11x39 - A Hindu goddess, a broken locket & a birdwatcher's binoculars

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In The Repair Shop today...

- If I don't get it into the right
place the first time,

it could be a nuisance.

- ..there's no room for error...

- Quick, quick, quick.

- ..as precision...

- It's got to measure absolutely
exactly.

- ..brings much reward.

SOFT SNAP

- There.

And that little click sound to a
goldsmith is like birdsong.

It's most beautiful sound in the
world.

Are you religious?
- Spiritual, I think is the word.

So are you, aren't you, Jay?
- I am very spiritual.
- Yeah, I thought so.

- I think you're going to like this
one.

- Bringing a delicate deity to the
barn is Raj Joshi,

who's seeking the expertise of art
conservator Lucia Scalisi.

- Hello.
- Hello, there.
- How are you doing?
- Good, thanks.

- So what have you brought us in?

- Well, something that my grandad
made.

- Oh, fantastic.

It's a lenticular.

- Is that what it's called?
- Yes.

- And what does that mean?
- A lenticular.

It's like a little optical illusion.

- The central picture is the three
aspects of the one god.

So that's Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.

And then if you turn it and look from
one side,

the goddess that you can see on this
side, that's Saraswati.

- Yeah.
- The goddess of music and knowledge.
- OK.

- And then on this side is Lakshmi,
the goddess of wealth.

- Three paintings for the price of
one!
- Correct, yeah.

- And what religion is this?
- This is Hinduism.

- This is quite unusual.

So when did your grandfather make
this?

- I think somewhere in the 1920s,
'30s, in Haripur in India.

- And your grandad's name?
- Ganesh.
- Ganesh.

So how come you've got this now?

- So it was handed down to my mum.

And then when my mum passed in 2019,
it came to me.

She got a cancer diagnosis and she
passed within a month.

- Oh...

- She was a very devout Hindu, so
she'd do her daily prayers.

She'd have her house shrine, and this
would be alongside it.

- What was her name?
- Gusum.
- Gusum.

- So after the cremation, we decided
to scatter her ashes in Haripur,

the town where my mum was born.

There's a temple there.

- VOICE BREAKS:
- And then, erm... Sorry.

- It's OK.

- That's when it clicked that perhaps
my grandfather had made this

to replicate the one that was in the
Haripur temple.

That has these kind of slats.
- Yeah.

- He was working in the temple.

The term for it is pujari.

So the person who does the maintenance

and housekeep of the shrines.
- Oh, wow.

- So it just reminds me of my
grandfather and my mother,

and how strong their faith was.

And, yeah...

That it's such a beautiful piece.

- It's magical.
- It is. What would you like Lucia to
do to this?

What do you want it to look like?

- Well, work your magic kind of thing!

Get it back to its original state

and cleaning the glass so you can see
it cleanly from both sides.

- OK.
- Yeah.

- Structurally, it looks pretty good
and stable inside,

but it's definitely very dirty.

It's obviously got a little
microenvironment going on in there!

- Microenvironment!

- Lots of little inhabitants.
- Yeah.

Yeah, they've found their way in
there.

- Yeah, the back of the frame has come
away slightly,

which is where I think they've got in.

- Oh, yes.
- And then the frame?

- Well, if it can be tidied up, that
would be great.

- Listen, thank you for bringing this
in.

- It will be a real pleasure to work
on this for you, Raj.

- Great.
- You take care now.
- Cheers. Thank you.

- Yeah. Thank you, sir.
- Thank you.

- Take care.

- Ooh, what secrets does this hold?

This is an interesting object, but I
can't really consider

the actual image too much until I get
a closer look at it.

It's just too dirty at the moment.

I mean, it's absolutely full of dead
spiders and stuff down here.

I'm going to have to go into the back
of the painting

and see what the construction is like.

They're quite long.

OK, that one's out now.

Oops. Last one.

Oh!

Oh, my word. Look at that.

