Stinky Mr Bloom's Nursery

There is a place

Not far from here

I'm sure you know it

It's ever so near

Come down the path

And you will see

A little gate

To Mr Bloom's Nursery!

Hello!

# This is my allotment

# There's such a lot to see

# With my Compostarium

# There is no place I'd rather be

# Have you been here before or not?

# Let me show you what I've got

# A spade, a fork, my wheelbarrow

# Cabbage, runner beans Tomatoes and a marrow

# A watering can A trowel, some seeds

# Radish, lettuce A couple of weeds

# With my veg and plants

# I can sing and dance

# See them sprout Watch them grow

# Pop along and say hello

# There's so much They can teach us all

# We'll laugh and learn We'll have a ball

# It's such a special place to be

# In my veggie nursery. #

Hey, tiddlers! Come and take a seat.

Hello, Mr Bloom.

-Hello, Mr Bloom.

-Hello, Emily, Daniel and Ruth!

-It's a lovely day, isn't it, tiddlers?

-Yeah.

Shall we take a big sniff of that lovely, fresh air?

Ah, it's lovely.

Ah, ah, ah, a-chooo!

-Excuse me.

-You sneezed your hat off.

-I sneezed my hat off, didn't I?

-Yeah.

I'm getting a little spot of hay fever.

It usually comes around this time of year.

Some of these flowers are making me sneeze.

No good for a gardener.

But I tell you what is good for a gardener...

ALL: Strawberries!

Strawberries, that's right. Would you like one?

-Yes, please.

-There's one for you, Daniel.

-Thank you.

There's one for you, Ruth.

Before you pop them in your mouths,

why don't we give them a good sniff?

-Hmm.

-Hmm.

-Now, do they smell yucky or yummy?

-Yummy.

-Yummy.

Let's eat them.

Do they taste as yummy as they smell?

Would you like to help me plant some more strawberry plants?

-Yes!

-Well, let's go and get their new home ready.

I'll eat them all.

I bet you will, Emily.

This is where we're going to plant our strawberries.

Before we do, we're going to give them a special welcome

by putting something they love into the soil.

Oh, my word. Have a sniff of that, Emily.

Ugh!

-Is it a bit stinky?

-Yeah.

Ugh, that's disgusting.

-Have a smell of that then, Daniel. Don't get too close.

-Ugh.

-Ugh. What do you think this is?

-Horse poo.

Horse poo, you're right! And it's called manure.

Manure is animal poo, most likely horse poo,

maybe mixed in with a bit of straw.

And it might smell whiffy to us, but the strawberry plants, they love it.

They love it so much that manure to a strawberry plant

is as lovely as strawberries are for us.

And it'll really help them grow.

But there's this poo here.

This has been maturing in my allotment for over a year!

And, believe it or not, this is the type of poo

that the strawberries really like.

-Have you all got gloves on?

-Yeah.

That's good because we don't want to be touching this with our hands.

And next, we'll need some trowels.

-Now, is this manure smelly?

-No.

-No, it's not, is it?

And make sure you mix it in as well.

We want it to be all mixed in with the other soil.

I mix it like a birthday cake.

Now, we need two big holes.

We tip them upside down.

So, if I put him in there,

can you tiddlers pack the soil in around him?

-We'll give this one a tickle again.

-Can I?

-Tickle, tickle.

-That's it.

-Tickle!

-Tickle, tickle. # Ba-ba ba-ba-bah. #

Wow! Look at all those roots.

Put this one in here.

Can you push the soil around the side to fill it in?

We need to give them some water.

It's our own, personal rain cloud, isn't it?

So, stand back. Here it comes. Woo.

# It's raining, it's pouring The old man is snoring

# He went to bed and bumped his head And couldn't get up in the morning. #

Hey, hey. There we go.

That manure, it might have been really stinky

but it's going to do the power of good to our strawberry plants.

All right, Compo. We heard you.

COMPO GROANS AND GURGLES

-Guess who's hungry?

-Compo!

-Come on, 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! #

-TING!

ALL: He's full! Hooray!

Oh, stand back, tiddlers. Here goes Compo.

Oooh.

He-he.

-Now, would you tiddlers like to meet the veggies?

-Yeah!

-Come on then.

-# Meet the veggies

-We're the veggies

# They grow here in my nursery

-# Meet the veggies

-We're the veggies

# Now who've we got today? Let's see

-# There's Margaret the cabbage

-Peep-oh!

