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#1: Journals Author: Lily PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:24 am


Ruey Richardson:

“I’m stumped. I was looking forward to the hol’s this summer, Laurie and Daisy are great but it’s not the same with them, they’re only cousins and prefect dears too. But Daisy’s too young to treat me as Aunt Joey does, boy can she put me in my place and quickly too!

Here at the Tiernsee and Freudesheim I really feel like I belong and I haven’t felt like that in a long time. These hol’s have rather been spoiled for me due to this new girl Melanie, this girl Melanie Lucas I mean seem like a decent sort of girl and I’d like to be friends. No that’s not true it hasn’t spoiled the hol’s as much and at time’s not at all I guess because I’ve forgotten about it” Ruey stopped, pausing to take a deep breath to help control her temper.

Ruey had red hair and the temper to match, but expressing her feelings so openly in her diary did make it harder to write on occasions than others, however she’d started so she must continue.

“But his really is the outside of enough, she seems to have taken a complete hate of me but I’m bothered if I know why!” pausing again she began to chew the end of her pencil. It as luck it was a pencil and not a pen, but she had learnt from the last hol’s when she broke her pen from chewing it so much that ink went everywhere from her bed to her mouth.

“I think I might go dig Len out, I saw her heading off towards the big walnut tree. She has a way of getting into other people’s skin she’s so much like Auntie Jo that way. If Melanie carries on being barely civil to me Auntie Jo’s bound to sit up and take notice” with which Ruey slipped her diary back into her drawer and left the room in search of Len.

 


#2:  Author: SusanLocation: Carlisle PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 11:01 am


Nice beginning Lily. Waiting for more soon.

 


#3:  Author: LesleyLocation: Allhallows, Kent PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 11:04 am


Looking good! *Waiting*

 


#4:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 11:10 am


Eagerly awaiting more of this.

 


#5:  Author: Carolyn PLocation: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 11:28 am


Nice to see a new drabbler, and I don't recall one about Ruey and melanie before.

 


#6:  Author: patmacLocation: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 5:05 pm


that's interesting, Lily. EBD never gives the thought that goes into situations like this. On second thoughts, as she was writing for young girls, perhaps it was as well. It's only as adults that we query the gaps. More please.

 


#7:  Author: gigagalLocation: London PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 6:19 pm


That's great, Lily! Can't wait for some more now. *jumps up and down and waves arms* I'M not an adult! Smile

 


#8:  Author: Lily PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 7:59 am


Hilary Burn:

“Well what a time to be Head Girl” Hilary heaved a deep sigh. “So much has happened and far too much said in so few words. I suppose it had all been so different from the moment we got onto the train with near enough the entire staff with us rather than the usual junior mistress or two. I guess that’s what made me sit up and take notice, especially when I think about what dad says about old Hitty wanting the whole earth. But finding the buses at Spärtz and the school having moved up to the Sonnaple, well that just settled it for me. The younger kids didn’t understand what Madame said meant something! I overheard that young ass Elizabeth Arnett saying it was just the Head’s talk it always had to have some kind of moral to that Betty kid”.

Hilary paused to twiddle her pen in her hand before continuing, “I spoke to Jeanne and Gio about it. I feel so bad especially for Gio after what happened on the train. To think I thought she was trying to pull our legs about a queer disease that only attacks certain people. I have never heard her speak like that before no wonder that women turned to stare at us. It was clear it was to do more with what Gio had said than her manner that drew the lady’s notice. But thanks to Polly’s quick thinking I doubt she saw who it was.

Nevertheless we must me much more careful about what we say, the Gestapo are supposed to have spies everywhere. What a term I think this will prove to be. I mean what I said though, we must to our best and play the game by the school and remember most of all we are Chalet Girls and hang together even though we may be far apart at times”.

Closing her books Hilary knelt down by her bed to say her prayers with a lingering thought for all those of Austrian and German decent in the school.

 


#9:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 8:52 am


I like the way this is jumping around, though it had me confuzzled at first.

 


#10:  Author: DawnLocation: Leeds, West Yorks PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:35 am


Lily - this is fab - Hilarys excerpt really brought it home how the elder girls would have started to worry about the future of the school and their friends, but the youngere ones would have been more likely to just accept it as a nothing too serious Really looking forward to who's journal we will see next

 


#11:  Author: SusanLocation: Carlisle PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 3:02 pm


Very nice. Where are we going next?

