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I hope so.

- Yeah.

- Is it?

- Yes, darling.

- All right.

Yeah, the chemistry's

still there.

Yeah.

We've been saying that,

what, nearly 20 years?

- Is that all it is?

- Yeah.

Oh, come on, Symon,

hurry up!

Catch up!

Come on,

Jess and Daniel!

Do you think

you could ever retire

and ever just

chill out?

There's people who I've

noticed, they stop work,

and they have no other

interests,

they suddenly get old.

Yeah, so you're old,

you've got a few bulges,

a few wrinkles,

but life still goes on.

Enjoy life.

So, who won?

I came here first.

I think that was me.

Beautiful.

Did I win and just allow you

to come...

No, no.

Dad, you was, like,

the person that comes round on the tractor.

I think I admire people

with great determination.

You know, like, people who have

just come up from nothing.

They build up their life

from absolutely nothing.

Well, do you see some

parts of life as success

and some parts a failure,

or do you not

think like that?

No, you don't stop life

because you've made a mistake.

If you go

down the wrong road

it doesn't mean that's

the end of the road.

There's no chance, you have to

turn round and come back.

- Start again, isn't it?

- Do a u-turn.

And, to be honest,

what do you think about

our life?

I think it's been

more ups than downs.

And hopefully there's

a lot more ups to come.

Well, my girlfriend

is in Africa,

and I won't...

I don't think I'll have

another chance

of seeing her again.

You got

any girlfriends?

No, no, not yet.

I'm sure it will come.

But not yet.

I mean, I do think a lot of

people think too much about it.

I think I would

very much like to, um,

become involved in a family,

my own family, for a start.

That's a need that I feel

I ought to fulfill

and would like to fulfill,

and would do it well.

Yes, I haven't got married

or whatever,

and I suppose, you know, that

that would have been

something which

I hoped had happened.

Well, you're getting on

a bit, are you getting worried?

Well, not particularly, I mean,

I'm always optimistic.

I mean, who knows who

I might meet tomorrow?

And, in the middle

of a conversation

about something

completely different,

he just asked if, um,

if I'd like to

marry him.

And if I hadn't been

listening carefully,

I would have

missed it completely.

"To love

and to cherish. "

To love and to cherish.

"Till death us do part. "

Till death

us do part.

Don't argue very much.

Not really, I mean,

we haven't really had

a sort of

full-blown row.

Our arguments sort of

tend to be two sentences

and I go off and sulk

for 24 hours.

So, is Bruce

getting any better

at expressing his feelings

to you?

Um... Uh...

Unh...

Not... not really,

by the sound of that.

We may have children,

I don't know.

I mean, if in

seven years' time or so,

we're living in

a slightly bigger house

with a young family,

that would be nice.

I mean, I don't want to pin all my

hopes on it and nothing happens.

We are quite old.

I can see bringing up,

say, teenage children

when you're in your fifties,

might be a bit strange.

Go on, then, Henry,

get on.

Bruce and Penny have two sons,

Henry and George.

I mean, seven years ago,

you were taking a bit of

a pasting from them.

Well, yes, exactly,

And that's, you know,

if they sat on me now,

I wouldn't be able

to get up again.

And in the second year,

I was in the rooms

at the top of

that staircase there.

Bruce and Penny took the boys

away for a weekend to Oxford,

to see Bruce's old college

and to watch their father

play cricket.

It's just nice drifting along the river

without making

too much noise, you know?

If you can see

the old wildlife,

and so, when you come up

on it unawares,

kind of thing.

Muddy water

and a spider, ta.

One of you link up one,

and one of you...

I think it's more of

a father-son thing

to go along and watch

and support,

and we always have lunch, then tea,

then a barbecue afterwards.

We're not very good

at this, are we?

Ever since Cornwall, there was

to be no more camping.

My heart's desire

is to see my daddy,

who is 6,000 miles away.

What happened

between you and your dad?

I suppose the separation

and the distance...

when I was 14,

I went out to Zimbabwe,

and then later,

when he retired to England,

we felt that it was a lot of

distance between us

and ground to make up.

I think it's going to take

quite a while.

The boys are

still young enough

for us all three

to fit into a small tent.

I suppose it's a bit of "dads and lads,"

and getting to know each other

and forming a relationship

and so on.

I think you're

the wrong way.

Oh, lord, that's not

going to go in there.

Okay, boys.

What's that, then?

They always come first.

I mean, we've got

our work and so on.

So, we'll do a variety

of things with them.

We'll do it later, dear.

I'm off

to play cricket.

Bye-bye.

Is the forecast

to rain tonight?

We're rising on our toes,

we go sideways.

Commence!

When he was seven,

Bruce was at boarding school.

He went on to Oxford,

where he got

a maths degree.

You can show that

this is irreducible.

Then you do a transformation

on this polynomial,

X=T+2

After Oxford, he worked

in the city for a year,

then decided to teach.

He taught

an estate school.

Yes, sir!

General education is

better for society, I think.

There is

a class society,

and I think private schools

may help its continuance.

At 35,

Bruce took a sabbatical

and taught in

Bangladesh.

The straight line,

yes, keep going.

At 42, he was

back in the East End

as head of the maths department

at a girls

comprehensive school.

At 49,

we found him teaching

at St Albans,

an independent school.

In the early days,

the school was in the abbey,

going back

to 948.

948?

Yes, so, the head

quite likes to say

we're in

our third millennium, you know.

So, the school

is over 1,000 years old?

Yes, in one form

or another.

Now, you have to make "X"

the subject of this equation.

You've got to get

"X" on its own.

So, what's the first

thing we do?

Has it been

a kind of compromise

of political principles

for you, this?

Well, I would say,

you know,

have a million angels

in front of every teacher

who's prepared to slog away

at an inner-city comprehensive.

Make way, make way,

this is somebody who is prepared to

turn up each day

and do that job.

Do your old friends give you a hard time

about what you've done?

They certainly do,

they absolutely do.

They say, oh, you know,

"Have we joined the Tory party,

the golf club, the Masons?"

You know.

I'm quite happy just being

an ordinary maths teacher

for the not many years

I've got left, actually.

Um... so, I'm quite happy.

I'm not ambitious now.

So, do you enjoy

watching cricket?

Mm, I can watch it

for short periods.

But it's a,

sort of a sport tax

on Bruce.

He plays cricket,

I go and shop.

So, is he playing as

much, Bruce, as he used to?

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