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....

[TooExtraImmatureCheddar]

Oooh, a sheets and pillowcases party! What a scream! I shall be a ghost with badminton racquet wings.

[Tinuviel]

And I shall be a French Breton peasant (apologies to any Bretons reading this!) and I will look dainty for the first time in my life.

[MargiaStevens]

I shall of course come as Plato with a paper laurel wreath!

[MissAnnersleyismyhero]

I'll come as an Indian lady with a sari made of a sheet and "all the necklaces and bangles I can borrow" ...

[JoeyMaynardsghost]

What larks we shall have my lambs!

[RobinHumphries]

I'll come as an angel of course.


Dear script writers, can you rewrite my history and have me married off to a character played by Orlando Bloom? Many thanks! (Just don't make him a doctor whatever you do).

[TooSpotty]

I'm coming as a ghost. Like 99% of people would.

[MissAnnersleyismyhero]

Where is my prize for being an interfering busybody who glued my little "sister's" hair to a halo the most selfless and helpful?! I've been dressed as an Indian lady for ages and no one has been praising me!

[MargiaStevens]

That's because everyone is mooning over Joey's latest creation, not that I'm quite sure what it is but it could be Princess Leia with those buns...

[fairnotfair]

I used my sheets and pillowcase to manufacture a rather cunning tampon costume.

I am now in solitary confinement with a bowl of bread and milk .

[Marcipex]

A what costume, fairnotfair ?

We've never heard of that at the Chalet, thank you, so that's where your toes turn in.

[fairnotfair]

I've learned my lesson Marcipex but I think it's almost too late. Miss Annersley fears my corrupting influence. She fixed me with her keen grey/blue eyes (that have never needed glasses) and hence I realised the error of my ways.

However, I will be redeemed. I'll rescue a foolish Middle from a raging torrent and will subsequently almost perish from a nameless but terrifying illness that can only be cured by being sung to. I will be reborn a true Chalet girl. Henceforth, my sheets-&-pillowcase costumes will represent fisher-lasses and suchlike, rather than devilish sanpro.

[Marcipex]

What is a sarafan anyway?

Who did you rescue? A Junior from St Agnes, a St Bernard puppy, or a flaxen haired local Gretchen with smallpox/the white mans plague? Or all three at once?

[fairnotfair]

I think I probably rescued a member of the extended Bettany/Russell clan. Just to be on the safe side...

[JoeyMaynardsghost]

Having obtained permission from the prees, I've been to the Senior Library (google) where I discovered that a sarafan is a pinafore dress. Obviously we all know that the song The Red Sarafan was written by Alexander Egorovich Varlamov?

[MissAnnersleyismyhero]

fairnotfair is not a REAL Chalet School girl. She probably ruins her skin with powder and talks about boys

[MissAnnersleyismyhero]

oops just saw she rescued one of Joey's children! Did you make a rope out of your coat belt? Or just leap into a freezing river?

[Stokey]

Hope you rescued one of the important ones Fair, rather than a random boy who we only hear about at his birth.

To be sure of redemption it had better be Len or Con, doubt Joey would miss Margot much.

I always thought the sarafan was some sort of bird, I wish you a speedy recovery once your ears stop bleeding.

[fairnotfair]

Actually, Miss Annersley, I made a rope out of NYLONS! I got them from Joan Baker (she's cheaply pretty, you know) - she swapped them for a powder compact and a nearly empty bottle of Coty's "L'Aimant".

But that's all in the past now. I am a jolly schoolgirl with no use for such fripperies.

[RobinHumphries]

I thought fairnotfair had come as an unlit candle. I was most confused when Matey went puce and rushed her off like that....

[Summerbreezing]

I congratulated Verity Ann on her Little Bo Peep outfit. She looked quite put out and said she hadn't changed into her costume yet

[DeWee]

I got it wrong and thought we had to make the costume out of crepe paper. Most of it had nearly fallen apart before the first dance, and I spilt my drink and the colour's run all over my velveteen evening frock I was wearing underneath and the chair I was sitting on. What will Matey say?

[Vintagejazz]

I thought I'd come as a Mummy so I tore up my sheets and pillow cases to look like bandages. Matey is furious and I am not allowed go on any expeditions this term. I have to sit with her and do hemming instead. And I soooo wanted an opportunity to push save Mary Lou from falling into an icy lake.

[JoeyMaynardsghost]

Robin unlit candle!

fairnotfair Nylons? That Joan Baker has a lot of explaining to do! Mind you she is common so won't now any better, poor lamb.

Vintage you surely are asking to be expelled? But maybe you've got a lovely golden voice or are extremely good at tennis so they won't expel you.

DeWee Matey is very busy today. All those naughty middles to keep in isolation. I still blame that Joan Baker.

Oops I should be in Latin. Hope that I haven't been missed! And double whoops is it French day today?

[Vintagejazz]

I don't have a golden voice Joey but I am exceptionally pretty with silvery curls and eyes like pansies. I don't think they're allowed expel girls like me only the ugly ones.