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Good evening and welcome to Inside Out. Tonight, here is what is on | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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the show. We follow the highs and lows of Life at the primary school | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
where many of the children have parents serving overseas. Hello, | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
Daddy. I have been having fun at school. Dear Daddy, how why you? I | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
am fine. And the story of Britain's first black professional footballer. | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
We trace his journey from Ghana to Yorkshire. He was the pioneer. We | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
all start somewhere and we start with Arthur. | :01:06. | :01:14. | |
This is especially primary school thought -- primary school. A third | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
of the children have parents serving overseas. Many are in | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Afghanistan. Inside Out has been given exclusive access following | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
the children and families are to the highs and lows of school term. | :01:29. | :01:37. | |
This is RAF Leeming - the biggest royal air force base in the north. | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
1800 servicemen and women, and their families, live and work here. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
It's home to the RAF Regiment, 90 signals unit, and the hawk jet. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
It's also home to RAF Leeming Community Primary - the school | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
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On the face of it, this school is just like any other state primary - | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
funded by the LEA, and run accordingly. But here's the | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
difference - 98% of children here are from forces families with one | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
or both parents serving in the military. The evidence is | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
everywhere. Outside each classroom, a list of names - children with | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
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parents serving overseas. The majority are in Afghanistan. This | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
is one of the year three classes. There are quite a large number way. | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
Some of the parents are in active theatres of war. Certainly. Their | :02:39. | :02:47. | |
art focused in Afghanistan, that's the most common. -- There are | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
people. Jess is four, and has just started | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
reception class. I was worried if she'd fit into mainstream. Because | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
her speech is quite delayed, she can't tell us where she's at. But I | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
was completely wrong, She's blossoming. Jess' dad is going to | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
Afghanistan in a few weeks' time. He'll be gone for four and a half | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
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months. Where is daddy's nose? What does the nose do? I think she | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
senses something. I'm not sure she knows or understands I'm going away | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
for a period of time. But she's certainly sensing more and acting | :03:34. | :03:44. | |
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differently to last when I went The proof is once I have gone, will | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
she acted differently? Will she know I'm not here, will she come | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
looking for me, come round to the side of the bed? She's good at | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
signing for me. 9-year-old Leona's dad went to the | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
Falklands in summer. He's there as part of the permanent UK military | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
presence to defend the Islands. He might be home for Christmas. Miss | :04:14. | :04:22. | |
everything really. I was upset but I kept it to myself, and that just | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
made me more sad. There are other children in Leona's class with dads | :04:27. | :04:37. | |
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away. On the cupboard it says home- and-away. I look up to remind | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
myself when I am doing my work. I usually come home and say, dad I've | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
been doing this and I've been doing that and so I think if I just say | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
it in my head, he'll hear it. My husband is a padre and he went | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
to Afghanistan last year. It's being aware of children's emotions, | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
reading them and reaching out a hand to them and saying, its awful. | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
You have to walk that walk with them. If someone's having a wobble, | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
you can rely on others to rally round and look after them. They | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
really are a caring bunch, they look after each other incredibly | :05:14. | :05:24. | |
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well, and that's an amazing Many of the youngsters go through | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
intense emotional periods. The school has put in place and network | :05:32. | :05:42. | |
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of support to help the children who are affected. This is the IT suite. | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
This is the lunchtime Ebluey club - where children are encouraged to | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
email parents deployed abroad. It's a 21st century version of the old | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
serviceman's Bluey letter. Hello, Daddy. I have been having fun at | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
school. On Friday we are going to a pantomime in Richmond. I am looking | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
forward to it. Lots of love. It is fine writing. He sends you letters | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
back. I already have two. One has a picture of a terrapin. Do you know | :06:15. | :06:25. | |
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when he comes back? March 8th. Yes. I am a bit sad. There is a help to | :06:26. | :06:36. | |
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write e-mails? You can tell him things you have been doing. Yes. | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
Dear Daddy, how you? I had been riding horses. | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
Morgan's dad is with the RAF regiment and he's in Afghanistan | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
