Chalet School - plot inconsistency bothering me

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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.

I am reading Clarissa Dickson-Wright's book Spilling the Beans, and she makes a passing reference to Old Etonions, for whom nothing can really measure up to school for the rest of their lives. With the school stories, no school could ever measure up.

I might be getting my men mixed up. There was one who wasn't bothered about an injured sheep and one who was. It was the one who was (Robin I presume?) she ended up marrying.

Yes - the not bothered is Guy, and the bothered is Robin

I don't know the farm school ones, sorry!

Farm school stories. He didn't die in any of them. He died between stories

I'm glad I found this thread. I am stuck at my mums and bored out my brain, but I have been inspired to go in her loft and dig out my old Chalet School books!
I may survive the next 5 days after all!

lol.

Fantastic! I have mine in a box in the garage I think, might investigate in the morning (too spooky now).

Been googling Folly, no avail, what is?

So who was the celebrity fan cuttingmeownthroatdibblaaaargh?

And what's Folly?

I should also have all my Malory , St Claires and Trebizon books up there, saved for DD, of course.

I recently read Fifth Year Friendships (I think?) for the first time, I had about six of them I think. They were my modern books .

I loved the Drina stories too.

Antonia Forest, of course, too.

You might already know about Friends of the Chalet School on the web.

They cooked the doughnuts in the wrong sort of oil didn't they? Was it castor oil? Made everyone feel ill.
Frau Mieders was really up against it. I think most of them did come from the sort of background where the servants did the cooking - the prewar upper middle class. It would have been quite normal to be that clueless.

Cod liver oil.

So it was! It's all coming back now...

Oh, Sebastian for me, btw. The unattainable, self-centred, romantic one.

Also worth a look is Girls Gone by Publishing for reprints of the Chalet school & various other books

This is Folly - they go across all authors, and its not uber detailed studies which is nice. All the main authors have their own societies, but I find it can be a bit much.

yes, Veronica marries Sebastian and they have a little girl, Vicki. She trains as a dancer, but stops when she realises that she'll never be great, and goes onto study art, and gets engaged to Jonathon Rosenblum (and Stellas) son who is also an artist. I don't think we hear any further than that, although it might be in one of the ones that I haven't summoned up the cash to buy yet, or Girls Gone By publishing haven't reprinted.

If EMBD can't keep the spellings of characters names consistent, why should the plots be believable, they were still an entertaining read! Abbey girls much better if you want impossible activities to do in a skirt!

He becomes a composer/conductor - I think he stays the same.

Jonathon and Stella are in Veronica at the Wells, although they are mentioned in "Dream" - the oil painting that she sells at the Wayside stall is Jonathons.

We see Fiona and Caroline occasionally through the books - Fiona marries some awful bloke and has a couple of children, and I've forgotten Carolines full path (must go and read some more)

But the silly plot thing that was never quite right for me was that the girls all dyed themselves with tea for the end of term fancy dress - must have been stronger stuff than pg tips which didn't work when I tried