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#1: The Prize - complete - drabble challenge Author: Mia, Location: London

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:00 pm
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This is for the Drabble Challenge. I've moved it to St Clare's cos I didn't know where to put it - but pls move it mods if you know where it could go!

Dr. Graves rose again and began his speech.

"I understand that there is still one more prize to be given," he began. "Some years ago, Mrs Maynard established what is known as the Margot Venables Prize, which is given to the girl who most fulfils the ideal the pupils of the Chalet School have always held. Margot Venables, the mother of Daisy and Primula Venables was a very brave and good woman and worked as Matron before the school moved from the Tyrol. She was also responsible for safely escorting Lady Russell’s children across Europe after the Anschluss. Tragically she was not in good health at the time and was lost to us during her first months in Guernsey.

“You girls have asked that the prize be re-named as the Josephine Maynard Prize but it has been decided not to do that, for the sake of Margot herself who shouldn’t be forgotten. It’s less than twenty years after she passed away, after all! So I’m very sorry to disappoint anybody, but it will remain as the Margot Venables Prize. I will now call on that girl to come and receive from Mrs. Maynard the prize she has so richly deserved."

#2: Author: Róisín,

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:04 pm
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Thanks for that Mia Very Happy

I tend to forget all the valuable stuff that Margot actually *did* in her lifetime, because EBD passes over it so easily.
Must start writing my own entry!

#3: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:55 pm
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Thanks Mia - it's always annoyed me that the prize was renamed!

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

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:01 pm
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Just how it should have been.

Thanks Mia Very Happy

#5: Author: Fatima, Location: Sunny Qatar

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:27 pm
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That's exactly what EBD should have written! Thanks, Mia.

#6: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:07 pm
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That was perfect Mia, thank you

Kathryn

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

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:54 pm
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Thanks, Mia. I'm glad that the prize was able to stay as the Margot Venables Prize.

#8: Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:11 pm
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I like this version. Smile

Thanks, Mia.

#9: Author: Josie, Location: London

Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:45 pm
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Kathy_S wrote:

I like this version. Smile

Thanks, Mia.

Me too!

Thanks Mia. Very Happy

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

Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:39 pm
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Quite right to - if Jo wants her own prize, she should endow it herself.

#11: Author: leahbelle, Location: Kilmarnock

Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:54 pm
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Absolutely - Jo shouldn't steal other peoples' prizes!

#12: Author: Liane, Location: Manchester

Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:11 pm
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The way it should have been!

#13: Author: Phil, Location: London UK

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:20 pm
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Quite right too!

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