It's absolutely charming.

Oh. You know, it makes such a
difference, being able to see it

and see the instruments that she's
playing.

There's some delamination on these
strips and it's separating a bit.

I will put some starch paste in these
and clamp them together

and that will fix those.

But as they've moved over the decades,

they've pulled the colour off the back
print.

But I can actually retouch those bits.

So first thing, get the dust and dirt
out.

It's going to be such a difference

for the family to see this back in the
box

and be able to read it properly and be
excited by it.

And, yeah, it's great.

- Next to arrive is Aisling Madden

with a small keepsake of huge
importance.

It's a job for goldsmith Richard
Talman.

- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hello.

- How are you doing?
- I'm good, thank you. How are you?
- Very good.

You've come in here kind of
empty-handed.

- I have brought you something. I have
brought you a locket.

Very prized possession piece, very
sentimental piece.

- That's nice. Whose is this?
- So this is my locket.

My grandparents gave it to me when I
was born.
- Right.

- And there's some engraving on the
back, too -

bit difficult to see that.

I've always worn it.

It's always been known as something
that's part and parcel with me.

- So by the looks of it, it's got your
name at the top

and Grandad and Nanny?

- Nana.
- Nana. Nana, yes.

- What's their names?
- Dennis and Joan.

- Dennis and Joan, OK. Are they still
with us?

- So my grandad is, but my grandma
isn't.
- OK.

Did you spend a lot of time with your
grandparents, then?

- Yes. So my grandparents are Irish

and we would go to and from Ireland
all the time, every holiday.

I spent a lot of time with them.

I'm very grateful for the time I had
to get to know them and bond with
them, so, yeah.

- Normally on a locket you'd have a
cover, there's normally a front.

Oh, you're smiling. What's happened to
it?

- Erm...

I am very fidgety.

So if I was talking to someone or
whatever,

I'd be, like, fidgeting with the
locket.

And I think I might have weakened the
hinges

because I was out for a drink with one
of my friends

and when I got back to my flat I
noticed that it had fallen off.

And I was, like, searching the streets
with the torch

on my phone and it was raining.

And I was like, "Why?!"

- Retracing your whole steps

of the evening in a bid to try and
find this.

- Completely, completely. Just
devastating.

- So what was your grandmother like?

- She was just a very kind person.

Sorry.

I lost her, like, ten years ago.

I got on very well with her. We're
very similar in a lot of ways.

- Yeah.
- And she was...

I guess the reason why I'm so upset is
because she was kind of

the first sign of loss that I ever
experienced.

It kind of felt like that locket

was my reassurance, I guess, and my
security.

So when I lost that, I was so
devastated

because it kind of almost felt like I
was losing part of her again.

I always felt like she was with me.

- So wearing the locket was like a
comfort?
- Completely.

- Bless you. What would you like
Richard to do to this?

- If it was literally just a cover,

just so I can wear it again, I'd be
beyond happy.

- So how did the front of the locket
look like?

What did the detail look like on the
top?

- It was same colour and it had kind
of cross-hatchings in it.

Kind of like a pineapple

is the only way I can describe it, if
that makes sense.

- It makes perfect sense to me.

- So what photos would you like to go
in the locket?

- So I've got two photos with me.

This is my nan and my grandad.
- Yeah.

- So ideally that in one side.
- OK.

- And then this is me and my nana when
I was younger.

So that on the other side.

- I am really looking forward to
getting started on this.

I've got a bit of a vision myself

how it's actually going to look, so...
- Cool.

- Leave it with us and I will do my
very best for you.

- Thank you so much. I really
appreciate it.

- Thank you for bringing it in.

- Thank you, guys.
- Take care now.
- See you soon.
- Bye-bye.

You leave these with me and I'll leave
that with you.

- You do the paperwork, I do the metal
work.

- Look at him, he's sharp, isn't he?!

- This is going to be a repair like
pretty much no other.

