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In the heart of the French countryside,

a magnificent chateau stood uncared for and abandoned.

Then five years ago, everything changed...

Oh, wow! Look at that!

..when an intrepid British couple...

Turn, turn, turn, turn.

Wow!

..unlocked its front door...

Everything's gorgeous.

..fell in love with its grandeur

and embarked on an adventure.

It's so incredibly important to bring it back to life.

Since they moved in, engineer Dick Strawbridge...

..and his wife, designer Angel...

..have transformed almost all 45 rooms, including four sumptuous

guest suites for their wedding and events business.

But, despite their hard work, their dream often resembled a nightmare.

You should not to be able to see the sky out of your roof.

Behind every romantic story is the reality!

Now it's the beginning of a brand-new year.

Welcome aboard, mateys!

And with business busier than ever...

Service.

..there are new challenges...

Woo!

..ensuring the chateau's perfect for guests...

Hello!

..as well as creating a family home filled with love.

Angela.

It's time to find out what happens next...

It's floating. It's now a boat.

..in this 21st century French fairy tale.

It's an early Spring morning

and some of the chateau's residents have already been hard at work.

I see eggs. What? What?

Look, I see eggs!

How many we got? How many we got?

To Arthur and Dorothy's delight,

the geese have finally started to lay their supersized eggs.

Great, three eggs.

Look at that - it's as big as a chicken egg. No, bigger.

We need to check to see if there's any more in there.

Yeah! On that pile.

Can you see it? Yeah.

Wait, wait, hold on.

Hold that one for me, Arthur, carefully.

Let's see what's going on and have a check over here.

That's all I can find.

Hold on, that's good.

There's one each.

Come on.

We've got four eggs.

Right, how are we going to eat them? Frying pan.

Do you know what I used to do before you were born

when we were in London? What?

I used to bring a goose egg from Cornwall up for your mummy and

she didn't have an eggcup big enough so we'd have to put it in a mug.

Today, though, Angel's vast collection of vintage china

does include two large egg coddlers.

Right, have a seat. Have a seat, young man. You ready?

Oh, Daddy, this is big for a goose egg!

First things first, how do we do coddled eggs?

You need to get an egg and then put in the egg with some butter.

Right, OK, with some butter. With your finger,

I want that all smoothed around the inside of that, OK?

Smooth it all around the inside. Done?

We're going to use the blunt edge for breaking open our egg.

Crack it in the middle. And again.

And again. And again.

OK, now, two thumbs in there, thumbs in there, pull it apart,

pull it apart.

Look at that!

It's massive, it's huge!

Shall we see if it fits? Yeah.

Ah, plop!

It's filled to the very top.

Righty tighty.

Boiling water.

While the eggs coddle, Dorothy

and Arthur take the opportunity to practise their samurai skills...

Dodi.

..at least until mum arrives.

Two.

Arthur, yay!

Here we go. Oh, amazing. Amazing. Now.

Oh, my days. Oh, ho-ho-ho-ho!

Get that on to your toast. Get your soldiers, dip it in there.

Since the geese arrived six months ago, the whole family's been

waiting for this moment, and it doesn't disappoint.

Good yolk!

I am so happy.

But as soon as the inaugural eggs have been eaten...

These are very special.

THEY LAUGH

..it's time to get back to work.

Over the past four years, Dick and Angel have worked hard

to establish a weddings and events business at the chateau.

What do you reckon?

There we go.

While Dick and his team

have prepared over 25,000 different dishes...

CROWD APPLAUDS AND CHEERS

..Angel's personally welcomed over 5,000 guests,

including 900 who've stayed overnight.

This year they'll be busier than ever.

So, to cope with demand, Dick and Angel have set in motion

Operation Sous Sol.

Converting the back of the basement into a state-of-the-art

professional kitchen, with a multifunctional utility room

and loos next door.

Phase One, Dick's events kitchen, has already been completed.

This is so 21st century - clean, hygienic.

This is positively industrial.

Now, with just a few weeks to go until the season's first guests

arrive, it's time for Phase Two, the new utility room.

