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#1: Not Your Average Kind of Sale complete 17/8 p5 Author: pim, Location: Hemel Hempstead

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 4:37 pm
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Possibly not complete. Possibly complete. Depends how bullied I get by my bunnies... and how inspired my home county makes me.

“And that brings us to this time of the year again,” said Lucy Peters as she looked around her fellow prefects expectantly.
“That time of the year what?” asked Felicity Maynard, who was tilting slightly on her chair, a bored expression on her face.
“For the Sale, idiot,” retorted Lucy, pulling her friend’s chair back upright. Felicity stuck her tongue out in reply. “Any ideas anyone?”
Felicity shrugged. “Only it’d ought to be something to better what my sisters managed,” she said with a grin. “Not that I’ve got any ideas, mind you, completely devoid of them. I am like a black hole, or something,” she added with a giggle, stopping as she noticed Lucy frowning at her.
“I can’t think of anything that’s not been done before though,” groaned Jean Morrison. “Everyone seems to have bagged all the best ideas before.”
“Well we’re not going to get anywhere with such a defeatist attitude, are we?” put in Molly Winters suddenly.
“Got something up your sleeve, Moll?” asked Felicity. “Isn’t there something typically Derbyshire-ish we could do?”
Molly shrugged. “I never pay attention to these things when I’m home for the hols – the county’s just full of sheep and hills. Although…” she paused and thought for a moment. “I do believe I may just have a germ of an idea…”
Felicity gave a whoop of delight, silenced by a glare from Lucy. “Sorry, Moll. Go on with your idea.”
“There’s Well Dressing,” said Molly.
“What on earth…” began Felicity.
“Ooooooooh,” came from Jean suddenly. “I’ve seen that when we were there on holiday a few years ago. There’s a picture in the geog text book of it – you know the one, Lucy.”
“And Mr Darcy’s Pemberley is in Derbyshire,” added Molly.
Felicity sat bolt upright, her eyes shining. “Is anyone else thinking what I’m thinking?”
“Possibly not,” retorted Jean.
“A Pemberley, Derbyshire sale!” exclaimed Felicity, pushing her hands through her hair. “Don’t you see? We could have a backdrop of hills and… and someone who knows Pride and Prejudice better than me could think of themed stalls from it. And we can have people dressed up as Pride and Prejudice characters. And… and… isn’t that Plague place in Derbyshire?”
“Eyam? Yes,” replied Molly.
“So we can do something with that. And the Lucky Dip could be a dressed well…”
“There’s a sheep dipping bridge or something in Ashford-in-the-Water,” put in Molly, catching on to Felicity’s enthusiasm. “We could have that leading up to the Lucky Dip Well. And there are plenty of other famous Derbyshire people we could have people dress up as. Plus I’m sure my parents could get us some edibles – like Buxton water, and Dove Dale cheese, and Bakewell Tart, and Swizzels Sweets. And there are village carnivals EVERYWHERE so we’d have to have a carnival queen and things,” she stopped to catch her breath as Felicity grinned expectantly at the others.
Lucy smiled. “I do believe we have a plan. I just hope the Abbess will agree to it!”
“Oh I’m sure she will!” exclaimed Felicity as she suddenly burst into a fit of giggles. “I’ve just thought of the pièce de résistance.” She glanced around the puzzled expressions of her fellow prefects. “We can dress Bruno up as a sheep!”

Last edited by pim on Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:20 pm; edited 15 times in total

#2: Author: Róisín,

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 4:42 pm
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Sounds like a great idea for a Sale! Do continue Pim Very Happy

#3: Author: Fatima, Location: Sunny Qatar

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 4:50 pm
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I'm in favour of more of this, thanks, pim!

#4: Author: Kat, Location: Abertawe

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:01 pm
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Definitely more! *feeds the bunnies*

#5: Author: MaryR, Location: Cheshire

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:41 pm
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You make me feel I'm at home. Pim, with all these places I know. Laughing

Thank you.

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

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:52 pm
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Fantastic

*still spluttering over Felicity's idea*

Thanks, Pim

#7: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:54 pm
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*pats the bunnies nicely*

More please pim! Thank you Very Happy

Kathryn

#8: Author: arky72, Location: Cheshire

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:11 pm
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I still can't read that last line without giggling! At least now everyone who was at the Derbyshire Gather now know what it says, as I think I laughed that much I was incomprehensible!

#9: Author: Rosy-Jess, Location: Gloucestershire-London-Aberystwyth

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:16 pm
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This is so fabbity. Please may we have some more Pim?

#10: Author: alicat, Location: Wiltshire

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:57 am
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perhaps they could use Bruno as a comp as well - guess the well-known saying?

