1 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,440 Lots of things happen when you walk. 2 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,680 Sometimes you go beyond it. 3 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,200 If you're walking and you feel tired, you must not stop. 4 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:36,440 So many people stop and they find them dead next morning. 5 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:39,720 They just can't stand it any more 6 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:41,280 and they want to give the body a rest 7 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:46,440 and they go to sleep and they perish. 8 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:51,960 And I always make sure, no matter how knackered and tired, 9 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,640 I will not stop. 10 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:57,720 You must never, ever stop. 11 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,280 And that's always in my mind. 12 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,760 Don't stop. 13 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:04,440 Keep going. 14 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,480 Phew. 15 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:22,320 Loch Treig. It's known as the Lonely Loch. 16 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:24,320 There is no road here. 17 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,480 But they used to live here before they built the dam 18 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,960 and all their ruins are down there. 19 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,720 The score now is one, and that's me. 20 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,280 30 and... 21 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,480 ..11. 22 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:54,000 Right, go and sit over there, where you was, before that train comes. 23 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,160 Hang on. Yeah. Perfectus. 24 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,000 Do it now, quick, while the light is on. 25 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,080 I've been living here for almost 40 years now. 26 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:29,000 Thousands and thousands of pictures, I've taken, over the years. 27 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,400 I don't know the names of these roses. 28 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,280 I'm going to build an archway out of them but it takes time. 29 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,480 I don't know who this lady is but she must have been canned up. 30 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,000 Oh, dear. Definitely! 31 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,720 You look younger there, don't you? 32 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,480 Ken, that was, like, seven years ago. 33 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,120 I can't believe you took a picture of me the very first time I visited, 34 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,480 yet it took you seven years to let me start filming you. 35 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:01,840 KEN LAUGHS 36 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,960 You look through it and you press the button and you go like that. 37 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,640 You can't take action films with this. 38 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,640 Yeah, there's one thing you can actually do 39 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:20,920 with the old standard 8 camera. 40 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:22,680 Have you got a tripod? 41 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:25,800 No, I don't have a tripod. 42 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,760 You must not move that whatsoever, 43 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,480 and I'm going to say "cut" and "start", right? 44 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,120 OK. 45 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:44,960 Start. 46 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,760 Cut. 47 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:52,840 Start. 48 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:54,760 Cut. 49 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:56,040 Start. 50 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:01,800 Start. 51 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:44,320 If you want to live an independent life, 52 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,080 what you'll have to do is learn how to fish. 53 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,080 Now put the reading on the camera. 54 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,640 60 and 16. 55 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:12,600 Ready to take. 56 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,320 Mm. Bloomin' 'eck. 57 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,520 January brings the snow 58 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:21,760 Makes our feet and fingers glow 59 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:25,880 February brings the rain 60 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:27,880 Thaws the frozen lake again. 61 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,360 There's a good 'un. 62 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,080 There's a good peanut. 63 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,600 March brings breezes loud and shrill 64 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,160 Stirs the dancing daffodil. 65 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,440 This is what they look like, but this is just one of them. 66 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,440 It's in its younger age. 67 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,120 Wash that and eat it. 68 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:55,960 It's quite a nice taste. 69 00:08:55,960 --> 00:09:00,280 I've peeled most of it off, only my hands are damn mucky. Thank you. 70 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:04,880 From this vivid yet mystic sense of beauty 71 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:09,800 All things of beauty before me to cast aside these horrible days 72 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,480 that have gone 73 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,640 I could only wish that such beauty would remain for ever 74 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:19,840 But it won't 75 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,520 For it's happiness and sadness together 76 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,360 Happiness because the day is young 77 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,440 Sadness because tomorrow's forecast is rain 78 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,640 Today, with its beginning and end, was glory 79 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,120 In all the bitterness of a wicked world. 80 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,000 Taste that one. 81 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,840 Did you like it? No. 82 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:49,240 KEN LAUGHS 83 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,200 Why... Why should I try it? 84 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,360 Well, you might like it. 85 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:55,360 I think you're having me on. 86 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:28,360 I think, if you love the land, it sort of loves you back. 87 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:33,640 It loves you back in all the things it produces for you. 88 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:01,280 30th. I'll get the dates right. 89 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:27,880 My box of memories. 90 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,120 '61. I was still at school then. 91 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,880 I must have had a boring life. 92 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,880 "April 20th, 1963. 93 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,600 "Today I went for a walk." 94 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,600 KEN CHUCKLES 95 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:51,120 My first wage - three pound, 15 shilling. 96 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,880 I started work when I were 15 years old. 97 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,840 Building fire station, you see? 98 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:02,920 Foreman. 