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00:07THE END
00:07Pip, come on.
00:11Pip, what are you doing? You've been needy.
00:14You've 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. She's missing one here.
00:32No, that's your pair at the back there.
00:33There's another pair.
00:34Three, four, five, six...
00:36I bet there'd be another one. Yeah, she's...
00:38Seven. There's not one there.
00:39Ooh. Pip, who?
00:54The hottest summer on record rolls on.
00:58In our little corner of West Sussex.
01:01Wow, it looks lovely.
01:03Come, Pip. Come on.
01:06Pip is piling on the pounds,
01:08and my carefully planned schedule
01:11is about to go to the dogs.
01:14Come, Pip.
01:15It's dangerous here, isn't it?
01:17She just follows me around.
01:19She's ready to blow.
01:20Oh.
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.
01:31Woo-hoo-hoo!
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, a bit of a pain,
01:46and she's got a little bit of milk coming up.
01:48It's all going to be exciting.
01:50Yeah.
01:50Mum, I'm going to take her.
01:52All right.
01:53You 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 that the time is upon us
02:05and it's imminent.
02:07This is all my stuff that 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.
02:22Heating pad.
02:23Gloves.
02:25Thermometer.
02:26There's so much to take in.
02:28Emma will not leave a stone unturned leading up to this birth.
02:33She will Google the shit out of it.
02:37Pip's my baby, so 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, it'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?
03:26Because 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, where 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
03:51a 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
04:06you go, it'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, Russ has put them on.
04:34Credit where credit's due, my success this summer has been a team effort.
04:39I'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.
04:55Who'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.
05:23All right, 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, everything goes smoothly for a couple of months.
06:02One of the locals has run the council.
06:04So now I've got somebody snooping round 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, the business, that'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 talking about 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.
06:47Come on, mate.
06:48Cheers.
06:50Cheers.
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?
07:34Right.
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.
08:01They'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 Glenn 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 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.
08:53What 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.
09:03Oh yeah.
09:03Falling down.
09:04I don't know how much we're allowed to do.
09:08Have you had a look at the, erm...
09:10Crack.
09:11Let's tell you what, bloody.
09:12This is just getting worse and worse so we just, we need to do something with it.
09:16So there'll be a series of underpinning going through here.
09:18Yeah.
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.
09:36That'd take a bit of pressure off it, wouldn't it?
09:37Yeah.
09:38Well, we'll want to do that anyway before the horrible weather, the winter comes and...
09:41The ridges have gone off the top there, Sweeney, look.
09:44Yeah.
09:44The roof needs loads of attention, so...
09:46This is what we're screaming at them for.
09:48Every month, that is getting worse.
09:51The biggest thing that hammers you is the weather.
09:54I've got winter coming.
09:55I've got rain.
09:57I've got snow.
09:58I've got frost.
09:59I've got ice.
10:00It's going to demolish that place.
10:02And round there is just a shit show.
10:05There'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.
10:12It'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.
10:25It'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...
10:30All right.
10:30OK.
10:31So let's just get this done.
10:34I'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.
10:42Most 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?
10:52I don't...
10:53It breaks my 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...
11:11Take 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, come 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.
12:02But you can't build a family without taking one.
12:05Come on, my man.
12:07I've told Emma from the start,
12:09taking 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,
12:21you're not going to get the reward.
12:22What are we doing...
12:24Come on.
12:25..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 it, man?
12:38Yeah.
12:39With the other 20.
12:40All right?
12:41All right.
12:42Get that mixer going, boys.
12:45Until Pip gives us the nod,
12:47all 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, though?
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...
13:13You're going to 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?
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,
13:33get 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 going to have a raspberry quickly.
13:43It's made me realise,
13:45I'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.
13:59They 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.
14:26And 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, isn't it?
14:41So 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, happy 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.
15:01The 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.
15:13You 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.
15:31Get the barbecue.
15:33Just tuck in here, lovely.
15:35Grandchildren get warm.
15:37Stay in here.
15:37What 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, Graham?