 


#12:  Author: AnnLocation: Newcastle upon Tyne, England PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:50 pm


Oooh, good idea! Who next? *hopes there will be an entry from Rufus*

 


#13:  Author: LesleyLocation: Allhallows, Kent PostPosted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 6:34 am


Excellent - we saw far too little of Hilary as Head Girl - especially as she became a continuing character for the rest of the series.

 


#14:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:03 am


yes, i must admit that I'd like to see more of her.

 


#15:  Author: Lily PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 6:49 am


Rebecca Learoyd:

“We meet Gabrielle from the train at Leeds as planned Alfred and I. I must confess to have been I little surprised for if she had been my girl I would not have returned her to a school which punishes girls unjustly. I am not a believer in pampering children, I’m not soft, never have been but this Bubb woman was just that, unjust. That woman I’d like to bite her! Fancy trying to the girl going home to see her brother going away to the Far East it’s not proper. You never know what will happen in one of those nasty flying-machines!”

Grandma as she was known as at the Chalet school paused to refill her pen finding the old fashioned pens more suited to her pointed hand.

“Gabrielle told me the whole story even with extreme rudeness of which I am ashamed to hear comes from such a nice young lady, the punishment was unjust. I wrote to the lady herself and told her what decent sensible people like I think of her behavior. I have also written to Mrs. Maynard whom Gabrielle led me to believe has something to do with the school. However I did not and do not plan to write to Lady Russell expressing my feelings on the matter after having shepherded the younger sinner back to her school today” grandma stopped writing whilst trying to find a peppermint.

“I had hoped upon returning Gabrielle to the school to give Miss Bubb a piece of my mine, so when the lady in the study was not her but a Miss Wilson, I believe, but it did mean that I was a little unsure of what to say. However I can see she knows how to deal with young lady’s by letting the matter drop and not punishing her further. Letting the girl talk would just lead to her thinking she did something clever! Leaving the girl in such obviously capable hands is a load of my mind”.

Rebecca put her pen down on the open page and sipped her tea. She had been feeling a little unwell and had thought by making an entry in her diary as she had done since she was as small as her granddaughter would make her feel a little better, but she wasn’t to know than she was sickening with German measles.

 


#16:  Author: patmacLocation: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 8:07 am


Cracking good posts, Lily!

 


#17:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 11:55 am


Loving this, Lily.

 


#18:  Author: LesleyLocation: Allhallows, Kent PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:47 pm


Excellent - thanks Lily - always loved that character - feel it was a great pity she wasn't allowed to meet Miss Bubb!

 


#19:  Author: SusanLocation: Carlisle PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 10:35 pm


Lily this is so good. Would love to see a scene between Miss Bubb and Grandma.

 


#20:  Author: cazLocation: Cambridge PostPosted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 11:40 am


This is a great idea, Lily. I hope there are going to be lots of journal entries.

 


#21:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:09 pm


I'm looking forward to lots more of them.

 


#22:  Author: Lily PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:05 pm


Irma von Rothenfels:

“Dear what a day it has been! I had an unexpected visit from Frau Grauenstein and her daughters I do not like them but have known them for so long a time. I had Jo’s second oldest girl with me at the time I was showing her how to make lace, for she has very neat fingers. She is a quick study and grasped the first principles very quickly.

She is different from Joey in that way, for she never liked needlework unlike young Con. But she fell in with the idea of speaking English if I so wished it, just what I would expect from one of Joey’s daughters. I have little practice now, but since they have come remember more and more.

That was not the worst of it all, the visitors I mean. I asked Con to carry on without me whilst I went to receive Frau Grauenstein in the Salon. If she could not go on I bid her Arrange our Kaffee und Kuchen. But when I was with Frau Grauenstein and her family I heard a tremendous “Pop!” I hurtled out of the room shrieking at the top of my voice as I had no idea what had happened and I had heard the boys return with Mamsell. At the top of the stairs I found Con streaked with my blackcurrant wine!

I slammed the door shut, however a stream of it flood form underneath the door. The boys were all excited by all the loud “Pops!” I was hysterical but I got Con into the bathroom. Her beautiful dainty frocks ruined and her underclothes. Con diving to the basin to scrub her clean gave me time to calm myself. How I mourned at what Joey would say when she heard about the clothes. I need not have worried all she said was “Now I wonder how I can work that into my next yarn!” but how like my Jo!”

Irma smiled as she closed her diary and went to check on young Leo and Gottlieb before retiring for the night.

