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.

I thought it was 'ee-VAD-nee'. I always read 'Bride' as in 'bride and groom'.

@CarrotVan wasn't it a regular thing back then to ensure kids pooped regularly? Not that anyone poops in the Chalet School.

There is a bit when Middles are ‘confined to the house as they have had a dose’ or something similar - it’s post some form of greediness in one of the Armishire books, I think. It reminded me of a similar phrase in the Patrick O’Brien seafaring books, weirdly.

I've been binge reading them too. They are all slightly familiar and it's hard to work out which I have read before and which have a similar plot with different characters.

Just finished Tom Tackles... All the references about a manly dressing gown, standing in a manly way are a bit cringe. And Bride's parents have just returned after being away for 9 years

My favourite bit was where Madge went to bed for 10 days after the stress of Josette nearly dying from having boiling water poured on her. Obviously Dr Jem carried on life as normal as he is a man.

As a child of the fifties I had cod liver oil and malt every day, while sitting on the draining board and being fastened into my liberty bodice. I had castor oil when my first baby was overdue, but don't remember it before that. We also had gentian violet for worms, which stained the black sink purple.

I know ... that first letter from Bride to her ‘Darling Mummy’ who she hadn’t seen for so many years is newly shocking.

I have a vague feeling that quite a lot of my childhood reading involved absent colonial parents, so it may be that I took it more for granted then.

To be fair to Brides parents I don't think they planned on being stuck on the other side of the world due to WW2. I do sort of wonder why they didn't send for the kids when War looked imminent.

The 2 Brides I’ve known = both Breedas (as it were). Well, one was very definitely Mrs Lynch to me, but to The Grown-Ups she was Bride-said-Breeda.

Bridies, now, those are 10 a penny round here (bit of inner London with large Irish population). And the rather unlovely Bridge seems to get used quite a lot as a short for Bridget as well. (Catholic Guides of Ireland call their Brownies Brigíni after St Bridget; please all enjoy that useless fact...)

I think it’s in Carola they do deep frying in cookery class and fry doughnuts in cod liver oil.

I agree. Why on earth were they being let loose with deep fat fryers? (And what a missed opportunity...I guess being burned with chip fat isn’t a very romantic way to meet your new doctor husband. )

When I was a lass and at primary school (not Swiss) we had what seemed like endless safety videos on three topics...

'Saying No to Strangers', and the 'Green Cross Code' (stop, look ,listen) all seemed relevant, but at the age of 7 or 8 the idea that I would ever be big enough to need 'How to Put Out a Chip Pan Fire' seemed ridiculous.

Mes amies, 30 years later I am un happy to tell you that I was faced with an oil pan fire (not chip pan, ordinary frying pan, switched it on and then went into the other room to deal with DD1 & DD2 arguing over their chores, came back to HUGE flames), and knew exactly what to do!

(do not try to move it, wet a towel and ring it out so it is damp, cover pan with towel starting from the front so the flames get directed away from your face)

And, I am happy to say, have managed to avoid being knocked over while crossing the road.

I may have, in my yoof, occasionally said yes to particularly attractive strangers

I also remember the lectures on chip pan fires and have used them, also with an ordinary frying pan fire.
I also remember there was always a chip pan on the stove with the fat used over and over. Apparently chip pan fires were incredibly common. Come home late after a drink or two 😂 decide freshly cooked chips are just the right thing and then fall asleep before they are finished

When I shared a house with some university students in the 70s (I was not a student) they set a chip pan on fire!
I grabbed a tea towel to run it under the tap but one of them just picked it up and threw it in the garden

My parents still have and use a chip pan! Lovely chips.

I seem to remember a cooking lesson where they had to peel apples or potatoes so that the peel was paper thin and the cookery teacher (an Austrian I think) was measuring it. And one of the middles did a lousy job and threw her peelings in the bin instead.

High crimes and misdemeanours

Yeah, Frau Mieders, the token non-mad Austrian teacher. It's in Ruey, and Margot spills flour everywhere and Ruey has a sore finger and gets into trouble for taking off the bandage.

I'm surprised they didn't notice the donuts smelling of fish, tbh.

I think they had been frying fish earlier and commented on how the smell was hanging around

Frau Mieders! That was it

I think there’s another ‘crap vegetable peeling’ incident much earlier though, in one of the Tirol books.

Hang on. Are there in fact only 2 ‘domestic science’ scenes that just get recycled at intervals throughout the series? Is that all EBD knew about cookery? How to peel apples and how to make chips??

And saffron cakes, but with sulphur. Also rechauffé, which is like a sort of stew made of leftovers, and apple pies (the one where someone, I think it was Cornelia, got cloves and garlic cloves mixed up).

Is that all EBD knew about cookery? How to peel apples and how to make chips??

Probably

There was also mixing up garlic cloves and regular cloves. In Austria I think.

How fucking clueless do you have to be to do that? Which is why I question letting them lose with boiling fat.

X post!!!

I think Cornelia did it because she's loaded and had servants to do the cooking, or something, so she didn't know the difference between cloves.

On the subject of food, Anna totally spiked that greengage jam with Ecstasy or something.

Actually, yes. No that you mention it, cloves of garlic and actual cloves? Fucking zero similarities.

And people complain that kids nowadays don’t know what a carrot is or whatever...

EBD wrote a cookbook, I’ll have you all know! I might manage to send it to Parker to add to the Dropbox if I can work out how.