99 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:06,880 I never got a high wage. Nothing above £12. 100 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:09,200 In all them years. 101 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,480 Year after year after year. 102 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,880 Well, I saved up a lot of money. 103 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:22,840 "24th of the tenth, 1974." 104 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:27,440 "Taken into hospital from October 15th with a brain haemorrhage. 105 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:32,880 "Off work until July 31st, 1975." 106 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,640 After I got beat up on t' street. 107 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:54,160 I was... In age, I was about... 108 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:59,160 ..26 then, and I were discoing it at Ripley. 109 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,120 Five mile from home. 110 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,160 At it till two o'clock in t'morning. 111 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:09,640 So, time to go home, they boot you out. 112 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,400 So I'm walking up Church Street, past the church, 113 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:17,640 and there was about eight of 'em. 114 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:20,400 And they, erm... 115 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,880 They come charging at me and kicked my head in, 116 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:28,160 shoved me through a baker... baker's window. 117 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,160 Police come roaring up. 118 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:35,160 They took us all away... 119 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,640 ..and I was in bad shape. 120 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,160 And for three days I lay in bed. 121 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:46,640 And eventually, my head... 122 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:50,040 You know, it's like you can hardly ever imagine. 123 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,400 It was like it was going to explode. 124 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:59,400 And, erm, I knew that something was definitely wrong. 125 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:02,480 I lost consciousness. 126 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:05,760 And, erm... 127 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:07,640 How many days? 128 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,160 It was from the f... Erm... 129 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:13,880 The fourth... 130 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:15,880 The 4th of October 131 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:20,600 until the 27th of October, I was unconscious. 132 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,880 So, where is it? Just keep feeling. 133 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:36,800 Lower. Oh! 134 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,160 How many holes are there? Five. 135 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:41,640 Oh, yeah. 136 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:43,160 Wow. 137 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:48,160 It certainly gives you a different view of life, I can tell you. 138 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:19,400 They said I would never recover. 139 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:24,200 They said I would never speak again. 140 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,560 They said I would never write again. 141 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,240 They said I would never walk again. 142 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,480 But I did. 143 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:53,280 And that's when I decided to never live on anyone's terms but my own. 144 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:08,000 I'd gone out of British Columbia and I'd gone into the Yukon. 145 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,840 It was this old strip of road. 146 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:16,120 I thought to myself, if I left this long strip 147 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,640 and walked into the forest, I wonder how long I'd last. 148 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,120 I just walked off the highway. 149 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:29,280 To go into nowhere. 150 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:47,760 If you go somewhere that isn't planned, that becomes an adventure. 151 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,520 22,000 mile in all. 152 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:18,760 And that's how it began. 153 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:44,320 So, when I leave here, when will you next see someone? 154 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:46,680 Erm... 155 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:49,280 ..it could be the next day, 156 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,240 could be a fortnight. 157 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,080 I don't really know. 158 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,880 You're up. How long have you been up? 159 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:51,440 Oh, wait. Just, like, five minutes, really. 160 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,880 Something for you to film. 161 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:55,600 It's so pretty. 162 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:01,360 You won't notice it at the moment, but I was just... 163 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,600 ..washing blood away. 164 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,600 What happened? I tripped. 165 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:10,360 When? Last night? 166 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:12,360 Yeah. Look. Oh! 167 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:13,680 KEN CHUCKLES 168 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:15,360 No. 169 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:17,880 When was that? Just... Just after you went. 170 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:19,600 I went, erm... 171 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:21,280 Erm... 172 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,920 I was coming towards the door to go out for a pee 173 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,840 and I tripped over something. 174 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,960 I don't know what I hit my bloomin' head on. Oh, no. 175 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,440 Did you get up straight away? 176 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:37,520 Did I what? Did you... You weren't knocked out or anything? No. No. 177 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,880 I just got up and then I thought, well, I'll go to bed now, then. 178 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:45,880 Oh, no. You should have come and got me. 179 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,880 Yeah, you were still awake. I did look across and I could see a light. 180 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:51,880 It were just after you left. 181 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,120 Oh, no. That's all... Nowt like an injury, eh? 182 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:57,120 That's all the booze, eh? Eh? 183 00:19:57,120 --> 00:19:58,880 That's all the booze. 184 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,880 No, there was something on t' floor. I don't... 185 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:04,120 Cos I didn't drink much. 186 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:05,880 I tripped. 187 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,360 Isn't it nice to have an accident? 188 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:10,120 What are you filming? 189 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:13,360 Well, I was filming the wood and now I'm filming you. 190 00:20:13,360 --> 00:20:15,120 LIZZIE LAUGHS 191 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:17,960 I'll come down in a minute. 192 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,120 I'm going inside. It's a bit cool here. Mm. 193 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:05,480 If you've got another sack, I can carry some back as well. 194 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,960 No, that's it. This will be enough for today. 