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00:07PIP
00:07Pip, come on.
00:11Pip, what are you doing? You've been needy.
00:14Have you got some babies in here?
00:18Eh?
00:19What's going on here then?
00:21I thought they were supposed to have eight teats.
00:24She's only got seven.
00:26She's only got seven teats.
00:28One, two, three, four.
00:30She's missing one here.
00:32No, that's your pair at the back there.
00:33Three, four, five, six...
00:36I bet there'd be another one.
00:38Seven. There's not one there.
00:40Ooh, Pip, whoo.
00:54The hottest summer on record rolls on.
00:58In our little corner of West Sussex.
01:01Wow, looks lovely.
01:03Come, Pip. Come on.
01:06Pip is piling on the pounds,
01:08and my carefully planned schedule
01:10is about to go
01:12to the dogs.
01:14Come, Pip.
01:15It's dangerous here, isn't it?
01:17She just follows me around.
01:19She's very slow.
01:21She's going to pop any minute.
01:22She's going to give birth any minute, I think.
01:25We're getting...
01:26We're getting closer and closer.
01:29Good, the bad and the ugly.
01:34It's okay.
01:35It's okay.
01:37Pip's just got to the stage now.
01:40She can't jump up.
01:41I picked her up yesterday,
01:43and she had a bit of a squeak,
01:46a bit of a pain,
01:46and she's got a little bit of milk coming up.
01:48It's all going to be exciting.
01:50Mum, I'm going to take her.
01:52All right. You all right?
01:54Yeah, well, she's panting and stuff.
01:57Pip is full of puppy.
01:59She's hiding in corners and trembling,
02:02which is making me think
02:03that the time is upon us
02:05and it's imminent.
02:07This is all my stuff
02:09that I have been purchasing.
02:11I've literally just gone mad.
02:12There's syringes.
02:14There's gloves.
02:15There's milk.
02:16Disinfectant wipes.
02:18Scales.
02:19You need scales.
02:21Puppy pad, heating pad,
02:23gloves, thermometer.
02:26There's so much to take in.
02:28Emma will not leave a stone unturned
02:31leading up to this birth.
02:33She will Google the shit out of it.
02:37Pip's my baby,
02:38so just in case anything was to go wrong,
02:42it's better to be prepared.
02:45Clock ticking on the puppy chaos to come,
02:48I need Pip stress-free and well-rested.
02:52But that doesn't mean everyone else can down tools.
02:56See you in a bit, love.
02:57Rob.
02:58What?
02:59Come in here.
03:01Yeah.
03:02Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi.
03:03I've been filming The Gentleman this morning in London.
03:05I've just got back.
03:06It's 12 o'clock and here we go again.
03:08This is a normal day at the ranch.
03:15Chaos.
03:17Right, let's go and have a look what we've got then, what?
03:19What's that, a nine tonner?
03:21Yeah.
03:22That's what we need, mate.
03:23What did I say to you four years ago?
03:25Why don't you buy yourself a digger?
03:27Because when you finish with it, you can sell it.
03:29I don't need a digger.
03:30Hold on.
03:30You've just said...
03:31Didn't I buy a digger?
03:32Yeah.
03:32Where is that now?
03:34In the shitter.
03:38Those diggers will be rolling down to the lake house soon enough.
03:43With the manor well into the second fix, all the details trapped inside my head are becoming a reality.
03:53What is this, the utility?
03:55Yeah.
03:56Oh, wow.
03:57Yeah.
03:58Yeah, I don't fuck around, huh?
03:59Nice.
04:00I walked around here yesterday and some of the stuff we've done, you pinch yourself and you go,
04:06it's quite incredible that I'm leaving this legacy in my wake, my rocket wake.
04:13The double rails in the new wardrobe, are they oak?
04:17No.
04:17What have we had to wait two weeks for, for that shit?
04:20You could have got them off the shelf.
04:22B&Q would have sold them.
04:25Absolutely magnificent.
04:26Everything else all right, Dan?
04:28Yeah.
04:30Nice.
04:31There is a garden today, we'll just put them on.
04:34Credit where credit's due, my success this summer has been a team effort.
04:40I'm absolutely over the moon at the team we've built.
04:43Patty, you've got Glen, you know, you've got all the boys up there, the carpenter's.
04:47You know, James is doing a great job getting it all going for me.
04:50Vinny?
04:51What?
04:52Where are you?
04:53This is the same team as I want for the lake house.
04:56Who's calling me?
04:56You upstairs?
04:57I just showed them where them rails were.
04:59All right, yeah.
05:00I don't want to lose any of the trades.
05:03If they go on another job, I might lose them for three months.
05:05And that'll be a nightmare, because I want to keep this team.
05:08Oh, don't say that.
05:10My crackerjack builders aren't the only ones I need to keep close.
05:15I'd be lost without me groundsman, Mick, keeping an eye out.
05:21Oh.
05:23Right, Mick.
05:25Yeah.
05:26Yeah, I've got a blow from the council down here.
05:30And no one has lived here since Celeste has moved here.
05:33We'll even see the house is abandoned, but it's not being used as a business.
05:36It's not being used as anything.
05:37It's derelict.
05:38We haven't got the planning through yet.
05:41The previous owner may have passed, but her old businesses still haunt me.
05:49Celeste used to run the caravan parks as a business, didn't she down there?
05:53Yeah, but she stopped that two or three years ago.
05:58Normal thing.
