Sir James Talbot tackles Mrs. Jack Maynard's Displaced Organ

[QuaterMiss]

Would I be unreasonable to initiate legal proceedings against this man?

Previous thread here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3624032-Not-to-have-realised-until-now-that-Joey-Maynard-s-displaced-organ-was-a-prolapse?

With thanks to Jemima232 for rifling through Sir James’ archives to supply the title of this one.

O.M.G! I was thinking I need to sort out reading these on kindle when LOOK! Look what I just found in an old box I was sorting out!

Please please please may I have the Kindle books? I might have them (mostly) already but I am seized with fear that I might be missing one. Do I PM my email address?

The Complete Works

…… of Miss Elinor D. Brent-Dyer.

While sifting through my unpublished manuscripts (yes, Jemima I am talking to you) I discovered my sister's collection of Chalet School books and discovered to my surprise that I am mentioned in some of them.

I read The Highland Twins with great interest.

The chronology is flawed and the writing frankly appalling.

My diaries (again Jemima I am addressing you personally) would furnish a good deal of valuable information.

If anyone can persuade my erstwhile publisher (Jemima) to send them back to me I could tell everyone on this thread what I actually discovered when Mrs. Jack Maynard was my patient.

I have found Jemima to be curiously obdurate in the past.

Her unwillingness to publish Sir James and the Busted Fanjo is a case in point.

And before there is a cascade of abuse I am fully aware that Miss Brent-Dyer's initial is not "D."

@QuaterMiss

Have you no influence over the women of MN?

Are you able to cajole Jemima into action?

I would make it worth your while and would undertake never to mention our dinner at The Ivy ever again, in case your reputation is sullied.

But possibly you do not care for an unsullied reputation.

Have started Prefects to remind myself - I haven’t read it for years. Raising slashy eyebrows at the following passage re Jack Lambert:

“When certain members of the staff had discovered in which direction her tastes lay, they had done what they could to provide a little satisfaction for her...”

“Jocelyn Marvell eyed her enviously at intervals, being more or less the same type of girl, though so far neither knew it.”

Ok, it’s to do with Jack liking machinery , but it does lend itself to other interpretations!

But it does lend itself to other interpretations

Indeed it does ImmatureCheddar

I think the fact that many of the girls have nicknames which are obviously boys' names can also lead to a certain interpretation.

Len
Con
Tom
Ricki
Bill

To name but a few.

Thanks Bertrand Russell for the link to the onedrive, I had a splendid time reading, could I possibly have a link to Dropbox for the last few?

Thank you so much Parker and Yugi!

So, it seems I can once again post - MN was broken earlier. But I have a date with Beckett so only time to say I finished Genius this morning and found it pretty much flawless.

Have just finished Prefects! Yes, the Reg stuff was yeuch! And generally it never really seemed to get going.

I’m thinking I may need an injunction v Sir JT ...

My People!!!!

I loved the Chalet School books as a kid and we probably had a near complete set until my Dad went through one of his periodic ‘Too Many Books In This House’ purges and got rid of them. Unsurprisingly I dreamt of running away to the Tyrol where I could cook and craft and have daring escapades

I would love the Dropbox link should it be possible

Just finished Two Sams and it was ok. I’m just glad the panto costumes were destroyed so we were spared the usual lengthy description of how hilarious it was.
If I was a Chalet School pupil I’d probably have started the fire myself to get out of having to sit through the bloody thing.

Jack was massively gay for Len, IMO.

I hate pantos in the CS books. I can stand the Christmas plays and sales, though the Crown of Success one was one big load of WTF (fun fact: if you google that book you will get loads of Chalet School references), but I hate the bloody pantos and they are really not funny. Luckily they're only in the Swiss books, which is another reason why the Tyrol/war books are the best, but ugh. Cringe. Especially the one where Joey takes Cecil, despite it being past her bedtime, and she screams her head off and kicks hot chocolate over some poor woman and scalds her. And Joey bangs on about how one must make sacrifices.

Three quarters of the way through Prefects and horrified at the way everyone is gossiping about Len and Reg. Even Madge! Grr.

I have the unexpurgated version of Jo to the Rescue, but I'm not sure when I can scan it to pdf

Thank you so much for the lovely surprise of the Dropbox link with all the Kindle books!

Have recently come back from accompanying daughter to a gym festival in Austria. Not quite the Tyrol but several people actually said 'Gruss Gott' to me, and breakfast really was twists of fancy bread ...

(DDs non gymnastics time was, so far as I could tell, not spent in a CS approved manner. Not a mug of hot milk in sight.)

The Crown of Success is free on the Gutenberg Press website if anyone wants to read it. I thought about it, but didn't.

I went on holiday to Munich with my mum and one of the places we visited was Oberammergau. It basically is like something out of a CS book. I think Mum must have gotten sick of me saying 'wow, this is like something out of the Chalet School' but oh, it was. Especially the scenery near Neuschwanstein Castle. They go the Passion Play in The Chalet School & Jo - EBD actually went to the one in the book, I think. It was before the Nazis got in. It is still a huge deal there, and I've seen the theatre where they do it - it's an open air theatre. And it is super Catholic, there's paintings of Jesusand crosses everywhere.

@Lonelykettleshed apparently it has some very dodgy morals. Would teenage girls in the '50s really have been that into it?

Very late arrival to school over here but I adored the Chalet School books! If anyone could send the Dropbox link my way I’d be very grateful and would share some contraband choclate when Matey’s not around

Phil, I've not read it.

I'm definitely not a model CS girl as hearing that it has dodgy morals makes me want to read it more (although, given when it was written the dodgy morals may well be attitudes that I wouldn't want to read about at all).

Who wrote The Crown of Success?

I’m trying to decide if I’m interested enough to follow up on the Gutenberg Press suggestion...

I would love a Dropbox link to these - I didn't have a chance to read the copies that lived with my grandparents before they (the books, not the grandparents) were consigned to the charity shop.

New school, it was written by A.L.O.E (whoever that was)

A Lady of England, real name Charlotte Tucker. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Maria_Tucker

I've just ordered Challenge, the one where Miss Annersley goes on sabbatical and Nancy Wilmot has to step up to the plate, and her girlfriend gets appendicitis and Eustacia comes back.

On another note, Bride's friendship group are my favourite in the series, along with the Quintette in the Tyrol books (Margia, Cornelia, Evvy and whoever the others were).