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

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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....

I quite like Coming of Age because it goes back to the Tiernsee, which I always missed. may take these books a bit too seriously

I can never really follow the pantos etc - I know this is a failing of mine. :(

Coming of Age definitely has too much 'Mary Lou, bearer of the Joey Maynard shining light' about it, for all the trip down Tirolean memory lane is often really nice. There is a bit where Joey talks about motherhood and stress (wrt Frieda) which is really insightful in parts, apart from the context being that Joey is suggesting that a regular weekend away with Mary Lou calling her "Frieda" and not "Frau von Ahlen" will fix it.

I think the Swiss books really suffer for the lack of Bill and Madge. Even Gaudenz can't make up for it.

“By the end of the week it was known all over the school that not only Mollie Avery, but Gay Lambert, Frances Coleman, and Jacynth Hardy were down with jaundice. By the end of another, quite half the members of the three Sixth forms had joined them, and two or three from the Fifths followed suit. When it got to this stage, Miss Annersley quarantined the Seniors, since they seemed to be the only ones affected,”

This is really interesting if what they all had was Glandular fever, especially as jaundice isn't a normal symptom (not even one I knew was associated with it). Especially with its nickname of kissing disease.

Hepatitis A could be another culprit - it's a food/drink-borne one IIRC, and usually isn't that serious. Karen must have slipped up.

And glandular fever can be spread by other methods than just kissing - I caught it in my first year at uni from sharing mugs with someone who had it that's my story and I'm sticking to it It would be unusual for everyone who caught it to develop jaundice though.

I haVe indeed been slacking and I feel the beady eye of upon me. How can I ever be promoted to full library pree if I don't do my duty?

PM me if you'd like transcripts my lambs.

Oh could it have been related to the bad drains?

Erm, possibly, though given EBD's level of medical knowledge generally, I suspect she may not have intended that to be a deliberate link!

My brother developed jaundice after first contracting glandular fever.

...but why am I mentioning a brother who isn't even a doctor? Hardly marriage material, after all. Forgive me, my lambs.

OK, it's the weekend before the birthday. Who is ready in their cool white tennis frocks to go to Innsbruck to buy presents and be rude to Berliners???

Me. I am ready oh but I am never rude ( I leave that to Joey)

Can we buy a castle made from strawberry ice-cream? I have always wanted to try it...

Oh yes you are right hels, it's time to collect. 5 schillings each?

I have been fined so much this week I only have a threepenny piece left. Will that do?

Am more than happy to get into my skimpy tennnis dress if it's for a shopping trip and not anything sporty.

By the way Mary Lou is in solitary confinement for using an expression 'more vulgar than anything heard in this school before'. I hope she doesn't snitch on me.

Oh dear how shocking! And at least Mary Lou doesn't go off singing to people.

Now you've solved the juandice. Next what is the joke about Lady Acetylene Lampe - I know what an acetylene lamp is, I just have never found it funny - its a bit like hearing a translation of a joke in Swedish - by the way its said you know its supposed to be funny - but it just isn't.

Does anyone know why it's so hard to get a proper unabridged copy of Three Go...... that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, whereas there are several affordable copies of Lavander Laughs..... available at reasonable enough prices (relatively speaking)? They're both set in the Wales/1940s era.

I missed the trip to Innsbruck! I'm going to go and glower at passing folk in the rose garden while pretending to read my book which will remain untouched on my lap.

I may decide to lock someone in the art room so they miss the tennis match instead. So many things to do, so little time!

Vintage, it's probably because Lavender has 'minor frequent cuts' whereas Three Go has 'very major cuts', which includes a whole chapter and various other bits. I know that I'm more keen to get hold of originals where there's lots missing than where there are a few bits here and there.

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Ha well I have just blocked off a spring with a scarecrow I found lying in a field as you do!

I am up for sitting outside the hotel to listen to the Tizange band!!

I am married with one DD. My DH has been posted to a hot, hot place it doesn't really matter where; it might be Samoa or India or somewhere like that; it's very, very hot indeed and that's what matters and the climate isn't suitable for DD.

I could stay in England with DD and send her to the local school. However, I don't think it's a good idea for DH to be abroad in a hot, hot place without me. My place is with him anyway, without me keeping an eye on him, he'll either be bothering the domestic staff or having "White Mischief"-style fun with the ex-pats.

Therefore, I've decided to go with DH and dump DD with a totally unsuitable relative who will provide her with a deeply sketchy education and an abiding feeling of resentment. I'm sure she'll be OK and we'll be back in eight years or so. Anyway, we're doing her a favour - if she really goes off the rails, we'll have set her up as the ideal protagonist for a formulaic school story, which will be great.

AIBU?

Yes the Lady Acetelyne Lamp joke was hilarious, no?

I always liked Polly and Lalla. The step brother who marries Peggy sounds a pompous twat.

Why would the dad move his entire family from London to the Yorkshire moors and then piss off for years.! What about the wife's wishes.

And then he comes back and moves them all again to Devon? Selfish bastard.

Just reading "Shocks" why in the name of Joey does Miss Annersley need Jack's advice on Emerence? Has she not been head mistress of the school since god was a pup? One would have thought that she might have had a bit of a clue when it came to running the school without having to take advice from any passing doctor!just because he is male

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When I first read the Lady Acetelyne Lampe bit (when I was a kid) I read the first couple of pages and had to check that it actually was a Chalet School book as it didn't seem like it!