Moving House Old Jack's Boat

Good day to you.

# This is the place to be

# For Salty Dog and me

# Down by the harbour, we'll be there

# Round every corner there's something to share

# Give us a cheer, our friends are here

# Just Salty Dog and me... #

Ha, ha! Come on, Salty!

# This is the place to meet

# Down at the end of the street

# Seagulls flying up in the blue

# There's always a cup of tea waiting for you

# Out in the sun, having some fun

# Just Salty Dog and me

# Haul away, haul away

# Sing a song of the sea

# Hoist the sail I'll tell you a tale

# Of Salty Dog and me! #

# This is the place to go

# And these are the people we know

# The village is busy with things to see

# And there's the Rainbow down by the quay

# There's stories to tell, join us as well

-# Just Salty Dog and me. #

-PHONE RINGS

GULLS SCREECH

There you go. I hope that holds. I'm not very good with table legs.

-Oh, thanks, Sam. I'm sure you've done a brilliant...

-Job! I hope so.

-I'll be off then. See you later!

-Bye, Sam!

-Hello, Sam.

-Morning, Jack. Can't stop.

-HE CHUCKLES

-Hello, Shelly, my angel.

Hello, Jack. I didn't see you there.

Or you, Salty. Hello, my lovely girl.

What's all this? A new display for the cafe?

Yes, it is. I've asked everybody

for an unusual flowerpot to put my flowers in.

-Ernie got me this beautiful shell.

-Oh! A shell for Shelly.

-It's appropriate, isn't it.

-Yes. Sam gave me this...paint tin.

And Emily gave me this sandcastle bucket.

-And what did Miss Bowline-Hitch come up with?

-Ta-da!

-SHE LAUGHS

-What, a wellie?

Yeah. I think this will make a most unusual flowerpot.

-Oh, and Sam fixed my display table.

-That's good. Lovely.

-It's perfect.

-Oh!

-SALTY DOG WHINES

-Oh, no!

-Oh, dear!

-Time to clear up.

-Can I help?

Erm...yes.

Yes, you can. You can find me an unusual flowerpot. Off you go!

I was going to polish the potholes on The Rainbow.

Still, I'll find you an unusual flowerpot.

-Perfect, Jack. Bye!

-Bye.

She seemed a bit keen to get rid of us. I wonder why?

I wonder why?

Come on. Come on.

-SHE LAUGHS

-That's better.

There she is!

The Rainbow!

What have you got for us today, my dear?

HOOT!

HE LAUGHS

-Come on, Salty.

-HE HUMS

Here we are.

CREAKING

HOOT!

Now then, before I start, Salty, I've got to find something unusual

for Shelly to use as a flowerpot.

You know, something more unusual than a Wellington boot.

Just something unusual that will hold a flower.

I don't know. Let's have a look.

See what I've got...

What have you...? Give it me.

That's it. Good girl.

Look at that old magician's top hat.

You are the best dog on this boat, you are.

Fantastic! Do you know, that brings back some memories, that does.

Do you remember how we came by this hat?

Once upon a twinkly time,

The Rainbow set off from Staithes, waved goodbye to Whitby,

and disappeared over the horizon.

And as we sailed, we sang.

# Just Salty Dog and me

# Sailing the tropical sea

# The colourful creatures create a great show

# There's millions of fishes all swimming below

# We'll have lots of fun in the hot sunny sun

-# Just Salty Dog and me. #

-HOOT!

And then suddenly through my trusty telescope I saw something.

It was a colourful top hat washed up on a rock.

Before we could rescue it, a strange thing happened.

Out of the water popped a pink periscope.

It slid all the away along the side of The Rainbow and then stopped.

Then to our astonishment a pink submarine surfaced.

Salty was most impressed.

The hatch opened and out popped

a very glamorous lady in a smart business suit who said,

"Hello. I'm Coral Reef from Top Homes."

"Top Homes?" I said. "Yes, that's right," she replied.

"I'm an estate agent.

"I help lots of sea creatures find homes to live in."

Salty was very keen to find out what her job was like.

And so Coral kindly invited us to come along for the ride.

Well, we leapt into the pink submarine and...we whizzed off.

As we travelled, Coral Reef explained

that she was on the way to see Herman the Hermit Crab

who lived far away.

He was one of her trickiest customers.

He never seemed happy with any home that she suggested.

I had to explain to Salty that while most crabs

have shells as part of their bodies hermit crabs don't,

so they have to find other shells to live inside.

Salty said she preferred her dog house at home.

Anyway, finally we arrived at a very nice-looking winkle shell

which looked perfect for a hermit crab to me.

