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Come on, Ted. Come on, Ted.

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Good boy!

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Another summer has passed at Wiveton Hall Farm

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on the north coast of Norfolk,

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home to gentleman farmer... BIRD SQUAWKS

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..Desmond MacCarthy.

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He's the one that's been keeping my mother awake

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for weeks.

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Desmond's lived here all his life with his mother, Chloe,

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now 101 years old.

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My mother's lived so long because she's never drunk milk.

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I like cream, you know.

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What are your other tricks?

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When they're not at university, he's joined by his children,

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Isabel and Edmund.

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Does Granny pay rent?

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She does pay rent.

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Bastard.

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Oh. Oh, my God!

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Last year, Desmond kept the wolf from the door

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by the seat of his tweed pants...

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Do I have a lot of cash around?

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No. Other people's cash, yes.

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-Mostly the bank's.

-..earning just enough money from his 250-acre farm,

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cafe and holiday cottages to maintain a country way of life

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and preserve the hall for generations to come.

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Perhaps this is where the nostrils came from.

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Thank goodness the double chin has been bred out.

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-Has it?

-Yes.

-SHE LAUGHS

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Now, a year on, with his debts continuing to rise,

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Desmond must find new ways to balance the books.

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I've had a brainwave.

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There's going to be a yoga gathering.

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Trying to get 12 people in here, do you think we'll...?

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Yes, easy.

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He plans to open up his 17th-century manor house...

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It's a brief tour, this one.

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-Oh, my God!

-..to make it pay its way in a modern world.

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We need to maintain the mansion.

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The summer tourist season is almost over at Wiveton Hall Farm and it's

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time for Desmond to take financial stock.

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How many dishes do you do a day?

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We normally get through four trays of tomatoes per day.

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The cafe is the energetic hub which turns the biggest profit.

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This basil - look how much they're using.

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Can you smell it?

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It's been the busiest summer we've ever had, which is good.

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Good for us. Good for the bank manager.

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Calm him down.

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We've been pretty much fully booked every day, which has been amazing.

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We have incredible produce to work with that's come straight off

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the farm, you know, so that's a real chef's dream, really.

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But the house and grounds don't pay their way

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and quickly soak up profits from the cafe and other areas of the farm.

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Now, what am I on here?

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-August.

-Business manager Kim

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has to do deal with this grim financial reality.

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It is a money pit. It's difficult to fund the house and the maintenance

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that it requires.

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The walls need to be repaired.

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The garden takes an awful lot of work.

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So the rest of the business has to fund the house and grounds.

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What sort of debt are you in?

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Erm...

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In the hundreds of thousands.

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Could this place ruin you?

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Course it could, easily.

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Anyway, not at the moment.

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We're fending it off.

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Up till recently, I mean,

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talking about money was like talking about sex.

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-Didn't do it.

-No.

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-But since Mrs Thatcher it's all opened up.

-Mm.

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You have to think of the five-year plan.

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We're going Soviet.

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-We want the five and ten-year plans.

-Mm.

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Because if we just carry on year-to-year...

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it's a little bit...

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Well, it's rather nice to have some proper ideas of knowing

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-where we're actually getting to.

-Mm.

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-The end goal.

-The end goal.

-Mm.

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What is the end goal?

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-Oh.

-Oh!

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That's the bit we don't know.

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Desmond's been able to afford to live in Wiveton Hall all his life.

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But now the annual running costs have shot up to well over £50,000.

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-Morning.

-Ah, hello.

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Nice to see you. Now, there's the most terrible smell in here.

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The hall's new wing was built in 1907, has a grand living room,

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former billiard room and four bedrooms.

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For many years, it's laid empty,

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a drain on resources and only rented out to the occasional guest.

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When you live in a house you love and you've lived there a long time,

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it seems incredibly sensible to want to preserve it and keep it

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as a thriving way of living, but it all is very time consuming.

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Well, when I was a child, that was my parents' room,

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that was my room and that round the corner was my sister's room.

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And that was a spare room.

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Or the nursery.

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One's always

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putting money into the place,

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often with not huge prospects of massive return.

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Desmond wants his home to be less of a financial millstone so he's

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employed property manager Emma

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to come up with ways for the hall to make some money.

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Wiveton is rather beautiful

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and slightly wonky but in a good way.

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-A big house needs...

-People.

-..money. And people.

-Yeah.

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And people. It does.

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Otherwise they become like museums, don't they?

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Yes.

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There's not much in this museum.

