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Banjo and Ros Grand Island Hotel - Season 1 - Episode 04: Mother Nature
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00:13So, this little box is very exciting. We can have power, finally.
00:18This is going to be the first time Mayne's power has been on in here in probably eight years.
00:22Let's talk more and more. Switch on, Ray.
00:29You're joking. There's lights.
00:34Amazing. Thanks so much. It's just daft how excited I am about this.
00:38It's just when you don't have a refrigerator to cool your food or plug in a washing machine and wash
00:43your clothes.
00:44You can plug in a phone charger. You can plug in a telly. Grandpa, what's that? It's light.
01:09With an income now coming in from the boathouse, Banjo and Roe turn their attentions back to the restoration of
01:16Ulva House with what remains of the initial budget.
01:19Not only does the property now have cold running water, it's finally been connected to Mayne's power too.
01:27But the recent weeks of restoration have led to some dramatic change.
01:35The roof is off in this section of the house, which is great, and the contractors are well on their
01:39way.
01:40What I'm worried about is the weather. I'm absolutely pet-fired of the weather.
01:44This is going to be done in stages. The contractors are doing all the carpentry work, building it, putting all
01:49the trusses back in.
01:50Next week is horrific weather. It's going to be wet. I'm really worried.
01:55This is one of six rooms that's exposed and doesn't have a ceiling on it.
01:59And I'm just worried about, you know, if the place gets damp again, you know, it was completely dried out.
02:06What's that mean for those rooms, you know? It's meant to be awful. It's not just like normal Scottish rain.
02:13It's meant to be awful.
02:15On the south-easterly corner of Ulva House lies what was once the drawing room. Banjo and Roe will tackle
02:22this room next, transforming it into a social space for hotel guests.
02:30I love this room. It's my favourite room. This room is going to get people here. Yeah.
02:36It's the main event. We want to make sure the room still feels like it's old and grand. Yeah.
02:42It would be really easy just to repaint it. We want to preserve that faded glamour. Yeah.
02:48Want the walls to be an arrested decay. Even this, even the kind of crackled timber, the doors,
02:56it's about keeping the feeling of faded grandeur.
03:00Rather than utterly reinvent this space, Banjo wants to capture the historic charm baked into the crumbling walls of this
03:09room.
03:09He plans to fill it with eclectic furnishings from his collection on Mull,
03:14while an orderly riot of verdant planting will counterbalance this dignified glamour
03:19and transform a drawing room into the Orangery.
03:26What's an Orangery?
03:27Like, a greenhouse and herbarium full of plants. This room needs to feel alive. It already does, since that's not
03:36just the mould.
03:37All the plants growing through the window. Yeah.
03:46You want those things? Stress. Stress me out.
03:49Just don't get in the way between a man and his secateurs.
03:53Yeah, I'll stay back here.
03:54Aw.
03:56Sad to say goodbye to our indoor plant.
04:05Yeah!
04:07That is crazy. That was a couple of metres.
04:09Too long.
04:14I want to capture the romance of the room.
04:17I think Barry's the man to invite over to learn more about the room, because he remembers it from its
04:23heyday.
04:27I have a lot of fond memories of Ulva House. It was a very nice house. I hope the house
04:32is renovated and it can become what I remember it being.
04:38He's a tough cookie. He's the man to please or disappoint.
04:43Oh, you must have some memories of this place.
04:46Well, I remember it as being a beautifully decorated room. It was very lightly furnished.
04:52Yeah.
04:53Lots of space. It was a place where people had gatherings.
04:57Yeah.
04:58It's the social centre of the house.
05:00I want to make sure that it's a space for everyone so you can come over.
05:04What kind of events? What would get you over?
05:07Christmas.
05:08Yeah.
05:09Halloween.
05:10Halloween.
05:12What about high tea?
05:15Oh, definitely. Oh, yes.
05:19I found in the barn the record collection.
05:22Yeah.
05:23From 1906.
05:25Really?
05:25So if we could get a record player which could clear them, we could have an Edwardian high tea from
05:331906.
05:34We'll put our Sunday best on.
05:35Yeah.
05:36All right.
05:37Oh, okay.
05:38Fancy.
05:39Yeah.
05:39All right.
05:42To transport tradesfolk and materials to the house when the ferry is not running, Banjo and Roe have invested in
05:50a small motorboat and a familiar face has returned to the quayside.
05:56Zoe is magic.