195 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:12,960 Because I'm sure you wouldn't be able to do this. 196 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,120 Are you filming? Yeah. 197 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,480 Whoa. 198 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,280 Could you do that? 199 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:31,480 Let's go. 200 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,480 RADIO: Rain still remains the big story. 201 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,960 We've got numerous flood warnings still in force. 202 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,680 One severe flood warning, and rain on the way. 203 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,080 And another named storm - Storm Jorge - 204 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,720 which is going to wind itself up 205 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,080 during the course of tomorrow and Saturday. 206 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,440 Clearly a concern for some severe gale-force damaging winds, 207 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:42,760 but also another very significant... 208 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,800 WIND HOWLS 209 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,600 RADIO: An extremely powerful weather system is developing 210 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:17,920 and bearing down on Scotland, 211 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,240 with the Met Office having issued a red weather warning. 212 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:22,680 This is as serious as... 213 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,240 RADIO OFF 214 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,440 HE SIGHS 215 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,440 You can leave me alone to... 216 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,480 ..do my writing now. 217 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,160 HELICOPTER ROTORS WHIR 218 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,000 MACHINE BEEPS 219 00:25:55,520 --> 00:26:00,000 Your brain, it swells and shrinks 220 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,760 and swells and shrinks and swells and shrinks 221 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,000 with every heartbeat of your body. 222 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,760 You'll look at the clock and it'll say a time 223 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,000 and you'll think you've gone through a day and look at it again 224 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,040 and only five minutes have passed. 225 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,160 It's terrible. 226 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,040 I saw myself having a bath this morning in t'mirror, 227 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,680 looking like a right bloomin' skeleton. 228 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,880 You are pretty scrawny. 229 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,840 But you've put weight on. Yeah, I've put weight on. 230 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:15,520 So I'm over 8st now. 231 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,960 This is the trial run to see how your balance and everything is. 232 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,880 Oops. I'm staggering. 233 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,880 We just want to make sure that everything that you need to do, 234 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,160 day-to-day, you're going to be safe to do. I am wobbling? 235 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:31,800 KEN EXCLAIMS 236 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,480 This is why we've done this, you know, just to see... 237 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,880 To see what happens? Yeah, it's a strange feeling, this is. 238 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,240 Are you sure you're happy to walk back? 239 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:04,760 Yeah. Have you got enough energy? 240 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,360 You want to sit down for five minutes before you go? 241 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:10,840 No, you'll be all right. I'm feeling a lot better than I did before. 242 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,880 We'll walk back and you can intercept us halfway, 243 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,360 and if I'm not feeling too good, then I'll come back. 244 00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:18,200 Yeah. I'll do exactly the same thing. 245 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,000 I'll be on the end of a phone anyway, 246 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,920 so I can just come to wherever you are, if need be. OK? 247 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,560 What I'm wondering is, you see when you're walking? 248 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,440 When you're carrying a big, heavy bag, 249 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,560 do you think that'll throw you off a wee it? 250 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,080 But it might be to begin with, if you fill it halfway 251 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,320 and if Lizzie's with you, just to make sure. 252 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,840 Just don't go all guns blazing straight away. 253 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,080 So you're here because the doctor said, go and sort your life out, 254 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,840 basically, are you? More or less. 255 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,640 They've been trying for a long while to get me to come into town 256 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,840 and this last do I had, that was the first thing they said. 257 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:54,080 "We reckon you ought to go and live in civilisation." And I says, 258 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,560 "Well, I don't want to go into a council house 259 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,080 "or anything like that." 260 00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:59,360 How much gas do you pay? 261 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:00,760 How much coal do you pay? 262 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,760 What kind of facilities does the log cabin have? 263 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,240 I mean, does it have electricity? No. Have any running water? 264 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,760 And there's obviously no gas heating of any sort? No, nothing like that. 265 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,160 And how is the heating arranged, then? 266 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,760 Logs. It gets the place really warm. 267 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,520 The council might consider that a home, 268 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,160 but I would have to look into the detail of that 269 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,520 to see whether that would constitute a reasonable home to live in. 270 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:28,760 I suspect not, in which case you could make a claim for homelessness. 271 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,000 I don't want to make a claim at the moment. 272 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,640 No, but you're thinking... What? 273 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,880 Are we talking months or years down the line? 274 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,160 What kind of timescale? 275 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,000 No idea. No idea at this stage? If I go ill again, then it'll be quick. 276 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,600 But if I don't go ill, I'll be there a long while. 277 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,640 But you're happy to remain there, health withstanding? 278 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,000 While I'm fit. Yeah. Yeah, while I'm fit. 279 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,360 And is it good enough to read, the light and everything? 280 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,040 Can you read books and stuff? Do you have a library of books there? 281 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,480 Oh, I've got loads of books and magazines I'm going through. 282 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,360 Yeah. 283 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,360 Yeah, it's a good life, I think. Yeah? 284 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,760 Do you think the quality of life is far better living in the lodge? 