Please help:
Where can I download a Chalet School book? I'm astonished that I cannot find any as ebook.
(When you're under the weather, nothing quite hits the spot like a bit of EBD escapism.)
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I need a Chalet School fix
Dilbertian · 15/12/2021 15:50
Aroundtheworldin80moves · Yesterday 22:42
Then the war ends and the Russell go to Canada taking a strange assortment of the children with them.
No wonder joey keeps having more. Probably scared the rest are going to be sent to darkest Peru
DeanElderberry · Yesterday 19:36
I met someone, born in India, who had been left with her grandmother in England when she was very young, and she was fairly insistent (and resentful, more than 70 years later) that it was because her mother enjoyed the parties and dances and didn't want the burden and bother of a small child round the place. She had lived in Kashmir, and I got the impression that she ached for the country more than for her flighty mother.
My understanding is that what usually happened people (men) got six months furlough every six or seven years, came home to England then with their families, and left whatever small children they had at that stage with any extended family members who could be persuaded to take them in.
Perfect recipe for building a class of emotionally damaged adults.
Aroundtheworldin80moves · Yesterday 18:44
Many of the parents were terrible.
Juliets abandoned her
Robins dad basically did the same.
Eustacias weren't deliberately bad, but emotionally neglected her
Dick and Mollie... the leaving your babies on a different continent thing seems incomprehensible these days... was that really a thing?
MyOtherProfile · Yesterday 16:08
It doesn't feel like a proof reading issue - I'm not seeing typos or grammatical errors. More that the whole sentence structure feels heavy and the chapters are so long winded - irrelevant details and little conversations or descriptions that don't seem to add anything.
Maybe I need to get my old set next time I'm at my mum's!
MyOtherProfile · Yesterday 14:13
It wasn't a kindle book exactly - it was a pdf or something from a website someone mentioned on here.
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DisplayPurposesOnly · 27/04/2024 10:45
cannot find any here nowadays even at the second hand book stores. Was re-reading the ones on faded pages but just didn’t want to stop
I've worked my way thru the Faded Page ones and am now buying secondhand on ebay (then reselling when read). Some are weirdly expensive (the Kenya one, Joey & Co In Tirol - over £20!)
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