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 > 0:00:48This is where I live with my family.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51My mum and dad run the shop and post office.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54This is the bedroom I share with my brother Liam.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57My mum says it's an absolute midden.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01This is the croft where Grannie Island lives
0:01:01 > 0:01:02with her animals and hens.
0:01:02 > 0:01:08This is the village where Neilly Beag lives.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09Hello, how are you doing?
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. #
0:01:22 > 0:01:24I love playing with Grandma Mainland,
0:01:24 > 0:01:29especially when she brings round all her rings and bracelets.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31She calls them her golden treasures.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34I recon Grandma Mainland must be the shiniest,
0:01:34 > 0:01:37sparkliest grandma in the whole entire world.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Yes...
0:01:39 > 0:01:43Now, the Queen of Denmark had one just like it.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48Which is funny when you think about it cos my other Grannie
0:01:48 > 0:01:50isn't shiny and sparkly at all.
0:01:52 > 0:01:53DOOR CLICKS
0:01:55 > 0:01:59Oh, you're just in time. Now, hold this for me.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03I'm running out of hands. Where did I put that washer?
0:02:03 > 0:02:08- It's on your finger, silly!- Oh! So it is. Right, let's see.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15- Grannie Island?- Mm-hmm? - Why don't you have any jewellery?
0:02:16 > 0:02:18Well, there's a brooch on the shelf over there.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20You can have it if you like.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24But I mean fancy stuff like rings and necklaces.
0:02:24 > 0:02:31- Well, I had a ring once but I lost it cutting peat.- That's awful!
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Oh, no-no, we got the insurance money back.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37So did you buy another one?
0:02:37 > 0:02:42Well, I thought about it but I got myself a new generator instead.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44What was it like?
0:02:44 > 0:02:50- Petrol-driven, very reliable. - No, I mean the ring.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54Well, it was round. I don't know.
0:02:54 > 0:03:00It was gold and had a wee blue stone on the top. An opal, I think.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03- Sounds lovely.- Well, if you like that kind of thing.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06'It just didn't seem fair.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09'Grandma Mainland had all those golden treasures
0:03:09 > 0:03:13'and Grannie Island didn't even have one.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15'And then I had one of my brilliant ideas.'
0:03:17 > 0:03:20Me and Liam had tons of stuff we didn't use anymore.
0:03:20 > 0:03:25If we sold it all I could buy Grannie Island a brand-new ring
0:03:25 > 0:03:27like the one she lost.
0:03:29 > 0:03:36- Oh! What a lovely painting! Who did that?- Liam.- Liam?
0:03:36 > 0:03:41- Was that you that did the painting? Oh, wow!- (It's supposed to be me.)
0:03:42 > 0:03:47- Hmm, how much are you asking?- 20p.
0:03:51 > 0:03:52Mm.
0:03:55 > 0:04:01Here you go, thank you. A pleasure doing business with you. Bye!
0:04:01 > 0:04:03- Bye-bye!- Bye!
0:04:10 > 0:04:17- How much did you make?- 20p.- Hmm. Does it have to be solid gold?- Yup.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20How about a pearl instead of an opal?
0:04:20 > 0:04:27- I want it just like her old one.- OK then. I reckon this is the cheapest.
0:04:27 > 0:04:32- How much?- Including package and postage, £758.38.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36How long will it take me to make all that?
0:04:36 > 0:04:40At that rate you'll need to be out there every day for the next...
0:04:40 > 0:04:44Ten years, four months and three weeks.
0:04:44 > 0:04:45I'll be an old grannie by then!
0:04:47 > 0:04:50'After lunch, we opened our wee shop again.' Can we help you?
0:04:51 > 0:04:56Well, I hope so. I'm looking for something very particular.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02The leg of a dinosaur. Maybe about that big.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04And I'd be wanting it in green.
0:05:05 > 0:05:06Ha!
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Ha!
0:05:08 > 0:05:16Well, I never! Ideal size and just the right colour!
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Oh, dear!
0:05:18 > 0:05:22That's a left leg. Where's the right leg I was looking for?
