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....

There's a Mrs Jarley in Lintons and one in Gay From China (Bill is not Mrs Jarley due to the broken leg). I'm not positive but there might also be one in Switzerland - unless I'm confusing it with St Nicholas.

No, the curls aren't the result of the accident! Just an EBD-ism.

I'm going on my fifth holiday to the Achensee this year. [smug emoticon]

It really can be proper hot there in the summer. That average temp is a bit .

Well jel of everyone that's been to the Tirol.

Well my lambs I've been roaring through the CS transcripts and having finished Kenya was marginally disappointed to discover that Marylou isn't on there. I can't re-read her accident, subsequent coma and radical new hairdo?

Does any lamb have a transcript of ML they are willing to share please?

I had best go and practice for Friday, Madame's Birthday. Tra-La-Laaaaa!

As a child I always wanted curls.

I read about marylous accident and then Adrienne's and decided to engineer an accident to her them.

I threw myself off my chopper bike and ended up with a bump on my head and skimmed knees.

Mom told me off for being careless, those were the good old days!, I got covered in germoline, anyone else remember the round blue tin?

But didn't need to have my head shaved to make the difference between madness and sanity ( think EBD got confused with Samson there) so still no curls!!

As a child I always wanted curls.

I read about marylous accident and then Adrienne's and decided to engineer an accident to get them.

I threw myself off my chopper bike and ended up with a bump on my head and skimmed knees.

Mom told me off for being careless, those were the good old days!, I got covered in germoline, anyone else remember the round blue tin?

But didn't need to have my head shaved to make the difference between madness and sanity ( think EBD got confused with Samson there) so still no curls!!

Bugger sorry posted twice.

Vintage - Mrs Pertwee is much worse for that though. At least the trips are under 10. Yseult is 14 at least...

That's hilarious, HappyDays. I was always rather more envious of the sudden slimness, already having the frizz curls myself.

I'm re-reading Mary Lou, and its a pity she didn't have the accident at the beginning. As right from the start Mary Lou has had a personality transplant.
She's gone from a slightly annoying bossy young girl (similar to a lot of 11 year olds I know), to a bit of a sock puppet. Joey is treating her as much "older" than her friends, but otherwise she doesn't seem to have much personality.
Verity though has gone from "silvery voice" and not much else for the last few books - to being moony. She always was slow, but not especially moony - just one of those kids you can't move faster whatever you do. (Of course as a parent you just get them up earlier.)

Curliness can disappear (and I assume appear) with adolescence, and adolescents can be clumsy, maybe EBD had thought what caused someone to get curlier hair was the head injury not the adolescence bit. (Or the secret perm, or just loosing hair from plaits allowing the natural curl to show).

Actually in the transcripts so far (so non-edited versions) some of the descriptions of motherhood are quite accurate. So Joey being exhausted from a fractious child - although it is always teething rather than the modern "reflux". She also breast fed her children - although that is pretty subtle (and we won't discuss exclusively breastfeeding Triplets).

I was wondering if EBD is tall - that seems to be another of her obsessions along with curly hair and violet eyes. Nell, Hilda, Jo And MAdge are all tall as are several girls.

Just read Peggy where Madge unexpectedly pops out twins. Joey is hyper-critical about the gaps between her children - competitive childbirth is so odd. Although I suppose if Madge's eldest is 16 and she got married at 26, she must be in her early 40s.

Also interesting to see that Kevin was presumably an upper class name for EBD. I love the name Kester, almost makes me want to have another child so I can use it - although in EBD's world I'd get twins or trips.

Happydays I think there might be some truth in the curly hair after head shaving exercise. A few years ago I went for a whole year cutting my very straight hair myself. I used one of those razor combs and combed the hair back using a strong wavey sort of movement. When I let it grow to a decent length again [and I now have it cut professionally every 10 weeks or so] it had become very nicely waved and has continued so now for at least five years. As an aside, I remember reading somewhere that curly hair is caused by damaged hair follicles [or summat like that!] so that may be why?

I've read that hair can change every seven years or so. My hair has certainly varied over my life, from pretty wildly curly to verging on straight, although I'm not sure I could map it to seven years cycles with any ease. But a 14 year old with suddenly short hair (length might have weighed the curls out) going curly might fit into that pattern?

I'm never entirely clear as to whether Molly Bettany and Madge realise they are competing for number of children? Never mind optimum gaps or number/size of multiple births...

I went to school with a Kester.

And I also remember wishing for curly hair, but was never brave enough to throw myself off a bike for it.

Bill has hair past her waist and still it curls. She must be wholesale.

Mine actually got curlier as it grew once too! My biggest envy is people with curly hair who have lovely long curly hair that doesn't look a complete mess, like mine did.

You should have just put it in earphones.

Yes but we all know Kester is because of Kester the naturalist and Madge's secret affair, no?

DD is an interesting case:
born with dark hair (not much curl)
At 1 had straight blonde hair
By 2 had blonde curly hair
gradually darkened, but still curly
at 11 ish light brown/blonde curly but wouldn't grow beyond shoulder length
at 15 started to grow again, still curly.

She puts it up, but it does look good lose, but it needs a good conditioner etc.

Oh, so true, Lonny. Her marriage to Jem had been stale and sexless for years, and ever since she'd got wise to those sleeping draughts, there was no chance of more babies. But then she gazed on the magnificent site of Kester Bellend's beard.

Is Kevin Jem or Kester's son I wonder? (Have EBD level of knowledge of all things medical>.

That would explain all these endless 'identical apart from wildly different hair and eye colour' multiples!

Imagine if your choices were Dr Jem or Kester Bellend. :(

Were upper middle class girls really as hopeless in the kitchen as the Chalet girls. In Lavender there is yet another daft mishap when Daisy and her friends don't realise that a gust of wind from the window has flipped over a page of the cookbook and just carry on regardless, mixing up two recipes and ending up with inedible waffles. Between that and not being able to tell the difference between cloves and garlic, and cod liver oil and cooking oil they're feckin' disasters in the cooking dept.

And not forgetting the sulphur cakes, too...

Oh yes, I'd forgotten those. It was obviously just a quick, easy filler episode for EBD when she was writing her books. Cooking mishap, someone falling over a cliff, Joey having starstruck new girls to tea, fete/Christmas play and that's half the book written before she even has to think of a central plot.

Lonny I hadn't even put two and two together

Of course he's Madge's secret love & Kevin just had to be shoehorned in to fit with Kester.

Just started Carola, and Jo gives Biddy some special milk to help her sleep. Yet another clandestine affair?