Chalet-Mad Family members
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#1: Chalet-Mad Family members Author: Ruth, Location: Lincolnshire, England PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:41 am

Does anyone else have Chalet-mad people in their family?

My 11 year old sister has been reading them for about a year now
and my 19 year old brother read The School at the Chalet in hardback the other day and wishes I had told him about them before.

 

#2:  Author: Tahnee, Location: New Zealand PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 8:37 am

I tried to get my now 15 year old daughter interested in the books, but she was more The Babysitter Club type. My 12 year old won't read them because I made the mistake of telling her there are no horses.
And seeing as how that is her only selection process for choosing a book (If the cover has a picture of a horse it is therefore the exact book you must read) it would seem there is no chance of her becoming interested.

 

#3:  Author: Ruth B, Location: Oxford, UK PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 9:29 am

No, all my family think I'm the mad one and should have grown out of CS by now! Still I have a 7 month old niece, so when she's learnt to read maybe there's hope!

 

#4:  Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 9:45 am

No one in my family is interested either, and think I am absolutely mad.

Have managed to keep the fact that since I got on to the internet I have renewed my acquaintance with lots of other old favourites.

 

#5:  Author: Cumbrian Rachel, Location: back in Oxford PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:16 am

Fortunately Rebecca (also a member of this board - my sister) also likes CS! She also reads lots of kids books so in my family its seen as pretty normal really Very Happy Just as well as I read very little else!



*wondering just how I'm going to cope when I head off abroad and can't take all my kids books with me!*

 

#6:  Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:27 am

Print off plenty of transcripts?

 

#7:  Author: Rachel, Location: Plotting in my lair PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:53 am

I made my little brother read CS. He was half way through the first and I asked him what he thought. "Actually, it's not too bad" was his response.

He has now read Princess as well; and he heads off to the Alps today onholiday and has taken a whole pile of CS books with him to read!

Since he has been a member of this board for several months, I felt it was past time for him to start reading the actual books!

 

#8:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:58 am

No-one else in my family reads them, and Andrew thinks I'm barmy.

 

#9:  Author: shoe__gal, Location: St Andrews, Scotland PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:59 am

Nope, no-one in my family reads them, despite the fact I keep trying to persuade my mum! But she is getting better at looking out for them in second hand bookshops...

 

#10:  Author: Clare, Location: Liverpool PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:04 pm

My mum used to and now that I'm getting the GGBP copies she says she'll have to start reading them again. My 15year old sister thinks I'm mad. She's got a couple of the books (ones that were bought for me but I already have) and she doesn't like them because everyone's so 'goody-goody'. Really eloquent argument! Rolling Eyes

 

#11:  Author: Lula, Location: Midlands, UK PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:25 pm

My mother is pretty long suffering, and used to be very good with ferrying me to and from second-hand bookshops. She's read a few and likes them, but not to the extent that I do.

However, she's finally decided that as I own about forty of the books, I've got enough, and she's not taking me to any other far out bookstores. *sigh* (This also means I have to pay for them...)

 

#12:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:26 pm

No one in my family reads them - they all think I'm mad!

 

#13:  Author: Cumbrian Rachel, Location: back in Oxford PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:31 pm

Clare wrote:
she doesn't like them because everyone's so 'goody-goody'. Really eloquent argument!


Get her to read an Elsie book and then she'll think the CS characters are quite normal! Wink

 

#14:  Author: Sarah_K, Location: St Albans/Leicester PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:00 pm

My little sister read a couple of mine when she was ill but then didn't mention them again. It was only when I got back from Uni to find large gaps in my collection that I realised she was working her way through them Laughing

 

#15:  Author: Rachael,  PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:18 pm

Lesley wrote:
No one in my family reads them - they all think I'm mad!


