Keys to the Castle


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I love this view of the building.

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It's pretty looking up here. This is another willow.

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Seeing it through a veil of willow leaves.

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It's rather nice. I think that branch should come off.

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That low branch.

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WIND GUSTS

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Well, it's been a marvellous day.

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Hm. Quite a momentous day.

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BIRDS CHIRP

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-Here, it's for you.

-Thank you.

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Hello, Susan.

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Yes. Yes, I'll put here "dependent on flights".

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Yeah. We're going like a bomb, anyway.

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Gosh, someone flying from America.

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Making a special flight from America to look at Inverquharity.

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I'm going to powder my nose.

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When she says she wants to powder her nose it means she's in the loo.

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CLOCK TICKS

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I think you've gotten quite enough photographs of me.

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-May I ask a couple of questions?

-Hm?

-Can I ask you a couple of questions?

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Yes.

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-There's been a lot of interest in the castle. Isn't there?

-Yes.

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How have you found it yourself with all the viewings

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and people coming and going?

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I just take it as it comes.

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-And I hear there's been an offer on the castle, as well.

-Yes.

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But there wasn't enough.

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I spoke to you five or six weeks ago

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-and you had mixed feelings about the idea of moving.

-Really?

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Can't remember that.

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-This is Sandy's room?

-Yes. The Burmese Bedroom.

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Sandy's parents were in Burma.

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And when they came home they brought all sorts of burmeserie

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with them and I thought it would be rather nice to concentrate it

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all in one room and decorate it accordingly.

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-This castle's really been your life, hasn't it?

-Absolutely.

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So, do you think somebody's going to want to change

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a lot around the castle?

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As I said before,

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I don't like the thought...

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..of changing someone else's creation.

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That's why when we're looking for a place to live

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I don't want a highly developed garden.

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And I don't want to feel that I'm destroying someone else's...dream.

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CLOCK TICKS

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I think that's it. SHE LAUGHS

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Show over.

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The trouble is at the last minute I hide things

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and then I can't remember where I put them.

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-That's obvious enough.

-You've hidden things all over the castle?

-Yes.

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Well, I have a checklist at the end. At the top of it it says face.

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That's the most important.

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And then it's got doors, lights, um...

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..cat turds.

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I leave the door so that people can see it from the outside

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when it's shut.

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-You must be Guy Goodfellow?

-I'm James Anderson. Nice to meet you.

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-Lovely to meet you.

-I'm Guy. Hello there.

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What a lovely, lovely entrance.

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There's lots of storage in there. Shelves all down the back wall.

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And a lovely place for putting the things that you want to

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forget about but you don't want to throw away.

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The chandeliers I've screwed in from here.

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And unless you want to erect a tower scaffold

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the chandeliers are there for ever.

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THEY LAUGH

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I think the phrase is "open to negotiations".

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Forgive me, but what do you know about rigor mortis?

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-Not an awful lot.

-It sets in but then it relaxes, doesn't it?

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There's a girlie.

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There's a girlie.

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BIRD CHIRPS

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Right, we'll go out. How's that jersey?

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-It's rather a good colour, isn't it?

-It's not warm.

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No, of course it isn't, it's a summer jersey.

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But it looks rather good with that tie.

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I thought you might have chosen the green one?

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-You asked me to wear this one.

-No, I didn't.

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I just said a new jersey and

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I thought you'd choose the green one.

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How long have we been here? 40 years now.

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-And...

-Must be very sad to leave.

-Yes, very. Uh...

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And all the trees and shrubs we've planted have grown to maturity.

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It's a lot to catalogue and to sift through.

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Yes. I'm not doing anything at the moment.

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I'm not going to be able to face it, really. Until I know.

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Until the sale is completed.

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-Has it helped?

-Helped what?

-To talk about it.

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To tell the story of the house as you go?

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-Uh, helped the blow of leaving it?

-Or made it worse.

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No, I think it probably made it worse.

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The wind has blown an awful lot of twigs down.

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It's always the ash twigs. They're very brittle.

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How long have you and Sandy been together?

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Since...

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..uh...

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..1960.

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-Was it love at first sight?

-No. We just got used to each other.

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I think. No, I don't think that's an avenue I want to go down.

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It was very delightful anyway.

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-So have you always quite liked to spend time on your own?

-Yes.

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So, the idea of living in a castle in the Highlands of Scotland

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-was quite appealing?

