Saturdays...
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#1: Saturdays... Author: Ray, Location: Bristol, England PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:07 pm

This has bothered me for a while and it's now become relevant to what I'm writing I thought I'd pick the collective brain of the CBB... In the Tyrol/England, Saturdays were prep/mending then Guides, but in Switzerland, they had no Guides - so what DID they do? Was it free time? Games? Rambles? What if the weather was bad?

Ray *the curious and slightly frustrated*

 

#2:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:16 pm

They went on rambles, and had free time as well, I believe. \i think some of the seniors were allowed to go shopping too.

 

#3:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:22 pm

Didn't they sometimes do prep on Saturday mornings as well?

Liz

 

#4:  Author: Ray, Location: Bristol, England PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:06 pm

They did - along with mending and letter writing.

Many thanks!

Ray *off to put this to use*

 

#5:  Author: Ann, Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:18 pm

Why didn't the school continue with Guides after the move to Switzerland?

 

#6:  Author: Ray, Location: Bristol, England PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:20 pm

I think they were planning to, but they wanted to have the school fully set up, first, before they did extra things like Guides. I'm sure there's something mentioned about it in one of the very early Swiss books, but I couldn't tell you which one it was for the life of me!

I'm not sure, but I also think that most of the guiders were actually staying with the English branch, which would have made it difficult from that point of view.

And, I guess, there's always the option that EBD was bored with writing the Guides in on a random basis!

Ray *never discount a writer getting bored...*

 

#7:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 9:47 am

I'm sure at one point in an early Swiss book, it is also said that they just won't have time for Guides, partly because they planned to explore the surrounding area on Saturdays.

 

#8:  Author: JackieJ, Location: Kingston upon Hull PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 12:57 pm

It's mentioned in Barbara that the girls want Guides to start again, as they bring up the Guider problem, with Hilary Burn having married. But they never do seem to make an appearance after that.

JackieJ

 

#9:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 1:16 pm

Isn't there also a mention of that in the Newsletters? EBD says she thought the Swiss branch had enough to do without it.

 

#10:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 3:37 pm

I have to admit that it had actually never clicked with me that they never restarted guides in the Swiss books! I just took it for granted that they had them, until the topic came up on here before!

 

#11:  Author: Kat, Location: Swansea PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 3:48 pm

*giggles at Vikki... then shamefully admits to thinking the same, but only until a few months ago when it clicked Embarassed Laughing *

 

#12:  Author: Chelsea, Location: Your Imagination PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 4:44 pm

Embarassed Is another one who thought like Vikki Embarassed

 

#13:  Author: LadyGuinevere, Location: Leicester PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 6:39 pm

(and yet another Embarassed )

 

#14:  Author: Kate, Location: Ireland PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 6:56 pm

And another... Embarassed

I just assumed they had them, I never found the Guide stuff that interesting anyway... *bows head and waits for the onslaught of shocked and horrified reactions*

 

#15:  Author: Rachael,  PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 2:31 pm

It would be great if the older ones at least could go and visit people in the San who didn't have any other visitors (no family, friends etc)

Very Happy * hint hint *

 

#16:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 3:09 pm

*giggling at Rachael*

But agrees wholeheartedly!

 

#17:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:19 pm

Kate wrote:
And another... Embarassed

I just assumed they had them, I never found the Guide stuff that interesting anyway... *bows head and waits for the onslaught of shocked and horrified reactions*


Oh, dear, one less customer for "Peace" in that case...

 

#18:  Author: Ray, Location: Bristol, England PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 6:55 pm

Rachael wrote:
It would be great if the older ones at least could go and visit people in the San who didn't have any other visitors (no family, friends etc)

Very Happy * hint hint *


Rachael, that's about as subtle as a brick Wink

Though oddly enough, that WAS why I started this thread, to double check that there wasn't something I was forgetting about Saturdays...

Ray *Very Happy*

 

#19:  Author: Kate, Location: Ireland PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:59 pm

KB wrote:
Kate wrote:
And another... Embarassed

I just assumed they had them, I never found the Guide stuff that interesting anyway... *bows head and waits for the onslaught of shocked and horrified reactions*


Oh, dear, one less customer for "Peace" in that case...


*giggles*
I'm DEFINITELY buying Peace!! Smile

 

#20:  Author: Sarah_L, Location: Leeds PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:40 am

I'm another who didn't realise Guides hadn't restarted in Switzerland. With the school making such a big thing of Guides, it never crossed my mind to think they'd casually abandon it. I can remember Audrey wanting to be a Guide in Wins The Trick, but that is the only Guide mention I can recall in Switzerland when I come to think of it.
And Ray, maybe on Saturdays the girls had some time to themselves to lounge in their common rooms. Although, given the CS love of structured timetables, I somehow doubt it!

 

#21:  Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:04 pm

I always thought that the Guides continued in Switzerland too - I'm sure I 've read a mention somewhere, but maybe I'm getting confused with the drabbles.

 

#22:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:04 pm

*lol* Well, that's not exactly difficult to do!

 

#23:  Author: Miriam, Location: Jerusalem, Israel PostPosted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 5:37 pm

THe only mentions of giudes that I can remember in the Swiss books are in Barbara where the girls are wondering when they will start again (though I always felt that was a ploy to mention Hilary Burn/Graves, so that we could then hear about her baby), and the time in Wins the Trick, where Miss Dene promises Audrey that there will be something that "she will like very much".

THere is also a refernce at the end of New Beginnings, where Miss Annersley comments that she knows how everyone has missed guides (a very questionable statement, since no one who was at the school at that time could ever have been a Guide), and that the school will be restarting it's own company the following term.

 

#24:  Author: Lisa_T, Location: Belfast PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:57 am

I knew it wasn't kept in the Swiss branch but it still gets lots of mentions. Genius, Barbara, and Kenya are at least three egs i can think of.

 

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