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.

Seriously, how did they all keep so ‘trim’? Given that they were necking cream, butter, cake, pastries, bread and fried potato balls like there was no tomorrow?

Was it the special milk again? Wtf was in that stuff?

Laurie - amphetamines. That’s why they all needed sedatives

It annoys me the way they’re mostly naturally slender, like Jo. Most of the mistresses are always described as trig and trim.
The girls really take the piss out of Nancy Wilmot in the New Chalet School for being fat and lazy (because all fat people are lazy, right ) and even when she grows up and returns as a mistress she’s still described as large.

And isn't there somewhere where her height and weight is actually given, and she would have been nowhere near overweight?

I don’t recall Nancy, but I remember Peggy Bettanys weight given as 7 stone aged about 18.

She’s shortish iirc and young, which helps, but 7 stone is nothing!

Different times.

Or, I don't know if Nancy's height was actually given, but we're told she's ten stone at one point, and she's always described as 'tall'?

If you put her into the NHS BMI calculator at ten stone and five foot eight inches and 'active' (because I assume that mistresses accompanying walks and rambles, even if they didn't do anything else would count as 'active' by the NHS definition of numbers of minutes of activity per week), she comes out with a BMI of 21.1.

The world has gone wrong.

Ocado has turned its nose up at any suggestion of crispy potato balls.

I see a cold and miserable winter ahead of me.

Seriously, how did they all keep so ‘trim’?

It was the being turned out in all weathers to sleep on mountainsides with nothing but a square of chocolate per dozen girls, and then having to run ten miles home in the morning so as not to die of cold.

McCain Potato Footballs look possible

Also I wonder if it’s actually a sort of fried gnocchi. Crispy gnocchi is delicious

They were mostly pretty active: all those hikes, team sports and evening sessions of folk dancing, so they probably burned off most of the butter and cream.

Plus, it was cold all the time from October to April both inside and out, so they needed energy to keep warm (or to store as fat insulation)

I have perused my (actual print copy) of The Chalet Girls Cook Book and there is no mention of buttery potato balls. There is however a potato recipe for something called 'Puff-Taloons' which seem to be a sort of deep fried souffle potato and a blooming lot of faff!

The Cook Book is in the Dropbox and I highly recommend it. Not however as a cook book

( @Howyoualldoworkme - just a quick aside: are you a Lucia fan too, given your name?)

LaMarschallin Indeed, I am preparing Lobster a la Riseholme as we speak

Did someone above proclaim Shocks to be boring? (Too lazy to scroll.) I was puzzled because I vaguely remembered it as being one of the best. And so far, on this re-reading (and it’s still the first day of term) it’s absolutely stupendous.

I never had the long-standing close school friendships that Bride and her gang had - so her sadness over Elfie is stirring up all sorts of complicated and pointless feelings of envy and retrospective alone-ness. I can quite see how much longing for a supportive community EBD poured into her CS world-building.

This really has to be the last weekend I spend immersed in school doings. My shelves, tables, chairs and kindle are weighed down with unread books concerning my proper occupation. So I’m very encouraged by the thread title suggestions so far!

Gasp! Starting with two hen lobsters, no doubt.
I can tell you Lobster a la Risholme a La Marschallin was a bit of a downer...

Yearn for the Chalet School cookbook now.
Nanny Ogg's one is also pretty good (with recipes you can really cook!).

Shall be expecting a picture of your first shite sugar bear any day now.
(And of course expecting a PM with full details of L a la R. Don't make me have to scriggle past you into the kitchen... )

I'm highly amused by the idea that Marie and Karen were getting the school's signature dish from Iceland.

were getting the school's signature dish from Iceland.

The mystery of Anna's prawn ring is solved.
Although how it went on to become the national dish of Belsornia is a story for another day...

(I mean "solved as well". The gorgeous, crispy, drowning-in-butter potato balls are of course the CS's signature dish.)

LaMarschallin Is there uno poco thread here where all Our Dear Friends are discussed?
Twistevant's boy dropped the hen lobsters and I'm having to fall back on tomato salad and one of Diva's tarts!

If only I had a coadjutor or whatever Joey had

I got frozen crispy potato balls from Lidl a while back. Not sure if they are a permanent feature.

Wtf IS a coadjutor?

Joey is the only person I’ve ever heard of who had one.

Howyoualldoworkme carissima, what a disaster!
You must comfort yourself with divine Beethoven (pictures Hyadwm's hands idly forming triplets in the air...).
OHmio and I are having un po' di macaroni cheese.

I haven't seen such a thread.

If someone were to start one... well, I know Georgie, for one, would love an ickle thweady.

Yearn now for a "The Chalet School in Tilling" book!

LaMarschallin Lucia could give lectures on Divine Mozart and perhaps the Guru could be involved?
And her tableaux would be perfetto for end of term entertainment.

Perhaps Georgie could give water colour classes and bibelot recognition?

Quant Irene would be in her element but might cause ructions by admiring Miss Ferrars a little too much.

We're having un po' di cauliflower cheese. Produce was included

"Lucia Takes On The Tyrol"?

She was Anna's coadjutor!

If you Google, you get:

The term coadjutor (or coadiutor, literally "co-assister" in Latin) is a title qualifier indicating that the holder shares the office with another person, with powers equal to the other in all but formal order of precedence.

These include: Coadjutor bishop, or Coadjutor archbishop, Coadjutor vicar, or Coadjutor apostolic vicar

Which makes it even weirder that Joey was throwing around Latinisms usually used in relation to ecclesiastical roles when she was hiring Rosli -- isn't the story that one of the children overheard her using the word and kept using it? Poor Rosli. I hope one day she stood in the middle of the Freudesheim nursery and snapped 'The next person to call me by that bloody word is going to bed without their supper! For a year!'

Also, I wonder what 'faithful' Anna, who dumped her suitor to continue to serve the Maynards, made of someone brand new being hired in on an equal footing...?