I wouldn't necessarily assume that's cos of the CS though!! Wink

 

#16:  Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 2:24 pm

Does that imply that it's her friendship with you then Rachael? Wink Twisted Evil

 

#17:  Author: MissPrint, Location: Edinburgh PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:07 pm

My daughter read them, one after another, several summers ago, probably when she was 10 or 11. She thought them rather repetitious, but when you devour them like that, they are, especially the later ones. She actually liked Redheads because it was a refreshing change form the usual plotlines. Then she discovered Tolkein, and the rot set in. It's been fantasy, elves and dragons all the way since then. She's even teaching herself one of the elven languages ( I quite despair, and feel the effort would have been better spent on Fench). Maybe, when she has recoverd from her Tolkein obsession she will come back to the Chalets.

When she was little I so longed for her to grow to share my passions; Chalet School, ballet and needlework. So far she has no interest in any ot them. She thinks I'm quite mad for my enthusiasm for mathematics too, but I'm inclined to agree with her about that.

 

#18:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:09 pm

We're Tolkien freaks in our family, too.

 

#19:  Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:36 pm

I'm a loner too but not thought mad because everyone seems to have an enthusiasm for something equally unlikely!

 

#20:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:37 pm

That's a very happy situation to be in, PatMac.

 

#21:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:43 pm

Rachael - you are in trouble! Twisted Evil

Even without the CS my reading matter has always been thought strange - have well over a thousand books on Fantasy/ Science Fiction, books about Royal Navy during Napoleonic wars and books about the Wild West!!!

 

#22:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:52 pm

That all seems perfectly normal to me, Lesley. What's wrong with having interests?

 

#23:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 4:03 pm

I think they are perfectly normal, Jennie - it's just my family that doesn't! Laughing

 

#24:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:27 pm

My cousin Sara who is 12 years older than me used to read them and recommended that my Auntie bought me my first CS books as a Christmas pressie. She doesn't read them any more though but I am fully intending to introduce her daughter (who's only 2) to them as soon as I decree she's old enough!!!!

One of my uni flatmates has read them but thinks I'm mad for still reading them, she borrowed Excitements last term and at the end said to me 'huh, not much excitement in that'!!!!!!! She has no taste...

I've tried and failed with my mother as well, but she continues to labour under the impression that all the books are called 'CS & Barbara' or variations thereon and fails to understand my excitment when a GGB parcel arrives. *sigh* I give up.

 

#25:  Author: Cumbrian Rachel, Location: back in Oxford PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 8:00 pm

MissPrint wrote:
She thinks I'm quite mad for my enthusiasm for mathematics too, but I'm inclined to agree with her about that.


I thought that was quite normal Wink

 

#26:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 8:34 pm

Though Im the only family member who reads them, I think I might have been mentioning them to much in the presense of people recently.

Tonight my Dad summed up the series as 'Girls goes to school, has problems, has them solves, leaves, marries doctor.' I added in the detail of problems solved by school girl, or the lady, yet to grow up who lives next door, and he replied 'Ah yes the dreaded Jo.'

Im am now rather scared, but he did decline my offer to read the books!

 

#27:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 8:48 pm

LOL at Ally and her dad!!!!! Laughing

 

#28:  Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 12:44 am

The only sister to have read any recently replaced her earlier, more polite evaluation with "rather disappointing." Sad
(Of course this could mean I was a little too enthusiastic.)

 

#29:  Author: Ciorstaidh, Location: London PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:13 pm

There is no way I would ever get my 18yo brother to read these...he's wading his way through every sci fi book in existence (well it seems that way - though mine is actually the bigger collection of books). Dad tolerates them and is quite happy to ferry me from place to place Smile He won't read em either - well, he might Twisted Evil

Mum, otoh, has read them all through. Her sister, my aunt, had a few of them in the 60s (the late ones!!!) and they went out to the charity shop when Nanna died (in 1989!!) so someone got some good bargains...... Mum is of the opinion, like MissPrint's daughter, that they're repetitious. But then, she read them for nine months straight, so I'm not surprised.

I discovered that my uni friend, Gaynor is into them - but had no idea of their value (she promptly told her Dad there was no way they were going in the charity bag!!) She said she'll reread the ones she has then go eBaying...bet she gets hooked again, though!

 

#30:  Author: Emma, Location: Lichfield PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 5:42 pm

I'm the only Chalet fan in my family as well and my parents think I'm strange reading childrens books!! Rolling Eyes I have attempted to convert other people but have failed each time!!