-Oh, well...

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yes, of course.

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But now there are these great divisions of...

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Humanity is...

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..into two groups, one of which...

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requires to be with people all the time,

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and now and again have a bit of privacy.

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And the others...the other lot

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want to be by themselves all the time

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and now and again go amongst people.

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And that's my one.

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My...group.

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I'll put this down to something rather low.

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BIRDS CHIRP

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And the swifts you see flying around,

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they come every year,

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-more or less on the 10th of May.

-Really?

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-And stay to, more or less, the 10th of August.

-Right.

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-And they go straight into the holes in this wall.

-Uh-huh.

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At what point did you decide to sell the castle?

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Oh, I can't remember that.

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I can't remember when. It was sometime last year.

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What were the reasons?

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Well, I'd rather not go into them - most of them -

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except that I think one of the main reasons was that...

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Sandy couldn't cope with the stairs any more.

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And I can no longer look after

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11.85 acres all myself.

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I haven't even been able to pull my weight in my own parts this year.

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That's nice, isn't it?

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Downstairs, and look for the door which has a wooden sign

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hanging on it, a little wooden thing saying "Sandy's Kitchen".

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That's where we'll be going, OK?

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Mind your cranium.

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-They're a nice family, aren't they?

-Aren't they nice? Yes.

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Absolutely super.

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I wouldn't mind handing over to them.

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And they love cats.

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SHE CHUCKLES

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I just thought, I think I could slice up some banana

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in amongst the strawberries to make them spin out.

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You can probably see it's a special little arrangement.

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-Oh, yes, and we weren't sure.

-Oh!

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-The man with the blue overall was up here.

-Oh, no - we're trapped.

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Sandy?

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We've been trapped on the battlements

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because the man who's going around surveying things has shut the door.

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And we'd be very grateful if you would get hold of him and ask him

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to come up and release us.

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Oh, heavens.

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Dear.

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I haven't met anybody.

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Dear, well, his car is still here.

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Oh, well done. Thank you very much.

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Now...

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-I'm afraid it's Operation Electrics now.

-OK.

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Yeah, there's one gone here.

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I remember hearing that one go not so long ago.

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Ah, no, there's one missing here.

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Yes.

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Surprise, surprise. Probably you ought to come in, take a shot of it.

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What's that? "Bulb in use.

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"Lamp beside telephone in kitchen."

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SHE COUGHS

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-You don't have them in stock?

-No.

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An awful lot of little round ones which are very cheap,

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but they don't last any length of time.

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Now, since I'm here, we're going to need chickpeas for lunch.

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Here we are.

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You were going to ask another of your "leading questions".

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-Yeah.

-What?

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I was going to say, in a sense, you're quite isolated here,

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-aren't you?

-Yes, I suppose so, yes.

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Particularly since Sandy doesn't drive any more.

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It was very easy when he did, I mean, no bother.

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He would just get into the car

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and tootle off and get anything that we happened to be out of.

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Was it a difficult decision...?

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Well, it... I don't know.

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You see, it wasn't, it just...he just...the...

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The habit of driving just dwindled off

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because he wasn't given the chance to drive.

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BIRDS SING

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I'm just repairing...

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..the crumbling masterpiece which is my face.

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Life is going to be much simpler hereafter.

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In a way, I suppose we've been on an outward journey, and from now on,

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it's going to be...one's got to think of it as an inward journey, not as...

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..leaving Inverquharity, but...

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..going on to begin something new.

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Come on. Quickly. I won't rabbit on, as I said.

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-You're very generous and gracious to see us.

-Not at all.

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On the closing day, I mean...

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Might I ask, where are you going to go from here?

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We have registered our interest in a horizontal house,

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but we don't know, we're crossing our fingers.

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The lift was installed

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when we did the restoration at the suggestion of our architect.

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It's very wise.

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And it's been invaluable. Everything goes up in the lift.

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And then when we wanted to use it personally,

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when old age came upon us, it's packed up.

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A useful window where you can keep watch on who's coming to the door.

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-Vital, really.

-Always useful to keep watch on people.

-Vital.

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Er, the smoke clambers slowly up the chimney into the fireplace,

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but the fire itself never smokes.

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The acoustics are splendid, as you probably can hear.

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-I can tell. Well, you have such beautiful enunciation.

-Oh!

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-I think you're splendid.

-Oh, thank you. Would you join my fan club?

