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Trying to Take Over the Chalet School - completed 13/02/06

#1: Trying to Take Over the Chalet School - completed 13/02/06 Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent, England

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:53 pm

This idea came to me yesterday. I'll leave you to guess who is talking!

I have a plan to take over the world. I think I’ll start small though and start with the Chalet School. I can’t remember who said the quote but wasn’t the saying something about starting something small and then ending up with something big?

I started at the Chalet School as a mere Middle. I already had a vague idea of taking over the place but I decided just to blend into the background at first.

The first thing I decided to get rid of was the Guides. The Guides was all about thinking about others and I didn’t like this idea. I preferred to think about me, me, me!

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#2: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:57 pm

Ooh ... I can think of a few people it might be. Please post more soon!

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

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:32 pm

I can also thing of a few people - could we have some more clues please Chair to narrow it down?

Thanks Very Happy

Liz

#4: Author: Chalet_school_lover, Location: Gloucester

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 3:37 pm

Oooh, yes could we have some clues please? Thank you Very Happy

#5: Author: Josie, Location: London

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:05 pm

Not got a blinking clue who it is, but looking forward to finding out!

Thanks clare Very Happy

#6: Author: Mia, Location: London

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:09 pm

This looks great! Thanks Clare. More soon please Very Happy

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

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:59 pm

Had one idea - but thought she started as a Junior - might still be her though!

Looking good Chair! Laughing

#8: Author: Phil, Location: London UK

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:04 pm

I've got an idea, but will wait until more is posted. In fact i would bet money on it being this person. Ha! Ha! Ha!

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

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:09 am

Oooh this looks great, Chair

Looking forward to more

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

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:12 am

Hmmm. I immediately thought of OOAOML. Was she a middle when she started?

#11: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent, England

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:32 pm

Sorry. It was Mary-Lou and she did start as a Junior. I was just checking everyone was paying attention, seriously!

*Chair looks around very innocently*.

There is more of this to come. I am planning on writing some more later today.

#12: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent, England

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:48 pm

I would like to offer my thanks to Ally, who has helped me with the next section.

While I was at the Chalet School on St Briavels’ Island, I started working out my plan on how to get rid of the Guides.

I never liked the Guides. I just saw it as extra time for everyone to spend time paying attention to the teachers instead of everyone paying attention to me.

I started airing my views that I didn’t think Guides was such a good idea. My friends all took my word for it and word spread.

When we moved to the Oberland, the Guides had stopped. A reason was never given, but they just stopped having Guides. I was really, really happy! My plan was starting to take shape! People were starting to do as I said!

#13: Author: Mia, Location: London

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:51 pm

*g* Trust it to be OOAO!!

#14: Author: Chalet_school_lover, Location: Gloucester

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:55 pm

Looking good! Yes OOAOML did take over the place a bit didn't she!! This should be good! Thanks! Very Happy

#15: Author: aitchemelle, Location: West Sussex

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:55 pm

Fabulous Claire! I did think about OOAO but then dismissed it and I don't know why!

When's more please?!

#16: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:10 pm

It all makes perfect sense now doesn't it?! No wonder she kept hanging round after she'd left. Really enjoying this and looking forward to seeing what evil plans she has in store for the CS!

Kathryn

#17: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:53 pm

Well, she did keep coming back after she'd left ...

Thanks Clare.

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

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:30 am

Alison H wrote:

Well, she did keep coming back after she'd left ...

Just like Joey! Will it be cream cakes and Anna's lemon biscuits at dawn?

(Well if the Goodies can have a bunfight at the OK Tearooms why can't the Chaletians?)

#19: Author: Elle, Location: Peterborough

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:01 pm

This looks really good, and it has started to put some things in a much clearer light!

Thank you.

#20: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:17 pm

I'm glad someone else would have liked to shove a gag down OOAO's throat to muffle her clarion tones.

#21: ooao Author: Phil, Location: London UK

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:51 pm

It had to be her! She even scares me and she's a fictional character!

She is, isn't she??????

#22: Author: CatherineS, Location: Smalltown, West of Scotland

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:08 pm

Looking forward to more, Chair! Smile

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

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:23 pm

*giggles*

Thank Chair, ML is dreadful isn't she!

#24: Re: ooao Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:02 pm

Phil wrote:

It had to be her! She even scares me and she's a fictional character!

She is, isn't she??????

Actually Phil, she's real and she's coming to get you!

Mwahahahahahahaa Twisted Evil

#25: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent, England

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:25 pm

Thanks for your comments, everyone. I really appreciate them.

