1 00:00:27,850 --> 00:00:29,410 Well, I couldn't sleep. 2 00:00:29,850 --> 00:00:31,930 It was all those country noises. 3 00:00:32,390 --> 00:00:34,950 At least I think most of them were country noises. 4 00:00:35,550 --> 00:00:39,470 I put the rest down to the tandoorian chips we had last night. 5 00:00:40,310 --> 00:00:44,850 I went out like a light. I think it was all the oxygen in the air. Have you made 6 00:00:44,850 --> 00:00:45,409 the tea? 7 00:00:45,410 --> 00:00:46,249 Not yet. 8 00:00:46,250 --> 00:00:49,370 See if you can find a teapot, Miss Browns. 9 00:00:53,350 --> 00:00:56,590 Ah! What? What's ever the matter? 10 00:01:01,590 --> 00:01:04,910 He won't be so confident when he sees my pussy. 11 00:01:07,650 --> 00:01:08,990 Where is Tiddles? 12 00:01:09,330 --> 00:01:11,190 Oh, she's in the bedroom asleep. 13 00:01:11,890 --> 00:01:13,690 Oh, look, there's a cat flap here. 14 00:01:14,070 --> 00:01:19,350 Oh, there's a big ginger tom sat outside here waiting for her. Well, it soon 15 00:01:19,350 --> 00:01:20,550 gets about, doesn't it? 16 00:01:20,830 --> 00:01:24,490 Well, I don't want to let her out until I put butter on her paws. 17 00:01:24,910 --> 00:01:28,630 One has to do that, you know, when one moves to a new residence. 18 00:01:29,390 --> 00:01:33,030 But all I could find in the pantry was half a carton of low -fat bread. 19 00:01:34,090 --> 00:01:35,370 Wasn't there anything else? 20 00:01:35,590 --> 00:01:38,750 Yes. Some yoghurt with a green beard. 21 00:01:39,930 --> 00:01:44,690 Some sliced bread and a boneless skipper with about four minutes left on its 22 00:01:44,690 --> 00:01:45,690 sell -by date. 23 00:01:46,850 --> 00:01:47,850 Where's the milk? 24 00:01:48,490 --> 00:01:50,370 Still in the cow, Miss Brown. 25 00:01:51,390 --> 00:01:55,030 Well, what am I supposed to do? Take me tea out there, corner it and get a quick 26 00:01:55,030 --> 00:01:56,030 squirt? 27 00:01:57,330 --> 00:02:01,380 This is the con... We have to adapt to country ways. 28 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,640 Morning, Mrs. Slocum. Good morning, Captain. Good morning, Miss Brahms. Good 29 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,280 morning, Captain Peacock. We heard you sleeping well last night. 30 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:09,560 Did I snore? 31 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,660 That was the interpretation we chose. 32 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:14,640 Well, what's for breakfast? 33 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:17,460 Well, some of it's still under the hen. 34 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,120 Some of it's in the cow. 35 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,980 The rest is in the pigsty. And he doesn't know what danger he's in. 36 00:02:25,060 --> 00:02:26,700 Well, where's Mr. Humphreys? 37 00:02:27,020 --> 00:02:28,160 Oh, he's probably overslept. 38 00:02:28,380 --> 00:02:29,359 Oh, yes. 39 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,180 Look, you make the tea, Miss Brahms. I'll go and arouse him. 40 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:34,400 Right. 41 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:40,920 I found this old teapot. I'll bung in some teabags. No, no, no, Miss Brahms. 42 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:42,040 me tell you how to make tea. 43 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,980 One doesn't bung in the teabags until one has warmed the pot. 44 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:53,800 Is there a jug anywhere? 45 00:02:56,460 --> 00:02:57,480 Good morning. 46 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,740 What are you doing, Mother? There's no school on Sundays. 47 00:03:03,700 --> 00:03:07,760 No, no, no. It's me, Mr Humphreys. Mrs Slocum. 48 00:03:08,740 --> 00:03:10,100 Mrs Slocum. 49 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:13,460 Come in, 50 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Mrs Slocum. 51 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,440 It's nine o 'clock. 52 00:03:24,460 --> 00:03:26,860 Well, give me a moment and I might manage a shine. 53 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:33,080 I had the most extraordinary dream last night. I dreamt that the farmer's 54 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:37,140 daughter came in here and got into bed with me. That's not like you, Mr 55 00:03:37,140 --> 00:03:40,100 Humphrey. What happened? 56 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:41,480 Nothing. 57 00:03:41,940 --> 00:03:43,580 That's more like you, Mr Humphrey. 58 00:03:45,580 --> 00:03:46,580 Morning, all. 59 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,040 I hope I didn't disturb you when I woke this morning. 60 00:03:50,260 --> 00:03:52,360 I was up before a sparrow fart. 61 00:03:57,020 --> 00:03:59,860 That makes me look out the cowshed first thing. 62 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:01,080 Does he really? 