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! :-(

By the way, where does Tom Tackles the Chalet School fit in sequentially? It was written after the Chalet School and Barbara which was set during the first term in Switzerland, but from the synopsis it seems to be set several years earlier, and before Three Go...., because Daisy Venables is still a pupil and Miss Linton is still a teacher.

Actually just googled it and apparently it was originally written as a series for annuals published in the late 40s and then published as a book a few years later.

It's set between Joey to the Rescue and Rosalie, I think. Then Mystery. I may be slightly wrong but that's more or less it.

The bit where Miss Slater says she doesn't want to go to Switzerland, and even - shock horror - wants to try new ideas and/or for a headship, I really disliked the staff response to that, though I suppose it's v realistic. But, though she may be the only teacher to leave the school as an organisation, Dollie Edwards at least doesn't move with the rest to the Platz (she becomes the head of the Welsh branch) - I'm not sure if anyone else stays behind? Miss Everett definitely seems to disappear but I'm not sure when and why. Do they ever garden in Switzerland?

Oh and Joan my lamb I love your name!

Nell

I think tom comes only a term or two after gay and a term before Rosalie.

Delighted I have another Amishire book to read. I thought I had sadly finished them all.

JoanBakersShopCake I have been told not to associate with you. Apparently you might introduce me to chip shops and Boys! (I'm in leafy dorm and happy to shinny down the drainpipe if you need any company).

Some helpful pictures to accompany your reading of Tom, my lamb.

Some more.

That Joan is a bad influence. Aunty Joey thinks we should all remain young for as long as possible, until our final year when we should promptly become engaged because they do marry young over here, you know, and as Marie or Gisela or Frieda or someone would say, it is the reason god made woman. No boys or shop cake for true Chalet girls.

They're great Nell. Thanks.

Oh I know Joan is a bad influence. I just thought if I accompanied her to the chip shop I could make sure she didn't make herself cheap and obvious.
By the way, has anyone got a needle and thread? I just need to take up the hem of my velveteen frock a bit.

But now it's nearly up to your knees!

Oh is that all damn thanks Nell. Could I just borrow that needle and thread again

In Rivals Joey's frock is miles above her knees, iirc. At the beginning when they meet Miss Browne.

I think I spy some earphones in those illustrations! When were those drawn? Are they authentically period? They look very like the original illustrations in The Famous Five - Tom looks just like the first drawings of George.

vintage Julie gets married to a housemaster at her brothers school. In,I think it's the one with Melanie Lucas and the holidays ,Jo reads a letter from Janie Lucy that tells this. Len asks her what about her career as a barrister and Jo replied that it's off as Julie would be too busy supporting her husband!

Betsy was the plain one!

Miss slater gets ditched because she dislikes Margot. And dates to say so.

I shagged vic coles and then we wolfed down shop cake as our table manners are shocking.

I'm too lazy to look up in the text who it is that Joey is talking to here, but look at them backing away from the headphones! I presume they are the same age as Tom which I'm also too lazy to look up - sometime late 1940s as per Vintage's earlier post?

The 'nearly up to your knees' gasp of horror is I think Nancy in New Mistress to another mistress, at the "wear worn out clothes" staff evening. The mistress in the shrunken dress (I can't remember who) says its ok, she's wearing a red slip just in case.

thebody my lamb isn't that an expellable offence? Are you engaged now?

Miss Slater didn't like OOAO either, did she? She was, I think, in an unholy alliance with Phil Craven.

I also have a book you might wish to borrow, vintage

Thebody

Nell Those pictures look like everyone always had a bad hair day!

In Cricket Term, Ginty counts the days to the swimming gala and works out that she 'won't be cursed'.
That is the only mention of periods in AF, as far as I know. (I know the books by heart but haven't got Run Away Home.)

She was, I think, in an unholy alliance with Phil Craven.

This is quite long but much of it made me laugh, a lot.

One of those pictures appears to have Jo being met by a mob of cloaked and eager monks. I cannot for the life of me think what it is really supposed to illustrate. They are all staring earnestly at her as if waiting for her to tell them the secrets of the universe, and kind of bending in an apologetic and prayerful fashion.

I may need to enter the poor Claire's convent for my sins.

It sounds a blast.

at the Phil craven comment and joeys headphones.

Whatever happened to Phil Craven? I don't remember her leaving. It might have been good to have an enemy for ML in the later years.

I think she stayed in England to be with Miss Slater. Actually, she pops up so often in fan fic that I have lost all sense of the 'actual' story.

Nell, I LOVE that stuff. Very funny indeed.

Nell that was a brilliant link, thank you!

Phil Craven went to America I think

Gruss gott, gnadiges frauleins. 2yo is seemingly practising his weather-wisdom again - peering out the window shouting something about "checking the wind". I'm lying down trying unsuccessfully to have my sleep out.

There is a thread in Baby Names asking for girls' names which could be abbreviated to 'Teddy'. Someone has suggested Thekla.