To ask all Chaletians to get ready for Madame's birthday?

[LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett]

Pop to the splasheries my lambs and after you've brushed your hair till it shines we'll have a quick practice of 'I sing of Margaret so fair'.

Once we've finished casting the movie, that is....

Yes, I remember Gillian commenting on how pretty one of the girls in the photographs was.

I wonder did they just pick the best looking pupils for the prospectus -
"Okay, Wanda, Sybil, Marie, Joyce, Blossom and Verity stand on this side of the room"
"Mary Lou, Tom, Bride, Carola, Jack and Nancy that side"

"Joan Baker, please don't let the photographer even catch a glimpse of you".

You forgot about me Summer

Oops sorry. How could I have forgotten your angelic perfection. You, of course, are on the cover of the prospectus.

Was there a photo of Joey on her sick bed with a picture of snow in the background? And a line up of potential husband doctors to choose from too?

Actually Summer I could pass with a shove, so just fuck off

Oh, I had also forgotten that Problem was a Swiss one! I have reread that quite recently too. I'm reasonably sold on Redheads as my next one - a bit of bonkers will do me the world of good.

Massive lols at Mary-Lou going "fuck off" in her clarion tones, then being all wide-eyed indignation when somebody Kathie Ferrars before the lifesaving incident tells her off over it.

And me! I may only have brown hair, but I am Royalty.

I am certain that the prospectus would have had Joey's face on the front cover. Why else would no one ever read it?

Problem is definately my favouite of the Swiss ones, although I do have a soft spot for Coming of Age and Barbara. I like Problem because I would have loved to be Rosamund, although as my Mum bought cakes from the shop instead of making them I fear I may have been Joan.

In the Linton's Joyce is also somewhat jealous because there is someone in the prospectus who is prettier than her (I suspect either Robin or Marie). I loved how they made Joyce so terribly shallow, she is 14 in the books but sometimes is portrayed at about age 7, she is coddled and protected from the worst of her mum's illness and doesn't even seem to notice how ill her mum is, yet Gillian (who I like as a character) is only a year older and seems about 10 years older.

Of the Swiss ones I like Problem, Barbara and New Mistress.

I find Coming of age too much of a "oh how wonderful it is Joey and friends are behaving like rather badly behaved school children". I'm sure if they'd really behaved on a trip the way they did at that hotel they would have been pulled up on it very quickly-in fact I couldn't see any of the four of them, except Joey behaving like that at school at all.
Plus it is very Mary Lou is wonderful and special like Joey too.
But I have only got the Armada, so maybe the full version's better.

It's not so much that part that I like but when all the old girls get mentioned (is it in this book), I always have a bit of a soft spot for the oldies such as Margia/Evadne and Cornelia etc so I like it when they are mentioned in later books.

Unless I'm wrong (haven't read it for a bit) I think you're thinking of Reunion.
I think the old girls that appear in Coming of Age are Joey, Marie, Frieda and Simone.
Haven't got it to hand to check though.

I was always very smug about the cake making as my mother made her own. But I've never found out what leafy cake is.

Lots of old girls get mentioned in Coming of Age.

Maybe it was hash brownies!

Sorry to be a pain but if anyone has any transcripts they can email me please will they?

In a very pathetic exhange, I have a spare Amarda copy of Chalet Girls in Camp and secondly a two in one copy of Rebel and New House which I'm happy to post to someone if they would like them. PM me if they will fill a hole on your bookcase!

I've just been rereading "Three..." and suddenly everyone goes down with Juandice. Does anyone know of anything non-lifethreateningly serious which can cause Juandice?

Glandular fever mummytime

TooSpotty I had the feeling that leafy cake might be same as lardy cake, which I know was popular around 60 years ago. It was cheap and popular and full of saturated fat and absolutely delicious after the years of austerity. I just did a Google on it and found a similar query on
www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4083&start=0

The query originated from a Chalet School reader. Was it you ?

^ the best lardy cakes were made with 'leaf' fat, which memory probably prompted my mental link with lardy cake.

Oooo there is a little bakers in Newent near the Forest of Dean who make the best lardy cake

Robin I bet the Lardy Cake Police will soon be around because as I recall they were generous with the sugar as well as the lard! No wonder they were all fat by the Reunion.

you don't think it was all the "blankets of whipped cream" that they had with their coffees Alice?

And yet in Oberland all the uncultured first-time-out-of-England girls are scandalised by the light breakfasts!

Redheads : I love how Gaudenz alone is able to subdue the armed would-be kidnapper where the combined forces of another armed man, two girls, two mistresses and a bloody St Bernard have failed. I want a Gaudenz. You can keep your bloody doctors.

That scene is pure farce really. Gaudenz's comment about pushing him over a cliff are really un-EBD.
Much more comedy than any of the "hilarious" sports' day commentries or pantos.