63 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,800 When I woke, I didn't know whether to arouse you or not. 64 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:08,600 That's a very difficult decision to have to make. 65 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,460 Then I looked at you lying there and I thought, he'll get up when he feels like 66 00:04:14,460 --> 00:04:17,680 it. Now, I left one of my socks down here. 67 00:04:18,420 --> 00:04:19,420 It's in here somewhere. 68 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:21,459 Are you sitting on it? 69 00:04:21,740 --> 00:04:22,740 I don't think so. 70 00:04:23,620 --> 00:04:24,620 Get over it! 71 00:04:30,570 --> 00:04:33,130 Do you know he's no bother to sleep with? 72 00:04:33,390 --> 00:04:35,730 He didn't move all night. 73 00:04:36,370 --> 00:04:37,950 He was probably paralyzed. 74 00:04:40,970 --> 00:04:45,470 So, I best get on with my work. I left a barrel full of muck from the cow shed 75 00:04:45,470 --> 00:04:48,870 out the back. If Dad sees it, he'll have steam coming out of his ears. 76 00:04:49,750 --> 00:04:50,750 Bye, Dad. 77 00:04:51,830 --> 00:04:56,270 It was nothing to do with me. She just came in here and... Don't worry, Mr. 78 00:04:56,470 --> 00:04:57,910 Humphreys. It will go no further. 79 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,060 I'm surprised it's gone as far as it does. 80 00:05:05,420 --> 00:05:06,840 Ah, good morning, everybody. 81 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:07,759 Good morning. 82 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:08,760 You've got a pot of tea? 83 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:10,260 Yes, that amounts to me. 84 00:05:10,980 --> 00:05:14,680 Well, that sort of thing is rather prevalent in the country. I made the tea 85 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:16,200 jug, but there doesn't appear to be any milk. 86 00:05:16,420 --> 00:05:20,080 Here, Mrs. Slocum got a bucket full out that cow yesterday. Where is it? 87 00:05:20,380 --> 00:05:21,380 Probably in the larder. 88 00:05:22,060 --> 00:05:24,500 There's nothing else but breakfast except a malty old... 89 00:05:26,950 --> 00:05:27,970 I'm to be plenty of eggs. 90 00:05:28,950 --> 00:05:31,890 Mrs. Clifton is the egg -pert in these matters. 91 00:05:33,450 --> 00:05:36,150 Following her egg -sperience as a land -girl. 92 00:05:37,230 --> 00:05:39,650 She'll probably go foraging when she comes down. 93 00:05:40,390 --> 00:05:41,730 Oh, not so much for me. 94 00:05:44,510 --> 00:05:45,510 Well. 95 00:05:50,310 --> 00:05:51,890 I have aroused Mr. 96 00:05:52,230 --> 00:05:53,230 Humphreys. 97 00:05:54,230 --> 00:05:55,510 He slept well. 98 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:57,980 And I can say no more. 99 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:02,740 My lips are sealed. 100 00:06:06,380 --> 00:06:09,740 Wild horses wouldn't brag to me what I knew. 101 00:06:10,380 --> 00:06:11,680 What do you know? 102 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,960 Oh, I couldn't possibly tell you. Oh, God. No, no, no, no. He must tell you 103 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:16,960 himself. 104 00:06:17,020 --> 00:06:19,060 Or she must. 105 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,680 She? Oh, I can't tell you who it was. It wouldn't be fair on her. 106 00:06:24,140 --> 00:06:25,140 Or on him. 107 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,660 Miss Brown, we must respect Mrs. Slocum's reluctance to reveal some vital 108 00:06:32,660 --> 00:06:34,640 personal secret of Mr. Humphreys. 109 00:06:35,060 --> 00:06:36,940 But she's busting her gut to tell us. 110 00:06:38,660 --> 00:06:41,240 I can't find my knickers nowhere. 111 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:45,960 Will you ask Mr. Humphreys if I left them under his pillow? 112 00:07:05,770 --> 00:07:06,770 It's only me. 113 00:07:07,870 --> 00:07:10,670 Who's going to give me something nice for breakfast? 114 00:07:14,530 --> 00:07:15,530 Look! 115 00:07:15,870 --> 00:07:19,290 Mr. Moulton, how dare you put your hand on my person? 116 00:07:19,550 --> 00:07:21,850 Well, I was just showing you I was here. 117 00:07:22,210 --> 00:07:23,430 I'm aware of that. 118 00:07:23,790 --> 00:07:25,470 Well, what are you up to then? 119 00:07:25,770 --> 00:07:28,190 Well, I'm just gathering some eggs for breakfast. 120 00:07:28,990 --> 00:07:32,490 Oh, I seem to be stuck in the doorway. 121 00:07:35,050 --> 00:07:37,090 Grab your corsets and give me information. 122 00:07:37,650 --> 00:07:42,050 Mr. Booth, for your information, I do not wear corsets. 123 00:07:42,350 --> 00:07:43,990 Well, I'll grab your hips. 124 00:07:44,530 --> 00:07:47,910 If I can deliver a calf, I can get you out of that. 125 00:07:48,650 --> 00:07:50,350 Well, I don't see the similarity. 126 00:07:52,150 --> 00:07:55,830 Ah, too much to get me fingers around. 127 00:07:56,850 --> 00:08:03,800 I tell you what, I'll grab your shoulder and he... you out. Well, please be 128 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:04,800 gentle. 