16:14No.
16:14What do you mean, no?
16:15No, I'm not a digger.
16:16I've done it before and I...
16:19Trapped 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.
16:27I know.
16:28I 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.
16:39Don'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.
17:03Like 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?
17:11I was saying this morning I was going to send him to the hospital for an x-ray.
17:15See if he's got a day's work in him.
17:19But he weren't too amused.
17:21This is my neighbour for the day, look.
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?
17:55How you doing?
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.
18:01All of them.
18:02Yeah.
18:02Why don't you cut that horrible one down and I'll come and pick you up, 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
18:31on 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 rots 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 footpaths.
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.
19:54I've done it purely and utterly to help you out, Wob.
19:56Have you?
19:56Yes.
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 an hole.
20:06Something's drastically gone wrong.
20:07Me volunteering for this.
20:09I mean, Colsy's having a right sweat up.
20:13He ain't done any manual work for years.
20:15That ain't a bad hole actually goes, is it?
20:17And we're not concreeting that?
20:18No, we're not allowed.
20:19I don't think the building game's for Colsy, if I'm being honest.
20:24Do you want a Raspberry?
20:24No.
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.
20:38Let's see what's going on.
20:42Colsy's got his hands on his hips, just as I expected.
20:46He's been lying down all morning.
20:48I said, I bet you 50 quid Colsy'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 nigh on 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?
21:11Yep.
21:12How's he shaping up, Wobbs?
21:14If you like raspberries, he's alright.
21:16That'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 shelter, 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 on this one.
21:52Have you just worked that out, have you?
21:53He actually's contribution is nothing.
21:55Yeah, the only thing he does is pay everyone.
21:58Yeah.
22:01Trust me, this rollercoaster of mine
22:04doesn't move without some gentle persuasion.
22:10And down by the lakeside,
22:12my 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?
22:27Get in there, mate.
22:28Cool, you don't muck about, you boys.
22:30That's the door.
22:31This is the door, is it?
22:33Yeah.
22:35You like it, I love.
22:37Not no fucking choice, am I, mate?
22:39You built it for yourself, didn't you, you short arse?
22:41Yeah, I did, I did.
22:44Smart, isn't it?
22:45Yeah, I'll get the first round tonight.
22:47There you go.
22:48For you boys, alright?
22:49There you go, whiskey on me.
22:50That's fascinating, too much.
22:53That's really look smart.
22:55I'm really pleased with it.
22:56Because this is how I roll.
22:58This is my crew.
22:59Wobbly, you've got it all to live up to, me old son.
23:12The Manor House
23:12From the manor house...
23:13Look 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, alright?
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 alright?
23:45Okay.
23:45What's coming after this?
23:46I can tell something's coming.
23:48Well, Pip's having six puppies.
23:50That's quite a lot.
23:52You know, I'm a bit...
23:53Woo!
23:53If you need a hand with the pups,
23:55because I have got experience...
23:56You've got experience.
23:57You know, you've got to expect the unexpected pups.
23:59First litter as well,
24:00so you sort of let her get on with it
24:01and then just keep an eye on her.
24:03You might have to help her now and again.
24:04We can help each other.
24:05Yeah, teamwork.
24:06Colsey'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.
24:22Oh, 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,
24:33I'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?
24:53Oh, that 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.
25:05Oh, yes.
25:06Look at that.
25:07Look 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.
25:26Good.
25:31That's the bee's knees, isn't it?
25:36Watch the grandchildren swimming out there, look.
25:40It's more coming like a conservation outdoor activity area.
25:46It's the wildlife.
25:47It's the fishing.
25:48It's everything.
25:49It's every part of the great outdoors.
25:51The great British outdoors.
25:52That's what I'm trying to create here.
25:54And we're getting there, you know?
25:56Thank you very much.
25:57Well done, boys.
25:59Take care.
26:00Two 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?
26:13I've got plenty of work for blokes like that.
26:15That's another task completed.
26:19On to the next one.
26:21One cabin down.
