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Six 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.

We've both learned so much over that time.

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

You see the vision?

...and Dick's ingenuity...

That is the basis of a bed.

...to solve your design and DIY dilemmas.

We really, really need your help with the sash window

on our first-floor landing.

From crafty conundrums...

I want to massage it in because then it creates

that lovely fluffiness again.

...to entire room renovation.

I want to get stuck in and get the walls painted.

We're sharing our tips and tricks with you...

That is ridiculously solid.

Surprised you? Yeah. Surprised me too.

...to get the most out of the things you already have.

Aw.

Beautiful.

Wow.

And to prove, with just enough encouragement...

Honestly, I have a little tear!

We did it, we created a fabric!

It's a thing of beauty.

I love it, completely love it.

...together, we can all make do and mend.

By the way, I'm just here to be your assistant. OK.

Here at the chateau, we're blessed with lots of gorgeous outdoor

space and we're constantly looking for ways to make the most of it.

Where's it going?

I hadn't realised how uneven...

This is my world. "l'll have it here." "Look at the slope."

"lt doesn't matter, I want it level."

And today, I'm embarking on my own special project -

a shed for Dorothy to match Arthur's.

Dorothy said, "Well, I would quite fancy a shed as well

"but I'll have mine bigger."

ls she getting a bigger one? No!

It may not be bigger but Dorothy does have a birthday coming up,

so it's going to be a shed with a difference.

A sparkling, multicoloured mermaid-themed shed,

complete with gold-edged scalloped roof.

But before the glamour comes the graft.

Give me a clue where this thing's going, that's the first thing.

Right, what about if we come back, because of this slope,

and obviously, you've got the tree there.

And it is in line, sort of there.

Let me just put these... Two pegs. ..two pegs.

I just want to stand over there and look.

Can you be a shed, please?

I've been asked to do sillier things.

But I'm a tree.

Darling, this'll be lovely, I don't think there'll be any complaint.

Are you happy with that point? Yes.

Location nailed, Dorothy's all- singing, all-dancing shed can begin.

But first, it's time for us to help you with your projects.

You've got one... I've got one? I've got one?!

You've got one hair that's going in the wrong direction.

I've got 60 years under my belt of looking after my own face.

So, who've we got?

BOTH: Three, two, one...

Hi, Dick and Angel! We really need your help!

Three, two, one... Hi! Hello!

I'm Sophia, I'm the nursery owner and manager.

The children are so active in our forest school space

that the birds always fly away and they can't see them.

There's a bird! There.

Bird-watching? They get bird-watching? You know I love this.

I recognise that. They've got a dome. They've got a dome.

We're actually sat in our investigation dome.

I knew it!

We need you, Dick,

we really need help with the structural idea of the project.

That's obviously where they're thinking. OK.

I don't know what age the children are, actually.

What age were you before you had your first hide?

Aged never.

I did understand nature but it was nature in an urban setting.

Right, this one, I would say, is very definitely me.

I'm excited about this project

because wildlife is a passion of mine.

And there's always something fascinating to spot at the chateau.

I love it and, over the years,

I've also loved watching Arthur and Dorothy learn about nature too.

Whether tracking wild boar...

Here's its nose, look, look.

...or saying hello to our herons and coypu.

Now I'd like to use our experience

to help Sophia and Jenny with their hide.

I'm going in a hideout.

And where better to have that chat than here in our dome?

Hello, can you hear me?

Hi! Hello, how are you? Good! Good.

Guess where I am? I can see where you are. In the dome!

Taking on a lot of youngsters

and introducing them to nature, well done, you two.

Absolutely. That's what we love, isn't it? That's what we love, yeah.

The children that you've got around the place,

what age are we talking about? Zero to four or five.

So, quite young, really young. Wow.

So, one of the things I was thinking about,

we have to find a way to get to where you're going

without everything in the neighbourhood disappearing.

Especially the birds, and that's the bit we want to help them with.

How we get to it is my number-one concern.

So, I'd love a plan of the area

and maybe it's just a panoramic picture that you take. Yeah, OK.

The other thing, of course,

we can do is see about putting a periscope in.

They could go and look over a fence to see what's happening.

