0:00:02 > 0:00:03Fair faa ye, and welcome to Santer.
0:00:09 > 0:00:10Coming up on the programme,
0:00:10 > 0:00:13Gibson Young meets Quinton Nelson
0:00:13 > 0:00:16who's doing up a Cloughey Lifeboat decommissioned in the 1950s.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19A lot of my friends ran this one boat, this wee boat here,
0:00:19 > 0:00:21scooting out to the convoys and what hae you.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Jimmy Parke and his grand-daughter
0:00:24 > 0:00:28bith hae a love for pigeons and for the Killyglen Accordion Band.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31The band means everything to me. It just means everything to me.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34When the band's going well, Jimmy's going well.
0:00:34 > 0:00:39Mark Wilson arrives in Mabou on his musical trail in Nova Scotia.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42The town's almost like a mecca for Nova Scotian music
0:00:42 > 0:00:46and the shrine at the centre of it all is the Red Shoe Pub.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50- And Young Farmers of Straid take up the Tractor Handlin' Challenge. - The aim is that
0:00:50 > 0:00:54the guys have to get the tractors round the course as fast as we can,
0:00:54 > 0:00:57and we'll try and get a champion for Santer here today.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04There's nae doubt there's been a lang-held tradition
0:01:04 > 0:01:06in Scotland and here in Ulster
0:01:06 > 0:01:08o' story-telling and balladry.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10And it's great to see young musicians
0:01:10 > 0:01:13still wanting to write their ain ballads. So to start us off,
0:01:13 > 0:01:17here's Eilidh Patterson wi' Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?
0:01:21 > 0:01:23# All the stars are out tonight
0:01:27 > 0:01:31# The moon is hanging low
0:01:33 > 0:01:36# Romance is in the air
0:01:38 > 0:01:42# At this Willie Nelson show
0:01:45 > 0:01:49# And everything is blue
0:01:50 > 0:01:54# The stage, the lights, my heart
0:01:56 > 0:01:59# And this feeling's nothing new
0:02:02 > 0:02:06# Been there since we fell apart
0:02:07 > 0:02:12# And I wonder where you are
0:02:13 > 0:02:17# I wonder how you've been
0:02:19 > 0:02:23# Is she all you hoped she'd be?
0:02:25 > 0:02:28# Is she the sweetest thing?
0:02:30 > 0:02:36# Do you ever think at all
0:02:36 > 0:02:40# Of the one you left behind?
0:02:42 > 0:02:46# Was I the only one to fall?
0:02:49 > 0:02:52# Do I ever cross your mind?
0:02:54 > 0:02:58# Blue eyes crying in the rain
0:03:00 > 0:03:05# You were always on my mind
0:03:06 > 0:03:10# Only remind me again
0:03:12 > 0:03:16# Of the love I'll never find
0:03:18 > 0:03:24# When underneath these stars
0:03:24 > 0:03:29# I'm strengthened by the sounds
0:03:29 > 0:03:34# Maybe I was just an angel
0:03:36 > 0:03:40# Flying too close to the ground
0:03:42 > 0:03:46# And I wonder where you are
0:03:48 > 0:03:51# I wonder how you've been
0:03:53 > 0:03:59# Is she all you hoped she'd be?
0:03:59 > 0:04:03# Is she the sweetest thing?
0:04:04 > 0:04:11# Do you ever think at all
0:04:11 > 0:04:17# Of the one you left behind?
0:04:17 > 0:04:20# Was I the only one to fall?
0:04:23 > 0:04:27# Do I ever cross your mind?
0:04:29 > 0:04:33# Was I the only one to fall?
0:04:35 > 0:04:43# Do I ever cross your mind? #
0:04:53 > 0:04:56In the Ards Peninsula,
0:04:56 > 0:04:58there hae been many men down through the years
0:04:58 > 0:05:00who hae wrocht on lifeboats.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03Gibson Young's family is steeped in that tradition
0:05:03 > 0:05:06and he has tracked down yin o' the boats his uncles wrocht on.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10It's being done up by Quinton Nelson.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14- Hello, Quinton. Blowy day, boy, isn't it?- Fierce.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18I knew this wee boat was in the vicinity, but I never knew where.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22I don't think she ever left Northern Ireland. She was originally Cloughey.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25We got her in Belfast. She was lying in the Lagan.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29- The Lagan?- A friend of mine bought her there and wants it restored.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31So we brought her here, which was handy,
0:05:31 > 0:05:36and we've been at it, the best part of three winters now, on and off.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41I noticed in the stern, it says on it "Cloughey Life-boat, 1939/52."