0:05:24 > 0:05:28But I'll keep it anyway. Wait till I get money for you.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35- Thank you.- What are you collecting money for, anyway?
0:05:35 > 0:05:38I want to buy Grannie Island a new lovely gold ring
0:05:38 > 0:05:42- like the one she lost.- Och, why would you buy it?
0:05:42 > 0:05:48There's probably enough gold rings to fill a whole bathtub around here.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51- What do you mean? - Have you ever heard of Captain Kidd?
0:05:52 > 0:05:57Well, Captain Kidd was a sailor. He was a pirate. Arr!
0:05:57 > 0:05:58And do you know what he did?
0:05:58 > 0:06:03He buried a whole load of treasure behind the old sailmaker's house
0:06:03 > 0:06:07- right here on Struay.- We don't have a sailmaker's house in Struay.
0:06:08 > 0:06:13Well, there isn't now but there was. It fell down 100 years ago.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Do you know where it was?
0:06:16 > 0:06:20Right over there beside your post office.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33Finding the treasure wasn't going to be easy but it had to be better
0:06:33 > 0:06:37than selling toys every day for the next ten years.
0:06:37 > 0:06:41- Anything was better than that. - That's a wee shame.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45- You should tell her to stop. - What if the legend's true?- Och!
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Maybe just a little longer.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50She's doing a grand job for my vegetable patch!
0:06:51 > 0:06:56That's enough Katie Morag, you'll give yourself blisters.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58DOOR CREAKS
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Well, that's some digging you've been doing in the garden.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07- Are you building a swimming pool? - Well...
0:07:07 > 0:07:11Och, don't worry, Neilly Beag told me all about it. Silly bodach!
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Filling her head with all that nonsense.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17She's going to be very disappointed if she doesn't find anything.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19I should imagine she will.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24After a wee break I carried on digging and digging...
0:07:24 > 0:07:27- How's it going?- ..hoping I'd find something.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Well I found the other dinosaur leg
0:07:30 > 0:07:36but I'm beginning to think the legend's a whole load of nonsense.
0:07:36 > 0:07:37TWANG!
0:07:37 > 0:07:39- Oh!- Oh! What is it?
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Oh, my goodness!
0:07:49 > 0:07:51What is it?
0:07:53 > 0:07:56A list of instructions for those who seek the
0:07:56 > 0:08:02- golden treasure of Struay. It's a treasure map!- What does it say?
0:08:02 > 0:08:04When the clock reaches four wrap your neck with a shawl
0:08:04 > 0:08:08- and begin the adventure at Castle McColl.- Why would you need a shawl?
0:08:08 > 0:08:13- And why four o'clock? - Probably some weird pirate thing.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Well, we'd best get going! It's almost four o'clock now!
0:08:20 > 0:08:23- It's a minute to four.- Just in time.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Oh, just imagine, a few hundred years ago
0:08:26 > 0:08:27your ancestors would have been
0:08:27 > 0:08:31roasting their venison and telling their stories on this very spot.
0:08:31 > 0:08:35- I bet they had brilliant fun. - I bet they did. So, what's next?
0:08:35 > 0:08:42Erm, erm, journey up the track past the home of the snipe till you
0:08:42 > 0:08:47bump into the world's biggest clipe. Snipe? Isn't that a bird?
0:08:47 > 0:08:51Yes, and there's a bunch of them by the Bonnie Loch.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Bonnie Loch it is, then!
0:08:54 > 0:08:55Come on lazy bones!
0:09:00 > 0:09:04- Ah, the Bonnie Loch. - It really is Bonnie.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08We should come here more often. So, what's next?
0:09:08 > 0:09:10The world's biggest clipe.
0:09:11 > 0:09:16- What on Earth does that mean? - Er, telltale, is that a clipe?
0:09:16 > 0:09:22- A telltale, a teller of tales! Katie Morag, you're a genius!- I am?
0:09:22 > 0:09:25Where did you and Dad stop for your picnic last time you went to
0:09:25 > 0:09:29- visit Uncle Matthew? - The standing stones?- Uh-huh.
0:09:29 > 0:09:33And what do the old folk of Struay call the standing stones?