Yeah, that would be good. I think we can make it from whatever materials.

Have you got stuff around the place? We've got absolutely tonnes, yeah.

And we've got our own workshop. I think what we need to do is

a bit of observation of the children using this space.

Listen, lovely to speak to you. You too. Thank you!

Bye! Bye-bye, bye-bye! Take care. Bye!

The idea of building a hide for youngsters...

It's just so in your comfort zone!

Talk about nature, we'll got a little ladybird, look!

We'll get it in the walled garden,

it'll do good for something in there.

Yep, blackfly and aphids, darling. The greenfly.

This project has sparked so many ideas,

I can't wait for Jenny and Sophie to come back to me

with their forest school layout so I can get planning.

I'm back across the chateau moat to work on my own project,

a mermaid-themed shed for Dorothy.

GIT!

Right. OK?

With wheelbarrows of sand, gravel and cement,

we're making concrete for the base.

One. Two. Four.

It's a one, two, four.

But we're going to start with a one, two, one,

one, two.

Which adds up to the same.

See, all you're doing is confusing me.

You've got one sand and two gravel. Yep. But we need to have two sand.

So what are you going to do? I'm going to put another two in.

Another one in. Right?

You've put one sand in already, put the second sand in.

But when you're saying to one, two, three or four

and then put two before three, then eight, nine, ten... One, two...

...times by one... No, it was sounding really complicated!

It was easy!

It needs a fair bit of mixing, actually, doesn't it?

It does. That's why we've got a machine to do it.

The machine is much easier.

Adding a steel grid into the base gives the structure extra strength.

Right, you can now bring your first barrowload in. Woohoo!

Right. Right.

Right, ten more. Ten more. Or 20 more.

After a few more loads of concrete, it's time to smooth it out.

This is my first tampering.

Tamping, not tampering. Whoo!

Oh.

Oh, I need to stretch. Oh!

I have to say,

I've learned more today than I've ever known about concrete.

But I'm proud. Horses for courses, girl.

And like any proud artist, I've got to sign my work.

I'll put a little heart on it.

Put "Love, Daddy".

Good. And then it's covered up by the shed.

Once the concrete has set, we can start building.

Now, though, it's time to watch another request.

I always feel like I want to say hello. We can do. Hi!

Hi, Dick and Angel, I'm Amy.

I live with my boyfriend Sam and our six-month-old puppy, Monty,

and we've been busy doing DIY on our '60s,

semi-detached house that we bought in October.

And I would love your help with my summerhouse.

I love it.

And it's very attractive.

Sam and I don't really agree on decor in the house,

so this summerhouse is my space to go wild.

I feel like Amy wants somewhere that's completely hers.

I think, when we speak, that's the first question I'm going to ask -

what she wants the space to give her.

I would love your creativity and your eye for design, just to

bring my ideas together and help me bring the summerhouse back to life.

Space is important, though. I mean, we do everything together, right?

But you have your office and I have my tressoir,

and before that, it could sometimes feel a little bit irritating and...

Oh, that was so hurtful! No, but you know what I mean.

Of course I know what you mean!

I just didn't say it out loud.

Amy is after a space where she can go wild

and let her personality shine through,

something I've loved doing at the chateau.

By mixing textures and fabrics,

using bold colours and patterns,

or giving the grouting the gold treatment -

each room has its own character.

Hello! Hi!

I'm loving the headscarf, the hair attire.

I like it on the side like that, because it winks at the 1920s.

Anyway, headscarves, could talk about them all day!

Right, talk to me about your summerhouse.

I just want somewhere that I can go and read a book,

go and chill and just be outside.

I did fashion at university and I love crafting and making things.

I've got boxes and things overfilling with stuff that

I've collected over the years, so.

This summerhouse of yours is going to evolve and I think, primarily,

it's going to be your space to do some crafts,

to read and to be happy but also, when your friends come over,

it is going to be cocktail hour.

I can't wait!

Would you use it all year around? That's what I want to have it for,

so that I want to use it all year round.

Just because my husband will ask me,

do you want to come and ask any insulation questions?

Hiya, darling! Hiya!

You see, the wood actually is an insulator but it's not very thick.

