Great Orme 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. #

BIRDS CHIRP

Hey! Hello there, Tiddlers, this is a nice surprise.

Mr Bloom here. Do you know what I like to do when I am not gardening?

Well, I like to go here and there

and find out what you Tiddlers are up to.

You do all sorts!

Some of you, you like to make up games or even go fishing.

Some of you like to go on adventures with your family.

BELL PINGS

Can you hear that?

Oh, it's me, it's my Route Finder.

Ooh! I think a Tiddler wants to get in touch.

Who do you think it is?

Hello, Mr Bloom. My name's Liam.

Hello, Mr Bloom. My name is Fraser.

BOTH: And we love living by the Great Orme.

There are lots of fun ways to get up the Great Orme.

You can ride the tram.

Or ride on a cable car like that one.

It's the longest cable-car ride in the UK.

'At the top of the Great Orme there are lots of fossils

'hidden in the rocks.'

Look at this. Look at this one, Liam.

They're millions of years old. We love trying to find them.

Please come and visit, Mr Bloom.

We can't wait to show you around.

Wow, the Great Orme. Now, that's a very high place beside the sea.

Sounds good, though.

Are you going to join us as well?

Jolly good!

# 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: North Wales!

Hey, there's the tram the Tiddlers mentioned.

So they must be round here somewhere.

Shall we go and find them?

Ha-ha! Come on then!

Five tickets for the tram, please.

-There we are, boys. There's your ticket.

-Hey! Look!

-It's Fraser and Liam. How are you doing?

-BOTH: Hello, Mr Bloom.

-These are our mums.

-Hello, mums.

-Hello!

-Ha-ha! So what's going on?

We've got a ticket to take you up the Great Orme.

That's great. I've never been on a tram like this before.

-How old is it?

-It first ran in 1902.

Oh, that's over 100 years ago. Ha-ha!

-So shall we go and get aboard?

-Yes.

-All right, you lead on.

And are you coming as well?

Come on.

Hello.

Hello, everybody. I've got a job for you to do today.

Can you count the passengers, please?

Here's a ticket clipper, thank you.

OK, so you start off. Go on, Liam, how many?

That's five passengers and I tell you what, Fraser,

-do you want to click five tickets?

-OK.

-Go on, then.

One...

two...

three...

four...

five.

There we go. Five tickets.

You know what, Tiddlers? I can put this in my logbook

as a reminder of me journey.

-It's a very steep hill, isn't it?

-TIDDLERS: Yes.

How many people can this tram carry, Liam?

It can carry 48 people.

-48 people!

-Wow!

-Yes, wow-wee!

Fraser, can you tell me how the tram works?

Well, um, when there's a tram coming down,

it sort of helps this tram go up.

Most trams have a cable on the top.

-This one has a cable on the bottom.

-Oh!

-This tram is the only one of its kind in Britain.

-Is that so?

-Oh, we're getting higher!

-Yeah!

-What can we see, Tiddlers?

Can you see there? There's the prom.

The prom, yeah. And we can see the sea sparkling away.

TIDDLERS: From the sun.

Hey, so what happens now?

BOTH: We get off at the halfway station.

-And then we go to the mines.

-To the MINES?

-Yes.

-Hee-hee.

-The copper mines.

Right, everybody off. Let's go!

Ha-ha!

So where are we now, Tiddlers?

We're at the Great Orme Ancient Mine.

Wow! So they're ancient. How old are they?

4,000 years old.

-4,000 years old! That's a lot older than us, isn't it?

-Yes.

-Ooh, is it going to be safe down there?

-Yes.

And they're open to the public.

Oh, right, so anyone can go down there?

Yes, but you need to wear a helmet.

-Hey, just in case we bump our heads.

-Yes.

So, helmets on, Tiddlers.

Let's give them a knock, make sure they're all right.

-Are you ready?

-BOTH: Yep.

-OK, let's get down these mines.

'The mine is lots of tunnels and caves underground.'

Let's go, Tiddlers!

Ooh, watch your heads.

