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Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive And Kids - Season 3 Episode 3 - Episode 3
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00:00I can't believe we're at this place and I still pinch myself now we can be inside
00:20like properly inside it's brilliant it's just a question of them waiting and
00:27letting the plaster dry it's very delicate because it's so thick and it has to be
00:35looked after Nancy did a love hat in the classroom and she's tried to cover up
00:45and it's failed pretty bad in the plaster yeah
00:53is that a word look right oh my god
01:02I'll make it worse is that Nancy's thing yeah yeah
01:15that just makes it unique and the unique houses are the best houses to have around this place
01:36nothing less said about this the better right are you done looks better right sponge it off and let's
01:52walk away
01:53come on
01:55I've got some on my bum
01:56so
02:03so
02:08so
02:14I don't know.
02:44Right. Do you guys want to put everything in for camping? Hello. We're off camping. Yeah, get that bag. So it's just packing up all our bits and pieces that we need. Jump in. Jump in. You and whoever else is camping.
03:14It's so exciting because the summer holidays are here.
03:20We're at a stage now with Auntie Johnson and renovation that we just have to sit and wait for the plaster to dry because we can't proceed inside until we've got some of the moisture out of the building.
03:35So, we've made hay and we've sheared sheep, but we aren't holidaymakers. We really don't go on holiday. In fact, we don't really go anywhere. So going on a camping trip just down Boggle Hall, that is, to me, the perfect holiday.
03:52It means that light o'clock, dark o'clock, time doesn't matter anymore. Right, carry on. Right, everybody get something, because you might as well bring something. Come on.
04:05They want to swim. They want to camp. They want to sleep under the stars. You know it. They want to do it.
04:16We're going to set up the tent today and stay in there tonight. Do you think it's quite good here? No, here. We're making a sunbed as well. Excellent.
04:29I think Boggle Hall is a really good place to go in the summer holidays because you can stay there, like, super long. Last year we stayed there for two weeks straight, which was really good.
04:39I think it's going to be better than the last year because there's a good spot to swim and stuff like that.
04:48Space, quiet, peaceful. Well, it was peaceful until they turned up. It's just the most magical place.
04:58I also think it's probably quite unchanged, actually. You know, it's called Boggle Hall because of the noise as the water runs down this very steep ravine and cuts between the rock.
05:08When the wind's up, it's just whistling and banging, and sometimes you hear a rock cracking off as it rolls down into the bottom.
05:16And I guess in times past, when you could hear all these noises and you were walking in the darkness, you'd think that maybe it was a haunted place.
05:24But I don't think I'll be saying too much to the children about that tonight.
05:27Ow!
05:27It's like a holiday at home. I don't know why, but I love the swimming and the sleeping. It's nice to sleep somewhere different.
05:40Do you know what a Boggle is? A Boggle's a ghost.
05:44They're just going to have a nice time, a nice chilled out time. It's like a little piece of paradise.
05:49I don't know why.
06:19It's a wire and things like that, and just put them in the trailer.
06:23All right, doing that? Marvellous.
06:25Yeah, what we're doing in the house with deep plastering, it just takes an awful lot of time for the drying process,
06:42because in just a small area of that insulating plaster, something like this kind of size,
06:49there's probably eight gallons of water going into it, and we have to wait for all that to dissipate and evaporate, etc.
06:56And it just makes it so difficult that you can't do anything else while this process goes on.
07:03So we've got a little team today, Clive and his crew, looking at having a bit of a tidy up everywhere.
07:11They've brought the big digger and what have you.
07:13I think we're going to start trying to clear some of this soil and put it where it needs to be.
07:18We're going to shift all the scrap, what we've piled up, any bits of rubbish,
07:22so that we can just have a little bit of housekeeping, so to speak.
07:32Well, I'm not exactly sure how it was, but as I understand it,
07:37Anthony Clarkson and the Irish family were gardeners,
07:40and I think there'd be quite a nice garden here back in the day.
07:46What are you thinking, Myles?
07:47Well, you can see there's been walls out here,
07:51and there's no doubt been a garden and food grown and all sorts going on back in the day.