What you pack between your little uprights, you're going

to have to line the inside of it.

It's not plasterboard needed, you can put

a bit of hardboard in there, you can do anything you want, aesthetically.

And since we're into the word "aesthetic", I'm going to run away,

because that scares me now.

I think, for me, the next stage is I want to get to see some visuals

of what your aesthetic would be like.

From my side, I'm going to get a plan together

so your summerhouse meets all your requirements.

Excited to get going now, so.

Me too, I'm going to have a virtual gin with you when it's done!

Right, mwah, take care. And you, bye!

How come you didn't ask how big it was?

It is really important, and I was going to ask it, it's on my list!

Show me. Get your book out.

Get your book out and show me. You don't get away with that, girl!

Yeah, all right, mwah, I love you.

Keeping the chateau in tiptop condition is a year-round job.

But, no matter what, we've always got time for your projects.

A few clays ago,

Sophia and Jenny asked for help making a hide

for their forest school so the children could bird watch

without frightening off the wildlife.

Or me, for that matter.

Hi, Dick!

Made me jump!

We were thinking of starting it maybe here,

so when the children do enter sort of the forest school space,

they're immediately sort of hidden from those birds...

I love the fact they're thinking about their route in.

I like this project.

In fact, it's inspired me to build one for Arthur and Dorothy.

And what a hide really needs is a periscope.

We are going to make a submarine periscope.

This is a 100mm pipe that,

when you go up to our bathroom in our suite and flush the loo...

DEEP, ECHOING VOICE: ..poop goes down a pipe like this.

It's a poop pipe. ARTHUR LAUGHS

What do you see in that mirror?

A good-looking face!

A good-looking face? Yeah!

Oh, you're right. I can see a good-looking face.

No, this one, not that one.

THEY LAUGH

Periscopes work by

reflecting light onto two mirrors

positioned at 45-degree angles

at either end of a tube.

The image bounces around the corners

for the viewer to see.

Daddy's already done some preparation,

so we're all ready for this, look. We have here... I can see you, Dad.

It's a mirror.

But this is a mirror that's been scored

with a little diamond cutter, yes?

What I've done is - here, look - that's a bend for a poo pipe.

And if we now take this and put it onto here,

that gives us part of a periscope.

And then we have the other one like that.

Like this.

You can have it at the bottom.

Look in that one. See the periscope? Oh, my Gawd!

This is the bit in the top and this is the bit in the bottom.

But how do I move it?

We're going to stick some bits out of here, like this,

so we've got handles to turn around.

Stand clear. OK!

CIRCULAR SAW WHIRS

Spread a little bit round the inside. OK.

This bit here comes to here.

Shove it in the whole, move it around.

Once the glue has set, I'll add camouflage paint

and we'll be almost ready to bird watch.

First, I'd like to see how Amy's getting on

finding design inspiration for her summerhouse project.

Ijust thought I'd have a dig around in my box of headscarves.

I love wearing them, and I collect them wherever I go.

So this is the kind of print that I'm going for.

I'm just going to have a dig through my photo albums,

specifically from my trip to Hawaii.

Love the pink with the orange, and obviously I love the greenery

in these sort of cactuses and succulents.

There's a little twinkle in Amy's eye.

You can just see her light up.

The oranges, the pinks, the yellows, you know?

And when Amy gets her summerhouse,

she's going to take over the world with colour.

CHAT WINDOW RINGS

Hello!

Hello, how are you? I'm really well, thank you.

You just... You love colour.

Twinkle in your eye, the memories of Hawaii.

We've just got to take all of that

and chuck it into the summerhouse, cos it is...

Honestly, it's going to be Amy's Emporium of Colour.

It will be. It will be different to the white walls in here.

THEY LAUGH

What I want to do for you is to find the elements

that you do want to have in there.

Top of my wish list is a really comfy seat.

I'd like to be able to sit down there and have a drink,

so maybe some sort of drinks trolley.

How many of the sides do you see are going to have shelves on?

I think there's only the back three panels

that haven't got windows on them.

I know you're going to put something bright in terms of wallpaper -

or one of your own creations?

