I'll do it."

So we all... We trouped up
to the church with the vicar. Yeah.

Whose nickname was Bluebell.

Bluebell!
The vicar's name was Bluebell?!

And Piglet was christened

and he was given a christening
certificate with the godparents

being, um,
Winnie the Pooh characters.

Oh, really? I think that's lovely.
That's really special.

So what would you like Amanda
and Julie to do to Piglet, then?

Well, his tail is wired
and it was a curly tail. Right.

And I'd love him to be cleaner

cos I worry his head is going to
fall off sooner or later.

Yeah. But, you know, he's old, so...
Absolutely.

We can see that he's old,
a character and, I mean,

we're quite happy if he needs a bit
of a darn or a patch here or there.

That's all part of the character,
isn't it? Absolutely. Yes, yes.

We all get a few scars and
some bumps as get older.

Certainly do, don't we?
Yes, certainly do.

Oh, bless. Yes.
What are your plans for him?

Well, my granddaughter wants to
have him. A few months ago,

Sophie opened this drawer up and
there's all sorts of things in there

and there was Piglet and she just
fell in love with him, basically.

The other thing that she would
really like but, you know,

this may be pushing our luck,
is if he could have a little jacket.

That would be sweet.
He deserves a little jacket.

Well, if we can,
what colour would it be?

She loves sort of bluey, turquoisey
colours. My sort of girl.

She's not ever been a pink person.

LAUGHTER

I'm sorry, I'm sorry to say.

Bless her. That's OK,
I do turquoise.

You do turquoise... Well, leave
Piglet with us, and we'll let you

know when he's ready. Going to have
to hand him over, I'm afraid.

Gosh, it's like leaving your child
at school for the first time!

Bless you. Aw, we'll look after him.
I know you'll look after him.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

"Bye!" Bye, Piglet. See you soon.
Bye-bye, thank you.

I think Aunt Edna would be very
thrilled to think that Piglet

was being repaired
and looked after and loved

even now, after all this time.

Can you believe this? Piglet has had
a christening. A proper one.

I think that's lovely. I really do.
I think it's really sweet.

So we know what Bluebell's
done for Piglet, what are
you guys going to do?

Oh. He's got some major problems.
She mentioned his tail.

She's worried cos he should have a
nice sort of wound-up, curly tail

but I think the wire's
broken in here.

So you got to clean the whole body?
Yeah. Then repair the tail?

This material is so frail. Right.

And at risk of running into ladders.

We need to get in there
to strengthen it.

And we mustn't forget Sophie's
request - a little jacket.

Absolutely. Oh, yeah. All right.
Let's save Piglet's bacon. Oh! Oh!

Here it goes, guys.

OK. Head and jacket?
Yeah, that's me.

Thank you. And I'll get started on
this and I'll sort his tail out

as well. Fab.

She's got these beautiful blue eyes

that have been put in through
the material and then, inside,

it's amazing,
they've never come out.

They've just twisted the wire
together to hold them in.

That's kind of what I love about
these home-made things. It's

finding out how other people
did things and how they created it.

Look, these little bits of cardboard

that they've used to flatten
the feet... Right.

Look, there's writing on there.

Oh, wow. Can you see what it says?

I'll see if the other one's
got anything on there.

Ravioli... Mine says something
about ham, beetroot... ..flowers.

It's a shopping list.

Wow. Isn't that funny?

There's his foot back. Thank you.

There's his head, all ready to be
washed. Thank you. So you all right

doing the washing and I'll get on
and start on his jacket? Yeah. OK.

It's time for Kirsten to join the
Indian marble platter back together,

an operation she's more practised
at with pottery.

Feeling...

..a little bit nervous about this.
Um...

The material is so soft that,
if it doesn't bond correctly

and there's a misalignment,

to actually reverse the adhesive,
it would potentially do some damage

and I would never get
that really nice clean edge again.

So I've got to get this right
and get it right on the first go.

I'm going to use a
specialist adhesive

which is made for white marble
and white stone.

It should bond it
really beautifully.

What I've got to be careful
of is I've got a few little bits

of inlay that are sticking out

and I don't want to knock those off,

so I have to actually manoeuvre
those into place.

Here we go.

That's looking really nice now.
It's gone together beautifully.

I've got one section left to go in,
that goes at the back,

so I will do that and then
it's really just a case

of letting it cure.

All the joins have now been filled

and I'm moving on to the colour.