05:59Everything goes smoothly for a couple of months.
06:02One of the locals has run the council.
06:03So now I've got somebody snooping around there saying,
06:06where's the caravan business?
06:09I've got her housekeeper here with me now, Mick.
06:12How long ago did the camping site go?
06:14Before she died.
06:15She hadn't done it for a couple of years before that.
06:17So about four years it hasn't been a business.
06:19The trout fishery is a business.
06:21That's not a business.
06:22Oh, that stopped a long time before the camping even.
06:25No, that's about six years ago.
06:27Yeah, easy.
06:27The fly fishing about six years ago.
06:30Because we took it off Google, didn't we?
06:32Because we kept having the people turn off.
06:34We had a bagel off Google.
06:35And the sign we took down out the front, Mick.
06:38Yeah.
06:39All you had to do was call us.
06:40Didn't have to send someone out.
06:42Taxpayers' money, sending someone all the way out to check on what we're doing.
06:48Come on, mate.
06:48Cheers.
06:50So there you go.
06:51So down at the lake house, somebody has rung the council saying we're using it as a business.
06:56We're camping and we have got a fishing business down there.
07:02I don't blame the council.
07:04I blame these people for keep trying to stop it.
07:08They won't stop it.
07:10They'll just cost me a load of money and a load of time.
07:12And it's not fair on this beautiful grade two listed building.
07:18See, I'm still dealing with stuff that I brought.
07:21And Mandy was the housekeeper there and the chef.
07:24But down there.
07:24Yeah, 15 years.
07:2515 years.
07:26You did, didn't you, with Celeste?
07:27Yeah.
07:28Yeah.
07:29And then I started coming round, didn't I, man?
07:31Yeah.
07:31And look what happened.
07:32Oh, yeah.
07:33Come on.
07:33Should we carry on with what we're looking at?
07:35Right.
07:35Okay.
07:36All I'm trying to do is build a legacy here and put 100 years on these properties.
07:41But all I seem to be getting is 100 years of paperwork right now and 100 years of roadblocks.
07:46I am doing everything by the book.
07:49Just ring me.
07:50We'll be transparent and I'll tell you the truth.
07:52And by the way, the thousands and tens of thousands of pounds that I spend down there doing the planning
07:58would show them I'm doing it all right.
08:01Yeah, they've only got to look that up, haven't they?
08:08Locals out to upset my apple cart, when Pip's due any minute, I do not need.
08:15If the lake house doesn't get the green light soon, there's a risk James and Glen won't have a building
08:21to work on.
08:25The slowness of the planning and the consent is all against us right now and it's deteriorating very, very quickly.
08:36Flooding and lack of footings has given subsidence a chance to settle in my 200 year old cottage.
08:45One more winter we'll finish this place, I think. So I've got to get in there and sustain it.
08:54What we need to do is roll you lot over that hill into here.
08:58We don't want to lose anyone obviously, that's the plan.
09:00We're getting loads of problems here, it's all splitting, falling down.
09:04I don't know how much we're allowed to do.
09:08Have you had a look at the crack?
09:11Let's tell you what, bloody.
09:12This is just getting worse and worse so we need to do something with it.
09:16So there'll be a series of underpinning going through here.
09:18We've got the detail from the engineer.
09:20We've got the crack in the back of the lake house getting bigger and bigger.
09:24It was built on mud.
09:26There's no footings in there in the back.
09:28We need to get Glen in there, underpin that, make everything safe.
09:32Then I can get the scaffolding up, then I can get that roof off.
09:35That would take a bit of pressure off it wouldn't it?
09:37Yeah, well we'll want to do that anyway before the horrible weather, winter comes.
09:41The ridges have gone off the top there Sweeney, look.
09:44Yeah, the roof needs loads of attention so.
09:46This is what we're screaming at them for every month, that is getting worse.
09:50The biggest thing that hammers you is the weather.
09:54I've got winter coming, I've got rain, I've got snow, I've got frost, I've got ice.
10:00It's going to demolish that place and round there is just a shit show.
10:04There's electrical wires and there's cesspit tanks.
10:07It's really bad.
10:08The septic tank round there, they never emptied it.
10:11You should see it, it's like a jungle round there because of the shit.
10:15So everything was growing like nuts.
10:17If anybody from the council knew really what they were talking about,
10:22they'd say lads.
10:22Just crack on.
10:23Crack on.
10:24That's kind of where it should be.
10:26Well I'm hoping as soon as we get a decision, that is where it's going to be
10:29and they'll just let us go.
10:31So let's just get this done.
10:33I'm nearly on my knees brought to tears over the planning.
10:37So I need the lake house to get going now before it falls to the ground.
10:43Most of our stuff here is going to be get Glen down here in front of everybody,
10:47get a lovely start.
10:49You know what I mean?
10:50Do you need to look inside or not?
10:53It breaks me heart going inside.
10:55There ain't a lot we can do mate.
10:56There ain't a lot you can do inside is there at the moment.
11:07I like coming up here.
11:08It's good.
11:09At the manor house, take this off Al and paint all that, yeah?
11:14Even though the lads are smashing it.
11:17Why have you got a bit of wire around your belt, you bellend?
11:20To show you're a sparky.
11:23For once, it's not my schedule everyone's working to.
11:28Pip.
11:28Come on.
11:29Pip.
11:30Stop being...
11:31Come on.
11:33She's like blanking me.
