How much can you fit in a car?
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#1: How much can you fit in a car? Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:45 pm

Just started reading Island and noticed (since I've joined the CBB I seem to pick up on a lot of things I don't remember noticing before) that when the girls arrive on the St Briavel's they are met by two cars into which they manage to pack all their night cases (presumably nearly 200 as it's the majority of the school) and two cellos.

Could have done with cars like that when I was helping my sister move house last weekend Smile

Liz

 

#2:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:01 pm

I noticed that too my mind made me think they were mini-vans out of kindness to EBD but as they usually have runabouts!!........

Also I always wondered why the had cars on the island. I imagine it to be quite small and therefore reasonably unaccessible by road. Was the ferry a car ferry?? If not, how did they get there??

 

#3:  Author: Nina, Location: Peterborough, UK PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:07 pm

Perhaps it was a car like Vikki's Very Happy
*memories of March gathering*

 

#4:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:54 pm

LOL!!!

See! My car is a true CS car......

 

#5:  Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 10:20 pm

Elastic sided Vikki? Or do things shrink when you pack them in?

 

#6:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 10:35 pm

I'm afraid I cannot reveal my secret methods Auntie Pat! Wink

 

#7:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:53 am

And those of us who have experienced it have been sworn to secrecy............. Wink

 

#8:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:51 pm

Obviously Vikki has one of the famous CS expanding cars.

 

#9:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 4:40 pm

Ally wrote:
And those of us who have experienced it have been sworn to secrecy............. Wink


Squished until we swore secrecy more like it!! *Painful memories*

Wink

 

#10:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:27 pm

Kathryn Wilkie!!!!!! You cheeky madam!!!!

 

#11:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 6:29 pm

Not cheeky, just truthful Vikki dearest!

 

#12:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:12 pm

*plots revenge on Kat!* Twisted Evil

 

#13:  Author: Miriam, Location: Jerusalem, Israel PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:09 am

Add on a roof rack and possibly a trailer, remember that the cases were fairly small, and it is just about concievable. Had never considered the issue of cars on the Island though.

Now I am thinking, isn't it interesting that two (probably small) cars can take all the girls cases, but it takes two large cars with trailers to transport the Maynards clothes (since almost everything else went in advance) to Dover when they left to Switzerland? And then everything that all eleven of them and Anna needed for a couple of months in the summer (at the Teirnsee) could fit into the boot of Minnie?

Now confuzzled about car capacities.

 

#14:  Author: claire, Location: South Wales PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:12 pm

I always assumed that the night cases were VERY small (apart from hair/tooth brushes etc, nighty and new underwear for the next day what else would they have needed, and that they would have been well stacked up in the cars (and they never needed the rear view mirror)
Whereas the cars the Maynards went in contained 13 people as well as luggage and the clothes were stored in trunks - therefore not as squishable as the cases.

 

#15:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:18 pm

Vikki wrote:
*plots revenge on Kat!* Twisted Evil


*smiles sweetly and offers Vikki some chocolate slice through her cage doors* Wink

 

#16:  Author: Kate, Location: Ireland PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 8:10 pm

Miriam wrote:
And then everything that all eleven of them and Anna needed for a couple of months in the summer (at the Teirnsee) could fit into the boot of Minnie?

Now confuzzled about car capacities.


I always just presumed they had stuff already at the Tiernsee... we have a holiday house (sort of) and we never needed to bring much stuff, because we have most stuff twice. So it'd be just the basics they'd need. When they were going to Switzerland, they had to bring everything.

 

#17:  Author: Miriam, Location: Jerusalem, Israel PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:34 pm

Well even if it was just basics, fifteen people (Joey, Jack, eleven children, Anna and Melanie Lucas) need quite a lot of clothes, as well as all the extra baby equipment, books, and the miscellaneous bits and peices which always seem to turn up.

