The Great Mashathon Mr Bloom's Nursery

There is a place...

Not far from here...

I'm sure you know it...

It's ever so near.

But we're off out...

It's time to see...

What grows outside...

Mr Bloom's Nursery.

You coming?

# Such a big adventure

# Come along with me

# With my trusty Compo car

# There is no place I'd rather be

# From north to south and east to west

# I've got what we'll need for our quest

# A spade, a fork A wheelbarrow

# The dressing-up box and the grand piano

# A radio Well, it's on the blink

# Saucepan, doormat Who brought this sink?

# Come down to my fete I'm sure you'll think it's great

# Learn about how things grow

# Pop along and say hello

# There's so much we can see and do

# With my little Veggie crew

# Come along and join with me

# Mr Bloom's Nursery. #

-TANNOY:

-'All tiddlers, ladies, gentlemen, mums and dads,

'the time has come when I can say

'that Mr Bloom's Nursery Travelling Fete is open.'

So get set, grow!

Today, I've brought my travelling fete to Kilmarnock

and I'm just off out to go and meet some tiddlers.

Hey, tiddlers! Hello there. Aw, it's Ali, Katie and Jason.

Are you having fun today? Look, there's loads going on at our fete.

-ALL: Yeah.

-I'm really excited,

because later on, do you know what we're going to do?

We're going to have a mash-athon.

I've invited some Scouts along to peel loads and loads of potatoes

and once they've been cooked,

what we're going to do is mash loads of potatoes.

Does that sound like fun? Brill.

-What have you brought with you today?

-Juice.

-Some juice.

-What type of juice have you got, Katie?

-Orange juice.

-Orange juice.

That's good you've brought some juice

because we'll need something to wash down these lovely sausages and mash.

Well, you stop by my tent and I'll see you later on.

Have a nice day. Bye-bye.

Oh, I'm so excited.

I can't wait for our special mash-athon later.

It's going to be smashing!

I think you mean "mashing", Margaret!

There, all of our potatoes are peeled.

Not all of us!

I'll keep my jacket on, thank you! It's cold up here!

-Mind, we love a good mashing, us spuds, don't we?

-Oh, yes!

It makes us all light and fluffy. Like clouds.

And a little knob of butter melting all over us. Oh!

We certainly have a big pile of potatoes!

Gangway! Here I come!

Ooh, it's a good job I didn't bang into that,

it might have fallen over.

Runner bean, runner bean, bang!

Hello, my lovelies. Oh, hang on, what's happened here?

It's Raymond. He's under all those potatoes!

Ooh, 'eck! Raymond, I'm coming, don't worry!

-Oh, there you are.

-Runner bean! Runner bean!

Wow, wow, calm down, Colin.

What's going on, what are you running around for?

Bored bean!

I see, if you're bored

there's a potato pile here that needs tidying up.

Oh, I don't think he's interested in tidying up, Mr Bloom.

Well, I definitely need to find something for Colin to do.

He's full of beans today.

Hey-hey!

Oh, beans, they go good with bangers and mash, don't they?

I can't wait to have some of that great mash-athon mash later.

And with all these potato peelings, Compo will get lots to eat too.

Ha-ha! Mr Bloom, what do tiddlers do with potato peelings?

They don't have Compos, do they?

Well, there's lots of things they could do with potato peelings

and some tiddlers might have compost bins of their very own.

But our Compostarium's one of a kind, Raymond, I'm sure.

COMPO WHIRRS

-Exactly!

-Ooh!

But we've got a bit of time before the mash-athon,

who'd like to come outside for an adventure?

Yeah? So, my awesome Compostarium, who's turn is it today?

COMPO WHIRRS

ALL: Raymond!

Yay, me!

OK, Veggies, we'll see you when we get back. Bye now.

-Bye, Mr Bloom!

-See you.

-Bye.

# Off on an expedition

# Me and a Veggie on a little mission

# Don't delay Let's make our way

# I wonder what we'll see today

# Off on an expedition

# Me and a Veggie on a little mission

# Lots to see, lots to show

# Come on, Raymond Let's go!

# Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm... #

Raymond, you cuddly butternut squash. Are you excited?

Oh, golly gosh.

I can't wait to go out with you,

but will there be time for a cuddle or two?

# Off on an expedition

# Me and a Veggie on a little mission

# On my friend I can depend

# It's lovely having time to spend

# We're off on an expedition

# Me and a Veggie on a little mission

# Off we go, just us two

# On an adventure, me and you! #

-Oh, hee-hee!

-I think Compo wants us to come to someone's house.

-Hello there.

-Hello, Mr Bloom, hello, Raymond.

-It's nice to see you, Emma.

-We're just finishing lunch, do you want to come in?

-Thank you.

I love lunch. Hee-hee!