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-I would.

-Well, would you found one, please?

-I would!

-Jolly good.

-Yes!

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-Founder member.

-Yes.

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-You've been absolutely wonderful.

-Well, I've much enjoyed your visit.

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-It's been such a delight for me.

-It's a delight for me.

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And I hope we shall meet again,

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-and you never know what's going to happen in your castle.

-No.

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Make sure it goes... We hope it goes into safe hands.

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People's hands and feet are exactly alike.

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He's got the most enormous hands as well as enormous feet, hasn't he?

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He admitted to that.

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What a delightful chap!

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Very funny!

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You really have to be on your mettle with him.

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Which is great fun.

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How's the time? Gosh, that's amazing!

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-We've done it in an hour.

-Wow.

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-Exactly.

-Like it was in fast forward.

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Yeah, I found myself gabbling at terrific speed

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to try and get things in.

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Let's go up to the kitchen and have a cup of something.

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So we were going to start the packing today, weren't we?

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Oh, we were going to start moving boxes from the attic.

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Impossible on a day like this.

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Now, here we are again. Ooh!

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Right, Evelyn is thinking...

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..about coming up higher, so...

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Right. This was...

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When you bought this place, did you imagine living here, erm,

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-indefinitely, or...?

-Yes, I actually, I did.

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I hadn't really thought it out, and thought, because I didn't know then

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what it felt like to find the stairs an absolute obstacle, you don't

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think about that when you can fly up and down them.

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I think I just thought of myself getting older and then snuffing it.

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And being carried out in a box.

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Now, I have a good idea, a better and more constructive idea, Darren.

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-Mm-hm?

-As we've...

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When I was downstairs getting all this...ooh,

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the paper and the Sellotape, it occurred to me that this area should

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probably be the very last area we do anything about.

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Er...

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And, er, and I can dip into it if the spirit moves me,

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but what I'd like to do is...

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I'm immediately going to contradict what I said.

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We can take out these boxes of, er...

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..superannuated...

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dried leaves and things.

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This lot, you see? They can all go down, out.

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They're as light as a feather, they're just unwieldy.

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Ah! No!

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If I'm going to go through the house doing this, I'll never get anywhere,

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cos I'm not going to throw these away, they're in perfect condition.

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-Sandy?

-Yes.

-Your signature is required.

-Oh!

-Come and join us.

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Er...

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For what purpose?

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In order to transfer the title of the castle from your name

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into that of Mr and Mrs Jeffries.

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-I see.

-Yeah.

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We've discussed the contracts

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and we're just about to finalise matters.

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The deed that I need to get you to sign is...

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-Do you know he's a lawyer?

-Ah! Oh, sorry.

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I'm preaching to the converted, I do apologise.

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You're refreshing his fading memory.

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If I can get you to sign, your usual signature just on that little

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dotted line there, please, that'd be lovely.

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SANDY CLEARS HIS THROAT

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TELEPHONE RINGS

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Hello?

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Very good. Thank you, bye-bye.

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-Margaret Allen.

-Yes?

-Just to say that the sale was completed.

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Oh, yes, she said she was going to ring again, didn't she? Yes, right.

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-She's very stout, isn't she?

-Oh, she's gorgeous, I think.

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I was just saying to Darren, she's a bit like...

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she's like a marshmallow. SANDY CHUCKLES

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You know, from today, we're really quite, for the meanwhile,

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quite affluent.

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And then, on Friday, we will pay for Craigton.

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-So for a couple of days you'll be flush?

-Very flush.

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Er, and after that, we'll be comfortable,

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which we haven't been for some time.

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I suppose, anyone that sees somebody living in a castle would

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think that they've got quite a lot of money.

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Exactly. Yeah.

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-And that's not the case here.

-No. Not now.

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Yes...

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Could you open that door...?

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No, I think, you stay in here, you stay in here rather than...

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Because it will get rather crowded in there.

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-Here we are.

-Good evening.

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-Good evening, clink!

-Good to see you, clink!

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-Come in.

-Good evening, Sandy.

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-Good evening, my dear.

-Lovely to see you.

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Hi there, Sandy, how are you?

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Shut the door.

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-Right.

-And give it its usual bang. There we are.

-Ooh, right, OK.

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And wait a minute, yes, let me...

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Let's just put these down here as well.

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Celebratory bottle there for us.

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-We couldn't be happier to have you take it over.

