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I did see you swimming this morning

though J I love swimming but I only done

10 minutes today cuz I woke up

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late in the repair shop

today Dean gets hands on I like to use

my fingers to the cream repairing some

very funny food work you can kind of

feel it going in and you know how much

you're getting in in a particular

spot David draws upon a misspent youth

as a kid used to make a lot of models in

cardboard so I've got half an idea of

how long this would have taken it really

is phenomenal and team bear employ their

usual eye for detail

my gut feeling is if we give him one eye

he's going to look

squinty okay two new eyes it is thank

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you first however a very unstable table

for The Woodworking Wizardry of will

cook look at this J you seen better days

he is a lot of work it's a lot you're

the right man for

it it's the heart of a family home for

Heather mcferson and her grandson

Jacob hello hello how we doing hello I'm

good thank you very nice to meet you

nice to meet you too well what can you

tell us about this table it's always

been in my life it belonged to my

grandmother or great-grandmother cuz I

think it's sort of late Victorian it was

The Family Table when my kids Jacob's

dad and his aunt were growing up okay

because it's a kitchen table the

conversations we had around it you know

first boyfriends first girlfriends you

know we just sit across the kitchen

table and chat about stuff and I can't

tell you how many tears that table's had

on it it was very much that sort of

table say lots of tears and lots of

laughter too I have memories with me and

my dad around it I remember having meals

with him I remember doing arts and

crafts I just remember just being with

my dad around the table is dad with us

still or um no when I was when I was

around one

um my dad um he was hit by a car um he

ended up having post-traumatic epilepsy

and when I was around six he was making

a recovery we went to Disneyland and we

had good time and then a couple months

later he passed away that must been

really tough yeah I mean he's just been

so brave so so very brave he amazes me

every day so you both live together yes

I can see you as being quite a tight

unit we are sorry mates that's with his

family yeah we model along don't we

model along you're doing more than that

yeah so how old are you Jacob how old I

am 12 now you're only 12 yep wow and

dad's name um Barnaby barley absolutely

adored Jake um yeah you know no he's got

those memories whereas if he' actually

died in the accident I wouldn't have

known him at all you wouldn't have

remembered him at all would you and a

lot of the time you knew him was around

the table Yeah doing stuff together

normally we would have Sunday dinner

which was my dad's favorite dinner roast

chicken so we I remember I remember

having it every single time it's his

favorite wasn't it why have you decided

to bring this in now we brought it here

because you can hardly put anything on

the table whenever we have any type of

food everything just falls off the plate

whenever I sit at the table it feels

like my dad is with me and that whenever

whenever I'm laughing he's somewhere

laughing with me and just sharing the

joy of being with my family and it's

quite nice to see you How brave you are

you're inspiring it's just wow Jake just

wants to have it so that he can you know

remember my dad yeah cuz it's not got

much of a future in its current state

has it but we can give it a future I'm

sure we can can't we definitely thank

you both for bringing us in and we'll

see you very soon all right all right

thank you you take care now

bye-bye look at this Jay look at that

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I think it's official I have never seen

