To think we are all ready to remove to Inter V at the Chalet School.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

New thread for all the Chalet School fans!

[allhailqueenmab]

Only Chalet School? What about St. Claire's?

do you remember when the Sullivan twins started at St. Claire's, they were nervous, and homesick for their dear little prep, Red Roofs. (Red Rooves? wtf). Through some weird glitch in the matrix, I am now nostalgic for Red Roofs. Rooves. Roofies.
I went to a state middle school on a rough estate, in real life. BUT STILL there is a part of me that remembers the warm evening sun on the terracotta tiles of dear old welcoming little Red Roofuses.

the perversity of this is fascinating me because in the St Claire's books, the twins had already left it behind. It isn't even as if I am nostalgic for having read their experiences. It is an ultra-removed nostalgia for something that was only tangentially remembered in the books I read. And yet in a Total Recall way, or Eternal Sunshine way, it has wormed its way into my Nostalgia jar on the shelf in my head and can be taken out and licked, like a bon-bon being hoarded for 37 years. Mmm yum, red roofinis.



ALSO do you remember when Mavis, who had a wonderful singing voice, and used to show off about it, broke out of school to enter a rough and common talent contest, and caught a chill in the rain on the way back, and spent weeks in the San, and lost her voice?

THAT HAPPENED TO ME IN REAL LIFE! (I was 40) (I didn't enter a talent contest I just got all over invested and over excited about a solo and then got sick and couldn't do it)

[SpottieDottie]

I wonder what would happen if the Chalet School merged with Malory Towers - would Joey and Darrell get on? And what would happen with Mary Lou and Alicia?

[Beeyump]

allhailqueenmab I loved your post. Aren't Nostalgia Jars the best?

[DeWee]

I think the Malory Towers girls would think that Chalet School lot were drama queens.

I suspect they'd regard Joey a bit like the St. Claires regarded that English mistress that Alison raved after. Miss Quentin(?).

Unfortunately I think although Mary Lou (chalet one) would wind them up, they would end up letting her take command, because she's been so used to being totally dominant, whereas there's several strong personalities at MT. Mary Lou (Malory Towers) would make quite a nice friend for Verity though.

[Summerbreezing]

Darrell would throw Joey in the swimming pool, Joey would catch pneumonia and spend a week in a coma, and a repentant Darrell would realise the error of her ways and take up embroidery and lacemaking.

[DeWee]

Chalet School gets nits

New girl is found to have nits. Len/Mary Lou/some other busibody lectures her on how if she'd brushed her hair Matey's way then she wouldn't have got them.

Then discovers to her horror that she's caught them.

Faith in Matey's approved way of doing things lost for ever.

[Weegiemum]

I do sometimes worry that I sent my dcs to a bilingual school due to having read the CS books!

I'd like to read The Chalet School goes CoEd - imagine actual real boys. Might stop them all marrying doctors twice their age - that always seemed a bit creepy.

[squoosh]

Panic at the Chalet School - when a star pupil marries a man who isn't a doctor.

Bewilderment at the Chalet School - when the games prefect is found in a passionate clinch with games mistress Peggy Burnett, who has no medical qualifications.

Consternation at the Chalet School - when new pupil Esmerelda says 'no thanks' to Joey's suggestion of Biffer as her new name.

[SelfRighteousPrissyPants]

There's a great story on CBB where Len is the lover of George from the famous five and they start an adventure/lesbian school

[crumpet]

Or Darrell would plot a trick on Jo, it would go horribly wrong and Darrell would end up in a coma and have to be sung better by Jo.

[Burren]

Cool Rivals of the Chalet School - when a clearly far superior school moves to the other end of the Gornetz Platz, beats the CS at games and exam results, and has far more exciting adventures involving natural disasters and herdsmen's huts. And the San doctors start ogling their prefects instead, even under pain of being fired.

[PosyFossilsShoes]

I've spent the last two days in hospital with hyperemesis & took the Chalet School in the Oberland with me (about as challenging a read as I was up for.)

Does anybody know what gnädige Fraulein actually means? Fraulein I get but not the other one (and I seem to recall that it wasn't in my school German dictionary either).

[squoosh]

SelfRighteousPrissyPants Len and George from the FF would be brilliant together! Although Len would be rather downtrodden as George would treat Len as Julian treated Anne.

[MooncupGoddess]

"gnädige" means gracious, Posy. Quite an old-fashioned word, also used in religious liturgy as I recall (cf 'gracious Lord').

[Burren]

It literally means 'gracious' or 'noble', Posy - but put together with 'Fraulein' as a term of address, it's pretty much just the equivalent to 'Madame'.

[Burren]

Sorry, X-post with Mooncup.

[DeWee]

Relief felt at the Chalet School Joey is now living in an old peoples' home which doesn't let them out, even to visit their old school.

Actually she's haveing a wonderful time there, thinking it's 1921 and her understanding, from the few sentences she speaks of that she is needed once more to rescue some minor royalty. She's going to do it, just after she's had a quick nap...

[SpottieDottie]

The chalet school go on the X factor.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

In my head, I hear Inter V as inter-vee, but I think it's probably Inter Five.

[SelectAUserName]

The Chalet School Goes To Glastonbury - the girls bedeck their hair with alpenroses, paint their fresh pink-and-white faces with peace symbols and get down to some serious moshing. The School Prize is awarded to the girl who can take the biggest amount of recreational drugs. Verity-Anne wins it, in a 'hilarious' mix-up where the singing master lead singer of Elbow who is asked to judge it, doesn't realise that her "spaced-out hippy" countenance is her natural demeanour.

[SelfRighteousPrissyPants]

Here's the link Squoosh sallydennylibrary.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=81

IIRC Len isn't downtrodden but George is a bit brusque!

[SelfRighteousPrissyPants]

Joey would be great in an old peoples home, all those sing songs and paper games would go down a treat or they could turn their hearing aids off

[Summerbreezing]

Madge Storms the Chalet School Madge Russell comes back from Canada/Australia wherever, elbows Joey out of the way and says "fuck off, this is my school. Go and hog the limelight somewhere else".

[TooExtraImmatureCheddar]

The Chalet School Meets St Trinian's

PMSL at The Transgender Chalet Girl and Bi-Curious Fun at the Chalet School.

[Summerbreezing]

True SelfRighteous Hey, maybe the staff could mix up all their false teeth and make them identify their own.