 

#31:  Author: Catherine_B, Location: Oxford, UK PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:27 pm

I dragged my mother to the computer screen to read the five or so pages of RCS4 where we thought Nell was dead - couldn't bear her not sharing the most emotional part of my week!

 

#32:  Author: Elisabeth,  PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:21 am

Fortunately my sister who's also on this board (Annie) is as CS-obsessed as I am.

 

#33:  Author: Rachael,  PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:31 am

Catherine_B wrote:
I dragged my mother to the computer screen to read the five or so pages of RCS4 where we thought Nell was dead - couldn't bear her not sharing the most emotional part of my week!


And?

Question Question Question

 

#34:  Author: Donna, Location: Liverpool PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:26 pm

I get laughed at for reading CS and other children's books, although the majority of friends and family can find the Harry Potter books acceptable. My mum says she read them when she was young, but never thought much of them. My best friend did try to read one once, but really didn't like it (school stories were never her thing), but she does at least understand my passion for collecting them - I took her into the Haunted Bookshop in Cambridge, and even though she has no interest in children's books she loved the shop, just because it's full of books!

then again, my family and friends usually laugh at me for my other obsession (theatre, particularly musicals) as well - I think they're quite happy to let me get on with it all now, although my parents don't like the amount of money I spend!

*content to be the eccentric member of the family*

 

#35:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:09 pm

Rachael wrote:
Catherine_B wrote:
I dragged my mother to the computer screen to read the five or so pages of RCS4 where we thought Nell was dead - couldn't bear her not sharing the most emotional part of my week!


And?

Question Question Question


Echoes this - Cathy what did you mum say? Laughing

(Sorry for the ruined week!)

 

#36:  Author: Alex, Location: Manchester PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:14 pm

I remember my Dad once reading the blurb on the back of Theodora and summing it up as "Can the Chalet School succeed where all else has failed?" He read a chapter of and Jo and described it as "nicely written". My Mum is currently struggling through School (think she may have given up) and my brother describes them as "The Shallow School" - also his name for the CBB!

 

#37:  Author: Matthew, Location: Birmingham, England PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:57 pm

I never can understand the disdain there is towards people who enjoy children's books, games etc. I personally am proud that I am simple hearted enough to enjoy reading children's books, playing games and simply having fun. Surely that's the most important thing in life, to spend our time doing the things we like, instead of worrying about what we should do. And this comes from a six foot rocker with long hair, who goes out of a weekend dressed entirely in black! Not your average children's book reader I wouldn't think! Laughing

 

#38:  Author: MissPrint, Location: Edinburgh PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 11:25 pm

Erm, no, Matthew! You sound like the sort of chap I'd cross the road to avoid, and warn my daughter against. (In the nicest possible way, you understand Wink )

 

#39:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 2:38 pm

Where is it you live, Matthew? just so we can keep our daughters/susceptible young friends/etc. away from there?

ETA: says one whose sons both had long hair at different times. Oh the joys of having to blow-dry Donald's hair, and plait it, Highlander style! Every morning, forsooth.

 

#40:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 2:41 pm

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL At Jennie's comment"!!!

 

#41:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 4:02 pm

*has fond memories of plaiting a male friend's long hair Highlander style for a production of Macbeth. He then plaited mine in one plait at the back. I could never get it straight, but neither could he! As I fancied the pants off him at the time, I pretended it was the best plait ever ROFL *

*feels glad that i have no daughters to lock up. Knowing any offspring of mine, it would be near-impossible!*

 

#42:  Author: Matthew, Location: Birmingham, England PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:04 pm

Jennie wrote:
Where is it you live, Matthew? just so we can keep our daughters/susceptible young friends/etc. away from there?


What cheek! Laughing (Wonders why everyone judges him on image, instead of based on his wonderful all round personality! Very Happy )

 

#43:  Author: Ann, Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:20 pm

*wonders if Matthew could get his hair into Joey-style earphones*

 

#44:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:59 pm

LOL Ann!!!

