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.

Wrong thread, meant to post in the Litter Tray!

Well, I'm reading Challenge at the moment and it has some major lesbian moments between Miss Ferrars and Miss Wilmot. I ship it like Fedex.

(Joey has a cat in Switzerland, but you never see it. It was probably hiding from Bruno.)

I think Dr Jem deliberately broke the bad news to the Balbini twins in such a way because he was angry with them for kidnapping Sybil.

I know it’s juvenile but I can’t help giggling when I read a line like “The mistresses all looked gay in their pretty summer frocks.”

I ship it like Fedex.

Isn’t there a ‘oh my darling Kathy’ when she conks out

I’ve just finished Highland Twins and my goodness it’s action packed. The war books rock.

Is it only me who has just had to google I ship it like Fedex?!

Possibly just you, Papergirl.

Yes, Laurie - I love the beginning and ending of that story. EBD is rather brilliant on shock and grief (when she steps away from religiosity).

Any chance I could have the dropbox link to please? Always loved the chalet school!

I think Dr Jem deliberately broke the bad news to the Balbini twins in such a way because he was angry with them for kidnapping Sybil.

And that would be an interesting and 'difficult' psychological scene if there were any sense that EBD thought this was a 'good' character behaving badly in the heat of the moment, out of anger and relief.

But there's no hint at all that she thinks he's other than 100% right to break the news of their mother's death to a pair of young children by painting a cruel picture of her dying moments as spent waiting in vain for them, and telling them (I think) that their punishment will be that they will always know this.

I think EBD does actually think this is a fitting punishment/poetic justice -- that the children have 'brought it on themselves'.

@LaurieMarlow That's the one!

Off to google, 'I ship it like Fedex'...

It's fandom speak for 'I think they make an amazing couple'.

But big fandoms often favour unlikely ships, too. Like -- Joey/Miss Bubb! Mary-Lou/Joey's Anna! Herr Anserl/Mr Flower!

I bet there's Jem/Jack slash out there.

I have a vague memory from my distant days on the CBB that there was a running joke about everyone shagging Gaudenz, but I might have made that up...

There is, apparently, a lot of Jack/Jem slash. Also, I bet Jem and Mr Flower get slashed loads (there's a running gag about them being spies on the CBB). Miss Annersley/Commander Christie was a popular het pairing.

And yes, Gaudenz is what TV Tropes call a 'Memetic Sex God'. He does do a lot of Manly Rescuing in the books.

Finished Summer Term which is a quick read which packs in even more calamities than usual, most of them happening to new girl Erica.
I’m about to start Prefects which I think is the last one I haven’t read apart from Jo to the Rescue, which is missing, isn’t it?

just saying I have the LOT in paperback. And I have been to Interlaken. (three years ago, courtesy of lovely mother-out-law - sadly no one else on the entire tour had heard of EBD or understood why I was squealing at the sight of the Jungfrau.)

I persuaded DH to honeymoon in Austria mainly because of childhood memories of the books. We stayed in Mayrhofen and explored all around the Zillertal right up towards the Hintertux glacier. Was beautiful. We never made it up to Pertisau though. (it was my honeymoon, after all ...)

Do you now have triplets, Pascha?

Anyway, this Jo to the Rescue that Papergirl mentioned above ... I spent far too long searching for it amongst the now innumerable CS files in Dropbox this morning. It’s definitely not there. And I’m sure I never owned it. I can’t remember every single book I took out of various libraries in my childhood - so I have no idea whether I’ve read it or not. Which is distracting as I segue into “OMGhowcouldIhavewastedsomuchtime?” mode.

Sorry, Quater,

Having just read Lavender...

1. The timeline is off. Isn’t Jack MIA and the Trips turning 3 in Highland Twins? And now the Trips are 2y 4m and Jack is back on long term medical leave in Lavender?

1. And somehow Joey is very pregnant with Stephen despite Jack having been away months and yet everyone seems surprised when she gives birth as though they hadn’t noticed

1. Juliet apparently married the same year as Jo and Jo apparently was engaged for a year (rather than a rushed wedding as soon as they got to England instead of waiting for a year)

1. Jo seems to have churned out 7 books in 4 years which seems like a lot unless she’s writing badly plotted, under-researched stuff

1. Sybil is a cow-bag

1. Cookery lessons at school are still crap given Daisy et al’s fruit cake and waffles

1. Why would Elisaveta think calling her son Charles by the nickname Carl would make him sound more English?

I reread the highland twins last night - it’s good! I did feel sorry for Fiona being forcibly renamed Fauna by Joey. And the babying of Robin - who is a good driver, but Joey still sends her for a nap after a disturbed night.

Has anyone one come up with a halfway satisfactory explanation for why Elisaveta arrives penniless in the UK with her maid and children in the middle of the war, knowing that her old school and dear friends are already established there, but doesn’t contact them and instead works as the most ludicrously unqualified charwoman ever?

CarrotVan
I think there are some wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey issues with the English books as EBD was suddenly having to work her slightly elastic timelines around actual fixed points (ie WW2 & related events). A few people’s ages slide about a bit IIRC & I seem to remember it doesn’t do to think too hard about how long they were actually in Tirol for.

KeepStill
Misplaced [Regal] Pride?

Or, just, you know, not wanting to deal with a be-earphoned Joey demanding all the “hanes” & making her “new” dresses from random outgrown articles of clothing she (Jo) happens to have lying about; having to be shown off to all sundry & the dogs as a famous alumna when she’d quite like to be allowed to process the huge trauma she’d just suffered; & knowing if she went to the school/Russells/Maynards she’d not be able to drink the little milk she’d get on ration because some fecker would almost certainly have spiked it...

Actually, that makes total sense, @Marie. I’d rather have broken stones than thrown myself on Joey’s mercy. She’d have made me play paper games.