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

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:04 am
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More, more, more!

Peas pimmy?

#12: Author: pim, Location: Hemel Hempstead

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:40 am
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arky72 wrote:

At least now everyone who was at the Derbyshire Gather now know what it says, as I think I laughed that much I was incomprehensible!

At least you didn't nearly fall on my head at that point though... Laughing

To begin with, her fellow prefects looked at Felicity as though she had gone completely mad before they fell about in peals of laughter at the thought of it.

“You can’t be serious, Fliss,” groaned Jean, managing to pull herself together momentarily.
Felicity looked wounded. “Of course I am. I’m sure Mamma will agree.”
“That’s as may be,” put in Lucy thoughtfully, looking every inch the Head Girl. “But we do need to send a deputation to the Abbess about it first of all before Fliss had any more wild ideas.”
Felicity looked indignant. “She’ll love it. How can she not when it’s full of such literary references as Pride and Prejudice?” She stopped as Lucy raised her eyebrow. “So who’s going to be in the deputation to the Head then?”
“Not you for a start,” retorted Lucy. “Molly will have to go, of course. And Jean, we can rely on you to be sensible.”
“And you as well, Lucy” replied Jean, blushing.
“That’s a given,” grinned Felicity.

The deputation duly presented itself at Miss Annersley’s study the following afternoon, having refined its ideas regarding the Sale as well as vetoing a few of Felicity’s wilder ones. However, as that young lady had so confidently predicted, the Head had listened to the proposal with interest and enthusiasm, declaring it to be a fine idea indeed.

“Well?” demanded Felicity, leaping from her seat in the common room at the return of the deputation. “Did she like it?”
“Careful, Fliss, you’ll have us all over leaping about like that,” grumbled Peggy Simpson whose knitting she had upset.
“Fliss, you idiot,” giggled Lucy. “The Abbess has agreed to it.”
“Hurrah!” cried Felicity, pirouetting (or a close approximation thereof) in the middle of the common room floor. “We’ll make this Sale the best ever or my name’s not Felicity Josephine Maynard!”

#13: Author: Kat, Location: Abertawe

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:45 am
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Very Happy

Thank you Pimberly!

#14: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:56 am
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Thanks, Pim. I think it is a great idea and I'm glad Hilda agreed to it.

#15: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:10 pm
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A supremely excellent idea! Thanks pim Very Happy

Kathryn

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

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:11 pm
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Ooh! Pim's gather drabble with an extension!

Looking forward to more now! Very Happy

#17: Author: aitchemelle, Location: West Sussex

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:26 pm
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See look - me reading a drabble! (It's cos its on page one!! lol) Luffly drabble honey! Very Happy

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

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:00 pm
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Love the ideas - and they should definitely dress Bruno up as a sheep Very Happy

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Thanks, Pim!

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

Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:11 am
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How fine! And yay for it being agreed!

Ta pimbles!

#20: Author: little_sarah, Location: Liverpool/Manchester

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:21 pm
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Sounds like a great idea for a Sale! Though I'm not too sure how Bruno would react to being dressed up like that.
*can see the house that was used as the BBC Pemberly if I go upstairs* Very Happy

#21: Author: pim, Location: Hemel Hempstead

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:29 am
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Lalala, my muse deserted me last week (bad Lyra!) but she appears to be back again...

The usual fervour of excitement descended on the school once they knew what The Sale, for it was always spoken of in capital letters, was to be and what they would be doing for it. The Hobbies Club was, as ever, devoted to producing items for The Sale and all the girls were giving their absolute all to ensure that it would be the best ever. The Juniors were thrilled with their lucky dip and being allowed to help create the dressed well and the sheep dipping bridge. The Middles had been given the Pemberley stall for the games and quizzes and they were all trying their hardest to remain on their best behaviour in order that this treat was not taken away from them. The Seniors were to take charge of the other stalls which fell under the umbrella of a village carnival and the more ambitious among them determined to have the stalls looking like carnival floats.

“I do believe we’re jolly organised on the whole Sale front,” Lucy Peters concluded at a Prefects’ meeting a few weeks later.
“Mamma had a letter from Tom Gay the other day,” put in Felicity suddenly. “She’s sending the usual doll’s house but she was being very mysterious about what she’d managed to do this time. All the same, hurrah for Tom, I say, she’s never let us down!”
“No, she hasn’t,” replied Lucy thoughtfully as she turned to Jean Morrison. “How are the entertainments coming along Jean? The Morris dancing didn’t seem to be going overly well when I put my head round the Hall door the other evening.”
Jean grinned. “It’s getting there – I must say though it’s trickier to learn than I could have ever imagined. But the sketches are going really well – the one about Eyam and the Plague is brilliant and the ones about the Mermaid on Kinder Scout and Hob Hurst the giant are going really well too.”
“Oh, I almost forgot to mention,” said Lucy suddenly. “Gaudenz is going to make us a second sheep dipping bridge to go over to the garden at Freudesheim – the clock golf and the like will be there.”
“Oh how tophole!” exclaimed Felicity. “That reminds me though, I must mention to Mamma about borrowing Bruno for the occasion…”

#22: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:33 am
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Thanks, Pim. I hope they will be able to borrow Bruno.

