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

[Chouetted]

I'm afraid I don't have it as a word doc, just the Armada paperback (which was uncut). Am willing to sacrifice it for the common cause if someone has a way for me to get it to someone with time to type it up.

[Picasso31]

Could I have the drop box too please? I lost my kindle that had several books on. Sis someone say there were Abbey School books too? Were they the ones obsessed with country dancing?

[funnelfanjo]

I’ll happily type up Jo to the Rescue and return the book when finished. I’m “between jobs” at the moment.

Although I am currently on holiday and somewhat irritated that my Kindle got lost in Manchester Airport security screening on the way out. Long story short, Kindles are now apparently “large electronics” that need to be removed from hand luggage like laptops, and my hand luggage got pulled over for searching by hand and rescreening. In the scrum of trying to retrieve my belongings from the melee of muppets trying to bend the liquids rule and arguing about it my Kindle got left behind and I didn’t realise until I was boarding. I had spent ages reformatting a lot of the files (hi Yogi ) and adding covers and getting them on my Kindle, and was planning to spend a lot of time floating in the pool reading.

Sorry, that was the short version, honest. I’m now irritated - I was “fumin” on the flight out.

[LittleMousewithcloggson]

Prettt please with frothy milky coffee please can I have the Dropbox link too?
Having an operation shortly and it will keep me sane

[BigOldBlue]

Would love a link to Dropbox, please, if possible. These books were a massive part of my childhood and beyond.

[Chickenpie9]

I got sent the drop box link but keep getting a message no preview available and won’t let me into the documents ?

[SugarPlumFairyCakes]

Why have been completely oblivious to this! Have my treasured collection from childhood, some falling apart from too much reading (and being dropped in the bath on occasion). Could I please have the link too, would be very grateful.

[Parker231]

@Chickenpie9 - I’ve sent you the Dropbox link again. I’ve tested it with one of my email accounts and it worked ok. Has anyone else had any problems accessing the Dropbox link?

[InfiniteCurve]

@Parker231** could I have the Dropbox link too,please?

I have been trying to hold out,as I have things I should be doing rather than a CS reread,but these threads have lead me astray and I just want to read accompanied by cream cakes,American candies,and coffee with topped with mounds of whipped cream...
( I am in another thread where posters are getting heated about the use of "could I please have" in requests so I hope that's acceptable here!)

[QuaterMiss]

I have been trying to hold out,as I have things I should be doing rather than a CS reread

You have exactly described my entire Summer, InfiniteCurve. (Now rather ruefully reaping the rewards of having done almost nothing productive for a couple of months.)


That second video was a delight Parker!

[Calic0]

Oh my word, @Parker231 is there any chance I could have the Dropbox link as well?

I hadn’t picked up on the CS threads before and am utterly delighted to find this - off to catch up from the beginning

[QuaterMiss]

Here’s a link to the second CS thread, which has a link to the first thread at the beginning.

[ThisMomentIsMyLife]

@Parker231 May I have the Dropbox link too please? I’ve been buying CS on eBay lately as they take me back to long childhood summers with nothing to do but read (best time of my life😀).

[CarrotVan]

I’ve just finished The Chalet School Does It Again in which EBD ran out of ideas (near drowning on excursion leads to rescue by dashing doctor and dog as in Carola, Willow Pattern sale etc)

But who is the stranger sitting behind Jo at the Pantomime who comments on the valley? It seems like it should be significant but is unexplained.

[QuaterMiss]

(There have obviously been many other long and successful CS threads started by other posters before this series!)

[CarrotVan]

Ballet not valley. 🙄

[Q1w2e3]

I loved these books! Could you please send me the Dropbox link too? Thanks, merci, danke!

[Papergirl1968]

Despite being very formulatic (is that a word? Written to an obvious formula anyway) they’re strangely addictive.
Yes I wondered who the stranger at the ballet was, Carrot, and got very frustrated that it wasn’t explained.
I’m on New Mistress now, which was one of my favourites.
As for having trouble opening links, Parker, I haven’t been able to open Excitements.

[Calic0]

Thank you @QuaterMiss for the links and @Parker231 for basically ensuring that I do nothing productive for the rest of the month!

[Mmr224]

Could I please have the Dropbox link too @Parker231?

[Trenchcoated]

I think the addictive thing is precisely because they're so formulaic -- she'd made this incredibly detailed fictional universe, and she just enjoyed her own worldbuilding so much, her pleasure in repeating detail leaps off the page.

There's a kind of addictiveness in the fiftieth time someone explains that Apfeltorte is not in fact apple tart, why you curtsy to the Head, or the (absurdly unworkable) trilingual system. (No extra tutoring for monoglot new girls, who would have taken ages to catch up in two languages simultaneously when two thirds of their lessons were in a language they couldn't speak, far less write? Did you have separate textbooks for each subject depending on which language day it was? Wouldn't have been nigh-impossible to teach a topic when the vocabulary, textbooks etc would have varied through three different languages in the typical week, and some girls in your class had completely different levels of fluency in each? Are you supposed to do your prep in the language of the day when it was set, or the day you actually do it? Or could you end up with a situation where you're set a history essay on a French day, you actually write it on an English day, and the mistress discusses the essays (in whichever language!) in class on a German day?)

[Howyoualldoworkme]

Trenchcoated Whole New Can of Worms!!!
My head is now spinning and I may have to go to bed for the rest of the day to get over the shock.

I'm just starting Barbara. How many times can German measles be used as a plot device?

Papergirl1968 I had to convert Excitements with Calibre. It was fairly easy

[Trenchcoated]

What never fails to freak me out at the beginning of Barbara is that she arrives at boarding school having never brushed her own (short) hair, because her mother always does it for her!

[Papergirl1968]

Thanks, How, I think I tried to download calibre and hit some problems with it, but will try again

[Becles]

@WonderWomansSpin

My two abiding memories of the Chalet School are that Ineedto see the passion play. And that I need to make sure when I peel potatoes the width of the peelings is as thin as possible.

Not to stress you but you have a limited window - the next one is 2020 and I've been so tempted.

www.passionsspiele-oberammergau.de/en/visit/info-service

I always feel failure when peeling potatoes, so much so I've given up and pretend it's for health purposes to max out vitamins.