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Author:  julieanne1811 [ Sun Feb 28, 2010 6:30 pm ]
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Len and Margot seem to be given much higher profiles generally, than Con (in the pbs, anyway). Len has Reg and Margot has her vocation, but what about Con? What would her husband (or would she remain single, thus nicely giving 'one of each' possibilities - married/single/nun?) be like? What would her life be like after she leaves school?
She goes to Uni, but what then? Perhaps she meets a nice Undergrad and marries him? Or perhaps she gets a job attached to BBC Radio and is sent out to report from war zones or other. This would link into her journalistic tendencies. She could meet someone while doing that - perhaps a native of wherever she's sent and then they, together work to help the country she was sent to ... I see this as a fairly political calling.
I don't see her just writing books, cutting herself off from the world in a Midsummer Village-type setting, somehow. I see her being much more proactive and using her writing talents to get things done somehow ... She and her husband would have a very 'modern' marriage - both working and doing similar things, having children in difficult parts of the world, shipping them off to the CS when they're old enough, giving a chance for some interesting stories based on their children at school and leaving Con and SLOC to go on having adventures and making a difference through their writing ...
Author:  ChubbyMonkey [ Sun Feb 28, 2010 7:02 pm ]
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Ah, no, sorry, it was nothing like that at all! :lol: Con meets Albert, a lovely doctor from the San, during her first summer holidays from uni, and after many an adventure they convince Joey that they are going to be happy together. He keeps working at the San and seeing her during her holidays while she gets her degree, then he moves to England, where he takes on a doctoring role for a district and moves into a lovely cottage near to a village but just slightly excluded so that Con has her privacy to write (Jem pulls a few strings for him to get such a good post when he's only late twenties/early thirties).

Then, after a year or so of living in London with some university friends, they get married, and Con moves out to join him in the idyllic cottage. There she takes up her writing and, largely thanks to his brother being a publisher, gets her first published book soon after (her brother-in-law has been "mentoring" her, as it were, since she and Albert met, giving her encouragement and constructive criticism so that she can become publishable)

I've got it all worked out :wink: *sits back and waits to be disagreed with*
Author:  Alison H [ Sun Feb 28, 2010 7:40 pm ]
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In New Beginnings, Con gets together with Roger Richardson which, with all due respect to the author, I can't see at all. Roger is into sport, science and engineering, and is a very practical and down-to-earth person: IMO he and Con've got nothing whatsoever in common.

I really hope that, whatever Con did, she settled a long way from the Platz, where she'd always've been stuck with people regarding her as "the dreamy one of the triplets". I like to think of her being a journalist, preferably working on the big news stories of the day - the '60s would have been such a fascinating time to be doing that. Maybe later on she could marry, but definitely not to anyone with any connection whatsoever to the CS, and have children, and write books about her exciting experiences.
Author:  Liz K [ Sun Feb 28, 2010 7:47 pm ]
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I must admit (and I've pm'd Julieanne1811 already) that I'm beginning to wibble at what's being written on here as I had Con in mind for my drabble.

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Author:  emma t [ Sun Feb 28, 2010 7:52 pm ]
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I do think that Con would have become a published author in own her own right, and not because her mother is Josephine M Bettany, once she had finished university.

Also I think she would marry someone who was connected to the school, or a family friend's son, but would go and live in London, or maybe even Taverton where the Bettany family started out. Ok, slightly, Over the top, but you never know! I don't think it would have been done quietly, either; there would be some drama along the way, a near death scenario, but she would come out winning in the end.
Author:  Alison H [ Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:07 pm ]
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Liz K wrote:
I must admit (and I've pm'd Julieanne1811 already) that I'm beginning to wibble at what's being written on here as I had Con in mind for my drabble.

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Nothing to wibble about, Liz: everyone's got different ideas about what different characters did after they left school, and all drabbles are always welcome :D .
Author:  Liz K [ Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:10 pm ]
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Phew, thanks, Alison.
Author:  Nightwing [ Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:22 pm ]
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As far as what EBD had planned for her goes, isn't there a moment in Ruenion where the young doctor Ian Hamilton views Con with some admiration? It's never picked up again, but I wonder if EBD hadn't been so distracted by Len and Reg whether Con wouldn't have found herself haveing a nice doctor thrust upon her, too.
Author:  julieanne1811 [ Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:41 pm ]
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I just wanted to break the cycle of marrying doctors ...
Author:  clair [ Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:20 pm ]
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Liz, wouldn't worry if I were you - I'm one of three people all writing drabbles about Len at the moment in St Therese but they all have different approaches! I'm loving the other two which, so far at least, have a very different take to mine :)
Author:  Liz K [ Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:21 pm ]
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OK, thanks.
Author:  MJKB [ Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:52 pm ]
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Nightwing wrote:
As far as what EBD had planned for her goes, isn't there a moment in Ruenion where the young doctor Ian Hamilton views Con with some admiration? It's never picked up again, but I wonder if EBD hadn't been so distracted by Len and Reg whether Con wouldn't have found herself haveing a nice doctor thrust upon her, too.


