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

Can I have the dropbox link please?

Apologies for the typos. I thought I’d got them all. But I’ve just scrolled through on my iPad and spotted half a dozen already. Nothing yet on the scale of “shite sugar bear”, but irritating none the less.

Wolfram changes his name in several chapters to Wolferl. Does anyone know, is Wolferl a nickname of Wolfram? Bit like Jo and Joey? Google wasn’t very informative.

Ahh, don’t worry. They probably shortened it to Wolf anyway!

Was just reminded of my niece starting school and telling my sister there was a boy in her class called Wolf.
My sister queried it. Wolf? Are you sure.
Yes, my niece was sure.
She had a lisp however and some time later it emerged his name was actually Ralf!

Oh, Wolfram/Wolferl is in the book. So I presumed it was some kind of familiar nickname like Joey for really close friends and Jo for everyone else.

Thanks so much for Jo to the Rescue! I was even more excited than when Jo sent some jam to the school

Thank you funnelfanjo!

Right, I’m at the end of chapter 6 I think, and it is perfectly clear to me that Jack and the Countess have a thing going on. And Joey keeps throwing them together. ‘Tis a weirdness ...

Ooh, what a fantastic thread. CS books are my comfort reads.

Not sure I'd cut it as a CS girl. I don't have a silvery laugh or parents who have died in tragic circumstances involving illness, transport or 'natives'. I'd also have to report myself to the prees for slang quite a lot. I do like an occasional mug of non-special milk though.

Could I have the Dropbox link please? Danke schon/Merci etc.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3715077-Friday-night-and-Ive-just-seen-a-woman-in-Lidl-with-7-children?msgid=90746280

No mention of Anna, or Rösli ...

Haha Quater that was exactly my thought too! Although they’d never shop at Lidl, they have People to deliver to them personally.

Well! EBD must have put her whole heart and soul into Jo To The Rescue. It’s so detailed, and she keeps extending the story as if she doesn’t want to let it go. Ninety five percent fabulous. (The dismissal of Julie Lucy’s potential career at the Bar and a deal of insufferable smugness are only tiny stumbling blocks.)

You know I’m wondering if EBD missed her vocation. The Chalet School is an amazing achievement - but I would have loved a really grown up, non-euphemistic family saga from her ...

Late but shaking a leg to ask if I may have the Dropbox link please @Parker231. I had pretty much the whole set in hardback in the 1970s. My mum and I brought them home on the bus in several shopping bags from a second hand bookshop. Sadly only a handful remain here.

Oh, is that Jo to the Rescue? I must have read it then...

• But what about Julie's career as a barrister?
• Oh, she'll give that up, of course

It's the only thing I remember, but it obviously made a huge impact.

I suspect that this may have had something to do with Beth's ever-changing career plans: with examples like this to go on she would have felt free to come up with any vaguely-interesting idea that floated past, secure in the knowledge that she was never going to be asked to come good on it...

though actually, I think it was her training as a barrister...

I didn’t realise there was quite a big age difference between Jem and Madge.
Jem is 48 in Jo To the Rescue, and if Jo is about 24, Madge would be about 34 - am I right in thinking she’s about ten years older than jo?
Interesting too that Jo is described as 5ft 8ins - she’s always been described as tall but I don’t think her height has been given before. Jack is 6ft 2ins, pleasant looking but not film star looks.

Madge is 12 years older than Joey I seem to recall.

Ah, thanks, that would make Madge about 36, maybe 37, to Jem’s 48. Although it does say he could pass for ten years younger!

I have binge read Jo to the Rescue today. I did at Jack being described as 6’2” of manhood - I say, steady on EBD!

Someone else on here said they found it a comforting read and I agree.

Jack is certainly virile

Just read the bit about the "shite sugar bears" in Excitements
I laughed far too much...

5’8”?! I’d always assumed she was almost 6 feet, that’s hilarious!

Is there any chance someone could send me the Dropbox link? I’d love a binge read 🙂

Just finished Jo to the Rescue, loving how a couple of chats with Jo and an introduction to the saintly Robin change Zephyr from planning burglary and pet killing around to a nice reformed character :D

It’s true there was a degree of wishful thinking. But I did genuinely love the portrayal of Zephyr’s bewilderment at how much she’d missed in the world.