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My job here is to market the wing as a venue

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and, so, whether it's weddings, big birthday parties,

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people wanting corporate weekends.

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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

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It's thinking of other things to do which can make this house into a

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moneymaking business.

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Without ruining it and keeping it still as Desmond's family home.

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Now...

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If the wing is to host more big events,

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Desmond will have to reverse decades of decline.

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Oh!

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There's a smell in here as well.

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Yeah, you've got something...

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-Oh, my God!

-..gone off somewhere round here.

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Let's open the door, shall we?

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Everything's to do with smells today.

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-This window could do with a bit of work, couldn't it, Emma?

-Yes. Yes.

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Lead work. Oh, my God.

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-Oh, my God, look at this!

-Yes, no, I think...

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Oh, look, Emma.

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Look at this. This is more than a windowpane.

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The bloody thing's come apart.

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Lovely view making up for it.

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-Shall we make this our priority?

-You can peer into Noel's bedroom

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-from here.

-Desmond?

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Come on. Emma said we had to decorate.

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-Well, there was a great big wet patch.

-Oh!

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-Oh, sorry.

-Oh.

-There was a tiny little wet patch.

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Very small, very small.

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-Damp. Damp patch.

-Hardly could notice. So I just thought...

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We ARE an Irish family.

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Oh!

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We have it in the walls in Ireland.

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Some houses in Ireland even have ferns growing on the inside.

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-The trouble is people don't appreciate that anymore.

-Ah.

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-No, OK.

-I think it's really pretty.

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-Well, it'll change, though, won't it? This a second coat?

-First coat.

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I've only got enough for one coat, Desmond.

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-You've only got enough for one coat?

-Yes.

-Well, that'll probably do.

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-Yes.

-Spruce it up for now, won't it?

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-Spruce it up for now.

-No, no, no, I like it.

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Strange flies in here.

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Mm. There is a lot to do, isn't there?

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In the depths of the hall,

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Desmond may have sniffed out the source of one of the nasty smells.

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Terrible pungency.

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Revolting pungency.

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Would you mind? Oh.

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A late rodent.

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Over there. We'll get a trowel. Ooh!

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We'll get rid of it now. Look at that.

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Horrible!

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Must get rid of it. Ooh!

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That's probably what the problem's been.

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Horrible rat.

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We'll put him in our boiler.

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Ugh!

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There. Oh, dear.

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To entice more paying guests to Wiveton, it's not just the interior

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-needs tidying up.

-It's a bit of a mess.

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The grounds need attention, too.

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I'm just setting some mole traps.

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I mean, you can use awful gas and stuff.

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It's a huge industry, mole trapping.

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The lawn must look its best as Desmond has advertised a tour of the

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-garden...

-I think we'll try here.

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..at £7.50 a ticket.

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It's a small commercial venture.

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Every £200 is fantastic.

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Anyway. The weather's nice, so quite a lot of people have booked to come.

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And I'll show them around,

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tell them a bit of history and hopefully they'll enjoy it.

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And they might even have come for lunch, as well.

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They'll be so weighed down with knowledge afterwards,

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they'll, erm...want to, erm...

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be desperate for tea.

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The hall and gardens at Wiveton haven't changed much for years,

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rather like the wardrobe of their current owner.

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Are you good at sewing buttons on?

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What do you want?

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That one...is loose.

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Could it be cut off and moved to there?

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Otherwise I look like Tom Kitten.

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Bursting out of my garments.

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I do love tweed.

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I mean, it's beautiful stuff.

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Very hard wearing.

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Well-made. They'll last 20+ years.

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The lining starts to go a bit.

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That's from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.

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That's Harris Tweed. That's another bit of Harris Tweed.

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This is an Irish tweed and there's a tweed overcoat.

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Not very good light, is it?

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-Do you have anything that's not tweed?

-Oh, hardly.

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With the shooting season on the horizon,

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Desmond's treating himself to a new suit for the occasion.

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I've got an appointment with Tina later, whose a rather good tailor.

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Despite her being my ex-wife, she'll still make some clothes and is

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very generous.

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Oh, look at this rain

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and look at this water.

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We're going to Tina's house, which is the next-door village.

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She used to be in the fashion business.

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Then she married me.

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Then she had children.

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Then she got going in the tailoring game.

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Anyway, let's go in.

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I like to say we're happily unmarried.

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We get on very well over the children.

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Oh, my goodness.

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-Look, Tina, it's winter.

-SHE LAUGHS

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Wearing tweed, no-one minds.

