to think all UK schools would be better off being Chalet Schools?

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French, German, English days- hikes up the hills- Kaffe und Küchen- Prees and Joeys and Mary Lous rounding up the miscreants.....would it be impossible, do you think?

Wonder if there is a school like this left!

Oh Fraktal you cynic! I'm sure it never occurred to him that marrying the daughter of his benefactor would be a good career move even though he was 10 years older than her......

can't stop at the level of attention to detail on this thread. You're all tophole!

14, 16 and 18 - a bit past Kindergarten, sadly.

i always thought the trilingual thing wouldn't really be practical - having to do homework -sorry - "prep" - in the language it was given in would be a bit difficult to keep up I woudl think.
I had almost a full set of hardbacks. Left them to go to uni adn when a radiator leaked over them my dad chucked them out..the whole lot woudl be worth quite a bit now.

Hmmm. Perhaps now would be a good time to out the few CS books I have left on eBay?

*put, not out!

Haggis - you do not want to know what prices hardbacks now go for!

SDTG - I think you're only chance is to train them as doctors and hope they marry Chalet Girls.

I had a longing for some nailed boots when we had snow and ice a couple of weeks ago - would have prevented a lot of sliding around! I've also had a secret yearning to introduce "clock golf" to our school summer fete for the Dads but EBD never explained how it was played!

Or cross-dressing SDTG. I'm sure they won't mind, what with getting to have cake a lot and go on bracing walks.

They ALWAYS have hob-nailed boots in these books. Is this what I'm lacking in my life?

And how tall are your DCs? Could they crouch and just pretend to be a hideously overgrown 4 year old, and get into Kindergarten that way?

Mummydoit - I can help with the clock golf - I once played it at a vicarage tea party.

You set out the numbers 1-12 round the edge of a circle, and there's one hole in the middle. The player starts at number 1 and works clockwise, trying to get the golf ball in the hole in the number of strokes indicated (1 stroke from 1 o'clock, 2 from 2 o'clock etc) and iirc, you get a point for every stroke over or under the correct number of strokes, adding up to a total for the round. The lowest total wins.

Disclaimer - the vicarage tea party was nearly 40 years ago, so my memory may not be entirely accurate - but I think this would work.

Oh - and the dses are all tall - the shortest is over 5'4", and the other two are nearly 6', so I don't think crouching would work.

I think my best option is to ditch them, and to go to the school myself, as a member of staff. They seem to have some jolly times too, but without all the cold baths and prep.

I wanted Kaffee und Kuchen (sp?) always sounded delicious , Shame you had to hike for it ( knees bent going up hill!).

I remember being v shocked as in one of the books, (Shocks for the CS, maybe?) one of the girls says that "Bill has her rag out." Once I was old enough to understand, I thought it very un-CS.

I found myself asking DS1 if he'd washed properly or if it was "a cat's lick and a promise" the other day.

The early ones are the best, and the war time ones in England. Once Mary-Lou hits puberty it all seems to go down hill.

No, that was Marie, QQ (the very very beautiful-but-not-as-fairytale-as-her-sister-one).

Tom (Gay) was the male imposter that no one except me ever spotted. Can't think why.

Am reading the Exile one now! It's very battered. And inside the cover it has about half a dozen names I made up for 'previous owners' during one of my phases when I was a kid Unianne Slater? where did that come from? I usually stuck to the Malory Towers cast.

Is Exile the one with Getrud the German spy who worries about her mum? I always wondered what happened to her.

I agree barbarian. I still enjoyed the later ones but for me the best ones were the early ones set in Austria.

However, I loved the book New Mistress at the Chalet School when Miss Ferrars got stuck in about Mary Lou. I was so disappointed when she changed her mind and decided Mary Lou was a good egg after all.

There was a German series like that...die harte Schule? I think, a bit like Seven Up, Child of our Time etc.

Yes, Gertrude's in this one? With the e? without>? I'll find out soon.
I'd feel a bit sad if I went back to school and we were suddenly shoved up the mountain! No nostalgia for the poor old chalet...

STDG you are not dim, I am deeply deeply sad on this topic, and also displacing like mad as have too much work to do!

LOL Mooncup, yes I remember that! It went something like:
Joey: Madge darling, this is the shock of my life!
Madge: Well I did try to hint the last time you were up, Joey but you were too unaccountably thick to understand!
Last time she was up at the Sonnalpe being last weekend! Joey - she is NINE MONTHS PREGNANT!!!!!! AND its her second time so you know what it looks like! Really, can't you tell?!
I seem to remember the euphemism was "busy", as in "Gisela will be very busy round Christmas time"!

VeryHungryKaty crying with laughter at the thought of you "humping" your memory foam! Do you hang your duvet, sorry plumeau, out the window too?!

Is snow blindness a real thing? Or is it like a pea souper, a real but historical phenomenon?

Flouncy have you got any hardbacks? I've only seen hardbacks behind glass in antiquarian bookshops. Some of the rare paperbacks -eg Highland Twins - I've seen on eBay for £50, and that's a crappy 80s paperback or the GGBP reprint, nothing like a collectors edition.

Talking of which I have some spare Antonia Forests if anyone wants to swap :)

Here is a documentary but it's mainly about elderly misfits visiting the Achensee, doesn't really go into any book discussions.

sorry!

I've a few hardbacks but none were the £££ ones.
I've been collecting the GGB ones for a while. Big cuts in some of the Armada books make a differencs