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down in the Middle where the wind in the
middle of a fields on the lightning tree
the SLS all torn from the day it was
born for the tree was born in a
Thunderstone grow grow the lightning
tree it's never too late for you and me
grow grow the lightning tree again into
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we down in the mid in the
window the lightning trees come you want
you want then it's up to
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youning too EAS
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it's going to
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rain you ought to be out giving Steve an
end yeah you not right leaving it all to
him you your goon oh me
yeah it's me back in it rain brings it
on rainy says it wasn't raining
yesterday I'm not here no h up here
comes
sir can't that
wait I'm sorry uncle's coming today he
likes to pay it all in a lump some has
to you mean how much is this place going
to cost him this month shh I'm trying to
add it up small fortune Albert
Tan's ill by the way what is it don't
know could be lemonius oh no I've given
her a
mash I'll get it no I I'll get
it here not now I'm getting breakfast I
just want to see tany I won't be a
minute
that's the secondly sweet people with
horses got nowhere to keep them in
Winter they should worry someone have to
tell me what to do with
ours what did you say fellow with a
couple of yers wants us to keep him
there and school them pick them up in
the spring and so bring them
along 10 quid a week
each can't be bad
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you know another month and we're going
to have to find stores for every horse
out in that
field where are we going to put
them I know what I'd
do you know Sheldon Lan those Tumbl down
Stables over the other side it's a
fellow called Chadwick hesen used to be
a jockey and a racehorse trainer
yeah there's been
away he's back now and he's going to
start training again just till he gets
going he's um he's willing to stable
with some of our
horses you've talked to
him yeah without asking
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me oh I wish it had stop
get on your
nerves makes little things seem big and
black we don't farm horses out they
belong here where
upstairs you baffle me your head's in a
cloud somewhere don't worry about
tomorrow there'll be a miracle along in
a minute there are only three horses out
there can spend the winter in the field
the rest come
in where or where are we going to put
them we're not farming them
out now why should he say you wasn't
practical staing the horses for the
winter yeah
well he has been worried he brings two
new ones in I noticed yeah but they for
schooling a't they I mean them's the
ones he wants he wants Folly foot to pay
its way no more bills for the colonel he
wants he says it's living off charity
yeah let
me I know what to do about wintering the
horses I have to talk to Uncle first
that's all you be careful girl he's
ambitious and proud he doesn't like the
colel keep dipping into his pockets all
the time Uncle doesn't mind he does you
think about it girl or you lose him
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n it's chucking it down Miss Judo didn't
it hello sluger Bill Chadwick here come
in God it's been a long time time you uh
been back long last
week not too bad was it well it's not
like him you know no no of course
not oh Dora Bill Chad Bill my boss Miss
Dora Mistress of folly foot I beg your
pardon Miss I came to see the colonel I
thought he's coming over won't be long
thank you that's the address can you
pick up a horse they expecting
you Steve's got the horse box affecting
them mother too well they have to go
back there's no room be careful girl
this one was going to be shot Slugger
it's what we're here for I said be
careful and I meant
it
yes here's those seem all
right just a thing for a day like
this I wish I didn't have to go out so
do I
I miss you
Dora I me you did you see Mr Chadwick no
I got Slugger to push him out I've got a
committee meeting that starts at 2: now
let get a move on we're considering his
application for a trainer's license
wouldn't do us meeting before the
hearing could be tricky I think
why oh I don't know just could
be yeah Steve won't leave will he don't
miss much do you below stairs man myself
knows me place don't get ideas above me
station no when you're on a good thing
that's why doesn't
Steve hi Steve Dora and I have lunch in
here we've got a lot to go through tell
Will you right
thanks do you want me no I just work
here
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what's up with
Steve a
tiff he wants to make Folly foot pay run
it as a business and
you I won't Folly foot to be as you made
it it's you it has to be what you meant
it to
be half an hour ago a woman rang her
husband's died and she wanted his horse
shot just like
that still happens you
see someone has to protect
them yes you're
right someone has to protect
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them Uncle
M can we build more Stables I thought
we'd come to that sooner or later
where along here a new
building
yes what will it cost any idea no you'll
have to get an estimate from
clar you sure you can
cope oh well hard work never harmed
anyone good idea
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Steve Steve about the year L yeah I know
Ron told
I'm not taking them back Dora I wasn't
going to say
that don't fight me Steve we fight all
the time yes but suddenly it's Suddenly
It's not fooling
anymore it's the
rain we used to believe in the same
things I haven't changed Folly foot
hasn't
what we stand for hasn't nothing's
changed
Steve only you you must be
kidding when we came here this place was
a a rich man's
Folly kindly man's
whim the kind man's gone
Dora it's different it's a
charity second hand dream
I want you and me to create something of
our own and say out tany there's money
to be made out Barney you don't earn
your
keep it would break uncle's heart I
don't think it would it's not secondhand
to me
Steve his dream is my
dream I won't do anything he wouldn't
have
done then what do do we
do build more Stables who uncle's agreed
we're getting an estimate bully for
Uncle tany may need flaming charity girl
but I
don't you're right we're not fooling
anymore I'm not spending the rest of my
life begging from your
uncle whatever we do let's please please
do it on our own create something with
our own hand hands run it earn our
bread if we can't do
that I'm sorry you have to beg without
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me God I wish it had stop raining
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it's all go is
it you know his idea do
you we choose 10 of our groty old
crumblies and we pack them off to
Chadwick Chadwick Stables them feeds
them whisper sweet nothings and we pay
him £5 per week per
