Cricket Me Too!

# Come on and get on down to the city

# Where the trains all clatter through

# Hey! Look at that driver driving

-# I want to ride that train of blue

-Me too

# I'm looking way up high to the windows

# Take a peek for an inside view

# All these people busy working

# I want to see what they all do

# Come on, let's weave around the market

# Do you hear the hullabaloo?

# Everybody's busy selling

-# I wanna buy me something new

-Me too

# Look through the arches under the station

# Down where the pigeons perch and coo

# Take a taxi ride to the river

# I wanna drive down the avenue

# Hey, look at those buses gleaming

# They look so clean and spanking new

# All lined up to drive around the city

-# Let me ting that bell

-Ding, ding!

# Going to ride on round to the school stop

# Where the children hurry through

# Sit down, the teacher's teaching

-# I'd love to learn a thing or two

-Me too

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal

# Riverseafingal, by the sea

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal

# Riverseafingal, that's for me. #

# Come on and get on down to the city

-# Where the ferryboat sails are blue

-Sails are blue

# Time to call on Granny Murray

# She'd love to say hello to you... #

Hello, honey pie. Come away in and see who's at home today.

Granny Murray's house has two at home to play.

Granny Murray's house is home to...

Who's here today?

Well, there's Hope and there's Molly.

Don't just sit there pickles, let's have fun!

-What have we got there?

-Cricket bat.

-A cricket bat and balls.

Let's play French cricket.

You stand there, at the side of the bat.

Whoa! You're doing good at this.

One, two, three...

Hey! Good one.

Woo-hoo! Now we've got it.

Whoa! And run and get it. We've got Hope and we've got Molly,

but someone's missing from home today.

Ah, not any more!

Who's coming home to Granny Murray?

Oh, it's Rebecca, yes.

With Mickey John. Hello there!

Mickey John, hello.

-Hi Granny Murray.

-And Rebecca.

Come away through, my honey pies.

Come on in, girls, and see who's here.

That's us. Thank you, my darlings. We're playing French cricket!

Hey, howzat?

With a bat!

Why don't you go and dress Claude up as a French cricketer,

my wee spinning tops? And we can have tea in the pavilion!

-Come with me, Vicar!

-Oooh!

Talking of cricket, Rudi is coming to the school to play cricket.

I didn't know Rudi could play cricket.

-He plays a special sort of cricket.

-What's special about it?

To be honest, I don't really know.

-I know everything there is to know about ordinary cricket.

-How's that?

I'm captain of the Riverseafingal First XI, so I know the rules.

In fact, our team played last Sunday.

-Oh, how did it go?

-We won, of course!

We were in until we were all out. The other team went in, we got them out.

I'm sorry, Mickey John, but you've got me completely stumped.

-You're making it too complicated.

-Am I?

Yes. Sometimes things are much simpler than you think.

Oh, look at Claude.

-Wow!

-Hey, you'll hit them for six, Claude.

-Well done, me wee honey puffs.

-Here you are.

-A ball!

Thanks, bunny.

-I'll take this to school with me.

-Oh, you can practise your bowling!

-Bye, Rebecca. See you later.

-Bye.

Come on, then.

Now, remember, sometimes things are much simpler than you thought.

-Thank you. I'll see you later.

-We'll be thinking of you, darling.

-Me too.

You keep an eye on Mickey John, make sure he goes the right way to work.

# I'm on my way to work today

# Walking my shoes through the city views

# Stepping along and swinging my arms

# Singing my way through the city's charms

# Getting there is just so fine

# I so enjoy my walking time

# I always go the way I know

-# Can you show me the way I go? #

-Hey!

OK, which way?

# ..Do I go left now? Or do I go right?

# Which way is wrong now? Which way is right?

-Right!

-# ..OK, right, to the school

# I'm on my way to work today

# Looking this way and that-a-way

# Hello, alley

# Hello, doors

# Hello, steeple

# Hello, walls

# Hello, people

# He's on his way to work today

# Looking this way and that-a-way... #

Hey!

# ..Do I go up now? Do I go down?

# Which way's a smile now? Which way's a frown? #

-Up!

-OK, that way. Up!

# You told me the way to go

# Thank you! You've shown me the way I know. #

Thanks for that.

Now, what have I got to do?

Ah, yes, time for a tie.

-Hiya, Mickey John.

-Morning, Tina.

