11x12 - Tugboat Captain's Guitar

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In The Repair Shop today,

music to Julyan's ears...

I've got a lot more positive vibes
and my confidence has gone up.

..a spot of veterinary surgery...

Hopefully, none of his piggy friends
will notice he ever had a nose job.

..and reeling in a whopper.
I'm putting up a fight!

What time do you call this?
Bear time. Bear time. All right.

Morning, Will. Morning, Chris.

Maggie Harris has travelled
to the Barn from Kent,

with hopes pinned on Julyan Wallis'
expertise to save her guitar.

Hello. Hello. Jules.

Ooh, I think this one's for you.
Oh, hello! How are you?

All right, I think. I'm so excited.
This looks, um...

Wow! Broken. Yeah.

So, tell us about it,
Maggie, please.

Well, this is an Hawaiian guitar.
Hawaiian. Hawaiian. Right.

It belonged to my dad. Right.
And we come from Guyana. Guyana.

So you can see the Guyana stickers.
OK.

Is there a Hawaiian guitar? Well,
I think it's more of a generic term,

Hawaiian music could be played
on any guitar,

but it's more referring to,
I would have thought, the slide.

You hear that...
All these lovely slidey tones,

which sounds completely different
to any other guitar.

Yes, I remember the slide. He had
one of those slides you talk about.

Yeah. So, this belonged to your dad.
Can you tell us about him? My dad

was known as Captain James Harris.
He was born in 1908. Wow!

Quite an old dad. Yeah.

And he worked on the tug boats,
on the Berbice River in Guyana. OK.

So he spent quite a lot of time
away from home on the long rivers,

but when he came home, the guitar
was what helped him relax.

Sometimes, he'd bring the sailors
home with him... Yeah.

..which would mean a bit
of rum drinking, and he would play

the most incredible tunes, you know,
which I remember very, very well.

Yeah. It's just happy memories
of them enjoying the music together.

Right. And, sadly,
he died when I was 15.

That must have been hard, like, your
dad dying when you was 15 years old.

It was very hard.

Yes, he just went to work
one morning and took ill

and came home and died.

My mum was only in her 30s. Yeah.
You know, she'd been left a widow.

Mm. With four daughters,
all under 16. Right.

Yeah,
and Mum had a brother here already,

so decided to come over here
and start again, so... Wow!

So Mum moved all of the family...
Yes.

I came first and then
they came about a year or so later.

Yeah. And I decided to bring
the guitar with me.

But as life goes,
you move about from place to place,

so this poor little guitar has been
with me all the time, just kind of

been on the tops of wardrobes,
which is why he's suffered

the way that it has. Yeah.

There's a lot tied up in this
guitar, isn't there? Yeah.

Yeah, the family would be very,
very proud

to see it restored. OK.

I've got grandchildren who are
doing music and are interested,

so this guitar is such
a connection... Yeah, it is.

..between their culture
and Guyana's culture and... Yeah.

..and their grandad. Yeah.

Yeah.

So, what would you like Jules to do
to this? Oh, my goodness!

I mean, it would be lovely if it was
possible to hear it played again.

Right. But if it wasn't, I think
just to see it back into some

sort of original shape, so that
it could be a treasure... Yeah.

..that could be shared
with all the family

and passed down
through the generations, yeah.

Wow! Look at that. I can put
my whole hand underneath there!

A big crack in the side. And, ooh...
Oh, look at that!

Wow! It's in a very, very bad state.

It's...
It's like a jack-in-the-box. Boosh!

It's almost sprung apart.
It's like...

You know, and trying to put them
all back in

is going to be my challenge,
so, challenge accepted.

Yeah. It's a big one.
Thank you for bringing this in.

It's been a real pleasure to hear
about your dad. Thank you very, very
much. No problem.

We'll do our best. You take care
now. Thank you. OK. Bye-bye.

Wow!

CHUCKLES

I don't know what to say!

Well, I know it's in safe hands.
All right.

Well...

Wow! Never in my 30 years
of doing this have

I ever seen a guitar
that's sprung apart like this.

Over time,
glues have given up the ghost

and just things have prised apart
because they're under tension.

The neck is so badly out of whack.

The neck should really follow
the plane of the body

and it's pulled up over the years.

So I've got to get the neck reset,
as well as all the main bodywork.

It truly is up there as probably
the worst damage I've ever had to

fix on an acoustic guitar.