Shoot! Why does everybody get there before I do! I was fairly certain after Reunion that Hamilton had Con's name written on his heart. There'd be a connection too through Grizel and her husband. Poor Con might well be slated for a free lance journalist's life on the Platz, married to Hamilton who, because he is a doctor married to a Maynard, works at the San. She could send back some pretty holiday notes to one of the London magazines and do an occasional subbing stint when there's an outbreak of smallpox or cowpox or when there's an emergency appendtectomy Think of how nice it would be for Joey to have at least two out of the trips living next door.
Author:  Abi [ Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:54 pm ]
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Write what you like Liz - in my version she falls in love with a faerie. :dontknow: The only problem is that now, having written this, I'm completely unable to visualise her doing anything else. :roll:

(Though, yes, I did notice the Hamilton thing).
Author:  Fiona Mc [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:30 am ]
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I personally see Con being single for years. In Triplets, Con is emphatic that she would hate to get married and why. It's not about not wanting to grow up like Joey but more because she doesn't want to have to on board all the work of running a household and caring for a husband/kids any time soon. She obviously had the same converstaion with Hilda about darning socks for you husband and went no thanks! :wink:
Author:  Sunglass [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:55 am ]
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I've always imagined Con being the triplet to actually encounter feminism, reliable contraception and sexual liberation etc - and having a great time with all three! I see her continual zoning out during her schooldays as a defensive attempt to keep some degree of mental privacy from her mother, who doesn't intend to be intrusive, but apparently can't help knowing what's going on in her daughters' heads. (Margot has apparently never told her about her vocation, but she knows anyway, somehow!)

I like the idea of Con fully 'waking up' at university, taking full control of her writing gifts, getting heavily involved in student journalism, and just having a wonderful time, making a lot of male friends and having boyfriends without marrying the first one she lays eyes on. And (I like to think!) actually becoming Len's 'elder sister' in relationship terms, and being a source of advice and support as Len lays eyes on some gorgeous Teddy Hall rugby Blue and realises she was an idiot to engage herself to Reg so young. In my fantasy, Len breaks the engagement after a lot of heart-searching, and eventually finds someone wonderful, involving a lot of archetypal Oxford romancing with punts, picnicking and lolling in meadows. :)
Author:  JB [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:32 am ]
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My vision of Con’s future fits very much with that of Sunglass. I see her settling in at Oxford much more quickly than Len and spending the rest of her life with no more than the occasional visit to the Platz.

I don’t see her settling down with Roger Richardson or Ian Hamilton, although I see Joey trying really hard to set her up with Ian, inviting him over to Freudesheim for dinner when Con is at home and generally being “subtle” in a Joey-type way, ie not at all subtle.

After Oxford, I think she’ll move to England and work for a newspaper. Eventually, she’ll become a much more famous writer than her mother. She’ll be a great source of advice to her younger sisters and Joey will not understand why Con doesn’t want to take on writing the CS Christmas play. :lol:
Author:  Mel [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:01 am ]
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My fantasy would be that she becomes the celebrity her mother never was by writing raunchy blockbusters which made TV mini-series and later Hollywood where she had many liaisons, several children and adoptees from third world countries.
My reality would be that she married Hamilton, settled at the Platz near Len and Joey and carried on her creative work, by editing the hospital newspaper and wrote the school play, and kept so 'busy' without help that she never managed to write a novel ( to Joey's relief).
Author:  ChubbyMonkey [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:02 pm ]
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Len is the only one of the Maynard children that I can see staying on the Platz in adulthood - though it's suddenly struck me how difficult it could have been for the later Maynard children to settle in England, as I don't think they would have been officially given the nationality British - can anybody help me out on that one? As far as I know Joey was born in India (?) so certainly if it was set now they wouldn't be British by nationality and would have to apply for citizenship etc, though was it different then?