129 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:12,020 This is Slocum taking rather a long time. I wonder what she's doing. 130 00:08:15,580 --> 00:08:19,480 I think we'll leave her for a moment. 131 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,700 That was a very nice take, Mr. 132 00:08:26,940 --> 00:08:28,340 Slocum. It had better be. 133 00:08:28,830 --> 00:08:32,530 Mr. Moulton had had to get a chain to extract me from the doorway of the hen 134 00:08:32,530 --> 00:08:33,530 house. 135 00:08:33,570 --> 00:08:34,570 Very fresh. 136 00:08:34,789 --> 00:08:36,150 So was Mr. Moulton. 137 00:08:37,450 --> 00:08:41,090 I've put a cosy on Mr. Humphrey's neck to keep it warm for him till he gets 138 00:08:41,090 --> 00:08:42,090 down. 139 00:08:42,130 --> 00:08:46,190 Yeah, what are we going to say to him when he gets here? Remember, I haven't 140 00:08:46,190 --> 00:08:47,190 said a word. 141 00:08:47,350 --> 00:08:48,970 I think we can put two and two together. 142 00:08:49,530 --> 00:08:52,510 Yes, if you ask me, two and two's been together all night. 143 00:08:53,790 --> 00:08:57,070 Well, the girl was accustomed to sleeping with the chef. 144 00:08:57,869 --> 00:09:00,450 Simple country folk often do that just to keep warm. 145 00:09:00,690 --> 00:09:04,710 Oh, just think, it's a really cold night. You could find Mr. Moulter 146 00:09:04,710 --> 00:09:05,710 with you, Mrs. Sloan. 147 00:09:08,550 --> 00:09:11,350 It could be sub -zero, Miss Brown. 148 00:09:12,450 --> 00:09:14,430 And he wouldn't cross my portal. 149 00:09:15,830 --> 00:09:17,770 Good morning, Mr. Alfred. Oh, good morning. 150 00:09:21,470 --> 00:09:22,910 Did you sleep well? 151 00:09:23,150 --> 00:09:24,390 As well as can be expected. 152 00:09:25,070 --> 00:09:27,050 Must have been a novel experience for you. 153 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:28,600 What must? 154 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,820 Sleeping in the country in a strange bed. It's quite cosy. 155 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,240 You weren't cold, were you? 156 00:09:35,740 --> 00:09:37,320 No, not in the circumstances. 157 00:09:39,180 --> 00:09:42,780 There's a rumour that you weren't on your own last night. 158 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,160 I wonder where that came from. 159 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:47,700 Well, don't look at me. 160 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,200 We had a slight clue when Miss Moulton asked for her knickers back. 161 00:09:53,460 --> 00:09:55,280 I wondered where they came from. 162 00:09:57,610 --> 00:09:58,610 belong to the chef. 163 00:09:59,890 --> 00:10:02,550 You know, I don't feel like any breakfast this morning. 164 00:10:03,110 --> 00:10:05,390 I think I'll go for a manly walk. 165 00:10:10,570 --> 00:10:16,090 I might pop into the village and buy a pipe and a couple of ounces of St. 166 00:10:19,510 --> 00:10:20,510 Ah, 167 00:10:21,090 --> 00:10:22,530 Captain Peacock, there you are. 168 00:10:22,860 --> 00:10:26,460 I think we should have a council of war to decide what we're going to do about 169 00:10:26,460 --> 00:10:27,119 this place. 170 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:28,120 Good idea. Where is everybody? 171 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:29,620 Well, I'll gather them together. 172 00:10:29,820 --> 00:10:30,820 Miss Barnes, are you free? 173 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:34,020 I will be as soon as I've puffed this fire up. 174 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:40,560 That reminds me. I hope we're not going to have that tandoori chicken again 175 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:41,560 tonight. 176 00:10:43,180 --> 00:10:46,820 Captain Peacock, how are you with bullcocks? 177 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,860 I'm neither one thing nor the other, Mrs. Hogan. 178 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:52,400 Because the one... 179 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,260 is in a state of constant flush. 180 00:10:55,660 --> 00:10:56,660 Probably it's aid. 181 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,620 Gather round, Mrs. Slocum. We're going to have a meeting about our position. 182 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:05,880 Where's Mr. Humphreys? He's just riding in now. 183 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,720 Mr. Humphreys, are you free? 184 00:11:12,020 --> 00:11:13,020 I'm free. 185 00:11:18,830 --> 00:11:22,650 I like your walking stick. Oh, it was the knobbliest one they had in the shop. 186 00:11:23,190 --> 00:11:26,270 I was going to buy a knobbly pipe, but I thought that would be going a bit too 187 00:11:26,270 --> 00:11:29,390 far. I think you look very dashing. Thank you. 188 00:11:31,630 --> 00:11:32,630 Come around, everybody. 