crumbly 50 Quid a week it's worth a
sweet nothing or two wouldn't you say
see now he's got nothing else to live on
and where is the 50 Pig coming from I'm
glad you ask me that we bring in here 10
spanking new horses what need TR
training and we make the owners pay 10
quid per week that's 100 quid lits 50
for Chadwick 50 for us P boom
flourishing business everybody
happy oh but the best laid plans dear
dear
dear what would you say if
I told you Chadwick was an
excon
jailbird just come out 5 years in the
nick fraud jockey in Big Race Swindle
banned from race courses for
Life Training license taken
away hardly the bloke to look after old
ladyb bird a PO
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Barney hello hello Mr CLE hello it's
Dora yes Mr CLE we want to build some
more
Stables time to Chadwick arrive God
knows after the hearing I suppose what
hearing he's trying to get his license
back
back renewing it I don't know where's he
been we getting knows you all of a
sudden aren't we getting secretive of a
sudden aren't we we aren't supposed to
talk about it
there's an earing
on they got big ears have
they they'll be them now telling us to
keep our voices
down hello
food hello Mr
C I don't know don't know where she is
can
I you stay there
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no Sunday wouldn't be more convenient
nor
Monday why don't you just forget it
eh that was
C he can't manage tomorrow I told him to
forget it
steeve
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steeve you call C in spite of what I
said if you want to get rid of me girl
then tell me to my face that ways cheap
Steve
please
Steve The Chadwick idea won't work we
can't send horses there he's he's what
he's just come out of
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prison
so we don't know anything about him
except that he's been in
prison well that makes two of us
we jailbirds shouldn't touch your horses
is that it
no if he can't I
can't which way do you want it
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go cat your don't care I don't
care leave me alone
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what can I
do they're my horses it's their
home why does everybody want to change
everything everyone tells me what I
can't do slagger but no one
helps who's telling me how I can keep
them how I can keep
Steve how I can pay for things without
Uncle everywhere I turn there's people
saying no and all I want is for nothing
to change and everyone to be as they've
always
been and why oh why can't it stop
raining stop it you here stop it put
this dog come inside no you're behaving
like a small child
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we shouldn't
stop he won't go you know he's on to a
good thing he knows
it girls grow out of things don't they
they move on get
married fellas don't they decide what
they want put down roots and fix things
is the way they want
them you think he cares what you
want work it out he will be the boss
instead of
you you C don't you know his game girl
oh you're saring it aren't you a
mate we so far apart that you believe
that now it's time you were told you and
your Ambitions trying to give us the
runaround change things the way it suits
you you're an IR and the same as me and
if that hurts your pride you know what
you can do about
it who's that talking Dora Ron or
you so long as we
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know
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listen R stay out of it girl r no put
that down oh yeah I should think
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so Steve
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Steve stop
it Steve
Steve it's me it's
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run stop it
would you mind telling me what this is
all
about
well I was chasing a rainbow
Uncle trying and trying to keep Folly
foot as it's always
been but I can't
why because Folly foots
people and people change no I meant why
keep it as it's always
been it's the way you made
it
well you said you wouldn't do anything
he
didn't but just for the record nor would
I you mean farming out the horses
yes we should tell
her I can't but until she's told I've
got to take her insults and her anger
told I'm trying to be
boss told I'm just a Hired
Hand she goes around with her head in
the clouds chasing some secondhand
rainbow Dora Steve's only suggesting
something that I used to
do I don't want to
hear
Dora do you remember there's rather
Grand St laes up at my place well that's
where the baries and the ladybirds of
what 25 years ago that's where they used
to
live that's where all this started you
see I wanted to run a training
establishment too so I packed them all
off down here my real work has been
training
horses well it was what I was doing when
you arrived wasn't it and I used to pop
down here just to see that they were all
right Steve's is suggesting you do what
I did same footsteps
Dora different direction that's
all look come and meet chedrick he's a
good man and Steve's idea is just what
he needs to set him up
again oh come on
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um
sorry those things you
said was it
you or has Dora said
something it was the right
oh God it's been a terrible
day BL me Miss that's never laminitis
too many oats I'd see she'll be all
right little gentle exercise keep off
the heating Foods we have you right this
rain in no time won't
we all that
loveliness
H I've been wondering if you may made up
your mind me staing some of them for the
winter what do you
say thank
you you've got what you wanted and
you was it fair
I hate
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change stop
training it'll be all right
tomorrow you'll
see down in the With The Wind in the
west the lightning fac to the it's when
when it took the wp the terrible W of
the thunder clap grow grow the lightning
tree never too late for you and me grow
grow the lightning tree never give in
too
easily down in the the I the lightning
tree dreams come true when you want them
to if you want them to then it's up to
you grow grow the lightning tree never
give it too easily lightning
tree lightning tree he
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03x11 - Rain on Friday
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Originally inspired by Monica Dickens' 1963 novel Cobbler's Dream (republished in 1995 as New Arrival at Follyfoot); she later wrote four further books in conjunction with the series—Follyfoot in 1971, Dora at Follyfoot in 1972, The Horses of Follyfoot in 1975, and Stranger at Follyfoot in 1976.
Originally inspired by Monica Dickens' 1963 novel Cobbler's Dream (republished in 1995 as New Arrival at Follyfoot); she later wrote four further books in conjunction with the series—Follyfoot in 1971, Dora at Follyfoot in 1972, The Horses of Follyfoot in 1975, and Stranger at Follyfoot in 1976.