Jennigs at School; Surge

[dfrankis at dial.pipex.com]

Christian Stubø wrote:
> Two questions:
> 1.   Where did Jennigs' parents go off to?  In the Norwegian 
> editions, they are in USA, but I would suspect that in the original 
> they would be in Singapore or Hong Kong.
> 
> 2.   What does Jennigs stand for?
> 

It's many years since I read these books, but I think they just 
stayed at home - you didn't have to be going abroad to send your 
children to boarding school.  I vaguely remember his best friend 
Darbishire's ('My father says...') parents live in Hertfordshire or 
Herefordshire (what a difference a letter makes).

His surname was Jennings.  As was customary at many schools at that 
time, children knew each other by their surnames, though they also 
got nicknames.  It was still thus in my grammar school in the 
seventies.

David, selv født i København