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Hello.

These days I spend more and more time in my Wiltshire home, and the pub I own,

thinking about all the big problems in the world, and some smaller ones that

annoy me.

Luckily there's a place I can go to solve them all, or at least try.

My shed.

Right.

It's here that I have the tools.

Let's just sort some wood up. The tea.

And a couple of other highly competent blokes.

Very good.

Brace yourself.

Who've agreed to help me rid the world of problems.

Is she going to take it out?

Great. Early flight, almost.

And small.

The cereal has gone soggy. I'll also have to take on other people's problem.

What is wrong with Peter?

He used to make a sound and now he doesn't. By which I mean the locals at

who are always bringing me stuff to mend.

Is it a train set?

So join us and our excitable crew... ..who will capture our endeavour...

That was epic!

..as we create... ..make...

That feels like a terrible thing we've just done.

Repair so it's never worked.

Not in my lifetime.

And repurpose... Whoa!

In my shedload of ideas. What do you think?

This is just brilliant.

You might think that sitting on this bench in Wiltshire is very relaxing.

And so it should be, unless your mind is filled with concern for all the

problems of the world and how to solve them.

Right now, I'm keen to take on one of the most persistent problems that

the whole planet, and that's plastic waste.

In Britain, we discard 1 .7 billion pieces of the stuff every week.

And while we do recycle nearly half of it, that comes with its own set of

problems.

Back in the olden days when I was a lad, the business of rubbish was very

simple. You produce some rubbish, this bottle for example, and...

You put it in the bin. And that was the end of that. We didn't know what

happened to it. We didn't care. We were blissfully ignorant.

Now, of course, we have recycling, and recycling is a wonderful thing. I think

the key to human happiness is infinite recyclability and abundant renewable

energy, because then we can indulge our desires to produce and consume, but

without filling the world with our tat.

It does come with a few problems, though. I mean, this is the brown bin.

glass?

Or is that plastic? Or is it cardboard? No, maybe cardboard goes in the

greenwood, but that depends which authority you're living under. There are

different recycling regimes across the UK alone.

Do you take the tops off bottles?

Do you leave them on? Are you supposed to rinse them out? Are you supposed to

take the labels off?

Are you supposed to put green glass separate from clear glass? Does that go

on Thursday afternoon or is it the blue bin? And it goes out on Wednesday

morning. People are very annoyed about recycling because it's too complicated.

Apparently 82 % of British households put something wrong in the recycling

What if...

You could recycle your plastics, for example, yourself. What if you could cut

all this out, all this frustration, all this annoyance, and at home, simply turn

all those old bottles and what have you into something beautiful and enduring?

Let's try.

In case that wasn't clear, I want to reduce plastic waste and make something

useful. So I consult my team of recycling enthusiasts, my inventive

Simi. We're now set at two bars. Am I up for anything, carpenter Tony the Tool?

And not forgetting our crew, who have been busy collecting and shredding

for our great recycling experiment.

We are planning to make a board game for the pub, so Tony, Sim and I prepare our

garden smithy. Right, situation report, viewers. We've shredded all our plastic.

We are going to melt it.

We're going to use this little oven and this toasted sandwich maker. We're

looking for a temperature of around 150 degrees, at which it will become very

plastic but not liquid.

Simi has this attractive pair of silicone gloves. When we have made our

into a plastic state, one of us is going to knead it until we've got enough to

put in our mould to make a rectangular section.

To melt plastic safely, it must have a number 2 on its recycling symbol, which

tells us it's non -toxic.

This can be found in milk bottles, and without giving the game away, so to

speak, plastic lids are perfect for our counters and board of different colours.

To begin with, we're going to do white.

and we're going to do it in the oven. The aim of our back garden experiment is

to find out if this process actually works. By running different heating

appliances all at the same time, we're hoping to generate enough plastic to

build our game.

We've got a sheet of baking paper on there in the hope that it won't stick.

