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Saturday, 19 November 2016

St Custard’s Law of Prizes



When grabber get his ushaul prize i.e. the mrs joyful prize for rafia work there are boos and catcalls nothing can stop the mitey upsurge of popular feeling.

‘SILENCE!’ below GRIMES. ‘You are unfare. You kno how he won this prize.’

‘Sure!’ we roar, ‘£5 to you, £I all round to the staff and a botle of beer for the olde matronne. The same story.’

Whizz for Atomms - Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle (1956)


It may not be immediately obvious but Molesworth is using his grate brane to illustrate an important law of the universe - St Custard’s Law of Prizes.

Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Sources of sanity

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What is the furtive toad Cameron up to? Trying to persuade us he’s radical on EU issues? Why does the man bother? He’s as radical as Cornflakes and everyone knows it. I'm sure he’d be better off not pretending. Surely nobody is fooled?

At least I hope not. Cameron has no intention whatever of changing anything significant in our relationship with the EU. As for loons Miliband and Clegg...

Yet as we peruse these tales of insanity, there are saner worlds to set things right. At such moments of reflection I often turn to The Compleet Molesworth for an uplifting quote.

Another form of torture for parents is the displa of country dancing on ye sham village green. The skool gardener is awakened from another sleep in the onion bed and skool piano wheeled from big skool revealing wizard patch of dust marbles dead beetles conkers and skeletons of boys who have crept away to die.

Gosh that's better, almost as bracing as a walk in the hills. There is a world of sanity and good sense after all, a world of dust marbles dead beetles conkers and skeletons of boys who have crept away to die.

Friday, 3 October 2014

St Custard’s goes green

Nigel Molesworth by the late great Ronald Searle
as any fule kno

Gosh chiz st custard’s hav decided to go green. Well i mite hav expected it, just when i thort we were safe from globule worming old grimes have decided to GO GREEN and build an elektric windmill to power the hole skool. 

Fotherington tomas call it a wind turbin and dance with joy when he hear the news. The little wet clap his hands and skip about trilling “we are saving the planit, we are saving the planit. The flowers will be saved the trees will be saved”. He is just like a little parot who just discuver the world is made of nuts.

Grimes order the skool janitor to build a windy turbin and make it big enuff to suply the whole skool with elektricity for ever and ever amen. Janitor mutter and grumble and slouch off in a huff as per ushual becos he has to do sum work like the rest of us hem hem.

Later he is spotted by peason sneaking awa with bits of wood from the fence at the back of the bike shedds. This will not end WELL.

Later.

Much later.

Well the windy turbin is built rite in the middle of the foopball pich which sends grimes into a wild bate. He foam at the mouth and swings his best kane like a wild demon who drunk too much BEER in the village pub witch we pore boys never visit hem hem.

Even later.

The grand swich on

Chiz chiz no speshial treets for the pore boys to celebrate st custards new green windy turbin. We hav been lined up on the frozen wastes of the foopbal pitch to watch the grate green triumpf. Fotherington tomas is allowed to pull the swich the pore wet.

BOOM! CRACKLE! BLAM!

A big flash lite up the sky and all dive for cover even tho there isnt anywhere to hide on the freezing wastes of the foopball pich. As i kno too wel chiz chiz.

After a wile a few of the bravest boys hem hem dare to raise our heads from the skool mud. We take a horifid look at the disaster wich has befallen us. Ho ho. O horror.

The windy turbin have burn rite down to a pile of ashes and sum black wires wich look like telefone wires to an xpert eye .like mine. The windy turbin didnt burn long becos the janitors wood was all roten and burnt too qwick for my liking.

O wel lessons learned as they sa.

Sunday, 8 December 2013

Sunday, 7 October 2012

The Compleet Molesworth


As any fule kno, the gratest brane in the univers is n molesworth of st custards skool. When I saw his book priced at a meer thirty shillings I thort at least I'll hav a laff and a bit of philoserfy, hem hem.

A trap for dere santa
Conoisuers of prose and luvers of literature hem-hem may not see the geenius behind simple skool tales of peason gillibrand fotherington-tomas and meny other villans, but I repli so wot - its the deep thorts that count.

Wot thorts I hear you ask with a dredful leer. The thort that when I hav read n molesworths golden words and absorbd the wisdum of that deliteful chap I can giv the book away next time Im stuck for a burthday prez.