for 7 months. Does daddy like your e-mails? Yes. He said they were | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
lovely. Can he singe your e-mails back? No, because the internet is | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
rubbish. -- can he send you e- mails? There is no post. He is in | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
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the desert. Kiss, kiss, Haag, hug. The children tend not to understand | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
why, my son is only three. Morgan comes to school and understands | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
where he has gone. She has no idea where that is but a school help her | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
understand. They are bizarre reaction from many children when | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
the parent goes way it is yes, we can go to the club. Not all parents | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
have enjoyed that. All I can think about his great but it is more than | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
that. It is about getting the recognition so there are plenty of | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
older children around. It's an opportunity to clock in and see how | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
you are doing. Servicemen and women are being deployed now more than | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
ever - not just to Afghanistan but to other places of active service | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
around the world. So in the course of their career with the air force, | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
they could leave their homes and families several times. It will | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
only function correctly if it is assembled correctly. | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
This is the latest Osprey body armour that 90 signals unit will | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
take with them to Afghanistan. your blood group on there. | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
For Jess's dad Craig, it will be his 4th tour in 10 years. | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
casualty extraction... I'll be going out to Kandahar. | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
We're well trained and well prepared and that helps with the | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
mindset. We're going to do a good job, make a difference, and return | :08:52. | :09:02. | |
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in April knowing we've done a good A number of things jess will be | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
doing for the first time. First carol concert. You won't be here. | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
No, but will be heart. But there isn't the time of year you can go | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
way and not miss something for the first time. This time round it will | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
be the first Christmas play and probably start in, knowing how she | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
is. I just have to look at the video and think fondly and do it | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
that way. That is the life we have chosen to live. I have to make sure | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
I'm there for the next one. Military life means moving around a | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
lot. Personnel get posted every few years, so the population here is | :09:48. | :09:58. | |
constantly changing this. The average time a child spends he is | :09:58. | :10:07. | |
one year and seven months. Research suggests regular moves mean some | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
children can start to disengage when they know they're leaving - | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
from friendships, from learning, and behaviour can slip. But there | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
are also positives. There are children here who've lived all over | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
the world, and they bring those experiences into the classroom. And | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
service children can be very good at making new friends, and | :10:20. | :10:28. | |
welcoming new people. Often the leaving is the hardest part, so we | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
put a lot of energy into that. Get them ready, think through their | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
successes at school, round up friendships and hit the ground | :10:33. | :10:43. | |
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Craig is about to leave for Kandahar. Within hours, the advance | :10:49. | :10:57. | |
party for his squadron will be in Afghanistan. A lot of us have done | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
this before. It is in a mine set. We are raring to go. The sooner we | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
are out there, the sooner we are back. Craig will be leaving his | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
family for 4 and a half months. You've got to be strong. If you're | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
not strong, they can't do their job. It puts them in the wrong mindset. | :11:16. | :11:26. | |
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So you have to be strong. You can He is doing good, protecting people. | :11:37. | :11:45. | |
You have to think positive. You cannot listen to this rubbish about | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
they should not be out there doing this or that. That just degrades | :11:50. | :12:00. | |
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them. They'd put their lives on the line for everybody. | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
The next morning Jess's name is added to the classroom list. And a | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
few days later there are many more children with parents gone to | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
Afghanistan. We have had a massive increase. We | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
normally have around 10% but recently it is over a quarter were | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
the parent away. That is right across the school. We have probably | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
got the lot highest number weight over Christmas which has an impact | :12:36. | :12:46. | |
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on the families. It is December and the build-up to Christmas has begun. | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
The children are busy practising for their carol concert for parents | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
in a week's time. The children are as high as kites. | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
They are looking forward to their performance. We will be bouncing | :13:06. | :13:14. | |
around the classroom! Some of the children have already | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
had their Christmas, in a poll for or November, before their families | :13:18. | :13:26. | |
were deployed. Some children are feeling a little bit sad about that. | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
It is OK for them to feel sad and it is normal to beat sad about | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
somebody away. Would give them the opportunity to talk that through. | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
