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.

carsleyladiessociety - it is. I received it in the Missing Books file that a poster (possibly Papergirl, apols if not, no time to check first thread) generously added to Dropbox.

This is All I Know. Don’t ask me how these things are made to happen ...

Not me, Quater.
Didn’t someone say the other day that they got a few more to add?

I sent over a chunk of books before Parker went on holiday, but someone recently said they had the missing few I think

Oh, Soup, it probably was your set I meant!

I ship Nancy and Kathie like Fedex. CGGU didn't explicitly say they were a couple, but it was VERY heavily implied.

Also, as a kid I thought Miss Annersley and Miss Wilson were a lesbian couple because of a line in Gay Lambert, can't remember what though.

Incidentally, I never bring lesbian headcanons up on the CBB because...let's just say I don't think they're very welcome there.

All this red sarafan talk is very interesting.

I don’t know why, but somehow I’d got it into my head that a red sarafan was a sort of songbird. 🤷‍♀️

Yes, 'The Red Safaran' is not the most uplifting song to listen to on your sickbed it's quite a dirge

Maybe that’s why it restored Joey to health?

She thought that the Robin was singing funeral dirges, and simply couldn’t bear the thought of the Robin being set back a year or more thanks to worries over Jo dying?

@NewSchoolNewName exactly

I'm reading 'The Chalet School Goes To It'.
After a near-fatal bombing during the crossing to the mainland, Joey has lain in a feverish 'half-stupor' for two days and one night. Everyone else has to just get on and cope with it.

There is a reference to breastfeeding and weaning. 'She must cast her babies at once (...) Nursing even one of them would unfit her for anything, even if the child profited from it, which was doubtful'.

Then the babies are given cups and spoons

Now I think of it - I also always assumed, from the start, that Miss Annersley and Miss Wilson were a couple. I remember thinking EBD was very cruel to separate them by sending Miss Wilson off to Switzerland to be Head of the finishing school.

The remark in Gay from China was probably after the accident that put Miss Annersley in hospital for almost a whole term. I think I vaguely recall Bill saying something to Jo about how Miss A was all she had in the world. So, essentially a precursor to Nancy and Kathy.

@Parker231 thank you for all the dropbox files.

I’m having a wizard time reading all these. Have just finished Joey goes to the Oberland, which is quite amusing to read about them wedging all the kids in the car around the luggage. Not a booster seat in sight!

@Jemima232 I am in shock at your revelations!

@cerys

I’m sure there’s a scene in one of the later books where the Maynards get a minibus - and rig up some sort of hammock between the seats for the babies to sleep in!

@MarieVanGoethem A Chalet School/Ballet Shoes crossover would be amazing. Felicity meets Posy Fossil! And Petrova would remind her of Jack Lambert, although Petrova is much nicer.

They also seem to put the children prone to car sickness right in the middle of the car, not by a window for air or a door for a quick escape.

Hmm don't the majority of ballet schools only take full time pupils at 16 these days at least? There's only a few start at 11, although there are some 'normal' boarding schools which offer intense Dance Academy programmes from 14 with external teachers. (A good friend's daughter is going through the process of auditions for full time ballet school this year in yr 11 to start next year after GCSEs). I imagine that Jo would just have insisted the Chalet School does something similar to the intense programmes for Felicity.

I'm interested in the Dropbox link, if you could message me. Thanks

Cars in the CS are basically like TARDISes. You can fit any amount of luggage and girls in them.

Thank you for the additional books, Parker!

@cerys

There are more revelations to come. I have been reading Madge's diaries for nearly three solid days now.

I have had a very officious email from Sir James Talbot in which he threatens legal action if I do not publish Sir James Talbot Plays The Game

Needless to say, this poorly-written book doesn't refer to rugby, as might be supposed from an alumnus of St. Mary's.

It is all about his adventures on board a Mississippi Steamboat (the Busted Fanjo) and he seems to have spent most of the proceeds the Chalet School made from their drug-running operations whilst he was a passenger.

The Captain was allegedly a Mr. Winebucket, but I think this is an alias.

@Jemima232

The captain of the Busted Fanjo was indeed Mr. Winebucket.

You seem to be overly suspicious of me, as ever.

Why would I invent an alias for Mr. Winebucket?

Winebucket is a very common name in the Deep South.

I gather you have my diaries as well as my unpublished semi-autobiographical works. Kindly sent them back in a plain envelope if you would be so good.

@QuaterMiss

I do not suppose for a moment that you have any recollection of our dinner at the Ivy, considering how many gin and tonics you drank.

I deposited you at Charing Cross station, not Waterloo.

Distorting the truth will get you nowhere with me, I assure you.

@MadgeLadyRussell

Flee at once. Jemima refuses to give up your diaries.

SchrodingersUnicorn
There are certainly more full-time training places available at 16+ [in the UK, AFAIK is similar globally, but...], largely because lots of parents prefer their children to obtain the wider range of GCSEs you get in mainstream school combined with intensive training alongside (&/or don’t want their children to board; only day school I can think of immediately is YDA in London). There are more Associate Programmes now than there ever used to be; & serious dancers in/near London often make use of the advanced/pro classes that’ll accept them. (And canny parents find out where the RBS/Elmhurst [etc] kids are allowed to do classes in the holidays & send their children there.) Home-schooling around ballet tuition seems to be more of a thing in the States. Is some debate over UK students being Left Behind as they’re not pushed enough in comparison to peers elsewhere in world; but of course we also like not [risking] deforming children’s feet by starting pointe too early...

PhilSwagielka
Feel free to write it . Also, that’s rather sad re CBB. When it was all fields (etc) was certainly not an issue. Doesn’t matter if EBD wouldn’t have written it, she wouldn’t have written a lot of the Drabbles people indulge in. And you’ve as much right as anyone else to read the characters as you wish. So there.

Thank you Parker.

I have managed to add all the books to my Kindle, renamed where necessary with the numbers. Am unreasonably proud of myself!

The only two I think I am missing are 19 Jo to The Rescue and and 38 Excitements at the Chalet School. Anyone know if I've missed them in the various files?

Also thoroughly enjoying the new revelations!

@raspberryribbleicecream - I need to get the books onto my kindle - what format do they have to be in? Thanks

I used Calibre to convert everything to Mobi. There was a lot of trial and error! Anything with .doc I had to open in Word and resave as .docx. Once converted you can email them to your kindle.

You can edit the titles on the Calibre screen by selecting the title, right clicking and selecting edit metadata.