0:00:08 > 0:00:10# Katie Morag
0:00:10 > 0:00:13# Far away across the ocean
0:00:13 > 0:00:14# Katie Morag
0:00:14 > 0:00:17# Over the sea to Struay
0:00:17 > 0:00:19# Katie Morag
0:00:19 > 0:00:21# Far away across the ocean
0:00:21 > 0:00:23# Katie Morag
0:00:23 > 0:00:26# Over the sea to Struay... #
0:00:32 > 0:00:37'My name is Katie Morag McColl, and I live on the island of Struay.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41'I suppose it's quite wee, but it's ginormous to me, and everyone
0:00:41 > 0:00:45'looks out for me when I'm out and about having my adventures.'
0:00:46 > 0:00:49This is where I live, with my family.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52My mum and dad run the shop and Post Office.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55This is the bedroom I share with my brother Liam.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58My mum says it's an absolute midden.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02This is the croft where Grannie Island lives,
0:01:02 > 0:01:04with her animals and hens.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07This is the Redburn Bridge where I play Poohsticks.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13'And I think it's the best place in the whole entire world,
0:01:13 > 0:01:16'and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.'
0:01:18 > 0:01:20# Katie Morag... #
0:01:21 > 0:01:23'Every day's busy here on Struay,
0:01:23 > 0:01:26'but Wednesday's the absolute busiest,
0:01:26 > 0:01:30'cos that's the day parcels come over on the ferry!
0:01:30 > 0:01:36'Mum and Dad run the Post Office, so they have to sort the mail out
0:01:36 > 0:01:39'and deliver it all around the island,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42'and they get VERY tired.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46'So I always make sure that I'm extra helpful round the house!
0:01:48 > 0:01:53'I just wish my cat, Fabbydoo, would help sometimes too.'
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Och, Fabbydoo, what did I say about getting up to mischief?!
0:02:03 > 0:02:06'It looked like this particular Wednesday,
0:02:06 > 0:02:09'things weren't going very well at all.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13'My wee brother Liam was awake all night feeling poorly,
0:02:13 > 0:02:17'so everyone was tired and cranky.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19'And to make things worse,
0:02:19 > 0:02:22'Dad's bean shelf had fallen down again!
0:02:22 > 0:02:24'And it looked like all our customers were cross
0:02:24 > 0:02:29'cos the ferry was late and all their parcels hadn't arrived!'
0:02:29 > 0:02:32They're putting me through to the harbour master.
0:02:38 > 0:02:39- SIGHING:- I'm sorry...
0:02:39 > 0:02:43but they haven't a CLUE when the ferry will get here.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49We'll bring the parcels out to you as soon as they arrive!
0:02:54 > 0:02:55Oh, no!
0:02:59 > 0:03:02Could today get any worse?!
0:03:02 > 0:03:03KATIE GROANS
0:03:03 > 0:03:04DAD SIGHS
0:03:06 > 0:03:08I'll help!
0:03:08 > 0:03:10Ah, that's kind of you, Katie Morag,
0:03:10 > 0:03:14but I think we should leave it to someone who knows what he's doing!
0:03:14 > 0:03:16I'll tell you how you could help...
0:03:16 > 0:03:19'Dad said the most important thing was that the ferry
0:03:19 > 0:03:22'came in with everyone's parcels.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25'He couldn't think of a better person for the job than me!'
0:03:25 > 0:03:27Morning, Katie Morag!
0:03:27 > 0:03:31Can't stop, Neilly Beag! I've got an important job to do!
0:03:31 > 0:03:35'I felt bad not stopping for a chat, but Dad was relying on me.'
0:03:36 > 0:03:40# Run, run as fast as your legs can carry you
0:03:40 > 0:03:43# And run, run till the cows come home
0:03:43 > 0:03:45# So the prettiest girl will marry you... #
0:03:48 > 0:03:50'There's no sign of the ferry.'
0:03:51 > 0:03:54I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Your first mistake was trying to do it all by yourself.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01This here is a two-man job.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07'Sometimes helping can be very tiring.'
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Pass me up that hammer.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20HONK!
0:04:23 > 0:04:25HONK!
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Oh, no!
