as any fule kno thread - Hallgerda?

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hallgerda, you sneaked in that Molesworth allusion very quietly on the 'camp' thread

it's beautiful weather here so i am staring out of the window saying 'hello sky, hello clouds'

Shouldn't you be skipping around, sniffing flowers?

I mentioned gerunds and gerundives on a grammar thread, and someone spotted that too.

oooh more books for me to order from Amazon for the children................expect to see Amazon profits up next year

DOCTOR KURDLING IS CONVINCED

Fie child you speak with conviction now come here bend over ow ow ow

i am uterly wet and a weed

I've only just found this thread - it's good to kno there are more Molesworth fans here!

Nightynight, do buy it, but it's probably more suitable for yourself than your children - unless of course you, like me, can't afford to send them to a skool that teaches xpensiv bad speling.

I used to have "Scenes from the Life of Pythagoras" above my desk when I was a research student - I think it helped keep me sane... Now I share a house with three of the lazy parallelograms he was stalking and a piano with "G that go plunk" - must get it tuned.

Anyone here have the nerve to put "The piece of cod that passeth all understanding" followed by "Revolt of the Prunes" on the "what's for dinner" thread? I haven't, so I too must be uterly wet and a weed, SheilaBlige!

Yaay - down with skool! i must dig them out for DS1!

Can you still buy them? was just thinking that they might appeal to ds1 (14) who doesnt read much

Can you still buy them? I was just thinking last week that they might appeal to ds1 (14) who doesnt read much . I don't have my old copies.

(hurrah for bat hurrah for ball hurrah for hockey and lax and all)

i remember this!!!!!!!

what was the weedy wet kid called?

I was rereading a couple of months ago - what I mostly noticed was the datedness - beaks who swish, boarding school at 10, loads about cold war nuclear threat, masters droning on about their wartime heroism - which was already ancient history when I read them first (in the 70s). I wonder if kids who read them now would find them dated? - or, like me then, just spot the timeless bits?

fotherington-tomas.

dated, yes, but no more so than Blyton. In fact that was what first drew me to them - they bridged the gap between the Blyton world and the real world...

weedy wet was fotherington-tomas.

I think there is a collected version you can buy new.

fotherington-thomas!!!" hello birds,hello sky!"
what a wet and weedy roter!

no, no, fotherington-tomas was not a roter, just a weedy wet.
Grabber, on the other hand...

\link{http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141186003/qid=1142510358/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/202-4495137-5484660\Molesworth} - it's a Penguin Modern Classic these days (silver cover like Catcher in the Rye) - seems a bit wrong!

ooh yes Grabber. ( snobbish about his parents though ... )

Molesworth 2 was always a particular joy. And the grandmother GET OFF THAT SOFA NIGEL YOU WILL BRAKE IT

ds skipped like a gurly until quite recently, so we love F-T especially too.
I DID post the piece of cod which passeth all understanding, following Blu's mortification at being ordered to say grace by her DS in a chippy recently
Hello Molesworth fans everywhere...

Marina - good on you! I think you deserve the mrs joyful prize for rafia work for that!

Bink, I know what you mean about the datedness, but DS1 finds the books hilarious despite attending a state primary school in Sarf London. DH had to explain some parts to me (I went to St Trinian's rather than St Custard's and we didn't use Kennedy's Shorter Latin Primer).

Can I just say that you all hav a face like a squished tomatoe?

I introduced ds to the delights of the Compleet Molesworth last week, a real joy rediscovering it all through his eyes. He was helpless with laughter within minutes :)

Hallgerda!
Agree re the datedness, but think that once they are old enough to appreciate the humour then the "olden days" stuff is an additional pleasure. We've been doing quite a bit of "vintage" fiction with ds recently, and chat quite a bit about the personal freedoms little boys like Jennings, Just William and Emil have, and the limitations of their worlds compared to us today. (Erm....no Kerr-Ching, no PSP...)
When we are not wetting ourselves laughing, that is

Just seen this thread. DH and I are both Molesworth fans, but hadn't thought of introducing it to DS1 yet. He is not a weed and a wet one, but is quite F-T like in other ways.

Now trying to work out where ds fits in. Not F-T (had to give him remedial skipping lessons last week, so that he could help dd practice for her ballet exam - oh actually what does the very fact that he's keen to help her practice her pair-dance say?); not M'worth2 (not remotely death-ray-interested); not M'worth (not acute enough); not Grabber, not Peason (not nice enough for Peason). Perhaps he is the skool dog.

Gillibrand?
New bug who shouts 'Molesworth is a grate big wet' then runs to Matron?