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

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:13 pm
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So she's not forgotten bruno then...

Thanks pimmy!

#24: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:16 pm
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Thanks pim, this seems like it's going to be a fab sale!

#25: Author: aitchemelle, Location: West Sussex

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:48 pm
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Excellent sounding sale Pim! I approve! Very Happy

#26: Author: Ruth B, Location: Oxford, UK

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:21 pm
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Sounds lovely. Are they going to enact "The Roses of Eyam"? Twas one of my GCSE texts and very moving.

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

Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:34 am
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Oooh I am most excited about seeing Bruno dressed up as a sheep.

Thanks Pim

#28: Author: pim, Location: Hemel Hempstead

Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:47 am
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Felicity had been rather cloak and dagger about her plans for Bruno after her initial declaration of intent not wanting everyone to know about it in case something should go disastrously wrong. The following day, for once with a clear conscience, Felicity made her way to Miss Annersley’s study to beg permission to pay a brief visit to Freduesheim that afternoon in her free period. Relieved to have escaped unscathed and without having to reveal her idea to the Head, Felicity slipped out of the school that afternoon and through the adjoining gate to Freudesheim where she found her mother, once Joey Bettany of the Chalet School, in the back garden deeply engrossed in her latest book. Grinning to herself, Felicity crept up on her mother appearing around that lady’s shoulder to plant a kiss on her cheek.

“Oh Felicity!” cried Jo. “You made me jump!”
“Sorry Mamma,” grinned her irrepressible daughter in reply, plumping down into the seat beside Jo. “I couldn’t help myself.”
“You never could,” her mother retorted. “What brings you over here at this time of the day anyway?”
“I’ve got a favour to ask of you.” Jo raised an eyebrow. “Would you lend me Bruno for the Sale?”
“What on earth do you want him for?” asked Jo, her curiosity wildly aroused.
“It’s a secret. Please Mamma, it’ll spoil the surprise if I tell anyone, even you. Not even Auntie Hilda knows.”
“This is all a bit cloak and dagger isn’t it?”
“Yes, Mamma, it’s a secret.”
Jo sighed. “Very well, Felicity, you may borrow Bruno and I’m intrigued to see what you want with him! Which reminds me, I’ve started on some jigsaws for you.”
“Ripping! I’d better get back to school, I promised Auntie Hilda I’d only be a few minutes and I’ve got some beastly geog prep to be getting on with or Ferry will eat me alive!”

Jo sighed and shook her head as she watched Felicity bound off through the gate back to the Chalet School.

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

Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:50 am
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I wonder whether Bruno will react well to being dressed up as a sheep!!

Thank you Pim, really enjoying this! Very Happy

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

Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:22 am
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*wondering just when Jo will find out what Felicity has planned for Bruno* Laughing

#31: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:03 pm
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Thanks, Pim. I hope the plan works.

#32: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:53 pm
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Hehehe...can't wait to see what she has in store for Bruno!

Thanks pim Very Happy

#33: Author: La Petite Em, Location: Cheltenham

Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 9:59 pm
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This is great pim!!!
Thanks!!! Very Happy

#34: Author: pim, Location: Hemel Hempstead

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:47 pm
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“I can’t believe it’s tomorrow!” exclaimed Felicity excitedly the evening before The Sale as she, Lucy and Jean stood in the middle of the Hall surveying the preparations for the following day. “Doesn’t it all look…” she paused, searching her vocabulary for the adjective that would best sum up the way she was feeling.
“Gollumptious,” supplied Lucy.
“Yes,” replied Felicity with a grin. “That would be it.”
“What’s there left to do in the morning?” asked Jean cautiously.
Lucy glanced at the list in her hand. “Sorting out the things for the refreshments, putting everything on the stalls and…”
“And what?” was Felicity’s anxious question.
“Has Auntie Jo said anything to you about Tom’s doll’s house?”
Felicity shrugged. “Not that I can recall other than that she was sending one. I expect she’ll have sent it to Mamma as usual so that we don’t get beside ourselves with curiosity and peek at it before the day.”
“I suppose you’re right,” sighed Lucy. “Jean, did you make sure the door was locked on the costume cupboard?”
Jean nodded. “I’m not a complete idiot, Lu. If it had been Fliss…”
“Slander!” retorted Felicity with a swift punch to her friend’s arm.
“Idiots,” grinned Lucy. “Isn’t this all simply marvellous?”
“Yes,” replied Felicity promptly. “And we’ve done it all ourselves. It’s our Sale and it’s going to beat the lot of them.”
“Fliss…” began Jean.
“Yes?”
“Bruno.”
“What about him?”
“You’re not still going ahead with that crazed scheme of yours about dressing him up as a sheep are you?”
“Might be.”
“Does your mother know?”
“She knows I’m borrowing Bruno just not what I’m doing with him.”
Lucy giggled. “I wouldn’t like to be in your shoes tomorrow when she finds out!”
“Oh Mamma won’t mind – she couldn’t, not after all the things she got up to when she was a pupil here! Anyway, let’s go back to the Common Room, we can’t stay here all night.”

