What has your "friend" been up to?
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More on the comics and magazines of youth. Speed and Power was absorbed by Look and Learn as early as 1975, and the merged mag staggered on until 1982, having been in existence since 1962, in which year coincidentally my friend and I were born. It was one of those optimistic products of the uncertain Post War - a period in which quite a few here and their friends grew up . A bit like Ladybird Books, but with a bit less embedded Imperialism.
Whilst for some of us and our friends the current North Korean style enforced mourning for someone that some of us may regard as an unappealing person of little worth or consequence is annoying, it's reminded me and my friend of the whole "New Elizabethan Age" ideas of the 50s and 60s. Nigel Molesworth is one of the avatars of that whole thing, and this piece below on his New Elizabethan aspects is quite fun. Mrs Molesworth is rather younger and more sparky than I had previously imagined her. I will not say what my friend say about Mrs Molesworth, because I indulge him far too much as it is.
If you get Molesworth, you'll get this. If you don't get Molesworth, you should, but it may be too late, because you have to get him from the age of around ten or eleven, and then he stays with you for life. I recently asked my sixteen year old daughter if she thought that she'd still be quoting Molesworth when she is fifty eight, and she replied "I hope so".
https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2015/10/molesworth-...
Whilst for some of us and our friends the current North Korean style enforced mourning for someone that some of us may regard as an unappealing person of little worth or consequence is annoying, it's reminded me and my friend of the whole "New Elizabethan Age" ideas of the 50s and 60s. Nigel Molesworth is one of the avatars of that whole thing, and this piece below on his New Elizabethan aspects is quite fun. Mrs Molesworth is rather younger and more sparky than I had previously imagined her. I will not say what my friend say about Mrs Molesworth, because I indulge him far too much as it is.
If you get Molesworth, you'll get this. If you don't get Molesworth, you should, but it may be too late, because you have to get him from the age of around ten or eleven, and then he stays with you for life. I recently asked my sixteen year old daughter if she thought that she'd still be quoting Molesworth when she is fifty eight, and she replied "I hope so".
https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2015/10/molesworth-...
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 11th April 06:39
Hello, friends of friends. The real world is sort of making a vague reappearance, and I've decided that I need to focus on preventing my friend from doing the sort of unwise things that he habitually does. I shall fail in this, of course, but as part of this futile project I am binning most forms of social media, including this one. So cheerio, and I hope that all of your friends can avoid the worst consequences of their excesses.
My friend’s neighbour likes to keep herself to herself and doesn’t really speak to anyone, which suits my friend just fine. Regrettably, he fears that he has sealed the deal on that front while installing a fancy android headunit into his compact executive saloon.
He found himself in a spot of great frustration at a particularly troublesome trim clip and, unaware that she had just arrived home and was traversing her driveway, exclaimed at a volume he is not proud of: “just go in you stupid German
”.
He does not believe that his neighbour is German but is still mortified.
He found himself in a spot of great frustration at a particularly troublesome trim clip and, unaware that she had just arrived home and was traversing her driveway, exclaimed at a volume he is not proud of: “just go in you stupid German
”. He does not believe that his neighbour is German but is still mortified.
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