I've got this green malachite stone

which is so vibrant

and then I've got
the mother-of-pearl.

So I found this sheet,
which matches it beautifully.

So I think I'm actually going to
go straight for using some

little strips of this and
dropping them into the areas

where the detail is missing.

So I've never actually used
this before, so I am excited

to do it but obviously it's
slightly tinged with uncertainty.

I can't actually trace the design
through, so I'm offering

it up to the piece, looking to see
what changes need to be made

to get it to fit.

It's just so hard to handle.
It's absolutely minuscule.

These dental tools are really ideal
for getting things

that are very tiny in place.

This is unbelievably fiddly,
even for me.

So nearly there now with that.

I am confident,
with patience, I will get there.

I've decided to have a little break
from this very, very fiddly

mother-of-pearl work,

and I'm going to try

and colour fill
some of the malachites.

It's the green, I think,
that really sort of makes this buzz.

It's interesting, something
like this that looks like quite

a straightforward fix,
it's not in that many pieces,

there's not that much missing,

actually turns out to be quite
tricky, quite fiddly

and very time consuming.

The century-old Kodak
has been brought back to life

courtesy of Brenton.

And Jay's been working his own magic

on a cherished photograph that came
into the barn alongside the camera.

We all done?
Yeah, all done, ready for Jeff.

Nice one. What do you think of that?
Oh, it's amazing!

Does the camera work?
It does, I've tested it.

I've taken the guys outside,
taken their picture.

JAY LAUGHS

That is quality. Well done.

That's what it was like when I fixed
the camera to see if it works,

and it maybe hasn't taken a picture
for 100 years and then you get
something like that back from it.

That is perfect. He's going to
be here in a minute. OK.

For owner Jeff, this camera was a
link to his beloved grandfather

and provided a snapshot of how life
was for his family,

back when this camera
was part of their lives.

I've come to collect my grandad's
camera. Since the camera's

been away from me,
I have thought about him a lot more.

It's like another part of him
that I've not got

so that's why I'm really looking
forward to having it back today.
So it's getting him back.

Hello, Jeff. How you doing,
Jeff, you all right?

Not too bad, thank you. That's good.
Do suddenly feel a bit nervous.

Oh, do ya? Yeah, yeah.

And I didn't think I was going to,
but, um, it's having that little bit

of my grandad's not been there,
so... You want to be reunited,

don't you? Yes. Yeah.
Doesn't want to talk to us.

Let's get this off here.

Can I...?
Course you can, come in, pick it up.

It's just holding it again, it's
all that connection to my grandad

and his family, and I'm honoured
that you spent your time on it.

Well, because of the history
of the camera,

because of that photograph
that you showed us, it made

it really, really important
cos I wanted to make that camera

work again. And it does work?
It does work.

Oh, OK. I took a picture with it.
Oh, my God.

That is a picture
that I took with your camera.

Oh, my God, that's amazing.
That really is amazing.

I don't know really what to say.

I'm just... I never thought
that that would work.

It's like 100-something years old.

Honestly, I can't believe
that's the photo, it's amazing.

Yeah. And talking of photos,
you left us one... Yes.

So what I thought
would be a good idea...

Oh, that's lovely, thank you.

You can put it up somewhere
in the house.

I'm very, very proud and very
honoured to have this

and what you've done for me.
I really am.

Well, thank you. They're all yours
to take now. Thank you very much.

OK.

Take care. Thank you. Bye-bye.
Bye-bye. Goodbye. Bye.

My emotions right now are quite all
over the place, just the memories

of all my grandparents, really.
They were a big part of my life.

I never thought that they'd get this
to work. It's such an old camera.

I know that it's now going to be
safe for another 100 years

and it's just another part
of its journey in its life.

And it's got a new lease of life,
which I love.

In an effort to get Piglet,
the 65-year-old handmade toy,

hot to trot again, Julie is giving
him a good wash while Amanda attends

to his sartorial needs.

Sally's granddaughter, Sophie,

would like a bluey sort of
turquoisey jacket.

So we've gone for this lovely
deep sort of turquoise felt

for the outer part.

And then we're going to line
it with this lovely blue

with just a hint of pink,
cos I think everyone

should have a little bit
of pink in their life.

This is going to be the back of his
jacket, slightly oddly shaped,

it's going to have two pointed
tails, but he's also

going to have his little curly tail
in there. Tailor-made for a pig.