Originally, I was thinking of wallpaper,

but when I went down there to do the measurements,

I had my headscarf and I was thinking,

"Oh, I could potentially draw something like that."

That just put your stamp on it, doesn't it?

So this is what I was thinking of... Oh, great.

...because it's got sort of subtle parrots

that are just black-and-white, but then there's pops of colour in it.

Brilliant. So, if you send me a picture of that,

because I am going to put your vision onto one sheet.

Sounds good.

What I am feeling is that

she is going to have her hanging pot plants,

she's got a lovely comfy chair, her drinks trolley, craft area,

and, of course, Amy's art.

She's got a lot of dog work to get on with.

I'll refine this design and show it to Amy later.

But now I want to see how Sophia and Jenny have been getting on

with my guide to making a periscope for their bird-watching hide.

How many people have ever built a periscope?

Sophia and Jenny will be able to say they have very soon.

Whoo!

Great job!

It's looking like a periscope now.

Wow! Wow!

This is going to be great. The kids are going to love it.

But, before we can order pernscopes up,

I want to show Sophia and Jenny how to get the kids into their hide

without disturbing the locals.

Camouflage - a hide - is actually very simple.

I seem to remember back to when I was in the cadets.

Shape, shine, silhouette and sound - all things to be avoided.

So, for us, we've got the dome here and we've got a set of bushes,

and this is the marshland area.

That's a great place to go and look for wildlife.

I'm going to put a couple of fence panels,

and the fence panels are going to stop me

being able to be seen from the marsh.

So the way in is number one and number two,

which is equally as important, is what we do for the children,

how they're actually going to enjoy the hide.

That is very simple.

By putting a piece of wood across the hide,

you can then lay vegetation and branches on the top

to give you a roof, which kids will love.

Or, this end, you can put a couple of verticals in

and that will hide you from the back.

Of course, in here, what they're more interested in -

there's going to be a wee periscope to look over the top.

And we're also going to have some little holes to peek through.

And anything they look through, that makes the adventure.

Also embracing her own adventure is Amy,

who's followed Dick's advice on insulating her summerhouse.

So the main big difference is that now it is fully insulated.

I can start working my magic and painting and decorating the inside.

And I think this is a great time

to show her my finished design for the interior.

Are you ready to see it? Yeah, I'm excited.

Oh, God. I'm excited. A little bit nervous.

Right, I'm going to send it to you now, OK? Here we go.

Wow! That looks amazing! That looks lovely.

Am I on the right lines?

I never would have imagined so much in there, and all the colours.

That's what I needed, was someone to pull it together and...

Yeah, it looks amazing.

It's got to be "Amy", hasn't it? Yeah.

So we are going to start with the centre back panel

being your design focus, and then we are going to weave it

through the rest of your summerhouse.

Right, I think we know where we're going. Yeah, no, definitely.

Get out there and just be creative and be you.

CHILDREN CHATTER

It's all hands on deck at the forest school's wildlife hide.

The kids are helping with the fencing...

...birds.

Yeah, we did.

...and Sophia and Jenny are showing them how it's done.

Well, almost.

At the chateau, my fence panels for our hide are up.

Periscope is in position.

Now I need to make our hide do exactly what it's meant to.

Our bamboo forest has got lots and lots of camouflage.

The best thing about it? It's all free.

Camouflage.

Ah! Right...

And if we come in here to this seat, we have the opportunity to sit down.

Actually, the view is quite good.

It doesn't feel like things are a long way away.

Just quite happy to spend time here.

But I did it for the children, honestly.

And, talking of doing it for the kids,

I can't wait to see the result

of Sophia and Jenny's forest school hide.

Right, let's see how they got on.

I've got my fingers crossed it's all worked for them.

Wheelbarrow!

Reggie.

THEY LAUGH

Right, let's see what the final...

# Ta-da! #

So they've got the screen

for the children to move to their hide location. Great.

Nice little identification cards so they know what they're looking at.

That's important. Very well made.

Boo! Boo! Boo!

HE CHUCKLES Boo.

Any birdies? Can you see any birds up there?

Brilliant job. That is a brilliant job.

The best thing is, the children have been so involved with it.

