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.

So we know it's GWTW?

Having seen above that the Armada books were abbreviated, that must be the reason I wasn't sure.

Anyway, I read both to be on the safe side.

There’s definitely one ‘forbidden book’ that changes between GWTW and Forever Amber depending on edition, but I can’t remember whose it was? Didn’t the ‘bad’ Saint who wrote to the king of Belsornia have a forbidden novel in her desk that’s discovered by Miss Brown? Possibly not specified which novel.

And the girl who’s responsible for locking Blossom Willoughby in the artroom when she’s playing inter-schools tennis? Isn’t there an illicit novel passed around by her gang, too?

Another illicit book?

So, I'll have to read another naughty book if I find out what it is?

Hmm...

I could make my peace with that, I suppose...

I read all the Armada editions of CS books & until I started reading the Drop box & GGBP ones didnt realise how much they have been abridged. I'm convinced that EBD wrote Jo & Mary Lou as how she wanted herself to be. It hasn't been until I read the books as an adult that I have recognised how prejudiced EBD was towards the class system & how much she looked down on the working class, the council schools, her views on other races.

Diana's the one who shuts Blossom in the library, and she's definitely reading Gone With The Wind in the edition that's on the drop box, not sure if it gets changed by Armada. Never heard of Forever Amber, is it any good?!

Sorry, art room, not library!

Please can I have a link to the drop box, I used to love these books and would be so happy to be able to re-read them!

I've got the GGBP version of Wrong and the bad book was Gone With The Wind. I'm guessing Armada changed it to Forever Amber in the abridged versions.

Incidentally, The Cricket Term makes reference to Nicola Marlow sneaking a banned book into school and she figures it's banned because it has a gay relationship in it. You wouldn't get that in the CS.

Well, Nick also says to Crommie that perhaps the battles are a tad gruesome for the Juniors? ( Though actually, The Mask of Apollo may be in the school library, but in the ‘restricted to seniors’ section, according to Ann...)

Mind you, Joey is reading The Forsyte Saga in one of the later books of her schooldays (New House?), and that’s stuffed full of rape, adultery and illicit affairs.

Perhaps the difference between that and GWTW and Forever Amber is that (1) both are by women and (2) depict women as desiring sexual agents. I haven’t read GWTW in decades, but Amber in Forever Amber (which is a bodiceripper set during the Civil War) lures a man into the woods and loses her virginity to him, and then embarks on a career of acting, prostitution and shagging anyone from random highwaymen to the king while in pursuit of the original man. Who was called Bruce, if I remember rightly.

I've just remembered that Jem says something to Joey in one of the first two books, and Joey responds, "Like thrush?" And I'm thinking, "Wtf is Joey talking about STDs for?"

In the Armada version of Wrong School I’ve got, its Jennifer Penrose who locks Blossom into the art room. And she’s in trouble for reading Forever Amber.

I knew they’d changed Gone With The Wind to Forever Amber, but I didn’t realise they’d changed the identity of the girl locking Blossom into the art room.

It is Jennifer Penrose - pretty sure Diana had gone by the time of that book.

@newschoolnewname @reanimatedsgb arrgh you're right, sorry - I've mixed up Diana and Jennifer - combination of too many night feeds and too much chalet school

Jennifer Penrose, that was her. She is punished for locking up Blossom by having appalling nightmares about B having been cut to pieces by glass while breaking out of the art room window.

I always thought it was a bit risky to just ask a junior to tell Blossom she was supposed to go to the art room -- how safe was it to assume that said junior didn't know who she was and wouldn't recognise her again, if asked?

I know we're told that the junior (can't remember who it was) doesn't know Jennifer's name and can't identify her, or even describe her, when asked, but how realistic is that at the CS? How big is the school when it's on St Briavel's?

I have a seven year old at a village school with just over 200 pupils, and he seems to know all, or virtually all, of them by name, or, if not by name, he knows them by sight, or that they're friends with X, or are Y's older sister, or played Mary in the nativity play, or dressed up as Pippi Longstocking for the last World Book day.

I would have said that in a boarding school an individual pupil would be even more likely to be able to recognise a random older girl?

Jennifer Penrose - locks Blossom Willoughby in art room in The Wrong Chalet School, reads banned books, has screaming meltdown about Blossom bleeding to death.

Diana Skelton - nouveau riche girl whose dad owns a glue factory, plays cards for money, blonde, pretty, trashed Bride's study, leaves after pawning mum's jewellery.

Please may have the Dropbox link too, when someone has time. I nearly have the complete collection, but it’s all the Armada ones - I’d no idea they had been heavily abridged...

I would have said that in a boarding school an individual pupil would be even more likely to be able to recognise a random older girl?

That’s an excellent point.

The only way this would be plausible would be if the Junior in question had a reputation for being a very unobservant child, frequently mixing people up, and with her head in the clouds most of the time.

And even with a Junior like that, it’s a risky thing to do.

See, I've never heard of Diana Skelton!

Now I have to finish Joey's shit channel trip in the rain (followed by a slack-jawed snore in the train) in a hurry to find out who the hell Diana is, in which book.

And yes, that's a trillion schillings in the swear box.

@AthelstaneTheUnready She's in Bride Leads The Chalet School, which is definitely worth a read. Even though the Crown of Success Sale is one big load of WTF.

I also remember Jo mentioning thrush to Jem when she was out on a walk with him on her own. How weird was that?!

Thanks, Phil I'm already finding large piles of WTF all over the place. Particularly the pop-up Evadne & Pop who appear on the quay, sort the luggage, and disappear again. WTF?

Ok someone needs to please teach me how to read from the Dropbox without a kindle. Is there an app or software I can put on a phone or laptop? I cant open the books!

@Athelstane, I think that’s one of the weirdest books in the entire series. There’s all this weird detail about where each child sits in various types of transport, who looks after each one, minutiae about packing and lunches, and that’s even before Joey disses Simone's baby (because no baby is cooler than the Maynard babies), and then tells Simone how to redecorate her chateau.

Schrodinger, I don't have a kindle either. I downloaded MobiFileReader, and then shouted* at it and dropbox for a bit until they swapped files.

• I honestly can't remember what worked - I think I tried downloading from dropbox and then uploading to MFR, and when that didn't work, just dragging and dropping, and when that didn't work, I think I tried in MFR the bogstandard file/open/from and then the dropbox had magically installed itself on my desktop so I opened all the files from there in one go.

@AthelstaneTheUnready I'll give it a go! All this talk of unabridged versions is very exciting!