11x40 - A wooden wall clock from Serbia, a dog-chewed policeman's helmet and a fragile...

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In The Repair Shop today...

- The dog literally has made a meal
out of it.

- ..restoration can be an arduous
task...

- This helmet needs a lot of work.

- ..but often brings rich reward.

- There's something really beautiful
about how this is being revealed.

You've got these kind of natural
rivers of this gold appearing.

Good morning.
- Morning. How are you doing?

- First into the barn is Vlad,

accompanied by wife Helen and daughter
Lily.

They're hoping horologist Steve
Fletcher

can rejuvenate a treasured piece of
family history.

- Hello.
- Hi.
- How you doing?
- Good.
- Good.

Cor, blimey.

- Hello.
- Hello.

- May I have some help with this,
please?

Thank you.

- Is that the lot, yeah?
- There it is.
- OK.

It's dismantled clock.
- It is, it is.

- Yeah, in pieces.

This is my great-great-grandfather's
clock.

He was called Milivoj Slavic.
- OK.

- We think he bought it in the early


- He was arable farmer in Banat,

a place in the north of modern-day
Serbia.
- Right.

- And essentially, he was fortunate
enough

to be able to make a good living for
themselves.

And it was only when the Second World
w*r came

about that the fortunes of the family
have actually changed.

At the end of n*zi occupation,
liberation came in the form of
communism.

And relatively wealthy farmers,

they were basically treated as the
enemies of the state

and very publicly been stripped of
their wealth, their land,

their means of living.

- Wow. And this is what happened to
your family?
- Yes.

Hard times tend to breed very
determined people.

And keeping the clock going, it became
almost a metaphor

for staying true to our family values.

So this is the absolute essence of who
we are

and all of that history that exists in
our family.

It was one of those sacred things in
the household.

Grandad winding it up every week.

You were not allowed to touch it or
mess with it.

- When was it last working?

- It basically did not work for the
past decade or so.

When it was at my father's and mum's
place,

it became very temperamental and it
stopped running.

Different generations of the family
have been DIY-maintaining it,

and essentially this has never been
properly serviced

or in any way looked at.

- Right. That slightly worries me.

- You might have a job on your hands
on this one.

- People like yourselves are very
difficult to come by here,

let alone in the rural Serbian
mid-1900s.

- And it's been in that area for over


- But, yes, it was there up until last
year.

And we've essentially inherited it and
brought it over to the UK.

- We went on a 4,000-mile journey to
Serbia to go get this clock.

We went over 13 countries and it was
such a great journey

that we've made so many memories with
this clock.

- So that just adds to the history of
the clock as well,

because you'll never forget that, will
you?
- No.

- And then at the end of that journey,

getting it out of the car on our
driveway, I let...

Literally part of the box fell off

and the crown which I was holding fell
down to the ground.
- Wow.

You went through 13 countries and then
getting home, driveway,

that's when it drops.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- I can't believe we did that.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

- But I think that glueing it back
together was something

that I undertook.

So I do apologise in advance.

But I think that the main part of it
is the fact

that you can literally move it around.
- Whoa! Yeah.

- Oh, yeah.
- So it's very...it's very fragile in
that regard.

- If Steve is able to get this
working...
- Oh, God.

- ..what's it going to mean to you
guys?

The clock reminds me that I am
Serbian

and that I should be proud of it.

I can go up to my friends and go,

"Look, this is my culture. This is my
history."
- Yeah.

- I'm really excited to get this
looking really good again for you.

- And when he's excited, good things
happen.

All right?
- Oh, can't wait.

- Wonderful.
- You guys take care now. All right?
- Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Bye-bye.
- Bye-bye now.

- You're not worried about everybody
tinkering in there?

- Yes, I'm scared to death!

- All right.

- Wow.

I can see that there is a lot of wear
there that I need to repair.

