A Cleaning Job for Our Friend Bob Grandpa In My Pocket

Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can!

Get down, Grandpa!

Aha!

Grandpa!

Today, I was at home with Grandpa.

Auntie Jules was going to Miss Smiley's for a breadmaking course.

-I hope you and Grandpa have a lovely quiet time, Josh.

-Coo-ee!

Ah! I spoke too soon.

-It's only me.

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

-I picked some flowers for Grandpa.

-'Just then we heard...'

TOOT TOOT!

'It was Mr Whoops.'

-Sounds like Mr Whoops' car.

-Hello, everyone. Oh!

That car is a pest. I'm always nearly tripping over it myself.

I just popped by to ask if Josh fancies helping me with something.

-I have a little plan.

-I do like a plan, me.

Bob the Boat is due back from holiday today.

I thought it would be nice to clean his boat and make it look shipshape.

Want to help? He left me the keys.

-I'd love to go, can I go, Auntie Jules?

-I don't see why not.

'Yes, today Mr Whoops and I are

'going to do a cleaning job for our friend Bob.'

I'll just get my things.

-We can go together with you in Queenie, Jules.

-Brilliant.

I'll see you there.

Ohhh! You're up, Grandpa.

-Josh is coming with me and Mr Whoops to clean Bob's boat.

-Can I come?

Don't be silly, Grandpa, you can't clean anything.

-I picked these lovely flowers for Bob, smell.

-Achoo!

-I thought the flowers were for grandpa?

-Change of plan.

Back in a bit.

Add I've got some more stuff to backup for Miss Smiley.

-The thought of Loretta and Mr Whoops on Bob's boat is dreadful.

-I know.

They might wreck the place. I think I'd better come and help too.

Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

-'Now, as you know...'

-Catch me if you can!

'Grandpa's shrinking cap is magic

'and when he puts it on it makes him magic too.

'His magic can make things go like this...

'And this!

'But today he's going to come with me.' In my pocket, Grandpa?

'But just then Auntie Jules came back.'

Grandpa gone for a lie down, has he?

-He's only been up five minutes, poor old thing.

-Lazy old thing more like.

Come on, Josh, hurry up.

'I hadn't managed to get Grandpa

'but I knew he'd find another way of coming with me.'

Well, nice day for a drive.

'And I was right!'

'So Grandpa drove himself to Sunnysands harbour in my cousin

'Jason's car. We sailed off down the river in Queenie.

'Soon Aunt Jules dropped us off at Bob's boat, the Boomerang.

'It's called the Boomerang because when it sails away,

'it always comes back again.'

Right, this will be shiny as a new pen when I've finished.

Careful on the steps, Mr Whoops.

Ohhhh! How could I be so clumsy!

'While Great Aunt Loretta helped Mr Whoops up,

'Grandpa slid down the banister.

'Then he jumped onto a shelf and hid behind Bob's musical boat.'

I've made a lovely little present for Bob to keep in his t...

'Great Aunt Loretta never says toilet out loud

'because she thinks it's rude.'

A toilet roll cover eh? Ruff ruff!

Right, time to get on. Come on, you two, sweep and dust.

I'm going up to scrub the decks. Let the spring cleaning begin.

# Spring cleaning spring cleaning

# Polishing and dusting until everything is gleaming

# Sweeping and mopping and scrubbing on your knees

# Until Bob's boat...

# Until Bob's boat...

# Is the shiniest cleanest boat that ever sailed the seas! #

Go, Mr Whoops!

# Spring cleaning spring cleaning

# Polishing and dusting until everything is gleaming

# Sweeping and mopping and scrubbing on your knees

# Until Bob's boat...

# Until Bob's boat...

# Is the shiniest cleanest boat that ever sailed the seas! #

Wooo!

Good grief, what's all this? The end of the pier show?!

And why did you leave your car on the deck?

I nearly tripped on it and fell in the sea!

Here. Go and clean the basin in the t...

Right. Vase, Mr Whoops.

'So Mr Whoops went to get a vase.'

Lovely. I am going to dust off the shelf.

'Grandpa knew he would be seen so he did this...

'He jumped onto the table

'and hid under the poodle by the vase of flowers.

-'Then the poodle did this...'

-Achoo!

My goodness. The toilet roll holder poodle just sneezed.

Don't be so silly, it must have been Josh. Clear the shelves.