11:35Mummy, come on.
11:36Oh, she's going in her little bed.
11:38That's all right.
11:40It's Pip's first litter.
11:42Is she nervous?
11:43I'm nervous.
11:44She's looking to me for guidance, for help.
11:47She doesn't know.
11:48I don't know.
11:50There'll be a lot of stress on Pip and on Emma.
11:53And, yeah, anxiety will be flying high.
12:00There's always a risk involved, but you can't build a family
12:03without taking one.
12:05Come on, Mama.
12:07I've told Emma from the start, taking on the puppies will not be easy.
12:11You're the most beautiful baby.
12:13It's like me down at that lake house.
12:15There's no half measures.
12:17Don't matter how scary it can be.
12:19You know, if you don't take the risk, you ain't gonna get the reward.
12:22What are we doing...
12:24Come on.
12:24...about Pippi?
12:27Because the birth is imminent.
12:30For you and her, it's the first time.
12:32So I really need to be here for that.
12:34I can do it.
12:35I've got the plates up in the air at the moment.
12:37Look, can't you see them, man?
12:39Yeah.
12:39With the other 20.
12:40All right?
12:41All right.
12:42Get that mixer going, boys.
12:45Until Pip gives us the nod, all we can do is keep calm and carry on.
12:51And I've got a long list to get squared away sharpish.
12:55So it's time to give big jobs like me log cabin a boost.
12:59What have we got on the menu?
13:01I don't.
13:02All wobbly will still be here come winter.
13:06Watch this.
13:09It's like a trampoline.
13:11Yeah.
13:11So we need to...
13:12You're gonna like this.
13:14We need to do some digging.
13:16Oh, no.
13:18So then what I'll do is I can then put some posts in there.
13:21And how deep?
13:23Six foot.
13:25Turn it in, will you?
13:27No, what are they seriously doing?
13:28No, we've only got to go down two, three foot, mate.
13:30Not far.
13:30What I want to do is put a post in here, get it level, then screw it.
13:35And it'll stop that movement.
13:37The log cabin will bring new purpose to this corner of the woods.
13:41I'm gonna have a raspberry quickly.
13:43It's made me realise I've let some other personal projects slide lately.
13:48Like my lakeside jetty and luxury beach.
13:54I drive past it every day.
13:56And at the moment it is a dumping ground for the geese.
14:00They are shitting all over it.
14:01So lovely down here.
14:06This is such a special spot.
14:09The time spent last summer with Shauna and the grandchildren was magical.
14:14So I've hatched a plan to give the whole area the makeover it deserves.
14:21Wobbly doesn't know right now that I've got another little project going on,
14:25which is another little cabin.
14:27And we'll see how long his cabin takes and how long my cabin takes.
14:32And I guarantee my days will be his weeks.
14:36Mark my words.
14:39Well smart, innit?
14:42So I've just put the foundation down.
14:44It doesn't require planning or anything.
14:46You can sit your shed or your log cabin on top.
14:49As long as you move it each year.
14:51Happy days.
14:54So last year we built memories together.
14:57You know, we built the jetty and we'll treasure them memories for the rest of our lives.
15:02The grandchildren will.
15:03You know, and we'll all build off that.
15:05I want them to cherish the outdoors, the great outdoors.
15:08You know, tree climbing and ropes and water and fishing and all that.
15:14You know, I'm building all these things but I get the memories as well.
15:18There'll be a door here.
15:20They'll build this up, put the floor in.
15:22Put it here so we can get the boats in and all that.
15:25Yeah, pretty smart.
15:27Put a couple of beds for the grandchildren at that end.
15:29Put a nice table in there, get the barbecue.
15:33Just tuck in here lovely.
15:35Grandchildren get warm, stay in here.
15:38What a spot, eh?
15:39Absolutely lovely.
15:43Cowboys and Indians and shooting out the windows and sleepovers and mates in there and all the rest of it.
15:48Sleeping bags.
15:49It's kind of a distant memory of my childhood which I want to create for them.
16:06I've got to hand it to the lads who've got me this far.
16:08It's the teamwork that makes it all possible.
16:12You're not a digger then, Grant?
16:13No.
16:14What do you mean no?
16:15No, I'm not a digger.
16:16I've done it before and I, erm, trapped a nerve.
16:20Couldn't walk for a week.
16:22Well, let's have a go.
16:23I'll have a go.
16:23Don't be such a defeatist.
16:24I'm not a defeatist.
16:25Have you seen how hard the ground is?
16:27I know, I know, I know.
16:28I'm not cut out for this.
16:29Do you know that?
16:31The young man's going.
16:32He knows that as well.
16:35Rob, you're a bit slow at that.
16:37Do you want me to have a go?
16:37No.
16:38You'll get your go in a minute.
16:40Don't worry.
16:40Let me get this out.
16:42Cool.
16:42If it keeps coming out in that size, it'll be alright.
16:45Yeah, but it won't.
16:46I can assure you.
16:48That's where it gets solid.
16:49Is this when I come in?
16:51In a minute.
16:53Alright.
16:54Clear that out.
16:55Open it up.
16:56That's it.
16:57Would it not be easy if I got my hands and knees and pulled it out?
17:00It might do, isn't it?
17:00It's up to you.
17:02Oh, look at that.
17:04Like a digger, isn't he?
17:05This is more comfortable than me working laying down.
17:08Is it?
17:08Well, you like laying down on the job, do you?
