In the heart of the French countryside,
a magnificent chateau has been lovingly brought back to life
by an intrepid British couple. Come on, Mrs!
Engineer Dick Straw bridge,
and his wife, designer Angel.
This is the magic.
Over the past eight years,
over 50 beautiful spaces have been rebuilt, restored or reimagined.
Smile for Mummy! Smile.!
The enormous leaking roof...
That's a bad sign.
Sunlight coming through the holes is not good.
...now safe for another 100 years...
...the chateau's towering walls
almost restored to their former glory.
Honestly, I can't... It's exactly right.
Service?!
Their hard work not only helping create
a successful wedding and events business...
People are smiling and they're crying
and they're hugging and they're drinking bubbly
and, you know what, this house was meant to do that.
...but also an extraordinary family home, bursting with love...
Up.! Oh, Oh...
...joy and laughter.
THEY LAUGH
Now it's time for the final chapter in this French fairy tale.,
one that is packed with new adventures...
What happens in workshop stays in the workshop.
...mysteries...
Yes!
...plans...
High ceiling makes me want to have a swing.
...and problems... Oh, no!
ANGEL SQUEALS, CHILDREN LAUGH
...but best of all, a happy ending.
Yes! Woohoo!
It's summer at the chateau and the school holidays have begun.
But for Dick, Angel, Arthur and Dorothy, there are still jobs to do.
Right, what have we got? Have we got everything we need?
Mind you don't bash anything. Careful with the bashing.
We're going to put this down here.
Right. Don't drop them in the moat, big boy.
The summer's drought and searing temperatures have left
the water levels in the 8,000 square metre moat lower than ever,
and one area is particularly bad.
Right, look, there's our problem, people.
Look, see the little fish? See the little fish over there?
See, that's the last bit of water we've got here,
and we have to find a way of saving the fish,
because if it gets any drier, they're going to end up dying, OK,
because there's not much oxygen in there.
So what I want to do is I want to make a way to join this
puddle with this moat.
There's a hole here somewhere that goes underneath.
So what we have to do is we have to clear it.
You're not suggesting that we get in here, though?
Have you got another idea?
I'm going to give us water in a hose,
that's going to allow us to sort of act as a jet watch.
In we go with the pump!
Dick's plan is to use water pumped from the other
side of the bridge to help clear the hole,
but first he needs to see exactly what the problem is.
We're going in.
Oh, that is... Oh, that is so gross.
Is that ladder big enough? I don't know how deep the muck is.
If it keeps going down, we'll have to go and get a bigger ladder.
Go in, then. Yes! Yes!
Give me a kiss, just in case.
Mwah! DOROTHY GIGGLES
Oh, clear goodness. Oh! Oh, my gosh, this is...
This is... I did not... It's going down, it's going down. Oh, no!
ANGEL SQUEALS, CHILDREN LAUGH
It's going quite a long way in.
Dad, you're going to be stuck in there!
OK, we have to go and get another ladder.
That really surprised me how far in that's gone.
Oh... Oh, clear.
Oh, my God, he's putting his feet in! Oh, my gosh!
I'm going to have to scrub you tonight!
I can't believe how deep this is. Oh, you smell! The smell is... Oh!
OK, pass me one section of stick, please. One section of rod.
Thank you. All right. Good job.
Um...Angela? Yeah? Take the end of this. Do I really have to?
Somebody has to. Lift it all the way up.
Oh... Smells good, it?
OK. So that's good.
As far as I'm concerned, we have a path through to the other side... Yeah.
...the fish can swim through. That's good. Great.
But soon it's not just the fish who need rescuing.
Take it through there. Make sure you don't goon Daddy. Careful.
Careful, careful, careful, Arthur
Argh, not on me!
Over that way, Arthur. Over that way. Over that way, not on me!
DOROTHY SH RI EKS
But rescuing fish isn't the only thing on Dick
and Angel's to-do list.
Inside the walled garden, the recent transformation of
the Victorian folly has not only meant
the family now has a new, secluded space to relax in,
but it's also opened their eyes to
the enormous potential of the area around it.
So, as Angel has some provisional plans in mind,
Dick's already started clearing the trees.