We get asked to make all sorts
of things for various different

soft toys, but there are such
unusual shapes

you can't kind of keep a pattern,

each one is so different.

So it's a case of measuring
and making each one individually

to accommodate all their
peculiar little quirks.

I made a start on lining Piglet,
which was what we needed to do

to strengthen him and to make
good some of the holes and repairs.

This is not actually the easiest
of fabrics to work with.

It looks quite straightforward
but, because it's

nylon and very lightweight,
it's got a sheen to it,

it's making it very slippery.
Home-made soft toys,

they can be made of all sorts
of things.

And we have to be prepared to work
with all sorts of things.

But, of course,
they have their challenges.

It's time to start putting
Piglet's head back together.

I've spent a lot of time lining him
and strengthening his head.

Now, usually, I would stuff the
head first and then put the eyes in.

But Piglet's eyes were put in
in quite a unique way,

if I tried to use the method
of pulling them through to the back

of the head, I think they're going
to sink into his head and it would

change his expression.

I've got the added problem
of I had to snip them

because of the way
they were tied together.

So they're now a bit shorter.

So what I'm going to attempt to do
is get them into his head

and then add some thread to
bridge that gap so that we keep

the same width between his eyes.

I've not used this technique
of putting in eyes before,

so I don't know how unforgiving
it's going to be or how well

this is going to go,
so we'll just play it by ear.

They're in there now, but obviously
they're not secured at all.

It's very fiddly
but we'll get there.

I'm tying the ends together now
and, actually,

you can see there, if I tie them
too tightly, what starts to happen

is his face will start to pull in.

And his face
wasn't like that at all.

It was very much fuller,
if you like.

So I've got to be careful
that I get these knots exactly right

so that I don't spoil that
lovely expression.

There we go.

This is not something
I do every day.

I don't think he'll have ever
have had such a curly tail.

Now got see
if I can get it off the...

Oh, no, it's coming, it's coming.
There we go.

I think that's got quite
a lovely curl to it, actually.

I can always adjust it a little bit.
Once it's on its body,

I'll be able to finish it off
nicely.

It's taken hours of painstaking work
to replace the opulent inlay

on the marble platter,
but now Kirsten can admire

the fruits of her labour.

I'm just putting the final touches
on, which is a wax coating.

It just gives a nice protective coat
to the surface,

and it also brings out
a lovely shine.

This has been such a lovely
piece to work on,

I've really enjoyed it and I can't
wait to give it back to Amelia.

It was while caring for her mum
as she recovered from a stroke

that Amelia had the accident that
saw the beautiful platter broken.

Now she's back at the barn,
hoping to see the item -

and her conscience - restored.

It feels so special to have Mum
and Dad here with me to collect it

and share that moment
as a family together.

I'm just feeling so excited.

I want to get in there and see
what it's looking like now.

Hello! Hello. How are you doing?
Very well, thank you. How are you?

I'm very good.
And you brought guests. I have.

I've got my parents,
Craig and Zara.

Hello, hi, I'm Kirsten.
Nice to meet you. Yeah, you too.

So, Craig, the marble platter,
you got that in India,

if I'm not mistaken. I went out
for a work trip and it was

an amazing trip, seeing great sights

and the colours and the aromas
and the people.

I just wanted to get something
that reflected

some of those experiences.

And so I was very excited
to bring this home.

And so then it became a bit
of a centrepiece at our house.

So what did you think of
the platter, Zara,

when it came into the home?

It was wonderful because
I usually buy the things

for the house and it was a really
good...really good choice.

And then it got broken.

I don't mean to point the finger!

I'm really excited to show this
to you again.

So, are you ready? ALL: Yes.

Oh! That's incredible.

Come on in.

Oh, I'm going to put my glasses on.

Wow. That's amazing. Wow.

One of the things I think
is incredible is all these intricate

little bits of stone that make up
the various patterns, you've managed

to get all of those
in place as well.

I don't know how you've done that.

Must have taken a long time.

It was very fiddly, it was
like tiny, tiny, little pieces.

LAUGHTER

It's amazing. Brilliant.

It's just lovely to see it
back in its glory.

It's incredible. It really is.

To me, it was irreparable.
It was so difficult to think

that anybody could ever do this.

So that's what makes it even more
amazing. The symbolism, the fact

that Zara's done so incredibly well
and to tell the story

with a phenomenally positive
outcome. Outcome.

