David: Yeah. Was that something you think you got from your dad really or?

Susan: It was, see this is what he does. It's a beautiful jewellery box. When we went to Egypt, as you know, we love things Egyptian, so it was our wedding anniversary so what he done was as a surprise. He made me this beautiful jewellery box which is fantastic. It was our 21st wedding anniversary so he made this and then he made me this as well which is a different type of box.

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David’s aircraft carrier is a very large model in his living-room:

David: On one day I started making ships and it went from there. This (large model of US aircraft carrier) took me 4 years to build.

Eve: How did you build that actually?

David: It's just bits of wood. The actual walkways are the tops of BIC razors.

Eve: Gosh!

David: Yes, BIC razors all the way along. I think the only thing that was actually bought on all of this was the aeroplanes and the rest, we just found bits of wood on skips and bits of plastic and I worked with it and made it and it came like it is.

Susan: Susan: It's even got little flags and the anchor comes down.

As well as models, large and small, David writes poetry to Susan, as seen on his scroll on the aircraft carrier.

Susan: He’s always had his man cave wherever he happens to be. He needs more space. He'd like a double garage made into a man cave.

David: But that is more or less the size of a double garage. But you'll see it when you go down there. It's not small, it's very big. I designed it. I designed everything. It was my design. And then I designed the inside.

David: And I used that to create my dream because it is my little world. It's really fantastic. It's got everything in there that I need. It's got my TV, my music, my coffee machine…

These photos symbolise important people and events in Susan’s early life. Both her father and grandfather fought in the two world wars. The older man is her grandfather, an officer in World War 1. Her father has a full-length photo of himself in uniform from the second war. There are also photos of her parent’s wedding, a Coronation street party from 1953 and the Nissen hut where she was born and lived as a child. Like Mary, she has proudly kept her certificate of attendance at the party.