Going to give girls a call, yeah.

Hi! Wow, wow, wow, wow! Are you pleased?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Listen, you two - pat on the back.

With the children, yeah?

You've done something that's going to stay with them...

...forever. And that is really, really important.

Sophia, jenny, thank you so much for letting me be involved in this

because, as far as I'm concerned, you're making a big difference.

Thank you so much. It's been amazing experience.

Yeah!

THEY LAUGH

Well done. Take care. See ya! Bye!

What's not to love about nature, eh? I know.

Start them young, keep them going.

Love it. Better get the children across to our hide. I know.

WHISPERING: Now look over here.

So cool. This...

...is where we can watch wildlife.

Right, now... The birds - can you hear the birds singing?

If we want to peek at the birds...

Arthur, go and show Dorothy the periscope.

Yes, now, watch.

This bit here twists.

Look, look, look.

See in the tree? Look at the bottom side of that tree.

I see something moving. Did you? What was it?

A tree.

BIRDSONG

This is what it's about. Ssh!

Ta-da! Erm...

We're busy at the chateau building Dorothy's new birthday shed,

and she's already made her mark on the foundations.

I said to Dorothy,

"Do you want to put a little bit of glitter on it?"

And within a couple of secs, she'd come back with a whole box

of different coloured glitters. It was very funny!

Amy's bringing her summerhouse project to life,

and like Dorothy, she's run with the colour.

I've spent the whole weekend painting,

sort of colours that I love and just adding a bit of a splash of me.

Can I just say? I've never made a glitter base.

I'm feeling a bit jealous.

Don't worry, Dick,

Dorothy's shed still has plenty of colourful stages to go.

Can't wait.

And now it's time for another one of your requests.

We got quite a few, haven't we? Yeah.

Hi, Dick and Angel, my name is Joe.

And we have a project that we want you to help us with.

A greenhouse that's big enough to grow taller things

such as tomatoes and beans,

but small enough to fit in our terrace behind us.

I build a greenhouse with my dad.

I must have been seven or eight,

and it produced tomatoes for the family for ten years.

Oh, my goodness.

So the reason I would like a greenhouse is because

it would combine all the things I love doing,

which is making, engineering, cooking, and gardening.

He is completely rounded! He's a little you.

Yeah.

I'm personally really looking forward to making something

that we're properly going to use.

Yeah.

I like their bond. Yeah, so do I.

That's a bit special.

Since moving to the chateau,

I have loved bringing the walled garden back to life,

including the 19th century greenhouse

located against the sunny south-facing wall.

It's kept us regularly supplied with everything,

from tomatoes and lettuces to watermelons and grapes.

So where better to meet Joe and Jamie than right beside it?

The shape of this greenhouse is quite similar to something

that Jamie and Joe are going to want. It's all about

how much space and what shape we're going to make things.

Hello, everybody! Hello!

Joe, a cooking engineer, mate, there's not enough of us.

That's the first thing to establish here, yeah?

And Jen, Joe's getting his way now, he's going to get a greenhouse?

Wayhey! Thank you.

And by the way, have a little look where I am.

Oh, the envy!

But the clever thing about our greenhouse

is the wall absorbs the heat,

which means that you don't have as much problem with frost.

And you're going to have something similar where you have yours

as well.

I've got some questions.

First of all, your patio at the back,

what direction is it facing?

The sun is up there, essentially. Perfect.

You think of the shape of your wall, I need to understand the envelope

you're going to give up to growing.

It doesn't have to be a simple shape, it can actually

be a more complex shape that allows you to sort of

use as much as possible. That would be cool.

And any ideas you have - it's your greenhouse, mate,

we're going to do it. Wayhey!

Joe, thank you very much. Jamie, catch up with you soon.

Take ca re, bye. Bye.

You don't even need to say the words.

I completely get it.

Not many 11-year-olds have greenhouses.

They don't, and maybe more should.

Before Arthur's 11, maybe he needs to have his own greenhouse.

He can rent an end of your one, darling.

I'll check back with Joe and Jamie later on

to find out how their plans are growing.

I've come to my tresorerie to see the artwork Amy's created

for her summerhouse interior.