-What have you got there?

-A ball.

-Raymond said to drop it off.

-What sport is it for?

-Cricket.

-You're playing a match.

-We are, but I've never seen a ball like that!

Maybe Raymond got confused.

Maybe this ball is for our next show,

an extravaganza of music, song and dance!

Ah, yes! This ball would make a perfect prop.

RATTLING

-You're making a lot of noise when you move.

-Yes!

It's suddenly gone very quiet. Something WAS making a noise.

-I think it might be this ball.

-BALL RATTLES

Yes, it rattles!

If you played a game with this ball, everyone would hear it coming.

That's very confusing.

It doesn't matter. I'll sort it out later.

-There you go, Mickey John. Bye!

-Bye!

Oh, hello. Love your hair!

-Hello!

-Morning, everyone! Come on, let's get sat down. Hurry, hurry.

Lovely.

I wonder what Rebecca's doing?

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal

# Riverseafingal by the sea

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal

# Riverseafingal that's for me. #

Hello.

Bye-bye, Rebecca. Have a lovely day.

BELL RINGS

Bye.

What are you doing in school, Daddy?

OK, everyone, you're going to help me do some counting this morning.

I'm going to run up and down the classroom, like a cricketer,

and you're going to write down how many runs I make. OK, here I go!

CHILDREN: One...

two...

three...

Ooh! You stopped me in my tracks there, Chuck.

You'd have tripped up on my line-marking machine.

-Your line-marking machine? Yes,

-I've brought it over

so you can mark the cricket pitch for the game with Rudi.

Thanks, Chuck, that'll be very useful.

How exactly does it work?

You decide where you want the line, then push along.

If I pulled it instead of pushing, would the line come out backwards?

No, no! It makes no difference. A white line's still a white line.

You press the button to release the paint.

-Where's the control to make the lines thicker?

-There isn't one.

It's just off or on.

OK, Chuck. So there's switches, lines, paint, pushing, pulling...

Oh, it's all very complicated.

Can you move the line-marker into the corridor? I'll sort the pitch later.

As you like. I hope the game goes well. Bye!

Bye! Thanks for your help. Time to get down to work!

# Oh, what joy when I go to school in the morning

# Teaching with my chums and see the children learning

# School day

# Work away

# I'm learning, learning, learning when I'm teaching

# I'm teaching, learning, teaching learning, teaching

# School day

# Work away

# Teaching to count and teaching to read

# Learn about birds and plants and trees

# Playing games and sports outdoors

# Blowing my whistle and keeping the scores

# School day, work away...

# I'm learning, learning, learning when I'm teaching

# We're learning, learning, learning when he's teaching

# School day

# Work away

# Oh, the secretary's smiling as she does her organising

# The jannie fixes, the cookie mixes and the cleaner keeps us shining

# Oh, what joy when I go to school in the morning

# All in a line in the dinner queue While the cookie cooks, serves us too

# Answering the questions where and why?

# How does it fly?

# School day, work away

# I'm learning, learning, learning when I'm teaching

# He's learning, learning, learning when he's teaching

# School day, work away

# All the children peep and eye me as they sit and try their writing

# I take a look and mark their books The good ones get a smiley!

# Oh, what joy when I go to school in the morning! #

-Hi, Mickey John.

-Hi, Louie.

-Is it lunchtime?

-Yes, the children are having their grub.

Rudi asked me to give you these wickets.

That's kind. They're a lot bigger than than the wickets I usually use.

And they're bright orange! Are you sure they're not for some other game?

I don't think so, Mickey John. They're just wickets.

-Thanks for bringing them in.

-No probs, dude. See you later.

These are a bit too complicated to think about at the moment.

I think I'll just store them here at the side of my desk.

Oh, there's Rebecca's ball.

I wonder what she's doing now.

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal

# Riverseafingal, that's for me. #

Look at all the cars going under the bridge, my darlings.

Whoa, they're so fast. It's like a river of cars.

I know a good game. Let's see if we can count all the red cars.

I'd better get my notepad out. That's the way.

There's one. One.

Oh, there's one over there...

Three...

This is what your daddy does when he's an umpire at a cricket match.

He writes down all the scores. He's very good at it.

-Mickey John.

-Rudi!

-I wanted to see if you were still up for the match.

-Of course! I'm really looking forward to it, but...

-What's the matter?

