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Steve and Andrea (working title) - ickle update 18/6
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Author:  francesn [ 25 Apr 2007, 22:02 ]
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TITLE SUGGESTIONS APPRECIATED!

A bit of background: Ages ago (like a year :oops: ) I promised a sequel to a silly drabble I wrote, 'So you want to marry my daughter?' which is somewhere in the archives. I mentioned in passing that Steve had married someone called Andrea, who wasn't a Chalet Girl :shock:. Here's what happened....


Andrea Beattie straightened her skirt nervously and adjusted her hat at the gate of Freudesheim.

“Do I look presentable?” she asked Steven anxiously.

“You look lovely, darling,” he told her tenderly. “I’m so glad you’re going to meet Mamma and Papa at last.”

“Steve,” she said her voice shaky. “I’m really nervous.”

He hugged her tenderly; careful to avoid crumpling her skirts or displacing the hat she had adjusted so frequently on the journey, then taking her by the hand he strode up the path. Before they were even halfway to the front door it opened and a tall, slim figure with her hair pinned up into earphones stood there.

Joey regarded Andrea coolly. Andrea fidgeted a little nervously.

Suddenly Jo grabbed Steve by the arm and hustled him into a little room off the hall, closing the door firmly. Not that the door made any difference – Andrea could still hear the raised voices.

“You want to marry her?”

“Yes,” Steven Maynard said immovably. “In fact I’ve already asked her.”

“But this is a disaster!” Joey cried. “She didn’t go the Chalet School.”

“How does that matter?” Steve asked placidly.

“But you can’t marry someone who hasn’t been thoroughly soaked in the traditions of the school! How long is she staying for?”

“Well we were planning to stay for three weeks,” Steve said acidly. “But now I’m not so sure. We might head off to Lugano or somewhere.”

“Oh don’t be silly, Stephen,” Joey snapped. “Of course you’re staying.”

“Mother, unless you find some way of accepting Andrea, she and I are going and we will not be coming back. Is that clear?”

“I have no idea what your father will say,” Joey grumbled. “But I suppose you’d better have some tea.”

Author:  Lottie [ 25 Apr 2007, 22:29 ]
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I remember the first drabble, Fran. :lol: It was great! I think your Joey wants to interfere in her children's lives as much as mine does. I hope Stephen tells her where to go!

Author:  francesn [ 25 Apr 2007, 22:42 ]
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I must confess it was seeing yours that reminded me of mine. Both our Stephens seem to have rather different ideas to Jo!

Author:  Clare [ 25 Apr 2007, 23:35 ]
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“I have no idea what your father will say,”


Stand up to her Jack! Let Stephen live his own life.

Author:  Fiona Mc [ 26 Apr 2007, 11:07 ]
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Clare wrote:
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“I have no idea what your father will say,”


Stand up to her Jack! Let Stephen live his own life.


Like Jack will really care. Glad to see this sequel. Thanks

Author:  Jennie [ 26 Apr 2007, 12:05 ]
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I'd like quite a lot more of this. I desperately want to see Jo defeated when it comes to her children getting married.

ETA: why the hell doesn't she advertise for husbands and wives for them in the Caheltain?

Author:  Laura V [ 26 Apr 2007, 12:37 ]
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go Stephen! :popper:

Author:  Lottie [ 26 Apr 2007, 12:41 ]
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Jennie wrote:
ETA: why the hell doesn't she advertise for husbands and wives for them in the Caheltain?

Go on Jennie - write the advert - you know you want to really! :lol:

Author:  leahbelle [ 26 Apr 2007, 13:38 ]
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Hope Stephen does what he wants and doesn't give in to his parents. I would love to see Jo ousted here!

Author:  francesn [ 26 Apr 2007, 13:43 ]
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Joey immediately disappeared to make some telephone calls, leaving Steve and Andrea in the study.

“Your mother doesn’t like me,” Andrea said flatly. “I think I should leave now.”

“Oh honey, don’t be like that,” Steve floundered, unsure of what exactly to say. Like Andrea he was painfully aware that Joey most emphatically did not approve, and he wasn’t quite sure what to do. He settled for patting her knee. Andrea stared a the photographs above the fireplace wistfully, wishing that she had been to the Chalet School, even if only so Joey would approve.

Suddenly Steve got up and vanished. Andrea barely noticed him leave, so engrossed was she by the photographs. Presently Steve returned with one of his younger sisters.

“Andrea, I’d like you to meet Fliss,” he said.