0:04:28 > 0:04:31HONKHONK!
0:04:32 > 0:04:34The ferry's in!
0:04:34 > 0:04:36We know.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38- Do you need a hand? - We're fine, thanks.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41- Has anyone seen my mother's...? - Big red label.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45Right! I'll get these out and sort the rest later.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48- LIAM CRIES - Oh...!
0:04:48 > 0:04:49On you go... I'll manage.
0:04:51 > 0:04:52I fell asleep.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Don't worry. We're all a bit tired.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Now, that's what I call a shelf!
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Maybe it was a three-man job, after all.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Just as I thought.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14'And that's when I had one of my helpful ideas.'
0:05:14 > 0:05:17- I'm nipping over to Grannie's. - OK, love!
0:05:21 > 0:05:26'Grannie Island said I'm the best helper on the whole of Struay!
0:05:26 > 0:05:30'Sometimes that means helping people when they haven't even asked you!'
0:05:40 > 0:05:42'But I couldn't cross the bridge without
0:05:42 > 0:05:45'stopping for a game of Poohsticks,
0:05:45 > 0:05:48'so helping would have to wait a wee minute!'
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Poohsticks!
0:05:50 > 0:05:52This one's mine.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56And this one's Liam's.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Yes!
0:06:06 > 0:06:10'I love playing Poohsticks... especially when I win!'
0:06:15 > 0:06:18'Looking back, I think it was the geese who startled me.'
0:06:19 > 0:06:21GEESE SQUAWK
0:06:22 > 0:06:23Oh, my!
0:06:25 > 0:06:29'Luckily, the burn was very shallow, so I could get the bag out easily.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36'But the water had smudged all the names, and that wasn't so lucky!
0:06:38 > 0:06:43'I decided to guess which parcel belonged to which person.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46'If I guessed right, no-one would ever know what had happened!
0:06:51 > 0:06:55'But thinking about it now, it was a really, really silly thing to do!'
0:07:06 > 0:07:11'It took me ages to deliver all the parcels.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14'But finally I got to Grannie Island's.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18'I didn't have to guess hers, cos it had a big red label on it!'
0:07:27 > 0:07:28Hello, Katie Morag!
0:07:34 > 0:07:36It wasn't raining, was it?
0:07:36 > 0:07:40Maybe it was...but maybe the rain only fell on me today.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Well, these'll be dry in no time...
0:07:43 > 0:07:46unlike my parcel!
0:07:46 > 0:07:49At least I can mend my old tractor again.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53Now, you dry yourself off, and then come out and give me a hand.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58'Grannie Island said she hadn't seen any rain.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01'She couldn't understand how I was wet.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04'I wish I hadn't told a fib,
0:08:04 > 0:08:07'but I didn't want Grannie Island to know
0:08:07 > 0:08:09'how I'd messed everything up.'
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Grannie Island...
0:08:12 > 0:08:15There's something I need to tell you.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20It wasn't really raining.
0:08:20 > 0:08:25Well, you'd be very unlucky if you were the only one who was rained on!
0:08:25 > 0:08:28There's something else I need to tell you...
0:08:28 > 0:08:30PHONE RINGS
0:08:31 > 0:08:36Hello? Yes, she's right here next to me.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Oh, dear...
0:08:41 > 0:08:42Oh, dear.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44'It was my dad on the phone
0:08:44 > 0:08:48'and it turned out I hadn't guessed the names right at all!'
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Oh, no!
0:08:50 > 0:08:55'I'd mixed up the packages for Mr McMaster and the lady artist.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59'It would take him ages to paint his byre!
0:08:59 > 0:09:03'The brush I gave the lady artist was bigger than her painting!
0:09:03 > 0:09:06Mrs Bayview got fish hooks instead of seeds.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10And the holiday people got seeds instead of fish hooks.
0:09:10 > 0:09:11Oh, dear!
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Right...right, don't worry, Peter,
0:09:15 > 0:09:18the two of us will sort it out!
0:09:18 > 0:09:19Bye.
0:09:21 > 0:09:25So...there was something you needed to tell me, Katie Morag?
0:09:29 > 0:09:31'I told Grannie Island the whole story.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33'How I'd tried to help Mum and Dad
0:09:33 > 0:09:35'then dropped the mail bag in the water.