Shall we start with that?

Yeah, let's put that in. And then let's do the same thing with the toasted

sandwich maker. We will do a different colour. We'll do the top. Shall we do

blue? Once heated, the plastic must be malleable enough for us to reshape it.

It's burning.

After five to ten minutes, the plastic has melted.

So if we get that on there.

OK, so now let's get some more in here. We can reuse that. It's getting hard and

breaking apart.

Put that on there.

We want to create a marbling effect, but quickly discover it's not really that

simple. I'm not sure the colours are going to combine very safely. The table

going to collapse.

Polymer thermoplastics melt easily, but once off the heat, they cool and harden

within seconds.

It's going to take about three days at this rate. That's already gone too hard

now.

Work it, work it.

I'm just going to shove that in there for a minute, just to see if I can get

shape to this whatsoever.

This is taking on a rough shape.

We've made nougat!

That's not even a quarter of what we need.

Situation update, viewers. That is what we have created so far. It's very

difficult to get it into a properly plastic state.

It doesn't mix together very well. It doesn't form very well. It sets fire to

greaseproof paper. It burns Tony's hands.

Would you like to know, viewers, what it was that we were hoping to make for the

pub?

then you can gauge how successful we've been so far.

It was, is, a chessboard and a set of drafts.

The artists amongst you, like Rodin, looking at a block of stone and being

to see the finished work within it, will look at that and say, yes, yes, a set

of drafts and a board.

Oh, God, what are we going to do?

I've done all that stuff about bins and recycling and how annoying it is.

But Simi thinks he may have the answer.

I don't know if it's the answer.

Well, I think it's worth trying.

We're running out of options, son.

We leave Simi with the burden of solving our plastic problem.

I find I think better over a pint.

So Tony and I head to the pub.

We're also meeting a local dude who would like us to repair his 19th

family heirloom.

No pressure, then.

You're Peter? Yes.

James. How are you? Hello. This is Tony.

Hello, Tony.

What is that?

It's a Victorian. A compendium of games.

That's the book. Now, the reason it's wrapped up in cellophane is because the

tray is all broken.

I had the utmost difficulty in getting it out because it always fell apart. So

put it in the bag so I could lift it.

And it's Victorian, you say?

Yes, but the Book of Instructions gives us some clue.

So it's before bridge, even auction bridge.

So when is that, late 19th century?

Yes. The Victorians could be quite verbose. Yes.

And it also always amazes me when I see anything Victorian that the type is so

tiny. Yes. And yet they had to read it with candles most of the time because

they didn't have electricity either.

As chess stands pre -eminently and without question at the head of all the

detailed hitherto, so does the game of whist occupy the

position of honour amongst all the multitudinous games of cards. It is the

There's several pages of this before it actually tells you how to play it. Where

did you get this from?

My parents gave it to me when I was about 11.

You weren't 11 in 1875. No. So it was already an antique.

Oh, yes.

All the screws perfectly aligned.

There's a lot of work gone into that.

Before my fascination with the Victorian gaming world takes hold, we need to

find out how we can help.

The main problem is this tray here.

That is a picture of it. Oh. And you see that tray which fits in there. To lift

it out, there should be a ring at each end. Ah.

So that's what snapped?

Yeah. Now, you can see the holes there. Unfortunately, one of the rings has got

lost. Whether you can get your hands on another one. We can make one, by the

way. You can make one, yes. Let's not forget, Tony, that when this was made,

there were very few distractions. There was no internet, obviously, no

electricity, no television, no radio.

Just good, wholesome family fun.

Played by little children in massive knickerbockers from their parents.

who were dying of consumption, but had at least that afternoon enjoyed a public

hanging at Newgate.

Ah, the good old days.

So I've got all these bits together, but where do these belong?

Da -da -da.

Something is missing from down here. We can reinstate that, I think, with a bit

of careful gluing and clamping and then a once -over with a very finely set

plane.

