House Buyers Topsy and Tim

# This is our street

# It's where we live

# We love to play together...

Topsy!

# Just like you

# Just like us...

Hey, Tim!

# And we'll be friends for ever

# We can be anything if we close our eyes and dream

# We can play day after day

# And the fun will never end

# This is our street

# It's where we live

# So let's all play together

# Be best friends for ever. #

BOTH: It's us!

-Topsy.

-And Tim!

'Come and meet Ray.'

'Come on!'

'Our friend Ray is here today.'

Lift. Lift it, Tim.

'We're doing a play called the Three Little Pigs

'at nursery school with him.'

Wow, my costume looks really good.

'I've got a house costume.'

-Can I try it on?

-Yeah!

Whoa!

You put the box like this, Tim.

'All of our costumes are different.

'And we're showing them to Dad while Mummy's at a meeting.'

Ha-ha! Wow! You make a great house, Tim.

Um, Dad...

-I can't really get it on.

-OK. Just pop your hands there.

-Can you help me?

-Yep. Yep.

-Thank you.

-Eh!

-I'll put your mask on for you.

-Oh, there's a mask. Come on.

'In Three Little Pigs, I'm playing the part of the three houses

'that get blown down by the wolf.'

-Thank you.

-OK.

Put it on, Dad. Thank you.

Oh, it's a good mask.

Hello. Ha-ha. I think it suits me.

So how does the costume work, Tim?

-I'm a house made of straw. See?

-Uh-huh.

So you just twist the house around. And now, I'm a house made of sticks.

Ha-ha. Brilliant!

-Now, I'm a house made of bricks.

-It's a great costume, Tim.

-Thank you. I like your tie.

-Now, Mummy told me

you need to practise what you have to say in the play.

-Is that right?

-Oh, yes.

-But the house doesn't say anything.

-The narrator does. That's me.

-I tell the story.

-And we act it out.

-OK, come on then. Let's see.

OK.

-We need the big, bad wolf.

-Oh! Topsy!

-Topsy!

-Coming.

I'll huff and I'll puff...

And I'll blow your house down!

Ah! Boys, there's a wolf in the house.

-No, it's me, Dad.

-Oh! Phew!

Ha-ha. So, we're going to practise your play, Topsy.

-Yes. Ready, Mr Wolf?

-Yes. Raaar!

So, Tim, at the beginning of the play you are a straw house.

-Stand there, please.

-OK.

And, Topsy, the wolf's not in yet. Sit there, please.

OK, Ray.

Thank you. I say, "Our story begins when... "

DOORBELL RINGS

Who's at the door, Daddy? It's a lady and a man.

Oh, it's the people who are coming to look around our house today.

-Oh!

-Mummy told me but I forgot. I'll get the door.

-OK.

-Hi, how are you doing?

-I'm Sam.

'Our house is for sale.'

-Come in. It's a bit messy.

-Don't worry.

'And these people might buy it.'

We're practising our nursery school play.

It's called the Three Little Pigs.

Who are you?

We're Sam and Trish. Who are you?

-Oh, I'm the three houses.

-I'm the wolf. Raaar!

And I'm the narrator.

-Gosh, are those your real names?

-ALL THREE: No! Ha-ha!

We're Topsy and Tim. We live here. And this is our friend Ray.

Sam and Trish are here to look around our house.

Are you going to buy our house?

I don't know. We need to look around it first.

-Come and see our kitchen!

-Lead the way, big, bad wolf!

Tim, shall we practise the straw house bit on our own?

No, not yet. I need to show Sam and Trish the house with Topsy.

I'm sorry.

-OK.

-I'll come back later to play with you.

This is our art stuff. We've got paintbrushes and beads.

SAM AND TRISH LAUGH

This is the fridge with all of our pictures on.

Aw!

-That's our table.

-Oh!

And this is the back door.

Dad, can I show Trish and Sam the upstairs rooms now?

Of course you can. Thanks for helping, Topsy and Tim.

-But I need to show them the garden first.

-I knew that.

Come on.

'Trish and Sam look at our garden.

'Then Tim shows them upstairs.'

THEY LAUGH

Go on. The house is stuck on the stairs.

THEY ALL LAUGH

Aw, bless.

When are we going to practise the play, Topsy and Tim?

-Soon, Ray.

-Yes, we won't be long, Ray.

This is your room, is it, Tim?

-Yes.

-And mine.

-I sleep on the top bunk bed.

And I sleep on the bottom bunk.

-Aw! Is this your bunny, Topsy?

-Yes, it's Little Moon Bunny.

What else could we show them, Tim?

Mum and Dad's bedroom.

Careful!

Come with me.

Oh!

THEY LAUGH

-Another lovely room.

-Mm.

We like your house, Topsy and Tim.

Well done, twins.

I'll make our visitors some tea and you can finish showing them around.

OK, Dad.

-Can we have biscuits too, Dad?

-Ha-ha. I'll see what I can do.

TRUCK BEEPS

'So we get biscuits.

'Chocolate biscuits. Yum!

'And jammy biscuits.

'While Sam and Trish look at every room in our house again.'

Good balancing, Tim.

-Would you like a biscuit?

-Not for me, thank you.

Thanks for showing us round, Topsy and Tim.

You have a lovely family home.

Did you realise something? We've lived here since we were babies.

Aw! That's nice to know, Tim. Cos I'm having a baby.

TIM GASPS

You've got a baby in your tummy like Tony Welch's mum?

Well, two actually.

-Two?!

-Twins?!

Yeah, we're expecting twins.

Twins like us?

-Yes.

-Twins are the best!

Yes, they are.

THEY LAUGH

-We should let Trish sit down, shouldn't we?

-Yes.

Thank you.

So, are you going to buy our house then?

I don't know. We've got to think about it first.

Would you like to watch us practise our play while you think about it?

-We'd love to stay and watch a little bit of it.

-Great!

-Please, may we, Daddy?

-I don't see why not.

He-he-he!

-I hope you do live here with your twins.

-Me too.

'And that's when Sam said,

'"This is just the sort of happy house we'd like to buy."''

This is just the sort of happy house we'd like to buy, Topsy and Tim.

Yay!

Oh! The babies are moving round inside my tummy.

I think they like this house too.

Come on, Topsy and Tim. Let's show the grownups our play.

Yes, Ray's been very patient. Ready to watch your play now, Ray.

Tim, you stand here. And, Topsy, the wolf's not in yet.

Ready, everyone? ALL: Yes!

The Three Little Pigs.

Our story begins when the first little pig builds

a house of straw, and you're about to meet him now.

'And that, said Ray, was that.'

Ahhh!

WOLF PUFFS

THEY ALL LAUGH

BOTH: Hello!

Are you good at remembering?

Can you remember what happened to us today?

This is our Topsy and Tim memory game.

Let's play.

'We were practising our nursery school play today.

'Can you remember who dressed as a wolf?'

'Was it Tim?'

'Or was it Topsy?'

'The answer is behind the cloud.

'Look, the answer is Topsy.'

'Great game.'

-That was good fun.

-See you soon.

# We can play day after day

# And the fun will never end

So let's all play together

# Be best friends for ever. #