0:00:05 > 0:00:07# Hello! My name is Mr Bloom
0:00:07 > 0:00:10# And I'd like to come to see you soon
0:00:10 > 0:00:12# I'm out on the road, you see
0:00:12 > 0:00:14# Here and there so that we
0:00:14 > 0:00:17# Can get together and have some fun
0:00:19 > 0:00:22# I'll help you out if there's work to be done
0:00:23 > 0:00:26# So where is it you like to go?
0:00:26 > 0:00:29# Call me up and let me know
0:00:29 > 0:00:31# What is it you like to do?
0:00:31 > 0:00:33# I'll pop along and do it too
0:00:33 > 0:00:36# Cities, towns or countryside
0:00:36 > 0:00:38# I can travel far and wide
0:00:38 > 0:00:40# I'm all about and everywhere
0:00:40 > 0:00:43# I'm here and there
0:00:43 > 0:00:45# Here and there
0:00:45 > 0:00:48# I'm here and there. #
0:00:52 > 0:00:55Hey, hello there, tiddlers, how you tiddling?
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Oh, Mr Bloom here and I like going out and about.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02Yeah, I like going here and there doing lots of fun things
0:01:02 > 0:01:04and finding out about new places.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08And I've been wondering what do you like to do where you live? Hm?
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Perhaps you might like to do a spot of horse riding or maybe
0:01:11 > 0:01:15- a bit of gardening like me. - BELL RINGS
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Someone's got in touch. Shall we see who it is?
0:01:19 > 0:01:21Hello, my name is Hannah.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24I like playing in my garden.
0:01:27 > 0:01:32I love playing with my Hula Hoop.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34I really like doing that.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38I like watering my flowers.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46I like bouncing on my trampoline.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48I love where I live!
0:01:51 > 0:01:54I can see the Falkirk Wheel from my house.
0:01:56 > 0:02:01The Falkirk Wheel is a huge lift but not for people, for boats.
0:02:04 > 0:02:09Today, I'm going to the canal with my friends Ben and Prasoon.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11BOAT HORN HONKS
0:02:13 > 0:02:16It would be great if you came along, Mr Bloom.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19ALL: Yay!
0:02:19 > 0:02:23Eh, well, that'd be grand. Best be on my way then.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33# Whereabouts will I end up next?
0:02:34 > 0:02:37# Let's put my routefinder to the test
0:02:39 > 0:02:41# It could be a beach, a village or a city
0:02:41 > 0:02:44# Museum or a school, a garden so pretty
0:02:44 > 0:02:46# A church or a station, a river or town
0:02:46 > 0:02:49# I just can't wait till you show me around
0:02:49 > 0:02:53# Tiddlers, I'm on my way
0:02:53 > 0:02:57# So, where am I today? #
0:03:08 > 0:03:12Now, I wonder where Hannah and her friends are.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15ALL: We're over here, Mr Bloom.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17Oh, hello.
0:03:17 > 0:03:18I'll come round.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30- Hey! Hello there, tiddlers. - ALL: Hello, Mr Bloom.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32Thanks for inviting me, Hannah.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35It's nice to see you, Prasoon, and you, Ben.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37And it's lucky that bridge was there.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to come over.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Although it might cause a few problems for that fella.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49How's he going to get his boat under that low bridge? What can we do?
0:03:49 > 0:03:56We could move the bridge over that way because it's a swing bridge.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59- I see, so does the bridge swing open?- Yeah.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02I see and then he can get his boat through.
0:04:02 > 0:04:03Come on then, let's go.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08One, two, three, heave!
0:04:08 > 0:04:11Push, push, push!
0:04:11 > 0:04:13There we are, push, that's it.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17Come on, muscle man Ben, that's good going.
0:04:17 > 0:04:22Come on, Prasoon, you can do it. All right, that's it, now we're cooking.
0:04:22 > 0:04:27Very good. Now, stop pushing. Good work.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Hey, look, he can go through now.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32There he goes.
0:04:33 > 0:04:34Give him a wave.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Right.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39So, now that boat's gone through, we need to put the bridge back.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Push! That's it.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46Oh, you are strong tiddlers.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Whoo! Whoo! Whoo!
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Now the bridge has swung back, people can cross the canal
0:04:55 > 0:04:59and the boat continues on its way towards the lock.
0:05:00 > 0:05:04Come here, Mr Bloom. The boat's going into the lock.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Hey. Sorry, tiddlers.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10I was getting a brolly and my coat cos of this rain.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Oh, look. So what's going on here?
0:05:12 > 0:05:15The boat's in the lock.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17It's a kind of boat lift.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20The gates close behind it.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23It works like a bathtub.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28You fill it up with water.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32The water level rises.
0:05:34 > 0:05:39It helps the boat to go from down low to up high.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43The front gates open.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47The boat goes through.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51It takes a long time for this one boat to go through the lock,
0:05:51 > 0:05:53- doesn't it?- The Wheel's much faster.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56Yeah, well, look at that.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59I'm so excited about riding on that Wheel.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02- Shall we climb aboard?- ALL: Yeah! - Follow me.
0:06:02 > 0:06:03Under the umbrella, let's go.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Let's get on this boat.
0:06:09 > 0:06:13Here we go, tiddlers, we're going into the Falkirk Wheel.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17- Are we going to go down? - No, we'll go up!
0:06:17 > 0:06:19We are, we're going to go up.
0:06:19 > 0:06:20That's right.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24The Wheel will take us from this low-down part of the canal to
0:06:24 > 0:06:27another part of the canal that's much higher up.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Oh, here we go.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33We're going high.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Oh, look at that one!