This is actually rather nice, isn't it, Tony?

It's beautiful. Given that it was probably made in great numbers, what's

ambition for this?

To put it in a state, really, where the grandchildren can play with this again.

Peter, we shall tidy up the box, replace that bit that's peeled off, yeah, make

another loop, and blend it in as seamlessly as possible.

Yes, leave it with us, Peter. We will be in touch.

and you will be astonished, and you'll look at it and think, that's great, and

then go back to your iPhone.

Thank you very much.

This might be a relatively small repair, but it will involve some intricate

carpentry and some light metalwork.

But the weight of history will add extra pressure as we attempt to get Peter's

compendium of games back to full working order.

Here in Wiltshire, we're trying to tackle the big issue of plastic waste by

seeing if it's possible to skip the bins altogether and recycle our plastics at

home in our DIY recycling centre.

It's murking.

It's burning.

Our idea was to make a draft set for the pub out of milk bottles, but so far our

efforts have proved fruitless.

It looks terrible.

Oh God, what are we going to do?

But we may just have hit upon a solution.

So we need to melt in small quantities.

I think so.

And a smaller mould.

I was wondering if, just as an experiment, we put a little bit of

there. It's a piece of his vacuum cleaner from his van.

See, the thing is, ideally, you'd put it into a hot mould, heat the tube itself

with the torch, let it cool, dunk it in some water, hopefully it will shrink a

bit, and a nice round -section pellet.

of recycled plastic will pop out.

Are you ready?

Yep.

That's so exciting.

Oh,

man.

Look at that.

Ta -da.

Hey. What a breakthrough. I'm so happy.

I'm so happy, given everything we've been through today.

It's good. It is good. I love it.

Yeah. I've just got to refine it.

Yeah, put it on my piece of mould.

Yep. We put the ball in the middle of it and we put a lever on something that

goes in it and we just ram it down.

A proper mould will speed up this whole process so we waste no time in getting

back to the shed.

While Tony makes the start melting more plastic, Sim and I craft the smaller

moulds using my new milling machine.

I'm going to bore it on the Rishton.

Which is a lovely machine.

Isn't it lovely? Isn't it lovely?

Lucy wants to give it a name.

It's a Rishton, it is a vertical mill, so you could call it... Are you like

alliterative names?

Victoria the Vertical Mill?

No. Vincent the Vertical Mill, or Ricky Rishton? I think it's a girl.

Why is it a girl?

Well, you've made the lathe a man, so... I haven't made the lathe a man, you

did. The lathe is a lathe.

I think the milling machine should be a girl called Millie.

I'll make a little sticky label.

Update viewers, number eight or nine or ten, we're not quite sure. We think we

can see an end to the recycled plastic conundrum and it involves making some

very, very simple moulds, which we're going to do here on Millie the milling

machine and Doris the drill.

Ignition.

Millie is Millie.

Bet you £100 it's matching.

Dance.

So this is basically our mould, and we're going to put our plastic in it,

we're going to press out counters, using as a press this redundant old pillar

drill, which will ensure consistency.

which is the key to mass production.

Does the pillar drill have a name?

No, nothing has a name. The mill doesn't, the little mill doesn't, the

drill doesn't, the little lathe doesn't, the big lathe doesn't, the bench

doesn't, my mini doesn't. The only things that have names here are Simi and

James.

This piece of aluminium is not called Alan the Aluminium. It's just a piece of

aluminium.

Now we've cleared that up, we can get back to making Malcolm the Mould and

Piston, which we need for pressing the counters for our draft set.

Where would you keep your G -clamps?

Do you want to use the G -clamp that I made as a 15 -year -old? Yes, if it

works. I believe it does. It's a bit rusty and... That's

rather... That is rather good.

Did you cast all that? Yeah.

So you made a wooden pattern?

Yep. Sand -casted? Yes.

Used the horizontal mill on those faces, I think, and then turned everything

else, and that was that.

