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00:00Autumn here in Swaledale is glorious, it's beautiful.
00:23There's a different kind of light and actually it provides a beautiful contrast with the
00:29moors.
00:35Yeah it's quite stunning actually, it can be as beautiful as the summertime but it doesn't
00:40last for long.
00:41You haven't got long before literally you're heading into winter.
00:47You have to take advantage of it and you know days like this, when it's just quiet and calm,
00:54yeah it's perfect.
00:58I'm sorry to say, summer go I'm afraid, a long time till May.
01:04I know people like autumn, it's a lovely time, the leaves change in colour but it's a sign
01:10of winter just around the corner.
01:15Last year we've actually achieved quite a lot because we have begun a monumentous undertaking
01:22which is to put that house back together again, that house that in all the time that I have
01:25been here, nobody has been living there and hopefully within the next year perhaps we
01:34can change that, a change for the better.
01:36To me, to you, to me.
01:37Beam me up Richard.
01:39I don't think you should go that way.
01:40I'll show you something else now that might excite you.
01:50Is this what I think it is?
01:53We've been waiting for this one for a while, it sort of like draws a line under roofing.
01:57That's it.
01:58These timbers going in, it's the start of putting the upstairs back in.
02:04Up she goes.
02:05It's the start of making it home I suppose.
02:36Yay!
02:37She's back from school and you have washed a horse for her.
02:46It's the start of half term so the kids are very excited.
02:49Oh, they are so cute.
02:52Are you ready?
02:53I'm going to try and catch one.
02:54Oh, listen to that noise.
03:00So things are looking good but yeah, I feel like it's already the start of what's probably
03:06going to be an incredibly busy and an incredibly chaotic week.
03:09We've got some new baby goats.
03:12Well, they're not babies but they're teeny.
03:16I spend my whole life saying nobody freeloads here, you've all got to play your part, you've
03:20all got to add something to the mix and then somehow we end up with peacocks that are totally
03:26nuttly pointless and we end up with miniature pygmy goats that are totally nuttly pointless
03:32And it's like, how did this even happen?
03:35The goats are what?
03:36Them goats are really cute.
03:37They are really cute.
03:38Can you shut that toilet door?
03:39Can you put the scoops in there?
03:47Welcome to half term.
03:48But then it's like, what value do you actually place on the joy that it brings?
03:54This is Rocky.
03:55He's the littlest.
03:56This is Rocky.
03:57He's the littlest.
03:58And he's mine.
03:59That's Sonny, the white one.
04:00And that's Nancy's.
04:01And that's Alice's.
04:02And he's called Billy.
04:03We've got all the fans here.
04:04Sonny, Rocky and Billy.
04:05They poop all over the house.
04:06Yeah, they get in and poop everywhere.
04:07And they eat pretty much everything, anything.
04:08So, yeah.
04:09So, yeah.
04:10So, yeah.
04:11So, yeah.
04:12So, yeah.
04:13So, yeah.
04:14So, yeah.
04:15So, yeah.
04:16So, yeah.
04:17So, yeah.
04:18So, yeah.
04:19So, yeah.
04:20So, yeah.
04:21So, yeah.
04:22So, yeah.
04:23So, yeah.
04:24So, yeah.
04:25So, yeah.
04:27So, yeah.
04:28So, yeah.
04:38Oh yeah, the peacocks.
04:40They come inside and they always go on the roof and stuff.
04:44Things like that.
04:45And they only species like food we have.
04:47Like any vegetables they just eat them.
04:52We've got sheep.
04:53We've got cows.
04:53We've got chickens.
04:54horses. I mean, Clive will probably say that horses are pretty pointless. But the amount
04:59they give back from the pleasure that they give, that has got to be worth something.
05:03Oh, they're on it now.
05:07The kids have got a few sheep of their own, and just lately these little miniature goats
05:12have turned up, which I thought I was sure I wouldn't like. But actually, I quite like
05:17them. They're crazy, and they dance and play about. They jump on motorbikes and pinch keys.
05:22So, yeah, they're fun. And, you know, kids love them, so that's grand. But they're actually
05:28castrated males, so that means there'll be no more, which is good.