I loved playing lacrosse at the Chalet School. For a short while, you had the ball to yourself and no-one else had the ball.

In the first term of being a Senior, Emerence tobogganed into me. They thought at first that I would never be able to walk again.

I liked the fact that everyone was concerned about me but I didn’t want to lie around doing nothing for too long. Someone else might try and take over The Gang!

I amazed the doctors with my speedy recovery. I wanted to get back to being in charge as soon as possible.

I was told that I wouldn’t be able to play lacrosse or any other games due to my injury.

As I wasn’t allowed to play lacrosse, and it wasn’t my favourite sport, I got the Chalet School to drop the sport. How dare everyone else play my favourite sport when I wasn’t allowed to play it?

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

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:55 pm

Ah so that's the reason! Laughing

Thanks Chair.

#27: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:58 pm

This is really funny! Thanks Chair.

#28: Re: ooao Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:55 pm

Vikki wrote:

Phil wrote:

It had to be her! She even scares me and she's a fictional character!

She is, isn't she??????

Actually Phil, she's real and she's coming to get you!

Mwahahahahahahaa Twisted Evil

THought Rachel was here then!
Thanks Chair

#29: Author: Chalet_school_lover, Location: Gloucester

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 8:19 pm

Oh so that was the reason!! Laughing

OOAOML really had a big effect on the CS!!! This is very funny! Thank you! Very Happy

#30: Author: aitchemelle, Location: West Sussex

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 8:46 pm

Thank you Chair! So pleased to have one of the Chalet School mysteries solved!
Hannah x

#31: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:28 pm

Thanks Chair. OOAO is a big scary monster, isn't she?

#32: Author: Josie, Location: London

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:07 pm

Thanks Chair. Smile

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

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:45 pm

Thanks Chair

Intrigued about the title "Trying....". Does that mean she failed in the end? Twisted Evil

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

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:36 pm

Thanks Chair

Liz

#35: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent, England

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:30 pm

Here's the next section. The plot bunny has been biting and I have an idea of how this drabble might end. You will all have to wait though!

When I was a prefect, there was a new teacher, Miss Ferrars. I tried being my usual friendly self to her, but she didn’t like me. I was mad at the thought of this! How could anyone not like me! There is nothing to dislike about me!

I kept on trying to get Miss Ferrars to see my point of view, but this wouldn’t work. I decided that it was time for revenge. She needed to be taught a lesson for not liking me!

At halfterm, I decided to pull her arm so I could pretend that I was saving her from going too near to the edge. To my delight, the edge came off so it looked even more like an accident! Miss Ferrars was forced to like me after that!

#36: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:38 pm

*Giggles*

Poor Kathie!

Thanks Clare.

#37: Author: Mia, Location: London

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:25 pm

Excellent! Laughing

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

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:02 pm

Crafty!

Thanks Chair Very Happy

Liz

#39: Author: Chalet_school_lover, Location: Gloucester

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:06 pm

Very amusing!! I can just see OOAOML doing that actually! Thank you very much!

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

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:57 pm

Chair wrote:

How could anyone not like me! There is nothing to dislike about me!

Oh how little you know, Mary Lou!

Thanks Chair - this is fab

#41: Author: Josie, Location: London

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:35 am

*g* at M-L's self-perception!

Thanks Chair. Very Happy

#42: Re: ooao Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent, England

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:43 pm

nikkie wrote:

Vikki wrote:

Phil wrote:

It had to be her! She even scares me and she's a fictional character!

She is, isn't she??????

Actually Phil, she's real and she's coming to get you!

Mwahahahahahahaa Twisted Evil

THought Rachel was here then!
Thanks Chair

I forgot to comment on this earlier. The strange thing is, I have a sister called Rachel, but she isn't a member of this board!

*Chair gives a Twisted Evil

smile to anyone who thought this was an update and then whistles innocently.*

#43: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 3:36 pm

Sends her sharpest poking stick down the modem to Chair.

poke

#44: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent, England

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 3:43 pm

I am very honoured! This is the 1st time I have been personally poked on this board!

#45: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 3:57 pm

In that case, sends another.

#46: Author: Le Petite Em, Location: Cheltenham

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:58 pm

Chair, as punishment for sending a 'fake' update, I think you should give us a real one ASAP!!!!!
Laughing

By the way, I am really liking this, thanks!! Very Happy

#47: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent, England

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:20 pm

Borrowing a quote from Vikki, I will post some more of the story when I have written it! I have also been taking lessons in being nasty from reading the archives!