-Oh, thank you.

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That's lovely.

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Thank you very, very much.

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-I'm not giving you the tray!

-Oh, no!

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CORK POPS

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-There we go.

-Discreet.

-Sounded good, didn't it?

-Yes, yes.

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-Cheers.

-Cheers.

-Very good health.

-Good health to everyone.

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-Thank you, Sandy.

-Good health!

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-Good health to Master and Madam, they'd say in Nigeria.

-Yes.

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I've really got nowhere when it comes to...erm...

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..doing any packing.

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I think this morning is going to be the great beginning.

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I thought we'd begun about six weeks ago.

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Well, I thought we had too, but the things up in the solar

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are still lying about in the paths that you put them in.

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Got to make these decisions about Sandy's clothes.

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I would reckon that if he managed

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to live without them

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for several years, they should go out.

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What do you think has been stopping you from getting on?

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Oh, indolence.

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Escape. I don't want to do it.

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The fact of having to make decisions.

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I came on a lovely thing. I wrote it out for the...

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To remind me. Oh, dear, it's got a blotch now.

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I'll have to do another. I heard it on Radio 4.

0:29:010:29:05

What does it say?

0:29:050:29:06

"Indolence creeps up on me like a thick mist."

0:29:060:29:09

That more or less expresses the situation.

0:29:100:29:14

It is probably more provident to put the mouse in the compost

0:29:140:29:20

but I think there's something much more heroic

0:29:200:29:23

about hurling him down the bank

0:29:230:29:26

to decompose decently...

0:29:260:29:29

..in a natural setting.

0:29:300:29:32

-Do you want to see him close up?

-Yeah. Is he still alive?

0:29:320:29:37

Oh, good heavens, no!

0:29:370:29:38

They are so perfect, aren't they?

0:29:400:29:43

Look at these little paws.

0:29:430:29:44

I had a pet mouse when I was a child.

0:29:440:29:48

He was called Monty.

0:29:480:29:50

He used to come out and spend a lot of time under my hair,

0:29:530:29:59

on the back of my neck,

0:29:590:30:01

which was where he liked to curl up.

0:30:010:30:03

Oh, no! I'd forgotten about that.

0:30:120:30:16

Hmmm...

0:30:170:30:19

This is very interesting.

0:30:190:30:20

I'll give you a dozen guesses as to what that is.

0:30:220:30:26

Some kind of animal hide?

0:30:350:30:37

Well, no, but you're in the right area.

0:30:370:30:40

But it's not.

0:30:400:30:41

-Toupees?

-No - you're getting even closer.

0:30:440:30:48

-Sporrans?

-No.

0:30:480:30:51

-Some kind of hats?

-No.

0:30:520:30:55

Um...

0:30:570:30:58

-I don't know.

-It's the combings of my hair over 40 years.

-Wow.

0:31:030:31:08

-Feel the weight of it.

-What are you going to do with it?

0:31:100:31:13

-I'm going to stuff cushions.

-With your own hair?

-Yes.

0:31:130:31:16

I'll put them in a pillowcase and sew it up,

0:31:160:31:21

and batch by batch, put them through the washing machine.

0:31:210:31:25

But they're all clean. They're all the clean combings,

0:31:250:31:30

not the combings through the week.

0:31:300:31:32

They're the first combings after it's been washed,

0:31:320:31:35

so there's nothing much wrong with it.

0:31:350:31:37

"It's more than just oil - it's liquid engineering." Think of that!

0:31:390:31:45

You're not going to need it, though, are you?

0:31:460:31:48

No, but it is something that I'll not just throw out.

0:31:480:31:51

I can give it to someone.

0:31:510:31:53

I'll give it to Robin, because if it's oil,

0:31:530:31:57

it can...he can probably use it for some tool or another.

0:31:570:32:01

Castrol again.

0:32:030:32:05

Oh, dear. What's that? That's not oil, is it? Oh, dear!

0:32:080:32:14

Heavens! That is a disaster.

0:32:140:32:18

That'll be there for the next 100 years, and I'm not exaggerating.

0:32:180:32:22

Where did it come from?

0:32:250:32:27

When did you realise that money was an issue,

0:32:490:32:52

that you were in financial trouble?

0:32:520:32:55

I don't really feel I ought to record that, if you don't mind.

0:32:550:33:00

I know it's of the essence,

0:33:000:33:04

but if it were to do with me,

0:33:040:33:07

I would feel differently.

