It is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and, for the habitues of Edinburgh’s favorite street, some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting.
For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson – he of the clove-scented hair gel – it may finally be time to settle done, and surely it can only be a question of picking the lucky winner from his hordes of admirers. The Duke of Johannesburg is keen to take his flight of fancy, a microlite seaplane, from the drawing board to the skies. Big Lou is delighted to discover that her young foster son has a surprising gift for dance but she is faced with big decisions to make their futures. And with Irene now away to pursue her research in Aberdeen, her husband, Stuart, and infinitely long-suffering son, Bertie, are free to play. Stuart rekindles an old friendship over peppermint tea while Bertie and his friend Ranald Braveheart Macpherson get more then they bargained for from their trip to the circus…
And that is just the beginning…