-# Raymond the squash

-I love cuddles, you know

# And Sebastian's a singing aubergine

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

Nice!

-# Meet the veggies

-We're the veggies

# They grow here in my nursery Meet the veggies

# We're the veggies

# And that's not all Oh, no, sirree

-# There's Colin the runner bean

-I'm speedy

# The Wee MacGregors Oh, so cheeky!

# And I'm a beautiful fennel called Joan

# Hello, my dear Haven't you grown?

# Don't forget the onions Potatoes and peas

# Cos we provide the harmonies

-# Meet the veggies

-We're the veggies

# Oh, they grow here in my nursery

-# Meet the veggies

-We're the veggies

# And we love Mr Bloom

# That's me! #

Sandwiches are done. Marshmallows are done.

-Very cheesy...

-Right, tiddlers, all dry. Let's go see the veggies.

-Oh!

-Hello, Tiddlers!

-Hello!

Hello, everyone.

Hello, Daniel.

Oh, this looks like a nice spread.

It's our picnic. Do you like having picnics, tiddlers?

Yeah!

-What's your favourite food?

-Mine's a cake.

-Mine's marshmallow.

-Chocolate cake.

Where's all the Strawberry Fizznit? Has it gone already?

Colin helped himself.

Oh, Colin!

-Windy bean. (HIC!)

-Silly, Colin.

-All right, Colin.

Oh, but there is my special cheese for us all to enjoy.

-Oooh.

-Yay!

I hope they're not stinky.

-Well, that's a good point.

-I don't like stinky cheese.

Tiddlers, you might not know this,

but our squashy friend is a bit of an expert

when it comes to cheese, aren't you?

Oh, I don't like to brag,

but that is me on the cover of Big Cheese magazine.

Gosh. Look. So it is.

Eh, I never knew that "Edam is made backwards".

It's full of things like that.

I'll go and get my Vintage Framley for the picnic.

The one on the front of the magazine. You're going to love it!

Joan, those sandwiches look nice. Which are which?

Mr Bloom! It's better we don't go rummaging around the sandwiches

to find out what's in them.

Good point! We don't want to spread germs, do we?

-That's me told.

-Listen. These are the cheese.

On the left are the jam, the right are the ham.

I've put pickle in the middle, cream in between,

on the right, peanut butter.

-I'll have jam.

-I like peanut butter.

I've got it!

Hey, Raymond, is this your Vintage Framley cheese?

-Yeah.

-Ho-ho!

-Oh, doesn't smell too bad.

-Can I smell?

-Yeah.

It doesn't smell of anything at all.

Why don't you have a smell of that?

-Can I have a smell?

-It doesn't smell of anything.

Why don't you have a look inside?

Let's see what this cheese is all about.

Raymond, your cheese isn't there.

Oh, no!

Oh, oh, maybe it rolled away.

What do you think we can do about Raymond's special cheese?

We can go and look for it.

Maybe it's under the table.

Will you help, tiddlers?

-Yes!

-Yes!

Brilliant! I know - shall we listen for it?

I'll shout, "Here, cheesey, cheesey cheese,"

and when it answers, we'll know where it is.

-Do you think that'll work?

-No.

-Why not?

-Cheese can't talk, Raymond.

Oh, dear.

Even big cheese can't.

Silly me!

He's, he's trying to talk to cheese. Ha-ha.

-He gets the daftest notions.

-I know! Talking food! The very idea.

How do you think we could find the stinky cheese?

We can maybe look under the table and all around the room.

Or under that cushion.

We could use our eyes, couldn't we? What else could we use?

Our nose.

Oh, yes!

-Oh, oh, oh, we could go on a sniffing hunt.

-Oh, yes.

That's a good idea, Margaret.

Oh, and Compo has got just the thing. Ha-ha.

Compo's Sniff-o-matic.

How does it work?

-Wow!

-Well, what you have to do is you tell the machine what to sniff out.

-And then it'll go and find it wherever it is.

-Oooh.

So, all I need to do is to type in Vintage Framley cheese.

BEEP BEEP BEEP

-It doesn't seem to know what Vintage Framley cheese is.

-Oh.

So how about we make the smell of the cheese

-and tell the Sniff-o-matic what it smells like.

-Oh, yes.