I'm really relieved because when Vlad
told me that his father

and grandfather had taken this clock
apart and serviced it,

that sort of fills me with a bit of
trepidation because

I've heard that before and then found
the movement has had weird

and wonderful things done to it.

But looking at this clock,

I think his father and grandfather did
an OK job.

So all's good.

This bearing at the top here is
connected to the pallets,

which is the part of the clock that
does the ticking,

which drives the pendulum.

It's really quite substantially worn

and can alter the going of the
mechanism

and actually stop the clock.

So that certainly needs repairing.

Probably the most important thing of a
pendulum clock

is the spring that suspends the
pendulum.

This suspension's spring

is a gallant attempt in repairing the
clock,

but actually it's the wrong size.

If it's not right, the clock won't
work

or won't keep good time at all.

I'm going to take this whole mechanism
apart,

give it a really good clean,

and then I can start doing the repair
work.

- Brothers Richard and Peter Reynolds
are next to arrive at the barn

with a tall order for master hatter
Jayesh Vaghela.

- Hi.
- Hello there.
- Lovely to see you.

Hi. Nice to see you both.

What's in the box?

- This is our father's police helmet
from his days

when he was in the Wakefield City
police.

- Amazing. Ah, Jayesh.

- Hello there.
- Hello.
- Hello, Jayesh.

- Can we take a look?
- You certainly can.

- Wow.
- It's a proper police helmet.

- It is indeed.
- What's left of it, yeah.

- Yeah, I can see it's had a bit of a
life.

So your father was a policeman.

What was that like?

- Well, obviously, we were aware that
he was a policeman,

but he was very forgiving of us as
children.

He knew we'd get in scrapes and
looking back,

he always let us find out for
ourselves, really.

So we look back with pride on having a
very wise

and a very fair father, actually.

- Amazing. That's really, really
lovely.

So how long was your father a
policeman for?

- 1955 until 1974,

when he became ill.

And he died a couple of years after
that, when he was 45.
- Oh, sorry.

- So, you know...
- He was only 45?
- Yeah.

He had a brain haemorrhage and that
eventually, you know,

took him, unfortunately.

- Oh, I'm so sorry. Goodness.

How old were you at that point then?

- I was 19.

- I think I would have been 17.

But we had younger brothers as well,
three younger brothers,

as well as an older brother.

- So it was... So six of you?
- Six.

- You're kidding.
- Six of us altogether, yeah.

- Goodness me. There's a busy house.

- Very busy. Very noisy. Yeah.

- Full-time mother, shall we say?
- Yeah, I bet.

So, having a father as a police
officer,

did that rub off on either of you?

- Well, yes, I became a police officer
myself.

And one of my older brothers, one of
our older brothers,

and one of our younger brothers also
joined the force.

I mean, he died so young, I suppose,
in a way,

we were continuing the work that he
did.

- You must have felt quite big boots
to fill.

- Definitely.
- Yeah.

- Because I actually went back and
policed the estate

where we were born and raised.

- Aw.
- And there was still a lot of police
officers and other people

there who knew Dad.

And I was welcomed as, "Oh, you're one
of Fred's lads."

He was remembered almost with
reverence.

You know, everybody you spoke to.
- Amazing.

- I tried to do him, you know, tried
to do him proud.

- You did, Pete.

You know, there's not much else to
remember him by.

But I can just see him wearing it and
I think I always will, actually.

- When he died and I came in
possession of that, unfortunately,

we went out one day and it must have
been left out.

And one of our family dogs decided to
try and see if that tasted

as nice as its usual chews.
- No!

- And when we arrived home it was in
that damaged state.

And, yeah, I felt guilty that it had
happened.

But...more sort of upset that that
helmet that Dad

was all those years and all those
times

had actually been damaged and left in
such a state.

So it was very sad.

- What do you think, Jayesh?

- May I, please?
- Yes, please do. Yeah.
- Thank you.

- Oh, it's quite worn inside, isn't
it? Look at that in there. Yeah.