285 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,760 Is it a very happy, comfortable life for you? Yeah. 286 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,520 If you moved into a flat here in Fort William, 287 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:14,000 you would have carers and nurses, you'd have money coming in. 288 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,760 But the quality of life? That would be a big question mark over that. 289 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,000 I'm going to try everything to stop and I hope I live to 102 290 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,760 but if I have another one... Yeah. ..then it'll be different then. 291 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,360 Mentally, you're better in the lodge, 292 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,640 physically, you're better in Fort William. Yeah. 293 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,280 Big, big decision. That's the dilemma, yeah. 294 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,920 We've got time to kill, so what do we do? 295 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,760 It contains that? Yes. 296 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,960 INDISTINCT 297 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,960 Sure. 298 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,360 BIRDS SING 299 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:11,880 It's not a good thing. 300 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,320 The moment you start to move around, you get two different visions. 301 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,880 I'll tell you, it's really weird. 302 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,280 Why don't you go back to the hospital? 303 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,120 They know about it. 304 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,280 They can't do anything. 305 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,880 Maybe the optician guy can. 306 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,680 No, this is something on the brain. 307 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:37,800 This is a blood clot. 308 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,400 Hoping that it'll dissolve. 309 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,640 It's extremely pretty. 310 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,640 What? What I'm seeing. 311 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,880 At least it's not ugly. 312 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,640 Can you describe it? 313 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:10,640 Colourful zigzags... 314 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,640 ..all over, like waves. 315 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,960 And they're every colour you can think of. 316 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,880 Very pretty. 317 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,400 I've not been down here for a long while. 318 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,000 Can't see it. 319 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,080 Which way does it go? Well, it must be other way. 320 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,240 I can't see which way it's supposed to go. 321 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:06,320 Which way is it spinning? It's my eyesight. 322 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:08,600 So... 323 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:11,840 It must be that way. 324 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,600 It might just not be our day. It seems so. 325 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,800 Ooh. 326 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,320 Bloomin' 'eck, my eyes. 327 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,760 I never knew I'd be like this. 328 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,080 Just cos of a bloody stroke. 329 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,960 Have you got any doctor's appointments coming up? 330 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,480 Nah. 331 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,240 No? Got to go in for my tablets, though. 332 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,880 When's your next check-up? 333 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:17,600 Don't have any more. 334 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,280 OK. Yeah, we got everything sorted out. 335 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,800 They've given me all the tablets to last me for... 336 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,080 Do you want to see all me tablets? 337 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,080 HE LAUGHS 338 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:33,960 What?! 339 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,280 Hmm. A lot of maps. 340 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,720 Beaufort Sea, that's where I went up to. 341 00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:13,440 I just went... 342 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,560 ..up through the wilderness. 343 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:23,080 You can imagine all these things during the travel that I did 344 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,080 all them years ago, and living in cold. 345 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,760 I knew all these woods in them days, 346 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,680 when I was over in Canada 347 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,120 teaching myself to read and write again. 348 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,840 But I seem to have forgot 'em now. 349 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:41,360 "Endurance. Indignant. Moved by anger and scorn. 350 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,040 "Invi..." Oh, invincible. 351 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,120 Right. 352 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,880 "7th of May, 1979. 353 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,040 "Dear Mum and Dad, 354 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:00,120 "I told you I was going in search of a wilderness - 355 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:04,400 "the most wild I could imagine, and I think I've found it. 356 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,400 "Oh, if only I could convey to you 357 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,760 "what this wilderness is really like. 358 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,480 "I miss you both but this wilderness beckons me. 359 00:38:18,240 --> 00:38:20,280 "Two years I've roamed. 360 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,200 "I just kept walking. 361 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,640 "It was the ocean that stopped me. 362 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,120 "But next month I depart for home. 363 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,520 "I'm like one of these many clusters of perched young swallows 364 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,400 "up on pylon lines, 365 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:43,880 "undecided, but know the magnetic pole to home is there. 366 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,640 "One day they are there and the next day they are gone. 367 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:54,880 "I hope you'll receive this letter in time to receive me 368 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,880 "from Heathrow Airport." 369 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,040 They had died. 370 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,280 No home to go back to. 371 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,120 That hit me real bad, that did. 372 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:24,640 After that happened and I learnt, it took a long while to hit me. 373 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,800 I felt nothing. 374 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,840 Mm. 375 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,200 By now, I'd walked the British Isles 376 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,400 and I was coming up from Rannoch, actually. 377 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,400 And walking up the line, and I started, erm... 378 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,640 ..to remember them, and I started to cry. 379 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,440 Cried all the way while walking. 