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00:00 We're going to County Cork, all being well, as we like it down there.
00:05 It's sunrise and sunset and 20 minutes later than they are here, which has some value.
00:10 But they also make cider there!
00:13 So that's alright then, isn't it?
00:15 I'm bound to find a few orchards there that we can go and whatsa hell over there and all.
00:19 So, we're not going just yet.
00:22 I've got a song to sing and I've got a drink to drink.
00:26 And thank you all very much for that surprise.
00:29 Everything I was going to say has gone out the bloody window!
00:32 Say what you said last year, haven't you before?
00:35 That's fine.
00:37 So, here we are.
00:42 This is an apple tree. You know what the apple tree is all about.
00:46 We come in at Whatsalem and we pick the oldest one.
00:50 And talking of oldest ones, this ceremony in this village is the oldest.
00:56 It's the only one left of the original ones that started doing it hundreds of years ago.
01:02 When the 20th century came, people started, "Oh, I don't know if I can do that.
01:06 I want to go and watch the television and things like that."
01:09 But, here in Crampton, everybody kept whatsalem on every 17th of January.
01:15 That's Old Twelfth Night, of course, because back in the 16th century or something,
01:21 the Pope decided that too many people were having a good time at Christmas time.
01:26 So, he moved the Christmas celebration forward 11 days
01:30 and tried to overpower what people were actually doing.
01:33 But, we here in Carrhampton, we stuck to the 17th of January
01:38 because that's Old Twelfth Night and that's the night that we celebrate still.
01:42 So, cheers here to Carrhampton, the last place that still did it in the old-fashioned way.
01:48 [Cheering]
01:51 Crampton.
01:52 Crampton, yeah. Crampton. Carrhampton.
01:55 [Laughter]
01:56 London. Carrhampton. I don't know where that is.
01:59 Right, so, I'm going to sing a song.
02:02 Three.
02:03 To this apple tree.
02:04 Three.
02:05 And, I'm not certain who's going to take over from me yet.
02:08 We haven't really worked that out.
02:09 I was going to say lots of things.
02:11 You can't do that.
02:12 And, he's told them all already.
02:14 Old apple tree, we once were thee, and hope that thou will bear.
02:21 For the Lord does know where we shall be, 'til that's another year.
02:28 To bloom, well, and to bear, well, so happy we shall be.
02:35 Let every man take off his hat and shout out to the old apple tree.
02:41 Old apple tree, we once were thee, and hope that thou will bear.
02:47 Apples, apples, three bunch of apples, and a little meal here under the stairs.
02:54 Three cheers for the old apple tree.
02:56 Hip hip.
02:57 Hooray.
02:58 Hip hip.
02:59 Hooray.
03:00 Hip hip.
03:01 Hooray.
03:02 Guns over.
03:03 Where's the guns?
03:04 [Gunshots]
03:09 Get a good round like that.
03:11 [Gunshots]
03:16 When the guns go off, what you can do, if you want to add to it,
03:21 just to make sure these evil maggots and molescrolls don't come down our way and ruin the trees,
03:26 you can holler as well, and bash anything that you've got that's made something noisy.
03:32 So, we'll try that again. Have you got a gun left?
03:36 Guns over.
03:37 Guns over then.
03:38 We're just reloading.
03:40 [Gunshots]
03:41 Hip hip.
03:42 [Gunshots]
03:43 Hooray.
03:44 Hooray.
03:45 Hooray.
03:46 Hooray.
03:47 [Gunshots]
03:50 Oh, that's good fun. I could do that all night, you know.
03:52 [Laughter]
03:55 So, where are we?