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 cant access the epub books on my tablet, no program seems to open them but ive managed to access them on the pc which is a slight pain but nothing I cant manage.

Definatly Kester Bellever was grooming cherry.

I used to find the doctors treating each other's pregnant wives as yeukky.

Why would Phil Graves be visiting Mrs Maynard. Especially as in those days internals were statutory antenatal events.

He works with TB patients. So does Jack. They are not gynaecologists!!! Dr Chester as a GP ok that's fine but the others no just no.

Stokey yes, they shall be 3 on Aug 3rd. DS is of course fluent in French, German and Schwyzerdütsch but not yet Italian, which means he won't be able to understand the secret emergency conversations amongst staff and Joey. (He also has a habit of looking out of the window and declaring the weather is something opposite to what it really is - I'd so far taken this as typical toddler contrariness but now I realise he is weather-wise prophesying the future, rather than inaccurately observing the present.)

Juniper I'm able to read the ePub files using 'ebook reader' on my iPad, just on the off-chance this is of any use/relevance at all.

Thanks Nell, im on a Samsung galaxy tab. I have an ebook reader app with some epub transcripts on already which someone emailed me but I anyting I try to download from the onedrive just says unable to open fter downlaod is complete.

If anyone can give me the name of a specific android ereader which definitely works with these files I would be eternally grateful, or else if anyone can tell me what im doing wrong that would b3 great too! Im a frustrated chaletian at present...

Ignore typos, on said tablet now.

I've just downloaded something called UB reader on my phone which opens some but not all of the epub files.

Which book is Charles born in? I'm reading Carola and Biddy says "Charles was just a baby who wasn't expected to live when I went off to Australia". I don't recall any drama whatsoever around Charles' birth.

Charles is 5 months old in 3 go I can tell you that much.

Good point. Charles wasn't born in rescue as Jo just had the trips and Steve was a teething baby.

3 go is the next book. Maybe his birth isn't actually covered as such.

Gah, such a lot of mansplaining from Dr Jem at the start of Exile. Including such gems as "none of you can drive in this thaw" (paraphrased, but only slightly) and "oh yeah btw, I've already bought the new premises before mentioning any of this to you".

Nell I think it was something tondo with having stronger wrists or such crap.

Oh yes anything to do with finance or building goes to Jem/jack to sort. commander Christie also offers Hilda help in sorting money matters when the school moves out to Switzerland but she refers him to jack/Jem.

Obviously these womem can't be expected to deal with such things as budgets and finance.

Ooh who am I?

I have 6 children
I piss off the whole school during the blitz
I never went to the chalet school

Sugar-pies, Charles was born in CS & Rosalie, which I finished yesterday (thanks again, Pontefractals!)

I've also been enjoying Exploits and Lintons - they're reminding me all over again that the Tirol books are SO much better written than the later Swiss books and Jo isn't yet an insufferable busybody with a God complex.

I'm reading And Jo at the moment, about the passion play. Does anyone know if EBD ever saw it? From the research I did (I read Wikipedia ) the performance she describes happened in either 1930 or 1934 (with Hitler in the audience for some of the performances), she uses the names of actors who really did appear in it.

I'm thinking it must've been intended to be the 1930 performance rather than the special 1934 one for whatever anniversary of the first performance it was, since no one ever mentions that this is a "special" performance, and it's mentioned several times that it only happens once every ten years. This also fits in with the aging in the earlier books, although of course if Jo is 16 here (turning 17 in the November of 1930) she can't possibly only be 21 in the November of 1939, when the triplets are born, but then that's EBD for you...

TheObligatoryNewGirl so did Joey get a telegram from the Queen last year then? I don't remember the media giving it a splash anywhere and I'm sure we'd have all gone along for the fun had we known. I wonder who else would have been present? And in what condition? Any ideas?