That was a rather wicked ccomment, but truly inspired....... Wink

 

#45:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 6:57 pm

Notice that Matthew didn't actually answer the question, ladies? Wink

*agrees with Matthew over people judging by image rather than personality, but suppresses a rant*

 

#46:  Author: Matthew, Location: Birmingham, England PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:51 pm

Ann wrote:
*wonders if Matthew could get his hair into Joey-style earphones*


What an evil suggestion! If I thought my hair would ever look like that I'd have it shaved off tomorrow! Laughing

 

#47:  Author: Cumbrian Rachel, Location: back in Oxford PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 9:22 pm

*wondering if we should find out where Matthew is and if we should pop round to do a little hairdressing....!*

 

#48:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:21 pm

Cumbrian Rachel wrote:
*wondering if we should find out where Matthew is and if we should pop round to do a little hairdressing....!*


ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL

Imagine his face when we arrived en masse on the doorstep!

*offers the use of my hairpins for the occasion*

 

#49:  Author: MissPrint, Location: Edinburgh PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:53 pm

I have a box of hairpins, now redundant as I have short hair. Who was going to do the evil deed? Because you're most welcome to them.

Twisted Evil

 

#50:  Author: Matthew, Location: Birmingham, England PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:55 pm

(Panics and hides behind sofa, vowing never to give any of them my address)

 

#51:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:02 pm

Matthew, dear boy, we know your name, we know what town you livein, and that you live with your parents, it shouldn't be TOO hard to track you down.........

 

#52:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:02 pm

Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes Spineless Jellyfish Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes

 

#53:  Author: Matthew, Location: Birmingham, England PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:05 pm

As I've mentioned in another thread, I've seen what some of you look like so I've got good reason to be afraid! Very Happy

 

#54:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:07 pm

Excuse me, but I look perfectly sane. Laughing *points out that in an earlier drabble, sadly eaten by the TEM, my father was revealed as being Satan devil *

Last edited by Lulie on Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:09 pm; edited 1 time in total

 

#55:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:08 pm

Oooh! You are SO for it now!!!!!!!!!!!! Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad

 

#56:  Author: Matthew, Location: Birmingham, England PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:38 pm

(Comes from behind sofa to securely lock all the doors of the house before hiding again)

 

#57:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:50 pm

*picks locks with hairpins*

 

#58:  Author: Matthew, Location: Birmingham, England PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:59 pm

(Feels relaxed as all doors are bolted and large guard dog is in the garden)

 

#59:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:21 am

Rolling Eyes at Matthew's efforts to hide and simply points to the fact that RTW is also outside.

 

#60:  Author: Matthew, Location: Birmingham, England PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:24 am

(Goes into full blown panic attack at news that RTW is outside HelpMe )

 

#61:  Author: Rachel, Location: Plotting in my lair PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 8:49 am

Mattheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww


Come out and play with us Matthew.


We're very nice people. And I am very good at doing hair - ask my female bratfink!




I actually had a boyfriend a few years ago (yes, someone was mad enough to attempt to date me, and yes, he did live (just about) to tell the tale) who had hair down to his waist - and I used to sit and braid it all and refuse to let him take them out! He drew the line at pink ribbons, but blue were acceptable (he was a Rangers fan)

 

#62:  Author: Matthew, Location: Birmingham, England PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:07 pm

Laughing

I did already know what to expect from you lot but this is even better than I expected!

 

#63:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:12 pm

*looks concerned* Our Matthew seems to be a sadist (or is it masochist? I always get those two mixed up!)

 

#64:  Author: Matthew, Location: Birmingham, England PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:15 pm

It's masochist, sadist means you like to inflict pain, masochist to receive it. And I'm no masochist, I just enjoy winding people up and getting a reaction! Laughing (Starts to think about who my next victim will be! Very Happy )

 

#65:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:19 pm

Oh dear Matthew. That sounds like most of my family! If you can't take teasing by the time you're three months old, you're cut out of the will!

I do hope you're not going to have an accident and have all your hair cut off to save your life and then somebody notices a resemblence to me, and you turn out to be my aunt's cousin's dog's child twice removed from four hundred years ago.

*I wouldn't wish looking like me on anybody!!)

