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#1: Cyber-slip Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:21 pm

Once upon a time, in a Universe very close to home, there was a group of people who liked reading. What were they reading you ask? Well, many things really, amongst them the latest Harry Potter, but we are not concerned with that! No! Their favourite books, the books that brought them all together, were the Chalet School books. What on earth are they, you ask! A strange collection of books set in a world far removed from reality as we know it, but well loved. That love was to have a far-reaching effect on them all, for some more than others, but none would escape completely. They came together cybernetically to start with, none knowing any of the others, and imagining all sorts of weird and wonderful things about the other members. The group was brought together by a royal personage, a Squeen no less, who led and organised the electronic kingdom that they inhabited whenever they could escape from Real Life.

The trouble started once they had met for a weekend. Not all of them of course, for Real Life did it’s best to prevent it, but enough to provide a core, a starting point. From there more met, only for a day here and there, with different members every time. Eventually there were more weekend meetings, and the numbers who actually knew each other by sight grew and grew until most of the regular members had met at least some of the others. And that was when fate took a hand. Or rather, the distant relative of a monster they had met and defeated more than a year earlier. Many had never met the original monster, for they had joined the community after its defeat, but that made no difference, for the new monster held all to be at fault, horrible people, who despoiled all that was good in the world. It had a name, a name to scare the doughtiest of members, the ones least given to wibbling. Clarryanne Doomslayer was it’s name, though none of it’s victims would ever know it, as they had never known the name of the one they called the TEM.

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#2: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:28 pm

*wibbles*

*looks desperately for somewhere to hide*

*mourns the loss of Pim's desk*

*wibbles some more*

Thanks Pat Laughing

Liz

#3: Author: Squirrel, Location: St-Andrews or Dunfermline

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:36 pm

Oh dear. Now I wish my Matey was of the no nonsense kind - then I might have been able to set her on said TEM and put it in it's place! Well, I guess i'm meaning in the sense that she is strict enough to ensure that both head and staff as well as pupils did her bidding! Rolling Eyes

Having said that, it was great. Thanks Pat

#4: Author: Nell, Location: London, England

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:13 pm

*lol*

Thanks Pat.

#5: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:15 pm

A meeting had been arranged, and that is where it struck first, for it did not have far to travel, and unlike its defeated relative, it could leave the confines of cyberland for a short while. Did the Abbey know something? Is that why they were so wary? We shall never know. The group arrived in dribs and drabs, some getting there as early as Thursday, and others not until Saturday morning, so Clarryanne bided it’s time, waiting for the ultimate moment. Saturday passed as Gather Saturdays usually do, until the time came for the bedtime drabbles. Not one would be heard that night.

#6: Author: Squirrel, Location: St-Andrews or Dunfermline

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:28 pm

Ooooh dear *pulls blanket covers over her head*. Thanks Pat Laughing

#7: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:49 pm

Pat, don't do this!

#8: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:38 pm

Thanks Pat! Still laughing.

#9: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:52 pm

Jennie wrote:

Pat, don't do this!

Why not Jennie? You're not scared are you? Twisted Evil

#10: Author: Helen P, Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:02 pm

Eeeeeeek!

Wibble, wibble, wibble.... Shocked

But

as well!

#11: Author: Cumbrian Rachel, Location: Kendal

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:05 pm

*giggles!*

*dives for cover under the sofa!*

*sharpens poking stick to attack TEM*

#12: Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:54 pm

Eeeeek

Looks at the c**p on the floor under the desk and decides that joining Cumbrian Rachel under the sofa looks a better option

#13: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:14 pm

Joins all the 'eeeks' and 'wibbles'

*Adds torch to the list of thing to take to gather*

#14: Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!!

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:42 pm

*waves at the TEM* Ive almost missed you...... Wink

Thanks Pat Very Happy

#15: Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:54 pm

Go away for one day and what happens...Auntie Pat invites the monster back! Shocked

#16: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:02 pm

Well, remembering the last time we had an attack from that which ought to remain nameless..............

(Yes, Pat wibbled and eebled as much as the rest of us did.)

#17: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:31 pm

And wrote a drabble Jennie!!!

#18: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 10:57 pm

Thanks Pat

*clutches cushion very tightly*

Liz

#19: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:33 pm

Eeek!
Wibble!

*hides behind sofa!*

#20: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:03 pm

As the last Gatherer settled herself down, with a plate of goodies to keep her going, and a glass of wine in her hand, there was a sudden shaking. The room trembled and began to spin, faster and faster. Then the lights went out, plunging them all into darkness. Someone screamed. Someone else muttered about spineless jellyfish, and the screaming stopped abruptly. The spinning slowed and finally stopped though the darkness remained. Then, gradually, it lifted a little. Small pockets of light, identified as torches, showed here and there, and they were able to see something of their surroundings. They had changed! The room in the house near Yeovil had gone, vanished as if it had never been. They were in a very different place now, larger, with far more chairs – in fact they were all sitting in chairs instead of sprawling over the floor as they had been. Lesley bent over, picked up one of the torches, and shone it around the room. It looked strangely familiar, though they were all very sure that they had never been there in their lives. The torch stopped on a set of cupboards lining one wall. Patmac picked up another torch and shone it in another direction. It picked up some shelves running under the windows, filled with books. A sudden gasp came from Helen, sitting nearest the books.
“I don’t believe it!” she said. “Shine the torch over here again.”
Patmac moved the torch over the books.
“Stop! That one! Oh my!”
“What’s up?” “What have you seen?”
“That book! It’s – it’s – “Nancy meets a Nazi”!”
At that moment the door was flung open and the light switched on, blinding them all momentarily.
“Just what do you girls think you are doing?” The voice was full of authority, expecting an instant answer. Lesley turned her torch off and stood up, evidently feeling that she should live up to the example of her favourite character.
“Who are you?” she asked.

#21: Author: Nell, Location: London, England

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:22 pm

Hmm intriguing!

Thank you Pat!

#22: Author: aitchemelle, Location: West Sussex

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:54 pm

Thank you Pat! Very Happy

#23: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:02 pm

Ooooh!!!!!

Curiouser and curiouser!!!

#24: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:22 pm

*nibbles on goodies and sips from wineglass while waiting for the answer to Lesley's question*

Thanks Pat Laughing

Liz

#25: Author: Helen P, Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:58 pm

Oooh! How exciting!

Did our wineglasses stay intact as we were transported/whatever? Looks like we might need them Laughing

#26: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:31 pm

Thanks Pat-More please!

#27: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:59 pm

You know I wouldn't do that! I'd be hiding at the back trying to read the book. Laughing

Thanks Pat.