26:23One to go.
26:25With Colsey moved off the job, Wobbly's had to call in a new wingman to learn the ropes.
26:33She's what they call a ger falcon.
26:35I got 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 evenings, 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.
26:55But don't tell Vincent that, will you?
26:57Whatever you do.
26:58I'm doing it on my lunch break, alright?
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.
27:13He 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.
27:27And in a way, I'm trying to pay back how good he was to me.
27:32So it runs, for 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.
28:01They'll either 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.
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, all
28:36bobbing 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.
28:43Look, we 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 and keep everything
28:53going through the winter.
28:54So 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.
29:17I want to try and get her to jump to me.
29:19The first stage of the training.
29:20See, she's a bit nervous.
29:23She's never done it yet.
29:24Look, come on.
29:27So I want her to jump off that onto me.
29:30It's the first stage of 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.
30:28It'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, it ain't gonna fly
30:44for 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 till the 1st of September.
31:16Your hedgerows are so important.
31:19You know, for the nesting and so they can get themselves in there.
31:23If a sparrow orc or a gossip 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, it's being managed.
31:36You've got to manage it properly.
31:38All you see is these little songbirds.
31:40Backwards and forwards from the hedge.
31:42Into here and out.
31:43Into here.
31:44Here they come, look.
31:45What's these little birds coming across?
31:48Here, here, look.
31:48Little chaffinch.
31:49See them?
31:50See them?
31:50See them up there?
31:54Here's your goldfinches.
31:55There they are.
31:55There's your goldfinch.
31:57Here they come.
31:58Here they come, look.
31:59They are absolutely gorgeous.
32:03The males have got the big, all the big black stripe all down the face.
32:06Like Mike Tyson.
32:07The big black Maori thing.
32:09And then the females haven't.
32:13Oh, that's what they're scared of.
32:15What's that?
32:15That's a kite, isn't it?
32:17Yeah.
32:18There's a red kite gone over the top.
32:19They're not happy with that.
32:21Here, look.
32:22It's a goss orc.
32:22Quick, quick here.
32:24Left, left, left, left.
32:24Got him?
32:25Oh, my God.
32:27Look how high she's going.
32:28Oh, my God.
32:29I love them.
32:30Lemon spout orcs.
32:32Why has that gone that high?
32:34Did you notice?
32:36All your goldfinches and everything.
32:38Look, everything went poof.
32:40Let's get out of dodge.
32:42Hey, look.
32:42What's that carrying?
32:43Look, look, look, look.
32:44Down there.
32:45It's got a pheasant.
32:47Dropped it.
32:49There's a kite there and a buzzard.
32:51What's probably happened is the goss orc's probably killed a pheasant or something.
32:55It's eaten.
32:56It's the chest of it.
32:57You have a look.
32:58The chest will be out.
32:59And it has it warm.
33:01And then it will leave it.
33:02And 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.
33:26And then they've all had a little go on it.
33:29But...
33:29Nothing wrong with that.
33:32Keeps the wildlife going.
33:34The kites will be on that now.
33:35Full blast.
33:38All in a day in the countryside.
33:40Things 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.
33:56Before the sun sets.
33:59I'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.
34:21We'll give him the hump.
34:21Make him grumpy and go,
34:23Yeah, but flat pack, isn't it?
34:24Flat pack.
34:25No, it ain't.
34:26Funny, I was walking up and I thought it reminded me of The Hobbit.
34:29It is like a Lord of the Rings house, isn't it?
34:31I mean, it's beautiful.
34:32It's very well designed.
34:32It's lovely.
34:34But built in a professional workshop somewhere.
34:37But that comes at a price.
34:39God knows what you paid for that.
34:42Really nice.
34:44I'll tell you now, there is no way on the world you could build that from start to finish in
34:48three 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, isn't it?
35:12I was pretty impressed.
35:13I'm going to have a nice little boat with me there.
35:16I'm not too sure about Wobbly'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, at the farm, panting 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, there's good girl, there's my girl.
36:07Ah, 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.
