Having settled in a Mallorcan mountain idyll, Anna Nicholas, her husband theScotsman and their son Ollie want to become as self-suffi cient as possible. Annateams up with organic farmers and smallholders to learn how to tend sheep, makecheese and honey and grind fl our while the Scotsman creates havoc with his friendPep in an attempt at winemaking, and tries to fathom what's troubling the wrigglyinhabitants of his beloved wormery.However, Anna can't quite shake off her old clients from the PR world, and ispersuaded by Greedy George to create a media storm for his new Spanish leatherstore. The story of how a giant bull ends up on a Barcelona beach is enough to makeher delighted to return to Mallorca, where talking to a toad and feeding porridge toher hens seems normal by comparison.