 

#66:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:34 am

Why did you take offence at my comment, Matthew? I was merely trying to save you from being mobbed by young females who were determined to sample your masculine charms.

Joins the mob outside Matthew's house, bringing her Attack Cat with her. (Feels that Granny Ogg is her favourite role model)

 

#67:  Author: MissPrint, Location: Edinburgh PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:54 am

I'm not young, nor was Matthew's honour in any danger from me. I was jsut here because I enjoy a good scrap. I'm so unladylike. Twisted Evil Twisted Evil

 

#68:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 10:48 am

What's ladylike?

 

#69:  Author: JackieJ, Location: Kingston upon Hull PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:07 pm

Jennie wrote:
Joins the mob outside Matthew's house, bringing her Attack Cat with her. (Feels that Granny Ogg is her favourite role model)


*confused*.... As there's a cat involved I'm guessing you mean Nanny Ogg..... I got rather scared there.... a combination of Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg would not be someone I'd want to bump into.... anytime.

JackieJ

 

#70:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:35 pm

Exactly, just mix up the two dear Ladies' characteristics!

 

#71:  Author: Matthew, Location: Birmingham, England PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:30 pm

I'm feeling very glad I joined the board at the moment as this is the most female attention I've had in a long time! Laughing And Jennie I never take offence at comments like that, it's just more fun if I react! Very Happy

 

#72:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 2:46 pm

You like female attention, Matthew? We've been PMing, and we're going to hire coaches and minibuses so we can come to see you in that club you told us about.

About 200 of us, piling in and asking for Matthew. Won't that be nice?

 

#73:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 3:19 pm

ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL *jumps on coach, ready and waiting!

 

#74:  Author: Matthew, Location: Birmingham, England PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:12 pm

No! I'll be barred for life if you lot show up! HelpMe

*Thinks of the idea of 200 women turning up asking for me*

Should do my reputation no harm though! Laughing








They already know that I'm mad! Laughing

 

#75:  Author: Ann, Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:24 pm

In comparison with the combined madness of 200-odd CBBers (or should that be '200 odd CBBers'... Wink ), you'll seem positively sane!

 

#76:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 10:23 pm

And of course, we will each be waving a CS book Matthew........




.....imagine that in your club...... Twisted Evil

 

#77:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 3:22 pm

And we'll expect all your friends to join in the discussion, perhaps organise them into CS drabble-writing teams.

 

#78:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 5:23 pm

*Suspect Matthew is going to emigrate very soon!*

 

#79:  Author: Matthew, Location: Birmingham, England PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:23 pm

*Thinks that maybe I shouldn't give any more information about myself to the lunatics on this board as it's too dangerous!*

 

#80:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:14 pm

Twisted Evil ve haf vays of finding zese tings out. You can run, but you cannot hide Twisted Evil

 

#81:  Author: Emma, Location: Lichfield PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 7:19 pm

*lol* Ive just read through this thread, what are you all like!! Smile

 

#82:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 7:21 pm

Going back a bit to the original thread (if you can remember) I did the fortune telling trick from New House on my Mum last night, she was very good about it, and even picked the cards up at the end!!!

 

#83:  Author: Rachael,  PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:15 am

Birmingham isn't very far from mine .... Twisted Evil

 

#84:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:33 am

Is that supposed to make Matthew feel threatened?

 

#85:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 2:34 pm

Comforted perhaps?

 

#86:  Author: Rachael,  PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 2:57 pm

Exactly - there'll be about 30 of us at mine (so much better than 200! Wink ) the weekend after next and it wouldn't take long to get to that nightclub ...

Mwahahahahahaha! Twisted Evil

 

#87:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 3:22 pm

Are you trying to put ideas into OUR heads, and instill fear into Matthew, Rachael?

 

#88:  Author: Rachael,  PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 3:37 pm

*g*

Well, I've not been to a club in ages and as we won't get much sleep anyway ... !!