05:35Has he got a little beard as well?
05:40Everybody thinks that it's either farm animal or pet. There's actually quite a bit of a
05:45crossover, and I mean in theory. I've got a recipe for a peacock, and I've also got
05:51curry goat seasoning. But as it stands at the moment, we're not that hungry.
06:22MUSIC
06:35Harry, you want to start fetching some of them closers up?
06:40The sun is shining. It's warm in October. It's best part of the year, to be quite honest
06:45with you. It's absolutely beautiful.
06:49Second week of sunshine, that's all I know. Quite easily this time of year, it can be
06:54howling winds, it can be snowing, it can be doing anything this time of year. And we've
06:59got blue skies and sunshine, so ecstatic. This is me ecstatic.
07:06We're just finishing off the barn roof at the moment. So it's been nice to just be able
07:12to crack on with this. I've got young Ken back with me. I think he didn't want to miss
07:16putting this roof on. I've got my lad Harry. He's my labourer sort of thing. Just don't
07:23like labouring.
07:30Now we've got this roof on, we can get inside. I want to get all the beans in first. That's
07:35the priority, get the joists in. Once we get them in, we'll be able to put flooring down
07:41and we'll have a first floor. So, fantastic job done. If we can stop rain and stop wind,
07:47it's going to be far nicer, isn't it? We might be able to work with these coats off, like
07:51I'm today.
08:11Whenever you're putting a cow in a building, you have to look for your weakest point. What
08:17is it going to smash to smithereens? Because it doesn't matter how nice I make this place
08:23for Buttercup, she will try and spoil it.
08:29She is the house cow. She's a bit of a legend in good and bad ways. She's incredibly greedy.
08:35Oh, perfect. Yes, that's her bucket. But she might be making the move over to her new
08:40quarters, Auntie John's. She'll take up residence there. And you know what? She doesn't care
08:45because her home is wherever the food is. That's it. Doesn't care about anything else.
08:52These three have made themselves at home, haven't they? They've grown.
08:58Buttercup went out about a couple of months ago. And, you know, we just see her as a spot
09:04on the horizon. But apparently the word is that a couple of days ago, there wasn't just
09:09one spot on the horizon. There was two spots on the horizon, a big one and a little one.
09:14She's calved. So, that is so exciting.
09:18So, we need to know whether it's a heifer or a bull. We don't know. And then we'll have
09:23to think of a name.
09:26I'm really happy about this. It's good timing because it means that she can provide us with
09:31milk over the coming winter.
09:36So, we're going to have to think of a name for her.
09:41Come on. Let's go see where she's at.
09:45This is exciting.
09:48When was she last sighted?
09:50Come up here. You can see him. Just.
09:54Buttercup will be in there.
09:57So, we're going to have to think of a name for her.
10:01So, we're going to have to think of a name for her.
10:05So, we're going to have to think of a name for her.
10:08Buttercup will be in there.
10:10Oh, no. Our cow has disappeared up and joined up with some other cows.
10:18There she is there. The one at the back.
10:21It's decision time. Does she go with her mates or does she come and get some food?
10:24What would you do?
10:25Food.
10:26Would you?
10:27Come on!
10:31Sid's a very enthusiastic farmer. Nothing puts him off, honestly. I'm like, put a hat on,
10:35put a coat on, put some leggings on, put some gloves on. No.
10:38Just goes out, gets wet, gets covered in dirt.
10:42Oh, God. Gets so fed up with mud and wet.
10:46That's him. That's his life. That's what he loves.
10:48He's as dedicated and devoted to farming as Ruben is to his machines and stuff.
10:54So, yeah. He's a good little guy.
10:58Oh, it's going to be really deep.
11:01It is really, really wet in here.
11:05Great little calf. Look at that.
11:08A couple of days old, do you think?
11:10Yeah.
11:11You're like the Pied Piper of bovines.
11:15How do you think we can cross?
11:17No clue.
11:19Come on, we'll go.
11:20Will she get across?
11:21Come on, we'll go.
11:23Never mind. It's really boggy there.
11:26Back up the hill.
11:28Right, stop! Quit!