05:59She's a scenic artist for film and television and theatre.
06:04She specialises in arrested decay.
06:07How many times have you done this?
06:08A couple.
06:09Is it too late to get off?
06:13All right.
06:14So, this is the laundry.
06:17Okay.
06:18This is stunning.
06:20Yeah.
06:20We want to preserve that.
06:21That could stay, for sure.
06:23Yeah.
06:24This area is going to be the easiest to preserve because it's really stuck.
06:28So that's just a case of cleaning and putting a glaze on.
06:31Okay.
06:32So that's easy.
06:33That's easy.
06:37These shelves were just plain wood.
06:39I'm going to try and make them match this crackle.
06:43So I've matched the brown in the cracks to the brown on there.
06:46And then I use something called crackle glaze.
06:48And I just brush it on.
06:51And I leave it for 20 minutes.
06:54And then I put this colour, which I've colour matched, on top.
06:58It will crackle and reveal what's underneath.
07:00And then, yeah, anyone can do it.
07:04Alongside the 27 crumbling rooms of Ulver House, Banjo and Roe have inherited a vast walled garden with its own
07:13troupe of volunteer gardeners, all dedicated to its upkeep.
07:18Can I have another sod over here, please? Thank you.
07:23We come one day a week with gardeners, serious gardeners, clever gardeners, and those who are full of enthusiasm, like
07:34myself.
07:35This garden has been somewhat neglected, but there's just a bit of a magic about it.
07:41All it needs is a gang to crack on and do something.
07:46And I opened my big mouth and I said, we could do that.
07:52I mean, look at them.
07:53They're so cute.
07:54Ulver's Garden Force, I call them the Grey Gardeners.
07:58They're a wild little bunch and they come over every Monday.
08:01I'm rescuing a hydrangea.
08:04Right, you go rescue a hydrangea.
08:08I'm so inspired by the landscape here.
08:11It's so wild and beautiful.
08:12And I really want to bring that inside the orangery.
08:16To seek inspiration, Banjo has ventured to mull for the Tobermory Horticultural Society's Summer Flower Show,
08:24a standout event in the local society calendar that has been running for 135 years.
08:32Hey, big legs.
08:35And for Banjo, this event also provides an opportunity for redemption.
08:39It's been 10 years since I entered the Flower Show and was robbed of victory.
08:45I did have...
08:46Allegedly.
08:46I got discrolified for having an illegal vessel.
08:49I've been absolutely too scarred to enter for the last 10 years.
08:54Honestly, it wrecked me.
08:5610 years ago, maybe they weren't ready for me.
08:58Maybe they've caught up.
08:59And that day, I...
09:02I made a very powerful enemy.
09:04The mighty Mary McGregor.
09:06Well, well, well, what do you know?
09:09Mary.
09:11My flower nemesis.
09:13I can't remember why you were disqualified.
09:15You blamed me for it, but it wasn't anything to do with me.
09:18I beat you, that's where the grudge comes.
09:21Mary swept up all the awards last year.
09:24I thought she was away.
09:25I thought this was my year to shine.
09:33Having a wobble.
09:37Who are these people?
09:38Where did they come from?
09:40Oh!
09:41Yes, this needs a stage.
09:43There we go.
09:47Back on Olver, with the crackle glaze complete,
09:50the delicate operation on the walls has begun.
09:54So I'm just trying to colour match it.
09:56He likes this worn effect.
09:59I don't know if I'm going to be able to achieve this.
10:01Let's see what happens.
10:02Just trial and error.
10:04Might work.
10:05Not too bad.
10:07As a scenic, if it's in a film or if it's on theatre,
10:10I have to make things look like they're worn and that they're used.
10:13So, yeah, I do a lot of this.
10:16And it's kind of Banjo's aesthetic.
10:21Meanwhile, on Mull, the judge's decision is final.
10:29Where's your down here?
10:31Okay.
10:32I'm so nervous.
10:33I don't want to look.
10:34It smells beautiful.
10:35It smells beautiful, but does it smell like victory?
10:38Well, I think you're in some stiff competition.
10:41Okay, I'm not seeing nothing.
10:47That's stunning.
10:49Yours is beautiful.
10:50Who come first?
10:54Mary McGregor.
10:58Congratulations, Mary.
11:02Mary, Mary, Mary.
11:04Well, I have been doing it for a while.
11:062004, Mary McGregor.
11:072005, Mary.
