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00:31I have to leave it there, Derek, I'm afraid.
00:33Minister, there's only five days till the election.
00:34I'll just have to chance it. It's a very difficult time of year for me.
00:37But it's the whole of the Wellington estate.
00:39Well, just keep the chaps going on the
00:40sorry you were out with our called cards, all right, Derek?
00:43I'm glad you like the book.
00:46Sorry about that, fans.
00:48Got everything?
00:49Oh, I think so.
00:50Uh, cases.
00:52I've put the dog in the kennels and I've cancelled the interview.
00:55He didn't mind.
00:56Well, then, Bragg, I don't think you noticed, poor old boy.
00:58He's pretty gaga these days.
01:02Why can't you drive something electric like everyone else?
01:05It's very bad for my image.
01:06I don't care about your image.
01:07It's mine I'm concerned about.
01:09Look, if you don't have left in the car, just get out.
01:11It's quite fun. I will.
01:12I've got the modern.
01:20I'm very sorry.
01:22Do you not? Please.
01:24Don't even want encore.
01:26I've told you out there to check my contract.
01:27I said not tonight.
01:29But the audience, what do I tell them?
01:32I've told you, it's New Year's Eve
01:34and it's somewhere very important where I have to be.
01:38No, I'm sorry.
01:39I'm not signing tonight.
01:40Jack, Kennedy Airport and step on it.
02:05Sorry about that, Julie.
02:07I just had the bishop on the phone for the last hour.
02:10We're all in a bit of a state about the abdication.
02:12Oh, that.
02:13I'll be, uh...
02:15We're okay for time, are we?
02:17He doesn't like people to be late.
02:18Uh, car computer says four and a half hours.
02:21Cheers.
02:37Okay, Mum?
02:38Ready when you are.
02:41You're not going to tell me, are you?
02:42What?
02:44You fly 2,000 miles, get me to drive another 600, and it's a party.
02:49I'm very grateful, Barney.
02:52What's it all about?
02:53Who are these people?
02:54Just friends.
02:56People I used to work with.
02:58You used to work?
03:00Like you had a job?
03:02I was deputy manager of a leisure centre.
03:05You're kidding.
03:06As a matter of fact, I was a rather good one.
03:09You mean you've come all the way from Chicago to spend an evening with people you used to work with?
03:16There's a bit more to it than that.
03:19It's a long story.
03:34We've still 200 miles to go.
03:36It's not a secret, is it?
03:38Oh, no, nothing secret about it.
03:41Well, go on, Mum.
03:42Well, I suppose it all began 30 years ago.
03:45It was just after Christmas.
03:47The leisure centre had only been open a few weeks, and Mr. Brittus, he was the manager,
03:52decided that the weather was so bad that he couldn't allow anyone to go home.
03:55We can't go home.
03:57I'm afraid not, Linda.
03:58It's the weather, you see.
03:59The police have been warning people all day not to go out.
04:02Then why did you make us come in?
04:03We're public servants, Tim.
04:05Supposing we'd had a customer.
04:06I can't stay.
04:08I've got a fancy dress.
04:09Yeah, we've got eight people coming to dinner.
04:10We all had plans.
04:12We're all disappointed.
04:13Carol here wants to get home to feed her baby, don't you, Carol?
04:16Yes, Miss Brittus.
04:17You're absolutely right.
04:19But just like the rest of us, she may have to put that one on the back burner and spend
04:23the night here.
04:23No way.
04:24I spent 15 quid on a Manoan bulldancers costume.
04:27I'm going home.
04:28I'm sorry, Julia.
04:29I cannot allow any members of my staff out in conditions like that.
04:32Are you sure it's that bad?
04:33Bad enough for a theatrical costumier's lorry just to slide off the dual carriageway to the back of the badminton
04:38hall.
04:38Thank you, Laura.
04:39How are things that aren't still, Mr. Brittus, and no luck with the telephone, I'm afraid.
04:43Right.
04:44Laura, how's the lorry driver?
04:45Yeah, I gave him your message about staying, Mr. Brittus, but he said he'd rather take his chances in the
04:49snow.
04:49Well, if he can make it, I know I can.
04:53No-one is going anywhere.
