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!

your mum. Of course, as an English teacher, that was a simple typo

Elisaveta, NO improvising. Mrs Maynard will write you a line or two. I repeat NO improvising.

Thank you. I will do my very best with the part! I won't get mum to write in after all! (I was always a narrator at school as i have such a loud voice!!!!)

Well you mustn't have a loud voice dear, you need that low and beauteous in woman voice thingy.
Can I stop pirouetting now Madame la Directrice? I am 64 with 4 grandchildren you know.
Mind you our dear Dame Josephine, Lady Maynard, the Nobel prize winning authoress, is 95.

I am looking so much forward to dancing round in a white dress with tinsel tacked round the edges. Of course I won't mention that I react to tinsel, so if there's too much touching me I will come out in a bright rash. Matey, being so highly knowledgable about all things medical will then cause a scarlet fever/rubella scare and close the school early so we can have a week extra holiday.

I will practice my gentle tones..........

hels I think a loud voice is perfectly Chaletian in spite of what Shakespeare had to say on the matter - surely Mary-Lou's celebrated clarion tones are loud?

I am thrilled at all the brilliant musical possibilities for Mary's best friend. I assume the ban on improvisation doesn't apply to me - it's not cheek, it's just Nell etc.

Emily you missed a bit off - JMB is 95 and a proud grandmamma to 122!

Oh and DeWee if Matey declares a state of infectious emergency and cancels the holidays... :(

Oh yes I did. She will think I am pretty poor stuff with only four, won't she? Still we do share a birthday, so she probably thinks we must be distant cousins, like all the Samanthas in the world.

Pity those of us with only one DC while everyone else is steaming ahead with real families...

I will keep my clarion tones then!

I've just been bought back from the brink of death with the Red Scarfan or whatever it is, think possibly brainwashed and have undergone a transformation so no more loitering around the summerhouse for me. And will watch the Nativity warmly wrapped up, and sweating profusely as the hall is so warm and be rushed at by all the girls eager to see the latest true Chalet School.

Have you got curly hair now too Iona ?

Naturally!

Just opened Gay and the dedication is to "My dear Mrs Way - with love". Rosalie's surname inexplicably changes from Way to Browne at some point - this is really only remarkable because EBD makes such a 'two Sams' style hoo-ha about Rosalie Way and Tom Gay rhyming - I wonder if this is someone else who fell out of favour? Of course that might be a total red herring and EBD really just forgot even after making such a thing out of it.

Yay, I get to be Joseph's brother in law! Ace. Um, do I just follow behind the donkey or something, on the way to Bethlehem? I could point out the inn to Joseph and tear up the sheets for Mary.

PMSL at the EBDisms blog. Btw, I read Behind the CS the other day without putting it down until 2 am and I loved it! Don't you all wish some genius would discover the lost Chalet Girls in India manuscript? And EBD seemed so funny and so like Jo.

Quiz: What is the title of the book Charles Stevens is famous for writing?

Where are the Stevens going when they leave Margia and Amy at the CS in the beginning of The School at the Chalet?

What opera do Madge, Joey and Grizel see in Paris?

Something about Prague? They went to Paris because some relative or other was ill I think. I'm pretty sure the opera is La Traviata, the girls love the music but don't understand the plot, as one would expect of Good Chalet Girls.

Can anyone tell me which books all the back stories are in? I am reading Gay from China and there are references to Gay's past adventures, Jesanne Gellibrand's lost staircase and Gill Culver tracking a Nazi spy with a great aunt and a brother called Hawk. I feel like an uninitiated Mumsnetter must feel happening across a Chalet School thread (or my Spanish housemate when a roomful of people inexplicably started playing Mornington Crescent).

PS in Gay, Amy Stevens is still at the school. She must be about 34 by now.

Heh. Peggy Burnett is I think a similar age before she gets to leave... Also in Gay, a reference to Gipsy Carson who 'went to the CS in Tirol' and is a friend of Jacynth's aunt, who 'must be nearly 40 by now'.

Well. If it is the same Gipsy Carson from Rivals, she's actually never at the CS, having left before the merger in New. Even if it's not her and EBD is just recycling a name she likes, surely none of the Old Girls can be older than 30 at this point?

Close, no and no!

As far as I know Gay's back story is never fleshed out. Jesanne has a book to herself (The Lost Staircase) and Gill Culver's story is in Chudleigh Hold, where she is renamed Arminel Chudleigh. I think there are more books featuring her brother Hawk, but I haven't read any of them.

Sniff. Left out of the Nativity. Again. There's only one course of action open to me. I'll wait for the next howling gale and then I'll climb into a small boat to the nearest mountainous district where I will make my way through a treacherous pass. What could go wrong? Meanwhile I'll compose a note to pin to my pillow. Anyone know whether running away notes have to be in the language of the day?

Can someone send me over some more scripts as I've finished all mine that were kindly sent to me a couple of month ago. And I've never read any of the war ones so feeling left out.

i need to lie down and rest having just holidayed in Queensland, australia with kids. Spent entire hols waiting to sing my best red sarafan ditty to help bring the babes back from clutches of death. They carried on prancing around on beaches and eating ice cream regardless.