Sorry, that's completely OT :oops: it was just a sudden whim of thought! What I meant to say was that I think that the rest would settle back in England, if just because Jack and Joey would be moving back to England once Jack resigned as head of the San (wasn't that always the plan?) so there wouldn't really be anything for them on the Platz, except Reg with his job at the San.
Author:  JB [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:11 pm ]
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I'm sure Joey would have been British and that the situation would have been different because India was a British colony and not an independent country.

Would the younger Maynard children have dual British and Swiss nationality?
Author:  Sunglass [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:20 pm ]
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JB wrote:
Would the younger Maynard children have dual British and Swiss nationality?


I'm fairly sure you don't automatically get Swiss citizenship simply by virtue of having been born there - I think you would need at least one Swiss parent for that, otherwise you would need to go through a naturalisation process based on proving length of residency etc.

If Joey and Jack do move back to the UK after he retires as head of the San, leaving Reg and Len at Freudesheim, will they move close to the English branch of the CS? Or to Madge?
Author:  Alison H [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:30 pm ]
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India was a British colony when Joey was born: children born there to British parents would definitely have automatically been British citizens (or British subjects, in fact, seeing as we didn't become "citizens" until 1983 :D ). Think Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley, Spike Milligan, Rudyard Kipling, Paddy Ashdown ...

The child of a British citizen, if born abroad for any reason, is automatically entitled to British citizenship as well. In the Maynards' day (the rules have since been updated!) it could've got awkward if the father was British but the mother wasn't and the parents were unmarried, but unmarried couples don't have babies in CS-land :wink: . If a second generation is born abroad it doesn't work, though, so if, say, Cecil married someone who wasn't British and had a child born in Switzerland then the child wouldn't automatically be entitled to British citizenship, although the rules may have been different then.

The automatic right to British citizenship if born in Britain - which is mentioned in, I think, Lavender with regard to Marie and Andreas's two youngest children - existed at the time but was done away with when the rules were revamped in 1983. Being born in Switzerland doesn't automatically give you Swiss citizenship. I don't know if it did in the 1950s, but I doubt it: so many international organisations are based in Switzerland that lots of kids must be born there to parents who aren't Swiss nationals. The younger Maynard kids, assuming that they stayed in Switzerland, would probably have been able to apply for naturalisation on residence grounds, had they wanted to.

Just thinking:
Bettanys - 6 out of 7 children born in India
Russells - 2 children born in Austria, 2 born in the UK/Channel Islands, 2 born in Canada
Maynards - 6 children born in the UK/Channel Islands, 2 born in Canada, 3 born in Switzerland
Venables - 2 (surviving) children born in Australia

Good job it doesn't just go off where you were born, or it could've got very complicated :lol: .


ETA - sorry, this is totally OT, but I think that the one and only time in the entire series that the question of nationality, residence, work permits or anything along those lines is mentioned is that brief reference to Marie and Andreas's situation.
Author:  ChubbyMonkey [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:34 pm ]
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Thanks for clearing it up! I wasn't sure if, India being a colony at the time, Joey would have been British by birth or not. I don't actually know why that thought panicked me so much either :lol: Perhaps I need to remind myself what the term "Real Life" actually means!
Author:  RubyGates [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:15 pm ]
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I'd always pictured Con staying in England after Uni, turning her back on religion and realising that the world hasn't come to a shuddering halt just because she stopped going to church. She works in journalism for a while to support herself as she tries to establish herself as a scriptwriter for film and tv. She does become successful in that field and has a total ball throughout her twenties and thirties. Then she meets a West End producer and falls head over heels in love but they don't get married. They do have two beautiful children who never get sent away to boarding school and she learns to cope with the constant queries from Mother, the aunts and other female relatives as to why she's never sent her daughter to the Chalet School.

Hmmm, you sure Cal? well maybe I will, never written a drabble before and my own attempts at writing anything at all have been sadly neglected so maybe this would be a push for myself to get back into writing properly.
Author:  cal562301 [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:33 pm ]
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That sounds like a drabble worth writing. Go for it Ruby! :D
Author:  Loryat [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:54 pm ]
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I can never imagine Con turning out anything like the Con in CGGU. For me it just doesn't relate to the Con we meet in the CS series.