#48: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent, England

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:53 pm

I'm sorry to spree. This drabble is nearing its end. I hope this isn't getting boring!

There were rumours going around that Sybil was to be the next Head Girl. Another person who was a likely candidate was Vi Lucy.

I couldn’t understand how anyone could be picked over me! I’m the best at everything! Vi might be my best friend, but when it comes to being the best, I should be picked all the time!

I started making comments here and there and making people see Sybil and Vi in a bad light.

Finally, I was told I was going to be Head Girl! I tried to act shocked but I had always known that I was the only real candidate. Who else could they pick than the perfect Mary-Lou!

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

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:27 pm

Nasty person! Twisted Evil

Vi Lucy would have made just as good a Head Girl - as for poor Sybil - she had no chance EBD hated her!

Thanks Claire.

#50: Author: Chalet_school_lover, Location: Gloucester

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:35 pm

Nasty Mary-Lou! Poor Vi Lucy and Poor Poor Sybil!! Thank you for this! Laughing

#51: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:03 pm

Poor Vi! Julie and Betsy both got to be Head Girl but she never stood a chance, did she?!

#52: Author: Michelle, Location: Near London

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:30 pm

I always liked OOAO, but I might like this story even more! She's a good character in some ways, but she is verging on perfection, which I don't like in a fictional character.

Sybil should have been Head Girl. Betsy did a pretty god job in the end, but wasn't there a book where all the prefects considered Sybs to be one of them, even though she wasn't, and went to the Head to ask that she be made one?

Mary-Lou wasn't a bad Head Girl, but I think she might have confused the term with either "Head Mistress" or "Head of the Universe".

I wonder what Vi really thought about OOAO. Verity-Anne lived with her, so she must have realised the truth, but Mary-Lou probably kept her well-drugged up, so Verity looked like a mooner, and Mary-Lou looked like a saint for helping her out all the time.

Michelle

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

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:51 pm

Thanks Chair, am enjoying this Very Happy

Liz

#54: Author: Josie, Location: London

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:02 pm

Thanks Chair. M-L is hilarious in this!

#55: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:28 pm

Is there any more of this, Chair?

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

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:46 pm

Please let there be more of this!

Thanks Chair

#57: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent, England

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 8:54 pm

There will be at least 2 more posts. The only thing is that the 2 posts will be alternative endings. I know what is going to happen in each ending but I haven't written them yet.

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

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:30 pm

Looking forward to them when you do Chair Very Happy

Liz

#59: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent, England

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 2:21 pm

I'm really sorry I haven't updated recently, and this isn't an update now. RL is really tough at the moment and I don't feel up to writing the 2 endings.

My cat, Simba has been getting more and more poorly over time and yesterday my Dad took her to the vet to have her put her down. I do know that it was the best thing for her, but it's extra hard having happened just before Christmas. It's hard not to see her around the house and it is going to take some getting used to.

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

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 2:48 pm

((((Chair))))

Know how it feels Chair, pets are part of the family and the grief is real and deep. Hope you can soon look back on happier times and remember just how much love Sinba gave you.

#61: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 2:50 pm

Really sorry about your cat, Clare.

((Clare))

#62: Author: Fatima, Location: Sunny Qatar

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:07 pm

Oh, Chair, I'm so sorry to hear that. I shall be thinking of you. When my cat died I found this comforting:
http://www.petloss.com/poems/maingrp/rainbowb.htm

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

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:10 pm

So sorry to hear that Chair

*hugs*

Liz

#64: Author: Chalet_school_lover, Location: Gloucester

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:32 pm

*Sends lots of hugs* I'm sorry that this had to happen just before christmas! I hope it gets easier and that you can look back on the happy times. Sad

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

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 6:23 pm

Oh Clare, I'm so sorry!
*hugs*

#66: Author: Michelle, Location: Near London

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:24 pm

((((Clare))))

Michelle

#67: Author: RuthY, Location: Anyone's guess

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:41 pm

((((((((Clare))))))))))))))

I'm really sorry to hear that it must be so hard and especially at christmas time.

I really like what you have written it is really funny Thanks for writing it.

Ruth

#68: Author: Le Petite Em, Location: Cheltenham

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 1:10 pm

Oh my god I'm so sorry Chair!!!!! (((Chair))) I'm thinking of you all the way. (Plus I'm sure that Simba is having a good time in cat heaven and wants you to enjoy Christmas.) Thinking of you still!