04:55There's a force-eight blizzard blowing out there, a windchill factor of minus 30, and some of those drifts are
05:00over 20 feet deep.
05:02Only a lunatic would go out in conditions like that.
05:06Hello, Gordon.
05:08Can you let me in?
05:09What were you thinking of, my darling?
05:12You've got my pills.
05:13What?
05:13My prescription. You said you picked it up from the chemist.
05:16Don't tell me you forgot.
05:18Oh, Gordon!
05:22Give them to me, Gordon!
05:24Of course I didn't forget, my darling, but next time I think...
05:26You didn't hear a forecast, by any chance, did you?
05:28Closing in, they said, that's where I had to get out here.
05:30I'd only got three left in the bottle at home.
05:32You mean we could be stuck here?
05:33What are we going to do?
05:35I'll tell you exactly what we're going to do.
05:37We're going to seize this opportunity that fate has thrown our way.
05:41What opportunity is that?
05:43Think, Laura, think.
05:45Here we are, just starting out in our work together.
05:49This is our big chance to bond together as a team.
05:52You want us to bond, Mr Brittus?
05:54Colin, for once in our lives we have time.
05:57Time to have seminars, to do role plays, to plan for the future,
06:02to work out which direction we're going towards.
06:04Or maybe just sit around and have a good old-fashioned chit-chat, eh?
06:08Oh, God!
06:10Try one of these, Julie.
06:11Trust me, this is going to be fun!
06:17What do you mean we've run out of coal?
06:19It's a very large building, Mr Brittus.
06:21And you are heating gym halls, a swimming pool, squash courts?
06:24The coal lorry came on Christmas Eve.
06:26The coal lorry did come, Mr Brittus,
06:27but if you remember, you told him that if he couldn't turn up at the time arranged,
06:31he might as well not turn up at all.
06:34Right, how long will it last?
06:35What?
06:36The coal we have at the moment, Colin, how long will it last?
06:41Well...
06:45Oh, I suppose it's something.
06:46We've still got power.
06:47It's bad news there as well, I'm afraid, Laura.
06:49That's a brand-new generator, Colin.
06:51There can't be anything wrong with it.
06:52The emergency generator's working splendidly, Mr Brittus,
06:55but it has been running flat out for the last two days and...
06:58We've run out of petrol.
06:59Exactly.
07:00Right.
07:01Come with me.
07:02So, that is the situation.
07:03We have no heat, electricity for a limited amount of time,
07:07and the weather is not going to improve for another couple of days.
07:10How do you know?
07:11Who's been up on the roof signalling with a torch?
07:15I have made contact with a Boy Scout
07:18in Sycamore Road, who also knows Morse,
07:21and according to a report that he saw on Blue Peter,
07:25well done then.
07:26The weather is not going to improve for several days.
07:30So, as a consequence,
07:31I am now declaring a shift from Code Green to Code Purple.
07:37Perhaps you'd better remind us, Mr Brittus, which is Code Purple?
07:40A potentially life-threatening situation, Laura,
07:43which gives me emergency powers to commandeer all available resources.
07:47Now, this is all the food we have.
07:50Well, where can't we use the canteen?
07:52If you remember, Julie,
07:53the canteen was sealed by the police until after the inquests.
07:56And if there's food in there?
07:58I spoke to one of the forensic scientists, Gavin.
08:00You wouldn't want to touch it.
08:01Nothing else anyone would like to tell us about?
08:04No little secret supplies people may have hidden away somewhere?
08:10Tim?
08:11No.
08:13Tim, I'd like to point out that some people could get rather angry
08:16if after a couple of days they find out someone's been holding something back.
08:20Look, I...
08:22Look, just because I had the sense to go shopping yesterday,
08:24I don't know why I should share it with you.
08:25If you'd like to put it on the table, please, Tim.
08:30Not fair.
08:31Tim!
08:37Anything else?
08:38Well, the other one's just booze.
08:40Oh, make him share that too, Gordon.
08:42On the table, please.
08:52Right.
08:53I shall be cataloguing these resources
08:56and working out a fair rationing system, all right?
09:01In the meantime, the food will be placed in a locker with three padlocks.