I imagine Con going to university and possibly being very miserable and homesick, possibly finding it difficult to make friends. Eventually she gets over this and becomes a stronger person as a result. She finds that she's not incredibly interested in her degree course (what is it she is planning on studying anyway) as all she really wants to do is Write. All the time at uni she is busy reading and writing and I think she probably does find a few close friends along the way.

Then (because at this time it seems like it was a lot easier to get this type of job as long as you had a degree and Con will natch have an excellent one) she ends up drifting into a job in publishing or possibly writing for TV or radio. But all the time she is focused on her main ambition which is to become a writer, and I imagine her eventually becoming an extremely successful prizewinning novelist/poet. I was always under the impression that Con's talent was actually greater than Joeys so while Joey churns out enjoyable GO and historical novels, Con writes Booker prizewinners (or the poetry equivalent).

Con seems to have a fairly strong opinion on marriage and to not plan on getting married, but I can imagine her possibly in a relationship with a fellow writer, sort of like Syvia Plath and Ted Hughes but without the depression and suicide.
Author:  Jennie [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:03 pm ]
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About the nationallity thing. What counts is where the birth was registered, so someone would have had to go to the nearest embassy/consulate to register the births of the Canadia/Swiss-born children.

I still firmly maintain that Con became a film star, had a hugely successful Hollywood career and married four times. All her exes and current husband hate Jo Maynard.
Author:  Liz K [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:40 pm ]
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*wibbling even more over what people are saying in this thread*
Author:  ChubbyMonkey [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:28 pm ]
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Don't wibble, Liz! My own view is that once you start writing a drabble, the characters become exclusively yours and EBD's, and even then you can disregard her if she disagrees! :lol: Please, please do write!
Author:  Jennie [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:33 pm ]
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After a very short time, Liz, the characters take over, and you're just the typist. Sad, but true. It's no good planning a drabble, though you are allowed to start it, but then the characters take over.

It's a hard thing to cope with at times, especially when they start arguing inside your head, all wanting their point of view to be heard first, and you wish they'd go away and leave you alone for a time, but in spite of the warnings I've just given you, I'm sure you'll manage to write it, and I'm sure it will be a good drabble, and we'll want lots more of it.
Author:  Nightwing [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:39 pm ]
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Liz K wrote:
*wibbling even more over what people are saying in this thread*


Seriously, don't worry about what anyone else's ideas on the subject are, Liz, not unless you find them inspiring! I have three different Cons and they're all leading quite different lives :D
Author:  MJKB [ Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:14 am ]
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Jennie wrote:
After a very short time, Liz, the characters take over, and you're just the typist. Sad, but true. It's no good planning a drabble, though you are allowed to start it, but then the characters take over.


I've had one in my head for two years now and I'm afraid of setting it down on paper in case it rambles off into rubbish!
Liz, I'm sure yours will be fantastic!
Author:  Liz K [ Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:03 am ]
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Thank you, everyone, for your encouragement, I've read through "Prefects" to get me back into the swing of the CS. Just got 2 more books to speed-read through to get some background and then I'll be up and running.
Author:  jmc [ Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:57 am ]
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Not that I was specifically writing about Con but I had her married to a photographer and the pair of them travelled the world together with him providing the photos for her articles but still continuing on with her own writing.
Author:  Alison H [ Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:03 am ]
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Liz, please don't wibble! I once made Con the Queen of Belsornia and mother to quadruplet princes and princesses :lol: : anything's possible! Everyone has different ideas about things, and I'm sure yours are great :D .
Author:  julieanne1811 [ Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:40 am ]
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Liz K wrote:
*wibbling even more over what people are saying in this thread*

Liz - can't wait to read your drabble! That's the fun thing - everyone has their own views on stuff. I have mine, and they are so 'there' that it's difficult to think any other way, so that's why it's great putting the question out - to see what other peoples ideas are ...
Author:  Jenefer [ Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:53 pm ]
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Liz we all have our own version of What Happened to The Maynards so
write your drabble and ignore other peoples' ideas. Good luck
Author:  MaryR [ Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:58 pm ]
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Alison H wrote:
In New Beginnings, Con gets together with Roger Richardson which, with all due respect to the author, I can't see at all. Roger is into sport, science and engineering, and is a very practical and down-to-earth person: IMO he and Con've got nothing whatsoever in common.