This is the north facing part of the garden so it gets the least amount of sun,
which means fruits here are six weeks slower than fruits
over in that bit because the sun shines there all clay long.
Ancl this must have been for some sort of a trellis.
Actually quite nicely clone.
That's very, very old.
Hello, PUPPY!
The folly may be a little hideaway for the family,
but Dick and Angel would now like to enhance the space around it
by creating a new outdoor area for entertaining
and, as the walled garden is 2,000 square metres,
there's quite a bit of room to play with.
Right, OK. How many people do we have out here?
If the house is full... It could be 20 easily.
...it could be 20 easily.
First things first. That wall. Yeah. There's a slight bow in it.
Yeah. It's been up there for a lot of years,
I'm not worried about that. But if we do
want to put something up supporting that wall,
like these abutments, I wouldn't complain. OK.
I'll tell you where I am is that I'm actually
thinking that your abutment is the start of a... Of a kitchen.
Right, 0|<.
We've gone from a sitting area to admire the garden,
that is now a kitchen. Yes.
That's good. I'm loving this. I'm loving it. You've got...
I knew you had a vision which is a bit bigger than I thought.
Mwah!
Shall I start literally from here and work you along?
Yes, please. So as we come out I probably want
to have some sort of semicircle
in a similar stone to what we've got outside the front of the chateau,
because I think having the two of them ties in nicely, OK?
Right. Where do you see the kitchen?
So I see the kitchen, maybe it's a tiny little bit...
But I see the kitchen sort of bit coming off the abutment so
the kitchen goes along that way and it comes a little bit out here as well.
Ancl then this becomes a pergola,
A wooden pergola but with...
With a roof.
I was thinking a bit of a patio out the front. OK...
Ancl it's going to come out to...
I'll tell you my end position.
She's still walking.
So this is the pergola.
Dick, believe it or not, it's not as big as you think.
DICK LAUGHS
You'll have to speak up. I can't hear you, you're so far away.!
It's here and it's along here.
I think it's going to look lovely. Good.
Before any building work can be done, though,
Dick needs to work out what goes where.
So the cunning plan is we're going to have here
a cuisine d'ete, a summer kitchen.
Ancl this is going to be slated
because we've got enough slate left over from the folly,
and that was the slate we had left over from the orangery.
Ancl so if we make this the right size,
we have enough slate to make that nice.
So, as well as having the shaded area,
we want somewhere to sit
and basically enjoy the bright summer.
So the idea is we're going to put in here...
It's going to be like a pergola with a see-through roof on the top of it.
That allows us somewhere to have a table and chairs,
and just be nice, and means you can have a barbie in the rain,
which means that opens up spring and autumn as well.
So this whole area is changing.
It's going to be a kitchen for the summer,
it's going to be a seated out place and all of it a great view,
because the chateau's over here anyway.
Ancl I have a funny feeling that from here,
actually, all of this area...
...it's going to take quite a bit of work to make pretty.
With a plan in place,
the roof above the outside kitchen is the first thing to do,
and that's Roofer Mate Steve's area of expertise.
Snug.
And while Roofer Mate Steve
and Render Rob work at the top of the 150-year-old wall...
Is that good for you?
...a more recent memory's unearthed at the bottom.
When we found the chateau,
that marker was for part of the...
All of the big barn plus this section of the walled garden,
a big lump of it was being sold off.
If we hadn't actually found the chateau when we did,
within two or three weeks, it would have been a closed deal,
meaning this part of the walled garden would've been bought by somebody else,
which means we probably wouldn't have bought the chateau. Yeah.
So that's... That's history, that piece of yellow plastic.
Happy? Yeah. Next one?
But it's not just work in the walled garden that's keeping Dick and Angel busy,
because, over the past couple of months,
the wedding season has been in full swing...
Hello, how are you?
...and Dick, Angel and their team have been meeting,
greeting, feeding and entertaining
dozens of guests almost every weekend. Service!
And though each Wedding's unique,
the one this week will stand out as one of the most unusual.
Michael is Dutch,
and there's a lot of orange because of that.
Ancl I think that's really lovely because we haven't actually had
a wedding that has orange sort of being
the predominant colour, and I think it's really lovely.
