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!

Is a twin set a cardigan worn over a matching jumper?

DD had a lime green cardigan, knitted by MIL - I will have to ask her if she is a fan of the Chalet School . You could see it a mile off!

Lovely twinsets here, Doris. Are you Mary-Lou's mother? You should have told her to mind her own more often!

Ha, tinuviel, loving the twinset with the matching gloves. As for being mother of our one and only, well you didn't really believe I'd died, did you? I got fed up being bossed around by the pair of them so I ran off with Matron Besley and we set up a women-only real ale pub. EBD decided it wasn't quite the thing so she had me suffer a lingering death which I consider most unkind.

One of the more interesting conversations at the sale takes place I think between Peggy and her mum, I think in Peggy of the Chalet schoo, but I might be wrong.
Her mum comments on the jam Matey's donated, and Peggy replies "yes, we've been rationed down to X amount of jam. We knew MAtey was planning on donating jam when that happened."

Yes, I've heard that sort of conversation before in books... usually the wicked teacher (or Matron) who only cares for squeezing as much out of the children as possible. (eg Thursday's child, Noel Streatfield).

Looks like pissed off Joey got her venges....just finished play date from hell cos DD had a cob on throughout....

I did warn you FunLovinBuster (although someone else took the credit - I'd bring the curse of Joey come down on their heads except that is not a very Chaletian thing to do)

I'm just reading Head Girl, where Mollie Maynard is described as "22 or 23" - wouldn't that have made her 19 or 20 when she joined the school? Seems awfully young to be a teacher, let alone Senior Mistress as she is referred to in HG - and Jack is described as her "eldest brother".

I've just read some fic on the Sally Denny Library site, including a rather good novel-length "Dancer at the chalet school" which is plausibly EBD finally having Joey going Too Far and Hilda tells her and Jack to butt out of her school for most of the book. :)

Why wouldn't mrs Gay say to her husband. We have a girl, girls are fantastic, clever and brave. I absolutely will not tolerate you calling her Tom, cutting her hair short and dressing her as a boy.

If you persist in your unhealthy mysogynistic attitude to womem and continue to obsess about young boys you can fuck off to the far end of fuck.

What is this Sally Denny site? NotCitrus must investigate.

I read the chalet girls grow up and it disturbed me for weeks.

FunLoving surely your dd has been brought up to absolute obedience to her mamma? beware of her devil whispering to her.

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NotCitrus thanks for the recommendation to The Dancer - have just read the first three chapters and it looks a hoot - you can tell where it's going with Jo from her first appearance, can't you?!

Alice thanks never knew it existed and just read the account of Margot's death. Made me cry. Will now read a cheekier one!

Flora and Fauna? Flora is bad enough, but imagine having a name which basically means Animals.

And that naturalist Kester Bellever was grooming cherry Christie or i don't recognise my chalet school pervs

That could make an interesting spin off. Perves of the Chalet School.

I'm reading Redheads for the first time and have just got to the bit where Val disappears - and I'm properly excited. Dear lord I'm sad. May have to pop to local sale of work to buy some jam and calm myself down for a bit...

Hester, that was Joey's jolly nickname for poor twin Fiona

Oohhhhhhh.

Wilson my lamb it's one of the funnier ones you will enjoy.

Hester I think that's a great idea and also would like to read 'the chalet school girls go to the brook centre' now that would be a jolly expedition.

I think the Chalet Girls Go To Rehab would be good. Joey would drive anyone to drink.

Isn't Len a dreadful short for Helena?

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Len just makes me think of a balding twinkly eyed old charmer judging ballroom dancing.

Have just read my new hardback copy of The New Chalet School (bargain on Ebay for £3.20 ) and found that the 2nd half of the Armada has a couple of pages cut despite being listed as uncut on FOCS. so that was a nice bonus.

There was also a change in the name of a cake - Armada has Joey say, 'I'll have that iced sponge affair', which seems reasonable but the original says, 'I'll have that Erupting Richard affair'. I now want to know if that was the name of a real cake but am too scared to Google it! I'm a respectable woman and would probably gasp and faint at some of the things that might come up.

Erupting Richard? My FIL is called Richard. I'm having some extremely unpleasant thoughts