09:06Three?
09:06Yes, one for me and one for each of my two deputies.
09:09As in case one of them goes mad.
09:11However, as I see it, the main danger we face is not lack of food,
09:16but a weakening of morale.
09:19Which is why I have laid on extra community activities.
09:24Starting with a spelling contest,
09:26followed by another level to the badminton knockout tournament,
09:30which you'd all be glad to hear contributes golden team points
09:33in the overall competition.
09:35Miss Ruth, I'm sorry to disturb you,
09:36but I wondered if you'd heard the helicopters.
09:38The what?
09:39The helicopters just above us.
09:40Listen.
09:42They've come to drop supplies!
09:43We're saved!
09:44We're saved!
09:46Right, please!
09:49But how are they going to get us down to us?
09:51What?
09:51The supplies.
09:52If they land in the snow, we're never going to find them, are we?
09:55Well?
09:55We can't even get out of the building!
09:57I'd imagine the authorities have a great deal of experience
10:00in coping with these situations, Linda.
10:02There must be some simple way of delivering food.
10:05Oh!
10:08Right, nothing simpler.
10:11Believe what's happened, Mr. Pitters.
10:12I was just standing in the corridor.
10:14Just read it in, please, Colin.
10:15Oh, Mr. Pitters, I think we must have had a helicopter drop.
10:18Oh, God, what was that?
10:19Stand back!
10:20There'll be enough for everyone!
10:48Oh, man!
10:51I'm going to wear candles, Colin.
10:55Right, in view of last night's squabbles, everyone,
10:58I've worked out a new rationing system based on body weight
11:01and calorific needs.
11:03It's very simple.
11:04Names along the side, foods along the bottom.
11:07You look for the ticks in the stars.
11:09So, for example, Linda's breakfast this morning,
11:11two carrots, a sardine and an after-eats.
11:14Yes, Carol?
11:15Why don't I get a sardine?
11:18Carol, the point system takes into account
11:20that some people are more valuable to the group than others.
11:23Any more questions?
11:25Can we eat, Gordon?
11:26Yes, of course, my darling, all in good time.
11:28What I've tried to do is make sure that everyone has a nutritional intake...
11:32Oh, for goodness sakes, Gordon, just get on with it!
11:34We're all starving to death here!
11:36All right, my darling, let's form a queue, please.
11:39This way, alphabetical order, an orderly queue, please.
11:42Mr Brittas!
11:42Colin, you're up here with me.
11:44Yes, Mr Brittas, I know it's just...
11:45Colin, let's not discuss things, shall we?
11:47We'll do that later. People do want to have their breakfast.
11:50Yes, Mr Brittas.
11:51Right, I shall go first.
11:55Now you, Laura.
12:00Right, Colin?
12:01Mr Brittas.
12:01Just do it, Colin.
12:02I can't.
12:03Colin, I hope you're not going to tell me you've lost your key.
12:06No, no, it's not lost, Mr Brittas.
12:08Where is it, then?
12:09It's in my coat.
12:10Right-hand pocket, third hook along, in the downstairs gents' cloakroom.
12:14Well, go and get it, Colin.
12:15I can't.
12:19In here?
12:20Yes, Mr Brittas, it's just...
12:23I can only imagine it's when the helicopter dropped the pig nuts last night.
12:26One of the bags must have come through the roof and fractured a water pipe, and then during
12:29the night...
12:29Your key's in there?
12:31Third hook from the left, Mr Brittas.
12:33You mean, we can't get to our food?
12:34Not until it melts, I'm afraid, Tim.
12:36We're going to die.
12:37We're all going to starve, and then we're going to freeze, and then we're going to die!
12:41No one is going to die, Tim.
12:43There's a very simple answer to all of this.
12:48Ladies and gentlemen, what Colin is going to do is drill around the padlock, the door
12:53will open, and breakfast rations will be issued.
12:57What was that?
12:58What?
12:59I had breaking glass.
13:00I think I may have broken something, Mr Brittas.
13:03Oh, it's not the brandy.
13:04Oh, please, please.
13:06Let it go for the brandy.
13:08Helen, Helen.
13:09All right, careful, careful.
13:11Right, let me see.
