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Help! We Bought a Village - Season 4 Episode 32
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14:08thường là một cách là một phía trước và một phía trước và hai phía trước.
14:16Vâng, đó là một phía trước.
14:19Vâng, đó là một phía trước.
14:27Tracey và Budo đảm nhận thật là gì đó ở La Cloutière.
14:35I don't think I'd fancy doing this by hand with an axe.
14:39And at Luul...
14:40Let's lay it in the bucket, if you don't mind.
14:43Louise and Paul have concrete plans for bringing the fun to their swimming pool.
14:48It's a bit like making a cake, isn't it?
14:50It is like making a cake, actually, yeah.
14:52It's a bit like making a cake.
15:22It's a place at La Cloutière in north-west France, dating back to the Middle Ages.
15:29Wow, look, it's like butter for a knife.
15:33The village's oldest structure is its medieval barn,
15:36but it also boasts a 17th-century farmhouse,
15:40a bread oven and an abandoned cottage.
15:45The four-acre settlement was once home to a thriving farming community
15:49who kept herds of dairy cattle and worked the land to feed themselves and their families.
15:57For the last three years, it's been home to Londoners Tracey and Udo.
16:01I love the untouchedness of everything.
16:07It seems to be, you know, left as it was for years.
16:11I'm a carpenter and joiner, and I love everything that's to do with wood.
16:15And here we have an abundance of woodlands, forest.
16:19I mean, our whole land is covered in trees.
16:21I just love the countryside.
16:25Much of that plentiful supply of timber
16:28has been used for the ongoing renovations of the village's farmhouse,
16:32including the main bedroom,
16:34where master craftsman Budo has created a cosy hideaway for the couple.
16:39It was important for us to get in this room.
16:41I put a lot of effort into all the joinery to make it luxurious for us.
16:45I thought I'd make up some nice sash windows in oak,
16:47and I made the oak doors, which I'm making throughout the property.
16:51This room is one room of luxury.
16:54We just needed this so badly,
16:56and now we're here, we feel so much better.
16:59As well as the bedroom,
17:01their work-in-progress kitchen is also being handmade by Budo.
17:06Luckily for the couple,
17:07they have a plentiful supply of timber close by.
17:10But it's not just being used to make doors and kitchen cabinets.
17:17So, we're in our woodland,
17:19one of our woodlands, we've got two.
17:22And basically this here is our heating, our energy.
17:26It's all in the ground growing ready for us,
17:27so it's a win-win situation.
17:31The other good thing about this forest is, as well,
17:34a lot of the species of trees that are growing here
17:36are what we call coppicing trees.
17:37So you can cut them and they regrow them.
17:41You can reuse the wood.
17:42So it's an endless supply for the farmers.
17:44Which is perfect.
17:47In centuries past,
17:49the families who called La Cloutière home
17:51would also have made use of the rich rejuvenating forest,
17:55chopping timber for both heat and building materials.
17:58Unlike those previous residents of La Cloutière,
18:02these days,
18:03Tracy and Budo have some useful labour-saving devices on hand
18:06to help convert their trees into timber for their fuel.
18:11I don't think I'd fancy doing this by hand with an axe.
18:17We're wasting nothing, you know.
18:19Everything's being utilised.
18:20It's also given back to the earth
18:23where we put the wood chippings down,
18:25they rot and the cycle all begins, you know.
18:28Which is a lovely system, you know.
18:29It's the old ways.
18:30It's a bit roughy-toughy.
18:31You've got to work a bit hard now and then.
18:33But the rewards are brilliant, aren't they, in the end?
18:37Especially on the pocket.
18:38For a village of this size to stay alive,
18:41caring for the land is as important
18:44as saving the homes and crumbling buildings.
18:46And with Tracy and Budo focused on both these aspects,
18:51as they rebuild La Cloutière,
18:53their village's journey back to full health
18:55improves with each passing day.
19:05Like Tracy and Budo,
19:07another English couple living in France
19:09are equally focused on the care and maintenance
19:11of the land that surrounds their substantial settlement.
19:15It's June.
19:16at La'ul.
19:17Louise and Paul are taking a break
19:19from their demolition work at the old farmhouse,
19:22focusing on landscaping improvements around their pool.
19:26So today we're going to be making some cute stepping stones
19:30as a way up to the pool.
