Milk lives in the grubby seaside town of Slopp-on-Sea a rubbish name for
a rubbish town. But Milk's life is pretty rubbish too, so it fits. She
loves her Granddad, but nowadays he's always wandering off somewhere, or
asking her befuddled questions. Then one day, he comes back from one of
his jaunts with a battered book in his hand containing a recipe for THE
PORRIDGE OF KNOWLEDGE. Intrigued, Milk enlists the help of her friend
Carp to try the recipe. At first it looks like all they've managed to
create is a lump of malodorous goo but then they notice the ants (who
have been nibbling the porridge) building a mashed potato replica of the
leaning tower of Pisa. So they decide to try it out on themselves.
Suddenly Milk and Carp are the cleverest people in town and Granddad is
back to his normal self. Milk and Carp are about to discover that
sometimes a little bit of knowledge goes a long way."