to prefer St Clare's to Malory Towers?

[Olivetti]

I love both of them,but for some reason St Clare's has always had the edge for me. So why does Malory Towers get all the fame and glory?

Claudine splashing Angela's snotty mother gets best comeuppance.....

Nah- the characters in MT were better. Who could forget Gwendoline?

gwendoline mary lacey and her equally lazy and spoilt friend always avoided games and swimming, and brushed her golden sheet of hair 100 times, and was a favourite of Madame Dupont

watch out! madame Rougier is coming! she's tall thin and mean...

belinda - the arty one
Irene the mathematical one
Catherine st catherine the doormat
Gwendoline the skiver
darrell - the average hard worker
claudine the french vain girl
clarissa and bill the horsey ones

Definitely Malory Towers for me - particularly the 5th Form one when Daryl wrote the school play.

Secret 7: Peter, Janet, Colin, Barbara, Jack, Scamper? It must have been great to drink blackcurrant tea and then find a stolen race horse in a basement!

i liked both but chalet school was better than them all

Mary-Lou - the wimp

god I loved the wild spanish carlotta, though, used to want to be called Carlotta

Ah, St Clare's!

I loved Joey Bettany and all the adventures she had..remember the book with the enemy school where she fell through the ice and almost died?

And when at their last year they and three of the other girls got these perfect rooms to themselves as they were prefects I was so envious.

haha Mary-Lou stood up to the bully? was it Gwen?

never read the Chalet

Gwendoline got her come-uppance in the end too: she had to forgo the Swiss finishing school and look for a job...

.....in an office.....

Darrells daddy was a surgeon and she sobbed into a curtain when she thought she'd killed her friend.... then sally became quite nice and sensible didnt she

I need to re-read st clares, cant remember Angela or Lucy

Yes, but still really boring.

were there actually schools like these? how expensive they must have been
are they like this now???

naiive

I saw Roedean in a documentary recently- they have a pool filled by sea-water, I think. I wonder if Blyton based it on that?

I think so! My husband went to a posh boarding school, but it's no use asking me, I'm comp educated!

When I reread them last week I wondered if Bill and Clarissa went on to have a relationship, not just opened stables.

Yep- look at these pictures- very Malory-esque.

Naught - don't know, but maybe Alison got Miss Quentin in the end!

£5250 a term for senior boarders

An MNer went there, if I recall, but she never came across as at all posh.

famous five - julian, dick, george (who was a girl), anne and timmy the dog - don't have a clue about secret seven.

can i throw the hardy boys or nancy drew into the mix?

Hardy Drew and the Nancy boys, as Terry Wogan used to call them

yes yes yes olivetti