Molesworth

I made a reference in passing to the quintessential English schoolboy (or skool-boy), Nigel Molesworth, to someone and realised with sadness that this is probably one of those things that are part of my childhood and therefore intimately familiar to me but elicit blank stares from others. It's a wrench for me to think that not everyone was treated to the adventures of Molesworth, his friend Peason, their nemesis Grabber, and the appallingly precious Fotherington-Thomas at an early age. But, then most people didn't memorise the entire recorded works of the musical comedians Michael Flanders and Donald Swann before the age of 12 or have a family stash of the works of P.G. Wodehouse and Dorothy Sayers... Anglophile? My parents? :-)