a tabletop in such bad condition the

base is actually quite sturdy it could

do with a clean but my main concern

really is the top of this table it's

really dry incredibly warped a huge

crack here too it'd be easier for me

just to replace this with new panels of

pine but I know how much this means to

Jacob the memories that this holds the

time that he spent with his dad it's my

task to get this flat again and to get

the family pack around the table

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from one family history to

another Grant Harvey and his mom Tracy

have brought a very big challenge for

the Barnes resident cobbler Dean

Westland

H hi you're all right yeah F thank

you so what we got in the bag okay so we

got my mom's uncle was a clown yeah and

we've got his clown

shoes you ever worked on clown shoes I

can't say I've only my own you know um

they are a mess aren't they yeah they've

seen a few things hav they yeah and what

what was your uncle's name Bert uncle

but we had the day job in a factory in

Acton okay used to Chrome all the

headlights and the bumper bars on the

cars okay and the clown bit came in with

children's parties at the factories in

Acton and Park Royal wow and then in the

evenings he was a comedian he used to do

all the working Men's Clubs around

London wow so what kind of stuff did his

act involved just act stupid

really you know run around and make the

kids laugh they all thought he was just

special which he was yeah so you got to

meet your what is your great uncle then

yes he was always a very kind funny man

he loved to make people happy even

grown-ups you know he was just a

wonderful guy I grew up with him he

bought me up really right his wife and

my mom were sisters okay so my mom had

five children and they couldn't have any

yeah and I lived with them practically

all the time cuz I only had to go two

dos away to see Mom yeah and you know

they took me on holidays I was very

lucky actually oh bless so has anybody

since your uncle gone into that

entertainment world like being a clown

or comedian my whole family was

entertainers my mother played the drums

the piano yeah uh my sister's always

entertained at the working M clubs all

of them um so yeah we were quite a

musical family yeah never carried on to

us though oh didn't it no you're not

I've been accused of being a clown but

in a different

way but no he was just amazing yeah it

was just unfortunate my aunt got rid of

everything except for these and I

grabbed them I wanted them because they

were his yeah um and you know everything

about them are him how old do you think

these shoes are we believe they must be

over 100 years old now 100 years old

yeah got to be because he had them

before I was born early 1900s yeah yeah

yeah it's comical is it just looking at

them there makes you want to laugh cuz

it's like imagine walking in that have

you tried them on I as a k did yeah cuz

I used to dress up at parties and things

yeah yeah it was more like flippers more

like a penguin

than really and they never well they

didn't used to look like this what was

no no no they were sort of a darkish

brown okay would you like the color kind

of back to how they were yeah yeah for

sure yeah and the shoelaces well I'm

presume they would have been leather

leather ones okay not bright red I think

red would look good actually yeah I was

thinking cuz that brings out the clown

bit it yeah I think that's a good idea

so if things able to fix these and get

them looking like a bit decent I'm not

running around here with a yeah I was

thinking of

him what' you reckon you going to try

one yeah I'll try one yeah yeah yeah

yeah got you that's

cool thank you for bringing this in you

guys take care now all

right bye

bye I think the biggest pair of shes of

worked on were a size 15 which were a

basketball player but I think even these

Trump the size

15 I did notice on this there is no

tongue it's uh it's missing I can make a

new tongue and kind of edge it to this

leather there's quite a lot of damage up

the back seam

here the leather's so dry so I think the

best thing would be to get some

softening in this leather so I'm going

to scrunch some of this up to try try to

create a bit of form for the

shoe this is a glycerin cleaner which

will nourish and soften the

leather and even just with gentle

rubbing things are starting to bit more

malleable so things look good going

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forward after disassembling the wed and

B a tabletop will has come up with a

plan to get it level enough to horse

Sunday lunch once again well I've sanded

the old finish off the top of the table

because I'm intending to force moisture

into the wood making the wood more

malleable I'm going to start off by

soaking this towel in warm

water need just enough moisture in the

towel perfect I'm going to wrap the wood

and then I'm going to steam the towel

I'm hoping this is going to do the

trick that sounds really

satisfying I can actually feel it

opening up my paes but that's exactly

what it's doing with the wood it's

opening up the grain hopefully it's

going to allow it to start to

flex so I need to keep the iron moving

too much heat in one area could cause

splitting and damage to the the

wood but I think I'm going to stop there

for now and check on the

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wood do you know what there's actually

some Flex in the wood I sound surprised

cuz I've never actually done this before

let's see how flexible it

is now compared to the other one that

hasn't been steamed there's definitely a

lot more

movement I think I'm going to give this

a helping hand by clamping this to my

bench whil that's drying I'm going to

move on to the other pieces

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straight flat looking pretty flat to me

look at that perfect good job B man

cheers

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buddy well would you look at that it's

been a long time I think since this

table was all together looking so flat

but I'm so pleased because I didn't

really have much of a backup plan after

that

this panel here uh had quite a nasty

spit running down the surface so I

pieced in a fresh piece of pine it looks

a lot lighter than the rest of the top

but I can match that in when it comes

down to polishing right the wooden top

isn't that thick so there's not a lot of

uh wiggle room when it comes to fitting

it together with screws and nails and

things however I have decided to biscuit

joint these pieces together you remove a

tiny space on either side you add some

glue inside and you put one of these a

biscuit on the inside this is compressed

wood so when that soaks up the glue it

then expands you put your biscuit

in sides go together you then clamp that

the glue dries you got a nice solid

joint

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look at that fantastic on with the

gluing

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and I really want this to look lovely