Hey there. Hello, Rebecca. Hello, Aaron.

-It's nice to see you.

-Oh, Mr Bloom, they've got some recycling.

Oh, yeah. That's great work, tiddlers.

-What type of things do you recycle, Emma?

-Cardboard, plastic and paper.

That's great work, and I tell you what,

I can see some lunch leftovers here, so I could put them in my caddy.

There we go. Do you know what we're doing, tiddlers?

We're going to find out what happens to these lunch leftovers

-and those potato peelings.

-CAR HORN TOOTS

Right, come on then, Raymond, you come with me.

Come on, Emma, let's go.

We're taking Emma on a special trip to see where these lorries go

when they've picked up her rubbish.

Here they are.

You, me and Raymond are riding up front with this lot.

-It's going to be brilliant.

-Come on.

When I grow up, I want to drive a truck.

Maybe one day, Raymond, when you can reach the pedals.

-Are we nearly there, Mr Bloom?

-Almost, Raymond.

We've come to a recycling plant.

Emma, we're going to see what happens to food leftovers. Come on.

That's it.

Wow-wee. You see that, you two?

When you get the food leftovers from lots of houses, that's what you get.

-Is it a bit pongy?

-What a load of rubbish!

-That's right.

Emma, do you think you could go and put our potato peelings

and your leftover lunches on that pile?

Ooh, it's really stinky.

Well, it might be stinky rubbish, Raymond, but it can still be useful.

That's why they're collecting it all together,

so that nothing goes to waste.

All of your lunch-time leftovers and our potato peelings

are being sorted from any rubbish that isn't food.

Then it goes on this conveyor belt

in the next part of the recycling plant.

It's not going to be rubbish much longer!

Ha-ha!

So, the food scraps come down these pipes here.

Then they end up in those tanks back there.

Then they all get heated up until they make this food-scrap soup.

Doesn't sound like any kind of soup I'd like to eat! Oh, no.

Tomato's my favourite, with a nice slice of crusty bread,

-a bit of basil...

-All right, Raymond, that's enough.

Let's get back to the food scraps, eh?

The food scraps end up in those huge tanks behind us.

-It's like an enormous Compo.

-You're bang-on, Raymond.

And the food-scrap soup, it stays in there

until it starts to give off this gas.

And then the gas is collected in that big round tank over there.

Because the gas is burned in special engines,

it's turned into electricity.

Ooh, electricity!

Is that what makes lights work?

That's right, Raymond.

Lights, televisions, vacuum cleaners and computers.

Potato power!

Once that food-scrap soup's had all the energy taken out of it,

-this is what's left.

-That's very clever.

It's really good for helping plants to grow big and strong.

It's not rubbish any more!

No, sirree. Come on, Emma, let's get this back to your house.

-Hey! Hello, tiddlers.

-Oh, Rebecca, Aaron, I helped the digger driver.

-He did. What was it like, Emma?

-Smelly.

-It was a bit whiffy, wasn't it?

-All that fertiliser!

-We've brought some back for your plants.

-Thank you.

So let's get stuck in.

Fertiliser is sort of like food for plants.

What we do is mix it into the soil

and then it will help them grow big and strong.

That's it. Mix it all in.

Brilliant.

We've made good use of what we thought was rubbish!

That's right, Raymond, so thanks for your help, tiddlers, OK?

I'll see you later. Bye-bye! Come on, mate, let's go.

We've got to get back to the fete for the mash-athon.

I'm glad so many people are having fun at my fete.

-I wonder what the tiddlers are up to.

-Let's have a go down here.

-Hold out your hand. Now look at that lot.

-Look how many there are.

Do you know about worms? Worms eat very funny things.

-Would you think that worms eat tea bags?

-No!

And also pieces of cabbage.

They wiggle about until they make compost.

They are such clever, clever worms.

They've turned all that rubbish into compost.

There's loads of fun and games going on at my fete

and it's almost time for the mash-athon.

All right, Scouts!

Ready, steady, mash!

-ALL:

-Mash, mash, mash, mash,

mash, mash, mash, mash,

mash, mash, mash, mash!

THEY CHEER

With the mash mashed and the bangers cooked,

it's time for everyone to tuck in.

-And there's the juice to drink too. What a mountain of mash.

-Ha-ha!

Well, you enjoy that bangers and mash and I'll see you later on, OK?

-Bye-bye.

-Bye!

Veggies, we're back!

And look who's come to see you. It's Jason, Katie and Ali.

ALL: Hello, tiddlers!

-Me and Raymond have been on a real adventure today, haven't we?

-Yes!

We found out what happens to rubbish when you put it in the bin.

-Would you like to see?

-ALL: Yes!

COMPO WHIRRS

We met some tiddlers who are ever so good at recycling

and we went to a really stinky place

to see what happen to food scraps if you don't have your own Compo.