07:58So this was walled in here somewhere?
08:00Yeah, back to that wall there.
08:02You reckon?
08:02Yeah.
08:04Well, I'm sure in them wonderful diaries it'll say all them things.
08:07He was probably a better gardener than me.
08:11There's a lot of tidying up.
08:13You know, that is one thing about a bill like this.
08:15There's a heck of a mess when it's over.
08:17What are you thinking, then?
08:21Well, I think we could have a bit of a pull all this back, couldn't we,
08:23and then put it back there.
08:25Anyway, get it fired up, have a practice, see if you can operate,
08:29and then come along here.
08:34This is my gears.
08:38I don't know what this one is.
08:43You've never driven it before.
08:45You can tell, OK?
08:46So he's just feeling his weave.
08:57Come on, Willie.
08:59What?
09:00Wind her in.
09:00I'm still figuring out what everything does.
09:04Where's the revs on it?
09:08There's the revs.
09:10Right.
09:11How do I bloody do all this?
09:15Yeah?
09:16Hello.
09:17Getting the hang of it.
09:22I mean, I wasn't fast.
09:24It's nice to work with Dad.
09:26He can give advice and help, but sometimes he, er...
09:29you know, I do just have to figure it out for myself.
09:34Now, just pull it all this way.
09:43How's it going on?
09:44It's getting better on it now, I think.
09:46It's taking a bit of getting used to it, don't they?
09:48It's hard to take a bit of getting used to it, but, you know, these lads can soon land an hour and they're away, aren't they?
09:53He's away now.
09:54Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:54It's a bloody grand thing.
09:56Oh, well, that's grand, that's grand, Miley.
10:08No, well, you're getting the hang of it now, Miley.
10:10Yeah.
10:11Huh?
10:11Takes some getting used to it.
10:12And that's just tidied that up.
10:15And that's just what we need to do.
10:18To know the actual layout, I'm sure we can learn that off maps and plans and things.
10:23That's actually what was garden and how it all worked.
10:27And hopefully maybe, you know, put it back to that.
10:31It just needs a plan, really, to decide exactly how they're going to do it.
10:38Can you imagine sitting out here in a year or two's time with a nice beer in your hand?
10:44Can you imagine sitting out here, Miley?
10:47It's kind of a project that never ends, isn't it?
10:49One, two, three.
10:51You know, you can go on and on and on.
10:55Well done, David.
10:57Good luck.
10:57Good day for camping.
11:15I'm just trying to work out which way up it is.
11:17Maybe the other way up.
11:19I actually have no idea what I'm looking at, if I'm being completely honest.
11:22Any idea where the door is?
11:28Oh, my God.
11:29This is so confusing.
11:32I can't say I'm an avid camper, but I do like the canvassy big tents, which means at least I only have to do it once and everybody can fit in it.
11:39Ah, tent.
11:45Have you suffocated?
11:47Are you okay?
11:48Can you come in and hold this for a minute?
11:50I don't really want that.
11:51I know it's full of spiders.
11:52It isn't.
11:52There's no spiders.
11:53That's just a big lie.
11:55There is no spiders.
11:56But even though there's only one main pearl in it, it still seems to perplex me how to put it up.
12:05Where the heck is this zipper?
12:07Spider.
12:09I don't think it's supposed to lean like this, if I'm being totally honest.
12:14At the moment, I'm just, like, totally confused.
12:18Ow!
12:19Oh, it's on my head.
12:20Hey, let me out.
12:21My mum's always really insistent that I should take this tent with me whenever I go places, and I'm always like, I think not.
12:29Where are the tent pegs?
12:31Oh, come on, you're not going to make me go and find the tent pegs.
12:34No, I'm not.
12:34I just want to know if you have any idea.
12:36I'm standing inside the middle of a tent.
12:37I just was liking to do.
12:39What are the tent?
12:41Found him.
12:45Bit of a nightmare putting it up, because it suddenly got really, really hot.
12:48And it's just a warm, sweaty job.
12:53I don't know where the hammer is.
12:55Did you say you've got a degree?
12:57I've not done it in putting tents up, have I?