With some reluctance the three tore themselves away from the Hall bedecked in its backdrops of hills. The well dressing had been set up in one corner for the Juniors and the village carnival in another for the Seniors, but standing proud above it all was Pemberley which, with a lot of help from Gaudenz, they had modelled on Chatsworth House. The refreshments would be served out in the grounds under the guise of a village teashop which would need completing the following morning. The three headed back to the Common Room with a mixture of anticipation and nerves, hoping fervently that the following day would be the success they all wanted it to be.

#35: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:46 pm
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Can't wait to see Bruno as a sheep!

Thanks pim, this is really great!

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

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:51 pm
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Looking forward to the actual day!

#37: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:01 pm
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Thanks, Pim. I am also looking forward to the sale.

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

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:46 am
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*looking forward to seeing Bruno*

Laughing

#39: Author: arky72, Location: Cheshire

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:57 pm
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All I can say is that it's a good job I won't be sitting on the top of ths slide when we get to the bit about Bruno being a sheep, or I would definitely be landing on your head then!! Laughing

#40: Author: leahbelle, Location: Kilmarnock

Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:13 pm
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Looking forward to seeing Bruno as a sheep!

#41: Author: pim, Location: Hemel Hempstead

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:56 am
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arky72 wrote:

All I can say is that it's a good job I won't be sitting on the top of ths slide when we get to the bit about Bruno being a sheep, or I would definitely be landing on your head then!! Laughing

*eeks* And I only have the one head as well...!!!

Felicity awoke early the following morning as the light streamed in through the window of her dormitory. Stealing a glance at her watch she discovered that it wasn’t quite six yet and sighed. The dormitory was silent, the rest of her charges all sound asleep. Stealthily, Felicity sat up in bed and peeked out between the curtains, thankful of the advantages to having a window cubicle, breathing a quick sigh of relief at the sight of the clear blue sky and rising sun. Burrowing back down beneath her covers, she reached for her book to keep her occupied until the rising bell sounded throughout the school, little knowing that she hadn’t been the only one checking the weather before it was time to get up.

“Show a leg! Show a leg!”

There was a frantic scramble within moments of the rising bell, everyone only too keenly aware how precious time was in the mornings at the Chalet School. Most of the girls had already been awake by the time the bell had rung, unable to sleep through excitement. Permission had to be granted for them to speak in their own languages at breakfast in a desperate bid to try and calm things down a little, but to no avail.

The Prefects were supervising the last details in the Hall before everyone needed to go and change into their costumes. Muttering something to Lucy to excuse herself, only a couple of the girls noticed Felicity slip off from the Hall and wondered where she was going…

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

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:01 am
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Still no Bruno-sheep! Evil or Very Mad

Thanks, Pim

#43: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:17 am
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Let's hope that's where Felicity has gone!

Thanks pim

#44: Author: leahbelle, Location: Kilmarnock

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:04 pm
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*shouts on the Bruno-sheep!*

#45: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:58 pm
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Thanks, Pim. I can't wait.

#46: Author: pim, Location: Hemel Hempstead

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:11 pm
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“Bruno, for goodness sake, hold still just for a moment!” exclaimed Felicity despairingly as she tried her hardest to attach her carefully prepared costume on to her mother’s pride and joy. Bruno, however, wasn’t quite as enthralled by this plan and seemed determined to thwart her. Felicity flopped to the floor with a sigh as she and Bruno eyed each other suspiciously.
“Fliss?” Recognising Jean’s voice as she knocked on the door, Felicity leapt to her feet, opened the door of the store cupboard a fraction and pulled Jean inside. “What on earth are you doing?”
“Bruno the sheep, remember.”
Jean stared wide eyed at her friend. “I thought you were joking.”
“Wish I had been,” grumbled Felicity. “I can’t get him to sit still to put this wretched costume on. You’ll have to help.”
Jean stared at Felicity in disbelief. “You are kidding?”
“No. I’m quite serious for once in my life.”
“But we haven’t time. Lucy sent me to look for you because people are just about to start arriving. She’s going frantic wondering where you’re hiding out! It might just be best to forget about it, Fliss.”
“Not likely,” she retorted. “It’ll only take a moment with two of us. Please Jean?”

