Diese Serie zeichnet mit Humor und Übertreibung das Leben auf dem englischen Land aus der Sicht einer Großfamilie nach. Im Mittelpunkt steht ein charismatischer Patriarch, der mit seinen eigenwilligen Methoden alltägliche Herausforderungen löst, von finanziellen Schwierigkeiten bis hin zu familiären Beziehungen. Die Geschichten sind voller liebenswerten Humors, unerwarteter Wendungen und einer Feier des Landlebens.
Contemporary / British English Meet the Larkin family They enjoy a wonderful country life, never worrying about money, work -- or the law. But then, one day, a man arrives from the tax office. Is the taxman going to change the Larkin's lives? Or is his life going to change forever?
This play version of the H.E. Bates novel centres on the Larkin family, who live in Kent somewhere at the end of a rainbow. When an ernest young tax official turns up one hot May afternoon in 1957 to investigate Pop's income tax contributions, he is bewitched by eldest daughter Mariette.
'I should like to go to France,' said Ma. And so at the end of a rainy English August the Larkins - all ten of them, bundle into the old Rolls and cross the Channel. France proves less than welcoming to an eccentric English family. When the manager learns that Ma and Pop are unmarried yet sharing a room under his roof, the trouble really begins.
4 hrs.A year has passed, and in this third novel of the Pop Larkin series, Pop Larkin is preparing to build the bungalow he promised Charley and Mariette upon their engagement. He buys a country home slated for demolition, intending to convert it for the two, but it is not long before a London couple persuade him to sell it. Pop, ever the trickster, sells it for an extortionate price, as the two social climbers know little about country life. Party throwing and cocktail mixing abound until a rocky boat and a misplaced pair of hands have Pop before the local magistrate....
With a letter announcing the imminent arrival of Madame Dupont, Pop and Ma Larkin learn that little Oscar and Blenheim - are to be christened. Pop, who needs no excuse to open a few bottles and host the perfick party, rushes out and buys a fun fair to celebrate. But there are one or two gatecrashers even Pop hadn't counted on turning up.
'Teetotal!' Ma said. 'It's a libel. Whatever will people think? What's he going to say when anybody asks him to have one?' No, said Dr Conner. And so after a mild heart-attack - Pop Larkin finds himself off the booze. While Ma tries to find ways around 'doctor's orders', young Primrose is finding her own way round a flustered - Mr Candy.