More Than a Biscuit for Mrs McWhisket Grandpa In My Pocket

Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can!

Grandpa!

No! Be careful!

Grandpa, stop!

Waaaahaaaay!

'Grandpa In My Pocket.'

Oh, it's a hot day for tea. Shouldn't they be having juice?

'My friend Dora came to play. So we have to play with Jemima's dolls.'

Look, we've even got a chef!

Oh, Pedro Perfecto! Here you are, Pedro.

A jammy, jumbly biscuit for your customers.

'We were all having fun. But guess who'd come to look after us?'

Oh, I've never been so hot in all my life!

'Great Aunt Loretta, Grandpa's sister.'

Green gloop, that's what I need!

'Green gloop is spinach and sprout shake.

'It's just one of the revolting things she makes.'

-Yum! Right, now come on, we've got to clear all this lot away.

-Why?

-What?

-We're expecting a visitor.

-Who?

-Mrs McWhiskit, that's who!

THE Mrs McWhiskit? From Cooks For The Country?

The very one, Grandpa.

-'Mrs McWhiskit has a TV show.'

-I met her in Miss Smiley's cafe.

She is in Sunnysands gathering exciting, new recipes.

I said, "If you are gathering exciting, new recipes,

"you have come to the right place."

-I am going to make her the tea of her life.

-Jammy, jumbly biscuit?

Oh, I'm planning a whole lot more than a jumbly biscuit, Grandpa.

A whole lot more.

'Oh, yes. Today there would be...

'Mrs McWhiskit does a TV show called Mrs McWhiskit Cooks For The Country.

'She is great at stirring, and whisking and mashing.

'And she makes really extraordinary food. Like the Jelly Mountain.

'And the Vegetable Volcano.

'And the Field of Fruits.'

Ah, her Field of Fruit. That's my favourite Mrs McWhiskit recipe.

'We'd set up the doll's tea party again,

-'but didn't have much time to play.'

-Jason!

-Dora!

-Coming!

Jason, if Aunt Loretta is going to try and make some of her

revolting food for Mrs McWhiskit, we ought to try and stop her.

And to do that, I need to be small.

Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can!

'Now, as you know, when Grandpa's small,

'he can run so fast I can't catch him.

'He can fly off in my toy plane.

'He can whizz about in my toy car.

'I had no idea where he'd got to, or what he was planning.'

Jason! >

'I had to go and help Great Aunt Loretta make Mrs McWhiskit's tea.'

Trust Grandpa to have gone for a little lie down.

Ah! Right, now then, have we got everything ready for... Woohoo!

Sardines and bananas on toast, cauliflower cake with cockles and

jam, seaweed jelly and mustard,

and lobster and lettuce ice cream.

'Great Aunt Loretta was making her weirdest tea ever!

'Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Grandpa running in. And guess what?

'He was dressed as Pedro Perfecto!

'He jumped onto the dresser

'and then told me to get everyone out in the garden.'

Seaweed in the jelly...

Great Aunt Loretta, why don't we pick some tomatoes from the garden?

I think they'd go really well with the...

Lobster and lettuce ice cream.

You're really catching on, you two! Go on then, out you go.

'So we went into the garden,

'and Great Aunt Loretta went to the dresser.'

Oh! I thought I told them to put all the dolls in the other room.

I don't like the look of you. Shifty looking, you are.

'So Great Aunt Loretta thought Grandpa was a doll!'

Mrs McWhiskit won't like dogs in the kitchen, so you watch out!

'Meanwhile, Grandpa had jumped off the dresser,

'and was now on the kitchen table.

'He started to knock things off. First, the sardine tins.

'Then the banana.

'Then the mustard jar.

'Then the cockles.

'Then the jam. Then the lobster.

'Then the lettuce. And finally, the open tub of ice cream.

'The temptation of ice cream was too much for Wulfy.

'Well, after all, it was a very hot day.

'The second part of Grandpa's plan was to hide everything.

-'But then he heard the doorbell.'

-DING DONG

-'And then he heard this...'

-AAARGH!

What's gone on in here?!

Oh, you! That dog!

It's been all over this table!

Oh, I feel all hot and peculiar. Oh, Jason, get a bowl out of there.