189 00:11:33,010 --> 00:11:35,650 Quite informally, of course, we're not in the store now. 190 00:11:35,970 --> 00:11:37,470 We are all here. 191 00:11:37,950 --> 00:11:39,050 Well, where's Miss Lovelock? 192 00:11:39,390 --> 00:11:42,330 After all, she is a co -beneficiary under Mr Grace's will. 193 00:11:42,810 --> 00:11:45,810 I saw her earlier this morning saddling up her horse. 194 00:11:46,330 --> 00:11:49,430 I think we should try to get rid of her, you know. She shouldn't be included. 195 00:11:49,770 --> 00:11:53,530 All those years we slaved pain into our pension, she's done nothing. 196 00:11:53,770 --> 00:11:54,770 True. 197 00:11:54,890 --> 00:11:57,650 Mind you, she did comfort young Mr. 198 00:11:57,870 --> 00:11:59,670 Grace in his declining weeks. 199 00:12:00,190 --> 00:12:03,830 You see, he could prove he was dotty and didn't know what he was doing. 200 00:12:04,190 --> 00:12:05,069 Morning, all. 201 00:12:05,070 --> 00:12:06,690 Has anyone seen my whip? 202 00:12:07,010 --> 00:12:08,130 He knew what he was doing. 203 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:14,920 Captain Peacock. When I was in the army, I did occasionally climb into the 204 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,880 saddle. Yeah, you used to cycle down to the naffy to get your five woodbines. 205 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:24,100 I suppose you ex -army chaps have to put up with a lot of leg pulling. Yes, 206 00:12:24,140 --> 00:12:24,899 indeed we do. 207 00:12:24,900 --> 00:12:28,000 Not many of the younger generation understand what we went through, Miss 208 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,520 Lovelock. I love hearing about the daring and unusual. 209 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:32,580 Oh, we must have a little chat sometime. 210 00:12:33,100 --> 00:12:34,240 Can we get on? 211 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,260 Miss Lovelock, Miss Lovelock, we are gathered together to make some decisions 212 00:12:38,260 --> 00:12:39,300 about our future. 213 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:41,120 live for today, darling. 214 00:12:41,460 --> 00:12:43,500 I've got a stallion waiting for me outside. 215 00:12:45,540 --> 00:12:48,440 He's 16 hands and he's just had his oath. 216 00:12:48,820 --> 00:12:49,820 See you later. 217 00:12:51,140 --> 00:12:52,320 Oh, get her. 218 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:54,200 She's very above herself. 219 00:12:54,780 --> 00:12:56,720 You must let youth have its head. 220 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,720 Are we all agreed that we should try to run this place as a money -making 221 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:02,780 country house hotel? 222 00:13:03,220 --> 00:13:06,280 Well, I agree, provided Mr. Humphreys isn't going to smoke that pipe. 223 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:09,840 You know, I think it's getting the better of me. 224 00:13:10,860 --> 00:13:12,620 I'm beginning to hallucinate. 225 00:13:13,540 --> 00:13:17,800 I have a vision of a gang of Irish labourers laying a railway line. 226 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:21,640 Then you'd better give it up before the train comes. 227 00:13:23,900 --> 00:13:28,020 Now, look, it's all very well trying to run this place as a hotel, but what do 228 00:13:28,020 --> 00:13:28,959 we do for money? 229 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:30,160 There's nothing in the kitty. 230 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:34,800 I spoke to Mr. Thorpe, young Mr. Grace's solicitor, about that very matter this 231 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:38,860 morning. He's on his way down with an advance on our first month's payment on 232 00:13:38,860 --> 00:13:39,860 the pension fund. 233 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:41,060 Less tax. 234 00:13:41,380 --> 00:13:46,580 We could use that to get the sheets back from the laundry, or some food, and 235 00:13:46,580 --> 00:13:47,980 make an advance to the staff. 236 00:13:48,340 --> 00:13:50,600 Have you had any replies to your advertisement? 237 00:13:51,180 --> 00:13:52,720 No, not as yet. 238 00:13:52,940 --> 00:13:54,760 What have you advertised in, Country Life? 239 00:13:55,380 --> 00:13:58,640 Well, actually, I put a card in the local newsagent's window. 240 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:00,420 And in the local paper. 241 00:14:00,820 --> 00:14:02,520 Who's going to pay Mavis's wages? 242 00:14:02,860 --> 00:14:04,080 Oh, she gives her services free. 243 00:14:04,490 --> 00:14:05,890 I think we should give her something. 244 00:14:06,150 --> 00:14:08,190 And I think we could leave that to Mr. Humphrey. 245 00:14:09,770 --> 00:14:12,210 I thought you all might like a nice cup of tea. 246 00:14:12,490 --> 00:14:13,490 Oh, thank you. 247 00:14:16,470 --> 00:14:19,030 Oh, someone's smoking a pipe. 248 00:14:19,750 --> 00:14:22,030 Oh, I do love a man who smokes a pipe. 249 00:14:26,030 --> 00:14:28,030 Now, what are you all going to do about lunch? 