0:00:09 > 0:00:11# Katie Morag
0:00:11 > 0:00:13# Run 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# Run away across the ocean
0:00:22 > 0:00:24# Katie Morag
0:00:24 > 0:00:26# Over the seat to Struay. #
0:00:33 > 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
0:00:41 > 0:00:43'and everyone looks out for me
0:00:43 > 0:00:46'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 > 0:00:56This is the bedroom I share with my brother Liam.
0:00:56 > 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 pooh sticks.
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.'
0:01:19 > 0:01:21# Katie Morag. #
0:01:22 > 0:01:25'Neilly Beag had gone over in the ferry
0:01:25 > 0:01:28'to ask Grandma Mainland if she'd like to marry him.
0:01:28 > 0:01:33'He hadn't said that was why he was going, but everybody knew.'
0:01:33 > 0:01:37How do you think he asked her? Do you think he got down on one knee?
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Yeah, I think so too.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43'That's the thing about places like Struay.'
0:01:43 > 0:01:45SHE GASPS
0:01:45 > 0:01:48'Everyone knows everything about everything.'
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Honestly! You'd forget your head if it wasn't stuck on.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59'What we didn't know was if Grandma Mainland said yes.
0:01:59 > 0:02:04'And that's what everyone was desperate to find out.'
0:02:08 > 0:02:10She said...
0:02:10 > 0:02:11yes!
0:02:11 > 0:02:12Yes!
0:02:17 > 0:02:22- Can I go tell Grannie Island? - Of course you can.- I'm so excited.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Oh...
0:02:44 > 0:02:47It was really great. You should have been there.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50I've more important things to be getting on with.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52More important than a wedding?
0:02:52 > 0:02:54It wasn't a wedding, Katie Morag.
0:02:54 > 0:03:00It was Neilly Beag fetching up with a piece of very foreseeable news.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Well, there's going to be a wedding
0:03:02 > 0:03:06and we only have one week to get ready. What are you going to wear?
0:03:06 > 0:03:09- Who says I'm going? - Why wouldn't you?
0:03:09 > 0:03:12I don't particularly like weddings.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15- You enjoyed your own. - Well, that was different.
0:03:15 > 0:03:20That wasn't some foolishness by two folk old enough to know better.
0:03:25 > 0:03:26What?
0:03:26 > 0:03:29I'm trying to imagine you in a wedding dress.
0:03:40 > 0:03:41It's beautiful.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Uh-huh.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Still fits. More or less.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48You wore a crown?
0:03:49 > 0:03:51A tiara.
0:03:51 > 0:03:56Grandad brought it back for me from Paris.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Have you still got it?
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Aye, somewhere.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08Grandad in his uniform.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10He's handsome.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15Oh, look at the time. You'll be late for lunch.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Tablet!
0:04:37 > 0:04:39SHE KNOCKS
0:04:39 > 0:04:40Come in.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43- I forgot the tablet.- So you did.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47- Do you think he might come?- Who?
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Grandad Island.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Oh, I very much doubt it.
0:04:52 > 0:04:53Why not?
0:04:53 > 0:04:56Well, he'll be busy doing what he does best -
0:04:56 > 0:05:00scooting around the world in that helicopter of his.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02I don't think he'll have the time
0:05:02 > 0:05:05to come to Neilly Beag and Grandma Mainland's wedding.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08- You must miss him.- Sometimes.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14Come on, you'll be late for lunch.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16'I think you might agree with me -
0:05:16 > 0:05:20'sometimes grown-ups can be difficult to understand.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22'But I think I understood Grannie Island.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24'She liked living on her own
0:05:24 > 0:05:28'but once in a while I think she missed Grandad Island.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31'I had a brilliant plan to cheer her up.'
0:05:37 > 0:05:43Liam, what do you think of the letter I wrote to Grandma Mainland?
0:05:43 > 0:05:47"Dear Grandma Mainland, Grannie Island is down in the dumps
0:05:47 > 0:05:51"and I think it's because she's missing Grandad Island.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54"Could you please invite him to your wedding?
0:05:54 > 0:05:58"That way, he would come to Struay and she would get to see him,
0:05:58 > 0:06:02"and I think that would cheer her up a lot. Love, Katie Morag.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07"PS - I am very glad you said yes to Neilly Beag
0:06:07 > 0:06:09"when he asked you to marry him.
0:06:09 > 0:06:13"He is a very nice man and he will make a brilliant Grandpa.
0:06:13 > 0:06:18"PPS - Liam hopes you and Neilly Beag will have lots and lots of babies.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23"Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26"Kiss, kiss, kiss,
0:06:26 > 0:06:27"kiss.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30"Kiss, kiss, kiss."
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Liam, do you want to put the stamps on?
0:06:39 > 0:06:42'I could have sent an e-mail, of course,
0:06:42 > 0:06:48'but Grandma likes getting proper letters with an envelope and a stamp,
0:06:48 > 0:06:53'and anyway, Mum and Dad run the shop and post office here in Struay
0:06:53 > 0:06:56'and if nobody wrote letters from time to time,
0:06:56 > 0:06:59'they wouldn't have anything to do.'