because there's a lot of memories tied

up to this table I'm hoping that once I

biscuit did this together and it's all

polished and back together Jacob and

Heather are going to really love sitting

at this table again one panel glued and

clamped now to move on to the

rest all this talk of biscuits have made

me very peckish

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and while Will's waiting for the glue to

dry two more visitors

arrive Sue and John Cox have a miniature

Marvel from the Victorian age for the

meticulous craftsmanship of David bille

you excited i' be interested

yeah hello there hello hello welcome

thank

you

k you are I'm John and I'm Sue what is

this okay this is my

dad's

diarama oh my gosh that was his absolute

pride and joy this is a eorth race

course that never got built we're not

sure we think they couldn't get the

funding for it so they built Kempton

Park and he was a racing fanatic he was

going they should have built this cuz he

lived inworth all his life it's all very

Victorian was very vibrant you had the

horses racing lots of detail in it lots

and lots of detail it must be then pre

1900 we think so it was displayed mainly

in the flat above the shop wasn't it

yeah the Cox family butcher shop in

eworth that was in the family for 95

years so where did this come from we

think that Jack that's my granddad made

it but we're not 100% certain because

when we asked the question to my dad he

was unfortunately in the throws of sort

of forgetting and dementia what was your

dad's name sorry George George oh yeah

he's been gone since

2001 and he's still a presence in our

lives and in our our sons loved him to

bits and it's uh one of the biggest

regrets I have not speaking to my my my

dad about things that I now know would

be really

important we just messed about

together really we you know we loved

each other and we're very Sim we we are

very similar but we never sat and talked

about you know where'd that come from if

now if I had him for 10 minutes I'd say

Dad this is unbelievable did Grand did

he make that yeah yeah that must have

taken hours to make oh yeah the reason

it's in this state is when I was about

nine

I loaded myself up with big thick wooden

turkey meat skewers put Targets on the

top and then walked away and then spun

around and fired the meat skewers to hit

the targets didn't hit any Targets but

managed to put the skewers all through

this one why do you think that that was

a good idea with the meat skewers I mean

that was that was never going to work

out ninja ninja I was in my ninja spell

then I had a belt full of them it was

that's the best thing so it's a machine

gun action imagine it was really

fantastic feeling my dad heard the noise

and he came up and he he was visibly

I've never seen him so

upset so why was it so special to your

dad because it was a um something that

was in the family and it was unique and

my Dad loved the fact he hadn't seen

another one a mark of the man he didn't

go crazy with me he just said you know

this was you know this is an this is

your inheritance this is everything and

but I knew as a 9-year-old I'd let him

down my dad descended into uh really bad

dementia he didn't know our sons were or

anyone and this was standing on a

cupboard in our house and he's looked up

and said still not fixed it then yeah oh

my go that complete fog we feel quite

guilty don't we we feel we've got to do

something so we're here what would you

like David to do

okay it would like basically if the

offes were standing up yeah yeah here I

think we're people some need fixing in

but they're very dusty basically if this

Tower match that Tower put glass back on

I will feel it's you know it's a

ridiculous probably a silly thing it's I

will feel that there'll be a sire I can

feel him saying at last yeah I think

David literally has his work cut up for

him if you can do anything we'll be very

happy but I will do my best thank you so

much we'll see you soon thank you very

much take care by much Cheerio

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Cheerio a diarama is a three-dimensional

model depicting scenes such as events

nature or

cityscapes perspective is carefully

created using stage borders and mult

multiple layers of subjects which David

must carefully bring back to life this

has to be one of the most detailed

things I think I've ever worked on

absolutely incredible I I really must

count the number of people that are in

this because um it must be into hundreds

and just the building itself all the

little Romanesque columns and

ballustrades it really is absolutely

beautiful but it's in a very very poorly

State people and horses all over the

place Bits of buildings which have come

apart I've actually got to try and get

all of those individual Parts back in

their original positions sadly the

colors have

deteriorated and also I can see the

lining paper should have been almost

violet purpley color so I really want to

bring it back to near enough the colors

that it was originally and then of

course it needs a nice new piece of

glass I'm going to start by taking out

the loose

bits this is one of the side

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Towers so once all the loose parts are

out I'm going to get the back off and

then that's going to let me get right

into it and I can start clean in it

really

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properly now that the Clone shoes are