250 00:14:28,310 --> 00:14:29,910 Shall I go out and kill a couple of chickens? 251 00:14:30,490 --> 00:14:31,770 We can't shoot you, Rabbit. 252 00:14:32,130 --> 00:14:32,809 Oh, dear. 253 00:14:32,810 --> 00:14:34,970 We were thinking of something a little less primitive. 254 00:14:35,650 --> 00:14:37,750 Well, anyway, guns terrify me. 255 00:14:38,110 --> 00:14:42,630 Oh, you don't want to worry about guns. All you need is someone to show you. You 256 00:14:42,630 --> 00:14:45,650 come out with me in the field and I'll have you banging away in no time. 257 00:14:51,250 --> 00:14:53,150 Couldn't we go down to the shops? 258 00:14:53,590 --> 00:14:56,350 Well, if you want to go down to the village, Dad will fix you up with 259 00:15:11,660 --> 00:15:13,000 Oh, this is it then? 260 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:14,720 This is old Dick? 261 00:15:15,140 --> 00:15:19,460 Now, which of you is going to handle him? I'll leave that to you, Captain 262 00:15:19,460 --> 00:15:22,740 Peacock. Now, you step up here, Rachel. 263 00:15:23,060 --> 00:15:27,940 Mr. Motard, although we may have been acquainted many years ago in our youth, 264 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:33,180 the passage of time has cancelled out any familiarity we may have had. I 265 00:15:33,180 --> 00:15:34,340 to be known as Mrs. 266 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:36,820 Slocum. Oh, you word. 267 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:42,040 You ain't half come on since you was known as the Diverton Bicycle. 268 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:47,800 They used to pull my leg because I had a free wheel. 269 00:15:48,740 --> 00:15:50,940 Right. Mind how you go. 270 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:52,280 Oh, get that. 271 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,240 Wonder if I should get a bigger horse. 272 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,400 Would you give me a hand, Captain Peacock? 273 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:12,400 Oh. 274 00:16:13,620 --> 00:16:17,120 Mr. Moulter, kindly avert your eyes. 275 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:20,160 What? 276 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,520 You needn't have worried. I've seen it all before. 277 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:30,400 Mr. Moulter, these flights of fancy you have regarding this imaginary 278 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,300 relationship are really getting on my wick. 279 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:39,100 In that case, I'll pretend it never happened. It never did happen. 280 00:16:39,420 --> 00:16:41,060 Drive on, Captain Peacock. 281 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:43,300 Morning. Good morning. 282 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:45,720 I've just been over to Blackstock. 283 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,000 The hunters are going across our land this afternoon. 284 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:50,980 I'll make sure them chickens ain't wandering. 285 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,860 Will you be following the pack, Miss Lovelock? Yes, Captain Peacock. Will you 286 00:16:54,860 --> 00:16:56,920 joining us? I'll certainly think about it. 287 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:58,280 Giddy up. 288 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:00,760 Giddy up. 289 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,060 You'll probably think about it for some time. 290 00:17:05,069 --> 00:17:07,250 Might be a good idea if you took the break off. 291 00:17:12,849 --> 00:17:18,589 This hot water isn't coming through very quickly. 292 00:17:18,849 --> 00:17:20,050 Oh, there's no hot water. 293 00:17:20,349 --> 00:17:22,770 If you want hot water, you've got to get the boiler going. 294 00:17:23,190 --> 00:17:24,190 Where's the switch? 295 00:17:24,630 --> 00:17:27,510 Wait. Oh, you town people are a laugh. 296 00:17:27,849 --> 00:17:31,150 If everything was done by pressing the switch, we'd have nothing to do all day 297 00:17:31,150 --> 00:17:32,150 now, would we? 298 00:17:32,190 --> 00:17:34,810 You've got to turn the lights on the boiler and light it. 299 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:37,580 Come on with me, I'll show you. 300 00:17:43,500 --> 00:17:44,500 There it is. 301 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,420 Get that going and it does the whole house. 302 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,140 Say, it's making up for the Queen Mary. 303 00:17:51,180 --> 00:17:53,940 We finished logs last night. We'll have to throw a few more. 304 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:55,640 Put that big one on the horse. 305 00:17:56,180 --> 00:17:59,440 Couldn't we start with something smaller? Oh, come on, I'll help you. 306 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:03,740 There's one. 307 00:18:06,140 --> 00:18:07,620 Three. Heave. 