First, though, Dick has something he wants to show Angel.

In you go.

And look - look, look, look, look, look...

SHE GASPS ..look, look, look.

Oh, my God...

Oh, my God, that is beautiful.

That is so beautiful.

Scraps of antique wallpaper - some 150 years old -

have been glued inside an old stair cupboard.

What's it doing under the stairs?

I know.

Well, maybe someone lived here.

Oh, that is...

I haven't seen that. That's...

It's nowhere else in the chateau, is it?

I know.

I absolutely love it.

Look how vibrant the red is.

I mean, you know, it would've been hand-finished.

Wow.

You haven't even seen,

but if you look along the creases there on the... Oh, my God!

There's little bits.

I know this wallpaper - this is the wallpaper that was in

the entrance way.

That's the peacock, like the one I call the peacock.

Where's that? That's amazing. And look - different wallpapers.

The antique hand-printed wallpaper might be worth a lot now,

but 150 years ago, it used by the chateau's staff to

block out the dust.

It's unbelievable, isn't it?

Oh, you're not going to take...

What's going to happen with these stairs?

We're going to board them in.

Oh, are you? OK.

I just love that, even years on, we're still discovering little bits.

I kind of don't want to finish.

Oh, dear, it's going to be awful if we ever get the house done,

isn't it?

Yeah. Dear God!

Unfortunately for Dick and Angel,

the chateau seems to have an interminable to-do list -

including extending the new utility room into the wine cellar next door.

This is the important part here.

Great. That's the wall. Yeah.

This is your wallpaper on the other side of this wall, OK?

Yeah. From here where the pipes come through we're talking about

knocking that away. Right.

That's just literally, like... Kick that down, couldn't we?

You could do that, darling. I could do it. Can I do that now?

No, not yet, not yet, because I don't want to make a mess.

OK.

A few days later, though, Angel gets her chance.

Whoa!

This is very satisfying.

Mm... Good?

THEY LAUGH

Woohoo!

Right, you see, it wasn't a very substantial wall, was it?

Give me the credit, for God's sake!

Whoo!

Oh! THEY LAUGH

Oh, I was not ready for that!

That wall being there is actually quite handy.

I think that's why he moved the door over to that point,

so there's enough room there.

Are we thinking the same thing?

We're agreeing. Oh, my God.

We're agreeing, but what's more important from my perspective...

I must write that down in my Dick And Angel Agreeing Bible.

You haven't got one of those, have you?

I thought it was just one post-it.

We've got two now.

There's just one more thing to do and the job's done.

Whoa!

That is now...

Brilliant.

..officially a room.

Gosh, it's fantastic.

It may only be a washing-up and laundry room,

but it does come with a rather exceptional view.

Oh, wow.

It is a moat view, isn't it? That is amazing.

That is beautiful.

I love it.

There are now just a few weeks until the start of the wedding season,

and the race is on to complete Operation Sous Sol

by the time their first guests arrive.

But before builder-mate Steve covers every surface

of the new utility room in plasterboard,

Angel wants to ensure its history isn't completely forgotten.

The best bit about this room, for me at the moment,

apart from that it's big, it's much bigger than I thought,

is this piece of wallpaper.

The chateau is still giving us little gems

and that's why I don't like working too fast through the chateau

because I don't want to lose that sort of, that excitement,

that I still might find things.

As Angel's kept a record of all the wallpaper she's ever found

in the chateau, she's keen these little gems are also celebrated.

What absolutely amazes me is that this was,

they didn't care about it, it was like newspaper to them

and this stuff, to me, is like big treasure!

I love this, I have not seen it and that's why I'm so excited.

As soon as we talk about wallpaper, I'm feeling quite inspired!

As builder-mate Steve will now be plastering the utility room

for the next few days...

Dick's gone outside to fix a rather large mess he made last year.

Five months ago, Dick decided to create a wild flower meadow,

by ploughing up 3,500 square metres of grass

in front of the Orangery.

Is it meant to look like that?

His idea though, didn't go down that well with Angel.

It looks like organized sabotage.

This will be all wild flowers when we finish.

