Chalet School fans - Radio 4 programme with Val McDermid

[Northernlurker]

Just seen this on the R4 website and listened here Really good programme with Vam McDermid and I could answer ALL the quiz questions - mostly quicker than her experts. Experts? Pah!

I was thinking Gottfried - young, intense, can climb mountains and he's so sweet with Gisela.....

oh yes - forgot about Gottfried Mensch! Most of the rest are too much on the patronising side for me (though a few months ago I was wishing for a Chalet doctor to tell me I must take things very easily before becoming 'very busy' again - luckily my very good-looking and lovely non-Chalet-type GP signed me off work for a couple months!) Not to mention sedating random women all the time...

Rufus was there on the Head Girl rescues. And did Prof van der Witt recover his senses for a bit in time to help?

Separately, the 'Crown of Success' is available for free online - it really is rather charming!

Oh I forgot about Gottfried too!

The Prof turned up yes - but who went with Jo and Grizel to rescue Cornelia - in a manner frankly quite dashing!

OoooH I remember, It's Friedel Von Gluck!

Very good!

Mrs Lucy is called Janie isn't she,not Julie? Julie is daughter, and collapses with burst appendix then gets made HG when she finally gets back to school about a year later or something. Other random members of family: Beth Chester, Nancy Chester, Barbara Chester, a younger one whose name I forget, they have brothers too. Then Viola (Vi) Lucy, Betsy "puckish" Lucy. Nella and Vanna Ozanne (nice but dim, had to leave school at nearly 19 to travel the world with their folks, hadn't got into the VIth yet).

Vi was Second prefect when Mary Lou was Head Girl. Janice was the youngest Chester I think - and there was a little Lucy - Kitten - no idea of her real name?

Kitten was Katherine Lucy, I think. And yes the mother was Janie, I mistyped.

Anyone read any of the non-Chalet stories that take place on Guernsey with the Chesters/Lucys/Ozannes and Nicole la Touche etc? I read one of EBD's pre-Chalet earliest books and it was really quite tedious, sort of Angela Brazil by numbers.
I'm finding the Tyrol books and some of the war ones stand up to adult post-parenting re-reading pretty well, but the later ones not nearly so much (though Jo to the Rescue in uncut hardback is hilarious simply for all the detail about toddler and baby routines and meals - mostly cut in the Armada!)

One of my favourite Chalet quotes is:
"Cecil was a determined little girl but at the age of 4 months she was finally beginning to realise no meant no". (or something like that)

Well, we knew all Joey's children were protegies!

All Jo's children are fairly wilful aren't they? She would so have been weeping on mumsnet's shoulder! Especially when advised to stop breastfeeding in The Chalet School Goes to It.

I love all those bits in Jo to the Rescue - the recently delivered Frieda is well and truly looked after by the others and they all pick up the slack when one or other is knackered.

Speaking of which:

What is it that Phoebe is trying to protect in Jo to the Rescue?

What is Phoebe's hobby?

Which doctor does she marry?

Which Russell/Bettany child arrives during the book?

Can you name all of the Jo/Marie/Simone/Frieda dcs who are in the book?

Northernlurker

Do you live in North East England? If you are you really ought to come along to the get-togethers of FOCS and NCC members which take place every few months. You'd be pretty good at answering the fiendish quiz questions one of the regulars provides. Although actually I'm now suspecting that you're her in disguise.

For info, I think I'm doing well on those quizzes if I can get more than one correct answer. :)

No not her - tell me more!

Hmm! I flicked through Jo to the Rescue many years ago.

I think she's trying to protect a Cello. Was it her fathers?

She definitely does needlecraft because that comes up at a later date. I assume that was her hobby, though I think she makes a little money a bit like Jacynth's aunt knits.

She marries Dr. Peters because I only remember her called Phoebe Peters... Was he Frank or Fred or something like that?

Well, I'd guess Ailie, but only on the basis Stephen was born in Lavender, which I think is just before, and I know she's a bit younger than him (at that stage, I think she loses a bit over the years)

Jo's dc would be Len, Con, Margo and Stephen
Marie's dc would be Gretchen, Jacque/Jack, Jose and Petit Andre/Andreas
Simone's dc would be only Tessa and she had another later, but not at this point I think.
Frieda's dc would be Carlotta and oh dear I can't remember...

What do you want to know? I can't really put meeting info on here as it's too public and I don't know if I can send you an individual message. Can anyone do that? If so I can let you know more details. Basic info is that the next meeting is the afternoon of 26th November. I won't be there because I'll be at the football, but if I can contact you I can let you know where and who to contact.

It's basically just a group of women who like EBD, but most of whom also like the Abbey series, plus a variety of other stuff in that vein. In effect it's a social occasion with a Chalet School related quiz thrown in. :)

Mackem - I can't do that day as my sil is visiting but please PM me general contact details if possible. Just click on message poster on any of my posts. Thanks!

Dewe - you are doing pretty good - Jo's offspring all present and correct and Simone too but I don't know what you're thinking with Marie and you've skipped a couple of dc with Frieda. Marie had her two oldest with her - Josefa was one - but who is the other - and first born amongst that generation? Gretchen was Frieda's oldest daughter - the delicate one but at this point she hasn't been born.

Is Marie's son Wolferl/Wolfram or something like that? And Frieda's boys......Louis and Gerard???

V good.

Yes, thoroughly mixed up there. Jose was Elisavita's wasn't she? I think I must have been confusing Marias there. Petit Andre was one of the Maria who was Madge's housekeeper I think, called after his dad.

What unpleasant experience did LEn have in Lausanne?

Len!

Accused of shoplifting after an actual shoplifter shoved her loot in to Len's poscket whilst Len and Rosamund were waiting for the other girls. Len v upset. Miss Charlesworth magnificent. That's in the The Chalet School Triplets which is one of my all time favourites. Features Con sleepwalking, Margot and the book end and Len and Con nearly wiped out in a blizzard. It also features the Triplets rescuing Cecil from a sadly deranged by grief woman.

Who wrote the prayer for the Chalet School Peace League?

Which Maynard children (BIG clue) are born in Canada

It's Felix and Felicity.

Joey wrote the prayer as I'm pretty sure it's refered to at one point as Joey's prayer.
The Peace League statement was written by Hilary Burn wasn't it? Although probably Joey took the credit for it too in later years.