Nuts in May Page #4

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What did you say to him, Keith?

I said I was sorry.

And what did Ray say?

He said it didn't matter.

Don't you feel better now

you've apologised, Keith?

Oh, yes, much better.

I knew you would.

Anybody there, Keith?

No.

(HAMMERING)

Hello!

Hello there.

We were wondering if we could

have a look round your quarry?

You want to buy some stone?

Oh, you sell it here, do you?

Yeah, 'tis a quarry.

-Oh, no, no...

-We just wanted to have a look round.

Ah, it's okay.

Main hole's over there.

What, down that way?

Yeah, just follow the tracks.

Oh, right, thank you.

Now, come along, Candice Marie.

Well, there it is,

the Purbeck Stone, in situ, so to speak.

CANDICE MARIE:
Where, Keith?

It's all around us.

Portland Stone is further down.

Look at the clay, Keith.

Don't get mud all over your boots,

you'll tread it in the car.

Can't help it in a quarry, Keith.

-Hello!

-You found it all right, then?

Yes, quite shallow, isn't it?

I was expecting it to be

deeper than that.

-Oh, yeah?

-Yeah.

-What are you doing?

-Just dress walling this.

-Oh, I see, making a wall?

-Well, dressing the stone.

Oh, I see.

Is it dangerous?

-Oh, 'tis where you're standing.

-Oh, why's that?

The chips fly off, don't they?

Oh, stand back, Candice Marie,

stand back, it's dangerous there.

Yeah, this is for

our new post office in Corfe Castle.

Oh, did you hear that? They're making

a nice little post office.

Excuse me, we were wondering

if you've got any fossils around

that we could look at?

Yes.

Pick up a stone.

Go on, any one, pick it up.

Now, you have a look in there.

Look! Look at that! Seaweed!

CANDICE MARIE:
Isn't that lovely?

KEITH:
Yes, lovely. Look at that.

-You found some seaweed, did you?

-KEITH:
Yes.

Yeah, well, 'tis not seaweed, see.

-No? What is it?

-Manganese oxide.

It looks like a living organism to me.

Yeah, most people think that.

Oh, do they?

Do you have any ammonites?

No. Got some dinosaur footprints.

Have you? Where are they?

They come in the roach beds,

we got some up last week.

-KEITH:
Could we see them?

-Yeah, they're up by the shed there.

-Oh, right. Come along, Candice Marie.

-Thank you very much.

-Just by the path, on the right.

-KEITH:
Thank you.

QUARRYMAN:
You could have one

if you was interested.

-Oh, could we?

-Yeah, five pound.

Oh, thank you.

Look, there it is, look at that.

-Isn't that wonderful, Keith?

-Yes.

-Millions of years old.

-Yes.

A footprint of a pterodactyl

only made possible

because once upon a time

this was soft mud.

Look, it's the same length as my foot.

I don't think you should do that, Keith.

-What?

-That's millions of years old

and you're putting

your muddy old boots all over it.

It doesn't matter, it's dirty anyway.

-Do you find many of these?

-Yeah.

Must be really exciting

when you discover one.

Well, when you find the first one,

you know where they're all going to be.

Oh, why's that?

Well, he's walking across the mud,

isn't he?

KEITH:
Oh, I see, they all go

in the same direction.

Well, yeah.

There's two of them on there.

Good gracious, look at that,

one behind the other.

Quite short strides.

CANDICE MARIE:
Well, they only had

very short legs, Keith.

KEITH:
Yes, big bodies.

Of course, they were vegetarians,

weren't they?

Do you want one of these then?

KEITH:
No, it's too large.

I wouldn't be able to get it in the car.

There are some smaller ones over there.

No, no, no, no,

it'd be too much for the suspension.

We might be able to get one of those

very thin ones in, Keith.

No. We've got too much

equipment, Candice Marie.

-What kind of car have you got?

-I've got a Morris Minor.

I don't suppose you've got

a really small fossil that we could buy?

No, they all come this size.

'Course, get one of them on the roof.

Got a roof rack?

No, no, no, it's a coupe, unfortunately.

-Never mind, at least we've seen them.

-Yeah.

Well, thanks very much, anyway.

-All right.

-Thanks very much.

-Cheerio.

-CANDICE MARIE:
Bye.

(SEAGULLS CAWING)

KEITH:
Here we are, there's old Harry.

It'd be lovely to have a photograph

of the two of us in front of it, Keith,

-wouldn't it?

-Yes.

Keith, when we get back to the campsite,

shall I ask Ray to take our photograph?

I'm sure your mother and Dennis

would love a photograph

of the two of us on holiday.

KEITH:
It's a vertical chalk stack,

'course at one time the chalk stretched

from here to the Isle of Wight,

but the sea has eroded it away

over the centuries.

# Froggy went a-courting

and he did ride, ah-ha

# Ah-ha

# Froggy went a-courting

and he did ride, ah-ha

# Ah-ha

# Froggy went a-courting and he did ride

# Sword and a pistol by his side,

ah-ha #

Look at that lovely little robin

up there.

Oh, yes, lovely.

-Keith.

-Hmm?

Do you think it would be a good idea

to ask Ray to come over now

and take our photograph,

before it gets dark?

Then perhaps he could have

a nice cup of tea with us.

Do you think that's a good idea, Keith?

If you like.

Yes, I'll go across and ask him, then.

-Excuse me, Ray?

-Yeah?

Sorry to interrupt. I was just wondering

if you could do us a favour?

Yeah?

Would you mind coming across

and taking a photograph of Keith and I?

-Yeah, yeah.

-Oh, thanks very much.

And perhaps you would like

to have a cup of tea with us,

because the kettle's on.

-Yeah, sure.

-That be all right?

-Yeah, okay.

-Oh, thanks very much.

Oh, sorry, could you bring your own cup?

Because we've only got two.

Yeah.

-Hello, Ray.

-Hello.

-How are you?

-Fine, thanks.

See you've brought your own cup along.

Sorry we've only got two.

We weren't expecting any visitors.

-Sit yourself down.

-Thank you.

KEITH:
I was just doing

a spot of bird watching.

Lovely to have the species

all around you.

We've got the Observer Book of Birds.

Not many birds down where you are,

I suppose the tap frightens

them away, does it?

Well, I hadn't noticed really, you know.

We're very lucky up here. We have the

Endymion non-scriptus all around us,

the bluebells.

-KEITH:
Where did you go today?

-Corfe Castle.

Oh, we went to Corfe Castle on Day 2,

didn't we, Candice Marie?

-Splendid battlements.

-Yeah.

-I did a painting of it.

-Oh, yeah?

Would you like to show Ray your picture?

I don't think Ray would be

very interested.

Oh, I'm sure you'd like to see

Candice Marie's picture,

wouldn't you, Ray?

-Yeah, sure.

-Oh, won't be a minute, then.

I went to a quarry this afternoon.

Oh, did you? That's a coincidence.

We went to a quarry as well.

There was a man there

chipping away at a wall.

That's my picture, Ray.

This is Candice Marie's picture,

it's a watercolour.

Ah, it's nice that, isn't it?

Did you have any art training?

No, no, I just love to paint,

don't I, Keith?

Mmm.

I was never any good at it

at school, you know.

It's just a hobby,

one of our many interests.

Do you have any hobbies, Ray?

Well, sport, really, you know.

Oh, I saw you doing your exercises

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