Trust me.

This year, Dick's determined to prove that all his hard work

will be worth it.

And to do that, he and chateau helper, Quentin,

have bought themselves a new toy.

This is a hearse, hearse de prairie, oui?

Yes.

It's basically...

I don't know quite what it's going to be when we get it out here.

But hopefully it's a rake.

Unfortunately, the second hand rake doesn't come with instructions.

Hmmm, how does it go together?

Go on, put it together for me, show me how it happens.

It's like a puzzle. C'est un puzzle, oui?

Un puzzle, oui!

You went to collect it, you're the expert. I'm not.

So you must have asked the farmer how it goes?

He didn't know how to use it. He didn't know?

It was his grandfather's, a long time ago.

That goes that way and that's going in here.

So now I have to make it work. Yes.

Oh, Quentin. C'est tres joli .

Et voila.

C'est voila, comme ca, oui?

Do you think it'll work?

Right, we should really have started it over there, shouldn't we? Yes!

The rake may be old and rusty but after a few turns on the tractor,

it does appear to be working.

Is it good?

Yeah, I think so.

Quentin?

It was cheap.

That's good!

Up in her attic workroom, Angel's thinking of ways

to retain some of the utility room's character.

I have total reassurance that it actually looks like a staircase

and not a weird bit of art.

With her artist friend Sam's help,

she's used her photos to recreate the back of the basement stairs.

But before the idea goes any further,

Angel's decided to make a paper prototype.

I need to check it's OK

because I want to order this on a really nice vinyl,

a thick wearing,

going to outlive me vinyl.

I don't want to get it wrong.

If her idea works, the final version will arrive in one long roll.

Currently though, it's in 48 almost identical pieces.

I feel guilty that the kids aren't here helping me but I have to admit,

on this occasion, I think it's best that I've got a clear head.

As soon as Angel's fairly sure she's taped everything the right way up,

she just needs to go down and find out for sure.

Oh, hello, ooh!

I think you've just plastered my lovely coat.

I didn't want to stop you doing what you were doing.

I've finished.

Oh, that's absolutely, honestly, perfect timing.

So this is the middle and this is the, that's the top.

Right, lovely, we might as well start at the top.

Two, two, if I go in and you pull it over.

Yep, are you there?

Right, OK.

Oh, my God.

You know what this is making me think, Steve?

How difficult the actual thing is going to be.

How's it looking?

I mean it works.

Definitely.

It works.

It feels like it's going a bit that way, doesn't it? Yeah.

For Angel though,

retaining the chateau's history is just as important as aesthetics.

It's going to look lovely when it's done properly.

You never know, you might set a trend. No!

Outside, the meadow has now been raked to within an inch of its life.

And as far as Dick's concerned,

it's ready for stage two of his wild flower recovery programme.

I've bought wild flower seeds that...

two kilos of annuals which means they'll be in flower this year,

and three kilos of perennials

which means that they're going to flower year after year.

I'm going to turn this very ugly ploughed field

into something beautiful.

Mix these all up.

Experience in the kitchen never goes amiss in the garden.

There we go.

All Dick can hope for is that five kilos worth of seeds

will be enough to appease Angel.

Over the past three years, Dick and Angel have created

four guest suites inside the chateau,

as well as a glamping site outside.

Now Angel would like to offer some extra accommodation

and she's found the perfect solution online, but it's collection only.

For Dick, it means trekking all the way from the chateau,

to the West Midlands.

Angela doesn't even know what she's let us in for, does she?

She has no idea.

In Angel's eyes, 'Dolphin', a 40-year-old canal boat,

was such a good deal, she simply couldn't afford to ignore it.

I love the fact that Angel's bought a boat

and it doesn't really matter that it doesn't float.

And do you know what?

As long as it looks pretty, Angela's happy.

Dick's job is to ensure it's watertight,

and to do that, he's brought it to a boat yard,

where they have a rather subtle way

of checking the strength of the hull.

Who gave him a hammer? Who gave him a hammer?

As there's obviously some work to do before the boat can actually

float on the moat, Dick gladly hands Dolphin over to the experts.