At the time of the stroke,

we were not led to believe
Zara was going to be able

to recover to the degree
that she has.

And in the same way, the plate...

I had no expectation that it would
ever...could ever be back as one.

Now, two and a half years
down the track, we're amazed

at the progress, the phenomenal
progress, that Zara has made.

And here we are today,

coinciding with the return of this
piece in a way that's perfect.

And so is Zara. Aww!

I love that. Thank you.

It's true. It's a really brilliant
ending. It's a shame to see it go,

but it has to go home.

We'll take great care of it.
Great. Your hands have gone

fast behind your back.
You're not touching it.

It's been an absolute pleasure.
Thank you very much.

Nice to meet you.
Thank you. ..two hands, Mum.

She said, "Hold it with two hands!"
LAUGHTER

Don't take any advice from her.
I'll get the door. You get the door.
You take care now.

Oh, it was brilliant.

I honestly can't even tell
that it was ever broken.

It's just incredible.
I can't get my head around it.

And to see it looking as fantastic
as it always did,

I was absolutely thrilled.
She's totally forgiven

and there's no-one that's got
a kinder heart or more determined

to get the family gelled together
than Amelia.

So I'm really proud... Aw, thanks,
Dad. ..of what she's done.

Also nearing the end of their
project, Amanda and Julie.

With Piglet's old body strengthened
and repaired,

they're ready to fatten him up.

Always amazes us how much stuffing
these little animals take.

I'm really pleased with that.

I'm not going to close that seam
yet. I am going to put his tail on.

It's going to look adorable.

Almost there.

There you go, Piglet. All done! You
can go and get your head on. Yay!

Oh, he's going to be so cute.

It's really important I get
it in the right place

and I don't get it crooked.

He actually feels quite robust
and quite strong now,

so it's really nice to stitch into.

We can feel, you know,
that we've done our job.

This is the final, final
closing seam on Piglet.

There we go.

Hello.

There he is.

SHE CHUCKLES

Looking much better.

This toy was lovingly handmade
for his owner, Sally, 65 years ago,

but he was showing his age.

Now she's returned
with her granddaughter, Sophie,

hoping to see her cherished
childhood companion

in the pink once again.

I'm really excited about
coming to collect my Piglet.

I definitely understand
having, like, a soft toy

and then when you grow up and when
you feel like maybe sometimes

that you feel alone and that
you have someone to talk to.

Hi, Sally. Hello, welcome back.

Thank you. Lovely to see you again.
Welcome. I'm Sophie.

Hi, Sophie. I'm Amanda. I'm Julie.

And I do have to ask,
what did you do to your arm?

I fell off a bike. Fell off a bike?
Yeah. Oh, no.

Aw! So do you think we ought to...?
Well, yeah.

Yeah? They're probably
a bit nervous now.

He looks the right shape. Yeah.

That's always a bonus.
Right, are you ready? Oh, we are.

Oh! Wow!

Look at him.
Oh, he's gorgeous, isn't he?

Yeah. His eyes are twinkling again.

Oh, look.

Oh, just give him a cuddle again.
Oh, and he's put weight on.

LAUGHTER

Oh, Piglet.

Oh. Going right back
to my childhood.

There's something special, isn't
there, about your very first toy?

Yeah, he's been very much part of
my life and he will go on being

until...until I hand him over.

Wow. I love the colour, I can't
get over the colour, I love it.

When we were repairing him,
we decided to give him new soles

to his feet because they were
a little bit sort of crunkled

and I had to save them for you

because they're actually,

we think, a little shopping list.

How extraordinary!

We think there was beetroot
on there... Ravioli. ..ravioli.

Oh, thank you very much.

Yeah, that makes him even
more special, doesn't it? Yeah.

Oh, thank you so much.
Yeah, thank you.

Thank you so much for bringing him.

A safe journey back. Goodbye.
Bye! Bye, Piglet. Bye, Piglet.

Seeing my little scruffy pig
looking absolutely fabulous

and his beautiful jacket and
bringing back memories of him

when I was a child and him
being with me all the time,

it was...it was amazing.

Even being as old as I am,
he still feels very natural

to have with me. And it's a very
long time since I've actually

held him properly.

Join us next time
as the battered and bruised...

Certainly has seen better days,
poor thing.

..are transformed
into glorious artefacts...

It's amazing.
It's absolutely amazing.

..in The Repair Shop.