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.)

Ooh sorry me please!!!!

I’m late to the (revised) party but have sent a pm for the link @Parker231

Thank you to everyone who has been part of making this happen. Can’t wait to binge!

I take it all back. (Almost.) All the snide remarks I’ve made over the years about EDB’s skewed view of real life. It’s true she’s ridiculously evasive over nappy changing and breastfeeding. And the risks to teenage girls who run away from school in the middle of the night. And I’m not entirely convinced that it’s better for a woman barely into middle age to die rather than continue a life that would have involved relentless work.

Still. Gay from China (which I realise I had read before but confused with The Chalet School and the Island ) - on a second reading, has made me cry. Twice.

Did the school prospectus come with a warning about how dramatic the first term was likely to be? And how your daughter is likely to have an older admirer by the time they are in sixth form so they can go to Oxford become highly qualified and then become a housewife?

Saying that... My grandmother was a school girl (day, not boarding) during WWII. She was 15/16 when my grandfather returned from the Far East where he had been a POW. (He was there Pre war!) He apparently fell in love with her... They married straight after she graduated fro Medical School, my mother was born 9 months later, my aunt the year after. The younger aunt was born not long before the older two went to boarding school at the age of 10 so she wouldn't miss them so much... So it was sort of her life.

I’ve just finished Theodora and it’s sad that everyone says Len will be a great teacher, when actually she’s destined to be just someone’s wife.
And Mary Lou wants to be an archaeologist but, if I remember right from a later book, doesn't she end up looking after her sick mother or something?
I’m desperate to get hold of some of the books that aren’t on there, like Redheads, Jane, and Jo to the Rescue.

Can I ask is your Dropbox version of Exile the complete unabridged with the missing bit in the middle between escape and Guernsey?

Mary Lou does end up doing archaeology. She puts it on hold for a bit when her mother is dying but pretty sure she goes back to it.

Parker, thank you for the Dropbox link. Howevever, as a result of that i I have found my archive of all the books I downloaded five years ago. It includes the above mentioned Redheads and Jane, but not Jo to the Rescue.

Parker, can I email them to you to go in Dropbox? Not sure what else I have as some of them aren't named correctly. Was Bride on your list?

... Waits with bated breath ...

Ohhh, Raspberry!
How simply spiffing that would be!

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If anyone has any of the missing books, if you can email them to me, I’ll add them to a separate folder in Dropbox and send another link to everyone who asked originally.

I've come back late to this thread (was happily reading Jo of the Chalet School having managed to get it from the first link before it all went poouf) and would love a link to the new Dropbox (at your leisure - clearly I'm a slow reader who should concentrate more in Prep).

@TailsoftheManyPaws - I’ve sent you a pm

Could I have the new dropbox too? It's summer, the weather's gorgeous and there's no one to tell me off for staying inside to read...

I've sent them to Parker. When I've can 'll compare my list with that on Dropbox. There were always some missing ones.

I have come very late to this thread but thank you to @Parker231 for getting me the Dropbox info so quickly. I've spent a lovely hour putting stuff on my kindle (including some early Abbey books that I've never read and couldn't afford).

I now only lack copies of
No58 Summer Term at the CS and
No60 Two Sams at the CS
so if anyone has those in some eformat or another and could share them that would be amazing. I've had a look on Amazon and - for paperbacks - they are pretty expensive. Especially for later books that are never as good as the early ones!

@raspberryrippleicecream - thank you for the additional three books. I’ve circulated them via Dropbox to everyone who asked originally. Apologies if I’ve missed anyone - please let me know.

Thank you thank you!

Thanks Raspberry and Parker.
I’ve got a million things I should be doing but I’ve started on Jane!

Me too, Papergirl!

Thank you so much for the latest updates

Thank you very much, Parker! ☕🥞

Ooh, please could I have the link! Would love to read the ones I never got hold of as a child.

I’m usually just lurking, but could I have the link as well please?

Looking forward to everyone coming back with reviews of their rediscovered books.

I’m about halfway through Theodora - and feeling, very slightly, that by this stage EBD had handed the writing over to Siri, or Alexa ... It’s perfectly enjoyable, but I seem to have read every sentence somewhere else in the series