Oh dear, Alison, you could have been speaking about my husband and myself - but we've been married for 37 years! :roll: Your description of Roger is Ray to a T - though I wouldn't credit myself with the gifts Con has. But I am so unscientific that I have NO Science O levels at all. :shock: So I wonder where our common ground is? Must be somewhere or he would be long gone. So I guess it's simply that opposites do sometimes attract, despite appearances to the contrary. :lol:

Personally I like the idea of an unmarried Con, an unconventional woman with wide and varied interests to go with her writing.
Author:  Mrs Redboots [ Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:43 pm ]
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In my future universe Con doesn't marry. She leaves Oxford after the first term, having found the expectation didn't at all measure up to the reality, and does an abbreviated secretarial course, and then gets her heart's desire by getting a job as a dogsbody on one of the many magazines for young women that sprang up during the 1960s. She does all the 1960s London things - sharing a flat with two of her schoolfriends, mini-skirts, the Pill, flower power when that comes along, and so on. All the time working her way up the journalistic ladder, she ends up as editor of the UK version of some incredibly famous and grand US magazine, and, last I heard from her, was hoping to get the editor-in-chief post, to be anther Anna Wintour or whatever that awful editor in The Devil Wears Prada is called (who, one has to admit, modelled herself on Con!). Somehow, though, the writing fiction never quite happened.... maybe it did when she retired, I lost touch with her!
Author:  MJKB [ Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:12 pm ]
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MaryR wrote:
Oh dear, Alison, you could have been speaking about my husband and myself - but we've been married for 37 years! :roll: Your description of Roger is Ray to a T - though I wouldn't credit myself with the gifts Con has. But I am so unscientific that I have NO Science O levels at all. :shock: So I wonder where our common ground is? Must be somewhere or he would be long gone. So I guess it's simply that opposites do sometimes attract, despite appearances to the contrary. :lol:

I can identify with that. I have very little in common with my husband, even though I love him dearly. Luckily we socialise independently, at least I socialise with my friends from my single days, some of whom have remained single, and he rarely socialises at all. It's remarkable in that we have inadvertently repeated the pattern of my parents' marriage. Mom was incredibly socialable and dad liked nothing better than sitting on his own, by the fire reading.
Author:  Tor [ Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:33 am ]
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I love reading threads and drabbles about Con (and I think there are quite a few) - she seems the be the character most suited to future drabbles, presumably because EBD gave so little of a outline about it. I think we get some very interesting insights about our own little fantasies by what we have in store for Con. I'm definitely with Sunglass on what I hoped for Con's immediate future. Hilariously, I wrote a story for FOCS about 10 or so years ago now (eek!), where I had Con plumping for a PhD. Not that I was living out my own fantasies! :oops: :oops:
Author:  fraujackson [ Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:18 pm ]
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Con marries Reg (by mutual agreement after consulting Len, who doesn't want him really but feels she has had him shoved upon her...Reg eventually realises he and Len aren't suited but on breaking it to her never works out why Len's heart wasn't broken, thinks she's an awful brick, etc etc.), and Len stays very happily single and teaches at the school.

Reg practices somewhere in the UK, Con's writing and journalism bring her frequently to mainland Europe...

[Have been trying to kill Reg off for some time but can't convince myself of my own storyline !]
Author:  Alison H [ Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:06 pm ]
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That sounds intriguing :lol: :evil: - I'm sure the storyline's very convincing and would love to read it :wink: .

I'd love to see Reg's reaction if Len just told him kindly but firmly that there was no way she was getting engaged to anyone just yet. Would he have waited in the hope that she'd agree to get engaged to him somewhere further along the line, decided to forget about her, or gone berserk and tied himself to the Freudesheim gate and said he wasn't leaving until she changed her mind?

I really hope that Con ended up a long way away from the Platz. & that Mary-Lou did as well: it sounded for a while Reunion as if she was going to pack in university and just hang around on the Platz, and I'm so glad that she didn't. I like to think of both of them flying free, and the Platz was such an insular place that I don't think either of them would've "fulfilled their potential", to use the modern phrase, there.
Author:  Joyce [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:19 am ]
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I have to say the minute I read Ian Hamilton's eyes lit up when seeing Con I thought "a-ha! future husband." Because in EBD world that's all it takes!

I would definitely have preferred Roger but I don't see it happening simply because they are too close in age. EBD likes to have massive age gaps between her husbands and wives. In fact when I read Primula's future husband was ONLY five years older I thought EBD had made a mistake and she meant 15.

As for Con not wanting to get married and darn socks, didn't Joey say much the same thing? And look what happened there.