I'm looking forward to it,
and I'm not, if I'm honest.

It's a real, real challenge.

The first thing I've got to do is
take these old strings off

and then I can get to work.

Arriving next, Malcolm Knock from
Cradley Heath in the West Midlands,

with a memento of very special times
on the river bank.

Hello, there. Hi.
Welcome to the Barn.

Thank you. What's inside the bag?

That looks a really nice reel.

Oh, it's a fishing reel?

I had no idea what it was!

It's my grandad's. He always used
that and he used to fish for roach.

He bought this
when I was very, very young.

Must have cost a week's wages
to him!

What was your grandfather's name?
Wilf.

Wilf Jones. We lived with Granny
and Grandad for years.

He used to come back from work,
he'd have his dinner

and I'd have a bit of his dinner.
I used to love it.

He'd just put a few potatoes
with a bit of gravy on it, I thought

it was the bee's knees because
it was my grandad's, you know.

So it's little things you remember.

So, your grandfather was a keen
fisherman. Did you ever go with him?

Yeah, when I was about six, seven,

and he'd wake me up early morning
and say, "You going fishing, Malc?"

You know, "Yeah!" Cos I just loved
it. And I was with my grandad.

Catch a bus to Stourbridge.

Get off the bus,
catch another one to Kidderminster.

And then catch another one
to Stourport.

Grandad liked buses!

But anyway, it was just magical
to go somewhere, you know,

to go out into the countryside.

He used to fish the same spot
and I'd watch him, like,

and have my sandwich by him.

He'd be putting his maggots
on the hook and throwing some in.

It was something
really, really special.

Do you think your grandfather was
a good fisherman?

Well, when you're six years old,

he's a world champion!

He did win a contest. This...
Oh, right!

This is a Coronation Cup

that he won in 1952.

And his name is on there.

Wilf Jones. Right.

When he passed away, my granny said,
"Have Grandad's reel."

I think it was broke then.
It isn't turning backwards. Right.

And the bail arm, which holds
the line, it isn't doing its job.

It keeps coming undone.

If I am able to get this reel
working,

what are you going to do with it?

I shall use it

all the time. Yeah.

I was just wondering,
if I put this on my rod,

and cast in,

the first cast...

I wonder
if I'll get struck by lightning,

cos he never let me touch it
when he was alive!

But to catch fish with it, you know,

would be great.

Malcolm, thank you so much
for bringing the reel in.

I hope I can repair it for you.
Thank you very much. Bye-bye.

Thank you very much. Thank you.
Bye-bye, now.

Ooh, that reel means so much to him.

I know.
Memories of fishing, maggots...

I know. Did you go fishing?

I did, with my grandfather, yeah.

I used to go with my uncle, who was
an incredible fisherman. Really?

Yeah. I had a magical time as well,

so I understand
exactly what he's talking about.

What are you going to do, Steve?
I was just looking at that.

I think I'll probably give that
to Brenton. That's a good idea.

That'll polish up nicely, I think.

I think you're going to do a REELY,
REELY, REELY good job. Very good!
CHUCKLES

The cup is really quite dented,
actually.

I'm sure Brenton will be able
to straighten that out

and make that look beautiful.

The reel... Malcolm did say that

it wasn't running freely.
I can hear it's really grinding,

so there's something rubbing
that shouldn't be rubbing there.

The bail arm, obviously,
needs re-attaching.

I haven't touched one of these reels
since I was probably ten years old.

And I remember taking it apart
and repairing it,

so I'm hoping that this one
is going to be the same,

that I can actually take it apart
and put it back together again.

I've got to strip this
completely down

and give it a thorough good clean.

Once I've done that, hopefully
I'll find out why it's making that

grinding sound and why it's not
working correctly and smoothly.

Julyan has reached a critical stage
in fixing the disintegrating

guitar, realigning the neck
with what remains of the body.

I've loosened up the front

and I think what I need to do is to
clamp things in the right pitch, the

neck pitch to body, which is going
to make it ultimately play well,

and it's just a case of getting out
the glue and the clamps,

so this whole sort of central area,

this hub where everything joins
together, is solid.

Here we go.

Perfecto!

Hopefully,
that's everything aligned and solid.

Clamping,
longitude, latitude, every-tude!

CHUCKLES

So, I'm just taking the clamps off.

It's almost as if I can hear
the guitar going, "Aah!"

