0:00:09 > 0:00:11# Katie Morag
0:00:11 > 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 > 0:00:24# Katie Morag
0:00:24 > 0:00:26# Over the sea to Struay.#
0:00:32 > 0:00:37'My name is Katie Morag McCall 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.'
0:00:47 > 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 > 0:00:59My mum says it's an absolute midden!
0:00:59 > 0:01:02This is the croft where Grannie Island lives.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04There are animals and hens.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07This is the Redburn Bridge where I play Pooh Sticks!
0:01:09 > 0:01:13And I think it's the best place in the whole entire world
0:01:13 > 0:01:16and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20# Katie Morag. #
0:01:24 > 0:01:27'Wednesday is delivery day here in Struay.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30'That's when all the packages and parcels come.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33'I always wonder if something exciting will arrive.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38'But today was a special day. This is the day my mum and dad
0:01:38 > 0:01:41'had to go to the hospital on the mainland
0:01:41 > 0:01:44cos their new baby was nearly ready to come out.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46'Grannie Island showed me how to knit
0:01:46 > 0:01:49'so I can make a blanket for the baby.'
0:01:51 > 0:01:53There, just in case Mum forgets,
0:01:53 > 0:01:56you'll be warm and cosy, little baby.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02'Grannie Island had picked up the boxes and parcels from the ferry
0:02:02 > 0:02:06'in the tractor, so people could come to collect their packages.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10'She was coming to live with me and Liam while the baby was coming.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13'Mum and Dad were happy she was there to help us,
0:02:13 > 0:02:15'especially on this day.'
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Here's your bag, Mum!
0:02:17 > 0:02:20- It's got my present in it! - Thank you, sweetheart.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23- Is the baby sleeping? - Have a wee listen.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28I can hear snoring.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30THEY LAUGH
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Have you thought of a name yet?
0:02:32 > 0:02:33We're working on it.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37- Mum!- Come on now, I've got work to do.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40Are you ever going to stop dusting?
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Well...
0:02:42 > 0:02:43I haven't done you yet!
0:02:43 > 0:02:46THEY SCREAM AND LAUGH
0:02:54 > 0:02:56Morning, Isabel.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Good morning, Neilly Beag.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02- It's a fine day, eh?- It is that.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Are you...ready?
0:03:05 > 0:03:07Och! Nowhere near!
0:03:07 > 0:03:09What can I get you today?
0:03:09 > 0:03:13I'll have a bag of castor sugar, please.
0:03:13 > 0:03:14Meringues again?
0:03:14 > 0:03:19Well, a man's got to bake what a man's got to bake!
0:03:19 > 0:03:20THEY LAUGH
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Here, I'll do that.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26- Whatever for? - Well, you're...
0:03:26 > 0:03:30I'm grand, thanks. Here!
0:03:34 > 0:03:37- I'll leave the money on the counter. - Thanks.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Bye.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46# There once was a cat, a very round cat
0:03:46 > 0:03:48# That sat with a rat on a tractor
0:03:48 > 0:03:50# On a tractor. #
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Do me a favour, love. Give Fabbydoo her breakfast.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57Can I feed Fabbydoo while you're away at the hospital?
0:03:57 > 0:03:58Absolutely.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02You are official chief cook and bottle-washer.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05SHE STRAINS
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Oh!
0:04:07 > 0:04:10Grannie Island says I'm growing every day,
0:04:10 > 0:04:12but I don't think my arms are.
0:04:12 > 0:04:13SHE LAUGHS
0:04:23 > 0:04:26'Fabbydoo was our lovely ginger cat
0:04:26 > 0:04:30'and I could always tell that breakfast was her favourite meal.'
0:04:42 > 0:04:45Liam, what did I say about spilling things?
0:04:57 > 0:05:02Abra-cat-abra! Ice buns for tea. Fabbydoo, come to me!
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Ice buns for tea. Fabbydoo, come to me!