17:10Yeah.
17:10I, er...
17:11I'll say it this morning.
17:12I'm going to send him to the hospital for an x-ray.
17:15See if he's got days working him.
17:19But he weren't too amused.
17:21This is my neighbour for the day.
17:23Look.
17:23It's like a beetle upside down.
17:25A beetle upside down.
17:26I can't get up.
17:31I'm hoping Colsey can push Wobbly's cabin forward.
17:35I need jobs round here wrapped up rapido so I can move on to the lake house.
17:43Only right now, crumbling bricks and mortar aren't the only things in danger of collapsing.
17:54How you doing, mate?
17:55Good, Gerard.
17:56All dead, aren't they?
17:57All the ash.
17:58It's all rotten inside, isn't it?
18:00They're all buggered.
18:01Yeah.
18:02All of them.
18:02Yeah.
18:03Why don't you cut that horrible one down and I'll come and pick you up.
18:05You alright?
18:06Yeah.
18:06No worries.
18:07Crack on, boy.
18:08Get him down.
18:12This summer, ash dieback, a fungal disease, has taken hold.
18:18Starving my ash of water from the inside out.
18:22You can see how this has all rotted, all these.
18:26What I'm trying to do is get all this dead ash out of the place because if that goes over
18:32on some old lady walking her dog, I'm responsible.
18:35There it goes.
18:40So this is what happens.
18:41They rot from the middle.
18:42This is the disease, look.
18:46Watch out, boys.
18:47Okay.
18:49There's trees coming down everywhere.
18:51So look, it rocks from the inside out, right up, and then over they go.
18:57The trouble is what we've got, especially down the lake house, we've got them all down the
19:00footpaths.
19:01So it's our problem, basically, to clear them up.
19:05It's a shame, but they're going to go over.
19:08And what they do, the damage they do, they've got so much power, the damage is unbelievable.
19:15So I'll get the machine down there, I'll take these ash trees out, and I bet you any money you
19:21like, there'll be a complaint to the council what I'm doing.
19:25So I'm waiting for that phone call now.
19:30All I can do is keep the paths clear and the nosy neighbours happy.
19:35And maybe then, the council will finally see all the effort I'm putting in around here, trying to build something
19:42to last.
19:43How deep's it got to go, Wob, seriously?
19:45We can go about another 12 inches.
19:46For the land and the community of lads I've got working here.
19:52I shouldn't be digging holes.
19:53I've done it purely and utterly to help you out, Wob.
19:56Have you? Yes.
19:57That's the only reason.
19:58Your other job, you could have been sitting in a car, driving around.
20:02Yep, that's correct.
20:03Said you chose to line a field with me digging a hole.
20:06Something's drastically gone wrong.
20:07Me volunteering for this.
20:09I mean, Colsey's having a right sweat up.
20:13He ain't done any manual work for years.
20:15That ain't a bad hole actually, is it?
20:17And we're not concreting that?
20:18No, we're not allowed.
20:19I don't think the building game's for Colsey, if I'm being honest.
20:24Do you want a Raspberry? No.
20:26I really, really hope he finds himself a little niche down here
20:29and he can find what he's good at.
20:32I think he's going to take quite a while to find it.
20:37Here we go, let's see what's going on.
20:42Colsey's got his hands on his hips.
20:44Just as I expected.
20:46He's been lying down all morning.
20:48I said, I bet you 50 quid Colsey's got his hands on his hips watching.
20:53How can I run an empire like this?
20:54Exactly, you know what I mean?
20:56Why didn't you put one of them in there?
20:57You know the full length ones.
20:59Couldn't we run one underneath?
21:01It would be non-impossible to get the levels and get it right.
21:04Let me put three along there and then I'll try and wedge them underneath all this pit here.
21:08If you get underneath there, instead of pulling it, you can do that, yeah?
21:12How's he shaping up, Wobbs?
21:14If you like raspberries, he's alright, because that's all he does all day is eat raspberries.
21:18You can eat him well, mate. Eat him well.
21:20You look like you're eating well, Graham.
21:22You look like you're eating a lot better than the rest of us, mate.
21:27I want a field show and not a field fucking bouncy castle.
21:30Right, if you let him do it my way...
21:31I don't want no concrete, do what you want.
21:33As Marlon Brando said, I get paid to wait, not work.
21:36I know, I've seen you on the cameras, Wobbly.
21:39Oi, it's a fucking feature film!
21:43Oi, you walked into that one, son.
21:47Right, now we do it my way.
21:48He actually does nothing.
21:50Have you just worked that out?
21:51He points his finger all the time.
21:52Have you just worked that out, have you?
21:53He actually's contribution is nothing.
21:56The only thing he does is pay everyone.
21:58Yeah.
22:01Trust me, this rollercoaster of mine doesn't move without some gentle persuasion.
22:10And down by the lakeside, my hired-in cabin crew have been flying solo.
22:18Sits in there lovely, though, doesn't it?
22:24Morning, boys.
22:25Looking smart, that, isn't it?
22:27Good boy, get her in there, mate.
22:28Well, you don't muck about, you boys.
22:30That's the door.
22:31This is the door, is it?
22:33Yeah.
22:33Yeah.
22:35You like it, I love all.
22:37Not no fucking choice, am I, mate?
22:39You built it for yourself, didn't you?
22:41You sure arse?
22:41Yeah, I did, I did.
22:44Smart, innit?