As the 17th century leader of Dutch independence came from
the French town of Orange, the colour has been synonymous with
the country ever since.
And even though orange tulips aren't currently in season,
Angel's still managed to fulfil
the British bride's homage to her husband.
I went on a bit of a mission to try
and find orange tulips that didn't look awful,
because I'm not a massive fan of artificial flowers.
But these really do look absolutely fab,
and we've got tulips in the summer which is quite... Quite bonkers.
And once Angel's mixed them in with fresh roses
and scarlet ribbon, dried proteas and eucalyptus,
the bridal bouquets burst with colour.
But giving a couple their dream wedding
is exactly what Angel loves best.
Being part of someone's, you know,
most happiest clay of their life,
I mean, how could anyone not love being part of that?
As well as weddings and big events,
coordinating large deliveries is another balancing act
that Dick and Angel have learnt to perform.
And the latest one involves over 24 tonnes of paving stone for
the walled garden's new outdoor kitchen and dining area.
Jean Bertand's back on the job.
We've got an articulated lorry full of stone again.
We took a full one for the front of the chateau,
and unbelievably it's the same quantity again
for the garden.
Angela's making her decisions, and the idea of having the continuity
of the stone in front of the chateau, the stone here,
yeah. It's just we're trying
to make sure it all sort of joins together.
Ancl I'm looking at this and thinking it's wonderful with the forklift,
but when we start having to hump and dump this...
...we need to find some younger people.
Merci. Thank you.
A new cuisine d'ete - an outdoor kitchen and dining area -
is being built in the chateau's walled garden,
and Dick and Render Rob are currently trying to work out
how to turn solid stone into a convenient cooking space.
We have to put up abutment to actually hold this up,
because it's bowing this way a little bit.
So I'm combining the two together
so we can have our barbecue in the abutment.
It's abutment barbecue. Right.
From the French abouter, meaning to join or abut,
the new abutment not only needs to support a solid stone wall,
but also enclose a barbecue and chimney.
If we go through there. Yeah. Roughly there.
There's a nice big stone there. Yeah.
If you go through underneath that stone
and use that as a bit of a lintel... Yep.
"All year round cooking. Yep.
That's it, isn't it? Yeah. It's as simple as that. Yeah.
The design of the outdoor kitchen may be sorted,
but inside Dick has another cooking conundrum to solve,
because for the next wedding,
orange tulips aren't the only special request.
What nationality is our next wedding?
They wear orange. Dutch.
Smarty pants. Smarty... What is this?
We're so clever in our kitchen!
So, because they come from Holland,
they want to have bitterballen.
Bitterballen.
What's bitterballen?
It's basically beef that's going to be made into a ball,
it's then going to be deep-fried with breadcrumbs
and made to be crunchy. So the beef has to taste good, OK? OK!
Extra virgin olive oil.
Listen. MEAT SIZZLES
Nice and hot in the pan. Very sizzle-y.
Are we adding garlic into it?
Yeah, don't you think? I love garlic.
The thing is, we are in France.
So it may be a Dutch dish,
but it's our taking on the Dutch dish, isn't it? Yes.
Grab your knife and I'll show you this -
watch very carefully. Cut near the end.
Now, watch. Now roll it away from you,
roll it away just for a second to see, watch.
So rotate and cut.
Rotate and cut.
Well clone, rotate and cut. Yeah.
Put these on a pile on the table like that
and they don't sit on top of each other,
which means when we toss them in
a pan they're always going to get cooked,
whereas if you've clone lots of slices,
they all sit on top of each other and not get cooked or coloured.
Oh! You ready?
Yeah. And that was a bouncy carrot.
VEGETABLES SIZZLE
I now need red wine.
We have to measure this exactly,
do you know how much you put in? The whole thing?
No, as much as you want. OK.
And are you going to have a glass of it?
I probably will, because it's my job.
Do you know why we put all that liquid in there?
To have enough liquid for us to cook the beef.
Into the pressure cooker we go.
It's like a sauna! DICK LAUGHS
There we are. The lid is on, it is closed.
OK, do you know what we have to do?
Have fun?
How about washing the dishes?
I just need to get something.
I love you.
I love you, too.