11:32What?
11:33We're just going to end up with a drowned cow.
11:36There must be a path.
11:39It's just we don't know where it is.
11:40Right, come on, Sid! Get running!
11:43I think we're going to have to call that a fail.
11:46Oh, look!
11:51It's too dangerous.
11:53Yeah?
11:54The plan has been abandoned.
11:55Go home and get a cup of tea.
11:57We're going to go home, have a cup of tea with no milk in it.
12:00Because there's too much water in that gutter, isn't there?
12:03Yeah, it's flooded, I know. It'll get bogged.
12:05The last thing I need is that little calf in that gutter.
12:09So today, Buttercup 1, Sidney and Amanda 0.
12:16Let's go back.
12:17So, no rice pudding today?
12:19Tomorrow, maybe?
12:21No?
12:22Come on.
12:24You're well off going this way. It's really wet over there.
12:30I might put my horses this way for a bit, what do you reckon?
12:33No, stop them from pooing all over the yard.
12:36True.
13:01So, we've got this big old beam coming.
13:04The idea is going to be to try and get as close to the house as possible with it.
13:09We've got Capper here.
13:10He could well get stuck in that field.
13:12Tractor weighs probably 4 or 5 tonnes.
13:15It's just so wet, so bloody boggy at the moment.
13:19We're going to try and get as close to the house as possible with it.
13:22We're going to try and get as close to the house as possible with it.
13:25It's just so wet, so bloody boggy at the moment.
13:27It's just so wet, so bloody boggy at the moment.
13:30You know, you can't just get it dropped off by a wagon outside your door and get it in.
13:34We've got to actually get it up here.
13:44Do you know, it doesn't feel like autumn's arrived.
13:46It feels like we've kind of lurched straight into winter, to be fair.
13:49Because, you know, we're back to a bit of misery old weather and it's foggy and it's hazy and it's grey.
13:57Never mind your medieval battering rams.
13:59Don't knock a door down with that.
14:04Well, it is quite exciting because today we're heading into the world of timber and joinery.
14:10For what feels like infinity, it's all been about stonework.
14:15But now it's all about making the upstairs.
14:18Putting in the heavy joists and bits and pieces that are going to hold up the first floor.
14:27What do you reckon?
14:29Yeah, it's sturdy.
14:31It's beautiful.
14:35Are we good at this end at that?
14:37Yeah.
14:38Absolutely.
14:41Perfect.
14:44Hang on.
14:45That's it.
14:47It weighs about half a ton.
14:49Hopefully, we're going to be able to just roll it nice and gently into the house.
14:54To me.
14:55To you.
14:56To me.
14:59Rightio.
15:01Have you got him?
15:02Yeah.
15:03Well done.
15:04Line it up sort of where we want it to be.
15:07We're then going to set up a block and tackle.
15:10Lift it up.
15:11Slide it through a hole there.
15:14Move it across round the building a bit and then slide it back into the other hole.
15:18Sounds simple.
15:20Beam me up, Richie.
15:24Safety helmet.
15:29The timber and joinery has been prepared off-site, so quite a lot of things have to match up.
15:37Just start on there, Harry.
15:38To you.
15:40That's it.
15:41Let him just go in there.
15:43I need you to keep going higher, Harry.
15:45Where are we there?
15:48We're going to have to push in now.
15:50Push that way, aren't we?
15:51Right, Harry.
15:52If you go a bit more.
15:54It's all about problem solving.
15:56It's almost like you can only solve the problem actually when you're here on site and you've got everything in front of you.
16:03Steady.
16:07When I push this beam to you.
16:09Yeah.
16:10I want you to press down on it.
16:12Yeah.
16:13If you can.
16:14Yeah.
16:16Now.
16:18I guess in a way it's done as it always has been.
16:21A lot of manpower and womanpower to get it into place.
16:28That looks absolutely perfectly lined up at this side.
16:32What's it like there?
16:33Are you happy with that?
16:37All I can say, guys, is well done.
16:41Can't beat pulleys, levers and rollers.
16:43I think we've used every one, haven't we?
16:45Yeah.
16:47Thank you, everybody.