0:05:41 > 0:05:43That's right, yeah.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47A lot of my friends in Portavogie, in Cloughey, were on this,
0:05:47 > 0:05:49namely my Uncle Davy-John, my Uncle Bob
0:05:49 > 0:05:52- and my Uncle Andy ran this one boat, this wee boat here...- Yes.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Scooting out to the convoys and what hae you.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57Nearly always at night too, in the dark, no lights.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00- Hard men and real seamanship. - That's right.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02- Iron men in wooden boats.- That's it.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06How much of this is all original, Quinton?
0:06:06 > 0:06:09What would be the new bits you put on?
0:06:09 > 0:06:13You can see the join from the front. The darker wood is all the original
0:06:13 > 0:06:16and the last three feet here was all missing,
0:06:16 > 0:06:19it was completely cut away to have a wheelhouse set into it.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21And the new owner deliberately doesn't want it
0:06:21 > 0:06:23blended in away completely.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26He wants it to be seen that it's had to be repaired.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30So you haven't got to make so much of an effort to hide it all.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33Quinton, how long have you been at this game?
0:06:33 > 0:06:35At boats all my life,
0:06:35 > 0:06:37but this came about because I have a lifeboat of my own
0:06:37 > 0:06:41and I've been to a few organised rallies and what have you,
0:06:41 > 0:06:43and people there liked the way mine looked
0:06:43 > 0:06:46and sort of asked me would I have a go at theirs.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50And we've now done three or four. There's two at the minute
0:06:50 > 0:06:53and two away. One of them's on the Hudson River in New York.
0:06:59 > 0:07:03We're trying to make it as original as possible.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06This would've been there originally in beautifully cast bronze.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08We've had to make it out of plastic
0:07:08 > 0:07:10so it's just moulded plastic from an original.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14Even these port-holes, we had to get these cast.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17There's only one person in Northern Ireland can do it.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19These are to replace ones that are missing.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26The mast is the original mast.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29We luckily got it from the guys who took it off the boat.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31The lamp is the original lamp.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34It's a Morse signalling lamp which was operated from the wheel here.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Lucky enough. To get stuff like this is impossible.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39We're very, very fortunate.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42You can see all around the boat, what look like seats -
0:07:42 > 0:07:44up to a point they are seats,
0:07:44 > 0:07:47but they were really designed to hold more of these buoyancy boxes,
0:07:47 > 0:07:50all fitted in below the seats
0:07:50 > 0:07:54to displace the water, so there was less water actually inside the boat.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58Every one's made to fit somewhere in the boat. This is marked,
0:07:58 > 0:08:00"6S for the Port Well", which is down in the back here.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04You see the shape of the hull, it fits like so.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07It's just a box and it was just filled with air,
0:08:07 > 0:08:09put a plug in it, it was screwed and glued in
0:08:09 > 0:08:11and that's how they were put in the boat.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13The theory was, it would never sink.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16- You'd literally have to break it up. - Break the hull up?
0:08:16 > 0:08:19Dozens of holes in the boat, as sometimes happened in rescues.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21There were holes knocked in them everywhere.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24The boat will not sink so long as the air boxes are OK.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31You say you've been at this now about three year?
0:08:31 > 0:08:34- Three winters, virtually.- How long before you get her into the water?
0:08:34 > 0:08:37- She's scheduled for launching... - Sometime this year?
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Yes, hopefully in about four months.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41I'd love to see this thing at sea,
0:08:41 > 0:08:43knowing the connection with my folks.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46- Certainly. That's not a problem. - It would make Andy and Lame-Andy
0:08:46 > 0:08:50- and Stiff-back Andy brave and happy to see this yoke.- A lot of Andys!
0:09:05 > 0:09:07My name is Jimmy Parke.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10I was originally born in Killyglen near Larne,
0:09:10 > 0:09:13but I've lived in the Glynn this past 40-odd years.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18I've kept pigeons most of my life, so I have
0:09:18 > 0:09:23and then I started to race the pigeons, roughly about 17 years ago.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27My granda has about 30-odd pigeons
0:09:27 > 0:09:30and he goes every Saturday
0:09:30 > 0:09:32to Lisburn
0:09:32 > 0:09:33to fly them,
0:09:33 > 0:09:36and they come back home.