This is more of a replacement than a
repair.



which means that I've got to replicate
the other side.

If I was making this locket in the
first place,

I'd be making two perfect halves and
then joining them together.

What I've actually got to do here is
make one half,

but it's got to measure absolutely
exactly the same as the other one.

Otherwise it's not going to close and
it's not going to be correct.

The probably hard task

is going to be the engraving that was
on the front.

Aisling recalls that it was like a
lattice effect,

almost looking like a pineapple with
lots of squares,

which is going to be a job for Sam,
the engraver.

I'm going to start by making a frame

that's going to fit around this rim
here.

And to do that, I'm going to take a
piece of nine-carat gold,

which is the same as the rest of the
locket is made from,

and I'm just going to bend this up

so it fits really tight around this
little ridge here.

It's just a matter of...

..continuing to just give tiny, tiny
little tweaks.

- From locket to lenticular.

With all three images now clean,

Lucia is ready to address the
delaminated slats.

- I'm using a starch paste,

which I've made up myself from plain
white organic flour and water.

And you cook it and cook it and cook
it,

and then you let it cool and it goes
quite jellified.

It's a very strong glue.

I just need to open the crack a little
bit.

I need to get all the glue...

..inside.

I worked in India in Calcutta - or
Kolkata, as it's now called -

for many years in a museum there on a
collection of paintings.

And, as a result of that, I got very
fond of India.

It was really fantastic.

So I think that's probably going to be
enough.

This is my silicone release paper.

So this means nothing's going to stick
to this.

I'll pop that over the top.

And I've got two pieces of thin card,
one on each side.

And then I use a bulldog clip.

So that's good.

A lot of these to be getting on with.

But I've got the gods on my side,

so I hope they'll look upon me
favourably.

I've started the retouching stage,

where these slats have abraded the
back surface.

I'm using watercolour on this -

it's the most sympathetic medium

and it also serves the purpose of
drying very quickly.

It's not a five-minute job -

you need quite a bit of time so you
can get your eye in.

And then once that's there, you really
sail into it.

What Ganesh has done when he was
making this

is actually use an adhesive to keep
the slats in position,

and it was fracturing all the way
along

and so all the slats would have
actually started to move.

So now I'm going to actually take it
apart a little bit further

than I'd anticipated.

I need to restore these slats into
position.

So what I'm going to do is use a PVA
glue.

I'm going to put four little dots of
the adhesive

along each of these slat lines.

I have to work very quickly because by
the time I get down here,

that is going to have nearly dried.

Wish me luck.

So small little dots on that one and
then I'll keep going.

I'm going to put this directly on
there.

It's a little bit of fiddling

because it's a really tight, snug fit.

So now I have to start positioning
them.

It's very tricky.

The slats are really quite bendy

and they don't want to stay.

Tricky work.

Oh, what a nightmare.

Right. It's worked on some of them.

And I'm just going to have to just go
over them again...

..as best I can.

Do you know more than I do about
what's coming in?
- I do, I do.

But I know that you're going to love
it.

- Erica Griggs has brought a memento
of a happy childhood in rural Devon.

It's a task for the barn's resident
optics expert, Richard Biggs.

- Hi, there. You OK?
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Nice to meet you.

- I've brought you some binoculars to
have a look at.

- Oh, look at those.
- That's why I'm here!

Right, OK.

Right.
- Where did these come from?

- They were a birthday present from my
dad when I was seven

because I was interested in
bird-watching,

and he went out and found me a pair of
second-hand binoculars.

- As a seven-year-old kid, what got
you into bird-watching?

- We lived in the countryside.

We had a lot of birds around us.

I loved being in the garden with my
dad.

So the birds were just there and I
just loved them.

I loved listening to them, seeing
them. They were wonderful.

He took me bird-watching on trips on
the Teign Estuary

and it's where I saw my first
kingfisher on the River Teign.

And that was with my binoculars.
- With these?
- Yes. Yes.