17:13Right, go on, let's get you.
17:16It's a few weeks since Clive had his hip operation.
17:19He has dumped the crutches.
17:21He's lost his crutches, actually.
17:24Careful.
17:27It puts him in a bit of a better humour when he can come outside and be a part of what's going on.
17:33I've got to sit. I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming.
17:35It's been very frustrating for him.
17:37That's me being polite.
17:39You have been unbearable.
17:41Yes.
17:42Yes.
17:43You have been.
17:44I have not.
17:45I've kept myself to myself.
17:46I've minded my own business.
17:47I don't think I've shouted at anybody or anything.
17:52There was one day you were sat in your underpants staring at the floor in the kitchen.
17:57Yeah?
17:58OK.
17:59You were really angry.
18:00No, well, it is a really frustrating, horrible thing, but anyway, never mind.
18:03You are a very frustrating, horrible thing.
18:05LAUGHTER
18:13Tonsing is using a pair of tweezers to pull out stray hairs on sheep.
18:20You look all right, though.
18:21Oh, yeah.
18:22You've missed a lot, though.
18:23I know.
18:26We're just getting ready for the last sale of the season,
18:30so we've got 20 owls and 20 guinea hogs.
18:34So that's young female sheep.
18:36Basically, you're taking hairs out of sheep
18:39and getting them ready for either a show or a sale.
18:43So we're just beautifying them, making them look as saleable as possible.
18:47And then they'll head off to pastures new on Saturday.
18:52Well, I've just looked, checking her over, because when we sell them, we sell them as correct.
18:56And when we say correct, that means they've got a full mouth and no teeth missing,
19:00and their udder is in perfect working order.
19:03They're perfect to breed from.
19:05A correct yowl, you know?
19:07Eight teeth, because obviously they're only as good as their teeth.
19:10They need to be able to eat and graze.
19:12Yeah.
19:13Because we're a high farm, because we're a hard farm,
19:16we don't tend to keep a stock of very old sheep.
19:20We keep them young, because these sheep will come off these hills
19:24and go out to kinder climes and thrive somewhere else.
19:30So it's good.
19:32It's a constant thing. It's a thing that's been done forever, you know?
19:40It's really annoying if they won't stay still, but you don't get many, do you?
19:43Oh, there are eight, usually.
19:45They seem to get in some kind of a trance, don't they?
19:48Mm.
19:51I think, actually, the word tons,
19:53I think it can be used in general terms for tidying up,
19:57but usually these words come from somewhere,
20:00so I think it's probably quite an old word.
20:03People used to pull the hairs out just with their fingertips,
20:07and now they use tweezers.
20:09Whether they move on again and we end up with electrolysis or anything,
20:13or waxing, who knows?
20:19ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
20:27Ooh, ooh, ooh!
20:29Come on!
20:31Right, you know how the cows are coming in for winter?
20:35Mm-hm.
20:36Guess who has had a calf?
20:41Come on. Our favourite cow!
20:43What cow? What's her name?
20:45I don't know, because I don't know whether it is a heifer or a bull.
20:49Right, can we take her down now?
20:51Well, yeah, we do need to have a little look.
20:53I know how they're a girl or a boy.
20:55If their eyelashes are pretty, they're a girl,
20:57and if they're, like, scruffily, they're a boy.
20:59All right, well, there you are.
21:01It's all been absolute chaos.
21:03Wherever Buttercup goes, there's usually trouble, isn't there?
21:06She was down by the gate, so we went to go and get her,
21:10by which time she disappeared.
21:13Absolute cow-nage.
21:17But, anyway, we have got her back, and she is in a pen.
21:21So she is there, and she is going to come in.
21:26Right, OK, can we have a look at the eyelashes, please?
21:30Eye up. Come on, have a look.
21:32Eyelashes.
21:34That looks a bit girly.
21:36Look, she's got eyelashes.
21:38It's got to be a heifer, hasn't it?
21:40Yeah? Yeah.
21:42Can I tell you something? She's got a fringe.
21:45Do you know what we're going to call her?
21:47Claudia, after Claudia Winkleman. Yeah?
