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Title: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Kitten on Oct 27th, 2003, 1:34pm Ok everyone, this is my first ever Chalet School story. If you think it's stupid please be honest and tell me! It is sort of serious but also a bit tongue-in-cheek. It's set at the end of the series but I have played around with chronology and added an extra term for Len as Head Girl as I'm not clever enough to make it all move on! Sylvia Lennox's eyes narrowed as she looked at her mother. "I don't know how you can do this to me," she said, and although her voice was quiet it was hard like unbendable steel. "Do you know what it means to me? You're taking me away from all my friends, the people who mean most to me, and dumping me in a foreign school. A boarding school. I'm fifteen. I ought to be working steadily for exams and things. How can i do that when I'm moving round schools and starting new curriculums and - I think you must be mad!" she finished with a sudden burst of anger. Mrs. Lennox was unperturbed by her daughter's tirade. She was quite accustomed to Sylvia's way of dramatising everything that happened to her. "Don't be ridiculous, Sylvia. And don't speak to me like that, either. Of course you must go to school, you can hardly come and live in an Eskimo settlement for six months with us, can you? And as Eggar's doesn't take boarders we can't do better for you than the Chalet School. Remember, I went there as a girl and had a splendid time." Sylvia snorted somewhat vulgarly. "I can hardly forget it, can I?" she snarled. "Chalet School, Chalet School, Chalet School, all the time. Ramming it down my throat how much better it was than any other school. I'm so lucky to be going there, aren't I?" This last in a mocking tone of voice as she flung out of the room and slammed the door so violently behind her that the ornaments rattled on the mantlepiece. *** Sylvia lay in bed and looked up at the white ceiling. This was her first morning at the new school and so far it had been every bit as bad as she had expected. During the journey she had been looked after competently by a girl who, thought blonde, pretty Sylvia contemptuously, looked more like a boy. She even had a boy's name. Jack. Jack and her friends had talked to her a lot about the School's past and Sylvia had said, "My mother was there so I should think I know as much about it as any of you." Then they had all leant forward eagerly and asked who her mother had been and when she had been there. Sylvian looked down her small, straight nose. "You are rather inquisitive, aren't you?" she remarked and a cheeky looking girl grinned and said, "Oh, well, if it's like that -" "Yes, it is," snapped Sylvia. "I don't see why you're all so obsessed with the history of the School anyway. It's just a school, for goodness' sake. And surely the present is more important than the past." There was a short pause before a slight, very lovely girl who Sylvia thought she remembered having been introduced as "Wanda" tried to explain. "You see, Sylvia, to us the Chalet School is more than just a school. It is a - a - a way of life. Those girls who have gone before have helped to build up a tradition of all that the School now stands for. There are many lessons we can learn from the past, many wonderful things that we can recall and which should not die. If we forgot our - our predecessors we should not be what we are now as a School." Wanda flushed as she finished her speech and there was another silence, for while all the old girls there felt as Wanda did it was very seldom that any of them had tried to articulate this. But they nodded in agreement and looked at Sylvia to see if she understood. It was obvious that the new girl had no inkling of the deep feeling that the Chalet girls held for their School. There was amusement in her eyes and a sneering twist to her lips as she replied, "Goodness, how marvellous! In fact, as I said to Mum before I came here, how very, very priveleged I am. Few can have had this great honour. She ended her nasty little speech with a light but scornful laugh and turned to look out of the window. No-one spoke for some time and even when they did they treated this outsider of a new girl with the barest civility. Lying in bed now, Sylvia knew that she had killed any feeling of friendship there might have been between herself and the others. At the moment she could scarcely have cared less, angry as she was at having been sent here anyway. She would show her parents that they couldn't shove her off to school while they rushed round the world enjoying themselves. By the time the rising bell rang, Sylvia had worked herself into one of the blackest moods she had ever been in. -I know there haven't been any ghosts yet, they come next. This was sort of necessary so that you know why the ghosts are there anyway. Please criticise honestly and feel free to make suggestions!- |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Carolyn P on Oct 27th, 2003, 1:55pm Like it so far. Whose daughter is she, and are we talking actual ghosts or memories/past affecting present. Please post some more. Looking forward to reading it soon, |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Rachael P on Oct 27th, 2003, 2:58pm Yes - I want to know who her mother is as well - she's not done a very good job of bringing up young Sylvia has she?! More, please |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 27th, 2003, 3:19pm Please carry on Kitten! We have to know whose daughter she is now!!! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Lisa_T on Oct 27th, 2003, 3:37pm Yes, please more! I want to know who her mother is. And I think Wanda hit the nail on the head! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Sarah_L on Oct 27th, 2003, 3:40pm I like this. The mystery of who is Sylvia's mother draws you in right from the start. And the title is intriguing. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Marianne on Oct 27th, 2003, 3:42pm joins in oliver twist type chant! ;D |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 27th, 2003, 9:15pm *am also finding this intriguing and hope we get more soon* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Esmeralda on Oct 27th, 2003, 11:38pm I'm also wondering who Sylvia's mother is, and whether the ghosts are real or metaphorical |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Sugarplum on Oct 28th, 2003, 12:39am oooooooo this is good so far. I wish I had a drabble brain. Keep going with it :) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Nicolette on Oct 28th, 2003, 1:37am I like her bitterness. Very Naomi like, though obviously with different reasons. Also, thought her attitude to the way her mother goes on about the CS all the time was vg. I wonder how many other CS offspring got sick of it all? Imagine if Len and co had kicked off about going to the school. They must have felt a hell of a lot of pressure to match up to Joey. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Carolyn P on Oct 28th, 2003, 1:41am And imagine what it would have been like for their children! :-/ It's an idea I havn't used for fights but would have been interesting. I'm glad that it's being explored here. AND I STILL WANT TO KNOW WHO HER MOTHER IS! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Nicolette on Oct 28th, 2003, 2:07am And what on earth are parents planning to do at the Eskimo settlement? :)sounds slightly like a another school story (poss Angela Brazil?) where the daughter of famous actress comes to school and starts off on wrong foot, but theres this wierd welsh kid from the forest who keeps sneaking into the school and listening to lessons from behind the pannelled walls and everyone who hears her moving around thinks its a ghost. actually, think I've confused two stories there but hey, sounds like quite a plot! Though probably isn't anything like waht you were planning afterall Kitten? |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 28th, 2003, 4:30am on 10/28/03 at 02:07:39, Nicolette wrote:
Presumably something scientific. And it certainly gets them nicely out of the way! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Oct 28th, 2003, 11:18am I'm so excited! You have all been really nice about this and I am so glad you're interested. Here goes for part two... That first week at the Chalet School was possibly the hardest of Sylvia's life. She was genuinely unhappy at having had to leave Eggar's, where all her friends remained and had no idea that her parents had been becoming increasingly anxious about her attitude to authority - indeed, her behaviour in general. There had been one or two bad spots of trouble at Eggar's and the Headmistress had expressed concern about Sylvia. To herself, that young lady conceded that although there were one or two minor points where the Chalet School bettered Eggar's - an attractive dress of a pretty colour, for example, rather than the bottle green and dull yellow of her former school - there was little to recommend it. Jack and Co. had nobly kept the scene in the train to themselves but they had found it impossible to forgive Sylvia and had correspondingly treated her coldly. Since the rest of the Form generally followed the example of Jack and her friends Sylvia hardly found herself popular amongst them. It must be said that she did nothing to bridge the rapidly widening gap. Her angry mood had lasted the entire week so far and even the mistresses were beginning to find this peculiar new child something of a bugbear. But it was on that Monday that it all really began. Sylvia's simmering frustration was starting to boil properly and a sharp encounter with Miss Ferrars just before Mittagessen did little to help matters. She ate that meal in a portentuous silence - not that anyone attempted to speak to her. Even the kindest of her Form-mates had experienced and been warned off by Sylvia's irritability and cruel sarcasm. No-one noticed when she vanished directly after Mittagessen, but she had progressed to the Splashery, donned her outdoor shoes and coat - for although it was only September there was a definite chill in the air - and slipped out by a side door in a little-frequented corridor. Sylvia thrust her hands into the pockets of her coat and walked slowly, staring at the ground. She entered the shrubbery and passed through, but even as she came down the steps at the other side she halted, having almost walked into a tall, fair girl coming towards her. Startled by this sudden appearance Sylvia scowled, thinking that now she would be in trouble. But to her surprise the girl - whom Sylvia found herself unable to place - stopped too and smiled at her. "Hallo," she said, then, as the other girl made no response beyond a look of deep suspicion, she continued, "I say, can I help at all? You look awfully miserable, if you don't mind my saying so." Sylvia began to feel slightly bewildered. Not only did she not recognise the girl or understand why she was not angry at her rule-breaking, but there was something strange about the School grounds. She was sure she didn't remember entering the pine wood in which she and her companion now stood. But the girl was talking again. "Won't you tell me about it? Are you homesick?" Sylvia grunted and then, feeling that she was being rather rude to the one person who had showed interest in her for a week, she brought herself to reply, not very graciously, "Sort of. At least, I hate it here. I never wanted to come and now I have it's even worse than I thought it would be. Everyone here's so idiotic about - oh well, everything!" The fair girl raised her eyebrows. "Everyone? I shouldn't have thought that anyone could have called Madame idiotic. Has anyone ever told you what she did for me?" Sylvia shook her head mutely and wondered who in the world this girl was. It occurred to her that she wasn't even wearing the School uniform, although her brown and flame tunic and tie were obviously uniform of some kind. The girl spoke again. "You see, all my life my people regarded me as an incubus and a nuisance. They entered me as a boarder here and then took off, leaving me as a burden on Madame's charity. She could have sent me off to some institution, but she - didn't. She was absolutely splendid to me, especially as I'd behaved pretty caddishly at School. And then, when my parents died, she pretty well adopted me as another sister with Joey. She's never made me feel a burden or an intruder. That is why I love Madame." She fell silent and for once Sylvia did not feel an urge to make some nasty comment. Indeed, she could think of no comment at all. At this moment, however, a voice could be heard calling, "Juliet! Juli - e - et!" The fair girl looked round and called back "Coming!" before giving Sylvia a smile and a nod and going off through the trees. Sylvia's head span with all that had happened to her and her confusion. She closed her eyes for a moment in an attempt to restore order to her world. The she opened them and with a little moan sank weakly down onto the steps. For the pine wood had vanished, she was at the edge of the shrubbery, and there was no sign of the girl who had just been talking to her. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 28th, 2003, 11:25am Hmm, very interesting. A little time-warp back to the very early days of the school. So do we guess that Sylvia's mother was a pupil during that period? And it's lovely to see Juliet again! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Oct 28th, 2003, 11:25am oh my gosh i have just realised what i have done! aaggghh! i was trying to be anonymous :) :) oooops! well, now you all know who i am i'm glad you like it. i'm sorry i was a bad Chalet School girl and decieved you :'( |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Carolyn P on Oct 28th, 2003, 11:43am We will be good CS girls then and forgive you magnamisly (sp?). This is a wonderful story so far anyway so I can't see why you would want to remain annon. Can we see a bit more please? |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by LitteredHearts on Oct 28th, 2003, 11:49am More please! I'm only just getting into Drabbles, and I love this one! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 28th, 2003, 11:50am *lol* Consider yourself unmasked. But you were silly to mention it. If you hadn't, I would just have thought someone else was posting for you. In fact, I hadn't really even noticed until you said that! ;D |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Oct 28th, 2003, 11:53am *lol* i am so stupid! why oh why do i do these things? |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Rachael P on Oct 28th, 2003, 12:02pm I love this Kitten/Abi ( ;)), especially the idea of the time/space continuum ........ More, please! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Esmeralda on Oct 28th, 2003, 12:12pm Loving this new development - can't wait to see what happens next, but why did you want to be anonymous? |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Chloe on Oct 28th, 2003, 12:30pm Don't worry when i first posted What the future holds it was anonymously, except Xan recognised my phrasing used so i owned. But more soon please i really like it ;D |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 28th, 2003, 1:16pm *now wondering whether Sylvia might be Juliet's daughter?* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 28th, 2003, 7:48pm Hey, good point, Vikki! I hadn't got to the stage of thinking who her mother might be, just that she would be there! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 28th, 2003, 8:11pm *hopes she hasn't spoilt Abi's story, with random guesses!!* More please!! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by catherine on Oct 28th, 2003, 8:46pm More please, from me too! It's really good. I was expecting something really spooky, bearing in mind Friday but it's not and since I don't like spooky things, I'm very pleased! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 28th, 2003, 9:22pm Vikki, I'm sure you haven't ruined anything. With any luck you might have kick-started her bunny into action - or perhaps done the same to your own... *hint, hint* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 28th, 2003, 9:31pm Mine's hiding at the moment!!! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 28th, 2003, 9:35pm *considers rampaging over to Vikki's house to find it and kick it around a bit* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 28th, 2003, 9:43pm You'd never find him! He's disappeared into the piles of books!! :o ::) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 28th, 2003, 10:19pm *hunts out my plot-bunny-hunting weasel and sends it over via email to help Vikki* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 29th, 2003, 12:04am KB, your weasel got loose in the kitchen and he's making a hell of a mess!!! Could you come and collect him please? ::) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 29th, 2003, 12:08am Nope. He's all yours. I trained another for me. You'll have to make a cage for him. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 29th, 2003, 12:37am *mutters darkly about helpful Aussies!* *answers knock at door to find the quarantine people there!* *gives them KB's address as the importer of the illegal animal!!* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 29th, 2003, 12:40am Problem: I exported him, not imported. And by the time they get here, I'll be gawn!!! Oh, and I'm sending over his mate, too. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 29th, 2003, 1:01am *screams in horror and disconnects the modem!* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 29th, 2003, 1:06am *relieved as I can now get some work done* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 29th, 2003, 1:16am Hey, no-one made you yibble!!! ::) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 29th, 2003, 1:26am *wonders whether Vikki has received the family of weasels yet* And I know that nobody makes me, but it's awfully tempting! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 29th, 2003, 1:33am *intercepts the family of weasels, and sends them right back to KB, along with a couple of badgers!* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 29th, 2003, 1:38am *has already moved house and left no fowarding address* *notes that they are on their way back to Vikki who foolishly and absentmindedly put her address on the back of the pack* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 29th, 2003, 1:45am *has also moved house!!* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 29th, 2003, 1:50am *decides that British police are far more helpful than AUssie ones in locating people* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 29th, 2003, 1:51am Lucky I moved to Aus then wasn't it!! :P |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 29th, 2003, 1:52am *wonders why Vikki has come around to visit then* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Lisa_T on Oct 29th, 2003, 2:28am *sniggers at this wonderful example of KB-and-Vikki-itis. Anyone getting this far will be having visions of the Chalet School being inundated with various animals (probably strange ones, knowing you two) and ghosts and feel totally confused!* *reminds about OT, seeing that KB and Vikki are responsible for the said yibbling, and since Xanthe is still absent, I'm next in seniority!* :P :P :P |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Kathryn on Oct 29th, 2003, 3:09am And KB and Vikki are mods so they really should be setting an example for the rest of the board. ;D |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 29th, 2003, 4:21am Not being a mod on the C&D thread, I feel that I can go a little more crazy than usual... |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Kathryn on Oct 29th, 2003, 6:32am Maybe, but that doesn't excuse Vikki, one of the chief yibbleoholics, does it? |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 29th, 2003, 10:40am No! *dances with joy at the thought that Vikki has no excuse* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by NickiL on Oct 29th, 2003, 4:19pm Is there going to be any more story (please!) or have you scared Kitten/Abi away with the yibbling?! ;) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Nicolette on Oct 29th, 2003, 4:27pm I'll second that! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 29th, 2003, 6:10pm on 10/29/03 at 10:40:13, KB wrote:
Well, I was a little overexcited because I had the prospect of finally getting to read Peace!!!! ;) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 29th, 2003, 8:48pm on 10/29/03 at 16:19:24, NickiL wrote:
Oh, I hope not! *promises to hold back on the yibbling if only we get more* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Carolyn P on Oct 29th, 2003, 9:46pm I hope the Abikitten hasn't been scared away, this was a good, enjoyable story. I wonder if a dish of milk would tempt her back? *Calling 'Here, Kitty, Kitty. Here, Kitty, Kitty'* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Lisa_T on Oct 30th, 2003, 12:14am *ruthlessly* More likely to send her screaming away. You're not supposed to give milk to cats- or dogs either, for that matter! ;D |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 30th, 2003, 12:36am *offers the interesting fact that my dog likes coffee* They may not be supposed to have it, but most of them love it for a treat! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Esmeralda on Oct 30th, 2003, 1:15am on 10/30/03 at 00:14:16, Lisa_T wrote:
Ooer. My dog wouldn't drink anything except milk when we first brought her home, she has been weened onto water now though. She also likes a (very small) drop of lager now and then. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Oct 30th, 2003, 10:02am I haven't been scared away *really*. My mum and little sis (who is bigger than me grroowwwll) cam to see me yesterday so i couldn't come onto campus and we don't have the internet in our house. By the by, my hamster is addicted to tea. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Oct 30th, 2003, 10:22am Sylvia's brain appeared to have gone into overload and was refusing to think in any sensible sort of way, so after sitting still for some moments in sheer bewilderment she rose slowly and returned to the house. As she entered via the door by which she had exited it occurred to her suddenly to wonder what excuse she was going to give for her illegal walk. There was little chance of her absence going unnoticed. One thing was certain - she wasn't going to tell anyone about the mysterious 'Juliet'. They'd probably lock her up in that ridiculous Sanatorium of theirs. No, she'd just have to say what she could and take the consequences. It was strange, but after that brief encounter Sylvia somehow felt far less defiant than she had done half an hour before. As she changed her shoes in the Splashery Sylvia caught the sound of light footsteps proceeding down the corridor. She paused standing on one leg and holding a shoe and held her breath, praying that they would continue on past. Unfortunately, at this inopportune moment the shoe she was holding slid out of her hand and, obeying the laws of gravity with commendable promptitude, clattered thunderously to the floor. The steps paused then turned in and entered the Splashery. Sylvia groaned inwardly. She had been caught by none other than the Headmistress of the School, Miss Annersley herself. I will spare you the painful details of the interview in the study. Suffice it to say that Sylvia did *not* mention Juliet but that Miss Annersley, who had been becoming increasingly anxious about this particular new girl who did not seem to be settling in well, realised that some sort of change had been wrought in her. Correspondingly, she decided not to punish the girl. This did not, however, stop her from giving the miscreant a thorough tongue-lashing that effectively crushed Sylvia for the time being and left her in no doubt that a second offence would result in severe punishment. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Lisa_T on Oct 30th, 2003, 12:39pm *injured* Who said we wanted to be spared? I'm quite happy to read about painful interviews- as long as I'm not the one being interviewed!! Has anyone been able to get the new smiley going yet? |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Nicolette on Oct 30th, 2003, 5:38pm Any chance of fitting in somewhere a staff discussion of the new girl? Always love the staffroom conversations (and far more than start of term prefect meetings - unless something exciting happens eg Emerence in the cupboard) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 30th, 2003, 10:45pm on 10/30/03 at 10:22:43, Abi wrote:
Love that line! It reminds me a little of Douglas Adams. Please, Abi, more soon! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Esmeralda on Oct 31st, 2003, 12:55am on 10/30/03 at 12:39:56, Lisa_T wrote:
No I haven't, and after I tried it I couldn't get any of the old ones to work either! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 31st, 2003, 1:03am I think perhaps it's a little sick, at least judging by the colour of its face... ;) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Esmeralda on Oct 31st, 2003, 3:03am It's making me feel sick at the moment! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 31st, 2003, 3:07am Because it won't work or because it keeps going around and around and around... |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Esmeralda on Oct 31st, 2003, 3:32am Both! And thje colour puts me in mind of sea sickness! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 31st, 2003, 3:38am Maybe that's why it won't work... |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 31st, 2003, 3:58am Maybe it's a hungover smiley!? |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 31st, 2003, 4:16am Personally I think it's at the stage prior to hung-over, judging by the speed it's getting up! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 31st, 2003, 4:19am As long as it doesn't turn into a throwing up smiley..... |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 31st, 2003, 4:21am What, you think there's no use for one of those? |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Oct 31st, 2003, 4:23am Oh, I'm sure there is, but it'd look gross! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 31st, 2003, 4:25am *decides not to try to picture it, having only just finished lunch* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Nicolette on Oct 31st, 2003, 4:53am Lunch? What time is it for you? I'm about to contemplate breakfast. Except have no food. Hmm, maybe a trip to 24hr Tescos is in order. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 31st, 2003, 5:02am I had a late lunch at 3pm today. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Oct 31st, 2003, 10:43am on 10/30/03 at 12:39:56, Lisa_T wrote:
*lol* I didn't write the painful interview because I can't write painful interviews! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Oct 31st, 2003, 12:16pm Oh help! I have writer's block and don't know what to do next. aaagggghhhhhh. :-/ oh dear maybe i will just go home and cry. *sob sob*. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by PatW on Oct 31st, 2003, 12:20pm Don't panic! Just be patient and let what you've already done sink in a bit. Sleep on it if necessary, and let your thoughts wander on the story as you drop off. You'll find more to write. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Carolyn P on Oct 31st, 2003, 1:46pm try reading the comments posted about what you ahve already written, that can sometimes jolly the plot bunny along. Or, (ducking as I suggest it, but have found it can work) take a break for a day or two, and then reread when you come back to it and it may just continue of it's own accord. I've been finding it helpful to write down notes on what the bunny tells me in case I forget. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Oct 31st, 2003, 9:27pm *agrees with Carolyn that sometimes a day or two away can work wonders, even if it is highly devastating for the readers* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Lesley on Nov 1st, 2003, 7:58am Hi Abi - have just read all of this straight through for the first time - wonderful story - very intriguing! Please reconsider writing the 'behind closed doors' interview - they're the best parts - and don't worry inspiration will return - then you'll be cursing it as too much! ;D |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Nov 1st, 2003, 12:45pm Ah, thank goodness, inspiration came in the middle of my lecture yesterday afternoon. So now I have no idea about the colonisation of Canada... but never mind! I might try the "closed doors" interview later... maybe... |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Nicolette on Nov 1st, 2003, 12:49pm Hurrah! And never mind the colonisation of canada. Hardly important stuff compared to this is it! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Nov 1st, 2003, 1:01pm Dear Beth, I've been here for just over a week now, and isn't it different to Eggar's! I suppose it's bound to be, being a boarding school, but even so it's a big change. As a matter of fact, it's really pretty ghastly. You know I didn't want to come, but Mum and Dad are so stuck on their old journalism and writing what-have-you that I don't think the care what happend to me at all. Everyone here seems to be obsessed with the school, it's almost like a religion with them. I can see now why Mum goes on about it so much although it seems to have changed a lot sice she was here. For one thing, of course, it was in Austria then, not Switzerland. No-one is very friendly to me at the moment, just because I objected to their talking all the time about the school. A girl called Wanda something-or-other-foreign talked about traditions and lessons from the past and sounded rather liek Miss Nicholls at Eggar's. Honestly, if it weren't so annoying it would be a joke. Some other rather peculiar things have been happening but I don't think I'd better tell you - you would think I was stark, staring, mad. Please write back and tell me all the news. Did Midge and Ros get into the team? Oh, and don't forget to book tickets for my Aunt's concert next month - I know you'll like it, it's your style, really, I think. Well, I must close now. Love to all at home. Sylvia. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Nov 1st, 2003, 1:53pm Life continued its lonely course for some time for Sylvia. Far too proud and still highly resentful of what she considered her parents' uncaring attitude towards her to attempt to make friends or even to make amends for her insensitiveness, she spoke to people only when they spoke to her, and then her responses were generally so unpleasant that even the most friendlily (!) disposed girls sheered off and left the new one to "stew in her own sarky juice", as Barbara Hewlett put it. Sylvia, meanwhile, went about with tilted chin and constant sneering twist to her lips. Even the Staff could not help knowing that behind her meek words she was laughing at them, regardless of whether they praised her or punished her. "Nothing seems to cut through that mocking manner of hers," observed Nancy Wilmot in the Staff Room one evening. "No?" said her great friend, Kathie Ferrars. "I don't teach the child, but she always seems rather a loner to me." Nancy raised one eyebrow in half-comic fashion. "My dear, I don't wonder! Have you heard the way she talks to her little pals?" "No, how?" queried Kathie, with interest. "It's not so much what she says, as how she says it," the Maths Mistress attempted to explain, and catching this last sentence Rosalind Yolland, who had been chatting to Mlle (what is her name?), turned and joined in the conversation. "Heavens, Nancy! Who is deserving such scathing judgement?" On learning, however, she pulled a face and said, "Oh, that child! As a matter of fact, she paints rather marvellously, but other than that -" she left the sentence unfinished. Mlle now contributed to the conversation, expounding the trials of teaching French to a girl who appeared to have learnt it from a parrot, since all she seemed able to do was to recite lists of words with absolutely no concept of their meaning or how to fit them into an intelligible sentence. "Dear me," commented Kathie once Mlle had ground to a halt. "An interesting specimen, this one. By the way, isn't she a little old to be coming to School, at fifteen?" "I believe Rosalie mentioned her parents going off on some jaunt or other - where is Rosalie?! "Who's that taking my name in vain?" enquired the School Secretary smilingly. "Us. We want to know why Sylvia Lennox's parents have decided to shove her off to school at this late date, and why to us?" "Ah!" Rosalie Dene