#28: Author: Sugarplum, Location: second star to the right!

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:35 pm

oooh intriguing

#29: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:45 pm

Lesley wrote:

You know I wouldn't do that! I'd be hiding at the back trying to read the book. Laughing

Thanks Pat.

So is the operative word 'hiding' or 'read'? I need to be planning the next installment you see. And since I know who it is at the door, I need to know if we can all count on you not being a spineless jelly-fish! Twisted Evil

#30: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:50 pm

Pat wrote:

Lesley wrote:

You know I wouldn't do that! I'd be hiding at the back trying to read the book. Laughing

Thanks Pat.

Me?

A spineless jellyfish? Shocked

Wash your mouth out Pat Willimott!! Twisted Evil

*Just had a thought for the RCS Librarian...*

#31: Author: Squirrel, Location: St-Andrews or Dunfermline

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:52 pm

- at Lesley, honestly!

#32: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:54 pm

Lesley wrote:

Pat wrote:

Lesley wrote:

You know I wouldn't do that! I'd be hiding at the back trying to read the book. Laughing

Thanks Pat.

Me?

A spineless jellyfish? Shocked

Wash your mouth out Pat Willimott!! Twisted Evil

*Just had a thought for the RCS Librarian...*

I take it that that's yes then? Laughing

#33: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:56 pm

As likely as Hilda!

#34: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:21 pm

Lesley wrote:

Pat wrote:

Lesley wrote:

You know I wouldn't do that! I'd be hiding at the back trying to read the book. Laughing

Thanks Pat.

Me?

A spineless jellyfish? Shocked

Wash your mouth out Pat Willimott!! Twisted Evil

*Just had a thought for the RCS Librarian...*

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!

Drabble wars!!!! Wink

#35: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:50 pm

What about the fight as everyone tries to grab a book for herself?

#36: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:40 pm

The answer became obvious as their eyes adjusted to the light. The woman was slight and wiry, still very upright though she now used a zimmer frame. Her hair was pure white and pulled back off her face, hidden under a crisply starched white cap, folded into a complicated wings design.
“Matey!” whispered Sugar.
“Yes, but which one?” added Ann.
Surreptitious glances were thrown at various people who had written about the more unwelcome manifestations of that lady. Matey herself had taken in the evidence of the food and drink around the room.
“It seems that I have interrupted a midnight feast,” she said grimly. “Don’t you know that there has never been a successful midnight feast in the history of the school?”
“We are not members of the school,” said Lesley firmly.
“Nonsense! Why you should use such an excuse I have no idea! This is the Middles Common Room.”
A chorus of denials arose, almost drowning the sound of footsteps approaching along the corridor outside. It was the voice that brought a sudden hush to the room.
“Is there a problem, Matron?” The golden tones were instantly recognisable, though none of them had heard them before. Lesley went white and sat down very suddenly. A figure appeared in the doorway, again the hair was white, but otherwise she was as they all had expected. The MA gown hung from her shoulders, and the blue eyes surveyed the room, growing icy as she took in the evidence before her.
“Pack this mess up at once girls, and get back to bed. I will see you all in my study in the morning.”
Seeing that Lesley was bereft of words, Patmac stepped forward.
“I think there is a mistake here,” she said. “We are none of us school-children, as you will see if you look. Many of us are mothers. We have no idea how we got here, but we are certainly not subject to school authority.
Miss Annersley stepped into the room and looked more closely.
“I think it must be time that I wore glasses,” she said. “Who are you all? And where did you think you were?”

#37: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:52 pm

Thanks Pat

ROFL

at that last line!

Liz

#38: Author: Mia, Location: London

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:51 pm

Oh excellent! Thank you ROFL

#39: Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:08 pm

Love lesley's reaction, brilliant.

And we still don't know which manifestation of matey it is do we? Twisted Evil

#40: Author: Squirrel, Location: St-Andrews or Dunfermline

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:21 pm

lol this is amazing! I dont know. *wonders just how this mess will be sorted out!*

#41: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:03 pm

Thanks Pat. Really funny! Looking forward to the next episode.

#42: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:26 pm

*giggles*

Wonderful Pat!

I love Lesley going white and sitting down rather suddenly..... Wink

#43: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:51 pm

Quote:

Seeing that Lesley was bereft of words, Patmac stepped forward.
“I think there is a mistake here,” she said. “We are none of us school-children, as you will see if you look. Many of us are mothers. We have no idea how we got here, but we are certainly not subject to school authority.

LOL. that's called jumping in where angels fear to tread and sounds horribly like me!

#44: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:56 pm

Lesley now completely speechless - though I expect Hilda will recognise me - we've lived together for the past two years! Laughing

#45: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:07 pm

patmac wrote:

Quote:

LOL. that's called jumping in where angels fear to tread and sounds horribly like me!

That's what I thought Pat! Someone suggested last night that I needed a Nell to Lesley's Hilda!!!!

#46: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:26 pm

Pat wrote:

patmac wrote:

Quote:

LOL. that's called jumping in where angels fear to tread and sounds horribly like me!

That's what I thought Pat! Someone suggested last night that I needed a Nell to Lesley's Hilda!!!!

S'okay - I get on well with Patmac! Laughing

#47: Author: Helen P, Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:17 pm

Pat, this is fantastic!

I too giggled at Lesley going white sitting down suddenly - and I could just hear Patmac's voice as she stood up for us all - what a star, thankyou Patmac! Laughing

I'm so enjoying this Very Happy

#48: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:13 pm

We are members of what might be called a Literary Society,” she said, bringing chuckles from the cbbers around the room. But before she could continue there was an interruption. A series of popping noises heralded the sudden appearance of a number of other people, all of them involved in the Not the SG programme. Matey clutched her zimmer frame more tightly, and even Hilda blinked slightly. The newcomers looked around them in shock, but were swiftly pulled own onto chairs around the room.
Carolyn and Rachel looked at each other. “Is that who I think it is?” asked Carolyn in a whisper that could be heard around the room. The original group glared at her, and Lesley managed to find her voice!
“Of course,” she said, as if she had not suffered a shock herself. “Who else could it be?”
“Do I know you?” asked Hilda politely, looking straight at Lesley. “You seem to know who I am.”
Lesley looked shocked, for this woman had been a part of her life for so long it seemed inconceivable that she did not know who she, Lesley, was. A nervous giggle went round the room at that, but they all left Patmac to reply for them. She thought for a moment, trying to find the right words - after all it isn’t every day that people met the fictional characters that they read about! Into the momentary silence they all distinctly heard a peculiar snigger! It came form inside the room and all round the room though not from any of the people gathered there. It was reminiscent of the voice of the monster that had eaten the old board, but not the same. It was, however, not the same, for all the long-standing member knew that the TEM was dead!