I'm a bit worried, Rudi.

Tina brought me this rattling ball,

and Louie brought in this gigantic orange wicket. But the trouble is,

I think blind cricket must be a very complicated game.

You've got no worries. Blind cricket is much the same as ordinary cricket

except the ball's a bit larger

and it's got ball bearings in it so the players can hear it coming.

-But what about the wicket?

-The wicket needs to be this size

-so the players can feel it, and know where they are.

-That's not too hard.

It's not! At the end of the day, it's just cricket.

I'm looking forward to it.

I hope you've marked out the pitch ready for the game. See you later.

Oh, no! Lunchtime is nearly over

and I haven't marked out the cricket pitch!

Where did the time go?

At eight o'clock, I went to Granny Murray's to drop off Rebecca.

The children had been playing French cricket.

That reminded me Rudi was coming to play a special game of blind cricket.

Rebecca helped to dress Claude as a cricketer.

I tried to explain the rules of cricket to Granny Murray

but she said I'd made it sound too complicated.

At nine o'clock I arrived for work. Tina popped in.

She'd brought a special cricket ball.

I thought I could hear a rattling noise. It was the ball.

At ten o'clock, Chuck arrived with a line-marking machine.

She showed me how to work it but it got too complicated

so I asked her to put it in the corridor.

At 12 o'clock, Louie came with some extra-large wickets.

They didn't look right to me. Blind cricket seemed very complicated!

At one o'clock, when Rudi arrived, he told me blind cricket was simple.

It wasn't that different from ordinary cricket.

Players use a special ball and larger wickets.

Rudi hoped I'd marked the pitch, but I hadn't. It was too complicated!

Remember, sometimes things are much simpler than you thought.

Simpler than you think.

Of course! I've been worrying about the rules of blind cricket.

But they're simple. Marking out the pitch should be simple, too.

It's a race against time!

# I gotta do it, I gotta do it

# I gotta beat the clock before the chime

# I gotta sort it

# I gotta sort it I gotta do the job on time

# Like a busy bee I'm gonna beat that bong

# I'll finish this job before I finish this song

# Do we think he's gonna do it? Do the job that needs to be done

# Will he know how to fix it? Will he finish what he has begun?

# He has to show his friends he'll get there in the end

-# He knows what he should do

-I'm gonna do it.

# He's gonna do it

# I'm gonna beat the clock before the chime

-# I'm gonna sort it

-He's gonna sort it

# I'm gonna do the job on time

# Like a busy bee I'm gonna beat that bong

# I'm gonna finish this job before I finish this song... #

Right, ready to play.

You bowl, Rudi.

Oh, good one!

Oh, nice one.

Oh, no!

Oh, that's it. And again.

Oh!

Well played, Rudi.

I wonder what games Rebecca's playing.

When the music stops, you have to go...

and the rest of us will all shout your name.

MUSIC PLAYS

MUSIC STOPS Gary!

MUSIC STARTS

MUSIC STOPS Rebecca!

-Mickey John.

-Hi, Granny Murray. Come away through.

Look who's here, Rebecca.

-Hello, beautiful girl.

-Hello, Daddy.

-Have you had a lovely time?

-You bet we have.

-Say thank you to Granny Murray.

-Thank you, Granny Murray.

-Clever girl.

And thanks from me, too. Your saying -

-sometimes things are simpler than you think - saved the day.

-I never did!

Come on, let's get you home.

-Looking forward to next time!

-Let's chat about our time away.

And I suppose you'll want me to tell you all about my time, too?

# Well, there was...

# Playing, running creeping, jumping

# Chasing, painting laughing, baking

# Moving, dressing singing, swinging

# Rocking, sliding, hunting, hiding

# Jumping up and turning round

# Dressing up and sitting down. #

But what was really special about today? Well...

Claude was dressed up as a cricketer after our game of French cricket.

When Mickey John and Rebecca arrived,

Mickey John told us all about

being captain of the Riverseafingal First XI,

and how Rudi was coming to school to play a game of blind cricket.

At nursery, Rebecca played catch.

We counted how many red cars we saw driving under the bridge,

and that reminded us of how Mickey John counts the runs in cricket.

Once Mickey John stopped worrying about rules and marked the pitch,

he was able to play blind cricket with Rudi.

I hope you enjoyed yourself. Me too. Bye-bye, honey pie.

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