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

Imagine if there had been internet in Joey's day. No need to physically pop in to see what the school is doing, just skype and Chalet-School-Cam and she could have done it all from her large drawing room.

New Mistress here. Very fair, a hard stare and an experienced alpinist although am struggling with teaching Shakespeare in French and German. i am sure this was not mentioned in the interview.

Anyway, as IT has not reached the mountains yet can any of you dainty girls in your velveteen dresses please tell me if there is a way of transferring the One Drive docs onto Kindle using my ipad or onto Calibre???

The Middles are up to tricks, just going to run lightly up the stairs to quell them with my piercing stare.

Sorry, I wasn't really clear with the Robin comment. I meant more that even when she's coming up to her teens EBD still talks about her "baby soul" or "babyish mind" and so it seems a bit weird when people are suddenly saying that she's always been old for her age.

DeWee - at my school they always sussed if you took the easy way and wrote your lines out as columns, one word at a time. I guess there's nothing new under the sun.

You can email Word documents to a Kindle. Do you know your Kindle email address? Mine is the same as my normal email address but instead of @hotmail.com it's @kindle.com. On my Kindle Fire they show up in the Documents section rather than Books, which took me ages to work out.

I had to read the epub docs on my iPhone using iBooks because I could not work out how to get them onto my Kindle.

I've just found "The Crown Of Success" on Project Gutenberg - the book that they take the Sale idea from in Bride. It's... interesting to say the least. I'm only a few chapters in, and the allegory's not at all subtle! It's here: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25516 if anyone wants to take a dekko.

The staff demons chasing and "lightly whipping" the girls is one of my favourite moments of sheer wtf-ery in the whole series. M-L getting told off for it just compounds the artistic brilliance. It's like The Chalet School On Mind-Altering Drugs or something.

M-L altogether too easily horrified.

I guess there was a LOT of suppressed sexual frustration up on the Platz... All those single women and adolescent girls crammed together in close quarters for months at a time. Mostly it's not quite so explicitly portrayed, though

Alicebannedit most of our teachers gave lines long enough to take 2 or three lines to stop that-the teacher that only gave 5-10 lines was unusual in that he didn't.

A favourite of one teacher was something along the lines of:
I must be quiet when Mr. Roberts is talking because it is very rude and if I talk then he will give me one hundred lines that say: "I must be quiet when Mr. Roberts is talking because it is very rude and if I talk then he will give me one hundred lines that say..."

That was a nasty one, and he tended to give lots of lines, 100 was a small number from him, only teacher I ever knew to give 2000.

newgirl tophole and a quick round of folk dancing in your honor.

at The CS on Mind-Altering Drugs! They do the whipping demons thing twice, as well - once in CS in the Oberland and once in M-L. So good she repeats herself only about 8 books later!

The Crown of Success is wonderfully done and such a product of its time - you must read it , my lambs!
Though everyone attending the Sale must have been totally bemused.

My DCs loved The Crown of Success when we did it as a read aloud several years ago - in fact they have asked for it again and they are all teens now! I have to admit that I loved the sound of that sale and would have been as keen as mustard to take part!

Am just reading Peggy at.... and Madge doesn't want to risk hers or the kids in her care lives by flying but quite happy for Joey to fly and invites her over but Peggy and Bride say she can't possibly go cos she'll miss the Trips birthday and Con and Len would be upset. Con and Len who see their mother far more than any other girl who goes to boarding school, I mean other girls can't plan to spend their birthdays with their mum. Poor Margot, no wonder she grows up feeling neglected.

I guess my inner half-grown girl identified too closely with ML over the incident then - I could certainly relate to her feelings when being chased down a dimly lit 'cul-de-sac' by a whip wielding demon!

I must learn to detach
I must learn to detach
I must learn to detach

DeWee - that was a wonderfully inventive set of lines your Mr Roberts devised; he and the other teachers probably evolved the punishment from remembering their own schooldays where lines were far simpler!

Mr Robert was a very inventive teacher. I can remember his lesson on sentences perfectly:

Statement: There is a walrus in the bathroom.
Question: Is there a walrus in the bathroom?
Order: Get that walrus out of my bathroom!

Delivered at the top of his voice standing on the desk.
When he did dictation, you had to concentrate really hard and not just write what he said, as he used silly words to indicate punctuation. Number of times I started writing down something like "flying fish" when he just wanted speech marks!
He'd possibly have survived in the Chalet School if he'd taught music or maybe art. He was certainly capable of chucking someone out of a lesson and chucking all their stuff after them.

RobinHumphries I remember feeling it was unfair in the bit in New Mistress when the triplets are going home for their birthday party. I don't think any other pupil even has a cake (at Malory Towers they seemed to often have a midnight for birthdays) mentioned. In fact, other than Madge's and people offstage, are birthdays mentioned at all?

I'd have thought actually that sort of thing would have emphised the difference of the triplets, along with being so young for the form, and it would have meant the other children were less inclined to be friendly. Maybe that was why Len and Con didn't really make friends until rather old, rather than they didn't need to because they had each other.

I was reading The Chalet School Goes To It last week and was a bit rolley eyed when someone said that Joyce Linton was getting married in the village at a time (September I think) which would mean 'the school' could attend her wedding. Joyce never struck me as particularly devoted to the Chalet School and why on earth would she want a couple of hundred random school girls at her wedding?

This fantastic David Sedaris piece always reminds me of the Chalet School St Nicholas nonsense.

www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/sedaris/

Oops - I've missed so much, busy weekend my lambs.

I can upload the transcripts I've got as PDFs, they work well on Kindle or iBooks. If people would like.

Best get back to work though.

I was trying to channel my inner Anna today and make rose petal jam. Unfortunately it tastes horrid- I am a failed Anna

I remember in one of the books set on the Island Hilary Graves had had a baby and was deliberately having him christened on the same day as a school outing for the Juniors or Middles because she didn't want a deluge of pupils attending. Do the Chalet Girls think they can just turn up en masse at any event relating to a past pupil? I think the entire school was bussed to Simone's wedding as well.

Any other middles out there who would like to form a Ku Klux Klan?

I think it would be top-hole but we'd better keep it from the Prees, they can be a bit stuffy.

Can you read the PDFs on a normal kindle (paperwhite rather than fire)? I have downloaded the moon reader app to my phone and that works pretty well but am missing my kindle.

You have to use calibre to convert it all to mobi files (at least that is what I do)

PDFs can be emailed to your kindle email address and are accessible that way.

I always hoped Anna and Rosli would join a union.

When is Anna's day off? I remember in reunion Joey giving her a week off to rest but when is she ever off duty?

As a punishment for them assaulting and scalding two complete strangers on an alpine walk ( no police/charges brought) the older Maynard's take on Anna and Roslis jobs for the day but that's it really.

They are bloody slaves and of course worship Joey.