Aiden, Thomas, Sophia and Jessica, lost their parents in an horrific car crash. Their Nanny Blake immediately took them all to live with her in her large thatched cottage in the country. Ned and Bessie Truckle, a brother and sister who lived in the village, although retired, agreed to help Nanny Blake to bring the children up. This is their story so far. The animals they acquired and how Ned taught them to look after them. The ups and downs they had and how they survived them. They slowly grew in to the children their parents would have been proud of.