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Come on, Ted. Come on, Ted. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:03 | |
Good boy! | 0:00:04 | 0:00:06 | |
Another summer has passed at Wiveton Hall Farm | 0:00:06 | 0:00:10 | |
on the north coast of Norfolk, | 0:00:10 | 0:00:12 | |
home to gentleman farmer... BIRD SQUAWKS | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
..Desmond MacCarthy. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
He's the one that's been keeping my mother awake | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
for weeks. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
Desmond's lived here all his life with his mother, Chloe, | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
now 101 years old. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
My mother's lived so long because she's never drunk milk. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
I like cream, you know. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
What are your other tricks? | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
When they're not at university, he's joined by his children, | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
Isabel and Edmund. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
Does Granny pay rent? | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
She does pay rent. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:44 | |
Bastard. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:45 | |
Oh. Oh, my God! | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
Last year, Desmond kept the wolf from the door | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
by the seat of his tweed pants... | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
Do I have a lot of cash around? | 0:00:56 | 0:00:57 | |
No. Other people's cash, yes. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
-Mostly the bank's. -..earning just enough money from his 250-acre farm, | 0:01:00 | 0:01:05 | |
cafe and holiday cottages to maintain a country way of life | 0:01:05 | 0:01:10 | |
and preserve the hall for generations to come. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
Perhaps this is where the nostrils came from. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
Thank goodness the double chin has been bred out. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:19 | |
-Has it? -Yes. -SHE LAUGHS | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
Now, a year on, with his debts continuing to rise, | 0:01:21 | 0:01:25 | |
Desmond must find new ways to balance the books. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:29 | |
I've had a brainwave. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:30 | |
There's going to be a yoga gathering. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
Trying to get 12 people in here, do you think we'll...? | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
Yes, easy. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:38 | |
He plans to open up his 17th-century manor house... | 0:01:38 | 0:01:42 | |
It's a brief tour, this one. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:44 | |
-Oh, my God! -..to make it pay its way in a modern world. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:48 | |
We need to maintain the mansion. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
The summer tourist season is almost over at Wiveton Hall Farm and it's | 0:02:02 | 0:02:07 | |
time for Desmond to take financial stock. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:11 | |
How many dishes do you do a day? | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
We normally get through four trays of tomatoes per day. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
The cafe is the energetic hub which turns the biggest profit. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:21 | |
This basil - look how much they're using. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
Can you smell it? | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
It's been the busiest summer we've ever had, which is good. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
Good for us. Good for the bank manager. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
Calm him down. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:35 | |
We've been pretty much fully booked every day, which has been amazing. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:43 | |
We have incredible produce to work with that's come straight off | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
the farm, you know, so that's a real chef's dream, really. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
But the house and grounds don't pay their way | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
and quickly soak up profits from the cafe and other areas of the farm. | 0:02:55 | 0:03:00 | |
Now, what am I on here? | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
-August. -Business manager Kim | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
has to do deal with this grim financial reality. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:09 | |
It is a money pit. It's difficult to fund the house and the maintenance | 0:03:10 | 0:03:15 | |
that it requires. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
The walls need to be repaired. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
The garden takes an awful lot of work. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
So the rest of the business has to fund the house and grounds. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:26 | |
What sort of debt are you in? | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 | |
Erm... | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
In the hundreds of thousands. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:35 | |
Could this place ruin you? | 0:03:38 | 0:03:40 | |
Course it could, easily. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:41 | |
Anyway, not at the moment. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:44 | |
We're fending it off. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:45 | |
Up till recently, I mean, | 0:03:47 | 0:03:48 | |
talking about money was like talking about sex. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
-Didn't do it. -No. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:54 | |
-But since Mrs Thatcher it's all opened up. -Mm. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
You have to think of the five-year plan. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
We're going Soviet. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:04 | |
-We want the five and ten-year plans. -Mm. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:09 | |
