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#1: Chalet School at the Olympics Author: Richenda,

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:33 pm

Had a sudden inspiration whilst watching the Olympics. No research or anything done, so apologies for that!

The national anthem swelled. The tall girl stood on the centre of the podium, tears in her eyes, overcome with the emotion of winning gold. At the end of the anthem, the three medal winners gathered together for the customary photo opportunity. The gold and silver medal winners gave each other a bear hug – Gold and Silver for Great Britain!

Back in Switzerland, a select gathering of Gornetz Platz residents were at the Chalet School gathered around the television in the pretty staffroom watching events unfold. “I knew that Katt Gordon was destined for Wimbledon” remarked Miss Wilson “But an Olympic Gold – that is something special”.
“Not as special as Blossom Willoughby coming in with a Silver!” retorted Biddy Courvoisier, who had come over to the school for the party. “The girl was always heedless – didn’t think she had the temperament for it. Heaven knows what she’ll come out with in the press conference, I hope she curbs her slang”

Over-excited commentary made them swing their attention back to the television. “Oooh” said Kathie Ferrars “It’s the 800 metres final next. This is what we were waiting for!” The staff plumped down to watch the race, each helping themselves to a handful of chocolates to aid the process. The British girl appeared to be at the back of the pack, and the staff started cheering her on. As the leaders entered the final bend, the Brit started to move steadily through the pack, reaching the front with just 2 metres to go – another Gold!!!

Last edited by Richenda on Wed Sep 01, 2004 7:45 am; edited 1 time in total

#2: Author: Richenda,

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:36 pm

Grizel Sheppard grinned. “When Neil called Con a ‘fleet footed Thetis’ he was certainly on the mark! But even he never thought she’d be an Olympic gold medallist! What a performance we’re seeing from our girls”

The fact that three Chalet School girls had all won medals in the space of an hour was of great interest to the media. Of course, the women’s hockey team had also got a bronze the previous day, and ¾ of them were of course also former Chaletians, but 2 gold and a silver were something special.

The press conference began with all 3 athletes facing the media. Much was made of the school links, and the Gornetz residents all nodded with satisfaction, particularly Hilary Graves and Peggy Burnett who were looking remarkably smug considering they’d done very little. Blossom managed to refrain from the wilder elements of her vocabulary much to Miss Annersley’s relief, and Con’s habit of blurting out whatever came into her head stood her in good stead for facing the press.

#3: Author: Ciorstaidh, Location: London

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:38 pm

*waves the Union Jack, sings the national anthem and sits down for MORE!!!*

#4: Author: claire, Location: South Wales

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:21 pm

I was wondering about chalet girls in the Olympics this morning - but not to these extremes. Is Mary-Lou in the swimming?

#5: Author: Rachael,

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:34 pm

Richenda - that's inspired!!

*chortling*

Perhaps OOAO came a cropper?
*looks innocent Rolling Eyes

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

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:30 pm

Excellent idea! There are so many sporty girls, what potential! I hope theres more Very Happy

#7: Author: Laura, Location: London (ish)

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 4:00 pm

So do I!

#8: Author: lizzieb, Location: Ireland/France

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 4:10 pm

more please! Very Happy

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

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:19 pm

Maybe we could have someone unexpected. Verity-Anne for the high jump or pole vault anyone?

This is good though.

One question, have any of the girls from other countries won medals?

JackieJ

#10: Author: Helen P, Location: Cheshire

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:20 pm

This is great Richenda!

I'm joining the others eagerly awaiting MORE!

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

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:38 pm

Looks good! Are we all chanting?

#12: Author: Helen P, Location: Cheshire

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:45 pm

Definitely Vikki!

drummer

#13: Author: Katarzyna, Location: Preston, Lancashire

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:46 pm

excellent can't wait for the next bit................just a nice topical question......... which one's going to fail the dope test???

#14: Author: Laura, Location: London (ish)

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:50 pm

OMG yes! I completely hadn't thought of that! Perhaps Hilda and something she's been taking to avoid needing glasses??! Rolling Eyes

#15: Author: Lisa_T, Location: Belfast

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:57 pm

*snicker* or she's really been wearing contact lenses for all that time... specially tinted ones to get the steely look! Laughing

#16: Author: Richenda,

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:17 am

OK I've already completed it, so can't take into account ALL of your ideas, but one or two aren't too far off the mark...

Suddenly, clarion tones reached the stage from the back of the room “I’m here!!” the voice announced, and the three girls on the stage all groaned. Mary-Lou reached the stage clutching HER silver medal for the 1500M freestyle swimming. “I hope you hadn’t forgotten about ME!” she announced to the press. She could have sworn Katt Gordon muttered “fat chance” but a Chalet girl wouldn’t be so cruel so she discounted the thought.