“Hmm?” Andrea said absently. Then she noticed the petite blonde girl standing beside him. “Oh I’m sorry to be so rude!” she cried, jumping up.

Felicity giggled. “Let’s start this again, shall we?” she suggested. “Steve?”

“Andrea, I’d like you to meet Fliss,” Steve obediently repeated.

“Nice to meet you,” Andrea said.

“I noticed you were looking at the pictures of the school,” Felicity said gently. “And Steve…well Steve told me what Mamma said.”

“It’s okay,” Andrea said. “I heard.”

“Oh,” Felicity responded. “I…I’m sure she didn’t mean it the way it came out, it’s just the school means everything to Mamma and she…well she always thought that everything would revolve around the Chalet and the Platz, and you were a bit of a shock.”

Andrea smiled wryly.

“Tell me about the School,” she requested. “Please – I’d like to hear.”

“Well it started in the Austrian Tyrol, by a lake called the Tiernsee. Mamma was the first pupil – Auntie Madge, Mamma’s sister, started it when she was Miss Bettany. It was terribly small when it started, just Mamma, another English girl, a French girl and a handful of Austrian girls. They had all sorts of adventures and the school just grew and grew, and it sort of seemed natural that they had a day for French and a day for German because there were so many girls of different nationalities there. Of course they couldn’t have had a language day for everyone, there were Italians and Hungarians and Norweigans, and some Polish girls and even the Crown Princess of Belsornia, except she wasn’t the Crown Princess then, just a Princess.”

“That’s Mrs Helston, isn’t it?” Andrea interrupted. “I’ve met her, she’s lovely. Her son was at my college in Cambridge. Oh but I’m so sorry for interrupting you, do go on.”

Felicity laughed. “It’s quite alright,” she said. “Well the school stayed at the Tiernsee for about 7 years, Mamma was Head Girl and then she taught at the school for a while. She wrote her first book staying there, and one of the first copies nearly got destroyed when the school hall burned down. But then things got a bit sticky, so the school moved to Guernsey. Mamma and Papa and some others had to escape over the mountains to Switzerland – she wrote all about it in one of her books. They didn’t stay in Guernsey very long, Mamma and Papa were married there and the triplets were born there, but then the school moved to Armishire because the Channel Islands might be invaded and it wasn’t safe.”

Andrea nodded, privately wondering what on earth possessed the founders of the school to move it to somewhere still so close to Europe as the Channel Islands.

“Apparently it was a fearful scrum to find anywhere suitable,” Felicity continued, “but then some chap offered them Plas Howell if they took his step-sister with it. So the school moved there, but something went wrong with the drains so they had to go to St Brivaels which is this tiny island off the coast of Wales. It’s near the bird man, Kester Bellever – I expect you’ve heard of him – well anyway, he lives near there. They stayed there until one of the girls at the school discovered some treasure or something that belonged to the man who actually owned the house the school was staying in. He wanted his house back obviously because now he had the money so the school would have had to move again. Rather than go back to Plas Howell because Gwensi’s step-brother would have wanted it back soon, they decided to come out here. Of course they could have moved within England again, but they’d bought Glendower House at Carnbach, and St Mildred’s had come out to Welsen the previous year, so it made sense for the whole school to follow. Besides they were opening a San out here and Papa was coming here to work.”

Andrea nodded slowly. “Where was your family while the school was moving around England?” she asked.

“Oh well they went to Armishire first,” Felicity said easily, “but then something went wrong with the foundations at Plas Gwyn around the same time that the drains went wonky at Plas Howell so Mamma thought it would be nice to move to Carnbach, near the school. Of course we were in Canada for a bit – Felix and I were born there – and pretty much when we came back we moved out here.”

“So you’ve always lived near the school?” Andrea asked incredulously.

“Pretty much,” Felicity affirmed. “Course it made schooling easy for us girls, and the boys when they were younger. We all went to St Nicholas – that’s the kinder branch – then the boys went to England and we went to the Chalet.”

“I see,” Andrea said slowly. “Did you like going to school next door?”

“Well maybe not next door – sometimes I wanted to go to the English branch,” Felicity confided. “It was a wonderful school but with Mamma so close you couldn’t really put a toe out of line. Kept me out of trouble though,” she added loyally.

“But what was school really like?” Andrea pressed.

“Fun,” Felicity said succinctly. “Trilingual of course, but that wasn’t a problem, and there was lots of focus on sports and fresh air. We did work too – but sometimes the Heads would just cancel all the lessons and we’d go off for a morning’s ski-ing or an afternoon of boating or something. And we had the most terrific half-term trips to places, with all sorts of adventures.”