0:05:10 > 0:05:11Dad!
0:05:14 > 0:05:16- Hm?- Fabbydoo's missing.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Probably out chasing mice.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23I wouldn't worry about it, sweetheart.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28SEAGULLS CALL
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Mum, I can't find Fabbydoo.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41Oh, I'm sure she'll be fine.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45Just chasing shadows or stalking chickens in the grass.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48But she never misses her meal.
0:05:48 > 0:05:53She'll be out enjoying herself. Remember what Grannie Island said.
0:05:53 > 0:05:58"A cat can squeeze nine lives worth of fun into every single day."
0:05:58 > 0:05:59SHE LAUGHS
0:05:59 > 0:06:00On the other hand,
0:06:00 > 0:06:04she might be hiding in that midden of a bedroom of yours.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07SHE LAUGHS
0:06:09 > 0:06:11Fabbydoo!
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Fabbydoo!
0:06:14 > 0:06:15Fabbydoo!
0:06:15 > 0:06:18'But no matter where I looked or how loud I yelled,
0:06:18 > 0:06:20'Fabbydoo didn't come.'
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Fabbydoo, where are you?
0:06:25 > 0:06:29'I was very puzzled. She had never gone missing before.'
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Where could she be?
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Whoa! Easy, tiger!
0:06:38 > 0:06:40You mind my good Isle of Lewis crockery there.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42That's you. OK.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50She'll turn up when she's hungry, sweetheart.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54But that's just it. She's always hungry!
0:06:54 > 0:06:57She eats her food before it's even on the plate.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01Look, you need to get to school now, Katie Morag, or you'll be late.
0:07:01 > 0:07:06But why don't you ask there? Maybe one of your friends has seen her.
0:07:06 > 0:07:12'I hoped Dad was right, but he wasn't. No-one had seen Fabbydoo.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15'Then Agnes said we should make a notice.
0:07:15 > 0:07:20'It was a brilliant idea and I was sure it was going to work.
0:07:20 > 0:07:21'But it didn't.'
0:07:31 > 0:07:34My! That's a long face.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37And that's a mucky one!
0:07:37 > 0:07:39Oh, my goodness!
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Och! KATIE LAUGHS
0:07:46 > 0:07:50So, you can't find her and you reckon she's off her food.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53- Well, she hasn't eaten anything. - Hmm.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Oh, I've got together a few things
0:07:55 > 0:07:58for your mum to take to the hospital too.
0:08:00 > 0:08:01What's that?
0:08:01 > 0:08:04It's peat water with a hint of bog myrtle.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08One wee sniff of that and she'll feel she's all the way back in Struay.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15And I've made up a CD with some nice wee tunes for her too.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18That's nice. What type of tunes?
0:08:18 > 0:08:22Oh, just a small selection of stirring bagpipe music.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27And last but not least, some of my porridges.
0:08:27 > 0:08:28BAGPIPE MUSIC PLAYS
0:08:28 > 0:08:33'I might have mentioned it before but Grannie Island's porridges
0:08:33 > 0:08:36'are the sweetest, stickiest, yummiest porridges
0:08:36 > 0:08:38'in the whole entire world.'
0:08:41 > 0:08:44The sooner your mum gets on that boat, the better.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46She's scarcely stopped working.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48I know, and a funny thing is happening.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52She keeps on dusting everything. She even dusted me!
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Sounds like she's nesting.
0:08:54 > 0:08:59- What's that?- Well, you know the big osprey that flies back across
0:08:59 > 0:09:02the sea to Struay after her long winter in Africa?
0:09:02 > 0:09:08Well, before she does anything like lay an egg, she tidies her nest.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12She barely eats a thing until it's absolutely perfect.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15We don't live in a nest!
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Well, what do you think your house is?
0:09:18 > 0:09:23Oh, it may not be made of leaves and twigs, but it's her nest.
