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Five years ago, Angel and I fell in love with a derelict,

45-room chateau.

This is truly beautiful.

And since then, we've spent every spare moment bringing it back

to life.

This is beyond better than what I'd imagined.

Oh! Hurray!

Now, at a time when so many of us are tackling jobs at home...

...we want to use Angel's creativity...

See the vision? ..and Dick's ingenuity...

That is the basis of a bed.

...to solve your design and DIY dilemmas.

From crafty conundrums...

Magazines are great to use, the ink is waterproof.

...to entire room renovations...

"We'll be on hand to help.

We are going to be drinks trolley partners in this.

You've got your bus too?

Yeah, bus to bus.

Because if we can do it...

I am an average crafter,

I've just got the mind-set of having a go.

...SO can YOU.

Hah!

Ha-ha ha-ha!

That is giving me goose bumps.

Look at that smoker!

Because we're stuck at home, we're filming it ourselves.

I'm filming me filming you being cross with me, I love it.

Make sure you press record.

Now that really is make do and mend.

When we first moved to the chateau,

I didn't know anything about chickens.

Come on, let's go cock-a-doodle-doos.

Luckily, Dick did, and today we have six hens, a cockerel,

and four to five fresh eggs to collect every morning.

Is there any in here?

Shall we say, "eggs, are you ready?"

Let me see.

Wow, look at those.

Arthur Donald, you go and collect two eggs please.

OK.

Oh, in one hand, that's brave.

Come past me, come past me.

Oh, she's going to lay an egg.

Oh, no. Uh oh.

She's going to lay an egg!

Look behind you.

Egg collection done for the day, it's time for us

to help you with your projects.

Look at that.

Oh, that's gorgeous.

A Pye stereog ram.

Wow! It's gorgeous.

This is a big you one.

That needs to be brought back to life.

Did you ever have a deck like that?

Yeah, I did, I always, actually always,

I worked in a second hand record shop for 11 years.

You never sat and played old discs for me.

I did. No, you didn't.

Didn't I? No, you didn't.

Oh, who we'lljust let that one pass very quickly.

The Pye stereogram was, in its day, a superb sound system,

consisting of a radio, record player and big stereo speakers.

It'll be fantastic if we can get it to work again but first,

I need to find out from Helena which bit's broken.

Babes, just do that.

I can't see myself.

No, you've got to do...

What, I've got to do what?

What?

This is being filmed by the way, just so you know.

Just so everyone does know, that at 60 years of age,

he's incapable of making his hair... it doesn't start there!

That's called a comb-over, it starts up there.

But see then... No, no.

It starts up here.

It doesn't start down there.

Quiet on the set please. Quiet!

Hi, Helena how are you?

OK, so the Pye stereogram, what is broken?

There are a number of ways that the actual record gets

driven around, it can be a belt or it can be an idler wheel,

that's the two most likely ones.

Do you know what the drive is?

All right, OK, so you're talking about a wheel going round,

like a rubber wheel?

OK, that's an idler wheel. It's all making sense to me nearly.

Start taking things apart with it unplugged.

OK, do me a favour, get a tray or something

and then take apart your record playing capability.

And see if you can also take off the idler wheel.

OK, then I'd like you to get rid of any of the gunge

that you stuck on to the wheel.

Does that make sense?

I have a major issue with everything ending up in landfill

after a year, and that's nearly as old as me.

My wife's coming over to say hello.

It's really exciting just thinking that you can get it back

working now and I think between yous two, you can.

We will.

Take care, darling, see ya, bye. Bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye.

I think if we can get the idler wheel spinning again,

we'll be making music pretty soon.

Sadly, I don't have a Pye stereogram here,

we may fix that at some stage.

Well, they've been around for 50 years, hers is over 50 years old,

I'm nearly 60 years old for goodness' sake.

Isn't that old?

Aw hurtful, hurtful, hurtful.

But, OK, she has a problem and the problem she has,

is that she has an idler wheel

and her idler wheel is a thing of great beauty and engineering.