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How are you, Tina?

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There we are. Oh, just one.

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There's too much kissing goes on nowadays.

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I've always made suits for Desmond.

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I think the first one I made him was in 1986 and it was a shooting suit

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and it was tweed of course.

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Look at Edmund on his shooting licence.

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-I know.

-Now, Tina,

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this...I'm getting a little bit...I've changed shape.

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I have got the old tweeds in the car.

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-Isn't that the old tweed?

-This is one of them, yes.

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I should have had the trousers lined.

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Are they scratchy?

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No, but they let the wind through.

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-And out.

-Because they're Harris.

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Do you say that to your older customers?

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Oh, no!

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-Anyway...

-You'll find they let the wind out, sir.

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They'll find...!

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OK, shall I get the ones that let the wind out in...?

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You've gone red. You've gone red!

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It depends on what the shooting lunch is like.

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-Anyway.

-You've got to decide on the tweed,

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-which is...

-That's the hardest thing.

-That can take about a month.

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-Yes.

-If... Sometimes it takes six months.

-Shh-shh-shh.

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Erm.

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Just none of those are for me.

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-Well, just look... Look at them.

-I know, I can tell at a glimpse.

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Why don't you have just a plain one for a change?

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Mmm.

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-That's really lovely.

-Well.

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It's just the actual density of the cloth.

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I don't feel we're getting anywhere.

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-OK.

-This is what normally happens.

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-OK.

-I like to move forward...

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-All right.

-..keeping moving forward.

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OK, so, now I'm going to measure you, so come here.

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Oh, dear. I feel a bit different.

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I haven't grown taller, have I?

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Ooh.

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-Erm.

-Just keep the figures to yourself.

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Yeah, I will.

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The upper waist measurement, which is this one...

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Gone up a waist.

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-Do your raising your gun.

-Oh.

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-See?

-See, we put vents here.

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But it's quite nice...

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It looks nice, as well.

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Yeah.

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Desmond and Tina have a good working relationship but when they lived

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together, things could get frosty.

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The house is very much warmer than when Tina lived there.

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Erm...she used to mention the C word a lot.

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Yes, I couldn't say cold...

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-No.

-..because it caused an explosion.

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Caused so much tension.

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And now it's warm as toast through this modern heating system.

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Once Desmond decides on a tweed,

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it will be ordered from the Scottish mill and sent to Tina.

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Back at Wiveton, there's good news.

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Marketing the wing as a venue is starting to pay off.

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Somebody who just e-mailed out of the blue, they've been to the cafe,

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she obviously knows about the hall

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and she just sent me an e-mail asking

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if we'd ever considered a yoga retreat.

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I ran it past Desmond, he said let's try it.

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Oh, yes, come and meet them, please.

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What's this doing? Lights on in the middle of the day.

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-Oh, yes, no, that was just me testing it.

-Do tell them.

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-No, that was me.

-How does the light go off?

-Lisa, this is Desmond.

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-I'll do it, Desmond. Yes.

-Economy at all times.

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We've got a yoga retreat.

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Retreat sends shivers up one's spine slightly but still,

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they're coming and they're going to

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do their yoga, pay handsomely,

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special food and hopefully come again.

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-Oh, hello.

-This is Desmond.

-We met before.

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-I think we met.

-Last year.

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-Nice to see you again.

-Now, remind me which one you are.

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-I'm Lisa.

-Lisa, good. And your friend is here?

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Yes, she's upstairs.

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We're just sorting out massage treatment rooms.

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Oh, my God.

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-You're down for one, did you know that?

-Oh, that's very good. OK.

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We're trying to get 12 people in here,

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-do you think we'll...manage?

-Yes, easy.

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-Well, we could test it out.

-We always get 12.

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-EMMA LAUGHS

-Always.

-Always?

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-Have you done this before?

-Oh, yes.

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-12 yoga mats?

-Yes, easy.

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They're basically paying us for the accommodation as we would let it for

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anybody on holiday and we're also going to do some catering for it,

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some very specific gluten-free, dairy-free healthy stuff.

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And you've got the food organised?

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Yes, I've spoken to Ben. He's across everything.

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Oh, good, good, good, good.

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-And...

-We just still don't know the final number, believe it or not.

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Why? Is that cos...?

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(Is it cos...?

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(Are they quite...

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-(indecisive?)

-Yeah, the general public.

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They're very chilled.

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Do we call that flaky?

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-I don't know.

-It's quite exasperating.

-I wouldn't say that.

