Oh
For his birthday
Michael had been given a set of wind chimes which he'd hung near his bedroom window to catch the breeze
Is it a kind of record Johnson?
No Macduff, it's just the breeze rattling the chimes together
Oh
Well it must have a little motor
No no, it's the breeze
When the breeze blows the chimes make sounds
I just don't understand
They're beautiful sounds though
Just like music
It's quite the nicest thing we've ever had in this bedroom
Doesn't that racket ever stop?
It's not racket, it's music
Music?
You call that music?
You get better music from Squeaky's wheel
Hey Johnson, let's find the switch and turn it off
You can't switch it off, it's the breeze
The breeze eh?
But you can hear it all over the bedroom
It's starting to drive me crazy
And you know what happens when I feel crazy
Oh no, no collisions
I want you to stop right now
Otherwise I'm going to bother my wife
Right now, otherwise I'm going to bother Macduff for the rest of the day
It's stopped
You made them stop Diesel
Oh maybe the batteries are flat
At least now we'll have some peace and quiet
Are the batteries flat Johnson?
No, the breeze has died Macduff
Oh the poor thing
Oh not that sort of dying
The breeze has just gone away
That's all
I hope it comes back again soon
Diesel's always spoiling things
But the breeze didn't come back for the rest of the day
And because it was the middle of summer
It got hotter and hotter and hotter
It was the hottest day in Michael's bedroom any of the toys could remember
Why did that flower do that Johnson?
Is it tired?
It needs water
This heat is drying everything out
Hmm, then we've got to find some
You won't find any in this bedroom
Except for the water in Diesel's radiator
Ow!
Ouch!
Ow!
Oh this floor's so hot I can hardly roll over it
Johnson, I don't feel too well
You look very hot
Let me take a look
Oh you've got a temperature
Does that mean he's sick?
It means he needs some water for his radiator
You'll have to stay still until the breeze comes back
Hmm, well it serves him right
He made the breeze stop
Oh well I hope it comes back
Even if I have to put up with that awful racket
Wow!
Diesel must be sick
He can't be bothered arguing
We've just got to find some water
There might be some in Michael's paint box
Come on
Oh, ah, ow, ee, ee, oh, ow, ee, ow
Only one toy in the whole bedroom didn't mind the heat
This is the life
Alfred had his own supply of cool water
But being a grumpy old hot water bottle
He didn't want to share it with any of the other toys
What the blithering blazers do you two think you're doing?
Don't you know you shouldn't move around so much on such a hot day?
We're looking for water
Water?
You won't find any around here
That's funny, I thought I heard something
Where? I didn't hear anything
There it goes again
There must be water around here somewhere
It's Alfred, he's got his own private supply
Oh, you mean my water
What a greedy thing
Alfred's got water and he wants to keep it all to himself
But it's hot and it's my water
All right then, you can have some
But you can't have it all
Come on, Macduff, let's find a bucket
A bucket?
Hey, hang on a minute
Come back here
There won't be any left for me
Just then there was the slightest ruffle at the window
Look, Johnson, it's the breeze, it's coming back
The heat wave is over
Johnson, what's that?
The breeze has brought a storm
It's too crowded
I need water, but I don't need that much water
What are we going to do?
Yes, what are we going to do?
Get Alfred, we need some help
We have to shut the window
How?
I don't know, I'll think of something
Macduff rushed off to find Alfred and Johnson climbed onto the desk
wondering how they could ever shut such an enormous window
Then he saw the stream
Ready, catch!
Fluttering blazers!
What's all this? A hollow balloon!
Be careful, Johnson!
Oh dear, now I'm going to need an umbrella!
Johnson leaned dangerously out of the window to reach the handle
What did he say?
I see
Right
Okay
One
Oh
Yay!
Early next morning, Macduff paid a visit to the breeze to thank it for coming back
Thank you, Breeze, but you didn't have to bring that storm with you
Well, if you didn't mean it, that's all right
But where did you go when you went away yesterday?
Oh really? What's it like? I've never been there
And Macduff talked happily to the breeze for the rest of the morning
She learned a lot she didn't know about the world outside Michael's bedroom window