0:33:070:33:09

But suffice it to say

0:33:090:33:13

that Sandy got taken for a ride by some rogue investment company

0:33:130:33:21

and lost a great deal of money.

0:33:210:33:23

And I didn't realise until 18 months ago.

0:33:230:33:27

And could you have a conversation with Sandy after you discovered it?

0:33:340:33:38

No, not really. I didn't really mention it because...

0:33:380:33:41

No...

0:33:450:33:46

I think he had forgotten all about it.

0:33:490:33:51

I tend to forget what the old Sandy's like, actually.

0:33:550:33:58

There is a sadness if one comes across a photograph.

0:34:020:34:06

You remember a person who was acute

0:34:140:34:19

and on the ball and very amusing.

0:34:190:34:22

He's just a completely different person. Someone else I knew once.

0:34:260:34:30

There.

0:34:370:34:38

Look! That looks new, almost.

0:34:480:34:52

Lovely. Gosh!

0:34:570:35:00

I don't think it's even... I don't think it's been worn. Wonderful.

0:35:040:35:10

Right...

0:35:100:35:12

Little does Sandy know what he's got in this wardrobe.

0:35:120:35:16

CAT MEWS

0:35:160:35:17

Hello, hello. Oh, you've done sausages. Hello.

0:35:170:35:21

-We've had a very profitable time up there.

-Oh, good.

0:35:210:35:25

Got quite a wardrobe of jerseys up there that have been tucked away

0:35:250:35:30

and never worn.

0:35:300:35:34

And here, the triumph.

0:35:400:35:42

Big, heavy jersey.

0:35:440:35:47

Woolovers again, but because of your more sedentary life

0:35:470:35:50

-it'll probably last better.

-Mm.

0:35:500:35:52

I think it's my least favourite domestic occupation.

0:36:040:36:09

This half bend all the time.

0:36:110:36:13

Oh...

0:36:160:36:17

I mean, the thought just of having to assemble a box which,

0:36:220:36:28

in the past, would have been fun

0:36:280:36:34

is just...makes me blench.

0:36:340:36:37

Can you see me visibly blenching?

0:36:390:36:41

-Mr Lucas!

-Yes.

-I'm here. I'd just gone upstairs for two ticks.

0:36:440:36:48

I am two or three minutes late. Sorry about that.

0:36:480:36:52

No, that's tactful.

0:36:520:36:54

It's much more tactful to be two minutes late than two minutes early.

0:36:540:36:57

All right!

0:36:570:36:59

I've got a cup of coffee for you. Would you like it?

0:36:590:37:01

That would be fine. If you're sure? Thank you.

0:37:010:37:05

You've got a lot, a lot of packing to do.

0:37:050:37:07

-Yes, yes.

-You've got a lot of packing.

0:37:080:37:11

You'll see a difference -

0:37:110:37:12

once you start seeing space, you'll feel better.

0:37:120:37:17

You'll be quite amazed how much they can do in a day,

0:37:170:37:22

you know what I mean?

0:37:220:37:23

SHE SPLUTTERS

0:37:230:37:25

There are people who say that I'll get rid of this cough

0:37:250:37:29

when I leave this house.

0:37:290:37:33

SPLUTTERING CONTINUES

0:37:330:37:37

There. Right.

0:37:370:37:40

Well, I think daylight is shining at the end of the tunnel.

0:37:400:37:44

Yeah.

0:37:460:37:47

-It's books, isn't it, today?

-We'll get started upstairs.

0:38:160:38:19

Now, these things on the floor, they've all got labels.

0:38:190:38:25

-These...

-Yep.

0:38:250:38:28

-..and these. Just leave the flowers, though.

-Right, OK.

0:38:280:38:31

There was a series called On The Road Again, on Scottish television.

0:38:370:38:44

They were here for a whole day. It was quite a palaver.

0:38:440:38:49

'Kirriemuir is surrounded by castles, but none have been

0:38:490:38:52

'so dramatically brought back to life as Inverquharity.

0:38:520:38:55

'After lying empty for nearly 200 years, it was almost a ruin.

0:38:550:38:58

'Then, along came Alisoun and Sandy Grant.'

0:38:580:39:00

Well, I must say,

0:39:000:39:02

I have a feeling of grandeur sitting here, taking my tea.

0:39:020:39:05

-After all, this is the grand hall, isn't it?

