International Incident at the Chalet School

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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.

Overall majority might be tricky... May proportional representation would work.

Morning all. Looks like we have all awakened from a long sleep - did someone kiss a handsome doctor?
Jolly busy here at the chateau with gardening club, but could have done with some trusty CS companions to help get my vote back to England through the hazardous mountains of (Norman) Switzerland this week. The brave postal service tried hard to get the papers to me to put my cross in the box, but it took them 12 days to make the epic journey across the Channel in a tiny boat under gunfire...

But if you had waited

,you could have sent it across with matey and 50 school girls who had an uneventful crossing.

Emily

Voting is really a man's job. Leave it to the handsome doctors!

Votes for women!

Maybe we could sing that for the sale?

Has tom sent a model council flat this year? We could have a vote to decide the most deserving winner of said property. I bet a charming kiddy with months to live will win. Or maybe one of the eternal Bettany Russell Maynard clan again, as they deserve everything going.

Well UniS if anyone else wins they can always donate it to the school, as I'm sure the school would love to add to their designated suit of rooms housing previous offerings.

I believe Mrs Maynard's lime green twin set is still doing the rounds. It has had 569 owners and has been back in fashion four times since she first donated it.

Elspeth thingummy from Rivals, Mops Robertson and the Highland Twins would have voted SNP, and Gwensi would be Plaid Cymru, look you.

My new copy of Mary Lou arrived today. I am blissfully devouring it, pausing in my tracks to note the following sentence:

"Here are eleven of us, all white, free, clean and in our right minds and we can't scare up one original idea among us!" Well!

We should all vote for the lime green party...

My df used to sing a song to the tune of the Labour Parties anthum "THe Red Flag" (otherwise known as "O Christmas Tree")
It began:
"The working class
May Kiss my arse
I've got the foreman's job at last"

Do you think that would go down well at the sale?

Best save that one for the more - ahem - adult company at Joey's radio parties. Or even better, for the staffroom after the proceeds of the staff gin fund fines box have been appropriately spent.

I've just stumbled on to this thread by chance and am very thrilled to discover it. I thought I was just odd reading CS books at an advanced age - I have never met anyone else who does. I have many of the books, although mostly in ropey paperback editions. They are the books I go to in time of stress, together with O'Douglas (sister of John Buchan).
May have to have a cup of coffee with a positive feather bed of whipped cream to celebrate.

Welcome to the school ppolly , has someone shown you your cubbie? and taken you to matron for unpacking? don't forget its only 4 frocks, any extras you try and sneak in will be put into attic storage.

The bell will ring for caffe and kuchen any minute now and and we will all march silently to the spielsal where the charming sixth will serve us.

Than you UniS. Hoping I'm in Gentian dormy. My trunk was packed by my mother with me breathing down her neck to make sure it was done exactly right. I am tired and grubby from the soft coal you get on those continental trains. But very excited. Hopefully Karen will have made something delicious.

Welcome, ppolly. If you're really lucky Mary-Lou will be dorm prefect for the Gentians - she's so on the spot, but you'll love her. Did you know that Greyladies publishers are reprinting some of O Douglas's books?

Thank you morningtoncrescent62 (I love your user name). I didn't know, but I have nearly all the O'Douglas books in hardback - somehow they seem to turn up in charity shops much more regularly than CS. I have two copies of 'The Day of Small Things' if anyone would like one. Going back through the thread I was thrilled to discover Girls Gone By - I can see a payday treat coming from there I think.
Inspired to put my vast CS collection in number order and work out which ones I don't yet have.
I'm rereading Lavender Leigh atm. What is it with all those peculiar unmarried aunts?
Yes, Mary-Lou is dormy pree. She has kindly, yet firmly shown me the correct way of putting away my things. Sadly I m a very untidy person and so unlikely to be popular with Matey.

Oh, I love Lavender! Welcome, ppolly. Help yourself to one of Karen's delicious twists and some Kaffee with slabs of sugar. Oh, and don't sit next to Joey because Simone will kill you and hide your body in the lake - she has a trick of waving her cup in the air and you don't want a shower-bath!

I've never read any O Douglas.

Alors ppolly, est ce que quelcun a vous dit on parle Francais et Allemandais ici? En tout les lecons? Aujourdhui est Mardi, et tout nous postes sont en Francais.

I think I'll have to be isolated in the San along with Rosamund so l can have a crash course from perfect Len and the nurse. My kindle won't type in French .
However, my cs books are now all in chronological order.

I speak excellent Franglais. All you need is the wonderful phrase "Ou est le Google Translate?" and all your French day woes are over...

Heute ist der Tag Deutsch! (Danke schon to the wonderbar Google Translate! I have just had to use it to translate 'thank you' and 'Wednesday' . I'm sure I used to have slightly more basic German than I do now)

..... I'm about to be sent to Miss Denny for remedial German classes.