To wonder whether you'd prefer to go to Malory Towers or the Chalet School

[Vintagejazz]

I just heard to girls about 11 years of age having an earnest discussion about this on the bus. I didn't think kids even read Chalet School books any more.
I think I'd opt for Malory Towers. They seemed to have more fun. I'd probably be expelled from the Chalet School for cursing, wearing lipstick and forgetting to speak German every Wednesday or whatever it was.

DeWee must be special Tyrol snails then.

AllMimsy I worked with a woman who would now be in her late-50's who had to leave a national bank when she got married. She was 'allowed' to pick up bank shifts (as and when cover for branches) until she had her first child, then wasn't allowed to go back until they were at school (and things had changed a bit). So this would have been late 70s, maybe even into the 80s - and women were compelled to leave, it wasn't always their choice.

I know that in Ireland up until 1973 women had to leave the civil service upon marrying.

I can remember seeing my mum tear up the jobs section of the evening mail as she was so angry at continually reading job adverts for secretaries stating attractive blond needed and must be slim and attractive

Must have been 1973/4. Around that time anyway.

Can you imagine? Unbelievable now.

I agree that women wouldn't have had anything like the career options that they have nowadays; and I was actually quite impressed when re-reading a CS book yesterday that the girls aspired to go to University (one even planning to do law). It was just the idea that before someone had even left school she was planning to come back and be a teacher there. The CS girls just couldn't seem to conceive of a world away from their beloved school!

Thebody

so have you any of you had the ebooks from ggb?

how in the name of all that is good and holy did you get them to download? i have tried numerous times, i have downloaded adobe digital editions to the computer-everything and the bloody thing still won't open!

any ideas???

i get your point but do you have any technical info on how to get the book to download?

it's say it's a mobi file?

my kindle fire

i reckon there is a problem with the file

the shop [girls gone by] have sent me the file as an attachment to an email
it just won't open at all

they have suggested i download adoble editions to my computer which i have done

it still won't open at all

yes-it downloads on the kindle-i can see it in my downloads but it won't open

it shouldn't

i genuinely think there must be a problem with the file from the publishers end
i am getting a bit frustrated really and am going to ak for a refund if they don't get back to me soon with some sort of solution

You've probably already done this, but have you tried opening Adobe Editions on your computer and then opening the file from there, rather than just clicking on the file from your desktop?

Um, obviously that won't be much use if as Kate says Adobe Editions doesn't work with mobi files