380 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:56,640 I thought, where's the most isolated place in Britain? 381 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:00,200 So I went round... 382 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,120 ..and followed the whole lot - 383 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,160 every bay, every Ben 384 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,400 where there wasn't a house built. 385 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,400 Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles of nothingness. 386 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,400 Looked across the loch... 387 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:19,880 ..saw this woodland. 388 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:22,400 That's the place. 389 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,880 This place was the place that you finally grieved? 390 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,120 Yeah. 391 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,640 Cried everything out and went back to normal. 392 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,640 And that's when you stopped walking? 393 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:37,640 Yeah, I suppose so. 394 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,560 I write lots of letters. 395 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:12,360 When I write a letter, I put down who I've wrote to. 396 00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,880 Friends, my ex-gaffer... 397 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,560 A lady that lived at Teslin. 398 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,320 It's in the Yukon Territory. 399 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:24,320 Allan J. MacLeod. He's the head stalker. 400 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,600 He's the one that looks after the hills around here. 401 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,320 Since I had the stroke, 402 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:38,840 Allan has been bringing me food every few weeks. 403 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,600 People these days have been very good to me. 404 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:57,320 Now I've got a small pension that comes through once a month. 405 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:10,480 Hello? 406 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,320 How are you doing for food? Are you needing food, yeah? 407 00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,000 I've got... I've got food, 408 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,080 but I'm down to the last dwindling, as you might say. Aye. 409 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,240 There's two radios, Ken. Oh, right. 410 00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:32,600 I'll certainly miss the radios. 411 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,080 One's batteries and one's... 412 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,480 ..erm, wind up and solar power. 413 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,000 How much do I owe you for them? 414 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,600 Erm, £30 for the two of them. So I'll give you an extra 30. 415 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,080 Well, that's for the food. Thanks. 416 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,840 When I collapsed last time with that stroke... 417 00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,600 ..he'd delivered this just two hours previous. 418 00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,320 If I hadn't had that, I don't think I'd have been here now. 419 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:15,400 So what is it for? 420 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,080 The OK signal, to say I'm all right. 421 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,000 On. 422 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,600 O...K. 423 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:48,320 Now, that's where it'll remain for the next 15 minutes 424 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,840 and the signal will go through. And it's like it's satellite? 425 00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,600 Eh? Is it a G...satellite? Yeah. 426 00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,320 And you have to do that every week. 427 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,840 Yeah, just to let them know I'm all right. 428 00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:12,480 Look at this. The wilderness, and he's the only man there. 429 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,680 When did you come across that book? 430 00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,760 Probably 40 years ago. Mm. 431 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:23,120 See how he's got all the wood? 432 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,920 It's drying. He's lay it down to dry. 433 00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:29,680 And here he's beginning to put it in again. 434 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,880 So is that what you did with yours? Yeah. 435 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:36,880 Well, I didn't dry mine out. It never dries out in Britain. 436 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,400 Especially Scotland. 437 00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:48,400 And what beautiful work he did. Far better than me. 438 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:54,640 Was it this book that helped you make your cabin? 439 00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:58,760 Yeah. I built one out of little sticks. 440 00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:00,960 What do you mean? 441 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:02,720 Just to see how to do it. 442 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,720 It's a nice life. Everybody wishes they could do it, 443 00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:05,920 but nobody ever does. 444 00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,080 What happened to that cabin? 445 00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:13,800 I wasn't there at the time. 446 00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:22,280 I was a long way off, and a big mushroom come up. 447 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,320 It's very old. 448 00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,600 Amazing what time does to a place. 449 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,240 I started in a run, to see if I could get to me cabin. 450 00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:41,840 Because I was so far away, by the time I got there it was... 451 00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:45,360 ..it was the end. 452 00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,240 It burned down. It had gone. 453 00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:56,920 I was up there, way up there, and I saw it burn. 454 00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,200 You'll be able to take a view of that. 455 00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,640 I was way up there when I saw it burning. 456 00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,520 And I got down to the ashes. 457 00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:14,440 You can see how intense the fire was - 458 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,560 it's burnt the surrounding trees. 459 00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,000 Killed them off. 460 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:20,480 All the bark's come away. 461 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:22,480 That was one of me gardens, there. 462 00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:41,800 Somewhere in here is all me photography equipment 463 00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:43,720 that went up in flames. 464 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:49,480 And I'm looking for it. 465 00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:58,120 I suppose the camera rots away very easily, eh? 466 00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,560 Do you feel sad when you look at it? 467 00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:12,160 No. Everything you've got, you eventually lose it when you die. 468 00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:16,440 It stops on Earth, so you can't take it with you. 469 00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:21,600 This is full entirely of fruit trees and buddleia. 470 00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,280 And sometimes I come here to pick the berries. 471 00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,320 I'm now at the bottom of the ladder... 