13:00I'm quite glad that I think I might be going home by the time that this all gets packed up.
13:04So, perfect.
13:06Right, keep pegging out.
13:12There you go.
13:15It's like a bug hotel.
13:17No, it's not.
13:18Oh, there it is.
13:23It is finished.
13:24Well done.
13:26Yay!
13:30I don't usually go camping with Raven.
13:34It's just nice to have a mini holiday.
13:37I'm the king of the world!
13:39I think it's really good, because you can just get your own time and relax for a bit and have fun with your family.
13:46It's great to have the whole gang back.
13:49I'm in my element.
13:51I'm in my element.
13:52This is the best.
13:53For such an isolated and quiet place, it takes an enormous amount of upkeep to keep a place like Raven Seat going.
14:07So, taking a little bit of time out is such a good thing to give yourself a reset.
14:12There is so many bugs right now. Not even bugs, midges. Not in this bit. If you come stand here, it's not pretty all right, actually.
14:48This has definitely turned out to be a girl's trip.
14:56You're cut off from the world. You've got your fire. You're back to basics.
15:01What do you have a flavor of sausages? Cheese and pork, I think.
15:08Let's get some grub.
15:12Mine's roll.
15:16I'm just going to eat.
15:20Me and Edith and Violet are very close because we're all sisters around the same age, so we're definitely more sisterly than you get with your little siblings because there's so much more of an age difference.
15:37So, it's really nice to see them, and there's about ten minutes of us being like, oh, yeah, really nice to see you, really nice to see you, and then it's about another two days of bickering is, I think, what we do quite well.
15:50But it is really nice to see each other, and in between that, we have lovely chats and get to hang back out again.
15:57Right, who's doing the pancakes? Me!
15:59OK, so how much? Yeah, quite thin, I reckon.
16:02Like that? Like that.
16:04Right, can you get some sticks for the big marshmallows?
16:07Where are the sticks?
16:08On the trees!
16:09Oh, you didn't bring any?
16:11What are you and Oliver doing?
16:13Who made the pancake mix?
16:14I did.
16:15Yeah.
16:16You never stop, do you?
16:19Do I have a marshmallow in one, please?
16:21I do.
16:22Yeah, I think you have to sort of, like, graduate.
16:25This is adventure, adventure on your own doorstep.
16:28You know, it's not to say that, you know, you don't want to see other places,
16:33but I feel like when you've got somewhere like here,
16:36sometimes you can feel like you're looking for something that actually is right at home.
16:44If you could go camping anywhere like this, where would you be?
16:47Would you be, like...
16:48A festival.
16:49A festival.
16:50Yeah?
16:51Raven is the only one of the children that has actually flown a nest.
16:54So, when she does come back, her siblings are obviously very interested and excited as
16:59to what she's been up to.
17:01They literally do hang off her every word.
17:04I think I want to go to Vietnam next year.
17:07Vietnam?
17:08Really?
17:09How come?
17:10Yeah, how come?
17:11Really?
17:12It looks gorgeous.
17:13Me and Tom are saving up and sort of looking at flights.
17:15Edith doesn't really know what she wants to do in the future, but is busy studying away,
17:21and I've just said to her, the thing that excites and fires you up might not become apparent
17:26until you're in your twenties.
17:28I've only ever been to Kendall.
17:31In the world, just Kendall, that's as far as she's been.
17:33Where have you been, Vi?
17:35To the toilet and back.
17:40I mean, Violet is very intelligent, very clever, very good at mathematics.
17:44I think at the moment, she's certainly more of a home bird.
17:49Annis is now at high school.
17:52She's kind of, I suppose, the one in the middle now.
17:54So she can be found in Edith's make-up bag or alternatively in and amongst Clemmie and Nancy's Barbie dolls.
18:05And I think for the two smaller ones, Clemmie and Nancy, I do know that they think about other places in the world,
18:11but it isn't the places that you might think of.
18:15I want to travel the world so I can see different fossils.
18:19I would go to Hawaii, because it just looks really nice there.
18:27They did find videos on YouTube about families in Eastern Bloc countries.
