Not to have realised until now that Joey Maynard’s ‘displaced organ’ was a prolapse?

[QuaterMiss]

I know there is or was an enormous Chalet School thread but I can’t spend six weeks trawling through that.

Fascinated to note (because I’ve been reading the complete synopses how all the CS women taken seriously ill either went straight to the San or journeyed - over days - for a consultation with Sir James Talbot. It was he who diagnosed said ‘displaced organ’. At which point Joey had iirc nine children. May be wrong, lost count.

(I read and reread the entire series over my first three decades.)

@Papergirl1968 please can I have the details too? I also felt hard done by that I wasn't sent to a girls boarding school. I loved the truly bonkers world of the chalet school, they were such a product of their time.

I have the one drive log in details. I’ve just checked and it still works. I’ll PM Shelby, Pencreed and BendingSpoons. Anyone else who wants them, let me know.

Can I have it too please

I was so disappointed when I went to boarding school and there was nary a Splashery in sight! Please may I have the link @Papergirl1968?

Re how Joey copes with all the kiddies, doesn't Beth Chester go out to Switzerland to nanny them? I expect she had a procession of Old Girls doing that!

Coadjutor! That's the bunny.

@Jemima232

Anna was having a secret affair with Jack.

She had triplets of her own in "Jo Becomes Jealous" but still manages to look after all Jo's DC as well as her own.

Oh, I wish......

Excellent work

Could I have the link for the onedrive too please?

Please could I also have the link? Tomorrow I'll ask in German, then in French!

Gah - realised a few minutes too late!

A Very Happy Birthyesterday to our Beloved Madame!!

Jo Becomes Jealous It’s a good thing I’m in an empty house, or my guffawing would have caused considerable annoyance. Are you still on holiday Jemima - or did you (very sensibly) cut it short so you could race back to your new book?

Welcome to CSnet Josephinebettany!

(Ps - if anyone wants to explain to me how the One drive thing works, now I have it - that would be good. )

Please please could I have the link?

My DH went to a school in Germany that was on a big hill. Not quite a mountain but a boarding school in the hills nonetheless and if I'd known him as a teenager I'd have been awfully jealous!

Ah, I was going to be all pedantic and point out that Rosli was the Coadjutor, not Anna, but I see cwj1 has beaten me to it.

I'm partway through a mammoth re-read - just finished Redheads, so 56/62. To anyone with a social life more time in their hands, I'd recommend stopping when they go to the Oberland. Yes, you miss out on the Mary-Lou/Len years, but that's counterbalanced by the fact Joey is a lot less irritating in the earlier books. My god that woman is overbearing!

Has anyone read The Chalet Girls Grow Up, or whatever it's called? I can't decide if it's worth it for the comedy, or if it will shatter all my childhood illusions about the happy ever after that followed the last book.

@QuaterMiss

Spent yesterday evening telling DH all about this thread.

Still on holiday. We were driving round the Scottish countryside while I was giving him the CS thread info.

I realised he wasn't paying attention when he asked me if Sir James Talbot was a real person.

Fucking husbands, eh? He couldn't understand why I'd said that I was having a torrid affair with an imaginary doctor, either.

So no. The holiday is not being cut short in order for me to rush home and read the book.

I am tempted to go home early without DH as the woman looking after our cats told me that the book had arrived though

Please could I have the link too?

I have almost the full series at my mum's house - but mostly armada paperbacks. Did I read that they are all abridged? Very disappointing! Am a Sue Barton fan too. Would love to retrieve my childhood books from the loft at my mum's but I live in France ( halfway up a mountain... possible location for a chalet school branch?) and she is in the UK. I'd need a big suitcase!

Years ago, I was nearly foolish enough to take a temporary job looking after year-old triplets and their three year old brother.

However, good sense came to the fore.

I decided that I wasn't going to become the mother's Coadjutor (Coadjutrix?) as the money was shite as I didn't think I'd survive longer than two hours max. looking after four toddlers.

@HeroicAlien, I read it years ago. I found it more funny than anything — it’s stuffed full of affairs and suicide and other deeply unCS themes — but some CS fans appeared very upset by it, as if a sequel written years later by someone else (who was clearly irritated by the weaker late Swiss books and thinking realistically about things like whether a marriage between an overbearing medic and a naive teenager who knows nothing apart from school could possibly work for more than a week) really meant that they needed to believe in these fates for the characters.

It’s not a cheerful or particularly enjoyable read, though, from memory.

Oops- accidentally posted the details on here instead of PMing them.

But, MountainDweller, are you admitting to having lived on a mountain in Europe - for at least a full week - without having started a school? You have let yourself down. You have let your country down. But most of all, you have let EBD down.

Fortunately, what Jemima has been too modest to mention is that her holiday is of the working kind. She is actually completing her next scholarly work - The Mountain School as Mode of Enforcement: Mapping the Success of Early to Mid-Twentieth Century Psychological Colonization of Lesser Nations - and I will be ensuring that she sends you several copies.

In these hard times every CS woman must shoulder her duty - and do so cheerfully. In three languages.

I have been to the Stubai Glacier 3 times (once staying in Fulmpes) and haven't pushed any one off a mountain or spent the night in a hut, or come home with severe stress... Am I letting the side down?

We’ll only let you off, @Aroundtheworldin80moves, if you actually drank hot milk flavoured with smoke and onions, as made by Authentic Mountain Peasants. Bonus points if you re-enacted scenes involving native Americans in warpaint at a Passion Play.

I had Kaffee and Kuchen. And copious amounts of hot chocolate.

We also drove through Obergammau.

I've yet to muddle the words for hot and holy in my German speaking attempts

I had Kaffee and Kuchen.

Oh!! (very definitely envy)
Did you have those delicious little cakes, all honey and nuts and cream?

Did you, as I would have, eat too many...?
I suspect I could indulge in those not wisely but too well.

(Now possibly not envy.. )

I know someone in real life who mixed up the German for ‘can I have the bill, please’ and ‘can I have some whipped cream, please’ and was really confused for the whole holiday about why this bowl of cream kept arriving at the end of meals...

Obviously not a Chalet School Girl. Tuts sorrowfully.

So what exactly is a fancy bread twist, @Around?

So what exactly is a fancy bread twist, @Around?

Apologies for double post. I must really want to know!