#49: Author: Rosy, Location: Gloucestershire-London-Aberystwyth

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:17 pm

just found this. Blimey!

#50: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:21 pm

Well I was about to say how true-to-life this was - but as if Hilda wouldn't know me - we've been constant companions for two years now! Laughing

#51: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:24 pm

*grins broadly!*

#52: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:25 pm

Lesley wrote:

Well I was about to say how true-to-life this was - but as if Hilda wouldn't know me - we've been constant companions for two years now! Laughing

That's why you were so shocked Lesley! Twisted Evil

#53: Author: Katarzyna, Location: North West England

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:25 pm

*snicker*

Hilda might not just need glasses then, she obviously needs to do something about her memory if she doesn't recognise Lesley!

#54: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:44 pm

And I thought that it was safe if I didn'tgo to the summer gather!
Very Happy

at Hilda and Lesley

#55: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:11 pm

So glad the Not the SG people are able to join us

Thanks Pat

Liz

#56: Author: Helen P, Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:24 pm

I agree with Liz - I was thinking I would have suddenly disappeared from the drabble but obviously I have just discreetly added myself to the new group instead! Very Happy

Thankyou Pat - I'm trying not to wake the rest of the house with my giggles!

#57: Author: Cath V-P, Location: Newcastle NSW

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:07 am

Brilliant!!! Raises appreciative glass to Pat (very unobtrusively...).

#58: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:42 pm

Studiously ignoring the horrible sound, Patmac smiled at the two in the doorway. “We know who you are because of the books we read,” she said, as if talking to a fictional character was an every day occurrence. “We know you to be Miss Annersley, Headmistress of the Chalet School, and this is Matey. Though, forgive me, but you both seem a little too old to be still in post.”
“I told you so, Hilda Annersley! But you would go ahead!” A third figure joined the other two, much the same age as Hilda, but with faint traces of auburn amongst the white hair on her head. “Let me into the room, please. I want to see all these strange women.”
“Bill,” said Katarzyna firmly. “Can’t be anyone else!”
Hilda and Matey moved further into the room followed by Nell Wilson, happily accepting seats from the cbbers.
“This Matey seems to be the normal one,” said HelenP quietly to her neighbour. “Thank goodness!”
Meanwhile Matey herself was looking at the food, and a rather wicked grin spread across her face.
“If you insist on eating this strange mixture of food, I shall have to make you all take a dose of castor oil or you’ll be sick!”
“The only thing that would make me sick is the castor oil!” said Liss distinctly, and even Matey laughed!

#59: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:08 pm

Pat wrote:

patmac wrote:

LOL. that's called jumping in where angels fear to tread and sounds horribly like me!

That's what I thought Pat! Someone suggested last night that I needed a Nell to Lesley's Hilda!!!!

I've always had an affinity for Nell!

#60: Author: Mia, Location: London

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:34 pm

Oooh we could finally get all our questions answered!!

#61: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:53 pm

You think so? Twisted Evil

#62: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:44 pm

Thanks Pat - luckily I was alone in the office as I read thisas I would have had trouble explaining my giggles.

Glad the Not the SGers are there too.

#63: Author: Xanthe, Location: London/Cambridge

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:27 pm

*makes complicated noise and dissolves into a giggling heap*

#64: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 8:38 pm

So come on Pat - why are they old then? Laughing

#65: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:52 pm

Lesley wrote:

So come on Pat - why are they old then? Laughing

How do I know? Shocked

#66: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:08 pm

Pat wrote:

Lesley wrote:

So come on Pat - why are they old then? Laughing

How do I know? Shocked

But you are going to tell us!

#67: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:27 pm

I didn't know when I posted that. I do now, thanks to Katarzyna! Twisted Evil

The three newcomers seemed to fit into the CBB group as if they had always been part of it - as in a way they had. Then, during a lull in the conversation, more footsteps could be heard coming down the corridor - footsteps that were clearly recognisable to the Chalet School staff, for they looked at each other ruefully, and Nell shrugged.
“They would have to know sooner or later,” she said.
“I think they will cope very well,” said Hilda quietly. “That one over there especially, I think.”
“The one called Jennie? Yes indeed!” grinned Matey.
The door was flung open, and a figure was revealed in the light. One that was as easily recognisable as the other three had been. Tall, slim - almost skinny in fact - with a smile on her face that said ‘I know what’s best for you, and you’re going to get it, whether you like it or not’, her hair, still in it’s famous earphones, now almost suspiciously black, Jo Maynard surveyed the room.
“Well,” she said gaily. “Guests! More guests I should say. Welcome to Der Haus unter der Kiefen, the Chalet School Home for retired staff. I hope you will enjoy your stay, and I trust that Hilda, Nell and Gwynneth have filled you in on the rules that obtain here. There aren’t many, but you will be expected to obey them.” She smiled at them all, and those who could see Jennie’s face saw her literally snarl.

#68: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:28 pm

Pat wrote:

Lesley wrote:

So come on Pat - why are they old then? Laughing

How do I know? Shocked

*Jumps in car and screams down the M62, (followed by several police cars Shocked

) Turns onto M! ( thereby thwarting said police cars who carry on to Hull and scare the living daylights of the population)

Drops a lorry load of bunny food to enable Pat to tell us why H & N are so old*

#69: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:31 pm

Want to see Jennie's reaction!!!! Laughing

#70: Author: Sugarplum, Location: second star to the right!

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:37 pm

Aunty Pat, I have stitch from laughing so much!!

Lesley speechless
Patmac and her lit soc comment
and Jennie

#71: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:37 pm

Lesley wrote:

Want to see Jennie's reaction!!!! Laughing

So do I! Why else do you think I stopped there?

#72: Author: Helen P, Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:38 pm

Oooh thankyou Pat!

I love the suspiciously black earphones! Laughing

#73: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:38 pm

Shucks! Foiled by a nearly simultaneous post Confused

*Continues delivery of Bunny food*

#74: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:06 pm

You'd be a fair distance away from me if you turned off onto the M1 Pat!!! Doncaster is just off the A1!!

#75: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:53 am

Pat wrote:

You'd be a fair distance away from me if you turned off onto the M1 Pat!!! Doncaster is just off the A1!!

I took the scenic route Wink

#76: Author: Katarzyna, Location: North West England

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:16 pm

*snickering like a loon*

Sets out deckchairs and puts up picnic table then settles down to await Jennie's arrival and reaction.... I think I have the best view here, anyone care to join me?