Because if we just carry on year-to-year... | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
it's a little bit... | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
Well, it's rather nice to have some proper ideas of knowing | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
-where we're actually getting to. -Mm. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:20 | |
-The end goal. -The end goal. -Mm. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
What is the end goal? | 0:04:24 | 0:04:25 | |
-Oh. -Oh! | 0:04:25 | 0:04:26 | |
That's the bit we don't know. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
Desmond's been able to afford to live in Wiveton Hall all his life. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:37 | |
But now the annual running costs have shot up to well over £50,000. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:43 | |
-Morning. -Ah, hello. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
Nice to see you. Now, there's the most terrible smell in here. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:53 | |
The hall's new wing was built in 1907, has a grand living room, | 0:04:53 | 0:04:58 | |
former billiard room and four bedrooms. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:01 | |
For many years, it's laid empty, | 0:05:02 | 0:05:04 | |
a drain on resources and only rented out to the occasional guest. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:09 | |
When you live in a house you love and you've lived there a long time, | 0:05:09 | 0:05:14 | |
it seems incredibly sensible to want to preserve it and keep it | 0:05:14 | 0:05:19 | |
as a thriving way of living, but it all is very time consuming. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:24 | |
Well, when I was a child, that was my parents' room, | 0:05:24 | 0:05:29 | |
that was my room and that round the corner was my sister's room. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
And that was a spare room. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
Or the nursery. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:36 | |
One's always | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
putting money into the place, | 0:05:38 | 0:05:40 | |
often with not huge prospects of massive return. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:45 | |
Desmond wants his home to be less of a financial millstone so he's | 0:05:46 | 0:05:51 | |
employed property manager Emma | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
to come up with ways for the hall to make some money. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
Wiveton is rather beautiful | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
and slightly wonky but in a good way. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
-A big house needs... -People. -..money. And people. -Yeah. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
And people. It does. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:09 | |
Otherwise they become like museums, don't they? | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
Yes. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:14 | |
There's not much in this museum. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
My job here is to market the wing as a venue | 0:06:18 | 0:06:23 | |
and, so, whether it's weddings, big birthday parties, | 0:06:23 | 0:06:27 | |
people wanting corporate weekends. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:32 | |
It's thinking of other things to do which can make this house into a | 0:06:32 | 0:06:37 | |
moneymaking business. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:39 | |
Without ruining it and keeping it still as Desmond's family home. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:44 | |
Now... | 0:06:46 | 0:06:47 | |
If the wing is to host more big events, | 0:06:47 | 0:06:50 | |
Desmond will have to reverse decades of decline. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:53 | |
Oh! | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
There's a smell in here as well. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:56 | |
Yeah, you've got something... | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
-Oh, my God! -..gone off somewhere round here. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
Let's open the door, shall we? | 0:07:01 | 0:07:02 | |
Everything's to do with smells today. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
-This window could do with a bit of work, couldn't it, Emma? -Yes. Yes. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
Lead work. Oh, my God. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:14 | |
-Oh, my God, look at this! -Yes, no, I think... | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
Oh, look, Emma. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:18 | |
Look at this. This is more than a windowpane. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
The bloody thing's come apart. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
Lovely view making up for it. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
-Shall we make this our priority? -You can peer into Noel's bedroom | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
-from here. -Desmond? | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
Come on. Emma said we had to decorate. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
-Well, there was a great big wet patch. -Oh! | 0:07:32 | 0:07:34 | |
-Oh, sorry. -Oh. -There was a tiny little wet patch. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:37 | |
Very small, very small. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:39 | |
-Damp. Damp patch. -Hardly could notice. So I just thought... | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
We ARE an Irish family. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
Oh! | 0:07:44 | 0:07:45 | |
We have it in the walls in Ireland. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:47 | |
Some houses in Ireland even have ferns growing on the inside. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
-The trouble is people don't appreciate that anymore. -Ah. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
-No, OK. -I think it's really pretty. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:56 | |
-Well, it'll change, though, won't it? This a second coat? -First coat. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
I've only got enough for one coat, Desmond. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:00 | |
-You've only got enough for one coat? -Yes. -Well, that'll probably do. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
-Yes. -Spruce it up for now, won't it? | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
-Spruce it up for now. -No, no, no, I like it. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:09 | |
