International Incident at the Chalet School

[RueDeWakening]

Hear ye, hear ye! Gather ye hence, all angels (be-costumed with slightly tacky silver halos and suchlike) with your lark-like notes and prepare to dazzle us all with your charm.

No, not you Joan. Shop bought cake and cheap looks for you, my dear. See Matron for some milk on your way out.

Maybe this will help our dear Joey.. (assuming I have pasted the link correctly of course!!!)

I've heard Len has snitched informed Miss Annersley of the identity of the girl who locked her in the cupboard.

EmilyAlice, she wants to see you in her study now.

Audtions for a new dancing star are being held in the hall at 3.30. I think I'll have a shot

Well I think she might change her mind when she reads the letter from my trustees.
I wouldn't cross your pointe shoe ribbons just yet if I were you....

Our dear Madam says Miss Annersley was found by inspector Letton holding a pillow over dear joeys face to protect her pansy black eyes from the light.

Dear Hilda has been sent to penny rest for a while.

Joey is out of her milk induced coma and murmuring about baby number 27.

The spirit of the school lives on.

Oh good, so we can ignore all that nonsense about changing the Dancing Star Nativity Play?
Act 2 on Monday then?

That's rather nice, Hels - but not as I imagined it.

Oh my poppets, a terrible thing. As I was making my way up the Platz this afternoon I saw in the distance Princess Sheep tearing down the mountainside pursued by several stone of excited St Bernard. Please tell me the worst hasn't happened!

Falling, how can you even think about being a dancing star with dear Joey in the san? Next thing we know you'll be eating a Mr Kipling mince pie.

act 2 Monday sounds good. Rosalie is cutting stencils. No idea what that ever means!

The sheep has been found but she may be very busy soon with her hands full.

Falling My lamb are you a Prussian?

Hello my lambs! I've just been to visit Aunty Joey to get all the hanes her advice on this script-cutting emergency. I wouldn't recommend it though. :( The San is full of mistletoe. And creepy doctors trying to catch a wife.

It's perfectly all right Mornington - Bruno and I had just heard about the inflagration at the Chalet and were heading back to check that the cotton wool implicated in tge terrible accident wasn't by any chance a sheep outfit ...fortunately we hid the evidence it was completely different cotton wool altogether. Phew.

Now, let's all gather outside the San window for a quick round of I Sing Of King Herod's Cock Sweet And Fair.

Oh Princess, you are naughty.
And do tell us the one about the St Bernard and the Sheep....

Honestly , the hobbies pre is a fuss. It was only the upper forth raffia mats and any file know they don't sell well.

I feel rather 'Joey sailing airily into a staff meeting cheerfully brandishing her own agenda' for interrupting the nativity dramas like this, but I remember we were talking about prizes in the CS a little while back and I've just come across this in Future -

"The Chalet School gave prizes, but in a way all its own. Many years ago, a fund had been established for the prizes list and was carefully portioned out each year among the forms. At first, the income had gone to books for the prize winners; but of late years only a proportion had been spent that way, the remainder going towards something for the House to which each girl belonged. Nowadays the prizes were book tokens with the sole proviso that the winners must tell the Heads what they had chosen. This meant that a check was kept on the girls and the money was not wasted on light novels that would be read and then pushed aside."

So 50 shades not allowed then?

Or joeys novel sex in the san

Girls, girls, what is the world coming to? Please remember you are gentlewomen....

Omg you are right!

We are as commen as Joan!

I'm only 4 chapters in to "reunion" and am losing the will to read. Does it get better?

How can you not like Reunion ?!
My memory isn't that it changes much as it goes on, though. I've just given up on Future and moved on to Feud instead, so my current feeling is that books which bore you need not be endured...

If I had given money for a prize I'd be somewhat irritated to find that the school had found a sneaky way to make sure they got the cash for them. Surely it would be tied up in a contract that would stop that?

When I got a prize we were all marched down to the book shop and chose-more like in Antonia Forest, and the book(s) had to be approved.
I found a copy of "Not Scarlet But Gold" which was one of the Lone Pine series I hadn't got, and begged them to let me have it, and they agreed as long as I picked something more appropriate with the rest of the money. I didn't care as long as I got that, but it was not presented to me, I got a impressive looking fact book that I don't think I've looked at since. Not Scarlet but gold, otoh was handed to me quietly a couple of weeks later and I;ve read it several times.

Contracts, my lamb? In the Chalet School?

I think the prize-winners were probably just grateful their books weren't compulsorily donated to the San or a charity for poor children in Innsbruck.

Oh reunion is where Grizel finally bags a doctor and starts to eat Italian white bread! poor Doris dies.

Surely UniS you liked the bit about how old and fat some of the women had got and they were singled out and told. Oh and Sophie's hilarious spilling of the coffee and subsequent wreaking of the table. High jinks.

Indeed contracts In the CS? About as usual as risk assessments for trips and safeguarding the 6th formers from
Grooming drugging doctors.

Ooh there's another note from Miss Annersley on the board:

"Contrary to some rather silly rumours circulating the school I can assure you that both Mrs Maynard and I are well. Mrs Maynard is confined to the san to stop her writing any more nativity plays
starring herself have a well earned rest.

I shall be sitting in on tomorrow's rehearsal and will be watching you. Yes, You EmilyAlice, Nell, Falling, TheBody, Elisaveta and any other brats I've forgotten to mention."

Gosh.

Gosh and oops.

Mrs Maynard will plucking chickens and throwing feathers around soon to teach us a lesson.

It was the Saints Miss Annersley and not us. Honour bright.

OOh! Miss A's coming to watch rehearsal tomorrow.

Kathie Ferrars got a contract I believe..isn't it mentioned at the start of New Mistress and she needs to let her Uncle look it over when he gets in...

I shall be present at the rehearsal tomorrow, Miss Annersley, but it is marmalade making day at the Château so I cannot promise my undivided attention.
I understand from my trustees, that should the rehearsal go according to my schedule they will be prepared to reconsider the donation from my foundation.
I hope you will bear this in mind tomorrow.