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New Year's Eve 2013

Au revoir 2013 and bonjour (almost) 2014! Cartoon courtesy of the master of whimsy:  Ronald Searle. 

Image from here.

Ronald Searle encore

It's no secret that I am a huge Ronald Searle fan. I have blogged about his work so often, I've created a section in my index specifically for him! Anyway, imagine my delight when I stumbled across French blog Ma Galerie Paris and found a heap of Ronald Searle book covers! Joy! Here are the ones that particularly took my fancy.

All images from here.

Down With Skool!

You possibly might already be familiar with The Compleet Molesworth, but if you're not, it is a helpful field guide to the ecology of St Custards prep school circa 1958. It's narrated by Nigel Molesworth: the "curse of st custards" and "gorila of 3B". Chapters in the book include: Boo to Sir or are Masters Nesessessary?, Lessons and how to Avoid Them and Ho for the Hols. Actually, it's a very funny book written by Geoffrey Willans and illustrated by the master illustrator Ronald Searl. Below is an extract from the book about masters.

 

All images form The Compleet Molesworth.

This post is for all my fellow comrades doing it rough in the trenches. Happy weekend all!

Illustrations by Ronald Searle via The Compleet Molesworth.

Happy Friday!

Ah! That's better! It's Friday! For your viewing pleasure I give you the wonderful Ronald Searle.

 

I hope everyone has a super marvellous weekend and that it is full of lots of fun and frivolity!

 

Images from here.

Oh my goodness...happy Friday!

 

 

This is so me this weekend! Not that I have such a glamorous bath or that I would wear such hats in such a glamorous bath if I had one but...What a week! I can't even remember it - I think it was OK-ish and maybe there were even bits of wow! But as always very full - on (does anyone still say "full - on" or is it just me?).

This is Ronald Searle by the way, one of my all time favourite illustrators and artists. You can find out more about him here - which is where the image is from too.

Happy, happy weekend lovely people!

The coming of the great cat god...

Now this is an end of the world scenario I could possibly be OK with...

Happy Friday folks (or Thursday afternoon as the case may be...).

(Cartoon "The Coming of the Great Cat God" by Ronald Searle, 1968 from here)