Morgan's family is finding the run- up to Christmas tough, like many | :13:42. | :13:50. | |
others. I got a letter from the Santa yesterday. I was singing | :13:50. | :14:00. | |
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Christmas carols. This is the first big one that he | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
has been away from us. I know that he finds it difficult as well. We | :14:16. | :14:25. | |
are a very close family. It is going to be hard. You just | :14:25. | :14:35. | |
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have to get on with it. You cannot While some dads are going away, | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
Leona and her sister Kiah are expecting their dad to return from | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
the Falklands this week. They're making a banner to welcome him home. | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
The girls show me the wall that they have dedicated to their dead. | :15:15. | :15:24. | |
It is the first thing you see when you come in to the house. -- their | :15:24. | :15:34. | |
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dad. He has gone all the way from the UK, he stopped there for one | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
night in the Ascension Islands and then went to the Falklands. They | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
dad has been away for four months. Are you looking forward to seeing | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
him? I will just jump on him and give him a big cuddle. | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
Afghanistan. Craig has been here now for five weeks. The squadron | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
are providing and maintaining the communications for forces across | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
the country. Things are very different from home. | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
This is the standard accommodation that all personnel get in Kandahar. | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
It is a standard set up within a room. I have these personal touches | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
from my little girl. It is a bit of a moment from home which is nice. | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
It is a busy life and the men relish the distraction of a meal. | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
Craig sometimes gets the chance to catch up with news from home. | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
are working seven days a week constantly. The days pass by | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
quickly. It is a very different life out here. The day does not | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
finish until late in the evening. So you get back and go to bed and | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
get a good seven last of sleep if we can. Them rare back doing the | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
same thing the following day. behind the wire the squadron has | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
entered an increasingly tense affairs down with a string of | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
insider attacks on troops. The most recent last week in Helmand by a | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
member of the Afghan security forces. Amid all the Christmas | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
build up at the school, it is business as usual. | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
Families are doing the same thing and I think it is easier in some | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
ways for those children to see it as normal. Even though it is not | :17:43. | :17:53. | |
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normal for the rest of society. Paula and chess are getting ready | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
for Christmas without Craig. comes in in the morning and looks | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
to his side of the bed. She sleeps in my bed a lot. She just needs | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
that extra bit of comfort. It is just her way of missing him. | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
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Come and speak to Daddy on the computer. Are you beautiful? Yes. | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
When the internet allows they can speak directly to Craig. | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
I have not felt like Christmas. You tried so hard not to think about | :18:43. | :18:52. | |
what might happen out there. But you cannot help it. | :18:52. | :19:01. | |
It is almost Christmas and time for the Nativity play. | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
Many parents cannot be here to watch their children today because | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
they are serving overseas. Jess is playing a snowflake. I will be | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
sorry to leave this place and this school. That will happen, we will | :19:16. | :19:26. | |
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move on. And I do not think we will have the same understanding. | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
Our school gets on with doing what it has to do as a school. A lot of | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
other schools out there are doing a fantastic job with service families | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
as well. It is a very rewarding place to be. | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
It is the end of another term. Leona was my dad made it home for | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
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Christmas. Paula and jazz did get By rights Arthur Wharton should be | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
a household name. He was a world- beating sprinter and the first | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
black professional footballer in Britain. But it is only now that | :20:26. | :20:34. | |
this true pioneer is getting the recognition he deserves. | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
It begins in a little fishing port in West Africa in 1865. A boy is | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
born. He became arguably the greatest sportsmen the North of | :20:46. | :20:55. | |
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England has ever seen. But you may not have heard of Arthur Wharton. I | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
feel so proud of his achievements and delighted that at last, his | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
story is able to be told. He was the pioneer! He has a place in | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
history, we all start somewhere and we start with Arthur Wharton. | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
This is what began the whole story, finding this in the box. I found it | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
in this old box that belonged to my mother. It's a photo of Arthur | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
Wharton, who she believed to be a distant relative. She didn't know | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
it, but he had a remarkable story. Arthur Wharton was born in | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