-The great hall, yes.

0:39:050:39:08

It's a fine old place.

0:39:080:39:10

Well, we love it very much and, of course,

0:39:100:39:13

it was the great hall that really sold us.

0:39:130:39:15

But what about the problems of running a place like this

0:39:150:39:18

on a day-to-day basis - keeping it watertight and keeping it warm?

0:39:180:39:22

We don't!

0:39:220:39:23

THEY LAUGH

0:39:230:39:24

We just put on more clothes.

0:39:240:39:27

-In this room, we have underfloor central heating.

-My goodness!

0:39:270:39:30

Which we can never afford to use.

0:39:300:39:32

"During the winter, however, their main living quarters were the kitchen,

0:39:320:39:36

"which was so big you could almost put a bungalow into it.

0:39:360:39:39

"But when I asked them if sometimes they didn't feel

0:39:390:39:41

"it would be much simpler living in a small, modern house,

0:39:410:39:44

"they chorused, 'Never!' We wouldn't dream of it.'"

0:39:440:39:48

-It's a happy story all round, isn't it?

-I think it is, yes.

0:39:500:39:53

-It is, absolutely. It's a happy building.

-Yes, yes.

0:39:530:39:56

Do you remember, I said I'd look for the -

0:40:230:40:27

-oof! - these photographs from Lagos of that party?

-Yeah.

0:40:270:40:33

Well, it just turned up. I didn't even look for it.

0:40:330:40:36

I like that one of Sandy.

0:40:360:40:38

Yes, that's a nice one - the two chaps chatting together.

0:40:400:40:45

That's good. I like that one.

0:40:450:40:48

Oh!

0:40:500:40:51

Here we are again.

0:40:530:40:56

At what point in your life do you think you were at your happiest?

0:40:560:41:00

Oh, I don't know.

0:41:000:41:02

I've always been fairly...

0:41:050:41:08

I've always been able to adapt

0:41:080:41:09

to whatever situation I was in and feel happy.

0:41:090:41:15

I think people who are really self-centred, as I am,

0:41:150:41:18

are always happy!

0:41:180:41:20

Never thought of that before.

0:41:210:41:24

But that's rather a nice one...

0:41:240:41:26

Again, it's hard to believe -

0:41:260:41:29

except for the spectacles, the round spectacles.

0:41:290:41:33

Still the same.

0:41:330:41:34

Hello!

0:41:370:41:39

Photogenic cat.

0:41:400:41:42

So, you never had any regrets about not having children?

0:41:490:41:51

Oh, no. Good heavens, no.

0:41:510:41:53

Except from a practical point of view.

0:41:550:41:58

At the moment, they might have been very useful, that's all.

0:41:580:42:01

No, I...

0:42:030:42:05

Posterity may scorn my reactions,

0:42:080:42:11

but that's the way I'm made.

0:42:110:42:13

Sweeties, make-up...

0:42:380:42:42

not going to bother about money.

0:42:420:42:44

They don't take collections at funerals.

0:42:450:42:48

-Do you want help?

-Yes.

-What kind?

0:42:490:42:52

Oh, yes. Right.

0:42:540:42:56

I'll do that.

0:42:570:42:59

I don't think they look too vulgar.

0:42:590:43:02

That's all right.

0:43:020:43:04

Right. There you are.

0:43:040:43:06

-Is that you?

-Yes.

-OK.

0:43:060:43:09

Off we go.

0:43:100:43:12

Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.

0:43:180:43:21

Alas, she never told her love...

0:43:250:43:27

KNOCKING ON DOOR Come in, Robin.

0:43:270:43:31

Taxi's ready.

0:43:320:43:35

Oh, dear.

0:43:350:43:37

The cold light of winter shows up all the cat hairs.

0:43:370:43:41

Oh, you want your bowler hat.

0:43:430:43:45

Can't forget the bowler.

0:43:450:43:47

-I want my coat.

-Oh.

0:43:470:43:49

We don't know...

0:43:510:43:53

-Look, wear...

-No, I won't wear that.

0:43:550:43:58

Well, there's nothing... I don't know where...

0:43:580:44:01

Well, I'll just have to freeze, in that case.

0:44:010:44:03

Well, why won't you sink your pride and wear this?

0:44:030:44:07

-Lovely present.

-I last saw it here.

0:44:070:44:10

-Oh...

-You're probably OK, Sandy.