22:45Yeah, I'll get the first round tonight.
22:47There you go.
22:48For you boys, all right?
22:49There you go.
22:50Whiskey on me.
22:50Pass me through much.
22:53This really looks smart.
22:55I'm really pleased with it.
22:56Cos this is how I roll.
22:58This is my crew.
22:59Wobbly, you've got it all to live up to, me old son.
23:02Come on.
23:12From the manor house.
23:14Look at that.
23:15See our roofers there?
23:16Now you see them, now you don't, them buggers.
23:18To the woods.
23:21I've got me lads out on the rocket.
23:25But back at mission control.
23:29You're not being told off, you're a good girl.
23:32All right?
23:32It's just to help you.
23:33With Pip's due date looming.
23:35Yeah.
23:37I've pulled Colsey off the cabin to help with Puppy Watch.
23:43Colsey.
23:44Hello Emma, you all right?
23:45OK.
23:45Come on, what's coming after this?
23:47I can tell something's coming.
23:48So, well, Pip's having six puppies.
23:50That's quite a lot.
23:52You know, I'm a bit, woo!
23:53If you need a hand with the pups, because I have got experience.
23:56You've got experience.
23:57You know, you've got to expect the unexpected of pups.
23:59First litter as well.
24:00So you sort of let her get on with it and then just keep an eye on her.
24:02You know, you might have to help her now and again.
24:04We can help each other.
24:05Yeah, teamwork.
24:05Colsey's motto.
24:06Get the t-shirt.
24:07Together we shall achieve.
24:11It's a lot of stuff.
24:12Did they tell you to get some farting pills?
24:14To make her blow out all the wind?
24:15What?
24:16I'm joking.
24:20Oh, bless you.
24:23See you later.
24:24Oh my God!
24:25It's going to be a long week, this.
24:27When Pip's time comes, we'll all be there.
24:32Lucky for me, I've always got my groundsman Mick by my side
24:36to take over when things get lively.
24:41Where is your list?
24:42I need to have a look at your list.
24:43It's in my head, Vin.
24:45In your head?
24:45That ain't no good.
24:47You can't.
24:48There's too much to do, mate.
24:49We've got to sit down and write a list, right?
24:53That looks well smart.
24:55Sign it off and we're done.
24:57You're done?
24:58Well, that was good timing, wasn't it?
25:00The keys are in the door.
25:02No red ribbon or nothing, lads.
25:03No.
25:05Oh, yours.
25:06Look at that.
25:14Very smart.
25:16Very, very smart.
25:18Great job, lads.
25:19I must say, the workmanship is brilliant.
25:24There's the old light that Emma wanted.
25:31That's the bee's knees, innit?
25:36What's the grandchildren swimming out there, look?
25:40It's more coming like a conservation, outdoor activity area.
25:46It's the wildlife, it's the fishing, it's everything.
25:49It's every part of the great outdoors, the great British outdoors.
25:52That's what this, that's what I'm trying to create here.
25:54And we're getting there, you know?
25:56Thank you very much.
25:57Oh, nice one.
25:58Well done, boys.
25:59Take care.
26:00Did you hang about today?
26:01Two days?
26:02Well, day and a half.
26:04There we go.
26:04The circus is out of town.
26:06See ya, lads.
26:08Love young blokes like that, getting stuck in.
26:10Proper grafters, Mick, eh?
26:12I've got plenty of work for blokes like that.
26:15That's another task completed.
26:18On to the next one.
26:21One cabin down, one to go.
26:25With Colsey moved off the job,
26:28Wobbly's had to call in a new wingman to learn the ropes.
26:33She's what they call a ger falcon.
26:35Got her yesterday, so it's her first day at work.
26:41Not the sort of thing everybody brings to work during the course of a day, is it?
26:45This takes a bit of pressure off me in the evening, see?
26:47Because obviously when I'm sort of working somewhere else with them,
26:49you're doing a day's work, then you're rushing home to try and train them and get them going.
26:52But working here, I can kind of work it into my day.
26:56But don't tell Vincent that, will you? Whatever you do.
26:58I'm doing it on my lunch break, all right?
27:01I don't want him to think I'm slacking.
27:07Over the years, he's been a great help to me.
27:10I think he realised that I was in a pretty bad place.
27:14He got me through a very difficult stage of my life,
27:16because there was times when he didn't have any work,
27:18but he found stuff for me to do.
27:21Keeping me busy, keeping me working, keeping me going.
27:24And I'm grateful for that.
27:27In a way, I'm trying to pay back how good he was to me.
27:32So it runs...
27:33For me, I guess it runs just a little bit deeper than just working here, really.
27:38She's only nine weeks old, so she's still a baby.
27:41She's very, very playful.
27:42Yeah, hopefully we can, the next three or four weeks, get her flying free.
27:47All I need to do really is teach her that I'm her mother, I'm her food source.
27:52You know, once they know that we are the food source,
27:54we then start to fly them free, build up their muscles,
27:58and then we take it from there.
28:01That larvae end up in Scotland, it'll just fly away or it'll come back.
28:03We don't know.
28:08Hopefully, Wobbly will build his muscles up on my cabin base.
28:12After his lunch hour, of course.
28:16But he's got the right idea.
28:18When you're surrounded by wildlife, you can hardly call it work.
28:23It's nice to come and have a little trot round.
28:31You look in the top of the trees sometimes, you see all your songbirds and everything all up there,
28:36all bobbing around.
