Horatio Heave Ho! Grandpa In My Pocket

Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can!

Grandpa!

No! Be careful!

Grandpa, stop!

Wahey!

CRASH!

'The beach is my favourite place. I love spending time at our beach hut.

'Guess what? Someone new in town had just booked the beach hut opposite.

'He works in Sunnysands bank.

'Today Mum had invited him round for a party.

'It was going to be a pirate party.'

# Yo-ho-ho and away we go

# Over the waves... #

'The reason we were having a party was that,

'although our new neighbour worked in a bank,

'what he really wanted to be was...'

Yo-ho, heave-ho, Horatio!

'..a pirate!

'A pirate called Horatio Heave Ho!

'Now, Horatio had only just found out

'that his great-great-grandad, Grumpybeard,

'was a pirate and that's why he wanted to be one too.

-'He loves his parrot, Stinky...'

-Who's a pretty boy, then?

'..he loves his pirate ship...'

What a fine vessel!

'..and he loves Grumpybeard's secret chest

'that he's never opened. Most of all he loves roaring...'

Yo-ho, heave-ho, Horatio!

Why don't we open the chest at the party with our new friends today?

-AS STINKY:

-What a good idea! What a good idea!

'So that's what happened.

'Horatio went to unlock

'his great-great-grandad Grumpybeard's chest

'for the first time.

'In the chest there was a bottle.'

A bottle!

'In the bottle there was a message.'

-A message!

-ALL: A message.

GRANDPA: I wonder what it says!

-Treasure!

-GRANDPA: I knew it!

"The treasure that I buried will soon be in your hands.

"So dig until you find it on the beach at Sunnysands."

Sunnysands!

If I can dig up treasure, I'll be a real pirate.

Let's get digging, me hearties! No time to waste!

-Eh, Stinky?

-AS STINKY:

-No! No time to waste!

Absolutely! To the beach!

No, Grandpa. You're better off at home. Digging is very tiring.

I'm coming too, Jason. There's something odd about Horatio.

I think you're going to need my help.

Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can!

'When Grandpa shrinks, he can get up to all kinds of mischief.

'He can fly off in my plane.

'He can chuff about in our Sunnysands train.

'Today he's running around the garden.

-MUM:

-Jason, hurry up!

-'There was nothing I could do.

'I put Grandpa in my belt and ran after the others.

'We all got into Campo and off we went.

-'And Horatio said...'

-Treasure. Imagine that!

We'll dig until we find it and I'll be a real pirate!

Yo-ho, heave-ho, Horatio!

'When we got to the beach, we got some spades out of the hut

'and everyone split up to dig in different places.

'I went into our beach hut to put Grandpa down.'

We can't let him dig up the whole beach, Jason.

Arr!

-I don't think we can dig up the whole beach.

-I'm going to dig

until I find the treasure. That's what real pirates do.

And I want to be a real pirate.

I reckon... I reckon it's under there.

Let's move everything out, so we can knock down the hut and dig.

No, no, Horatio, you can't.

'I was really worried that he'd see Grandpa,

'but Grandpa jumped into a jug on the table

'and Horatio picked up the table!'

Stop! You must stop!

-What's the matter?

-Horatio wants to knock down the hut to dig.

-Well, I...I...

-DAD:

-What's the matter?

-Horatio wants to knock down our hut to dig.

-Well, I...

-I would rather you didn't.

-You can't knock our hut down.

I want my treasure. Without that, I'm not a real pirate.

Come and sit down. We'll get you some water.

I'll get it.

(You calm Horatio down.)

I don't need calming down. I need my treasure.

'I grabbed the jug with Grandpa in it and rushed inside the hut.'

Oh, that was close!

What are we going to do?

You keep him busy, in a "piratey" way,

-and I'll think of something.

-OK.

'I gave Horatio some water,

'while trying to think up a "piratey" way of keeping him busy.

'Suddenly I thought of something.'

Let's sing a pirate song while we have a rest from digging.

Great idea!

-But I don't know any "piratey" songs.

-We do!

# Yo-ho-ho and away we go over the waves so roll-e-oh!

ALL: # Yo-ho-ho and away we go Oo-arr! Yo-ho he-ho! #

Come on, Horatio. Join in.

