The mean-minded Mrs S. Melly is the new Tourist Information Officer in Puddleford and immediately takes a disliking to Bodger. To make matters worse, Badger has left the hotel in a mess when she comes round for an inspection.
Miss Piper, an elderly birdwatcher, comes to stay at Seagull's Rest hoping to spot a rare bird. Unfortunately, she reveals this to Mrs Melly, who has an idea to catch the rare bird so she can charge people to see it.
Trainee Bank Manager Mr Wilson comes to stay at Seagull's Rest. Unfortunately, he gets locked in the bathroom when he has an important interview, thanks to Mousey.
Mrs Melly mistakes Bodger's telephone conversation for winning the lottery and starts being nice to him, thinking that he's won hundreds and thousands of pounds.
Mr Wilson has a job interview to attend but beforehand he decides to go for a swim. Things go awry when Mrs Melly takes his clothes away while he's swimming and refuses to give them back.
Bodger's new green towel gets ruined thanks to Mousey so Badger makes another one by covering a white one with green paint. However, they had not counted on Mrs Melly using it.
P.E. teacher Mr Gripper arrives to stay at Seagull's Rest. He comes across Mrs Melly and immediately falls in love with her. Meanwhile, Badger and Mousey bottle mashed potato soup, some of which ends up in a sun tan lotion bottle.
While watching a film on TV, Bodger receives a Sodastream fizzy pop machine in the post and sets about making fizzy pop but Badger and Mousey decide to make fizzy mash with Millie's empty milk bottles. When the corks shoot off the bottles, Bodger and Mr Wilson believe that it's gunshots and that the hotel is being raided by bank robbers.
Mr Gripper challenges Mr Wilson to a running race around the sea front but when Badger and Mousey see him cheating, they decide to stop him from winning.
After finding rabbits in another hotel in Puddleford, Mrs Melly decides to find out once and for all what is happening at Bodger's hotel. Badger thinks that Mrs Melly is a burglar and sets off all the anti-burglar devices.
It's a special day of dressing up in Puddleford as it is the anniversary of the day that Queen Elizabeth I visited their town. Only Badger has other plans for the day, including ruining Mrs Melly's poem.