28:37Our songbirds are doing good because we bring the dinner to them.
28:41So what I've got here, look, this is late stuff, look.
28:43We only put this in about two weeks ago.
28:46There's all different mixtures in there.
28:48There's kale, there's sorghum, there's loads of different stuff in there that will get all the insects
28:52and keep everything going through the winter.
28:55So everything's feeding off this.
28:58And this is why the wildlife, especially down here in West Sussex, is thriving.
29:11What's on the menu, Wobbs?
29:13Little day-old chicks.
29:15Come on.
29:17I want to try and get her to jump to me.
29:19The first stage of the training.
29:21See, she's a bit nervous.
29:23She's never done it yet.
29:24Come on.
29:27So I want her to jump off that onto me.
29:30It's the first stage of, like, recalling her to me.
29:33But she hasn't got the confidence yet.
29:37Come on.
29:39So that's the first stage of the training, right?
29:41So then what we'll do, we'll gradually progress that and get it further and further away.
29:47So that's the furthest she's ever come for her food at this moment in time.
29:52Yeah.
29:53They learn more by repetition.
29:56You know, if you want a certain action, you reward it.
30:00And the way you reward it is with food.
30:03Basically, you've got to make friends with them before you can let them go.
30:08And that, my dear friend, is your dinner for the day.
30:11Looks all happy with herself.
30:13So, little sweetheart, shall we put you down then?
30:15Try and get on with some more work.
30:19There you go.
30:20It just takes time.
30:21You can't rush them.
30:22You cannot rush this process.
30:24You've got to be very patient with them.
30:26It's a very, very intense hobby.
30:28It's an art. It's an art form.
30:29It's not an easy thing to do.
30:31You're still using the same techniques to train these birds that they were using a thousand years ago.
30:36The actual core principle is still the same.
30:39You know, unless you win that trust of that bird and you're kind to that bird,
30:43it ain't going to fly for you.
30:45So, it's a very, very traditional country pursuit.
30:49And hopefully, long may it continue.
30:53The old ways are disappearing fast.
30:56So, anything we can do to give Mother Nature a lift is worth the effort.
31:02Even if, sometimes, we do nothing at all.
31:07We're waiting to trim all our, um, hedgerows up.
31:12I think, legally, you're not allowed to do it until the 1st of September.
31:16Your hedgerows are so important, you know, for the nesting and so they can get themselves in there.
31:23If a sparrow orc or a gossel or something comes out, they can get in the hedge and get out
31:27of the way.
31:28Bramble, gorse, just nasty.
31:31You just can't get in there.
31:33What it all is, it's being managed.
31:36You've got to manage it properly.
31:38All you see is these little songbirds backwards and forwards from the hedge, into here and out, into here.
31:44Here they come, look.
31:45What's these little birds coming across?
31:48Here, here, that little chaffinch.
31:49Can I see them? See them, see them up there?
31:54There's your goldfinches, there they are.
31:56There's your goldfinch.
31:57Here they come, here they come, look.
31:59They are absolutely gorgeous.
32:03The males have got the big, all the big black stripe all down the face like Mike Tyson.
32:07The big black Maori thing and then the females haven't.
32:13Oh, that's what they're scared of. What's that? That's a kite, isn't it?
32:17Yeah, there's a red kite gone over the top. They're not happy with that.
32:21Here, look, it's a gossauk. Quick, quick here, left, left, left, left.
32:24Got him? Oh my God.
32:27Look how high she's going. Oh my God, I love them.
32:30Lemon sparrow.
32:32Why has that gone that high?
32:34Did you notice?
32:36All your goldfinches and everything, look, everything went...
32:40Let's get out of dodge.
32:42Here, look, what's that carrying? Look, look, look, look, down there.
32:45It's got a pheasant.
32:47Dropped it.
32:49There's a kite there and a buzzard.
32:52What's probably happened is the gossauk's probably killed a pheasant or something.
32:55It's eaten, it's the chest of it. You have a look, the chest will be out.
32:59And it has it warm and then it'll leave it and then your kites and your buzzards will come in.
33:04Let's have a little look at what they're feeding on.
33:12That's a partridge.
33:22So that's where they've...
33:24That's been hit and stripped, look, and then they've all had a little go on it, but...
33:30Nothing wrong with that.
33:32Keeps the wildlife going.
33:33The kites will be on that now, full blast.
33:38All in a day in the countryside, things you see.
33:42Fantastic.
33:46With the day's work done, nature can take over.
33:51But for me, there's one more job on my list that needs ticking off before the sun sets.
33:58I'm just going to check on Wobbly.
34:04Oh yeah, look at this.
34:08Quietly impressed.
34:15That's lovely, isn't it?
34:17Yeah, that is nice.
34:19Wobbly's seeing my cabin will give him the hump, make him grumpy and go,
34:23yeah, fucking flat pack, innit? Flat pack.
34:25No, it ain't.
34:26Funny, I was walking up and I thought it was reminding me of the Hobbit.
34:28It is like a Lord of the Rings house, innit?
34:31I mean, it was beautiful, it was very well designed, it's lovely,
34:34but built in a professional workshop somewhere.
34:37But that comes at a price.
34:39God knows what he paid for that.
34:42Really nice.
34:44But I'll tell you now, there is no way on the world you could build that from start to finish
34:48in three days.
34:49It's a possibility.