And is driven by the drive wheel.

The metal drive wheel on the rubber

and the idea is that it makes it spin around.

Now that involves the friction between the metal here

and the rubber there.

This is where our problem is, because the outside edge of that,

it's been out in the air all the time and it's perished slightly.

So, Helena's problem is, to just very delicately take

a little bit off this outside edge to make it softer rubber

and that softer rubber allows the drive wheel to actually drive it.

You have explained that gorgeously, even I understand that.

Whilst Helena's cleans up her idler wheel.

Angel and I are going to watch another request.

I'm getting really excited. Stop it. Stop it.

He's tickling me under the table.

Shhh, nobody can see, oh, maybe they can, look there, here we go.

And I'm Simon.

I don't know anybody like that, do I?

I can relate to this.

A lot.

Oh, I love that.

What a great location.

Hold on, those steps look like a deathtrap actually.

They look enchanting, at the same time, lethal.

They are something that needs to be sorted, don't they?

Absolutely.

Basically, Xuxa wants everything that you've got in the chateau

in a tiny air raid shelter.

I utterly adore my craft room because to me,

it's both beautiful and practical.

Every inch is covered in shelving with different types of storage.

Even old drawers have been re-used into handy holders

and ladders used for hanging fabrics.

It means everything I need is in one place but more importantly,

it's a lovely space to work in.

You see, this room just fills me with joy.

It's not only just got my memories from decades and decades

but there's some functionality in here

that just makes me feel relaxed.

Let's give her a call.

Hi!

Xuxa, do you have a vision of what your ideal craft room

is going to look like?

What sort of things do you... oh, hello gorgeous, hiya.

We're going to be friends. Ha-ha!

Don't apologise.

It's so bonding, isn't it, doing it?

I would like you to get all of your stuff together,

maybe do a bit of rationalising.

What you're going to put in there, because it is a small space,

has to be the creme de la creme of your craft room.

I've got 12 glue guns, I'm not glue gunning you out here

but you know, I can't resist.

That is your homework and my homework, I'm going

to work out how we make this place a sanctuary but functional.

What size is it?

You haven't measured it, you've no idea.

Take ca re, bye.

We don't even know how big it is, is that not important?

Yeah, I just forgot to ask it.

As well as helping others with their projects,

we've also been doing our own.

And I've been busy in the walled garden converting an old stable

into a new potting shed.

So far, I've cleared a path, knocked a rather large hole

through for a door and built a new frame for it.

Not quite, it's quite a wide door.

Now, I'm going to try and fix the hole.

Entrance way is nice and wide.

Just as well.

Because the door's not small.

Pwah!

We're gonna put the first set of hinges on.

It didn't fall off. That's a good start.

Obviously it's not the right size.

So what I'm going to do is grab me pencil.

Nice easy way to mark the door.

So we're getting close to having a potting shed that's actually a shed.

So, for me to make this large door fit a smaller space...

Cut off the excess, and put it back on its hinges.

Luckily, as it's for my potting shed,

I don't need to be 100% accurate.

That is now the right size door, he said.

Quite nerve-racking.

It's lighter, which is good.

See if it works.

Ah, I love it when a plan comes together.

Oh, that's solid.

Let me in.

So I don't think it needs painting.

A little sand and...

No, no, no.

It doesn't need a sand.

My potting shed, my potting shed.

I reckon it's time for a tea break.

Dun dun dunnnn!

Thank you very much.

You are welcome.

We're dealing with air raid shelters

and you've gone all Second World War for me.

As we're about to find out how Xuxa and Simon are getting on,

I thought a vintage tea set made in an old spitfire factory

was rather appropriate.

Right, shall we? Yeah.

Let's see what they have to say.

All hoovered. Spider free.

I think it's a water pump.

Getting straight in there.

Ah, the girl's working.

She's my girl.

Not bad condition, the walls, the floor looks dry.

Yeah.

Mm.