- And I guess it lost a bit of shape.
- Yes.

- It looks very, very long oval here.
- Yeah.

- But I'd very much like to know,

what would you like me to do to the
helmet?

- It doesn't need to look brand-new
for me.

- Just so it's in a state where we can
display proudly.

- Yes.
- Really.
- Yes.

- Without all the...the dog chew.
- Bits missing. I like it. Perfect.

Thank you so much. Leave it with us.

- Thank you very much. I look forward
to seeing it.

- Take care.
- Bye.
- Bye-bye.

This helmet needs a lot of work.

The most visible damage is the damage
done by the dog.

Literally, he has made a meal out of
it.

He has chewed away the front and back.

So I need to build up the chewed areas
of the brim.

And secondly, I want to make sure that
the shape is put right.

There is considerable damage to the
green covering,

which I need to build up.

But the very first thing I need to do

is to take the badge away and the
strap on the edge.

There we are.

The lower part of the badge...

Those are metal clips which are sort
of turned over and secured.

Right. That is it. That's it all.

As you can see, the helmet is very
dusty.

So what I need to do is...

..have a brush with the law.

- While Steve meticulously cleans the
hundred-year-old clock's mechanism,

fellow craftsman, Will Kirk, has the
damaged wooden case in hand.

- I've dismantled the clock case, and
I cleaned out all the old wood glue.

Now I'm having a look at this back
panel, and Steve told me

that the mechanism screws onto this
backboard.

And I think when that was last put on,

pilot holes weren't actually put into
the back of the case.

And that's why the splits are pretty
much either side

of those screw holes there.

So I should be able to get some wood
glue in there.

I actually need to open the crack more
to be able to get

the glue inside there.

So I'm kind of using my thumb to put
just enough pressure to open it up

and I can work the wood glue inside.

That's all the glue on.

Time to get this clamped up.

- The pallets and the escape wheel are
the important part of a clock

because this is what actually drives
the pendulum.

So, because this pivot here was loose
in the pivot hole,

what happens is that the teeth on the
escape wheel

will get caught on top of one of the
pallets and stop the clock.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going
to pop what I call

a bush into the pivot hole.

And a bush is like a new bearing.

It's got a tiny little hole in the
centre so that the pivot here

will just fit into it nice and snugly

and there shouldn't be as much
movement as there was before.

I'm just going to open up this hole
now

so that it's big enough for the bush
to go in.

Now I'm just going to pop the bush
into the hole.

Once I hammer it in place,

it will be really strongly and tightly
in there.

Good. The part's gone in there nice
and snuggly.

And I just need to make a new
suspension.

Then I can get it all together and get
it ticking.

- Once I've finished sanding
everything back here,

I'm going to give the whole clock a
couple of coats of polish.

It's going to help protect the case,

but also bring up the lovely warmth,
the colour in the wood as well.

- I'm just making a new suspension for
the clock.

The pendulum fits onto a suspension
spring like that.

And the pendulum is the thing that
actually regulates

the speed of the clock.

If the flexing of this suspension
spring is wrong,

then the clock just won't keep time or
it just won't go at all.

And I think someone in Vlad's family
has made this suspension up.

It's the wrong thickness. It's too
wide.

It's basically just too strong.

And the clock will be fighting against
it.

I'm probably exactly the same sort of
person as Vlad's family

because I'd always have a go at
repairing things

before giving it to someone that
probably knows better.

Whether it's the cooker or anything
like that,

I'll always have a go at repairing it.

I now need to fix this suspension into
the brass block now.

It just fits in with a taper pin that
pushes through.

So that fits in there quite snugly.

It's not too tight, it can move
around.

And that swings really nicely.

Good. I'm really pleased with that.

I'll start getting all the clock up
together and get it ticking.

- Next, Claire Woolston from Kent has
arrived with a heavenly keepsake.

Restoring it will require craft work
of the highest calibre.

- Hi there.
- Hello.

