A Garden Full of Beasts Grandpa In My Pocket

The shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can!

Grandpa!

No! Be careful!

Grandpa, stop!

Whoa-oh-oh.

CRASHING

Grandpa in my pocket.

'Our town is called Sunnysands

'because it's always sunny and it's by the sea.

'We love spending time at our beach hut on the beach.

'You can see the lighthouse from my bedroom window.

'This is Mum and Dad's bike shop.

'Here's Miss Smiley's cafe. It serves the best ice cream sundaes.

'There's My Whoops' shop where you can buy anything and everything.

'Everyone loves Sunnysands.

'It was a sunny Saturday morning and Mum had a new hobby -

'gardening.

'And you know what Mum's new hobbies are like -

'they take over the whole house.'

All I can say is, I'm glad she's at the bike shop,

even if she has left us in a forest.

But a forest is great to play with all my beasts.

Gordon isn't a beast.

We can pretend he's one.

GRANDPA SQUAWKS LIKE A SEAGULL

DOG GROWLS

HE CHUCKLES

HE ROARS

JASON SQUEAKS

I tell you what, as it's a lovely day,

let's take the beasts into the garden.

'And that's how it all started.

'It was going to be good fun because today we were going to have...

-'But then the doorbell went.'

-DOORBELL RINGS

'I ran to answer it...

-'and who should come storming in...'

-I've come to help.

'Great Aunt Loretta.'

And not a moment too soon.

HE MOANS

'Oh, yes. Grandpa's sister was here.

'Now, Great Aunt Loretta is always making really weird food,

'like sausage with sardine sauce.

'And she drinks spinach and sprout shake,

-'which we call green gloop.'

-SHE BURPS

'She's always stubbing her toe.

'We have a pack of peas in the freezer that we always put on it.'

SHE SIGHS

'And she's often like this...'

-SHE GASPS

-'..or like this...'

SHE SCREAMS

SHE SHRIEKS

'And she makes Grandpa feel...

'like this...'

There's nothing for it.

We'll have to get out there before she makes a mess.

-What a terrible mess.

-It's not a terrible mess.

It is. It needs sorting.

We like it like this.

You don't know anything about gardens, you lot.

But I know a man who does.

'Great Aunt Loretta had sent for her friend, Mr Hackit,

'who knew about gardens...or at least, that's what he thought.

'Grandpa and I couldn't imagine what he was going to do to our garden.

'One thing was certain, Mr Hackit was bad news.'

Ooh, Mr Hackit!

'Grandpa wasn't at all happy.'

I think I'll just go for a little lie-down.

We'll just play in here...

and let them get on with it.

We'll do no such thing, Jason.

Mr Hackit will hack the garden to pieces if we don't stop him.

Don't you worry.

Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can!

'When Grandpa shrinks,

'he can get up to all kinds of magical things.'

Get down, Grandpa!

Not the plane, Grandpa.

'He can fly off in my plane.

'He can get into my car and make it go.'

TYRES SCREECH

'Or he can just run for all he's worth.'

Ah! Grandpa!

Get down, Grandpa!

Bleurgh!

Grandpa? Grandpa, come back!

'When Grandpa shrinks and disappears,

'everyone thinks he's having a lie-down - apart from me.

'But right now, I had no idea where he was,

-'until...'

-Whee!

'he was flying about on Gordon - my toy seagull.'

Grandpa, come back down.

'I didn't know what Grandpa's plan was,

'but mine was to get into the garden to see what Mr Hackit was up to.'

HE SIGHS

'Great Aunt Loretta was showing him the tree.'

I mean, just look at it, it's so overgrown.

I'll hack it! Hackit by name.

Hack it by nature. That's me.

'Then she showed him the flowerbed.'

Look at it. It's full of weeds.

No worries. I'll dig it. I can dig as well as I can hack.

'And then she showed him the pond.'

Just look at the state of the pond.

It's so full of weeds. I feel really sorry for Keith.

'Keith is the gnome that Great Aunt Loretta gave Grandpa.'

He can't catch any fish in that murky water, can you Keithy? Mwah!

'Great Aunt Loretta is very keen on Keith.'

I'll weed it. No worries.

'Great Aunt Loretta left Mr Hackit to get on,

'but I knew she'd be back later.'

-I'll start with the tree.

-You can't hack the tree!

-I'll get me stepladder.

-But there's a nest in the tree.

'I looked for Grandpa.

'I knew he'd come into the garden soon and...

'..I was right.'

-Grandpa!

-Whee! Whee!

-Get down!

-Whee! Hee-hee! Whee!

Whee!

HE GASPS

'Luckily Grandpa was well hidden by the time Mr Hackit came back.'

Time for a quick hack.

I wouldn't go up there, Mr Hackit.

Don't worry. Why don't you check on your Grandpa?

'But, of course, Grandpa wasn't inside.

'He was...'

-Squawk!

-Argh!

'..he was in the nest.'

That's no ordinary seagull.

No, it's erm...a cross between a seagull and a pterodactyl.

'I had to think up a name really fast.'

It's a gordonasaurus. Very rare.

-Squawk!

-Argh!

I think maybe I won't hack the tree. I'll do the flowerbed.

I'll get my spade from the van.

So far, so good, Jason.

Go and get the box of beasts ready for my next plan.

'Grandpa's next plan was this...'

Got me spade. Now it's time to diggedy-dig!

-SPIDER SQUEAKS

-Argh! It's a huge hairy spider!

Eek, eek! Eek, eek! Eek, eek!

HE SCREAMS

There are tonnes of huge spiders in that flowerbed.

I think, perhaps I'll start on the pond.

I'll just pop inside for a drink of water.

Hoh-hoh, hoh! This is going awfully well, Jason.

We've got to stop him messing with the pond.

'Once Grandpa's got an idea, there's not stopping him.

'But Mr Hackit came out before Grandpa could hide.

'Luckily, Grandpa had an idea.'

That's odd. There are two Keiths.

I'm sure there was only one Keith before.

-DOORBELL RINGS

-'Then the doorbell went.'

I'll go.

'When I looked at the pond, Keith number two...

'had gone.

'I wondered what he was up to.

'And then I found his clothes.

'This time Grandpa had gone too far.

'The bad news was, Grandpa was planning a swim.

'The worst news was that guess who was back.'

Nothing's been done. Come on. I'll help.

Well, the thing is...unfortunately...

this garden is full of beasts.

And...AND...another Keith has appeared!

Another Keith?

Don't be so silly. Where's the other Keith?

He was there.

It's gone missing.

'At that moment...I realised that something else had gone missing.

'My alligator.

'Then I saw Grandpa's cap and I guessed what was coming.'

THEY BOTH SCREAM

'Grandpa was hiding in the pond, waggling the alligator.

THEY SHRIEK

HE GIGGLES

ALLIGATOR SNARLS

I told you this garden was full of beasts!

HE GIGGLES

'Soon Grandpa was back in his clothes.

'He whipped off his shrinking cap and came back to his normal size.'

Well done, Grandpa. Mr Hackit won't be back.

I couldn't have done it without you - you and the beasts. Teamwork, eh?

Teamwork.

'Then Great Aunt Loretta came down.

'So I hid my alligator.'

Well, I feel better for having a little lie-down, that's for sure.

Oh, you've got a bit of pondweed stuck behind your ear, Grandpa.

Anyone would think you'd been swimming with that alligator.

Don't be ridiculous.

I'll have you know,

it's a very bad idea to keep alligators in ponds, Jason Mason.

SHE SCREAMS

GRANDPA AND JASON LAUGH

Or behind cushions!

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