Jean sighed and the two of them set to work, emerging from the store cupboard several minutes later with a sheepish Bruno following several paces behind, looking rather disgruntled with his lot.

“Fliss, there you are!” exclaimed Lucy as Felicity and Jean entered the Hall. “Where have you…” she broke off, catching sight of Bruno as he walked sedately in after the two of them. “Fliss, is that…”
“What?” was the innocent question posed in reply.
“Bruno?” asked Lucy tentatively.
“Yup.”
“Oh good grief!”
“Lucy, Felicity.” Their Headmistress’ voice broke the conversation and they turned to see her standing holding out a box to them. “I thought you might want this. It’s from Tom…” she broke off on sight of Bruno and, for the first time in a very long time, Miss Annersley was rendered completely and utterly speechless.

#47: Author: leahbelle, Location: Kilmarnock

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:30 pm
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I wish there were pictures! Thanks, Pim. Am loving this. Why didn't EBD write about sales like this one?!

#48: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:47 pm
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Thank you pim, what an utterly fabulous sight that must have been!

#49: Author: Ally, Location: John Bettany's Cabin!

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:51 pm
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pim wrote:

..with a sheepish Bruno..

rofl!

How splondeed and rather neldarific!

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

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:18 pm
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Fabulous! Laughing

The pictures this is conjuring up in my mind are truly wonderful!

Thank you Pim!

#51: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:34 pm
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Thanks, Pim. It was great to see Miss Annersley speechless!

#52: Author: pim, Location: Hemel Hempstead

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:06 am
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Lucy reached out and took the box from her Headmistress and made a sharp exit with it.

“Miss Annersley?” queried Felicity tentatively.
The Headmistress of the Chalet School shook herself, suddenly regaining the power of speech. “Is that…”
“Bruno, yes,” replied Felicity matter of factedly.
“I see. Does your mother know?”
Felicity awkwardly rubbed the back of her left leg with her right foot. “She knows I’ve borrowed him…”
Miss Annersley raised an eyebrow. “I see,” she began, breaking off as a voice drifted across the Hall that they both knew so well.
“Mamma!” exclaimed Felicity upon seeing that lady. “We weren’t expecting you just yet.”
“Well I’d got myself into such a muddle with the new book that I thought I’d be better off over here. Felicity?”
“Yes?” She followed her mother’s gaze to Bruno.
“Is that…”
Felicity sighed. “Bruno. Yes.”

As Miss Annersley had been, Joey Maynard found herself also rendered completely speechless before she began to laugh and the laugh was infectious. Soon she and Miss Annersley were clinging to each other laughing helplessly as they sank inelegantly into the nearest chairs. Bruno looked at them both disapprovingly and with a resounding “woof” bounded away across the Hall.

“Bruno! No! Come back!” cried Felicity setting off after him at full pelt in order to prevent too much chaos being caused, eventually catching up with him at the other end of the Hall where no damage had been done but two small Juniors were a little shaken having not quite managed to get out of the way of Bruno’s path on time. “Come on Bruno,” she said with a sigh, reluctantly attaching his lead to him. “I want to go and have a look at Tom’s doll’s house.”

Felicity found the rest of the Prefects gathered around the newly opened parcel from Tom Gay.

“Fliss, look,” said Lucy excitedly. “Tom’s well and truly outdone herself this time!”

Lucy and Molly shuffled a little to allow Felicity to squeeze in between them and she found herself looking at a Pemberley doll’s house complete with a Mr Darcy and Elizabeth.

“Wow,” breathed Felicity. “But what’s the competition?”
“It’s a peach,” grinned Jean, handing over a sheet of paper to her friend.

#53: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:16 am
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Trust Joey to see the funny side Very Happy

Thanks pim, this is fabulous!

#54: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:42 pm
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Thanks, Pim. At least they were laughing.

#55: Author: leahbelle, Location: Kilmarnock

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:44 pm
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Glad they all saw the funny side of it! Poor Bruno, dressed as a sheep!

#56: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:00 pm
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Thanks, Pim. I'm glad that Joey or Miss Annersley weren't annoyed. I wonder what the competition for the dolls' house will be.