18:36There was, quite often, there was actually no speech whatsoever.
18:40It was people tending their goats.
18:42It was families making milk and cheese.
18:45It is a common language, and it's a language that isn't spoken.
18:48It's a language of working the land.
18:51And family farming, that's what resonates with them.
18:53I don't really want to go to uni. I want to stay around here.
18:59But I think I'm going to be a farmer.
19:01I like everyone to sit here, because it's not easy.
19:03You don't just sit inside and do nothing.
19:05You get new stuff, like catching sheep and stuff.
19:07They normally aren't on your side.
19:09They do things you don't want them to do.
19:11So it's a good challenge, and it just gets you more confident.
19:15I'm not telling them all to stay here rooted to the spot and go where they want.
19:28And I don't doubt they're all going to head off in their different directions
19:32to do what they want to do.
19:34I wouldn't be here if I hadn't have taken a chance on another life.
19:40And I want them to do the same.
19:42Duck, duck, duck, duck.
19:49But I believe they'll always have that appreciation and that feeling of belonging
19:54that comes with a place like this.
20:02Look!
20:03Look!
20:04Look up!
20:05Is that a meteor?
20:07What was that?
20:09We just watched the UFO go bus.
20:10That was crazy!
20:12What was it?
20:13That was weird.
20:14I mean, honestly, what the hell was that?
20:19It always has been a special place.
20:20It's not just the sheep that are huffed to this place.
20:22It's the people too, right?
20:26Let's do our usual routine.
20:27Guys!
20:28Sleep pile!
20:34Go to bed.
20:37Good night.
20:53What's for breakfast?
20:54What's cooking, Clam?
20:56Porridge.
20:57Lovely.
20:59Good day for swimming.
21:01You've had your cup of tea?
21:03I'm drinking my cup of tea.
21:04You've even brushed your hair.
21:06That's a change.
21:09It's lovely, isn't it?
21:10Hi, Nance!
21:12Hi!
21:13We're making some porridge.
21:14That porridge looks good, but I'm very full.
21:16Okay.
21:17Oh, that's all right.
21:18Well, have you had your cup of tea?
21:19There's tea over there.
21:20Oh.
21:21Get a cup of tea.
21:23How long do you think you could survive out in the wild?
21:26A year.
21:28Yeah?
21:29That tea is amazing.
21:31There's something about food that you have outside
21:33that makes it taste a lot better, you know?
21:36What does camp food taste like?
21:38Really good.
21:41Hot, though.
21:42Good.
21:44That's the best tea I ever have.
21:45Mm-hmm.
22:12Come on, Nelly.
22:13Come on.
22:14Come on.
22:15Come on.
22:16There.
22:34That fire is so hot.
22:37So that piece of wood came out of Auntie John's.
22:41You know that dry wood?
22:43I took it down to the woodshed and sawed it up.
22:45So that's probably it.
22:46It's keeping it warm.
22:49The fireplace is something that I feel is, like, really important.
22:53Because, of course, it's the heart of the home, isn't it?
22:55It's sort of like the atrium.
22:56It's where everybody gathers around.
22:58It was never going to come into question as to whether there was going to be one of those at Auntie John's.
23:09There always had been one.
23:11But what we're going to do is reinstate what would have been there in Auntie Clarkson's time.
23:17We're going to go to Ian's, my friend Ian.
23:23He specialises in what you call country furniture.
23:27We're also bringing Philip, who is the joiner who is working on Auntie John's.
23:33Them are the guys that have the fish and chip shop at Middleton in Teasdale.
23:38Oh, OK.
23:39Yeah, yeah.
23:40So, here we are.
23:41You've been here before, haven't you?
23:42Yes, I've seen Ian's place, yeah.
23:46But not in there.
23:47No.
23:48Because that's where the good stuff goes.
23:50And that's not, I'm not saying this is not good stuff.
23:52Right.
23:53But basically, this is where he puts his other stuff.
23:58Ian has a lovely shed.
24:01In there, he will have all the components for me to put together the fireplace that I want.
24:07Avert your eyes from all the timber and furniture.
