00:00We'll have three seconds.
00:36We'll have three seconds.
01:00We'll have three seconds.
01:51We'll have three seconds.
02:02We'll have three seconds.
02:06We'll have three seconds.
02:40We'll have three seconds.
02:58We'll have three seconds.
03:12Talking of cricket, Rudy's coming to the school today to play a game of cricket with the children.
03:17Oh, I didn't know Rudy could play cricket.
03:19He plays a special sort of cricket.
03:21Oh, what's so special about it?
03:23Well, to be quite honest, Granny Murray, I don't really know.
03:25But I do know everything there is to know about ordinary cricket.
03:29Really? How's that?
03:30Well, actually, I'm the captain of the River Sea Fingal First Eleven, you know, so I'm familiar with the rules.
03:35In fact, our team played a game of cricket last Sunday.
03:38Oh, how did it go?
03:39We won, of course.
03:40We were all in until we were all out, and then after we were all out, the other team went
03:44in and we got them all out.
03:45Oh, I'm sorry, Mickey-John. You've got me completely stumped. You're making it all far too complicated.
03:51Am I?
03:52Yes, you are. Sometimes things are much simpler than you think.
03:57Oh, look at Claude. Wow.
04:01Hey, you all hit them for six, Claude.
04:03Well done, my wee honey puffs.
04:05Here you are.
04:07A bowl.
04:09Thanks, Bunny.
04:11I'll take this to school with me.
04:13Oh, you can practise your bowling.
04:16Bye, Rebecca. See you later.
04:18Come on, then.
04:22Now, remember, sometimes things are much simpler than you thought.
04:27Thank you, Granny Murray. I'll see you later.
04:29We'll be thinking of you, darling.
04:30Me too.
04:33Now, you keep a wee eye on Mickey-John. Make sure he goes the right way to work.
04:40I'm on my way to work today, walking my shoes through the city views, stepping along and swinging my arms,
04:53singing my way through the city's charms.
04:57But getting there is just so fine.
05:01I so enjoy my walking time.
05:05I always go the way I know.
05:09Can you show me the way I go?
05:13Right!
05:14OK, which way?
05:15Do I go left now?
05:18Do I go right?
05:20Which way is wrong now?
05:22Which way is right?
05:24Right!
05:25OK, right.
05:26To the school.
05:27I'm on my way to work today, looking this way and that-a-way.
05:35Hello, alley.
05:38Hello, doors.
05:40Hello, steeple.
05:42Hello, walls.
05:44Hello, people.
05:48He's on his way to work today, looking this way and that-a-way.
05:56Do I go up now?
05:58Do I go down?
06:00Which way's a smile now?
06:03Which way's a frown?
06:05Up!
06:05OK, that way.
06:06Up!
06:07You told me the way to go.
06:12You showed me the way I know.
06:15Thanks for that.
06:19Now, what have I got to do?
06:21Ah, yes.
06:22Time for a tie.
06:29Hi-ya, Mickey John.
06:31Hey, Tina.
06:32What have you got there?
06:33It's a ball.
06:34Raymond asked me to drop it off.
06:35What sport's it for?
06:36For cricket.
06:37Raymond told me you were playing a match today.
06:39Well, we are, but I've never seen a cricket ball that looked like that before.
06:43Maybe Raymond got confused.
06:45Maybe this ball is for our next theatre show.
06:47An extravaganza of music, song and the dance.
06:53Ah, yes.
06:54This ball would make a perfect prop.
06:58Tina, you're making a lot of noise when you move.
07:00You're right.
07:02It's suddenly gone very quiet.
07:04Something was making a noise.
07:07I think it may be this ball.
07:10Oh, yes.
07:11It rattles.
07:12If you tried to play a game with this ball, everyone would hear it coming.
07:16That's very confusing.
07:17Oh, it doesn't matter.
07:18I'll sort it out later when I've got more time.
07:20Ah, there you go, Mickey John.
07:22Bye.
07:22Bye.
07:23Oh, hello.
07:24I love you're here.
07:26Hello.
07:26Hello.
07:26Morning, everyone.
07:27Come on, let's get sat down.
07:29Come on, hurry, hurry, hurry.
07:30Lovely.
07:34I wonder what Rebecca's doing.
07:36I love to skip and reverse it, think.
07:39Oh, reverse it, think.
07:40Goodbye, the sea.
07:42I love to skip and reverse it, think.
07:44Oh, reverse it, think.
07:45Oh, that's for me.
07:48Oh, hello.
07:50Bye-bye, Rebecca.
07:51Oh, have a lovely day.
07:54Bye.
07:56Bye.
08:21What are you doing in school, Daddy?