- Nice to meet you. I'm Will.

What's in the box?

- So, in the box I have a stained
glass angel

that my mum made for me.

- Oh, that is lovely.

- It's not looking its best.

- Matt, I think I've got something
just for you here, mate.

- Oh, hello.
- Hello.

- It's a job for Matt Nickels,

the barn's resident stained glass
expert.

- Please tell us all about it.

- So, my mum was very into crafts and
liked to try different things.

She used to keep herself busy learning
new ones

and she took herself off to a stained
glass window workshop

and handed me this guardian angel.

It was a way of making friends as well
as making things.

- What was your mum's name?

- Her name was Margaret.
- Margaret.

- She was a big talker, so things
didn't tend to get finished.

So this was quite special because it
was finished.

She was great fun.

She was always laughing, normally at
herself.
- Really?

- She was there for me...

Throughout my early twenties, I had
anxiety and depression,

it was quite sort of debilitating
anxiety.

She would always be there at the drop
of a hat for me

to help take my daughter to school and
sort of day-to-day life.

So Mum was always there for me,
picking up the pieces.

- Yeah.

- When she gave it to me, the words,
you know, she said to me,

"I'm giving you this because I think
you might need it."

Which I was... I was puzzled by it.

We didn't know that she was very ill.

She was taken into hospital, and
within two weeks she deteriorated

and, yeah, she died in hospital.

- That must've been really tough.
- Yeah.

So it became very precious.

And I hung it in my window as a memory
of her

and how she'd supported me.

She always knew how special sunlight
was to me,

how it made me feel better.

So when the sun shone through it, it
was always a reminder of...

..of how she'd help me.

And then if I opened the windows, I'd
take it down.

One day, the window was opened and it
wasn't taken down.

- Ooh.

- And then we heard a smash and went
in and I saw her in pieces.

I was pretty devastated.

I was heartbroken, to be honest.

- Thankfully, it looks like most of
the main pieces are intact.

- Yeah, I think the lead is holding it
in, just about.

Although that's cracked as well.

- How were you hanging it before?
Because it doesn't have hooks on it.

- There was a thread, like a fishing
line, I had,

which probably wasn't ideal.

- Potentially, would you be happy for
me to maybe put some hooks

on or a different fixing method?

- Yeah, anything that makes it more
sturdy

and less likely to fall down.

If it was possible,

I'm very interested in the Japanese
art of kintsugi

where cracks are filled with gold.

- I've seen that before.
- Yeah, yeah.

It celebrates the story, doesn't it?

Celebrates it.
- That's right.

It kind of... To embrace the flaws in
something and make, you know,

sort of symbolise that it can make
things stronger and more beautiful.

Because, you know, my flaws have made
me stronger.

And, yeah, things that I've struggled
with have helped me.

I just kind of felt it would be nice
to embrace the angel's flaws

and make her even more beautiful.

- I think that's a really good idea.
- Yeah, it'd be amazing.

It would be so lovely to see it
hanging up and how it should be,

cleaned up and not so dusty and
forgotten.

- It was really nice to meet you and
hear about your mum.
- Thank you.

- And I'm hoping our own guardian
angel here

can work some of his magic for you.

- I'm looking forward to it.
- Thank you.

- We'll see you soon. Bye-bye.
- Bye.

- This angel is really beautiful with
the light coming through it.

But now that I've got it on the light
box,

I can really see all of the cracks
appearing.

The broken pieces of glass are going
to need to be bonded back together.

For that, I'm going to use a
conservation resin.

The way that this angel has been made
isn't with lead.

It's actually with copper foil, which
is run around the edge

of all of the glass, and then it's
connected together with solder.

So where this is broken, it's also
managed to snap the copper foil.

So for these, I'm going to have to
replace the copper foil.

But first of all, what I'm going to do

is I'm going to clean the angel up

and that's going to really allow me to
see what I'm working with.