Immediately, every question was hijacked by Mary-Lou – even ones specifically addressed to the other girls. After all, as Mary-Lou said to them – Con was too tactless, Blossom too slangy, and Katherine? Well, surely her Aunt’s disorganised nature had been passed to her. Of course Mary-Lou was best equipped to answer all the questions!

#17: Author: Richenda,

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:19 am

Back at the Chalet, the staff laughed indulgently “How like Mary-Lou! One of our best head girls! How she did it after that back injury!” Only Kathie Ferrars gave a slightly impatient sigh, but she’d learnt that as far as the staff were concerned, the sun shone from Miss Trelawney’s posterior, and it didn’t pay to argue.

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

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:14 am

Thank you Richenda *giggling happily*

#19: Author: Rachael,

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:39 am

ROFL!!!

*tickled that OOAO "only" got a silver!*

#20: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:26 pm

Echoes Rachael, but how typical of OOAO!

#21: Author: pygmy, Location: glasgow

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:07 pm

Hilarious! More please.

#22: Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September)

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:14 pm

Wonderful! Glad to see that Kathie has some sense though!

#23: Author: Richenda,

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:26 pm

Not sure whether to post the whole lot today? It's not v long. Here's a bit more anyway

The press conference was winding up, when a golden voice lifted up into “Hark, Hark the Lark” for no apparent reason. “Oh blast” said Con “Mother’s here”. Joey Maynard burst into the room, demanding attention. “Hello everyone, I’m here at last!!! Nearly missed the press conference. My car had no air in the tyres! I thought I saw Len messing with them, but she must have been trying to fix them for me!” She climbed up onto the dais, pushed Con gently out of her seat and plonked herself down.

“Well” she began impressively “I expect you’re all DYING to know how I won 5 gold medals – 100M freestyle, 200M Butterfly, 400M breaststroke, 800M Butterfly AND” with a triumphant look at Mary-Lou “Gold in the 1500M freestyle” She paused, and looked at her audience expectantly “All this as well as having 11 children AND being a best selling author AND” she continued, leaning forward confidentially “I may as well tell you that I’m going to be very busy this winter and we’re hoping for Quads…… So put that on your needles and knit it!”

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

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:29 pm

*snickering* oh, please post some more soon - this is great Very Happy

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

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:46 pm

LOL!! How Joey!!!

#26: Author: claire, Location: South Wales

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 2:21 pm

I was wondering how Mary-Lou only came away with Silver - it had to be Joey of course

#27: Author: Chelsea, Location: Your Imagination

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 2:32 pm

Quote:

100M freestyle, 200M Butterfly, 400M breaststroke, 800M Butterfly AND” with a triumphant look at Mary-Lou “Gold in the 1500M freestyle

LOL while falling into a dead faint at the thought of doing 800M of butterfly - I'm ready to die after 50M!!

#28: Author: Laura, Location: London (ish)

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 2:52 pm

I can't even do that!! (not v co-ordinated or flexible!)

This is so good! More soon please!

#29: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:37 pm

Best laugh of the day! Really good.

#30: Author: Helen P, Location: Cheshire

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:34 pm

Fantastic!! So funny Very Happy

Any chance of posting the rest tonight? I'm off away for the weekend tomorrow morning and not sure if I can wait till Monday night for the rest of this....!

#31: Author: Sarah_K, Location: St Albans/Leicester

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:04 pm

Brilliant, I can't imagine anyone else beating Mary-Lou!

Pity Joey hasn't had those quads already for the relays Very Happy

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

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:52 pm

Oh, oh, oh!!!!!!!
This is magnificent!!!!! Laughing

#33: Author: Donna, Location: Liverpool

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:18 am

*giggling like a loon* Love this so far!

#34: Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:29 am

Was going to hammer

OOAO but decides to save it for Joey instead.

#35: Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:06 am

Most impressed by Joey's proficiency ROFL

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

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:16 am

Wonderful, I wouldn't have expected less of Joey. Poor Con overshadowed yet again.

#37: Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September)

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:13 pm

Lol! LOVED Con's "Oh blast" - and Len messing around with the tires!!!!

Wonderful!

#38: Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:15 pm

Perhaps she should have messed with the brakes instead Exclamation

#39: Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:24 pm

Ellie wrote:

Perhaps she should have messed with the brakes instead Exclamation

What a good idea! Twisted Evil

Loving this Richenda - pleases post more - preferably some where both Joey and Mary Lou get their comeuppance! Laughing

#40: Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September)

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:29 pm

Oh, definitely! Len, what were you thinking?

*mad giggles*

Actually, I think that honour should be saved for Con - she soooo deserves it!

