Come Outside - Overview

Overview

The "adventures" are generally concerned with showing how something is made, or how everyday objects and systems work. Examples are:

• "Clay" - Auntie Mabel's teapot breaks. They have to buy a new one, but the potter has run out of clay. Auntie Mabel and Pippin bring him some, then find out how teapots are made.
• "Sewage" - Auntie Mabel goes down a drain to see where waste water goes. Then she visits a sewage treatment plant to see what happens to what's flushed down the toilet.
• "Street Lamps" - Auntie Mabel reports an out-of-order street lamp. She joins the maintenance man as he uses a hydraulic platform to replace the bulb, and explains the mystery of how the streetlights switch on when it gets dark. She also tells a story explaining how street lamps were lit in the olden days.
• "Buses" - Auntie Mabel's plane won't start, so she and Pippin have to go on a bus instead. She gets on at Hill End Road in Harefield and accidentally leaves Pippin on the bus, but is soon reunited with her thanks to the helpful driver of the U9 in Uxbridge.
• "A Woolly Jumper" - Auntie Mabel has run out of wool while knitting a woolly jumper. She and Pippin visit a sheep farm and a wool factory in search of supplies.

Pippin often gets up to mischief prompting Auntie Mabel's final "Oh Pippin!" at the end of the programme, which pippin likes.