“Did you do any of the things you read in stories?” Andrea wondered, having been to a day school her experience of boarding school life was confined to what she had read in her Angela Brazil’s and Enid Blytons. “Like midnight feasts, or playing pranks on mistresses?”

“Oh no!” Felicity said, shocked.

“Whyever not?” Andrea queried. “I always though that was one of the best parts of being at boarding school.”

“Well it’s terribly dishonourable for one,” Felicity admonished. “And the first midnight the school ever knew of turned out really badly. Joyce Linton was so ill she nearly died and this awful girl who got expelled ate raw bacon.”

Author:  Lottie [ 26 Apr 2007, 14:51 ]
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I love the potted history of the School from Felicity. I wonder how Stephen is going to talk his parents around to Andrea's presence in his life. I notice Andrea hasn't got any ideas of boarding schools from JMB!!! :lol:

Thanks, Fran. :D

Author:  Chair [ 26 Apr 2007, 20:55 ]
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Thanks, Fran. This is really great so far!

Author:  Fiona Mc [ 26 Apr 2007, 23:13 ]
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Lottie wrote:
I love the potted history of the School from Felicity. I wonder how Stephen is going to talk his parents around to Andrea's presence in his life. I notice Andrea hasn't got any ideas of boarding schools from JMB!!! :lol:

Thanks, Fran. :D


I never twigged about JMB not beeing mentioned! Thanks. Glad Felicity was so nice

Author:  Cath V-P [ 27 Apr 2007, 02:01 ]
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Nice that Andrea has met Veta. Loved the potted history, and doesn't it make you realise how closely Jo stuck to the school?

Loved this...
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the bird man, Kester Bellever – I expect you’ve heard of him
Half man, half bird...... :D

Author:  Kathy_S [ 27 Apr 2007, 02:37 ]
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Sounds as though Thekla was expelled for eating raw bacon. :lol:

At this rate Andrea may learn enough to pass as an honorary Chalet Girl -- sort of like Winnie Embury.

Thank you, Fran.

Author:  Lesley [ 27 Apr 2007, 08:01 ]
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Personally I think there were any number of Midnight Feasts - but that the staff never found out about them! Wasn't there a drabble to that effect somewhere?


Like the history of the CS from Felicity. And I hope Andrea doesn't turn into an honourary CS girl - Joey will just have to accept her as she is.


Thanks Fran

Author:  Kathy_S [ 27 Apr 2007, 08:07 ]
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But this is a sequel to the drabble in which the male SLOC candidate had to pass a most remarkable examination. I figured Winnification trials might be the female equivalent. :lol:

So you want to marry my daughter

Author:  Lesley [ 27 Apr 2007, 08:09 ]
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It's really a prequel though, isn't it? Perhaps the trials were introduced because Stephen went his own way.

Author:  Kathy_S [ 27 Apr 2007, 08:13 ]
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You're right! I forgot they were already married:

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“Be thankful you weren’t a girl,” Steve said darkly.

“Why?” Harry enquired.

“You should have seen the tests they made my wife Andrea take. Just because she wasn’t Chalet Girl. Ghastly simply wasn’t in it,” Steve said. “Anyway, best of luck! You’ll be out of Mother’s clutches in London, so that’s something to be thankful for.”

Author:  Lesley [ 27 Apr 2007, 08:20 ]
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OH, I forgot that though - so she did take tests then - my opinion of Steve has just dropped dramatically - I'd have told Joey to stick it! :twisted:

Author:  Alison H [ 27 Apr 2007, 08:54 ]
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Lesley wrote:
OH, I forgot that though - so she did take tests then - my opinion of Steve has just dropped dramatically - I'd have told Joey to stick it! :twisted:


Me too :lol: :lol: !

Author:  alicat [ 27 Apr 2007, 12:19 ]
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ah but perhaps he didn't know she was taking them? until afterwards? and then the family made joey and jack promise to come clean with each new fiance/fiancee????

Author:  Smile :) [ 30 Apr 2007, 15:00 ]
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:lol: like this, just read so you want to marry my daughter, its ace.

Thanks Fran.

Author:  francesn [ 30 Apr 2007, 19:34 ]
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Suddenly Stephen re-entered the room in a hurry.

“Mamma’s coming with the tea-trolley,” he gasped. “Whatever you do, ask for tea, admire the trolley and taste one of the lemon biscuits!”

