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Some Fretwork and the Interminable Christmas Play at the Chalet School

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EmilyAlice · 11/10/2016 15:08

Now girls, line up and listen because this term is a busy one. Firstly we are combining our hobbies club and the Christmas play, so we will need our fretworkers to get busy on the scenery, some beautiful découpage for decorations, our nimble-fingered needlewomen on costume duty and some scrapbooks for - er...
Now one other thing girls. As you know the Chalet School has moved from the Tyrol, to Guernsey, to Armishire, to some island or other and thence to Switzerland.
This term we have moved again and the first thing I want you to do is to find out where the bloody hell we are....

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TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 22/11/2016 16:12

I have just let out a most peculiar sound and slipped off my chair with laughter. That was topping - a cert for the Mag! Or possibly as a Spot Supper speech.

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EmilyAlice · 22/11/2016 17:18

Utterly brilliant, Old Bean. Top hole! Grin

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PrimroseDay · 22/11/2016 17:49

Simply smashing!

morningtoncrescent62 · 22/11/2016 18:22
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Witchend · 22/11/2016 18:39

Tophole!

EatingMyWords · 22/11/2016 22:09

Encore Mornington!

RueDeWakening · 23/11/2016 11:56

Mornington, that is simply it old thing.

Bloodybridget · 24/11/2016 21:39

Brilliant! Is there a descant line?

morningtoncrescent62 · 25/11/2016 17:53

Brilliant! Is there a descant line?

'Fraid not, but there's an instrumental break for glockenspiel and saxophone.

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EmilyAlice · 25/11/2016 18:39

Miss Annersley wishes to remind staff and pupils that this Sunday the school will be holding a special event to celebrate the 98th birthday of dear Joey. We will hope to be able to enjoy a picnic on the steppes, but in case of inclement weather, alternative arrangements will be made.

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NellWilsonsWhiteHair · 25/11/2016 19:06

Three cheers for the Chalet School!

PrimroseDay · 25/11/2016 19:56

I hope we don't forget a picnic basket, encounter a flood, find a madman in a cave or get kidnapped.

hels71 · 30/11/2016 21:20

That is an amazing song...I will practice the glockenspiel line!!!

morningtoncrescent62 · 02/12/2016 13:56

Oh nooooooooo! I've missed Joey's birthday picnic. And all because I nipped across to Freudesyurt last Wednesday for a quick game of slidey mats and got caught in a blizzard coming home. I was about to go to sleep and die when luckily for me Rufus/Bruno turned up with a burly Mongolian. Even more luckily, I slept through Matron giving me a hot bath and some intravenous special milk. She had all the bells silenced so that I could have my sleep out, and I've only just woken up to find you've all been and gone and had a picnic without me. Gutted! I bet Joey sang to you in her golden choirboy tones as well.

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EmilyAlice · 02/12/2016 16:53

Well either everyone missed the picnic or they are still out there....

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PrimroseDay · 02/12/2016 17:11

I think everyone's just worn out from all the singing picnicking.

When's the next Christmas play rehearsal? Time's getting short and I don't know all my 'walk across the stage' peasant moves yet.

Witchend · 02/12/2016 17:28

Joey's still singing. She thinks we're all ill and need reviving. We haven't told her we just had some special milk before she started singing so we could cope with it.

NellWilsonsWhiteHair · 02/12/2016 19:23

I got left behind at the picnic Sad The ground opened up and I fell almost into the bowels of the earth and nobody heard my sepulchral tones. Sad (Side point: If EBD was still writing today she'd definitely throw in a sinkhole or two, right? The charabanc would get trapped in it.)

On the plus side, it seems that I've escaped being sung back to life...

morningtoncrescent62 · 03/12/2016 17:47

On the plus side, it seems that I've escaped being sung back to life...

Hark! Are those golden choirboy tones I hear? Yes, and they're coming in your direction, Nell. But don't worry, I've got a spare sheet and pillowcase so if you can make yourself a dainty 18th-century-lady costume in time, Jo (bless the girl) will never know it's you. She'll just think Marie Antoinette is wandering round the dormyurts looking for her cubey.

EElisavetaOfBelsornia · 03/12/2016 19:44

I always found that a huge advantage of using your sheets and pillowcase to dress as a nun was that you could hear very little through the massive wimple.

NellWilsonsWhiteHair · 03/12/2016 20:05

Ah, great ideas, both.
I thought I could further improve this noise-dampening effect by making it permanent. So I glued my costume to my head. Matey is now cutting my hair off. Sad Maybe it will grow back curly though...

hels71 · 04/12/2016 09:52

Ask Matey to shave it off rather than cut, That is how to get curls..

NellWilsonsWhiteHair · 04/12/2016 12:54

Ah rubbish. So I have ended up with a Simone-style hack and no hope of the miracle of curls?!

morningtoncrescent62 · 04/12/2016 15:07

Has it turned white with the shock?

hels71 · 04/12/2016 22:20

Does this look familiar? (hope the link works!!)

www.thevintagenews.com/2016/12/04/the-story-of-krampus-the-horrific-christmas-devil-santas-horned-helper/