Miss Smiley's Dancing Tea Grandpa In My Pocket

Not the shrinking cap!

Catch me if you can!

Grandpa!

No! Be careful!

Grandpa, stop!

Whaay!

CRASH

'It was the school holidays, Mum was away on a basket-weaving course,

'but we were having a great time,

'because guess who'd come to look after us? Bubbles!'

This is a flamenco dancer from Spain!

'Today, Bubbles and Jemima were sorting Jemima's dancing dolls.'

I LOVE flamenco dancing.

# Ra-tat-ta ra-ta-tah! #

Ole!

THEY LAUGH

I've dressed my doll Peter up in this costume!

Oh, very snazzy. That would suit me!

Course, Grandpa.

Give that to Grandpa.

'All the dolls were going to be on display -

'Miss Smiley was holding a dance afternoon in her cafe.

'Today we had all been invited to...

'Grandpa and I were watching Bubbles and Jemima practising.'

OK! Spanish dancing time, I need you for this, Jason.

Ole! Ha-ha!

'So Bubbles started to teach me to flamenco dance.'

A one-two-three-four-fi...

'AND Jemima joined in.'

'And Grandpa joined in from his chair.

'Then Dad turned up.'

THEY LAUGH

-DAD:

-Ole!

'HE joined in! We were having a great time

'and were looking forward to Miss Smiley dancing too.

'But suddenly, what should we hear?'

Coo-ee!

Huh!

It's only me!

'It was Great Aunt Loretta, Grandpa's sister.'

Oh! Hello, Bubbles!

Ooh! Are you practising for the Dancing Tea?

Hoo-hoo, I can't wait! Ha-ha!

-Arriba!

-Ooh! Ha-ha!

That looks like flamingo dancing!

Flamenco!

It's called fla...mingo.

Flamingo's fine.

I'm good at flamingo dancing. Hoo-hoo, hoo!

'Great Aunt Loretta danced

'and she DID look like a flamingo!

'We tried not to laugh, but it was no good!'

What are you laughing at?

You dancing! Let me have a go!

Don't be silly, you're far too old.

-No, I'm not!

-Course you are! You can come and watch us.

I don't want to, I want to join in!

Well, you can't, so that's that!

Oh, that's right, go for a little lie-down.

Sulky socks!

'I ran inside after Grandpa,

'I knew he wasn't planning on a lie-down.'

If Loretta goes to Miss Smiley's Dancing Tea,

she's going to boss everybody about.

We've got to stop her, Jason.

Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can!

'You know what happens when Grandpa shrinks -

'he can get in my toy car and make it go,

'he can chuff about in our Sunnysands train.

'I'm the only one who knows and no-one else must see him.

'Meanwhile, back in the garden...

'Great Aunt Loretta was trying to do line dancing.'

Come on, we're line dancing.

'We needed her out of the way. Luckily, Dad had an idea.'

Do you know what? I fancy a waltz. Would madame do me the honour?

Ooh! Ooh, madame would, thank you.

Ooh! Hoo-hoo, hoo!

Oh, a waltz, how lovely!

Ooh!

'The waltzing was going well, until...'

Ouch!

Oh, your dad's gone and hurt his foot!

That means he can't dance with me.

-Time to get going, everyone!

-We mustn't forget the dolls!

'At that moment, I saw Grandpa behind a toaster.'

Off you go, Jason.

'It was no good, I had to go!

'So we got in Campo and went to Miss Smiley's.

'And Great Aunt Loretta said...'

I hope Mr Whoops is there, he's good at organising dancing.

'And Bubbles said...'

I think he'll be looking after his shop, Loretta.

'And Great Aunt Loretta said...'

Oh, well. I'll have to organise everything, then.

'That was what Grandpa said would happen.

'I didn't know how he'd get to Miss Smiley's cafe,

'but I knew he'd find a way.

'Jemima and two of her friends were arranging the dolls,

'but Great Aunt Loretta was UN-arranging them.

'Bubbles was keen to get on with the dancing.'

Shall we get on with dancing?

These aren't in the right place...

'When I thought Grandpa would never arrive, this is what happened.

