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!

Just typing up Exploits and the bit at half term with the visit to the Sonnalpe and them having an indoor evening because of snow. What amazes me is the girls ransack not only the linen cupboard, every window in the place for its curtains to use as costumes/drapery but also both Madge and Jem's wardrobes with no thought of actually asking if they could. That along with the fact Madge has a lighting rig and props from the previous year's Sale of Work in her home rather than them being at the School where you'd think they'd be stored!!

In Adrienne, Mary-Lou says she was thirteen when Robin 'came to say goodbye' before going to Canada to her convent. Having said that, M-L wails at Joey that she'd have crossed the channel to see Robin if she'd known she was in Paris dropping off Adrienne, and that 'we all thought Robin was the canary's top-boots back then', though she can barely have known her...

(Which makes it even weirder that EBD didn't have Joey visit her beloved baby sister during her time in France, when even a much younger girl who hardly knew her claims she would have travelled over from England to see her...?)

And the fact that they hardly knew one another does make it even more wonderfully unlikely that Mary-Lou, on a brief visit to the Sonnalpe, is the one to perceive the uncanny resemblance between Adrienne (a new girl she's only met once or twice) and a woman she hasn't seen since she was thirteen!

And think of the modern day RE specials Mimsy

The Chalet School does Diwali
The Chalet School thinks about Ramadan but obviously that doesn't work what with the eating of the food every five bloody minutes

etc

That was her Hester. Her 'baby' (until she was about 13; c.f. the Robin) sister Amy was the budding poet.

The Chalet Girls go Clubbing.

Yep. I could write that. Clubbing at fifteen, ministry of sound at seventeen, festivals at eighteen...I might have liked young doctors but I wasn't ready to settle and have babies Joey style.

Exploits was the one in which winter arrived in about 2 minutes flat wasn't it? When they all went up to the Sonnalpe for a half term jolly and Madge makes Jo take her blazer on the walk, because there were lots of red berries on the trees or something, and therefore she knew snow was on the way despite it being a) mid October and b) about twenty degrees C.

EBD's meteorology expertise was on a par with her medical knowledge.

The Chalet School Loses Joey.

Summerbreezing :o That would be a great one. The Chalet School Gives Joey The Slip!

God, can you imagine Len explaining, very seriously, to the new girls that the Protestants have Prayers in the Hall, the Catholics in the Salle, the Muslims in the gym, the Hindus in the Prefects' Room, and the Jedis in Freudesheim because they've run out of room at the school?

Also enjoyably imagining Muslim and Jain new girls expressing horror at the exotic Continental dish of roast, stuffed veal and fluffy potato balls that everyone is bowled over by on their first night...

I'm reading through the transcripts (thanks Empress!) after not reading any of the later books for years. "Prefects" is dire - I have been wanting to read it for a long time but it was really bad. I would like to read "Adrienne" though. I used to prefer the later ones to the Tirol ones but agree that the plots get weaker and weaker.
What I could never understand was the languages thing - surely if you had to have normal lessons in each language - and do homework in them - you would have needed 3 times the number of textbooks etc? I just don't see how it would work. And also - they took German names for some things - ie meal names and dining room - but not for anything else?

Although I still have images of Joey's face suddenly appearing over the hedge going "Surpri-ise. What a jolly jape. You really are the end, you lot. It took me an absolute age to track you down. English tea, anyone "

The Shocking Chalet School Leaver Secret (pregnancy)

Alcohol in the Chalet School (perhaps causing reckless behaviour and a dip in a freezing lake?)

The Rebel at the Chalet School

The Chalet School has a Prom (gosh, where is the boys school?)

The Chalet School clashes with (insert group/person of your choice)

An MEP's visit to the Chalet School (in which they are asked why they are not currently sitting in whatever EU consultation they should be, causing the more political minded students to dash off and take their seat).

I could go on...drugs, sexting, Internet porn and chat rooms all leave so much scope for stories.

Chalet Girls on Crack.

The Chalet Girls Grow Up is the worst written book I have ever read. Although I have to say, I didn't notice much difference between Joey as a girl and Joey with Alzheimers. And had every sympathy with Jack for putting a bullet in his head. Although would have had more for him putting one in Joey's.

Lesbetarian Love In at the Chalet School.

Sheherazade, Joey's famous earphones would probably deflect bullets, in a Bionic Woman kind of way.

The Chalet School enrols en masse for the first manned voyage to Mars

What's the betting Joey would even catch up with them then?

No. she'd be there to meet them Mimsy nicely installed in a Martian house with pretty curtains.

Certain people were always designated "the weather-wise", who could tell what the weather was going to do over the next 48 hours, practically to the minute, by a quick glance at the sky. Bernhilda was the weather-wise for the first couple of books, then when she left they had to make do with Marie (Pfeifen, not von Eschenau) the weather-wise.

I'm loving all the alternative Chalet School books!

The Chalet School on Strike - Gove's educational reforms are a step too far for Misses Annersley and Wilson. "Everybody out!"

I'd completely forgotten about weather-wiseness!

The Chalet Girls Discover Gin

All-Night Rave at the Chalet School

Michaela Gove at the Chalet School.
I would say Inter Five btw (and my school was bit like that)

Bi-Curious Fun at the Chalet School

The Transgender Chalet School Girl

Dommy Sci is abandoned, Frau Mieders is pensioned off, and the Chalet Girls learn Food Technology.