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 for the additional books - I’ve shared them via the Dropbox

That’s very kind of you Soup! Though I imagine Parker is busy giving last minute instructions to her housekeeper and estate manager on the shutting up of her vast, many-winged house. And informing her 37 orphaned wards that they’ll need to find another roof for the foreseeable. (I’m sure she has the phone number of a welcoming convent she can pass on to them - once they’ve finished embroidering her holiday wardrobe.)

Ha!

So, the missing titles are:
34. Mary Lou of the CS
35. A Genius at the CS
38. Excitements at the CS
45. A Leader in the CS
54. Summer Term at the CS
56. Two Sams at the CS

is that right? I don't think I have any of those as ebooks/word docs, but i have read them all apart from Leader, so I either had the paper copies at some point, or the ebooks are somewhere.

No 31 doesn't exist in the numbering scheme as it's become 19a, 19b, 19c because of the way they were published.

@QuarterMiss - I’m looking forward to an 11 hour flight to start on reading all these books!

found Two Sams, also Mystery which is set while they're in Wales/on the island - is it obvious I'm avoiding work today ?

Heartfelt thank you to all that facilitated the extra titles.

Thank you so much! Guilty pleasure awaits :)

Have a great holiday

I'll have a check on my lists to see if I have any of the missing ones.

My mum used to make a lot of our clothes, (seventies), including a coat.

I had to handsew a nightdress for myself at school, aged 10/11.

More books!

Thank you Parker and everyone who has sent you books 😍

Thank you so much. My mother was very pleased with the complete Angela Brazil I got her for her Kindle (£2.49 on Amazon)- only re- reading them now do I realise that they were my grandmother's generation or earlier not my mother's - my grandmother was born in 1910 and my mother is almost an exact contemporary of the triplets 1940...

Wonderful!
Thanks, Parker, and have a lovely holiday.
And thanks everyone who has sent ebooks!

Very excited by new books, just need to work out what program I need to open them!

I use calibre to convert files for Kindle, it's a free download, and is pretty straightforward to use. Depends what you're reading them on Around the world?

I'm using my phone. I'll try booting up my laptop and installing Dropbox on that.

I have been eagerly reading this thread as I loved the CS books as a kid. May I have the link too please?

Just wanted to say a massive thank you @Parker231 for the books and have a great hol! x

@Parker231 Please can I have the link as well - maybe when you get back.... Would love to have a re-read.

@Parker231, sorry forgot to tag properly!

A Chalet Girl from Kenya ... Opening pages. Already struggling! Joey’s first set of twins are nineteen months old - so she has eight children plus, apparently a thriving writing career from which she presumably earns money.

And yet. Pretty much the first thing she does, after reading a letter at breakfast, is

to ask her husband for a cheque

so she can take the triplets to town for handkerchiefs and stockings.

I am not happy with either of these.

Why is she not in a position to withdraw money from their bank account herself? I’m quite old, I do understand a little about the history of British domestic life both in theory and practice - but don’t really know anything about Swiss domestic life then. Were women not allowed access to banking at that time? (Although I’m fairly sure Joey made the same request when they were in the U.K. in a previous book.)

And why the fuck drag three children out shopping for such insignificant items that don’t need fitting? I do understand they had no John Lewis online - but without an ulterior motive this seems a quite ridiculous trip.

Also - thank you to Soup and Parker!

Women couldn’t have bank accounts in their own name back then. Married women had their husbands and single women had to have it countersigned by their father or another male relative.
Not sure exactly when it changed but not as long ago as you might think

Just googled, 1975!

No - surely not?!

That’s not history - that’s my childhood. (Explains why it didn’t come into my undergrad History.) Will ask my mother how it was. Because she was being paid in England from the 50s and certainly wouldn’t have had any male relative to countersign stuff before she married.

According to Viv Albertine out of the Slits, who grew up in the '60s, women couldn't get a council house without having their husband's signature. Or something like that. Her mum was divorced and had real trouble finding a house because of it.