BBC Watch Magic Grandad - In the Kitchen

hello my name is Kimberly Chadwick and I'm six and a half years old guess what I've got a magic granddad what he's not really my granddad he's my mom's granddad Sammis is my great granddad tell me - I told you I don't like rice sickles will have some Frosty's for goodness sake I don't know Frosty's either I forgot to tell you I've got this really awful brother called Gary I don't know aunt frost it's either mum well Gary if you can't find something you like out of all that lot then I'm sorry for you what about some nice fried bacon an egg for a treat I'm doing something for granddad no that's funny something wrong stove doesn't seem to be working nor the toaster nor the kettle must be a power cut looks like it I'm afraid that's the end of your bacon and egg granddad I wanted an egg Oh Gary don't start that again you just said you didn't I can't even make you a cup of tea granddad I'm sorry I'll go and have a look in the fuse box oh dear no breakfast I think this calls for a bit of magic you why aren't you going to do well I think of me to take you somewhere where we can get some breakfast Wow I'll give you a clue we're going somewhere where the kettle is always boiling I don't give you another clue when I was a boy your age we had no electricity in our house but we could always cook our breakfast and have a cup of tea huh you want to know what life was like there was no electricity how did she wash with no machine and give the clothes that are dry how did you how did she say and there light see things mine if you really want to know then you must close your eyes Albert take you back in time where have we gone we haven't gone anywhere we're still in your house that we've gone back about 80 years in time it doesn't look like our house oh yes it does no the window is the same we're still in the kitchen there's no cooking oh yes there is I could see a cooker right there that big black thing they don't call it a Koran they call it a range and you know what that is yes a coal fire you don't turn that on by pressing a switch in the paper and sticks and a match to set that Cola light then it has to be watched all day now and bring this kettle to the boil my mother always had a kettle on the hob I thought so I thought I smelled something good porridge that'll have been cooking all night that whip all right all night long my mother used to build up the flour and put the pies in the oven before she went to bed and then when she got up in the morning it was ready for all of us now cornflakes or rye sickles for us someone coming yes it'll be the family who lived here then we lose our house yes but it wasn't always your house it was built long before you were born in fact it was built nearly a hundred years ago and you're about to meet the Deacon family were the very first people who lived here no I told them you were coming it's a part of the magic uh-huh he must be Kimberly and Gary I've become for breakfast yes please of course it's alright I've put an extra porridge especially this is Eliza by the way she's my youngest girl since her sister Nancy died and the baby's name is Freddie well we can't all stand around like this what about giving your lives or a hand Kimberly all right get the frying pans and if you please Kimberly yeah that's right what about you Gary be glad like you would know how to make a pot of tea I suppose invented yet you keep the candy on the mantelpiece as usual that's right that's it up there Oh Ian Liza doing Kimberly take Freddy lime down these pram in the backyard I'll watch the bacon watcher keep the tea leaves now now what you do three or four a spoonful you make sure you warm the pot first it's already warm missus tea standing by the fire yeah Phil it's quite awake and now we leave it to fear form it su-30 in the bacon and the fire Joe that cooked on the fire that's right we'd be lost without the fire wouldn't where mrs. Dean what's that I said we've been lost without the fire that's right everything happens around the fire everything happened around the fire went out at war we had no electricity so on the range remain hawks we had two hands and hoax to roast our meat we warm the water and heating our feet we warn the water in YouTube you would even touch the girl feelings change what so that's Turkey not to answer to matter unless our mums - you're not allowed sit there over well where am I supposed to say boys don't sit what do you mean our big sister happy the only one out fast children who gets to sit down at the table cuz she goes out to work children don't sit down at the table till they go out to work that's not talk like that if I were you you see this step we add one of these wonderful scum out of line across our backside I'm not scared morning Albert where Mr D oniy children breakfast ready yes shut the oven door for me Kimberly and then get me the milk I think jug of milk keeping cool in the Lada this is the louder or pensee it's a bit cooler than in the kitchen but not much so they'll keep a lot of food in it in case it goes off I think this is what you're looking for all right if I sit down mrs. D don't get up thank you my dear dripping for your father Liza thank you my dear when you've done something for your mother you can do something for you and Jack and Kimberly what about me well you ain't eatin your porridge I like it no porridge no bread and dripping why not that's not fair you have a lot to say for yourself for such a little fella children speak when they're spoken to in this ass and not unless hey take it bake and you want to get to see us to work they can't work very nice for anyone oh yes and hard she does all the housework no vacuum cleaners for mrs. T she has to get down on their hands and knees and scrub the floor you tell him what you have to do with this TV we'd be here all day if I did that please I'll just tell you about wash day then Eliezer stays off from school to help me with that what we do we fill this big copper over here full of water then we light the fire beneath it when the waters good and hot we take it a little bit at a time let me rub and we scrub to the closer all clean that's not my dears on Monday mum washes the clothes all day times the minute to dry night she brings the men and phones them ready for hiding the irons are heating by the fire she likes them put a lot that way she gets the three seasons because that's what our names all about children what a lot of memories so now you know life is life you know how mom made a cup of tea when there was no electricity you know how she washed with no receiver got the clothes all dry now close your eyes and think of home and back again that's the power back on again it was the fuse I said that's the power back on again you lot didn't even notice did you what have you been doing to keep them so quiet granddad's we'll be making some interesting discoveries about this house the people who live in their dog food Eliza and his vocal Jack and a baby called trade have you been telling them Greg day it's Julie's cooking a rock a vein and the mom and their children didn't get any bacon all they got was red dipped in Dripping well you certainly bring it all alive for them grandad she's right there tell you what why don't we come back another day magic great-granddad's doing his magic

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Views: 296,784

Rating: 4.6410809 out of 5

Keywords: kitchen, magic grandad, bbc, watch, education, schools, geoffrey bayldon

Id: bpwFnNTXt2c

Length: 13min 47sec (827 seconds)

Published: Sun May 25 2014