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Everyone agreed that Jennings' plan to raise money for a worthy cause was highly commendable. They agreed, too, that Jennings' plans always worked well - on paper!
In practice, however, the master-planner's schemes ran into such difficulties between lift-off and splash-down that he was frequently obliged to improvise new plans in order to stave off the disaters caused by the old ones! There was, for example, The Plan of the Secret Haircut, and The Plan of the Antique Piano - and other schemes which failed at the moment of crisis. There was the embarrassing incident of the empty swimming-bath and the baffling mystery of the key of the sports pavilion: there was Mr. Wilkins' exasperation at finding the bonfire guy dressed in his sports jacket... In short, the outcome of all Jennings' plans were so unpredictable that the routine of the Christmas term at Linbury Court was sadly disrupted before the proceeds of the Form 3 Fireworks Fund were finally handed over to Mr. Carter to aid the work of famine relief...

First published in 1969 by Collins

1 - The Best of Both Worlds
2 - Science Fiction in the Goalmouth
3 - Wrong Foot Foremost
4 - Drainage Problem
5 - Aerosol Accident
6 - Short Back and Sides
7 - In Hazard
8 - Plan of Campaign
9 - Penny for the Guy
10 - Bonfire Night
11 - Transport problem
12 - Double Yellow Line
13 - Honky-Tonk
14 - Copyright Reserved