308 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:09,720 Come on. 309 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,740 I have heaved, but nothing's happened. 310 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:15,480 Nothing I could discuss with a stranger. 311 00:18:15,860 --> 00:18:18,640 Come on. Now let's see what you're made of. 312 00:18:25,420 --> 00:18:26,420 That's it? 313 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,940 Oh, I say, it's seven brides for seven brothers. 314 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:38,560 And my dad does this. 315 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:40,640 He gets stripped down to the waist. 316 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:42,740 I hope this isn't a family tradition. 317 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:45,380 No, it's all in the rhythm. 318 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,040 In, out, in, out. 319 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:53,580 When I go out, you go in. And when I go in, you go out. 320 00:18:53,940 --> 00:18:54,940 Have you got that? 321 00:18:55,220 --> 00:18:56,320 I'm working on it. 322 00:18:59,100 --> 00:19:00,100 Good. 323 00:19:06,730 --> 00:19:09,150 Captain Peacock, isn't this romantic? 324 00:19:09,390 --> 00:19:14,370 You and I trotting along like Jane Eyre and Heathcliff. 325 00:19:14,710 --> 00:19:16,250 On your way to the butchers. 326 00:19:16,730 --> 00:19:19,150 Oh, the countryside is so pretty. 327 00:19:20,230 --> 00:19:25,330 Oh, look, there's a bull climbing up on the back of that cow to get a better 328 00:19:25,330 --> 00:19:26,370 look over the head. 329 00:19:29,190 --> 00:19:33,910 Oh, no, Captain Peacock, you handle the reins with such a plough. Thank you, 330 00:19:33,930 --> 00:19:34,839 Mrs. Learfield. 331 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,060 Do you think on the way back you could give me a go? 332 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:41,300 I've done it before, you know, when I was a girl. The milkman often used to 333 00:19:41,300 --> 00:19:42,300 me have a go. 334 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:45,840 Whoa, Dick! 335 00:19:48,220 --> 00:19:50,180 What a ridiculous place to park. 336 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:51,660 Well, where's the driver? 337 00:19:52,220 --> 00:19:53,220 There's no sign of him. 338 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,480 These country folk have no idea at all. 339 00:19:55,800 --> 00:20:00,160 Oh, look, you stay there, Captain Peacock. I'll go and move it into that 340 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,720 Now, Mrs. Stoker, Mrs. Stoker, be careful. 341 00:20:04,100 --> 00:20:06,000 Oh, don't worry, Captain Peacock. 342 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:10,820 One never forgets this sort of thing, you know. It's like riding a bicycle. 343 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:13,440 It's a three -wheeler. 344 00:20:47,250 --> 00:20:50,550 I have every intention of so doing. Giddy up, old dick! 345 00:20:58,250 --> 00:20:58,770 You're 346 00:20:58,770 --> 00:21:05,790 quite 347 00:21:05,790 --> 00:21:07,250 a goer when you get started. 348 00:21:07,730 --> 00:21:09,710 That's what they used to say at the daffodil tub. 349 00:21:10,710 --> 00:21:12,490 This seems like another world. 350 00:21:13,050 --> 00:21:15,310 Here, what are you up to? 351 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:24,560 Young gentleman, do that. 352 00:21:25,060 --> 00:21:26,740 That woman's work. 353 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,320 She ain't been making eyes at you, have she? 354 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:31,640 Certainly not. 355 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,480 If she starts any of that lark, I'll give her the strap. 356 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,680 Do you remember your place, me girl? 357 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:40,100 Yes, Dad. 358 00:21:40,700 --> 00:21:44,180 A message come through on that telephone thing. 359 00:21:44,460 --> 00:21:48,340 Mrs. Fulton's in the nick for stealing a gypsy car. 360 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:56,520 Better put another log on the fire. 361 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,280 They can have a nice hot bath when they get in. 362 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,460 Very well, Mr Thorpe. We'll expect you shortly. 363 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,740 Oh, you couldn't give Mrs Slocum and Captain Peacock a lift, could you? 364 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:10,300 They're at the police station. 365 00:22:10,980 --> 00:22:12,900 They've had their trap impounded. 366 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:15,640 I'm sure they'll explain. 367 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:17,500 Thank you. Goodbye. 