21:50They're calling her Beastie Colin.
21:53They're calling her No Beastie, Down Beastie.
21:57She's forgotten that she's got a calf.
21:59Mum!
22:00Claudia's a bit wild.
22:02She needs to calm down, doesn't she?
22:04It's cos she's a feral calf.
22:06She was born at the moor.
22:09Oh, you greedy son, sir.
22:11Come on.
22:13Oh, no!
22:15Watch out, go! Watch out, go!
22:17She's attacking!
22:19Come on, Beastie.
22:21Now go, Beastie.
22:23Go on, get in the door. Get in the door.
22:25Oh!
22:29There you go.
22:31Come on.
22:35Calm down.
22:37Come on.
22:40You see, what Buttercup should actually be doing,
22:43she should be coming to find her nearest and dearest,
22:45but what actually is she doing?
22:47Yeah. Yeah.
22:49Oh, yes!
22:53Fabulous.
22:57Go on, then.
22:59Perfect.
23:03That was brilliant.
23:06Ah!
23:28The legend that is Auntie John's, yeah,
23:32there is just so much to this place
23:36and so much that we're learning.
23:40I've discovered so much about Antony Clarkson.
23:44From coming here, the name meant nothing to me.
23:47It all stemmed, really,
23:49from the fact that it had once been lived in
23:53by somebody called Antony, son of John Clarkson, 200 years ago.
23:59We've discovered that Antony Clarkson was a cartographer,
24:04he was a diarist, he was a man of many talents.
24:08This is Antony Clarkson's 1842 dive map.
24:13So, over this last year,
24:15Derek, my historian friend and myself,
24:17we've been hunting high and low,
24:19trying to find out as much information as we can.
24:22As well as doing his surveying work,
24:24Antony wrote diaries on a daily basis.
24:27They documented what he did when he went out to survey the land,
24:30they documented the people that he met,
24:32and he did that day by day by day.
24:35Although we know of the existence of the diaries,
24:38we don't know where they are.
24:40The next step would be to find some diaries
24:44and that will build, I think,
24:46a better picture of what was going on at Smithy Holm.
24:58A while back, I went to visit a lady called Dorothy,
25:01who is connected to the Clarksons.
25:04That is the copy of the one diary that I had.
25:07So you actually had one of his diaries?
25:09Yes, I had that diary.
25:11And, of course, now it's mislaid.
25:15So, I'm having a day out today.
25:17I've come down from the farm and I've come to the museum at Richmondshire.
25:21I am meeting a chap called Mike,
25:24who has got in touch with me through Dorothy, actually.
25:29He was left a box of documents,
25:32but believes there might be some bits and pieces
25:35that interest me that are to do with Auntie John's.
25:40I do totally and utterly love every aspect of this project.
25:48But there's something just very special
25:50about being able to get your hand on a piece of paper
25:53that is an original, something that actually is done in his hand.
25:57And I figure that that's hopefully what I'm going to get today.
26:11Now, I was told that you might have...
26:14Something you've been interested in?
26:16Yeah.
26:17The background is that Ralph Waggat, a true dalesman,
26:21he spent all his life researching Swaledale.
26:24Yep.
26:25And when he died, he left all his papers to me.
26:28And these actual plans I've got here,
26:30which are original Anthony Clarkson plans,
26:33this is one of Smithy Holm here, look.
26:35Oh, look at that.
26:37It's so accurate.
26:39Every last little thing, there is nothing he hasn't included.
26:47I'll show you something else now that might excite you.
26:52Is this what I think it is?
26:58This is Anthony Clarkson's original diary.
27:03I can't believe I've got my hands on that.
27:05This is his original diary.
27:09October 20th, 1817 to September 1st, 1824.
27:18Oh, my goodness, look at that.
27:20I mean, it's beautiful, isn't it?
27:22Yeah.
27:24That is just incredible.
27:28It's outstanding, and to think that he wrote this
27:31in that dingy little cottage...
27:33Yes.
27:34..on a hill end by firelight or candlelight.
27:38I mean, it is incredible.
27:40Look at that.
27:41Every single page is absolutely chock-full, isn't it?