19:32This is our turtle that we use.
19:36I just wanted something that would be a little bit amusing.
19:40It's just a plastic mould which we'll fill with cement.
19:44Making batches of the turtle stepping stones three at a time,
19:48this is an ongoing project for the couple
19:51which they hope to have finished by the end of the summer.
19:54Sling it in the bucket, if you don't mind.
19:55I'll start mixing it up.
20:03It's a bit like making a cake, isn't it?
20:05It is like making a cake, actually, yeah.
20:06I think this is good consistency, this.
20:13Yeah, this one seems better, yeah.
20:14Yeah.
20:14One more, I think, for now.
20:16Okay.
20:17Give that a bit of a push.
20:18Well, it should be level with the edge of the mould.
20:25Maybe a little bit less, but I have to level it out a bit now.
20:30Yeah, see, it's levelling quite nicely.
20:31You can see that we're missing a bit in the bottom here.
20:33I'll put a bit more in there.
20:36Down on this bottom pole here.
20:38Yeah, particularly there.
20:40I think that's it.
20:41Yeah, I think that's it.
20:42Since we've started the season and we've had people coming to stay,
20:47we've kind of had a bit of a hiatus and we haven't made many,
20:50but now we've got a little bit of a lull.
20:52It's a good opportunity at the moment to try and get some done.
20:55I'll put this one over here.
20:57Yeah.
20:59We just need to wait until maybe tomorrow morning when they're nice and set,
21:03and then we can continue the path.
21:08Drying paving stones using the heat of the sun is not a new process.
21:126,000 years ago, during the time of the pharaohs,
21:15the ancient Egyptians were masters of creating pavers.
21:20Mud would typically be dug from a riverbank and then poured into a mould.
21:23Workers would then stamp on the mud with straw added to help solidify the mixture.
21:29The hardened final product was then used to cover roads and courtyards.
21:34With the sun doing all the hard work,
21:35Paul and Louise's turtle pavers are ready to be laid.
21:39Sadly, the little poor flipper things have broken off,
21:45but that's no problem, because when I put them in the ground,
21:48I can put some cement in to make sure they're OK.
21:51At least his head's on.
21:52The other one's head came off as well.
21:54That wasn't nice.
21:55So, this is going to be the turtle superhighway to the pool.
22:03So, my next turtle's going to go sort of there.
22:09So, roughly, I've got my turtle where I need him to be.
22:15Take down a bit.
22:16Sometimes there's rocks.
22:17Ah, that's better.
22:23So, I've done my rough sort of shape that I need to dig out.
22:28And see, with this,
22:30if there's any stones,
22:33I can get them out as well.
22:37It's enjoyable.
22:38You get an opportunity to try new things
22:41and get to know stuff about yourself that you didn't know.
22:45Because I didn't think I'd be able to do it.
22:47That's way too difficult for me,
22:49putting stepping stones in.
22:52However, I've been doing a good job.
22:54So, you know, I was quite pleased with myself, really.
22:56The turtles are good.
22:57They're solid.
23:00Doing this, running the sheets.
23:02I mean, the sense of achievement is enormous.
23:04It's given me sort of like a sense of newfound confidence.
23:08Okay, so I'm going to put a layer of sand in here.
23:17Here we go.
23:20There's my turtle turtle.
23:22Because, obviously, he was an amputee, let's say.
23:27His flipper on there.
23:29But that seems fine to me.
23:32So, there we go.
23:35One turtle.
23:36Pleased with that.
23:37Should like to get them done by the end of July.
23:41Fingers crossed.
23:47Coming up...
23:49Modern technology arrives in ancient Aranyada.
23:54So, that means I can just stand there
23:56and watch it doing the jobs that are me doing it.
23:59And in Normandy...
24:01Need a nice sort of creamy consistency.
24:05Boudo's plastering skills defy gravity.
24:09That's the beauty of lime plaster.
24:10Back in France, at the historic farming settlement of La Cloutière.
24:28With the weather dry and bright,
24:30Boudo is keen to get on with an outdoor job,
24:33finishing off the porch,
24:34which he built by hand using locally sourced oak.
24:38We had to build a porch, really,
24:40because the winters here can be very cold.
24:42The wind blows from that position at the house
24:44and the rain hits that part of the house as well.