cleaned and softened enough to work on

Dean can begin the repairs now it can go

on to the back which has been split this

is very very thin leather I'm going to

glue that between the lining and the

outer and that will give some structure

to go

against because the glue is so strong

once it's on if I pull that it's going

to tear the leather so I need to be

really really careful here and just be

sure that I've got the right line for

it so as I glue this first bit in I'm

going to try to keep it quite taut

and then push the line into that

leather so you can see that

there it's it's it's a definite heel

shape it's got a nice curve to it I'll

just let that cure a little bit and then

I can move on to the other one now and

do exactly the same to that

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look at that just more like a shoe shape

now as it would have been when Bert wore

them that gives me a good foundation now

to condition this Leather So the cream

I'm using is very very light but it's

also very rich um it's an oilbased

cream I like to use my fingers you can

kind of feel it going in and you know

how much you're getting in any

particular spot

it really soaks in and really gives deep

hydration right into the dermis of the

leather and immediately we're seeing

such a

transformation and we're seeing those

rich brown tones slightly red tones as

well coming

through this is certainly glorious for

me real sense of satisfaction

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okay so here I'm just uh templating the

other tongue because we need a new

tongue for the one that's

missing so it's a reasonably nice shape

that matches the original tongue and I

can dye it to match the

too this is a special Spirit

die and it just soaks into this leather

really really

nicely you could really see how much

Uncle bur meant to

try and it's a real privilege to be able

to try invoke those memories again for

her hopefully we get it right and it

will take her back in

time see I'm really happy with that

reddish brown color I think once I do

the stitch in it should look like a a

beautiful

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piece with some Precision color matching

of hisone on the surface of the kitchen

table will can now get it mounted back

onto the legs well that's the last screw

in place let's see what she looks

like there we are look at that it's a

really nice color as well that falls

really

flat well here's the Moment of Truth

onto the

base that seems pretty sturdy to

me I think this is the first time it's

been flat in a long time that when Jacob

next eats at this table he thinks of his

dad generations of one family had

gathered around this table but it was

showing its

age this is one my hardest jobs Jay

really yeah definitely wow can't wait to

see what Jacob thinks of

it this table holds Precious Memories

for Jacob who was six when his father

died

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hey hi welcome back thank you how you

doing Jacob I'm good thank you good how

you doing he good thank you yes how you

both been quite well have you not missed

the table very much I really hope can

set a plate straight on it and it

doesn't like fall off okay

yeah you ready yeah

oh

wow looks

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amazing it's never looked as good as

that not

ever it looks absolutely beautiful it

doesn't it doesn't look like like the

old rickety thing it used to be

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out absolutely beautiful brilliant

overwhelmed it is it looks amazing it's

better than I ever remember it looking

yeah yeah thank you so

much I didn't think I'd be able to get

this taable top flat it was a real

challenge but I know how much it means

to you Jacob or the memories that you

had with your dab with the

table lots of memor memories but and

lots more memories to make mate it's

absolutely fabulous yeah absolutely

gorgeous thank you for bringing us in

and hopefully with what Will's done

you'll be able to have more memories

around this yeah all right yes thank you

very much it's been a pleasure fantastic

thank you you take care now bye bye all

right see you bye bye bye bye bye thank

you

see absolutely crazy what will has done

to Wi it's it's amazing it really is

thinking about all the memories that I

had with my dad I can't make any more

with him but I can make more memories

with Mama my friends and I'm just glad

to have the table back so I can remember

him again

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the next visitor to the barn is Tom