Once he's back at the chateau though,

Dick's keen to show Angel exactly what she's purchased.

Um, we have a boat and you actually haven't seen inside the boat at all?

I haven't but I have seen what was on the internet.

I've seen pictures. You've seen pictures, right, OK.

You've chosen this from sort of the beauty concept.

How lovely it is.

I'm not going to be in for a massive shock, am I?

I think at this stage, you're probably going to see it

as bad as it gets. Oh.

So Angel can get a clearer view,

Dick's arranged a video call from David, the man who's fixing it up.

No, not that one.

You can't see us, can you, mate?

Hold on because... We can see you David.

Can you see us now?

Yay!

Yeah, I can see you now. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you too.

Oh, so show us around.

Right, OK. You see the boat now?

Oh, it's cute.

It's perfectly formed.

Can we have a look inside?

We certainly can, let's go and take you up.

That's the inside. Show Angela how good it is.

Angel's plan is for David and his team

to ensure the Dolphin's both watertight and habitable.

Then she will style it for guests.

Down the steps.

You can see the bare steel now.

Dick though, is still having trouble tuning into Angel's vision.

Um, so...

It's not looking as bad as...

It's looking lovely.

Never mind Angela, she chose it for the beautiful pictures

and this is what we've actually bought.

We bought the piece of metal with a hole in it for a window.

Do you know, I always look at everything with a vision

so I still think it looks great.

It's a bit breezy.

And the breeze is coming through the doors as well

cos as you can see, the door panel's a bit tired.

That's a wee bit tired.

That's the one, yeah.

It's looking good, it's looking.

It's looking good.

My problems start when you get it over to us.

That's right, yeah!

Dolphin may be full of accidental air holes...

That's great. ..but Angel won't be deterred.

We're going to make it fabulous.

But actually, that's the beauty of it.

It's quite special. It is, yeah.

Thank you. Cheers, David, bye. Bye.

So...

I knew you hadn't got much boating experience.

You've never been on a barge.

Not that I remember.

But I love the idea of it.

It's spring, and Dick and Angel's first guests are due

within a couple of weeks.

To cater for them, as well as the other 1,500 visitors

who'll come this summer, a much-needed washing up

and laundry room's about to be plumbed in.

Or rather, it WILL be, once Dick's worked out how to turn his drill on.

Ah, there's two "On", that's why.

There's two "On" switches.

I knew there was something I remembered.

It's been a while.

A new hole's needed for the tumble dryer's flue.

Unfortunately for Dick, builder mate Steve and the drill,

the chateau's lower walls are faced with solid granite.

DRILL WHIRRS

All Dick can do is sit patiently and watch the drill do its work...

Argh! Oh, no! No!

..or at least try to.

Oh, no.

Bucket failure.

I might just go and get a man-sized bucket.

Or maybe this is the one with a hole in it.

One of them would go the other way.

We're going to get a double-strength...

A double-strength bucket.

Get that core out.

DRILL WHIRRS

Two hours and two buckets later, Dick's perseverance pays off.

Look at that.

We have a hole.

I've got to take these off now.

It's really quite peaceful.

We'll see...

That's it. There you go.

There you go. Oh, that's better.

It may be a large lump of granit,

but to Angel, it's still part of the chateau.

This would break the sideboard.

But that's a... I'll keep that to her...

Keep that as a pressy for her.

Right.

Inside, Angel's trying her best to make their new utility room

slightly less utilitarian.

This, hopefully is the, um, are the stairs,

or the picture of the stairs.

I gave the printers free rein to kind of decide

what to print it on, so I don't know what I've got.

Genuinely.

Concerned that the room's old staircase,

as well as its scraps of antique wallpaper, would be forgotten,

Angel's decided to recreate it by having her photographs

printed on to sticky-back vinyl.

Or at least that's what she's hoping has happened.

Ooh. OK.

So it's a bit shiny. I'm just...I'm just having a little peek.

But I did say, in fairness, that it had to be wipe down.

OK.

God, it is huge.

I just think it looks great.

I mean, it's shiny, but it kind of had to be shiny.