- I love how much you're smiling.

You've obviously got so many happy
memories with these binoculars.

- I have, and they are happy.

You know, they're all very happy
memories.

My dad was such a lovely man.

And he died when I was 20,

which was a great shock to all of us.

He had a heart attack.

- What was Dad's name?
- He was called Eric.

I would never, ever get rid of them

because they were something from my
dad.

They've just been everywhere with me.

Everywhere I've ever lived, they've
always been on the side,

so I see them and I see my dad.
- Aw.

- I used them until I was probably in
my early teens, probably.

- OK.
- And I think they gave up the ghost
then.

Have a look.

- I'll try and see a make to start
with.

I think they're probably French.

- Oh.

- Perhaps 1910, 1915.

- What are you hoping Richard's able
to do to them?

- I'd love to be able to use them
again.

I'd love for some of the old patina to
be maintained.

The leather here is all gone and the
straps are broken.

- Challenge accepted. There you go.
- Yeah. OK, we can deal with that.

- It's something I'd like to do for my
dad

because he did so much for us.
- Right.

- If Richard's able to get these
working again...
- Yes.

- ..what will their first outing be?

- My back garden.
- Perfect.
- Yes.

- Are there lots of birds in the back
garden?

- Oh, we've got lots. I think at the
last count,

there were 45 varieties I've managed
to spot.

- Oh, wow.
- I've got a grandson and a
granddaughter,

and hopefully they'll be the first
ones

to look at the birds that we've got.

Yeah.
- Well, leave them with us.
- Thank you. Thank you very much.

- Thank you, Erica. Lovely to meet
you.

- It's been lovely meeting you, too.
Bye-bye.
- Bye-bye.

- First impression, there's a really
poor...

..grubby image because the prisms are
so filthy.

There are four prisms in each
binocular - two each side -

and all they do is take the optical
light

round quite a convoluted path and out
through the eyepiece.

The covering has dried out and it's
just coming off.

So that's all got to come off.

And then I can make up a pattern and
put some new covering on.

Yeah, get all this off, get the covers
off,

get the prisms out, clean them, polish
them

and they'll sparkle again.

So let's get these front lenses out of
the way.

It's nice that they're coming
unscrewed quite easily.

So there's the little clamp which...

..is holding the prism in place.

Gee, come on.

The last thing I need to do now is
slip

and go crashing into the prism and
take a great lump out of it.

Prisms do chip easily.

Gosh.

They've cemented the prism in, as
well.

I've got to somehow get this...

..glue out that they've used.

This is going to take some time.

I've got to be very careful not to
damage the glass.

I've now made up the frame,

which is the first part of the door
for Aisling's locket.

I'm just getting that to fit...

..over the rim.

And then they should click nicely.

- SOFT SNAP

- There. That little click sound, to a
goldsmith, is like birdsong.

It's the most beautiful sound in the
world.

So that means that that is fitting
nice and tight.

Now what I've got to do is create the
domed part.

So now I've got the oval disc of gold,

so I'm just going to drop it into my
doming block.

And when it comes to doming itself,

it's important to use a bouncing
hammer action

so it doesn't create any flat spots in
the metal.

For that, I just hold it really,
really tightly in my hand,

just hovering above the metal.

And then as I hit,

the punch each time is returning

instead of whacking down on to it.

The dome is starting to form
beautifully.

Just got to continue.

So now I've got the oval piece domed,

I need to tap down either side

so all of the circumference touches a
flat area.

Otherwise, when I come to offer it up
to the frame,

it's not going to match.

Here goes.

When doing this, sometimes you're
unfortunate enough

to just catch the end of your
fingertip with the hammer.

But, believe me, once you've done it,

it doesn't happen often thereafter!

Got the dome made up now. Got the
frame.

Now I've just got to join these two
together.

And to do that, I'm going to solder
all the way around the join.

And there, that's flowed around
perfectly.