0:09:33 > 0:09:35The Teller of Tales! I AM a genius!
0:09:35 > 0:09:37ISOBEL LAUGHS
0:09:45 > 0:09:46There!
0:09:48 > 0:09:53The Teller of Tales. I always forget how amazing they are.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57I wonder who brought them here. Maybe it was our ancestors.
0:09:57 > 0:10:01Hmm, I don't know. But they're REALLY ancient.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04Grannie Island was probably still at school!
0:10:04 > 0:10:08- I'm telling her you said that!- Oh, and who's the clipe now?
0:10:11 > 0:10:13Onwards and upwards, past this and past that
0:10:13 > 0:10:16but be warned you'll have to hold on to your hat.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19- Oh! - SPLASH! - Oh...
0:10:20 > 0:10:24It's not our hats we need to hold on to, it's our wellies!
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Oh, I need a breather!
0:10:28 > 0:10:32"Onwards and upwards, past this and past that..."
0:10:32 > 0:10:35But be warned, you'll have to hold on to your hat.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38Why would we need to hold on to our hats?
0:10:38 > 0:10:40I know!
0:10:40 > 0:10:44Oh, I wish she wouldn't keep doing that!
0:10:44 > 0:10:46SQUELCH
0:10:53 > 0:10:59- Here we are!- The Paps of Struay. Well, how do you know...
0:10:59 > 0:11:03- Oh!- 'I had remembered Neilly Beag told me of a time
0:11:03 > 0:11:06'when his bunnet had blown right off his head up at the Windy Gap.'
0:11:10 > 0:11:14- Which way?- There is but one last stop to make where
0:11:14 > 0:11:17Bobby made his big mistake.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20- Do you know anyone called Bobby? - Bobby Campbell?
0:11:20 > 0:11:23He runs a tropical-fish shop in Trotternish.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Has he made any mistakes?
0:11:25 > 0:11:28Opening a tropical fish shop in Trotternish.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32He wouldn't have been born when the map was written.
0:11:32 > 0:11:36- Let's keep walking, maybe something will jog my memory.- Which way?
0:11:36 > 0:11:40It's either left to Shell Bay or right to Sir Robert's Folly.
0:11:40 > 0:11:45- What's a folly?- Something that's silly or foolish.- Like a mistake?
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Kind of.
0:11:47 > 0:11:52Oh, and what's the nickname for people called Robert?
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Bobby!
0:11:58 > 0:12:04- Ah, Sir Robert's Folly!- So, you made it! And not a moment too soon.- Wha-!
0:12:04 > 0:12:08- What are you doing here? - Waiting for you.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11- But how did you know we were here? - Because I wrote the map.
0:12:11 > 0:12:15- You mean it isn't real? - Well, of course it's real!
0:12:15 > 0:12:17But it hasn't led us to the treasure.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21Now, what about Castle McColl or the Bonnie Loch?
0:12:21 > 0:12:24But that's not the type of treasure I was looking for.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28I wanted to get you golden treasure because Grandma Mainland
0:12:28 > 0:12:33has so many shiny things and you don't have any.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Is that so?
0:12:35 > 0:12:36Well, you come with me.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39Grannie Island took us up to the top of the hill
0:12:39 > 0:12:42and we sat on the shawls and waited
0:12:42 > 0:12:46and it wasn't long before the sky turned golden and the sun sparkled
0:12:46 > 0:12:51onto the sea so brightly before it finally disappeared.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54And then I understood.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57Grannie Island didn't need golden rings or anything like that
0:12:57 > 0:13:00because she might lose them again anyway.
0:13:00 > 0:13:06No, her idea of precious was the time she was able to head up the hill
0:13:06 > 0:13:10to watch the sun go down and she'd never lose that in a peat bank.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13And what makes it even better
0:13:13 > 0:13:16is sharing it with my real-life treasures.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32I still thought I might buy her something shiny one day
0:13:32 > 0:13:34but there wasn't any hurry.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36She already had all she wanted here in Struay.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41And anyway, when you give those washers of hers
0:13:41 > 0:13:44a scrub they come up really shiny.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49(Good night Grannie Island.)