Seals Mr Bloom: Here and There

# Hello! My name is Mr Bloom

# And I'd like to come to see you soon

# I'm out on the road, you see

# Here and there so that we

# Can get together and have some fun

# I'll help you out if there's work to be done

# So where is it you like to go?

# Call me up and let me know

# What is it you like to do?

# I'll pop along and do it, too

# Cities, towns or countryside

# I can travel far and wide

# I'm all about and everywhere

# I'm here and there

# Here and there

# I'm here and there. #

Hey! Hello, tiddlies! How are you tiddling?

Ah, Mr Bloom here and you just caught me

doing a spot of watering before I head out and about.

Because I love going on me travels.

Going here and there, finding out what you tiddlers get up to.

And I know that some of you, you like to go for walks,

play sports and also go feeding the ducks.

-BELL RINGS

-Oh, it's the route finder.

Now, I wonder who it's going to be today?

-Hello. I'm Bobby.

-Hello, I am Arthur.

-We love being by the sea!

-We love being by the sea!

We go on a boat with our mum. My dad drives the boat.

-Ahoy, Captain!

-Ahoy, Captain!

We have our breakfast on the beach.

-Are you boys ready for a bacon roll?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

I love bacon sandwiches!

We like to collect pebbles.

We use them to make pictures. I've made a crab out of pebbles.

And I made a boat out of pebbles.

There's lots of things to do by the sea.

Why don't you come along and find out, Mr Bloom?

Oooh, I like the sound of that. I'm on my way.

And are you going to join us?

Off we go!

Whereabouts will I end up next?

Let's put my route finder to the test.

# It could be a beach, a village or a city

# Museum or a school, a garden so pretty

# A church or a station, a river or a town

# I just can't wait till you show me around

# Tiddlers, I'm on my way

# So where am I today? #

CHILDREN: Norfolk!

Hey, what a lovely day.

Oh, look at all these boats.

Ha-ha. I reckon I'll find loads for me logbook here.

Now, all I need to do is find out where these tiddlers have got to.

Hang about... I think I've spotted them.

-Hey, hello, tiddlies!

-Hello, Mr Bloom!

Ah, nice to see you two together.

-And, Arthur, who's this with you?

-My mum.

-Hello, Arthur's mum.

-Hello, Mr Bloom.

Now, thanks for inviting me here.

Those pictures you made out of pebbles were great.

-And what picture was yours, Bobby?

-A boat.

-Yeah, a picture of a boat.

-I've got a present for you, Mr Bloom.

-Oh, have you?

-What is it?

-It's a pebble.

Oh, look at that! That's not just any old pebble.

That is a beautiful pebble. You know what I'm going to do with that?

I'm going to stick that in me logbook.

-And what did you make out of pebbles, Arthur?

-A crab.

-You've got some lines here. Are you crabbing?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Oh, I like crabbing.

In fact, I used to go crabbing when I was a tiddler like you.

-So could I join you?

-Yes, Mr Bloom!

-Brilliant.

So, what do you need to go crabbing?

A crabbing line.

That's very kind of you. What do we have to do next?

We've got to put some bacon into the nets.

Why do we have to put bacon in the nets?

Because they like bacon.

I think we're ready to go.

Right. So, lads, how do we do it?

You throw this in.

We're going to lower our bacon in like that.

Now, lads, we're right by the water's edge here.

-What do we need to be careful of?

-The water.

-Yeah.

-We don't want to fall in there, do we?

-No.

No. You must always go crabbing with a grown-up.

You never go by yourself, do you?

Lift it up... No.

No, I haven't got any. Have you?

-Mine has!

-Yay! Well done!

-What do you do when you've caught them?

-You put them in the bucket.

-Have you got anything in there?

-I got one!

-Yay! Bobby's got one.

Are you going to tip him in there?

Oh, look! I've got one here! Look at this...

Get it in the net.

Good job.

-How many crabs have we caught?

-Lots.

-Shall we bring one out?

-Yeah. A baby one.

What do we do, Mum, when we're handling crabs?

You have to grab them on top and to the side of their body,

otherwise their pincers will nip you.

And how many legs has he got?

He's got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

-What's he got at the front there, on his arms?

-Pincers.

Pincers, yeah.

So, what do we have to do with the crabs now?

Put them back.

Mum, do you want to do the honours? Bye!

Bye, crabbies!

Tiddlers, I've had a top time here.

It's been a lovely day crabbing down on the water.

But you know what I fancy now? It'd be nice to go out on the water.

