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!

I think someone did do EBD and the chalet school on mastermind once..

I bet I could do The Chalet School on Mastermind. Though my actual specialist subject is Crisp Flavours 1971 to Present Day.

Talking about inconsistencies: "Peggy is dark, like me." (Quote from a letter From Mollie to Madge in 'Headgirl'.)

How long did that last?

Yep Peggy goes silvery fair my lambs.

marcipex liking your choices.

This thread disappeared from my "Threads I'm On"!

I bet those imps of middles hid it...

What is it about the fourths!!!! Imps of darkness.

Mind actually blown at the thought of the Robin in India. What about the fresh breezes and fresh milk? It would never have worked my lambs, never!

I have just read the bit where Jo and Grizel discuss Reg 'speaking to them of Len' and it actually made a bit of sick in my mouth. Nasty.

Also, I've just read two on the stott where the trips basically take a couple of weeks off school to just hang out at home - the one where Joey goes back to England to help 'it's not cheek it's just Mary-Lou' out with packing up the house - trips go home for a week to do childcare and lose Cecile to a mad kidnapper. Then in the one with the houseparty where Grizel finds love and a spinal injury, the trips take a week off to be tour guides! Ofstead would have a veritable field day!

I've just read "Peggy" and towards the end, Madge suggests to Joey that she should fly out to Canada with her own children and Sybil on the basis that Sybil's a bit thick anyway so missing "half a term" of school won't hurt. Can you imagine the uproar (and the fine) if that was suggested now!

Does anyone have a transcript of Jo to the Rescue? It's one of the few I've never read, and I didn't realise Reg appeared in it - to me he was just another random far too old doctor who appeared late in the series. Didn't know there was a Connection.

Oh SockQueen, what joys await you

Oh sock no he was a huffy 15 year old lad who was quite nice to 'poor pet'Phoebe( who can't have her own babies poor sweet) nice patronising one Joey.

Phoebe and Frank adopt a 'sturdy infant' who despite loosing her parents in a train smash settled just fine. No councelling needed then.

My dsis has rescue and I knicked it once but she knicked it back.

wilson can you imagine Ofsteds safeguarding and risk assessment reports ha ha ha.

posy yes but the boys never miss school as of course their education is far more important.

Reg has to be one of the least romantic men in a series of un-romantic men.
I mean "I take it we're engaged..." Um...no... Len was just worried about you after you'd gone missing... and she's too nice to say no.

I must get Reunion at some point, it's one of the few I've never read, and always being referred to.

Where did the k come from?? Sorry

DeeWe reunion is choice.

Grizel talks to Cornelia in a curt way and Cornelia responds automatically because she remembers Grizel as her head girl.

Both must be well over 30.

I don't think Corney was particularly cooperative over the time Grizel was head girl

Mind you, I see my old deputy head from primary as his wife is now friends with my dm. I go back into feeling like a primary school child. My ds adores him and calls him happily by his first name, I struggle not to call him Mr. Smith...

Reunion is a masterpiece of 'none of these people have changed or grown at all in the last 20 years, and their characters are fundamentally unaltered except for Simone, who puts up with Joey for reasons none of us can understand'.

And yes, Reg is absolutely awful.

Yes, when you put forward the fact that Reg knew Len when she was 3 and he was 14/15 it puts a different spin on it. When we know so much about adults grooming children it can make you feel a bit uncomfortable. I didn't really notice it when I originally read them because I didn't read them in order and read them far apart so it was only when I re-read the whole series that I noticed the difference in ages.

Dd is currently obsessed with the cold baths in CS and the fact that Amy was allowed a warm bath when she first starts, lots of questions about who is allowed warm baths, would Amy still get a warm bath (currently on Camp). Do you think they had cold baths in the winter, I can't believe Joey, who could get seriously sick at the sight of bad weather, would be allowed a cold bath in winter.

And Juliet, a pupil, gives amy the bath!!

Wierd.

When I started on the Chalet school books I tried out the cold bath in the morning thing, and rapidly added in some hot water to make it bareable. I stuck with the routine of lukewarm baths for years and one of the nicest compliments I had at school was someone telling me I always smelled really nice.

I never understood why Amy, an 8 year old, needed anyone to bathe her at all.

I've just finished Reunion and it says at one point 'the girls, as they all thought of themselves...' These 'girls' are all in their late 30s! If Joey was 21 when the triplets were born and they're 16 in Reunion, then she's 37, and Grizel/Wanda/Bernhilda/Sophie Hamel etc are all a couple of years older.

Doesn't Reunion take place in the school holidays, Wilson? It starts off with Jo farming her boys out to stay with poor long-suffering Winifred Embury, who for some reason is supposed to be delighted at the prospect of housing 6 of Joey's offspring for a fortnight. Also, why are the triplets being tour guides when Miss Annersley, Bill and Rosalie Dene all go along on the trips and they must know their way around just as well?

Yy to the bit about Reg speaking to Jack about Len! And Joey says that Len is currently too young to know her own mind, but in a couple of years she might not be - what, so 16 is too young but at 17 or 18 it's perfectly okay to decide to marry the only stalker man you've ever met?

We had to have cold showers last February when our boiler broke (so we had no central heating either), it was not a pleasant experience and certainly not one I continued when the boiler was fixed.

YY to Amy needing someone to bathe her, dd who is 9 was amazed, but we must remember she is delicate . I think dd is begining to think there is something in this being delicate lark, she asked me what needs to happen to make a child delicate.

In Barbara at the Chalet School Verity, who is about fourteen, has to be carried home from some snowy expedition because she's totally exhausted. Apparently she sleeps right through being undressed, popped in a hot bath and put to bed!

Oh those strapping and knowledgable doctors who see the school group, immediately pick up the frailest teenagers, and carry them back. And rather than objecting, these teens are so pleased they go to sleep being carried. I don't think any of mine have gone to sleep while being carried since they were about 3yo, even when ill.

In CS and Jo, Dr Jack arrives to collect Jo, Marie, Evadne and Irma von Rothenfels for a trip to the Sonnalpe. He instantly picks up their collective bag and Irma, swings her to his shoulder and sets off up the mountain. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Robin 10 at this point? So Irma, a close friend of hers, must be around the same age. There's not a chance I would be carrying a sturdy 10yo up a mountain!