It is night time at Auntie Mabel's house. She and her dog Pippin search the garden for Spikey the hedgehog who is a regular visitor. Auntie Mabel remembers the day when Spikey broke his leg and she flew him in her aeroplane to St. Tiggywinkle's Wildlife Hospital.
Pippin is making too much mess indoors and Auntie Mabel decides she must move into a kennel in the garden. Pippin is not keen, even when her friend Danny pays a visit. Auntie Mabel finds a snail on the garden path and compares the size of its ‘house’ – its shell – with Pippin’s kennel and her own house. She and Pippin fly to London Zoo to see the giant snails. When they return, Pippin is sent to her kennel for the night. Auntie Mabel recites some verses from The Four Friends by A. A. Milne then changes her mind and lets Pippin back into the house.
Auntie Mabel is getting ready to go to a party. She hangs her washing on the line to dry in the wind, including her best red blouse. Pippin is playing in the garden. A strong gust of wind blows the red blouse off the washing line. Pippin sees it go and chases after it. Meanwhile Auntie Mabel is doing her hair ready for the party. She tells Aesop’s fable about the North Wind and the Sun. When she discovers both Pippin and her blouse are missing, she takes off in her aeroplane to look for them.
Auntie Mabel hears water gushing in from the street and decides to save some water for the day just in case it is cut off. Does this mean Pippin the dog will get away without having a bath?
Auntie Mabel and Pippin fly home from a sunny day out to find it pouring with rain. To make matters worse, Auntie falls in a puddle, and has to repair the guttering around her house.
Auntie Mabel is getting ready to give some children a music lesson using wooden instruments. She makes jam tarts using wooden utensils, and points out other things made of wood in her kitchen and living room. She recalls the day she and Pippin went for a walk in the woods, watched wood being turned into furniture and bought a wooden chair.
Auntie Mabel and Pippin look at where paper comes from and how it is used to make everyday items.
Auntie Mabel's teapot breaks so she tries to buy a new one, but the store has run out of teapots and the potter has run out of clay.
Auntie Mabel sorts out her rubbish while Pippin picks up litter and puts it in the bin. Auntie Mabel takes some of her refuse to the paper, can and bottle banks, and sees how milk bottles are made from recycled clear glass.
Auntie Mabel digs a hole to plant a tree. She and Pippin watch phone cables being laid under the street. They visit Wookey Hole caves and hear an entertaining story.
Auntie Mabel and Pippin fly to find out where bread comes from. They visit a wheat field, a flour mill and a bakery where Auntie watches loaves being made - inspiring her to sing a song about the many different kinds of bread for sale in the store.
Pippin the dog is surprised to find two geese swimming in Auntie Mabel's pond. Auntie Mabel is inspired to fly her aeroplane to a place where there are many different kinds of geese, who make their nests and lay eggs high up on a cliff. Auntie sings Goosey, Goosey Gander.
Auntie Mabel and Pippin go shoe shopping for some Wellington boots, and visit a factory that makes them. She also tells a story about Martha the fire fighter who couldn't get her boots off, and sings a song about different kinds of boots.
It’s Pippin’s bath day and so she is hiding in the cupboard. Auntie Mabel is about to run the bath when she sees a spider. She lifts it out of the bath, counts its legs and shows how it can spin a thread and hang from it. A spider is seen spinning a web to catch an insect. Auntie Mabel and Pippin fly in Spotty Plane to Peter's house and visit some big spiders.
Auntie Mabel has to return some books to the library before it shuts. She and Pippin climb into Spotty Plane but it won’t start and so they have to go on the bus. Auntie Mabel is in such a hurry that she leaves Pippin asleep on the bus by mistake
Auntie Mabel and Pippin visit an apple orchard in Kent to help with harvesting and sorting. They ride with the apples to market where they're bought by a shop owner and put on sale. Auntie then tells a tale of The Apple Tree and the Blackbird.
It's Pippin's birthday and Auntie Mabel is cleaning the house and washing her kitchen floor ready for a party.
Auntie Mabel has the unsavoury job of cleaning up Pippin's mess and putting it down the lavatory. The investigative pair are intrigued to find out where the dirty water goes, and so follow their noses to a sewage treatment plant to learn more about the poop process.
Auntie Mabel is knitting a blue jumper for her sister Eadie when she runs out of wool. She and Pippin try to buy some more but find that the wool shop has run out of the colour.
Auntie Mabel buys a packet of crisps and decides to find out where they come from.