I'm going to put you where you belong, in the t...

Come out, Josh!

Mr Whoops thought the poodle just sneezed.

'I guessed what had happened.

'Grandpa was inside a poodle in Bob's toilet.

'But just then, this happened...'

-Whoops!

-Oh, Mr Whoops!

Here, take these out of the way.

'Mr Whoops took the vase of flowers and put them

'next to the poodle on the shelf.

-'And then this happened...'

-Achoo!

Ohhh!

It did it again. The toilet bowl poodle sneezed. It's alive!

Don't be so silly. Sit down there out of the way.

I will go check on the sneezing poodle.

Right now, I'm going to polish the decks. You stay there. Stay.

Talk to the kookaburra.

'I put Grandpa down.'

Josh, come and help me.

'Then I went up on deck to help Great Aunt Loretta.

'Grandpa jumped up and hid.'

-Surely I could do something.

-No, Sit down!

-Stay exactly where you are.

-My goodness. You talk.

A talking kookaburra, well I never. Who's a pretty boy then?

-Who's a pretty boy?

-Me, I am, I am.

Loretta will never believe me that you talk.

Then maybe don't tell her.

We should whisper then, sssshhhh!

-'Up on deck things weren't going well.'

-Watch out!

Now it's all polished it is very slippery.

-'I was looking for Grandpa but I heard...'

-Aaaaah! Ohhhhh!

SPLASH!

Great Aunt Loretta's fallen in the water, Mr Whoops.

I'll get out, Josh, I'll get her out.

'And Mr Whoops went upstairs to help Great Aunt Loretta

'but then I heard this...'

SPLASH!

'Mr Whoops had fallen the water too. Then I saw Grandpa.'

There you are, Grandpa.

Yes, I was being a talking kookaburra to stop Mr Whoops from having

-another little accident.

-But he's just had one.

-Don't worry.

Mr Whoops and Loretta have their lifejackets on,

they'll be perfectly safe. Just a little wet.

You've got to tidy all this lot up, Josh.

I told you they would be hopeless.

'So I tidied everything up and Great Aunt Loretta and Mr Whoops wrapped

'themselves in Bob's towels and left their clothes drying on the deck.'

I'll let you into a secret, Loretta. The kookaburra talks.

-Don't be so silly.

-'And Great Aunt Loretta got up to take a look.'

It's stuffed!

'Grandpa had decided to make a quick getaway but he wasn't sure where

'to hide so he ran through the open door,

'just then Auntie Jules arrived.'

-I found all your clothes upstairs.

-Ohhh!

Am I glad to see you. I'm going to get changed.

'Guess where she went to get changed!

-'At that moment Bob came home.'

-G'day.

-Hello, Bob.

-What have you been up to? Howdy, Mr Whoops.

-Problem?

-Little accident.

-We thought we clean up your boat for you, Bob.

-Aw, that's great.

I'm a bit grubby, I'm afraid.

I've been out hiking with Mr Yomperstomper.

Ohhh, I've made a mess already.

'Great Aunt Loretta was back in her clothes,

'but poor Grandpa couldn't hold on any longer.'

-Achoo!

-Ohhh!

Goodness me!

I'm going. There is a sneezing poodle in the t...

'I ran to rescue Grandpa.'

Goodness me. Bob, look at mess you've made.

I don't know why we bothered.

Bye, Bob.

-A sneezing poodle?

-Yes! And your kookaburra talks too.

Rrrrright!

You have been having a lot of fun while I have been away, haven't you?

Yes! It was awesome, bye, Mr Whoops. Bye, Bob!

-Bye, Josh.

-'Soon we were back at the Mill on the Marsh.

'Auntie Jules and Great Aunt Loretta went inside to make tea.

'I took Grandpa out of my pocket and put him down.'

We did it, Josh!

-We stopped Loretta and Mr Whoops from messing up Bob's boat.

-Yes, Grandpa.

I know what I'd call it. Team work!

Oh, Grandpa, you're up.

I picked these for you, Grandpa. Have a smell.

-Thank you, Loretta.

-Bob didn't deserve his.

He made the Boomerang all muddy.

-That roll holder poodle, it kept sneezing.

-Achoo!

-Like that, Grandpa. Just like that. Exactly like that.

-Really?

Bread and jam, anyone? My latest hobby.

Yum!