The Jennings stories were my absolute favourite reads when I was eight or nine years old, and it was a red letter day indeed whenever I came across a new one in the town library. Revisiting one's childhood favourites can be a risky business, so it was with real pleasure that I discovered how well this one stood up. Following a succesful and highly enjoyable get-together in May 2023, plans are afoot to stage the 2024 event at the same location; St Michaels and All Angels Church, 9 Flower Lane, Mill Hill, London NW7 2JA (by kind permission of Reverend Steven Young, a fellow Jennings enthusiast). The stories of middle class English schoolboys were especially popular in Norway where several were filmed. The Norwegian books and films were rewritten completely for a Norwegian setting with Norwegian names and Jennings is called "Stompa". And in France Jennings was, rather oddly, known as Bennett!

retitled Jennings Unlimited when re-published in 1993 to avoid confusion with the 1980 stage show of the same name) Dedication: "To David Davis, whose keen understanding of the youthful mind brings the characters of Linbury Court School to life so vividly on the air" Mr and Mrs Lumley – She runs the local cafe and is renowned for her excellent cakes and doughnuts, while her husband is less renowned as a repairer of bicycles. Noted for the sign outside the shop: "Home-made cakes and bicycles repaired".

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At that February hearing, Judge Smith said: "The reality is you had a nice little business here, things were going well, you were buying nice things and until you got caught this was running successfully. This was a business and many people started businesses during Covid. Yang membuat Jennings itu unik adalah cara kerja otaknya yang misterius. Kalau orang biasa menyusun rencana untuk mengatasi suatu masalah, ia akan buat Rencana A, Rencana B, dst.--nah, si Jennings ini main lompat saja ke Rencana Z yang rasanya tidak akan terpikirkan oleh orang waras. Apalagi kalau sudah dikombinasikan dengan Darbishire yang juga hobi berimajinasi liar, selalu gemparlah sekolah dan orang-orang di sekitar mereka... The pair have been caged for four years for conspiracy to supply cocaine. The pair were jailed for their roles in a 'Deliveroo'-style cocaine operation which saw a Midlands gang flood the region with the class A drug. This, and the subsequent series of books about life at Linbury Court Preparatory School, was an unalloyed delight to the ten-year-old me. Quite how the author could write with such insight into the minds of boys of my age I found amazing. I read and re-read all the adventures of John Christopher Timothy Jennings, C.E.J. Darbishire, Selbanev, Retsim(s) Retrac and Snikliw (see "Jennings' Diary") & co. My best friend liked the books too and when I told him I thought of myself as Jennings with him as the hapless but loyal Darbi he said he thought the same (except I was Darbi). This led to arguements about relative sporting prowess and leadership qualities that remain unresolved. After World War II, he wrote a series of radio plays for the BBC's Children's Hour chronicling the exploits of Jennings and his rather more staid friend, Darbishire. 'Jennings Learns the Ropes', the first of his radio plays, was broadcast on 16 October 1948. And then in 1950, the first of 26 Jennings novels, 'Jennings Goes to School' was published.

Of course, the books would be considered very dated now and I'm not sure how much they would appeal to the current generation. My parents grew up in the 50's and so I think the rather posh, upper middle-class and pure Englishness of it was just about close enough to a world I could recognise when I was a child to be able to engage with it. One unfortunate side-effect of the books was my appropriating much of the language, saying things like 'Crumbs!' and 'Crikey!' which was very much out of place in working class Leeds in 1982. C. E. J. (Charles Edwin Jeremy) Darbishire – mild-mannered and short-sighted, the son of a clergyman, the Reverend Percival Darbishire, from whom he has inherited a habit of sententiously citing proverbs (generally prefixed with "My father says..."). Darbishire is Jennings's right-hand man. Inherently more cautious than his best friend, he usually finds himself drawn into situations in which he would rather not be involved.The whole spider tale is brilliant and this book is perfect for reading allowed - in fact even better when you put on "Splendid-Posh" accents for dithering, apoplectic or self-important characters.

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Annual meetings comprise of a mixture of discussion groups, quiz, play reading and the radio play recordings.Under the patronage of Miss Thorpe, Linbury is going green - collecting of rubbish, recycling, distribution of leaflets to raise awareness. The pupils at Linbury Court are desperate to help. But, as always with Jennings and Darbishire, good will is not synonymous with effectiveness and precious tropical fish are soon put in danger. Stephen Jennings, aged 49 and of Chaddesden, Derby, has been jailed for four years for conspiracy to supply cocaine (Image: Derbyshire police) Buku pertama dari seri si anak asrama Jennings. Sebenarnya saya sudah membaca & menikmati beberapa buku Jennings lainnya sebelum baca yang ini... pada dasarnya seri ini memang bisa dibaca dari yang mana saja (*sangat gampang memahami situasi dan hubungan antar tokohnya), tapi menyenangkan juga akhirnya bisa mengetahui awal hubungan Jennings dengan guru-guru, anak-anak asrama lain, dan sobat kentalnya Darbishire. Aku berani bertaruh sejuta, orang yang masih ada akal sehatnya takkan mau menulis cerita tentang anak-anak seperti kita!