Well, you see, Joey was born in 1913 (which makes Dick and Madge born in 1901, and when they're talking about air raids in one of the war books, Madge says she was a schoolgirl during the last war, which works with those dates), but then by 1939, when she has the triplets, she should be 26, but is in fact only 21, somehow having lost five years along the way. However, I think all the dates post-Exile work with Joey being 21 in 1939, thus giving a birth-date of November 1918. So perhaps that's why we haven't reached telegram-from-the-Queen status yet. Although... do ex-pats get Queen telegrams? Because unless the school has moved back to England, we can't really have expected Joey to have left Freudsheim!

Yes, I was trying to get my head round the ages - I'd forgotten that Joey "lost" 5 years along the way! That helps a lot!

I think perhaps it's less that Joey lost five years, rather that five years were lost. As in the school began in 1926, which ties in with seeing the 1930 Passion Play, and then somewhere between Exploits being set in the Christmas term of 1930 and Joey turning 17, and Exile being set (well part of it) in the Christmas term of 1939 and Joey turning 21, those five years disappeared, as EBD realised that after the Anschluss she couldn't leave the school in Austria, and brought it rather abruptly up to the present day, ignoring the years that just disappeared. Most people seem to age fairly consistently after the 1939 mark (at least no one seems to revert to their pre-Anschluss ages, and suddenly be five years older than their contempories), although we do have anomalies like the eternal schoolgirl Amy Stevens (who should be at least two years older than Robin) and Cornelia Flower, who ends up back at school in Gurnsey, and Head Girl after Maria, who was originally at least the same age as her, if not younger.

So Joey's only 96 and the triplets are only 75? Madge is probably dead though as otherwise she'd be 108. I reckon the school closed it's doors in the early 70s as boarding schools had reduced hugely in popularity at that stage and even upper class mothers wanted to rear their children themselves.
So Joey probably moved back to England and devoted herself to sending newsletters and circulars to former chaletians, most of whom just roll their eyes up to heaven and toss them in the bin.

Poor Joey. Feet of clay...

Also, how likely is it that 6mo triplets can still be toted around in arms all together, the way Joey seems to in Goes To It? When my singleton was 6mo he was maybe 8kg of wriggliness, I can't imagine 3x that, but of course he/I didn't follow the EBD model of obedience from birth...
I do actually have a good friend with triplets and I ought to ask her, but I can't think of a good reason for why I am wondering such a thing.

Just reading "Goes To it" and was amazed to discover that Joey appears to be ebf. the triplets at nearly 6 months. Renewed respect to that woman.........

Oh my goodness, I've just found a family tree I made of the Bettany-Maynard-Russell clan when I was about 11. I'm sure I had a better version of it somewhere - this one only has the triplets as Joey's children, and misses out Kevin and Kester, as well as Dick and Mollie's youngest (was she Daphne?). I've got Joey's birth-date as 1919, which is slightly out, but pretty good. Dick and Madge are 12 years older than her, and then I think I just guessed everyone else's birth-dates, so Jack is listed as only 3 years older than Joey (1916), Mollie I've given a birth-date of 1914, which would make her about 15/16 when she had Peggy and Rix (although that's all okay, because I've put their birth-date as 1937, from which all the others follow on with about the right spacing). I've given the triplets a 1943 birth-date, which I also bestowed upon Ailie (and David has been made older than Peggy and Rix). Sybil I've listed as 1939, which is several years out. I also married Con to a Polish gentleman, and Len to someone named "Thomas Bettany", in order to write a story where Len's daughter, Hannah, started a new school, "The Mountain School" on the site of the old school in Austria (except the Mountain School was for boys too, and I wrote the first two "books", both about 15,000 words, and only got a couple of chapters into book 3, where Joseph Orajawski (Con's grandson) had just about made up with his best friend Garland Marani) with her younger sister, conveniently named Joey Bettany, as the first ever pupil (Hannah was 18 years, rather than 12 years, older than Joey, though, and widowed with three small children - her late husband's name was Jack Maynard - and later went on to marry Kurt Marani, father of Garland and her older sister Gisela). I was a strange child...