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.

Ooooh I’m late to the party but can I have the dropbox link too? I was a mad fan of these plus the Mallory tower and the twins of st Clare.

I have always rather liked Goes To The Oberland because of the vintage details about travel and meals and stuff. But then I am the sort of tiresome person who will watch an old film and completely miss the plot because I am yelling about the locations and the clothes.

Sorry, just going back to the GWTW Vs Forever Amber thing...

My copy just referred to something like: a book which no virtuous girl would wish to read. Or something.
So I had to guess. I guessed at GWTW.

Then I read an article suggesting Forever Amber instead. To me, FA seems "worse", in the Chalet School way of thinking, because it contains sex out of wedlock! Gasp!

Mind you, everything I know about Charles ll and the Reformation came from FA. So my youthful excursions into naughty books weren't all wasted.

PS Obviously I wasn't virtuous and couldn't wait to read them both

This thread and the dropbox is brilliant! I have now been able to finally read a handful of books I'd never managed to get hold of (mostly Swiss ones) and then decided to dip back into the war years. It's actually quite sad to see how much the series deteriorated in the later books. The war era ones are brilliant - everything seems more real and springs to life from the pages, and Jo is so much more likeable (and flawed).

I've just started Highland Twins and this is the first mention of Jem being knighted. I wonder why EBD never gave Jack the same honour? Seems a bit odd now that her darling Jo never got to be Lady Maynard.

Thanks so much for the Dropbox, absolutely brilliant!

Schrodinger you can download a Kindle app to read the books.

Beetroot, peanut & garlic sandwiches.

Is Joey sliding off the scale a little? I understand that the strain of feeding a bazillion children every day Anna does it must induce a certain 'fuck-you-all' attitude when it comes to providing food yet again, but nonetheless...

Is that an actual Joey Maynard ™️ sandwich filling? 🤮🤮🤮

Thank god Anna fed them. They’d never have made it otherwise

Well, she has to keep up her reputation for schoolgirl zaniness somehow!

Personally, I imagine the triplets sneaking in to Stacie’s rooms, after she comes to live at Freudesheim (which is an obvious place for an eminent Oxford classicist to live, because of all the world class libraries on the Platz), because it’s soothing to be around someone who isn’t all down with the kids/an eternal CS girl.

I mean, Joey would be a total nightmare to the average teenager — bessie mates with all your teachers, churning out babies, following your school around Europe, nipping through the hedge in a lime green twinset and earphones all the time to put in her oar.

No wonder the triplets boarded, even though they lived next door!

They'd probably want to hang out with Frieda too. She's much more sensible.

Loving the Dropbox but can’t work out how to email it to my kindle, despite having my kindle email address. Am reading on my phone. Exile makes much more sense unabridged. Am interested in the many references to the Jews and concentration camps which I’m sure were mostly edited out of my Armada version. Also really noticed EBDs obsession with every character’s looks - they’re either lovely, striking, distinguished or plain. Am guessing EBD saw herself as plain and was doing a bit more vicarious living through her books. Did she ever hold a baby? How are you supposed to carry 3 round at once like Joey does, with and without a basket?!?

As someone said up the thread, it looks as if EBD never actually met a baby, far less had to figure out the logistics of transporting triplets. She seems to have had the idea that they would lie still in a row in a Moses basket type of thing while their mother dashed about showing them off or withdrawing mysteriously to ‘see to their needs’?

And that this just gets shoved on the back seat of the car, while no doubt what would actually have happened in the 1940s, is mildly chilling.

I’ve not read Exile in ages, but do One, Two and Three map onto Len, Con and Margot, or Responsible Eldest, Dreamy Middle One and Anger Issues? I mean, is One Len? It seems almost too neat...

She seems to have had the idea that they would lie still in a row in a Moses basket type of thing

In Exile/Goes to it, every time they woke up, they had a bottle and went straight back to sleep again.

I remember thinking having triplets was a piece of piss.

Thankfully, reality kicked in before I tried to supercharge my fertility.

BrittleJoys

Perhaps Stacie had secret Internet? (She was supposed to be tremendously clever - I’m sure she could have worked something out.)

Personally I wouldn’t altogether mind living grandly in one wing of a house, with my maid ...

Eustacia inventing the internet? Now there's an interesting fanfic.

Could she have been a Bletchley code breaker during the war?

@Janeaustensquill to read on Kindle I just attached the files to an email and sent to my kindle email address (which I hadn't previously realised existed!) - depends what you use for emails, but I had an option to use a Dropbox file when adding an attachment and could attach a few at a time. Then they automatically downloaded onto the Kindle. Not sure if this helps?!

I'm really enjoying the Switzerland books so far - I don't think i'd read any of them before.

I agree about the babies - despite some references to teething they are all amazingly placid, Felix and Felicity seem happy to be left all day in a playpen without a murmur. I'm doing something wrong as I couldn't put my kids down long enough for a quick loo break without screams of rage! And though 8 children sounds impossible, at the point I've reached 4 are at boarding school and Joey has Anna, another maid and Beth Chester to help out so no wonder she has so much free time to pop into the school.

Chalet School girls would have had the perfect background for SOE.

Was that the Beth Chester who went to Oxford, but then for some reason then decided to be the Freudesheim nursery governess so she can keep an eye on her baby sister through the hedge? (The sister who goes to boarding school having never brushed her own hair, but gets adopted by the Gang anyway...)

Perhaps Joey and Jack are like those insanely rich oligarchs who hire Oxford graduates to potty train their offspring and teach them their times tables?

Maybe the unusually placid babies are getting their own special milk....

I though Beth wanted to do gardening as a career?

Though that doesn’t explain why she showed up at joeys either.

Would anyone be interested in a reading group starting with book one? I read a lot of these books as a teenager, but not in any order, and I have no idea about half the story lines you are all talking about! I’m halfway through the first book and I need to talk about it!

I though Beth wanted to do gardening as a career?

I think that's one of those things EBD seems to forget -- Beth definitely wants to be a gardener at some stage, but I'm pretty sure that at another point she's either at Oxford, or spoken of as having gone to Oxford, with the gardening forgotten.

Then again, EBD seems to have thought you just 'put your name down' for Oxford!

@always -- you could join the Chalet Bulletin Board.

the-cbb.co.uk/index.php

They have read-throughs and discussions of specific books, as well as themed discussions about things like slang, why Joey's birthday moves around, and where the Maynards and Russells get their money from.