0:00:07 > 0:00:09# Katie Morag
0:00:09 > 0:00:13# Far away across the ocean
0:00:13 > 0:00:15# Katie Morag
0:00:15 > 0:00:17# Over the sea to Struay
0:00:17 > 0:00:19# Katie Morag
0:00:19 > 0:00:22# Far away across the ocean
0:00:22 > 0:00:23# Katie Morag
0:00:23 > 0:00:26# Over the sea to Struay. #
0:00:32 > 0:00:37My name is Katie Morag McColl and I live on the island of Struay.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41I suppose it's quite wee but it's ginormous to me and everyone
0:00:41 > 0:00:46looks 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.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01This is the croft where Grannie Island lives
0:01:01 > 0:01:04with her animals and hens.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07This is the Redburn Bridge where I play Pooh Sticks.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11And I think it's the best place
0:01:11 > 0:01:13in the whole entire world
0:01:13 > 0:01:14and I wouldn't want
0:01:14 > 0:01:16to live anywhere else.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26'One of my favourite things in the world is painting pictures.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30'Mum says it's cos I'm creative and that's a good thing.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33'Though she wishes I wasn't so creative
0:01:33 > 0:01:36'when it comes to making a mess.
0:01:36 > 0:01:41'Mum says I might be a real painter like the Lady Artist one day.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47'I like doing big, enormous pictures
0:01:47 > 0:01:50'and sometimes I just can't help making a mess.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56'Then Mum tells me I'm just a burachy wee girl.
0:01:56 > 0:02:00'Burachy is one of my mum's favourite words.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04'It means very messy indeed.'
0:02:04 > 0:02:07That's our house, shop and post office.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09There's the new pier.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12There's Grannie Island
0:02:12 > 0:02:15and there's you and me.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Let's see yours, Liam.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24Very good. Well, very good at mixing colours.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32No, Mrs Baxter, the bananas aren't in that box.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34They're over there. I'll get them.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38Hurry up, then, or there'll be none left and you know how much
0:02:38 > 0:02:41I love a banana or two, especially in a banana cake.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44- I do, I do.- Do you know...?
0:02:44 > 0:02:48Sorry, Mrs Baxter, but the visitors ordered that box of bananas.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53There you are. Oh!
0:02:55 > 0:02:57And here's your mail.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59And sorry, the paint's all gone.
0:02:59 > 0:03:03Neilly Beag was whitewashing the Lady Artist's house.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07Bye. Enjoy your holidays.
0:03:07 > 0:03:12A whole box of bananas. How many are they planning to eat?
0:03:12 > 0:03:16It'll be one of those fancy mainland diets, no doubt.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19As if they couldn't have brought their own bananas
0:03:19 > 0:03:22from one of those super shops on the mainland.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26Oh, I'll be glad when summer's over.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40Mum! Mum! Come and see our painting.
0:03:40 > 0:03:44And please can we have some really big paper to do another one?
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Oh, Katie Morag, you know it's boat delivery day.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51We'll have a look at your pictures after the shop has closed.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53Why don't you run along to the Lady Artist's?
0:03:53 > 0:03:57- She'll have loads of big paper. - No, she won't.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01- She does tiny wee paintings. - Katie Morag, please!
0:04:01 > 0:04:04What have I said about answering back?
0:04:04 > 0:04:08Now, off you go, like a good girl.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11Neilly Beag is along at the Lady Artist's painting the walls.
0:04:11 > 0:04:15- He'd appreciate some help, I'm sure, Katie Morag.- Boring!
0:04:17 > 0:04:21Come on, Liam, we might as well go along to the Lady Artist's.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23Tell them to call us when you get there.
0:04:23 > 0:04:28'It was very annoying being an artist and having nothing to paint on...
0:04:29 > 0:04:33'..but the Lady Artist might know where to get big pieces of paper...'
0:04:33 > 0:04:34Aye aye, Katie Morag.
0:04:34 > 0:04:38'..and if she didn't, Grannie Island definitely would.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41'She knows everything about everything.'
0:04:49 > 0:04:54Hello, Katie Morag. Hello, Liam. Have you come to help?
0:04:54 > 0:04:58Now make sure you don't walk under the ladder.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02- Why not?- It's bad luck.
0:05:02 > 0:05:06Is the Lady Artist here? I need some really big paper.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09I was wondering if she knew where I could get some.
0:05:09 > 0:05:13Did you not pass herself and Sasha on the way to the shop?
0:05:13 > 0:05:16She ran out of biscuits and tea for the tea break.
0:05:16 > 0:05:21Here, maybe you could set the table for her before she comes back, eh?
0:05:21 > 0:05:22No, thanks.
0:05:22 > 0:05:27The paper's really very important. Maybe Grannie Island will have some.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33All right, then. Good luck.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35'Being an artist is hard work.
0:05:35 > 0:05:40'Even before you start painting, you have to have the right materials.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44'Mum sometimes makes me use the back of an old cereal packet.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47'I bet the Lady Artist never has to do that.'
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Grannie Island! THUD!
0:05:49 > 0:05:51Ouch! Come in.