#77: Author: Helen P, Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:42 pm

*Collapses into a deckchair beside Kate and unpacks various picnic items from a coolbag*

I have binoculars to make sure we have a good view of Jennie's face too! Wink

#78: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:52 pm

Joins Kate and Helen in the deckchairs. Brings more picnic food and nice cold fruit drinks.

Love that bit Pat thanks.

#79: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:09 pm

Thanks Pat

Liz

#80: Author: aitchemelle, Location: West Sussex

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:40 pm

thank you Pat Very Happy

#81: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:02 pm

Pat, you are a very, very NORTY girl!!! Wink

(and that's one of the reasons we love you!) Wink

#82: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:59 am

Yes, Pat, you are very, very norty! Good job I've got my scissors with me so I can cut her plaits off!

#83: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:12 pm

Just a little more to keep you going till after the SG!

“Now girls, I will make allowances since you are new, but eating in the Common Room, after lights out, is strictly forbidden. Speaking of which, you ladies should all be in bed by now,” her eyes had turned a deep midnight black, cold and hard like obsidian, as she gazed at the former Chalet School staff. The three ladies looked at her expressionlessly, though Lesley could see Hilda’s reaction. The eyes had lost the warm blue colour, which was the clearest indication of her thoughts. Nell’s eyes gleamed, but she said nothing, as did Matey.
“I think we are old enough to decide our own bedtime, Joey,” said Hilda gently, though everyone could hear the steel underlying the words, except Jo it seemed.
“You know that it was decided that it would be best for everyone if you retired at 21.00.”
“You decided that, Jo. I do not recall any of us agreeing.”
There was a scuffle at the back of the room, where Jennie was being physically restrained from leaping to her feet. Seeing the problem her neighbours were having in restraining her, Katarzyna rose to her feet, walked to the back of the room, and sat down again – on top of Jennie. With trouble thus effectively contained, she looked politely at Hilda.
“You were saying, Miss Annersley?”
“Thank you my dear. You make a great deal of the fact that this is our home, Jo. That being so, we will decide these things for our own convenience, not yours.”
Jo flushed slightly, and looked daggers at her former Head, though she said nothing more on the subject. Instead she turned to the rest of the crowded room.
“I think we have sufficient accommodation to give you all beds,” she said. “We have expanded the building considerably since taking it over, and the new wings have rooms that are well within the standard guidelines.”
“Didn’t have much option, did you!” muttered Matey, though only those closest to her heard it. Jo herself remained oblivious. She had rung a summons on her pager, and at that moment a group of women appeared in the doorway, all with the same professional ‘kindly’ smile on their faces.

#84: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:14 pm

Pat, you might have let me amputate her plaits!

#85: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:32 pm

Hilda's not pleased - think I might have to help Hilda (and Nell) show Joey how annoyed they are - and letting Jennie have the plaits is only a start - patronising old git!

#86: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:43 pm

Jennie wrote:

Pat, you might have let me amputate her plaits!

Maybe later Jennie! I had that all ready to go when you'd read the first bit!

#87: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:46 pm

Thanks Pat

Laughing

Liz

#88: Author: Helen P, Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:07 pm

Wonderful! The image of Kate sitting on Jennie will remain with me all day Very Happy

#89: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:40 pm

Agrees with Helen, but joins Lesley in wanting to help Hilda and Nell.

#90: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:20 pm

Let them just try and put me to bed at 21.00 Twisted Evil

#91: Author: Sugarplum, Location: second star to the right!

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:04 pm

*giggling madly* Thanks Aunty Pat

#92: Author: Cath V-P, Location: Newcastle NSW

Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:09 am

"'kindly' professional smiles....there ain't no such thing! Rescue definitely needed!

#93: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:33 pm

Is that a promise?

#94: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:37 pm

To their utmost horror, they realised that they were all Maynards! The look was unmistakeable, thought they had different features and colouring. And there was so many of them! The Chalet staff gave them pitying looks and left the room, and before any of them could do anything about it, they found themselves hustled to the new wing, and into bed. The beds were all of the ‘hospital’ type, with sides that could be pulled up to prevent patients falling out, and these had been locked into place. And a Maynard Spawn in nurses uniform had administered hot milk, that had to have included a ‘dose’, for they all fell asleep within minutes.

After breakfast the next morning, the Maynards surrounded them again, preventing any access to the Chalet staff. They herded them to a large room, and the door was securely locked. Clarryanne Doomslayer sniggered to itself, for she had laid her plans very, very carefully. The room had been laid out as a school-room, with desks and chairs, but after one scornful look, none of the CBBers had deigned to sit down. Instead they congregated at the window.
“We’re at the top of the house,” observed Kathy S. “I suppose they think that safe enough to leave us.”
“Vair silly,” grinned Rosie. “The windows open, don’t they?”
Chelsea tested one, and it opened easily, though not very far.
“You can’t get out of that!” said Caroline.
Thus dared, both Chelsea and Rosie prepared to make the attempt, but before they could do more than put their hands on the window-frame, the door behind them opened, and they turned to find someone new standing there, surveying them all grimly.

#95: Author: Mia, Location: London

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:41 pm

Oooh! Who is it??? Shocked

#96: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:53 pm

What a surprise - Chelsea and Rosie immediately doing something that everyone else thinks is impossible! Wink

Wonder who the new someone is?

Thanks Pat. Laughing

#97: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:22 pm

I don't know - but surely one of them can't prevail against all of us!

Thanks Pat Laughing

Liz

#98: Author: Ann, Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:48 pm

Pat wrote:

“You can’t get out of that!” said Caroline.
Thus dared, both Chelsea and Rosie prepared to make the attempt

*ROFL*

Now I've read this, I'm quite glad I didn't do so before the SG. The thought of being held captive by Maynard Spawn would definitely have put me off attending!

#99: Author: Sugarplum, Location: second star to the right!

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:51 pm

*wondering who the new arrival is?*

#100: Author: Cath V-P, Location: Newcastle NSW

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:42 am

Ye gods - imprisoned by kindly professional Maynard spawn...

And can someone please enlighten me as to the TEM?

#101: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:00 am

Cath V-P wrote:

Ye gods - imprisoned by kindly professional Maynard spawn...

And can someone please enlighten me as to the TEM?

Thread Eating Monster

On the original board this was the reason we agreed for why some threads would disappear completely while others cloned themselves. Of course, there were some that said it was a fault with the board and probably due to the sheer volume of traffic on the board - far more than was originally expected or designed for - but those of us closely involved knew it had to be a TEM.

#102: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:18 pm

*sniggers at Chelsea and Rosie and the windows*

(either that line was added in POST gather, or Pat is psychic....... Wink

)

#103: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:22 pm

Vikki - I posted that yesterday!

