To ask the Abbess to find me a solid lump of comfort and a cream cake

[CarrotVan]

Shenanigans at the Chalet School featuring sales of work, sub text and full fat menu

[QuaterMiss]

Right … I wasted an entire evening rereading the previous two threads. Haven’t laughed so much for ages.

So I had to wake up at 5 this morning to catch up on the work I should have been doing yesterday.

I hope you’re proud of yourselves!

[Lancrelady80]

@JassyRadlett

And that I need to make sure when I peel potatoes the width of the peelings is as thin as possible.

I invariably feel horribly guilty when peeling potatoes as a result of Frau Mieders.

Me too!

I had so many CS books when young, then sold a lot to a 2nd hand shop in a fit of decluttering about 10 years ago.

Our local church has an annual Book Fayre and I was beside myself to see a good twenty or so CS books there, which I rapidly snapped up. (Have a suspicion some if not all were mine originally, though can't be sure.)

[Parker231]

@Cardiganannie

Could I also have the Dropbox link please @Parker231 ? Cheers ac

Hi - please would you pm me your email address so I can send the books over to you.

[Cardiganannie]

Could I also have the Dropbox link please @Parker231 ? Cheers ac

[Parker231]

Just found this thread again. If anyone wants the Dropbox link to all the books, please PM me your email address.

[funnelfanjo]

I’ve just finished reading Richenda for the first time. I realise I’m reaching the part of the series when the quality seriously starts dropping off but it seems like three quarters of the way through EBD got bored and rushed an ending. There was room in that story for a much more interesting resolution between Ricki and her father.

Plus for some reason the medical bits really grated in this book far more than usual. Joey had a slightly displaced organ? I read the symptoms and the vast amounts of butter and cream and chocolate being consumed and assumed she had gallstones, but then I’m not sure she’d be up and running around a week after gallbladder removal in the 1950s. Plus the shoving oil in the eyes of someone to counter ammonia-like substances made me wince. Thank goodness they had an eye clinic in the doorstep!

[hels71]

I have just read the fill-in, The Bethany Twins at the Chalet School. Really enjoyed it!

[Apileofballyhoo]

Thanks funnel, I haven't heard anything yet but I didn't PM Parker or anything. I did email that chalet school address mentioned somewhere on these threads.

[funnelfanjo]

I’m sure Parker keeps an eye on this thread, but if by some chance you haven’t had a response, then let me know.

[Apileofballyhoo]

Jassy, I also came on to see if anyone was still here and if I could get access to the Dropbox. I was on the first thread but life took over and I never got around to sending Parker my email. I've been rereading in order and need and Jo next. Maybe some absolute lamb will respond to us.

[JassyRadlett]

I’m on a mammoth reread at the moment and am resurrecting to ask @Parker231 whether she would mind sharing the transcript link as I’ve found I’m missing Rescue, and my hard copy is in another country!

[PhilSwagielka]

Took me ages to find the thread! I didn't mind the religion when it was Joey telling Phoebe that Christianity for her means helping others, or everyone praying for Phoebe's health, or even Jack telling Reg to take G-d as his partner (though paying for Reg's schooling was a bit much when he barely knew him), but you can't really have a deep philosophical discussion about religion with a toddler. And the bit where they confess their sins to Joey at bedtime creeps me out.

[PerditaProvokesEnmity]

Heavens! Hadn't realised this thread was still going. (Was there at the start under a previous name.)

I've spent the past couple of months wishing I hadn't reread the whole set last summer - they'd have been perfect lockdown binge-fodder.

[funnelfanjo]

I can only assume that it was EBD's way of shoehorning in some religion into the story in the absence of the usual school plays/prayers/visits to churches or plays/a life-threatening medical crisis causing people to contemplate the meaning of life.

I quite like the concept that Jack is generally shown being involved in the children's lives more than a stereotypical upper-middle class man of that era, but the whole tone of the 'talk' with Margot was for a much older child.

[PhilSwagielka]

Just reading Jo to the Rescue and fucking hell, you can totally draw the dots between how the triplets behave in this book and Theodora.

• Margot acts like a little shit and is jealous of Len about something
  
• Len enables Margot and tries to calm things down
  
• Con speaks her mind and tells Margot off and it gets her into trouble
  
  Also, why the actual fuck is Jack giving a 3-year-old kid a lecture about G-d? Isn't 3 a bit young to understand religion?

[PhilSwagielka]

I got Adrienne! As in the one where YET ANOTHER NEW GIRL turns out to be related to an Old Girl, and the Robin has her Big Damn Heroes moment and saves Adrienne from being sold into prostitution (possibly).

[ABBBRB]

@Parker231 I know I'm late to the party, but is there any chance I could have the dropbox link? Thank you

[Honkingallthewaytothebank]

@Parker231 thanks. One down, many more to go! Hooked already!

[TheLongDarkBreakfastTime]

@NWKF That sounds brilliant! Do you by any chance have an electronic copy? I’d happily read it. I did buy a book about illness in children’S literature called something like “Pick Up Thy Bed and Walk”, which was really interesting.

[Happilysinglemum]

Thank you so much! I’m sure my children don’t really need to eat 🤣

[Two4tea]

@Parker231 please may I have the link? I asked before but haven't had a pm from you, do you remember if you sent me one? Thank you!

[Happilysinglemum]

Ooh! Please may I have the Dropbox link, my ex destroyed my collection when I was in refuge 😫

[Parker231]

I’m looking into the missing non Chalet Schools books - had to play around with Dropbox as it stopped me sending anymore links.

[Honkingallthewaytothebank]

@Parker231 I would LOVE the link if you are able to please!

[Tinuviel]

@Parker231, you very kindly sent me the link for CS, which I am working my way through; and for extra non-CS books which appears to be empty. Is this a problem with my computer or have the books been removed?