I think we need to sort of have a plan for how the areas work. Yeah.

I now know that their shelter's just 1.3 metres by 2 metres,

smaller than a ping pong table.

To fit everything in and have room to work,

I need to be clever with the space.

I'd like to have one wall that has every single inch of it

used as storage, shelving.

Work areas that can be folded away are going to be key.

What you're saying is actually, that it's a cupboard on this side

that potentially comes down into a work space. Yes.

To see what's possible, I need to mark out the space

and shelving areas - and even dress them a little.

I'm going to get a little rug, OK, and draw me out a couple of lines

and then do something with jam jars and bits and pieces.

Am I not allowed back in my salon

until you've actually got this all squared away now?

No, no, I'm going to do it quite quickly.

You've taken over my salon.

I've got some rugs.

I've got some rugs.

Let me see your rugs first.

Oh, stop it.

Get that out of my shot.

It's gross.

She doesn't like my rug, far too practical.

Where's the masking tape? OK.

Walk very slowly, make it parallel,

because your eye can make it parallel very easily.

I absolutely know how to do this sort of stuff.

I'm filming me, filming you, being cross with me, I love it.

It's getting smaller.

I know but, without storage, it won't be any use to her.

We're talking shelves and shelves of this sort of stuff, aren't we?

What are those boxes of?

Hmm? Stuff to make slime. I think I'm there.

Does it feel like you've got enough storage? Yeah.

Does it feel claustrophobic?

No, I've just got to get a drawing over to her

and I need your help on engineeringy stuff.

So, to plan a small space,

fit fold-down desks but always leave enough room to work.

A shelf racking system allows you to alter the shelves as needed.

And they don't need to be deep, 10cm is still very useful.

Finally, make sure you use the full height of the room.

Angel's not the only one who knows a thing or two about space management.

I have a new potting shed to kit out.

This is something that's as old as the hills, just screw in the

lids of jam jars into the bottom of a shelf, then we can fill those up.

That's a great idea.

That's one shelf, I'm getting twice as much from it.

Simple but it works.

This is a bit of an old door coming down and this is going to be

my repair station but slight problem is,

look at that, it's a bit wobbly.

So all I've done is this is a little separating hinge

and if I pop this in here now, comes up to there, yeah?

Sofid.

Right, I need more shelves.

This is a pallet, I think I'm going to have a shelf here.

That doesn't need a screw in it. It's not going anywhere.

I can just see you twitching.

You want to sand it and paint it, don't you? No.

Yes.

I knew she wanted to do it. She wanted to paint it all.

Back in my study, it's time to find out how Helena's

getting on with her broken stereogram.

Oh, shock horror!

I can't find it?

I told Helena not to lose anything.

I'm going to be very grumpy but it's a circlip.

We can always get a new one.

Right, a couple of things we need to do.

Hello, the circlip!

What was the last thing I said to you? Don't lose anything.

OK, you don't want to lose any bits.

The texture, I may not have communicated correctly to you

but the texture does not have to be sticky.

All right?

What we need to do is, we need it to soften slightly.

Because you get more surface area

when you push against the inside of the platter.

OK, so soft is what we're after.

So we're going to get rid of the hard stuff.

What have you done?

OK, I must admit I don't know what the reaction

between vulcanised rubber and olive oil is.

I'm with you 100%, I think it's great.

But the big thing is, from my perspective,

the rubber has been revitalised.

But there's another element to it.

What we need to think of, can we get more grip

with the idler wheel against the platter?

Now, there's a spring that actually pulls the idler wheel

onto the inside of the platter, isn't there?

We could think about possibly shortening that spring

and putting more pressure to hold our idler wheel

against the inside of the platter.

Take care, take care. Bye-bye, bye-bye.

The secret is going to be slightly soft rubber

and a tightened-up spring.

This is getting close to happening.

She's going to get music soon.

In the meantime, Arthur and Dorothy have volunteered to help me

move my bits and pieces out of the walled garden's old folly

and into my new potting shed.