And when Jo selected the 'essentials' to take up by train (when Jack had to report to the police in Innsbruck) she alraedy had four suitcases full.

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#18:  Author: Elzbie, Location: London PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:45 pm

i can't remember which one it is in- possibly Richenda- where a whole class of girls (or was it two?) and two prefects and the mistresses were taken home in two convertibles. Which confused me- I gather EBD was not talking about sports cars. But still...... (I'm sure ML says something about Hilda Jukes being to fat to fit- very harsh!).

 

#19:  Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 3:07 pm

I think EBD meant that they had soft tops which could be opened. Although I suppose it could have meant they they converted to a bus Wink

Incidentally, in one of the books (I really can't remember which but I think it's Swiss) the Maynard family car is named as an Hispano Suiza - very big, but also just about the most expensive car of it's time!

 

#20:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 3:40 pm

Jack was obviously on VERY good money! Wink
Or possibly they bought it second hand?

 

#21:  Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 7:35 pm

Kat wrote:


*smiles sweetly and offers Vikki some chocolate slice through her cage doors* Wink


*thinks Kat obviously likes to live dangerously*

 

#22:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:17 am

Ellie wrote:
Incidentally, in one of the books (I really can't remember which but I think it's Swiss) the Maynard family car is named as an Hispano Suiza - very big, but also just about the most expensive car of it's time!


And in another book it's a Mercedes-Benz.

Do you think the San provided company cars that were changed regularly?

Liz

 

#23:  Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:14 am

LizB wrote:
Ellie wrote:
Incidentally, in one of the books (I really can't remember which but I think it's Swiss) the Maynard family car is named as an Hispano Suiza - very big, but also just about the most expensive car of it's time!


And in another book it's a Mercedes-Benz.

Do you think the San provided company cars that were changed regularly?

Liz


Or perhaps EBD didn't know much about cars and either asked someone or plucked a name from an advertisement.

 

#24:  Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:46 pm

I think she would have known that they were at the more expensive end of the market and that she made a conscious decision to use them - she probably couldn't imagine Jack driving around in an Austin 10, but it does conflict with Joey claiming near poverty, several times. Although of course Maynard poverty is all relative.

 

#25:  Author: Nicci, Location: UK PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 5:19 pm

Ellie wrote:
Although of course Maynard poverty is all relative.


Laughing Laughing Laughing

 

#26:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:04 pm

Just think of recycling all those children's dresses, as Jo does, then they have a huge, expensive car!

 

#27:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:56 pm

Maybe that's why they can afford a big car. They never have new clothes!

 

#28:  Author: claire, Location: South Wales PostPosted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:00 pm

Jennie wrote:
Just think of recycling all those children's dresses, as Jo does, then they have a huge, expensive car!


To be honest I don't see anything strange about Jo recycling the clothes, most mothers do if they have the same sex children (although I wouldn't hold on to them for 9 years between girls) and Jo having been through the war and clothes rationing probably would have had that inbuilt

 

#29:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:21 pm

But Jo did propose to hang onto them for nine years. And yes, fashions do change, even for young girls.

 

#30:  Author: Kate, Location: Ireland PostPosted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:44 pm

My cousin - who is four now, has, on occasion worn old clothes of mine... I'm 19. And her little brother who is two, wears old clothes of my brother's, who is 15. This is after being pased to a number of other cousins on the way.

Wouldn't be every day wear, though... just for play.

 

#31:  Author: Miriam, Location: Jerusalem, Israel PostPosted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 9:04 pm

My friend has just had her first granchild, and has unpacked some of the clothes she had for
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first son (now 22) for the baby to wear. The mother was thrilled to recieve them.

Fashions probably matter less half way up a mountain in Switzerland than they do living in a more fashion concious place, and I don't think Joeys children were really aware of the lateset fasion developments (or one of them might somehow have hionted that the earphines were slightly outdated Rolling Eyes ).

