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

[DeWee]

I've just got 1st edition of Leader for 1.

[thebodylovesspring]

DeWee I hope you arnt a smug little prig like Eustacia was until she had a serious accident, lay on her back for a year and became a proper chalet girl.

[Toospotty]

Leader is awful though, so I'm not sure that isn't more in the nature of a fine.

[AuditAngel]

I'm lost. My parents put me on a train, but I went via the South of France, it took ages.

I don't know where my trunk is and I ate all my tuck as my sandwiches ran out halfway through France.

Does anyone know what form I'm in? I'm 12, but frightfully clever.

[CorrieDale]

I wish I were gloriously pretty. I am however very plain and unlikely to grow into my features, and so I should retire from this thread and indeed the school!

Oh no! Wait! I am extremely studious and clever. Can I stay after all?

[Toospotty]

All Chaletians end up attractive, Corriedale. Winnie Embury was at St Scholastika's.

[SelfRighteousPrissyPants]

There's an avalanche warning so I hope Mary Lou moderated her usual clarion tones...
"COME HERE NOW YOU SICKENING MIDDLE!!"

[TooExtraImmatureCheddar]

If she did, then Joey will have set it off instead by singing The Youngest Shepherd/Jerusalem or something in her golden mezzo-soprano, of no great strength but with something of the unearthly quality of a choirboy.

[SelfRighteousPrissyPants]

Do you think some hot hefty peasants will dig us out any time soon? I really don't want to melt snow to drink, especially the yellow snow.

[YouWithTheFace]

(Who was looking for the back story of Barbara and Vi? You're going to need to read EBD's La Rochelle series!)

[CorrieDale]

I could swear that I have seen a reference in one of the books to 'Matey didn't as a rule like to give sedatives to the girls..'

Did I dream it?

[RueDeWakening]

Rings a (vague) bell, Corrie - one of the early ones, when I think Jo was being far too excitable about something. Can't remember what, though...

[SelectAUserName]

That's what she told people. Do as I say, not as I do when it came to sedatives, our Matey.

[DeWee]

thebody well I did have a nasty fall on the tennis court last weekend and took about 2" of skin off my arm.

I don't speak any latin though except the first verse of Adeste Fideles, and no Greek at all, so maybe that lets me off.

Leader is obviously the book in which EBD tries to show that Len is as much of a busybody helpful interferer as Joey/Mary lou. Unfortunately tried is the operative word, because she doesn't manage. Len comes out as a push over in the face of Jack.

And EBD is totally unfair to big sister Anne. The book starts with saying she's a lot older-but neither are allowed to go to the Chalet School until Jack is 11-so Anne then gets 3 years less. I have a horrible suspicion that EBD thought that was being totally fair. then all the remarks about her being "colourless" and things like that.
Actually I think Anne sounds rather nice. Jack otoh is rather a nasty piece of work.

Youwith I was after the backstory. I might try looking up the La Rochelle series. I haven't read any of them.

[indigo18]

I simply can't plait hair like those European girls. Hope I can soon go for a haircut and ask for my hair to be washed in Holy Water.

[Hakluyt]

I think I am very shortly going to become seriously ill because I stood at an open door looking out at the snow for 5 minutes. Do you think the a Robin will cure me by singing the Red Sarafan 47 times? I want to be well in time to jump over 12 candles in illicit petticoats to ensure a happy year and pour molten lead into cold water to determine my future.

[MissAnnersleyismyhero]

oh no! I just fell down a mountain crevasse and was rescued by a Inter V girl using her macintosh belt, sadly I've ricked my ankle very badly and had to be carried home by a handsome Dr from the San. He is coming to visit me tomorrow, apparently as soon as he saw me "he knew what the future would hold". I'm only 15, but hey-ho, I'm sure it'll be fine. Maybe he has some of that nice milk matey gives us all...

[MissAnnersleyismyhero]

p.s clearly I am as beautiful as a fairy-princess with violet eyes, waist length or is it ankle length black hair and pale, perfect skin. Oh and I speak 3 languages and have a place at Oxford to read medicine, but I'll be giving all that up to have 800 babies

[SolidGoldBrass]

My DS who is 9 has demanded to be allowed to read The School At The Chalet. What have you imps of middles done to him?

[Toospotty]

My DS read it at 7. But he found it boring!

[DeWee]

Dh read some of them just after we'd got married. I've never seen him laugh so much at a book.

[thebodylovesspring]

When me and dh were 19 we went to Wales. We swooped books and he read Eustacia while I read his war time comic books 'Got in Himmel england kind' etc.

We are still together. 30 years on. Wierd.

[Alicebannedit]

TooExtra Does anyone know if the transcript of Shocks is the Armada version or not, btw?

Yes I have just finished reading it - it's in an Armada Three-in-one; the other two are CS and Jo and Problem.

Bit late turning up for the party but it took me simply ages to find out where they'd moved the school to this time - then I saw a note pinned to the back door on the last day of term. Wondered whether Rosalie was still in charge of admin?

[Alicebannedit]

(p.s. I was getting terribly anxious)

[Summerbreezing]

I had such an interesting time getting here. I met a frightfully nice woman on the train who struck up a conversation with me because she liked my pretty uniform. It turns out that she's actually my third cousin twice removed and she and her husband are actually moving out to Switzerland next Spring with their 6 daughters. So she contacted Miss Annersley straight away and they're all joining the school next week. I should think the older two will be in with us, and the middle two will be a form below us and the two babes (they're only 11 and 12) will be with the tiny kids. Won't it be jolly?