34:50Yes, I had four or five lads on it, but that's the only gripe he could have.
34:55Well, I'll defy anybody that can have a pile of wood like what I had with coals.
35:00I hasten to add to build that in three days.
35:04It's totally different to what I'm doing.
35:07Emma, I like her sauna in there, wouldn't she?
35:09You know, it's horses for courses, innit?
35:12It's pretty impressed. I'm going to have a nice little balcony there.
35:16I'm not too sure about Wobby's diet.
35:19Baked salt and vinegar.
35:22And every time I see him, he makes a big thing about fruit.
35:27Very suspicious.
35:28Well, that's given the benefit of the doubt.
35:31But yeah, that's coming along.
35:33Yeah, well done Wobbs.
35:45Up with the larks.
35:47At the farm.
35:49Panting since the early hours.
35:52Keep going.
35:53It's the day we've all been waiting for.
35:57Pip's pups won't be far off now.
36:03Good girl.
36:04There's good girl.
36:05There's my girl.
36:07Oh, there's a good girl.
36:10You just let her do it all?
36:12Yeah, that's all we do, innit, Pipi?
36:15You're a good girl. Well done.
36:18Obviously things are happening in her body now that she doesn't know what's going on.
36:22So it's just overwhelmingly nerve-wracking.
36:29Should we just leave her?
36:31Yes. All you do is let her be a mum.
36:37Pip's got the lead.
36:39We've got to let nature take its course.
36:43She's got to focus on the contract.
36:45I'm going to leave you to it for a minute then, alright?
36:46Alright.
36:48Patience is all part of the process.
36:51We've got a long day ahead of us now.
36:53God.
36:55There's not a lot I can do.
36:57Emma has taken the reins.
37:00I can't knock her off the horse and take the reins and away I go.
37:03I've got to let her experience this and live through this.
37:06So I think I'll stand back a little bit until she wants me, until she wants my help.
37:15Fortunately, when I need to de-stress, I've got the farm and the countryside on my back door to get
37:22lost in.
37:24That cover's come nice, Mick.
37:27Yeah, that's going on really well. Sunflowers should be out and out.
37:30The bottom part is all for your game birds and the top part will get all the little birds and
37:34all the songbirds and everything through the winter.
37:37Sunflowers, millet, sorghum, kale.
37:43Hi, love.
37:46Hon?
37:48Emma?
37:51While I'm outdoors and out of signal, back at the farm, there have been some developments.
37:59But thankfully, Blondie's Aunty Lee is on speed dial.
38:05Hello?
38:07Aunty Lee, she's been doing this since she was about 10 years old.
38:10She is an expert. She has delivered probably about 40 litters.
38:15Lee, it sort of looks like the sack is stuck. It's not coming out.
38:19How long has the sack been there visible?
38:21I don't know, about 10 minutes.
38:23If you put your finger in around the sack, can you feel a pup?
38:27How?
38:28I don't know, Leigh, I don't know.
38:30Is she having contractions?
38:32Doesn't look like it, she's just shaking.
38:34Leave her alone for a while.
38:36And let her regroup within herself and see what happens.
38:41Okay.
38:43To have somebody to be able to call that has done this a hundred times with their eyes closed is
38:50just invaluable.
38:53I mean, nobody can prepare you for something like this.
38:55You can read all the books, you can watch videos, you can talk to people, but at the end of
39:00the day, you have to be there, you have to be present, you have to be on your game.
39:12PHONE RINGS
39:14So we've got to get back.
39:16Wobbly's about, everybody's on standby, so, yeah, I don't...
39:21Everyone's going to get excited now.
39:26Emma will be absolutely traumatised, more than the dog.
39:28She's texting me and all that, trying to ring me and everything.
39:32It's a very, very stressful moment because I'm coming at it from, I completely want to protect Pippa.
39:38I'm frightened for her life.
39:40She has a puppy stuck in her for over an hour.
39:48Emma? Vic?
39:49Yeah, hi, love.
39:50Are you with Vinny?
39:51Yeah, we're trying to ring you, babe, we can't get through.
39:54Yeah, I've just tried to call you back.
39:56Come on then, what's the matter?
39:58What's happened, she's not having contractions, so now there's a sack.
40:02That's it, she's not far away, and once Dad comes out...
40:05Hun, they can take an hour between each puppies, honestly, love.
40:08Don't panic, hun, please.
40:11We will come back now and help you out, alright?
40:14So I just want her contractions to start, so we can get this puppy out.
40:19And there's no contractions.
40:21No contractions.
40:22Where has she gone?
40:24No, there's nothing where she's been lingering.
40:28She knows something was there.
40:30Just leave her and let her settle.
40:45Good girl.
40:48She knows what to do, look.
40:50You've got to get it out of the sack.
40:53Good girl.
40:55She knew to get it out of the sack.
40:58That was amazing.
41:00Instinct kicked in.
41:02She breaks the sack and licks the puppy, so she did everything right.
41:07She's a fantastic mother.
41:09At this point, I'm just relieved that we're getting going.
41:15I'm going, there's another one.
41:16Yeah, here it comes, here it comes.
41:18Good girl, good girl.
41:20Good girl.
41:21Here it comes.
41:23Good girl.
41:25That's how it should be, Steve.
41:27That wasn't how the other one was.
41:30Number two is out.
41:32And I just wanted the puppies to come out healthy and for Pippa to be okay.
41:37It's on the teeth, look.
41:39Look at that.