08:24OK, everyone.
08:25You're going to help me do some counting this morning.
08:27Now, I'm going to run up and down the classroom, just like a cricketer, and you're going to
08:33write down how many runs I make.
08:35OK, here I go.
08:40One, two, three.
08:44Oh, you certainly stopped me in my tracks there, Chuck.
08:47Just as well, or you would have tripped over my line marking machine.
08:50Your line marking machine?
08:52Yes, I brought you over so you can mark the cricket pitch for the game we've re-did this
08:56afternoon.
08:56Thanks, Chuck.
08:57That'll be very useful.
09:01How exactly does it work, Chuck?
09:03Well, you decide where you want the line and then push along.
09:06Right, and if I pulled it instead of pushing, would the line come out backward?
09:11No, it makes no difference.
09:12A white line is still a white line.
09:14You simply need to press the button to release the paint.
09:17Where's the control to make the lines thicker and thinner?
09:20Look, there isn't one.
09:21It's just off or on.
09:51Right, Chuck.
09:54I'm learning, learning, learning when I'm teaching.
09:58I'm teaching, learning, teaching, learning, teaching.
10:12School day, walk away.
10:29The janny fixes, the cookie mixes, and the cleaner keeps on shining.
10:33Oh, joy when I go to school in the morning.
10:37Hold on the line in the dinner queue while the cookie cooks and serves a stew.
10:41Answering the questions where and why.
10:42How does it work, how does it work and how does it play?
10:44School day, walk away.
10:48I'm learning, learning, learning when I'm teaching.
10:51He's learning, learning, learning when he's teaching.
10:55School day, walk away.
10:59All the children peep and eye me as they sit and try their writing.
11:03I take a look, I mark their books.
11:04The good ones get a smiley.
11:08Oh, joy when I go to school in the morning.
11:13Hi, Mickey John.
11:15Hi, Louie.
11:16Is it lunchtime?
11:17Yes, the children are having their grub.
11:19Here, Rudy asked me to give you these wickets for this afternoon.
11:22Oh, that was kind.
11:24Hey, they're a lot bigger than the wickets I usually use.
11:27And they're bright orange.
11:30Are you sure they're not for some other type of game?
11:32I don't think so, Mickey John.
11:33They're just wickets.
11:35Oh, well, thanks for bringing them in.
11:37No problems, dude.
11:38See you later.
11:40Oh, these are a bit too complicated to think about at the moment.
11:44I think I'll just store them here at the side of my desk.
11:47There.
11:48Ah, there's Rebecca's bow.
11:52I wonder what she's doing now, eh?
11:54I love to skip in river sea pink, river sea pink, oh, that's for me.
12:01Oh, you look at all the cars going under the bridge, my darlings.
12:05Woo!
12:06They're so fast.
12:07It's like a river of cars.
12:10I know, a good game.
12:11Let's see if we can count all the red cars, will we?
12:15I better get my notepad down, eh?
12:17That's the way.
12:18There's one, one.
12:21Oh, there's one over there.
12:24Three.
12:27Rebecca, this is what your daddy does when he's an umpire at a cricket match.
12:31He writes down all the scores.
12:33He's very good at it.
12:44Hey, Mickey John.
12:45Hey, Rudy.
12:46Hey.
12:46I just wanted to see if you were still up for the match this afternoon.
12:49Of course.
12:49I'm really looking forward to it.
12:51But, er...
12:52What's the matter?
12:53Well, I'm a bit worried, Rudy.
12:55You see, Tina brought me in this rattling ball.
12:58And then Louis brought in this gigantic orange wicket.
13:02And, er, the trouble is, I can't help but think that blind cricket must be a very complicated game.
13:08Oh, Mickey John, you've got no worries.
13:10Blind cricket, it's much the same as ordinary cricket, except, well, the ball's a bit larger.
13:15And it's got ball bearings in it so the players can hear it coming.
13:18Oh, I see.
13:19And, er, what about the wicket?
13:21Oh, well, the wicket, that needs to be this size so that the players can feel it and know exactly
13:25where they are.
13:26Oh, I see.
13:27Well, that doesn't sound too hard.
13:28Oh, it's not.
13:29At the end of the day, it's still just cricket.
13:31Anyway, I'm really looking forward to it.
13:33I hope you've marked out the pitch ready for the game.
13:36See you later.
13:38Oh, no.
13:40Lunchtime's nearly over and I haven't marked out the cricket pitch.
13:45Where did the time go?
13:48At eight o'clock, I went to Granny Murray's to drop off Rebecca.
13:51The other children had been playing French cricket.
13:54That reminded me that Rudy was coming to school later to play a special game of blind cricket.
