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

Oh, and I meant to add that, since Dick met Mollie in India, I creatively decided her maiden name was "Indiano". Sigh...

impressed by newgirl

I started talking about Exile last night at dinner forgetting that OH and DD hadn't read it and were not actually interested and saw both sets of eyes glaze over. Heathens.

I wrote forthwith to Joey for advice on how best to resolve this tricky situation. She hasn't replied yet. I did send it Airmail!

I am now going to make a dessert for tonight's dinner. I wonder what I odd ingredient I can add by mistake for hilarious results?

Sardines?

Newgirl I think your family tree is the tops! 1919 for Joey's d.o.b. seems feasible if as an 11yr old you assumed the date of first publication i.e. 1930, was the same year as the events portrayed...

[as in Sardine and Cherry Strudel]^

Even the poorest people (like Jacynth's Auntie) still have their daily helps... And then there was Marie von Eschenau in Goes To It, asking Joey to find them somewhere and explaining helpfully that it wouldn't have to be a big place. Six bedrooms and three reception rooms would be fine.

Ha, yes, it's like the Railway Children, isn't it? One-servant poor.

Hakluyt, I quite liked the bit where it is unusually explicit that Jo's lifejacket is going to pose a breastfeeding inconvenience whilst on the boat. Partly because it's a bodily function reference usually missing from the books (well, unless you classify it as eating, but ykwim) and partly because it is unusually perceptive about the logistics of travelling with babies. Or maybe it was only my DS who expected featherbeds of cream an endless supply of milk every time we got on a bus. However, there's also a reference, either in Goes To It or Exile, to the Robin and the Daisy helping with bottles...

NewGirl in absolute awe!

Joey Joey will come and visit your OH and DD and invite them to English tea and give them one of her supposedly insightful lectures, if they're lucky, and then they will be true Chaletians. If they're less lucky, she may have to sing them into compliance.

I accidentally announced "alright my lambs, dinner will be ready in a minute" today. DS too young to object but my heathen sister gave me an odd look.

Actually, 'visit' is the wrong term, sounds too benign; Joey will wait outside and pounce upon them. 'Invite' also sounds too benign - I've never noticed any of her invitees having much opportunity to decline...

Gruss Gott!
Don't know if this is of any help but in order to access the transcripts, I've had to download both Mobi Reader and EPub Reader to my PC. Now I can read any of them.
I know that probably doesn't help if you're on a tablet or smartphone but just thought I'd mention it.

Ive given up. The files just wont open.

I shall drown my sorrows in milk instead.

Oooh noooo.

I've just redownloaded two of the ones I'd uploaded to the Skydrive (one mobi and one epub) just in case I'd stuffed it up. I managed to read them both on my pc using Calibre (calibre-ebook.com/). They both seem to work with my bog-standard kindle, too... um... if on an Android tablet, you might try MoonReader, which I've found to be less fussy than the Kindle app at times.

Hope you manage to sort it.

Re breast feeding, there's the part where Joey is told to "cast" her babies in order to maintain her health, and mothers are asked at various times if their babies "need" them.

In Highland twins (I think) it's decided that Robin is the perfect person to look after them because she's "always been older than her age". Wasn't she still a baby at 13?

Last comment. The casual references to girls hiding things in "the elastic at their knees". Regulation bloomers?

I think Robin was supposed to be 16 or 17 in Highland Twins

Just finished Rebel and Joey has saved a life by talking like a proper head girl. Obviously no one else has the right authoritative voice to be able to do this. Poor Joyce spends one term being rebellious but I think this reputation follows her forever, even when she is an adult she is still being referred to as a spoilt child.

And they used the 'special milk' for Gillian - she's a true Chalet school girl

I can read them on the pc online, pontefractals. Maybe if I download them onto calibre on my pc then get the calibre companion on the tablet I might be able to transfer them that way...

Robin is nearly 16 in "goes to it"

I started this this afternoon. (appalling grammar - must listen during class) The triplets had bottles on the boat as Joey developed a fever until the Navy took over and ferried them to Devon.

I'm feeling sorry for Gwensi Howell at the moment. This may change through the course of the book.

Joey has sung down the phone to OH and DD. They are now drinking milk. All is well with the world and there are 2 less heathens.

Sardine and garlic donuts not v. popular.

Just finished Rebel and Joey has saved a life by talking like a proper head girl. Obviously no one else has the right authoritative voice to be able to do this - Oh, but Mary-Lou and her bell-like tones!

I finished Goes To It today. I was feeling unusually well-disposed towards Joey through most of it, only rolling my eyes at the frequent "I've got triplets, had you heard?!" which she throws out at every passing, uninterested, poor soul. Until the end when she starts commandeering Simone's wedding in an impressively awful way. Pipe the fuck down, Joey.

Doesn't Lavender Leigh try refusing one of Joey's "invitations" and is told that she can't by the head girl?

Actually the computer was so shocked when I first typed that out that it promptly shut down pf it's own accord.
I have a Joey fan for a computer

Although it's fan is going to break shortly as it's making a huge racket and occasionally has to be hit encouraged to get it going again.

Hangs head in shame at the wrong apostrophe in "it's". Sorry Mrs. Annersley, I know it should be "its".

Take it to Matey for a dose of... something, DeWee. Milk? Syrup of figs? Sulphur? The medicating all seems kind of arbitrary really.

I actually felt angry on Mary-Lou's behalf when she was ripped to shreds by Hilda, after getting stuck on top of the wardrobe during the chase by staff 'demons' at the St Nicholas event. Had the staff at the time no awareness that their actions were likely to cause an adrenalin rush and subsequent hysteria in those tender teens? It would seem the oft recommended reasoning from cause to effect was confined to lessons only and not taken further into real life. Very disappointed in you Hilda for your lack of awareness on this occasion.

I did feel the writing went downhill from this point to the end of the book though (except when Rosamund died), so perhaps EBD was having a difficult day?

disclaimer: above thoughts based on the Armada edition

Better be off now to make my poisoned milk.

Please may I have details of the OneDrive, Library Pree?

I always chuckle at the bit in M-L when Mrs. A says to ML that she might make her write out (something like) "I must not behave childishly" 5 times and ML is quite horrified and feels that she would never be able to hold her head up again if told to do this.

They must have been easily shamed at the CS.

At my school most of the teachers started lines at 50, and 1000 was not unheard of. However there was one teacher who would shake his head sorrowfully and say "If you keep on behaving like that I will have to give you lines; Would you like to write out 5 times 'I must not behave childishly' then?" and would be quite put off by the perky reply of "yes please, sir!"
Quite stange, he didn't have any disipline problems, and was quite a fun teacher, but you knew if you'd really overstepped the mark as you got 10 lines!