11:09Barbara White.
11:09Barbara White.
11:10Oh, 2008, you let Barbara Wee have a win.
11:12One day, Mary, my name's going to be on that trophy.
11:19I thought it was my year.
11:23Alright, if Mary wants to play that game,
11:26I'm bringing in reinforcement for the hotel
11:28because I want to have the best blooms
11:30in the whole of the Hebrides.
11:40I've invited Lewisina and Lauren.
11:42They are growers and florists
11:45and they're going to show me how it's really done.
11:54Alright.
11:55Alright.
11:56Oh, no!
12:01Ah, God!
12:02You alright?
12:04Flower, please!
12:07It's all too beautiful.
12:12It's all too beautiful.
12:15It's all too beautiful.
12:19It's all too beautiful.
12:23It's all too beautiful.
12:27It's all too beautiful.
12:29It's all too beautiful.
12:31It's all too beautiful.
12:33It's all too beautiful.
12:34It's all too beautiful.
12:34It's all too beautiful.
12:35So these big, gorgeous urns
12:36are going to go in the lovely niches.
12:39They'll be the centrepiece of the room.
12:41So I just want them bursting with life.
12:43Basically what you're doing is you're building layers.
12:46Okay.
12:46So you want to build background to foreground.
12:48If you get your foliage right, then the flowers come.
12:51Yeah.
12:51Foliage first.
12:52Okay.
12:53If you sort of think about it like a fan.
12:55Yeah.
12:56Coming out like that.
12:57Coming out, yeah.
12:58She's found a home.
12:59Yeah.
13:00You don't want to necessarily see stems.
13:02Mm-hmm.
13:02So at the back here it might be quite nice if we just added...
13:05Some wee ones.
13:06Like some of the little ones.
13:07We want really, really clean stems.
13:10Yes.
13:12Beautiful.
13:13Wow.
13:14We made that.
13:18I've got so many beautiful pieces to go in this room.
13:22I've got a boulangerie shelf, a museum case that's going to be my ottoman,
13:26some gorgeous urns, and a lantern from Paris, France.
13:30I have delusions of grandeur, so I've always imagined that one day I'll have an orangery.
13:36So I've been shopping for this imaginary room my whole life, and finally I have somewhere
13:41to put everything I've collected at car boot sales, charity shops, antique fairs.
13:46It's all going into the orangery.
13:48Ooh, yeah.
13:50That's nice.
13:52That's from Paris, France.
13:54Maybe it was an old street light?
13:56She looks flash.
13:58While Banjo starts to fill the room with curiosities from his collection, outside a storm is brewing.
14:06We've got tarpaulins down covering both the flat roofs, so hopefully there were the holes.
14:14Ro must depart the island in search of supplementary build materials.
14:21I got this plinth at auction from the British Museum.
14:25It would have had some kind of exhibit in it, maybe a baby woolly mammoth, a dodo.
14:31I'm thinking it would make a gorgeous ottoman.
14:34Gonna cut a piece of timber to fit inside the niche, and then we'll wrap that with some wadding,
14:41and then some of this holstery.
14:45Then it'll be a gorgeous kind of puff.
14:51Ro woke up really early to cut this for me.
15:02But as the day folds neatly into night, the storm hits, and Ro has been stranded on Mull.
15:17Day four, mate.
15:19Yeah, I ended up spending a night in the shed last night.
15:22Bloody hell.
15:23Wasn't worth a risk.
15:23Yeah, it was one of the windiest nights in a long, long time last night.
15:26I didn't sleep at all.
15:28We'll see if we can make it over today.
15:38But back at the house, Ro's problems have only just begun.
15:46Oh my gosh.
15:49Oh my gosh.
15:58At either end of the flat roof is where the tarp is.
16:01And the roof is exposed.
16:03So it's just funneling it into this room, and it's funneling into the end room.
16:07And I don't know what I'm going to do about that.
16:10The water levels climbing.
16:11Yeah, I know.
16:13And we need to get rid of it.
16:19Because there's more coming in to what you're getting out.
16:22But I'm not sure what the solution is.
16:24I'll go up and have a look.
16:30It's just all pooling into this channel.
16:32Once that channel fills up, it's got nowhere to go.
16:34The only place it can go is inside.
16:36I'm going to have to send all this water somewhere.
16:38I don't know what to do.
16:43If I lower you down this black plastic, can you try and feed it out the window?
