#Jackanory

Scott Rochesterscottrochester
2026-03-03

3 Mar 'On what are you unwilling to compromise?'

In my novels it has to be British English, and delivered the way that Miss Wilson taught us in the 1970s . I may not have liked her much, but she was right! Even about befrazzlement.

Befrazzlement?

extract from book 1 of 6

SlenderWolf Conflicts and Alliances

Chapter Chapter 25
Jackanory Square

“Good to see you Benet!”

“Dan! How are you?”

“I’m fine, how are you?”

“Frazzled. As usual!”

That’s Benet’s standard response. On a good day he’s frazzled, and on a bad day he’s double plus frazzled. It’s only when story time is over that he lightens up. If anything doesn’t go quite right he always blames his old frazzled brain. If it all goes well, he’ll claim to have succeeded, in spite of his befrazzlement.

According to Benet, that’s a genuine English word! If he’s challenged he just says, “well it is now! The English language is fluid you know! Always changing!”
 

A watercolour painting of a 40 year old hobo with long, dark hair, a beard, and a scruffy appearance. A wandering story teller, he sleeps in the woods at night. He is wearing a grubby wolfskin jacket over an old grey T shirt. In spite of his rough looks and shabby clothes Benet is one of Wolfland's nicest characters. The image is labelled Benet.

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Alex 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿alexlac51@mastodon.scot
2026-02-28

@Nonilex

they must have missed them when he "obliterated" the other ones... or he has been reading stories from #Jackanory...

Adam Trickett :debian: :kde:drajt@fosstodon.org
2025-12-13

Listening to the #Jackanory version of #TheHobbit. I remember this when it was shown on television over the Easter Holidays in 1979. My entry to fantasy literature.

Adam Trickett :debian: :kde:drajt@fosstodon.org
2024-09-17

@le_friwi_56 Wonderful book.

I remember it so much from my childhood. There was the #Jackanory version which was my introduction to #JrrTolkein.

I've read it many times, once in a single sitting...!

2022-11-10

Growing up I had parents and teachers who #read *to* me, cousins, classmates, friends I read *with*, we had a whole *reading hour* at school and unlimited access to libraries, at home, school and public. I also loved #jackanory and cassette #books in the car. We had a whole community of reading we could take questions to. Lolling about with a book was a thing you were encouraged to do.
Simply buying a kid a book & wondering why they don't have a reading habit isn't it.
#Reading is a culture.

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