Easy.
- That's it.
- I'm going to get a clamp.

I think that's it.
- Are you sure?

- Yeah. Thanks, Jay.

- With the blue felt on the
policeman's helmet now dust-free,

Jayesh is ready to tackle the
out-of-shape crown.

- So at the moment it is very long, as
you can see,

the stretch is fairly long, but it
should be a standard oval...

..to this point.

I will require to use steam.

And what steam does is the heat from
it will soften the shell

and then it is ready to be moulded.

Here we are.

At this point, I'm going to swiftly
move the helmet onto the block.

There you go.

And that's the result.

I'm very happy.

I'm going to let the helmet cool down
completely.

And then what I'm going to do is focus
on this severe damage.

So, what I've done is I've put on a
layer of canvas around the brim

and I'm going to go ahead and trim the
edges.

Right, here we are.

Closer to the finish and...

..done.

Now what I'm going to do is apply
shellac on the surface of the canvas

because when it dries, it hardens.

And that's what I want for the
structure of the brim.

And I need at least three to four
layers to give that brim

the stiffness it requires.

The layers of shellac has worked its
magic.

What I need to concentrate on is the
felt covering.

This really reminds me of being at
school, finding a leaf,

a piece of paper, then doing a rubbing
to get a shape of the leaf.

Same process I will apply here.

And by doing this, I'm marking out the
template.

Now the moment of truth. Here we go.

And it matches up really well.

So it's ready for me to glue it on.

There we go.

So, the new felt looks very good.

But what I will do is I will

blend in with acrylic paint

and make that new part of the old.

I have just done the underside of the
brim.

I managed to source the green
leatherette.

The colour's very close to the
original,

which I'm very happy about.

And what I'm going to do now is
introduce a binding

to the edge of the brim.

There's the shell in the middle and
the green covering and the felt.

And the binding contains all three
together

and then gives that sharp, crisp
finish the helmet requires.

And the reason why I'm doing
hand-stitch is because there isn't

a machine strong enough to pierce the
shell.

So all I need to do is crack on and
make sure my poor fingers

can sustain the hard work I'm facing
at the moment.

- As Jayesh labours to pierce the
helmet's tough shell,

Steve is ready to set the reassembled
clock mechanism

back where it belongs.

- This case is looking so good.

Will has really done a superb, superb
job.

It should just click into place.

There we go.

Lovely.

This clock just symbolises all of the
struggles of Vlad's family.

And I know that Lily loves this clock
as much as anyone.

And so I know that this is going to
carry on down the generations

and be looked after.

- Vlad's ancestors kept the clock
running through much hardship,

being stripped of their farmland by
the communist regime

of former Yugoslavia.

For Vlad, his wife Helen and daughter
Lily,

the clock symbolises the family's
determination

to keep going through tough times.

- Hello.
- Hello.
- How you doing? You all right?
- I'm good, thank you.

- All right?
- Hello. Hi.
- How are you feeling?

- Very, very excited.
- Yeah?
- Very, very excited.

Very curious to see what it looks
like.

When you have something like this,
which is a part of your life,

literally, since I can remember,

and it's part of the family heritage,
then,

yes, it is missed quite a lot.

- Do you want to see it?

- Yeah.
- Love to. Yes.

Oh, my goodness.
- Wow.

This is amazing.

- That is...
- Wow.
- It is just... Looks so beautiful.

The colours that have come out on the
casing.

It's really nice to actually see
it's all fitting together

and it's actually a clock.

- Yeah, it looks the way it's supposed
to look now.
- Yeah.

- Can we hear it?

- Of course you can.

Oh, that's amazing.

That is amazing!

- Oh, my goodness.

- How long is it since you've heard it
strike like that?

- About 20, 25 years, probably.

I'm not sure that you guys have ever
heard it.

- No.

- Yeah.

Last time I've heard it chime was in
my grandad's house and the...

The kind of emotion that brings back
is this childhood

and family and the bridge that kind of
brings me back to that.