Yep. That's looking good.
That's going to work.

Pretty chuffed with that.

Time to move on to the other cracks
and parts I've got to glue together.

Brilliant stuff.

The body's now really nice and solid
and all the glue-ups have been done.

It's just where I want it to be.
And it's time to put the back on,

but I've just found that
the existing back is the original

shape, but over the years, the body,
unfortunately, has changed,

all those years without it on,

and it just will not fit,
so I'm going to make a new back

and I'm going to make it out of this
beautiful piece of maple I have.

A guitar with no back is
just like a house with no roof,

it's completely useless.

I must admit that when Maggie did
bring this in, I was beside myself.

But now,
I've got a lot more positive vibes

and my confidence has gone up!

So, that's it. I just need
to take this to the band saw.

So I've rough cut the back out now
and I've shaped these

braces as well and they've got
this gentle curve in them.

If it's flat,
it won't sound so good.

That's number one on,
just two more to go.

Catherine Robinson has come
to the Repair Shop from Warwick.

She needs Suzie Fletcher's skills

to save the bacon of a dear friend.

Hi, I'm Catherine. Hi, Catherine.
I'm Will, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. What is inside
this pillowcase? This is Pogo.

Pogo... A family favourite.

Well, it's definitely made
out of leather. It is. Suzie? Yep.

There's an interesting pig here
for you to see!

Pogo, that's a lovely name!

So, is he like a teddy bear?

He's a foot stool. A foot stool?
Yeah.

My grandma got him
when she was 22 from my grandad,

as an engagement present.

Did he get her a ring as well?
He did.

I don't know what came first,
the pig or the ring! Aww!

What were your grandparents' names?
Marjory and Derek Bailey.

Marjory and Derek. Mm-hm.

Pogo looks like a very old pig.
He is. He's 70 years old.

I mean, he's been in the family
for as long as I've been around,

so as a toddler,
I used to use him as a foot stool,

as did my sister
and my five cousins.

But also, so did my mum
and her brother and sister as well,

used them in the same way.

So, at one point did this go from
your grandparents' to being yours?

My granny passed away in 2010,
my papa passed away in 2015,

and one of the last conversations
I had with him was him asking me,

"Is there anything in the house
that you would like?"

And the one thing
that I said was Pogo. Aw!

He was always at my grandparents'
house and whenever any of us

went to go and visit,
he was always there,

watching what was going on
and enjoying all

the parties that the family used
to have and he's witnessed it all,

so there's a lot of history
that goes along with him.

He's the centre of our family,
I suppose.

Yeah, he means a lot,
he's very special.

Hmm. What would you like Suzie
to do for you?

Make him not as fragile again.

You can see that he's been mended
before on the ears and on his tail.

He's very delicate.

He sits on the top shelf
at home at the moment,

away from my five-year-old, who
would love to play with him again.

His nose is the most delicate part.
Mm.

So we have to be really careful
with that. Yeah.

But just to have him so that
he can be picked up by children,

obviously with care,

but to be able to be enjoyed
and be a member of the family again,

without me worrying that he's going
to collapse, or his leather's

going to fall off, or, yeah, his
ears are going to be pulled or...

Yeah. Can't wait to see

what Suzie's going to do.
Yeah, I'm really excited.

Thank you very much for coming down.
Thank you. Bye. Bye-bye.

He's very handsome, isn't he?
He is very handsome!

I love this pig. Isn't he gorgeous?

These are really fabulous animals
and I've worked on several of them

in the past and I find that each one
has its individual character.

I've had quite a few pigs come
through the workshop,

funnily enough.

Depending on the era of
when they were made,

their shape changes
a little bit as well.

The major area of damage is this
snout that has what's

known as a little bit of red rot
going on there.

The leather gets really, really dry.

All the greases are lost
and then it just literally

turns into like a card,
it feels like cardboard.

At the tail end here,
although his tail's been replaced,

that needs to be stuffed up, so it
sits up like this and then, finally,

tone the ears
and the tail to match the colour,

so that everything looks complete.

But the first thing I need to do is
to give him a good clean.

I'm just going to use a well
wrung-out piece of towelling here

and pop some saddle soap on.

The key here is just to get
this leather in a nice condition.

Once I've finished cleaning Pogo,
I can then focus

all my attention
on the damaged areas.

