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.

Mmm Joan looks sonsy to me!

loving "goating folk" brilliant phrase. I must learn a way to work that into a sentence.

Having looked at what a doctor needs to learn I have decided that a woman's mind is obviously not capable of absorbing all that. Jack Maynard also nearly fell off his chair laughing when I asked him for career advice and sent me to read up on housewifely skills.

I must telephone Vic.

Hi all, have been rather busy recently but not in the Joey sense! Which dormy am I in and is there a summerhouse in the new school? I am looking very trig in my lime green blazer and am ready for a topping new term full of jolly japes. Joan, my lamb, would you like me to crochet you something?

Oh my dear Joan You will be asking Jack about ideas for the sale next and he will tell you, as he did to our oaoml that's a subject for female brains.

Row over to Vendell island with just a Fur coat and know knickers. Look out for a bearded bloke with sandles and do for him what you did for Vic behind the wheely bins and he will marry you.

If he has a picture child with him in leg irons tell her to run for the hills.

Tinuviel, I think you're in Weedy. That's the new dorm with the rather strange, sweet smell emanating from it - maybe the special milk boiled over? Now I think about it, the girls in that dorm do look a little pale, and they seem strangely listless and lacking in energy first thing in the morning. Always late down to fruhstuck, and with their Kenwigses awry. I even hear tell they funk their cold baths too. You'll have to buck them up, Tinuviel. Perhaps OOAO should take over as dorm pree?

The summerhouse is behind the tennis courts. Past that odd thing that looks like a dried up riverbed. Has anyone been coerced into English Tea with Joey yet?

Me, I've just got back from Freudesheim. She threw some feathers round a garden, made me bathe her children and started rambling on about foundation stones. I shall be avoiding her from now on.

My first book was Jo of the chalet school. It was a very old paperback and the title actually said 'jo of the school chalet' which confused me for a while!

I loved it. I re-read it so many times. I think it is my all time favourite. It has Christmas in Innsbruck, the flash flood, Madame's birthday celebrations, Jo rescuing Rufus and the robin joining the school. And no doctors telling them what to do ;) it really seems like a family group rather than a commercial enterprise. And EBD's love for the area shines thru.

Plus my favourite aunt and uncle bought it for me which makes it even better :)

I gather the prees have paper games in store for this evening. Anyone up for an alternative Saturday evening in the summer house? Word is that the girls from Weedy have a plan. Nell, you poor lamb, it sounds like our favourite lime green hostess forgot to sing to you. No wonder you've decided not to go back when you weren't given the full English Tea Party Experience.

Oh I see hangman, consequences and find the missing shoe are on the entertainment agenda tonight. I definitely need some gin fresh air so might go for a stroll in the direction of the summerhouse.

Some pizza has been ordered to the summerhouse. With all the gin milk you can drink.

Swampy, I had that edition too!

Joan Baker has an unfair advantage in 'find the missing shoe'. You can spot those glittery stilettos a mile off.

Except OOAOML nicked my shoes!

Swampy and Spotty (now that's got a ring to it), I still have that edition.

Um, I think someone on the last thread was lamenting the lack of a transcribed Mary-Lou. I've got the HB, and I'm working on it, but I'm afraid I'm a bit slow...

Oooh, Ponte, we await your efforts with bated breath !

I'll do Genius, shall I? I've got a GGBP edition.

ooooh, Genius! Yes please :-)

I buy my mum a subscription to the 'people's friend' for her birthday. She sometimes sends me knitting patterns I might want. Got one today of a short sleeve jumper in a fetching shade of lime green. Even the model looked unimpressed!

I'm so glad I found you! I went on holiday an expedition and was involved in a terrible accident, and have been suffering with double pneumonia and pleurisy with a smattering of rheumatic fever ever since. But I heard faint golden notes in a sweet baby voice, and hey presto I suddenly felt much stronger, so here I am!

The holiday expedition did allow me to plough through an awful lot of transcripts though :o

I think our Joan really is trying to reform on all fronts* and get away from those shop bought cakes - maybe her surname has something to do with it? I caught one of the staff saying to the dommy sci mistress that she'd heard Joan had a bun in the oven. I think it must be quite a big one as it's taking so long to cook.

*Except for the gin which is of course a lady's drink as everyone on MN knows.

Cerita, maybe I should ask them all to show a leg when they get up. That should sort out their lateness. After all, punctuality is the politeness of princes!

Just reading the transcript of Highland Twins, is it my imagination or did the Armada book really downplay the Scottishness, It's really pronounced in the transcript, lots of B's for P's and iss etc. which I don't remember in the edition I read.

By the way, I just went past Matey's room and I'm sure she was murmuring about a dormy inspection and would have some special milk for the people who were too excited.

Whyamihere same here! I just finished it on Friday. I'm sure it wasn't so emphasised in the Armada version, particularly since half the time it comes over as Welsh rather than Scots. I guess the reference to the crew who picked Jack up from the water being "half caste" was culled from the Armada edition also!

A serious question for a moment: how many of the original Old Girls' daughters, apart from Madge's and Joey's of course, ended up going to the Chalet School? Most of them seemed to have at least one daughter but I don't recall e.g. either of the O'Hara girls (who are mentioned in Highland Twins as being possibles for the nursery about to start next term) listed even in passing as pupils later. You would have thought Juliet would have had them down at birth, given how eternally grateful she was to Madame and how her CS days were the happiest of her childhood, she was Head of the first Annexe herself etc.

Cooeeeeeeee! Gruss Gott!

Awfully sorry for being late but hilariously we got on the wrong train. All is well though because we met a smashing girl who took us home and her dad rang up The Abbess and he's her cousin or something. Anyway, they all go to a frightfully good day school but I'm pretty sure we've persuaded them to come here.

I say, isn't Joan Baker getting stout? Volunteers for a stiff. Set of tennis anyone?

Where's the Dormy list?