I just need to file all the way around
the edges,

remove any of the excess solder,

and then I've got to make a new hinge

and then it'll be time to hand it over
to Sam

so she can do her magical engraving.

- With the new front complete,

Richard is relying on experienced
engraver Sam Marsden

to create the pineapple-like effect.

- I'm using some jewellers cement.

It kind of melts into like a bit of a
plastic, gooey mess,

but when it cools down, it hardens

and it holds the job really firmly
without damaging it at all.

I think I know what Rich and Aisling
meant about the pineapple effect.

It is quite a traditional engravers'
effect.

And I think it's going to work really
nicely on this locket.

I'm going to put some modelling clay
onto the surface of the locket.

It just puts, like, a greasy film over
the top,

which I can then use my pencil to draw
over.

So I'm going to do it by eye to start
with.

Just roughly working out the centre
line.

I'm just going to use my dividers...

..to check that I've got the centre.

It's funny, actually, I've been doing
this for so long...

Yeah.

That's spot on.

- SHE CHUCKLES

- I'm now going to scribe it down with
my steel point,

which will leave a fine scratch on the
surface,

which is then ready for me to start
engraving.

Right.

It never goes away,

the nervousness of when you first put
your graver onto metal.

After all these years,

I still get a little bit of
butterflies in my tummy.

So, first of all, I'm just going to
put a fine line.

Just going over all the lines that
I've done with my scriber.

Once I've started,

the nerves tend to die away a little
bit

and I feel a little bit more
comfortable.

And then you just relax into it a
little bit

and get into a bit of a flow.

So I'm just going to carry on now with
this.

And then after that, I'll be ready to
put a little bit more detail in.

- While engraving gives Sam an inner
calm,

Lucia's spiritual restoration

is now focused on the outer frame.

- So I'm going to retouch the corners
where the losses are

and I'm just using a straightforward
black acrylic paint

straight out of the tube,

so that your eye doesn't get drawn to
them.

Because the smallest white area in a
black area

is going to draw your attention to it.

So I'm going to leave this to dry

and then I'll be ready to refit the
picture back into its frame.

- When the lenticular arrived at the
barn,

its sacred images were masked by
cobwebs and dust.

For Raj, the picture is a treasured
reminder of both his mother,

his grandfather and their strong Hindu
faith.

- How are you doing, Raj?
- Hi, there.
- You all right?
- Yeah, good.

Yourselves?
- Hi, Raj. Nice to see you again.

- So how are you feeling?
- Good.

Really anticipating what it's turned
out like.

Yeah.
- Oh.
- You can do this one.
- Are you ready to see it?
- Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Oh, yes.

Oh.

It's just so much more vibrant, isn't
it?

- Yeah.

- It's almost a different picture, but
it's just so much cleaner.

So much clearer.
- Yeah.
- It's beautiful.

For all the colours to just come out
as they have is stunning.

You've fixed the chipping around the
sides.

- Yeah.
- Excellent.

- So what does the future hold for it
now?

- So now I'll put it somewhere

where I can see it from all sides on a
daily basis.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

- You can't stop looking at it, can
you?
- I can't.

It's just breathtaking.

This is the first time I'm seeing it
completely cleaned up

and as my grandfather intended it.

- I wonder what your grandfather would
have thought if he saw this.

- Oh, I'm sure he'd be happy.

And I'm sure Mum would love it, as
well.

- She'd be proud of you, I think.

What would her words have been to you?

- Probably say...

- UNTRANSLATED

- "You've done a good thing."
- Yeah.

And do you feel that? Do you feel that
you've done a good thing?

- Yeah, I do.

- Well, thank you for bringing this
in.

- Thank you. I can take it?

- Yeah, it's yours to take home now.

- I can't thank you enough, Lucia.

- Oh, enjoy it for generations to
come.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

- Cheers.

- Take care now.
- Thank you.

- Aw, bless him.