A good clean is a vital step
for both Fletcher siblings,

as Steve starts restoration
of the old fishing reel.

I've not got the reel in bits

and I'm just going to clean it up
with detergent.

In amongst the dirt and grime,
there's bits of grit as well,

which could be one of the reasons
why the reel was sounding

very gritty,
so once I've cleaned it all off,

it should work so much better.

I haven't been fishing since I used
to go out with my Uncle Jack.

It's about sitting on the river
bank and just watching nature.

And it just makes me think
that I ought to go and get a rod

and reel and go out fishing again.

Once I've cleaned all the parts,
I can reassemble it

and then look at the bail arm
and hopefully get that working.

Steve has given me Malcolm's
fishing trophy,

or Wilf's fishing trophy, to

be more precise,
and it's a nickel trophy, it would

have been quite shiny, originally.

It's got a small dent there,
which is easy enough to remove.

It's got a lot of damage
around the bottom.

I can repair this
if I can get it off of this base.

I'm just going to put
a scalpel blade in there

and just give that a little bit
of a lift and see if that'll...

Look at that. There we go.

I've now got to get rid of these
awful dents here

and I am going to have to get
my hammer out for these.

I've got a thrust bearing

and this goes into quite
an important part of the reel

and it makes it really smooth,
as you're winding the handle.

The ball bearings are really rusted
and without this working

properly, it just wouldn't work
as smoothly at all.

So I'm hoping I can fix it.

I'm just going to see
if I can punch out the ba*ls

and pop some new ball bearings
inside.

I've got a little watchmaker's punch
here and I'm just going to see

if I can punch it out.

Good. They came out a lot easier
than I thought.

I can't use the old ball bearings at
all. They are so rusted and rough.

But I've got these replacement
ball bearings

and they're stainless steel,
so these shouldn't rust at all.

So hopefully, these will last as
long as Malcolm wants to go fishing.

So I'm really happy with
the dent removal on the base here.

What I've got to do now is
to file my hammer marks

out before I polish it.

I just need to fit on the bail arm
now and to do that, I need to

just alter the shape of the spring

because it's all been compressed
and distorted.

Without the bail arm,
this reel just won't work,

because it's the bit that actually
holds the line in place.

Good. So that spring is ready
to go in now. Tricky job.

It's really, really satisfying.
That whole action is just lovely.

It's so, so smooth.

I'm all ready now to put
the spool on, get the line on,

and hopefully, we can get it tested.

Having successfully united
the guitar's neck, body and back,

Julyan's final task is removing
uneven wear on the frets,

so the strings will produce
a clean sound.

So I'm just going to run my file
over these frets now and

hopefully going to bring them down
to the level of the rest of them.

When I first saw Maggie's guitar,

I was so in a state of shock
at how bad it actually was.

It's been monumental.

And to get to this stage now,
it's like that... "Phew!

"Thank goodness for that!"

This guitar represents
a precious Guyanese heritage

and treasured memories of the father
who played it.

But it was almost beyond repair.

You good? Whoo!

I think I am now. That was a...
That was a biggie. OK.

Despite everything,

its owner Maggie has clung
to the hope it can be saved.

Hello. Hello. Hello!
How are you doing?

All right, I think. You think? Yes!
Oh, bless you! Yeah. So, Maggie,

how are you feeling? Really excited.
It's just a big moment.

You know, it's been such a long
time. Yeah. Yeah, it has been.

Just to be able to see it one piece,
I think, would be

a really lovely reward. OK.
And you can't play it?

No, I can't, but I am going
to learn. Good on you. Yes.

Ready to see it? Yeah.

Jules, go on, do the honours.

Oh, my God.

Goodness!
It's all in one bit, and shiny!

Oh, my goodness!

It's actually a guitar!

Oh, my goodness!

That's unbelievably beautiful!

Oh, my dad would be so pleased!

Look at that! It's so beautiful!

Is that a whole new back?

I had to make a whole new back
for it, yeah.

Absolutely wonderful! Goodness!

And the rest of the patina

and the marks and the age,

the history, its life, we've left...
Yes. Yes.

Leave it looking the age it is. Yes.

Proper homage to its age and...

Yeah. And to your dad.
And to my dad. Yeah. Absolutely.

Thank you so much! Just totally
so grateful to you... Thank you.

It was a pleasure, absolute
pleasure. Do you want to hear it?

Oh, my God!

