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!

Chuckling over these, especially as 3yo DD is being a total threenager tonight!

vintage that's brilliant 'chalet school and interpol' good job I've put my baby down already I would have woken her back up laughing at that!

Can't think of any clever ones myself at the moment too tired but keep them coming this thread is brilliant for the end of a busy day

Squoosh I rarely actually laugh out loud, but Esmerelda's refusal of 'Biffer' did make me

Hogwarts x over - the Chalet School and the Chamber of Secrets. Where 1000 years later it is discovered that Joey built a secret room in the school/immortalised herself in a diary/has implanted herself in the skull of the current head - all so she will never actually leave!

"The Chalet School and Interpol" is simply topping, vintagejazz. I am howling with mirth myself, but trying to do so quietly in case I wake pauvre petite Robin who is awfully tired and must be allowed to sleep the clock round, being so delicate.

Oooh, new thread - step this way brainy 12-year-olds who are too young to be seniors and vain, uneducated (never taught to reason from cause to effect) 16-year-olds who are too old to be middles. Should be a harmonious place.

Would the Chalet School be full of the daughters and sons of Russian oligarchs these days?

Pmsl at the new books. And Cherry and Blossom the carthorses.

Vintagejazz The Chalet School and Interpol

Inspired. Absolutely inspired!

Just wondering whether any of the lovely Transcribers have "done" "Gay from China" or "Ruey Richardson, Chaletian"? I've got the first in hardback, and I'm fairly sure my sister's got the second, also in hardback, so I could do them as a small contribution to the samizdat CS library, if they've not already been done? Might take me a while (right now is the busy period at work and then I'm moving house next month ) but it should be doable...

My DD was not interested in the CS books but did any of your girls read them? What did they think?

Je place une marque ici, parce qu'il faut lire les postes avant dire quelqu'chose interessante, n'est-ce pas?

(Aujourd'hui c'est mecredi, il faut parler français donc. Parce que je ne sais aucun mot d'allemand.)

CRBs at the Chalet School - several of the teachers are placed on a register, Dr Jack and Dr Jem are picked up by Operation Yewtree, and Gaudenz the handyman is found to have several pairs of gym knickers and a liberty bodice in his toolbox.

The Chalet School discovers google translate and finds that the only phrase that the girls now know is how to ask for the nearest internet connection in the relevant language...

Judging by how my (pretty consciencious) yr 8 does her language homework, that's all they learn in language lessons.

I have Ruey as a PDF/ ebook, so I think it's in already in circulation. Gay from China isn't though as far as I know.

I'm sure we could set up a chalet school free school. And show how modish and up to date we are by having mandarin days and Spanish days, instead of French and German!

Vintagejazz - The Chalet School and Interpol will not be complete without EBD's over much used line about adding to the legends of the school!

Thanks, Leaping. I'll concentrate on "Gay from China" first, then. Was Ruey the one with the father who went off in a spaceship, or something, or did I hallucinate that? I've not read it for years, and it's sometimes hard to sort out remembered EBD plotlines and cheese-induced dreams...

Oh gosh, somehow only just stumbled on this thread. I started re-reading a couple if years ago and had to stop as I got to a point where the books I didn't have we're more than the £3/4 I was willing to pay!

Off to read the entire thread!

When I fail my exams in June, I shall blame you lot! I have spent the last hour and a half reading this thread and the previous one. I always say Inter V but four b (IVB) Upper three (Upper III) etc.
NewYear, I've sent you a pm. I would love to re-read the stories.

Yes, Ruey and her brothers Roger and Roddy first turn up in Joey and aco in Tirol - they're dad has left them to fend for themselves in a remote chalet, and they literally run into the triplets, one of the boys gashes a knee, and needs Dr Jack's surgical skills, and they he and Joey take the three under their wing.

Eventually they meet up with Ruey's dad (Professor Archibald Theophilus Nay are Richardson) and he basically signs the three over to the Maynards, and vanishes. Later on, we hear that he has attempted space flight, and no-one knows what happens to him - his craft vanishes from sight and it is assumed he crashed and died.

Ooh Corrie I think that's a brilliant idea. I'd stick with French and German though as they're the ones the staff are most likely to be able to speak.

That's what free schools are mostly for, isn't it, vicarious satisfaction of childhood academic aspirations?

Is that Joey and Coin Tirol? Another one I haven't read[sigh]

Is Roger Richardson's 'six foot of manhood' not described at one point?
Must be in an old, unabridged book.

'Six foot of manhood'

For most of my childhood the 'holiday' books (Jo to the Rescue, Joey Goes to the Oberland, Joey and Co in Tirol, Chalet School Reunion), plus the final Swiss books after Triplets, were not available in print. For years I was desperate to read them and convinced they would be amazing.

Then, finally, they were released in paperback... and I discovered that, actually, they were rubbish.

newyear me too please?

(never having forgiven DM for giving away my entire library of CS books

That would make my holiday next week I will PM you my email