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!

To be fair I have a bit if trouble with English most days, to chat fluently in French and German would finish me off even if all my mistakes were pointed out and I was made to repeat the phrase 10 times to try and make me fluent.

Of course I might have a gift for languages like Biddy so it's a bit strange she persists in 'irishisms' well into adulthood having not heard any from the age of 10.

Len does medieval French and Italian in 6 th form, I mean what a fucking swot!

WhyIamHere don't do it. I still shiver at Reg being an evil rapist and MaryLou and Sybil being marriage wreckers.

Kathie Ferrars is definitely 'prettily accented' by the time they're at Redheads and that lot.

Maybe a pretty accent comes with your first Christmas bonus? I mean, the poor teachers don't get anything else fun do they? They have to spend their Saturday's being 'entertained' by big galumphing girls, their afternoons out having English tea with Joey and their half-terms rescuing children from storms/glaciers/fatal illnesses. It's not a barrel of laughs.

Ohmychrist I can't believe that errant apostrophe in Saturdays, I'll pay my fine on the way out of the thread

Can't imagine "Ohmychrist" was allowed either Wilson

I agree with the assessment of CG grow up. Felt like someone writing it being deliberately vindictive. I read it in a charity shop before suggesting to the manager that it should be removed from the children's section.
I believe there was some skulduggery with getting it published too. One of the Chalet School clubs was tricked into supporting it by the author sharing carefully selected bits that weren't too bad. Only when the whole thing was published they found out what it was like.

The only thing with Mary Lou, is I could see her being a marriage wrecker. She'd rush in to help because they were "doing it wrong" and end up falling for the man, and feeling at least she could help him by "doing it right".
I don't think she had a "this is going too far" off switch.

Dear me. I've just read a 3-page precis of "CG Grow Up" and what a litany of misery, death, despair, infidelity and pregnancy in unhappy circumstances that seems to be. Interesting that a couple of the old girls described as doing well for themselves are Betty Wynne-Davies and Yseult Pertwee - it's obviously written by someone who not only didn't buy into the 'virtues' of the Chalet School but also wanted to trample all over them.

I definitely won't be adding that to the Amazon wishlist!

Yseult - how would you begin to pronounce that? I'm sure that it's not the "izzerlt" that I read it as.

Just reading the Lintons at the chalet school and waiting to see what Thekla does to get expelled when Evadne wasn't expelled for deliberately ignoring instruction and end up with an explosion which blew all the windows out of the "chemmy lab" - how much mischief can one 15 year old do before it's not funny?

Or did EBD keep her in for the American slang she would utter?

I hear Yseult as Izz-oolt, in my head - no idea if this is right or not.

But wasn't Evadne's "experiment" not her fault entirely? I think it was one of those Chalet School blames someone else... wasn't the stuff left out by one of the 6th?

I remember being somewhat surprised that Thekla got expelled. I was expecting her to have an accident, be saved by Jo and then declare herself a true Chalet School girl now.

As far as I can tell the main reason she is expelled is she doesn't express regret for what she did. Won't spoil any further though.

Wilson honey lamb try great Caesars bathmat or my sainted aunt Sempronia it's even better than an oh fuck*
Which that commen girl Joan Baker favours.

Now is Maeve a short?

MaryLou as a sex therapist. wonderful. Imagine her bell like voice shouting not like that you idiot like this

Oh didn't one of the 6th form
Leave out dangerous chemicals. Of course it wasn't Bills fault as the teacher in charge.

Not to worry parents understand when the girls fall off cliffs/down ravines/into rivers/lost in the snow/chemically burnt and nearly blinded by a nasty boy at the dentists.

All in a days work.

DeWee she was expelled for hating Joey! Worst crime possible.

Maeve's just an irish name isn't it?

I thought Thekla got expelled for bullying Joyce didn't she?

Who was it boiled the clock? That's possibly the most bizarre attempt at a prank I ever heard.

Yes thebody my lamb. I will report myself to Matey for plain sewing, mouth washed out with carbolic (and some drugged milk, natch)

I am traumatised! Just read a short story on Sally Denny where Jack and Jem are lovers.

OMFG.

I think Evvy didn't get expelled for her many sins as she was just careless/didn't think, whereas Thekla was mean on purpose and deliberate tried to get someone else into huge trouble?

Evvy was a good egg. Thekla bullied Joyce and spat at sophie.

Above all she hated Joey and was a Prussian.

Evvy was simply one of the wickedest middles who ever lived. No-one ever got expelled for that...

Evvy boiled the clock, naturally. Which reminds me, I haven't read the transcript of Exploits yet.

I am traumatised! Just read a short story on Sally Denny where Jack and Jem are lovers

Did it end with Madge and Jo advising each other to LTB?

Thebody, that's the story I read, as I said, an eye opener. Jem was very distraught when Jack goes missing in Highland Twins....

We've just finished camp and there is a line in there said by Miss Wilson 'Many more incidents such as we have had would have seen me with white hair...' Do you think she had a premonition!!

Exploits is, I think, the only early one I haven't read all the way through. The copy in the school library had about 20-40 pages missing which included the clock episode. Did they think they were mending it?

Yes DeWee, she took it apart because it wasn't working and then boiled all the components. Yet another brilliant "howler"

Not a joke then? I forgot. Its been some years since I read it. They put the clock back on the wall and left it to chime the hour but it carried on chiming about 200 times I think.

Going back to the What Katie did series, isn't that what happens to the clock Dorry Carr mends too?