13:20You've set fire to it, you stupid, stupid man.
13:25You've set fire to it.
13:26Helen, Helen, Helen, don't get it.
13:37All right, everyone, panic over.
13:40So's breakfast, I think.
13:45Right, so let's look at the facts.
13:47Food situation?
13:48There isn't any.
13:49Right, power?
13:50I'm working on it, Mr Brittas, but at the moment, none.
13:53Right, and there's going to be no let-up in the weather.
13:56So we have no heat, no light, no food.
13:59So it becomes increasingly important we get a good turnout for tonight's sing-song.
14:04You're not planning another one?
14:05The only reason why people didn't join in last time, Laura, is because they didn't know
14:09the words.
14:10Well, I've had Carol write out these song sheets.
14:14I'm H-A-P-P-Y.
14:16Down on Jollity Farm.
14:18I see what you're doing, Mr Brittas.
14:20You're picking the bright ones, aren't you?
14:22Oh, very clever.
14:24Nah.
14:26And, of course, if people don't want to sing, they can play in a band.
14:28Colin's got a mouth organ.
14:30Tim and Gavin can make shakers out of yoghurt pots and bean bags.
14:32No beans.
14:33What?
14:34No beans.
14:35That was the soup we had yesterday.
14:37All right, then they could use gravel.
14:38I don't think a sing-song is going to save us, Mr Brittas.
14:41Laura, we've got to do something.
14:42Have we?
14:43We can't just abandon them.
14:44You've seen morale.
14:45Every time I walk into a room, a fight seems to break out.
14:50Grief, what's that?
15:17No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
15:22I said no.
15:25Come on, Carol.
15:26I'm sorry, Tim.
15:27I'd like to help.
15:28They're the last bit of wood in the building, Carol.
15:30It's either that or we freeze.
15:31No, it's what I do.
15:32We've got personal things.
15:33Well, we'll just take the cupboard door, then.
15:35No, I've got documents in there.
15:37Documents?
15:37They'll burn.
15:38No, no, please.
15:38Look, we're not going to take the drawer.
15:40We're just going to take the bits round it.
15:41Oh, go, go, go.
15:43I've got it.
15:45Look!
15:45We were supposed to share our food, Carol.
15:48I haven't got any food.
15:49There's blackcurrant juice in here as well.
15:51It's not mine.
15:52You've got blackcurrant juice.
15:54I've spent the last 72 hours drinking nothing but water, and you've got blackcurrant juice.
15:57I promise you it's not mine.
15:58I bet she's got more in the drawer.
16:00No, I haven't.
16:00Look, I'm away, Carol.
16:01Come on.
16:02No, I haven't.
16:03Leave her alone.
16:04I knew it.
16:05So where's the menu crack first?
16:06Gabby, get off.
16:07Now, what's happening?
16:08She's been hoarding food in there.
16:10I bet she's got more in the drawer.
16:11Finding a few tins of food is no excuse for brawling, Gabby.
16:14Yes, it is.
16:15This is chocolate dessert.
16:17Ten jars of chocolate dessert.
16:19See what else she's got.
16:20I know what it looks like.
16:22Look, I can explain.
16:24You see, is there something else we can eat?
16:26Only as a last resort.
16:30What a way to spend New Year's Eve.
16:33Oh, it's not, is it?
16:34I've rather lost track of the days.
16:37Start of a new decade.
16:38Here we are, in a cellar, eating cold baby food in the dark.
16:43I'm rather enjoying it.
16:45What?
16:46I normally have to spend New Year's Eve with Gordon's family.
16:49It's rather nice being with people alike.
16:52I always thought it must be like this at boys' boarding schools.
16:55You know, all chaps together having fun.
16:57I'm not sure fun is how I describe the last few days, Mrs Bridges.
17:01Oh, I agree with her.
17:02Well, you all may have wonderful things planned for the holiday, but Ben's father and I are going through rather
17:08a bad patch at the moment, actually.
17:10It's rather a relief to be here.
17:12You've all been so nice about the baby.
17:15It's like having a family.
17:16No, no, I'm sorry.
17:17I cannot see the good side of being half-starved and frozen to death by a man who wakes us
17:22up at 5.30 for community singing and apple bobbin.