 

#32:  Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks PostPosted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 9:07 pm

My mother in law offered me some of Andy's clothes when we had the boys (he was around 29 at the time) - I declined Wink

 

#33:  Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 9:41 pm

We passed lots of baby things around when mine where young. they went round all the cousins and as they wore out were replaced and the replacements passed on.

We also made a lot of the clothes. I remember taking my husband's shirts where the collars and cuffs had gone through and making school shirts for my son. Certainly all girls' dresses were home made.

I didn't and still don't see anything wrong with that. Children generally grow out of things well before they are worn out.

 

#34:  Author: Jools, Location: Sadly Broke PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:08 am

Philippa had loads of really pretty baby clothes I desparately wanted to recylce for my second child, but for some reason my husband didn't think that dressing Daniel in flowery dungarees was on. I thought he looked quite cute. But then I did use to dress my (much younger brothers) in my clothes to amuse them and for plays.

 

#35:  Author: Catherine_B, Location: Oxford, UK PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:35 am

I'm wearing at this very moment a night shirt that got passed down to me when I was a kid... about fifteen years ago! It's indestructible (and very comfortable!) Laughing

 

#36:  Author: Laura, Location: London (ish) PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:00 pm

The only thing I have as a hand me down is a hugely comfortable nightie... someone gave it to me when I was six (it went down to my ankles) and now, aged 16, I still wear it (although it only just reaches my hip!) But it's just sooo comfy...!

 

#37:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:37 pm

Gem wrote:
Kat wrote:


*smiles sweetly and offers Vikki some chocolate slice through her cage doors* Wink


*thinks Kat obviously likes to live dangerously*


She hasn't found out yet!! Laughing


I had my cousin's old jumper - was so snuggly and comfy but Mum threw it out because she said it was scruffy Crying or Very sad I never got things handed down from my sister because she was so skinny and I'm rather curvy/fat!

 

#38:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:39 pm

Kat wrote:
Gem wrote:
Kat wrote:


*smiles sweetly and offers Vikki some chocolate slice through her cage doors* Wink


*thinks Kat obviously likes to live dangerously*


She hasn't found out yet!! Laughing


I had my cousin's old jumper - was so snuggly and comfy but Mum threw it out because she said it was scruffy Crying or Very sad I never got things handed down from my sister because she was so skinny and I'm rather curvy/fat!



Don't worry Kat, I have noticed, and it's been added to the very long list of things I have to punish you for......... Wink


(and you're NOT fat!)

 

#39:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:41 pm

Oh bugger, who told her?! Wink

And why, missy, do I need punishing? I've been leading the most blameless life possible...

 

#40:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:42 pm

Kathryn, Kathryn, Kathryn. When will you learn that this innocent act of yours fools no-one?

 

#41:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:45 pm

Victoria Georgina, Victoria Georgina, Victoria Georgina. When will you learn that I will always usurp you no matter what?

Twisted Evil

 

#42:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:50 pm

Oh you are SO dead now madam!

just you wait!!!!!!!!
As soon as I've dealt with Catherine, I shall deal with you!

 

#43:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:56 pm

*Chuckling very loudly*

*Strolls off in no way worried - a big boot would soon squish vikkikins!*

 

#44:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:13 pm

Kat dear, Reginald the revenge bunny is headed to Swansea on a steam roller.......

 

#45:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:20 pm

Steam rollers move very slowly - and seeing as my road is currently inacessible (thanks to bl**do roadworks which they kindly forgot to tell the residents about Rolling Eyes ) I am in no way worried about this!

 

#46:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:23 pm

You really should be worried sweetheart!

 

#47:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:24 pm

Nah - as Ally just pointed out to me, I should relax and wait, he won't turn up for a year and he'll probably have died on the way Wink

 

#48:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:27 pm

Did I not mention that his steamroller has a warp drive?

 

#49:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:30 pm

*Splutters with laughter*

Oh my sweet little Vikki - as if you're little brain could have thought of such a thing!