sipped her coffee. "Yes, she's fifteen, isn't she? Her parents have gone off to live in an Eskimo settlement for six months." She watched amusedly as her hearers literally gaped at her. Characteristically, it was the placid Nancy Wilmot who recovered first. "But - why?" Rosalie regarded her thoughtfully. "Let me see... I think you would have known Sylvia's mother, Nancy, if only vaguely. You would have been some years older than her. Someone later to become a journalist-cum-travel-writer." She paused tantalisingly. "Well, who was it?" asked Rosalind curiously. Rosalie looked at Nancy, who was racking her brains. "Can't think of a single person it would be likely to be," she said finally. "Oh come!" laughed Rosalie, "I'll give you another clue - she had a talented older sister." |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Lesley on Nov 1st, 2003, 2:04pm Amy Stevens? Hope so! More please! :) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Carolyn P on Nov 1st, 2003, 4:26pm Lesley - That was my thought when I heard about them being Journalists. I think she's been taking teasing lessons from you, still no name. ;D |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Nov 1st, 2003, 7:43pm My money's on Amy Stevens too! It was the bit about hetr aunt's concert that rang the bell for me! More soon please Abi!! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Esmeralda on Nov 1st, 2003, 10:04pm I agree, I can't think of anyone else with a talented elder sister. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Nov 1st, 2003, 11:48pm Certainly from the Tyrol period, Amy is the most likely. When do we get more of this? |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Nov 2nd, 2003, 3:13pm Nancy scowled so furiously that Matron, glancing over towards the group at that moment, blinked and debated whether the Maths mistress required a dose and an early night. "Err, Bianca di Ferrara?" sha hazarded - somewhat doubtfully, it must be confessed. Rasalie threw back her head and laughed. "Not even close! Have you forgotten Amy Stevens? Really, Nancy!" "Amy Stevens! Of course!" exclaimed Nancy. "I didn't even know she was married." "She taught for a time at a school in England, where she met Martin Lennox. They married and had Sylvia, but he was a jounalist and they found that the partnership worked well, so Amy got more and more into writing. Not to say that they neglected Sylvia. Far from it. In fact, I rather think she has been somewhat spoiled. Anyhow, this opportunity came up for the Lennoxes to spend six months in an Eskimo settlement, studying and experiencing that life and then to write a book about it. I gather that they thought it would be an ideal thing to do as well as a good excuse to send young Sylvia off to a boarding school where she should get the corners rubbed off her. So Amy looked us up - and there you have it!" |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Nov 2nd, 2003, 3:15pm I hope I've got things ok about Amy Stevens, I know she said in War that she wanted to be a teacher but I don't know if I've contradicted anything anywhere else. Thought I ought to put in a few EBD-isms......! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Lesley on Nov 2nd, 2003, 3:34pm Looks good to me - people can always change their minds! Glad my guess was right! (no smug smiley) More please! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Nov 2nd, 2003, 7:58pm *feels very smug at having guessed right!!* ;D More please!! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Nov 2nd, 2003, 9:29pm I don't think Amy ever really gave a definite idea as to what she wanted, so you're on very safe ground! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Esmeralda on Nov 2nd, 2003, 10:24pm I just assumed that she would end up as a writer of some kind, so it fit's in ok as far as I'm concerned. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Nov 3rd, 2003, 2:09pm -phew- *wipes brow with exaggerated sigh of relief* I will post more soon but have somewhere in the region of sixty thousand essays to write all due in in five minutes so this is possibly not a good time to be writing.... I don't think they would be too happy with Ghosts in the place of "Feudalism to Bastard feudalism" ;D |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Lisa on Nov 3rd, 2003, 8:33pm This story is great! Is Sylvia going to meet some more 'ghosts from the past'? I love the idea of combining past and present characters and linking back to the old girls. Well done Abi, this is a fantastic first attempt! You have a confident style and I'm really enjoying it :D |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Rachel on Nov 3rd, 2003, 8:55pm No-one could possibly be interested in feudalism of any description! Write some more story instead! Rachel ~ the patient quiet one who never says what she really thinks ;) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Nov 4th, 2003, 12:53am on 11/03/03 at 20:55:49, Rachel wrote:
Rachel!!! Words fail me at that piece of fantasy!!! :o :o :o |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Nov 4th, 2003, 6:27am *can't keep the snicker in* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Nov 4th, 2003, 11:06am Hmmm, feudalism hasn't quite happened. I haven't even started to look at the books and it's due in tomorrow. Oh well, I work well under pressure. There was little leasure in Sylvia's life at the moment. The days took on a sort of monotony where sneering looks and acid words came almost naturally, and she felt detached from the world of School, as though she were not really a part of it. The memory of Juliet was fading and she began to wonder whether it might not all have been her imagination. In any case, while she was impressed at what Madame had done for Juliet she could not see that it had anything to do with the School today. So when Sylvia rose one Thursday morning it seemed little different to any other morning. She washed, dressed and stripped her bed with her usual efficiency. The bell rang and the School progressed downstairs to Prayers. As Sylvia seated herself, the by now well-known scene before her shimmered, then shivered. She blinked once or twice and then again rather harder. For while there were still many girls all by now sitting silently in the Hall, that room itself was changed. Smaller and darker. The faces of the Staff were different too and the girls wore the same brown and flame as Juliet had done. Then there was something else - the atmosphere was longer prayerful and reverent, but the silence covered a feeling of suppressed excitement, a