- Being able to see the changing
picture

as you move from side to side

just makes me aware that all you have
to do

is change your perspective a little
bit,

and you'll see something stunning.

It just encapsulates the Hindu faith
beautifully.

- After delicately prising away old
glue,

Richard has managed to extract the
four prisms

from the 100-year-old binoculars

without scratching them.

- They're going to need cleaning,

and I'm going to have to use a bit of
solvent.

So I'm going to use a tiny bit of
methylated spirits...

..just to polish the grease off.

Well, that looks better.

So let me try and get that in without
touching it.

My fingers mustn't come over onto the
polished surface

and leave fingerprints.

And then...

..give it a gentle nudge.

They can, if you're not careful,

be caught up on a lip, and that throws
the alignment out.

So they've got to go in really
properly.

Most of these screws are only about
two millimetres across,

and they're very fine,

and if you start them off incorrectly,
they then...

..jam.

There, it's gone. That's got it.

OK. Prism's in, three more to do.

Front lens is going in next.

I've actually given these front lenses
a bit of a clean,

inside and out,

again with a bit of meths and then the
polishing cloth.

So, lenses in.

Got to reassemble the focusing.

What I have got, I've noticed,

is that these are a bit too loose in
their tubes.

What I want to do is put a sleeve,

just to take up a little bit of that
space.

I've done some pretty good trips,
bird-watching.

I did a month in Scotland,

and golden eagles and white-tailed
eagles.

We've got about 114 species in the
month, but...

..I've never seen a crane.

That's on my bucket list.

- There we go.

- So I've now got to cover the body
work with the new leather.

The glue has got to be fairly thin,
because I don't want it to be lumpy.

I want to keep it looking good.

Before it gets too sticky,

smooth it down a bit.

Right.

This is where it gets important to
start it off right.

If I don't get it into the right place
the first time,

it could be a nuisance.

That goes there and there.

That comes round...onto there.

That didn't quite get in the right
place.

Quick, quick, quick.

And that's gone on. That's nice.

You've got to push quite hard to...

Now, where's the other screw?

We want another one.

That will go in there.

Now...

..start...

Come on, start.

So with the two screws, that plate
won't move.

And that's the top of one side, and
the covering.

I've now got to mirror it on the other
side,

before assembling the focusing unit on
top.

It's coming on well.

- INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS

- Sam has done the most fantastic job,

engraving the pattern and the words on
this locket.

All I need to now do is put the photos
in

and get this back to Aisling.

I'm really looking forward to
Aisling's reaction

when she finally sees this.

Hopefully it's how she remembers it.

- The locket was given to Aisling by
her grandparents,

and its presence around her neck had
provided a source of solace.

- Hello.
- Hi.

- Nice to meet you. I'm Will.
- Nice to meet you. I'm Aisling.

- Welcome back.
- Good to be back.

- You look very excited.

- I am a bit nervous. I don't really
know what to expect.

- Are you ready?

- Yes, I'm ready to see it.

- Ready as you're ever going to be?
- Yes, as I'm ever going to be.

Oh, my gosh.

That's amazing.

It just - it looks so similar to how
it looked before.

I just...

Just, I honestly just don't know how
you managed to do that.

I just - I kind of thought I was
setting you up

for an impossible task.

I couldn't really fathom what you had
to do to be able to fix it.

- Well, Sam was responsible for doing
the beautiful engraving on it.

- Thank you so much.
- You're very welcome.
- Honestly, it's amazing.

I just - I just...

I'm lost for words - that never
happens!

Like, never happens. I'm, like...

..blown away.

- Pick it up.
- Take a look.
- Feel it.

- Can I?

- VOICE BREAKS:
- This is amazing. Thank you so much.

- I think you should try it on.

- Yeah, I will.
- Definitely. Would you like some
help?
- Yeah, please.

Thank you.
- OK, here we go.

- It feels the same.

It's just...

Thank you so much.