A mouse lives in a hole in Auntie Mabel’s kitchen wall. She and Pippin fly in Spotty Plane to a wood to look for holes that are home to different animals. They find holes in tree trunks and in the ground which might be occupied by squirrels, woodpeckers and badgers. Auntie Mabel remembers the day when a dog flap in the back door saved her life.
Auntie Mabel and Pippin have been to stay with their friend Dora. But Pippin is frightened by Dora’s big dog and she leaves her little suitcase behind. When they get home, Auntie Mabel writes a letter to Dora. They take it to the Post Office and buy a stamp. Auntie Mabel decides to travel with the letter to see what happens to it. They watch letters being sorted, ride in a post van and on the night train. After a long journey they end up, with the letter, back at Dora’s.
Auntie Mabel brushes her teeth with her favourite toothpaste because today is check-up day at the dentist. Pippin the dog goes to the vet to have her teeth checked too.
Auntie Mabel and Pippin go in search of stones to build a rockery.
Auntie Mabel and Pippin go on a picnic and decide to visit a factory where blackcurrants are turned into cartons of juice.
A cat is after Auntie Mabel’s goldfish, but she shoos it away. She and Pippin fly to the river in Spotty Plane where they feed and watch all sorts of freshwater fish. They meet a fisherman and his dog who catch a trout, and Auntie Mabel tells the story of Bernard the stickleback who looked after all his brothers and sisters.
Auntie Mabel is looking after her sister Edie’s rabbit Bobby. Pippin is sulking as Bobbie is getting all the attention. Bobby is staying in a hutch in the garden, with a fence round it. Auntie Mabel changes the straw in the hutch and Pippin begins to make friends with the rabbit. They fly to the countryside where they see some wild rabbits and visit some baby rabbits in a Nature Park. When they get home, Auntie Mabel feeds Bobby with a meal of dandelion and cabbage leaves. But she leaves the gate open and Bobby hops out of his enclosure and into the garden. Auntie Mabel tells the story ‘Brer Rabbit and the Well’.
Auntie and Pippin collect some newly laid eggs from the hens. Auntie looks at her scrapbook in which she has pasted pictures of eggs of different sizes and colours. She and Pippin then fly off in their plane to visit an ostrich farm.
Auntie Mabel finds some dandelions growing in her garden and tells the story of how they came to be there.
Auntie Mabel is moving house and there are packing cases and boxes everywhere, inspiring her and Pippin to investigate their various uses. Pippin then decides to hide in the back of the removal van, along with the house keys.
Auntie Mabel and Pippin fly to a carrot farm, finding out how carrots grow from seed. Pippin helps with the harvest, and Mabel sees the carrots washed, sorted and packed.
Auntie Mabel and Pippin fly to Seathwaite Fell in their spotty plane to find out the history of graphite and pencils.
Auntie Mabel looks at different kinds of soap on sale in the supermarket, visiting a factory where bars of soap are made from vegetable oil.
Auntie Mabel and Pippin are flying home at dusk and admiring the glittering lights below. When they get home Auntie tries to switch on the hall light but the bulb has gone. Pippin finds a torch and they put in a new bulb. Pippin needs her evening walk and while they are out Auntie Mabel trips over a bag of rubbish because the street lamp isn’t working. Next day they watch to see how the lamp is repaired and find out how street lamps switch themselves on and off automatically. Auntie Mabel tells a story about a Victorian lamplighter.
Auntie Mabel remembers the day she and Pippin visited a factory to see how brushes are made from coconut fibres, plastic and wood.
Aunt Mabel flies to Seville in Spain to watch the orange harvest. Then she visits a factory that makes the oranges into marmalade.
There are frogs living in Auntie Mabel’s garden. She finds some frog spawn floating in her pond and describes how the eggs develop into tadpoles which grow into frogs. She tells the story of the tadpole who thought he was a fish until, to his horror, he began to grow legs. Auntie Mabel and Pippin fly in Spotty Plane to a zoo where they meet a giant African bullfrog and a green Australian tree frog.
Pippin the dog helps to plant daffodil bulbs in Lincolnshire, and joins in the Spalding Flower Parade.
Auntie Mabel is weeding her garden but leaving plenty of flowers for the butterflies. She spots a butterfly on the buddleia. It flies off, lands on Pippin’s nose and Pippin chases it. Auntie Mabel finds out the name of the butterfly and recites the rhyme ‘The Butterfly and the Moth’. She and Pippin fly in Spotty Plane to a Butterfly House where they see many different kinds of butterflies, their eggs, caterpillars and pupae.
Auntie Mabel needs to fix a hole in the house's wall, but doesn't have enough bricks. Together with Pippin, she goes to find out how bricks are made and how houses are built.