Strange flies in here. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
Mm. There is a lot to do, isn't there? | 0:08:13 | 0:08:15 | |
In the depths of the hall, | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
Desmond may have sniffed out the source of one of the nasty smells. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:27 | |
Terrible pungency. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:31 | |
Revolting pungency. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:34 | |
Would you mind? Oh. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
A late rodent. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:40 | |
Over there. We'll get a trowel. Ooh! | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
We'll get rid of it now. Look at that. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
Horrible! | 0:08:46 | 0:08:48 | |
Must get rid of it. Ooh! | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
That's probably what the problem's been. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:54 | |
Horrible rat. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:57 | |
We'll put him in our boiler. | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
Ugh! | 0:08:59 | 0:09:00 | |
There. Oh, dear. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:05 | |
To entice more paying guests to Wiveton, it's not just the interior | 0:09:10 | 0:09:14 | |
-needs tidying up. -It's a bit of a mess. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
The grounds need attention, too. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:19 | |
I'm just setting some mole traps. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
I mean, you can use awful gas and stuff. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:24 | |
It's a huge industry, mole trapping. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:28 | |
The lawn must look its best as Desmond has advertised a tour of the | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
-garden... -I think we'll try here. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:36 | |
..at £7.50 a ticket. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:38 | |
It's a small commercial venture. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
Every £200 is fantastic. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:44 | |
Anyway. The weather's nice, so quite a lot of people have booked to come. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:50 | |
And I'll show them around, | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
tell them a bit of history and hopefully they'll enjoy it. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
And they might even have come for lunch, as well. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:59 | |
They'll be so weighed down with knowledge afterwards, | 0:09:59 | 0:10:02 | |
they'll, erm...want to, erm... | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
be desperate for tea. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
The hall and gardens at Wiveton haven't changed much for years, | 0:10:11 | 0:10:15 | |
rather like the wardrobe of their current owner. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:19 | |
Are you good at sewing buttons on? | 0:10:19 | 0:10:20 | |
What do you want? | 0:10:20 | 0:10:21 | |
That one...is loose. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
Could it be cut off and moved to there? | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
Otherwise I look like Tom Kitten. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
Bursting out of my garments. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:30 | |
I do love tweed. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
I mean, it's beautiful stuff. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:34 | |
Very hard wearing. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:35 | |
Well-made. They'll last 20+ years. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:40 | |
The lining starts to go a bit. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:42 | |
That's from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:48 | |
That's Harris Tweed. That's another bit of Harris Tweed. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
This is an Irish tweed and there's a tweed overcoat. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:56 | |
Not very good light, is it? | 0:10:56 | 0:10:58 | |
-Do you have anything that's not tweed? -Oh, hardly. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:00 | |
With the shooting season on the horizon, | 0:11:01 | 0:11:04 | |
Desmond's treating himself to a new suit for the occasion. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
I've got an appointment with Tina later, whose a rather good tailor. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
Despite her being my ex-wife, she'll still make some clothes and is | 0:11:11 | 0:11:16 | |
very generous. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:17 | |
Oh, look at this rain | 0:11:21 | 0:11:22 | |
and look at this water. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
We're going to Tina's house, which is the next-door village. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:30 | |
She used to be in the fashion business. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
Then she married me. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:34 | |
Then she had children. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:35 | |
Then she got going in the tailoring game. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:39 | |
Anyway, let's go in. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:40 | |
I like to say we're happily unmarried. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
We get on very well over the children. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:50 | |
Oh, my goodness. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:51 | |
-Look, Tina, it's winter. -SHE LAUGHS | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
Wearing tweed, no-one minds. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:56 | |
How are you, Tina? | 0:11:56 | 0:11:58 | |
There we are. Oh, just one. | 0:11:58 | 0:11:59 | |
There's too much kissing goes on nowadays. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:03 | |
I've always made suits for Desmond. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
I think the first one I made him was in 1986 and it was a shooting suit | 0:12:05 | 0:12:13 | |
and it was tweed of course. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
Look at Edmund on his shooting licence. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
-I know. -Now, Tina, | 0:12:20 | 0:12:23 | |