472 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:10,840 ..but there's nothing going to stop me climbing to its top. 473 00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,120 Yeah, that'll keep the cold out. 474 00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,000 That view... 475 00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:37,440 ..or... 476 00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:45,120 ..that view. Stand there and look out. 477 00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:55,960 Not a bad view. 478 00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:57,120 KEN LAUGHS 479 00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,880 Go on, tell me which is the best view. 480 00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:01,840 I think...this one. 481 00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:04,040 Yeah, so did I, actually. 482 00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:06,720 There's a couple of branches from that dead tree 483 00:50:06,720 --> 00:50:09,840 that have got to be chopped down. 484 00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:14,120 Yes. This is the spot that I want to be buried. 485 00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,000 Hope it's not yet, though. 486 00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:20,400 When you're 102. 487 00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,160 Yeah, when I'm 102. 488 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,480 "Dear Reverend Gerry Dillon... 489 00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,400 "..I've been in contact with you before, I think. 490 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,480 "My memory isn't good. 491 00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:42,960 "I was just trying my hardest to remember the word 'consecrate'. 492 00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:44,760 "Is that the word? 493 00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:48,000 "You'll bless the ground where I'd like to be buried, 494 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,760 "a certain distance from flowing burns. 495 00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:57,480 "Hope same date can be sorted out in this line and I'll pay you well. 496 00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:59,120 "Ken." 497 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:05,240 There is life after death. I believe it strong. 498 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,640 See if it rings a bell with you. 499 00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:18,160 Smell it. 500 00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,000 Is it bog myrtle? Yeah. Yeah. 501 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:25,600 KEN LAUGHS 502 00:52:52,240 --> 00:52:54,560 How many miles do you reckon we just walked? 503 00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:56,480 27 each way. 504 00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,760 54 miles just to post a letter! 505 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:04,480 Aye, well, the sun's shining. 506 00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:07,400 For now, anyway. 507 00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,840 I don't know if I can do it now, 508 00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:26,680 but when I were foreman I used to do it - 509 00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,160 driving cows on. Have you ever seen me do it? 510 00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:30,840 No. 511 00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:33,920 With this hand not being too good now, might not be able to. 512 00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:46,360 Ohh. No, it's not as good now. 513 00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:48,360 Why? And then... 514 00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,560 Because me hand was paralysed... 515 00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,800 I lost the feeling in my hand when I had the stroke. 516 00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:57,800 And is it coming back to strength? 517 00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,800 Yeah. It's coming back, bit by bit. 518 00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,280 But I don't think I'll ever get as good as I was. 519 00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,920 Then I used to wang it into t'air and catch it again. 520 00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:11,280 Cool. Can you do that now? 521 00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:15,080 No. Not until I get me arm right. 522 00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:18,360 Are you doing exercises to strengthen your arm? 523 00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,440 I did when I were in hospital. 524 00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,680 But I think swinging an axe is as good as new... 525 00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,120 ..as good as anything, anyway. 526 00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:28,360 Oh, dear. 527 00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:37,480 Putting logs on t'fire is like turning your gas up. 528 00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,600 LIZZIE LAUGHS 529 00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,240 And what about relationships? 530 00:54:44,240 --> 00:54:46,000 Romantic relationships. 531 00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:47,520 Have you ever been in love? 532 00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:53,920 Yeah, there was only really one girl that I really liked. 533 00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,280 All I wanted to do was see the world. 534 00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,960 And I can remember her up against the window, 535 00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,360 washing the window, 536 00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,840 and she kept waddling her arse about, 537 00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:07,640 and there... I was thinking, 538 00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:08,880 "What is she up to?" 539 00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,320 And then she said, erm, "Ken... 540 00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:17,320 "..will you marry me?" 541 00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:24,800 And that's when I told her I was going abroad 542 00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:28,160 but if she still thought the same when I come back, 543 00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:32,040 then I probably would have married her. 544 00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,120 Never went back. 545 00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:36,040 You never went back? 546 00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,800 No. Well, nowhere to go to anyway. 547 00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,160 It's quite a good beam, isn't it? 548 00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,440 Look, it's lighting the roses up. 549 00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:30,120 Do you see them? 550 00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:31,440 Oh, yeah. 551 00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,880 I think that's a beautiful rose, isn't it? 552 00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:47,920 Yeah. That's the one I'm taking care of. 553 00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:50,720 I've put all these shells below. 554 00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,160 And then what you're supposed to do is, erm... 555 00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:57,000 ..talk to it. 556 00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,480 It does have an effect on them because plants can feel. 557 00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,720 No, I can't find it. 558 00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,800 That is brand-new and I didn't buy it. 559 00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:31,760 Allan brought it down. 560 00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:33,360 Did he? Yeah. 561 00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:35,120 When did he bring it? 562 00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:38,160 On Friday, when he brought all the shopping as well. 563 00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:41,600 Right. That's my memory that's suddenly gone strange. 564 00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:47,320 I can't recall seeing that, actually. 565 00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:51,000 Hmm? I can't recall seeing this before, in flower. 