Nick takes a load on his chin

Alex interrupts Nick as he reads out the last line of the task brief by saying “Good luck with the task!”.

Nick takes the support belt from Alex and puts it on himself. He then asks how heavy the caravan is, before admitting he is just kidding.

Nick then unfolds a folding chair and attempts to balance it by one foot on his chin. When Alex asks him if he’s “done this sort of thing before”, he admits that he has not.

With Alex’s help, Nick then carries Linda the cow out from the area behind the caravan, and places her in front of the house, before laying the doormat over her back as a saddle, and covering that with a striped towel.

Jumping up onto the back of his steed from a step, he then takes a snooker cue and an umbrella from Alex, and inserts the narrow end of the former into the pole of the latter, to create an umbrella with a very long pole. Nick then attempts to balance this object on his chin, while waving and doing a thumbs-up.

In the studio, Greg notes that, based on the way Nick had picked the chair up, he’d assumed that Nick had obviously done some street performance before. As Greg begins to say “The confidence with which you… [picked up that chair]”, Nick quickly responds, “Oh yeah, I can pick up a chair”.

Alex confirms that Nick had managed to balance the long-handled umbrella on top of his chin long enough to count for the task, prompting Greg to say “the load was on his chin”, before immediately regretting doing so.

Greg ultimately awards Nick 5 points for his effort, stating that he’d found the final image of “old snooker cue umbrella chin” the most impressive (thus coining the episode title).

(Written by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by David Fuller)