24:47So, I built the porch there to give us a barrier
24:49between the house and the elements, if you like.
24:53This is my trade.
24:54I'm a carpenter and joiner.
24:55You know, it's all made of French oak.
24:57The whole of that porch has cost us about 280 euros in materials.
25:01But if you was having it built in England,
25:03you'd be paying a lot.
25:05You'd be emptying your bank balance, put it that way.
25:07With the structure of the porch complete,
25:10today, Boudo is using lime plaster to finish the base,
25:14a technique used widely by the Romans.
25:18So,
25:19I need a nice sort of creamy consistency.
25:25That's not here yet.
25:26We'll put a tad more water in that.
25:30Just a little bit more.
25:32Another mix-up.
25:39It's good to go.
25:41See the fibres in there?
25:44Pour these fibres in.
25:46Gives it a key so it all locks together.
25:49Traditionally, they would use horsehair.
25:52When we're doing any renovations here,
25:54we are trying to keep it as traditional as possible.
25:58In centuries past,
25:59plasterers would have added hair from the manes and tails of horses
26:02to bind the mixture together.
26:06These fibres were extremely versatile,
26:08used in upholstery,
26:09for the bows of stringed instruments,
26:11and also paintbrushes.
26:14Today, Boudo is using synthetic fibres,
26:17and with his plaster now at the correct consistency,
26:20it's ready to use.
26:21Now, if it's true to form,
26:27I'm hoping this don't drop off.
26:30But it should stay on the hawk,
26:32and it's staying on there.
26:33That's the beauty of lying plaster.
26:35It's dried out a little bit quick, this plaster,
26:50so I'm having to wet it again.
26:52That's the key with lying,
26:55is you keep the water going on it very lightly
26:58so the trowel moves
26:59and you don't get suction, too much suction.
27:04The only time I can put this plaster on
27:07is in when the weather is dry,
27:11mild.
27:12You don't want it too hot,
27:13because it dries out too quick,
27:14and you don't want it cold and damp.
27:17It takes forever to dry when it's wet.
27:21So we're constantly battling with the elements here.
27:25But now we're in the summer, it's July,
27:27and it's a better time for me doing the lime plaster work.
27:32Boudo is keen to help his village retain its original charm,
27:36so is adopting an age-old finishing technique
27:39with his lime plaster work.
27:41I'm just setting out the panelling I want.
27:44I'm trying to mirror these down below
27:47to give it some sort of symmetry.
27:49They say that word, symmetry.
27:52So I'm just setting this out now.
27:53I'm going to put a line through level.
28:01It's actually nice work, this plastering,
28:04the old style ways.
28:06In the UK, they call it pargeting.
28:08I think over here,
28:09I believe it's called stacco work.
28:16It's a bit of a slow, laborious job,
28:18but it's effective when it's done.
28:24Pargeting is the craft of creating ornamental plaster work.
28:28Italian in origin,
28:29its popularity spread across Europe in the 1500s,
28:32as monarchs like Henry VIII in England
28:34and Francois I in France desired their palaces to be as opulent as possible.
28:40These are sort of the old traditional skills that are dying out now.
28:49They don't tend to use too much.
28:51It's about taking your time.
28:54It's using different types of tools from the past.
28:57I make a lot of my own tools for lots of different things.
29:00like I made this little tool here,
29:02which is basically mitered at both ends so I can come into the corners to create this beading.
29:08So that's as far as I can really go with that as it is now.
29:14For Budo, Saving La Cloutière is a real passion project.
29:19Step by step and brick by brick,
29:22he's slowly taking his village back to how she once looked.
29:25The way we're living now,
29:27I have a lot more time to explore my craft
29:29and all the other skills I've accumulated
29:32over the many years of working in the building industry.
29:36In the commercial world, you're rushing, rushing,
29:37and everything has to be done on a deadline.
29:39This doesn't.
29:40We're taking our time,
29:41and we're hoping that when we're finished here,
29:43this will last another couple of hundred years
29:45for the next generations coming along.
29:46Back in Arunyada,
29:56Neil is still dealing with the devastation wreaked by the recent storms.
30:01Having dealt with the damage to over 150 trees and bushes,
30:05Neil is now turning his attention to the landslide,
30:07which nearly washed away one of the village's ancient dwellings.
30:12Such was the massive earth that moved.