this...I'm getting a little bit...I've changed shape. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
I have got the old tweeds in the car. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:27 | |
-Isn't that the old tweed? -This is one of them, yes. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:30 | |
I should have had the trousers lined. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:32 | |
Are they scratchy? | 0:12:32 | 0:12:34 | |
No, but they let the wind through. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
-And out. -Because they're Harris. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:38 | |
Do you say that to your older customers? | 0:12:40 | 0:12:44 | |
Oh, no! | 0:12:44 | 0:12:46 | |
-Anyway... -You'll find they let the wind out, sir. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:49 | |
They'll find...! | 0:12:49 | 0:12:50 | |
OK, shall I get the ones that let the wind out in...? | 0:12:51 | 0:12:55 | |
You've gone red. You've gone red! | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
It depends on what the shooting lunch is like. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
-Anyway. -You've got to decide on the tweed, | 0:13:02 | 0:13:03 | |
-which is... -That's the hardest thing. -That can take about a month. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
-Yes. -If... Sometimes it takes six months. -Shh-shh-shh. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:10 | |
Erm. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
Just none of those are for me. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
-Well, just look... Look at them. -I know, I can tell at a glimpse. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:19 | |
Why don't you have just a plain one for a change? | 0:13:19 | 0:13:21 | |
Mmm. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:22 | |
-That's really lovely. -Well. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:25 | |
It's just the actual density of the cloth. | 0:13:25 | 0:13:29 | |
I don't feel we're getting anywhere. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:31 | |
-OK. -This is what normally happens. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:34 | |
-OK. -I like to move forward... | 0:13:34 | 0:13:37 | |
-All right. -..keeping moving forward. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:38 | |
OK, so, now I'm going to measure you, so come here. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
Oh, dear. I feel a bit different. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:43 | |
I haven't grown taller, have I? | 0:13:43 | 0:13:46 | |
Ooh. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:47 | |
-Erm. -Just keep the figures to yourself. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:50 | |
Yeah, I will. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
The upper waist measurement, which is this one... | 0:13:52 | 0:13:56 | |
Gone up a waist. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:58 | |
-Do your raising your gun. -Oh. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
-See? -See, we put vents here. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
But it's quite nice... | 0:14:06 | 0:14:08 | |
It looks nice, as well. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:10 | |
Yeah. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:11 | |
Desmond and Tina have a good working relationship but when they lived | 0:14:11 | 0:14:16 | |
together, things could get frosty. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
The house is very much warmer than when Tina lived there. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:23 | |
Erm...she used to mention the C word a lot. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:28 | |
Yes, I couldn't say cold... | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
-No. -..because it caused an explosion. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
Caused so much tension. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
And now it's warm as toast through this modern heating system. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:40 | |
Once Desmond decides on a tweed, | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
it will be ordered from the Scottish mill and sent to Tina. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:51 | |
Back at Wiveton, there's good news. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:57 | |
Marketing the wing as a venue is starting to pay off. | 0:14:57 | 0:15:00 | |
Somebody who just e-mailed out of the blue, they've been to the cafe, | 0:15:01 | 0:15:05 | |
she obviously knows about the hall | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
and she just sent me an e-mail asking | 0:15:07 | 0:15:08 | |
if we'd ever considered a yoga retreat. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:11 | |
I ran it past Desmond, he said let's try it. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:14 | |
Oh, yes, come and meet them, please. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:16 | |
What's this doing? Lights on in the middle of the day. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:18 | |
-Oh, yes, no, that was just me testing it. -Do tell them. | 0:15:18 | 0:15:21 | |
-No, that was me. -How does the light go off? -Lisa, this is Desmond. | 0:15:21 | 0:15:24 | |
-I'll do it, Desmond. Yes. -Economy at all times. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:27 | |
We've got a yoga retreat. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
Retreat sends shivers up one's spine slightly but still, | 0:15:31 | 0:15:36 | |
they're coming and they're going to | 0:15:36 | 0:15:40 | |
do their yoga, pay handsomely, | 0:15:40 | 0:15:44 | |
special food and hopefully come again. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:48 | |
-Oh, hello. -This is Desmond. -We met before. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:50 | |
-I think we met. -Last year. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
-Nice to see you again. -Now, remind me which one you are. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
-I'm Lisa. -Lisa, good. And your friend is here? | 0:15:55 | 0:15:59 | |
Yes, she's upstairs. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:01 | |
We're just sorting out massage treatment rooms. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:03 | |
Oh, my God. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:04 | |
-You're down for one, did you know that? -Oh, that's very good. OK. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
We're trying to get 12 people in here, | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
-do you think we'll...manage? -Yes, easy. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:11 | |
