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....

Apparently she has taken the names of everyone who was in the Summerhouse and we will be playing palm trees in the nativity play .

Oh, surely some of us could be understudies? That would be a suitable punishment, wouldn't it?

I hope she didn't notice me..... I like being an Angel (although I always find it strange that CS angels wear a variety of colours namely scarlet, green and blue whilst all angels in dress-up I've ever seen have been in white)

Oh no, it sounds like I missed a wonderful day, having been condemned to bed for passing notes in class. I was so distraught when Miss A explained to me how dishonourable my conduct was that I cried myself into a Bad Headache which called for special milk, so bed wasthe only reasonable punishment. I'm not tired at all now, so can may I have my share of cordial?

You are definitely on the list robin. In fact there's so many of us on the list that she will be reduced to having Bride Bettany and Tom Gay playing angels.

Oh, Cerita, I suppose that means you'll get to be Herod.

I am appreciating this line in Gay from China : "The Staff hastily convened a meeting in Miss Wilson’s bedroom, at which they appeared in various stages of undress." Lucky Bill.

Cerita there's no cordial left. Those policewomen drank it all. But I think there's a bit of DeWee's cake at the bottom of the basket.

cerita you missed all the fun.

vintage palm trees? Better than the rear of a donkey which is what I feared.

Is there more milk? I could do with a few glasses.

Well if you lot haven't left me any cordial I'm off to that meeting in Bill's room. I won't bother putting my dressing gown on.

I'm so sorry Cerita. We were actually saying in the summerhouse that it wasn't as much fun without you.
I think Bill is in the bad books as well. Apparently she's being sent off to head up some finishing school a few miles away. Something about being 'a bad influence on impressionable young girls'. What on earth does that mean?

Oh the big girls like Tom Gay and the big doctors daughter Monica marriliar revel in their men's costumes. Jack Lamberts another. They have plain but honest faces.

I myself have a bubbles crop, obviously not born with it Dr Jack shaved me after the fire/fall/head injury and now I have curls.

I have just seen Bill moaning to Kester Belkever about some sort of register? What's that then.

That's strange. I heard Madge this afternoon saying to Jack Maynard 'if there'd been a register around a few years ago you wouldn't have got within miles of Joey'.

This register sounds like a bad thing. Imagine no Joey and Jack and scores of dull lovely children.

Oh, just imagine.

I thought Miss Dene was in charge of the register?

She's asleep on the stairs after all that cordial and dewee's cakes.

Ha ha good Deneys asleep so let's go up and down the front stairs lots and and slide down the bannisters.

We can cos just seem the prefects go into the bike shed with Kester Bellever and he mentioned something about young birds!

I practised running as lightly as a girl out of my rose garden today.

Not that scientific as I have no rose garden, am not light or a girl but I did bend my knees at each step.

Ooh, shall we play slidey mats too thebody?

Miss Annersley has just come storming out of the bike shed with a very chastened looking Mollie Carew, Frances Coleman and Judy Rose. Peggy Bettany was studying in the library or smuggled out the window to prevent a bettanyrussellmaynard family scandal.

I say, d'you remember those boys that were making funny faces at us through the summer house windows. Well, they want to meet us tomorrow night at a dance in the village. I told them none of us were thinking of being betrothed just yet. They laughed their heads off. Apparently you can dance with a male, or even go to the cinema with them, and it doesn't mean you have to get married and have twins.

I never knew that, did you?

I seem to have missed lots. That awful Joan Baker told me there was a sheets and pillowcases party so I've spent all day making a Breton peasant outfit again and have missed all the fun. Are there any policemen left for me? (although I'd settle for

Summer - I don't understand. These boys: are they doctors? Or elder brothers of Chaletians?? Or members of the Austrian nobility???

If not: why are they in the story?

I'm afraid there are neither Tinuviel. Miss Annersley has sent us all to bed with bread and milk; and the policemen have departed (with a few comely mistresses -and Joan Baker - in tow).

But anyway, what a lovely day. I am sure Madame will never forget this birthday

fair apparently we don't have to marry these boys. They are just practise for when we are old enough to meet doctors or older brothers or other proper men to whom we will become betrothed as soon as we leave school. Otherwise we will have to come back here as teachers .

Summer - oh, I see. Like Hobbies Club. We practise with these boys.

Kind of like folk dancing?

What an exciting day. Hard to believe it is only sixteen hours ago that we were standing under Madame's window singing our hearts out.
I can't understand why Miss Annersley is so cross. I think she might be going through 'the change'. Apparently it causes women to get angry and upset about the most trivial of things.