Andrea immediately sat up straighter and smoothed her skirt down, listening as the rattle of an old tea trolley came closer and closer.

“There you are, Mamma,” a read-headed teenager announced. “Can I go and read now?”

“The question is not can you, it’s whether you may. Really, Geoff!” Joey said irritably.

“Fine – may I go and read, please?” the boy asked.

“Of course you may,” Joey said. “Papa will be home for Abendessen so make sure you’re ready and tidy. You have my habit of running fingers through your hair. Matron always used to say I looked like a golliwog.”

Geoff disappeared, and Andrea heard his purposeful tread on the stairs as he departed to his room.

“Tea or coffee, Andrea?” Joey said, presiding over the tea trolley.

“Oh tea please, Mrs Maynard,” Andrea replied politely. “What a marvellous tea trolley that is.”

The ghost of a smile hovered around the corners of Jo’s mouth. “It’s certainly very useful. I used to use it for all my new girls tea parties. Cake?”

“Might I try a lemon biscuit?” Andrea asked. “Steve tells me they’re delicious.”

“Handmade by our very own Anna,” Joey said, presenting the plate.

Andrea took one and tasted it. As far as biscuits went it was fairly average – identifiably lemon but nothing to write home about, she concluded.

“These are scrumptious,” she said, looking Joey right in the eye. She was rewarded with a slight loosening of the rather strained smile.

“Now, Andrea,” Joey smiled, sitting down with a cup of tea. “Tell me a little about yourself.”

“Well I live in Devon, with my parents and my older brother,” Andrea said. “I went to Taverton High School and then Cambridge University. My degree was in Law and I’ve been working as a barrister ever since.”

“Do you enjoy music? Country dancing? Travel?” Joey enquired.

“I do like music, but I’m afraid I have no aptitude for it myself,” Andrea confessed. “Country dancing we did a little at Guides but I preferred to play lacrosse really. More energetic. As for travelling – this is the first time I’ve been abroad I have to say.”

“Really….” Joey said. “And, forgive me for asking, you are how old?”

“Twenty-seven,” Andrea replied, a little bemused.

“And how long have you been working?” Joey asked.

“Five years,” Andrea said warily.

“And you’re well established in your career?”

“Well….um…I’ve completed my pupillage, and I’m starting to take on cases of my own,” Andrea anwered, more than a little bemused by this line of questioning.

“So taking a career break for a year wouldn’t be too much of a problem then?”

Andrea’s jaw dropped.

Author:  Jennie [ 30 Apr 2007, 21:09 ]
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And well it might! I hope Jo doesn't get away with that!

Author:  Lottie [ 30 Apr 2007, 21:50 ]
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I'm surprised Joey's only considering a year's career break - I would have thought she would consider a lifetime necessary to bring up any children properly! :lol: Assuming that is what she's getting at there. :roll:

Thanks, Fran.

Author:  Fiona Mc [ 30 Apr 2007, 22:35 ]
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Taking a year's break for what? To spend it out on the Platz? At the Chalet School?

Author:  Chelsea [ 30 Apr 2007, 22:43 ]
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Maybe the tests take a year?

Author:  Chair [ 30 Apr 2007, 22:50 ]
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Thanks, Fran. I wonder what the break for a year is for.

Author:  Smile :) [ 01 May 2007, 12:35 ]
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Wonder what the break is for, rather assumed it was for having children myself.

Thanks Fran.

Author:  francesn [ 01 May 2007, 13:49 ]
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Children? They're not even married yet!

“A CAREER break?” Stephen broke in. “What on earth….”

“Well, Stephen, I don’t know why you’re worried! Andrea will be giving up work when you have children anyway. It’s not that important.”

“Not that IMPORTANT?” Stephen shouted. “Andrea’s worked really hard to get where she is. There’s no reason she should stop working for a year! And certainly not just because we have children!”

“Stephen!” Joey warned.

“No, mother, I simply won’t hear of it. I have no idea why you want Andrea to stop what she does, and does really well, but I won’t have it,” Stephen flared.

“Please…” Andrea broke in. “Mrs Maynard, why do you want me to stop working for a year?”

“Well seeing as you haven’t bee to the school, and Stephen seems determined to marry you, then we’re going to have to do something about it.”

“Such as?” Andrea asked, confused.

“Well the rest of this week will be devoted to finding out what you can do, then an intensive period of education, some time at the school itself….”

“You want me to stop working so I can go back to school?” Andrea said incredulously.