41:41Puppy number three is like ten minutes behind.
41:45Another one coming now.
41:47It's out.
41:48Is it?
41:48Yeah, it's out.
41:50Is that one all right, hon?
41:52Yeah.
41:53I think this one might be good.
41:55Halfway there.
41:57I don't know, hon, I might get that puppy.
41:59Are you funny?
42:01I never do this again, ever.
42:03She knows it's coming.
42:05She's trying to give it in.
42:08She's trying.
42:10What's this one?
42:12A little girl, we've got two girls.
42:16Puppy number four comes out and it is a breeze.
42:19She's going for it now, we're in the zone.
42:22Go on, Pipps.
42:23She's pushing, hon.
42:24I know.
42:27Here we go.
42:28Good, good luck.
42:29Come in.
42:31Yeah.
42:33That's it, well done, hon.
42:35I'm out of and kicking.
42:37Amazing, hon.
42:39Nature.
42:40Mate, nature.
42:42Now, now, she'll do it now.
42:44Look, she's moved it out.
42:45Good girl.
42:47Brilliant, well done, hon.
42:48So, puppy number five is out.
42:51However, puppy number six is a totally different situation.
42:58Who's got a leg out, hon?
43:00I know.
43:01Come on.
43:02You've got to push him out, Pep.
43:04Come on.
43:08You don't want me to pull it?
43:10No.
43:11Okay.
43:12Is it coming slowly?
43:14You want to get it out rapid-o?
43:18I was terrified I was going to break the puppy's legs,
43:21or break the hips,
43:22or how hard do you pull,
43:24how it...
43:24I feel like it took forever.
43:27I think she knew.
43:32Well done, hon.
43:34I'm out on steel board.
43:36In it?
43:37Mm.
43:42When the puppy finally comes out,
43:44my fear was that because the sack had broken,
43:47is the puppy going to be stillborn?
43:50Cold?
43:51It's cold.
43:53I just remember looking at her
43:56and thinking, my goodness, what a bruiser.
43:58She was a big puppy.
44:00And I don't think she was breathing at all.
44:03Do you think it can breathe?
44:04It was trying to gasp, wasn't it?
44:09This is...
44:10a life
44:11that I thought
44:13that...
44:14that can be saved.
44:15She can be saved.
44:20Don't you've got to suck them?
44:22You can...
44:23Yeah.
44:24Go on, Pep.
44:25Just keep going on that, yeah.
44:26Is it breathing?
44:28Yeah.
44:30Yeah, all right.
44:32Come on, see if she can get it, yeah.
44:38Do you like me?
44:40There's a bit of a miracle.
44:43She knew she needed help on that one.
44:45That's why she kept coming and lying on me.
44:48Yeah.
44:50We had a stillborn.
44:53And Blondie brought it back to life, didn't you, hun?
44:56A little girl.
44:57We want to keep a little girl.
44:58So...
44:59You've got to bond with that one.
45:04What I'm really proud about with Emma is she's taken on this country life.
45:08She's not a country girl.
45:09Although she's from, you know, Somerset, she soon moved to London.
45:14And, you know, to bring a puppy back to life like that, she's gone the full hog.
45:20You did it together, hun.
45:21Well done.
45:23She's tired.
45:25That'll be it now.
45:26We won't have any more with her.
45:29That's...that's...that's distressing enough, isn't it?
45:31Absolutely narrowing.
45:32It is, yeah.
45:34It's just a harrowing experience.
45:36Just...you're just hoping that they're all going to be okay.
45:39It's tough.
45:41Obviously, it's amazing and it's beautiful and it's incredible and it's magical and all these lovely things.
45:45But the other side of it is just how brutal it is.
45:53So, sadly, one puppy didn't make it.
45:56Puppy number one.
46:00But we do have five really healthy puppies.
46:05And that's...that's what we have to focus on.
46:09They're not all going to make it.
46:11That bit of love there that was going to be taken up from that little one you lost has got
46:16to be shared amongst the others, basically.
46:18That's what that is.
46:20I suppose I better go down to the chip shop now then, love.
46:26I look fondly on Emma when she's done this because she's out of her comfort zone.
46:31She's a feisty little Somerset girl that has got a roar like a lion.
46:36I've said it before.
46:37And she's taken this on and it won't beat her.
46:40Good girl.
46:42I can look at her with pride, with a lot of love and a lot of amazement and go, yeah.
46:49Fair play to her.
46:53I think she's a bloody good mum.
46:57Let the games commence, boys.
47:02There you go.
47:04After a banging summer, it's time to wrap things up.
47:09Whatever you're doing with your lorries and diggers, I need you out of here.
47:13No, no!
47:14That is the absolute nuts.
47:17This is what I envisage.
47:20Got a short on the list, not keep adding to it.
47:23Crack that whip.
47:25Finish the manor.
47:26I'd lift that when I was younger.
47:28Yeah.
47:29Rally the troops.
47:30Go!
47:31And I need everybody down that bloody hill.
47:33Yes!
47:34You're a very handsome boy.
47:36Let's go, boys!
47:38And roll on to the next one.
47:40Rock and roll, baby!
48:06You're paying.
48:11Let's go, boys.
48:11You're a jong-pack.
48:11But, you're a good boy.
48:11From the next door, you're going to be a beautiful manor.
48:11We're gonna end it.
48:11Bye, bye, bye.
48:12Bye, bye, bye.
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