Whoa. OK.

That looks great.

It is just really big.

If it isn't the right size, totally my fault.

SHE CHUCKLES

Unfortunately, there's only one way to find out

if Angel's got her measurements muddled.

I'm a bit scared. Um...

That is perfect.

That is so weird. This space is actually massive.

Great. All right, that's one worry off my mind.

All Angel needs to do now is persuade Dick to help her

put it up under the stairs.

But, as it first needs to be peeled back

and stuck to a couple of boards, Dick's not feeling the love.

I don't like sticky-back plastic.

When I was in primary school, people used to cover

their exercise books and things with sticky-back plastic.

But I can't do it. I was always rubbish. I just do creases.

And I'd much rather stick a pin in my eye.

It also doesn't help that he's married to a perfectionist.

I'm thinking that's going to be quite forgiving

because of the pattern on it, isn't it?

SHE CHUCKLES

Well, what I'm hoping is that, it's just for us,

that I won't be so twitchy about the wrinkles.

But tackling four square metres of sticky-back plastic

isn't Dick's only problem.

He also has to make sure it fits perfectly under the stairs.

That is the bottom. OK.

No, it's not. That's...

Do you need to go and check?

I'll measure it. I...I know.

I'm just starting to think this is upside down.

Because this bit here comes up and goes underneath the...

The... So that's the top and that's the bottom.

That's the bottom... That's the back right-hand corner.

So as you look under the stairs, we put it in like that.

OK. So that's the top. So, as it sits here,

we put it in like that. Yep.

So, this is now the top of the stairs like this.

Does that look right? Yep.

That was so not convincing.

Once they've both agreed which way is probably right,

Dick takes a deep breath and enters his personal pit of misery.

OK. And then take it down to your corner.

Right, are we...are we...? I've no idea.

I hate this. I... Do you get the fact that

I am not in my comfort zone?

Dick. Don't "Dick" me, you're doing this!

You've got to roll and smooth.

You can't smooth before I'm...

I didn't smooth. OK.

Eventually, Dick admits defeat and decides

his skills lie elsewhere.

Do you want a cup of tea?

What's that? Do I want a cup of tea?

To cope with the stress.

Released from sticky-backed plastic purgatory,

Dick gets back to the sort of work he actually enjoys,

like fitting the utility room's worktops.

Angela's got a cunning plan for the utility room.

It involves...

We've got double sinks,

plus all of the work surface is going to be tiled.

Allegedly. HE CHUCKLES

Yes, well... I just say yes.

As up to 2,000 pieces of crockery and cutlery

have to be washed up after every wedding...

..Dick's rather keen to get everything up and running

before the season starts.

This is all going to get tiled.

Ice machine, cupboard, plate washer, cupboard, cupboard, cupboard,

washing machine and tumble dryer.

And lots more space in here.

Yeah, good.

A few days later, the utility room is fully functioning.

But for Angel, being functional isn't good enough.

It also has to be attractive.

Steve. Yeah? I've got the tiles.

Keen to add some colour, Angel has had the worktop tiles

printed with her photos of the antique wallpaper.

So there's five designs,

and they are similar but they are different.

So, one, two...

..three, four, five.

As well as showing off the subtle differences between

the hand-printed flowers, it also means

a little bit of chateau history will remain forever on display.

Do you think two tiles or one tile?

I like the mismatch of it all.

If something's really, really, really busy... Yeah.

..it works.

So, these don't need to be matched up.

They've all just got to be not next to each other.

These are the rules - not next to each other

and the right way up.

Yes. And if you can crack that, then I'll be really happy. OK.

Angela.

Just four days before their first guests arrive,

Angel receives a rather large delivery.

Angela!

You've got a boat.

How was the journey, fella?

DRIVER: Yeah, not too bad. Yeah? Hi! My God.

I've got to say, I mean, I know you keep saying how small it is,

but it looks huge.

Is that looking nice?

She looks beautiful.

Over the past few weeks, David and his team have worked hard

to replate, repaint and revive Dolphin.

Can you come a little bit further forward for me, yeah?