rolerson from Bristol hello welcome do

you want to come on

three he's brought a lifelong companion

for the attention of toy restorers Julie

tatel and Amanda mid hi hello how are

you I'm good thank you how are you very

well thank you I'm Tom nice to meet you

nice to meet you and this is blue hello

blue so um I bought uh blue with me

today because I've had him for 33 years

um I had him first in an incubator when

I was born cuz I was 10 weeks early wow

wow so one of the first things my mom

gave to me so 10 weeks premature yeah

that's incredibly early yeah I I was

that small that my mom had to buy Dolly

clothes oh and she couldn't touch me for

six weeks oh wow goodness he links us

both together really um whenever I look

at him I imagine what we what my mom and

me went through we we had to have a Emer

C arean okay and if they had me both

with a die wow I was without oxygen for

a few minutes and the brain damage has

caused my disability my diagnosis is

cereal py diplegia right so everything

on my body is fine apart from my two

legs and and the bit of my brain that's

damaged sends the messages to my legs to

work properly ah so what are your very

first memories of blue I remember him

sitting when I'm eating my dinner in

front of the TV um next to me in bed

keeping me safe as I've got older he's

always in my bedroom yeah he's always

somewhere I can see him yeah so he never

leaves me really it's kind of like

having a little angel do you know what I

mean it's um I do and obviously he has

protected me but I'm healthy

today but also he just represents a like

never giving up and always wanting to be

the best person I can be definitely yeah

I know it sounds weird when you're 33

that a teddy bear is so precious to you

but he really is to me it doesn't sound

strange to us at all not at all not at

all and also being able to have that

connection with my mom mhm is is a

lovely thing to

yeah so you're very close to your mom

yeah very very she lives 5 minutes away

from me she doesn't want to be any any

longer than that away from me but I I

love her very much so what would you

like us to do for him as you can see

he's been through it a little bit

obviously he's got an eye missing his

nose is coming off and his

first had better

days and also was coat a waste coat any

color or style that you lik um I like

purple okay so maybe a purple waste coat

okay we'll see what we can do yeah I'm

leaving him in your you two's lovely

hands we will look after him w we thank

you definitely Bye Blue I'm leaving you

in a safe place thank you very much all

right thank you take care I'll get the

door for you so thank you

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I'm really rather loving this bear I am

it's my color for a St definitely is

your color he needs a really good clean

yes definitely I can see in here how

beautiful and bright he was I hope we

can get some of that color back there's

obviously damage where his eye was but

we can fix that it's whether or not we

have to give him a new pair to get a

good match his nose I can see the

indentation where a nose just like that

would have been yeah yeah okay if you're

happy to get on with blue I can get on

his waste coat good idea yeah purple

yeah I'll go and see if I can find some

fabric well done thank you

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restoring the delicate Victorian racing

scene with hundreds of faded figures

David must trade

carefully I've got the door armor apart

now now and I really am in awe and in

admiration as a kid used to make a lot

of models in cardboard all sorts of

things from Steam Engines to Mechanical

organs and I used to sit there for hours

so I've got half an idea of how long

this would have taken to have cut all of

those out painted every individual

little thing it really is phenomenal

unfortunately no amount of cleaning is

going to bring back those original

colors it's too far damaged by the

sunlight so I've got my palette of

watercolors thinned right down I'm going

to start with the red using tiny tiny

amounts adding just a little bit of

color and you still get that

old feel it's not too vibrant

I really do feel like I've got an

audience watching me um there's uh quite

a few faces in that crowd and they're

all pointing towards me at the moment

eagerly awaiting their turn

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I've got here the second tower

and unfortunately it's the most broken

part of the whole diarama so I'm just

giving it a little bit of a clean up and

I tend to use a feather for this sort of

work they're nice and soft they're

narrow so it's ideal for getting down in

between all of the little rows of people

and

inside so I'm just going to have a look

at the two towers and try and figure out

where each piece

goes this little Arch piece I can see

has to fit onto this roof section so I'm

just going to leave that piece to

dry and then I'm going to make sure that

this little balcony piece is

actually going to fit back into the

right

place and I can actually see the glue

line left when this was Det

attached and I've just realized by the

curve in this tiny row of people that

they are actually supposed to fit behind

here I've got to glue those on first and

then put that balcony piece back on I'm

just going to put a little bead of glue

along that

edge and I can put that back in position

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he was very skilled you can just imagine

them sitting there evening after evening

probably by oil lamps and this sort of

thing just making all those little parts

and putting them together it's

absolutely

amazing fortunately it is going back

together okay now and the next stage

really is just to put all of the horses

and the little people back in so I've

got my work cut

out Dean has put his best foot forward

with the serious business of the Clone

shoes the restoration on this leather

has gone fantastically well I'm really

happy with it he's preparing to securely

Stitch into to place the strengthening

strips of leather on the back of the

shoes so this is my vintage Stitcher

it's over 100 years

old the quality of the Stitch is really

really

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good just try to keep the stitches nice

and

small to match the originals

this machine was given to me it was

quite

rusted and it had seized but I I took it

apart and cleaned it give it a lot of

love and

care and I use it I probably use it

every day in my work for one job or

another and now that stitching's in

really happy with the structure that'll

just need trimming off and then they

will be ready for Tracy and Grant to

come and pick up and hopefully they'll

be

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happy those are nice look good other