That'll be marvellous.

Now I quickly turn a piston on the lathe. This will be used to press into

mould to create the counters.

Into this chirk.

Done. All we need now is a bit of molten plastic to go in there.

Job done. Beautiful.

Where is Tony?

He's in the kitchen, melting a small quantity of plastic for us to press into

our newly made mould.

Here's Tony!

Anybody order Green Pulse? Hopefully this time it will work. He's got hands

asbestos. Right, James, would you like to do the honours?

Just, let's try.

Where do I stop?

Just keep going.

Hey.

Can we have another one?

It's a bit rough.

Surface finish on the outside is not that great. It's still very hot as well.

think the alley is probably just sucking all the heat out of it very quickly.

It's getting better.

That one is better.

That was much better.

I would say we have cracked the counters.

Yes. Agreed.

All we need to do is repeat the process 23 more times and build a drafts board.

So we will now shift to something more interesting than this, if that's

possible.

Once our game is completed, I'll be bringing it to the pub for everyone to

enjoy. This will give the locals another reason to drop by.

It's not easy running a pub, you know, what with business rates, the cost of

thatching, spiralling wage costs, people making off with the cutlery. And on top

of all that... I have to think about choosing the right flavour of crisps.

Which got me thinking, perhaps it's time to revolutionise the nation's favourite

pub snack.

We love crisps, but we have identified a problem, which is that you buy a bag of

crisps, here's a blue packet, which is cheese and onion, and you think, oh,

excellent.

They are absolutely delicious.

Peak cuisine.

But what if you get halfway down the bag and then you suddenly think, do you

know what, I fancy salt and vinegar.

So we were thinking, what if all crisps were plain? And then, let's say we're in

my pub and you have, rather than a packet of crisps, a bowl of completely

crisps. And then a series of flavours, perhaps in atomiser bottles,

that you added to the crisps. So you picked a crisp up and you think, I think

I'll have salt and vinegar for this one.

Munch. And then the next crisp, you think, no, I enjoyed the salt and

but this time I'm going to have cheese and onion.

Eat.

Every crisp could be different.

Let me talk to you a bit about some of the flavours I was imagining.

Spam, anchovies, or even combine them in a new flavour, spam and anchovy.

I'd be minging.

No, I think it'd be quite nice, wouldn't it? Spam and anchovies. Spam and

anchovies. It rolls off the tongue. A bag of spam and anchovies, please.

OK, what if we... Cook it up. Pour them in there. Yeah, cook it up.

With the spam.

With some spam.

This is where everybody's going, get the spam out, make a hole in the bottom of

the tin.

Have you ever met somebody who speaks like that?

Yes.

People who give you advice on the internet.

They're right, they're right.

This is a nice -looking block of Spam.

When was the last time you had Spam?

About three days ago.

I had Spam and beans when I was left on my own at home the other day.

Right, there's the cubed Spam.

You've added some more oil into there, yeah? I have, yes.

OK, that can go on the cooker with a wooden spoon.

While we wait for our flavours to blend, I think I've spotted another

opportunity to enhance the pub snack experience.

Mmm.

What a spam on a cheese and onion crisp. Here you go.

Cheers. Okay, ready?

Cheers. Three, two, one.

Mmm. Oh, yeah. Mmm.

God, that's good.

That's really good. Mmm.

Does anybody from the crew want to try, eh?

I'll try.

This is the hand of Will Fisher coming in.

What do you think?

I love that.

That's for Andy.

It's good, isn't it?

I'll be just going to spend the rest of this evening eating.

Right,

back to the task in hand, which is trying to make...

Atomised flavours for crisps. This needs to be heated up. Do you mind doing

that, Tony, because you're nearest and you're experts at cooking?

Is it worth sprinkling a little bit of salt in as well, too? Oh, yes.

Within a matter of moments, our spam chibi mix, you're welcome, is ready.

Ask me if you can find some big funnel.