I'm still getting to grips with...how
it feels.

It's wonderful.
- Thank you.

- Thank you for bringing it in. It's
been a great clock to work on.

- All right. Well, we're going to pack
this up and bring it out to the car.

- All right, thank you. Thank you so
much.

- You take care.
- Thank you.
- You're more than welcome.

- Bye-bye.
- Bye.
- Bye-bye.

- The chime was so delicate and so
melodic.

It was beautiful and I really can't
wait to hear

that throughout the house.

- It symbolises the hope and the
spirit of the family,

and it keeps it alive.

- What Steve has restored for me and
brought back to life

is a part of my homeland.

It's a part of my heritage.

And I cannot be more grateful.

- I've cleaned all the angel and it is
looking absolutely fantastic.

Seeing the pearlescent sheen of the
glass

and the light coming through is
getting me really excited.

What I need to do now is bond all the
cracks together.

I'm using a conservation resin and
because it's a liquid,

what this resin is actually going to
do is slowly penetrate

all of the cracks and form a nice
bond.

The resin has now really nicely cured
and so far I'm really happy.

The crack seems to have completely
disappeared visually,

and that's exactly what I'm aiming
for.

This is really satisfying as I'm
peeling off the excess resin.

I remember as a kid at junior school,

I'd really frustrate the teachers by
painting glue on my hands

and then getting really excited taking
it off.

And somehow I feel I am brought back
to that moment.

Now I'm moving onto the copper foil
perimeter.

I'm going to have to replace this
entire section

because there are a couple of pieces
here which were damaged.

Now I'm just putting this copper foil
over the edge here.

Level it out so that each side of it
is equal

over each side of the glass

so when I push it back, it's going to
be nice and even.

This is nicely adhered.

I'm going to get started on the
soldering.

There we go. So, just smoothing it out
as I go.

It's flowed really well.

That's created a lovely bond between
the new piece of foil

and the old.

Now is the time we get to start to
kintsugi.

The philosophy and the principles
behind the art of kintsugi

are really about celebrating the
cracks themselves of the item,

but also what they mean to the person
that owned it.

Just linking up Claire to her mother,
Margaret.

Kintsugi is an art form that takes
people a lifetime to learn.

And it's not anything that I've done
before,

and I'm not doing it the real way that
the artisans would have done.

But I love the principles of the
practice.

To start this process, I'm just mixing
a resin

and I'm going to paint along where the
cracks are.

I'm then going to be able to sprinkle
and then brush over

the real 24-carat gold.

And that is quite daunting,

but something I've really been looking
forward to.

Feeling brave. Now here we go.

I'm just about to put the gold onto
the actual angel.

Now, I've never done anything like
this before.

So feeling a bit nervous.

So just sprinkling it on.

There we go.

This is looking absolutely fantastic.

There's something really beautiful
about how this is being revealed.

You've got these kind of natural
rivers of this gold appearing.

I really had no idea that it was going
to look quite this special.

- On Jayesh's bench,

the final touch is rather more
down-to-earth.

- Now what I need to do is attach the
outer leather band.

The stitching has to be in the correct
place,

otherwise the whole hugging fit of the
band will be out of sync.

So, the band...

..is fully intact, in the correct
place.

That is a very important part of
Fred's uniform

and also to his family.

For them to sort of carry this on,
it's part of his memory, his legacy.

And I just can't wait to see their
reaction.

- Inspector Fred Reynolds

is remembered as a highly respected

officer and a wise and loving father
to his six sons.

He passed away aged just 45 years old.

For brothers Richard and Peter,
restoring the helmet

is a way of preserving their dad's
memory.

- Hello there.
- Hi there. Welcome back.

- Lovely to be back.
- Hiya.

- How have you both been?

- We're very interested to see what's
happened to it.

- A lot has happened, actually.

- And imagine the state it was in when
we when we brought it in.

