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00:00You're not the shrinking cat, Grandpa!
00:06Catch me if you can!
00:10Grandpa!
00:18No! Be careful!
00:25Grandpa, stop!
00:30No!
00:44Grandpa in my pocket!
00:49Mum and Dad had gone away with my sister Jemima for the weekend.
00:53Jemima was in a dance competition.
00:56Jemima's always dancing
00:59I didn't go to watch her this time, because I had a sore throat.
01:04I was feeling quite miserable.
01:07And I wasn't the only one.
01:10Grandpa was feeling miserable too.
01:13And even Beowulf was feeling miserable.
01:16Because guess who'd come to look after us?
01:19There's a bee! There's a bee in the kitchen!
01:23It was Great Aunt Loretta, Grandpa's sister!
01:26It's after me!
01:30Great Aunt Loretta cooks very odd food.
01:33Like sausage with sardine sauce.
01:36She's always drinking spinach and sprout shake.
01:39Grandpa calls it green gloop.
01:42And she's always stubbing her toe.
01:45We have a pack of peas in the freezer that we always put on it.
01:52And she's often like this.
01:54Or like this.
02:00And she makes Grandpa feel like this.
02:04There's no sign of a bee, Loretta.
02:06I'm the only busy bee round here.
02:09You? Busy? You're never busy.
02:13You're lazy, you are.
02:15But how wrong could she be?
02:17Because today was definitely going to be...
02:21Grandpa's Busy Bee Day!
02:24Lemon Bon Bon, Jason.
02:26It'll help your sore throat.
02:28No lemon bonbons allowed!
02:30What he needs is green gloop.
02:32Yuck.
02:34Goodness me.
02:36You have got a temperature, Jason Mason. Bed!
02:40Oh no, please let me stay downstairs with Grandpa.
02:43Boys with temperatures stay in bed until they're better.
02:47Please let me stay downstairs with Grandpa.
02:49Please. He's going to read me a Captain Dumbledore story.
02:53I just knew Great Aunt Loretta wouldn't let Grandpa come upstairs with me.
02:57Let him stay.
02:59I'll just get you a drink, and then I'll take you up to bed.
03:03I hope that bee's gone.
03:06It's no good.
03:08If she's making you go upstairs,
03:10I'll have to find a way of getting you back down.
03:14Not a shrinking gap, Grandpa.
03:16I'll have to find a way of getting you back down.
03:20Not a shrinking gap, Grandpa.
03:26Catch me if you can.
03:28You know when Grandpa shrinks,
03:30he can get up to all kinds of magical things.
03:34He can get into my car and make it go.
03:37He can make it go.
03:49He can ride on Gordon, my toy seagull.
04:00He can fly off in my plane.
04:08He can fly off in my plane.
04:20When Grandpa's got an idea in his head, there's no stopping him.
04:24And this time, his idea was to fly up to my room in my plane.
04:30Oh, so Grandpa's gone for a little lie down, has he?
04:35So much for you being a busy bee, eh?
04:39Come on, up we go.
04:41Whenever Grandpa disappears,
04:43everyone thinks he's gone for a little lie down.
04:46I'm the only one who knows about Grandpa's magic shrinking cap,
04:49and I knew for sure he wasn't lying down.
04:55He must have landed safely because the plane was on my bed.
04:59But where was he hiding?
05:02Right.
05:04Drink it up.
05:06Nothing like spinach and sprout shake to chase the germs away.
05:10I wanted to chase Great Aunt Loretta away.
05:13I knew Grandpa would try to help.
05:15But how?
05:19What's that noise?
05:20It sounds like a bee.
05:22Ah! Not another one!
05:24Get out! Out!
05:26Wherever you are, out!
05:28We soon found out where the buzzing was coming from.
05:31It's in the tin. It's in the crayon tin.
05:34You must have a whole tin.
05:36Go out the window!
05:38I'll sort it, Great Aunt Loretta.
05:42I knew exactly what was in the tin,
05:44and it wasn't a bee.
05:46It was Grandpa.
05:50Call me when you've got rid of it.
05:54Grandpa.
05:57Come out of there.
05:59Have you got rid of it?
06:01Nearly, Great Aunt Loretta.
06:03If I were you, I'd get rid of the green gloop.
06:06You're right.
06:07You go to the bathroom and I'll hide.
06:09Yep.
06:14It's gone, Great Aunt Loretta.
06:21You can't be too careful.
06:22Where there's one bee, there's often more.
06:26Oh, you good boy.
