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!

Ah. A bit like Mozart's Requiem and his pupil Sussmayer then

Solidgold, my brother had that in his digestive system. His farts were something else. Surely EBD would never have hinted at that either.

Please can someone tell me about Reg? A Reg surely doesn't court schoolgirls! Reges are granddads, with pipes and slippers who potter around on allotments growing award winning dahlias and marrows.

Well Reg would be about 90 now so he fits that profile. Even Regs were young and creepy once.

Yes but I never got that far in the series. Who was he? how did he have access to schoolgirls?

A lot of you will be being demoted for not paying attention in class. As I have said before EBD would have been talking about oral thrush. In the early books the girls are, on occasion, asked to stick their tongues out to check for it.

Ok just googled the Lucys and Chesters and realise they were originally introduced in another series by EBD called La Rochelle. Wow, she was prolific, wasn't she?

Thrush is Candida - or as the Americans say, a yeast infection. Felt very sorry for a girl called Candida at my school.

Gay and Jacynth are 14-15 when we meet them and areabout 3 years older than Mary-Lou who is 4ish years older than the triplets who are 4-5 years above Jack, so I think it works - Gay's younger than her siblings. Plausible by EBD standards anyway!

I can (and do...occasionally) mend clothes, but have never felt the need/desire to bother with sheets. And oh, the shame, we use a duvet my lambs. What is a plumeau (?), anyway? Assuming it's not some kind of watery plum, in the best franglais tradition. :o

The brain fever crops up in Jo of, btw, I'm reading it at the moment and (spoiler alert!) she got better.

I've just looked up plumeau I'd always assumed it was a feather quilt. It's a feather duster … (and I didn't rely on t'internet, I looked it up in my dicker!)

plumeau in this context is an eiderdown

She wrote a fair few books that were not chalet but connected to them. I like the La Rochelles . There is also Chudleigh Hold which is where you discover all about the mad aunt of Gill Culver (Who is Aminel Chudleigh in the other book)............

Greetings all. (airily) Had a wigging for front staircase devilment but Miss Annersley fixed me with her blue eyes and I'm a reformed creature now. I'm starting a scrapbook of postcards to sell and considering sketching some dainty little pictures to decorate Tom's house.

In a few months staff will comment on my changed demeanour and I shall be Headgirl... Unless that bloody Joey Maynard sticks her oar in. Mind you, I heard she's now carrying her pelvic floor in a wheelbarrow so maybe my meteoric rise within the CS will continue!

Dicker!

(Snorts and buries face in prep)

Oh help! I can't find my synthetic maps. I've reasoned from cause to effect but I still can't work out where they are. Maybe Karen's been using them to whip up synthetic featherbeds of whipped cream in the synthetic kaffee und kuchen? Or have some irrepressible heedless Middles sneaked into our thread and hidden them in Lost Property the thieving bastards scamps? Go on, own up, who's got 'em?

Was it Jessica the moody new girl who couldn't use the synthetic maps? And Mary Lou explained in "slow and distinct German" how to use them, so that even Jessica who didn't know any German (but who would soon pick it up just by listening, natch) could understand.

This is the same Jessica who was put to bed after a tantrum crying fit in Miss Annersley's office, following a spat with Herr Anserl. Her crime? Being tone deaf.

Please can someone tell me about Reg? A Reg surely doesn't court schoolgirls!

He was a Doctor at the San so it was obligatory for him to seek his future spouse at the Chalet School. Handy for all those draughts to put into wholesome creamy milk for wayward wives and middles.

Could someone possibly give me a hand with my kenwigses

Jessica saw the error of her ways when MaryLou showed her how much better she was than her step sister Rosamund.

I like the phrase 'turned her brain' as in triplets when they rescue Cecil from a woman who has lost her own dd and thinks Cecil is hers.

Jack wrestles her to the ground and injects her as she's too mad for milk.

That's right. Mary Lou basically says, poor old Rosamund, fancy being a cripple! You should be grateful your mother who you previously had all to yourself now ignores you and sent you to boarding school in a foreign country. At least you're not a a crippple like Rosamunde. Where is your pity? I get on really well with my "sister in marriage".

If I had been Jessica I'd have told her to fuck off.

And Matey overhears and decides Mary Lou is therefore perfect Head Girl material because of her rare insight.

If I had been Jessica I'd have told her to fuck off

Gasps all round and wholesale fainting. Take a Conduct Mark and no kuchen for you!

And why the actual fuck does biddy still have an Irish accent after not setting foot in the place after the age of 10??

It's tis and at all at all after spending years in Tyrol with posh girls, oxford and then Australia and back to Tyrol.

Not Herr Anserl; Mr. Denny, who did a good line in tantrums himself!

MaryLou also puts straight the triplets, the commen Joan Baker and converts the crippled heathen Naomi Elton.

She also has a bell like voice.

How fucking annoying would that be.

My Tristian Denny was delicate as his sister Sally go round the moon sat on him.

I found that on modern computer geography software they actually have a synthetic maps tab see here.
You can also buy some from here in India.