- It wasn't looking its best, was it?
- No, it wasn't. Not at all.
- No.

- We'd just like to see it in the
condition

where we can display it with pride.
- Yeah.

You know, I think importantly for us
as well, we want our children

to be able to visualise as well, and
our grandchildren,

and beyond, almost looking forwards as
well as backwards.

It's really important.

- Do the honours. Do the honours.
- OK, here we go.

- Oh, wow.
- Wow.

How did you manage that?

- That is incredible.

When I think of the damage that the
dog did

and I thought that it would be
impossible to get to that stage.

Do you mind if we pick it up and have
a...?
- Please do.

- Oh, look at that.

- I just don't know how you've put
that back together.

And even the inside, it was so damaged
and battered and torn

and the strap and everything.

And it actually looks... The width is
back in.

It looks now like it would go on
somebody's head.
- Yeah, exactly.

You've done a smashing job. Thank you.
Brilliant.

- You're very welcome.

- That really is something.

Can't thank you enough.

It's...absolutely brilliant, is that.

- It's my absolute pleasure.
- Genius. Genius, Jayesh.

- It's an honour. Thank you. Thank you
so much.

- It's yours to take away.

Let's keep it away from any dogs,
though. Please!

- Thank you. Thanks, guys.
- Cheers.
- Bye-bye.

- I think Dad would be really proud
and pleased that we've got it back

in a condition where it can be
displayed with pride.

We're really looking forward to
getting the helmet home

and have a little bit of Dad about the
house.

- As he would say, well chuffed.

On Matt's bench, the guardian angel
needs one final touch

to ensure a safe vigil.

- Now, Claire had it originally
hanging from the halo,

and I feel that that's not quite as
secure as it could be.

I'm going to attach hooks between the
wings and the head,

and that means that Claire is going to
be able to hang

this really safely from now on.

Just going to repeat the process now
on the other side.

Yeah. Very happy with that. I think
that looks great.

It is an obvious feature,

but I think it complements the whole
angel really nicely.

- For Claire, the guardian angel will
forever remind her of mum Margaret's

unwavering love and support through
difficult times.

- Hi there.
- Hi, Claire.
- Hi.
- Welcome back.
- Thank you.

- You OK?
- I'm excited.

I'm not nervous because it couldn't
have looked any worse than it did.

- Really?
- So whatever you've done, it will be
an improvement

because it was in such a state.

So, yeah.

- Well, Matt.
- I've been looking forward to this
moment.
- Really?

- So have I.
- OK. You ready?
- Yeah.

Oh, my goodness.

Wow.

That's amazing.

Thank you so much.

I didn't realise how cracked it was.

That's really quite remarkable.

It really has made it more beautiful,
hasn't it?

- Yeah. I'm glad you like it.

- Yeah, I'm kind of speechless.

And the things to hang it on.

Just amazing.

- It looks lovely, doesn't it?

- I can't wait to hang it back up
again.

- It was a real pleasure working on
it. It really was. It was lovely.

- When Mum helped me through the
mental health issues that I had,

it was many years ago and it wasn't
spoken about much.

And...I did kind of feel like I had to
cover it up,

which makes this more symbolic

because it's not covering up the
cracks,

which is what the kintsugi is all
about.
- Yeah.

- Yeah, it's just stunning.

- I think I'm going to miss this.

- I am. It's been such a nice, bright
beacon in the barn.

- Lovely.
- It's yours to take home.

- Thank you very much. Thank you.
- Thank you.

- Thanks. Bye.
- Bye-bye.
- Bye, Claire.

That was lovely.
- Good job.

- It's just really lovely to have a
reminder,

have that last gift that she made for
me,

have it back in my life as a reminder

of how damaged I had been in the past,

and Mum had helped put the pieces back
together again.

And so I think the angel now is a nice
reminder

of how we should all embrace the
flaws.

We should just celebrate who we are

and embrace that, however it shows up.

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