30:14Neil has been scooping up mud for several years.
30:16for several days.
30:18This isn't the first lot, no.
30:21I've moved about 10, 12 tons of it already.
30:25I'm hoping this is the final time for this.
30:29Luckily, Neil's investment in heavy machinery
30:31means that despite the devastation caused,
30:34he's not massively out of pocket.
30:37So far, so good.
30:38I'll take it away now.
30:40And even though the landslide has seen a cloud descend over the village,
30:44Neil still managed to find a silver lining.
30:49I have a good topside coming out of there.
30:51I want to keep it for a future planting and planters and greenhouse
30:55and various other things like that.
30:57Just as he thinks things are beginning to go his way again,
31:03Aaron Yarder decides to give Neil another headache
31:05as his digger makes an unfortunate connection
31:08with some underground cabling.
31:10These red pipes I put in before
31:16are actually for sort of just lighting around the place
31:21because it's really pitch black here.
31:23There's no street lights as such.
31:24It's very close to the surface,
31:27which I didn't realise how close it was.
31:30It's fixable, but it's another job
31:32to add to Neil's never-ending to-do list.
31:36So I'll cut that off square.
31:38You can get couplers.
31:39I've got plenty of this pipe,
31:41so I'll dig that out and put a fresh piece in.
31:44Problem solved.
31:46Despite the mishap,
31:48Neil's passion to save Aaron Yarder never wavers.
31:51Things like this don't frustrate me at all.
31:54I mean, it's part of the experience of the place.
31:58I mean, if you don't embark on a complete ruin
32:01expecting everything to go,
32:03it's a plan all the time.
32:06Well, you know, puppy,
32:08now it's the time is to put my spades down
32:11and I'm off for a cup of tea.
32:18Three months later,
32:19and despite his best intentions
32:21to kick-start the renovation
32:22of his potential holiday lets,
32:25Neil's projects are once again put on hold,
32:28having recently received surgery
32:29to correct an issue with his hand.
32:32The problem was,
32:33trying to do things like
32:35holding nuts and bolts in the right hand
32:37in places I can't see,
32:40you couldn't actually feel where they were.
32:43I'm pleased it's done now.
32:44It is actually improving,
32:46little by little already.
32:47I've got some feeling back in my thumb,
32:49which I didn't have before.
32:51Until such time that his hand is fully healed,
32:54Neil has hired Wayne
32:55to manage all aspects of the maintenance of Aruñada.
32:59With eight acres of land,
33:01it's quite the task.
33:02OK, I've got to the stream.
33:04You've got all the way through?
33:05Yeah.
33:06Well done, that man.
33:08There's a bit in the middle,
33:09but I haven't done yet.
33:09You can't get to, no, I'm not surprised.
33:11Around the edges.
33:12Well, next week maybe, eh?
33:14Yeah.
33:16Oh, hey, very good.
33:18Is that you for the day then, eh?
33:19Yeah, I reckon so.
33:21Fine.
33:22Good job done.
33:25Neil's not one to let an injury
33:27completely stop him from working on his village.
33:33Ever inventive,
33:34Neil has built a remote-controlled lawnmower.
33:37Using modern technology,
33:39he hopes to tame
33:40some of the wilder aspects of his ancient village.
33:43This is a sort of crawling chassis
33:46turned into a lawnmower.
33:50I bought it as a sort of semi-kit, I suppose.
33:54Very powerful little tool, actually.
33:55The biggest problem I had with it is
33:57it didn't really like the steep angles.
34:00So I built some stabilisers
34:02to stop it getting over a certain angle
34:05so it won't flip over backwards
34:07because it's quite steep in places here.
34:10And I'm a bit frightened of it
34:12actually disappearing over the mountainside
34:14or something like that.
34:16While he's not able to lift a hand
34:18to work on the land or his many properties,
34:20he is able to give his recuperating thumb
34:23a good workout.
34:25This is confidence work, you see.
34:33I quite like it, to be honest, now
34:35because that means I can just stand there
34:37and watch it doing the jobs that are me doing it.
34:40Coming up...
34:49I'm always learning.
34:50I've gone to a high level in carpentry and joinery
34:53and I'm still learning.
34:54Budo calls on more ancient skills
34:57to stay true to his village's heritage.
34:59If you keep your mind open and you keep learning,
35:01you just get better.