What? As Tony fashions a funnel out of foil and pours the infusion into the

sprayer... I'm already convinced this will be a hit in the pub.

I am genuinely quite excited about this.

This could be a world -changing moment.

Spam and anchovy crisp for the first time in the history of humanity.

Oh, it works.

Good taste of Spam and anchovy. That's amazing.

Step aside, cheese and onion.

Stand down, salt and vinegar.

A new flavour combination has arrived.

You have to eat them quickly, obviously, otherwise they get soggy, but you do

eat crisp quickly, don't you? You don't sit and pontificate. Sometimes you get a

note of anchovy, and then sometimes you get the Spam first, so it's a bit of a

surprise as well. Yeah, the basic idea of that works.

You can have a... Bowl of plain crisps and then add any flavour that the pub

conceive. There'll be a great big rack of them, colour -coded with little signs

that say Spam and Anchovy, Spice Paste, the regulars, Salt and Vinegar, Cheese

and Onion, Prawn Cocktail.

It's fantastic.

That has completely revolutionised crisps. They've been trapped for... When

crisps invented?

Probably the 1920s. I don't know.

They've been locked into this small -minded idea that the same flavour has

run through the whole bag, and it doesn't.

God, we're good.

You saw it here first. The Crisp Spray Atomiser, coming soon to a pub near me.

Welcome back to Wiltshire, where, as well as tackling some of the world's

biggest problems... We're also often busy mending personal effects brought

the pub by the locals.

So Tony and I are back in the workshop to get started on the business of

mending.

Peter came to the pub. He brought us his Victorian games box.

These bits are broken.

And Tony is an expert on gluing things together, because that's the sort of

thing he does. There's a lot in here, actually. It's rather cleverly done.

This appears more broken than when we got it. It does, actually. The lid,

is coming apart at the back and needs gluing and clamping. He doesn't want it

restored, but he doesn't want it to fall apart any further.

So there should be a little ring in each end for lifting it out. One of them is

long lost, but it's OK because I have some brass rod of an appropriate

to make another.

Do you want to make two?

And make them match.

I mean, that's the original ring.

Victorian fingers went through that.

We won't get rid of that, but I think they should match.

While I reacquaint myself with my ancient soldering kit... Had some solder

paste, various solders, two tins of flux that I've had for, I'm afraid to say

it, 40 years.

Tony begins the delicate job of gluing the tray inside the box.

Is it sticking together?

Yeah.

It's just fiddly and there's so many little bits I think I'm just going to

masking tape to clamp it because it doesn't need a lot of pressure.

No.

Heating the rod makes the metal easier to bend.

Do this without setting fire to the Victorian games box because that would

the job a lot more complicated.

Right, leave that to cool naturally and then it will be more malleable.

This bit of the bag...

So you need some quite hefty clamping and probably leaving overnight.

That is now much easier to bend because it's been annealed, which is a sort of

posh metal workers way of saying made a bit softer.

Man in heaven.

Virtually perfect.

See, that annoys me. That one's not in the same direction as all the others.

That's properly weird, Tony.

Don't you line them up?

No. On your light switches?

On your plug sockets?

No. They've got to be in the same direction. That's disgusting.

They've got to be at the right tension, which may not be with the slot in the

right direction.

You can't compromise integrity for lining your slots up.

I think visual aesthetics are better than safety.

I quite like a certain amount of randomness. I like the odd picture in my

to be slightly on the... Now, look, whoever did this originally has lined

up horizontally.

That's probably why that one came undone.

Next, we focus on the lid repairs.

It's not split, it's merely come away. It's slightly warped, so we need to get

some glue into the gap.

But Tony's taping the inside so that any glue that goes all the way through

doesn't run down and spoil the inside of the lid. Very wise.

Oh, that's nice. The glue is squidging out, which is a good sign. I would leave

that overnight, wouldn't you? Yeah.