40 minutes. Come back. OK.
Over in the walled garden,
it's time for the stone slabs
to be laid across all 70 square metres of
the new outdoor area,
so reinforcements have been called in.
And though it'll only be for family and friends to use,
Angel would still like it to look beautiful
and complement both the terrace at the front of
the chateau as well as the patterned folly floor.
First, though, she needs to work out what goes where.
There's so much activity here at the moment
because we have a wedding this weekend,
and I've got to be there with the kids
and here making lots of decisions,
because we've planned this but, like everything,
we've planned-ish it.
Ancl you can put a plan in place,
and when it's there it always changes.
This is where we're going to be having everyone sit down and to eat.
So, we planned to have, like, a rug type,
sort of Victorian flooring in the middle
but now we're just trying to work out what
the border's going to be.
And you know what, when you're fired,
it's that little bit harder to make a decision.
Unfortunately for Angel,
Matt the Master Pave: needs to know now.
A wider gold border means that we can create more of
a, like, random pattern. Yeah.
As the border affects the size of the patterned area,
what Angel decides today will literally be set in stone.
I think that this might be the right answer
because this does feel right.
So, we'll go for the wider border?
I think it is the wider border.
Yep, let's do it.
Decision made. Decision made.
But as well as building work,
there's a wedding to prepare for, and it's time for Dick and Arthur
to get back to their bitterballen,
Dutch meatballs dipped in mustard mayonnaise.
Let's see.
It's starting to thicken up isn't it? There we go. Yeah.
Mmm. Good? That's amazing.
And, as Arthur will be the one rolling them in flour,
egg and breadcrumbs,
Dick's rather keen to minimise the mess.
Drop it in the flour with your left hand.
Yes. Good. With this hand, set in there.
OK. Use that hand to turn it over,
and then into the breadcrumbs. Good.
Have to be covered in egg because if it doesn't get covered in egg,
when you put it in the hot oil, yeah, it can all leak out.
Now look at that hand. Yeah.
That hand looks like that. Look at this hand - clean.
That's why you use two different hands.
OK? So take the next one. three, six, nine,
12,15,16.
Good that's all right.
OK.
We don't want to crowd them too much.
Here we go. This one's in, you ready?
Yeah. In it goes.
OIL SIZZLES That's a nice sizzle.
Good, good sizzle.
Bitterballen are meant to be crunchy on the outside
and soft in the middle.
There we are. Ooh! They look nice and brown, don't they?
But as far as that's concerned, there's only one way to find out.
Now, we have to do the tasting.
BITTERBALLEN CRUNCH ES
Mm! Good? It's amazing.
Well clone.
Well done.
Right, now you have to make 200.
HE LAUGHS
In the walled garden, the abutment BBQ is being built
and the stone paving being laid.
Matt's happy, Angela's happy, it's solid.
But we're now going to put the grouting in.
We talked about this quite a lot with Matt
about the best way we could do it and so what we're doing is
we're putting in a product that when it goes in
the gap between them, it goes very hard, OK.
When I say it goes very hard, it's...
It'll stop everything moving.
The other interesting thing, of course, when it goes over,
it goes over quite quickly and so it could -
there's a moment where it starts to firm up, starts to firm up,
then you have to scrub it off before it actually damages it,
and that's... What could possibly go wrong?!
Clock's ticking.
Nothing like a bit of pressure.
Get it in it with a solid lump? Ready? Set it on the ground. Right.
Get your squeegee going.
There you go. There you go. Have we got this?
It would be sad if it ended up that grey colour, wouldn't it?
HE LAUGHS
So we just keep an eye on the density of it as it goes.
Right so you're kind of keep squeegeeing back and forth
over the tiles? Yeah. Do you want any more water on it?
Just a very light mist.
You're doing this for a sort of calibrated thumb print.
We're looking for a texture similar to a medium rare steak.
That's well clone. The chef's view.
Well, you see, it depends how your hands work,
if you've been working with your hands, all of a sudden,
oh, you get the wrong one!
You go for rare and you end up with a medium.
We definitely want medium. OK, good.
HE WHISTLES
It's just a waiting game.
Go and get the kettle on?
Half an hour after it was poured on...