Should I put the kettle on?

The person most impressed with Dolphin's transformation is Dick.

It's looking very, very nice.

The sling, please, Dick.

Come on.

And all that's left for the boat team to do

is get it on to the chateau's moat.

Look at that. It's flying.

Let's get it in and see if it floats.

Oh, Angela.

You've nearly got a boat, darling.

It's an airplane still, but it's nearly a boat.

Look at that.

It's in the water, darling.

It's now a boat. Although it's still going down.

It's still going down.

Good job, Tony. Thank you.

Right, it's floating.

Do you know what? We've got it in, in the water in the moat.

That cheers me up no end.

It's quite wibbly wobbly, though! It's a boat.

It's the beginning of the glamping season,

and Angel's latest purchase has just been delivered to the chateau.

Slowly! It's quite heavy. Oh!

A 35 foot, 8-tonne narrow boat called Dolphin.

And Angel thinks she has the perfect spot for it.

Slower, slower, please. Slower for Daddy, slower.

We've got to stop it bashing into these.

Keep it tight, pull. You have to decide how far we're going.

Have you any idea where you want it to be? Actually, this is the perfect position.

Well, try stopping it.

No-one's pulling. Where I'm standing.

You try stopping it. Look, do you want me to go backwards with the rope?

I don't want to bash into the stone.

Angela, stop pulling. Oops!

Slow it down, slowing it down, good. Right.

As Angel won't have time to style it until after the wedding season,

Dolphin will begin its life at the chateau as a whimsical water feature.

Grab the rope, grab the rope, Phillip.

Grab the rope. Pull the rope in, good man.

Stop there. GRUNTS

Right, hold the ropes.

I think you got where your boat's going to be. This is lovely.

The boat may have only just been added to this year's to-do list,

but that doesn't deter its new crew.

This is Dolphin.

THEY CLAMOUR

It's amazing, it's just brilliant.

Welcome aboard, mateys.

LAUGHS

Until Dolphin's been given Angel's magic touch,

the only glamping site at the chateau is on the other side of the moat.

Built by Dick and Angel last year, the accommodation

is inside two large domes, one on the moat and one on the land.

And this weekend, the season's first guests will be staying here,

celebrating a very special birthday.

So, after its winter hibernation, the domes not only need waking up

but also getting dressed.

It feels totally like deja vu but a bit more relaxed.

Because I'm sure I was putting this on near enough to the day last year.

And it was just as hot.

But it was a bit more panicked because the tiles hadn't been grouted

and the chairs hadn't arrived.

Like numerous other things.

But it has been quite a bit of work getting the domes live-able again.

All the floors had to get re-done.

They didn't look bad but they didn't look good.

And it's a learning curve.

Just around the corner, Dick's busy with an urgent repair job.

WHISTLES

Fixing the floating dome's doorway.

The little dome arrived with a zip.

But now it's...

..sticky.

And everybody knows a sticky zip is a bad thing.

But, like a lot of repair jobs, it's becoming rather complicated.

The actual plastic door's at a slope so I need to have a vertical door

so it opens but have a slope to keep the rain out.

To keep me on my toes.

Dick's decided to replace the unreliable zip

with a solid wooden door.

Unfortunately, due to the dome being dome-shaped,

it has to be made from scratch.

At 155 high and a metre wide, it's a really odd-sized door.

It would have been easier if I could just buy a door.

Stick the door on there.

With the first glamping guests arriving in just a matter of days,

and the wedding season about to begin,

it's now more important than ever to have the utility room in place.

We're now at a stage where we actually have tiles

covering our sort of very cheap kitchen counters.

It's all looking very nice in there but Dick has been saying to me

for a while that, you know,

they're not very good for having vintage china on.

As most of the crockery used at their weddings is vintage china,

and will need to be hand-washed,

Angel's rather keen it doesn't get dropped on the new tiled worktop.

Dick's been saying to me, "You've got to find a Victorian wooden drainer,"

and to be honest I didn't look because I had no idea what he was on about.

I hadn't seen one before, believe it or not.