35:03And at La'Ou...
35:04We have found a couple of issues.
35:06Well, they're quite big issues.
35:08Louise and Paul's builder delivers some bad news.
35:12What we really need to do is underpin it.
35:14This sounds expensive.
35:15Back at the farming settlement of La Cloutière in Normandy,
35:30today, Tracy is making cuttings in the lavender field
35:34as the couple slowly begin to establish
35:36a blossoming agricultural venture.
35:38Because they're young plants,
35:42I'm going to actually cut all the flower heads off.
35:46That helps the actual plant itself to put the energy back in
35:50so it's not concentrating on the flowers,
35:52it's concentrating on making the plant stronger.
35:57This lavender will not go to waste.
35:59I'll dry this and it'll probably be turned into
36:02little lavender sachets or even tiny bouquets.
36:06All these cuttings that we've done here
36:08have actually come off what we call the mother plants.
36:11These were planted a year and a half ago.
36:15So hopefully next year,
36:17these plants will look very similar to this.
36:20It's such a lovely feeling to know
36:22that we can look and plan to the future.
36:26Meanwhile, as Tracy looks to the future,
36:28Mudo is concentrating on the past,
36:31continuing his decorative plaster panelling work on the porch
36:34while still respecting the village's past.
36:38Everything old is just lovely to me.
36:41Tracey and me love the old stuff, you know?
36:45We don't want nothing modern and too new.
36:46I like this style.
36:50I liken it to maybe a Georgian period with the windows.
36:54It always reminds me on the inside, when we look out,
36:57it reminds me of the victory, the HMS victory in Portsmouth.
37:00It's got that feel as if you're on the back of the ship.
37:02But I don't know, I just love all this.
37:04I love anything old and period.
37:06Putting the panelling on here,
37:08it sort of gives it a more classical style,
37:10but an aged style as well, you know?
37:13I think it looks good.
37:14And another thing, I mean,
37:15it's this world blending lovely
37:16with the old buildings we've got around here.
37:19They built in them days with what they had.
37:21The abundance here was stone,
37:23wood, oak, and, you know, lime and clay.
37:28And slates would have come later on these houses.
37:31You'll see loads of houses in Normandy
37:33that are slate on,
37:34but originally they would have been thatched.
37:36And this would have been thatched.
37:37And we could tell there's telltile signs of that on the chimney
37:40that show little ledges where the thatchers used to sit up to.
37:46Normandy is a region renowned for its thatched buildings,
37:49a labour-intensive roofing method
37:51using locally sourced materials like straw and reeds,
37:55which were tied in place with wicker.
37:58The move away from thatch as a roofing choice
38:00coincided with the Industrial Revolution.
38:03Throughout the 19th century,
38:04as canals and then rail developed,
38:07this infrastructure allowed for heavier
38:09and cheaper roofing materials
38:11to be more easily transported,
38:13with slate becoming a popular
38:15and easier-to-maintain option.
38:17Just give me a little guiding area
38:20to go with to set my panel out.
38:22And I'll just build it up as I go.
38:28It's so therapeutic.
38:36Now that I'm semi-retired,
38:39I could spend lots of time doing things a little bit slowly, you know?
38:45Bearing in mind, this is more sort of my hobby, really.
38:48I'm a joiner, cabinet-maker, playing around with another trade.
38:54Placers will be watching out there and they'll say,
38:56what's he doing?
38:57So I'll put it on like that
39:01and then I'll let that set up for a little while
39:05just to pull the air or blow on it
39:08and then I'll mould it with the other tool.
39:11I'm always learning.
39:12I've gone to a high level in carpentry and joinery
39:14and I'm still learning, you know,
39:16and I've been doing it since I was a teenager.
39:18If you keep your mind open and you keep learning,
39:21you just get better.
39:24Doing other trades as well for me,
39:26it's practice, practice, practice,
39:28but listening to the old-timers and how they do things
39:31and you pick up more information
39:33and you learn something new every time.
39:35Budo's philosophy of lifelong learning
39:38is beginning to pay rich dividends for their village.
39:41With such dedicated and mindful custodians,
39:45La Cloutière's rebirth and its long-term legacy
39:48look far more assured.
39:5817 miles away at Le Où, it's now September.
40:02Inside the old farmhouse,
40:03all the debris from the demolition work has been cleared.