That's right.

Did you know food scraps can get turned into electricity

to help people in their homes. It's very clever.

-What did you get up to at the fete?

-We were mashing tatties.

Yeah, tatties. That's another word for potatoes, isn't it?

And yeah, they were mashing loads of potatoes for the mash-athon.

-And what did you get up to?

-We seen worms.

-What were they doing?

Eating tea bags.

ALL: Ooh-hoo!

Hey, it's good to turn your rubbish into something else.

And was there anything left over from the mash-athon?

-Oh, some bottles and some potatoes.

-Maybe we should recycle the bottles.

Oh, but we don't have a recycle bin for them to go in.

They can't go in, Compo.

It seems a shame to waste some perfectly good potatoes.

So what can we do that involves some bottles and a potato?

Any ideas, tiddlers?

-Runner bean, runner bean!

-Stop!

Oh, dear.

Careful, Colin. He's been knocking things over all day.

It's because he's bored.

-Does it make you think of a game we can play?

-Bowling balls.

The bottles can be skittles.

Yeah, we can recycle those bottles into our very own skittle set.

-What do you say, tiddlers?

-ALL: Yes!

Not bored bean, excited bean!

We will need Compo's help, though, is that OK?

COMPO WHIRRS

Oh, no, he's empty and needs feeding. Not to worry.

-TANNOY:

-'Hello, hello, calling all tiddlers, parents and grandparents,

'it's feeding time.'

# Grass and weeds And leaves from trees

# Thistles that prickle And petals that tickle

# Brown stuff, green stuff Sticky stuff, icky stuff

# Crunchy bits, munchy bits Snappy bits, sappy bits

# Yesterday's yums Chopping-board crumbs

# It's not fussy What's in its tum

# My awesome Compostarium... #

..is full.

Hey, here's everything we need for some super spud skittles.

Nice one, Compo. Bring them over to the big table.

All right, tiddlers. Let's get making these skittles.

Put some sand in here.

This sand will make the bottles a bit heavier

so that they don't fall over easily.

And these bits of paper will decorate the skittles.

A few more stickers might be nice.

Nothing's going to waste.

These are smashing skittles, tiddlers. Well done.

That was a really good job. Colin, do you fancy a game?

Bowling bean!

And do you tiddlers want to play too?

ALL: Yes, please.

That's great.

So, we've got our skittles... Oh, we need ball, don't we?

-I didn't think about that.

-Oh...

-Erm...

-Good point.

-Oh, what could we use?

These potatoes.

-Those potatoes, that's a great idea!

-Brilliant.

You see, nothing is going to waste today, is it?

Oh, what fun, spud skittles!

I used to be brilliant at this.

Did I ever tell you I was north-east spud skittling champion...

BOTH: Five years in a row!

Yes, you might have mentioned it once or twice.

Right, Jason, you're first. Put your tatty there.

Come on, Jason, let those bottles have it.

Ohhh, wow!

Be careful, Tom, you're rocking the shelf.

Calm down, Tom.

I'll show them how it's done.

Pop it there. Here goes your spud.

Oh!

Good one. Hello there, Tom. Do you fancy a go?

Careful, Tom!

Go on, Tom, skittle them over.

-He hasn't lost his touch, has he?

-Well, not quite.

TOM PUFFS AND PANTS

-How are you feeling, Tom?

-I feel a little dizzy, but I loved it.

That's brilliant, isn't it, tiddlers?

We made sure that nothing went to waste.

ALL: Hooray!

Mr Bloom!

Hello, Sebastian. Do you fancy some bangers and mash?

I am sure there'll be plenty left over at the mash-athon.

I'm always partial to a little saucisson.

But before that, I have a little something that will "bowl" you over!

Hit it!

# Have you ever wondered Where your kitchen waste has gone?

# Like the potato peel That we had from our mash-athon

# Bottles into skittles Yes, recycling is the one

# So I think we all deserve To sing and dance and have some fun

# La la la la la la-la La la la la-la la

# La la la la la la-la

# La-la la, la-la la

# La-la la la la la la la

# La la la la-la la

# La la la la la la la-la

# La-la la, la-la la

# We've had a busy day How the time flies

# You Veggies must be tired

# Let's bed you down Shut your eyes... #

Come on, Margaret, Colin, Raymond,

Joan and Sebastian.

Settle down, you cheeky Wee MacGregors.

It's time for a snooze.

It was lovely you came.

You made lovely skittles, did you enjoy that?

-Yes.

-Good.

SHE YAWNS Oh, that's nice.

Night-night.

# Nap time, Veggies

# Sleep tight, Veggies

# Just listen to my gentle tune

# Nap time, Veggies

# Sleep tight, Veggies

# You'll wake up and play soon. #

HE SNORES

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