Helping Dad Topsy and Tim

# This is our street

-# It's where we live... #

-Come on, Topsy!

-# We love to play together... #

-Quick, Tim!

-# Just like you... #

-Come on, Topsy, run!

# Just like us... #

-# And we'll be friends forever... #

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# We can be anything

# If we close our eyes and dream

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# And the fun will never end

# This is our street

# It's where we live

# So let's all play together

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-Hello.

-Hello.

-BOTH: It's us!

-Topsy.

-And Tim.

-We're helping Dad.

-Come on.

'Mum's away helping Granny Molly.'

'Granny Molly's hurt her arm,

'so Mummy's gone to stay with her all week.'

OK. Finish tidying up, please.

Oh, listen to me, Topsy and Tim. I've got an idea.

-What?

-What is it, Dad?

While Mummy's away, I want to put up some new wallpaper

in our bedroom as a surprise for her. What do you think?

-That's a great idea, Dad.

-Can I help, please?

Yes, you certainly can, Topsy, thank you.

And here it is, ta-da.

-Oh, wow!

-It's really nice, Dad.

-It's really nice.

-Yeah, I think so, too.

Mummy picked it out especially and I think she will love

to come home and see it hanging up on the wall.

-Dad, she made a really good choice.

-Didn't she?

Lots to do, gang.

-Let's get started!

-OK.

-Oh, should I finish stacking the dishwasher?

-Yeah, please, Tim.

Thank you. What helpful twins.

'Dad showed me how to spread the sticky gluey paste

'onto the back of the wallpaper.'

Remember, Topsy, you need lots and lots of paste on your brush, yeah?

Mummy is going to be so impressed.

-Done it.

-Good girl.

-Why don't you stick it here, Dad?

-Yeah, let's start from the corner.

-Oh, up there, then.

-Yeah, just help me to unpeel it? There we go.

-Yuck.

Oh, gently, gently.

All the way.

OK, let go. Thank you.

-Oh, I can't quite reach.

-I'll go and get you a step.

Oh, thank you.

-I've got you two, just in case, Dad.

-Oh, thank you.

OK, there we go.

Now...

-Careful, Dad!

-OK.

-Right, how am I doing?

-Oh, um...

This side, along a bit.

-OK, along, yep.

-Up, up a bit more.

-Yes, that's good.

-OK, right.

-Whoa!

-Oh!

-I'll help you, Dad!

Oh, dear.

Tim! Please can you come up and help us?

In a minute.

Please can you come now? We're all sticky!

OK, coming.

Oh.

Maybe we need DIY Derek to come and help.

No, we don't need DIY Derek.

I'm sure I can hang a sheet of wallpaper with you two to help me.

We'll be a proper decorating team.

'Tim comes upstairs to help with the decorating.'

-We might need to pull this along so I can paint the other bit.

-OK.

OK, let's grab a corner each and take it through to the bedroom.

There we go, into the bedroom.

-OK. Tim, just watch where you're going, yeah?

-Yeah.

-CRASH

-Oh!

-Oops.

-OK, help me put the paper back on the table, please.

Sorry.

Oh!

I'll tidy this up. Jump up, thank you.

Please could you pop another dust sheet down on the floor? Thank you.

Oh...

-Tim?

-Yes?

You've got to get DIY Derek to help Dad with the wallpapering.

We could find DIY Derek.

But Mummy says we're not allowed to use the phone

unless it's a true emergency.

-Mummy won't mind if we use the phone once.

-Hmm... OK.

-Let's put this down first and then we can go.

-Yeah, and do it.

Sh!

DAD WHISTLES

'We know what we have to do. I get the phone.'

'And I look for DIY Derek's number.'

Thanks, Tim.

DAD WHISTLES

I need to find Derek's number first.

D... D...

Derek...Dah, ah, er, ek.

-Derek. This is his number.

-The number is... Oh, yeah.

So, 8...

8...

-4... OK.

-Call.

PHONE RINGS

Hello?

Hello, it's Topsy and Tim speaking.

Oh, hi, Topsy. How can I help you?

-Dad's making a bit of a mess of the decorating.

-Oh, dear, is he?

-Please could you come and help us?

-Yes, of course.

-You can?

-Yes, yes, of course I can.

-Oh, thank you, Derek.

-No worries.

-See you soon.

-Bye.

-Topsy, Tim.

-Where'd you find that?

-THEY GASP

-My little helpers fancy a break?

There's juice in the kitchen.

-Coming.

-Coming.

-OK.

Hurry up, you two.

'We take a long time drinking our juice.'

'To leave enough time for DIY Derek to get to our house.'

DOORBELL RINGS

I wonder who that could be.

-Derek!

-Hi, Brian.

-Hello, what a surprise.

-I hear you're doing some wallpapering.

-I am, yeah.

-Who told you?

-Well, I got a phone call from your two little helpers.

Topsy and Tim?

-Did you use the telephone to call Derek?

-Um, yes.

-Sorry, Dad.

You cheeky pair!

Come on in, Derek.

Right. Point me to the disaster, Topsy and Tim.

-It's up in Mummy and Dad's room.

-Righty-ho.

-We'll show you.

Good stuff.

'DIY Derek helped us wallpaper Mummy and Dad's bedroom.'

'It looked so nice when we'd finished.'

There we go.

Four more sleeps until Mummy gets back

and she'll see the new wallpaper.

-Yes. Thank you so much, Derek.

-My pleasure.

It's come out really well, thanks to you two, really.

And that's when Dad said...

BOTH: "I will take a photo of this room on my phone."

You know what?

-I will take a photo of this room on my phone, Topsy and Tim.

-Good idea.

-A photo of the new wallpaper and of my wallpapering team.

-Please, can I?

-I want you to be in the photo as well, Dad.

-Aw, thank you.

OK, do you know how to work the camera, Topsy?

-Yes.

-OK.

-Dad? You stand here.

-Yes.

-Over this way a bit.

-Oh, OK.

-And DIY Derek next to Dad.

-Right.

-And Tim, you there.

-Brilliant. OK.

Smile, Tim. Smile, Dad. Smile, DIY Derek.

ALL: We did it!

BOTH: "And that," said everyone, "was that."

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.

Today we were helping Dad with the decorating.

Can you remember who else came over to help?

Was it Mr Fen?

Or was it DIY Derek?

The answer is behind Wiggles the rabbit.

Look! The answer is DIY Derek.

Watch this.

-Derek!

-Hi, Brian.

-Hello, what a surprise.

-I hear you're doing some wallpapering.

-I am, yeah.

-Who told you?

-Well, I got a phone call from your two little helpers.

Topsy and Tim?

Did you use the telephone to call Derek?

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 forever. #