#57: Author: aitchemelle, Location: West Sussex

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:19 pm
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Thank you Pim! HURRAH for Bruno as a sheepy!
Me likes sheepy! Very Happy

#58: Author: Elle, Location: Peterborough

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:42 am
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Shocked

I have just found this Pim and it is fantastic! I am loving Bruno as a sheep so much. It will keep me giggling all day I suspect.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

#59: Author: pim, Location: Hemel Hempstead

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:28 pm
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Felicity regarded the piece of paper in her hand for a moment before she began to chuckle. “It certainly is that!” she grinned, peering closely at the doll’s house.
“No cheating, Fliss,” said Lucy jovially, pulling Felicity back. “Wait until you’ve paid before you start doing that!”
Felicity gave a friendly shrug in reply. “It’s jolly splendid though. I wonder if anyone will get it,” she mused as she and Lucy wandered away from the stall. “Mamma’s already here so I guess everyone else must be thinking about arriving shortly.” She tucked her arm through Lucy’s. “I do hope it will all go okay.”
“I’m sure it will,” replied Lucy thoughtfully. “I really hope it does. I couldn’t bear it if it doesn’t.”
“It won’t if you’re going to be like that about it,” retorted Felicity resolutely. “Come on, let’s go and make sure everything’s under control. Bruno!”

On hearing Felicity’s voice, Bruno obediently trotted after her wondering when exactly he would be able to get out of this ludicrous costume.

The Hall was soon full of people browsing the stalls waiting for indication that they could begin to purchase. Several things had already been earmarked by people and a sense of eager anticipation hung in the air. Eventually the whistle blew and the Sale was open.

#60: Author: leahbelle, Location: Kilmarnock

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:45 pm
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Hope Bruno behaves himself!

#61: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:48 pm
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I wish I was at this Sale so much Very Happy

Thanks pim

#62: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:51 pm
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I am also hoping that I could be at the Sale.

#63: Author: brie, Location: Glasgow

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:42 pm
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Absolutely adoring this! The idea of Bruno as a sheep had me on the floor laughing!

#64: Author: Tara, Location: Malvern, Worcestershire

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:55 am
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Bruno as a sheep Shocked

No wonder the Head's speechless! Wonderful Laughing

#65: Author: Elle, Location: Peterborough

Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:16 am
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leahbelle wrote:

Hope Bruno behaves himself!

I don't! I would like to see a huge St Bernard sheep running amok!

Thanks.

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

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:42 am
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Wonderful! Wondering about the competition now though...

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

Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:32 pm
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*wants to win the house*

What's the competition? Would I have a chance? Wink

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

Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:31 pm
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*sinks inelegantly into the nearest chair and cries with laughter* Fabulous!

#69: Author: JayB, Location: SE England

Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:30 pm
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I do like Felicity in this. She is so lighthearted, in contrast to the triplets who always seemed burdened by the expectations heaped on them.

Jay B.

#70: Author: Lyanne, Location: Ipswich, England

Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:01 pm
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JayB wrote

Quote:

do like Felicity in this. She is so lighthearted, in contrast to the triplets who always seemed burdened by the expectations heaped on them.

Yes, she is someone I'd want to know & be friends with.

#71: Author: pim, Location: Hemel Hempstead

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:53 am
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Aha, recaptured the bunny...

It was proving to be an enjoyable day; the sun continued to shine and the various stalls were beginning to sell out, as could be witnessed by various people walking around, struggling under the weight of the goods in their arms. Felicity was keeping a firm eye on Bruno throughout proceedings to ensure that he didn’t take it upon himself to run amok. She had, eventually, managed to catch up with her mother and dragged her off to show her Tom’s doll’s house and make sure that she participated in the competition.

“It’s… it’s…” Joey stammered upon instruction of what to do.
“A peach, isn’t it?” supplemented Felicity. “Well, can you find it? You’ll have to be quick – you’ve only got a minute!”
Joey gaped at her daughter. “Is that all?”
Felicity nodded and smiled. “You’d best get on then, hadn’t you?” she laughed.

Joey responded by pulling a face wildly reminiscent of her younger days at the Chalet School before giving her full attention to finding the peach in the doll’s house.

The entertainments the school had got up proceeded to go well and were much appreciated by all. Finally the moment the attendees had all been waiting for arrived as everyone gathered around the stage to hear the results of the competitions whilst a select group took the proceedings off to be counted. Jean Morrison noticed the concerned expression on Felicity’s face as she slipped into the seat beside her.

“What’s wrong, Fliss?” she whispered.
“I can’t find Bruno.”

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

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:54 am
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Oooops! Hope he's not terrorising the neighbourhood as a wolf in sheep's clothing Laughing

Thanks, Pim

#73: Author: Ruth B, Location: Oxford, UK

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:57 am
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I think "oops" is the required word here!

