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

Could I also have the Dropbox link please @Parker231 ? Many thanks!

Cerys I think that will mean two weeks in the San under Matey's watchful eye.

cerys
Yes I long to be delicate
I'm reading Joey Goes to the Oberland and Jo is such a cow!
She even has a go at Daisy on her wedding day!

Anyone who has just got the Dropbox, madness lies ahead! I'm rereading from the beginning and I now have no life

@howyoudoallworkme

I’m late because I fainted on the edge of a precipice but because I am stout and sturdy the peasants couldn’t move me to a hut to give me onion milk. Had to wait for Gaudenz the Giant and he was busy defending the Abbess from a gun toting madman. If only I were small and delicate!

Sorry I'm late, I fell in a packing case and I had to redo my earphones!

There’s nothing remotely Enid Blyton about the Chalet School, paintedfences! Also, there are over 60 books in the series so be prepared to neglect a fair portion of your normal life.

I’m very excited to find a thread that shares my obsession..... please may I have the Dropbox link? Lucky enough to have a whole collection but too many are paperbacks...

Ooh I loved The Chalet school! Don't think I ever read many of the later books though. Would love the dropbox link please!!

I've actually never read the chalet school books (though I loved the Enid Blyton school ones). They sound great fun - could I please have the Dropbox link too?

Could I have the Dropbox link please @Parker231 ? My MIL threw my collection away while I was on holiday

Danke/Merci/Thank you Parker!

Have pm’d those who have asked for the Dropbox link. Just need your email address and then the books will be on their way to you!

Give me the Dropbox link now pleeeeeeease! I'm bfing my newborn I need this to occupy me in the middle of the night.

Re Miss Maynard’s age, that fits in with something I recently read in one of the books (can’t even remember which but it was probably Exile) that she’d joined them midway through the first term. It’s just ridiculously young to be a teacher. But then again, Madge was a headteacher and she was only, what, 24? With no apparent teaching experience!

Delurking having caught up on the last two threads. Please may I have the drop box link, too? I promise not to read them all at once and thus require bed rest/special milk or a nice deadly walk.

We also currently have a milk surfeit at work, should any body fancy some. I can't promise any magic tranquilising effect though...

Could I please have the Dropbox link too?

In head girl, start of, joey grizel and robin are staying with miss maynard in Portsmouth for the holidays and it mentions miss maynard is 22-23 (seems mad if already a qualified teacher and been at chalet school for 2/3 years by then) and that robin is he with mrs maynard. Which makes sense, miss maynard (22/23) wouldn't have had her own big house to stay in during school holidays.
It's only on any sort of detailed re read you spot these details as you know where future plot lines will take you.

I read my old copies of the Chalet School books to DD recently. I was quite shocked re-reading The Rivals of the Chalet school at the Klu Klux Klan part. It must have gone completely over my head when I was a child. What is interesting is that the children are inspired by some books that Joey has that are set in America. I looked the books up - they are real and are actually anti KKK and anti slavery. I wondered if EBD had actually read the books herself.

Anyway, I tried to explain to DD that the KKK was not something to emulate and we moved on to the more exciting ice skating on dangerous ice part.

Papergirl - the parents in law wouldn't have ever come to visit, they'd have found themselves roped into looking after their 500 grandchildren

(Can you imagine having Joey as a DIL?!)

Look out for the woo, Parker - in a most un Chalet School manner, one of the twins has “the sight.”
Burnout I don’t remember any mention of the Maynards’ parents. I thought they’d died.

It’s glorious Parker, one of the very best. Shares with Goes To It a really strong depiction of the domestic and psychological impact of the war on women and girls left to carry on, constantly longing for their menfolk, always on high alert, worrying about their friends, negotiating a million interruptions and inconveniences in daily life.

To look out for? A dangerously polite man.

There is a lot of Miss Maynard then she gets married and shipped off to "foreign", maybe Singapore - I think somehow she avoided the occupation?

I am
Up to no 4, head girl in my Dropbox re read. And waiting for joey (13?) to meet future husband jack. He had only been mentioned once now as new doctor for dr jem, brother of s teacher. Though she must of met him before as she stays with miss maynard often in holidays and mrs maynard (assume her future mil). Is there much mention of miss maynard later on, did she marry and have many kids?