“Essentially, yes,” Joey replied. “By far the most sensible solution, isn’t it?”

“No,” Stephen muttered.

“I beg you pardon, Stephen,” Joey said.

“No,” Stephen repeated. “It’s a mad idea, and I won’t have it.”

“Then you won’t get married.”

Andrea allowed the argument to rage over her head, weighing up the options in her mind. One part of her was loath to give in to Joey, the other just wanted the woman to shut up and leave her in peace.

“Look here, I’ve made a choice.” she announced. “I’ll do it.”

“Andrea!” Stephen gasped.

“Andrea!” Joey gasped, in a very different tone. “Let’s start right now.”

Stephen sank back into the chair, helpless.

Author:  Lottie [ 01 May 2007, 14:45 ]
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Well, that was unexpected - both the reason that Joey wanted Andrea to take a break from work, and Andrea giving in to her like that. :shock: What next, I wonder? :roll:

Thanks, Fran! :D

Author:  Fatima [ 01 May 2007, 15:44 ]
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But I have a feeling that Andrea has some plan in mind and didn't just give in gracefully as Jo thinks! But a year for the education of a well educated professional woman :shock:

Author:  Chair [ 01 May 2007, 17:50 ]
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Thanks, Fran. I was surprised when Andrea agreed!

Author:  Josie [ 03 May 2007, 23:09 ]
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:shock: Lordy, wonder if Andrea knows what she's let herself in for?!!

Loved this line:
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He settled for patting her knee.

So true!

Thanks Fran. :D

Author:  Alex [ 31 May 2007, 13:20 ]
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Wow. She must really love him.

Author:  Sal [ 31 May 2007, 17:32 ]
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Not the most normal of sabbaticals...

Thanks Fran

Author:  francesn [ 31 May 2007, 22:21 ]
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“Now let’s start with a few preliminaries,” Joey said the following morning. “I noticed that you had a hot bath this morning – definitely a no-no. Cold or chill off. After Fruhstuck we tidy our bedrooms. ‘A place for everything and everything in it’s place’ as Matey would say. Make sure you strip your bed before you come down in future, it’s very important for the beds to air properly. Your hair must be put up neatly, I’ll have Hilda work on that with you later, and only a light dusting of powder with maybe a little lipstick may be used.”

Andrea stared at her future mother-in-law, mesmerised.

“Here’s your reading list,” Joey announced with a flourish. “All your books will be available from Miss Dene in the stockroom after Kaffee und Kuchen. She’ll also be arranging your timetable.”

“My timetable?” Andrea repeated incredulously.

“Oh yes – all your lessons,” Joey elaborated. “Domestic science, languages, dancing, ski-ing, overnight survival…You’ll spend a term as a new girl, and a term as a prefect, the last term will be learning everything that Old Girls need to know, including teaching a few lessons at the school.”

“What are all these books?” Andrea asked. “Tessa in Tyrol, The Rose Patrol in the Alps, Dora and the Lower Fifth, Ruth goes camping?!”

“Those are some of mine,” Joey replied airily. “There are some by other authors there too…..and all the back issues of the Chaletian. Have you read any already?”

Andrea stared at the list. “Not of the Chaletian, no,” she admitted. “Jane Austen, yes. Also John Buchan. And I’ve heard of Angela Thirkell but never read her books….”

“What about Anton Lang?” Joey asked.

“I honestly can’t say that I have,” Andrea replied sweetly, taking a very deep breath.

“Now off we go to the school,” Joey said. “Your textbooks will be waiting!”

Andrea obediently followed Joey through a gate in the hedge, across the fields into the school before collecting a vast pile of books from a very bored looking young woman in the stockroom who then showed her to Miss Dene’s office.

“Hello Andrea,” Miss Dene said. “Pull up a chair while I finish this.”

Andrea obeyed, admiring Miss Dene’s typing speed.

“Now,” Miss Dene began, taking a sheet from a stack to her right. “You’ll be starting in September, with a rather unusual timetable. You take Domestic Science with the Thirds, Both Fourths, Inter V, Va and Lower Sixth. Extra language coaching from Mlle Lachenais and Miss Denny, private music with Miss Lawrence and literature and scripture with the Sixths, taken by Miss Annersley.”

“Thank you,” Andrea said, mentally adding “I think”.

“I understand that Joey’s planned for you to go to the Tyrol,” Miss Dene smiled. “That will be a real treat for you.”

Author:  Chair [ 31 May 2007, 22:26 ]
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Thanks, Fran. I have a lot of sympathy for Andrea.