These are just things I've been scribbling,

and bits and pieces and ideas have come to me.

They're quite cute little parrots.

So I've come back to my original drawing, and I've started

adding some colour now.

Just to see what it looks like, and see how it would look on the wall.

So this is where we're at.

Just going to have a play around with it once it's on the wall.

If it's a really big space, I actually think you should

play around with it in front of her, and then

transfer it onto the wall, and I have got a bit of a trick

that I'm going to show Amy.

Amy has sent me her artwork,

and my trick is to use a projector to transfer it onto any surface.

To demonstrate, I'm doing a test panel on an old door.

This is Amy's design.

As you go into her summerhouse,

it's going to be the first thing you see on the back panel.

Straight ahead of you.

Whatever size Amy wants to put her picture on,

she can with a projector.

Make the picture different sizes for me.

Oh! Oh, yeah, there we go.

You could have a budgie head on there. Yeah, if you wanted that.

Because Amy's design is actually a big black thick line,

I'm actually going to go in with a marker pen.

No pencil, just a marker pen.

Oh! I feel a bit nervous. Where am I going to start?

Projectors aren't as expensive as they used to be,

and with attachments for mobile phones, this is a design trick

you can use anywhere around the home.

Doing it yourself is the thing, yeah.

All of a sudden you become Banksy.

Very funny, baby.

It's original art, darling.

I think I've covered every line.

I'm turning it off.

Ah! And, do you know what?

It is there.

Eh? You pleased with that? I am.

You've just given her a way of putting that design

wherever she wants it.

Exactly.

And Amy's imagination doesn't have to be limited to walls.

If Amy wanted to, because she's got her summerhouse,

she is having pots and things at different levels,

she could take part of that design, she could have a pot,

and she could just be taking part of that to make it sort of 3D.

I'm excited to see how Amy personalises her summerhouse later.

Joe and Jamie, meanwhile,

have been perfecting the shape and size of their greenhouse.

Let's see what we are.

So if we do, like, this wide,

and just do it all the way to here, or whatever we can get away with,

then we could do, like, a vertical bit, like that height.

Yeah. Ah, good man.

The engineering Joe comes out with his sizes.

It's 9' by 2'. That's a good amount of space.

That's big. Absolutely.

To show engineer, gardener and cook Joe how to build his own greenhouse,

I'm making myself one to demonstrate the skills he'll need.

Let's see what's happening.

Hi, Joe, mate, how are you?

I'm all right, how are you?

I'm really, really well.

I want to talk to you about what we're going to do,

and I suddenly discovered I need to have a greenhouse like yours here.

You know, the width of your greenhouse,

see how long that arm is?

Yeah? Mm-hm.

For you to reach into your greenhouse,

you can do it from the doorway very easily.

That's a very important design principle for us, isn't it?

Yeah. Making sure we can reach everything we want.

What I think I need to do is talk to you about how we are

going to put on the Perspex or glass onto our frame,

then to make it nice, there's going to be some painting

to help preserve to keep things for a long time. Yes, that makes sense.

Nothing's going to stop you here, fella.

I'm looking forward to building this.

I'm looking forward to seeing it built.

And there's a simple carpentry technique Joe and Jamie will need

when constructing the windows of their greenhouse.

In fact, it works on any window, and it's called rebating.

This will ensure the glass or Perspex sits neatly into the frame.

I have got here a piece of wood.

Shows the little rebate on here that means,

if you take your glass - Perspex, glass, whatever you want -

you basically want to be able to do with this with it.

You want to be able to sit it in, so you can actually...

Look at that for a finish.

I'm going to put it here in a clamp just to hold it still.

You're going to want to mark your rebate.

The width of your Perspex, this is 3mm.

We have a 10mm piece of beading.

That means we have to go in... 13mm. 13mm.

So a nice little tip to be able to get your pencil,

see, see that, look see? Yeah.

That is worth practising. That's good.

I could take out my huge big spindle holder,

or I could go as simple as this.

A router, because the router allows me to set my depth.

That's how much I'm cutting off, and that's how deep I'm going on.

Make sure you go slowly along the grain of the wood.

This lowers the risk of splintering or breaking the ends.