Some people can't read date! Rolling Eyes

#104: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:35 pm

I read the date. But I assumed you had it written beforehand, since you mentioned the monster's name at the Gather! Razz

#105: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:33 pm

I started it before the G, and wrote some more yesterday! Laughing

“Come and sit down,” she said. “I have something to say to you all.”
The CBBers looked at her, some of them recognising her, but none of them obeyed. They saw a dark haired woman, in her fifties. She looked at them with intense dislike, and then smiled – and none of them liked the smile.
“Very well, stay where you are if you prefer. It will make no difference. You are here because you your writing does not conform to Chalet School canon. You will remain here until you are prepared to write within that canon. Do you understand me?”
There was silence for a moment, and then a cacophony of sound broke against the woman like a wave.
“No way!” “Don’t be idiotic!” “You must be joking!” “No!”
She stood there with a disdainful smile on her face, saying nothing, and the noise gradually died down. Into the silence a single voice fell, quietly, forcefully, saying exactly what they all felt.
“You will have a very long wait then,” said Lesley. “There is nothing that would make me do that!”
There was a shimmer, and the woman changed to Jo Maynard herself. Clearly something had been at work to give the illusion that she was someone else – Clarryanne if they did but know it.
“No! It is you who will be waiting. Waiting for death to release you. And you will not be permitted to write another word.”

#106: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:36 pm

Excellent - the perfect excuse for me to use against Georgia's demands! Laughing

Thanks Pat

Liz

#107: Author: Katie, Location: A Yorkshire lass in London

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:50 pm

Ooh, Auntie Pat, you are wicked!! Laughing

I noticed someone on GirlsOwn the other day said they get most of their Chalet fix from the CBB these days. Bet that caused minor palpitations in some quarters!

#108: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:54 pm

I bet it did! I must have missed that! I went no mail over the weekend.

#109: Author: Nina, Location: Peterborough, UK

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:04 pm

*giggling like unto a loon* Very Happy

and have just worked out the name Embarassed

NORTY Pat!

#110: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:54 pm

Only minor palpitations? I must be losing my touch.

#111: Author: Katie, Location: A Yorkshire lass in London

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:07 pm

Jennie wrote:

Only minor palpitations? I must be losing my touch.

Oh, was it you then, Jennie? Nicely done! Very Happy

#112: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:32 pm

You can't stop me writing - I may not be able to place it on computer or paper, but it's still being written - in my head!

Thank you Pat, especially for having me say that! Kiss

#113: Author: BethC, Location: Worcester, UK

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:01 pm

Thanks, Pat! Wonder what Clarryanne has in store...

#114: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:27 pm

Lesley wrote:

You can't stop me writing - I may not be able to place it on computer or paper, but it's still being written - in my head!

Thank you Pat, especially for having me say that! Kiss

Well I think I can guess how you might react to that dictum!

#115: Author: Cath V-P, Location: Newcastle NSW

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:51 am

Inspired, Pat! A cunning plan worthy of any Baldrick!

And Lesley, thank you for the explanation. Very Happy

#116: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:20 pm

With those words she swept from the room, believing that they were all safely behind lock and key. How wrong she was, and how mistaken Clarryanne was that they could be defeated so very easily. No sooner had the footsteps faded away down the corridor than Rosie and Chelsea had the windows open to their full extent, and were looking around for anything that they could balance on. Liss slipped a piece of paper under the door, and tried poking at the key to see if she could dislodge it, without success. The new wing had been built without the usual Swiss balconies, but it had to conform to the local regulations and was therefore clad in wood. Rosie and Chelsea quickly saw that the slats ran across the face of the building, which gave some sort of footing, but even these two were a little daunted at the challenge. However, needs must, and they carefully slipped out of the windows and felt for the tiny ledges. Then Rosie went one way, very slowly, and Chelsea went the other, hoping that they could find another window open so that they could get into an unlocked room. As it happened both the rooms on either side of the one in which they were imprisoned had open windows, for the day was hot. Luckily both were unoccupied and the two were able to climb back into the house without too much trouble. Once inside, even these intrepid dare-devils allowed themselves to react to the danger, and feel shaky! Then the crept to the door of their respective rooms, and gently turned the handles. Both doors were unlocked, and they met on the landing, grinning broadly.
The key was in the lock – turned so that it could not be pushed out. Jo hadn’t been a Chalet girl for nothing! It took nano-seconds to turn the key and release the prisoners who came storming out of the room in a boiling mass. They flowed along the corridor, and down the stairs like a tidal wave – furious and unstoppable – until they found themselves back in the old part of the house. They were milling around, looking for an exit, when a nearby door opened and Jo came out, stopping dead in horror when she saw them. Jennie gave a howl of delight and leapt forward with her garden shears in her hand. Before anyone could stop her, she had grabbed one of the plaits of hair, pulled it free of the hair grips, which flew in all directions, and hacked it off. Jo gave a shriek of dismay, but Jennie stood with a huge triumphant grin on her face, waving the severed plait like a trophy.

#117: Author: Katarzyna, Location: North West England

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:23 pm

*snicker*

just one question though - where did Jennie get those garden shears from, or is it an essential item she always carries about her person!

#118: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:30 pm

They are in cyber-space Kate!!! Anything can happen there!

#119: Author: Katie, Location: A Yorkshire lass in London

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:46 pm

This is truly inspired! I can't wait to see what'll happen next... Laughing

#120: Author: Nell, Location: London, England

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 2:46 pm

Wonderful! Joins in the cheers as Jennie branishes the severed plait!

Thank you Pat!

#121: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:26 pm

Thanks Pat!

Very funny. Well done Lesley, Jennie and not gorgetting Chelsea and Rosie.

#122: Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 4:09 pm

Oh how I bet Jennie loved that! Laughing

#123: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:32 pm

I did! Now for the other one!

#124: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:44 pm

Yeah!!! Well done Rosie and Chelsea and congratulations Jennie!!!!

Oh, and thanks Pat! Wink

#125: Author: JackieJ, Location: Kingston upon Hull

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:26 pm

I've only just found this (and then only because some Police cars turned up in Hull looking for someone called patmac Rolling Eyes

)

I've giggled over the lot of it - can't wait for more Pat

JackieJ

#126: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:35 pm

Thanks Pat ROFL

Liz

#127: Author: Cath V-P, Location: Newcastle NSW

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:36 am

Just brilliant! ROFL

#128: Author: Miss Di, Location: Newcastle, NSW

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:58 am

Waiting for the other plait to fall! Yay for the death of the Princess Leia hair do Laughing

(I don't care that Joey's hair came first, I saw StarWars at 7 and didn't have any books where Joey was grown up for many years after that)

#129: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:02 pm

It's not really an attractive hairstyle, is it? At least, not nowadays. We've moved on from that sort of hairdo.