It says in the magazine, "It smells a bit like damp wellington boots and

"a bit like grass cuttings"

and, well, and if I'm honest, gardeners' socks.

Ha-ha.

-Eeeeww.

-Poo-ey.

Well, why don't we go and find those smells

and then we'll let the Sniff-on-matic have a whiff,

-and then it can go and sniff out the cheese.

-Yeah!

All right, come on.

Oh, that's it, Ruth. Smelly grass clippings. Ha-ha.

Oh, well done, Daniel. A wet welly.

Oh, Mr Bloom, can we have one of your smelly socks, please?

OK. Hold your noses.

-Oh, ooh, ooh.

-Oh, nearly.

-Arrrgh. Oh!

-Ha-ha.

-Ha-ha.

I'd hate for you to have to touch my smelly sock.

Here it goes. In it goes.

Oooh, that's the stuff. Imagine that in a sandwich.

What we need to do is to give Compo's Sniff-o-matic

a big whiff of that smelly welly. So hold it out there, Emily.

Let's get a big sniff.

Oooh, ha-ha.

I think that should be enough. Oh, tiddlers. Oh, it's ready to go.

All right, everybody. Oh, it's got the scent.

It's going to do the hunting. Hold on.

-Wahoo!

-Aah.

-Ah, ooh. It's found something.

It's a, um... Oh, Raymond, it's those biscuits you had last week.

Oh, coming backwards. Hold on, tiddlee-eers!

Whoa, oh.

Tiddlers, it's coming this way. Hold on tight.

Where's it off to?

It's OK, it's just those grass cuttings from earlier on.

Coming back. Aaah... Hold on.

-Aaah!

-Aaah!

Move back, tiddlers. It's wanting to go to Compo.

-Argh!

-Argh!

Raymond, we've found your cheese!

-That's it.

-My cheese. Would you get it for me, please?

-That's it, Emily. Bring it over here for Raymond.

-Oh.

-Raymond, look, cheese.

-There we go.

-Thank you, Emily. Thank you, tiddlers.

-You're welcome.

-What are you doing with that?

-It's Raymond's cheese.

-That stinky old thing? I thought it was rubbish.

-Ha-ha-ha.

-That's my Vintage Framley.

-That's cheese.

-It's cheese?

It looks like a million-year-old cake. Smells like one too.

Well, maybe a bit. But not everything that smells bad is bad.

Sometimes stinky things can be good, can't they?

-Yeah!

-That's what we found out outside.

-That's what I said.

-And you said that earlier.

Can you remember what we were doing?

-What were we using that was really stinky?

-Manure!

-Manure, that's right.

-It makes the strawberries sweet.

-It helps the strawberries to grow.

-Strawberries.

They'd go well with the picnic!

-Yeah.

-It's picnic time!

-Good idea. You tuck in.

Sit yourselves down there and I'll get the strawberries.

-Right.

-Oh, ha-ha.

-Here we go.

I love a picnic, I do, even if it is indoors.

Right, let's try some of Raymond's vintage cheese.

Hmm, hmm, oh!

Oh, Raymond, this Vintage Framley, that's delicious, that is. Hmm-mm.

Oh, yes.

Et voila, you see,

even the stinkiest stinky has a friend somewhere.

-For the stinky cheese, it is Raymond.

-Ha-ha-ha. Oh, yeah.

For the stinky manure, it is the strawberries.

For Mr Bloom's stinky wellies,

well, we're still looking for a friend for those.

Oh. Eh, that's enough of you, you cheeky aubergine.

-And now, my friends, how about a song?

-Yeah!

# We used manure today Poo, what a stinky smell

# Who'd have thought such pongy stuff

# Was actually useful as well

# We helped find Raymond's cheese And that's a job well done

# 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

# We've had a busy day

# How the time flies

# So now you veggies must be bedded down

# For the night. #

Come on, Margaret, Colin, Raymond, Joan and Sebastian.

Eh, settle down you cheeky Wee MacGregors.

It's time for bed.

Cuddle.

Oh, that's nice, Ruth.

Thank you for helping to find my cheese. Did you enjoy that?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

That's a really nice cuddle. Ooh.

# Night-night, veggies

# Sleep tight, veggies

# And listen to my gentle tune

# Night-night, veggies

# Sleep tight, veggies

# We'll see you again soon. #

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