Meet the woodcutter who built his own Hobbit House | SWNS

I'm Stuart Robertson Grant, and I was born in Tarrif in Aberdeenshire on a farm. I've always lived in a Maneshire. I was a woodcutter, I was a sawmiller, and I served my apprenticeship as a joiner. There was no roof in this place, no windows, and no doors, just doorways, two doorways. I stayed in that shed for a while, and then I thought, I'll move in here, see, it's got stone walls. I was in there with this concrete mixers and stuff all around me, and I had a little wood-burning stove. I thought, I'll make it comfortable to live in while I do up the house. And I got such a buzz out of doing it, I ended up like this. I didn't think it was anything special about that, but people started coming to see it, the busloads coming to see it. They felt bad about coming to see a private house, and they said it would feel better if you had a collection box. So, OK, I got a collection box, and I told them they didn't have to put down much, they didn't have to put down anything. Over the years, it's many years now, I rate my dairy always how much I get, and it's over £5,000 now that I've collected. But I've given it all away, a lot more than that, because I get on good with an old-age pension, mostly helping the people from Vietnam. I never give it an official name, the council called it Tomah Cottage, I think that's what they said. And then, recently, there was an awful lot of French people coming. Why is it French people more than anybody else? They says it was a tourist board in France, says things to see in the north of Scotland, the Hobbit house. And the door is just the same shape, and the same kind of wood, polished oak on the inside, and stained glass on both sides, same as the Hobbit house. But they didn't know about me, and I didn't know about them, it was just a coincidence. The house was full of door, and this was the shoemaker's croft. He had a pig in here before I was here. But by the time I landed with it, there was no doors on it, no roof on it, no windows at all. And I got logs from a forestry commission, and put on a slopped roof, and put my concrete mixers and all those things into it. And so it was done with stones out of the river, and fallen trees, people would come to me. I made us machines for cutting up logs with chainsaws. And then this film company saw it, and they says, we do films in places like yours, can we do a film on it? And I says, yes, you can do a film on it. I says, do I get any money for this? And she says, £200, we're going right. And I says, okay, well you write out a cheque for £200 and give it to the Red Cross, specifically to help the children sleeping rough coming from Syria. It was just made by me for me, so it wasn't made for tall people like...