-Well, we could test it out. -We always get 12. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
-EMMA LAUGHS -Always. -Always? | 0:16:13 | 0:16:14 | |
-Have you done this before? -Oh, yes. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:18 | |
-12 yoga mats? -Yes, easy. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
They're basically paying us for the accommodation as we would let it for | 0:16:20 | 0:16:23 | |
anybody on holiday and we're also going to do some catering for it, | 0:16:23 | 0:16:27 | |
some very specific gluten-free, dairy-free healthy stuff. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:33 | |
And you've got the food organised? | 0:16:33 | 0:16:34 | |
Yes, I've spoken to Ben. He's across everything. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:36 | |
Oh, good, good, good, good. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
-And... -We just still don't know the final number, believe it or not. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:42 | |
Why? Is that cos...? | 0:16:42 | 0:16:43 | |
(Is it cos...? | 0:16:43 | 0:16:44 | |
(Are they quite... | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
-(indecisive?) -Yeah, the general public. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
They're very chilled. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:51 | |
Do we call that flaky? | 0:16:53 | 0:16:54 | |
-I don't know. -It's quite exasperating. -I wouldn't say that. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:57 | |
-Quite exasperating. -No, so we're either 11 or 12 people. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:01 | |
That's not too bad. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:02 | |
I don't know much about yoga. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:05 | |
-Are you going to be joining us for the yoga? -Yes. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:07 | |
Morning meditation. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:08 | |
I think they like cosmic smells produced from ethnic candles. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:14 | |
-Yes. -Here's Penina. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
-Penina. -Oh, hello. -Come and meet Desmond. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:21 | |
Hello, Desmond. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:23 | |
-Nice to see you again. -Nice to see you again. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
So, are you going to have a massage? | 0:17:26 | 0:17:28 | |
Well, that would be marvellous at some stage. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
I don't know who the masseur is. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
-That's me. -Oh, good. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:33 | |
-You're going to have a shiatsu. -Oh, my goodness. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:35 | |
Sounds very painful. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:36 | |
It's testing the water, so we'll see if it | 0:17:38 | 0:17:42 | |
works, and I'm sure if it works, we can convince him to do more. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:44 | |
"April 1953." | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
Is it me here, dear? | 0:17:55 | 0:17:56 | |
-That's you. -Following the death of his father in the 1970s, | 0:17:56 | 0:18:01 | |
Desmond's mother Chloe ran the hall and farm for a number of years. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:05 | |
Have you had a cup of coffee? | 0:18:05 | 0:18:08 | |
Desmond still keeps her informed on matters of business. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:11 | |
There's going to be a yoga gathering. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:17 | |
-Enormous amount. -What is that? | 0:18:19 | 0:18:20 | |
That's plaice. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:21 | |
What they call goujons of plaice. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
-Very good. -Looks good. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
Have you ever done yoga? | 0:18:28 | 0:18:29 | |
-Yes. -Where? | 0:18:30 | 0:18:32 | |
Well, in London. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:34 | |
Oh, yes. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:35 | |
Then there's going to be a group of people going around the garden | 0:18:35 | 0:18:40 | |
-for a tour. -Yes. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:41 | |
I don't know if you'd like to be part of it? | 0:18:43 | 0:18:44 | |
You don't... Look, a bloody chicken under the table. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
What's that doing? Look. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
Look at it, it has rather splendid yellow legs. | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
That's one of the ones might end up in the pot. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
Desmond's business ventures have to succeed. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
As well as keeping the hall going, | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
the livelihoods of 50 employees across cafe, | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
garden and farm depend on him. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:20 | |
Oh, you are so good, Rodney. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
-Brilliant. -Over the years, | 0:19:23 | 0:19:25 | |
he's pulled together a loyal team | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
with whom he's developed strong bonds. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
Desmond is sort of... | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
He's almost indescribable. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:35 | |
I'm not gay or anything, but I do like him. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:40 | |
He's an interesting man. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:43 | |
Sometimes rude and obnoxious but, I mean, | 0:19:43 | 0:19:46 | |
that's what makes him who he is. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:47 | |
Oh... Oh, no! | 0:19:47 | 0:19:49 | |
Stop! | 0:19:49 | 0:19:50 | |
-Stop! -It depends what Desmond's got going on, I think. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
Yeah, there's lots going on. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:56 | |
Yeah, which is good, cos when he's got lots going on, | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
then he sort of, you know, tells you what to do | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
and let's you get on with it. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:02 | |
When he's bored, then he gets involved. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
-Yes. -And then things can go a bit... | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
