0:00:06 > 0:00:09# Katie Morag
0:00:09 > 0:00:11# Far away across the ocean
0:00:11 > 0:00:13# Katie Morag
0:00:13 > 0:00:15# Over the sea to Struay
0:00:15 > 0:00:17# Katie Morag
0:00:17 > 0:00:19# Far away, across the ocean
0:00:19 > 0:00:22# Katie Morag
0:00:22 > 0:00:24# Over the sea to Struay
0:00:24 > 0:00:26# Katie Morag. #
0:00:27 > 0:00:29LAUGHTER
0:00:29 > 0:00:31'I love parties.
0:00:31 > 0:00:36'And I reckon Grannie Island's are the best in the whole wide world.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38'They go on way past our bed time.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42'But as long as we've brushed our teeth and put on our jammies,
0:00:42 > 0:00:44'we're allowed to stay up.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47'Grannie Island doesn't call them parties,
0:00:47 > 0:00:48'she calls them ceilidhs.'
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Right then, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen,
0:00:58 > 0:01:00let's gather round.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Who's ready, tonight,
0:01:03 > 0:01:06for some real entertainment?
0:01:06 > 0:01:08APPLAUSE
0:01:08 > 0:01:11I love it when my big boy cousins come to visit,
0:01:11 > 0:01:13especially when they're here
0:01:13 > 0:01:15for one of Grannie Island's ceilidhs.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25# Donald, where's your troosers? #
0:01:29 > 0:01:33Right, everyone, it's story time.
0:01:33 > 0:01:34And whose turn is it
0:01:34 > 0:01:37- to pin the tail on the island? - Me! Me! Me!
0:01:37 > 0:01:38Me! Me! Me!
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Not this time.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Jamie, I think it's your turn. Eh?
0:01:50 > 0:01:54We always play Pin The Tail at Grannie Island's ceilidhs.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58The children take turns sticking a wee pin onto the map of Struay.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Then, one of the grown-ups tells us a tale about that part of the island.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11It's the Blue Eye Lighthouse.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Now, who knows a story about the Blue Eye Lighthouse?
0:02:14 > 0:02:18- I've got one. - Granma Mainland it is, then.
0:02:23 > 0:02:28This is a story about a wee girl called Gertrude Isabel Tyldesley,
0:02:28 > 0:02:31who was born right here on the island of Struay.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34Back in those days, folk knew her as Little Izzy,
0:02:34 > 0:02:39though it's been a good few years since anybody called her that.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Nowadays, she's better known by another name -
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Grannie Island.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Now, Izzy loved going to school.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51But she loved the summer holidays even more.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53The days seemed to go on for ever
0:02:53 > 0:02:56and Izzy would be out from morning till night
0:02:56 > 0:02:58playing with the other children.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Then one day disaster struck.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04The summer holidays had just begun
0:03:04 > 0:03:07and little Izzy was looking forward to all the fun
0:03:07 > 0:03:08she was going to have,
0:03:08 > 0:03:12when all of a sudden she fell ill.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16And her face broke out in bright red spots.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18Now, Mrs Tilsley called the doctor
0:03:18 > 0:03:21and he came over from the mainland right away.
0:03:21 > 0:03:26He took one look at Izzy, gave her some horrible-tasting medicine
0:03:26 > 0:03:31and said that she had to stay in bed for the next three days.
0:03:31 > 0:03:32Poor Izzy.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36She was so bored. But the medicine worked
0:03:36 > 0:03:39and by the end of the week she was up and about again.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43But though she felt better, the spots were still there.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Now, most folk didn't realise it,
0:03:46 > 0:03:48but Izzy was a shy girl.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52And sometimes she felt like the odd one out.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55Now, usually when she felt that way
0:03:55 > 0:03:58she just gritted her teeth and got on with things.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01But after a while the feeling would go away.
0:04:01 > 0:04:07But that was before her face had become covered in bright red spots.
0:04:07 > 0:04:12Now that it was, she worried that the others might tease her.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15So she kept herself hidden away inside the house,
0:04:15 > 0:04:19wishing those stupid spots would just hurry up and disappear.
0:04:19 > 0:04:24Now, she was bored and, oh, she was miserable.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28All they had in Izzy's house were dozens and dozens of books
0:04:28 > 0:04:32and most of them weren't even the type of books Izzy liked.
0:04:32 > 0:04:36Normally she'd help her mum feed the sheep and cut the peats,
0:04:36 > 0:04:39and in the evening they'd stroll along the beach
0:04:39 > 0:04:42collecting firewood and looking in the rock pools.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47But Izzy didn't even want to do that.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Izzy's mum was beside herself.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Children need fresh air and exercise.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56But Izzy point-blank refused to leave the house.
0:04:56 > 0:05:01She just lay in her bed getting paler and paler
0:05:01 > 0:05:04and more and more miserable.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08By the third day she was even off her food
0:05:08 > 0:05:11and this was a child who could eat five porridges
0:05:11 > 0:05:14and still have room for dinner!
0:05:14 > 0:05:19Yet, try as she might, Mrs Tilsley couldn't cheer Izzy up.