0:09:35 > 0:09:40'She agreed that guessing the parcels wasn't the best idea...
0:09:40 > 0:09:43'but everyone has silly ideas sometimes.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49'I felt so glad that she was going to help me put it all right.'
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Up you go now, there you go now.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55- Thanks, Grannie. - That's OK.
0:09:56 > 0:10:01Now, the important thing is you wanted to help, and you tried!
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Everybody makes mistakes.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07The trick is to learn from them,
0:10:07 > 0:10:10so you'll not make the same mistake again!
0:10:10 > 0:10:14Now, what will you do the next time you try to help
0:10:14 > 0:10:16and it all goes wrong?
0:10:16 > 0:10:17Tell someone.
0:10:17 > 0:10:21That's right. Because, a problem shared...
0:10:21 > 0:10:22Is a problem halved!
0:10:22 > 0:10:24That's my girl!
0:10:26 > 0:10:29'Grannie Island took me around all the houses,
0:10:29 > 0:10:31'and everyone was very kind.
0:10:31 > 0:10:35'Some of them even said it was a blessing in disguise!
0:10:35 > 0:10:39'Mr McMaster said it's much better to paint at the end of the day
0:10:39 > 0:10:41'when the sun's not so hot.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43The lady artist was happy too,
0:10:43 > 0:10:47cos in the meantime she'd had a better idea about what to paint!
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Mrs Bayview didn't mind her seeds being late,
0:10:50 > 0:10:52cos she hadn't finished weeding!
0:10:52 > 0:10:55And the holiday people were delighted,
0:10:55 > 0:10:58cos Grannie told them the best place to get fish!
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Hey there...everything all right?
0:11:12 > 0:11:16Oh, everything's dandy. Katie Morag invited me for tea.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19Well, hope you like baked beans!
0:11:24 > 0:11:27What on Earth are you doing?
0:11:27 > 0:11:31Well, if you think you can do any better...
0:11:31 > 0:11:33be my guest!
0:11:33 > 0:11:34And what's that for?
0:11:34 > 0:11:39- Well, how else were you planning to put the nails in?!- Oh!
0:11:39 > 0:11:44Get me a Phillips screwdriver, three-inch crossheads,
0:11:44 > 0:11:47a dozen Rawlplugs and a cup of strong coffee.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49You don't like coffee.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53It's not for me, it's for him... He's going to need it.
0:11:58 > 0:11:59SHE SIGHS
0:11:59 > 0:12:00How's Liam?
0:12:00 > 0:12:05Much better. I think we'll all have a good night's sleep tonight!
0:12:08 > 0:12:10What about those two?
0:12:10 > 0:12:12- LAUGHING:- I'm scared to ask!
0:12:19 > 0:12:21It's actually holding!
0:12:21 > 0:12:24All it needed was someone with an ounce of sense!
0:12:24 > 0:12:25That's not fair!
0:12:26 > 0:12:31The important thing is, he wanted to help and he tried!
0:12:31 > 0:12:34That's right, Katie Morag!
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Everybody makes mistakes.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38The trick is to learn from them,
0:12:38 > 0:12:41so you don't make the same mistakes again!
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Very well put!
0:12:44 > 0:12:46So it was.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51You're a fast learner, Neilly Beag, I'll give you that.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Maybe there's hope for him yet!
0:12:57 > 0:13:00'What a day it had been... I was absolutely exhausted!
0:13:00 > 0:13:04'But the thing I remembered most was what Grannie said
0:13:04 > 0:13:07'about learning from our mistakes.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10'I had certainly made a lot of them.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13'I'd probably make more, but if Grannie Island was right,
0:13:13 > 0:13:16'I could learn from every single one of them.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19'But there was one more thing I had to do.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22'Grannie Island gave me a torch, and if I can,
0:13:22 > 0:13:24'just before I go to bed,
0:13:24 > 0:13:27'I flash it across the bay, to her croft, to say, good night!
0:13:27 > 0:13:32'And then Grannie Island flashes her torch right back to me,
0:13:32 > 0:13:36'and no matter how I'm feeling, it will always make me smile!'
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