06:28I'll make you something to eat.
06:30Kipper and marmalade sandwiches.
06:32Best thing for sore throats.
06:35Yuck. You can't eat a kipper and marmalade sandwich.
06:38I'll go and find you some grapes and a jammy-jumbly biscuit.
06:42And maybe even a lemon bombo.
06:45No, Grandpa. Bad idea.
06:47But there was no stopping him.
06:50Grandpa was off.
06:52I didn't know how Grandpa was planning to get a lemon bonbon and grapes
06:57and a jammy-jumbly biscuit up the stairs.
07:00And I was worried that Great Aunt Loretta would see him.
07:04One lovely kipper.
07:08And don't think you're getting any, you greedy guts.
07:12Ooh, yum.
07:15One kipper and marmalade sandwich.
07:20One jug of garlic juice.
07:23Ah!
07:25It's another bee.
07:26It's another...
07:27Oh, grapes.
07:28Ah!
07:33Well, Great Aunt Loretta was busy being scared in the garden.
07:36Ah!
07:37Oh, grapes.
07:38Oh, grapes.
07:39Oh, grapes.
07:40Oh, grapes.
07:41Oh, grapes.
07:42Oh, grapes.
07:43She was scared in the garden.
07:44Ah!
07:45Grandpa was busy hiding yummy things to eat.
07:49Under the kipper a marmalade sandwich.
07:51She was too busy looking for the bee to notice him.
07:56Well, has he gone?
07:59Ha! As if you'd know.
08:04Right.
08:05Right.
08:10Great Aunt Loretta set off with the tray.
08:14Then...
08:15Ow!
08:16Ooh!
08:17Ah!
08:18Ooh!
08:19Ooh!
08:20Ooh!
08:21Ow!
08:22Ow!
08:23Me toe!
08:24Ooh!
08:25That wretched plane!
08:26What's it doing down here?
08:28It was upstairs.
08:30Oh!
08:31The things I do for this family!
08:35Ooh!
08:36Ow!
08:37Ow!
08:40I tripped over your wretched plane!
08:44I've no idea how it got downstairs.
08:48Maybe the bee flew it down.
08:50Oh, don't you talk to me about bees, Jason Mason!
08:53I could see where Grandpa had hidden the goodies.
08:55But where had he hidden himself?
08:57It wasn't long before I found out.
09:00Parsnip juice.
09:01Nearly as good for you as green gloop.
09:04Ah!
09:06Ooh!
09:07Ooh, it's in the beaker.
09:08There's a bee in the beaker.
09:09I'll drown it.
09:10No!
09:11I grabbed the beaker, but then...
09:13Now the bed's all soaked.
09:16Ooh!
09:17Sorry, I didn't mean to.
09:19Ooh!
09:21Get rid of it and come down at once.
09:24I need you to protect me.
09:26Protect me!
09:27There are bees everywhere!
09:35Grandpa!
09:37Have a grape and a lemon bonbon as well.
09:39Ooh, I'm looking forward to a bite of that.
09:43After we'd shared the grapes and the jammy jumbly,
09:46I put Grandpa in my dressing gown pocket and brought him downstairs.
09:49Are you there, Jason?
09:51Yes, just checking for bees, Great Aunt Loretta.
09:54I put him down on the floor,
09:56off came his shrinking cap,
09:58and he came back to his normal size.
10:00Have you got rid of them all?
10:02Yes, the house is bee-free.
10:04I knew we'd find a way of getting him back downstairs, Jason.
10:07Yep.
10:08Teamwork.
10:09Teamwork.
10:10Bzzz!
10:11Bzzz!
10:16And Captain Dumbledwit could hear in the distance.
10:20Soon, Grandpa was reading me a Captain Dumbledwit story,
10:24and Great Aunt Loretta was snoozing and resting her poor toe.
10:29The bag of frozen peas had come in useful again.
10:34And Captain Dumbledwit crept towards the space pod.
10:38The terrible croaking noise was getting louder and louder.
10:43Bzzz!
10:46The doors of the alien space pod slid slowly open,
10:51and to Captain Dumbledwit's amazement,
10:54there sat the wartiest, ugliest, slimiest toad he had ever seen.
11:02Bzzz!
11:04And he cried to the others,
11:06It's a toad!
11:07A toad!
11:09Did you say a toad?
11:11I did, Loretta.
11:12What a lot of toads!
11:14We've only just got rid of all the bees!
11:17Call me when you've got rid of these!
11:42Bzzz!