0:09:36 > 0:09:37Well, some of them do.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42I've a great passion for my pigeons.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44I really do like them.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47But my first passion is the Killyglen Accordion Band.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49BAND PLAYS
0:09:56 > 0:10:00I'm in the band, my daughter's in it, and my two grand-daughters
0:10:00 > 0:10:02and my grandson's in it.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Katie's like myself.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08She wouldn't let a thing bate her, so she wouldnae.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10She just keeps at the whole thing.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Katie's a very dedicated player.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28She has been at the Northern Ireland Championships on numerous occasions
0:10:28 > 0:10:31- and you won the thing twice, didn't you?- Yeah.
0:10:31 > 0:10:32She was the outright winner.
0:10:49 > 0:10:53Well, Snowy up there is my favourite pigeon
0:10:53 > 0:10:57because she was born on the day I was born.
0:10:57 > 0:11:01She's going to race next Saturday for the first time.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04ACCORDION BAND PLAYS
0:11:09 > 0:11:11One night, we were up at Killyglen,
0:11:11 > 0:11:13och, 40 years ago,
0:11:13 > 0:11:19and there was two other fellas and myself standing talking about music
0:11:19 > 0:11:21and one of the boys says to me, he says,
0:11:21 > 0:11:25"Jimmy, what about starting a band?" I came hame and I thought about it
0:11:25 > 0:11:29and I never was one for shrugging off a challenge.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32And I said, "Right, I'll go for it."
0:11:32 > 0:11:35We had our first,
0:11:35 > 0:11:37if you want to call it, first band practice,
0:11:37 > 0:11:42and about 40...41 musicians turned up
0:11:42 > 0:11:44and from among all that lot there,
0:11:44 > 0:11:47we only had one accordion, that's all we had.
0:11:47 > 0:11:51And at this moment in time, we are the reigning British Champions.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57The band means everything to me, so it does.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58It just means everything to me.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01When the band's going well, Jimmy's going well.
0:12:04 > 0:12:05Throughout this series,
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Mark Wilson has been following the trail of the fiddle style
0:12:08 > 0:12:11that travelled out to Canada frae Scotland and Ulster.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14He stays on that journey now in Cape Breton.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33My musical journey, which started in Donegal,
0:12:33 > 0:12:36and then brought me across the Atlantic to Canada,
0:12:36 > 0:12:38to the port of Sydney in Cape Breton,
0:12:38 > 0:12:40has now taken me further into Nova Scotia,
0:12:40 > 0:12:44passing through towns such as Inverness and Aberdeen
0:12:44 > 0:12:48as I head towards the Gulf of St Laurence and the town of Mabou.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58Mabou, which means "the place where two rivers meet",
0:12:58 > 0:13:00is home to so many of Nova Scotia's top musicians,
0:13:00 > 0:13:03including the world-famous Rankin Family.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05The town is almost like a mecca for Nova Scotian music
0:13:05 > 0:13:08and the shrine at the centre of it all is the Red Shoe Pub.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12And any time you walk through the door of the Red Shoe,
0:13:12 > 0:13:15you'll always do so to the sound of the fiddle.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21The Cape Breton fiddle style, with its marches, strathspeys and reels,
0:13:21 > 0:13:24is most definitely of Scottish origin.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27But the Cape Bretoners have developed a style of their own
0:13:27 > 0:13:30which is much faster, much punchier,
0:13:30 > 0:13:33more staccato, played at much higher tempos,
0:13:33 > 0:13:35and without the delay on the first beat of the bar.
0:13:38 > 0:13:39The other thing that's different
0:13:39 > 0:13:42in Cape Breton music is the style of piano-playing.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46FAST JAZZY PIANO MUSIC
0:14:00 > 0:14:03I love talking about the Nova Scotia piano style.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06I think, in my mind, it's very much still evolving.
0:14:06 > 0:14:07I think it was something
0:14:07 > 0:14:10that was meant to be an accompaniment instrument
0:14:10 > 0:14:13and it was more in the background, I guess.