36:17Obviously, 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.
36:31All you do is let her be a mum.
36:36Pip'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, all right?
36:48Patience is all part of the process.
36:51We've got a long day ahead of us, huh?
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 me back door to get
37:22lost in.
37:24That cover's come nice, Mick.
37:27Yeah, that's been on really well.
37:29Sunflowers should be out now.
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.
38:11She has delivered probably about 40 litters.
38:15Lee, it sort of looks like the sack is stuck.
38:17It'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.
38:33She's just shaking.
38:34Leave her alone for a while.
38:36OK.
38:37And let her regroup within herself and see what happens.
38:41OK.
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.
38:56You can watch videos.
38:58You can talk to people.
38:59But at the end of the day, you have to be there.
39:02You have to be present.
39:03You have to be on your game.
39:12PHONE RINGS
39:14So we've got to get back.
39:16Wobbly's about.
39:17Everybody's on standby.
39:18So, yeah, I don't...
39:21Everyone's going to get excited now.
39:26Emma will be absolutely traumatised, more than the dog.
39:29She'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?
39:48Vic?
39:49Yeah, hi, love.
39:50Are you with Vinny?
39:51Yeah, we're trying to ring you, babe.
39:52We can't get through.
39:54Yeah, I just tried to call you back.
39:56Come on then.
39:57What's the matter?
39:57What's happened, she's not having contractions, so now there's a sack.
40:02That's it, she's not far away, then.
40:04Once Dad comes out...
40:05They can take an hour between each puppy, honestly, love.
40:08Don't panic, hon, 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 is she at?
40:24No.
40:25No, there's nothing where she's been lingering.
40:28And she knows something was left.
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.
41:05So 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
41:35and 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?
41:51Yeah.
41:53I think this one might be good.
41:55Halfway there.
41:59Very funny.
42:01Never did read this again.
42:03Ever.
42:04She knows she's coming.
42:05She's trying.
42:08She's trying.
42:10What's this one?
42:12Little girl.
42:13Got two girls.
42:16Puppy number four comes out and it is a breeze.
42:19She's going for it now.
42:21We're in the zone.
42:22Go on, Pipps.
42:23She's pushing, hon.
42:25Here we go.
42:28Good girl.
42:29Come in.
42:31Yeah.
42:33That's it.
42:33Well done, hon.
42:34I might have them 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.
42:47Well 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, Pip.
43:04Come on.
43:08You don't want me to pull it?
43:10No.
43:10Okay.
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, or break the hips, or how hard do you
43:23pull?
43:24I feel like it took forever.
43:27I think she knew.
43:30What?
43:32Well done, hon.
43:34I'm stillborn.
43:36Isn't it?
43:42When the puppy finally comes out, my fear was that because the sack had broken, is the puppy going to
43:48be stillborn?
43:50Cold?
43:51It's cold.
43:53I just remember looking at her and 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?
44:05It was trying to gasp, wasn't it?
44:08This is a life that I thought that can be saved.
44:16She can be saved.
44:20Don't you've got to suck them, you can...
44:22Yeah.
44:24Go on, bud. Just keep doing 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?
44:40This will be a little miracle.
44:43She knew she needed help on that one, that's why she kept coming and lying on me.
44:48Yeah.
44:50We had a stillborn, and Blondie brought it back to life, didn't you, hun?
44:56A little girl, we want to keep a little girl, so you'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, well done.
45:23She's tired.
45:25That'll be it now, we won't have any more with her.
45:28That's, that's, that's distressing enough, isn't it?
45:31Absolutely narrowing.
45:32It is, yeah.
45:34Just a harrowing experience, just, you're just hoping that they're all going to be okay.
45:39Tough.
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.
46:04And 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,
46:16has got to be shared amongst the others, basically.
46:18That's what that is.
46:20I suppose I'd 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 and 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.
47:07It'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 nut.
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.
47:41Rock and roll baby.
47:41I don't want to be.
47:55I do it.
48:10I'm sure it's all for a long time.