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Chalet School - plot inconsistency bothering me

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VintageGardenia · 26/10/2008 19:19

I don't know why I suddenly thought of this but perhaps my first 3 consecutive glasses of postnatal wine have brought out my inner dullness.

There is a Chalet School book (Exploits?) where some of the girls bake apple pies and mistakenly use cloves of garlic instead of cloves.

Not believable and silly.

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LadyGlencoraPalliser · 26/10/2008 21:40

So it was! It's all coming back now...

Oh, Sebastian for me, btw. The unattainable, self-centred, romantic one.

differentWitch · 26/10/2008 21:37

Cod liver oil.

LadyGlencoraPalliser · 26/10/2008 20:37

They cooked the doughnuts in the wrong sort of oil didn't they? Was it castor oil? Made everyone feel ill.
Frau Mieders was really up against it. I think most of them did come from the sort of background where the servants did the cooking - the prewar upper middle class. It would have been quite normal to be that clueless.

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VintageGardenia · 26/10/2008 20:27

You might already know about Friends of the Chalet School on the web.

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VintageGardenia · 26/10/2008 20:15

Antonia Forest, of course, too.

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differentWitch · 26/10/2008 20:14

I loved the Drina stories too.

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VintageGardenia · 26/10/2008 20:14

I recently read Fifth Year Friendships (I think?) for the first time, I had about six of them I think. They were my modern books .

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mankyscotslass · 26/10/2008 20:11

I should also have all my Malory , St Claires and Trebizon books up there, saved for DD, of course.

Heated · 26/10/2008 20:06

So who was the celebrity fan cuttingmeownthroatdibblaaaargh?

And what's Folly?

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VintageGardenia · 26/10/2008 20:05

Been googling Folly, no avail, what is?

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VintageGardenia · 26/10/2008 20:02

Fantastic! I have mine in a box in the garage I think, might investigate in the morning (too spooky now).

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differentWitch · 26/10/2008 20:00

lol.

mankyscotslass · 26/10/2008 19:58

I'm glad I found this thread. I am stuck at my mums and bored out my brain, but I have been inspired to go in her loft and dig out my old Chalet School books!
I may survive the next 5 days after all!

differentWitch · 26/10/2008 19:55

Farm school stories. He didn't die in any of them. He died between stories

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VintageGardenia · 26/10/2008 19:51

I don't know the farm school ones, sorry!

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cuttingmeownthroatdibblaaaargh · 26/10/2008 19:50

Yes - the not bothered is Guy, and the bothered is Robin

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VintageGardenia · 26/10/2008 19:46

I might be getting my men mixed up. There was one who wasn't bothered about an injured sheep and one who was. It was the one who was (Robin I presume?) she ended up marrying.

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VintageGardenia · 26/10/2008 19:43

I am reading Clarissa Dickson-Wright's book Spilling the Beans, and she makes a passing reference to Old Etonions, for whom nothing can really measure up to school for the rest of their lives. With the school stories, no school could ever measure up.

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cuttingmeownthroatdibblaaaargh · 26/10/2008 19:42

Oh no, Guy is a twat. Sebastian doesn't do it for me either, but I rather like the sound of Robin (the vet)

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VintageGardenia · 26/10/2008 19:42

Or the way Joey hightailed it around the place with three Moses-basketed triplets. I can hardly stagger from car to house with a carseat of one!

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cuttingmeownthroatdibblaaaargh · 26/10/2008 19:41

There were a few people there who had or were doing their PhD's on girls school stories, and I was really at being able to do that. If I'm ever able to commit to a PhD, I can't see that I'll be able to study 'Aspiration and reality of career in the girls school story'

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VintageGardenia · 26/10/2008 19:40

I don't remember the doughnuts... Carola was the one who ran away to school iirc and sort of muddled up an approximate uniform etc. A good plot idea, that one.

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UniS · 26/10/2008 19:39

made I laugh. I did something equally dumb once....

But yes, there a whole bunch of mistakes or unbelivevables in CS stories.
any one else like the J. Elder farm school books? I think I'm missing at least one - the one in which colin dies?

sunnygirl1412 · 26/10/2008 19:39

I love the way that Joey has to spend 10 days in bed after having a baby.

As a girl, I used to wish that I attended the Chalet School - though I suspect I'd have been my form's Hilda Jukes - plump, considered to be a bit lazy and with absolutely NO chance of being Head Girl!

Reading this thread has given me an awful yearning to read my chalet school books again, but they're all in storeage until we've had some work done on the house.

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VintageGardenia · 26/10/2008 19:39

Oh Lorna Hill! I could never decide whether I was more in love with Sebastian or Guy (? the one who swept Mariella off her feet that night).

Guy I think. At this stage in my life Sebastian too selfish / bad guy. Guy all lovely and gentlemanly plus hunky.

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