0:05:19 > 0:05:24Then one day Mrs Tilsley came in carrying a mysterious wooden casket
0:05:24 > 0:05:28about the size and shape of a shoe box.
0:05:28 > 0:05:33Izzy was extremely curious and asked her what it was for.
0:05:33 > 0:05:38"Oh, this is a very special box," her mum replied. "In fact...
0:05:38 > 0:05:40"it's a magic box.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44"It contains a secret that will make you feel a whole lot better."
0:05:44 > 0:05:48"Oh, well hurry up and open it," Izzy said.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51But it wasn't as easy as that.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55You see, the box was locked and no-one knew where the key was.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59But underneath this magic box somebody had written
0:05:59 > 0:06:01a set of directions.
0:06:01 > 0:06:06And if you followed them you would find where the key was hidden.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10Best of all, the directions pointed away from the village,
0:06:10 > 0:06:12so if Izzy went looking,
0:06:12 > 0:06:15there wasn't much chance of her bumping into any
0:06:15 > 0:06:17of the other children.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20By now the wee girl was desperate to feel better.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23So she got out of bed, put on her wellingtons,
0:06:23 > 0:06:27slipped the box under her arm, and set off to find the key.
0:06:27 > 0:06:32The directions sent Izzy on a long, long walk.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35All the way over the Hermit's Hut.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Along the Boorachie Bog.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40Then up into the Fossil Cave.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43When she finally got there she started searching around
0:06:43 > 0:06:48and after a minute or two she found a rickety old wicker basket.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52Inside the basket there was a large glass bottle.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56And inside the bottle there was a tiny metal key.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Izzy was so happy.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02But when she slipped the key into the box and opened it,
0:07:02 > 0:07:07she found that inside there, there was another slightly smaller box.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10And it was locked, too.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13Izzy turned it upside down and discovered that this box
0:07:13 > 0:07:16had a whole new set of directions written on it.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20The wee girl was determined to get to the bottom of this mystery.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23So she set off again right away.
0:07:23 > 0:07:28This time the instructions sent her past the Standing Stones,
0:07:28 > 0:07:29through the Windy Gap,
0:07:29 > 0:07:33and all the way up to Sir Robert's Folly.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36Where she found yet another glass bottle
0:07:36 > 0:07:39containing yet another key.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42She opened the second box.
0:07:42 > 0:07:47And you've guessed it - there was a third, even smaller box.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50Izzy couldn't believe it.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52But there was no way she could give up now.
0:07:52 > 0:07:58So she read the instructions and set off on journey number three.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01This time, the directions sent her past the Heron Wood,
0:08:01 > 0:08:05all the way up to Spider Gully along the Sea Bird Cliffs,
0:08:05 > 0:08:11until finally she arrived at the Blue Eye Lighthouse.
0:08:11 > 0:08:16When she got there she found a third bottle and a third key.
0:08:16 > 0:08:22Izzy opened the lid nervously, peeked inside and was overjoyed
0:08:22 > 0:08:26to discover a roll of paper tied up with a tiny red ribbon.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29She quickly untied it, unrolled the paper,
0:08:29 > 0:08:33and found a message written in very neat handwriting.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37It said,
0:08:37 > 0:08:39"To the finder of the secret,
0:08:39 > 0:08:44"you are invited to a picnic behind the Blue Eye Lighthouse.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47"Dress casual."
0:08:47 > 0:08:51And then she heard the unmistakable sound of her mum
0:08:51 > 0:08:53chuckling to herself.
0:08:53 > 0:08:57Izzy sprinted round to the other side of the lighthouse
0:08:57 > 0:09:01and found Mrs Tilsley sitting on a big tartan rug
0:09:01 > 0:09:04with a spread of delicious-looking sandwiches
0:09:04 > 0:09:09and the yummiest cream cakes she had ever seen.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13You might think Izzy would have been cross at being tricked like that,
0:09:13 > 0:09:14but she wasn't.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17Her mum knew that fresh air and exercise
0:09:17 > 0:09:19was what Izzy really needed.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23And this wild goose chase all around the island
0:09:23 > 0:09:26had been her way of making sure she got it.
0:09:26 > 0:09:32The two of them sat and ate until there wasn't a single crumb left.
0:09:32 > 0:09:36Then walked slowly back to the house.
0:09:36 > 0:09:41And as Izzy lay in bed that night, tired but happy,
0:09:41 > 0:09:45she had to admit that her mum had been right.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48The magic box really had contained the secret
0:09:48 > 0:09:51that would make her feel better.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53In fact, she felt so much better,
0:09:53 > 0:09:56that the following morning she went out
0:09:56 > 0:10:01and played with the other children until the sun went down.
0:10:01 > 0:10:02And you know what?
0:10:02 > 0:10:05They didn't mention her spots once!
0:10:11 > 0:10:15Who would have thought that Grannie Island was a shy wee girl.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18Well, I'm still shy but I hide it well.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Alistair and Jane, time for some music.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25'We loved the ceilidh stories and always want to hear more
0:10:25 > 0:10:30'but Grannie Island always says the same thing - "Time for some music."
0:10:30 > 0:10:33'And by the time the grown-ups have finished dancing
0:10:33 > 0:10:35'we're usually fast asleep.'
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