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!

EBD was fairly obsessed with beautiful women.

There are Marie and Wanda, Anne and Elizabeth Ozanne, Biddy, Blossom, verity and vi lucy etc.

I never met anyone with violet eyes,

When I first read whichever book (School at?) that has the vaselining of the blackboards I read it as vase (as in vessel for displaying flowerers) - lining and I couldn't imagine what on earth they'd done.

Ho hum, another day at work awaits. Maybe if I boil the clock we'll all get to go home early.

I've never met anyone with eyes like pansys either

My favourite of the practical jokes was when Ailie and co crammed the lost property cupboard with the 6th forms' belongings. I can just imagine them get heartily pissed off at those bossy prefects and wanting to teach them a lesson. And I really wish Ailie had decided she'd rather miss the pantomine than return the stuff.

When you read "eyes like pansies" does anyone else have this weird mental image of a human face with flowers for eyes ?

Yes! Like some weird cartoon effect.

Hester, I either imagine them like that, or as entirely white with orange pupils, colour scheme to match the picture on this website. Both are rather disturbing!

That's how you will always know a former Chaletian. Nowadays they try to mix and blend with normal society but every so often you will feel a chill run down your spine when someone suddenly turns around in a shop or restaurant and you see those strange, flower shaped eyes staring at you

Ew! Like the description of mutants in Children of the Dust.

If only this was in Chat we could amuse ourselves by posting photoshopped Chaletians with pansies for eyes.

I think it would be fun to write up a few of the ideas for alternative Chalet School titles that came up in this thread. Where could we do that?

A fanfic thread? With the option of adding weird pansy eyed pictures?

Ooh. Is it allowed to start one on here?

I always imagined what I call "the puppy dog" look on my dc. Because it's usually when they're either wanting something or trying to get away with it. Eyes like pansies sound better though.

I always thought it was pansy blue, like Frieda's or Wanda's deep blue eyes. Rather than wishy washy wrung out blue like mine.

I liked the practical joke with the evil doll that some of the girls dangled off the roof at night, trying to knock on the windows of some dorm and scare the crap out the people in it. The plan doesn't work and then one of the servants finds it the next day on the piano and runs screaming and says that the devil is in the music room. The people living around the school really were portrayed as a superstition, simple bunch, weren't they?

When Joey sees the doll doesn't she rather overreact too? Although she's with the people who made it etc.

Isn't the evil rag doll Mister Empedocles? Or was that something else?

He was Baby Voodoo!

Baby Voodoo wasn't it? One of the maids sees it in the music room and comes screaming and sobbing that "Der Teufel ist im Musikzimmer". Instead of saying "Don't be daft, there's no such thing," Bill asks her briskly "Why would the Devil be in the music room?" So reassuring.

Oh yes Thank you. Extra prep for me.

Alternative titles from this thread - Double Trouble at the Chalet School when new girls Candida and Clamydia cause havoc.

Nothing can top "The Chalet School Gets Nits". I'm still sniggering at that days and days later.

Bill was a Catholic, wasn't she? So she would have believed in the existence of the devil.