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-Quite exasperating.

-No, so we're either 11 or 12 people.

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That's not too bad.

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I don't know much about yoga.

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-Are you going to be joining us for the yoga?

-Yes.

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Morning meditation.

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I think they like cosmic smells produced from ethnic candles.

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-Yes.

-Here's Penina.

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-Penina.

-Oh, hello.

-Come and meet Desmond.

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Hello, Desmond.

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-Nice to see you again.

-Nice to see you again.

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So, are you going to have a massage?

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Well, that would be marvellous at some stage.

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I don't know who the masseur is.

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-That's me.

-Oh, good.

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-You're going to have a shiatsu.

-Oh, my goodness.

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Sounds very painful.

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It's testing the water, so we'll see if it

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works, and I'm sure if it works, we can convince him to do more.

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"April 1953."

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Is it me here, dear?

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-That's you.

-Following the death of his father in the 1970s,

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Desmond's mother Chloe ran the hall and farm for a number of years.

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Have you had a cup of coffee?

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Desmond still keeps her informed on matters of business.

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There's going to be a yoga gathering.

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-Enormous amount.

-What is that?

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That's plaice.

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What they call goujons of plaice.

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-Very good.

-Looks good.

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Have you ever done yoga?

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-Yes.

-Where?

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Well, in London.

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Oh, yes.

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Then there's going to be a group of people going around the garden

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-for a tour.

-Yes.

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I don't know if you'd like to be part of it?

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You don't... Look, a bloody chicken under the table.

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What's that doing? Look.

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Look at it, it has rather splendid yellow legs.

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That's one of the ones might end up in the pot.

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Desmond's business ventures have to succeed.

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As well as keeping the hall going,

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the livelihoods of 50 employees across cafe,

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garden and farm depend on him.

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Oh, you are so good, Rodney.

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-Brilliant.

-Over the years,

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he's pulled together a loyal team

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with whom he's developed strong bonds.

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Desmond is sort of...

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He's almost indescribable.

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I'm not gay or anything, but I do like him.

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He's an interesting man.

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Sometimes rude and obnoxious but, I mean,

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that's what makes him who he is.

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Oh... Oh, no!

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Stop!

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-Stop!

-It depends what Desmond's got going on, I think.

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Yeah, there's lots going on.

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Yeah, which is good, cos when he's got lots going on,

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then he sort of, you know, tells you what to do

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and let's you get on with it.

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When he's bored, then he gets involved.

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-Yes.

-And then things can go a bit...

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-Pear-shaped sometimes.

-Pear-shaped!

-SHE LAUGHS

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Don't you eat nuts?

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You haven't got a nut allergy as well as everything else, Debbie?

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Come on. They're delicious.

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If I'm ill, I'm blaming you.

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At the shop, a crowd is gathering.

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50 tickets have been sold for the first Wiveton Garden tour.

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-There we are.

-Desmond's just got time to check the mole traps

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on his lawn.

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Oh, yes!

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Success.

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A sweet little mole.

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Isn't he nice? Beautiful.

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That's what make waistcoats.

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Look at his little hands.

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Look at his teeth.

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Well, it's a shame I'm not planning to make a moleskin waistcoat because

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we'd at least have one mole to start with.

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The other creatures are always there to combat what you're trying to

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achieve. You could say they were here first.

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Which is true. They were.

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But, I mean, if we want a lawn that's fairly nice,

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we'd like to keep the moles at bay.

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Erm. There's plenty of other places for them to live.

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Oh. Here, what have you got?

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What have you got? Eugh. Dead, dead.

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That is, erm,

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a frog.

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Sadly... I mean, French people eat frogs and so does the dog.

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If his garden tour is successful,

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it could be a new and returning form of income

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for novice tour guide Desmond.

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Hello. Is everyone here, do you think?

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Now, what we'll do is we'll go down nearer the house,

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so let's go this way.

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Hello. What a nice hat you've got.

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We start here.

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Thank you all for coming.

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I've lived here all my life and quite unfit for anything else now

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but, because I've spent so much time here, I'm clearly interested,

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so I might bore you on certain aspects,

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-but none of it'll last for long.

-THEY CHUCKLE

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So that bit of the house was built during Cromwell's time.

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No known architect.

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I mean, lots of quirky bits, very much the Dutch-style gables,

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flint facades and in moonlight it looks fantastic.

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Do you like taking money off visitors?

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Well, of course, I love it.

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I come from mercantile origins.

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Love taking money off people.