24:10What do you think of that?
24:13Yeah.
24:14It's got all the components in that you're looking for, hasn't it?
24:16The front of that, for me, is very, is of the age.
24:21We're keeping the actual fire surround and the mantelpiece.
24:25Yeah.
24:26The stone surround.
24:27We have the chimney.
24:28They're all fixed elements we have to work around.
24:29Exactly.
24:30Fixed elements.
24:31But this isn't a fixed element.
24:32It isn't.
24:34We can orientate it the other way around.
24:35We can use all our part of it.
24:37It's almost like Lego.
24:41I do like that it's got a localish name.
24:43Kendall.
24:44Kendall.
24:46I'm the daydreamer.
24:47And when you've got a daydreamer, you do need somebody who can rein you in a little bit
24:53and get out a tape measure.
24:54Philip?
24:55Should we put a tape over and see if it'll fit?
24:57Measure that.
24:58Will it fit?
24:59Will it work?
25:00If I hold that at the end, are you all right?
25:02Measuring end.
25:04Well, that's four foot there.
25:06Four foot?
25:07That's four foot.
25:09I think we need to get it out.
25:10Mm-hmm.
25:11Get it reconstructed again, and then we can work with a welding man to adapt any parts that required.
25:18I want a fireplace that feels cosy at home.
25:23You can pull up, put your feet against it.
25:26Hopefully, there'll be a sleeping hound next to it, and maybe a kettle boiling over it, too.
25:31That's what I want.
25:32And when the electric goes out, and when there's snow on the ground, and the wind's blowing, and all the rest of it,
25:37I want to be able to hunker down.
25:41I really like this.
25:42I feel like it's of the age, and I feel like it's very much in keeping.
25:46It's got the functionality.
25:48We should maybe have a word with Ian, then, say what he thinks.
25:51Oh, well, I know what he thinks.
25:53He thinks there's only one mug, one of these.
25:56Yeah.
25:57The minute he gives me the keys to his shed, he knows he's on a winner.
26:01Yes.
26:02He knows I'm going to come out with something, don't he?
26:04Right, let's go and find him.
26:05And then, we need to find some manpower, or children power, to start shifting things.
26:10Yeah.
26:11Yes.
26:12It's been a really great day.
26:13We've managed to find lots of pieces of a black Yorkshire range.
26:17Philip is going to put them all back together again, and we'll see whether it's going to work.
26:36This is really crazy.
26:37This is really crazy.
26:38It's...
26:39Whoosh!
26:40Oh, whoosh.
26:41Oh, that was close!
26:42Oh.
26:43Oh, that was close.
26:49Didn't get wet though.
26:51Let's go.
26:52Onward we head.
26:57It's really good in the summer holidays
26:59because you just get to do whatever you want, no school,
27:02and you can go meet up with our friends.
27:04I bet there's snakes in there.
27:06Grass snakes.
27:07Never mind, it's just a piece of grass.
27:09That's not mine.
27:12These are cute little flowers.
27:13This is, like, one billion acres or something,
27:20and you can just go wherever you want.
27:23This is the longest adventure ever.
27:25How are you? How's it going?
27:51How's it going?
27:53Hi.
27:53How's it going?
27:54It's a nice day.
27:55Where we're at?
27:55Yeah?
27:56Nice day.
27:56Next spring, I think it would be really lovely to plan out the gardens and wall them up.
28:03They're Danny and Johnny.
28:04Yeah.
28:05Is there any way of knowing where they were?
28:07Yes.
28:07There's some maps, it's sure.
28:08I've got a map, yeah.
28:09Well, that's where we'll put them back, then.
28:11Yeah.
28:13Outside, you can still see the imprint of where the garden was.
28:16And from the diaries, we can also see that Anthony Clarkson had green fingers.
28:20So, the thing that gets me most about these diaries is that he writes about his wedding.
28:26And a bit like you, he's a man of few words.
28:28We know that he married Mally, Mary Alderson, who lived at Close Hills.
28:36He basically, they set off from here, and then they get married at Muca.
28:42When's the last time you went to Muca?
