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.

So they would be fined in cents and euros, no more working like n......s. Can't decide if they would be doing the international baccalaureate or GCSE's and a levels. Anna would join a union and get a fair pay and working conditions.

Hold on to your (brown felt) hats girls. The Chaletians are now, officially, a quiche!

There's a thread running in chat about quiches ATM and we're there. That's one of my mn ambitions realised!

What language is it today please? I'm so excited I've been speaking English and would pay my fine but it's such a bad example to the juniors...

A quiche, at last! I think we need to start planning a half-term celebration or something. Which goatpeasants' hut shall we earmark in case of blizzards?

Squee! I've never been in a quiche before!

A quiche? What sort... oh well the basket containing the nices was left behind anyway.

What does it mean? Do we get a prize, or a little star by our names?

Je hope qui le langue pour aujourd'hui est Anglais as you can tell I can't speak anything else...

Ooh, can we pick a hut with a nice, handsome goatpeasant? Preferably with good muscles and the possibility of inheriting a fortune/being a pools winner? May have been hanging around one J Baker a little too much

I still don't really understand what a quiche is, in MN terms, apart from a tasty savoury snack.

I may be a true Chaletian but clearly not a true MNer.

Yay, my first time in a quiche. Break out the special milk and let's party!

For some unknown reason, quiche is the MN term for clique, ie a continuous set of threads on the same topic. Or so I seem to have gleamed from the aforementioned thread.

You call yourselves true Chaletians, and you don't even know what day of the week it is, my lambs? It's clearly Saturday (unless you're in Australia, where it may or may not already be Sunday...), and since it is now after Mittagessen, we may speak our own languages. As far as I understand it - Monday & Thursday = German, Tuesday & Friday = French, Wednesday & Saturday morning = English, and Saturday afternoon and Sunday = own languages.

I never really had a break from reading children's books just carried on from childhood to now, but never told anyone I still read them, I usually read two or three books at the same time so one of them is usually a children's book and the other one is the one I'd tell peple I was reading, they were also kept hidden in one of my drawers, now they are on dd's shelf.

I love Lorna Hill and all the horse stories.

Dd is really into school stories at the moment, she's read St Clare's and Malory Towers and we're reading through the CS together! I've recommended the Naughtiest Girl and the Trebizon books. Has anyone got any other recommendations for a mildly dyslexic 10 year old (although I'm happy to read them to her if necessary).

PS Can someone link to the quiche thread in Chat? I can't find it and I need to see our name in lights.

I've just got to the end of Hilda Annersley Headmistress. Finished it on the bus and blubbed like Simone a spineless jellyfish at the ending! I think it's a really good story with believable plot lines and some quite gripping bits. Such a shame about the standard of the written English.

I'm off to comb the interweb for any copies of A Chalet School Headmistress at normal prices. If anyone sees one, do shout.

My first ever school stories were the Naughtiest Girl, where the two shillings pocket money is a very major theme IIRC. 10p just wouldn't have the same feel at all. Or do they maybe make it into a realistic amount along with changing the currency - perhaps £1 a week? Or even more? Anyone know? I coped fine with it being two shillings, though to be fair decimal money hadn't long come in when I read them, sixpences were still in use, and 5p and 10p coins also said 'one shilling' and 'two shillings' on them, so it wasn't that hard.

I wonder how on earth you would decimalise OOAOML's answer to 'what's two and six'?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2171599-Whats-the-oldest-quiche-on-MN

Ooohhh, I've never been in a quiche, I'm not much of a joiner in (maybe I wouldn't have fitted I at the CS), now I find I'm inadvertently in one, how exciting.

Oooh how exciting!

I do hope that we are a quality home Anna made quiche with fresh milk from the local herdsmen (I hear Joan Baker has negotiated some kind of deal with them) and naice ham, not some second-rate shop-bought one?

Can I ask a (probably very silly) question? How do you all pronounce 'Chaletian'? I ask because I've always read it as one pronunciation but when I think about it and apply some logic I realise its probably meant to sound different.

I'm feeling a bit thick here so somebody help me out please?

I instinctively (would) say 'shar-lay-shun', which is definitely wrong.

I have a vague idea, source unknown but prob not original, that it ought to be 'shah-lee-shun'?

I had a short list of pronunciations I wanted to check on here: Freudesheim? And Rhyll (as in Everett)? I've forgotten the others...

And Eugen?

I have no idea either, Juniper . And I've only just started pronouncing Margot, Evadne and Elisaveta right...

I have a decimalised Naughtiest Girl book - IIRC they get £2 pocket money a week (which seemed an awful lot to me as a child). If I can be bothered, I might pop upstairs and check...

I see it as Shalettion. I know thats wrong. The other pronunciation I can come up with is Shaleyon (ie silent t as chalet is said) But that sounds pretentious.

I think Freudesheim is Froidishime and either Rill or (if she's Welsh) Rith. Both also sound daft.

Oigen?

Yeah I get Elizaveta wrong too. I want to pronounce the veta with a long 'ee'.

Yep - it's £2. Mind you, it's not a proper Naughtiest Girl book, but a 1999 Anne Digby: "The Naughtiest Girl Keeps a Secret."

Ahh, that's exactly what I thought for Freudesheim, and also Rhyll (not Welsh btw - acquired in Guernsey along with the various Chester-Lucy lot, she's the head gardener for one of them I think). Otoh, Eugen I think of as Yoo-jen, though Oigen seems far more logical (if also funnier).

Oh, remind me what the correct pronunciation of Elisaveta was, then? I'd misremembered it as Elisa-veeta which seemed very pretty.

Froidshime for Freudeheim sounds right - usually with German two vowel blends you pronounce the second one; my German teacher at school had a poster on her wall that said "when two vowels go walking, the second one does the talking".

Your "Elizaveta" is better than mine, Juniper - a few years ago I actually read the world properly, and realised it couldn't be "Ess-ill-veta", as I had been pronouncing it. I also discovered I'd gone my l and k the wrong way around in Thekla, didn't know Margot had a silent t, and always used to pronounce "Evadne" "Ever-dane". Shows what I get for glossing over a name I don't know!

Thekla has exactly that error in the transcripts, Obligatory.
I always thought of Thekla as being, well, Thekla, but now I suspect it's more likely Tekla - is it?