But beside it stood a very grumpy looking Herman

waiting for Coral Reef to arrive.

"No more winkle shells for me!" he said.

"I want to move up in the world."

"I want a bigger, more colourful home,

"something to show off to my friends. Show me a top home, Coral."

He certainly did seem full of himself.

He didn't even say please.

So Coral Reef took us

to a rather lovely whelk shell that was a little bigger.

She knocked politely...

just to make sure that it wasn't already occupied.

"You call this a top home?!" sneered Herman.

"It's not right at all! A top crab like me

"needs something bigger and more colourful than this kind of home!"

"How could I possibly entertain all my friends in that?!"

This hermit crab definitely had big, colourful ideas.

Salty was keen to know what sort of colour he was looking for.

"Red, yellow, orange, something eye-catching," he told her.

Mr and Mrs Cod swam by and they sucked in their fishy cheeks.

"We don't go for bright colours round here."

"Do we, Harold?" said Mrs Cod.

"No, Penelope," said Mr Cod.

And then I remembered that there were lots of amazing large shells

in many bright colours in the tropics where we'd been fishing.

Well, after that there was no stopping Herman.

We just had to visit the tropics. Now!

We whizzed through the water so fast

that Salty's whiskers started to whiffle.

"Faster! Faster!" shouted Herman.

Finally, after a lot of whizzing, we made it.

The tropical waters were full of colourful sights.

Salty, she went bounding off

to sniff at a large yellow helmet shell.

"Hmm! Not sure," said Herman.

He really was very difficult to please.

Coral Reef knocked politely at the shell.

To our surprise the long nose of a pipe fish

extended out of the shell and then it started playing loud jazz music!

Well, we loved the music, but Herman shook his head.

He didn't care for this home.

"This is a noisy place to live. It's not for me. Next!" he tutted.

Well, poor Coral, she didn't know what to do.

She'd shown Herman all the houses she could think of.

But then Salty had an idea.

-SHE BARKS

-She remembered the top hat

we had seen washed up on the rock.

Brilliant!

We all whizzed over to the rock and popped up onto the surface.

"How about the top hat?" I said.

"Clack my claws," the hermit crab cried,

"it's big, it's colourful, that's the home for me!"

Well, Coral was thrilled.

She had finally found a home for her difficult customer.

And he moved in immediately

into his grand new home with its colourful stripes and silken walls.

Finally, Herman had the home he felt he deserved

and he sat there waiting for all his friends to come and visit.

HE CHUCKLES

And he waited...

and he waited...

and he waited, but nobody came.

And after a long waiting while,

Herman started to feel very, very lonely.

He had been so busy trying to get a bigger, more colourful house,

he'd forgotten all about his friends.

They were now too far away.

They couldn't just pop round, they never called,

and now he was missing them all.

So do you know what he did?

Hmm? He called up Coral Reef.

"Coral," he said. "I want a little winkle shell to live in

"somewhere near my friends."

"Hmm. Well, what about your old house?" said Coral.

"That's still empty."

"That would be perfect!" said Herman. "Thank you."

It was the first time Coral had heard him say thank you.

And she was so pleased she drove over in double-quick time

to take him to his new house.

Soon he was back in his lovely old winkle shell

with all his friends all around him.

And he told them all what a fool he'd been for ever wanting

anything bigger and more colourful than his lovely home.

And do you know what, he lives there happily to this day.

And the top hat? Well, as nobody seemed to want it for a home,

we thought we'd give it a home right here on The Rainbow.

And I think I may have the prefect new home for it, Salty. Right?

Come with me. Come on. Come on! That's a girl!

-That's it.

-HE LAUGHS

HOOT!

You like that story, Salty?

Yeah? All true, of course.

-Mind you, my stories always are.

-HE LAUGHS

Come on, girl.

Well, this is odd.

I was told my table had collapsed, but it seems to be all right.

Maybe just another little tweak.

There! Another good Sam Spinnaker job is done!

-Table fixed?

-Right as rain!

Oh, marvellous! Come on, Salty.

Here you are, Shelly.

-Oh! What have you got for me, Jack?

-Now, that is a special pot.

I've filled it with soil

and put some of your favourite flowers in it.

-It's lovely! Thank you.

-I'll put it on the table.

-SALTY WHINES

-No, don't worry. Sam's fixed it.

Yeah.

-Perfect!

-Yeah.

Oh!

BOTH: Sam!

Well, Salty, that's it for today.

We'll see all our friends again next time.

Oh! And we'll see you next time as well. Bye-bye.

Come on, girl.

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