Excellent.
...the grouting between the paving stones is solid,
and to Dick's enormous relief,
the grey surface coat sprayed off.
It's the day of the Dutch wedding,
and Angel and Dorothy have just one more job to do
before the guests arrive, and that is tinker with a tandem -
turning it from an average bicycle into a set of wedding wheels.
I don't think we've ever decorated a bike for a wedding.
Oh, for a wedding, no, definitely not.
It's quite lovely, isn't it? Yeah. Quite enjoyed it.
Quite fun with certain colours.
Oh, my gosh, you are on fire young lady!
With every job now ticked off their list,
it's time for Angel and her front of house team
to greet their guests.
Lovely to have you.
And as soon as they've all received a glass of fizz and a warm welcome,
Dick gives Michael and his best man their entrance cue.
Ladies and gentlemen,
I think you'll find our groom is about to arrive.
THEY CHEER AND APPLAUD
Yes!
CHEERS AND APPLAUSE CONTINUES
Oh, look at this!
As the celebrant, it's Dick's job not only to conduct the ceremony...
You're up here, sir.
...but also calm nerves if needed.
Shall we do this? Yeah, go on.
Such a pleasure. Thanks for letting me do this for you. Thank you.
ROMANTIC MUSIC PLAYS
I, Michael Moons.
I Michael Moons.
Take you, Louise Scott.
To be my wife. To be my wife.
Ancl that I will love you completely.
For all of my life. For all of my life.
Congratulations, Michael and Louise.
I now pronounce you husband and wife.
And, Michael, you may kiss your bride.
Get in! Get in. CHEERS AND APPLAUSE
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you
the happy couple - Mr and Mrs Moons.
WOW!
As the couple and their guests start to celebrate,
it's Arthur's big moment.
Because it's time to bring out the bitterballen.
Aw!
First taste, I think, goes to the Dutchman, definitely.
Perfect.
I've been really excited for this. Did you make them yourself?
Oh, yeah, I made them. Oh, wow. You made them? Yeah.
Done really, really well.
Oh! They are perfect! Gorgeous.
They are the best ones. They're really good.
Ancl there's mustard mayonnaise with them, yeah.
Lovely, Arthur.
They're so delicious. Compliments to the chef. Yeah.
Good. Well done, Arthur.
After a busy wedding weekend,
Dick heads back to the walled garden to work on his cuisine d'ete,
the chateau's new outdoor kitchen.
While Angel, Arthur and Dorothy enjoy a bit of me time.
Let's go and get some tomatoes.
You know you're going to have to take your hat off
and put some tomatoes in it, right?
Over ten different types of tomatoes are grown here
and at the moment, there's a veritable glut in the greenhouse,
which Angel's mum is rather keen to get her hands on.
What we are looking for, ideally, is tomatoes that are ripe,
possibly a little bit too ripe,
because grandma has got a recipe for tomato jam.
Oh, my gosh!
Green tomato. How's it...
Do you know what that's got? That's got time to grow.
Dorothy, that one is perfect... Shalll take it?
It's soft, it's red.
Perfect.
I think that's a beef tomato because it's so big.
And on toast, they're amazing.
Oh, on toast!
Oh, my gosh. These are coming off nicely.
We should get outside because it's really hot in here.
Oh!
Thanks, my little helpers.
Now they've cut the glut,
it's over tojenni's to turn tomatoes into jam.
There you go. Ooh, look! Hi, Mum!
I've been waiting for you to get those.
Do you think that these tomatoes are going to be OK?
Because some of them are really soft and some of them are a bit split.
They're going to be wonderful. Yeah?
Absolutely wonderful.
We can take the tops off and little bit of the core. Yeah.
Fight, Dudes.
While a tomato chutney would include both sugar and vinegar...
Waste nothing.
SINGSONGY: Waste nothing. Waste nothing.
Waste nothing...
...tomato jam is just made with sugar,
and any spicesjenni feels like adding.
What's going in it? Right, we're going to put some ginger,
a little bit of cumin, paprika, some chilli.
Arthur, what is your favourite thing at the moment?
Chilli. Chilli! THEY LAUGH
Straight in the pan, Arthur, scrape the whole lot, and...