#130: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 2:06 pm

The sight of Jo Maynard standing with the hair on one side of her head sticking out wildly in all directions, and the other side still in it’s neat earphone was so funny that they all burst out laughing. The noise attracted other people, and doors opened all down the corridor. These seemed to be bedrooms judging from the number, and the fact that most of the newcomers were in their night attire. First to reach them was Matey, and when she saw Jo she joined in the laughter. It was clear that her preference for Jo had long since been eroded by events, and her delight was infectious. Hilda and Nell were the next and although they restrained their laughter, the gleam in both their eyes showed how much they liked what they saw. Jennie advanced on Jo with a wicked gleam in her eyes, brandishing her shears. Jo backed away, but came up against the crowd of residents behind her. Pinned against a barrier, she put out her hands to try to ward Jennie off, but Jennie was not to be denied. Her hands reached out – almost in slow motion – and the plait came loose from it’s pins. The shears flashed, and the other plait fell to the floor with a soft plop. Without the earphones, Jo seemed diminished. They had been so much a part of her for so many years, had defined her character almost, that she felt almost naked, certainly vulnerable.
The noise also brought a number of Maynard Spawn, looking very professional in their uniforms. Seeing the matriarch of the tribe in the state she was in gave them pause, but Len saw Jennie holding her shears, and came to the correct conclusion.
“Give me the shears, please,” she said firmly. “I think you have done enough damage, don’t you?” Over her shoulder she muttered to an unidentifiable sibling. “Get Papa. It looks as though we shall need a mass dosing here.”
Kat was close enough to over hear, and grabbed the person.
“Oh no you don’t,” she said loudly. “No more little doses! Not for us, and not for them.” – nodding at the residents. A cheer went up, and other CBBers joined Kat in restraining the Spawn.
“What would you like us to do with them?” Patmac asked Hilda and Nell.
I think the San is the best place,” said Nell. “We can pick some more up on the way, and Jack Maynard will be there. We really need to neutralise him. He and Jo are the lynchpins of this place. Once we have them we have control.”

#131: Author: Nell, Location: London, England

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 2:18 pm

Yay! Looking forward to the neutralisation of Jack! Revolution!

Thank you Pat!

#132: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:16 pm

Yah!!! Up the rebels!!!

Well done Jennie, Kat and the rest of the CBB - we will not be defeated!!!!

*Lesley now having to go lie down - got a little over-excited! Wink

#133: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:21 pm

*giggles wildly*

#134: Author: Mia, Location: London

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:33 pm

This is really excellent! Laughing

#135: Author: Joyful, Location: Manchester

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:42 pm

Is it just me seeing the Maynard spawn all with matching 'earphones'? They might need to have a ceremonial cutting off now that their matriarch has been denuded of plaits!

#136: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:12 pm

Does a lap of honour. Both plaits! Thanks for letting me do both of them, Pat.

#137: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 4:29 pm

Thanks Pat - lovely picture of Jennie doing the shearing.

#138: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 9:24 pm

Joyful wrote:

Is it just me seeing the Maynard spawn all with matching 'earphones'? They might need to have a ceremonial cutting off now that their matriarch has been denuded of plaits!

Me too!
Up the CBB!

#139: Author: Gem, Location: Saltash/Aberystwyth

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:56 pm

*snorting with laughter*

Thanks, Pat! Just found this, it's great! Very Happy

#140: Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!!

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:08 pm

Ive finally caught up with this, oh how jealous I am of Jennie cutting those plaits!! Laughing

#141: Author: Sugarplum, Location: second star to the right!

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:29 pm

Yay!!! a plaitless Joey!! Well Done Jennie!
This is WONDERFUL Auntie Pat - thank you!

#142: Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries

Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:24 pm

oooh fantastic!!!!

can't believe i missed the grand shearing of Joey - I've wanted to do that to her many many times and I am so glad it's been acheived

now for Jack......

#143: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:27 pm

Why, what do you want to do to him, Francesn?

#144: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:38 pm

Do please tell - I may be able to help! Twisted Evil

#145: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:43 pm

Pat, why wasn't that another installment?

#146: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:03 pm

I haven't written any more yet. Hopefully tomorrow.

#147: Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:12 am

mwahahaha what I want to do to Jack is probably best posted in St Hild's but a little surgical procedure to prevent quite so many Maynard spawn might be in order....

(Jennie -hold onto those shears, they might come in handy!)

#148: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:46 pm

We do that operation with rusty nail scissors, Frances.

#149: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:21 pm

Everybody turned to look at Hilda and Nell, who led the way to the San attached to the Home. The door was locked, but the sheer pressure of bodies pressing against it burst it open, and the crowd poured into the room. Julie and Lesley, as the two with medical knowledge, looked round with interest. At first there was no sign of Jack Maynard, but then a door in the far corner opened and he appeared, looking surprised, and then annoyed at the invasion.
“What’s going on here?” he demanded. “Jo, who are all these people – and what on earth have you done to your hair?”
“You may well ask,” Jo began, but Jennie clamped her hand over Jo’s mouth, and she became quiet.
Anonybunny eyed Jack speculatively for a moment, but this wasn’t *her* Jack, and she relaxed. Then the thought of *her* Jack trying to attract all of them at the same time overwhelmed her and she giggled quietly to herself. The people who didn’t know her identity looked at her a little strangely, but she ignored them.
“We decided that it was time to take back control of our lives,” said Hilda gently. “It was fortuitous that these ladies arrived at the right moment, or perhaps it was just a case of God smiling on the righteous. Please give the keys of these rooms to Matron.”
“You are joking, aren’t you?” asked Jack, still pleasantly, though he was now looking a little wary, especially as by this time Julie and Lesley were inspecting the drugs cupboard. “I would leave the contents of that cupboard alone,” he said to them. “You really need to know what you are doing around drugs.”
“That’s OK,” said Julie absently. “I’m a doctor, and Lesley is a nurse. I think we can be trusted, don’t you?”
Jack paled a little, and then looked very worried as they lifted a particular bottle out of the cupboard, and looked at each other significantly.
“This is just what we need, I think,” said Julie. “Enough in here for the whole brood!”