368 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,820 I've just been down the drive to the post box. 369 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:22,019 You've got letters. 370 00:22:22,020 --> 00:22:23,020 Oh, thank you, Miss Moulton. 371 00:22:23,450 --> 00:22:25,590 These will be applications for the positions we've advertised. 372 00:22:25,990 --> 00:22:30,330 Mr Humphries, perhaps you'd like to... Are you feeling better, Mr Humphries? 373 00:22:30,570 --> 00:22:32,910 How's your back after all that in and out we were doing? 374 00:22:33,870 --> 00:22:35,590 I expect I'll get used to it. 375 00:22:35,890 --> 00:22:37,950 Where were you doing this in and out? 376 00:22:38,250 --> 00:22:39,510 In the woodshed. 377 00:22:39,890 --> 00:22:41,850 We'll be buying that knobbly pipe next. 378 00:22:43,030 --> 00:22:44,910 We were lighting a fire together. 379 00:22:45,450 --> 00:22:48,750 This is for Mrs Hampton for the position of cook. 380 00:22:49,100 --> 00:22:50,100 Oh, don't have her. 381 00:22:50,220 --> 00:22:53,760 She's only got one arm. She rolls the pastry between her knees. 382 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,120 I don't fancy that. 383 00:22:56,580 --> 00:22:59,780 Mind you, give her a juice. She makes great doughnuts. 384 00:23:00,860 --> 00:23:03,700 This is very spidery writing. I think it's from Mrs. 385 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:09,100 Lemming. Oh, she's the one what works for the undertaker. She's a dear old 386 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:10,920 She lays them out beautiful, she does. 387 00:23:11,540 --> 00:23:13,420 Perhaps she could do the same for the tables. 388 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:15,520 Babies, 389 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,880 you're supposed to be on the tractor. 390 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,080 Oh, sorry, Dad. 391 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,300 There's blowing to be done and not to be spread. 392 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,300 I'd better run along or he'll give me the strap. 393 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:32,420 I don't know what young girls is coming to these days. 394 00:23:33,420 --> 00:23:39,320 Ah, Mr. Thorpe. Miss, uh... Oh, Mrs. 395 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,460 Slocum, you look all in. 396 00:23:41,740 --> 00:23:42,740 Oh, dear. 397 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,260 Did you get to the shop? 398 00:23:44,580 --> 00:23:47,420 They don't let you out of the cell to go shopping. 399 00:23:48,330 --> 00:23:51,110 Sit here, Mrs. Slocum. I'll pop these cushions out for you. 400 00:23:51,730 --> 00:23:56,650 I'll get you a nice gin and tonic. The police thought Mrs. Slocum was a vagrant 401 00:23:56,650 --> 00:24:00,770 gypsy. I had to try and explain that the fact that she was travelling at 32 402 00:24:00,770 --> 00:24:05,030 miles an hour in a rag and bone man's cart with her legs in the air was all an 403 00:24:05,030 --> 00:24:06,030 accident. 404 00:24:06,790 --> 00:24:07,890 What are the charges? 405 00:24:08,590 --> 00:24:13,430 Speeding. Reckless driving and driving away a vehicle without the owner's 406 00:24:13,430 --> 00:24:17,210 consent. And Mr. Bolt managed to persuade them not to press the charge of 407 00:24:17,210 --> 00:24:18,210 indecent exposure. 408 00:24:20,690 --> 00:24:23,890 Apparently there was just a flash as she went past the post office. 409 00:24:25,290 --> 00:24:28,050 The case comes up before the local magistrates in the morning. 410 00:24:28,430 --> 00:24:31,930 Oh, well, look on the bright side, should be publicity for the hotel. 411 00:24:32,450 --> 00:24:34,750 It was all so ignominious. 412 00:24:35,410 --> 00:24:37,350 Do you think I'll get a heavy fine? 413 00:24:37,900 --> 00:24:39,960 They'll probably put you in cell blockade. 414 00:24:42,180 --> 00:24:46,960 Now for some rather better news. I've drawn for you a cheque. They'll probably 415 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,500 cash it for you at the post office. All you have to do is show your credentials. 416 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,900 I think they've already seen Mrs. Slocum. 417 00:24:55,100 --> 00:24:56,460 Please, Captain Peacock. 418 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:58,540 It was so humiliating. 419 00:24:59,060 --> 00:25:00,600 I see a slight snag. 420 00:25:00,980 --> 00:25:04,600 It's clear this cheque has to have two signatures on it. You've signed it, Mr. 421 00:25:04,660 --> 00:25:06,960 Falk. Do I sign it in my managerial capacity? 422 00:25:07,260 --> 00:25:10,380 No, the co -trustee for the fund is Miss Lovelock. 423 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,600 Miss Lovelock? Did I hear that? 424 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,700 We just say we have to go to her every time we want to cash a cheque. 425 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:17,460 How did she get in that position? 