Right let's get it on.
When you see it later... Yeah?
...it's going to look like proper jam.
Mwah! Love you.
Thanks, Mummy. THEY LAUGH
Where's my kiss?
Love you. Bye!
For the first time in months, it's properly raining.
And as well as the fish, the Irish contingent at the chateau,
Dick and his Kerry Blue puppy Petale, are loving it.
Piddling down.
We had so little rain this year, it's actually lovely,
isn't it, dog?
Petale likes to come in this room because the cats go up the stairs
and live up in the hayloft upstairs.
So, she likes to come along, have a little sniff.
Petale may be after cats, but Dick's after off-cuts.
Right, we never throw anything away.
When we finished doing the children's room last year,
I had some oak left
for Arthur and Dorothy's mezzanine beds.
That'll do.
It's heavy enough.
Come on, dog.
In the walled garden, most of the walls used to be covered
in wooden battens, held up with iron hooks.
But what once supported vines or fruit trees,
will now be used to hold pots and pans.
Or at least that's the plan.
That's a bit of the original batten that was there.
Ancl I'm going to bring it up to the 21st century
from the 19th century.
Yeah...
So, we're already making up bits of my kitchen, this is.
Ancl it's loose. Ah-ha!
This was made by a blacksmith when the chateau was being built.
Following the footsteps of a gardener 150 years ago.
Good.
But it's not just the 19th century metalwork getting
a new lease of life.
The pieces of granite that were lying around,
that are now turned in to the support for the surface in
the kitchen, have got little notches in them.
So, I just thought what I'm going to do is I'm just going to
notch out a piece of oak and set it in there.
It'll just give me a little shelf to tuck things away.
When I cut that out, it should fit in that hole.
HE CHUCKLES
But... Ancl if it doesn't, we won't tell anyone!
With free off-cuts, hooks and supports,
the only cost for Dick's new shelves is a bit of elbow grease.
Looks like we did it on purpose.
It makes you happy to be Irish.
Up in the north of Ireland we know how to rain.
HE CHUCKLES
Sometimes it's nice just to have peace,
to diddle with stuff and get it clone.
DRILL WHIRS
That's quite heavy! It's oak, oak is heavier, actually.
The beauty about building in oak in stone, it'll last.
Quite liking that.
Sheltering from the rain in Dick's workshop is Angel...
...who's also making a wall hanging for the eating area,
though in a more decorative kind of way.
I know that this space is going to be used
for lots of family things in the future.
It's with family and friends and special occasions,
it's going to start building memories.
Ancl I thought to myself, wouldn't it be nice
to have sort of something in the centre of the wall
that we could then kind of personalise?
So, for instance, if it's one of the kid's birthdays,
we can put lots of pictures up of the kids when they were younger and,
you know, it's just going to be an area that draws your eye.
Like Dick, Angel's keen to re-use and recycle whenever she can.
And when you own a 350 square metre bamboo forest,
the choice of offcuts is obvious.
Now, I'm loving the bamboo.
But I think whilst it is beautiful and natural and every one
is different and unique, I'm trying to create some uniformity.
So, you know, I've got my...my size,
which is the 800 and I've checked this and it,
it looks nice.
Ancl I'm just going to go across the wall like this.
I may paint it black,
I may spray paint it at the end, but one step at a time.
First, though Angel needs to cut all the bamboo to the same length.
CUTTER WHIRS
Lovely.
And then work out how to hold them all together.
Dick suggested put a dowel all the way through,
which I thought was genius, but obviously creates another job
because we need lots of holes.
Lovely. Erm...
Obviously need one on the other end.
This type of job, if you have a jig, is quite satisfying.
And after a bit ofjiggery pokery with a jig...
...it's time to poke.
You get the picture.
Outside though, a huge lorry's arrived
with a small delivery.
Just three sheets of Perspex.
Unfortunately for Dick, though,
each one is six metres long and two metres wide.
Oi-oi-oi.
All Dick needs to do is get them over to the pergola
without bending, scratching or snapping.
Have you got your hands high, Quentin?
But it's soon clear that's a lot easier said than done.
A votre gauche, a votre gauche une peu.