thrill. Then Sylvia's own eyes widened. For the Head - looking younger and graver than the Miss Annersley that she knew - had entered, followed by a big, red-faced man and three policemen, to one of whom a tall, sinister-looking man was handcuffed. A little rustle went round the crowded Hall then died down as the Staff hushed the girls. Miss Annersley came forward and spoke into the breathless silence. "I am sorry to have to tell you that there is a traitor among us. Another girl - two or three, in fact - has forgotten that it is as well not to chatter in wartime." As she went on Sylvia felt a little chill run down her spine. She knew quite a low about the War, from her parents, and also about the Chalet School in the War. But - this? Not about this. An icy hand closed around her heart as she watched events unfold, knowing now for certain that she was seeing things that had happened long ago. Miss Annersley was still talking. "One of the elder girls has also talked... from sheer malice... I am now going to ask Colonel Black and Mr. Dunnett to permit their prisoner to point out the girl who deliberately told him of the Chart." A moment later the younger girls had marched out, then, Form by Form, the rest progressed in front of the prisoner. Sylvia's heart thudded as she too passed him, but his eyes roved restlessly over their faces and he hardly noticed her. While the rest of the girls left the Hall in subdued silence Sylvia found herself standing by the door as the Sixth Form filed across. Her brain whirled. Who - who would ever have done such a thing? Who would put the fighting men of her own country in such deadly danger? She felt sick with horror as she tried to take it in. Then, glancing over towards the Sixth Formers she saw that they had paused. The prisoner was staring at a white-faced girl who gazed back at him, petrified. Time hung still for one long moment. The girl collapsed and another sprang forward to catch her and everything seeemed to happen at once: the police matched their prisoner off, the girl who was, presumably, the traitor, was carried out and the Sixth Form also left the room, sweeping Sylvia with them. As she passed through the door she stumbled. Someone caught her by the arm and she found herself looking up at Jack Lambert. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Lesley on Nov 4th, 2003, 2:15pm Excellent Abi - love the description of the war-time school. Who needs an essay on feudalism anyway! More please! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Nov 4th, 2003, 4:45pm Oooohh! more soon please Abi!!! ;) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Lisa on Nov 4th, 2003, 4:51pm Don't leave it there! Who is the traitorous (sp?) girl? Lisa feeling dizzy on the cliff edge |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by PatW on Nov 4th, 2003, 5:20pm on 11/04/03 at 16:51:45, Lisa wrote:
Think back to 'Highland Twins'!!!! We're in the past, remember? ::) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Esmeralda on Nov 4th, 2003, 8:02pm Oooh this is good, more soon please. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Carolyn P on Nov 4th, 2003, 9:18pm Interesting. Looking forward to the next installment. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Nov 4th, 2003, 10:43pm *agrees that this definitely needs more when you find the time and inspiration* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Lisa_T on Nov 5th, 2003, 12:55am *agreeing that more would be lovely* Feudalism- that's nice and waffly. Can't you just well, waffle about it?! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Trish on Nov 5th, 2003, 10:14am Oooh! I think I like this particular cliff. *Never could resist a ghost story* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Nov 5th, 2003, 12:25pm More on Friday hopefully, but not today as feudalism essay is being evil. I think the Plot Bunny has eaten the Essay Bunny, or scared him away or something. Still, waffling has always been one of my greatest talents - also wasting time when I should be writing them......witness this :o Actually, my Plot Bunny has turned out to be far more evil than I ever imagined he could be. He has just told me how this story ends.... I don't want to go on!!!! Oooops, better not say any more... ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Nov 5th, 2003, 9:29pm I've discovered that Essay Bunnies can be tempted out with sheets of notepaper, and that Plot Bunnies have a mild allergy to these, giving you at least some time before they try to attract your attention again. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Rachael P on Nov 6th, 2003, 10:54am I'm loving this Abi - great idea to use the school's history as part of the story-line Quote:
I have a feeling that Sylvia is going to be learning just exactly why the past is so critical to the present!! I take it you're a history student, Abi? ;) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by xanthe on Nov 6th, 2003, 5:20pm Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh! More Abi, PLEASE!!!!!!! *would be on the edge of her seat if she didn't know that's a recipe for disaster when seated on a swivel chair* |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Nov 7th, 2003, 10:39am Sylvia stared at Jack as though she were a ghost, and even that unimaginative young woman was disconcerted by her gaze. "What are you staring at me like that for?" she queried, none too politely. Sylvia flushed and stammered wildly, "I - er - well - you - was I?" It was Jack's turn to survey Sylvia in perplexed bewilderment. "Yes. What's wrong with you, Sylvia? You're looking pretty strange." "Am I?" Sylvia hesitated, then took the plunge. "Jack - do you know anything about the School in the War?" Jack gave her an "a-lunatic-but-harmless-so-I'll-humour-her" look. "Yes, my Aunt Gay was there then." "Was she? Well, can you tell me if - if anyone ever got into trouble about - well, spies and things, or - er - a Chart?" Jack looked at her oddly then glanced round and drew her into a side corridor where there was no-one about. There she stopped and turned to face the other girl. "What's going on here, Sylvia? Why are you asking all these questions? I thought you weren't interested in the School." "Please, Jack, this i simportant. You've got to tell me." Jack raised a quizzical eyebrow. "Have I, though? I don't see it myself. I'll tell you if you tell me why you want to know." Sylvia hesitated. "We-ll," she began slowly, "I sort of - saw - something about it - er - somewhere and, well, I - er, wondered if it was really true." It was the truth, in a way, she told herself. She had seen it. "Please, Jack!" Jack looked at her intently for a few moments, then replied slowly, "Yes, there was. Someone almost gave an important document over to the Nazis. She was found out and expelled. That's all there is to it." Sylvia nodded. "I see. Thanks, Jack." She turned and went off down the corridor, leaving Jack staring after her and wondering what in the world that had all been about. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Rachael P on Nov 7th, 2003, 10:56am Excellent! Don't stop there .................................................................... ;D |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Lesley on Nov 7th, 2003, 10:25pm Please keep going! Most intriguing! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Nov 7th, 2003, 11:46pm Excellent! More please Abi!! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Jennie on Nov 8th, 2003, 11:46am Abi, please write some more of this, it's really good. I'm sure that since Feudalism has been dead and buried for centuries that there's no need to revive it. Just think of the ideas that it might give some of us mad CBB'ers. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Nov 9th, 2003, 2:40pm *gulps and shudders at the thought of CBB-ers and Feudalism.* Although possibly the French Revoution would be worse (another essay)? |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Rachel on Nov 9th, 2003, 2:43pm "The CBB Revolution" Wonder who would be first in line to feed "madame la paper guillotine"? Oooooh, and then "The Scarlet Sarafan" could come dashing by to rescue all us damsels in distress! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Susan on Nov 9th, 2003, 2:48pm Abi this is wonderful - have just read it through from start to finish and can't wait for the next instalment. Meyhinks Sylvia will learn a hard lesson. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Nov 9th, 2003, 2:50pm Perhaps Jack and Joey would represent Marie Antoinette and whateverisnamewas (the King chap, you know). And Robespierre could be, err.... OOAOML? |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Nov 9th, 2003, 9:47pm Louis XVI (thanks to "History of the World Part I" for me never forgetting that one ;)) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Lisa on Nov 9th, 2003, 10:24pm Oh :-/ *cringes with embarrassment* Haven't actually read Highland Twins! I've read all but about 5 of the books, am desperately trying to acquire them (even if they're Armada paperbacks) but funds are lower than low at the moment! Enjoying this even more, especiallly as I'm seeing it from Sylvia's point of view! ;) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Nov 10th, 2003, 3:05pm Sylvia was distrait in classes that day. Her mind was going round in circles. She could hardly believe it had really happened - in some way she had seen the exposure and fall of a girl who had done perhaps the worst thing it is possible to do, and she was in shock on two counts. Firstly was the realisation that she had really been seeing events that had happened many years ago, events that by rights she should have heard of only by hearsay, events that no-one else had seen, or would see. Just trying to comprehend this by itself, but when added to the actual scene of what had happened her mind really seemed to boggle. It had hit her very hard - the knowledge that a girl had really hated to such an extent that she had been prepared to risk many lives - her country - in order to gain her revenge. That was a thing that made Sylvia want to be sick. And another thing - it frightnened her. Had she too not hated? Been bitter? Wished to take revenge? Had she not been a witness to that scene - might she too not have ended up - like that? In geography she gazed out of the window and wondered why the girl had done it. In maths she scowled at her protractor and decided that she would never be the same. In history she stared absently at the events in life of Richard III and cogitated on the rival possibilities of herslef actually having gone back in time - something that was hardly credible - or the whole thing having been a figment of her imagination - which was equally incredible since she had certainly never heard of the episode before. In French Mlle Lachenais became so irate that Sylvia almost found herself outside the classroom door. After that she decided it would be better if she concentrated a little in class. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Rachel on Nov 10th, 2003, 7:33pm Excellent stuff Abi. I think anyone would be a bit vague in class after seeing things like that! Can we expect any more any time soon? (Wasn't that subtle? For me?) |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by ali on Nov 10th, 2003, 8:12pm What do you mean you've never read highland twins lisa. It's one of the best. GGBP are republishing it at the moment and I can't wait to get my uncut version. If you're that desperate for a copy send me a message and when mine arrives you can have my armarda one. By the way, clever idea for a story I spent last night thinking about which point in chalet history she should visit next to learn her lesson and decided their were too many good ones. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by KB on Nov 10th, 2003, 8:55pm Hmm, again very interesting, and I agree that it would be very difficult not to be distracted by seeing that event. I hope we get to see her next lesson soon! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Lesley on Nov 10th, 2003, 10:15pm Really interesting - any idea why she's seeing all this? |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Esmeralda on Nov 10th, 2003, 11:14pm Very interesting, but I think if I kept seeing all those ghosts I'd be more than distrait, distraught maybe. Sylvia may not be a 'proper' CS girl, but she's facing this situation admirably. |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Abi on Nov 11th, 2003, 10:56am on 11/10/03 at 20:12:42, ali wrote:
My problem is that being at Uni I misguidedly only brought half of my CS books with me - up to Changes, which means that if I want to do any scenes from the later books it has to be from memory, which, I think, will NOT be a good idea! Although I have got the last scene lined up, which is from a later book.....wish me luck! |
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Title: Re: [i][/i]Ghosts at the Chalet School Post by Vikki on Nov 11th, 2003, 2:34pm Good luck Abi! So, when do we get the next bit then? ;) ;D |
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