'Grandpa quickly hid behind the toaster.'

Come on! Any minute, Mrs McWhiskit will be here.

Coo-ee! Mrs McWhiskit is here!

I rang the bell and didn't get an answer, so I came round the back.

Oh... I'm afraid the tea's not quite ready yet.

Tea's not quite ready, you say? My dear, the tea is all over the floor!

And there's a wee scraggy looking dog eating ice cream out of the tub!

Perfectly horrible. Shoo, you!

Shoo! Shoo! This is no place for dogs.

I'm just going to mash some tomatoes for the tomato sauce.

I'll do that. I'm not just a good whisker. I'm a great masher too.

AAAAH! Oh, you squirted me!

I don't want to be squirted! Here, I'll do the mashing.

'And Great Aunt Loretta chased her round the table.'

Come on, give it to me! I'll do it. SHRIEKS

A lobster just tripped me up! Out of the kitchen, you two.

This is no place for wee children.

This is a health hazard.

It's perfectly harmless.

-Take it away!

-It won't hurt you!

No, I don't like the whiskery bits!

Put it down!

Thank you, Loretta.

I'm sorry. I'm so hot.

Is it always this hot in Sunnysands?

No, it's an especially hot day.

What you need is a glass of green gloop.

Nothing like a glass of green gloop to cool you...

-WAAAH!

-Ooooh!

SHE WAILS

So that's how you cool down in Sunny Sands?

You get covered in gloo-oop?

Sorry, I didn't mean it! I'm getting a towel...

Mrs McWhiskit's covered in gloop!

-'And Great Aunt Loretta dashed upstairs.'

-Should we go in?

No! Erm... 'I needed an idea.'

Tell you what, go and help Great Aunt Loretta find a towel.

I'll listen here.

'I knew Grandpa would be up to something any minute.'

Sunnysands, eh? I'd heard such great things about the place.

Miss Smiley's cafe is full of wonderful recipes. But, here?

It's bonkers. Lobster ice cream and green gloop and a tiny wee chef...

-A tiny wee chef?

-Pedro Perfecto at your service!

'This time Grandpa had gone too far.'

What would you like? I can make anything in the world.

I can make spaghetti, macaroni, linguine, tortellini?

Pizza with a crispy base - pizza with a not-so crispy base?

'Grandpa was going through every dish he knew.'

..Frankfurters to fries? How you like some ice cream, huh?

A wee chef is talking to me... A wee chef is talking to me! Argh!

'And with that, she ran into the garden.'

She ran into the garden. I think she's just very hot and bothered.

Hot and bothered? Oh!

A wee chef was talking to me!

A chef? Where?

In there! A wee, talking chef!

Don't be silly!

'Just then, the doorbell rang.' That'll be your mum, Dora.

Quick, you've got to go.

'Before I knew it, Grandpa was back on the table. But he had to hide.

'He dived under the lobster, and...'

-Aargh!

-Did he talk to you?

Did the chef talk to you?

No, the lobster! The lobster ran across the table towards me.

-Waaaaaah!

-Come up here where they can't get at us!

So, they looked at each other.

They looked at the pond and decided to jump.

SQUEALING

'Then, they decided to laugh.'

I think we just got hot and bothered.

I think we just needed to cool down.

THEY LAUGH AND SPLASH

Great Aunt Loretta, catch!

'I left them playing in the pond, and I ran inside to find Grandpa.'

I've put Pedro's clothes back on him, Jason.

Well, done, Grandpa. Now, cap off. Quick!

'So Grandpa took off his cap and came back to his normal size.'

Jason, we stopped Aunt Loretta

from making her weird food for Mrs McWhiskit.

Yes, Grandpa. I think they'll be friends for life now.

-Teamwork, eh?

-Teamwork!

-THEY LAUGH

'Later, Great Aunt Loretta and Mrs McWhiskit

'were definitely friends for life.'

I was so hot and bothered, I thought I was chased by a lobster!

And I thought a wee chef was talking to me!

What would you like? I can do spaghetti, macaroni, jammy jumbly?

Do you know something?

He sounded just like that - the wee chef!

EVERYONE LAUGHS

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