0:14:13 > 0:14:18And more recently, it's become a little bit more in the forefront.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20It's a little more action-packed,
0:14:20 > 0:14:23it's meant to bring out the best of the fiddle tunes.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26It's still much more chording
0:14:26 > 0:14:28and a lot of bass runs.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32That's kind of typical of Cape Breton styling.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39It's never about performance.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42It ends up being that way so that the world can see it
0:14:42 > 0:14:45but we get to just do it in our natural setting.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47It is what we choose to do for fun.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49We, you know, on our weekends
0:14:49 > 0:14:52or our weekends off from whatever we might be doing,
0:14:52 > 0:14:56we would choose to do this, to get together and play tunes.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59It's very much a give-give, win-win situation. We love it.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07The Red Shoe Pub in Mabou is owned by the Rankin Sisters
0:15:07 > 0:15:11from the famous Rankin musical family, who have for decades
0:15:11 > 0:15:15been playing the Cape Breton music style all around the world.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18Families here, big or small,
0:15:18 > 0:15:21I think you see a pattern of families
0:15:21 > 0:15:24trying to preserve the culture, the music, the dance,
0:15:24 > 0:15:28so there is an effort to continue on with the culture.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34I think in a good way it's evolving,
0:15:34 > 0:15:38and I think you're seeing a lot more influence from Irish players
0:15:38 > 0:15:43and Spanish players in the playing.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45If you listen to the Beatons of Mabou,
0:15:45 > 0:15:49they're still very true to the style of the coal-mines fiddle-playing
0:15:49 > 0:15:53but in the younger players, you'll hear different influences.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Now I'm here in Nova Scotia, this place for me looks like home,
0:15:59 > 0:16:01so I hope I'm back here at some stage.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Girls, thank you so much for your time.
0:16:03 > 0:16:07- It's been an absolute treat for me. - Thank you.- And for us too. Thanks.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21Straid is a wee village near Ballynure.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23Frank McLernon paid it a visit
0:16:23 > 0:16:25and met up with David Boyd and his nephew Alan
0:16:25 > 0:16:28to find out a wee bit about its history.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33So, Davy, you're a Straid man all your life?
0:16:33 > 0:16:36- Yeah, born in the village. - Born in the village.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38Lived in it till the mid-'60s.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41How close were you born to the village, Davy?
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Right in the centre of it.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46I was born and lived in the same house David was born and lived in,
0:16:46 > 0:16:49- 30 years before.- Yeah. - 20 years before, whatever!
0:16:49 > 0:16:53This would be one of the ouldest houses in the village here, would it?
0:16:53 > 0:16:56This was Wilson's house and shop on the corner.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59That was the local grocer's shop and Post Office
0:16:59 > 0:17:03and farm supplies, feed merchants.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06I think at one time they maybe even sold petrol.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09- There's an old petrol pump inside that green door.- A one-stop place?
0:17:09 > 0:17:11A one-stop shop, aye.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17- You see just up the trees there, Frank?- Aye.
0:17:17 > 0:17:18That's called The Plantin'.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21In below that there, there was bauxite mines
0:17:21 > 0:17:24away back in, I think, the late 1800s,
0:17:24 > 0:17:27maybe as far into the early 1900s.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29It was brought out along the bottom of the trees
0:17:29 > 0:17:32and at the corner there, they used to tip it up.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34That was called the Dippa up there.
0:17:34 > 0:17:35- The Dippa?- The Dippa Meeda.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38- That was the Dippa Meeda up there. - Right, right.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41And then it was loaded there
0:17:41 > 0:17:43into horses and carts
0:17:43 > 0:17:46and taken to Ballynure and put onto the narrow-gauge railway
0:17:46 > 0:17:51to go to Larne to the aluminium works.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Now, I know there's only the yin street in Straid,
0:17:55 > 0:17:58but when I was doing a wee bit of research for the programme,
0:17:58 > 0:18:01I heard o' a place called Gape Street.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02Gape.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Gape? As in gaping out...?
0:18:04 > 0:18:06- Gapin' oot the window. - Right. Well, I don't know
0:18:06 > 0:18:09cos we lived in the village at that time.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Maybe they were talking about us gaping out the window!
0:18:12 > 0:18:15When I was a cub, we'd sit and gape out the window. I think you did too.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18- Watched the lorries go up and down. - Oh aye, see what's going by.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21Oh, so it wasn't that you were nosy or anything.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23- No, you just sat there. - You'd nething else to do!
0:18:23 > 0:18:26- We sat in the heat and looked out the window.- You looked out?
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Maybe that's why it was called Gape Street.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34Yin of the things I uncovered about Straid was,
0:18:34 > 0:18:37between Derry and Belfast,
0:18:37 > 0:18:41youse had an unfortunate visitor deposited on youse.
0:18:41 > 0:18:42Oh, the Turk?
0:18:42 > 0:18:44- The Turk.- The famous Turk.
