Chalet School - plot inconsistency bothering me

[VintageGardenia]

I don't know why I suddenly thought of this but perhaps my first 3 consecutive glasses of postnatal wine have brought out my inner dullness.

There is a Chalet School book (Exploits?) where some of the girls bake apple pies and mistakenly use cloves of garlic instead of cloves.

Not believable and silly.

Sorry it's not a plot inconsistency just a silly plot and my wine is 3 months postnatal not immediately and I MEANT to call for other stupid plots but

a I shouldn't post when tipsy
and
b the Chalet School series is full of em so hardly noteworthy

How is it totally unbeleivable? Corney Flower was not the brightest spark, sheltered life. It was probably highly likely that she had never seen either items in person and tried to make an incorrect connection.

I think it is one of those plot devices that make the CS what it is. Isn't there a Dimsy where they put Keatons flea powder in the cooking ?

I went to a conference on Girls School Stories recently, and they did a fab bit where 4 people pretended to be the headmistresses of fictional schools and had a 'prospective parent' interview them

Sazzles get out of here!!! AND

It's unbelievable because the girls ask to use cloves, they don't just read the word "cloves" in a recipe. So even if Cornelia didn't know what a clove was the others did & would have copped as soon as they were handed them.

wouldn't most of the girls been terribly posh and had maids and cooks at home so would be unfamiliar with cooking?

cuttingmeown is this a professional thing you did or are you a very active hobbyist? Never heard the like!

Besides, I always thought that Frau mieders was remarkably foolish trusting to let the girls go in search of their own ingredients

Fraitfully posh of course but stchooooopid too?

God I knew I shouldn't have started this thread.

Oh God Frau Mieders there's a name from the echoey caverns of the past.

These girls were not usually required to have much common sense.

I loved all the school series.

I'm not terribly active, but am a member of Folly (I collect Lorna Hill and a few other authors) - my mum is more active and has a big Chalet School, Abbey and Bessie Marchant collection and is a member of Friends of the Chalet School. The conference was a one day thing in Bristol, and it was really interesting, and fab to meet so many people who like reading school stories. There was even a 'celebrity' fan.

I much preferred the doughnuts incident in "Carola"

I'd still love to try lacrosse. We had an old shed with nets in at school, used to fire hockey balls around, highly dangerous.

CMOTdibaargh...what DO you Do!!

can I do it too?

Sorry X-posted

Oh Lorna Hill! I could never decide whether I was more in love with Sebastian or Guy (? the one who swept Mariella off her feet that night).

Guy I think. At this stage in my life Sebastian too selfish / bad guy. Guy all lovely and gentlemanly plus hunky.

I love the way that Joey has to spend 10 days in bed after having a baby.

As a girl, I used to wish that I attended the Chalet School - though I suspect I'd have been my form's Hilda Jukes - plump, considered to be a bit lazy and with absolutely NO chance of being Head Girl!

Reading this thread has given me an awful yearning to read my chalet school books again, but they're all in storeage until we've had some work done on the house.

made I laugh. I did something equally dumb once....

But yes, there a whole bunch of mistakes or unbelivevables in CS stories.
any one else like the J. Elder farm school books? I think I'm missing at least one - the one in which colin dies?

I don't remember the doughnuts... Carola was the one who ran away to school iirc and sort of muddled up an approximate uniform etc. A good plot idea, that one.

There were a few people there who had or were doing their PhD's on girls school stories, and I was really at being able to do that. If I'm ever able to commit to a PhD, I can't see that I'll be able to study 'Aspiration and reality of career in the girls school story'

Or the way Joey hightailed it around the place with three Moses-basketed triplets. I can hardly stagger from car to house with a carseat of one!

Oh no, Guy is a twat. Sebastian doesn't do it for me either, but I rather like the sound of Robin (the vet)