0:09:23 > 0:09:27And she has to make it nice and clean and tidy for the new arrival.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Let's get these things over to her
0:09:29 > 0:09:32and we'll do some big cat hunting on the way!
0:09:35 > 0:09:39'I looked out for Fabbydoo the whole way back...
0:09:39 > 0:09:42'..but there was still no sign of her.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45'So, I tried to think of all the places I could look
0:09:45 > 0:09:47'when I got home.'
0:09:52 > 0:09:55'There was a shed where she goes for an afternoon snooze.'
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Woo!
0:09:57 > 0:09:59SHE LAUGHS
0:10:01 > 0:10:03THEY LAUGH
0:10:06 > 0:10:08'And the loft where she chases mice.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15'And then there was the coal bunker.'
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Is she in here?
0:10:19 > 0:10:20No.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23But I found Peggy Doll.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24SHE LAUGHS
0:10:24 > 0:10:29Aye, it's an ill wind that doesn't dry somebody's washing!
0:10:35 > 0:10:39It's hard to imagine that Peggy was my doll when I was your size,
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Katie Morag. And then she was your mum's.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48- Was she?- Indeed she was. Now, where's that card you made her?
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Here!
0:10:50 > 0:10:53Your mum will treasure this.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55That's everything, I think.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58- Except for Fabbydoo.- True...
0:10:58 > 0:11:02but I have a feeling she'll turn up much sooner than you think.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06Now, let's get everything in the bag before we forget.
0:11:06 > 0:11:07CAT MEOWS
0:11:09 > 0:11:13- Grannie Island?- Mm-hm. - There's something in here.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18- There's something moving. - Oh, not at all!
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Good gracious!
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Oh!
0:11:22 > 0:11:24- Fabbydoo!- Yes, look!
0:11:24 > 0:11:26FABBYDOO PURRS
0:11:26 > 0:11:29Right. There you go, Fabbydoo.
0:11:30 > 0:11:31And that's not all.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38- GASPING:- Oh, she's had kittens!
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Oh, they're beautiful!
0:11:40 > 0:11:45All that time, Fabbydoo has been nesting, just like your mum,
0:11:45 > 0:11:49finding somewhere nice and cosy to put her lovely wee kittens.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53And what could be nicer and cosier than that blanket you knitted?
0:11:53 > 0:11:55KITTEN MEOWS
0:11:58 > 0:12:02Now, where did I put that bag?
0:12:02 > 0:12:05- We found Fabbydoo.- Oh, good! Where was she?
0:12:05 > 0:12:08- In your bag.- What?!
0:12:08 > 0:12:11And that's not all we found.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13KITTENS MEOW
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Oh, my goodness!
0:12:16 > 0:12:20- I didn't even realise. - Well, you had a lot on your mind.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24We figured that you wouldn't want to disturb the kittens,
0:12:24 > 0:12:26so we've put together a fresh bag for you.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28SHE GASPS
0:12:28 > 0:12:30SHE LAUGHS
0:12:32 > 0:12:33FERRY HORN BLOWS
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Right. Come on, you two.
0:12:35 > 0:12:41The ferry waits for no-one - man, woman or, as yet, unnamed child!
0:12:41 > 0:12:42- Come on.- Come on.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Good luck.
0:12:55 > 0:12:56Bye!
0:13:03 > 0:13:06- Right, then, we had better get to work.- Work?
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Well, there are three kittens in here
0:13:08 > 0:13:11and they're not going to name themselves. Come on!
0:13:11 > 0:13:14Here we go. Good boy.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20Well, you won't need this tonight, Katie Morag.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Night, night.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24- Night, night.- There you go.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33Good night wee Tumshie and tiny Mince
0:13:33 > 0:13:35and tiny, wee Tatties.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37KITTENS MEOW
0:13:39 > 0:13:43And good night Mum and Dad, and Baby too,
0:13:43 > 0:13:46whatever your name turns out to be.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd