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.)

It’s not saying your prayers as such — I went to a convent school in the 80s, and there was a lot of non-optional praying during the school day — it’s things like blunt, bullying Jack Lambert and her gang getting mildly lost on the Platz and their response is to kneel down en masse and collectively start praying aloud. Jack and co are supposed to be ordinary teenagers, not sensitive, religiously-minded types liable to wander about quoting the Psalms like Mary Lou — and contextually it’s way weirder than Joey and Grizel praying in danger on the Tiernjoch a generation earlier.

Sorry @Jemima232 it's down Canongate in Edinburgh, though I'm struggling to find out if it still exists.

Oh, sure, I take that point lobster!

She definitely got into a weird religious phase when she was considering converting, didn't she?

I can’t get into the account either and it’s saying it’s blocked and asking for an email address and phone number that’s not mine (wrings hands and cries).
I’ve had to PM NellWilsonsWhiteHair who gave it me in the first place to see if she can get back in (slinks away in shame and self loathing)

Mind you, she would have converted years earlier than the appearance of Jack Lambert and co, wouldn’t she? Only the explicit religiosity seemed a lot less odd in the mid-1920s in remote rural Austria than in the very Anglo air of the Swiss books written in the late 1960s...

QuaterMiss glad you found something useful!

Hullo.
I'd love a copy of the link when you have time. I have almost all of these from childhood, but have some holes (Like the Triplets of the Chalet school) and cannot afford to buy the books. Also in Australia so added challenge.

Thank you.

I’m a bit wary about sending the link any more if people can’t get into it- what do you think @Papergirl1968?
(Don’t worry- it’s not your fault. It’s obviously technology telling us we should be out in the fresh air and breaking our ankles/getting heatstroke/frostbite/pneumonia.)

Has it ever struck anyone how odd it is that Chalet School girls are simultaneously tough enough to yomp up Alps starting at 4 in the morning, or undertake 12 mile moonlit walks, but also fall into declines at the merest hint of emotional upset?

But I have sent it- as an act of faith as well as supererogation. I think we’re completely up to date now. Anyone who hasn’t got it please pm me. And let’s hope St Jerome does his stuff.....

Thank you!!!!

Rather late to this, but I would love to have the link.

My DMum has a nearly complete set and I have read all of them several times. Unfortunately some are decaying (literally falling apart) and others are the abridged versions. I' have an e-version, and if I can battle the tech, would share it with DMum too.

Collected all of the chalets abs then sold off twice!
Now I only read chalet girls grow up, a deeply marmite book in what may happen next. I loved it!
I prefer the kingsctote books now as an adult, I have all 10 of the original series and one follow on. Not read the non kingsctote ones. Or historic ones.
Will on for the link to the chalets when back on a pc!

“I prefer the kingsctote books now as an adult, I have all 10 of the original series”
10? There aren’t 10 are there??

There are only four original Kingscote, no?

I should know

Wouldn’t put it past you to have collaborated on another couple and refused to allow publication because they were a bit too ....honest....about some of your behaviour!

and refused to allow publication because they were a bit too ....honest....about some of your behaviour!

It’s not my fault I’m always misunderstood

Stomps off for a bath

laurie, I think she means including the ones that aren't directly based at school? The Thuggery Affair and so on.

I thought that’s what she meant when she said non Kingscote

I really liked the Kingscote follow on. I was a bit nervous of reading it but it was really well done.

I’ve read a few Chalet fill-ins, including the infamous CGGU (which I found hilarious). I do struggle with them as they appear to be so poorly edited. Apparently there’s a brain function in some people that means they really struggle to see beyond typos and I have whatever it is, so published books full of mistakes are hard work for me. I think there’s some decent writing going on in some of them though.

I'm happy to meet other people who thought Chalet Girls Grow Up was funny in the gruesome kitchen sink destinies it allotted to CS characters -- when I was on the CBB, some people on there used to get incredibly aggrieved and upset at the mere mention of it.

@burnoutbabe, the non-Kingscote books and the historical ones are wonderful. I'm envious you still have some AF to read. And of course the holiday books fill in so much which is implicit in the school books, like the Ginty-Patrick-Nicola triangle, the male Marlows, Trennels, what happens to Rowan and Karen after they leave school, the backstory of Sprog, seeing Lawrie in action as an actress outside the school context etc etc.

I've never read the recent follow-on, Spring Term, though. I have difficulty imagining anyone else managing those characters...

'“I prefer the kingsctote books now as an adult, I have all 10 of the original series”
10? There aren’t 10 are there?? '

There are 10 books by Antonia Forest about the Marlows (as well as 2 historical books about a 16th century ancestor of theirs). But only 4 are actually set at Kingscote.

We used to refer to CGGU as the Chalet Apocrypha. That may out me to some.

I quite like 'Chalet Girls Grow Up' and don't find it as depressing as some people do, especially as it ends somewhat hopefully for certain major characters at the end (trying to avoid spoilers). Also, considering some of the awful things that EBD herself let happen to some of her characters, I don't think that CGGU is as opposed to the tradition as many people think.

I loved CGGU.

I felt vindicated in my long term belief that Mary Lou was a total bitch. Joey’s end stacked up for me. I enjoyed the focus on Con (always a fav) and actually came to like Len in the end, so a win for me!

I take it no-one can access the one drive at the moment?
While we’re waiting for Nellwilsonswhitehair to hopefully sort it, there have been a few chalet school threads posted on mumsnet over the years if you do a search, which might keep you entertained.