With the lid of the box clamped and secure, I can return to crafting two

identical brass rings, which act as handles for the tray.

Beautiful curve, but somehow there, maybe it was when I squeezed the pliers

I twisted it slightly in my hammer.

It appears that I may not be bothered about screws and light switches being

aligned, but I do like my rings to be perfectly circular.

I have improved it a bit, look. That's not bad.

It's not bad, but it's not good, is it?

Here's a little jewellery mending tip you probably never thought you'd be

getting from me.

The mistake people make... You take a ring, say, from your necklace, and you

think, I need to open that one up to put another one in, and you open it by

doing that, pulling it apart. You will never get it back together. Always open

it by doing it that way, because then you can squash it minutely

in that plane, and then, when you push it back together...

The ends will be tight against each other and you can solder it. So it

itself. Yeah.

Does that look ringy enough to you?

It's perfect.

So you are a bit of a perfectionist, aren't you? Not really, but people are

watching.

Well, at least I hope they are, because next is the incredible science of

soldering.

The way I always do this, because it's very easy to put too much on, clip a

bit of the solder off. I put a bit of...

fluxite on there, and then if you put your little scrap of solder... How will

stay in place? You can simply heat it up and then that little bit will run into

the join.

The trick with soldering is to heat up the metal near the joint rather than the

joint itself.

Oh wow!

That's impressive.

Get in!

That's very impressive.

Right, you can glue your box back together now, Toe. Excellent.

That was very exact as fine.

I'm not good at chess. I sort of know the rules. You're only good at chess?

I joined a chess club for a laugh because I thought it would be exciting

wasn't. You thought it would be exciting?

Yeah, I don't know what got into me.

What was the alternative?

It was a Rubik's Cube club. That was quite new.

I wasn't a member of any clubs.

We had gangs and, you know, a few people were interested in...

making stuff out of wood and building bicycles. Some others were interested in

photography and that. So you just... You sort of formed natural clubs, but they

weren't formalised.

Because if they were formalised, they'd involve a grown -up and that would spoil

it.

We've got a sort of club here.

We have. We don't really acknowledge it, do we? But it is a club.

You're just going to hold it together with some tape?

Yeah. See, that's already a massive improvement.

How are my rings? Your rings are lush.

You've got the nicest rings I've ever seen.

The trick is to do that and then get a bit of tension around the corners, isn't

it? So all that's really left to do is for you to assemble and glue. Is that

dominoes tray?

Yeah, this was for the dominoes. Assemble and glue the dominoes tray,

bit of a wipe down, check the gluey marks, and then give it back to Peter.

This is so nice.

Enjoy his astonishment.

This is quite then, isn't it, this, mending the old Victorian box?

I would leave that overnight, wouldn't you?

Yeah.

Now all that's needed is a good night's sleep, but that's not always possible.

Here's a fact I recently discovered. Four out of ten couples are not sharing

duvet fairly, leading to a lot of bedroom drama and ruined sleep.

But I think I could put an end to all that, here and now.

Here is a problem that has plagued couples ever since the invention of the

duvet, which was sometime in the mid -1970s. The double duvet is, by its

something to be shared equally. But it isn't, is it? Even with a modern, same

-sexed, mixed -race, gender -fluid couple like this one, you will get

when one of them rolls over in the night and steals part of it from the other.

For example, Simi, if you imagine you're asleep and you roll over and you steal,

there you go.

You see, and now Tony thinks, hang on a minute.

Why are we... There is, I'm afraid, no happy ending

to this scene, but I've had an idea.

What I reckon, you two, is... Yeah?

What if... This is very simple.

I've got some bungees.

What if we bungeed each corner to the floor so that you have a sort of self

-centering?

Oh, that's nice. Yeah. And it's sort of almost like a floating duvet. We really

need one of those eyelet -punching things. Or a cable tie.

Oh, cable tie's a good idea.

Do you want to double them up so they're longer?

Well, possibly.

Because then they'll... Yes, I think you're right.