Don't let it fall, don't let it fall,
don't let it fall away from me. Way! Right.
HE GRONNS
How you doing, Rob? I'm all right.
Push.
I'm sure that's not your best job,
when you consider how tall you are, fella.
Look!
Here. Come this end, come to this end, Rob, take it off him.
Take it off him, swap jobs.
THEY LAUGH
Keep coming.
OK, it should be safe there. She's on.
It's safe. Good!
The rain may be falling, but it hasn't stopped play
because Dick and Angel have planting to do
around their new outdoor kitchen and dining area.
I've got me digging a hole shovel.
OK. Well, I think this is divide and conquer.
I've got the two different types of jasmines
and the clematis over there. OK.
Before you go, though, I have never clone a water, um...
I don't even want to say "feature" because...
But it is a kind of, you know, using one of these pumps.
Do you put that in the water?
Put it in the water and plug it and see what happens. OK.
That freaks me out. What could possibly happen?!
It may be a waterproof pump designed specifically
for this purpose, but Angel isn't convinced.
My mummy told me to never put electrics in the bath.
Watch. Plug it in.
Oh, look at that!
I'll leave you. I'm going to go and dig holes.
So, while Angel works out her water feature,
Dick, with Petale's help,
digs holes next to the pergola's posts.
And once Petale's given her seal of approval,
Dick plants the jasmine and clematis that he's hoping one day
will cover the pergola for years to come.
Angel, though, is already having a bit of a wobble
with her water feature.
It's really, really grubby.
I've just put the gravel in and obviously the gravel's got sand in.
Because obviously I want clear water...
Why are you laughing? HE CHUCKLES
These beautiful pebbles are completely filthy.
Because they're gravel for making concrete.
I make concrete from the... I didn't buy pond pretties.
But as soon as some fresh water turns the pebbles
from grubby to gorgeous...
Right, the water's looking clearer.
That's a start.
...Angel carries on her aquatic quest.
These are all water plants, they're essentially
like what we put in the moat.
I like the idea of them being a little bit like bonsais,
you know, like essentially plants are just mini
and you trim them back.
So they give you that kind of effect.
There we go.
I'm quite, I'm quite impressed with my mini pond.
WATER BURBLES
Ancl I'm going to play and I'm going to move the pebbles around.
It's just the start.
Angel may be new to the nuances of water features,
but when it comes to room design, she's a doyen.
We're going to have chairs like sofa-y, outside chairs, and then.
Kitchen...Kitchen-y stuff.
Food chairs, like couchy stuff.
So...so if you can bring this over with me.
Hold on. It's really...it's really light, I can do it.
Show me where to go. Huh?
It's literally just going to go over in the corner. All right.
Where do you want it?
Put it here for a minute. Yep.
Hello, dog.
This is really nice.
And though it's outdoors,
it's not long until the new space feels like home.
You know what? I keep thinking I want to lay a rug down here,
just to make it sort of like comfy but this is the whole point,
this sort of inside design detail, you know, it's lovely.
It ties in with the folly but also it gives you that feeling
that you've got a rug down outside.
I'm really chuffed with that because I feel like it defines this, so...
I've got a bit more...a few more pretties to do.
Defines it. HE LAUGHS
Defines it. It defines it.
But Angel's aesthetic ideas aren't the only things
that Dick's needs to work out.
Because he also needs to fix in place some rather bendy bamboo.
The wobbly beast.
The wobbly beast. It looks good.
Got it? Right, here we go. Yeah.
We're on. We're on.
Right. Let me come around.
I'll go this way, then you go back.
Yeah. It's like a little snake, a bamboo snake.
Yeah, let's just hope it's strong as a snake, hopefully.
Yep. Yep. It's heavy, isn't it?
DRILL WHIRS
Hold on. It needs to come up, up at the end, end.
Up-up at the end-end? You have to give me a left or right. OK.
OK, this. Which end? I'm coming in.
My end?
OK. There you go. There? Yeah.
Up-up at the end-end.
At the end-end.
Did you not know what I meant?
Finally, it's time for the finishing touches...
...and for Angel to turn the blank bamboo canvas into
a decorative display that can change with the seasons.
A little bit of wire,
basically will keep anything up here.
