Melany Porter

A digger digs trenches for new pipes in First Avenue. When the digging is over, the children explore the mounds of earth and holes. They look for buried treasure. After finding several worthless items like fish bones and an old wrench, they find an old broken plate with a gold edge. They are convinced that it is valuable, so they each decide to take a piece home. Lindi's dad is horrified when he sees the treasure. He confesses that he buried the plate in the field after he broke it, because he was too scared to tell his wife. Lindi's mom arrives home, but they quickly hide the evidence from her.

Lindi and Spike see a snake slither into the Vilakazis' garden. Lindi tells the twins that the snake is in their garden. They look for it, can't fi nd it and assume it went into Sam's garden. They tell Sam, but in their minds, the size of the snake has increased, so they tell him that it is big. When they can't find the snake in Sam's garden, they assume it is at the Mokwena's house. They tell Mrs Mokwena that a very large snake may be in her garden. They can't find it there and assume it's moved onto the Allies' house. They tell Nuha that a huge snake may be in her garden. They meet other people from the neighbourhood and each time they tell them about the snake they refer to it as even larger than before. It turns out to be a small, harmless mole snake.

Layla sees a poster advertising a music festival. She decides to start a band and asks the other children to join her. The first problem the children have is that they don't have any instruments. Nuha stops reading for a change to help them. She finds a whole lot of scrap and hands it out. The children are confused until she shows them how to make music with the scrap. Then the children have to deal with the fact that they are making a noise and no one will let them practise at their house. In the end, Kevin allows them to practise at his workshop, because it is noisy anyway. They don't win the competition, but they have great fun making a huge noise.

Mrs Vilakazi buys a new TV. Mr Mokwena helps her take it to her house in his taxi. Raj helps her set up the TV. At the same time, Mr Patel buys a generator. The twins decide to invite many people from the neighbourhood to watch the soccer match on their new TV the next day. They also invite the people who helped them with the TV; Mr Mokwena and Raj. While everyone is watching the soccer match, the electricity goes off. Mr Patel invites everyone to watch the rest of the match at his shop, where he connects the TV to his generator.

Sam and Lindi decide to follow Ouma to see what she does with her rubbish. She does not put her rubbish in the correct recycling bins and she throws rubbish in the street. Sam hands her a bag full of the rubbish she has dropped while walking, but that night she tosses the bag in the glass recycling bin