other yeah shoelaces a diamond yeah I

think it sets them off look at that then

that's all it Bob on it is that you

happy

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yeah when these very unusual shoes

arrived at the barn they bore the signs

of a lifetime in chz faded flattened and

in a rather sad

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State back to collect the vestages of

the Beloved uncle's long career in

comedy Tracy and Grant

hello you're all right yeah fine thanks

excited yeah very I can't

wait and because we've never seen them

as they were so they were a bit T yeah

yeah you just want to look at them now

didn't you yeah can't wait I'll let Dean

do the honest do the honest thank

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you oh wow they're amazing

oh God they're absolutely amazing AR

they stunning aren't they they look good

with red laces they do they look

stunning yeah oh well thank you

absolutely amazing

Fab oh he would be so pleased I can see

him in

them I

can't can't thank you enough really the

lovely

thanks I'm Blown Away see it blown away

just yeah I just know what it means to

Mom I know you know I know if he's

looking down on usly he's probably

thinking you couple of clowns what you

you up to but is it's just no it's it's

amazing not going to try them on

then that hold on that was the deal yeah

I wanted him to put them on what' you

reckon still up for it

absolutely I'm already laughing and they

ain't even got them on

how you feeling aren't you're smiling

already look at

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you you

go oh you come prepared you got a nose

as well oh

God right so

you he's loving it he thinks he's back

in a circus bless him all right they

they're

comfortable all right

I don't know what to

say oh dear they're fabulous thank you

so it seems like even after all these

years he's still making you smile did he

was just extraordinary man yeah and he

was fabulous for me so I'm a lucky girl

and I'm even luckier now I've got him

back what are yours to take home there

thank you so much thank you been a

pleasure thank

you so much thank you so much thank you

so much take care thank you L bye thank

you was they

great that was good that was nice is it

yeah my great uncle B he bought mom up

as her dad really and I just know how

much they mean to her it just brings

back lots of memories if he's looking

down at me now he' be just laughing his

head off like he always was he was just

amazing man

I'll never forget him

never bear repair pair Amanda and Julie

are hard at work banishing the blues and

getting this bear back into a Purple

Patch

after four washes this is what we got I

am so delighted at how vibrant blue

looks he's lovely absolutely lovely I've

worked on reinforcing some of the seams

inside that were just beginning to go

but the main bit to address is this nose

and muzzle area and the area around his

eye the fabric that blue is made from

has a knitted back and that means it

will run into to ladders so what we have

to do is stop that ladder by making a

few small stitches at the point where

it's run

to I've nearly finished the stitching

that's going to prevent this laddering

any further my intention is to reinforce

it just with some felt close it all up

and then reintroduce his new eye

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what I love about putting patterns onto

graph paper each of these squares is a

centimeter so I can actually put my

measurements directly onto here and I

don't have to keep measuring again so

that's the middle line here and then I

can count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

12 and a half and

that is half of the width of the back of

his waist

coat so now we folding the paper in half

I've actually got a perfectly

symmetrical pattern so now I've got to

make the front panels um and then I'm

can start transferring it onto my fabric

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I've got to make a big decision this

original eye doesn't give me any cause

for concern but matching it is the

problem I love these little box that

amandra and I have they're full of a

real mixture of different eyes and the

only brown ones that I've got I think

might be too pale let's have a look oh I

really am really am unsure what to do

Amanda I cannot find a perfect match I

need your

help my gut feeling is if we give him

one eye he's going to look

squinty okay two new eyes it is thank

you

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I've just got blue back from Julie and

he looks amazing this is the point where

where I actually see if all my

measurements are correct and if

everything fits him fingers crossed blue

your arm in I love this color against

the blue purple and the blue it really

pops it's going to look so good when I

was a child my mom used to make things

for me and I'd have to dry things on

with pins in I hated it and there was

always that bit of getting it off you

know and all the pins

sticking anyway I'm really happy with

that when it's a waste coat I like to

leave a gap in the middle so their

little porch sticks out I think it's

really

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cute after hours of fiddly gluing David

