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!

My mum is 81 and still refers to herself and her friends as girls!

Although Cheddar I seem to remember Irma objects to beign carried-but Evadne (how would you pronounce that btw?) says she wishes she could be carried-and she's about 14yo.

And there's a little bit added about how they know Irma would be thankful by the end... which if you compare to the sneering of Stacie when she finds climbing the mountain difficult at not that much older...

Now that I'm in Inter V I think we should've allowed to come down the front stairs.... But I'm a little bit scared I might get caught by Miss Dene. Still I'm determined to brave it out. See here, I want my remove by Christmas.

(I'm something of a leader in Inter V despite the fact that new girls usually sing small in their first term. Hope no one sits on me)

Evadne = e-VAD-nee

Newest thought: all Austrian and German CS girls are Catholic, right? But the Nazis persecuted Catholics, not to mention shooting Vater Johann in Exile. So wouldn't there have been a Protestant majority in Austria and Germany in the 30s?

Dr 'solid lump of comfort' Jack can carry four bags and a ten year old up a mountain because he goes at a mountaineer's pace and bends his knees a little with every step thus conferring super strength.

I tried doing that on my walk to school this morning. I looked like I'd soaked through a Tena lady....

too I think you're right about Reunion being in the hols

I expect they shared a bag......when they go on trips they often seem to have one between two or three...(looks at DD who can take 5 or 6 all to herself....)

Wilson spat out my tea now at that tenna lady comment.

I bet Jo needed tenna lady.

I've only had 4 and need a piss before jumping in dds trampoline or it becomes a multi purpose paddling pool.

Re the cold baths they could have them chill off! How divine.

I like the way the younger jolly mistresses refer to themselves by surname so it's Dene, Burnett and Derwent especially if one falls down a long forgotten pit/well.

Lots of the girls are stripped, popped in hot baths, rolled in hot blankets and hot bottles and stay asleep throughout.

I blame the milk.

ewieindwie1 mmm you sound like a council school girl, are you Joan baker? If so your parents loose their pools win and you have to leave.

Serves you right for being cheaply pretty and swearing at st MaryLou.

Did you mark the tablecloth thebody my lamb? Kindly remember to pay your fine or no spot supper for us next year!

Joey I fear would need a Tena as wide as the Tiernsee. Undercarriage like a knitted knicker, that one.

I fear I am already at the punishment table honey lamb for kicking evade under the table. Bill saw me.

I Am now hemming sheets and missing the deep joy of progressive games, country dancing and the 'kate game' I can't even have an ice Mrs Maynard sent from Carnbach.

The biggest shock in Shocks? When Miss Annersley, a capable and experienced Head, gets the telegram about Emerence whose advice does she ask for and follow?

Jack Maynard's. Because he's a Man and a Doctor so his complete lack of teaching experience is completely irrelevant.

Or when she asks Joey (including at times when they have to send a letter to Canada and get one back for an urgent problem) because she "just understands girls"... um you'd think with a team of experienced staff they could have talked it between them.

Matey has just slipped 'a draught' into mademoiselle's glass, she having refused one once already that evening It worked nearly instantaneously. What IS this stuff????? And how does a school matron have such a large stash of it???

Ah the punishment table...

the Chalet School and the Eating Disorders

Also my lambs, hemming sheets side to middle - does that mean they cut a sheet in half then sew it back together but with a big seam down the middle? Why? WHY??

But Wilson my lamb, didn't you listen to Matey? When the sheets are wearing out, they do so in the middle, therefore we cut them in half and sew sides together to eke out the life of the sheet despite how uncomfortable it is to sleep on them, I do remember!

Corrie I reckon it's rum/whisky/brandy.

The Chalet School and the Drinking Problem, anyone? :o

I looked up sides-to-middle once and apparently it was an actual Thing - make do and mend, etc etc.

Always tg

Argh!

Always thought it sounded bloody uncomfortable to have a seam down the middle of the bed. Particularly a seam sewn by a cack-handed schoolgirl.

Chalet school girls could all sew beautifully surely....so said sheets would be very comfy or matey would make them do it again! My gran used to turn her sheets sides to middle....

The hemming to the middle - there is a bit in one of the "Little House on the Prairie" books, about making sheets. They have to hem them together because the cloth for sheets wasn't wide enough to cover a bed - Laura comments on how inconvenient it is.

I've done sides to middle in the early days of marriage when we were trying to save money. You need to make sure the seam is flat otherwise you feel a bit like the princess and the pea.
I can darn too.

I'd love to be able to darn

Look at all you make do and menders. Matey will be so proud, for no matter how wealthy a woman, it is important that they know how to keep house. may have slipped into Little Women there, apols Even Cornelia Flowers, of the jutting chin and millionaire father, knows how to turn a sheet thanks to her training.

Jolly well done.