 


#23:  Author: LesleyLocation: Allhallows, Kent PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:45 pm


*Giggle* Nice to see this again!

 


#24:  Author: Helen PLocation: Crewe, Cheshire PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:18 pm


Thankyou Lily that was fab! Please carry on... Smile

 


#25:  Author: SusanLocation: Carlisle PostPosted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 12:43 am


Thank you Lily that was nice - glad you are back.

 


#26:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 9:02 am


It's good to see this back, Lily. Thank you.

 


#27:  Author: Lily PostPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:04 am


Roddy Richardson:

“I finally mentioned to Uncle Jack about going to New Zealand! It wasn’t the way I’d planned to discuss it, but I guess it’s a relief to them that I’ve even though about it. Steve’s got ideas and Roger’s sorted the others aren’t much more than kids, so it’s about time I was too.

It all started when Auntie Joey told us about the warm lakes at Kufstein and Melanie asked if it was like geysers. Trust a girl to make that mistake! We’re not in the volcanic part of Europe, unlike New Zealand where you will get them. She, Melanie, that is wants to go to New Zealand so she can see them. So I told her she could some with me.”

Roddy looked at this last sentence, something had begun to change his views of girls these hol’s and Steve shoving Melanie so she was nearly on the floor just for hugging him had annoyed him. Before he would have done the same thing, but thinking of Steve’s actions he saw how uncalled for they had been.

“Well I’m determined to go in for sheep farming and I told Aunt Joey so. I’m not the academic kind and I wouldn’t need a degree or anything” he paused to think if this was part of sheep farming’s appeal “well it stunned them into silence, Rue was the first to recover, she would be and started to demand details, I bet she thought it was a recent fancy of mine, that I’d lose interest in a few months, but I was ready for her!” he grinned as he remembered his sisters expression.

“I ended up having to explain all about my chat with Greg, such a jolly decent chap all about his sheep farm in the South island and being given his dad’s address and how later on if I’m still series to write and go there as a pupil. Uncle Jack’s not keen though. He wants to know more about Greg and his dad and the conditions and a load of other things before I have a chance of him allowing me to go off to New Zealand.

He’ll not say anything either way as yet, so I have to wait, but as it’s what I really want I guess he’ll not object if it all checks out. It’s partly my own fault for refusing to consider my future until I went to the British Exhibition last term so I can’t expect jubilation at the first mention of my plans for the future.”

Roddy slammed his journal shut and placed it on his shelf in the boys new work room. He felt silly keeping a journal and that he’d never hear the last of it from the others if they knew. But living with a crowd like the Maynard’s it would be a good idea as you couldn’t help but have adventures and he didn’t want to forget a single one.

 


#28:  Author: SusanLocation: Carlisle PostPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:53 pm


Thank you for a new post Lily. I always felt Roddy got a raw deal in this. Nice to see it from his POV and I hope he managed to get there and enjoyed his life.

 


#29:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:03 pm


Another diary entry. It's good to see things from the POV of the minor characters.

 


#30:  Author: ChloëLocation: London/Southampton: when away from home planet! PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:33 pm


Errrr little bit of a confession to make here as i am also Lily on here i posted under a different name as i had this jornal idea and knew peopel would possibly remember i had another drabble to carry on working on. The only reason i am telling you guys this is me is because the computers at uni will no longer let me log-on as anyone except me and although i am very busy er... socialising down here i have had a couple more starts to more journal entries which i want to post hopefully this week though i ahev 3 visitors this week all at the same time for 2 days of the week but hopefully will get to post still by next week. Do also want to carry on with other drabble maybe as did finish it ni romania but then lost the booki had it all finished in and its siting down to re-do it thast a lot of hassle.

 


#31:  Author: LesleyLocation: Allhallows, Kent PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:02 pm


Chloe, please continue with this - and hope you find your other book! How's life in uni?

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#32:  Author: VikkiLocation: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:08 pm


Chloë, my sweet! I thought the uni monster had eaten you!!!!!!Please carry on posting!

 


#33:  Author: SusanLocation: Carlisle PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:50 am


Hope you do get to post Chloë as it would be nice to see more of this. It would also be nice to see more of your other drabble - if you find your book or more time to write it. Glad to hear you are having a busy time at uni.

 


#34:  Author: NellLocation: London, England PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:35 am


Hi Chloë would be good to see both of them if and when the computers decide to co-operate! Glad you're enjoying life at uni!

 




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