ALL: # Yo-ho-ho and away we go Over the waves so roll-e-oh!

# Yo-ho-ho and away we go Oo-arr! Yo-ho he-ho!

# Yo-ho-ho and away we go... #

'I suddenly spotted Grandpa at the door of the hut.

'What was he up to now?'

ALL: # Oo-arr! Yo-ho-he-ho!

'I soon found out. Grandpa was on top of the beach hut joining in.'

# Over the waves so roll-e-oh!

ALL: # Yo-ho-ho and away we go!

# Oo-arr! Yo-ho he-ho! #

ALL LAUGH

'Suddenly I saw Grandpa running towards Horatio's hat.

Then he disappeared under it.

Well, I know an old song, but I still don't have my treasure.

I'm not a real pirate if I can't dig up treasure.

Oh, but you are a real pirate.

Yes, you're definitely a real pirate.

In what way am I a real pirate?

Well...you're...very...uh...

-Brave!

-Brave. Yes, you're very brave.

-You're incredibly brave.

-Am I?

Yes! And...you can roar!

Yes, I suppose that's true.

I am brave and I can roar like a real pirate.

Yo-ho, heave-ho, Horatio!

Agh!

There's a scuttling sea-monster under my hat! Agh!

'Of course, I knew exactly who the scuttling sea monster was -

'Grandpa!'

-Get him over here as quick as you can.

-OK.

I'm no good as a pirate.

I didn't know any "piratey" songs,

I'm not brave, and I still don't have my treasure.

Why don't you have a rest? Maybe we can get some ice creams.

Lovely. You have a rest and we'll get the ice cream.

I'll guard the hut

-in case he has any more ideas about knocking it down.

-Right.

I'm never going to be a real pirate, Stinky, not like Grumpybeard, am I?

-AS STINKY:

-No, you're not!

Yes you are!

Who's that?

Of course you are!

Huh?

Don't be alarmed, me old hearty. I'm Captain Teeny-Toes,

the smallest pirate ever to sail the seven seas.

Yes, I can see you are really ever so small!

Arr! Ever so small, but ever so clever!

You see, today, pirates don't have to dig up treasure.

-They don't?

-No!

Who needs treasure when they've got friends?

-Friends?

-Oh-arr!

Friends like the Mason family, for instance.

Think of all the fun you could have together on this lovely beach.

You wouldn't want to dig all that up now, would you?

Mum, so charming and bubbly. Dad, so kind and helpful.

Jemima, so pretty and so full of fun.

And Jason. A great young lad. Always ready to lend a hand.

Then of course there's Grandpa! Well..!

The funny old man, you mean?

Arr, well he might be old and funny,

but he's really quite wonderful, you know.

-Is he?

-Oh, arr!

Everybody wants to be a friend of Grandpa!

Grandpa is a genius!

Well, I never!

Here you go, Horatio.

'We came back with the ice creams and I handed one to Horatio.

'Out of the corner of my eye

'I saw Grandpa about to jump off the pirate ship.'

How are you feeling, Horatio?

I'll tell you how I'm feeling. I'm feeling like a real pirate!

Oh, good!

I had a dream, you see. In the dream,

a tiny pirate called Captain Teeny-Toes spoke to me and said,

"To be a real pirate, you don't need treasure. You just need friends!"

ALL AGREE

And I've got all of you as my friends.

-All of you and Grandpa, of course...

-ALL AGREE

..who I'm told is a genius

Really(?)

'At the end of the afternoon I took my "genius" Grandpa home

'and rushed inside ahead of everyone else.

'I put him down on the floor. He whipped off his shrinking cap

'and came back to his normal size.'

-We did it. We stopped our new friend from digging up our beach.

-We did!

-Do you know what I call it? Teamwork!

-Teamwork!

THEY LAUGH

What a day! Grandpa, I'm so glad you didn't come with us. Exhausting.

I'm sure Horatio will visit you soon. He thinks you're a genius.

I wonder where he got that idea from.

We stopped him pulling down our beach hut

-and digging for treasure.

-That is good!

I always say, "My friends are my treasure."

That's odd! That's what Captain Teeny-Toes said.

-Who?

-Don't worry, Grandpa. You wouldn't understand.

Subtitles by Shaun Hadnett Red Bee Media Ltd

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