0:06:39 > 0:06:43- Oh, look, we can see the side of the wheel, can't we?- Yeah.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45You know what, tiddlers?
0:06:45 > 0:06:47- I think we're reaching halfway. - Halfway?
0:06:47 > 0:06:52Yeah, we're not quite at the top and we're not quite at the bottom.
0:06:52 > 0:06:57- That's a big hill.- That's right, Prasoon, it is a big hill.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Look, Hannah, look out there.
0:07:01 > 0:07:06- I can see the top of the Falkirk Wheel.- Well done, Prasoon.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15I think we're nearly there.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24Hey, tiddlers, we've arrived at the top of the Falkirk Wheel.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27We're now as high as eight double-decker buses all
0:07:27 > 0:07:29piled on top of one another.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36And we can see a lot more from up here, can't we?
0:07:36 > 0:07:40Hannah, can you see your house? Do you know where it might be?
0:07:40 > 0:07:43- That way.- Really? That way?
0:07:43 > 0:07:46- What can you see, Prasoon? - We can see the tower!
0:07:46 > 0:07:48The tower, yeah, the electricity pylons.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52- I can see the signal of the boat. - That's right.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Hey, look, the traffic light has changed from red.
0:07:55 > 0:08:01- What's it changed to?- Green. - Green and green means we can...?- Go.
0:08:01 > 0:08:02- Go through.- Yeah!
0:08:03 > 0:08:08And, tiddlers, do you know canals were made by people?
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Yeah, they dug them out.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13And in the old days, do you know what people used canals for?
0:08:13 > 0:08:16They helped people get from one place to another.
0:08:16 > 0:08:20That's right and they could carry all sorts of things that
0:08:20 > 0:08:23people needed from city to city.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25And do you know how canal boats used to move?
0:08:25 > 0:08:30- Do you know what they were pulled by?- Horses.- Horses, that's right.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33- BELL RINGS - Ooh.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37Ah, look, it's the routefinder and I think it wants to show us
0:08:37 > 0:08:39more about canals.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Ah, would you look at that?
0:08:41 > 0:08:45A horse helping to pull a barge a long time ago.
0:08:45 > 0:08:49Now, horses can still help but nowadays,
0:08:49 > 0:08:53canal boats are powered by engines.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56Some boats carry cargo.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Some people even live on canal boats.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02They often paint their boats with colourful pictures
0:09:02 > 0:09:05and put plant pots and flowers on the roof.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12These tiddlers are showing us their boat.
0:09:12 > 0:09:13There's a living room,
0:09:13 > 0:09:15a kitchen,
0:09:15 > 0:09:18somewhere to wash...
0:09:19 > 0:09:21..and somewhere to sleep.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28A floating home that can travel to all sorts of places.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Now, that sounds like fun to me.
0:09:35 > 0:09:39We've been all the way up and now, we're back down again.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Oh, I tell you, tiddlers,
0:09:43 > 0:09:46that Falkirk Wheel is a very clever invention, don't you think?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48ALL: Yeah.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51And all the colourful boats can travel on it.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54- How about we make some boats of our own?- ALL: Yeah!
0:09:54 > 0:09:57I bet we can make them really colourful, couldn't we?
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Come on, Ben, you lead on.
0:10:02 > 0:10:07We're going to make a plastic bottle boat, that'll be fun, eh, tiddlers?
0:10:07 > 0:10:09ALL: Yeah.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13We've got an empty bottle and some things to decorate it with.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Now, let's start with these stickers. There we go.
0:10:17 > 0:10:22Eh, tiddlers, do you remember that boat that the routefinder showed us?
0:10:22 > 0:10:23What was on top?
0:10:23 > 0:10:28- ALL: Flowerpots.- Flowerpots, yeah, they had some flowers in.
0:10:28 > 0:10:33Next, we can make a sail and we can draw pictures on them.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34I'm drawing me.
0:10:36 > 0:10:41- I'm going to draw a rose. - A rose? Oh, very nice.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44We have to put dried rice in the bottle
0:10:44 > 0:10:47and that'll stop our boats from tipping over.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Top job.
0:10:53 > 0:10:58So, all we need to do now is we need to put our sail onto our boat
0:10:58 > 0:11:00and then we're ready to set sail.
0:11:10 > 0:11:15The water park's the perfect place to try out our boats.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17So, Prasoon, where's your boat going to go?
0:11:17 > 0:11:20I'm going to put the boat on top of the water
0:11:20 > 0:11:26and then the boat will go from up high to down low.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Woo-hoo!
0:11:28 > 0:11:30It sailed right through.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34And if you open this gate, it'll go even further down. Let's go.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37Open...the gates!
0:11:37 > 0:11:41- It's like those locks we saw earlier on.- Yeah.
0:11:45 > 0:11:50Well, I have had a fantastic time at the Falkirk Wheel today, tiddlers.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53It's time I was off now but join me soon when I'll be...
0:11:53 > 0:11:55ALL: Here and there.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58- Bye-bye, tiddlers.- ALL: Bye!
0:11:59 > 0:12:02# Where is it you like to go?
0:12:02 > 0:12:04# Call me up and let me know
0:12:04 > 0:12:07# What is it you like to do?
0:12:07 > 0:12:09# I'll pop along and do it too
0:12:09 > 0:12:11# Cities, towns or countryside
0:12:11 > 0:12:13# I can travel far and wide
0:12:13 > 0:12:16# I'm all about and everywhere
0:12:16 > 0:12:18# I'm here and there. #