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

Both from holiday stories. First is Jo to the Rescue and other is Joey and co in Tirol, I think.

Thank you!!! I was trying to work out how old Margot was at the time and where in the sequence it fell.

Margot's tantrum with Jack is in Rescue I think. And Charles gets appendicitis in Joey and Co in Tirol I think. It's one of the later holiday books.

Am currently reading New Mistress and Matey has just informed Miss Ferrars and Mary-Lou that she is going to 'touch you both up with my lotion afterwards'. I'm assuming she has already offered them hot milk so in their drug induced state they won't remember it!

She then goes on to offer her 'special' bath crystals, suggests an early night then tells the Head she's going to give her a sedative (whether she wants it or not, presumably).

Yep, I used to snigger at that line every time I read it when I was old enough to know its alternative meaning.

I also really like the one, is it New Chalet School? where Bill offers up her study and her room to the prees so they can catch some no-good Middles, and says she will sleep in with Con Stewart, and everyone else is like 'no no no, there's no need, we can do xyz instead', and Bill's all like 'no no no, we should go with my plan', and goes skipping and laughing off to bed at 10o'c in spite of every other book ever repeatedly commenting on how much of a night owl she is.

Going back to pansy eyes - I always imagine them as sort of 'fixed and dilated', whatever the colour. And for some reason I then find myself thinking of special milk...

I really love EBD's inconsistencies and I am really enjoying re-reading (and reading some for the first time) the stories. Really, if you had said to me a few months ago that I would be spending all my spare time reading Chalet School books I would've thought you had gone quite mad!

I must find another word other than "really", I really ought.

Part of me wants to read the fanfics but most of me thinks best not until I have re-read all the books I can. I can't really explain this!

Have finished Highland Twins and was a bit at Fiona's using second sight seeing Jack alive. Of course I knew for the future plots (and Joey only has 3 children at that stage - unless she then became a bit too friendly with any passing male!) that Jack had to have survived but it was a bit out of the run of play with the religion they all practised as a matter of course. I know that my Nan who was extremely religious firmly stated that any thing like second sight, tarot cards, mediums etc were the work of the devil trying to sway doubting minds so it seemed unlikely for that to be allowed to happen.

But hey ho end of the book is nigh, Jack's back and all's well with the world. Off to read about Lavender! :)

Rumble - and when the teachers run, they run as lightly as girls. Always. Apart from Nancy Wilmot, obv

I can't believe how much I'm looking forward to reading the books that had been heavily cut in Armarda in there full glory, especially Highland Twins, Three and Problem - the last two are among my favourites. The only thing is that because I'm reading them to dd I only get to read a couple of chapters a night so it may be some time before I can read them.

When I read them when I was young (OK, a teenager ), I used to dream they'd find undiscovered Chalet books, first I found the fill ins which are OK but not the real thing and now the unabridged editions.

And apart from the broad Miss Durrant.

I'm near the end of Carola.

I don't know - the theological angle of the second sight thing caught my interest when I re-read (totally passed me by as a child - I think all the religion did, apart from the separating for prayers). Miss Annersley is initially sceptical (and it is totally, totally one of those "we will only bend the rules because it is the celebrated Joey" occasions), Miss Wilson objects and doesn't stop objecting (wanders off "looking disturbed" or something iirc) - I found this disagreement quite interesting and wondered whether EBD, who must have converted by this time (?), was also siding with Miss Wilson against it.
Then, of course, I think she makes it 'safe' by having Fiona touch Jack's rosary as her aid.

I wish I'd read them in order the first time round, so that I might not have actually known Jack lives to father a further 5bn children. I bet it would make it a better story.

And probably also apart from, who is it? I think she's a French teacher. Whenever they play "let's jump over candlesticks", she lands really heavily in spite of her tiny frame.

Actually I think always moving through the corridors at speed is one of the most realistic features of the books. Though my sink school local comp was rather different so perhaps I am mistaken!

Oh and I read the Hilda Annersley: Headmistress fill-in today and it is rather luffly. There are a handful of bits I'd like to edit a little, but on the whole it is really nicely done and a significant development without losing the proper essence of EBD's own books.

Who's that by, Nell? Is it a GGB?

I enjoyed Headmistress too, I don't think I would have when I initially read the series but I think it's definitely aimed at us older readers.

Agree that the religion aspect of the CS books bypassed me as a child or I saw it as absolutely normal? (I probably had enough of it force-fed to me in real-life on Sunday early morning and evening, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and then the friggin' church cleaning & flowers on a Saturday) - I come from a very religious family.

but I am the family Black Sheep. :)

Joey seems very open minded about her faith [for the time] and doesn't mind if she worships in t'other one once in a while. Miss Wilson was very disapproving, definitely - but it was to save Joey! I'm surprised that Robin didn't sing to her. As she's always been so much older than her age... I did have the impression that Daisy was older than Robin but I think that I misread that.

I can't wait to finish them all so I can read the fanfic or fill-in stories - but then I won't have so much to read!

I bet poor Jack gets home and has to tolerate the Robin and the Joey singing at him til he's properly well again.

Empress, it's by Lesley Green and isn't a GGB one. I picked it up online somewhere for about a tenner I think, which probably only seemed a good price cos I can't find A CS Headmistress for any money, and I'd just realised that most of my "priority - must buy" CS shopping list had melted away like alpine snow, thanks to the transcript prees!
Agree with why though - although true to the books, it is def written for the adult reader.

I didn't like the second sight bit either. it seemed totally out of character for either the Chalet School to let Fiona, or for Joey to hear her out.

I've just reached the point in "and Jo" when Evadne is sent to the dentist and Joey, who is the worst person about dentist is telling her she's being a funk and "doesn't last long" and that sort of thing. I'm just longing for someone to tell her to belt up and she makes far more fuss. So much for her lovely empathy.

I had to bribe dd2 not to take "and Jo" away to read tonight. Unfortunately I offered her "Goodnight Mr Tom" as one she hadn't read. I forgot how upsetting it was. She has been crying on and off for over an hour now. I think she needs some hot milk with something to make her sleep.

If you like Lesley's writing (yes - I know her) and fancy something that's not quite CS but related, she's written an epic called Real Chalet School in at least 8 parts. It tells the story of how they escape into the real world and restart the school. I won a prize in a raffle Lesley did and the prize was a copy of her book and a part in the next RCS (not telling you who I am though ). I think RCS is available on the lime green twinsets forum.

Who am I?

I have a sil who is a pain in the arse,

I have a db who is a pain in the arse,

I had 2 of my children born on Boxing Day and New Year's Day in the same year!! Wierd.

I used to be slim but now I am fat.

Mollie Maynard?

Is that Mollie Bettany? (married to Dick) I don't remember her having a db who was a pain, but Joey is her SIL.

Happy, are you Mollie Bettany?