-Pear-shaped sometimes. -Pear-shaped! -SHE LAUGHS | 0:20:07 | 0:20:10 | |
Don't you eat nuts? | 0:20:10 | 0:20:12 | |
You haven't got a nut allergy as well as everything else, Debbie? | 0:20:12 | 0:20:17 | |
Come on. They're delicious. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:19 | |
If I'm ill, I'm blaming you. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:22 | |
At the shop, a crowd is gathering. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:28 | |
50 tickets have been sold for the first Wiveton Garden tour. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:33 | |
-There we are. -Desmond's just got time to check the mole traps | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
on his lawn. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:38 | |
Oh, yes! | 0:20:38 | 0:20:39 | |
Success. | 0:20:40 | 0:20:41 | |
A sweet little mole. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
Isn't he nice? Beautiful. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:47 | |
That's what make waistcoats. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:49 | |
Look at his little hands. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:50 | |
Look at his teeth. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:53 | |
Well, it's a shame I'm not planning to make a moleskin waistcoat because | 0:20:53 | 0:20:58 | |
we'd at least have one mole to start with. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
The other creatures are always there to combat what you're trying to | 0:21:01 | 0:21:05 | |
achieve. You could say they were here first. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
Which is true. They were. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:10 | |
But, I mean, if we want a lawn that's fairly nice, | 0:21:10 | 0:21:12 | |
we'd like to keep the moles at bay. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
Erm. There's plenty of other places for them to live. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
Oh. Here, what have you got? | 0:21:23 | 0:21:25 | |
What have you got? Eugh. Dead, dead. | 0:21:25 | 0:21:29 | |
That is, erm, | 0:21:29 | 0:21:31 | |
a frog. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:32 | |
Sadly... I mean, French people eat frogs and so does the dog. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:39 | |
If his garden tour is successful, | 0:21:43 | 0:21:45 | |
it could be a new and returning form of income | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
for novice tour guide Desmond. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
Hello. Is everyone here, do you think? | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
Now, what we'll do is we'll go down nearer the house, | 0:21:54 | 0:21:58 | |
so let's go this way. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
Hello. What a nice hat you've got. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
We start here. | 0:22:06 | 0:22:07 | |
Thank you all for coming. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:10 | |
I've lived here all my life and quite unfit for anything else now | 0:22:10 | 0:22:18 | |
but, because I've spent so much time here, I'm clearly interested, | 0:22:18 | 0:22:23 | |
so I might bore you on certain aspects, | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
-but none of it'll last for long. -THEY CHUCKLE | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
So that bit of the house was built during Cromwell's time. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
No known architect. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
I mean, lots of quirky bits, very much the Dutch-style gables, | 0:22:36 | 0:22:41 | |
flint facades and in moonlight it looks fantastic. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:46 | |
Do you like taking money off visitors? | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
Well, of course, I love it. | 0:22:50 | 0:22:52 | |
I come from mercantile origins. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:54 | |
Love taking money off people. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:56 | |
Making something work financially is very gratifying. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
Walk into the sun garden. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:04 | |
This is an Edwardian garden. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
And before that, it was | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
a yard in which carriages would've come in and turned round. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:14 | |
Just inside the door, a little bit of a font, and as a child, | 0:23:14 | 0:23:18 | |
I would sit in it as a sort of throne. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:21 | |
-THEY CHUCKLE -I was tiny once. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:23 | |
-Yes! -Now, we're going to go round there. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:27 | |
How many of you have been here before, | 0:23:27 | 0:23:29 | |
to the cafe? | 0:23:29 | 0:23:31 | |
Oh, quite a lot of you, quite a lot of you. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
But quite a lot of you haven't, so that's good. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
Well, I'm always keen to take money off you. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
Mm. It's quite clear how big a house it is. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:46 | |
1650 it was built and it all needs maintaining. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:50 | |
So you've got an insight into this place, | 0:23:50 | 0:23:53 | |
which I hope you found interesting. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:55 | |
-THEY CLAP -OK. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
-OK, there we are. -How did that go? | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
Very well. They loved it. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:03 | |
I slightly lost some of the historical references, | 0:24:05 | 0:24:09 | |
but I think they got the gist of it. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:12 | |
There we are. 50 people - | 0:24:12 | 0:24:14 | |
£350. Marvellous. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:16 | |
Not bad for 45 minutes of Desmond talking. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:20 | |
CAMERAMAN LAUGHS | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
He should do it more often. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:23 | |
An even more lucrative form of revenue is setting up in the wing. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:31 | |
Lisa and Penina are running the yoga retreat. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:35 | |