It's come in there, the way I've cut it all the way along.

I've got to say, that's what I've been dreaming.

And if you don't have power tools, there is a simpler method.

We could get a little bit of beading,

mark where we want the glass to go,

and attach a piece of beading to this.

Well, then you have your rebate.

Done. Got a rebate made.

Ta-da! It's quick and easy. Me like.

I like that one.

Whichever technique Joe and Jamie choose for their greenhouse windows,

this should give them a professional-looking finish.

Any's cracking on in the summerhouse,

projecting and painting her artwork.

I'm shading some parts, and we'll see how we go.

And inspired by her old craft room and holiday travels,

I've combined the two for a fun finishing touch.

I've decided for Amy that we are going to do some cactus pincushions.

She's going to need the felt.

She's going to need a little bit of stuff

to stuff it with. It can be anything.

She needs some pots and she needs a needle and thread.

There's just what you would think of a cactus in a desert,

I guess, that shape, and this one as well,

which actually I think looks sort of quite cool as well.

It is literally a matter ofjust drawing around them

and cutting them out.

Running stitch in and out, in and out,

or blanket stitch, which is through and over.

I'll show you.

You pull it through the hole,

and then put the needle in the loop, like that, and pull it.

That's it.

I think I'm going to stuff it

while I still have a little bit of room to stuff it.

Hey, do you want to do one of these with me?

Erm, no.

I'd rather go and weld something, to be honest.

It is quite sort of satisfying, stuffing, and

you can see it's really taken shape, and actually, like a cactus,

it's kind of gone a bit sort of gnarly, which I love.

Another idea for another cactus is circles.

Running stitch, turn it inside out, and stuff it,

and she'lljust get that.

Now, this is, I think, the clever bit.

I'm going to come up in the middle.

And you pull that, it's going to change the shape. Yeah.

So then I'm going to go this way, you know, you see?

Yeah. Start getting the shape.

There we are.

It'll look cact-y when you stick it in a pot.

Just put a little bit of glue here.

In there.

I'm turning them into pincushions.

And Joe and Jamie are aiming for pinpoint accuracy

as they tackle the rebating I showed them for their greenhouse.

It's supposed to be on the line.

That slides in there like that.

Time to put my greenhouse together, and rather than using glass,

I'm going with Perspex,

which I think will be ideal for Joe to use, too.

The Perspex needs to be hinged up, OK?

So first things first is Perspex. Yeah.

This is just bits of wood that have been put together,

you can see the bits that have been rebated,

see the little rebate areas? Yeah, great.

The Perspex has been cut to the size I'm after.

Now, this sits in here, comes out.

Right. Great. Fits in.

Put this in here like this.

This is holding on the Perspex, that's what its job is, OK?

So you're stapling into the wood? Perfect.

Wood to wood. Not into the Perspex.

No, wood to wood.

OK.

Right, so this now has to be attached.

Get the bottom screws in.

Can't hear you because there's Perspex in the way.

HE CHUCKLES RELUCTANTLY

Everybody loves a comedian.

It's going to be a fairly big growing space.

But the main thing is the two of them will have done it together.

I wonder ifjoe will be telling stories to his children

about a greenhouse that they built.

That would be fantastic.

Do you know what?

Doing something like this, working with your dad,

that's a special thing. Yeah.

It's all go at the chateau. Dorothy's shed has survived

and, although off the shelf, it will be the perfect blank canvas

for me to transform,

but there's a slight problem.

Oh, no, it's completely flat packed.

You have to put individual planks together. Oh, you're kidding me.

Even with our engineer extraordinaire,

these kind of assemblies are never straightforward...

HE SPEAKS GERMAN

"especially when the instructions

are in German.

Maybe l'lljust look at the pictures.

All right. That's the window.

I really did expect it to come in fewer pieces.

The screws going in there

are 112... Mm-hm.

...45mm screws.

I do think that this is a two-person job.

Mm-hm. I agree.

Get the first screw in,

cos one screw will make the difference, won't it?

It will.

Done. Let's put the roof up.

This is the...

It might be sort of quite magical, sort of coming in.

I like all of this.

You haven't done the roof yet.