 

#50:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:32 pm

Careful Kat dear, Reginald is passing through Bristol as we speak.....

 

#51:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:33 pm

Oh good, my cousin can stop him!

 

#52:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:35 pm

I doubt it Kat sweetie.....

 

#53:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:36 pm

I'd look again fairy-cake...

 

#54:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:39 pm

Nope, just spoke to Reginald, and he said he's just crossed the severn bridge....
Sorry to disappoint you cupcake!

 

#55:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:37 pm

Taking him a long time dearest! Obviously warp isn't all that it's said to be...

 

#56:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:23 am

PatMac wrote:
We passed lots of baby things around when mine where young. they went round all the cousins and as they wore out were replaced and the replacements passed on.


One of my mum's 'if only the ground could open up and swallow me/that child' stories about me when I was young is that she was in Safeway with me when I was about 4 and the lady behind us in the queue said: that's a pretty dress.

Me: yes and before it was mine, it was my sister's and before it was my sister's it was my cousin's and before it was my cousin's it was my auntie's and my grandma made it for my auntie.


I also remember twice a year my mum would go through what we called clothes cupboard and we would have an afternoon of trying on the next size up of clothes for summer/winter depending on the time of year.

And my older sister had a cardigan that I really wanted and I was so disappointed that when she grew out of it I'd grown to big for it. To be honest, I'm now grateful that I didn't get it and there are no photos around of me in it - it was peach with a lilac trim - but at the time I thought it was lovely Exclamation

Liz

 

#57:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:40 am

My brother, who is six years younger than I, says his psyche was permanently damaged when, due to a problem with the washing machine, he was sent to school one day, when about six, wearing a pair of my knickers from when I was that age! He has never allowed our mum to forget it!

This is the same woman who, when a red object got into the white wash, thought it was suitable not only for younger brother (ten years younger) to wear pink nappies, but for my dad to wear a pink cricket strip - down to and including pink jock strap! Laughing

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#58:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:07 pm

*sniggers*

poor little bro!!!

 

#59:  Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:17 pm

Confesses that when life was quite stressful with 2 babies and a 2 year old, we used to get quite behind on the washing. So babies (both boys) occasionally went out in pink/frilly items Embarassed


Not that I'd bought anything pink/frilly for Jess when she was a baby but other people had

 

#60:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:01 pm

Vikki wrote:
Nope, just spoke to Reginald, and he said he's just crossed the severn bridge....
Sorry to disappoint you cupcake!


He's obviously got lost my precious!

 

#61:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:28 am

Don't worry flapjack, he just had a really good idea for a drabble, so he turned round and came home to tell me it! Wink

 

#62:  Author: pim, Location: St Andrews (right next to the beach) PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:29 am

So he didn't fall off the bridge then? Wink

Guess there was nothing to miss on the local news then after all Kat!

 

#63:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:19 pm

Kat, I was told (by the person who should know) that he ran out of petrol, a fatal flaw for a steam roller! Wink

 

#64:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:24 pm

Petrol??? In a steam roller???? No wonder he didn't make it!

 

#65:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:18 pm

Pitty that, isn't it Pim?

Nell & Ally - am not surprised, he's obviously a very un-intelligent bunny... pitty, let's down all the others doesn't it? (And I rang to warn all the stations not to give him any fuel Wink )

And Vikki, that's a very poor effort by him - can't even stick to one job and finish it properly! (much likes his owner then.... Wink Laughing)

 

#66:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:29 pm

He obviously is - I'm just surprised he got so far thinking that he needed petrol for a steam-engine!!! *sigh*

 

#67:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:51 pm

We can't blame him, poor soul - but we blame his owner!! Twisted Evil

 

#68:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:12 pm

He has better things to do!

 

#69:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:52 am

Better things than what, Vikki... Wink

 

#70:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:57 am

Laughing

 

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