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Making something work financially is very gratifying.

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Walk into the sun garden.

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This is an Edwardian garden.

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And before that, it was

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a yard in which carriages would've come in and turned round.

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Just inside the door, a little bit of a font, and as a child,

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I would sit in it as a sort of throne.

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-THEY CHUCKLE

-I was tiny once.

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-Yes!

-Now, we're going to go round there.

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How many of you have been here before,

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to the cafe?

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Oh, quite a lot of you, quite a lot of you.

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But quite a lot of you haven't, so that's good.

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Well, I'm always keen to take money off you.

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Mm. It's quite clear how big a house it is.

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1650 it was built and it all needs maintaining.

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So you've got an insight into this place,

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which I hope you found interesting.

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-THEY CLAP

-OK.

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-OK, there we are.

-How did that go?

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Very well. They loved it.

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I slightly lost some of the historical references,

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but I think they got the gist of it.

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There we are. 50 people -

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£350. Marvellous.

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Not bad for 45 minutes of Desmond talking.

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CAMERAMAN LAUGHS

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He should do it more often.

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An even more lucrative form of revenue is setting up in the wing.

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Lisa and Penina are running the yoga retreat.

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North Norfolk is such a magical, I think, spiritual place.

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It's kind of the perfect setting for a yoga retreat.

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OK, I'll put the props here so people can just help themselves.

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Penina and I are going to do a welcome circle once everyone's here

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in a couple of hours, after they've arrived, and then we'll go straight

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into a gentle yoga practice, get them warmed up for the weekend.

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And then we'll have dinner and maybe a glass of wine.

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That's permitted and, you know, just have a really nice social evening.

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We've got the fires going and it should be really nice.

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Absorb any sensation.

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-Breathe it away.

-Desmond will not be joining them on the mats as he's

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engrossed in his own form of therapy.

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Ah! It's a bit out of control.

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He's preparing the woods for the up-and-coming shooting season.

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Clearing the undergrowth.

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Quite soon,

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some people will want to walk through the woods

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when they're beating and they won't get through.

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Feel like you're growing roots down through the big toes

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to steady you into the earth.

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I don't think he really gets yoga.

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Yoga and power walking and anybody in Lycra,

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he's really not happy about that.

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Oh, my God, look at the size of these brambles!

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Doesn't like cyclists, runners,

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anybody who's doing anything in Lycra.

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Go from one side to the other now.

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Bring a little bit of flow, inhaling as you extend the leg.

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Bringing feet together.

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Ah! That's a nice young beech.

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We mustn't crush it.

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It's opening it up a bit and helping the trees at the same time.

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I think it'd be great for Desmond to get down on the ground and to have

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some body-work done.

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I think he's going to really enjoy it actually.

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Oh, look at the brambles!

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Oh, my God!

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Oh!

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Where is he?

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Shall we go and hunt him down?

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Ooh.

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I think he thinks he's got better things to do with his time.

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Perhaps, I think, he's just happy when people are in tweed.

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With more garden tours and yoga retreats on the cards,

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Desmond's plans for the hall are starting to bear fruit.

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And there are a few perks for its owner.

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Hey, Desmond.

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-Wow, you look fantastic, ready for your shiatsu.

-Oh, yes.

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SHE LAUGHS

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So, it's going to be great.

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-Come on in.

-Oh, look at that.

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Look, it's all ready for you.

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It looks as though it's a sacrifice.

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All right, been lovely, so nice to see you.

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So nice to see you.

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-Goodbye.

-Goodbye.

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So, Desmond, come and lay down.

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Oh!

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We're going to get your chi moving.

0:27:390:27:40

-Oh, yes.

-Yeah? Does that sound good?

0:27:400:27:42

Yes.

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So you can now just completely relax.

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-HE SIGHS

-(There we go.)

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(Yeah.)

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-(Oh, my God.)

-(OK.)

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(There we go.)

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(Oh, my God.)

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Oh, my God.

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-Next time...

-Good God!

0:28:030:28:06

..Desmond leads a quest for an ancient water supply...

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Do not fall down the well.

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Call the dog away.

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Bloody stupid dog.

0:28:140:28:15

..pressure builds on Edmund to commit to a life at Wiveton...

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We do need to think long-term.

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You could do the cash flow with me.

0:28:200:28:23

Yes!

0:28:230:28:25

..and the hall welcomes some old friends.

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Mr Snodgrass and Mr Clutterbuck.

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THEY CHUCKLE

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As you say, you couldn't make it up.

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