28:48The show?
28:50Hmm?
28:50Muca show?
28:51Maybe.
28:53What about in 2000?
28:57July.
28:58No, it's the August.
29:00It's July.
29:03Why, what happened in August 2004?
29:05In August?
29:06In August, you probably regretted what happened in July.
29:08I don't remember now, I don't remember now.
29:14We had a bit of a day in Muca, didn't we?
29:16Aye, what a hell of a day we had.
29:18I mean, I'm going to let you into a little bit of a secret.
29:21I got married to Clive at Muca.
29:26Do you think when I got on my horse to ride side saddle down the road, like Boudicera,
29:32and there was a great thunderclap and lightning, do you think someone was trying to tell me some words?
29:37Aye, there you are. That could have been a sign, couldn't it, from the heaven?
29:40Yeah.
29:43I'll tell you something, though. It's good that we can laugh about it.
29:47Oh, well, it was a grand day.
29:48Aye, it was a great day.
29:52Anthony Clarkson came to Ravensea a lot. Romance brought him here.
29:56His wife-to-be was here at Ravensea.
30:00So that's quite a thing, isn't it?
30:02With these diaries, there are so many parallels in our lives now and back then.
30:08I think that's the weird thing.
30:11We keep uncovering things, and when they say the truth is strange in the fiction,
30:17you couldn't make this one up.
30:18You couldn't make this one up.
30:39Hey, how are you? You all right? I'm sorry I'm late. Hello there. You all right? Yeah, not too bad.
31:00Today I'm here at Phillips, at the timber yard, but it's not timber on with today because he is helping with the fireplace.
31:07There seem to be a lot of bits of it. So you haven't seen anything majorly majorly wrong?
31:12No, no, it's been quite pleasing actually looking through it.
31:16Rather than just heading out and buying the new fireplace, it's all bespoke. That sounds good, doesn't it? Bespoke.
31:27Me and Phillip have been at Ian's antique shop over at Hawes and our task is really to put it together.
31:33It's kind of like a made to measure sort of a project. It's a traditional black Yorkshire range that actually kind of is in pieces.
31:41I must admit, I was thinking, oh my goodness, because there's lots of different pieces to it.
31:45There's a boiler, there's a back plate, there's an oven and we need to mock it up and work out whether we need to source some more pieces of it and whether any of it actually needs mending.
31:57So what exactly is the plan? I mean, we know this...
32:00We've made... Oh, hang on, you've done it.
32:02We've got a fire surround template of Auntie John's.
32:05You're always one step ahead of you. One step, well, I don't know.
32:08Maybe the best thing to do is to make sure everything fits just in case there's anything we need to change around.
32:13Exactly. OK, right, you're ready. OK.
32:21Sorry.
32:22In the living room it would have been the focal point where you would have got warm, cooked, baked, dried your clothes, everything.
32:30And then where you have this front plate...
32:33That's the bottom, yeah? Yep.
32:35It's the real heart of the home, so it's massively important that I get this right.
32:46That makes a corner.
32:48Now, where did that go?
32:55Oh, it's that weird. Now, hang on.
32:56Huh?
32:57Wait, I'm thinking.
32:59I'm very much relying on Philip, helping me put it together.
33:03It's not... Is this...?
33:05No.
33:06It didn't go down at the bottom, did it, with its name on?
33:09No, no, no. I think that's up.
33:11Eh?
33:12Oh!
33:13It's up.
33:16There.
33:17That's your throat plate.
33:18John.
33:19That goes in there that creates for the flu.
33:21Yep.
33:23All right.
33:24Just down a little bit.
33:26It doesn't matter whether it's woodwork or metalwork, it's...
33:31The sort of restoration process is lovely, to see things come back from entirely and forgot about.
33:37I feel like this project has brought a lot of people together who have the same vision.
33:44There you are.
33:45Right.
33:46Hey.
33:47Look at that.
33:50Now we're looking busy.
33:51It's put a big smile on my face, this.
33:54So, oven?
33:55Oven.
33:57They're on board with me.
33:58They don't think I'm totally and utterly mad.
