As summer returns to 44 Scotland Street, our favorite motley crew of residents must find new pursuits to fill their days. There is, of course, Bertie--a precocious child prodigy who, despite his most valiant efforts, finds himself roped into a number of distressing situations. At home, his mother, Irene, is planning lessons for him on Irish culture; at school, Bertie is forced to join a book group run by his pesky classmates; and while out with his best friend, Ranald Braveheart MacPherson, the two are unexpectedly invited to a wedding. Meanwhile, Bruce encounters some set-backs in his latest property venture when his well-intentioned attempts to move the front door of a flat end in utter disaster. At Nine Mile Burn, Matthew and the triplets try to adopt an unwillingly vegan dog. And Sister Maria-Fiore dei Fiori di Montanga discovers the missing part of the Stone of Scone in Drummond Place Gardens.
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