has almost reached the Finishing Line

restoring the horses and crows to the

rightful place in the Victorian

diarama so this is really satisfying

this is the last little chap to go in

he's a little soldier so he's obviously

keeping control of the crowds and then

he's ready for the

glass here we

go well it looks as though they're all

still in place so uh I think the glue is

holding so that's

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good does seem to

be going in the only thing I got to do

is put this capping strip on that'll

hold the glass nicely in place and then

it's ready for John and

Sue this diarama was made by a

passionate racing Enthusiast well over a

100 years

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ago oh you finished yeah look at that

that's really good come up right in

there for John and his wife Sue it's a

family treasure that connects him to his

much loved and much missed

farther they are hey welcome back thank

you good to see you John how are you

feeling hopeful yeah if we could get

close to it looked like on the day I

threw the skewer through it I'd be very

happy I was nine so it's an awful long

time of thinking you know sort of let my

dad down really well I I I just hope

I've done him proud I really do yeah

righty ho what a moment this is I can't

believe it look ready here we go oh my

goodness me no way look at

this oh it's wonderful look at that it's

all

intact there's not anything missing do

you think it looks how it was from the

original it's quite emotional isn't it

oh God Goodness Me Oh that's amazing

look at all these people here yeah

oh it's

wonderful I'm

shaking I'm shaking honestly well what's

going through what's going through my

mind at the moment is that how much I

love my dad oh yeah just how much i'

that I've done this for him yeah he was

so proud of this and it was a r that

looks better than I ever remember col

are very vibrant too I'm just want to

say it to him it's done we've done it

you know it is fixed

dad fantastic thank you you're really

good I can't believe it I'm now gone

back to me being a 9-year-old because

I'm seeing it before all the devastation

of the turkey skewers so it is now it's

now a pristine memory of my dad I don't

feel guilty

anymore so Jon as thank you so much for

bringing it in it's been an absolute

pleasure I can't tell you how wonderful

it is

really is I'm actually touched oh it's

lovely to have seen you again thank you

take care thank you very much

fantastic

careful when I saw the diarama perfect

as I remembered it before I broke it I

suddenly felt a weight lifted that's

incredible

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toy restorer Amanda has almost got

Blue's beer sized waste coat all swn up

I am really enjoying doing this I've

just concentrated on this waste coat

I've put my all into this and yeah I'm

really pleased with

it wow the blue and the purple look

absolutely amazing they really

complement each other and I think

he looks fabulous he's just great isn't

he Julie's done a fabulous job I think

Tom's going to be really really pleased

when he sees

him Tom's mom gave him blue beer as he

lay in an incubator a tiny premature

baby he's been a constant companion ever

since and a daily reminder of the deep

bond between mother and

son welcome back hello J how you doing

I'm good thank you and you

come hello hello ladies H welcome back

good to see you all you too so how you

doing Tom uh excited yeah a little bit

nervous because this means the world to

me it's always been a part of my life

but he had to be here to be repaired

didn't he yeah yeah he was quite worn

out he's 33 years old so yeah he needed

a bit of TLC

yeah oh are you ready yeah I'm ready go

on

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CH oh wow that's like brand

new that's probably what he looked like

in the incubator as well so thank you

very much you're

welcome come forward and give him a hug

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that's

brilliant he's got a waist coat

yeah that's great thank you ladies

thanks a lot you're very very welcome

and you went with purple as well we did

they do listen you even fixed his nose

as well his furs are looking good

so how do it feel to hold him again

quite emotional

really it just means the absolute world

and to have him like brand new just yeah

puts a smile on my face so when you

bought blue into US you spoke very

fondly obviously of your mother and how

you wanted him to represent your love

for her yeah she's uh she's an amazing

woman um yeah I love my Mom very much so

I'm hoping getting him restored actually

shows her that she's been a fantastic

mom to me and she turned me into the man

I am today

I'm guessing that she already knows

that so Tom it's time to take him home

you ready yeah I am and I just want to

say a massive thank you to you all

you're really welcome there we go good

idea all right I'll get the door thank

you bye bye sayfe Journey Tom thank you

bye

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blue when I look at Blue Bear now it