-Don't worry.

0:44:110:44:14

-We're just dropping you off at the top of the drive so...

-Oh, yes.

0:44:140:44:18

I shall try not to do anything too silly.

0:44:180:44:20

SANDY CHUCKLES

0:44:200:44:22

-Sandy...

-Yes?

-There's this lovely scarf that Jim gave you

0:44:240:44:28

-as a Christmas present once.

-Thank you.

0:44:280:44:30

BEEPING

0:44:300:44:34

-I hope the day goes well, Sandy.

-Thank you.

-We'll be thinking of you.

0:44:400:44:44

Good morning.

0:45:190:45:21

-Come in.

-Good morning.

-You caught me still at it.

0:45:220:45:25

I was up at six o'clock.

0:45:250:45:27

-Leave what's under there...

-OK.

-..cos I can't remember.

0:45:270:45:31

But these are to go, yes?

0:45:310:45:35

-But don't take the pictures from the wall yet, please.

-OK.

0:45:350:45:39

There's some glass and some metal,

0:45:390:45:43

some pewterware somewhere.

0:45:430:45:45

-But mostly...mostly china.

-OK.

0:45:450:45:48

-Please don't touch anything here.

-OK.

0:45:480:45:52

TELEPHONE RINGS

0:45:590:46:03

SANDY MUTTERS

0:46:040:46:06

-So, skip stuff here?

-Skip in the porch.

0:46:110:46:15

And mind your head when you come through there.

0:46:150:46:19

What about... What is your opinion about them?

0:46:190:46:22

Jane thinks I should keep them.

0:46:220:46:24

You've got an elderly husband who's going to need that.

0:46:240:46:28

But I can't... If...

0:46:280:46:29

I can't put it anywhere, except round the loo.

0:46:290:46:32

-I'm not going to take them.

-I think he's going to need them, Alisoun.

0:46:320:46:35

-You're going to have to get that from occupational therapy.

-He can get some more.

0:46:350:46:38

Well, that's a bit unfair, given that you've got it.

0:46:380:46:41

That's going.

0:46:530:46:55

I've been trying to work out which room Evelyn's chair should go into.

0:47:080:47:12

You don't find this chair very easy to sit on, do you, Sandy?

0:47:140:47:17

-Is that true?

-I never use it.

-No, I know. But would you find it difficult to sit on, is that why?

0:47:170:47:24

I don't know. It's just a chair that I like.

0:47:250:47:28

Yes, but...what I'm working up to is

0:47:300:47:34

-would you find it useful if...

-I don't know.

-Wait a minute.

0:47:340:47:38

Would you find it useful if I put it in your bedroom at Craigtoun?

0:47:380:47:42

-Er, probably. I don't know.

-You could even just put your clothes on it.

0:47:440:47:50

It's just that the colour would look good

0:47:500:47:53

in the Burmese bedroom colours.

0:47:530:47:56

Well, I'll just leave you at the window and I shall sit down again.

0:48:110:48:14

There's nothing much I can do

0:48:140:48:16

with intervening time.

0:48:160:48:19

I'm going back to sleep. Thank you.

0:48:220:48:25

You've got quite a lot of packing still to do, eh? Upstairs,

0:48:270:48:30

-in the room beside the boudoir.

-Yes. What about hats and things?

0:48:300:48:34

-No, they'll have to go in a box.

-Yes.

0:48:340:48:36

The other end, I have my museum.

0:48:390:48:41

I have some Victorian stuff...

0:48:410:48:44

..in here.

0:48:450:48:47

Oh. No. Never mind.

0:48:470:48:50

And there are fabrics and things.

0:48:500:48:53

You don't have to move that. That's going to Ireland.

0:48:530:48:56

So, do you think...

0:48:560:48:59

if I get somebody out maybe on Tuesday or Wednesday,

0:48:590:49:02

-we could complete the packing?

-Yes.

0:49:020:49:05

-With the snow like what it is just now...

-Mm.

-..we couldn't do it.

0:49:050:49:08

You couldn't, no. You couldn't.

0:49:080:49:10

What...

0:49:100:49:13

What is the forecast...?

0:49:130:49:15

Well, one of the boys said that he heard the forecast,

0:49:150:49:18

-we were due for more snow next week.

-Oh, no!

-Yeah.

0:49:180:49:22

Oh, goodness.

0:49:440:49:45

I'm going along like an old crock.

