Zany madcap events transpire at the Reverend Lionel Toop's vicarage in Merton-cum-Middlewick. The plot revolves around Lionel's wife Penelope who dabbles in a football pool with the help of their maid Ida and Ida's suitor the droll Willie Briggs. The most fantastic complications ensue when the triumvirate wins or when they think they have won more than 20 000 English pounds. Lending richly comic hands are the old maid parishioner Miss Skillon and Penelope's out-of-this-world uncle The