0:18:44 > 0:18:48It was up this road here, about a mile and a half,
0:18:48 > 0:18:50was where they found the body.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53I'd say it would've raised a quare whuid in the village, for that time?
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Aye, it was... How long was it?
0:18:55 > 0:18:571930?
0:18:57 > 0:18:59- 1931.- 1931.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Obviously, everyone in Straid talks about the Turk.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04When I was growing up, in school, I did a project on it
0:19:04 > 0:19:07cos my mum and my dad told me the story of the Turk.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10The story as I included in the project, that I'd been told,
0:19:10 > 0:19:12is that he was part of the circus. They'd come from Turkey.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16There was some dispute. By one means or another, he was killed.
0:19:16 > 0:19:17That's where the body was dumped.
0:19:17 > 0:19:21The odd thing, I suppose would have set the village's teeth on edge
0:19:21 > 0:19:24was, he was found with nae clothes on except a blue and white bathing cap.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27- Right.- The body that killed him was an American.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31- Right.- So you had somebody frae the Middle East, frae Turkey,
0:19:31 > 0:19:33somebody frae America,
0:19:33 > 0:19:37- and the whole thing fell to a kibosh here in Straid.- It all ended up here!
0:19:37 > 0:19:40He done him and he was took to The Crum and he was hung.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42- On the Crumlin Road?- Oh, aye.
0:19:42 > 0:19:43It was great to meet youse.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46- And you, Frank. Thanks very much. - Keep in touch.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51If you were wi' us last time on Santer,
0:19:51 > 0:19:54you'll hae seen Leslie Morrow taking a look at the film Us Boys.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56The film was made in the 1990s
0:19:56 > 0:19:59and it starred Leslie's twa uncles, Stuart and Ernie.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02Sadly, they're nae longer wi' us
0:20:02 > 0:20:04but the footage is still amazing.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23This is a film about two uncles of mine.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28My Uncle Stuart and Uncle Ernie,
0:20:28 > 0:20:31a pair of characters in their ain right.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36This'll be the Ernie boy getting a fire on.
0:20:36 > 0:20:40Ernie liked to raise a bit of heat.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Ernie would open the stove
0:20:42 > 0:20:44and thrown in a wheen o' sticks and a slap of coal.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48If you thought that was enough, next thing he'd have a tin of red diesel
0:20:48 > 0:20:50and that got horsed into the fire
0:20:50 > 0:20:54and the flames would be roaring out round the stove and up into the air.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57You wouldnae seen your finger in front of you for reek.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03It's maybe no wonder them two boys were bachelors
0:21:03 > 0:21:06for you wouldnae got a woman into that house to put up wi' that.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Maist farms round the countryside
0:21:16 > 0:21:19had a grocery van pulled into the yard at night.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21They had breid, biscuits and cigarettes
0:21:21 > 0:21:24and whatever you need. Just a wee mobile shop.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26The boy that come here come wile late at night.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Could be about 12 at night he's arriving.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Ernie goes out to him and they maybe swap him a wheen o' eggs
0:21:31 > 0:21:34and Ernie'll get a wheen o' bits and pieces off him.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36That boy'd hae had everything in that van
0:21:36 > 0:21:39frae a battery to a loaf to mint imperials.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Aye, wee mints, Ernie?
0:21:44 > 0:21:45Maybe you nae know?
0:21:45 > 0:21:48- Oh, aye.- That's a joke.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56- Handy job, Ernie? - That's a grand job.- Thanks very much.
0:21:59 > 0:22:00Oh, aye.
0:22:00 > 0:22:01THUMP
0:22:03 > 0:22:07Stuart has kind of disappeared out of the film at this stage
0:22:07 > 0:22:10because he had been into hospital
0:22:10 > 0:22:13and got some work done, and then they couldn't bring him back there.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15So he went into a home for a wee while
0:22:15 > 0:22:17and that sort of got him out of the house.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21For a good while that chair was empty, and Ernie missed him.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27He would be standing like that, sort of viewing the whole countryside
0:22:27 > 0:22:32but he would try and avoid you seeing him like that.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36You knew rightly he was just waiting
0:22:36 > 0:22:40to get Stuart back into the house wi' him for a bit o' company.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50They were like man and wife, the pair of them, nearly.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53And I can still see the two boys sitting there.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56It's easy enough to think about that.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59Ernie was a great boy. If he was going somewhere,
0:22:59 > 0:23:01he had to go and get cleaned up, you see.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04So he always went to the sink over here at the window.