-On my grandad's boat.

-Has your grandad got a boat?

Oh, do you think he'd take us out? Yeah? Well, let's go and find out.

-You lead on, tiddlers. See you later, Mum.

-Bye.

-Bye.

Come on, you lead the way.

There we are.

Before we get on the boat, we have to put life jackets on

to keep us safe if we fall in the water.

All right, let's go. Come on.

BOAT ENGINE STARTS

Here we go, boys. Big steps.

Now, I reckon it must be fun to drive this boat.

I've already drived it.

-You've driven this boat before?

-Yeah.

-Grandad, can we drive this boat?

-Of course you can, Bobby. And Arthur.

Well done. Look at you go!

-Hey, so what's it like driving the boat?

-Good.

-How do you do it?

-You have to turn.

Oh, you turn the wheel?

-And what does that make the boat do?

-Turns itself.

I see.

HOOTER HONKS

-Nice work, Arthur. Would you like to drive boats when you're older?

-Yes.

-Yeah? What type of boats?

-Orange ones. Black ones.

-Would they be little or big?

-Big!

-Ah...

-Would you like to drive the boat, Mr Bloom?

-Hey, I'd love to.

If that's all right with Arthur. Can I have a go?

Hey, good job!

Here we go. We come starboard.

Hey...I think I see something up ahead. Can you see that?

Oooh... Wonder what it might be? What do you reckon?

Hey, I think you might be right. We might have found a seal.

Hey, Jimbo, can you take over?

SEALS HONK

-Now, tiddlers...

-There's one there!

-What have you seen?

-A seal.

Whoa...! And not just one seal, but loads of seals.

-What are they doing?

-Swimming.

-Some are swimming. What are the other ones doing?

-Sleeping.

Now, do all these seals look the same to you?

There's two different types of seals, Mr Bloom.

What's different about them, Bobby?

-Because they're all different colours.

-That's right.

-What are they called?

-Common and grey.

-Wow!

-So how can we tell the difference?

-Common seals are lighter in colour.

The grey seals are darker.

Let's play a seal spotting game, Mr Bloom.

That sounds like a good idea, Arthur.

One for Bobby.

We can stick stars on for all the seals we can see.

All right. I'm on.

-So, what can you spy, Bobby?

-Common.

-Common. There's a star for a common.

-What about you, Arthur?

-I can see a...common.

There's a star.

-Two black ones.

-Two.

Three commons.

-So how many stars do you need?

-Three.

Right, there you go.

I can see three grey seals all hanging out having a party.

So I'm going to put three stars down here.

-BELL DINGS

-Shush! Shush! What's that?

Oh, it's me. It's the route finder.

Hey, you know what? It's going to show us more about seals.

Seals like to play in the water.

Oooh, look how high that one's jumping!

They love swimming under water.

What a lot of fun seals have!

Hey, what a lovely sight, eh? It's not something you see every day.

Ah... Ha-ha!

Ah...

Here we go. You got it, mate?

That's it.

Thanks, Grandad Jimbo!

-Tiddlers, shall we see how many seals we counted?

-Yes.

-Yes.

Yeah? Let's count them up.

One, two...

..three, four, five, six,

seven, eight, nine...

..ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,

fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen.

-So how did you get on, Arthur?

-I got 13, Mr Bloom.

-And you, Bobby, how did you do?

-I've got 17, Mr Bloom.

Oh, good seal spotting, tiddlers!

I've got a postcard for you to remember the seals.

Ah, that's lovely. Can I have a look? Hey, and look...

We've got all the seals we saw on the beach, eh?

You know where I'm going to put this?

I'm going to put it in me logbook.

There we go. And then me seal tick list. You know what that'll do?

It'll help me remember

the difference between a grey seal and a common seal.

I've also got me pebble from those pebble pictures you made earlier on.

Why don't you go here and there and find out about

-the special places where you live?

-We went here!

We went there!

We've been everywhere!

Why don't you go to the CBeebies website,

where you can make your very own Here and There logbook, too?

So, there we have it. One fantastic adventure out on the water.

But the tide's coming in now and it's time I headed home.

So why not join me again soon when I'll be...

-Here and there!

-Here and there!

-You're right, lads. Bye-bye!

-Bye!

-Bye!

# Where is it you like to go?

# Call me up and let me know

# What is it you like to do?

# I'll pop along and do it, too

# Cities, towns, the countryside

# I can travel far and wide

# I'm all about and everywhere

# I'm here and there. #