00:00The
00:30Mother Flump was spring cleaning.
00:39She had swept and washed the floors, and now she was tidying the drawers and cupboards.
00:44I don't know, she said.
00:47Everywhere I look, I find things that should be somewhere else,
00:51and most of them are things that Perkin, Posey and Pootle thought they'd lost.
01:00Hello, Mother, said Posey. What are you doing?
01:04I'm starting a lost property box.
01:08What's a lost property box? asked Pootle.
01:12Oh, Pootle, a lost property box, not a lost properly box.
01:18You know, a box where lost things are put.
01:22That's right, and most of the things in this box belong to you three.
01:26I found them all over the place.
01:34Caw! This is a string to my yo-yo, and here's the yo-yo.
01:41Where did you find them?
01:43In the cupboard, next to the strawberry jam.
01:47That's a funny place to keep a yo-yo.
01:50Look! My roller skate!
01:55Where was it, Mother Flump?
01:57In the bottom of the larder, next to the flour bin.
02:02I wonder how they got there.
02:04And on the other side of the flour bin, I found some paper darts.
02:10I've been looking for them everywhere.
02:12I lost them ages ago.
02:16How can it fly straight with that bend in it?
02:23See, you know, said Pootle,
02:26that box is called a lost and found box
02:29because we lose things somewhere else and find them in the box.
02:34Hello, everyone, said Father in a quiet, whispery sort of voice.
02:42Hello, Father.
02:43You sound a bit out of sorts.
02:46What's the matter?
02:47Nothing much, really.
02:49I've got a bit of a sore throat,
02:52and I think I'm losing me voice.
02:54Have a look in the lost and found box.
02:58It might be in there.
03:01Oh, pootle, said Posey.
03:04You can't really lose a voice.
03:06Father means that his sore throat makes it hard to talk.
03:10Yes.
03:12Oh, it's very painful, too.
03:16Well, don't talk then, Father.
03:18Come on, I've got some medicine that'll make it feel better.
03:23Medicine?
03:23Oof.
03:34Grandfather had lost something, too.
03:37His glasses.
03:38And he'd got himself into a fedaddle looking for them.
03:43Hello, Perkin.
03:45Have you seen my glasses, please?
03:47I can't see very well without them.
03:50I know you can't,
03:52because I'm pootle.
03:57Careful, Grandfather.
03:58You nearly tripped over, then.
04:00Oh, thank you, pootle.
04:02I'm not pootle.
04:03Pootle, I'm perking.
04:06Oh, really?
04:08Why don't you sit down for a bit
04:11while we look for your glasses, Grandfather?
04:15Thank you, per...
04:16Pootle, pootle.
04:18Pootle?
04:18Pootle?
04:18Pootle?
04:18Pootle?
04:18Pootle?
04:19Do you think that Grandfather's glasses are in the lost and found box?
04:24No, said Pootle.
04:26They're not.
04:26In fact, I can see them.
04:29Can you?
04:30Oh, yes.
04:31So can I.
04:32You can?
04:34Well, where are they, then?
04:37I can see them, too, now.
04:41They're on your cap, Grandfather.
04:44Oh, thank goodness for that.
04:48But I haven't got my cap on.
04:51You have, said Perkin.
04:53It's back to front.
04:55So it is.
05:02That's better.
05:05I think I'll go out to the allotment and make up for lost time.
05:10The carrots won't get planted if I don't.
05:14Good morning, Mother.
05:16Good morning, Grandfather.
05:18That's that.
05:19I've given Father his linctus.
05:22Why don't you play a game for a while?
05:24Well, then I can finish spring cleaning.
05:26Can we play a lost and found game?
05:29I don't see why not, said Mother.
05:32Yes, we could play Hunt the Thimble.
05:35That's a lost and found game.
05:36Go on, then.
05:38Here's the thimble.
05:40But don't make a mess again, will you?
05:44We won't.
05:47Perkin and I will close our eyes while you hide the thimble, said Posey.
05:51You won't cheat, will you, said Pootle.
05:55Oh, Pootle, as if we would, said Perkin.
06:00Ready, said Pootle.
06:03It won't take me long.
06:05I'm good at finding things.
06:06I'll find it in next to no time.
06:09Am I getting warm?
06:11No, you're not.
06:12Well, I expect I am.
06:18Well, you're both cold.