#74: Author: leahbelle, Location: Kilmarnock

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:17 pm
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A definite ooops!

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

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:59 pm
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Oops indeed!

#76: Author: alicat, Location: Wiltshire

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:43 am
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hope bruno hasn't found the tea-tables........

#77: Author: pim, Location: Hemel Hempstead

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:14 pm
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“You idiot,” hissed Jean.
“I know,” retorted Felicity in an undertone. “Look, just help me come and find him before he goes too much on the rampage. Please?”

Jean sighed and she and Felicity slipped out of the back of the Hall and headed off on the hunt for Bruno. They didn’t have to look too far, discovering Bruno fast asleep amidst a pile of broken plates and cake where he had managed to pull the table cloth off one of the tables and eaten his fill before settling down to sleep. Felicity let out a groan of dismay.

“Oh Bruno!” Don’t laugh, Jean,” she cried at her friend who had sunk into the nearest chair shaking with laughter. “Bruno,” she said, shaking him lightly. “You bad dog!” Bruno stirred reluctantly and looked sheepishly at Felicity for a moment before closing his eyes and going back to sleep. “Oh no you don’t. Jean, what are we going to do?”
“Tidy it up, I would suppose,” proposed Jean, having managed to stop laughing. “Or at least do the best that we can.”

With a sigh the two girls set about tidying up the worst of the mess, Jean running to the kitchens first to beg a dustpan and brush to sweep up the shattered plates. Bruno remained calmly asleep throughout proceedings, completely unaware of the glares coming in his direction from Felicity.

“That’ll have to do,” Felicity declared eventually. “We’d best get back to the Hall before anyone notices we’re gone. Come on, Bruno.”

Bruno trotted down the corridor reluctantly behind Jean and Felicity, wishing that he could get out of the ridiculous costume. Nobody seemed to have noticed that Felicity and Jean had been missing and they slipped back into their seats without causing too much commotion, unlike Bruno…

#78: Author: leahbelle, Location: Kilmarnock

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:47 pm
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What's Bruno going to do!! Shocked

#79: Author: Ruth B, Location: Oxford, UK

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:50 pm
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Poor Bruno. It's really not his fault!

#80: Author: Tara, Location: Malvern, Worcestershire

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:48 pm
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Quote:

Bruno stirred reluctantly and looked sheepishly at Felicity

Ouch!

This is such fun. Go, Bruno, go!

He's obviously a relative of my dog, who today has
1. Stolen half my dinner while I went to get a drink
2. Taken a bird away from the cat and eaten it (bird, not cat).
She hasn't even the excuse of being dressed as a sheep!

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

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:48 am
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Well they've found him, but are they going to wish they hadn't?

Thanks, Pim

#82: Author: brie, Location: Glasgow

Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:56 am
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thanks pim, i've just caught up on this and its getting funnier and funnier.

#83: Author: pim, Location: Hemel Hempstead

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:15 am
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Unfortunately for Miss Annersley, Bruno didn’t quite realise the significance of announcing who had won Tom’s doll’s house and he was rather bored by this stage in proceedings. Oblivious to Felicity’s hissed command to stay with her, Bruno decided it was now or never to make his bid for freedom and be rid of the irritating costume. Via the stage. Alas, for Miss Annersley never quite knew what hit her, other than several pounds of rather disgruntled St Bernard.

For some moments there was an uneasy silence, followed by audible gasps of surprise and the familiar sounds of smothered giggles at the sight of the usually dignified headmistress disentangling herself from the parts of Bruno’s rapidly disintegrating costume that he had left behind and picking herself back up to calmly carry on with proceedings as though nothing had happened. Knowing that the incident would not be easily forgotten, she cast a sharp glare at both Miss Wilson and Joey Maynard who were doing their best to stifle their laughter and resolved to have words with Felicity Maynard once proceedings were over. Joey, picking up on the glare, decided it was high time she retrieved Bruno and took him home to Freudesheim. Bruno was only too glad to be returned to Anna’s safe hands.

“The winner of Tom’s magnificent doll’s house,” announced Miss Annersley, pausing purposefully for dramatic effect and surreptitiously brushing away some of the dust from her skirt. “Is Lieserl Tomas, who spotted the peach under one of the chairs of the long gallery.” There was a round of applause as little Lieserl of the third form climbed up on to the stage to collect her prize, blushing wildly as she did so. “And now, I believe,” continued Miss Annersley with a glance over to Rosalie Dene. “That we can hear how much the Sale has made.” Rosalie nodded in agreement and handed a slip of paper over to Jack Maynard.

#84: Author: Fatima, Location: Sunny Qatar

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:55 am
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Laughing

Poor Miss Annersley! How undignified!

