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Nigel Molesworth appreciation thread

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MadBadandWieldingAnAxe · 22/10/2008 13:47

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UnquietDad · 11/11/2008 20:19

When someone writes "as any fule kno" in an email you know you are in good company.

mooki · 11/11/2008 20:18

What would you find at Hull?

Noone but a fool would ask this question. You might find anything at Hull. IT might be a razor blade or an ear trumpet or a pair of bagpipes it just depends what is lying around. In any case you could find the same things at Ipswich. Be more precise in future.

NoblesseOblige · 09/11/2008 21:27

i am prince charming.

thou art not thou art peason. thou wearest silk britches and thou lookest like a gurl...he boweth low and his silk britches bursteth.

Jux · 09/11/2008 21:27

I always say "hullo birds hullo sky" when I go down the garden to feed the guinea pigs. Lurve these books.

BoccaDellaVerita · 09/11/2008 21:22

Greetings, patricia. Always good to find another kindred spirit.

patriciawentworthheroine · 09/11/2008 21:20

Love molesworth's country dancing efforts(with a rilly dilly raspberry oh) - that one used to make me laugh so much I would think of it in class and let out embarrassing laughs during quiet moments.

(So clearly, I must have read molesworth while still at school - evidently my school self was more sophisticated than I imagine now, hem hem.)

fotherington tomas almost certainly went on to fame and fortune. he was good at everything (except football, hello sky, hello clouds) - even tennis, chiz chiz.

now that DD1 has started school, cannot wait to embody the school mum image. (I am still going to have a cocktail.)

I salute these books. As mothers of a certain age, we are clearly not the target demographic, yet we LOVE them.

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 05/11/2008 22:51

Noticed yesterday that Woolworths are selling the St Trinian's DVD (Rupert Everett version) v cheap. Think I might buy it.

My skool thort it was Cheltenham Ladees Colledge but relly it was St Trinian's, chiz chiz.

pointygravedogger · 30/10/2008 18:56

I was surprsed by all teh drugs references in the new one. I felt rather prudish

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thumblesswitch · 30/10/2008 11:18

I am definitely looking forward to seeing Rupert Everett in drag in it, that's for sure! Maybe I'll put it on my Christmas wish list...

Kathyis6incheshigh · 30/10/2008 11:01

Yes, you need to get the new one

It's different from the earlier ones - but there are some good performances and it's very warm-hearted and girl-power-ish.

thumblesswitch · 30/10/2008 10:59

not yet - I have to get it on DVD when DH isn't looking - I have all the old ones on DVD already so really it's only right I should have the full set, hmm?

Kathyis6incheshigh · 30/10/2008 10:33

Did you see the new St Trinian's film Thumbless?

thumblesswitch · 29/10/2008 10:17

i was at private school and my best mate at the time was the one who introduced me to Molesworth et al - we both loved them (and St. Trinian's - we wished we had gone there instead )

Bink · 29/10/2008 09:17

Oh indeed.
The "when I am old I will wear purple" thingy comes up perennially on here as your ageing role model ideal: but really, Nigel's granny is far better, no?

Kathyis6incheshigh · 29/10/2008 09:12

Yes the granny is a fave of mine too.

'I don't care if Mrs Brodsworthy did run for Britain, I'm still going to have a cocktail.'

Bink · 29/10/2008 09:11

hair is curlier
spex not always in place
otherwise - mm ...

Bink · 29/10/2008 09:09

Possibly my fave character though is the granny (with the super-charged sports car too): "It is a grandmother's privilege to spoil her grandchildren GET OFF THAT SOFA NIGEL YOU WILL BRAKE IT"

Kathyis6incheshigh · 29/10/2008 09:09

LOL Bink, is that what you look like?

filthymindedSixSixSixen · 29/10/2008 09:08

love molesworth et al. Chiz chiz and uter swot and girl have been catchphrases in our family forever.

Bink · 29/10/2008 09:06

Kathy - did you see below? Ds chose that one to be ME.

Preen preen

Kathyis6incheshigh · 29/10/2008 09:04

The parent ones are good too. 'No darling, Schopenhauer did not quite mean that.'

Bink · 29/10/2008 09:03

"Of course, the fellow doesn't realise he's a typical schoolmaster"

EffiePerine · 29/10/2008 07:36

well DH was also at a public school and loves Molesworth, partly for its unswerving accuracy ('you may think I'm soft, but I'm hard. Damned hard').

I love the headmaster cariacatures: 'The crested grebes are mating!'

MorticiaAnnSpookington · 28/10/2008 20:46

mmm, my dad was public school educated and absolutely loves Molesworth

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