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....

You would be fine, Mary - remember you would be wearing big gym knickers - very absorbent!

Any more Impertinent Questions?

I had forgotten about my Knicks. Ta muchly.

Who cheats at sums? quickly hides under the table to avoid the fight

Impressive dancing Doris :)

Robin - you can't rescue anyone, you're too potentially ill. In fact, I'll ask Matron to make you stay in bed.

Tinuviel Joey will rescue you. She will sing until there's an avalanche and there you'll be.

Milk all round!

but.... I don't want to stay in bed! I want to rescue people!

Well, you could rescue an orphan girl from a very dodgy house in France.....

Oh! On the subject of knickers, wtf are the prees thinking of in Shocks when they play "identify your own slip, as stolen from the laundry" with the staff?

Actually, I've just checked again and would like to correct my accusation: they do, in fact, play "identify your colleagues' slips, as stolen from the laundry" with the staff.

Doesn't it say "underthings" or something similar? I am at the thought of them all sorting through a pile of knickers.

I'm reading Laurels Are Poison by Gladys Mitchell at the moment (whodunnit set in a women's teacher training college, written in the 1940s) and I'm truly at the jolly tricks the young women there play on one another and the staff. The CS staff sorting through each other's knickers pales into insignificance. It's weird, because on the face of things they treat each other with much more formality than we ever would - students and staff address each other as Miss Whatever, and so on. But then they show a disregard for each other's privacy by messing about in each other's bedrooms bathrooms and knicker drawers that we would consider unthinkably disrespectful. Was life really like that?

Yes, I'm reading Shocks at the moment and the underthings made think "hmmm" fun party...

Please could someone pm me with the link to the transcripts.

Robin wants to rescue people? This will never do as she may potentially sneeze become calamitously ill and miss Tante Marguerite's birthday. I shall compose a new ditty for someone to sing in Madame's honour. Maybe Verity's silvery voice would be appropriate, as we all know Joey is too busy taking over organising other things.

hels Who cheats at sums? quickly hides under the table to avoid the fight

Was it Hilda somebody? Only she didn't really, hence the fight? She had been used to checking the answers herself at home and been given by mistake a maths book with the answers in the back.

I probably got the name wrong - am reading several Armadas one after the other in no particular order and can't check which one!

Who were terrified at three in the morning by ghastly squealing sounds in the New Forest?

Ruth Barnes I believe...but she didn't and that nasty Phil Craven asked the question.....I actually like Mary-Lou in this book as she seems quite normal!!!!

I've just read Highland Twins and was actually bubbling when Joey found out Jack was missing, then Dr Jem appears 'with his syringe ready' and drugs her The drugging is starting to get to me, maybe I need a Mallory Towers break?

[Grin] Lonny I found that quite moving too.

Hope everyone has been to church this morning and is feeling suitably reverent.

I've just started Three Go... And it's really bugging me the way all the ages have changed. Suddenly the trips are just 5 years younger than Bride and Josette and Sybil are only 4 years apart. And Peggy seems to have been a senior for years.

My lambs I sense a slight need to see Joey as less than perfect.

Be warned as those who do not recognise her genius and perfection tend to go bad ways. miss Bubb? Matrons Webb and Besley and Thekla.

Take care my sugar pies.

Mallory Towers? That brings back memories. St Clare's! What I really want to re-read but I don't think are in print, (I may be wrong) are the Antonia Forest (Nicola & Lawrie Marlow) school series.

Rainy Sunday afternoon. I must go and block a drain with a scarecrow and then leave my named girdle with it so it's obvious that it was me.

Stokey, I went to my private chapel - saved up for years for that, I did. Lived on nothing but stale bread and water until I was 46 but it was worth it. Now I'm saving to build a museum to house my friends' unwanted tat gorgeous craft work.

This afternoon I will be mostly listening to squalling toddlers a visiting gypsy band outside my local tea room, followed by a peaceful evening reading about the lives of the saints. Such gentle Sundays I have.

Meanwhile, back at impertinent questions. Which member of staff enjoyed rifling through their colleagues' underthings just a little too much?

I think you're right, Joey, about Antonia Forest's books being out of print, but most of them are available second hand for reasonable prices either via Amazon if you can stomach their tax-avoidance activities, or via ABE which is less straightforward but (as far as I know) more ethical. And I wouldn't be surprised if someone came on here with something about transcripts too.

Thanks MsCeritaCello I hadn't considered ABE! Going to have a look now. But if anyone does know of any transcripts, I would be very appreciative!

Ugh, the description of Peggy when she meets Polly and Lalla is horrendous - she's all dainty and dressed in white with a big sunhat on, with clean fingernails, soft, pretty silvery curls etc. She is so annoying! If I was Polly I would hate her, not decide at once to emulate her (which obv is impossible because Peggy is so pretty and ethereal and UNREALISTIC).