0:49:500:49:53

I haven't been out for days.

0:49:530:49:55

Weeks.

0:49:550:49:56

Under our feet here,

0:50:010:50:04

the first daffodils will be coming through.

0:50:040:50:08

That's a lovely thought.

0:50:080:50:09

DRILLING IN DISTANCE

0:50:470:50:51

I wonder how many people in the Middle Ages

0:50:510:50:54

stopped just at this point?

0:50:540:50:57

DRILLING IN DISTANCE

0:50:570:51:00

Kind of strange to think you're going to be sleeping in another bed?

0:51:020:51:05

No, I won't - it's the same bed.

0:51:050:51:08

-In another place?

-Yes.

0:51:080:51:10

Excuse me, I'm going to brush my teeth. I don't suppose you've got

0:51:150:51:18

-a shot of me brushing my teeth, have you?

-I haven't, no.

0:51:180:51:20

DRILLING IN DISTANCE

0:51:270:51:30

I'm going to use a case that I haven't used

0:51:440:51:48

since we came home from Nigeria.

0:51:480:51:52

It's covered with dust.

0:51:550:51:57

What's that? Oh, no, I don't believe it.

0:51:590:52:02

My petticoat's falling down!

0:52:040:52:06

THUMPING IN DISTANCE

0:52:150:52:18

CAT MEOWS IN DISTANCE

0:52:180:52:20

WORKMEN CHAT

0:52:320:52:34

Very strange. I think that can go out. Yeah...

0:52:390:52:43

That's a pocket magnifying glass.

0:52:430:52:45

Better keep that for my husband.

0:52:450:52:48

Referee's whistle. Oh, that's useful, yes.

0:52:480:52:52

Right, keep that.

0:52:520:52:54

Actually, why not just...? Oh, no, I'll keep it in my basket of things.

0:52:540:53:00

CHATTING IN DISTANCE

0:53:160:53:18

Hello. Are you feeling restored?

0:53:410:53:43

-I'm fine.

-Good.

0:53:430:53:44

PHONE RINGS

0:53:440:53:46

Maybe I'm not.

0:53:460:53:48

THEY LAUGH

0:53:480:53:49

I don't want you to pack the crumbs in the drawer, please.

0:54:000:54:04

We're just about to throw this lot out.

0:54:050:54:08

Oh, the mousetrap, oh, golly.

0:54:080:54:11

Do you want me out of the way now?

0:54:140:54:16

No, you and Evelyn will be the last to move.

0:54:160:54:20

You can sit tight until further notice.

0:54:200:54:24

-Right down, right down.

-Yes.

-Let's do it again.

-All right.

0:54:330:54:38

-There, that's it.

-That was the trouble.

0:54:380:54:40

Well, that doesn't matter because my arms won't go all the way in.

0:54:400:54:42

He will be there. Right.

0:54:420:54:45

-Wish me luck.

-Yes.

0:54:460:54:48

Where's my little boy?

0:54:510:54:53

CAT MEOWS

0:54:530:54:54

Where are you?

0:54:540:54:55

There's my boy.

0:54:570:54:59

Yes.

0:54:590:55:01

There's my gorgeous boy.

0:55:010:55:02

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

0:55:110:55:13

Wonderful.

0:55:190:55:21

Oh, I'm so relieved about that. Good fellow.

0:55:210:55:24

CAT MEOWS

0:55:320:55:34

Now we can come down to the car, Sandy.

0:55:370:55:40

Not my torch, my...

0:55:450:55:47

My looking glass.

0:55:510:55:53

Oh, you'll have to ask Lee. He will know where it is.

0:55:530:55:57

Because he will have taken it.

0:55:570:55:59

That's the rubbish, you see?

0:55:590:56:01

-Oh.

-And he took everything from the tabletop

0:56:010:56:05

and he was going to put it back for you immediately when we got there.

0:56:050:56:09

Lead the way.

0:56:180:56:20

CAT MEOWS

0:56:360:56:38

Yes.

0:56:380:56:39

CAT MEOWS

0:56:400:56:42

It's a funny call, isn't it?

0:56:420:56:44

Right.

0:56:480:56:50

Where is my little boy?

0:56:500:56:52

We're going downstairs.

0:56:520:56:54

My goodness, a mighty weight.

0:56:590:57:01

Yes, thank you.

0:57:150:57:16

Our procession starts.

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