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 think at some point Rosalie decides to become a writer. I think she's seen writing feverishly and Bride and Tom ask to read it. I seem to remember bad-tempered new girl refusing to come and see. Not sure which one, could it be Jessica, or Naomi?

It's Annie Lovel. In island.

Oh yes, the incredibly funny names! Ooh you've similar names, are you related? That would be it. Obviously.

And the hysterically funny Day/Way/Gay/Rea coincidence. Maybe it's me or Joan Baker influenced me but re-reading that definitely made me think "so?"

I haven't read the Two Sams, but it always struck me there would be much better ways of showing they're related than having two names that are vaguely similar.
On that basis Flavia must be related to Flora and Fiona, Mary and Maria, and lots of other people. Come to that maybe Margaret Twiss must be realted to the Bettany clan as they've lots of Margarets too...

I can imagine the Day/Way etc thing being commented on at school. I'm sure we had that sort of thing noticed, although I think the boys were much more likely to make a thing about it.

Yy, and then Samantha and Samaris do turn out to be related through their Welsh great-great grandmother or something.

Annis of course not Annie Lovel. Really really must learn to check before posting..

Just been down in the village with Joan Baker drinking beer hot chocolate. Could someone open a window for us to climb through?

...downstairs junior splasheries...

Don't go round to Freudesheim for a bit. It turns out Peggy Winterton has been busy and had quads and Joey is going through the menopause. A distant relative of Andres has died leaving them millionaires so they have decided to make the Therese Lepattre scholarship yearly and Joey hasn't sold a book for years so can't match it with the Margot Venables one especially as Jack is cutting down his workload in view of retiring. AND Mary-Lou whilst out on a dig thought she had found something interesting so called out in her clarion tones and dislodged an unstable bit of masonry which fell on her head killing her instantly. To make matters worse all she had found was a silver coin with 167BC on it.

Thanks for the update, Robin I was about to head over there as I'm having problems with knitting this lime green twin set. It seems to have 3 sleeves so I've probably turned over 2 pages of the pattern at once.

I'll leave that for another day and go for a ramble instead. As there's a storm brewing, it seems perfectly feasible to go wandering up a mountain.

Bad news and good then, Robin?

That third sleeve is going to come in fantastically handy when we have to use it to pull you back from nearly falling off the mountain, Joey.

Do you think we will have to have a day of mourning for OOAO? We can have her coin for the school museum!

I've been indulging in a chalet school fest thanks to the trancripters. Still in war time aemishire.

My ML book arrived... I did nothing all afternoon but avidly read it until her accident. I am so evil!

Joey asks Jack, a trained doctor, what to look for, for signs that ML is coming out of the coma. "I don't quite know" he replies.

Reassuring for a doctor!

Nell I have converted the third sleeve to a gin bottle holder. And made another to match, just in case. One can never have too much gin. Joan Baker is making the same pattern but hers is for cheap cake, of course.
Picnic at the Auberge anyone? Gin and cake, for preference.

Gin and cake?? Surely a true chalet picnic to the auberge is lettuce sandwiches soaked in milk????

Yuergh. I must have missed that luxury. What book is it?

I was always rather entranced by the quivering pork pies.

mmm lettuce sandwiches. Especially soaked in milk! Yum. Must make that for this afternoon's tea.

Was it in Future CS Girl where Joey is taking her family out for a picnic and Ruey is making jam tartlets as Anna is busy. So she gets the jam, puts it in the tartlets and then Con packs them in the picnic. Without cooking them.

I think it's quite an early swiss one and someone fills their bag with toffees and a whistle and so puts the milk in upside down and it leaks all over her lunch. Biddy o'ryan is one if the staff on the walk as she shares her milk with whichever girl it was I think.....although it's a while since I read the Swiss books....

Cheap cake and gin, you say? And all fetchingly carried in lime green cardigans? I'm there!

I haven't read the book about the uncooked tartlets, I don't think. It actually sounds a bit more amusing than any other food mishap I can think of, but maybe that's the novelty value.

Isn't it Mary-Lou? I think it's Hilary who does that.

Has the pasword changed for the transcripts? It won't let me in? If it has, can you pm me, thanks.

DeWee I've just gotten in to the transcripts, same pw.

I also have 3 more CS books that arrived yesterday or 2 hours work that I could be doing.

I know what will be happening.

I'm chuckling at the thought of someone putting their drink in upside down. But also, milk, kept in a beaker in a rucksac on a warm day?

Yum yum. I do love sour milk.

Sorted. Don't know why it wasn't letting me in, but it is now. Maybe just I was using it on a different account earlier confused it. Computer is old and easily confused.

Joey and Jack do like referring to their children as brats, don't they? Sounds rather derogatory to me but maybe was more acceptable 40 years ago.

I am knitting a Lacey green card is for Joey. Is the extra gin arm obligatory?

Has anyone fallen into an alpine lake this weekend risking pneumonia?

Should be cardie obv stupid phone.

I was going to rescue the school cat who got stuck in the window but thought, naaa I'm off to the summerhouse cos Joan Baker has got her playing cards back from Miss Annersley unexpectedly

Not really sure how as I thought Miss Annersley was in Interlaken for the weekend but maybe she gave them back to Joan before then.

Stokey, extra gin arm on all woolly jumpers is now mandatory. I won a small cocktail shaker for threading the most needles in last night's competitions so that'll come in handy. It's big enough to get me through Algebra. What do we usually do on a rainy Sunday evening? Read? Dance? Feign a headache and got to bed early but head off to the local Bierkeller?

I am so going to be getting a Head's Report once she's back.