That'll do.

Hogging the duvet is big news in Britain, outranking the age -old problem

snoring as the main reason for night -time squabbles.

If this works, no more.

My idea is the bungees, which will be under equal tension on all four corners,

will centre the duvet. If somebody pulls it one way, obviously it will spring

back the other.

And this will be unknown to them because they'll be asleep.

But the duvet will always be in the middle.

Makes a change, him doing all the work, doesn't it?

Yeah.

Makes a change, us doing nothing.

Oh, it's moving.

Hey, there might be something in there.

Also, if you had a height -adjustable bungee anchoring point, you could make

more of a hovering duvet for a very hot day, such as today.

Ooh.

Ooh, that's a nice draft.

See?

Clear sleep. This is a serious experiment.

Obviously, in the final version of this, it will be adjustable.

Yeah. Now imagine one of you rolls over and grabs some duvet.

Oh, will you... Oh.

James, I think you've cracked it. It's not bad, is it? It's not bad at all.

good. Do a bit of tussling now. It's the middle of the night. Just mind your

eyes.

Yeah, if the bungees become unhooked for some reason... Look at that!

Automatically centred duvet.

The end of the argument.

We've solved it.

Thank you.

There's your happy ending.

You join us once again in Wiltshire, still working away recycling our own

plastic to create a game for the pub. But we also like workshop games, so

invented one that tests our basic knowledge of physics and makes use of

past their sell -by date.

It's called the yolks on us, and that's the last egg pun that there will be in

this sequence, but it does involve an egg. We've got a box of eggs that have

gone way past their sell -by date. There are two indentations in our simple rig

that hold the egg. Eggs are famously very strong in that direction.

Supposedly, you can drive a tractor over them and all sorts of things. But the

winner is the person who gets the most weight on there without breaking the

How are we going to balance everything? It'll be like Buckaroo.

Well, that's why it's interesting.

Oh, OK. I'm going to start with this hammer.

Which weighs 876 grams.

So I'm going to put it there.

Tim, it's your go.

Anything? Anything at all. Anywhere beyond that line.

Oh, Tim. You're bold.

It's 13 ,000 grams.

Jeez.

But you've written it in, a bit premature, because he might break the

He might break the wood at this rate.

I'm just getting it beyond the line.

It's funny, the egg was thinking, I've got this, I've got this.

This game is great, but because Tony didn't get to demonstrate his

prowess, it's only fair we play best of three.

4 ,100.

But let's be clear. Oh, it's gone right there.

At this point, we're all in it to win it.

1 ,990.

I'm not feeling that.

You've played a very tactical game, Tony. Yeah, there's a little bit of

it.

The average egg can withstand a surprising amount of weight, up to 35

when pressure is applied evenly.

So I'm going to add 1 ,231, and I can't put it any further back than that.

Timmy,

I'm finding this genuinely tense.

445.

That was you.

That's good.

If this game wasn't exciting enough, for the final round we decide to add more

drama.

There's a minimum weight limit of 500 grams.

For me.

It's a pro hex head screw.

He's baldy.

Looking to say...

That's soul -breaking.

It's never taken this much weight.

Winner!

So I got to lose, so I'm down to nought, and you had the most. So, yes, it's an

absolute draw.

Everybody has zero points.

Well, you can play it at home.

If you've got some eggs that are well past their sell -by date, and some

of wood and some screws and a piece of plywood to protect your kitchen table,

even though you've made some screw holes in it, you need some scales as well.

And that's an exit.

But it's not all fun and games, you know. We have also been working hard

to reduce plastic waste.

Our goal was to recycle some ourselves and transform it into something

and enduring.

A game fit for the pub.

Have we been victorious?

So viewers, we are ready to show you our draft set for the pub made out of

recycled plastic.

Not just recycled plastic, plastic that we have recycled ourselves.

This is such a big moment.