06:20You'll never find it.
06:26Oh, there it is, Pootle.
06:29Where?
06:29I can't see it.
06:31It's there, on Pootle's hat.
06:33I don't like that game.
06:38I know a better one.
06:39Let's go out into the yard and I'll show you how to play it.
06:44You cover your eyes and count to twenty while Pootle and I hide.
06:49Then you have to find us.
06:52All right, said Posey as she covered her eyes.
06:55One, two, three, four, eighteen, nineteen, twenty.
07:05Coming!
07:08Now, where can they be?
07:18Where are they?
07:20Here?
07:21No.
07:22Up here?
07:24No.
07:25In here?
07:28No.
07:29Through here?
07:31No.
07:33Posey was almost ready to give up when she saw something above the wall.
07:39I can see you.
07:41I can see you.
07:42You're behind the wall.
07:45All right, Posey.
07:48Your turn next.
07:49See if you can hide from us.
07:52One, two, three.
07:55Ah-ha, thought Posey.
07:57They'll never find me.
08:03Eighteen, nineteen, twenty.
08:04Right, Posey, we're coming.
08:06Oh, are we?
08:10There she is, behind that bush.
08:12Come on, Posey.
08:13Come on, Pootle.
08:13We'll surprise her.
08:23Oh, Posey's playing tricks on us.
08:27I wonder where she's really hiding.
08:31Oh, the bow's gone.
08:38There it is.
08:43No, there it is.
08:44Oh, where's it gone to?
09:05Where's it gone to?
09:08I had it on a piece of string all the time.
09:11It gave you a surprise, didn't it?
09:13It looked just like magic.
09:15Have you seen Grandfather, said Mother?
09:20He said he was going to do some digging in the allotment.
09:23Well, he's not there now.
09:26I've just looked.
09:27It's tea time and he's usually back in plenty of time for tea.
09:31Could you find him, please, and tell him to hurry up or he'll be late and the bread pudding will be cold.
09:36Caw, yum, bread pudding for tea.
09:41We'll find him in no time at all.
09:44Oh, good.
09:46I'll go and lay the table then.
09:56We would like to know where Grandfather could go.
10:00We've been looking here and looking there.
10:04We've been looking here and looking here and searching high and low.
10:08Oh, where, oh, where has he gone?
10:13Where, oh, where can he be?
10:17With his flumpet, his hat and his glasses on.
10:21He's going to be late, late, late for his tea.
10:34We would like to know where Grandfather could go.
10:48Oh, we've been looking here and looking there.
10:52Perkin had always liked the idea of being a detective.
10:56Oh, where, oh, where has he gone?
11:01Where, oh, where can he be?
11:04With his flumpet, his hat and his glasses on.
11:09He's going to be late, late, late for his tea.
11:15Perkin had always liked the idea of being a detective.
11:23We'll have to look for clues, he said.
11:26What are clues? asked Pootle.
11:29Oh, Pootle.
11:30Not glues.
11:33Clues, said Posey.
11:34Things that will help us find Grandfather, like footprints, or this.
11:43It's Grandfather's flumpet duster.
11:45That means we're on the right track.
11:48Oh, that's torn it.
11:51Torn what? said Pootle.
11:53The second clue, Grandfather's newspaper.
11:57Look carefully for the third clue, you two.
12:01I haven't found a clue yet.
12:03So I'm going to wear these to help me look.
12:07Oh, Pootle.
12:09Those are Grandfather's glasses.
12:12They are the third clue.
12:14And there's the fourth clue, the flumpet.
12:17That means Grandfather must be nearby.
12:20He's never far from the flumpet.
12:22We don't have to look for the fifth clue.
12:25Listen, you can hear it.
12:29Perkin and Pootle could hear the clue.
12:31And they all knew who snored like that.
12:35That snoring is coming from the workshop.
12:38Come on.
12:39And there was Grandfather, leaning against a bench, having 40 winks.
12:46We found him.
12:48We'd better wake him and tell him that everyone's been wondering where he is.
12:52I know just the thing to wake him.
12:56Tea time!
12:58Oh!
12:59Oh!
13:00Tea time, is it?
13:02Well, that's a good job you told me.
13:05Or you might have all been late.
13:08Come on.
13:09Mother Flump will be wondering where you are.
13:11Mother Flump will be wondering where you are.
