It is not every day the cat catches a mouse and puts it in your boot. It's not every day the cuckoo clock pinches your breakfast sausage. It's not every day the dog eats your comic and blows a fuse. But to George and Cynthia, stuck out on the Yorkshire Moors with a totally mad professor and huge (not to say tiny) problem, these little things just about put the tin lid on. Something's go to happen, and it's got to happen NOW!