To wonder why MNHQ still haven't given us our Chalet School topic?

[TheObligatoryNotQuiteSoNewGirl]

Because we probably shouldn't still be hanging out in AIBU, four (or is it five?) threads later.

I've been reading all the lovely transcripts, and although I started Prefects yesterday, I don't want to finish it, because it's the last one! :-(

I thought if I was mean, they wouldn't make me a prefect! Maybe next time I will call Con a dozy cow a bit louder! I promise I will share my Tia Maria with you on Friday!

All is forgiven Tinuviel.

I don't want to be a prefect either. I don't think I'd have the lack- of-- imagination to invent all those lovely Saturday evening games.

Oooh, could I please have a link to the transcripts? All my books are stuck in my parents loft until I manage to clear out a bookcase and reclaim them.

Thanks

I started practicing my cry of "It can't be me," "There must be someone else better," and "I can't be as good as Aunty Joey," as soon as I arrived at the CS just in case they did make me Head girl.

Would one wear this lime green twin set with the velveteen hotpants?(always supposing that Matey returns them to the owners)

Impressed by Dewee knitting skills. I vote you be in charge of the CS new uniform. Woolen, of course. Joan Baker can help advise too.

If I were stationery pree I think I would charge all the Juniors and Middles for any stationery they needed. Need to get money for gin milk from somewhere! Don't think the Seniors would would quite as gullible. Any non-payers get the accidentally spilling ink from the carelessly placed bottle on the top shelf treatment.

But are your cakes edible, DeWee or have you added garlic, sulphur or cod liver oil in the manner of the best CS cookery lessons?

Like the sound of your jumper, BTW - very Joan Baker!! She likes plunging necklines.

As long as you've used Matey's special milk DeWee I don't mind what else is in your cakes.

Actually lime green knitted hotpants sound good. (Seeing as how Matey's pinched confiscated all our velveteen ones).

Many things are soporific in EBD world Joey - I think it's Jo Scott who drowses off after being soothed with a large cup of strong coffee

I know what you mean DeWee

"Gosh my surname's Bettany/Russell/Maynard/, I'm in the Sixth Form and there's a vacancy for Head Girl. I can't believe they chose me, it simply never occured to me. I really thought they'd choose Mary Smith."

Another request for the link to the transcripts please. I have all the Armadas but was only when lurking on previous thread here I realised they were abridged. Would love to read the original versions!!
Thank you

I think the only headgirl you see who doesn't go into a "It's a total shock, don't ask me, I'll be no good" is Loveday, which is quite ironic as she must have been a little surprised.

The most ridiculous is M-L. With her famous insight, been head of the middles and everything else "inherited" from Joey, her protestations seem positively false modesty. "methinks she doth protest too much"...

Even if Mary Lou had died before she made it to the sixth form they'd still have propped her in the corner and stuck a Head Girl badge on her.

Elisaveta I had forgotten that!

vintage you may very well be right! It's only Mary-Lou!

Another one hoping that someone will be kind enough to share the transcripts? I had no idea that the Armadas were abridged and I'm so excited at the thought of learning what I've been missing all these years, it's dragged me out of lurking.

Just sent more messages with details for accessing transcripts - give me a shout if I've missed you!

Agreed that Mary-bloody-Lou would have been made Head Girl even if dead, and there is no justification whatsoever for her pretending to be shocked. Even those with Bettany DNA have Sybil as a cautionary tale to keep their own anticipation slightly in check.

Mary-Lou must have had such a hard time in the real world. Can you imagine having to line manage her? Actually, can you imagine meeting her at interview and feeling at all as though you would like to employ her? Though I suppose she would always have had a position at the Chalet school, if she'd wanted it, to fall back on.

Thanks very much to those who sent transcripts - very much looking forward to doing some reading.
Though even without the books, this thread has been one of the funniest things I've read in a while!

Thanks for my messages - already engrossed

I don't think I can knit hot pants - lime green or otherwise! How about a bikini top? How hard can that be? I wouldn't recommend getting it wet though. The wool will stretch and sag!

Why on earth would you bet a bikini wet???

get a bikini wet.

Pleeese can we have an edit button?

Question! Which book would you recommend as a first one, for someone who is highly unlikely to read a second or third (or 59th)?

I keep dismissing possibilities because of fairly one-off things I wouldn't want to seem representative - eg Lintons which I love includes Thekla's expulsion, which is right and proper but really far better in context as such a very rare event; Gay from China is my personal favourite but I think the absence of staff/antipathy towards Miss Bubb only really makes sense when you have the rest to compare it to; Oberland is another oddity, as is Exile which I haven't entirely ruled out, but I think has a lot of complications in the opening chapters and I wonder how dramatic the flight from Austria can be, if you're not invested in the characters.

Maybe Lintons isn't such a bad idea. I like New/United a lot, too. I was trying to emphasise the distinction between Blyton (who my friend has read) and EBD, and for me one of the key points in this is that EBD is just much more sympathetic towards all of her characters, so I kind of wanted to steer clear of the two expulsions or the three examples of sanctioned contempt towards staff. I'm strongly biased towards a Tirolean book, or failing that a Welsh one. Lavender? Tom Tackles? But Tom has no Miss Annersley, which loses it some points.

Vintage my lamb you would get a bikini wet when you fell into the water whilst spectating at a regatta. Or when you rushed into the water to save a child in your care and win yourself a doctor. Or when the irrepressible middles threw water over you. Or when the Robin turns the garden fountain on to scare a burglar. Of course. In all events you would be promptly drugged up with enough milk to sleep it out and forget it ever happened.

I have an excellent book of knitting patterns from 1942. As well as a bikini, there are patterns for a balaclava with earflaps "for when he goes on air raid duty"; a pattern for an incredible floor length lacy nightie made from such fine yarn it must have taken years to knit, and several designs for undies including bras and knickers, and Y fronts "for him". Tinuviel there is also a pattern for some rather brief shorts which might do you - the pictures are black and white but you can imagine it in lime green glory.

Nell are you referring to Joey and co in Tyrol when you are referring earlier to Len getting told off for looking after a sick sibling or is there another time?

Robin I mean in Joey and Co I think - it is a sick brother (I forget which) who eventually needs surgery (appendicitis?) and iirc Jack has a huge go at her for trying to deal with it herself rather than wake them. I am totally a projecting eldest sibling here, but I hate that Len is supposed to straddle this impossible thing of being helpful enough to make up for Jo's other commitments and supposed frailty, but also gets told off repeatedly for trying to do too much.

Veta I want a lime green balaclava with ear flaps!