What? The pickaxe, yes.

Be so careful with that, young man.

Arthur's got this thing about lifting all the dangerous ones

and Dorothy just wants to lift the clean ones.

Oh, Arthur, that's a bit... babes, that's a mummy's worst nightmare.

Daddy didn't tell me

this would be quite such a stressful exercise for Mummy.

Right, trolley, the two of you, get the trolley over there.

Well done. Good job, children.

Bring in some stuff.

We've lots to take in, haven't we? Thank you.

Oh, here we go.

This is going to be a proper man shed.

Look, see there.

Can we do haircuts in here?

We could do, I mean...

I'm feeling it's coming together.

Come on, children, let's get some more bits in.

Daddy will be ready for a cup of tea.

Now, it's time to see how Helena got on.

It's going around!

Here we go!

# Only you... #

Oh, wonderful.

Oh, girl. Wow!

I'm so chuffed for her.

# Can make the darkness bright...#

Well done, kid.

Ah!

# Only you. #

That's a real result.

That's a real result.

Oh, bless her. Bless her.

You are very, very clever.

Does it feel good to have done that?

Angela's come to say hello anyway.

She was crying her eyes out.

It felt very, very emotional.

But actually, thank you to you as well because you inspired us

to go up into the attic and actually get our old records out.

Well done, you. You've done a cracking job.

Very few people would have had a go at that.

So that makes you very special. You remember that.

Take care. Enjoy your music.

Bye- Bye.

How good was that?

It's summer at the chateau and even though we don't have any weddings

this year,

I do have a VIP to organise,

a very important party.

On Grandma's birthday,

should we have a party for her in the Orangerie?

Yes», yes!

OK. That is a big yes.

Now, Grandma told me she loved sweeties

and I think we should sit down with Grandma

and work out what sweeties she used to love and make some of them.

But I know you two are not the best secret keepers.

How about we call it Operation...

Love.

But as I want to keep Operation Love a secret,

I'm going to have to subtly find out which sweets Mum liked.

I used to go down to that sweet shop next to the charity shop

and buy penny sweets.

YQu?

Did you have anything similar?

Oh, really?

So, Auntie Pat.

I didn't know that you went down to a sweet shop.

So, did it have all the jars?

Please tell me there was like a big sliding ladder?

Honeycomb.

Oh, coconut ice.

Yeah.

Coconut ice.

Now I know what ingredients to get, we've time for another request,

and it's from a dad and daughter.

Hi, Dick and Angel, my name's James.

How old are you, Lyra?

I'm six, seven!

Yes, Lyra's seven.

This is Lyra's favourite chicken.

I mean, what's not to love about that?

It's a silkie.

Ideally, we'd like to get more chickens,

we're keen to build a new chicken coop.

This isn't my area, at all.

Hopefully Lyra's going to be the project manager,

I'll be her co-builder.

She's going to have some probably pretty strong ideas

of how she'd like it to go.

It could be like the Queen's house!

Yeah, it could be Buck-Buck Buckingham Palace or whatever,

couldn't it?

How you doing, you all right?

Wow! You've got a lot of chickens!

Lovely.

She's changed it. It's Cluckingham Palace now.

Do you want to show what it is, Lyra?

That's a rainbow.

Hanging from it is a swing, there's a disco ball hanging inside it.

We're going for a triangle shape, so, basically an A-frame.

You know, a nice strong triangle shape.

Hopefully, that will work.

ROOSTER CROWS

ROOSTER CROWS LOU DLY

Lyra's done our nails, especially for today.

Yay! So, it's not just me then?

You know I feel so much better.

ROOSTER CROWS

While Lyra and James go off to find the materials for their hen house,

I now have all the ingredients to make a traditional coconut ice.

Arthur and Dorothy, though, want to give it a slightly modern twist,

adding unusual colours into the condensed milk.

Dorothy, you have gone for a sky blue.

That's beautiful.

And Arthur, you've gone for "vio-lay"

which is very nice as well.

