To start a new term at the Chalet School?

[Vintagejazz]

Happy for this to be moved to Chat if posters agree but thought I'd start it here as this is where we've all been loitering without permission when we should be doing our housework homework.

So welcome to a new term everyone. Cases upstairs to the dormitories, form lists on the notice board. And you'll all be pleased to hear that even though we've moved to a different location, Joey has tracked us - -down moved in next door, so we'll still be seeing too much-- plenty of her

I've looked at the transcripts, I think I'm so overwhelmed with excitement that I DEFINITELY need some of Matey's special milk, otherwise I may not sleep tonight (and I need to as I nearly fell asleep at my desk this afternoon).

Woe, the One Drive server is down and I can't download anything just now. Do you think if Joey sang to it it would fix it?

5 red sarafans and it would be working like a dream,

My first name change!

At what rate did Margia age? I'm reading Lintons and Joey is Head Girl having previously been Library Pree so a senior for at least two years (I remember the "Joey gets to stay on for an extra year but only if she's Head Girl" passage at the end of Eustacia) while Margia is in the Fifth, but weren't they more-or-less contemporaries as Middles? Joey seems to bound on into the Sixth while Margia stays a Middle for years, but I'm sure I remember them plotting Middley japes together in some of the earlier books.

I seem to recall Margia and Amy arriving at ages 11 and 8 in the first book and Joey is 12. But Joey's birthday is Nov, so she's going on 13 and Margia could be just 11, which would explain that as the school got bigger, they would end up in different classes whereas with only 3 classes at the start they were likely to be together.

I've read these books too often!

That makes sense, Tinuviel - although doesn't the school originally get going around Easter, so Joey is still a good eight months or so off 13? And presumably what they learned academically in the first couple of years while the school was still small would have counted for something when it came to dividing them into forms later.

I realise I am both overthinking this and expecting chronological consistency from EBD!

oh gracious me, there are others out there. seriously thought it was just me who still read CS.

must go for a turn about outside to clear my head in a very practical mary burnett type way!

i know i have only just found you,but please please may I have access to the one drive. I promise to be good-honest Injun.

Three cheers for the library prefect and her deputy!! (But quietly so we don't wake the juniors or we'll have matey on the warpath!)

....especially as I am also "busy" and shall be busier still in exactly 4 weeks.

Ooh TooExtra whatever can you mean? Or are we too young to know?
in advance!!

To go a million miles back upthread...I pronounce Wanda as Van-da, because I took German (no fines for me ) and W is pronounced as V.

Gruss Gott my lambs, a new day, a new identity, a new doctor to marry, a new bowl of milky coffee with new bread broken into it and it's English day! This really is the best school in the world...

Since starting to read the books aloud to my dd I have realised how many of the names I either skipped over or made up. I do say Wanda as Van-da though. I suspect I mispronounce many of the other names, especially foreign surnames. Still dd doesn't seem to mind.

Gruss Gott everyone! I'm a bit tired this morning because I was up late last night, reading "CS Reunion", courtesy of the wonderful Pontefractals, whose kindness will make her a worthy contender for the Margot Venables Prize (or whatever it calls itself these days). Then I started "Joey goes to the Oberland" - I've got as far as: (a) her criticisms of Simone's chateau; (b) her criticisms of Simone's small family; (c) her criticisms of Simone's husband's family jewels; and (d) her suggestions for interior decoration, which appear to include the early equivalent of laminate flooring and a trip to Ikea, alongside the sale/wholesale burning of the ghastly heirlooms.

I was having such a brilliant time that I forgot to wear my bed-jacket, I was late for my morning dip, and I haven't humped my mattress. Order mark for me!

Gruss Gott Lonny. Have you had your bath yet? I'm so lucky that I don't need any help anymore and because I am delicate I get to have warm baths.

fairnotfair, did you, as I did last night, enjoy the bit in Reunion where not only does Margot slap and shout at a complete stranger, but Grizel then offers her mother tranquillisers for her? It's like a criminal gang roaming Switzerland.

Toospotty - I actually had to read that section twice to check that I hadn't misunderstood what was going on. Reunion was, frankly insane. Imagine if the AIBU if you'd been a guest at said reunion.

I went to a school reunion... near-death experiences...PA comments about weight gain... assault...drugs...AIBU to distance myself from these loons and their stupid bread twists?

And the woman that arranged it was Sooo controlling. She made us go to bed early, take naps in the middle of the bloody day, sent us off on dull walks every day with her teenage daughters (we never worked out what SHE was doing all day) and has younger children she never sees. When some of us almost fell into a fucking glacier, her response was 'so interesting things happen to people other than me?. WTAF?

Oi, less of the "stupid bread twists"!

I've never read Reunion. Sounds as though I have a corker to look forward to!

Forgive me Select. I didn't mean your bread twists, which are sweet and far from stupid.

And yes, Reunion is the corkiest of corkers!

I particularly enjoyed the party when they all arrived for the Reunion. The conversation seemed to consist of "Hey! Look how fat YOU got!" and "Hey! Look how fat SHE got!"

at the Reunion AIBU.

I've just read Highland Twins (going in completely the wrong order, which helps avoid being annoyed by inconsistencies). Joey is especially unbearable in it, isn't she? And the bit towards the end when Miss Annersley phones her up because she doesn't know what to do, and Jo just "understands girls". I prefer to think than Miss Annersley is just giving this to Jo as some kind of a special project to keep her from interfering in more important school matters. There is also a particularly impressive amount of unexplained gasping in this one. And the Robin gets to go wandering around shoving burglars into fountains in the middle of the night without ending up in the San! I'm gasping myself now.

Who do I have to PM for Onedrive access, please?

So many books to read but am so busy with work! Priorities!

Want to: sit in the garden and read CS all day

Have to: work :(

Sensible head says reading CS won't pay the mortgage
me says: not fair.

YY to the fat party. And then Mollie Maynard turns up fattest of all! Although she still manages to call Bernhilda fat anyway.

Everyone is fat in Reunion. Unless they're sad (Stacey, Grizel). In Joey's world, if you aren't reed thin with 15bazillion children and a special uterus carrying wheelbarrow contraption, you must by definition be miserable.

(Did I say that out loud? Glacier for me, no doubt)

It's a cautionary tale about the perils of all those featherbeds of cream. Joey is probably fat too, EBD just has a kind of inverted body dysmorphia about her to go with the rest of her massive Joey blind spot.