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.)

She’s right there ...

Actually I’m feeling a little shaken by my sudden idiocy. I had no problem using the link a few years back (via a former CS thread). But this time it’s sending me round in circles and (after a nightmarish misadventure when I stupidly downloaded Adobe to my Macbook a while ago and entirely screwed up my life) I’m wary of messing with my phone / email addresses etc.

I remember, in my twenties, the grandmother* of a boyfriend of mine really struggled to get into a (new fangled) carton of milk and had to ask us to open it for her. I’m having an unexpected inkling of how it might feel to be properly old.

*On topic - she had, coincidentally, attended the same boarding school as me.

Oh! Happy Birthday btw!

Bah QuaterMiss

I think we'll be fine.

Yay!

Happy Birthday to me! And thank you.

Have had a good deal of today already.

In-between charity shopping, of course. Mustn't allow my mission to be diverted in any way.

@IsFuzzyBeagMise

Ciamar a tha thu. Is mise Jemima.

There used to be a wonderfully rewarding secondhand bookshop in Thurso ...

I'm halfway through Jo of the Chalet School and already want to scream every time the phrase 'School Baby' comes up. Why not make her 3 instead of 6, if you want a cute appealing little motherless baby on the scene?

All the same... thank you!

@TailsoftheManyPaws

You wait till "the" Robin is ten.

Jeez - DH will not agree to go as far as Thurso.

We're just outside Inverness ATM and heading south to Argyll (and Bute) tomorrow, where my CS book awaits.

DSis is hunting through her attic for me now.

Looks like my entire family is caught up in this now.

All your fault, QuaterMiss

Dia dhuit, @Jemima232! Is mise Fuzzy agus is maith liom Kaffee und Kuchen...yum yum...

I am feeling a little guilty about Bert and Papergirl’s new full-time occupation ... (Hope you’ll both say when you’ve had enough.)

You wait till "the" Robin is ten

Yes, there's much worse to come - right up to the point when she reaches adulthood and is barely ever mentioned again. Apparently Joey's stalkerish devotion was time-limited to childhood.

The Robin disappears just when the triplets are old enough for Jo to palm off babysitting duties on Len. I think there's one point where she says she can rely on
8 year old Len to be in charge of her five younger siblings for the entire day. Which is odd when Robin needed help dressing herself at the same age.

@Cassie124

Ah, but Jo was a very good judge of character.

Len married a doctor and "the" Robin" only became a nun.

Another CS fan here. Please may I have the link too?

I'm a lurker on AIBU but would love a link to the One Drive please! I think I read most of them up to the move from Austria (back in the 90s) and then random ones, so would love to join the dots up!

@IsMiseBeagMise

Cuir a-steach am facal a tha thu a' lorg

My job is helping people of very varied ages and backgrounds how to use technology (I am neither young nor particularly technical). So...

The information you got behind with a link to access One Drive on the Internet. Alternatively you can download a One Drive app for free on most devices or may even already have it installed on your computer as part of a Microsoft software package. All routes lead to the same place!

Once you are on the One Drive home page it asks you to log in. Use the email address provided first, and then the password when prompted for password. The books should all then appear as individuals files. I had to scroll down on my phone past some folders to find them. Just click to open.

Apologies for the rather egg sucking nature of this post but I know at work that the email sign in nature of One Drive sometimes throws people.

Thanks @Doubleraspberry! I'm not very technical (putting it mildly!)

I am ever so slightly triumphant that I managed to get at the files without asking a handy Naughty Middle for help.

Partly this is down to mild embarrassment at so desperately wanting to read all the books for the first time in decades.

In just over a month I will be in the UK and hopefully be able to access the onedrive

Wow. A lot of you don’t have a very high opinion of me. I’m sorry. Still I wasn’t nearly as bad as Marylou. Anyhow can I have the link to the one drive please?

One my trips to the Innsbruck area I was amazed to see all the Chalets looking like the pictures on the front of my books. They are the late 90s/early 0Os Collins books (are they full copies?)

I was asked earlier about bread twists... I live in Nort West Germany which is quite culturally different to Alps/Austria area... But there is a soft sweet roll called Milchbrotchen usually given to children.

Never mind Robin. We know it wasn't your fault. Anyway, I rather liked you in the brief period where everyone else was distracted by there being a war on, and you were allowed to develop a personality.

If you want actually proper books, I was googling and came across a website called worldofbooks.com which has loads of Chalet School ranging in price from £5ish to about £200!
Or there’s amazon or eBay, and the Oxfam online bookshop has a few.