566 00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:53,920 That's the one you showed me last night. 567 00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,440 You love that, don't you, rose? 568 00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:05,200 They love it, actually. They have a feeling. 569 00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:06,840 Every plant has a feeling. 570 00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:11,520 Do you think it helps them grow? Yeah, it does. 571 00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:14,480 Yeah, you speak to them kindly. 572 00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,000 Hmm. 573 00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:20,200 You know? Who's a beautiful, beautiful little flower, then, eh? 574 00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:22,120 THEY CHUCKLE 575 00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:49,600 Hmm. What's today's day, you say? 576 00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:51,600 Erm, the 29th, I think. 577 00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:53,680 29th of...? So, the page back. 578 00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:57,680 You have to go back the way, yeah. 579 00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:04,600 No entry. 580 00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:09,840 Right. No mention of you on here at all. 581 00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:14,880 So I'd...skipped a day... 582 00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:18,840 ..which was strange. 583 00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:26,320 And I'd become one day behind with every entry I put down. 584 00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:28,440 Mm. 585 00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:42,240 Doctors have told me about what's happened to my mind. 586 00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:46,120 It's since...I had that stroke. 587 00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,760 And they call it the cloud, or something like that. 588 00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:02,080 It has damaged my memory, that stroke did. 589 01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:05,400 That's the nuisance of it. 590 01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:08,440 You now live in a cloud world. 591 01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:25,840 It's nice to have the truth wrote down. 592 01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:31,320 I started in 1952. 593 01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:35,920 I wrote it in pencil. 594 01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:42,600 What year were that? 595 01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:45,320 Oh, just look up in your diary. 596 01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:50,000 And, you know, all your history is behind you. 597 01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:57,920 And you start to look through it and you read a little bit 598 01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:00,600 and automatically it comes straight to you. 599 01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:02,240 Oh, yeah, I remember that day. 600 01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:06,080 And it's not long before you can get yourself back into square one again. 601 01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,320 The first pictures that I ever took. 602 01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:16,040 Yeah, I first started taking pictures when I was about eight, 603 01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,080 and that was with a box camera. 604 01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:21,080 And I remember my first picture I ever took 605 01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:24,080 was a load of crows flying above me. 606 01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:30,600 Why can't I find my slides? 607 01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:40,080 That's another thing. 608 01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:42,320 Photos are good for your memory. 609 01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:49,320 When I had that haemorrhage, I lost a lot of memory. 610 01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,080 When I was in hospital, my dad brought photos 611 01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:55,920 to bring back my memory. 612 01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:17,320 Don't you think you'd be so much more comfortable 613 01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:19,000 if you lived in a town? 614 01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:20,400 No. 615 01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:27,240 What would I do? Sit in a pub drinking beer? 616 01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:33,600 But do you think if you had another accident again, like in winter, 617 01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:35,400 you'd think about going? 618 01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:40,840 Yeah, I reckon something is going to happen to me one day. 619 01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:43,080 We weren't put on Earth forever... 620 01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,080 ..so something's got to happen. 621 01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:51,600 KEN EXCLAIMS 622 01:02:57,320 --> 01:02:58,960 Do you ever worry about it? 623 01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:00,840 No. 624 01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,320 Not really. 625 01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:07,320 It's already happened to me once. 626 01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:12,920 At least you've got more people around now. 627 01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:16,000 Yeah. More visitors. 628 01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:20,840 When it hit me, the stroke... 629 01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:26,200 ..a terrible feeling. 630 01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:31,080 But once I'd said that prayer and hit the floor, 631 01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:34,320 an incredible calmness came about. 632 01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:36,600 Really, really strange. 633 01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:39,600 I didn't feel worried about anything. 634 01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:42,080 Really strange. 635 01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:46,080 Nobody was there, but you felt really relaxed. 636 01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:47,600 Erm... 637 01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:49,600 ..just lying there in the snow. 638 01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:52,080 No worry, no fear, no nothing. 639 01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:55,840 And do you think that's because you prayed? 640 01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:58,320 I don't know. 641 01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:01,600 It certainly calmed me down, that's for sure. 642 01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:48,520 That might hold it. 643 01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:44,120 Is that one bag-full? 644 01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:45,960 Yeah. 645 01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:48,960 We need, erm... One, two... 646 01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:50,480 Ah. 647 01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:55,480 I don't know if I'll get this one up. 648 01:05:55,480 --> 01:05:57,480 Ooh, it's a heavy sod! 649 01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:01,960 This one I'll have a job to get up. 650 01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:04,120 KEN GROANS 651 01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:07,880 Makes you grunt summat when you start lifting these bloomin' things! 652 01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:09,960 LIZZIE CHUCKLES 653 01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:14,400 Are you coming back for your camera? Yeah, I'll have to. 654 01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:17,800 Watch you don't slip. There's ice under this snow. 655 01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:20,200 Are you happy first or shall I go first? 656 01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:22,960 Eh? Are you happy in the front? Yeah. 657 01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:27,480 Would you be able to carry with one hand? 658 01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:28,960 Your camera. 