17:25Julie!
17:25I don't want to be rude about your husband, Mrs Bridges.
17:27It's just, well, he's awful.
17:30Julie, that's not very fair.
17:31No, it's all right, Laurie.
17:32You don't have to defend him.
17:34I don't defend him and I'm his wife.
17:35No, no, Mr Bridges works extremely hard.
17:38And whatever's happened over the last few days, I think we could all learn from him.
17:43What?
17:44Learn from Bridges?
17:45Oh, go on then.
17:46Tell us what you've learnt from him.
17:48All right.
17:50Tolerance.
17:50Yeah, he's not very tolerant, is he?
17:52No, I mean, he's made me more tolerant.
17:54Before I came here, I used to get really annoyed at all sorts of things.
17:58Traffic, rudeness, the post office.
18:00But now, I just don't.
18:02I don't seem to matter.
18:03You see, Julie, it's making you a much better person.
18:07It's like police horses, isn't it?
18:10Sorry?
18:11Police horses.
18:12That's how they train them, by waving flags in their faces,
18:15sticking forks in their backsides and letting off fireworks.
18:18Then when it comes to the big parade, they don't mind at all.
18:21They can take anything.
18:22That's it.
18:23Well, I'd rather be somewhere decent, with clean clothes and a stiff drink.
18:27It's not exactly party time and bright lights.
18:29Stop right there, Julie.
18:31That is something, at least, I may be able to provide.
18:34As many of you will know, I have been boiling cattle cake.
18:38I told you, Colin, we're not going to eat it.
18:40And from this corn mash base, using waste heat from the boiler,
18:45and with this simple length of copper tubing,
18:48I have produced a certain amount of fuel.
18:50You've made a steel.
18:52Which, when placed into our emergency generator...
18:55Give that to me, Colin.
18:56Of course, Mrs. Britters.
18:58And with one or two minor adjustments to the carburetor...
19:01This is alcohol.
19:03120% proof, Mrs. Britters.
19:05You're going to run the generator on that?
19:06We may need one or two additives to aid combustion.
19:09Ooh, that's not bad.
19:11Mrs. Britters, I don't think you should be drinking that.
19:13Quite apart from the medical hazard, we only have a very small amount.
19:16How much have you got?
19:17Eight and a half pints, Tim, but I'm hoping that by later tonight...
19:20Eight and a half pints.
19:23She's right. It's OK.
19:26No, I think if we'd just have a bit of black currant juice...
19:28There we go. Now, try that, Laura.
19:30Mrs. Britters, I meant that spirit to provide heat and light.
19:34I think it does both of those things quite well, Colin.
19:37Well, at least leave me enough to power Mr. Britters' emergency exit signs.
19:42Ah!
19:43What have I found, everyone?
19:44Oh, goodness!
19:45You do it as you get there.
19:46I suddenly realise there's masses of wood.
19:50Out there in the lorry.
19:52There's a table, tea chest...
19:54What lorry?
19:55The one that crashed.
19:56It was carrying the whole set in costumes for a production of any spectacles for the Chichester Festival Theatre.
20:03Costumes? You mean clean clothes?
20:05Yeah.
20:05Well, and tables and chairs.
20:07They've probably got china and cutlery and that sort of thing.
20:09Yeah, there's whole crates of it.
20:12Why?
20:13What is it?
20:17Well, that's made a difference.
20:19What are you talking about, Johnny?
20:20Certainly will.
20:22Can I have some more stuff for the boiler, please?
20:24Yeah.
20:25Coming up...
20:26One Mary in the visitation.
20:29Hey, erm, I've made that the last of the pictures, Linda.
20:33It's only a prop for a play, Julie.
20:35Yeah, it says here it's on loan from the National Gallery.
20:41Typical, isn't it?
20:42What?
20:42The men pushing off, leaving the women to do all the work.
20:45I'm sorry I'm not able to help, Mrs. Brittis.
20:47It's taking rather longer than I expected.
20:49How's it going?
20:49No problems, Laura.
20:50I don't know why I didn't think of it before.
20:52With all the resources to hand,
20:53what could be easier than knocking up a simple radio receiver?