0:23:04 > 0:23:08He'd have come over here to what he called the jawbox
0:23:08 > 0:23:13and he just ran the tap into the jawbox until it was well full
0:23:13 > 0:23:17and maybe a lot of hot water off a kettle there.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20He'd heel it in, and he done his shaving wi' a car mirror.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23He'd have held the car mirror up and been shaving away,
0:23:23 > 0:23:25then he done this with the mirror,
0:23:25 > 0:23:28looking out of the corner of his eye and then shaved a bit mair.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31That went on until the finale of the thing was,
0:23:31 > 0:23:33when the shaving was done, he put his heid down
0:23:33 > 0:23:35and put the hands into the water
0:23:35 > 0:23:38and next thing, there were a deluge of stuff flying up round his jaws
0:23:38 > 0:23:42and if you'd been behind him, you'd have been absolutely drenched.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47I stuck a 12-volt TV in for my Uncle Ernie
0:23:47 > 0:23:50and, of course, it had to be run off a car battery
0:23:50 > 0:23:52cos there was nae electric.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54And this TV was a great job.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57The first day or two, Ernie, he thought it was some touch,
0:23:57 > 0:24:00but it soon got to be a chore. The battery was running done
0:24:00 > 0:24:04and there was something on he wanted to see, so this is me coming,
0:24:04 > 0:24:07yet again, wi' another battery charged up to get it onto the TV.
0:24:07 > 0:24:11In fact, myself and my brother Adrian were absolutely tormented
0:24:11 > 0:24:13charging batteries for Uncle Ernie.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17It didnae take us long to work out what his favourite programme was.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20No. It used to be a thing, it was a Saturday it was on.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22- I cannae mind.- You came up there
0:24:22 > 0:24:24and it was tearing away, that Gladiators.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27He liked the look of them big strong weemen.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29He liked the weemen. He got wile upset
0:24:29 > 0:24:32if the battery started to die in the middle of Gladiators!
0:24:32 > 0:24:35It didn't matter what I came up to do or whether the cattle got fed or no,
0:24:35 > 0:24:38I was sent straight back down to get the battery charged!
0:24:38 > 0:24:41I had to take the battery out of my car one night
0:24:41 > 0:24:42to let him see Gladiators!
0:24:42 > 0:24:45'Difficult, but not impossible.'
0:24:45 > 0:24:47Leslie and Adrian will be back
0:24:47 > 0:24:49wi' a final selection of clips frae Us Boys
0:24:49 > 0:24:51on next week's programme.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Earlier on, Frank was here in Straid
0:24:56 > 0:24:58to find out a wee bit o' history aboot the place
0:24:58 > 0:24:59and he chatted to David and Alan.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02Wi' me is Alan, who's a member o' Straid Young Farmers' Club.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05That's right. We thought we'd invite you back
0:25:05 > 0:25:08cos we're going to run what we call our Tractor Challenge.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23The aim is, the four guys down here and myself
0:25:23 > 0:25:26get the tractors round the course as fast and as safely as we can
0:25:26 > 0:25:29and we'll try and get a champion for Santer today.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33Ready, steady, go!
0:25:54 > 0:25:57So the winner of the first heat was Roger.
0:25:57 > 0:25:58Ready, steady, go!
0:25:59 > 0:26:03Young Farmers' Clubs, Alan, does everybody get involved?
0:26:03 > 0:26:05- Is it a community thing? - Totally, yeah.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Our club here's been going for 70 years now.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11This year we've over 70 actual members. The youngest is 12
0:26:11 > 0:26:13and myself, I'm getting a bit older.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16Roger, that you saw taking part, is older again.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18It's the kind of thing you don't get out of too early.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20As long as you're enjoying it, you stick at it.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25And the winner o' the second heat is Andrew.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40Oh, Alan, I don't think you'll make the final wi' that!
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Well, Roger and Andrew,
0:26:44 > 0:26:46you're through tae...
0:26:46 > 0:26:49I think we'll call it the final o' the Santer Tractor Challenge.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51- Who do you think'll win? - Oh, I think I'll have it.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54I don't know, Roger. You've too many hours on the clock!
0:26:54 > 0:26:56Ready, steady, go!
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Very worthy champion, I think.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23I don't know! I'm disappointed!
0:27:26 > 0:27:29To finish the show this week, we're going tae go back to Canada
0:27:29 > 0:27:32to hear some mair really guid music frae the Beaton Sisters,
0:27:32 > 0:27:35but this time, they're bith playing the fiddle.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37See you next time.
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