To ask the Abbess to find me a solid lump of comfort and a cream cake

publish I was told of a relative who, upon learning her husband had tragically died, put her hand to her head, and where she touched it her hair went white and stayed that way for ever. Kind of like a Mallen streak if anyone read the Catherine Cookson books.
I’m just getting to the end of New Mistress and Kathy has just gone to tell Miss Annersley that she and Mary Lou were injured on the glacier.
But bloody Joey is there, needing to be centre of attention as always, saying she’s become a great aunt as Daisy, her “niece by marriage,” has given birth. Anyone over the age of about ten would have realised there was something wrong and shut their mouth. And when they did share the news they’d say “Daisy has had a baby,” rather than “Hey folks, get this, I’m a great aunt!” Typical Jo to make it all about her

I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels horribly guilty when peeling potatoes.

Speaking of unverified facts, does anyone know if it is actually possible for hair to turn white during a few hours?

And can I please have the link to the Dropbox folder? I’m very impressed that someone has managed to find and type them all up.

Please may I have the Dropbox link? DD is in a boarding school novel phase and I’m hoping to recruit her as a CS new girl

swampytiggaa I also get the ‘No previews available’ cat sometimes (both in the new kindle-ready file and previously in all the other CS Dropbox files) - but clicking the three dots at the top of that page gives the ‘Export to kindle’ option.

I’m using Dropbox on iphone and exporting to the kindle app on the same device.

As pp have said, with the older non-kindle ready files Send to kindle just doesn’t work. You probably know and have tried all this - am posting merely in acknowledgment of frustration. Hope you’ve found a solution.

(I managed not to fall into any crevasses and didn't see any stout peasants.)

Also I went to Interlaken for Christmas a couple of years ago and had to try hard not to bore my family with bouts of excited squeaking when we first saw Lake Thun - and we actually went up the Jungfrau on a funny little railway...

Was someone wanting Jo Returns ? I have a few of my duplicates up on eBay this week

swampytiggaa Sorry I don't know, I use Android and pc. Maybe you can download a sample and try?

Please could I have the drop box link too ! Just about to start Mat leave with baby 2!

I tried Yugis way that didn’t work.

Can you get free calibre for iPhone? I don’t want to pay out in case it doesn’t work either 🙂 thank you!

I do it a bit of a long way round but I use calibre. I upload titles from the Dropbox, then convert to mobi (even if they already say they're mobi) then email to my Kindle Paperwhite (which I've attached to the pc by a usb cable) using its email address.

I've found this the only foolproof way of doing it and I've now got all of them on there.
They also go into the 'docs' library on Kindle, not books

I have to select copy to kindle rather than send to kindle. That is on my ipad.

Select the book I want on the drop box app, tap the three dots to get the menu. Select export and then Copy to kindle.

Hope that helps

I’ll have to ask one of the teenagers when they get home from school 🙂 thank you for sending them again and at least I know now how to transfer them to kindle....

Sorry I don’t have any suggestions. I’ve transferred the books to my Kindle and it worked. Does anyone have any technical answers?

Still having the same issue 😢 I sent it to kindle but this is what I get when I try to open it

I have the Dropbox link but can’t send the files to my kindle or open them at all now! Could you resend them s’il vous plait?

My dad told me that when he was a kid in the fifties, they had a wash every day but baths were once a week and they were considered a clean family. However, they were working class inner city definitely not private school in Switzerland types :D

Biddy O’Riverdance! Love it
In New Mistress, Kathy is shown the bathroom she’s to share with three others and reminded to stick to the schedule. So not only the girls but the teachers had a bath list. It doesn’t say if it’s morning or evening though.
Going off at a tangent slightly but my mom, born in 1933, was telling me a girl in her class had fits and had to have an hour rest after lunch every day in a deckchair. Very Chalet School (but actually a very ordinary school in the Midlands!)

I used to have lukewarm morning baths and hair washing certainly wouldn't have been an option - not enough water, for one thing. Remember you only run a couple of inches of water, not a full bath. It's basically just enough to reach your nether regions.

Hot baths are inappropriate for a morning because they make you relaxed/sleepy and encourage you to linger (and steam makes my hair go weird).

Could I please have a link to the Dropbox? Excited to read the books I missed as a child!

I think hair washing, at the CS (and in RL to an extent) was a comparatively rare event — hence all the emphasis in the past on brushing your hair 100 strokes a night etc. (You were redistributing the oils.)

All the mentions make a big deal of it and suggest it wasn’t daily or even weekly. Madge isn’t taking Joey and Grizel for a haircut when Grizel mixes up ‘Heisses’ and ‘Heileges’ — it’s a shampoo before they go up to the Tiernsee. A big deal is made of the cornflour incident, and the punishment is washing the hair of the victims. When Joey takes a bath after they get stuck in the herdsman’s hut overnight in Eustacia, we’re told she’s ‘clean even to her hair, for she had given it a rubbing’, which makes it sound unusual. (Plus, this is a hot bath!)

I doubt anyone was washing their hair in the morning baths. Plus no hairdryers, and can you imagine Matey on delicate girls going around with wet hair in winter? They probably had a hair washing evening periodically, and towelled it dry by stoves...?

I think I remember in one of the books (the Lavender one) a reference to some sort of evening hot bath schedule - IIRC Lavender wanders off while the hot water is running and forgets about the bath until the whole bathroom is flooded and the ceiling below collapses.

I suppose the evening hot bath would be the sensible time for hair washing? Although I do wonder how often the evening hot baths happened. It doesn’t seem to be an everyday occurrence.

They only had about 5 minutes to run the bath, get in and wash, out and dry and clean up! What about the girls with long hair or Kenwigses?

Btw I might have solved something that was raised earlier about different language days. I'm just finishing Barbara and someone asks Biddy O'Riverdance if they have to do their homework in French.
And she says that the homework is done in the language the lesson is taken in!

I was talking to a friend about the cold water thing, she suggested that the boilers probably weren’t up to 200 girls having warm baths! Given that the hot water at work has been known to run out when the place is full of students (university building), this is a fair point. I hate cold showers though.