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.)

I've just stumbled across this thread, I loved the Chalet School books growing up and have just been reading the synopses and falling back in love all over again. I do have lots of gaps though, so please could I get the Dropbox link as well? Thank you to everyone who has put all this together.

The synopses really are a gateway drug, aren’t they?

I should thank whoever it was who posted a link to them. I don’t even remember where I read it - whether here or somewhere else on the Internet, but without them I would never having started this thread.

I'm going to have to be strong-willed, I have work I need to do first...

I've just be rereading Exile, one of my favourites...
How were the triplets such a surprise? They must have suspected twins at least? And surely the older girls must have known... Robin alludes to it, but the others would have been blind not to know? And Joey is asked if she likes babies two months before and she must have looked ready to pop?

@Parker231 have sent you a pm! Very excited!

I think we can all spot that EBD was no expert in obstetrics but I do laugh at the reaction to the birth of the triplets by the Russells. Something like ‘at LAST’, when you can’t really imagine a triplet pregnancy getting anywhere near full term.

True, but as far as I can see, no good Chalet Girl would ever have dared to have periods (imagine coping with the enforced cold bath routine?), so the dating would have been... interesting. It was probably a case of ‘Still no baby? But she’s the size of a house!’

Thanks for the link @Parker231 - that should keep me going for a while!

The whole pregnancy thing went over my head as a 10 year old when I read them intially!

@Parker231 could I have the Dropbox link to get the 3 extra books? Thanks so much for all the time you are putting into this!

I use to have a reasonably complete set of books in the 80s, but most of them have gone by the wayside - I suspect they’ve just disintegrated as these are my remaining books and they’re really falling apart.

I note Mary-Lou isn’t in Dropbox. Is there an easy way of getting it there?

Oh ... funnel - that’s the exact Mary-Lou (cover) that was my very first CS purchase! Bought at a school jumble sale.

I had later versions of the other two I think. And bought a replacement, later version of Mary-Lou as mine absolutely fell apart.

Also, does anyone else have this book?

funnel I used to have that book (the one in your 19:42 post) but it went missing during a house move.
I suspect it was accidentally decluttered because we took lots of stuff to the charity shop / tip in the run up to the move.

IIRC it had the feel of a book that would be labelled as a Chalet School Annual if it was published today.

Thank you for the link, I am looking forward to re-visiting my childhood!

Although I have now had to explain to DH what the Chalet School is!

I had that book! I think it literally fell apart - all the glue on the spine melted and the pages fell out!

funnelfanjo I have that book! I also have the same hair as Jo in that picture

Hi - could I have the dropbox link pls? 😀

My paperbacks are all fairly fragile; but then of course I realised that the 70s ones I bought secondhand as a child are now 40/50 years old!

I'm a serious Iurker but I would love the link to fill in my gaps! Definitely read some more when I was younger but I now have a collection of about 30 and it's just too hard to find the rest!

Got really excited when my husband suggested a trip to Interlaken

And for evidence...

My mission this school holiday is to trawl charity shops for chalet school books (and any other school story books I like the look of) and also for plates to match my discontinued set seeing as dd and I have both smashed one in the last fortnight.
I really enjoyed Theodora, Jane was ok, and I’m now on to Redheads.

Aha! I have figured it out. We’ve all said that Chalet girls seem to completely avoid menstruation, pain (not to speak of changing facilities in mountain huts!) but in Jane a girl called Tina in Va has just gone down with ‘a severe bilious attack’. On a Thursday - with Matey saying she’ll still be ill on Saturday ...

I suspect I had de-coded that phrase in long ago reading of the series - but it’s helpful to be reminded in the context of this discussion.

Priscilla belonged to the commercial class and she had typed out copies of the play for everyone.

Ok. This is hurting my head. If anyone cares to explain exactly what was going on in EBD’s head when she wrote that - I’d be grateful.

(I’m more than half a century old, pretty well read and somewhat over-educated in the arts, history, law - still ... )

Did they have a secretarial class where they could chose to learn typing etc?