'Luckily, everybody was far too busy to notice him.

'He quickly got off Gordon and hid behind the cake.

'And I quickly put Gordon in the dolls' box.'

(How's it going?)

Badly. She's interfering with all the dolls.

Oh, this one's ridiculous!

'And Great Aunt Loretta grabbed Peter and put him in the box.'

I can't WAIT to see the dancing!

'Then Grandpa jumped in the box too!'

Right, come on. Line up.

'At last, Great Aunt Loretta was ready to go.'

No! No, no.

We're starting with my line dancing.

One-two-three-four!

Hoe-down, hoe-down.

Heel-up, down-wave.

Back-back, back-heel.

Back-back, back-forward, heel.

Left-left, Left-heel.

Right-right, right-heel. Wave-wave! Hip-hip.

Lasso! Come on, Jason! Join in!

'So I had to join in.

'Grandpa needed an idea, I hoped it would be good.

'Everybody had been too busy to notice

'Grandpa making his way to a shelf,

'dressed up in Peter's costume!

'He started to rearrange the dolls.

'Soon, Grandpa had moved all the dolls about.

'I got it - he hoped Great Aunt Loretta would move them back.

'And while she did, the girls could do their dance.'

Uh, excuse me!

Those dolls have all moved!

Who moved all these dolls?

And this awful one on the end!

I put that in the basket!

You should arrange them again, Great Aunt Loretta,

-while the girls do their dance.

-I will do no such thing.

I want to know who did it!

Who was it, eh? Who moved all the dolls?

Come on!

'Grandpa's plan hadn't worked.

'He signalled to me to go into the kitchen.

'Then he jumped off the shelf and ran.

'Miss Smiley decided it was time for tea.'

There's nothing like some nice cakes and sandwiches to perk everyone up.

I'll help you, Miss Smiley!

Thank you, Jason.

(We've got to find someone for Loretta to dance with.

(Dad's no good, she's trodden on him.

(I know! Mr Whoops!)

(Great idea, I'll phone him.)

'But then Great Aunt Loretta called.'

Jason! Bring the plates or we'll never have any cake!

(Over to you, Grandpa.)

'So I grabbed the plates

'and left Grandpa to talk to Mr Whoops.'

PHONE RINGS

Ooh, whoops!

Oh. Ha-ha!

Hello? Mr Whoops here!

Hello, Mr Whoops. It's Grandpa.

Hello, Grandpa!

What can I do for you?

It's what you can do for Loretta, really.

She's looking for a dancing partner and she'd like to dance with you.

'And luckily, there was nothing Mr Whoops would like more

'than to dance with Great Aunt Loretta.

'By the time everyone had finished tea, he'd arrived!'

-Whoops!

-Ooh!

'And in no time, Great Aunt Loretta and Mr Whoops were dancing a tango.

'Grandpa joined in.'

-Oh!

-Oh!

'So now that Mr Whoops had worn Great Aunt Loretta out,

'it was the girls' turn.

'AND Mr Whoops joined in.

'And Grandpa couldn't resist joining in too!'

Ooh!

I'm sure... Didn't that doll...?

Keep going, Bubbles!

Oh! It did it again!

Oh, everything dances at Miss Smiley's Dancing Tea! Everything!

THEY LAUGH

'This time, Grandpa had gone too far -

'he had joined in enough.

'I HAD to hide him.

'The good news was that Grandpa was in the teapot.

'The bad news was, he was STILL dancing!'

You're SO right, Mr Whoops.

Everything's dancing at Miss Smiley's,

even the teapot, look!

'After the Dancing Tea, I put Grandpa in the dolls' box

'where he could change into his clothes,

'and I brought him home.

'I ran ahead of everyone, I took him out of the box,

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

Jason, did we stop Loretta spoiling the dancing?

-We did.

-I thought as much. Teamwork, eh?

-Teamwork!

-Ooh!

-Grandpa, you don't know what you missed.

-Oh, don't I?

You should've watched and not been sulky.

I'd have joined in!

Hoe-down, hoe-down.

Up-down, wave.

Back, two-three-step...

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