0:05:51 > 0:05:56- I really need your help.- Well, of course, Katie Morag, what is it?
0:05:56 > 0:06:00I'm going to be an artist when I grow up and I really need to practise.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04- I really need some big paper as well...- Oh!- ..and nobody has one.
0:06:04 > 0:06:08- You need a piece of paper? - A really big one.
0:06:08 > 0:06:13Well, the only bits of paper I have are empty sheep feed sacks.
0:06:13 > 0:06:18- If they can be any use, I could iron them flat for you.- Sheep feed sacks?
0:06:18 > 0:06:22No, thanks, Grannie Island. An artist needs real paper, you know.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26Oh, well, I wouldn't know anything about that,
0:06:26 > 0:06:31but I do know that the first ever artists were just men and women who
0:06:31 > 0:06:36lived in caves a long time ago and painted pictures on the cave walls.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40Nobody paints on walls nowadays, do they?
0:06:40 > 0:06:42Well, yes, they do a bit,
0:06:42 > 0:06:46like the inside of your Uncle Matthew's house.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Paintings on walls are called murals.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53Maybe you could be a mural painter one day, Katie Morag.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56Anyway, I've got to get going.
0:06:56 > 0:07:00I promised Neilly Beag I'd help him paint the Lady Artist's house.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Now, you two help yourselves to the porridgies.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07Only two each, mind, and then follow me up afterwards.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Thank you very much, Grannie Island.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13That Lady Artist, she never has any biscuits in her tin
0:07:13 > 0:07:18and she's always running out of tea, but I'll see Neilly Beag right.
0:07:19 > 0:07:25Now, catch me up when you're finished. I'll be watching for you.
0:07:28 > 0:07:29Hi, Katie.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Hello.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14'At least Liam has found something to paint on.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17'It looked like one of the cave paintings
0:08:17 > 0:08:19'Grannie Island was talking about.'
0:08:44 > 0:08:48And I'm so glad you came over with the tea break, Grannie Island.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52Would you believe it, the shop ran out of biscuits and tea?
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Aye, well, you have to be at the shop
0:08:54 > 0:08:56at the crack of dawn on boat day.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59You'd be best making your own biscuits.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Katie Morag wanted to see you, Lady Artist,
0:09:02 > 0:09:06something to do with paper, said it needed to be big.
0:09:06 > 0:09:11- She seemed to really keen. - Aye, she came to see me too.
0:09:11 > 0:09:12I told her she could have paper
0:09:12 > 0:09:15from the sheep feed sacks for her painting.
0:09:15 > 0:09:20Knowing Katie Morag, she will want the whitest of white paper
0:09:20 > 0:09:24and no creases on. Oh, I do love teaching art at the school.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28The children have such imagination.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34Och, well, I'd better get back to work.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38One more final coat on the gable end and that will be it.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41I'm afraid Sasha and I will have to abandon you.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43We're taking Gertie the goat for a walk.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56Oh, my beautiful white wall!
0:09:56 > 0:09:59Just what do the two of you think you're doing?
0:09:59 > 0:10:02We're being artists like cave painters.
0:10:02 > 0:10:07Quick, Neilly Beag, get the hose before the Lady Artist sees this.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11This is appalling behaviour, Katie Morag,
0:10:11 > 0:10:13you're old enough to know better.
0:10:13 > 0:10:18Oh, deary, deary me, the Lady Artist is going to be so upset.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Now, I'll get some scrubbing brushes
0:10:21 > 0:10:24and then the two of you can get scrubbing, OK?
0:10:37 > 0:10:38- Scrub it.- Scrub away there.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Here comes the Lady Artist.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55- I don't know what to say. - Oh, don't you fret.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58We've just got one more coat of whitewash to put on the wall
0:10:58 > 0:11:02- and then it will be as good as new. - No, wait.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05This could be the beginning of something very special.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09I've always wanted to make a large painting, a mural,
0:11:09 > 0:11:14but I've never had the courage. Will you all help me?
0:11:14 > 0:11:19I'll get my paintbrushes. Oh, this is tremendously exciting.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29That's beautiful! Oh, Liam, is that End Island?
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Keep painting.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56I'm not really an artist, I'm not much good at it.
0:12:00 > 0:12:01Carry on, Neilly Beag.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07Isn't that just wonderful?
0:12:40 > 0:12:45'We were lucky not to get into big trouble for painting on the wall.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47'Most folk would have been really cross,
0:12:47 > 0:12:50'but the Lady Artist seemed pleased.
0:12:50 > 0:12:55'She said people would come from all over to see her beautiful mural,
0:12:55 > 0:12:58'which would be absolutely fabbydoo.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04'But even though painting the wall was fun,
0:13:04 > 0:13:07'if I do become a real artist,
0:13:07 > 0:13:09'I think I'll just use pieces of paper -
0:13:09 > 0:13:13'that way visitors can take their paintings home with them
0:13:13 > 0:13:17'and put them up in their very own houses and who knows?
0:13:17 > 0:13:22'One day, there may be pictures of Struay all over the world.'
0:13:24 > 0:13:27WHISPERS: Good night, Grannie Island.