20:56Good.
20:57Who's sitting here?
20:58Is there one too many places?
21:00That's Mr. Brittis.
21:01Oh, yeah.
21:02Where is he?
21:03He's up on the roof.
21:04Gavin and Tim have gone to tell him.
21:06What are you doing up there?
21:07He's been trying to signal for help.
21:08I hope it's all right.
21:10He's been up there for three hours with just his jacket on.
21:12Oh, no, he gave that to me.
21:13It was a bit cold earlier.
21:17Mr. Brittis!
21:18I wouldn't try and straighten his legs to be spoiled out, though.
21:21He looks off!
21:22Perhaps we should warm him with our buzzer.
21:24I think we'll leave that to a last resort, Linda.
21:25Here, put him down here, boys.
21:26He was still trying to signal when we found him.
21:28We would have been quicker
21:29and he'd lashed himself to the gutter to stop him sliding off.
21:33Come on, Gordon.
21:39Now, drink this.
21:40What is it?
21:41There's no time for a debate.
21:43Just drink it.
21:46It's like in those cartoons, isn't it?
21:47When Sylvester's been in a block of ice
21:49and the red glow spreads up from his feet.
21:52What's happening?
21:53Where are we?
21:54You're in the boiler room, Mr. Brittis,
21:56and I'm just about to serve supper.
21:58You found some food?
21:59It's not much of a meal, I'm afraid,
22:01but I thought we'd start with egg and rice,
22:03followed by spring lamb and pureed spinach,
22:05and then we're going to finish up
22:07with a little something Tim has made
22:08called stewed apple and rusk surprise.
22:11So, if you're all right, take your seats.
22:13Come on, then, Gordon.
22:16There we are.
22:25Before we start, could I just say something, please?
22:28Only if it's very short, Gordon.
22:30I'd just like to say it's going to be all right.
22:33What is?
22:34I managed to get through to the lad in Sycamore Road,
22:37and he says that Newsround reported a warm front
22:40coming in from the west.
22:41Yes, snow's already clearing in Wales.
22:43Most of it will be gone by tomorrow,
22:45and you'll all be able to go home.
22:47Home?
22:48And I'd also like to apologise.
22:52I know the last few days haven't been the easiest,
22:55and I, as your leader, to some extent,
22:58take the responsibility for that.
23:00It's all right.
23:01What?
23:02We didn't mind, really.
23:04Some of us have rather enjoyed it.
23:07Some of us haven't.
23:08But we didn't mind either.
23:10Not that much.
23:12Well, I must say I'm very proud of you.
23:14I don't mind admitting that earlier on
23:16I thought morale was beginning to crack,
23:18but how wrong I was.
23:21And I think this also might be a good time
23:23to share with you
23:24an idea that I think you'll find rather exciting.
23:27I haven't told anyone this before,
23:30but I have a dream.
23:35A dream that one day...
23:37Hold it, everybody!
23:38I think I've got it!
23:40Yes!
23:41Here we are.
23:43Happy New Year, everybody!
23:46Happy New Year, everybody!
23:53Happy New Year!
23:55Oh, no, I think we should do this every year.
24:03For all anxieties, for all anxieties,
24:06for all anxieties,
24:10we'll take the top of the world
24:13and we'll take the top of the world
24:14and we'll take the top of the world
24:15and we'll take the top of the world
24:17and we'll take the top of the world
24:18So you've met every year since then?
24:21Every New Year's Eve for 30 years.
24:24Wow.
24:25It's a funny thing.
24:27Mr. Pritch has always said
24:28he wanted us to bond together as a team
24:30and in the end we did.
24:32It was the only way we could survive.
24:33Oh, Liz!
24:35We got pretty close to each other, huh?
24:37Yes, we did.
24:38But that's not why we meet.
24:40It's more to say thank you, really.
24:43Thank you?
24:44Look at them, Barney.
24:47Three millionaires, an international pianist,
24:49an archdeacon and a government minister.
24:53That's not what normally happens
24:54to the staff of a leisure centre.
24:56I guess not.
24:57But then ours was no normal centre.
24:59We were forged in the furnace.
25:00We walked through the fire together,
25:02literally, on some occasions.