426 00:25:18,260 --> 00:25:22,460 It appears that young Mr. Grace had the very highest regard for her abilities. 427 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:27,980 In his latter days, if anything of importance came up, He was content to 428 00:25:27,980 --> 00:25:28,980 it in her hands. 429 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,780 What a trusting old gentleman he was. 430 00:25:35,860 --> 00:25:39,440 If there is, we're all up in one. 431 00:25:40,180 --> 00:25:41,220 Is the hunt over? 432 00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:42,940 No, it just started. 433 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,260 Unfortunately, my stallion was terribly fresh. He threw me at the first gate. 434 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,920 Then a hunter came on top of me and I've been flat on my back in a ditch for 435 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:51,920 half an hour. 436 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:54,700 That's a normal afternoon for us. 437 00:25:56,460 --> 00:25:59,800 We're all delighted that you are to be one of the people to sign our cheques 438 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:01,420 us. Oh, Mr Rumbled. Oh, yes. 439 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:02,760 Is it a bore? 440 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,400 Still, if you should know, I'm always here if anything important comes up. 441 00:26:06,620 --> 00:26:08,760 Well, if it does, I'm sure you'll be the first to know. 442 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:14,320 Where's the cheque? Mr Rumbled, the cheque. Oh, that's funny. I can't seem 443 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,260 feel my fingers. It must have been the fall. 444 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:17,660 Get on the sofa. 445 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:19,080 She's got finger troubles. 446 00:26:19,420 --> 00:26:23,080 Oh, well, if she doesn't get her circulation back, the shops will be shut 447 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:24,080 we'll all starve. 448 00:26:24,230 --> 00:26:27,870 Lie down there. I'll see if I can get it going for you. Have you done this sort 449 00:26:27,870 --> 00:26:28,870 of thing before? 450 00:26:28,950 --> 00:26:30,430 Oh, many a time, yes. 451 00:26:30,810 --> 00:26:33,690 I studied under a Japanese at night school. Now, look. 452 00:26:34,690 --> 00:26:36,950 He's always taken on a new lease of life. 453 00:26:38,690 --> 00:26:39,690 You're not kidding. 454 00:26:40,590 --> 00:26:41,710 Why are you without? 455 00:26:42,490 --> 00:26:44,630 He was in an outing in the woodshed. 456 00:26:46,150 --> 00:26:47,150 Who was? 457 00:26:48,690 --> 00:26:51,210 Mavis Moulterd. He lit her fire. 458 00:26:53,290 --> 00:26:57,450 If I'm any judge of character, she bursts into flame very easily. 459 00:26:58,570 --> 00:26:59,750 Now then, how's that? 460 00:26:59,990 --> 00:27:01,730 That feels much better. Good. 461 00:27:02,570 --> 00:27:08,230 Miss Lovelock, perhaps if I were to guide your hand, you might be able to 462 00:27:08,230 --> 00:27:08,809 the check. 463 00:27:08,810 --> 00:27:12,110 Just push my wrist along slowly. I'll do the up and down bit. 464 00:27:14,230 --> 00:27:16,790 Oh, Jessica, what a pretty name. 465 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,000 Oozing charm from every pore. 466 00:27:20,780 --> 00:27:22,500 Just to get her signature. 467 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,260 Well, crisis averted. 468 00:27:27,660 --> 00:27:31,060 Oh, damn. They've got the scent and I'm missing it. 469 00:27:31,340 --> 00:27:34,500 You know, I can't help feeling a bit sorry for the fox. 470 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,420 Oh, you didn't think that when you was wearing one round your neck? 471 00:27:38,020 --> 00:27:41,320 That was before I was aware of the greenhouse effect. 472 00:27:41,780 --> 00:27:46,300 I don't want to worry you, Mrs. Slocum, but your cat's only a hundred yards 473 00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:47,300 ahead of the... 474 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,000 She's losing ground fast. 475 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,120 She'll be lucky to make it to the rhubarb bed. 476 00:27:54,860 --> 00:27:56,240 There is the rhubarb. 477 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:57,840 Grab the bag. 478 00:28:01,340 --> 00:28:02,480 She's heading this way. 479 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:04,220 Her tongue's hanging out. 480 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:05,600 Everything's hanging out. 481 00:28:06,060 --> 00:28:08,520 Why do you want she don't make it? You're on. 482 00:28:08,980 --> 00:28:10,000 Here she comes. 483 00:28:13,220 --> 00:28:17,900 This is disgraceful. I'm going to give that hunk a piece of my... 484 00:28:28,740 --> 00:28:30,600 Yes, ma 'am. I'm the whipper -in.