Autumn Term at the Chalet School

[Vintagejazz]

Just starting a new thread here as I can't spot a new one.

So my lambs feel free to keep spreading the hanes, but watch the slang!

Spot supper always seemed like a really embarrassing occasion to me, for all the same reasons that Joey as a mother would have totally embarrassed me. I would probably have had to feign illness, even on pain of one of Matey's 'patent nostrums', to get out of it.

Yes Spot Supper, Keys and various other forms of new girl hazing and humiliation which are highly Unchaletian.

Nell they are Philippa, Phylida, Philomena, Philomela and Philadelphia. I kid you not. Seriously, it's grounds for child protection involvement.

Mien gott! hast veir 1000 poste gereached?

5 girls named Phil, makes it very easy on the name tags... so long as they are not the same size.

I have a friend who has 3 children, the first two have names that would both shorten to the same thing, there is a third possibility which we all wondered about when baby 3 came along, but they bottled it and chose something different. Ted, Ted and Ted could have caused chaos going up the school.

Oh yes, the vicar. Well, he uses his cat as an excuse to lure young girls to have tea with him, then regales them with stories of black magic and Bluff King Hal, and tea cakes because all northerners love them. Then drops several school girls down a centuries old tunnel and shows them a dead body. Deadness caused by a poisoned poniard which he has left in situ so the school girls can see it. Oh, and he describes the tea cakes as "ripping". Seriously, what next, fist bumps? Wearing his clerical trousers hitched round his hips? It's as embarrassing as Jo Maynard with a couple of unplucked chickens.

Oh he sounds rather like a prototype Kester Bellever. I shall have to read some mad non-CS eventually. However today is an exciting day because I am up to Exile - hurrah!

Oh he sounds rather like a prototype Kester Bellever. I shall have to read some mad non-CS eventually. However today is an exciting day because I am up to Exile - hurrah!

Lucky you Nell. Exile is absolutely brilliant and re reading it this Summer after many years was so enjoyable.

DeWee probably expressed myself badly. I meant that Mlle became ill in the book preceding Exile (I think) so whatever storyline EBD might have planned for the next book re Cornelia would have been shelved for forgotten about because the main focus of the book was on escaping from the Nazis and then on setting up a new school in Guernsey (plus of course the excitement of Joey's marriage and the triplets).

Can I have some help from the rest of you knowledgable CS experts because I think I'm going mad. I'm sure I read a scene set during Exile when the Nazi's went to the school as they were moving out and during it one of them hit's Rosalie, I thought it was in the GGB book which I read about 18 months ago, but re-reading it again with dd recently it wasn't in there (at least if it is I totally skipped it) and I can't think where I read it, have any of you read this anywhere, maybe on one of the fan fiction sites.

Or have I got an over active imagination and I'm now dreaming of plots for CS books.

I don't recall that in Exile. There was a scene in Highland Twins where Rosalie was knocked unconscious by someone lurking around the school spying for the Nazis (he was trying to get his hand on some document the twins had hidden away somewhere).

That's in the unofficial 'Hilda Annersley: Headmistress' fill-in - I remember it as being Con Stewart getting hit though. It was quite well-done and v believable I thought.

Nell, that could be it as I read that at roughly the same time as the GGB version of Exile. I'll see if I can find my copy. Hopefully that is where I saw it. Thank you.

Bonjour, mes filles. C'est le jour de francais, n'est-ce pas? J'espere que nous avons parlez francais, francais et rien que francais toute le jour. Si personne avez besoin de l'aide avec son prep, voici Eddie Izzard avec des phrases tres topicales:

Ah! Le jour de francais!
Je parles le francais un peu. Mais ma SLOC dit "Le francais ne comprendre pas ma parles."

I think I'd avoid Spot supper too. Do you think I could spend it turning a sheet sides to middle? Sounds much more appealing.

Or we could hold a secret radio party at Freudesheim...

Moi. Je n'aime pas le jour de francais. Je can't parler beaucoup de francais et Mlle will not be very happy avec moi.

I think I've got a slight headache so will ask Matey to go to bed with some special milk to avoid spot supper!

Were you in Miss Annersley's office crying yourself sick because of some terrible misdemeanour Ionacat? I'm sure all is forgiven now and neither of you will ever speak of what was spoken of in her office.

Do you think I could swap the school I currently teach in for the Chalet School??
If not do you think Joan Baker would share her shop bought cake and other "goodies" with me as paper games and Karen's delicious lemonade just won't cut the mustard tonight.

Hier, j'ai pris le bateau pour traverser la manche vers l'angleterre.
Dans le restaurant, une anglaise avec un bon accent britannique a dit, "avez-vous ketchup?"

The most useful phrase is now:
"Ou est un computer le plus near pour l'internet pour le google translate."

Or "ou est le wine?"

Oui je cried beaucoup, parce que je got caught avec Joan Baker et la gateaux de magasin.
Je looking forward to le lait special!

Viens ici, dans la maison de verre. Nous avons beaucoup de gin et les livres sordides! Et le gateau du magasin, naturellement.

Tres bien! Je will be la tres vite!!!

Un computer ? Je pense que vous meanez un ordinateur, n'est pas?

(Et bien, je viens de coinez un mot nouveau. Meanez, c'est a dire jusqu'a je voudrais dire. Le mot propre. )

Attendez-moi, je vais a la maison de verre. Avez-vous le gin de ma tante? Moi, j'ai le gateau de maison.