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

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:34 pm
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Bad Bruno!

Laughing

Thanks, Pim

#86: Author: pim, Location: Hemel Hempstead

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:10 pm
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“Ah,” said Jack a little awkwardly. “Apparently, the Sale has made more than the last one.” He paused as a series of cheers went up around the Hall. “However, I have been asked to inform you that an exact total won’t be quite ready until sometime over the next couple of days when all the expenditure has been calculated to get a better result.” He glanced around a few of the long faces in front of him. “However, I propose three cheers to the Chalet School for yet another wonderful Sale day!”

The Hall resounded with the cheers of all the guests.

Another successful Sale day at the Chalet School had drawn to a close, the last of the guests had departed and the girls were finishing tidying up the Hall. Felicity Maynard was doing her best to hide from Miss Annersely, knowing, however, that she would be unable to for too long.

“Felicity.”

She knew the voice so well and felt her heart sink and her knees begin to shake a little as they had so often done as a naughty middle hauled up before the Head over her latest prank.

“Yes, Miss Annersley?” she asked meekly.
“A word, if you please.”

#87: Author: leahbelle, Location: Kilmarnock

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:41 pm
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Uh oh!

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

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:55 pm
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Ooops, Felicity is for it now! Laughing

Thanks Pim, this is wonderful!

#89: Author: Josie, Location: London

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:56 pm
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Oops, Felicity!

Thanks, Pim Laughing

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

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:02 pm
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Oh dear ...

#91: Author: pim, Location: Hemel Hempstead

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:19 pm
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Felicity followed Miss Annersley out of the Hall, looking as sheepish as Bruno had done earlier.

“Auntie – Miss Annersely,” she began, correcting herself and deciding that she may as well try and get in first. “I’m ever so sorry about Bruno… I… I didn’t think.”
“No, that much is obvious, Felicity,” her Headmistress replied shortly.
“It just seemed like a good idea at the time. How was I to know that Bruno would get bored and go and try and eat all the contents of the tea table and… and then…” Felicity broke off, trying to suppress a giggle at the memory of the beloved St Bernard bowling over her Headmistress. She stopped under the steely glare of Miss Annersley. “I’m sorry,” she muttered.
“Yes,” replied Miss Annersely at length, the corners of her mouth twitching as she struggled to hide the fact that she was dying to laugh over the whole situation.
“Jean and I did our best to tidy up the mess that Bruno had made with the cake.”
“I do appreciate that, Felicity, but really…” she trailed off, unable to hold back the laughter any longer. Felicity stared in horror, convinced that her brevet-aunt had finally taken leave of her senses. “In all seriousness, Felicity,” continued Miss Annersley, pulling herself together. “I know there was no way you could have foreseen what happened but really, did you not stop to think for a moment that of course Bruno was bound to get bored being paraded around in that costume all day?”
Felicity shook her head. “It seemed like such a good idea I don’t think I really thought around it properly.” She stared down at the floor for a moment. “So what now Auntie – Miss Annersley?”

There were a few raised eyebrows, but most people knew better than to ask when Felicity found herself giving out hymnbooks for Prayers the following morning dressed in the sheep costume that had been found in the back of the dressing up cupboard.

And Bruno, after a scolding from his mistress over his behaviour, was never expected to help out in such a fashion at the Sale again.

The Derbyshire Sale, however, found its own way into the legends of the Chalet School, for somewhat obvious reasons.

The End.

#92: Author: brie, Location: Glasgow

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:55 pm
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Pim!!!!! that was the funniest, most awesome ending. I'm torn between laughing hysterically at felicity, and being ultra sad because the drabble is finished.

#93: Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:10 pm
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Very amusing! Laughing

punishment fitting the crime, oh dear. Laughing

#94: Author: leahbelle, Location: Kilmarnock

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:51 pm
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That's so funny! Thanks Very Happy

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

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:23 pm
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Laughing

What an apt punishment!!

Thank you so much Pim! Very Happy

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

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:37 pm
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*laughs hysterically*

Thanks Pim - I wasn't expecting that at all!

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

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:07 pm
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*rofl*

What a fitting punishment!

Thanks, Pim Laughing

#98: Author: Tara, Location: Malvern, Worcestershire

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:48 pm
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Very Happy

This has been great, Pim - sorry it's finished.. Many thanks.

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

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:25 am
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Oh Pim!!!!

Poor Felicity!

*sniggers*

#100: Author: Ally, Location: John Bettany's Cabin!

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:20 am
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*giggling at the image* What a fitting punishment indeed.

Thank you pim

#101: Author: Ruth B, Location: Oxford, UK

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:04 pm
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Great punishment!

Thanks Pim

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