Lieutenant General Sir Melville Merridew DSO MC Bart – retired general, the school's most distinguished alumnus, and frequent bestower of half-holidays.

Miss Angela Birkenshaw ( Aunt Angela) – Jennings's absent-minded but generous aunt, who sometimes comes to visit Jennings on half-term holidays. In the book "Jennings at Large", she is revealed to be a social worker. Mr 'Pinky' Parkinson – mild-mannered sports teacher at the nearby Bracebridge School; Linbury Court frequently play Bracebridge in football matches. After marrying his first wife, Sylvia Brown, he enrolled at University College London where he involved himself in Socialist and anti-war groups and he was later to become an active member of CND. Unfortunately at university he did not take a degree after failing Latin. And Paul Andrews, for Hunt, of Hexham Walk, said the irony of his client getting involved in the conspiracy was that she had helped her son to get off drugs in the past. He said: “Clearly she had some insight into the damage and destruction this miserable trade does to people.” These two (Bhatti and Hussain) were in charge and they had management roles, they sent out mass marketing messages every day to 200 to 250 different numbers. It was a lucrative business."

In 1962 he met his second wife, Eileen Selby. They settled near Lewes where he continued to write and from where he also appeared in small (non-singing) roles at Glyndebourne. He died on 28 June 2004 after a spell of ill health with his second wife Eileen and three children, two from his first marriage, surviving him. He is survived by a son and daughter from his first marriage, and a son with his wife Eileen, herself a teacher of long experience. Uniquely in the series, Jennings, as Usual contains no action away from the school premises, nor has any reference to any person or place other than school staff, pupils or locations.

Farmer Jim and Mrs Arrowsmith – owners of a farm adjoining the school grounds. Both are generally easy-going and supportive of the school's activities, but do occasionally get annoyed when their lives are adversely affected by the boys' antics. Many of the Owners of properties in the Canopy & Stars portfolio are not registered for VAT in which case no tax is payable. Where VAT is payable, the tax is included in the advertised holiday rental price. If the rate of VAT changes between the date of the Booking and the date of the stay, Canopy & Stars may adjust the rate of VAT that you pay, unless you have already paid for the Booking in full before the change in the rate of VAT takes effect. In the Christmas term, Jennings has a short-lived and disastrous promotion to dorm monitor, sets his rubber alight in the classroom, risks Old Wilkie's wrath by drawing an unflattering caricature of him, and improves his piano playing with the aid of a gramophone record, before exchanging gifts and the comps of the season with Old Wilkie at the end-of-term party.In the quest to introduce my kids to children's books they wouldn't dream of reading themselves I decided on Jennings after the success of Just William. I'd never read any of the Jennings books as the "Naughty-Boy-in-Posh-School" formulae had never appealed to me. In fact the whole children at boarding school idea had always seemed totally dull... but that might have been due to the Lothsome Enid B. But I went hunting second-hand book shops for a suitably aged copy from which to read. The hint that this would be a good book lay in the fact that it took a long time to find any of the Jennings books second-hand. After reading the first chapter I knew why; even after 60 years of quietly ageing this is still comedy gold and obviously no one relinquishes a brilliant book. He used to tell his pupils stories about the fictional character Jennings, who was based on an old school chum of his, Diarmid Jennings. Diarmid was a prep schoolboy boarding at Linbury Court Preparatory School, where the headmaster was Mr Pemberton-Oakes.

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.

Getting there

When I was 11 I did not know that someone like me, from a council house and an ordinary primary school, was supposed to be alienated by Jennings. I enjoyed the stories. They were easy to read and amusing. Unlike Billy Bunter and his chums at Greyfriars, Jennings did not catch burglars, spies or jewel thieves. His troubles arose out of real school life: the search for the missing English jotter, the dormitory scrum after lights out and the unreasonableness of the adult - teacher - world.

Aku berani bertaruh sejuta, orang yang masih ada akal sehatnya takkan mau menulis cerita tentang anak-anak seperti kita! Please note that you have a contract with the Owner of the property. As such you are under a responsibility to behave in a proper, appropriate and legal manner whilst staying at the property with due respect to the Owner, the Property and other guests and their Property. At the end of the war they returned to London where he developed a taste for theatre and writing. A scholarship from the Bank Clerks' Orphanage fund permitted his mother to send him to Seaford College boarding school in Sussex. His experiences as a schoolboy there were instrumental in his later work, particularly in his famous Jennings series of novels. In the event that a court finds that a condition in these Agency Terms & Conditions is illegal or void, the illegal or void provision will be severed from the remainder of the Agency Terms & Conditions, which will continue to be valid and have full force and effect.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. Jennings yang keasyikan lari-lari sambil latihan menendang bola di lorong, sampai akhirnya sukses nendang tempurung lututnya Pak Kepsek. 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...