Pipkins

Octavia is going to give everyone a treat in Pipkins. Everyone, that is who is old enough to enjoy it...

Pipkins look after Mrs McNamarra's plants while she is on holiday...

Everything needs mending in Pipkins but Tortoise says it will cost too much. So they all decide to move to a new place, where things actually work...

Hartley wants to go fishing but everyone else would rather go to the park. How can the problem be solved ?

Witches are about at Pipkins. Doors shut without anyone touching them and there are strange clankings and creakings. It gets so bad that a visitor wishes he had never called...

Hartley knows that birds fly in the sky. He also knows that they sit in the trees and run about in the grass. But when he sets out to do some birdwatching they all vanish...

Tom finds a way of helping Topov get over a bicycle accident - he gives him some special cake and reads him a story. Naturally, Hartley and co go out to get some cake and stories of their own...

Hartley dreams about what he would do if he found a diamond worth a great deal of money...

Hartley is spending a lot of time in his bedroom because he thinks there is a monster in the cellar...

Hartley dresses up and pretends to be someone else, his dressing up costume provides problems though...

Topov's teddy bear has an accident while playing. Can his arm be mended ?

A rather strange thing is happening to Hartley - people don't seem to see him. They look through him as though he isn't actually there...

Hartley finds it difficult to do two things at once - he can't be on the phone in his study and also fetch Pig what he wants from the cellar. Luckily, an unexpected visitor helps out...

Some people are better at some things than others. But nobody is best at everything. Hartley discovers there are people who can actually do things that he can't...

Hartley has trouble learning the words of a song because of all the noise Pig and Tom are making but when he tries to stop the noise, he interrupts the smooth running of Pipkins...

Hartley decides to put on a play, but he soon runs into difficulties because he wants to do everything himself...

Hartley has become too big for his dressing gown. How did it happen and what can he do to make himself smaller again ? Can Pig's intervention solve the problems ?

Pig is making something secret in the cellar and doesn't want anyone to come near. So he orders Topov to guard the gate and keep people out. But Sophie and Hartley find themselves on the wrong side of it...

Uncle Hare's system for stopping the cow from eating his carrots doesn't always work...

When Hartley decides to clean up Pipkins, he throws away more than just rubbish...

Topov is unhappy. He thinks there are better places to live than Pipkins and that everyone else is better off...

Mrs Muddle, Pipkins next door neighbour returns some eggs. Hartley is pleased, as he knows a few tricks with eggs...

Hartley shows Pig that painting is not like a photograph. When you look at a painting, it is just a lot of splodges and blobs. But when you stand back, you see something quite different...