In some parts of the world it is still March 3rd, so, though time has ticked on here in Thailand, I shall pretend I’m in Los Angeles and say it’s Ronald Searle’s birthday. The creator of the St Trinian’s girls is still alive at 87. We here at HITO wish him many more birthdays to come.

More about Searle and the girls of St Trinian’s in this article.

And is a bookshelf really complete without The Compleet Molesworth? This book sustained me through 13 years of incarceration in ******* ****, a private girls’ school that in some ways was not unlike St Trinian’s, tho being a good little thing I missed out on most of the fun chiz.