27:44Yeah.
27:45I am absolutely blown away.
27:47Right at the very beginning of this project,
27:50the dream was always to be able to get our hands
27:53on the original diaries.
27:55I've been able to read about it in books,
27:57but we didn't know whether the diaries were still in existence.
28:01I never, ever dreamed that this moment would come,
28:04to be honest with you.
28:05It's amazing, and the number of people
28:07that have been involved in this journey to here
28:12is incredible.
28:13Well, we've found it now.
28:17What a wonderful thing.
28:18So, would you like to borrow this and have a look at it?
28:21Of course.
28:22I mean, that's the ultimate for me.
28:25Thank you so much.
28:26That's all right.
28:27That's me.
28:48I can't imagine that this book from the early 1800s
28:53was actually written by somebody who was living here.
29:03I feel like it's almost too good to be true, really.
29:07This was the absolute dream.
29:09This was the dream, to be able to find this diary.
29:12So, to have it here in my hand, it's just, it's magic.
29:17I'm absolutely blown away.
29:20And he has written it in such tiny handwriting
29:25that it's going to rely on Derek to help transcribe it
29:29and a whole lot of time with a magnifying glass.
29:31But I just know from the little bits that I can pick out
29:36that this is going to be unbelievably fascinating.
29:41It's going to be amazing.
29:43It's literally a window to another time.
29:49I want to kind of find out more about his personality.
29:52I want to find out about his day-to-day.
29:55I kind of want to build more of a picture of him as a person, really.
30:03Anthony Clarkson has blessed us with a book
30:09Anthony Clarkson has blessed us with giving us this.
30:15And I feel that I'm in a unique situation.
30:23This could be the key to giving me the information
30:28as to what everyday life was like here a couple of hundred years ago.
30:38ANTHONY CLARKSON
31:05Come on.
31:09It's tubing time, so we like to gather all the sheep
31:13to come down off the moors and let the tubs go and get them in lamb.
31:18So there's lambs in the spring.
31:20Our tubs go late because we lamb late.
31:24I mean, most people, tubing time's over for them,
31:27but ours hasn't begun yet.
31:29So we start to lamb on the 15th of April
31:33and that's when spring comes up here.
31:35We have to wait till there's a chance, you know,
31:38that there might be a little bit of grass and sun shining.
31:43So we have to get on and organise,
31:46and there's a lot of work for this next week or so
31:49to get everything where we need it.
31:52But as you can see, it's so misty that you can't.
31:55You just can't do it when it's like this because you can't see them
31:59and then you lose yourself and it just becomes a total nightmare.
32:04Come on, boys.
32:07You see, the problem is, in simple terms,
32:10the girls are out there in the mist
32:13and the boys are here waiting
32:16and so we need everything to come together.
32:19So these fellas...
32:21We need some ladies for these fellas to go out to,
32:25so they're waiting very patiently.
32:29Whichever way you look, you can't see,
32:31so it puts the right stop on things.
32:35Stuck in this lot is just what we don't need.
32:38But, you know, it could be part of my reign, I suppose,
32:41and it could be worse.
32:43So never mind.
32:45This is just a bit more to do tomorrow.
32:49Come on, Nelly, that'll do.
32:51Come on, that'll do, good lass.
32:53Come on, Nelly, that'll do.
32:55Come on, that'll do, good lass.
32:58COWS MOO
33:19As you can see, weather's come in a little bit these last few days.
33:24We've basically become misty, no wind.
33:28Problem is, you can't see sheep what fell,
33:30and I know Clive and the lads over at Raven's Seat are wanting to gather.
33:34Unfortunately, they're not doing that,
33:36because, as you can see,
33:38you can't see far enough to see where sheep are.
33:42So I've got a few lads to entertain.
33:47We've got a bit of manpower and we're putting beans in.
33:53Give her a roll, lads.
33:56Hopefully, when we get these in, we'll be able to put some joists in
33:59and we're getting somewhere near having a floor.
34:03Measure twice, cut once.
34:05You won't get a second chance of cutting these.
34:17There you go.
34:19Have a log for the fire.
34:21Come on, Miles, get on there.
