Llynnon Mill 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, it's a nice surprise.

Mr Bloom here and you've just caught me

getting ready to go out on my travels.

I'm going to be going here and there,

meeting up with you Tiddlers and finding out what you like to do.

You do an awful lot.

Some of you like to make things, whilst others prefer to

go for a ride on a boat or maybe feed the animals in a park.

-BELL DINGS

-Oh, excuse me, that's my Route Finder.

And it looks like somebody wants to show me what they're up to.

-Hello, Mr Bloom. My name is Medi.

-Hello Mr Bloom. My name is Megan.

BOTH: And we love Llynnon!

-I like going for walks.

-What do you think is down here, Megan?

An old bakery.

I love the roundhouses.

It's what people called Celts lived in a long time ago.

There's a windmill too.

It's called the Melin Llynnon.

I like climbing to the top to see the flour being made.

Melin is Welsh for mill.

I love using the flour to bake cakes.

And we both like eating them.

Please come and visit, Mr Bloom.

We'd love to show you around.

Ooh, sounds good. I better hurry. You coming as well?

Come on, it's this way.

# 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 town

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

# Tiddlers, I'm on my way

# So where am I today? #

CHILDREN: North Wales!

Hey, look who it is. Ha-ha.

It's Medi. Give us a high-five. And Megan.

Nice to see you. And look, your mums and dads are here as well.

Ha-ha. Now, it looks to me like you're doing a bit of dressing up.

-What have you got on your face?

-Face paints.

-Who used to wear face paint like this, Medi?

-The Celts.

Now they are people that used to live here in Wales

a long time ago, didn't they?

-Yes.

-All right, I've got two rosy cheeks here,

so come on, turn me into a Celt.

All right, go on, then.

Ooh, now what type of designs are you doing?

I'm doing a spiral.

Are they going round and round?

How is it doing? I'm all ready?

OK, but I have one more thing.

-Hey, what's this, Medi?

-It's a Celtic necklace.

Ah. Look at that.

Here we go.

You know what? I could put this in my log book later, couldn't I?

Yes. And hopefully, I'll find some other things around here

I can put in it too.

But I'm wondering, what of these houses here?

-Roundhouses.

-They're roundhouses?

-And are these where the Celts used to live?

-Yes.

-Shall we go inside and take a look?

-Yes.

-All right, let's go.

You going to come too? Jolly good.

Wow.

-Who's this here?

-Lloyd.

-Hello there, Lloyd.

-Hello, Mr Bloom, how are you?

Very well, thanks, I like your roundhouse.

-What have we got right in the middle of the house?

-A fire.

What do you think they might have used the fire for?

-Light.

-Keeping warm.

For keeping warm and light. Yes, for when it's dark.

-And can you see a chimney?

-BOTH: No.

How do you think Father Christmas would come to this house?

-Through the door.

-He might have to ring the doorbell.

-DING DING

-The Route Finder wants to show us more about the Celts.

The ancient Celts this lived in a time called the Iron Age.

Look at what they're wearing.

It's not like the clothes that we wear.

Celtic Tiddlers didn't go to school.

They learnt things from their grannies and grandads.

They had to do jobs to help their mums and dads.

They collected wood and looked after the animals.

And did you know, Celtic Tiddlers, they didn't have toys like you do.

Instead they played lots of games outside.

Tiddlers lived in a very different way back then.

Well, fancy that.

What Lloyd using here, Medi?

A quern stone.

Quern stones are rocks which can be used to crush grains of wheat.

-What's happening to the grain, Medi?

-It's turning into flour.

That's right. It's turning into flour as the grain gets all ground up.

-What can you make with flour?

-Cakes.

-Cakes and...

-Muffins.

Muffins and bread and all those yummy things.

Right, I think it's time I had a go at this.

Right, you tell me if I'm doing it right, OK.

Making flour like the Celts did is hard work.

We're going to be here all day making bread like this.

-We can just use the mill instead.

-Good idea, Medi.

Why don't we get cleaned up and have a look at this windmill?

Would you like to come too? Well, let's be having you.

Come on.

-You see the windmill up there, Medi?

-Yes.

Come on, let's go find the way in.

-Woo-hoo.

-Hello, Mr Bloom.

-Hello, Lloyd. It's a bit exciting in here isn't it, Tiddlers?

-Yes.

-Wow.

So, we are inside the windmill. How does the windmill work, Medi?

The wind makes the sails turn around

and then the sails make the cogs go round.

And the cogs help turn the grain into flour.

But first, we need to start by pouring the grain in

at the top of the windmill.

You can see the cog even closer here.

Right then, Tiddlers. We've got a great big bag of grain here.

-Where do you think we put it?

-In there.

-That's right.

So, there's a lot of grain here.

Hey, Lloyd, would you mind if I took some of this grain

-and put it in my log book.

-Yeah, no problem.

-Thanks.

I'll put that in my belt and do that later.

-Shall we get the grain down there?

-Yes.

-All right, Tiddlers.

Let's tip it up.

It's like a big waterfall.

Here we go. Last little bit.

Next, the grain comes down through the funnel and the cogs

move the stones against each other which grinds the grain.

As the grain is ground, the flour is caught

and sent down a chute to the ground floor.

-Can you see what's happened to the grain.

-Yes.

-Pull that there, Megan.

Hey, hey. So now we've got some flour.

What should we do with it, Tiddlers? Should we put it in a flowerpot?

-We can bake bread with it.

-We can bake some bread.

That sounds like a good idea, doesn't?

So, come on, let's get off to the bakery.

Hey, look, Tiddlers.

There's some flour from the mill here, and who's this?

Gwennyn, the Baker.

-Hello there, Gwennyn the Baker.

-Hello. How are you?

We're very well. Thanks for having us in your kitchen.

-It's very nice to see you.

-So what are you up to?

We're making some bread.

You'll need to knead by pulling and stretching the dough.

Push. And pull.

-What does it feel like, Medi?

-It's really soft.

Squishy and gooey too.

-Ha-ha. So, what are you going to make, Megan.

-A hedgehog.

-And you, Medi?

-I'm going to make a tortoise.

-Very nice.

Well, I think I'm going to come up with an octopus. Or I'll do my best.

Let's get to it.

That's good, isn't it? There we are.

-All right, is there room for one more?

-Yes.

Here it comes. Now, all that's left to do is let them rise

and then put them in the oven. This is a job for a grown-up.

Wow. What do you reckon to this, Medi?

-They look really yummy.

-They do.

Very yummy. Now, who would like to try some of their bread?

Put your hands up.

-Me.

-Yeah. Let's do it. There you go, Megan. There we go, all right.

Let's try it.

Mmm.

-How's yours, Megan?

-Tasty.

-Really? What about you, Medi?

It's really yummy.

Really? Let's see what we can put in the log book today.

Oh, I know what we've got. First up, you gave me this didn't you, Medi?

My little Celtic necklace.

And do you remember what we found in the windmill?

-Some grain.

-Yes, I've still got lots in my pouch.

Put some of that in there.

And last of all, we've got the bread we made.

-So shall we put that in the log book?

-Yes.

There we go. All the things that we've done today.

Why don't you go here and there?

Find out all about the special places where you live?

We went here.

We've been there.

We've been everywhere!

Why don't you go to the CBeebies website,

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

Well, Tiddlers, thanks for inviting me to visit

because I have had a cracking day.

Do you know what my favourite bit was, Megan?

-Eating the bread.

-Eating the bread, because that was yummy.

But, it's time I headed off.

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

-Here and there!

-Bye!

-Bye, Mr Bloom.

# 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. #