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.)

Thank you XXcstatic. I think she is a wonderful character, especially when she does the thing with the clicker in her bloomers. 😀

@Papergirl1968 please may I have the one drive link too?
I love the chalet school books and am currently on holiday at the Tiernsee ( Achensee). Was at the dripping rock yesterday and managed not to end up falling into the icy lake!!

Thank you for the link

@Papergirl1968
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?

@Caoilainn - yes please . Perfect reading over holiday time! Thank you

Oh goodness, yes, Kitty Climpson! I hadn’t twigged. She’s great. Would also have liked to hear more of Margery (Marjorie?) the sculptor.

Miss Climpson’s seance is one of my favourite scenes from any book ever.

Please could I have the One Drive details? I've been wanting to read them again for years and didn't realise there was a massive, long-running thread about the CS

Please may I have the One Drive details- have only read some of them once - have to admit that my mother's original copy of Head Girl saved us in a financial crisis when my daughter was little...

I can’t get into it all now. Bother. Too good to be true.

It's just chucked me out. Have to verify who I am!

I’ve just sent to Abs, Lariflete, Parker, Caoi, and Meala

And Angela and How too.
There might be people we’ve accidentally missed further back on the thread. Shout up if so!
I’m going to see if the pesky onedrive will let me in now.

It won’t let me in!
I’ll try again tomorrow. Maybe there’s only a certain number of links or something (trying to sound like I know what I’m talking about)

@Papergirl1968 - thank you for the link but unfortunately I can’t get in as it’s asking me to verify my identity

I got this message

It looks like someone else might be using your account
To help you – and only you get back in we need to verify that it's yours.

I’ve found my people!
I was a big chalet school fan after DM gave me a few from her childhood
As I started reading them in the 70s mine are mainly armada paperbacks - really disappointed that they are not the full versions
Please could you send me link to one drive version if they are unabridged
I also loved little house on the prairie and Sue Barton - still have a full set of each in 1970s paperbacks

I found a pdf of The School at the Chalet. And the first 4 are on the internet archive.

epdf.pub/the-school-at-the-chalet4a3bd36339be914e92af7e3c0bff24bc5595.html

@Papergirl1968 please could I have the link too? I've got all of them (and lots of HB!) but most are at my mother's. I've spent half the day trying to remember the make of cheap travel book, that I think Rosamund Lilley wants to buy when Joan runs away in "Problem".

I'm writing a novel set in 1942 and the period detail in the CS books is an excellent resource.

to be fair to EBD and the way the later books still have people saying their prayers and Joey's deranged hairdo - EBD was an old lady by the end, and hadn't really kept up with fashion, or the wider world

@ReanimatedSGB, I had a headmistress in the 1990s who had the 'earphone' hairstyle - and she hadn't changed it in 30 years, but still. I don't think 'saying your prayers' was completely unknown, either. Not common, but not that weird. Again, we had school assembly with prayers, with the modern concession that since 1/3 of the intake were patently Hindu and Sikh, they probably wouldn't want to join in.

Extraordinary, Apileofballyhoo! I clicked your link (even though I don’t really need to re-read those early volumes) and one of the books listed was Tony Judt’s The Memory Chalet. This morning, following a recommendation in iirc NYRB, I’d put it on my wish list. Now I have it on iBooks as a pdf. Thank you!

Doubleraspberry I’d been meaning to thank you for taking the trouble to explain the downloading process. Although, I’m sorry to say, I had already tried everything you mentioned. Still sent round in circles! But it seems other people are experiencing similar problems - so my faith in my own capabilities is somewhat restored.

My (nature students) A level English Lit. teacher had an earphone hairdo - this was in 2003 and she was deliciously bonkers, possibly a Chalet School secret reader, who knows!

I do know that many a lesson we had in the pub when she got bored with the classroom...!

Once I had a long-haired DD, I realised that the reason Matey insists all the girls have hair plaited is to avoid NITS!

@Jemima232 If you end up in Edinburgh there's a children's second hand/collectors bookshelf down

Every time I see "gache" in supermarkets in Brittany I insist on buying it. It's what a triplet-pregnant Joey feeds the various Russell babies in 'Exile'. I always wondered what it was and it's a type of brioche, perhaps a little eggier.