34:26Sydney, all yours.
34:31Because of the size of the lounge,
34:33we've got to have a central beam in there,
34:35which is the one we put in a little while ago.
34:38But we put one on each wall as well,
34:41sort of like wall plates,
34:43so the width of the room dictates how long your joists can be.
34:52Right, two seconds.
34:54Towards us.
34:56That's as far as we can go.
35:01What's it hitting?
35:02Beam.
35:03Beam?
35:04Just lower her down a touch, lads.
35:06Job's jiggered.
35:08Job's jiggered indeed.
35:10You could cut a little square of it, could you?
35:12Right, so we're going to have to take a little bit out of here.
35:22We've got to try and line them up as well as possible.
35:26It's been a little bit fiddly in places
35:28because the walls are bendy,
35:30they're wider at one end of the room,
35:32narrower at the other end of the room.
35:34Are we fit?
35:35Yep.
35:36Ready?
35:38They know what they're doing, which is good, I'm not complaining.
35:42I feel like I need to get my coat
35:44and go and do some shovelling somewhere.
35:47They look like they're some sort of dance troupe,
35:49don't they, with the little hats on and the line like that?
35:52Exactly.
35:53Ready, guys?
35:54Sit on straps.
35:56Ready?
35:58Up she goes.
35:59Watch your fingers.
36:00Aw, straps got caught.
36:02Tidney, you have one job.
36:04One job.
36:06Is she out or not?
36:08Aw, Tidney.
36:12OK, tell me when you're ready.
36:15OK, tell me when with that strap.
36:18Yep.
36:20Gently in.
36:22That was beautiful.
36:24That's precision, that.
36:26That is absolutely level.
36:28Lovely.
36:29Lovely.
36:30Plumb bob.
36:31Anybody think we knew what we were doing?
36:33How are we putting in today, all of them?
36:35We are, yeah.
36:36So don't be rushing off anywhere too soon.
36:38Miss is lifting, I'm afraid.
36:39No, we'll keep going.
36:40We'll keep going, it's fine.
36:41Yeah, right, you know.
36:43Ken's reading paper.
36:45What are you reading?
36:46Northern Farmer.
37:14We've got all three main beams in here in.
37:18Oak is a beautiful wood.
37:21Once you get it in here and the smell what comes off it,
37:24it is just beautiful.
37:26And it's just strong, sturdy.
37:29Far more character than any other wood there is.
37:32There's texture, there's grain, there's knots.
37:35And when you look at it all together,
37:37it just oozes oldy-worldy.
37:40And that's exactly what we're looking for.
37:43It will look tremendous.
37:45It really will.
37:50Mix half up.
37:53I think you said approximate,
37:55so it doesn't look like it's anything too specific.
37:59Oxalic acid.
38:01Rhubarb leaves, apparently.
38:03That's what it's made out of.
38:06If the magic happens,
38:08all those horrible dirty black marks should disappear.
38:13OK.
38:15Right, let's go and see.
38:17There we go.
38:22Right, I'll start here.
38:31It just magically disappears.
38:33I don't think you have to scrub it or anything.
38:38These timbers going in,
38:40you know, it's the start of putting the upstairs back in.
38:44It's the start of making it homely, I suppose.
38:49I kind of wonder how they discovered
38:52that rhubarb leaves could be there.
38:55I think because these timbers are light
38:58and because they're staying natural,
39:00I think that will help keep it sort of airy as well.
39:04Because, obviously, you don't want it too dingy.
39:11You come to the countryside, you come to somewhere like here
39:14and you talk about peace and quiet,
39:16and then you think, OK, this must be how it was.
39:20But actually, if you've got lead mine workings down there,
39:24it might not have been so quiet after all,
39:26it could have been the opposite.
39:29In a way, I suppose things have quietened down
39:32in this neck of the woods,
39:34which is kind of a strange thought, isn't it?
39:36Because you don't think of that,
39:38you think of things going the other way, don't you?
39:41But not round here, it's opposite.
39:44And that's what I sort of like,
39:46I'm interested in finding out in the diary,
39:48what I can find out about what was going on,
39:51what sort of picture I can paint.
