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

Yrbvvvvvu to ask. Are you from a rotten snob school show or a council school Mardy my lamb? Milk?

Miss Annersley says you can't even afford to ignore the first few days of a child's life to instill discipline and obedience.

Madge and Joey have children who sleep through from
Day 1 unless teething of course in that case they are in huge pain and some have fits. Margo cut all hers with bronchitis!!!!

Can see now where we all went wrong.

AIBU to have spent much of this morning muttering 'unquestioning obedience my arse' as my children recklessly destroy faster than I can tidy?
I need a Coadjutor. Bet Joey never potty-trained a child herself. And it's amazing how children sleep through the night when your house is large enough to simply put them to bed and ignore until morning. [jealous in most un-Chaletian way]

I would like to have heard more from some of the girls pre-Naomi that there had been who didn't believe in God, but at least nominally belonged to some form of Christianity.
I always wondered which church they sent Lilimani to - probably CofE but just not mentioned, just like all the non-Christian girls at my boarding school in the 80s. Though in 1987 they decided girls of other religions didn't have to go to chapel, though not having a religion wasn't enough to get you out of it. And assumed anyone Asian wasn't Christian, to the glee of some of my Japanese and Singaporean friends.

I was indeed attacked by the hornets but Bill rubbed me with earth (why, oh why?) and at least I got to meet two doctors. Unfortunately they were both married, but they must know other doctors, surely? I am getting quite anxious as I'm 17 now and fear being left on the shelf.

I'm reading Gay From China at the moment, and am chortling at the preventative measures for German Measles - gargling with Dettol, bath and shampoo in disinfectant, and a dose of syrup of figs - did Matey think you could poo out the pox?

Lonny not to worry my lamb if all else fails you can go into nursing and bag a doctor ASAP. Hurry though as 17 is getting on. Girls marry early here.

NotCitrus you obviously ignored the first few days of your child's life and failed to instill obedience. Send them to the chalet school as soon as you can. They could go at 6. Dolly Edwards would soon lick them into shape.

Leaping I always liked her preoccupation with appendicitis. Charles, Julie Lucy, Nancy Chester, Mrs Everett etc. oh and her double shock hilarious.

Lonny, in one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books someone is stung by yellowjackets and the treatment is to bandage him with mud. I think it was cold and soothing to stings.

To return to the Chalet School and Ofstead - I'm reading Rivals and Gerry Challoner, random friend of an ex-pupil, has just rocked up, been given a bed then put in charge of 20 middles! No CRB checks in the Oberland then...

(Also the line 'acting like council school charges' has just been uttered )

Can't imagine that was Gerry's idea of a holiday either.

Nell I agree we should pick an arbitrary date in August for our two- year olds to turn 3, say the 3rd? I take it yours is already speaking French and German like a native?
"Council school charges" must obviously be indoctrinated into Chalet school ways.

I finished Jo of the Chalet school yesterday. There is a very odd bit near the end where Dr Jem says she might be sickening for something and she replies "Like thrush?" "Well er no, not that," Jem says. Wonder what Matey's treatment is? Sulphur?

OOOOH!

It's Madame's birthday in three weeks (4 July). What are we doing?

Nell I agree we should pick an arbitrary date in August for our two- year olds to turn 3, say the 3rd? I take it yours is already speaking French and German like a native?
"Council school charges" must obviously be indoctrinated into Chalet school ways.

I finished Jo of the Chalet school yesterday. There is a very odd bit near the end where Dr Jem says she might be sickening for something and she replies "Like thrush?" "Well er no, not that," Jem says. Wonder what Matey's treatment is? Sulphur?

Sorry double posted. Will learn some Shakespeare as a punishment.

Madam's birthday treat is to be a surprise, but I can guarentee that some item of food will be forgotten, someone will fall off something, or nearly fall off something but be rescued by Joey and then some weather will come up necessitising an overnight stay in somewhere unexpected.

Well I am singing under her window.

i sing of the charms of Margaret come away, no fairer maid is she

I've been to two school fetes recently and neither had a clever theme, in fact there was no theme, no one dressed up and there was no clock golf for the men at either

If only they had read the Chalet School books

I have so many books to read that I don't know which one to read first!
Do I re-read one I've read before or read a new one? Decisions.

I started Gay from China yesterday then put it down in favour of Exile.

The thing I do not understand is, if you had made a pact like the Chalet School Peace League why in the name of Joey Bettany and all would you put it in writing, sign your name to it and then go and hide the perishing thing? In a cave?

And knowing you were being followed why would you still persist in trying to hide it? Reading it, I feel like wobbling a few heads!

Uh-oh what have I found? A blank death warrant? Lets just fill in my own name there then.

My poppets, regarding yesterday's discussion on geography, I have to say as a geographer myself I can think of no finer way to spend a Saturday evening than unravelling anagrams of geographical terms. I would prefer that to picking up peas with knitting needles, or with my middle aged eyesight, threading needles!
I am however disappointed to have never attended a sheets and pillowcase party.
And where in heaven's name did they get all those little prizes from, two or three times a term? Lavender bags and gay little hankies....

I am a lurker, I really enjoy these threads. I have spent the last week reading the Pixie O'Shaughnessy books thanks to a tip here. They are brilliant. I can't believe how much EBD "borrowed" from them though!

I have a large number of the transcripts courtesy of NEWYEARDIFFERENTNAME but I would like the link to the onedrive please.

And where in heaven's name did they get all those little prizes from, two or three times a term? Lavender bags and gay little hankies....

Regifting. Like when you open that lime green twin set Auntie Joey gave you and you immediately think which charity shop is closest.

They all pop their prizes in a drawer and wait for the next event so they can be donated.

Just re-reading Rebel and I always feel they give up on Thelkla a bit easy, she basically gets expelled for not saying sorry, other girls are forgiven again and again, Grizel was forgiven again even when she directly disobeyed as a head girl. And you can even put other pupils lives in danger and still be forgiven. It seems as if you can pretty much do anything as long as you are suitably sorry afterwards.

It's dd's school fair in a few weeks, I must suggest a theme. And I don't think they are even cutting home made jigsaws, making lace or leather work- what is the youth of today coming to?

Stokey there was a bit of a debate on the thrush comment in one of the previous threads

Have just finished Mary-Lou and re-gifting also goes on in that - boxes of hankies [remember those?!], a freshly re-filled biro, and several pink china animals which the donor felt she would no longer need when she transferred to St Mildred's.

On the oneDrive thing- are they in a particular order?

I know we've spoken at length about Kester Bellever and Cherry Christie and I know it's not quite the same thing, but for some unknown reason I always feel a bit uneasy about Mary-Lou spending time on her own with "Uncle Jack" in the garden over "long frosty glasses of Anna's homemade lemonade" (no lemon biscuits though), seeking his advice in Joey's absence over what to do about Joan Baker.
"Goodbye my child. Best wishes for your crusade" He bent to kiss her.
"You're rather a duck, Uncle Jack"...

Eeek, do we need to watch out for the lemonade as well as the special milk now?