Ready?

Yeah.

Give me a stir, young man.

Now desiccated coconut.

Slowly mix this in.

Now, I'm putting in 200g of icing sugar.

So, we're making coconut hearts.

Now Arthur, delicately, and I've seen you work delicately.

There we go.

Oh.

Yeah, you see what I mean?

You've done it, Arthur!

That's amazing!

Oh, I like that.

Grandma's other favourite sweet, though, I'm going to do.

We're making honeycomb.

Now, it's a ridiculously easy recipe.

In here, there's 200 grams of caster sugar and five tablespoons

of golden syrup and I have left it to kind of get a bit runny

because you don't want it to go all grainy

and then I'm going to put the bicarb in,

it's very exciting.

I'm going to put it in.

I have my spoon ready to stir.

3-2-1, hold on.

Hold on.

And then, let's get in there.

Whoa.

Turn it off.

Right.

Wow.

See, it's a real mixture, this is, a real fine balance.

Wow.

Get me a second tray, Mr Strawbridge.

Look at this, kids.

Woooo!

It's going over, its going over!

Get me the second tray, Mr Strawbridge, I told you!

Mr Strawbridge, I told you! That's your fault.

That is going to be so good.

That's honeycomb.

That's what I'm talking about.

And it'll be perfect for Mum's birthday,

if I haven't eaten it by then,

if the kids haven't eaten it by then.

Lyra and James have now found some old pallets

and decking for the rainbow themed hen house.

So, Lyra's building an A-frame

and we're going to hopefully build the chicken coop around that.

That's it.

Yay.

Has that gone in?

That looks good.

Yeah. Give the tongue and groove a little tap.

And make sure it's just the tongue and groove and not your fingers.

All the way along.

Whatever the shape and size of your chicken coop,

it always needs to provide...

space, ventilation,

protection from the elements,

somewhere to perch,

and a nesting box for the hens to lay their eggs in.

ROOSTER CROWING

OK.

On the poop shelf.

Oh, did you do that your-SHELF?

Totally works!

Oh, wow. Here we go.

Well done, you've done a great job, you did do a good job.

It was a joint effort, a joint effort.

No.

ROOSTER CROWING

It's time to see how Xuxa and Simon are getting on

with their air raid shelter

and I'm glad to see the steps are looking a lot safer.

Hopefully, the plan I gave them for the inside is also working.

As Xuxa's already putting pictures up,

I'd now like to show her how to make something that's not only useful,

but also ridiculously sentimental.

I thought it could be fun if Xuxa made a rug,

so, the kids have got somewhere to sit

but actually make it out of things that maybe mean something to her.

T-shirts from the kids, babygros, a rug of memories.

So, essentially, any t-shirts you cut up,

you want to make them into a rectangle shape.

Then you're going to fold it, into two.

All quite simple.

And then, I'm going to go over again

and I'm just leaving a little bit at the top, OK?

And I'm going to cut,

so, I just cut past there.

All right?

And you can do this thin,

you can do it and have a nice thick one.

Last cut.

Right, so, then I've got my, you see, here.

And then we're going to do this.

Unfold it?

Yes.

OK.

So, then, I'm going to open it up, OK?

They're still attached at both ends.

So, I'm going to cut number one, OK?

And then I'm going to miss one and cut number three, miss that,

do that one.

Then, I turn it around.

Dudududududeh.

Then I do, second one,

miss one, cut, miss one, cut and miss one.

And then are you ready for this, Mr Strawbridge?

Dudududududee!

I have one long piece.

That is so satisfying and I could do it again and again and again

and I'm going to.

What is great about this is when you give it a little pull,

it just rolls itself around and you've got lovely material

to crochet with.

I've got this chair to upholster one day, it's very comfortable.

The word crochet comes from the old French word for hook

and was first used by 17th century lace makers.

This is a half double crochet stitch.

I like this stitch because, number one,

once you get into a rhythm,

it's easy, but it gives a really nice finish.