As if you'd let me.

And our next job will be the roof with a mermaid twist,

but that's for another time.

Joe and Jamie have been busy fitting their greenhouse windows

using the rebating I showed them, and now I can't wait to see

how they've turned their city terrace into a haven for growing

fruit and veg.

Just check. This one should be zero.

Oh, yes!

You just see how Jamie and Joe are really pleased with that.

It was that good.

It was!

The actual structure is done - a big step forward.

There we go.

So, this bit, frame, opens up like this.

We've got a magical latch there,

which will keep it up so you can

bend in, you know, do your planting, pick stuff out.

I love it. I love it.

Um, so these open.

Ta-da!

Are you pleased with the result?

I am. I am very pleased.

I mean, obviously, it's not perfect.

Not perfect?!

I've never built a greenhouse before.

I've never seen anybody build a greenhouse before.

It's pretty good. We've learnt loads, haven't we? Yeah.

And it's interesting because Joe doesn't think it's perfect,

but it's perfect.

It is. It's wonderful.

What are you planting? Chilli? Yeah, chilli.

Got to get chillies in. You wanted chillies and strawberries.

So, we've got some pumpkins.

I've got strawberries all down there.

Um, tomatoes there.

Yeah, so, hopefully this summer we'll get lots and lots of fruits.

Thank you for your help.

We couldn't have done this without you.

And I've really enjoyed doing it with my dad.

You know the most important thing he just said at the end?

"L've really enjoyed doing it with my clad."

It's wonderful.

They're going to remember that. Hey, hey.

Is that...? Oh, that's one you did at school?

Oh, wow, darling!

Let me see. Oh, that's wonderful.

It's lovely, isn't it?

Well, thank you. Give us a kiss.

You have to water it every day. Not every day,

but we'll have to water it enough.

Are you going to put it in here? Set it down. That's beautiful.

Amy came to us asking for help to turn her old, tired summer house

into a space she could unleash her creativity, and I cannot wait

to see how she got on.

Ooh.

Oh, yeah.

So, here's the finished cushion.

I've just gone over it in the orange

then we can pop it in the chair in the summer house.

Amy has made a big kind of cushion. We did the little one

as a pincushion, and Amy's done a cushion. Good.

I really love it and my mum is coming to see it.

She's not seen it since it was sort of a shelljust with some boarding

in there, so, yeah, I think hopefully she'll...

It'll be a nice, pleasant surprise

to see the design and all the bits and pieces that I've done.

Oh, it looks gorgeous.

Yes!

It's so full of colour, it just screams Amy, and what I love

is that she's taken some of her artwork

and she's just threaded it through the house.

Honestly, it really deserves a celebratory G&T,

which I promised her when we started talking.

Come here!

Amy's designs have also made it

into our celebrations.

There you go. One ice bucket.

Oh, amazing!

Cheers. Good health.

I'm going to film you. I'm not sure if you're going to be in focus.

Right, I have my G&T ready.

Let's call Amy.

Hiya!

I am going to cheers you immediately.

Congratulations, gorgeous.

It looks fantastic.

It screams you.

I never imagined it would look like this.

I'm proud of myself

that I've managed to do it all.

If there's anything that you take away from this,

it's just that, you know, yes, you're brilliant,

you can do artistry, you can sew, but actually you can do nearly

everything on the spectrum,

so I don't think anything should scare you.

I mean, does your mum know everything that you've done?

No, she's only seen it as a blank canvas.

OK, is she there now?

She is, yes.

This is my mum.

Oh, by the way, Louise, this is... Hold on, we've got a bit of Amy

at the chateau. Hello!

Your very good health. Has your mum got a drink yet?

Hey! That's what we like to see.

Cheers! Good health.

Congratulations.

It looks fabulous.

Enjoy it. Thank you.

We will.

Bye.

Oh, they're so happy.

Amy's got a real big smile on her face and it looks incredible.

Cheers! Well done. Well done.

Well done, Amy.

Next time...

...we're out on the tiles...

Did I mention I'm not good at DIY?

...under the stairs...

It's all going to be about the gold bling.

...and on the water.

Yay! It's absolutely perfect.

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