Sue Townsend has passed away at the age of 68.
To celebrate her life many fans have shared their favourite Adrian Mole poems and passages, such as 'Blossom' from The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole.
Sue Townsend RIP
The poem 'Mrs Thatcher' (from The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole) has also been remembered by many.
Mrs Thatcher by A Mole
'The Tap' (from The Secret Diary) was celebrated.
There is a fairly robust argument to be made that "The Tap", by Adrian Mole, is the greatest poem ever written "in two minutes."
The tap drips and keeps me awake, In the morning there will be a lake. For the want of a washer the carpet will spoil,
The tap drips and keeps me awake, In the morning there will be a lake. For the want of a washer the carpet will spoil,
As was Adrian's poem on Bert, printed in the same book.
Bert, you are dead old. Fond of Sabre, beetroot and Woodbines. We have nothing in common, I am fourteen and a half, You are eighty-nine.
You smell, I don't. Why we are friends Is a mystery to me.
Adrian Mole's infatuation with Pandora has been remembered.
I think my favourite bits of Adrian Mole are him writing about Pandora, like this the day after she joins his class
Infinitely sad to hear about the passing of the great Sue Townsend. We'll miss her like Adrian misses Pandora
Sue Townsend is responsible for one of the only two "poems" I can recite: Oh Pandora/I adore ya/I implore ye/Don't ignore me.
"Little Brown Horse / Eating apples in a field / Perhaps one day / My heart will be healed / I stroke the places Pandora has sat ..."
As well as Adrian's particularly skewed outlook on life.
"My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade" RIP Sue Townsend.
“It is the first day of spring. The council have chopped all the elms down in Elm Tree Avenue.” - Adrian Mole #RIPSueTownsend
One of the many many highlights in Sue Townsend's masterpiece, Adrian Mole & the Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Sue Townsend was known for signing copies of her Adrian Mole series books like this.
I asked Sue Townsend to sign a copy of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole for my husband and this is how she did it
One of my most treasured possessions. RIP #SueTownsend