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!

And poor Margot giggles and is promptly sent out of the room. It's a wonder that any prefect dared!

Oh, wait a bit - it was Mary-Lou, wasn't it?

I wonder what a modern day mother would have made of the dressing down she, a mere 16 or 17 year old, gave the Triplets in 'Theodora'?

But Tanith - that dressing down set them on the right tracks for the rest of their lives! How could anyone complain?

... or in Margo's case for a very short time until she nearly kills Betty with a bookend.

...and finally realises that all her temper tantrums, selfishness, blackmailing, murder attempts must mean that she's cut out to be a nun!

Ive got to know - which book is this braining of Betty with a bookend in? I don't recognise it at all.

I think it is in The Chalet School Triplets....

Which I think is also the one where Mary-Lou's mother dies and Joey goes to England leaving the triplets in charge of the youngest children at home and Cecil gets kidnapped only to be rescued by the triplets and Bruno...

Hello fellow chaletians. Late to the thread.

Marylou's mother dies in 'Chalet school reunion! Where Joey has a party for Grizel and she meets Dr Shepherd. Of course Chalet school girls only marry doctors/engineers/bank managers.

In 'reunion' Len falls off the cliff and Grizel saves her.

In triplets it's when Joey goes to England to help MaryLou and verity bring Doris back to the San and she's dying.

I have fine eyes that never yet have needed glasses and my greatest assert is my beautiful speaking voice.

Runs lightly as a girl into the garden.

Gosh - I thought I had that one. It rings no bells at all.

Tanith but it was just her devil.

Hi from body by the way.

Ah yes, you are right, reunion I had got muddled....clearly I am not ready for my remove yet!

jo had thrush oh my hat Robin will have the clap next.

I dont think it was thrush Jo felt but her womb sweeping the floor.

I want to be in special sixth as they have no
Prefect duties but are accorded the respect of the prefects.

Eilunedd vaugne for head I say!!!

With little Rolf's death Madge tells them all that 'their doctor told Lydia she had only herself to blame as she hadn't taught him obedience'

How bloody cruel would that be.

Of course if Mike had fallen off the cliff after that birds nest presumably it would have been joeys fault and she would have been to Blame!!

Double standards or what EBD.

It would have been oral thrush - Jem gets them all to stick their tongues out to check

Why don't we have a helpless with laughter emoticon? is not sufficient for my reaction to today's contributions to this thread!

Just watching Country file spring special and one of Joey's classic singing pieces was mentioned by Alex James of Blur - Summer is Uncommin in!!

I am on my third book of the weekend! Loving it. It's best to read in a random ord my lambs, because then you don't get irritated by EBD's appalling lapses in continuity.

Ive just finished the one where Cecile gets kidnapped and Jack sedates the kidnapper without so much as a by your leave. Doesn't even do her the courtesy of slipping it in some warm milk...

Jack sedates the kidnapper without so much as a by your leave. Doesn't even do her the courtesy of slipping it in some warm milk...

tuts. In the book I finished today Jo fell asleep naturally before she could drink the drugged milk. I mean, what is the point of drugging milk if people will just fall asleep?

Earlier I mentioned how I didn't like the Robin. On re-reading, she is growing on me and I find her almost sweet

Mary Lou is reallynpissing me off in a way she never did before. She's not even appeared in this one yet but she's nipping my head.

I've just finished CS and Jo. Have discovered continuity error - at one point the Saints have no boat as Miss Browne is petrified of water. Several chapters later we have a CS/Saints boat race. I was a v unobservant reader as a child!

I never noticed that TOIC - even as an adult. You will head the class lists this week.

A quote from Headgirl : "Her paper children were becoming real. It is only when a story tells itself that it is worth much."
Discuss with reference to EBD's CS series. For additional marks reference especially the later stories

I have been very busy and can't keep up with this thread, which is almost the greatest tragedy of my life :(

I'm entitling my essay "let's be original, whatever we do!" The later books/characters cannot have become 'real' to EBD! They follow such a distinct formula: new girl, at odds with authority; falls out with rest of form; recycled jape/scrape; Prefects Evening/Mistresses Evening (usually featuring paper games, tableaux or Mrs Jarley's Waxworks); further Middles' misdemeanours; expedition to notable Swiss site, possibly featuring a near-death experience; Sale, nativity play or St Mildred's panto; new girl declares herself a real CS girl. The End.

My favourite inconsistency, and forgive me if I get this the wrong way round as it's from memory, is Katherine Gordon's birthplace. In the Wrong Chalet School we're told she was born in Samoa. In a later book, someone says she was born there, and she corrects them rather patronisingly, saying something like 'no, Singapore, which is
i quite
a different matter, my child'. Obviously the idiot in question had made the mistake of relying on the earlier book!

I always hoped Betty Wynne Davis would return to teach there in a disguise and subvert the school.

Hot milk chikabiddies? Rohipnol??