New Home for the Chalet School

[Vintagejazz]

Welome everyone. Dormy lists on the board as usual and I know you are all hoping like mad that you are all not in the same dormitory as Mary Lou. But only some of you can be the un lucky ones and the rest of us will have to make do with each other.

Oh, and the good news is that Joey has sabotaged discovered something wrong with the roof on her house and believe it or not, the only property available to rent is right next door to the school.

Shit Hurrah, lucky us.

Got to go. Matey wants me for unpacking.

I've started transcribing cggu, might take me a while though as I don't really know what I'm doing!

I lost all my transcripts when my IPad died- I donn't suppose anyone could possibly send them to me, could they?? There's a rag doll called Peter Empidokles in it for them if they do......

Lonny "I always thought with the hair, it was tied round the head - where an Alice band would go these days?"

That was for older girls with the plaits around the head, probably an indication that they were of marriagable age - at least in the Austrian/Germanic areas at the time. Younger girls (not children) I think would have had long hair curbed at the back of the neck with something like a long hair slide, at least in England and America and possibly north Europe. Think Thoroughly Modern Millie before her transformation into a bright young thing with a bob. It was a demure and innocent look suited to the time. Pony tails when they came in were probably thought of as provocative and therefore not to be encouraged by the powers that be.

The photodetective website might show original pics. (www.photodetective.co.uk)

Alicebands? Hmm. I know about them

Was anyone watching Location Location Location tonight. Did you think Victoria looked very like how Joe probably looked (with earphones added obviously).

Just realised that post sounds like I think Joe was a real person

Err...you think?? Surely she is a real person........

[boast] just spent a night at the Tiernsee, in Tiernkirche actually.

The first view from the North makes the lake look more EBD size, but then you go around a bend and it is really quite long. Only one person in the family has a clue why we are in this valley.

Thanks Alice and what a wonderful NN you have

mummy No way! Post pics????

Vintage You have just ruined the Chalet School for me. What do you mean Joey isn't a real person?

I have that chalet school companion book somewhere. There's a couple of short stories in there. "Woollen measles" and "When Joey caught a burglar" and possibly one about Miss Wilson wanting Joey to impress a doctor (or someone) with her naturally superior rowing skills, if I remember rightly.
Then a lot of character descriptions etc. Well worth having. Would offer to try and transcribe, but I can't find it at present, it's probably in dd2's room, otherwise known as the jumblesale after a hurricane hit it...

Have been reading Richenda and finally found the bit where Dr Jack goes all the way down the hairpin mountain road by turning off the engine and jamming his foot on the brake. I knew it was in one of the books. Did EBD try it out, do you think?

Sorry DeWee. Of course she's real. And so are Mary Lou and Miss Annersley and Grizel and Matey; all living happily in a lovely fantasy landboarding school in Switzerland where teenagers play paper games on a Saturday evening in velveteen frocks and everyone lives happily ever after with a doctor and 25 children

Are the transcripts the full unabridged versions? In Three Go there was nothing about Biddy meeting her future husband but I heard it was in that book that the encounter happened?

And now Dr Graves is going down the mountain in bottom gear with the brakes jammed on. How many of her readers did she kill with this advice? (It is of course all before the invention of disc breaks and the drum brakes used to overheat or even catch fire).
I do remember having to get out and walk while the driver took the car up steep hills and even friends who used to put a brick on the accelerator while they all walked alongside.
We didn't know any doctors with big powerful cars.

I think Biddy meets Dr. Courvoisier in Carola Storms? A random Scandinavian child falls into some lily ponds and is fished out by Carola, Dr. C and his dog. Or am I getting this confused with Hilary Burns and Dr. Graves?

That was Hilary Burns and Dr Graves. Daisy Venables also got engaged in that book IIRC.

Biddy meets Dr. C in the one where Margot falls into Lake Lucerne ...

Thanks. So must have been one of the Swiss books then.

Margot falls in the lake in Does it again I think.....I think it's the one after Barbara..

I think it's supposed to be Gillian Linton's romance which is cut from the PB of Three Go, but I've not yet read the transcript so can't answer the actual question. I think most of them are unabridged but I'm sure I've spotted one or two abridged - can't remember which though.

Equally unhelpfully, I'm sure I've seen the full text of ^Woollen Measles" online somewhere but I can't find it now.

I'm giggling slightly at the dangerous driving modelled by EBD/San doctors, which is probably highly inappropriate. It's not as benign as promoting Matey's special way of brushing hair and humping mattresses, is it.

Ugh, italics fail. Have been up the last two nights with a poxy toddler. It has occurred to me that sickness is supposed to only happen in the Easter term. He's no Chaletian. :(

Walked to Graisalm from St Scholastikas today. DH thought it would be a gentle walk next to the lake, and was thinking of going on to Pertisau. Graisalm is supposed to take 1 hr, I think it took us a little longer. It is along a steep path which goes up and down over granite next to the lake, we crossed about 5+ waterfalls there would be more if it was wet. It is not somewhere I would want to walk a group of school girls, you certainly couldn't crocodile which I think Miss Browne tried?
The whole walk to Pertisau (Bertisau) should take 2hrs.
We caught the boat at Graisalm.

I wonder if EBD did any of the walks she describes?

I will try to get some photos for you. Hopefully it doesn't pour down with rain tomorrow. They have a great kids program locally, and free bus travel for people staying here.

Gillian's romance is in the unabridged Three Goes.

Now girls, I don't want to alarm any of you so can you please be sitting down with a cup of special milk before you read on?

He is an artist. Not a doctor. He's Clem's godfather who arrives to take her on an exeat. I don't think he even knows first aid.

mummy it sounds like you went past at least one dripping rock!

They say in the Swiss books that some of the paths round the Tiernsee were 'none too safe, even in our day' and that when they go back for the 21st celebrations there's walks they can't do anymore.

But 'the' Dripping Rock is between Pertisau and Gaisalm! I have walked under it in the pouring rain and in lovely sunny weather. It now has a corrugated iron roof so that you don't get wet!

Lonny I'm not sure marrying a non-doctor is something to be so happy about. How on earth will he dose her correctly whenever she gets a touch overexcited, the way these womenfolk are prone to doing?