North Norfolk is such a magical, I think, spiritual place. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:40 | |
It's kind of the perfect setting for a yoga retreat. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:43 | |
OK, I'll put the props here so people can just help themselves. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:49 | |
Penina and I are going to do a welcome circle once everyone's here | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
in a couple of hours, after they've arrived, and then we'll go straight | 0:24:52 | 0:24:55 | |
into a gentle yoga practice, get them warmed up for the weekend. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
And then we'll have dinner and maybe a glass of wine. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:02 | |
That's permitted and, you know, just have a really nice social evening. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
We've got the fires going and it should be really nice. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:08 | |
Absorb any sensation. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
-Breathe it away. -Desmond will not be joining them on the mats as he's | 0:25:15 | 0:25:20 | |
engrossed in his own form of therapy. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
Ah! It's a bit out of control. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:26 | |
He's preparing the woods for the up-and-coming shooting season. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:31 | |
Clearing the undergrowth. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:34 | |
Quite soon, | 0:25:35 | 0:25:37 | |
some people will want to walk through the woods | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
when they're beating and they won't get through. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:42 | |
Feel like you're growing roots down through the big toes | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
to steady you into the earth. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
I don't think he really gets yoga. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
Yoga and power walking and anybody in Lycra, | 0:25:51 | 0:25:54 | |
he's really not happy about that. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:56 | |
Oh, my God, look at the size of these brambles! | 0:25:56 | 0:25:58 | |
Doesn't like cyclists, runners, | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
anybody who's doing anything in Lycra. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:05 | |
Go from one side to the other now. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:07 | |
Bring a little bit of flow, inhaling as you extend the leg. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:11 | |
Bringing feet together. | 0:26:11 | 0:26:12 | |
Ah! That's a nice young beech. | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
We mustn't crush it. | 0:26:19 | 0:26:21 | |
It's opening it up a bit and helping the trees at the same time. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:26 | |
I think it'd be great for Desmond to get down on the ground and to have | 0:26:28 | 0:26:31 | |
some body-work done. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:33 | |
I think he's going to really enjoy it actually. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:35 | |
Oh, look at the brambles! | 0:26:35 | 0:26:37 | |
Oh, my God! | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
Oh! | 0:26:40 | 0:26:42 | |
Where is he? | 0:26:42 | 0:26:43 | |
Shall we go and hunt him down? | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
Ooh. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:48 | |
I think he thinks he's got better things to do with his time. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
Perhaps, I think, he's just happy when people are in tweed. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:54 | |
With more garden tours and yoga retreats on the cards, | 0:26:56 | 0:27:00 | |
Desmond's plans for the hall are starting to bear fruit. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:03 | |
And there are a few perks for its owner. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:07 | |
Hey, Desmond. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:09 | |
-Wow, you look fantastic, ready for your shiatsu. -Oh, yes. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:12 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:27:12 | 0:27:15 | |
So, it's going to be great. | 0:27:15 | 0:27:17 | |
-Come on in. -Oh, look at that. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:19 | |
Look, it's all ready for you. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:20 | |
It looks as though it's a sacrifice. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
All right, been lovely, so nice to see you. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:27 | |
So nice to see you. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
-Goodbye. -Goodbye. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
So, Desmond, come and lay down. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:37 | |
Oh! | 0:27:37 | 0:27:39 | |
We're going to get your chi moving. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:40 | |
-Oh, yes. -Yeah? Does that sound good? | 0:27:40 | 0:27:42 | |
Yes. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:44 | |
So you can now just completely relax. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:47 | |
-HE SIGHS -(There we go.) | 0:27:47 | 0:27:49 | |
(Yeah.) | 0:27:50 | 0:27:51 | |
-(Oh, my God.) -(OK.) | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
(There we go.) | 0:27:55 | 0:27:56 | |
(Oh, my God.) | 0:27:58 | 0:27:59 | |
Oh, my God. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:00 | |
-Next time... -Good God! | 0:28:03 | 0:28:06 | |
..Desmond leads a quest for an ancient water supply... | 0:28:06 | 0:28:10 | |
Do not fall down the well. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:12 | |
Call the dog away. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:14 | |
Bloody stupid dog. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:15 | |
..pressure builds on Edmund to commit to a life at Wiveton... | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
We do need to think long-term. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:20 | |
You could do the cash flow with me. | 0:28:20 | 0:28:23 | |
Yes! | 0:28:23 | 0:28:25 | |
..and the hall welcomes some old friends. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 | |
Mr Snodgrass and Mr Clutterbuck. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:30 | |
THEY CHUCKLE | 0:28:30 | 0:28:31 | |
As you say, you couldn't make it up. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:33 |