Cheers,
Joyce
Author:  Alison H [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:04 am ]
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Joyce wrote:
. In fact when I read Primula's future husband was ONLY five years older I thought EBD had made a mistake and she meant 15.


And then Joey says something like "And a very nice age gap too" :lol: . When you hear that a friend or relation has got engaged, there are plenty of comments you might make - hopefully "Congratulations," if the person concerned is present! - but I've never heard anyone come out with "And a very nice age gap too," as a reaction :lol: .
Author:  Sunglass [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:12 am ]
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Alison H wrote:
Joyce wrote:
. In fact when I read Primula's future husband was ONLY five years older I thought EBD had made a mistake and she meant 15.


And then Joey says something like "And a very nice age gap too" :lol: . When you hear that a friend or relation has got engaged, there are plenty of comments you might make - hopefully "Congratulations," if the person concerned is present! - but I've never heard anyone come out with "And a very nice age gap too," as a reaction :lol: .


Drabble, anyone, in which a CS old girl marries a man who is - shock! - younger than her! I'd be tempted to call it 'A Cougar at the Chalet School', only I'm never sure that that epithet isn't fairly misogynistic in a snide way.

Who could it be? Beth Chester seducing Roger Richardson at Freudesheim? Elisaveta neatly saving the day by snapping up Reg before he can propose to Len? Hilda marrying Ernest Howell?
Author:  JB [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:43 am ]
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Sunglass wrote:
Drabble, anyone, in which a CS old girl marries a man who is - shock! - younger than her! I'd be tempted to call it 'A Cougar at the Chalet School', only I'm never sure that that epithet isn't fairly misogynistic in a snide way.

Who could it be?


Mary Lou and Steve Maynard? It'd be interesting to see how Joey wrapped her head around that one- favourite Chalet girl and number one son.
Author:  Llywela [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:53 am ]
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Sunglass wrote:
Drabble, anyone, in which a CS old girl marries a man who is - shock! - younger than her! I'd be tempted to call it 'A Cougar at the Chalet School', only I'm never sure that that epithet isn't fairly misogynistic in a snide way.

Who could it be? Beth Chester seducing Roger Richardson at Freudesheim? Elisaveta neatly saving the day by snapping up Reg before he can propose to Len? Hilda marrying Ernest Howell?

:lol:

My grandmother was four years older than my grandfather - they were engaged when he was 18 and she was 22, married a year later, and my mother was born a few weeks before her father turned 21 - EBD would never have approved!
Author:  julieanne1811 [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:20 am ]
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Sunglass wrote:
Drabble, anyone, in which a CS old girl marries a man who is - shock! - younger than her! I'd be tempted to call it 'A Cougar at the Chalet School', only I'm never sure that that epithet isn't fairly misogynistic in a snide way.
Who could it be? Beth Chester seducing Roger Richardson at Freudesheim? Elisaveta neatly saving the day by snapping up Reg before he can propose to Len? Hilda marrying Ernest Howell?


Confession time ... my platonic SLOC is, um, er ... 20 years younger than me (I!) ...
Author:  claire [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:35 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Con Maynard's husband and life?
JB wrote:
Mary Lou and Steve Maynard? It'd be interesting to see how Joey wrapped her head around that one- favourite Chalet girl and number one son.


No, no in my head Steve's matched up with Kathie Ferrars

I'd say Mary-Lou could have Charles - hey then you'd have the Sodger all over again from Rescue
Author:  JB [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:48 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Con Maynard's husband and life?
claire wrote:
JB wrote:
Mary Lou and Steve Maynard? It'd be interesting to see how Joey wrapped her head around that one- favourite Chalet girl and number one son.


No, no in my head Steve's matched up with Kathie Ferrars

I'd say Mary-Lou could have Charles - hey then you'd have the Sodger all over again from Rescue


That works for me. We'd still have the older woman in both relationships. :)
Author:  Kate [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:49 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Con Maynard's husband and life?
julieanne1811 wrote:
Confession time ... my platonic SLOC is, um, er ... 20 years younger than me (I!) ...

*frank admiration* Well done you! :)
Author:  ChubbyMonkey [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Con Maynard's husband and life?
But what about if Miss A. was quietly writing to Rix or /and(:shock:) David, on the side all these years, and he suddenly becomes all keen to come to the Platz?
Author:  Dreaming Marianne [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Con Maynard's husband and life?
Much as I am Not Keen on CGGU, I have always found the way Con's life panned out within it very believable.
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