13:59So Rebecca helped to dress Claude as a cricketer.
14:03I tried to explain the rules of cricket to Granny Murray, but she said I'd made it sound too complicated.
14:09At nine o'clock, I arrived for work.
14:12Tina popped in.
14:13She'd brought a special sort of cricket ball with her.
14:16I thought I could hear a rattling noise.
14:18It was the ball.
14:20At ten o'clock, Chuck arrived with a line marking machine.
14:23She showed me how to work it, but it all got too complicated, so I asked her to put it
14:28in the corridor.
14:30At twelve o'clock, Louis came with some extra-large wickets.
14:33They didn't look right to me.
14:35Blind cricket seemed very complicated.
14:38At one o'clock, when Rudy arrived, he told me that blind cricket was very simple.
14:43It wasn't that different from ordinary cricket.
14:45Players just used a special ball and larger wickets.
14:49As he left, Rudy said he hoped I'd mark the pitch ready for the game,
14:52but I hadn't marked out the pitch because it was too complicated.
14:56Now remember, sometimes things are much simpler than you thought.
15:02Simpler than you think?
15:03Of course.
15:04I've been worrying about the rules of blind cricket, and the truth is, they're very simple.
15:09And marking out the pitch should be simple too.
15:11It's a race against time.
15:13I gotta do it.
15:15I gotta do it.
15:16I gotta beat the clock before the chime.
15:19I gotta sort it.
15:20I gotta sort it.
15:21I gotta do the job on time.
15:23Like a busy bee, I'm gonna beat that bong.
15:26I'm gonna finish this job before I finish this song.
15:29Do we think he's gonna do it?
15:31Do the job that needs to be done.
15:34Will he know how to fix it?
15:36Will he finish what he has begun?
15:39He's for sure as we are friends, he will get there in the end.
15:41Because he knows what he should do, I'll find it.
15:44I'm gonna do it.
15:45He's gonna tear it.
15:46I'm gonna beat the clock before the chime.
15:49I'm gonna sort it.
15:50He's gonna start it.
15:51I'm gonna do the job on time.
15:54Like a busy bee, I'm gonna beat that bong.
15:57I'm gonna finish this job before I finish this song.
15:59Right, ready to play.
16:01You go, Rudy.
16:04Oh, good one.
16:07Cheers, mate.
16:09Oh, nice one.
16:15That's it.
16:16And again.
16:18Oh, well played, Rudy.
16:20I wonder what games Rebecca's playing this afternoon.
16:28When the music stops, you have to go.
16:32And the rest of us will all shout your name.
16:41Daddy!
16:50Rebecca!
17:03Mickey John!
17:05Hi, Granny Murray!
17:06Ah-ha!
17:06Come on, we through!
17:07Look who's here, Rebecca!
17:10Hello, beautiful girl!
17:11Hello, Daddy!
17:12Hey!
17:13Have you had a lovely time?
17:14You bet we have!
17:16Say thank you to Granny Murray.
17:17Oh, clever girl!
17:19Oh, clever girl!
17:21And thanks from me too, Granny Murray.
17:23You're saying sometimes things are much simpler than you think?
17:26Save the day!
17:27Well, I never did!
17:29Come on, let's get you home.
17:35Looking forward to next time!
17:37Me too!
17:38Come on, Rebecca, let's chat about our time away!
17:40And I suppose you'll want me to tell you all about my time too?
17:46Well, there was playing, running, creeping, jumping, chasing, fainting, laughing, begging,
17:51bathing, dressing, singing, swinging, walking, sliding, hunting, hiding, jumping up and turning
17:56around, dressing up and sitting down!
18:01But what was really special about today?
18:05Well, Claude was dressed up as a cricketer after our game of French cricket.
18:10And when Mickey John and Rebecca arrived, Mickey John told us all about being captain of the
18:16Riversea Fingal First Eleven.
18:18And how Rudy was coming to school that afternoon to play a game of blind cricket.
18:24At nursery, Rebecca played catch.
18:27Out walking, we counted how many red cars we saw driving under the bridge.
18:32And that reminded us of how Mickey John counts the runs when he's playing cricket.
18:37And once Mickey John had stopped worrying about the rules and marked out the pitch,
18:41he was able to play blind cricket with Rudy.
18:45I hope you enjoyed yourself.
18:47Me too.
18:48Bye-bye, honey pie.
18:50I love to skip and river to bingo, river to bingo.
18:54I love to skip and river to bingo, river to bingo, that's for me.
19:00Come on and get on down to the city, where the ferry boat's there for blue.
19:05Time to call on Granny Marie, she'd love to say goodbye to you.
19:13Me too!
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