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

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:19 pm

(((Clare)))

Poor you.

#70: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent, England

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:49 pm

This is the 1st ending I have written. I hope it isn't too upsetting to read. Thank you all for the comments about my cat. I really appreciated them. I'm sorry it has taken me so long to write this 1st ending as well. I have never tried to write an emotional scene before, so it probably sounds very bad. I had a try though:

After my mother died, it made me reassess my life. All this time, the only thing I had been concerned about was myself.

I had always loved my Mum, but I never fully appreciated her until when she was very ill. I started to realise what really mattered in life.

One of the important things to me is family. Family can take any shape or form – it doesn’t just have to mean the people who are related to me. Aunt Joey isn’t a relation but she and her family are very special to me.

The Chalet School is also very dear to my heart. The staff have always encouraged me. They supported us when we needed it the most and they praised our achievements.

Another thing that is important is friends. The members of ‘The Gang’ were always loyal to me and they were always very good friends. I wish I had appreciated the others more at the time. I am now writing to each member to tell them how much I appreciate their friendship.

I have always thought of myself all the time. Now, I realise that other people matter. I need to think of others and put them before myself. It might not always be easy but all I can do is try my best.

#71: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 6:09 pm

Thanks Clare. Hope you are feeling better.

Mary-Lou never really knew her dad - I never liked the sound of Professor Trelawney, abandoning his wife and young child and elderly mother to go off chasing butterflies! - so I'm glad that she realised that her mother and friends were so important.

#72: Author: Chalet_school_lover, Location: Gloucester

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 6:13 pm

Thank you, are you feeling better now?
I'm glad Mary-Lou realised what is important in her life! I'm looking forward to the other ending! Thanks again! Very Happy

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

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:12 pm

Thanks Chair - that was a lovely ending!

Liz

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

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:51 pm

Thanks for that Chair - how sad though that Mary Lou only realised after her mother died. Crying or Very sad

#75: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:10 am

I've just read this right through and it made me chuckle.

I do love the way you explain why Guides and Lacrosse were dropped - I just thought EBD forgot them Rolling Eyes

. this is a much more likely explanation.

I'm sorry about Simba. It is always upsetting to lose a pet like that, even though you know it is the right thing to do.

It was so sad that ML only came to her senses after her mother died in this ending. I did like this phrase.

Quote:

Family can take any shape or form – it doesn’t just have to mean the people who are related to me.

It is so true. Thank you Clare. I'm looking forward to the second ending.

#76: Author: Le Petite Em, Location: Cheltenham

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:02 am

I'm so glad that you are feeling better Clare. Also, I'm happy that OOAOML realised that she needed to appreciate her friends more, after all she did have plenty of them and they were always there for her! Thanks Clare- looking forward to the 2nd ending! Very Happy

#77: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent, England

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:48 pm

I'm sorry I have taken so long to finish this. Embarassed

I sent this to Ally but she didn't receive it. I thought she might be busy. As she has been so kind as to check over the rest, I didn't want to ask someone else to check it. I sent it again though a few days ago and this is the final result!

I'm afraid it's not a very good ending but as this is St Clare's House, I didn't want this drabble to have a sad ending. Thank you all so much for reading this!

During my year at St Mildred’s, I had realised there was no leadership in Archaeology. I decided to become a History lecturer instead.

When I left St Mildred’s, I went to Oxford. I made sure that everyone knew who I was and I got myself elected president of the Archaeology Society within the 1st term. The reason was because everyone realised what a great person I was and that is why I should be the person in charge.

When I started lecturing, I got myself elected on the local council. I also found time to be part of the debating society. Of course, my team always won! At the end of the day, who can win an argument against me? I am always right!

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#78: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:59 pm

I thought the bit about "I am always right" was a brilliant ending Laughing

!

(Although I am quite jealous of OOAO now - I think about packing in my job and trying to become a history lecturer at least a dozen times a day!!)

Thanks Clare Very Happy

#79: Author: Le Petite Em, Location: Cheltenham

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:24 pm

Very OOAOML at the end there!!! Thanks Clare, it was great to find out the 2nd ending to this! Very Happy

#80: Author: Cryst,

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:54 pm

Thank you Chair, just caught up with this. I like the first ending better, but I'm afraid the second one is more Mary-Louish.

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

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:07 pm

Thanks for the alternative ending Chair Very Happy

Fantastic finishing line Laughing

Liz

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

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:19 pm

Brilliant ending - very Mary-Lou

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