16:46I'll try.
16:48Just keep it really slow.
16:53Oh God.
16:54Ro!
16:55I'm sorry.
16:57Now it's...
16:57No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
16:59It's coming in the pantry.
17:01Yeah, I'm crying.
17:02Oh my God.
17:08Oh my God.
17:09That's going to explode.
17:11Okay.
17:16Oh no.
17:18Yeah, I'm crying.
17:19I know.
17:30Is this a small victory?
17:32We've got it going out the window.
17:34Sometimes I think we make things that are hard even harder.
17:40Oh my God.
17:44Oh my God.
17:45Yeah.
17:46Can you get me a jug or something?
17:48I have to do this section by hand.
17:49Why didn't we do that before?
17:51Oh, because I'm working on a different area.
17:54Ooh, pizza.
17:55Yeah, if you could just grab a container or something.
17:58Not as wide as a bucket.
18:00I just have to bail this section out by hand.
18:03I've got a Chinese takeaway cup or my German pottery.
18:07Throw the plastic up.
18:10There you go.
18:11Okay.
18:15I mean, this is bad in any situation.
18:19Extra bad because tomorrow we're opening the orange roof
18:23and now we've got a flood.
18:25I'm going to have to tell them to bring their wellies.
18:28It's still raining.
18:29I don't know if either of us are good in a crisis.
18:33All right, Heather.
18:34Yeah.
18:35I'm going to try and send some more down.
18:38Oh my gosh.
18:42Oh God.
18:43Oh God.
18:50Oh God.
18:53Is this the last bit?
19:01Okay.
19:02Well, that's all the water off the thing now.
19:05Oh, that was easy.
19:07What was?
19:08Emptying a bucket.
19:11Oh, you did well, sweetie.
19:14Nothing like a crisis to bring you together.
19:23I'm cooked.
19:25I'm so tired.
19:32I'm so tired.
19:33We're a little bit broken, I think.
19:36Yeah.
19:37It's hard.
19:38It's hard.
19:39There's so many challenges.
19:40It's very hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
19:43And you think, have we made the biggest mistake of our life?
19:52Would I do it again?
19:53At this stage?
19:56Yeah.
19:57That's a good question.
19:58I'm not sure.
19:59I don't think I would.
20:01I'm not sure.
20:02No stabile and fade away.
20:08That was too much water inside our house.
20:12I think largely we came away unscathed with all that water coming through from the storm.
20:17Yeah.
20:18Are we ready for our grand opening?
20:21No.
20:22I have had a terrible 18 hours.
20:27Why?
20:27I slept in the shed last night because it was too windy to get across.
20:31All of that water came in through the roof.
20:33I've just finished now.
20:34There's no way I can, there's no way we can do it tomorrow.
20:37Can we just push it back even a day?
20:39We can't.
20:40I've invited the gardeners, Barry, the deerstalkers, even Mary McGregor.
20:45You need to bake pastries.
20:48I am not baking pastries.
20:50You are a qualified baker pastry chef.
20:52Honestly, we can't have our grand opening and you can't phone it in.
20:57So we need teacups, sauces, a white tablecloth.
21:02You know what?
21:03I think we had a white tablecloth and I used it to mop up all that water.
21:06You're joking.
21:07No, I'm not joking.
21:08What else?
21:09What else?
21:12I've got a lot.
21:13I'm stressed.
21:15Yeah, we've both got a lot on, dear.
21:17It'll be lovely.
21:18It'll be beautiful when it's all said and done.
21:20Just need to get it done.
21:22Yeah.
21:27How beautiful is this stuff?
21:29This is an 18th century boulangerie chef.
21:32Yeah.
21:32This is actually probably one of my favourite pieces you've ever bought.
21:36Really?
21:37Yeah.
21:37All right, beautiful.
21:38I spent a bit of money on that.
21:40Don't tell me.
21:41It looks beautiful.
21:42Don't tell me what the price is.
21:43I'd prefer not to know.
21:43$1,800.
21:46That.
21:47I got carried away.
21:49She got ripped off.
21:51Gramophone tick.
22:00Happy days.
22:01Wow.
22:03That is an illusion.
22:06I'm not necessarily known for my hosting skills.
22:11Rose left me on my own.
22:13I've got to get this place ready.
22:15Okay, the guys are coming.
22:17They're en route.
22:18And I'm making tea.
22:21Do you know I've never really made a pot of tea before?
