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.