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! :-(

Gosh, I seem to have missed a lot and I've only been away a day. What larks you've all been having. I'm sure I don't know why I've ended up on the naughty girls' list - I'm a good girl, I am! I've hemmed 2 sheets while I've been away and darned half a dozen pairs of Jack's socks for Joey. I also managed to get hold of some Tia Maria! I'll hide it under Mary Lou's Sunday hat but we'll have to drink it this week or she'll find it!

How about Friday evening in the bike shed? Miss Annersley didn't put that out of bounds on her list of new rules.

Sounds good, Vintage. Will you be bringing Vic Coles with you? Does he have any friends? Or did you meet any of Joan Baker's moped riders?

Joan Baker is in solitary confinement after signing Matey up, behind her back, to the 'last chance' dating agency.

However, I will bring some shop bought victoria sponge and she and Vic can be with us in spirit(s).

To thank me for darning Jack's socks, Joey showed me how to knit and started me off making a lime green twinset. What am I supposed to do with it? And I'm not sniggering at her lime green twin set - I'm supposed to wear this one! I tried dropping stitches but she fixed it for me every time. Do you think we could raffle it at the summer fayre?

Well I'm not sniggering at her lime green twin set either, but raffles are usually for something people actually want. You'll just have to drop more stitches Tinuviel.

Well that won't be difficult - I'm rubbish at knitting. If this is what being a true CS and a good girl is all about, I think I'll just throw in the towel now! Maybe I could give it to one of you as a gift. I'm sure you would look very elegant and tasteful in lime green, Vintage!

Go out for a ramble and have to use the wool to save someone from falling off the mountain?

I am far too lady like to snigger so I will cry with laughter at Vintage in a lime green twin set.

If Only I could knit.... I would knit you a raspberry pink scarf to complete your transformation into a twister ice lolly (Joan Baker bought me one on the last outing she was allowed on).

I reckon you could make a precarious wool ladder from that twinset, Tinuviel, rescue someone from a precipice/hole in the ground/glacier/similar and immediately show your colours as a True Chalet School Girl (tm).

:o at the Twister ice lolly :o

Raffles may be for things people actually want, but the prizes for prees' evenings definitely aren't - on those occasions, the prees just have a quick look around their cubeys until they spy some unwanted item they can re-gift. Plenty of scope to get rid of that lovely lime green twinset...

Some great ideas, here. I quite like the idea of rescuing someone but Nell, I think you're a bit optimistic expecting me to become a prefect!! (Although if I rescue someone, that might be more likely!)

Tinuviel, that belief is in itself indicative that you are a pree in the making: witness every single Head Girl ever ever ever gasping with shock at the news of her own appointment.

If you rescue someone with the twinset and then knit it back together so you can kindly offer it as a prize in your prefect term/s, you'll probably cause such a stir you'll be awarded the Margot Venables prize, too.

I'm very good at gasping but don't you think the smuggling in of alcohol and smutty books will go against me?

It depends Tinuviel.

1. Are you related to the Bettany/Maynard/Russells? (shoo in)

1. Do you stay at Freudesheim/call Joey 'Auntie'/have older sisters who have been HG? (good chance)

1. Are you none of the above, and there are none in your form? (possible)

1. Have you ever argued with a Bettany/Maynard/Russell? (no chance)

I am not walking around in a lime green twin set full of dropped stitches no matter how desperate you are Tinuviel.
Is there enough wool to knit a hammock? We could use it for when we want to relax with some elderflower cordial and improving books.

Maybe if the twin set is holey enough, Joan Baker will want to wear it .

Veta, I'm not related, I don't call Joey 'auntie' and while I haven't argued with a Maynard, I may have inadvertently said something about a Maynard. I'm sure nobody heard me call Con a 'dozy cow' when she said that Daniel bit the lion, so will that go against me?

Maybe you could be librarian pre Tinuvial? Or games? Doesn't have to be head girl remember

I think you can book that place in Special Sixth now, Tinuviel my lamb, there will be no place in the conclave for you.

I think you're doomed Tinuviel. Even if you do make it to prefect you will be put in charge of stationery. (and EBD will confuse you with another character who will become Stationery Prefect two paragraphs later).

I, on the other hand, was adopted by Joey three terms ago when my aunt hooked up with a gigolo and my parents couldn't be arsed travel from abroad to sort out my schooling.

I think she's forgotten her loco parentis role though. She barely says hello to me in the corridor and hasn't had me to tea in Freudesheim in months

I once tried knitted a v-necked cardigan. I was given one tip: Don't knit too tightly. Apparently beginners always knit too tightly.

When I put on my beautiful cardigan the bottom of the v started mid thigh.

I obviously don't knit too tightly.

She's probably "busy", Vintage my lamb. Don't take it so personally - at least you didn't get told off, like Len did, for looking after a sick sibling rather than disturb her. (I really really hate that bit, can you tell? Poor Len.)

Lols at Joan Baker looking cheaply pretty in a super-holey lime green twinset btw!

If they make me library pre I will fill the senior section with racy/smutty novels and if they make me stationery pre I will wilfully misunderstand and stand still for hours and then throw red ink over Vintage's head! And you will all shriek with laughter and Vintage will go round looking gory until Matey takes her off to San to clean her up and give her some special milk. Oh, what a golloptious time we will all have!

I think it would be safer for me to stay in the cheap girls' posse with Joan eating cheap cake from the corner shop.

A lime green twin set and bright red hair?? I will look like the Italian flag

You're jolly mean Tinuviel and deserve to have Joan Baker as your only chum.