22:23Um, the tarp came off the flat roofs last night.
22:27Oh, anyway, it was a fun day.
22:29So what's on to do then?
22:30Well, Benj wants to have a tea party this afternoon.
22:33He wants laminated pastries, so he wants croissants.
22:36He wants danishes.
22:37Okay, okay.
22:38Yeah.
22:39You've not got enough to do.
22:40Yeah.
22:41I'm going to go over to Gary's and raid the Odyssey box.
22:44I'll snapple you some.
22:45Okay.
22:47Um, I think they're, like, ten minutes away to pour tea.
22:53Hey, do you know how long a tea should stay in the cup?
22:58The Ballygowan honesty box on Mull is operated by esteemed pastry chef, Gary,
23:04serving delectable delicacies to the local community.
23:10The fact that you can get freshly made laminated pastries on the side of the road
23:15on the Isle of Mal is beyond.
23:18This will be sold out in about 20 minutes.
23:20People know to come here to get these.
23:21These, um, like, they're still warm.
23:24Like, I honestly haven't had time to make this many pastries.
23:29It's ridiculous.
23:30As if, oh, my God, Benj.
23:34He's a visionary.
23:36Sandwiches.
23:41I'm actually quite stressed because I don't have any food yet.
23:50Oh, a man of your work.
23:51Thank you very much.
23:56Very good.
24:01Okay, come on in.
24:04Here we are, Barry.
24:05That was lovely.
24:06Very nice.
24:22Very nice.
24:23Very nice.
24:24Wow.
24:25Yes.
24:30The whole place is friendly again.
24:33It's looking loved.
24:34That's what I said.
24:35Yes, it is.
24:36Anybody for some tea?
24:38Oh, yes, please.
24:39A pint of chocolate.
24:41Okay.
24:43Whoops.
24:44Whoops.
24:44And then, you know, the alcoves and the light coming up, that's as new.
24:48The lighting's fantastic, yeah.
24:50Yeah, it's really nice.
24:50Just so unexpected.
24:52Oh, Mary.
24:54Aw.
24:55Is this your housewarming present or your gardenwarming present?
24:58Is that an olive branch in there?
25:00Just kidding.
25:01What do you think of my arrangement?
25:03I think your arrangements are absolutely beautiful.
25:05I took my time doing it.
25:07Mm-hmm.
25:08I took your advice.
25:09Yeah, and I'm loving the light box underneath.
25:11Okay.
25:12Now, Colin, the stalker here, is our sparky as well.
25:15So he lit these up.
25:17Yeah.
25:17I think this room, light is the key ingredient in this room for the plants, lighting up the
25:23plants.
25:25Barry?
25:25Yeah, what do you remember it being like, Barry?
25:27It's a bit more crowded than it was and definitely a lot more plant life than there was.
25:33It's got the atmosphere.
25:34It's got the warmth that the room had.
25:37It's very good.
25:40We've got a surprise.
25:41We've got a record player.
25:42All right.
25:43The record Barry found in here.
25:53Wow.
25:54That's beautiful, Barry.
25:57Very nice.
25:59They've done it really well.
26:02A tad too many plants for me.
26:04I think the plants are overwhelming.
26:06I like what they're doing with the house, some of it, and I'm still sceptible about hotel.
26:14I just, I'm just worried about them being booked up.
26:18Come October, the whole place shuts down.
26:21The whole emulter shuts down.
26:23There's nobody here.
26:26And I don't know what they're going to do over the winter.
26:32The Orangery transformation is complete.
26:36And post-storm, the tradesmen have returned to patch the flat roof and seal the water damage.
26:43Well, nothing great was easy.
26:45So you've just got to sort of remember that.
26:47I think once we get the kitchen locked down and we finally get the bedroom locked down,
26:51it'll feel like a home.
26:52I think at the moment it doesn't feel like a home at all.
26:54There's no hot water still.
26:55We have a building that's not finished and no money in the bank and no guests.
27:02So, yeah.
27:06Do you regret it?
27:08Of course I do.
27:10This is the biggest regret of my life.
27:14It's horrible.
27:16But we're too far in.
27:17Yeah, when you're too deep and you're drowning, you've just got to keep swimming.
27:23Yeah.
27:24So we keep going.
27:27So what becomes of you, my love?
27:34When love finally strips you up?
27:40How much time you've got drives?
27:43That's your poor old line that I've just watched and by you.
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