It's quite fun because the little gaps make it very easy
to thread things through,
which means that I don't have to do any more to the outside.
I'm quite pleased with it because, you know, looking back,
it's a black bamboo sort of picture frame,
a huge picture frame.
But it's more than that, cos it's our bamboo
and it's a fact that over the summer next year,
the kids are going to find little things in the garden.
All sorts of memories that we can put on there.
It feels like the centre brings all of this together.
These outside sofas are fab but they do need a little bit jazzing up
and you need your throws and your cushions.
Ancl that's the bit that I think takes, like,
a little outside area and takes it to a different level.
Because you're taking that little bit of softness
from the house inside and you're putting it outside.
Ancl I think that is what makes it feel special.
Lovely.
Let's face it, the kids are going to sit on it and mess it up in a minute
but for the moment, it looks great.
SHE CHUCKLES
And as the family's planning to use this area all year round,
Angel's paying as much attention to its aesthetics
as every other room she's designed.
If there was ever a moment to put out macrame lanterns,
it would be now.
And what was once a rather inconspicuous area of the garden,
now has a folly providing peace and quiet.
Adjoining an outdoor kitchen and dining area
that can be used all year-round.
But much more importantly,
Dick and Angel have created a place of tranquillity
and calm for their family and friends to relax in.
Wipe your feet, Petale.
And once everything's in its place, it's, as always,
down to the details.
WATER BABBLES
It's just the sound of running water, it is very therapeutic.
Ancl this couldn't really be more simple.
The outdoor kitchen might have year-round use...
...but as it's Dick's domain,
the Angel touch may be a step too far.
Candles? SHE LAUGHS
Are you taking the mickey?
I was trying to do it before you arrived
because I thought you might say that, so...
Look, they're just little twinklies. They're beautiful.
For Dick, though, the new space is much more than just good looking,
because for him, it combines the past, the present and the future.
Do you know one of the things I like best about this whole thing?
Right, you see this? That's a piece of history... Yeah.
That piece - but that's new oak that's going to last 150 years.
Look, look, look, look over, above the water feature,
see that tiny bit of oak sticking out there? Yeah, yeah.
That is the new bit going into the old bit, that's the bit I like.
I think that is gorgeous, as well.
It feels like we've created something for the first-time
that wasn't there before.
Do I get to retire, then? Erm...
THEY LAUGH
After the swimming pool.
Sorry?
First, though, it's time for Dick to test his cuisine d'ete's
catering capability.
That's a barbie ready to go, isn't it?
And he couldn't be happier.
It's my first barbecue here.
There's going to be lots and lots and lots.
We can barbecue in the rain.
I love it.
Ooh...! Oh, my God!
Hello.
Hello! Hi!
What do you think of this? Oh, my God.
You got the jam. Wonderful. Welcome. The Lamb's ready.
Oh, it smells great, doesn't it? Oh, my gosh.
Do you know what? Seeing the kids' excitement!
Can I see... What's this?
That's Bacchus, it's the god of getting tiddled.
This is the work area, if you'd like to go through to the lounge.
And with Papi Steve and jenni joining Arthur and Dorothy
around the table, the inaugural dinner can be served.
Mum, sit wherever you want.
Wow'. And potatoes from the garden.
Fantastic. Mm!
Ooh...
Whoa.
Yes!
Can I...
Thank you, Mr Straw bridge.
Pleasure, darling. Looks gorgeous.
And the vegetables aren't the only thing from the garden,
because there's also...
Oooh. Oh, did you hear the click?
Oh, hello.
Right, come on...
...jenni's home-made jam, made from home-grown tomatoes.
It made with love, wasn't it, for all of you children? Yeah.
Can I ask you to raise your glasses? To eating outside.
May we do it every day. Yeah!
Look at that sky. Isn't that beautiful?
Next time, there's fun to be had with friends...
Hi, everyone. Welcome!
...family...
TOGETHER: One, two, three... Yeah!
...and forks.
Oh, for... Leave it to daddy. Oh, don't say "leave it to daddy".
I was just... If you hadn't interfered so much.
I'm going to...
Super annoying. Ssh! DICK LAUGHS
Right.
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