This is when I wish I could play,
but I'm sure one of you stars...

Don't look at me!
I can't play nothing!

Is there a guitarist in the house?

Um, I don't know. Is there?

Er...
Well, we're about to find out. Oh!

I have a little special thing here.
Do you recognise one of these?

Goodness! A slide, yes!
So this will do the same effect.

Do you want to hear it? Yes, please.
If you don't mind, sir. OK.

I should be sort of sat
with it on my lap,

but I think this is going to do.

Oh, my goodness! Cor blimey! Ah!
APPLAUSE

You've taken me back,
right down through the years,

just to hear that sound. Rewound.
That's amazing! Wow!

Well, Maggie,
thank you for bringing this in

and telling us about your dad,
all right? Thank you.

And there's a little present for you
as well. Is that for me?

That's for you. You can learn the
Hawaiian style with the tone bar.

I need about 30 more years
in my life, I think,

to be able to do that!

Thank you so much.
Great to see you, Maggie. Thank you.

There you are. Take care.

Well done, you.
Well done, you. Ha! Phew!

Oh, I just can't describe it

because I hadn't heard my dad play
that guitar since the '50s

and '60s, and that unique sound
of the slide on the guitar just

took me right back
to being a young person again

and hearing my dad play that guitar.

Yeah, really special moment.

Suzie has cleaned Pogo the pig

and come up with a plan
to conserve his crumbling snout.

What I want to do is stitch
a lining piece of leather to the

end of his nose. That will give me
much-needed strength

when I come to pull it back and get
this snout into more snout shape.

So I'm just going to take my time
to go through each one of these

stitches and just get that snout
fully released.

I can then sew the new patch to it
and start doing the repair.

I've just finished sewing a new
piece of leather onto Pogo's snout.

I need to now feed this new piece
of leather underneath

the damaged area here
and push it tight

and that will draw the snout
back into his face

because at the moment,
it's all beginning to fall apart.

I'm just going to use
my modelling tool here

and feed the new leather underneath.

I've never actually mended
a nose before.

So this is a trial and error,

but I think Pogo's going to be very
happy with his new nose.

There we go.

So I'm really happy with how this

leather has gone
under the old leather.

I can now confidently glue the old
leather on to that new leather.

Once I've got this first part
really nicely bonded,

I can start glueing down
all these loose flaps

of leather and get them back into
the position that they need to be.

Now the snout has fully dried,

I can go ahead and fill in the gaps
with this leather paste that

I've made,
with offcuts of leather that get

blended down into loose fibres

and then mixed with a paste glue,

very similar to wallpaper paste.

The goal here is to make it look
seamless

and that there isn't any leather
missing in that area.

And...hopefully
none of his piggy friends

will notice he ever had a nose job.

It's now time to address
Pogo's tail.

Over the years,
it's become a little bit floppy,

so I think it would be nice
to get this standing upright.

So I'm just going to undo this seam.

Then add a little bit more filler,
along with this piece of metal,

which is going to help
the tail stand upright.

I'm just teasing up what's in there,

up into the area where's

lacking a little bit.

I'll see if I can get a bit more
shape to that tail.

Before I go putting any new
woodwool in, I'm going to try

and insert this piece of metal.

I'm just going to wiggle,
wiggle, wiggle.

So that's the metal in place
and that is his tail looking nice

and proud.
Just going to pack it with woodwool,

sew this seam up and then
I can move on to colouring the light

leather here to match
the rest of his body and, yeah,

he's well on his way to being
his old self.

Steve is at the tail end of his
repair, but he's not quite done.

Jay? What are you after?
I just need to test this reel. OK.

Hold that. Yeah. Right, now,
take it out when I say. Take it out?

Go on, that's it, go on.

Keep going. Like I'm a fish, yeah?
Yeah. Go on, then.

Go on, go on.

I'm putting up a fight!
You are. You're... Come on!

That is working so well!

You've fixed it.

Ah, amazing!

Good on you. We've got to make this
special for Malcolm. Yeah.

What can we do?
Um, could do with a rod.

All right, I'll sort it out.
Thank you. Brilliant. No problem.

This fishing reel accompanied

a boy and his beloved grandfather,

as they spent magical times
fishing together.

For Malcolm, it's a poignant
reminder of those halcyon days.

Hello. How are you doing?
All right, Jay. Yeah?

Rusty.

What are you hoping for?

I hope it works!

