Anyone a fan of molesworth? Double chiz if not

[patriciawentworthheroine]

I'd love to hear from anyone else who loves the molesworth books (a mad spoof of 1940s boarding school etiquette).

They were narrated by nigel molesworth and described his school (St Custards), his dere little brother molesworth 2, his grate friend peason and other weeds and wets eg fotherington tomas (hello birds, hello sky) and grabber (winner of the mrs joyful prize for rafia work).

Will our dere little chaps (and girls) ever be ready for these books? I seem to remember reading them in my teens, is that the right age?

If no one else loves these books, I will utterly tough them up and diskard them.

My only critcism is that they totally ruined the Jennings books for me. I thought these were hilarious as a pre-teen but once i discovered molesworth, it was all over.

actually, I was thinking, the Little Wolf books are in a similar vein for today's child...

I have searched high and low for my copy of How to be Topp tonight. It's just what I need to cheer me up and I can't find it anywhere.
If I find out who has it I shall tuough tthem up, chiz, chiz.

love molesworth. was so disappointed when all my book groupers hated it

How could anyone hate Molesworth? I just don't understand that - what's not to love?

I am winner of the Mrs Joyful prize for rafia work hem hem...

oh me me me!

All human knowledge can be found in teh Molesworth books viz:

There is only one thing in criket and that is the STRATE BAT. Keep yore bat strate boy, sa the master and all will be right in life as in criket.

and I can pla "Fairy Bells" on skool piano.....

oh palliser, they almost hated it and found it not one bit funny

They need reeducating pointydog.
What do they like?

he he, I was just re-reading and came across this bit about when mater's grate skool friend mabel entwhistle pay a visit with her tiny dorter cicely chiz chiz.

"Do not the house look luvly nigel," sa yore mater

"But it never look like this reely it is just an empty facade."

"o.k." sa yore mater "but let's keep it that way see? Otherwise there's liable to be trubble. Look at yore knees."

lunch is cold molesworth2 drop the sprouts cicely can't eat the steak and all larff wot screams children are to be sure. Zoom out into the garden and ciceley folow litle does she kno gay child wot is coming to her. Enuff said.

"what is a watershed?" "a tool shed is where you keep tools a wood shed is where you keep wood a watershed is where you keep water. Don't waste my time"

don't reeducate them POinty - they are clearly past saving. if some people can't appreciate true genius when it's presented to them on a silver salver then they are fules and wets and molesworth 2 will zap them with a trillion rays from his proton gun.

Set Wandsworth the skool dog on them.

He take a bullseye and pater lite his pipe. The matter is closed

I remember suddenly realising that a work colleague couldn't be quite the desperately-cool condescending wanker he appeared to be when he said to someone else 'As any fule kno' (you could hear the misspellings beautifully) got an utter blank look in reply and then looked gratified when I hooted with glee.

they will never like molewsoeth. It was clear as day.

Oops have just reread the OP's name. Hello Miss Silver! Is there a thread on your books?

Was going to link to the Migel Molesworth appreciation thread (which I started, ahem ahem) but someone got there first, chiz chiz.

As I opened the blinds in DS's room this morning at 5.45am (chiz) I cried 'Hello clouds, hello sky' in a vain attempt to cheer my sleep-deprived self up. It worked.

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Every time I have to write a thank you letter on behalf of dcs I want to send a Molesworth Self-Adjusting Thank-You Letter. After all, it would "cut out hours of toil pen biting wear on elbows blotches and staring out of windows".

And did reading Molesworth make anyone else grow up thinking that the correct abbreviation of etcetera was "ect" or was that just me?

I love Mumsnet, I was just thinking of this in relation to a thread on thank you cards and googled the Molesworth letter and it led me straight back here

DH and I found St Custards a couple of years ago when we were driving in the country - unfortunately it had just closed down
I posted about it on here and someome posted 'I here Porridge Court is still open chiz chiz'.

It has been done up as a country house again and is being advertised in all the property sections of newspapers - every time I see it now I think of Molesworth and smile.

I love that my primary school really was a St Custards (Cuthberts) and DH and I often can't find things for tofe chiz and eat strubres and cream ...

I can't find my copy of Molesworth now, chiz chiz

My favourite bit is Armand in the French text books.

'Everyone kno that Armand is a wet becos he wear a striped shirt and sissy straw hat....

Aha! You think, Papa is not so stupid, he will feed Armand to the loups....' etc.