[SgtLtBradshawDA]

One can't overstate how much I loved those stories, as a child of the 80s. I loved the inventive spirit, the bonds of friendship between the club, and the evergreen YA theme of putting one over on the grownups. Thirty years ago I scored the New Adventures hardback from a school library sale when I was just the right age to appreciate them. I plowed through that one and then moved heaven and Earth to find the first book. An age later (which must have only been five or six years, but you know how times moves when you're a kid) I read The Big Kerplop! and was rather sad, because it felt like I'd reached the end of the content. I was overjoyed to learn that the final book was finally being issued in 2005- it now sits on my shelf, patiently waiting. I plan to read it just before I shuffle off this mortal coil, whenever that may be, so I can spend the rest of my life anticipating it.