Nigel Molesworth appreciation thread

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Fans of the Curse of St Custards may wish to pause here.

But I hear that Porridge Court is still open, ahem ahem chiz chiz.

We need one of those 'if MNers were...' threads.

'Is my son gifted and talented? He is Head of School, Captain of Games and winner of the Mrs Joyful Prize for Raffia Work'....

As any fule kno....

Lol, ds was having a conversation between his shoes today (very Fotherington-Tomas)!

molesworth 2 signing in here

zoom zoom farey bells and radio malt

play with me, o you mite

Kathy - go on I dare you.

'Ds seems to have few friends at school - today, another boy has told him that he is utterly wet and a weed. Ds has now started talking animatedly to the clouds, sky and trees. Should I be worried?'

The website does not feature that marvellous selection of parental archetypes, from which ds rather soberly chose as representing his mater the one in a poloneck saying "No darling I don't think Schopenhauer quite meant that"

My mum gave him (ds, not Schopenhauer) the complete Penguin Modern Classic Molesworth for Christmas last year (or year before?) - it is completely dog-eared with dribblingly hilarified re-readings. I like Peason. I really like Peason. I think all boys, and actually all girls, should have a grate frend of the Peason sort.

I also (have said this elsewhere on MN) believe that Fothering-T is a super marvellous subtle creation, with masses to say about early genius. Do Not Forget he is a tennis demon.

we hav neglected to mention the skool dog

or indeed the skool pig (a particular frend)

you can hav rafia here but it is for weed and gurls

Brabber, who is head of skool and captane of everything isn't a gurl and he is winer of the mrs joyful prize hem hem

or even Grabber (no contact lenses in yet)

Hmmm do you think he is a sekret secret friend of Fotherington-Thomas?

Peason is Molesworth's best friend 'which means we tuough each other up continually'. It's good to have friends like that.

this thread has made me go and re read Molesworth...what joy !

what age are we thinking for starting to read this with boys? I want to enforce my English Heritage with my foreign sons

I'm thinking of starting it when DS is about 7...

oh huzzah, one of mine is 7.5

what joy!

ds read it at ten, but am sure as early as poss. is good idea !

I would not dream of giving this to my children - what if they don't find it funny? It will, however, be easily accessible on a low shelf and I will hope one day to find them sitting in a corner with it giggling

Though you know it is equally odd when your child finds it wildly funnier than you do.

Ds was up at quarter to six this morning, Molesworthing yet again - I could hear the exulting heeee eeeeks through my pillow. AND then he got himself dressed without being told

do you know, most of my rl friends hate these books and do not find them funny

how bizarre, pointy - do they have an otherwise sound SOH? Or is it one of those age/fashion things, like Harry Potter and Abba? I have a friend who at 23 couldn't read HP because he was young enough that he was scared he might be classed in the child bracket of reader, and wasn't old enough not to care.