25:05and it changed us.
25:12Thanks for driving me up.
25:13I'll see you tomorrow.
25:14OK, Mum.
25:29I liked the new book, too.
25:31Oh, thank you.
25:32Is this another one to go with a television series?
25:33Oh, no, it's not a cookery book.
25:34This one's a novel.
25:35About a leisure centre manager
25:36whose staff can't stand him
25:38and who keeps burning down the building.
25:40It's great for me.
25:41People keep asking me
25:41where I got the idea from.
25:44But it just brought about
25:45so many memories.
25:46Well, it does.
25:46Well, the terrible remedies
25:47are still bringing a bob or two,
25:49I see, Colin.
25:49Can't complain, Laura.
25:50In fact, we're planning
25:51to go public next year.
25:52You always wanted to live
25:54in the country, didn't you, Colin?
25:55When I first saw this valley,
25:56I thought to myself,
25:58at last a chance
25:59to realise my dream
26:00of living at one with nature.
26:02And it was then
26:03that you took up the shooting?
26:04I just found out
26:05I really enjoyed it.
26:06You killed all these.
26:07Everyone.
26:08I'm glad you're interested, Linda.
26:10Here, let me tell you
26:11how I got this six-pointer here.
26:14No, no, I do believe
26:15Sebastian Coe's
26:16the best Prime Minister
26:17we've had since John Major.
26:18I see.
26:19We might lose this election.
26:2140 years of Tory rule,
26:23people might be ready
26:24for a change.
26:25How are the children?
26:26Oh, very well, thank you.
26:28Both the twins are at Cambridge
26:29with Laura's Barney.
26:30Oh, good.
26:31And Ben, still in the Navy,
26:32specialising in military submarines.
26:34Marvellous.
26:35How can I bear to be trapped
26:36in those small enclosed spaces?
26:37Goodness knows.
26:39Ladies and gentlemen,
26:41Sir Gordon and Lady Britus.
26:46Baaah!
26:49Sorry we're late, everyone.
26:52Oh, very good to see you,
26:53Mr. Britus.
26:54Colin, been in trouble
26:55on the mountain,
26:56I'm afraid.
26:57We had to stop
26:59and report a man
26:59with a faulty fog light.
27:01Let me get you a drink,
27:02Mrs. Britus.
27:08Oh, my word,
27:09we've put on a bit of weight,
27:10haven't we, Kevin?
27:12It's the best time
27:12sitting around
27:13playing the piano,
27:14I'd say.
27:14Yes, possibly,
27:16Mrs. Britus.
27:16Thank you, Tim.
27:17Oh, and thanks,
27:18by the way,
27:19for sending me your book.
27:21Not really my cup of tea,
27:23but you never know,
27:24someone might buy it, eh?
27:28Oh, sorry, Linda,
27:29mind yourself there.
27:31Now, how are you these days?
27:33Fine, thank you, Mr. Britus.
27:34Sorry to hear about you
27:35and Edward splitting up.
27:37He died, actually.
27:38Did he?
27:40Still gives you a chance
27:41to find someone
27:42your own age, eh?
27:45A UN peace envoy now
27:47and he still hasn't
27:48lost a knack, has he?
27:49Don't worry, Lady Britus,
27:51as long as he's
27:51enjoying himself.
27:52I don't know
27:53why you all put up with him.
27:55He's never going to change,
27:56is he?
27:56Believe me, Helen,
27:57we wouldn't have him
27:58any other way.
27:59That's why we invite him.
28:00If everyone would like
28:01to take their seats...
28:03Come on.
28:04Oops-a-daisy, Julie.
28:06How many have you had?
28:07Now, did you take my advice
28:09about having your tubes tied?
28:23Before I ask Linda
28:25to say grace,
28:26perhaps Laura
28:27would be kind enough
28:28to honour us
28:29with our toast.
28:33To friendship,
28:35to tolerance,
28:36and to the man
28:38who made us
28:38what we are.
28:40Mr. Britus.
28:41Mr. Britus.
28:43Mr. Britus.
28:44Mr. Britus.
28:45Mr. Britus.
28:46Mr. Britus.
28:47Mr. Britus.
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