#41: Author: Richenda,

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:52 am

Thanks for the praise Ladies. Bit more here, with a mini cliff (more of a hillock really

Nell Wilson chuckled “Oh, Joey was always wholesale!”
“And always our best swimmer, despite only practising once a year at the Tiern See!” continued Miss Denny
“ahhhh the dear Jo” said Frau Meiders sentimentally, whilst knitting the scarf she had been working on for the last 25 years.
Kathie gave out something akin to a snort and helped herself to more chocolate.

The press were getting pretty annoyed by all the interruptions in their press conference. But the final interruption made it all worth while, and made it THE story of the games.

#42: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:40 pm

Mini-hillock? MINI-HILLOCK?

#43: Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:58 pm

Oh good, thank you! Laughing

#44: Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:00 pm

Lesley, I would really be most awfully grateful if you didn't keep encouraging drabblers to keep leaving cliffs everywhere!

*Waiting to see the next interuption to the press conference*

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

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:36 pm

I'm with you Ellie!!!

Maybe we should make Kat's bedtime drabble come true?

#46: Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September)

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:53 pm

I completely agree with you, Ellie. It really is most inconsiderate of her *G*

Richenda, I love Kathie in this! *g* Yes, I know Rolling Eyes

I like Kathie in any drabble. But I particularly like her in this one!

#47: Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:21 pm

#48: Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September)

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:36 pm

#49: Author: Richenda,

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 7:43 am

Tee Hee!! Last little bit now

A white coated doctor entered the room. “I’m afraid Mrs Maynard, that your drug test after the 100M brought up an abnormality – we found traces of a performance enhancing drug”.

Joey collapsed, still, grey, and to all appearance, dead.

Mary-Lou bellowed “That means I must get GOLD now!!”. The doctor’s assistant shook her head. “I’m afraid not Miss Trelawney. Your sample also contained a high level of a sedative of some sort”

“But Matey just gave me a dose because I was over excited! It can’t do me any harm!” wailed Mary-Lou. Matey had joined the Olympic medical team on the insistence of Joey – the team manager had given up trying to reason with someone who had always had their own way.

In the pandemonium that followed, Con, Katt & Blossom were left with the Doctor and assistant. The medics took off their cunning disguises and revealed their true identities – Len and Margot.
Katt gave a grin “So you two had something to do with this? Nice work!”
Len, with her innate sense of fairness, grinned back “Well, it’s about time Mother and Mary-Lou got thoroughly sat on – it’s Con’s time to shine. All we had to do was pop a little something Margot found lying around in the lab into Mamma’s pre-race cream cake.”

Blossom asked curiously “What will you do if she finds out?”
Margot laughed “We’ll just blame my devil, say we’ve got toothache and that we take after her – we’ve always got away with it before…..”

#50: Author: Rachael,

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 8:58 am

ROFLMAO!!!
ROFL

Oh Richenda - that was hilarious!!
ROFL

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

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:31 am

Richenda - that's just fabulous!

Please continue writing - either this or something new

#52: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:33 am

ROFL in the office Shocked

#53: Author: Nicole, Location: New Zealand

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:39 am

Absolutely priceless!!

Laughing

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

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:47 am

Wonderful! Loved the last line!

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

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:08 am

I hurt from laughing... ROFL

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

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 2:21 pm

Oh, oh, oh!!!!!!

My sides hurt from laughing!!!!

More soon please!!!! (either more of this or another drabble!)

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

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 3:26 pm

*falls off chair laughing*

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

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 3:42 pm

*mops the tears away*

Wonderful, thank you Very Happy

#59: Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September)

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:09 pm

*holds sides and slides off chair, weeping gently*

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

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:10 pm

Excellent - thank you Richenda.

#61: Author: claire, Location: South Wales

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:50 pm

Excellent - lovely twist

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

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:20 pm

Oohhh.... my sides are going to burst if there's any more like this tonight (just read Kat's Drop)

Wonderful Richenda.

JackieJ

#63: Author: Helen P, Location: Cheshire

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:22 pm

Brilliant Richenda!

Thankyou so much Laughing

#64: Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September)

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:07 am

*wonders if it's too soon to start pestering Richenda for another drabble...*

#65: Author: Ciorstaidh, Location: London

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:34 am

*snickers*

so that's how they did it - alwys being perfect, I mean!

Fabulous! Inspired! MOOORE please - whether a prequel to this or something completely different!!! *feeds PB Bailey's and choccy*

#66: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:42 am

Wonderful! Thank you, Richenda.

#67: Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:44 pm

Richenda!

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

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 10:59 am

Just discovered this, brilliantly funny. Thanks.

#69: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:07 pm

So so funny. Glad Con got a chance to shine for once!

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