40:07Outside, Paul and Louise's builders are on site,
40:09shifting mountains of earth away from the back of the house.
40:13Once removed, they should be able to give the couple
40:15an indication of the property's structural integrity.
40:19Unfortunately, some historic structures on the ground
40:22will have to be demolished.
40:25This is the ex-pig shed here
40:29that will actually have to be toppled.
40:31It's a bit of an eyesore.
40:34So it'll be good to get that gone.
40:36Well, that didn't take much, did it?
40:41While the pig shed was beyond salvage,
40:43Paul and Louise hope that the farmhouse,
40:45their potential dream home,
40:47is built of stronger stuff.
40:49Their builders should be able to tell them soon enough.
40:53It's an amazing structure
40:54and we want to keep it as authentic as we can.
40:57The amount of money that we need to plough into this project
41:02means that it's much better to do it for us than for a jeet.
41:06When it's done, it's going to be a lovely little home for us.
41:11It's exciting.
41:12With much of the earth now moved away from the rear of the property,
41:16builders Kelton and Stuart
41:18have been able to inspect the structural integrity
41:20of the farmhouse's back wall.
41:23For Paul and Louise, it's not good news.
41:26Come and have a look.
41:31Basically, there's no foundations.
41:34This building was built straight on this ground.
41:38So there's nothing to stop it from sinking more.
41:42We've got to deal with it, make it safe and strong.
41:46Yeah, look at that.
41:47Kelsen has the unenviable task of breaking the news to Louise.
41:59OK.
42:00I'm back.
42:01Good, OK.
42:02Sorry.
42:02We have found a couple of issues.
42:06Well, they're quite big issues.
42:07This building is built directly on this soil.
42:13Right.
42:15Which is super, super soft.
42:17Right, OK.
42:18What we really need to do is underpin it.
42:22It's the only way of saving it.
42:25What does that mean?
42:26Like, what do you actually do?
42:26OK, so what we have to do is, every metre, we have to do a pocket,
42:30which we have to go under the wall and fill it with concrete.
42:34And then once that pocket has set and dried...
42:38Yeah.
42:38..then we have to dig next to it and do the same again,
42:42and we fill that with concrete as well.
42:44So basically, we put a new foundation in.
42:46Right, OK.
42:47This sounds expensive.
42:49Well, it takes time to do it.
42:53I mean, we need to do what we need to do,
42:55because if we don't do this, then we're going to have issues, aren't we?
42:59Massive, yeah.
42:59Either you do it, or we scrap a whole project.
43:05Exactly.
43:06I mean, if you could let us know what the cost will be...
43:10We'll give you an estimate figure later.
43:12Yeah.
43:12OK, a ballpark.
43:13Yeah.
43:14You have a speak with Paul.
43:15We'll get a 100% price for you after, if you're happy.
43:19If it's going to be massively expensive,
43:22then we're going to have to have a major rethink.
43:25Yeah.
43:25Nightmare.
43:26See what we can do.
43:27Yeah.
43:27We'll have to leave it at that for now, then.
43:29Yeah, OK.
43:29And then I'll have a big chat with Paul when he finishes work,
43:33and, you know, we'll sort something out.
43:35Yeah, OK.
43:36OK.
43:36Right.
43:37Yeah, super.
43:38A devastating blow to Louise and Paul's plans for the old farmhouse.
43:45I would be extremely loath to abandon this project at this point.
43:50I would be very, very, very upset.
43:53It's not great, you know, so hopefully it will be a price that we can work with.
44:00It's all up in the air at the moment, but we'll find a way.
44:04We generally find a way, you know.
44:07Sadly, these are the realities when you become the custodian of one of the ancient villages of Europe.
44:12Three hundred-year-old buildings are full of surprises, and not all of them are nice.
44:24Next time, Neil juggles the multiple demands of his lost village.
44:29Any one time, there could be eight to ten different jobs running in parallel here.
44:34While in France, Tracy and Budo's Hamlet calls out for help.
44:38I wake up every day, do the job, go to bed, think about a job, wake up, do another job, and that's my life.
44:46Elsewhere in Normandy...
44:47We've just bought a money pit here. This is never going to end.
44:51Louise and Paul have to dig deep.
44:54Abandoning the project really isn't an option for us at this point.
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