I can't wait to see it.
Cos I will use it.

Grandad never let me touch it
when I was a kid.

You'd be all right now, though,
wouldn't you?

I think he would. Yeah.

Are you ready to see it?

Oh, please!

Wow...

Oh, that's so smooth!

How the heck did you do that?!

That's beautiful, that is.

When I put that on the rod,
it'd be like...

..be like Grandad's there too.

Thanks a million!

You're very welcome!

It's beautiful.
It really is beautiful.

It should be smooth for a long
time now. Oh, good!

Yeah, we've got something else
for you as well.

It's fantastic.
Even the dents are out.

Thank you so much. Would you like to
have a go at casting it now? Yeah.

How does that feel?
That feels fantastic!

So, do you want to give it a go?

Yeah, outside, you mean? Yeah,
we've got a lake up the top, there.

Come on, I'll show you. You take
that with you. Yup. Come on, then.

I reckon that the reel is

as good now as when he bought it.

It's just magical!

Here we go!

And that's the reel
I'm going to use from now on.

Grandad's there with me. He does
make that look so easy, doesn't he?

I know! REALLY easy! Years of
practice. Yeah. Years of practice.

That feels good! Yeah? Yeah.
This is beautiful, winding in. Yeah?

Yeah, you've done a lovely job,
there. Thank you. Fantastic.

And away.

CHUCKLES

Suzie has nearly finished
transforming Pogo

the pig from poorly
to thoroughly pampered.

I've gone ahead and colour-matched
the ears and the tail

and then finished off with a stain
over Pogo's entire body.

So, now, it's time for Pogo
to have a covering of wax.

What this wax does is it helps
to keep the leather hydrated.

A little bit on the tail, there.
Let's just get that rubbed in.

Actually, I might just use
my fingers, to be honest.

Cos the heat from your hands...

..can help to spread wax
a lot better than a sponge.

I can already see
that this is creating a lustre.

This mahogany colour is
so attractive.

Once it's dried and hardened off,
I can give it a final buff up,

to be ready to hand back to
Catherine.

Pogo was frail
but adored by four generations,

from a newly engaged couple
to their great-grandchildren.

Now, Catherine's hoping her prized
porker is strong enough to

return to the centre of family life.

Suzie, you've done a great job.
Isn't he lovely?

Oh, he's so handsome!
Isn't he? He looks so much better.

Better get him covered up.

There you go, a pig in blanket.
CHUCKLES

Hello. Hi. Lovely to see you again.
Yes, you too.

Now, you described Pogo as like
a member of the family, almost. Yes.

He's been missed, actually.

My nephew came over and he looked up
at the shelf where he usually sits

and said, "Pig," and he's not

even two yet, so that shows how

much of a prominent figure he is
to the family. So, would you like

to see what I've been able to do?
Yes, please. All right.

Oh, my goodness!

Oh, that's incredible!

How on earth have you done that?

His nose looks... Like,
you just wouldn't know, would you?

His tail and his ears match now
as well. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

And he's got a perky tail as well.

Oh! That's amazing!

I imagine that's what he looked like
when my grandma first got

given him, so to see what
he was like 70 years ago is amazing!

I wonder if she was equally shocked
when she first saw him! I think so!

"Will you marry me?"
With a pig!

Yes! Wow!

So you like the fact that he still
looks worn? Yeah.

Round the face, you know,
he is an old pig,

but he's doing well for his age.
He's amazing.

He's literally like he's just
come back from a spa... Yep.

..feeling great.
He is the same pig, but just better.

So, where's he going to go now?

He's going to be down on the floor,

in a similar position to where
my grandparents would have had him.

I think the fact that I've had him
fixed would mean

so much to them
because it shows how much

I really did want to have him
as a memory of them.

Hopefully, it's kind of giving back
to the family a little bit as

well, that we can give him
another 70 years and however more,

as long as I look after him
properly. Suzie... Will.

..the bad news for you,
Pogo's going to have to go home now.

I do understand that,
but please, take him

and give him many more happy years.
Will do, definitely.

Thank you so much for everything
you've done. It's been a lot of fun.

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

I don't know what I was expecting,

but not an amazing transformation
like that!

The future for Pogo is a new
lease of life.

All of the children now will be able
to enjoy him in a way that WE could

enjoy him
when we were children and likewise,

my mum and her brother and sister
when they were little too.

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