And we was at a friend's house and they said,

"I've got one up in the attic."

LAUGHS

Et voila.

All it needed was a bit of love from Angel.

And it'll be great because - and look how big it is -

look how many teacups I can get on there.

Time, though, is running out and with the season's first guests imminent,

Dick and Angel declare the gargantuan task that was Operation Sous Sol over.

What had once been a damp and decaying back room

is now a 21st-century events kitchen,

capable of serving dozens of guests at a time.

While, next door, Angel's old junk room

has been transformed into a fully-fledged

washing-up and laundry space.

It may be more functional than fun, but during the busy wedding season,

it will be, for Angel and her helpers,

an absolute godsend.

My heaven.

The utility room is probably not meant to have the "wow"

of the forward-facing rooms but, actually, for me and Dick,

it's still part of the chateau,

it still had incredible little gems that we found.

And it's little things like that

that make this room really special to me and Dick.

As well as obviously turning out the laundry.

SHE LAUGHS

And these bad boys...

It's a 15-kilo tumble dryer.

It's going to change my life.

It's going to be the highlight of my year,

obviously after birthdays and special occasions.

It's going to make turning around from a wedding much easier.

And Angel's photographic reproduction of the staircase

also ensures that the room's 19th century history won't be forgotten.

It's just these little nuggets in this room

that are little reminders of the Sous-Sol, of what it was.

And that's special.

We will actually be spending quite a lot of time in here this summer.

It's the weekend,

and this year's first guests are already on their way.

Even though the glamping site has been checked numerous times,

Angel still wants to make one more inspection.

At the start of the season, you just have so many things

to put back into place. Like, a million things.

And it takes a while to get there and get it all cleaned

and to remember everything.

And we've got four ladies today coming on a helicopter.

Oh, dear. It's a different world.

It's going to be great and there's got to be a little bit of a giggle,

isn't there, cos they are coming camping in a helicopter.

I just think that's great. I really do.

But Angel's not the only one excited by the helicopter.

Hi, gorgeous girl. Hi, baby.

Dick's already listening out for the sound of approaching rotor blades.

As it's the first time a helicopter's landed at the chateau,

they have no idea what to expect.

It could be dusty... OK. ..when it comes. Yeah?

The pilot's going to land where he wants. Right.

I'd suggest the grass rather than here but that's entirely up to him.

Nobody asked me to put an "H" down, did they?

No.

Look, there's one space, really, isn't there?

I-I can... Where are they coming from?

Um... England.

I've no idea. I don't know. like, well.

Oh, I do know it's blue.

I know that's funny but actually that's what Julia told me.

Um, any helicopter that turns up, we're going to know it's them.

A red helicopter - "Sorry!"

"No, you're the red helicopter. We're after the blue one."

FAINT WHIRRING

That's the helicopter.

Can you hear it?

Yeah. Where is it?

I don't know. I mean, it could be... Could be just a plane.

No, that's a helicopter. Is it? How do you know the difference?

It's over there.

Trust me. Up we go. All right.

Up we go. So, that way, we're not in the way.

There we go. It's quite big.

There it is. And it's blue.

And it is actually quite large. Right.

He's got to decide where he's going to land. Yeah.

I hope he doesn't land in the walled garden and think that's the cross.

That's actually quite a big helicopter.

I hope they're coming over here.

That looks very cool.

Whoa.

LAUGHING: Oh, my God!

Oh, my goodness me.

With the arrival of their first guests,

the summer season has officially begun.

BOTH: Hello!

Welcome, welcome. You're so welcome.

Two kisses. Mwah! One-two. We are in France.

Come on, let's go.

To be honest, we wasn't sure where you was gonna park,

but this is the perfect place, so...

For Dick, Angel and their team,

it's the start of a new chapter in their adventure.

Hold on, hold on.

Next time...

Whoa.

..some heavy lifting for Dick...

There's 25 tonnes of stones to move.

And no part about this is making me smile.

..the magic of Monet inspires a moat makeover...

Dorothy, look - see the water lilies, see the pads?

..and some careful coordination.

LOUD CLATTERING Oops!

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