To think we are all ready to remove to Inter V at the Chalet School.

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New thread for all the Chalet School fans!

Brilliant link, Beeyump

Oh, I'm just reading the page about the CS/Buffy crossover with Jo as the Slayer and am snuffling with suppressed laughter like a truffling pig.

The post titled: 'Chalet School art #4: the illustrator Does it Again…' is terribly, terribly funny

"...about to be speared between the eyes by her outstretched hands" :o

As is this (the quality isn't brilliant, but it's worth squinting):

Sorry, should have explained - that's the CS bingo card

love that link Beeyump, just been giggling at how Biddy has been compared to the wee free men out of Discworld!

I always thought the blonde on the front cover of New House was Marie. Why would it be Juliet? She's not even in New House (I don't think).

Did you read the bit about Jem being minted? What with having the hugest house ever (Die Rosen), buying St Scholastika's as a summer home, buying up the hotel on the Sonnalpe to house the school in Exile, then a house for himself plus one for the school in Guernsey plus a San building, abandoning both and buying the Round House and the San in Armishire - at least they got Plas Howell rented cheaply. There's a throwaway comment there about him having to be a secret agent to afford it all and as it happens, there's a bit in Exile that bears out that theory. Remember the bit about someone passing him a secret doctor phrase that meant that he was suspected by the Nazis? Who sets up a code like that if they aren't a secret agent? And, randomly, he and Mr Flower were 'talking Afrikaans' on the phone, which meant the Nazis would have difficulty listening in. Why does he know Afrikaans? Is he South African? Why does it randomly occur to him to start his conversation with Mr Flower in Afrikaans, and why does Mr Flower, a stereotypical American, know conversational Afrikaans too? Just wtf is going on there?

Just had to add this.

What on EARTH is going on there?

They are rescuing a cat from a snowy, perilous rooftop OF COURSE.

Awww I have that one.

I wish she'd kept going with that blog beyond six months.

They are rescuing a cat from a snowy, perilous rooftop OF COURSE.

Well OBVIOUSLY :o

littlebear thanks, it is working now when it wouldn't before

Bit spendy today. £2.99 on a snack while in London. £5 for lunch while out. £1 for DS as forgot to pack him a snack for between school and sailing. £20 Oyster top up, but can reclaim spend on trip to London using Oyster card, as for work. Out for dinner and music tonight. Hopefully DH will pay.

Oops, second half of that post on the wrong thread.

LOL Audit thought maybe you were propoising a Chalet School spending diary.

I thikn most of it would go on coffee, cakes, train tickets and wood carvings

Don't forget the slang / language of the day fines!

Joining this thread a bit late (will I get lines?) because I've only just seen it, I feel like I've found my spiritual home.

There's an interesting article in the Friends of the Chalet School magazine about romance in the series and how most of the couples marry after only meeting on a few occasions.

In the same one there is also a bit on how EBD treated children and how they spent years being treated as babies before suddenly growing up and marrying straight out of school - a very quick progression to adult hood. I bet some of them had a few shocks!!!!

I've just been reading a scene in Little Women where they have to get a naughty toddler to bed and it is a million times more realistic than EBD's child-rearing techniques! It's also surprisingly tender- no controlled crying type things and that's with John being the strict daddy! Maybe the Americans were less strict than the UK.

Just found this thread and feel like I have arrived in heaven, I loved the chalet school ! At about 9, sadly, I swear I wanted Joey to be my best friend :-) even now when I pick up the books to read them, it's a bit like going home!

I think one of the problems with EBD toddler age is she had no idea of anything between the totally obedient and unbelievable and the toddler tantrumming child. I suspect she thought the former was generally true as long as the parents had put in some work, and had seen the latter. And probably tutted over it hoisting her judgy pants.

Unfortunately when it came to Joey, she couldn't resist maing Margo naughty, possible to emphasise Len's responsibility. But she couldn't let it be possible that actually it could be Joey's parenting, so it had to come down to natural-or as she tried to write it "my devil".

When Margo's small she does let it seem as though parenting is to blame, which I think is probably her natural inclination. But she hedges it to say Margo was so frail that she had to be spoilt. As she gets older she switches to the "Margo has such a hard row to how" line. Which comes across more and more making excuses for her, and hence not letting her be able to see that she needs to put an effort in to change, rather than just saying "poor me, I can't help it" and expecting everyone else to tiptoe round her.

Yes - isn't Margot about 17 when she hurls something at another girl and knocks her unconscious? And all she gets is a stern-but-kind word from the head who is all sympathy as this is a 'turning point' in her life.

If this was the Chalet School Specialist Language Academy in Hackney she'd not just have been expelled, she'd have been prosecuted!

Not only that Posy but the other girl gets a lecture about it's her own fault for being tactless.
She wasn't even tactless-she just suggested to Margo she quietened down before she got into trouble.