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

Vic Coles is totally male.

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Definitely a boy. Isn't Joan a bit fast and thinks Rosamund dull because she doesn't want to wear lipstick and meet boys?

Have realized I have a reasonable amount of the early years and Mary-Lou years but lacking some bits in between and newest ones.

Am hoeing the earth for my potatoes now, preparing to learn Welsh instead of German. Dig for Victory girls

Too yep right.

Has anyone read peace comes to the chalet school by Catherine Bruce? As Princess Diana said once it's highly recommended.

Brilliant read and Catherine tried to deal with EBDs inaccuracies in a funny way.

Good read.

Yep, Spotty. That's Vic, picture 3 leaning against the car.

£50 on Amazon! It will have to remain unread.

Lazura my lamb. He was a man and agree a teddy boy.

I think you are one if those feminists Joey and Grizel dislike.

Shame in you. You need to marry a doctor and have some milk my dear.

slinks away to the punishment desk< to write out 100 times King Lear's words about Cordelia....

TooExtra don't forget the highly dramatic and dangerous incident where she fell into a box! Pretty sure she fell off a ladder and into a thornbush at some point too.

I want a golden voice!

I want a golden voice!

Oh I am very keen on my job

Call colleagues by their surname

I have 2 jobs

I went to college in Swanley.

Miss Everett?

If anyone is still interested in the brief debate re sulphur [last night c 1900 hours] I linked it with 'brimstone and treacle' for some reason and when I checked, brimstone was another name for yellow 'flowers of sulphur' a popular Victorian remedy regularly used to dose children. One sourse of info is www.homeorizon.com/homeopathy-printouts/materia-medica/sulphur-the-ragged-philosopher

Can anyone please enlighten me as to why I was regularly dosed as a child with a powder called Steedman's EE which came in a little paper package? My mamma told me it was to make me good. But good for what, is what I should like to know. I have worked out what my other 'doses' of cascara, Virol and Scott's Emulsion were for, but the EE powder eludes me!

^ source!

See here for Steedman's Powder; it's about halfway down. Sounds rather scary stuff.

www.rpharms.com/museum-pdfs/g-teethingtreatments.pdf

Too spot on my lamb.

Alice sounds vile.

As does calfs foot jelly that Joey has after every cold.

thebodylovesspring Joey doesn't just get a mere cold! She gets full blown double pleuro-pneumonia and has to have at least 3 doctors from the San to nurse her through.

She would look at a picture of snow - it's her own fault really... ;)

Thanks TooSpotty I must have been in need of cooling treatment at times!

thebody I didn't mind any of my 'doses' really at the time, though these days Scott's Emulsion would have me heaving - a thick white viscous dose containing mainly cod liver oil, as I recall. Virol was malty and very lovely

Joey yes and despite this extreme delicacy she delivers 11 children in multiple births.

Love your looking at a picture of snow

Alice well done. Incidentally do you all bend your knees while climbing. Random question.

Thebody, I have actually consciously bent my knees at every step when hill-climbing for years, based entirely on the advice given by Mary-Lou in New Mistress and Theodora! I have no idea how you climb hills without bending your knees, mind you. I can't tell you if it works or not, though - need to do a controlled experiment. If 20 MNers all climbed a mountain together and 10 bend their knees and 10 do not, how many will have aching shins by the time they reach the glacier at the summit and fall down it?

Too it sounds like a good plan but I do think to cross marylou's advice may be dangerous. Those bell like tones would crow loudly as they did to Kathy Ferris when she was too young and insecure to heed the oracle.

Good job MaryLou saved her from that rock collapse by some sort of premonition.

Another random. I have never been to Scotland so asking is it fairly normal for Scottish people to have second sight? Also to believe in seal people?

Oh and Irish people to continually say at all at all?

Not at all, at all. We'd never say something like that.

Seriously, Biddy's brogue is about as authentic as leprechauns and crocks of gold.

I've just seen a poster "MargotlovedTom" and I was thinking "Margot loved Tom Grey" did she really? I can't remember them particularly doing anything together, she's a lot older...
Then the realisation of The Good Life came in and I shall creep away quietly.

Chalet School it taking over my life! Save me no not you Joey

It is really taking over my life! I had a PTA meeting this am and the chair is, shall we say, strident in her tones? Like Bad Matron. And I kept thinking 'if only someone had made her write what Shakespeare said about a woman's voice a hundred millionty times then my ears would not be hurting now!'

I'm going to restart the SSC - society for the suppression of the chair!

I can't believe we're nearly two thirds through another thread. That's three we'll probably have filled by next week. I really think we need a separate topic on this.
Does anyone have any special pull with MNHQ? Any of you rescued any of them from a frozen lake, or been adopted by one of them?