0:07:24 > 0:07:28I knew it would take a while for Grandma Mainland to write back to me,
0:07:28 > 0:07:32'so over the next few days, I kept myself busy
0:07:32 > 0:07:35'getting everything ready for the big day.
0:07:35 > 0:07:40'Weddings are a lot of work. They're like your birthday,
0:07:40 > 0:07:43'Christmas Day and Halloween all rolled into one.'
0:07:58 > 0:07:59Nope.
0:08:06 > 0:08:07Hmm. I don't think so.
0:08:13 > 0:08:14Nah.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Definitely not.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Now that's a pair of wellies for a wedding.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Anything for me?
0:08:39 > 0:08:43'It was a bit soon for a reply from Grandma Mainland,
0:08:43 > 0:08:45'but there is no harm in hoping.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48Did you order half a dozen old copies
0:08:48 > 0:08:52of Bride and Bridegroom magazine?
0:08:52 > 0:08:53Hmm... Nope.
0:08:53 > 0:08:58Must be Neilly Beag, then. How about running them down to him?
0:09:00 > 0:09:05'Neilly Beag had decided to decorate the hall for the wedding himself,
0:09:05 > 0:09:09'and he was hoping to get some good ideas from the magazines.'
0:09:09 > 0:09:11I like this one.
0:09:11 > 0:09:16"Lady Araminta Abercrombie marries her prince."
0:09:18 > 0:09:20They've got brilliant decorations.
0:09:20 > 0:09:25Aye, but where would I be finding a dozen chandeliers?
0:09:25 > 0:09:28Or those crystal palm trees?
0:09:28 > 0:09:31We'd never bring them over on the ferry.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Well, not in one piece, anyway.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36I'm sure Grandma Mainland would like them.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Ah! What about these?
0:09:43 > 0:09:47- I love balloons.- Me too!
0:09:47 > 0:09:51'And balloons it was!
0:09:51 > 0:09:53'25 packets of them.'
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Come on, Katie Morag, keep up.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02'I always thought balloons were a bit like chocolate biscuits.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05'You can never really have too many,
0:10:05 > 0:10:08'but by the time we'd got through 15 packets,
0:10:08 > 0:10:10'I was beginning to change my mind.'
0:10:13 > 0:10:17'All the while, I kept my eye on Grannie Island, of course,
0:10:17 > 0:10:20'and I did my best to cheer her up.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23'I think all the talk about weddings
0:10:23 > 0:10:26reminded her how much she missed Grandad Island.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29'I could hardly wait for him to arrive.'
0:10:29 > 0:10:31- What?- Nothing.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33Katie Morag.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37- I'm just smiling, that's all.- Hmm.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40'It was going to be the best surprise ever!'
0:10:44 > 0:10:46- Anything for me?- Afraid not.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50What is it you're waiting for?
0:10:52 > 0:10:53Doesn't matter.
0:10:55 > 0:11:00'I knew it sometimes took a few days for letters to arrive,
0:11:00 > 0:11:03'so I wasn't too worried. Not yet, anyway.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07'I only really started worrying on the day of the wedding.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10I still hadn't heard back from Grandma Mainland
0:11:10 > 0:11:15'and I began to think that maybe she hadn't got my letter.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19'Neilly Beag was even more worried than me.'
0:11:19 > 0:11:22- Any sign?- No.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25You sit yourself down and I'll bring you a cuppa.
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Thanks.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29'Grandma Mainland was coming over on the ferry
0:11:29 > 0:11:32'but it was already half an hour late.'
0:11:32 > 0:11:35What if she doesn't come at all?
0:11:36 > 0:11:39All those balloons.
0:11:39 > 0:11:40HORN TOOTS
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Hey, that's the ferry in!
0:11:47 > 0:11:49'But his troubles weren't over yet.'
0:12:01 > 0:12:02She's not there.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06She's not coming.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09She must have changed her mind.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14I just knew it was all too good to be true.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18Of course she hasn't changed her mind.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21I'm sure there's a perfectly simple explanation.
0:12:21 > 0:12:26'Poor Neilly Beag. He'd been so excited about getting married
0:12:26 > 0:12:29'and now it looks as if it might not happen
0:12:29 > 0:12:32'and what about my big surprise for Grannie Island?
0:12:32 > 0:12:35'If Grandad didn't come, she'd never cheer up.'
0:12:36 > 0:12:38MOTOR WHIRS
0:13:09 > 0:13:13Katie Morag! Oh!
0:13:15 > 0:13:19The last time I saw you, you were this size.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22- I was never that size! - Well, you've certainly grown up.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24You're a beautiful big girl now.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Dad?
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Well, this is a surprise!
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Look at you. More like your mother every day.
0:13:37 > 0:13:42- Peter.- Nils.- 'Everything had worked out so perfectly
0:13:42 > 0:13:44'and the best was still to come.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47'I just couldn't wait to see Grannie Island's face
0:13:47 > 0:13:50'when she realised Grandad was here.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53'It was all going to be perfect.'