Some Fretwork and the Interminable Christmas Play at the Chalet School

I like the sound of The Yurt school. I expect there will be lots of brawny Mongolian men to be caretakers. Plenty of opportunities for dramatic fire escapes too when the fire (or do they have stoves?) in the yurt gets out of hand.

I'm looking forward to a proper ramble across the steppe! Or do you think we'll have to stick to the mountains in order to ensure a sufficient supply of death-defying acts of bravery and handsome doctors?

Bags me too in the fermenting club! Although in Mongolia with the horse piss fermented milk mentioned upthread, doesn't that bring a whole new meaning to the term "special milk"?

I am utterly confused by Stars being named after a bog. The only blackmailer I can recall right now is Vera Smithers in Rivals - was she a blackmailer or was it poison pen letters? Thekla did some blackmailing too, I suppose.

Wash your mouth out, Stars, Chill Off baths are for wusses! Cold plunge all the way - perhaps in a cascading mountain stream very vague on the physical geography of Outer Mongolia

I like the idea of reviving the Pets Club, which seemed to consist solely of Rufus and some sort of lizard brought in by Cornelia - a chameleon or an iguana or something which they chucked in the garden and forgot about. Bet that didn't survive the winter!

I'm so glad I'm not the only Mushy Pea in the dormyurt. I suggest we constitute ourselves as juniper fermenting HQ, and make sure we sing while we work to complete RueDeWakening's recovery.

Special milk, anyone?

I would definitely also like to take up juniper fermenting.

Evening Chaletians! It's bloody ages been a while since I've seen you, I think I've been in isolation in San for something or other. I expect I nearly died.

If we're in Mongolia, perhaps the Pet Club could be revived (I'm sure there was one, once - in Tyrol? Or am I mixing my series?), and we could all keep a horse at school. There's lots of opportunity for death-defying accidents jolly escapades on horses I imagine.

I'll bag a bed in Mushy Pea I think, and will take up fermenting for my hobby. There must be something other than milk to do it with, surely? Anyone spotted a juniper bush yet?

That wild Irish scamp Nora/Norah Fitzgerald will be gutted to have missed the chance to come to the Chalet School, but I'm sure she will travel and trip over it and recognise the girls in their gentian blue uniform - just as well Lady Russell rejected the idea of changing the name to The Yurt School.

I think I'm in Mushy Pea with mornington, and wondering if my clumsy hands could copy the cheerful local embroidery...

Thank you for the welcome EmilyAlice, I suppose you were named after both your grandmothers. I was named after a poem about a bog which I rather love actually. I do not have any particular hobbies for the hobbies club because I am mostly into blackmail which does pay for itself, I have to admit, but you have to do the research which will be hard from Outer Mongolia. So I thought I might make a Doll's House instead and I have already started on a 1:20 model of a rather special place in Switzerland (no not the San that would be tasteless). I'll give you a clue, the comp. will be Guess the Name of the Collider.
No one has mentioned the baths so I am guessing you have gone Chill Off due to the climate.
Longing to meet you all.
If I can choose please can I be in Samphire? It would remind me of home.

My jalousies are liberally besprinkled with little florets of broccoli. Does one have a plumeaux or a reindeer skin in a dormyurt?

Oooh, bags me being one of the horsey girls like Clarissa and Bill (Wilhelmina) in Malory Towers! Or Norah something who suggested playing polo at a Sale.

I think I am in spinach....and Joey has made us some delightful green curtains! (Oh I think it was a Norwegian who could not speak anything but her own language....but I still think there was a Russian somewhere,,,)

I think we need a few new traditions for our new location, so I propose naming the dormyurts after vegetables instead of flowers. Would any of the new girls care to join me in Mushy Pea? It's so pretty with our north-facing flaps and not-quite-green cubey curtains.

lolament, was that you arriving on horseback this morning? How wizard! Perhaps we should try to peruade Miss Peters from Malory Towers to join us on some kind of exchange arrangement so that you have some horse-mad company.

I posted a couple of times on the old thread. I think I'm a day girl rather than a border

In one of the very early books don't they mention there is a new little Russian who spoke nothing but her own language?? Or have I invented that??

Cheddar Mongolia is obsessed with horses (according to various documentaries including one with Joanna Lumley being a spineless jellyfish every other minute) so I'm sure you and a fellow rebellious Middle could fight over who gets to groom or exercise Willy's horse!

at dormyurt!

I have an idea that there is a Tatiana Someone at St. Mildred's whose aunt is a 'Real ballet dancer', to quote Margot, at some point in the early Swiss books, who gets lumbered with arranging the ballet for the panto. I believe she's Russian, because all ballerinas are Russian.

Oh, and we know that St Nick is the patron saint of Russia ("By Jove!" quoth Dickie), so why not Outer Mongolia too?

I bet the Mongolian dialect would be picked up immediately by our beloved authoress, as being 'not unlike our Tyrolean German'! Either that or she would pick up exactly one word (hanes, anyone?) and sprinkle her speech with it forever more.

What can I do for a hobby? Painting on china, leatherwork removes gimp mask , lace-making, jigsaws, illuminations? Or I could have a stand-up fight about washing Willy (snurk) and Ferry's car with a fellow Middle.

EmilyAlice, I'm only in my 30s and we made comb and paper instruments! Can't remember whether it was toilet paper, but I think not

Please could I join too? I have lavender for dainty sachets and I know what clock golf is and understand that it is only for Men. Is it still Cold Baths in Outer Mongolia?

Just as long as Peggy Bettany isn't in charge of getting us to the exciting new location we should be okay... I'm new to the mn chalet brigade (just caught the end of the previous thread) but would be delighted if I was allowed to fashion some comb cases from leather for lower IV b's stall

There seemed be be a number of small girls whose fathers went off to work in Russia (Mr Humphries, I think?), but I don't recall any actual Russians - would Russian Orthodox girls go with the Catholics for Prayers, do you think?

My dad lived in Mongolia for a bit. Quite nice but don't drink said alcoholic fermented milk. Tastes like "alcoholic vomit"!

Gay Lambert grew up in northern China (huge backstory we never get!) so I'm sure could return to teach and interpret...