So, whenever I end it,

it will have a lovely edge to it

and it'll be quite comfy.

We can all go out and buy a rug, but having something that's just

made from pieces of clothing from the kids

and just knowing you've done that is quite a lovely thing.

And I have to say, it's very, very relaxing.

Black tape? Oh, I think I know.

Oh.

Yeah?

You're clever.

That's rougher.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They're really scratchy.

We're helping others with their projects and as James

and Lyra are creating a rainbow themed chicken house,

I thought we'd brighten ours up too.

You're going to start? OK, Dorothy's just going for it.

That's it, perfect.

You're doing an absolutely brilliant job.

Arthur, you've got the technique there,

get it in the corner. Come all the way across.

It's like the Christmas tree, I'll let them go for it

and then I'll tweak if I have to.

Here's question,

do you think it's going to stand out a bit in this walled garden?

D0 you?

Ha-ha ha-ha.

It's also time to revealjames and Lyra's rainbow chicken house.

Look at the colours. Oh, fantastic. Wow, wee.

The grand opening of Cluckingham Palace.

She's cutting a ribbon, wow!

Look at that.

So firstly, we have a disco ball.

Look at the lovely little disco ball.

It's got a swing hanging from the bottom of it.

And then this part is the emergency egg-xit.

Brilliant.

Round of applause for Lyra.

Lyra's not the only one feeling good about their hard work,

my new potting shed is now open for business.

I love it.

Not bad, is it?

I'm worried you're going to spend too much time in here

and you're going to forget about us. Give over.

My pressie!

Thank you very much. Surprise!

This is lovely.

I can put this anywhere? Or are you going to make...

Anywhere. It's your potting shed.

There.

That's where that one's going.

Look, that's you and me, sweetness.

Then we've got, oh, the monsters.

Finally, my favourite can go over here.

Right, it's all different zones, I've got a high shelf to stop

anybody fiddling with my goodies.

My repair station is here.

Little bits of string, I like that.

This is actually my potting part of my potting shed.

I have found a use for my manger.

Look at that for pot storage.

Meant to be. I love it.

It's just nice and calm and a nice place to be.

I could just keep that door shut so people don't know where I am.

Xuxa and Simon also have something rather special to show us.

I'm super excited to see this.

Look at the steps. Look at the steps!

That's what they were like.

Ha-ha ha-ha.

Yes. Wow!

Oh, great.

That rope looks fantastic.

Well done.

Oh, look.

Oh, they've just done...

What a fantastic craft room.

This is a brilliant space for the family.

It is lovely.

All her fabrics there.

Oh. Well done.

Oh!

I love it.

Look how happy she is.

It may not be huge but it's a great area.

And they've used it really well.

Yeah, they're going to have fun there, aren't they? Yeah.

Hiya.

It was brilliant!

It looks magical.

It looks organised and it looks special.

There's loads of little touches, I love the rugs.

It's your space, isn't it? I didn't see a desk for you, Simon.

No, I'm done with it now!

You put the work into it and it looks very, very special.

Well done.

Listen, look after yourselves. It's been lovely seeing you.

Take ca re.

Bye- bye.

I think it's time for a celebration

and inspired by Helena's stereogram, we've got the vinyl out.

OK, here we go.

You ready?

Listen.

Dorothy, would you care to dance?

Mum will have to dance with Arthur. I'd love to dance with you.

Thanks, son.

We used to dance like this all the time.

Arthur, you're supposed to lead Mummy.

You've got no chance.

Follow my feet.

You know how to dance. This is old dancing.

This is beautiful. Beautiful.

W000, we're going around.

Stop and let me twirl you.

It's more like wrestling!

Mademoiselle. ('est tres gentil.

That's great.

Next time, we're working with children...

Oh, she's got a melty smile.

...animals.

Come here, let's see what size you are at the minute.

...and problematic patisseries.

That is such a pain.

What could possibly go wrong?

Are you ready?

Oh! Ha-ha ha-ha!

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