Woo! Look at this cave.

He-hee! Look, it's a big one, isn't it? Wow!

I wonder if there's anyone down there. Shall we see?

OK, one, two, three...

ALL: HELLO!

-(Did you hear anybody?)

-No.

I don't think there've been people down here for a long time.

No, not for... Like that sign says 3,500 years.

That's right, yes.

How many miles of tunnels are down here, Fraser?

They think there were ten miles of tunnels underground.

Wow! Now that's a very long way. You know what?

It's a bit like laying 150 football pitches end to end.

Can you imagine a cave that long?

-ROUTE FINDER PINGS

-Hey, there goes the Route Finder.

Oh! It wants to show us more about underground places.

All around the world, there are magical places underground.

You can find huge, funny-shaped spikes of rock

hanging from the ceiling called stalactites.

And growing up from the floor are towers called stalagmites.

Sometimes, you might also see shiny, sparkly crystals, too.

-Well, that was interesting, wasn't it, Tiddlers?

-Yes.

I brought something from the gift shop.

Comes from the underground and it's called malachite?

-We could put that in the logbook later on, couldn't we?

-Yes.

-So, what's next?

-We've shown you the lowest part of the Great Orme.

-Now we're going to show you the highest.

-Really?

What, up there? Right, let's get to it. Come on!

SEAGULLS CRY

Wow! Look at that view!

Hey, I can see why you love living here, Tiddlers,

-cos it's fantastic, isn't it?

-BOTH: Yes.

-Yeah!

What else is special about being high up here?

-Well, you can find fossils.

-Fossils?

-All the way up here?

-300 million years ago

-the Great Orme was in the sea.

-No!

So you're telling me that when the dinosaurs were around,

-all of this was under water?

-BOTH: Yes.

You know what? I've seen a lot of stones round here

spelling out people's names.

Someone's written "Dan". I guess that was Dan.

-What have you seen, Liam?

-James writ his name over there.

-You're allowed to move the stones around to make shapes?

-BOTH: Yes.

-Well how about...we could all make a shape, couldn't we?

-Yes.

-Shall we make...

-A spiral!

A spiral! That sounds like a good idea to me.

-So how about we start down there, yeah?

-Yes.

-Let's get going!

Let's make our spiral. I reckon we could start off up the top here.

-Yes.

-Oh, good lad. Pop him down there.

Well done. And then we start to curve round till we get...

to that one there.

It's pretty good having all the stones here,

because nobody takes them home with them.

We'll leave them here, cos that way everyone can enjoy them,

-can't they?

-Yep.

-That's right. We're going up a steep bit here.

-Yes.

Liam, put that last one there.

-Pop yours in, Fraser.

-Maybe Fraser could do the last one.

-And we're done!

-Woo!

Look! Can you see our spiral there on the hill?

-Wow! What do you reckon of that, Tiddlers?

-It's great.

-And it's really, really spinny.

-That's right.

It looks like the spiral's spinning round.

We've got a great view from back here,

because it's REALLY big.

-What do you reckon, mums?

-Great job. Fantastic!

Well, I tell you what.

Let's see what I've collected for my log book today.

-First up, what have we got there?

-That's the tram ticket.

That's right. We got a ticket for riding on the tram.

So, that can go in there.

And look, what did we find down the mine?

-Malachite.

-Malachite! It's lovely. Green and orange.

We could put that in there.

And then last of all, look at that.

A lovely picture of the spiral that we made on the hillside.

-Wow!

-Yes.

Made out of stones and fossils.

So, that little fellow can go there.

Why don't you go here and there

and find out about the special places where you live. He-he.

CHILDREN: We went here!

I went there.

ALL: 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.

Well, I have had a cracking day today, Tiddlers. Have you had fun?

BOTH: Yes.

We've been underground, up high, but it's time I hit the road.

So why don't you join me again soon, when I'll be...

BOTH: Here and there!

-You're right, Tiddlers. Bye-bye! Bye-bye, mums.

-ALL: 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. #