#150: Author: Katarzyna, Location: North West England

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:56 pm

*snicker*

somewhat worried about the contents of the bottle and why it will do for the CBBers Shocked

please can we have some more Smile

#151: Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:57 pm

Hmmm...so what is in the bottle, and who will do the dosing? Laughing

#152: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:10 pm

“This is Jack’s favourite dose, and is usually taken by mouth, but there are an awful lot of them to force,” said Lesley.
“No problem,” Katarzyna was very confident. “When you’ve had the experience of dosing Rent-a-Mob, this lot are easy! Let me show you.”
Those who knew Anonybunny could see her itching to volunteer to dose Jack, but then she shook her head regretfully. “No point in giving the game away, is there?” she muttered. In the end it took Kate and Lesley to hold him so that Kathye could force the dose down his throat. Once the dose had been administered Kate held his nose, and Lesley kept his mouth shut until he was forced to swallow.
“Justice at last,” said Matey. “He was always too fond of dosing people.”
At last the whole of the Maynard Spawn had had more than a little dose administered, and were happily off in the land of dreams.
“What would you like us to do with them all,” asked Dawn, who had been an interested observer, though dying to join in.
“Bring Jo and Jack through, please,” said Hilda. “We can deal with them individually then.”
In the room beyond they found an ordinary-looking ward, all the beds neatly made, with crisp hospital corners. But right at the back, where Hilda was standing, were two doors side by side. Jo and Jack were carried over to them and the CBBers were horrified to discover that the doors led into two small rooms, completely covered in white padding. Once the door was closed it would be impossible to tell where it was. The light seemed to come evenly from all directions, and was bright enough to make sleep very hard to find.
“What on earth are these for?” asked Chelsea, though she was pretty sure she could guess.
“If we objected to anything that happened here, we were obviously unhinged,” said Nell bitterly. “We would be prescribed a day or two in one of these rooms.”
“Hilda and Nell spent more time in here than anyone else,” said Matey.
“No more than I would have expected,” said Lesley.
“Best place for these two then,” said Rachel in glee. “Give them a taste of their own medicine – I always like to do that if I can. Nearly as good as slaughtering everyone. Mwahahaha!”

#153: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:00 pm

Just caught up on this. Well done the CBB!

#154: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:10 pm

Oh you're lucky Pat's writing this - I'd have done so much more to Jack and Jo...... fume

Excellent Pat - thank you! Laughing

#155: Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:26 pm

Thanks Pat Laughing

#156: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:17 pm

Lesley wrote:

Oh you're lucky Pat's writing this - I'd have done so much more to Jack and Jo...... fume

Excellent Pat - thank you! Laughing

You don't think sensory deprivation sufficient then?

#157: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:10 pm

Pat wrote:

Lesley wrote:

Oh you're lucky Pat's writing this - I'd have done so much more to Jack and Jo...... fume

Excellent Pat - thank you! Laughing

You don't think sensory deprivation sufficient then?

I think it's a good start..... Evil or Very Mad

#158: Author: Cath V-P, Location: Newcastle NSW

Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:58 am

To be followed by the rusty nail scissors!

#159: Author: Nell, Location: London, England

Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:57 am

Wonderful! Thank you Pat!!!

#160: Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries

Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:47 pm

*g*

I'm somewhat disappointed that the rusty nail scissors haven't made an appearance yet though....

#161: Author: Anonybunny, Location: Behind closed doors

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:45 am

*surreptitiously eyes Jack again and ponders the advantages of padded walls*

#162: Author: Miss Di, Location: Newcastle, NSW

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:36 am

Anonybunny wrote:

*surreptitiously eyes Jack again and ponders the advantages of padded walls*

#163: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:15 am

Cath V-P and Francesn pushed forward, both waving rusty scissors in the air.
“Why can’t we use these?” they cried in unison. “They deserve everything they get!”
Lesley smiled evilly. “I do so agree,” she said. “We can’t allow people to go round making Hilda and Nell suffer, can we?”
Even the two ladies looked a little startled at this! However, they contented themselves with throwing Jo and Jack into separate rooms and locking the doors. Then Matey went over to what looked like a radio console, and began to play with the settings. After a time, she turned round with a triumphant smile on her face.
“I’ve set it up to do to them what they did to me,” she said, with her characteristic grim smile. “Not pure sensory deprivation. It’s amazing what the very quiet sound of slowly dripping water can do to your nerves. Jo at least will be ready to scream very shortly after she wakes up. I think we can leave them safely there while we deal with their Spawn.”
Disappointed, the two CBBers put away their scissors. Perhaps, they thought, they would get a chance to use them on the Spawn instead.
Meanwhile, in the safety of cyberspace, Clarryanne was fuming quietly. Nothing had gone to plan, and she was beginning to see how the CBB had defeated the TEM. Now her two chief fighters had gone down into defeat, she wondered what she could do. She knew that the joint Heads had been out of her control for some time, and had hoped to recover that with the Maynards, but that was no out of the window. They had been hard to keep in check anyway, and the advent of the CBBers, along with the Head’s chief supporter, had put them out of her reach. She curled up in a corner and began to sulk, which was a very silly thing to do.

#164: Author: Nell, Location: London, England

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:18 am

*g* Thank you Pat! Sulking is never constructive and really the combined might of the CBB and the Heads surely she's realised she's got no chance of winning!

#165: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:16 am

Yay we've freed the CS three.

#166: Author: Tiffany,

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:27 pm

Anonybunny wrote:

*surreptitiously eyes Jack again and ponders the advantages of padded walls*

#167: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:41 pm

Thanks Pat - lovely updates. Looking forward to seeing what happens to the Spawn.

#168: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:16 pm

I lurve this drabble! Twisted Evil

#169: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:22 pm

I love this more please!

#170: Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:18 pm

*fingers rusty nail scissors*

but WHY can't I use them?

Thanks Pat! I love this!

#171: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:38 am

*hopes Fran doesn't cut herself*

Thanks Pat Laughing

Liz

#172: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:34 am

I'm sure you'll be able to use them later, Fran. Your turn will come.

#173: Author: Helen P, Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 11:54 am

I'm so enjoying this, Pat!

