Some Fretwork and the Interminable Christmas Play at the Chalet School

[EmilyAlice]

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....

Hilarious!!

When was the original thread in this series started? Does it win the prize for the longest continually running thread ever on Mumsnet? It must be going for about three years now.

I've just checked. It will be FIVE YEARS on 29th April

This has gone through 3 Christmas plays though, which is quite a long time. I think I must be nearly ready to move up to seniors now.

So we can wear skirts instead of tunics and have our hair in one plait instead of kenwigses??

As long as it isn't a pony tail.

Certainly not! I don't want Matey on my case for having unsuitable hair!!!!

Five years and dear Joey doesn't look a day older, bless the girl. Miss Annersley still doesn't need glasses and Amy Stevens is back in the Juniors where she belongs.

Have just finished the last Chalet school book written by EBD. Must get a motorboat now!

Only if you have Miss Farrarrs on hand in case of accidents.

Those last few books are slightly bonkers! I am planning a complete re-read, including the new fill ins, over the summer...

I just don't understand her obsession with motorboats in the last 2 books.

Miss Ferrars achieved the impossible with the rescue and then there is this obsession with girls arranging races in the last book. As hels71 stated - slightly bonkers!!

The most bonkers bit in the last book is all the "and the prefects didn't realise she wouldn't let it go" type comments and then it's never mentioned again.
I think generally it's thought EBD didn't write Prefects and possibly the one before.

Theory is that Phyllis Mathewman wrote those.

But her books are more sensible in many ways than EBD's own.

The last few books are mostly collections of half thought through plots. I wanted prefects so much and then was very let down.

I'm back. When I was last seen on this thread I was a sub-prefect and very much on the spot. I've reappeared two years later as a wicked middle. Anyone got a clock that wants boiling?

Greetings, fellow chaletians. Are you aware there is a thread in AIBU called Not to have realised until now that Joey Maynard’s displaced organ was actually a prolapse?
I can’t do links, sorry. But you may find it entertaining

I found a stack of chalet school books in the charity shop, there's 16 of them and they cost me £2 for the lot!
I've just finished 'A problem for the chalet school'. I'm going to read the rest in chronological order. Feel like I have a lot of catching up to do!!

Happy reading!

Just finished the chalet girls grow up - now that is one miserable book!

@Bloodybridget. Are the one drive ebooks still available? If so may I have the link and password? Many thanks.

@ElinoristhenewEnid I've sent you a message. Top secret!

My lambs! I’ve just been given a Kindle Paperwhite for my birthday - could some kind soul please send me the Dropbox link so I can add these to my library? I was hoping to be awoke by the Middles singing underneath my window, but looks like they’ve all fallen off a glacier.

@Bloodybridget. Another one who is after the new link and password for the books. Would you be so kind? Many thanks.

@Falderal have sent you a message.

Does anyone know if there's a new password for the CS transcripts? I can't get on to it now.