659 01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:30,480 Erm... 660 01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:32,480 I could try. 661 01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:34,720 As long as you don't slip, eh? 662 01:07:33,520 --> 01:07:35,000 Aww. 663 01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:36,480 KEN LAUGHS 664 01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:05,200 "Ooh, argh, has to come to cut my hair." 665 01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:07,000 KEN LAUGHS 666 01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:09,520 Oh, dear. 667 01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,520 You can tuck this in at my neck. 668 01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:24,520 What colour was you hair when you were younger? 669 01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:28,520 Blonde. I was a blonde until I was 16. Really? Yeah. 670 01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:30,960 And then what? 671 01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:33,000 It went black. 672 01:08:39,280 --> 01:08:41,000 When did your hair go grey? 673 01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:44,880 When me cabin burnt down. 674 01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:47,520 Six weeks later, it went grey. 675 01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:50,320 Really? Yeah. Completely grey? 676 01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:51,760 From stress? 677 01:08:51,760 --> 01:08:53,480 Eh? From the stress? 678 01:08:53,480 --> 01:08:55,320 I don't know. 679 01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:59,280 I remember looking at it six weeks later and that was it. 680 01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:01,400 Wow. Because that was... 681 01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:05,160 ..ooh, how many years ago? 682 01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:07,280 I wasn't all that old then. 683 01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:02,080 KNOCKING 684 01:10:04,280 --> 01:10:05,760 LAUGHTER 685 01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:09,080 Come on in. Thank you. 686 01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:11,680 Oh, wow. 687 01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:14,320 Why did you place your cabin here? 688 01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:17,080 I would never have found it in a million years. 689 01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:49,400 Oh, yeah. 690 01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:51,880 At least I've got a view. Stunning. 691 01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:56,000 Are you tired? I am. 692 01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:58,240 KEN LAUGHS 693 01:10:58,240 --> 01:11:00,600 So, we always pray in the name of God, 694 01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:03,520 the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. 695 01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:07,520 Prevent us, oh, Lord, in all our doings 696 01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:10,000 with Thy most gracious favour 697 01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:13,240 and further us with Thy continual help, 698 01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:18,240 that in all our works, begun, continued and ended in Thee, 699 01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:20,760 we may glorify Thy holy name, 700 01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:26,000 and finally, by Thy mercy, obtain everlasting life 701 01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,240 and the blessing of God Almighty, 702 01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:31,520 the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit... 703 01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:36,000 ..be among You and remain with You always. 704 01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:37,520 Amen. 705 01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:41,520 Amen. It is done. 706 01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:43,520 It is set apart. 707 01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:20,520 Warm water to dissolve the sugar and sterilise it. 708 01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:25,400 Next, the yeast. 709 01:12:38,920 --> 01:12:41,480 When I die, 710 01:12:41,480 --> 01:12:44,840 instead of everybody moaning and sad, 711 01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:46,880 I want everybody to be merry. 712 01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:53,240 Getting pissed up, all on my wine. 713 01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:55,240 Who are you going to invite? 714 01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:57,520 Anybody can come that I know. 715 01:12:57,520 --> 01:13:00,240 And they'll know me, so they'll come. 716 01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:05,760 How much do you think you've got there in total, gallon wise? 717 01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:10,520 Eight, 16... 718 01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:16,520 ..32. There's 32 gallons visible 719 01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:19,000 and, erm, another eight there. 720 01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:21,520 That's 40 up to now. 40 gallon. 721 01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:24,000 And I've got about 70 altogether. 722 01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:29,160 How many gallons do you want to make, in total? 723 01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:32,280 Well, I'll just be making it forever, I suppose. 724 01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:33,880 I doesn't matter how many. 725 01:13:41,920 --> 01:13:44,320 Ken, be careful. 726 01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:46,440 I'm going to try me hardest. 727 01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:46,440 LIZZIE CHUCKLES 728 01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:13,080 Did you get it? 729 01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:14,400 Yeah. 730 01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:18,160 Success. 731 01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:37,800 If you imagine your old age, 732 01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:40,560 what's, like, all the different options? 733 01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:43,800 Hmm. 734 01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:50,040 A big choice. 735 01:14:56,040 --> 01:14:59,800 I'll stop here till my final days come. 736 01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:02,320 Definitely. 737 01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:08,680 I wouldn't want to go back to civilisation. 738 01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:13,000 Say it's comfy, but I call it bloomin' boring. 739 01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:14,920 You've got to have a different life. 740 01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:49,960 HE GROANS I can see them zig-zags again. 741 01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:04,200 I have had lots of incidents 742 01:16:04,200 --> 01:16:06,680 and I seem to have survived them all. 743 01:16:08,440 --> 01:16:11,600 I know one thing for sure, no matter what, 744 01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:14,200 I am bound to go ill again sometime. 745 01:16:18,680 --> 01:16:22,680 Something will happen to me that will take me away one day, 746 01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:24,960 as it does for everybody else. 747 01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:28,680 But I'm hoping that I'll get to 102. 748 01:17:05,200 --> 01:17:06,680 Cwoar! 749 01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:15,840 We've got a beauty! 750 01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:17,080 Come and play it. 751 01:18:23,440 --> 01:18:25,120 Come and play it. 752 01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:27,760 I'm coming, I'm coming. I need to set the camera up. 753 01:18:27,760 --> 01:18:30,800 Don't rig the camera up, just come and play it. 754 01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:32,720 I'm coming. 755 01:18:35,520 --> 01:18:37,120 What should I do? 756 01:18:37,120 --> 01:18:39,160 Hold it and wind. 757 01:18:41,160 --> 01:18:43,000 Keep the rod in the air. 758 01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:49,920 It's a trout, no? 759 01:18:49,920 --> 01:18:51,560 No. Keep your rod down. 760 01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:52,880 Down. 761 01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:55,240 It's a nice fish. It's there. 762 01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:57,680 Move into shore. 763 01:18:57,680 --> 01:18:59,760 Don't lift it. 764 01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:02,360 Don't lift the rod.