Love the name of the monster too Laughing

#174: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:33 pm

Foiled in their attempt to perform GBH on Jack, Cath V-P and Francesn started wandering around the small San, peering under beds and into corners. As they reached one corner, on the same side of the room as the door, Cath thought she heard something.
“Hush a minute,” she said quietly. “What can you hear?”
“Nothing over that din,” said Francesn in disgust.
“Listen hard. There’s something breathing hard on the other side of this wall.”
“Don’t be daft! That’s an outside wall, isn’t it?”
“Then why can I hear it?” asked Cath, pretty reasonably.
“I don’t know! I can’t hear anything!”
“Then listen!”
“Ooh! Yes! Almost like someone trying not to cry! But how can anything be there?”
“It’s loudest just there!” said Cath, pushing at the wall with her scissors. To her astonishment, they went right into the wall, up to her hand, and she snatched it back quickly.
“What have you two found?” asked Jennie, appearing beside them suddenly, and making them jump.
“Poke the wall with your shears, just there,” said Francesn. “See what happens.”
Jennie gave her a funny look, but obliged, stabbing the wall hard. When her shears disappeared into the wall, she nearly lost her balance.
“What’s causing that?” she asked rhetorically. Then she leant the palm of her other hand gently on the wall, and pressed gently. It vanished, the wall being an illusion created by Clarryanne. Jennie gave a soft whistle, which brought Patmac, Lesley, and KathyS across to join them.
“The wall’s a bit funny here,” said Jennie, with massive understatement. “Look.”
“I wonder what’s on the other side?” said Patmac.
“We’re not looking till I’ve raided the stores here,” said Lesley.
“Done that,” said Rachel, sauntering up with a selection of scalpels pinched from various drawers. “These what you wanted? I have a strange affinity for scalpels.”
She exchanged grins with Lesley, who was the only other person thee who had been at the first Gather.
“I don’t think we’ll find a cooked teddy bear through there,” Lesley warned. “Sure you want to come?”
With her Witchy reputation at stake, nothing would have held Rachel back, and she nodded, giving Lesley a positively filthy look.
“You couldn’t stop me,” she said. “Lead on Macduff - or whatever he was called.”

#175: Author: Squirrel, Location: St-Andrews or Dunfermline

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:46 pm

Oooooh Interesting. *wonders who is behind the strange wall. And why they are behaving a little like a "spineless Jellyfish"* That's if it's Maynard spawn of course. *Thinks again. What might they have done to upset someone so much* There, thats far more to the point!

#176: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:46 pm

Thanks RTW - just what I want!

Thanks Pat! Laughing

#177: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:24 pm

A bit scared of Lesley and RTW with scalpels Shocked

#178: Author: BethC, Location: Worcester, UK

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:58 pm

nikkie wrote:

A bit scared of Lesley and RTW with scalpels Shocked

Yes, me too Laughing

So what's on the other side of the fake wall - and can it cope with the scalpel-wielding duo?
Thanks, Pat!

#179: Author: Helen P, Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 11:35 pm

oooh! *sitting on edge of seat with bated breath*

and keeping well away from those scalpels!

Thanks Pat!

#180: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 1:28 pm

Eeek!!!

Pat! What were you thinking of???
Fancy GIVING Rachel scalpels to play with?!?!

#181: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 3:37 pm

When do we get some more of this, Pat, please?

See, I knew carrying a pair of shears around was a sensible thing to do.

#182: Author: Lisa_T, Location: Belfast

Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:39 pm

*snickers* That poor teddy bear. *snickers again*
More please, Pat!

#183: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 8:24 pm

The small party pressed forward through the into a strange-looking place that was like nothing any of them had seen before. The funny noise was coming from their right, so they moved in that direction, and before long discovered Clarryanne.
“What in the…!” Patmac exclaimed. “Do you suppose this is the thing that brought us here?”
“Could be,” said Lesley. She turned to Clarryanne. “Did you? And did you set up this whole situation?””
“You killed my cousin!” muttered Clarryanne. “I wanted revenge.”
“Are you prepared to send us back?” demanded Jennie.
“I’d rather die! You’re here for good!”
“Oh yes? I what if you do die?” Rachel asked.
Clarryanne said nothing, but looked a little worried.
“Let’s see,” said Cath VP, waving her scissors. Before anyone could stop her, she plunged them into the monster. Clarryanne shrieked, and the world around them wavered slightly. Lesley caught a glimpse of Kathye’s front room.
“That’s it!” she said. And the group fell on the monster as one. Rachel plunged a scalpel into the monster’s stomach, and was rewarded with a fountain of purple gore that sprayed all over her. She fell back choking, but that was the last effort of Clarryanne’s revenge, for the scalpel had hit something vital, and she expired on the spot. Almost immediately their surroundings vanished, and they found themselves back where they had come from. The Gatherers were back in Staines, settling down to read the bedtime stories, and the NTSG people were back in their own homes. It was as if nothing had happened - except that Rachel was still covered in purple dripping stuff.
In Staines the group looked at each other, slightly afraid that they had each dreamed it.
“It did happen, didn’t it?” asked Rosy.
“Oh yes,” said Lesley. “I just hope that Hilda and Nell will deal with the Maynards properly, and that Nell will stop Hilda from exercising too much mercy.

#184: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 8:32 pm

I think Hilda will see that justice must be done! Laughing

Thanks Pat - loved it!

#185: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 8:35 pm

Thanks Pat that wa sgreat

#186: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 10:10 pm

Brilliant!

Thanks Pat Very Happy

Liz

#187: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:08 pm

Thanks, Pat. Lovely ending!

#188: Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries

Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:33 pm

Brilliant Pat - hope RTW's managed to clean herself up now.

Thank you!

#189: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:38 pm

Thanks, Pat, that was wonderful.

#190: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:11 pm

Pat, that was very funny, but rather norty too!

Encouraging play with sharp objects???

#191: Author: Rosie, Location: Huntingdonshire/Bangor

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 12:22 am

Vikki wrote:

Encouraging play with sharp objects???

Do you have a problem with that?!

Cheers Pat! Vair amusing!!

#192: Author: Cath V-P, Location: Newcastle NSW

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:19 am

I don't.

And somehow the rusty nail scissors disappeared on the way home....

#193: Author: Nell, Location: London, England

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:40 am

Wonderful. Thank you Pat.

#194: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:48 am

Rosie wrote:

Vikki wrote:

Encouraging play with sharp objects???

Do you have a problem with that?!

Cheers Pat! Vair amusing!!

Depending on who is doing the playing Rosie, Yes I do!!! Wink

#195: Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US

Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 1:35 am

*finally understands comments at SG* ROFL

Love the way you've united the SGers and NTSGers in this, and Laughing

at their various roles. Next time, though, Chelsea & Rosie should consider proper CS rope improvisation before going out windows that far from the ground. Wink

Oddly, I'm currently wondering what, exactly, coursed through Clarryanne Doomslayer's veins. Somehow my mind's RTW looked as though she'd been sprayed with ink from the duplicating machines with which I used to do battle, rather peculiar from an up-to-date cyber-creature. Then again, it could have been a holdover from the era of earphones. Very Happy

#196: Author: Helen P, Location: Crewe, Cheshire

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 11:24 pm

I visualised duplicating ink too, Kathy! Very Happy

Thankyou Pat - somehow I only just noticed this last entry from 11 days ago Rolling Eyes

- it was great! Laughing

The CBB -> St Clare's House

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