kind of gives me like an inner strength

he represents healing happiness and also

it represents my love for my mom as well

so every time I look at him I feel happy

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
swimming ˈswɪmɪŋ A1	verb - to move through water using your arms, legs, and body
repair rɪˈpeər A2	verb - to fix something that is broken or damaged noun - the act of fixing something that is broken or damaged
phenomenal fəˈnɒmɪnəl B2	adjective - extraordinary or exceptional
detail ˈdiːteɪl A2	noun - a small part or aspect of something larger verb - to describe something thoroughly
memories ˈmeməriz A2	noun - something remembered from the past
brave breɪv A1	adjective - showing courage and determination
sturdy ˈstɜːrdi B1	adjective - strongly built or made
warped wɔːpt B1	adjective - bent or twisted out of shape
malleable ˈmæliəbəl B2	adjective - able to be shaped or bent
joint dʒɔɪnt A2	noun - a point where two things are joined verb - to connect two things together
polish ˈpɒlɪʃ A2	verb - to make something smooth and shiny noun - a substance used to make something smooth and shiny
restoration ˌrɛstəˈreɪʃən B1	noun - the act of returning something to its original condition
gluing ˈɡluɪŋ A2	verb - to join things together with glue
peckish ˈpɛkɪʃ B1	adjective - slightly hungry
vibrant ˈvaɪbrənt B1	adjective - full of energy, life, and activity
deteriorated dɪˈtɪəriəreɪtɪd B2	verb - to become worse in condition or quality
stitching ˈstɪtʃɪŋ A2	noun - the act of joining or decorating with stitches
hydration haɪˈdreɪʃən B2	noun - the process of adding water or moisture
transformation ˌtrænsfərˈmeɪʃən B2	noun - a complete change in form or appearance
templating ˈtɛmpleɪtɪŋ B2	noun - the process of creating a template or pattern

Key Grammar Structures

• I did see you swimming this morning, though J I love swimming but I only done 10 minutes today cuz I woke up late in the repair shop.

  ➔ Present Perfect (I did see) and Past Simple (I only done)

  ➔ The sentence uses **Present Perfect** to describe a recent action and **Past Simple** for a completed action in the past.

• today Dean gets hands on I like to use my fingers to the cream repairing some very funny food work you can kind of feel it going in and you know how much you're getting in in a particular spot.

  ➔ Present Simple (Dean gets) and Present Continuous (you're getting)

  ➔ The sentence uses **Present Simple** for habitual actions and **Present Continuous** for actions happening now.

• my gut feeling is if we give him one eye he's going to look squinty okay two new eyes it is thank you first however a very unstable table for The Woodworking Wizardry of will cook look at this J you seen better days

  ➔ Conditional Sentence (if we give... he's going to look) and Past Perfect (you seen)

  ➔ The sentence uses a **Conditional Sentence** to express a possible outcome and **Past Perfect** for an action before another past action.

• it's always been in my life it belonged to my grandmother or great-grandmother cuz I think it's sort of late Victorian it was The Family Table when my kids Jacob's dad and his aunt were growing up

  ➔ Present Perfect Continuous (it's always been) and Past Continuous (were growing)

  ➔ The sentence uses **Present Perfect Continuous** for an action that started in the past and continues to the present, and **Past Continuous** for an ongoing action in the past.

• I remember having meals with him I remember doing arts and crafts I just remember just being with my dad around the table is dad with us still or um no when I was when I was around one

  ➔ Present Perfect (I remember) and Past Simple (was)

  ➔ The sentence uses **Present Perfect** to describe remembered experiences and **Past Simple** for specific past actions.

• he ended up having post-traumatic epilepsy and when I was around six he was making a recovery we went to Disneyland and we had good time and then a couple months later he passed away that must been really tough

  ➔ Past Simple (ended up, was, went, had, passed) and Modal Verb (must been)

  ➔ The sentence uses **Past Simple** for a series of completed actions and **Modal Verb** to express deduction or certainty.

• I think it's official I have never seen a tabletop in such bad condition the base is actually quite sturdy it could do with a clean but my main concern really is the top of this table it's really dry incredibly warped a huge crack here too

  ➔ Present Perfect (I have never seen) and Present Simple (is, could do)

  ➔ The sentence uses **Present Perfect** to describe an experience up to the present and **Present Simple** for general truths or states.

• I'm going to start off by soaking this towel in warm water need just enough moisture in the towel perfect I'm going to wrap the wood and then I'm going to steam the towel

  ➔ Future Simple (I'm going to start, I'm going to wrap, I'm going to steam)

  ➔ The sentence uses **Future Simple** to describe planned future actions.