39:53Impressive, really, isn't it?
39:55It looks absolutely brilliant.
39:57So happy with that.
39:59We'll see if you like those.
40:01Yeah, yes, they are lovely.
40:04I think you'd like them.
40:06Yes, if we can get a picture, I'd like to.
40:08So you're here all year long.
40:10Yes, for the winter, and now it's time for her to come back,
40:13and we'll see how it goes.
40:15I'll see how it goes.
40:17Yeah.
40:22Yeah.
40:24Yeah, we'll see.
40:26We'll see if you're tall.
40:28We'll see if you want it. Less wobbly than that I think, aren't you?
40:42We've been concentrating on outside jobs for the last few weeks, which is a rare thing.
40:47Something we weren't really expecting on doing in November.
40:50It's usually one of the worst months of the year for wet weather and wind and what have you.
40:56So we've been concentrating on doing all the pointing everywhere.
41:00We expected to be doing that in spring, we're doing it now.
41:03Furring the guttering up.
41:08Pointing makes a massive, massive difference to a building.
41:11It just sort of completes it in my eyes.
41:14It brings it all together, joins all the dots.
41:17Guttering is a bit more like a lady wearing a necklace, something quite fancy.
41:25What's hanging on there?
41:27You'll tap him in there, you see.
41:31And all of a sudden it looks a different building.
41:34It looks a lot more complete than what it did before, you see.
41:38Here, use that one. It might be shorter.
41:48Scaffolding lads are here.
41:50What are you doing it down for?
41:52What was I getting it down for? Finish with.
41:56You don't think it's time we got rid of it?
42:18We've been waiting for this one for a while.
42:20It sort of like draws a line under roofing.
42:27I think it was minus five or minus six last night, I'm not sure exactly.
42:31So all these poles and what have you, they're all standing there still at about minus five.
42:36This is what you want in the morning, isn't it?
42:40One of the rare occasions you'll see me with gloves on.
42:44We've got Ken here with tractor and trailer.
42:47Can't get the wagon up today, so we're going to have to pile the trailer up
42:51and then take them down and then put them on wagon later.
43:02As soon as the scaffolding's come down, you can actually see the house.
43:05You feel as though all the rubbish has been removed
43:08and you end up with the building what you're actually working on.
43:14The whole roof's done, the whole of the exterior of the house is about finished.
43:19We can see the beauty of the building now.
43:27It now means we've got some free space here
43:31and we're just looking forward to the next thing we're going to be doing, really.
43:36One of the scaffolders said to me today,
43:38everybody likes to see us arrive and everybody likes to see us leave.
43:43And we certainly like to see them leave.
43:49Right, well, lads, we'll see you down there.
44:06Well, it looks different already, doesn't it?
44:09Aye, it's different already, isn't it?
44:11Looks a bit odd without the scaffolding.
44:17This is the first time Auntie John's has been totally visible in over a year.
44:24Look, lots of room, lots of wood.
44:26That's right.
44:27Ah, come on.
44:36But, no, doesn't it look well? Look at that.
44:44It looks amazing, doesn't it?
44:46It's quite a house now, isn't it?
44:48Yeah.
44:49The house looks unbelievable.
44:51We've got the chimneys, we've got the roof, we've got the pointing, we've got the gutters.
44:56We can see it in all its glory now.
44:59You don't need your imagination anymore to see what it's going to be like, it's there to see.
45:03Standing on its own, it hasn't got any scaffolding up, it doesn't need propping up.
45:07It's a house again.
45:10I saw a picture, just yesterday maybe, of when we started.
45:14Yeah, the big hole in the roof.
45:15Looking back at what it was this time last year.
45:18Yeah, just over a year ago, we really began.
45:20Yeah.
45:26It's taken a while, but look at what we've achieved.
45:28Ah.
45:29I mean, it's amazing, isn't it?
45:33It's moving on.
45:36All this water that's coming out of here, it's absolutely pouring out.
45:39There's gallons and gallons just poured out.
45:41All that's been trapped under house.
45:44It's that list of tasks and jobs that all need to fall into place.
45:50That's it.