Author:  Clare [ 31 May 2007, 23:05 ]
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I just hope Andrea knows what she's really let herself in for!

Author:  Smile :) [ 02 Jun 2007, 10:20 ]
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Poor Andrea :lol: Thank you Fran.

Author:  Sal [ 02 Jun 2007, 14:53 ]
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I'm amazed that the school staff are so accepting of this idea...and what will the other pupils think????

Thanks Fran

Author:  francesn [ 04 Jun 2007, 14:53 ]
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Sal wrote:
I'm amazed that the school staff are so accepting of this idea...and what will the other pupils think????

Thanks Fran


But this is Joey's future daughter-in-law. What could be more important to the school?!

*sniggers*

As for what the pupils think - wait and see....

Author:  Miranda [ 04 Jun 2007, 15:19 ]
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Well Fran? ...I'm waiting... :lol:

Author:  Smile :) [ 04 Jun 2007, 21:36 ]
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Yup . . . me too! *hint, hint*

Author:  Rob [ 12 Jun 2007, 20:53 ]
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:lol: :lol: :lol:

Please Fran, may we have some more?

Author:  francesn [ 19 Jun 2007, 00:01 ]
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True to Miss Dene’s word the next morning saw everyone packing for a trip to Die Blumen, by the Tiernsee in the Austrian Tyrol. By 7am they were sat in Minnie the Minibus, ready to make the long journey to Austria.

“Will we be able to see the original school?” Andrea asked Felicity who was sat beside her.

“I expect so,” her companion replied. “And we’ll go up to the Sonnalpe, and to Zillerthall, and the Baumersee, and up the Mondescheinspitz. Oh, we’ll go to Innsbruck too, and visit the salt caves…all the old haunts. Except they’ll be new to you.”

Andrea smiled tightly before turning her head to look out of the window.

“This is where we nearly died the first time we drove to Die Blumen,” Felicity leaned over to say. “A tree nearly fell on us…”

Andrea repressed the urge to sigh for the thousandth time, and concentrated on how wonderful it would be to see the places that Stephen had told her so much about.

Three (interminable) weeks passed in the Tyrol, and Joey, despite her best efforts, was forced to admit that Andrea had absolutely no connection to the Chalet School whatsoever. No distant cousins, no dead relatives who attended the school, nothing. Eventually she was forced to admit defeat and one Andrea Beattie was enrolled at the Chalet School to start the very next term.

Author:  Rosalin [ 19 Jun 2007, 17:04 ]
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Ooh, thanks for the update Fran.

What no connection to the CS at all? Surely she can't marry Steve if that is the case :wink:

I'm impressed at the lengths she will go to in order to make a favourable impression on his mother though.

Author:  Rob [ 19 Jun 2007, 18:39 ]
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Thanks Fran!

*Wonders if Andrea will also have to visit Guernsey, Armishire and St. Bravials?*

Author:  Sarah_K [ 19 Jun 2007, 19:10 ]
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Andrea must have a world of patience! Though I don't think I'd turn down a trip to the Tiernsee...

Thanks Fran

Author:  leahbelle [ 20 Jun 2007, 10:20 ]
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That must have been a tough three weeks for Andrea!

Author:  Fiona Mc [ 21 Jun 2007, 02:06 ]
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At first I was thinking poor Andrea, but now I'm wondering what she's up too. Does she have something up her sleeve? We know she does marry steve in the end so how does she convince Joey???? :wink:

Author:  jilianb [ 14 Jul 2008, 18:50 ]
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I've just read this and would love to know what happens next. Is there any chance of an update?

Author:  Tara [ 14 Jul 2008, 23:38 ]
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Just found this and all I can say is :shock: :shock: :shock: !

Thanks, Fran :D .

Author:  Sandra [ 15 Jul 2008, 21:40 ]
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I've just found this too. Is it too rude to start chanting for more?

Author:  Elle [ 15 Jul 2008, 21:46 ]
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*splutters hystrically and then joins the chant*

Author:  francesn [ 27 Jul 2008, 14:58 ]
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Your chanting appears to have created mystical vibrations which have unearthed my misplaced USB key which contains all CS drabbles (well I knew it was somewhere but it was rather buried in stuff) so more can now be written.

Author:  JennieP [ 04 Aug 2008, 18:58 ]
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Oh goody! Looking forward to it!

Author:  Emma A [ 04 Aug 2008, 19:10 ]
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Yay! Go Frances, please may we have more of this?

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