It's just like, I guess a reminder
that the ones you lose

are kind of still with you. You know?

- It's really lovely to meet you.
- Yeah - you, too.

Thank you.
- It's been a pleasure.
- Thanks a lot. Safe trip.

- Take care.
- Thanks. Bye.
- Bye.

- I was emotional when I put it on,

because it had been...

..over a year,

like, since I had worn it in its kind
of fullest.

And I didn't realise how much I missed
it.

It feels right. It feels very
comfortable.

I have a sense of security,

just feeling the weight of it around
my neck that I had before.

This isn't going to come off.

It's going to be with me at all times,
just like it was before.

- Richard has the finishing post in
sight.

The binoculars are almost ready to be
reunited with their owner.

- All that's left is to actually
reassemble the eye pieces.

They've got to go in and on that
centre.

Boss, that one's going in.

Then the last thing is this -

it's a copper, copper washer.

And a tiny screw.

Oh! What I've forgotten is I must
put...

..tiny bit of thread adhesive in the
hole.

So this has to go on the thread of the
screw.

So that adhesive is going to set.

But, if somebody later wants to take
it apart, they can.

So it's not like a superglue that goes
solid.

I got an old leather strap - not that
old, but a strap

that will be well in keeping with the
age and character of this.

So I'll get that fitted.

Strange looking at an old pair of
binoculars like this,

because they've got Erica's memories
built into them.

Her father bought them for her.

Her father touched them.

They're just obviously very special.

- A combination of grime and wear and
tear appear to have put an end

to their bird-watching days.

Now Erica has returned,

hopeful that the binoculars are ready
to be used

in memory of her beloved father.

- This is the good bit, isn't it?
- This is the good bit.

Are they... Are they working?

- Mm...yeah.

- You had to think about that.
- Well, they're very old.
- OK.

- Older than me.

- Really?
- Really.

- Did they make stuff before you?
- Yeah.
- Wow!

- I'm not talking to you any more,
then!
- Heh!

- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hello, Richard.

- Hello.
- Hello.

- How are you?
- I'm very well, thank you. Yes.

- Big smile.
- Yes, I'm dying to see them.

I'm really excited.

- Oh, bless you.

- If I can see some birds, I'll be
delighted.

- You notice how she looked at you
when she said that.

She wants to see through them, yeah?
- Yeah, yeah.

- Do you think I will?

- Shall we unwrap them? Come on.

- Do you want to see them?
- Yes!
- Oh, bless you.

- Ohh...

Oh!

I said I wasn't going to cry.

They're beautiful.

They are fantastic.

- Yeah.

- I can't believe it. They just look
so lovely.

You know, they've not - they don't
look brand-new.
- No.

- Which is exactly what I wanted,

because they've got the history,

and all the thoughts and the memories

and that sort of stuff.

They're just perfect.

- Oh, bless you.

- Can we look through them?
- Of course you can.

- If you look that way, it's a bit of
a distance that way.

- Oh, that's amazing.
- I'm in suspense. Are they working?

- Yes, they are.

- How's that feel, looking through
them?

- It brings back memories, and it's
just so nice.

My dad would have been so, so pleased.

He'd have loved everything you do.

And, look, I've got a strap, so I
don't drop them.

- SHE LAUGHS

- So what are you going to do with
them now?

- I'm going to take them home, and I'm
going to sit in my garden

and watch some birds.
- OK.

- Yes. And then when the time's right,
I'll give them to my

other parts of my family.
- You'll pass them on.

- Pass them on, yeah.

Thank you, Richard.
- You're welcome.

- Thank you, Jay.
- It's been fun. Been fun working on
them.

- Good, I'm glad. Yes.

- Bye-bye.
- Bye-bye.
- Take care.
- Thank you.

I just can't believe how beautiful
they look.

They're far more powerful than I
remember.

You know, you can actually see things.

Before, it was a big blur.

I can't wait to get them home to see
some birds through them!

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