Down to Earth Farm 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, Tiddlers. How are you tiddling?

Oh... Mr Bloom here.

I'm just making sure everything is all right on the allotment

before I go out and about.

I love coming to visit you Tiddlers and find out what you enjoy doing.

Maybe you like to go riding on the trains or the buses

or take a ride on your bike and visit a museum.

-DING-DING

-Oh, it's the Route Finder.

It'll be someone wanting to tell me what they enjoy doing.

I wonder who it might be?

Hello, Mr Bloom. I'm Drew.

Hi, Mr Bloom. I'm Felicia.

-And we love Down To Earth Farm!

-And we love Down To Earth Farm!

The farm is very close to where we live.

We love to visit and feed the animals.

Feel how warm that is. Put your fingers right in.

I love the pigs, Penny and Priscilla.

They are really clever and they can sit like a dog.

Penny, sit!

-Penny, sit!

-Sit!

I like holding the guinea pigs because they are so soft.

Mr Bloom, why don't you come and visit?

We'd love to show you around.

Now, that sounds brilliant.

Are you going to come, too?

Let's 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

# A museum or a school, a garden so pretty

# A church or a station, a river or town

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

# Tiddlers, I'm on my way

# So where am I today?

-TIDDLERS:

-Southampton!

Oh, where's this farm? Can you see it, Tiddlers?

Farms are busy places, aren't they?

I reckon I'll find loads of things for me log book.

Oh... I think I've spied it.

Oh, yes. Perfect.

Hey, look who it is!

It's Felicia and Drew.

-Hello, Mr Bloom!

-Hello, Mr Bloom!

Hey, it's nice to see you.

-Felicia, who's this up here?

-That's Carly.

Hi, Mr Bloom.

Ah, nice to meet you, Carly.

But there's someone else in here, isn't there?

This is Lily, the goat.

Oh, she looks happy. So what are you doing here, Drew?

-We were washing the goat's udders.

-Really?

I see.

What does a goat use its udders for?

Feeding their babies with the milk.

-Do you think Carly will show us what to do?

-Yes.

Yeah? I'll park myself here. Hello, Lily.

I'm going to give you a milk.

So, Mr Bloom, you need to find her teat under there.

Put your hand at the top of it

and pull down with your fingers and your thumb.

There we go.

-How's that, Carly?

-Well done, Mr Bloom. That is perfect!

-You all right there, Lily?

-Baaaah!

So, Tiddlers, do you have milk?

I have it with my breakfast.

Do you?

A lot of people have milk on their cereal, don't they?

It might come from a goat or, maybe, from a cow.

Right, there we go. I think she's empty.

Here we are, Carly.

-We've got some lovely goat's milk there.

-Thank you so much.

Hey, Tiddlers, what are these?

I've drawn a goat and his name is called Larry.

Really? That's brilliant, Drew!

And, Felicia, that's lovely!

You know what?

I'm going to put these in my log book a little bit later on

so I can remember you guys and Lily, the little goat.

So, we've got some milk from a goat.

What else can we collect from other animals on the farm?

We can go and collect some chicken and duck eggs.

Sounds good to me.

Let's wash our hands, then go on an egg hunt. Are you coming?

Come on, let's see how many eggs we can find. Cluck! Cluck!

Hello, Ray.

Oh, what we got here?

Felicia, well done.

-So how many eggs is that?

-Two.

Two eggs. Let's go over here.

Hello, mate. We're looking for chicken eggs.

Are there any around here?

-Which way is he pointing to?

-He's pointing that way.

All right, let's go. Thank you!

I'll ask if it's all right for us to come in.

Cluck! Cluck-cluck-cluck! Cluck!

It's OK. Let's go.

-Oh!

-Wow!

How do those eggs feel in your hands?

-Very warm.

-Really?

Well, the chicken's done a good job sitting on them.

Tiddlers, why don't you see how many eggs you can count in here?

There's one, two, three!

Can we have one of your eggs, please?

There you go.

There we go.

-Thank you!

-Thank you!

We've got a dozen eggs.

-Are they all the same or a bit different?

-Different.

-They are.

-They're different colours.

-Some are big, aren't they?

And some of them are tiny.

DING-DING

There goes me Route Finder.

It wants to show us more about birds and animals that live on farms.

Oh, look at the sheepdog.

He's circling the sheep, getting them to move.

And these geese are waddling along, following their friends.

