Life in the village of St. Nicholas was lived close to Nature, colourful, sometimes poignant, but most often spicy and droll. The village was rich with eccentrics: Isaiah Jenkins the rector who leavened his pastoral duties with periods of poaching; Bilbow the grocer – ‘crouching like a seedy wizard in the gloaming of his store’ – and many more. Above all there was Schoolin, the author’s father, headmaster of the village school where snakes and rainbows sometimes interrupted the Song of the Three R’s and the children wrote letters to the Prince of Wales about how to catch moles.
(from dust jacket of Schoolin’s Log)
The Headteacher at the village school was known as “Sgwlin” (or “Schoolin”). Schoolin’s Log was written about school and village life in the 1920s and 1930s by Llewelyn Jones, son of the headteacher.