Sunday, 17 November 2024

Tredegar House Parody : John Morgan, Lord Intriguer: The Last Mole Standing in Bassaleg Fields


Ringo Mole

John Morgan : Lord Intriguer 

 The Last Mole Standing 

In Bassaleg Fields

TIME LINE 1908-1962

John Morgan, Lord Intriguer, aka Johnny-Boy “ Ringo” Mole “ The Mad Hatter” was the last Man Mole standing in the reconstituted  Intriguer- Gould- Morgan line of descent.

 It was a line that closed during the  infamous  Beeching era.

 Having been kick started in  womanly glory in 1792 it  ended with the embarrassing  collapse of all  its male Mole Hills in year of our Lord 1962.

 The  future of Intriguer House was put  into the  paws of a contingent of  pious Mole nuns named after the venerable St Joseph- The Carpenter Mole.

 The  land slippage was obvious long before Johnny-Boy’s rise to power.

 Johhny -Boy showed  no early promise, and was troubled with pinhead eyes, pinhead ears and a pinhead brain.  But he stood tall, aloof, absurdly pompous and puffed up, and was self-opinionated, even at 12.

 His dearest  Papa, Freddy–Mole, aka  ‘Intriguer the Silent’,  gave him the unspoken treatment but  that poor sod  was tongue tied because by the time Freddy ever spoke up the conversation had moved on, or the seasons had changed. 

 Later when Johnny -Boy came marching home from various inane foreign digs in his 20s  he  sported a brand  new hat, all  just a fashionable fad  to make him alluring.  These  mad hatter escapades  was the total extent of his  souvenir hunting from numerous sabbaticals , even although his irritating  little sister Hon. Avi-ation Gurney Mole asked him to bring her back some bars of  striped sticky rock. 

 After  spending  two years avoiding the horse ploughs  of New Zealand where he  befriended some fellow Etonites  in the tangata whenua ,  (Māoris)  the indigenous Moles there,  he hardly ever took off his Fedora or stopped flashing his Eton three fold, reppe striped silk, tie.

 Johnny-Boy  had several aliases. He  fancied himself as  being a Mexican bandit, like Garcia rustling  cattle cakes for worms , but  he thought “Ringo” was a much better name for a  robbing bastard. He also  bought out by bullying all the tortilla chip mines from  peasants,  and filled his  winter larders as  he preferred tortillas to eating worms. The tortilla  deal  came with a  free  sombrero hat.

 When Johnny-Boy became Lord Intriguer the lawyers told him he didn’t need to rob banks or  rail trains or mistreat peasants  as  the Intriguer millions ( from banks and rail trains and  peasants hard graft ) had already been fully exploited and pilfered by all kinds of  illegality and stealth  by his ancestors and kinfolk by mastering  slavery,  rascality  and acts of  sodomy.

 Johnny-Boy  as Lord Intriguer ( after  as many deaths as the list of Adrian Messenger ) marked the end of  feudalism in the Bassaleg Fields.  Intriguer House was sold to the Church of Rome as a private  Mole School,  but with a brilliant snub by Johnny- Boy upon the  ‘National Truss’ -  a venomous organisation  who were rounding up  Mole Hills for the nation and wanted Intriguer House despite  their Inspector, Jimmy Milly- Mole being a  trifle disappointed by the coarse, unrefined quality of the landscape and the general dimness of the area’s non-Anglican population. 

An Extract from " The Moles of Intriguer House, Bassaleg Fields, South Wales"

A parody on the Morgans of Tredegar House, Newport, South Wales

By William Cross, FSA Scot

A Piece Of Madness - Written During Lockdown


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John Morgan, 6th And Last Lord Tredegar

Died 17 November 1962


Frederic Charles John Morgan, 6th Baron Tredegar (26 October 1908 — 17 November 1962), was a Welsh Peer and Landowner.


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