Oh, look at these baby cows. They're called calves.

They're feeding from their mum.

And these goats are munching some tasty grass.

I reckon these animals enjoy living on a farm.

Baaaah!

-Hey, that were cracking, wasn't it, Tiddlers?

-Yes!

-Yes!

What are we going to do now?

We're going to collect some vegetables.

Yes! That's right up my street. Come on, then, let's go!

-Oh, hello! Who's this, Drew?

-This is Justin.

-Hello, Justin.

-Nice to meet you.

-Nice to meet you, too.

And what does Justin do?

-He's a gardener.

-I see. A man after me own heart.

Jolly good. So, what are we going to do, Felicia?

-We're going to be picking some tomatoes.

-Tomatoes?

Oooh, one of my favourites. All right, let's fill these baskets.

-Do you want one of them?

-Yeah.

-What colours can we pick, Tiddlers?

-Red and yellow.

Yeah.

Mmmm! Lovely fresh tomatoes.

What have you got growing here, Justin?

All sorts. We've got pumpkins and we've got some peppers.

-We've also got some sweetcorn.

-I love sweetcorn!

-Really?

-Have you got any sweetcorn that needs picking?

-Yeah.

-Shall we take a look?

-Let's go!

OK, are you ready? Here we go...

Give it a good tug.

Urgh...!

Pull.

Hey, good lad. Ooooh, he's a sweetcorn champion!

-Does this sweetcorn look like the sweetcorn you have for tea?

-No.

-No.

No. That's because it's hiding.

Look, if we undo these leaves, what can we see?

-Sweetcorn.

-Sweetcorn.

That's it. The sweetcorn, it stays safe from all the birds,

because they like sweetcorn as well, by hiding behind these leaves.

And there we go. Mmmmm!

Oh, but here, look at this.

Do you know what type of flower this is?

A pumpkin flower.

That's right, it is a pumpkin flower.

Justin, is it OK to pick a flower for me log book?

-Yeah, that would be great.

-Thank you.

That way, I can remember our lovely day.

We've done well. We got those eggs from the chickens.

We got some sweetcorn. Some tomatoes.

Hey, what can we do with all that?

We can make omelettes.

-Omelettes?

-Great. I'll take these to Carly.

I've got another job I'd like your help with.

The birds like eating these yummy vegetables.

Can you make me a scarecrow to frighten them off?

-Can we do that, Tiddlers?

-Yeah!

-Yeah!

Follow me!

We're going to make you, Mr Bloom.

Oh, look at me big belly.

Our scarecrow is missing a face, isn't he?

-Could you draw him one?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Well, it's not a bad likeness.

Now all it needs is some straw for brains.

-Oh, that's it.

-That's it?

-Go on, then, if in doubt...

Push it in nice and tight.

There we go, Tiddlers. Do you think it looks like me?

-Yeah!

-Yeah!

I like the hair.

-What do you like, Felicia?

-I like his silly face.

Yeah, my silly face.

-That will scare the birds away.

-Yeah!

-What do you reckon to the scarecrow?

-This guy looks great.

He'll frighten off all those birds.

-You think we deserve an omelette?

-I think so.

Oh, right. See you later.

Let's go and get an omelette, Tiddlers!

These are good omelettes. We should say thank you to Carly.

-Thank you, Carly.

-Thank you, Carly.

-That's OK, guys.

The nice thing about this is

it's using all the things we found on the farm.

Tell you what, let's check the log book

and see what we've found today.

OK.

Ah... First up, we got these pictures.

And what did you draw?

-Goats.

-That's right.

Then, I've got this lovely flower from the pumpkin patch.

And, finally, there was loads of this straw left over

so I took some for me log book.

What did we use this for? For making the...

-Scarecrow.

-Scarecrow.

-The scarecrow. That's right.

Look at that, Tiddlers. A lovely page of memories.

Why don't you go here and there

and find out about the exciting places where you live?

-We went here!

-We went here!

We've been there!

We've been everywhere!

Why don't you go to the CBeebies website,

where you can make your very own Here And There log book, too.

Well, there we go. What a fantastic day!

-Have you had fun?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

I've had a cracking time. Thank you for inviting me along.

-Thanks for showing us around, Carly.

-Any time, guys.

But it's time I was on my way.

So, you join me soon, when I'll be...

-Here and there!

-Here and there!

You're right, Tiddlers. Bye-bye!

-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. #