Jamestown, in the Gold Coast, now Ghana. His Scottish father was a | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
Methodist preacher, his Ghanaian mother a tribal princess. Arthur | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
left for Britain to train as a preacher himself. But his talents | :21:42. | :21:52. | |
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lay elsewhere. In the North East of England. He played football for | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
Darlington, played bit of cricket here as well. He was a first class | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
cricketer. But an even better goalkeeper. He was a showman! He'd | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
swing on the crossbar and catch the ball between his knees. He played | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
for Newcastle, he made an appearance for Middlesbrough, | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
Sheffield. Rotherham, Stalybridge. But that's just the tip of the | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
iceberg. He was the world's first 100 yard record holder, British | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
Cycling champion, professional cricketer, and played both codes of | :22:27. | :22:37. | |
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rugby. It would be like Usain Bolt turning out for Manchester United. | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
So why has nobody heard of him? He had a scandalous family secret | :22:48. | :22:58. | |
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hidden in this box. Also in the box was Arthur's sisters Wilhelmina and | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
Clara. This is my mother. This is Arthur's father, Reverend Henry | :23:03. | :23:13. | |
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Wharton. Arthur Wharton was actually Sheila's grandfather. | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
the box of photographs was the Bible. I found these versus | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
underlined. He is trying to tell me that he committed adultery. He has | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
been with my grandmother and she had three children. It made Sheila | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
realised why the grand mother was banished from the family. After was | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
actually the grandfather she never knew. | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
She let is heading to Guiana. The last chance she will get to trace | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
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her family roots. It feels fantastic. I never thought | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
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I would be here. It says the Reverend Henry Wharton. | :24:17. | :24:26. | |
This is where Arthur's father preached. I think in his later life, | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
Arthur forgot about his religion. Because of his illicit love affair, | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
Augher lost his family and then his celebrity status. He ended up as a | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
miner near Doncaster, living in poverty. He had gone from being | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
somebody well known and celebrated in the country, to practically | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
being and nobody. And he was buried in an unknown grave. An undignified | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
end for a champion whose life had started so promisingly. Sean | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
Campbell's mission is to get recognition for Arthur Wharton, | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
first through the statue. I just wondered how many monuments to | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
other black British achievers were out there. And there to be honest | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
it took me months to find one. will unveil eventually a 17 ft high | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
statue. Until then, these small bronze replicas have been bought by | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
some of the most powerful organisations in football. We have | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
one in Wembley Stadium, in Zurich, and then when we go back to England, | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
at UEFA. The timing of the campaign could not be better. | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
War is being waged against racism in football. And someone like | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
Arthur Wharton can be the Ardcarne and the symbol for overcoming | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
racism. Though Arthur was loved by many across the North, he had to | :25:55. | :26:04. | |
fight his own battle. When they reported on matches, they would say | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
he had Monkey type features. Being a black player at that time is just | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
mind-boggling. I never knew anything about him until six or | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
seven years ago. Now you speak to Andy Cole, Rio Ferdinand, they all | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
know about him. So we're doing our bit to get his name out there. | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
They don't exactly that out in Guiana as well. In the place where | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
he was born, a football tournament is being held in his honour. Arthur | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
Wharton has finally come home. And in a sense so has his granddaughter. | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
Sheila has got one last surprise. A local journalist has tracked down | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
not just one or two relatives but an entire family that she love | :27:00. | :27:09. | |
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never knew she had. Here is your family. My work is done. | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
I realised as the child, I always said to my mother, have I got a | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
grandfather? And she never answered me. I am very proud to be a member | :27:26. | :27:36. | |
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of your family. It is very emotional to be here with you. | :27:36. | :27:44. | |
Thank you. We're very happy. This is the first time I heard of any | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
white people tracing their black ancestors. She has come home to | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
look for us. Football is known as the beautiful game and look at what | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
is happening here today, we're all United, people from all over the | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
world coming together because of one man and his journey. | :28:04. | :28:12. | |
It is the culmination of my life. It is the greatest day of my life. | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
I think my mother would say, I'm sorry I did not turn you but I'm | :28:17. | :28:26. | |
pleased that you have found them. She would be saying, well done. | :28:26. | :28:34. | |
That is all fortnight. If you have missed anything you can catch it on | :28:34. | :28:42. |