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.

FiveLittlePigs

I’m guessing clothes were more expensive 85 years ago. No going to the supermarket or Primark to get cheap fast fashion.....

Cretonne

I just find Rivals to be a bit pantomime villainy and the ‘for the honour of our school we must be avenged” is overblown even by Chalet School standards

I am so sorry my performance wasn’t up to scratch! It is true that back copies of the Chaletian have been a distraction of late, but I have now at least mastered the previous issues!

I am so sorry my performance wasn’t up to scratch! It is true that back copies of the Chaletian have been a distraction of late, but I have now at least mastered the previous issues

It would have been more to the point if you'd mastered the Liszt.

And the Chopin.

Not to mention the Rachmaninoff.

Would you be good enough to refund the £290 which DH and I paid for a box at your excuse of a concert.

(We came courtesy of West Coast Motors which was relatively inexpensive so will not expect you to refund our fares.)

Many thanks,

Jemima.

There’s a war. You’ve got to be prepared for minor hardships like cretonnes not being up to scratch

But...……..most pupils aspired to the Chalet School just for the cretonnes and if the Pansy Dormy had calico sheets etc. there would have been hell to pay.

I would have complained to Lady Russell personally and expected a full term's refund of fees to counter my daughter's disappointment, war or no war.

It’s all very well but I just don’t see how they sustained such active, outdoor lifestyles on a diet that was 97% pastry and cream

My own diet consists of 100% pastry and cream and I''m perfectly healthy.

@MargiaStevens

I was also at the shambolic concert in Glasgow I was not stalking Jemima and would be glad of a refund. £368.50 for a box and my fares from an undisclosed location.

@Jemima232

You have spelt "Transcendental" incorrectly.

Since you purport to be a publisher this is reprehensible.

The Busted Fanjo Goes Bust is in the post. Kindly give it your undivided attention.

Have now got all 59 over to a special folder in my kindle, and starting a re-read already.
Are these the uncut hardbacks or the slightly cut paperbacks?
I am at the part in school of where 20 odd school girls sleep in a hit during a thunderstorm! Clearly a big hut!

I will refer you both to my agent, Herr Anserl. I believe he deals with complaints in his own unique fashion.

I may have missed it on here (or be having false memories) but was Prefects the one where there was an almighty fuss about Len wearing a ponytail?
That anarchistic hairdo.

Objection spear-headed by Joey and her bonkers earphones!

Ponytail-gate is in the one where they are on holiday and meet Ruey and her brothers and their mad father. So Len is not even at school when she stages this terrible rebellion.

I was always a bit confused by Miss Wilson’s Domestic Science rant. Among other things she complains about girls who ‘cannot bath a baby’. I literally do not think that in all the 324 books* in which she features, Miss Wilson ever comes within 200 yards of a baby, let alone gets one near a bath. But everyone else should be able to do it?

*might be an exaggeration.

Ponytail-gate is in the one where they are on holiday and meet Ruey and her brothers and their mad father. So Len isnot even at schoolwhen she stages this terrible rebellion.

Gah!

No wonder my mind firmly made me put that one in Prefects.

I'm all traumatised now.

Need one of those luscious cakes... all honey and nuts and cream.
Mmm...

I've just re-read 'and Jo' and have started 'exploits'. I'm amazed that, even after miscreants have been punished by the staff, the prefects call them in and start again. I'd be really peeved if I was on the staff. I don't remember this happening as much before (or after) Jo was head-girl. An early example of her butting in and taking over from the staff at every opportunity?

In Ruey, Len has a ponytail on the first day of term - when most of the school haven’t even arrived - and is firmly told to plait it. Matron reminds her ponytails are only allowed on Saturday evenings...

Oh, I've had my hair in a ponytail all day plus I've been speaking English - isn't today German day?

Plus I was a moment late for Abendessen.

I must take an order mark.

Maybe the anti ponytail stance is to help reduce the spread of nits?

Although why Len can’t do what she wants with her hair in the holidays is another question altogether.

Uhm, is anyone else having the Dropbox (really QUITE sternly) tell them that the files are protected by a DRM (Dr Maynard?!) & thus your Kindle will not be reading them - GO & BUY A COPY YOU TERRIBLE PERSON.

(Apologies for the punctuationFAIL: my cannula decided to die on me. Well, more the vein it was in decided to give up. My vascular system is definitely not that of a good CS girl...)

Please can I have the Dropbox link?

My hair is in a ponytail now, i haven't bathed or said my prayers. Plus my bedroom is untidy. i would be expelled for sure.

@CarrotVan the bit about the KKK made me cringe. I assume EBD didn't know how evil the KKK really were.

Just finished Challenge. I felt sorry for Evelyn and wish she'd twatted Margot over the head with a hockey stick, and Margot should have been demoted after that but instead she just gets a headpat from Miss Burnett because 'she has such a hard row to hoe'. Someone on the CBB wrote a brilliant fix-it fic where Miss Wilmot demotes Margot. Also, wtf is Joey doing telling her about her mum's illness?

Loved how badass Mary-Lou is though. And Eustacia coming back and the way she dealt with the nasty little brats glueing her drawer shut.

've just re-read 'and Jo' and have started 'exploits'. I'm amazed that, even after miscreants have been punished by the staff, the prefects call them in and start again. I'd be really peeved if I was on the staff. I don't remember this happening as much before (or after) Jo was head-girl. An early example of her butting in and taking over from the staff at every opportunity?

I've often thought that the prees were in fact bullies. I forget who said it or in what book (helpful!) but one of the staff remarks that the prees are to be feared more than the staff.

Miss Wilson holds baby Len in Exile. So there is baby contact. I am rather horrified that I know that off by heart.

I am at the Tiernsee and just went for a run on my first day. The altitude is a killer and I only managed 3.5km before collapsing in a heap, still, red and to all appearances dead. I haven’t had any cream yet though so who knows what difference that could make tomorrow.

EBD using Miss Wilson as a mouthpiece for her views on the importance of housework and how every woman should aspire to be a homemaker is pretty poor writing. I mean, this is a character who works as a teacher and is pretty academic herself and never has kids during the series. It would sound convincing coming from someone like Frieda who comes from a very conservative Tyrolean background, and is expected to go straight from her father's house to her husband's, but not a science teacher!

I always wondered why ponytails were verboten and apparently they were seen as 'fast' (ie slutty) because they emphasised the movement of the body.

That rant about the beatniks was EBD talking and not Joey. It was pretty OOC. I find the idea that being scruffy is offensive to other people and means you can't be trusted really bizarre.