34:00And it's been... Honestly, I think that's the whole joy of it.
34:05That's it.
34:06That's it?
34:07Yeah, that's it.
34:08It is a bright one, you know.
34:13That is good.
34:14That's looking well.
34:17It's a black range, and it's rather rusty.
34:20So, we've got some rust killer here, yeah?
34:23Yeah.
34:27So, I'll brush it on.
34:28Mm-hm.
34:30Are you supposed to really blather this on or what?
34:32Oh, definitely, yeah.
34:33Yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:35A good blathering.
34:37It's gonna look fantastic.
34:38It's gonna look really great.
34:40Couldn't have gone better, really.
34:43The fireplace is the place where you go and sit and cry when it's all gone wrong.
34:48It's the place that you sit and have a drink when it's all gone right.
34:51It's the place that you, sort of, share stories.
34:55You know, when there's snow underground and it's cold and the weather's coming in and everything's bad,
35:01you can brew yourself up a cup of tea.
35:03And even Aunty Clarkson was doing that in his time, so...
35:06So, there you go. Some things never change.
35:10We can only put it together to a certain degree.
35:13The next thing is to actually get it on-site at Aunty John's.
35:19I'm pleased to say it's gonna evolve.
35:23Thank you so much.
35:24All right. See you soon.
35:25See ya.
35:42We're in Muca.
35:48Muca Parish encompasses the top end of the dale.
35:51So, it's Muca, Keld, Ravensea, the little hamlets.
35:59Come on, Niki Niki.
36:02It's a bit of a miserable day, but actually, I'm feeling really bright and excited
36:07because we're going to go to church.
36:09And I'm going to church with my friend Derrick.
36:13He's a historian, a genealogist.
36:16He's really great at uncovering the secrets of the past.
36:19Do you know when it was built?
36:21I don't know. 1580.
36:24He has been transcribing the diaries.
36:27He's a mine of information.
36:31A huge part of these diaries that were all written by Anthony Clarkson
36:35is all about his love life.
36:37It's all about what was going on in his personal life.
36:39We know that he married Mally.
36:50But as we have gone more and more into the diaries, we've learnt more about their lives together,
36:56their dating period, and, of course, them getting married.
37:01Thursday, December the third.
37:02Got up.
37:16Changed myself.
37:17Got tea.
37:19William Cleesby came for me, went with him to Close Hills, got breakfast, set off to
37:34Muca with our friends, went to church and Mary Alderson was married to me by the Reverend
37:43Thomas Edmondson, vicar of Grinton. Here we are look, we're at St Mary's. This was the local
37:59church so this is where Anthony and Mallie got married. Looking from the entries in his
38:05diary, he came from over that way. Did he walk? Er, no. He ride it? He rode on a horse.
38:20I feel like there is so much commonality between Oz and him. Let's get out of the rain, come on.
38:30Yeah, let's get that off. I got married at Muca in 2000.
38:39What, you were married here? Did I not mention that? No.
38:49Look at that lovely window. Do you know why there are sheep on there?
38:53No, I don't know. He's a shepherd, isn't he? He's looking after his flock.
38:56Like, when it says, the Lord is my shepherd, it kind of means, like, God is protecting us
39:03and we're the sheep. That's right. That's exactly right.
39:06But Derek, did you know this? That if you're a shepherd, I get a free pass into heaven.
39:12As long as I've got wool in my pocket and I can prove it, that's like my ID.
39:16Well, you know where that came from.
39:18Derek, I mean, he's a mind of information. He's very good at, at sort of, gleaning, sort of,
39:24information from anywhere and everywhere.
39:28What time of year did they get married? What month was it?
39:31December.
39:32So she had a big ball gown and she'll have some flowers.
39:36Yeah.
39:37And it'll be, like, all decorated and everything.
39:40Most of the things.
39:41And it'll be snowing outside.
39:42She was amazing.
39:43She was amazing.
39:44I do like to see, from the children's perspective, what interests and excites them.
39:51Because, of course, they have so many questions.
39:55Who knows what they might ask?
39:57Do you think there would be music at the wedding where she would walk in?
