With an impending visit to his old school to deliver a sermon for Founder's Day, the Bishop determines not to forget it - as he did the previous year. But in the end he misplaces both his new sermon and the one Noote lends him as a replacement - is he ever to impress his old headmaster?

When the Dean mistakenly entrusts the Bishop to look after his man-eating plant, he little realises the chaos that it causes. If the Bishop had not arranged for a removal of junk from his home, then the key to the Deanery would not be lost and the Archdeacon would not have had to enlist a reformed burglar in order to retrieve it!