Because we're blasé about the idea of recycling, we say, oh, yes, I recycle

everything. And what you really mean is you put it in a different coloured bin

bag. We haven't done anything different from what you were doing in the 1970s, i

.e. throwing things away.

It's just now you put it in something of the colour, so you think, oh, I'm

saving the environment.

Rubbish. The way you save it is to not recycle it in the first place. You take

it and you turn it into something else. That's what we've done.

Ignore this box.

We've just put it in this old chess set box so that we can do what on TV is

called a reveal.

Is everybody ready?

It's possibly a bit smaller than you were expecting from the amount of angst

energy that was involved.

I think the word is homespun.

It's brilliant.

it's exquisite it is exquisite and it shall endure here is the board you might

look at this and say that's very small i say it's convenient and travel size

it's quite amazing how much plastic it took to make that small set that's a

good point because we had a massive heap of milk bottles and milk bottle tops

okay would you two like to play yeah

In the interest of entertainment, for this game we will be playing speed

Although I must point out, Timmy is at a slight disadvantage.

He is colourblind and red and green look the same to him, which is something we

didn't consider, rather stupidly, when we made the set.

That's red, though. Yes. OK, that's all right.

I wondered why you didn't do that. Well, because I couldn't see it!

You're playing a man who can't tell the difference between the two sets. I take

the wins where I can.

Oh, massive error.

I forgot you could go backwards.

You can if you're taking people.

I forgot.

Bit shafted, aren't you?

I am.

That's Tony, that's you.

Why is that there then?

Because Tony's cocked it up. There you go. The first ever victory on the Royal

Oak Homemade Recycled Plastics draft board was won by a man who can't see it.

So, there you have it. We drank the milk, collected the bottles and tops and

turned them into something useful.

Something that may well outlive us all.

Now that is the true definition of recycling.

Before Tony demands a rematch, we must move to another part of the pub to meet

Peter and return his Victorian games box, which has been fixed for the first

time in 150 years.

There wasn't really a great deal wrong with it, but it was coming apart at the

seams here and there. There was a loop missing. It was a bit broken off. I did

tell him I'd make it look like a repair.

I think that's fine, though, because I really struggled with making it look

new, and I think every little mark tells a story. Every bit has got a story

behind it. I think you're right. Personality and character.

Hello. Here is Peter. Hello.

Nice to see you again.

Good evening.

So, your Victorian games box, Peter.

You spent quite a bit of time on it. We haven't restored it because you asked us

not to.

Various joints around here have been re -glued along the front. You remember

this piece had sheared off and this piece was missing.

Yeah. I've made you a new one, but did promise that I would make it look like a

repair so that it was part of the story. Yeah. And so it is.

And now, if we open it up...

and remove the very wordy instruction book, you will see, sir, two loops where

there was only one.

Those have been freshly made by us, and Tony has reassembled this entire

tray. And it was almost impossible to get it out.

And if you tried, it fell apart, literally, because all these pieces were

There's no rhyme or reason to why it's made the way it is.

came apart, literally every piece of it fell apart, and there's lots of little

pieces. But we haven't spoiled the very extensive pattern and story that

is within the wood.

I think that's the important thing, because every mark's got a story behind

Oh, yes.

And we had this dilemma, didn't we, about whether we'd clean this up and

look brand new.

Yeah, a big part was, yeah, we did want to plane it all down, but we fought that

urge. Do you think anyone will ever play any of these games again?

Well, I think they will.

We used to play a little bit with my children when they were small, but now

next generation have come along and hopefully the grandchildren will enjoy

And that's... It's for you.

Right, well, thank you very much indeed.

I'm glad I brought it along.

Absolute pleasure. We were fascinated by it.

Don't sell it.

No, don't sell it.

Certainly not. Don't drop it. Oh, no.

It will do many generations yet.

Excellent. Thank you. Goodbye.

Thank you for coming. Bye. Bye.

Ooh, that's another satisfied customer.

Bye.