40:01Do you know what?
40:02That is one thing I'm sure of.
40:03There'd be music.
40:05Afterward.
40:07Afterward.
40:07They would have a disco.
40:10They danced.
40:12Like ball.
40:12The diary says that we have some dances.
40:15Ball dancing.
40:16Ball dancing.
40:18Would she be wearing heels or would she wear...
40:20She might be wearing heels.
40:23I don't think so.
40:24She'd be wearing wellies.
40:27I've got a copy of the marriage certificate.
40:31It tells us quite a lot.
40:32That's fancy.
40:37That is fancy.
40:38Oh, that's the proper care, isn't it?
40:44Anthony Clarkson.
40:46Is that?
40:46Bachelor.
40:47Bachelor, yeah.
40:49And Mary Alderson.
40:51Spinster.
40:52In the year 1,800 and 18...
40:581,000.
40:591,000.
41:00Now, look here.
41:01Cross.
41:04Molly couldn't write, so she had to do a cross.
41:06Anthony could write, so he can do his signature.
41:10Girls can learn, too.
41:12Yeah.
41:13They should have had the chance to go to school.
41:17Go, power!
41:18Shut up.
41:18No.
41:26Then we went off home.
41:28Called at Mary Knowles.
41:30Got some drink and spent the remainder of the day with some dances and got tea.
41:38Drank and danced till bedtime.
41:41Molly and I went to bed.
41:42This day was wet in the morning, but better afterwards.
41:48They went up to Ravenseed, stayed there overnight, which was the wedding night, and then had wedding breakfast the next day with the guests who had been with them at the wedding ceremony.
42:03It's the practicalities for me, just the whole journey, just the whole journey of how they did it.
42:14It's not particularly the sort of falling in love bit.
42:17I never was a Mills and Boone's fan.
42:20It's just the logistics.
42:21I feel like it does open a window up to a world that you never really consider.
42:29You know, they were full of ideas and aspirations and much the same as we are, I suppose.
42:35You know, they come down here, get married, and then head back up the dale.
42:38So, yeah, it was the start of things, and who knew that we would be able to get this insight?
42:45I'm permanently sort of juxtapositioning his life with my life.
43:09And here I am, writing my own diary.
43:15It's the human story.
43:16That's what I love.
43:21I feel like this whole Auntie John's project, the house, the diaries, have been an absolute blessing.
43:35I could never have ever envisaged that this little house on the hill end would give so much back to us, really.
43:45And I think that's why it's so good for the children, because it's bringing history alive.
43:50So, thank you, Anthony Clarkson.
43:55It's been a good summer.
43:56Busy, as expected, but plenty of good times.
44:17Well, it doesn't look like it's going to sink.
44:19It's going to sink.
44:26Mmm.
44:27Bog.
44:28Is it warm?
44:29Mmm.
44:29Kind of.
44:31No, you have to wash your feet.
44:33Gross.
44:33It's really good that we have lakes and things around here, because we can literally just head to the town, and it's really, really fun, because you can splash about and cool off.
44:47And you can go and meet up with our friends and have fun with our family.
44:54Swimming is really fun.
44:59Nancy jumped into the water and just swam straight across.
45:03Up until the last time I saw her, she was swimming with her floaties.
45:07So, that's how it happened in the past three or four weeks.
45:15Children...
45:18...revelled...
45:21...in their freedom.
45:27It was timeless.
45:29It was timeless.
45:37This is really just what a lovely summer holiday is all about, really.
45:41I mean, this is what I remember when I was a kid, and it's really nice seeing them get to have the exact same experiences.
45:50It's good to think to yourself that, actually, there is still good stuff out there.
45:57I mean, I hope...
45:58I hope that the children remember these times.
46:02And take them with them wherever they may go.
46:07No one's coming at me!
46:08No one's coming at me, and...
46:13Certainly, if you've got more people for them, how do you go...
46:15...do you get home from here?
46:16quoique you get home anyway.
46:18Have a good day.
46:23**C affordability, you are welcome...
46:26You are welcome.
46:34I'm sure you welcome everyone.
46:35Wow.
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