 

#89:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 3:52 pm

Rachael!!!!!!
You are becoming nearly as evil as your witchy namesake....... Laughing Laughing

 

#90:  Author: Rachael,  PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 3:54 pm

I'll book a coach then? Mr. Green

*pondering whether Vikki's remark was a compliment or an insult ... Wink *

 

#91:  Author: Matthew, Location: Birmingham, England PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 4:19 pm

Please, don't! You're all scaring me! HelpMe

*Wonders why he ever joined this board of lunatics anyway*











Still, it'd be a laugh anyway! Laughing

 

#92:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 4:23 pm

Because we're irresistible, Matthew!

 

#93:  Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:31 pm

*suffocating with laughter at the yibble in this thread*

Matthew, you can't escape! It's futile to try!

My sis reads Chalet books - I haven't yet managed to convince her to join this board though - good job as I feel my reputation as a sane CBB-er may be destroyed by her first post. Mother never read them as a child - but read a page of School at the Chalet today and immediately had hysterics at use of "tophole" and "jolly". The rest of my family are entirely unsympathetic - the first words out of anyone's mouth when I mention the CS are "you STILL haven't grown out of those books?"

 

#94:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:56 am

As Kathye can testify my family think my CS obsession is rather I'd sya mad but they already know I am so instead they jsut do not understand, my mum and my sister just laugh and although my Dad read quite a lot of them when he was young - and in fact managed to have a CS related conversation with Kathye whilst also plying her with wine Rolling Eyes - he read part of one of mine fairly recently and thought it was awful, badly written and thus does not see the appeal...so i'm on my own there but have got one of my friends readign them all!

 

#95:  Author: Joan the Dwarf, Location: Er, where am I? PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:03 pm

I've had parental ridicule since university, which ended suddenly the time they tried to get my (then new) husband to join in - and he refused, saying he didn't see why it was funny! He also tends to get me the latest GGB books at birthday/Christmas, although he has yet to get beyond page one of any of them without hysterics Very Happy

It was a relief finding this board and realising I'm not alone in my weirdness Cool

 

#96:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:14 pm

Good for hubby! And Joan? Weird is normal here! Laughing

 

#97:  Author: Joan the Dwarf, Location: Er, where am I? PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:35 pm

Lesley wrote:
And Joan? Weird is normal here! Laughing


popper

 

#98:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 7:00 am

What's weird, what's normal? Do you mean being interested in a legitimate literary genre, or being mind-numbingly dull?

Take your pick! And shovel to bury the corpses of the opposition.


Razz Razz Razz Razz Razz Razz

 

#99:  Author: Kateth, Location: Heidelberg PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:44 am

Have just sat here and read the entire thread -- poor Matthew!! *cackles evilly*

The family thinks I'm slightly mad to still be reading the books, but it's one of those things they've given up teasing me about! Mum is always happy to buy duplicate copies from charity shops for me, in the hope that I'll sell them on and make lots of money -- not quite sure how to break it to her that my three copies of Rivals are not likely to be much help in that line!

Managed to get two of my friends hooked, then discovered by accident in my last year at school that one of my teachers was a big Chalet fan. Is thanks to her that I have copies of Challenge and Althea -- how I giggled when I realised that the copies she'd given me were 1990s reprints, so she couldn't even pretend they were left over from her childhood! Bless her. Very Happy

 

#100:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 4:14 pm

How nice of her to give you a couple of books. Never look a CS gift-horse in the mouth.

 

#101:  Author: Kateth, Location: Heidelberg PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 7:33 pm

Very Happy I know! I was amazed at the time. She's actually a pretty good friend of mine these days -- am sure the CS had something to do with that...

 

#102:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 8:47 am

My older sister and I read all the books we could lay our hands on as girls (and teenagers). When I told her there was a new book (Visitors) she was interested, but I don't know if she's read it. My younger sisters read some of the books, but were never as into it as we were - perhaps they were restricted because the books didn't get 'passed down' the family to them.

My aunt had quite a few of the books, but she gave them to a charity shop as she didn't realise I was still reading them, although I have a couple of them that I'd borrowed long-term at the time!

My mum read the books as a girl, but my dad made her get rid of them (along with a teddy bear and various other things) when they got married as he thought they would be outdated and not read by any of their (future) children. Strangely, his Jennings books survived the cull!

Liz

 

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