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Title: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 7th, 2003, 11:21pm Well we’ve arrived on the ship and started to settle in. Jo’s gone the concert in the lounge, but I said I’d go to bed early. I wanted to start on this now we’re really on our way. The train set us down at Genoa in plenty of time for us to catch the ship, and we’ve already met the couple who are to chaperone us on the voyage. Jem is such a fusser! As if we needed these two old dears to look after us! Anyway, our cabin is very nice. We have proper beds, not bunks, and a proper window instead of a porthole, which is what I was expecting, and there are curtains there too. We met some of the other passengers at dinner tonight, just after we sailed. They are mostly people going back to India after taking furlough, and are all ages. Some are single men, some are families. There is also a regiment going back after six months in England. The men are travelling steerage of course, but the officers have cabins in our part of the ship. The ship is much bigger than I expected somehow, and I’m hoping that we can properly explore her tomorrow. So far we have seen our cabin and the dining room, and now Jo will have been in the concert room. I’m much too excited to be nervous or homesick, or to miss the people up at the Sonnalpe too much yet. Jo has already said how thankful she is to have left that Dr Hunter behind. She says he was a bit strange, and wouldn’t leave her alone. I think she’s looking forward to enjoying that escape - she’s so bright and somehow intense. Well I’m getting a bit sleepy, so I leave this and do some more tomorrow. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 8th, 2003, 12:08am Ooh, this has great potential! A story from Rob's POV. Please more soon! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Esmeralda on Dec 8th, 2003, 12:14am Definitely a new slant on things - looking forward to more, but which one of you lot is Robin? | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 8th, 2003, 12:26am It could be a new Robin, as this is only their first post. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Esmeralda on Dec 8th, 2003, 12:34am It could be a new Robin, but it would still be their first post if it was someone using a nom-de-plume, wouldn't it? It's a really good idea, whether it is a new Robin or an old one. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Kathryn on Dec 8th, 2003, 6:11am Having just read the Advent for today, I have visions of the carving knife making another appearance!! Or at least the Robin or Joey taking advantage of the regiment, a la P and P. ;D Awaiting with interest. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Angel of the North on Dec 8th, 2003, 6:42am OOOH this looks good | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by LulieCat on Dec 8th, 2003, 8:11am eagerly awaiting more.... | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Lesley on Dec 8th, 2003, 8:17am Definitely looking good - more please! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Rachael P on Dec 8th, 2003, 9:03am More please, Robin ... whoever you are! :D | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 8th, 2003, 9:42am Day 2 Another lovely day, with a calm sea. I don’t know what time Jo got back from the concert last night, as I was sound asleep by then. Today we were introduced to the game of quoits, which is very jolly. We have to slide a rope ring up the deck to a target and whoever is closest to the centre wins. We are also going to learn deck hockey, as there is enough young people to make a couple of teams. The ship is going to sail round the tip of Italy to its next port of call, which is Athens. We will be passing between Italy and Sicily, which means going between two whirlpools! Don’t know what that will be like, but it should be interesting. Jo has made quite a few friends already, probably from going to that concert. She’s not exactly leaving me to myself, but she *is* spending a lot of time with them. There is one person in particular who seems to be more friendly than the others, and that is the Army Lieutenant. He’s certainly much nicer than that Doctor! There is a film showing tonight, so I am staying up to go to it. Mr and Mrs Mansell have said that it is the sort of film that is right for people my age to see! As if I were a child! I hate being treated like a little girl when I’m not anymore. Jo is getting better that way, but if she tries to keep me back I’ll have to speak to her. I want us to be friends, and she’s not that much older than me! Just because she used to be Head Girl, and is supposedly grown up now! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by xanthe on Dec 8th, 2003, 10:04am ;D Thank you Robin, this is great ;D *wondering who the gifted author is* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 8th, 2003, 11:05am Well, this seems like it's based on the 'book' from the GO list. Great work! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Jennie on Dec 8th, 2003, 1:03pm More please, Robin. It's good to see a little rebellion from Rob, after the strict regime that was forced onto her! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Lisa on Dec 8th, 2003, 1:06pm Great idea! I am very interested in Robin's point of view. *gasps as brain tries to deal with yet another mystery author!* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Dec 8th, 2003, 3:31pm Thank you for sharing your journal with us Robin! Looking forward to you spilling the beans about Joey! ;D | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 8th, 2003, 4:09pm Day 3 I loved the film last night, but that Lieutenant came with us! I don’t think I like him very much. He’s called Everard Rogers, and I really don’t like the way he looks at Jo. She hasn’t noticed anything – in fact she talks about how nice he is, but I just don’t agree with her, though I don’t know why. When I said something, she just told me I was a child, and didn’t know about such things, but I’m old enough to know whether I like someone or not! The weather has been rougher today, and some people have been sick. I’m all right, and so is Jo and her Everard. It’s been too rough to play any deck games, so we’ve had to stay in the lounge and read or do jigsaws. The other children on the ship have joined in, but we have to be so much quieter in here, because of the adults. Later. The evening meal has just finished, and I’ve come down to the cabin to go to bed. A lot of people were missing from the dining room because of the weather, and one or two who did come left again in a hurry. I’m glad I’ve got a strong stomach. Both the Mansells are in bed, and I think they are pretty ill. I hope Jo comes soon, and doesn’t spend too much time with ‘that man’. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Chloe on Dec 8th, 2003, 4:48pm This is great i can't wait for more Robin! :) | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Angel of the North on Dec 8th, 2003, 6:46pm This is lovely. I like the teenage!Robin, it's rather effective, and compliments her "sweet" personality. We never really saw much of this because of the war. She must have been a mischievous middle... | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Carolyn P on Dec 8th, 2003, 6:54pm It is very interesting to read about this from Robin's point of view, especially as it is just her pov, not interspersed with other scenes. Whoever you are Robin, please let us have some more of your journel. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Lesley on Dec 8th, 2003, 6:59pm Agreed - very interesting. More soon Robin! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 8th, 2003, 9:29pm I’m not sure whether I ought to write this or not. Jo may be a bit embarrassed if she finds out. Here goes anyway. I was woken up about 5 o’clock this morning by Jo coming back to the cabin. I pretended to be asleep, but I don’t think she’d have noticed if was awake or not. She was blundering about the cabin, and crashing into things, as if she couldn’t keep her balance, though the ship wasn’t rocking *that* much, and she’d been fine earlier. Then I heard her in the bathroom, and I’m sure she was being sick. I don’t think Madge or Jem would be happy with her for staying up so late, and they’d be very worried about her being ill. I don’t know if I should tell her I woke up, either. She didn’t wake up for breakfast, so I went up by myself. Everard wasn’t in for breakfast either, thank goodness. There were more people up and about this morning, and some of them asked where Jo was. I had to tell them she was still asleep - what else could I do! I’m making a lot of friends now, but they aren’t all going to Coors, so it’s only for this voyage. Never mind, I’ll be able to write. They seem to think that I’m terribly lucky to be living in Austria, with all the snow in winter, and being able to skate on the lake. We’re getting our lesson in deck hockey today, so I hope Jo hurries up. She was looking forward to trying that, before *he* turned up. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 8th, 2003, 9:39pm Ooh, Joey drunk!!! What a scandal!!! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by PatW on Dec 8th, 2003, 9:48pm And coming in at that hour of the morning too!!! :o :o | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by xanthe on Dec 8th, 2003, 9:53pm *deeply deeply shocked* :o it reads like SCS... but with a difference... | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Angel of the North on Dec 8th, 2003, 10:15pm Chalet School - The TWUTH! Kudos if you spot the reference. Love that - Joey being drunk. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Dec 9th, 2003, 2:31am *looks forward to hearing about Joey's hangover!!* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 9th, 2003, 2:47am Vikki, that comment on Joey's hangover sounded rather gleeful... | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Dec 9th, 2003, 2:58am And what's wrong with that? Don't try to tell me you wouldn't like to see it!! ;) | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 9th, 2003, 3:02am Well, it might be mildly amusing... | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 9th, 2003, 10:47am Later Jo woke up in time for lunch, but said she couldn’t face it. She has a terrible headache, and says she feels absolutely dreadful. When I asked what had caused it, she said she didn’t know, though she had had one or two glasses of wine last night. I didn’t tell her that I heard her come in, as she’s sounding a bit grumpy. I really loved the deck hockey. We play with springy wooden sticks, nothing like proper hockey sticks, and you can use both sides. There is no ball, just a ‘puck’ made of rope. It’s difficult to control when the ship is moving up and down. Bedtime Jo came in to dinner tonight and ate pretty well. She says she’s feeling better, though she only drank water. She seems to have fallen out with dear Everard too, much to my delight. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by xanthe on Dec 9th, 2003, 10:57am Thanks Robin - more please! ;D | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 9th, 2003, 11:21am *giggle* Great part! I don't see the 'falling out' lasting long! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 9th, 2003, 12:56pm Jo joined the rest of us playing deck hockey this morning. She’s back to being her old self again. Everard came along as we were having our morning coffee, and asked to speak to her in private. She went out on the deck with him, but I don’t think she wanted to. I could hear the sound of their voices through the window, but not what they were saying – or at least, not at first. When they started to shout, I couldn’t help hearing, even when I put my fingers in my ears, and I was just going to move when Jo came storming back into the lounge. She was white and shaking, and I’ve never seen her in such a temper before. When I asked what the matter was, she snapped my head off, and said she never wanted to have anything more to do with that cad! Those were her words, not mine! I’d heard some of it though. She accused Everard of making her drunk the other night. She said she couldn’t remember what had happened, and demanded that he told her. I don’t know what he said – he wasn’t shouting. She came back just after that. I think she’s a bit afraid as well as angry. There was a dance tonight after dinner. I stayed up for some of it, and it was great fun. We had proper ballroom dancing and some of the country dances we learnt at school. Jo stayed with me and my friends all the time, and has come to bed at the same time as me. She’s getting washed while I write this. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Carolyn P on Dec 9th, 2003, 1:00pm So, what happened to Jo that night?? | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Angel of the North on Dec 9th, 2003, 3:51pm If it's what I'd like to think it is, Joey *definitely* wouldn't tell Robin. And I love this. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Dec 9th, 2003, 7:08pm *chants loudly towards Robin!!!* ;) | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Chloe on Dec 9th, 2003, 8:33pm *joins in the chant* More story soon Robin please! :) | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 9th, 2003, 8:50pm *feeling rather sorry for Jo, if she can't remember things about that night* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by xanthe on Dec 9th, 2003, 8:53pm *joins the chant* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Rachael P on Dec 9th, 2003, 10:12pm Quote:
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear ...... *shakes head* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 10th, 2003, 1:44pm We spent all day yesterday docked at Piraeus, which is the port for Athens. A group of us went into the city. We walked up to the Acropolis, and looked around the ruins there. It seems incredible that they are so old, yet so well preserved. We could go right inside most of the buildings, including the biggest, the Temple of Athene. Most of the carvings are in the British Museum in London, but those that are left are wonderful. The poverty we saw between the port and the city is terrible, and such a contrast with the modern city centre. Jo came with the group. She seems to have totally dropped the officer, and the whole crowd he hangs around with, and is much happier now, though I’m sure she’s hiding something, or is worried about something, that she isn’t telling me. I’ve known her too long not to be able to see when something’s bothering her. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Esmeralda on Dec 10th, 2003, 2:02pm Whatever can Jo be worried about ??? More soon please. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Rachael P on Dec 10th, 2003, 3:31pm Isn't she worried because she can't remember what happened and she doesn't like what he told her? I'm thinking she's concerned at the potential prospect of being "busy" in approx 9 months time .......................... | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 10th, 2003, 5:42pm A few days later Cairo was wonderful! We went out to see the pyramids, and I had a ride on a camel! That was so strange. I felt as if I was going to be tipped off over its back when it stood up, because it got up front legs first! It was the same when it sat down, though the other way around. I didn’t think that the pyramids would be so big either. I felt dwarfed. We’re going down the Suez Canal tomorrow, and won’t stop again till be reach Bombay. Dick and Mollie will meet us there, and then Jo will have another adult to talk to. I hope she can stop worrying then. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 10th, 2003, 8:42pm Rachael, the timeline doesn't work for the triplets (it would be more than nine months, and anyway she had been married more than that before they were born). The only option would be for her to have an abortion or miscarry, and miscarriage is unlikely, as after one miscarriage, it's likely you'd have another, and we never hear anything about it (although I agree with you if you say we wouldn't be likely to hear). | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by PatW on Dec 10th, 2003, 8:44pm weren't they in India for the best part of a year? | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Angel of the North on Dec 10th, 2003, 8:45pm how long were they in india for? *grins* - and isn't there a four term gap around now.... | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 10th, 2003, 9:01pm Some time later We reach Bombay tomorrow. I’m so looking forward to seeing Dick and Mollie. I bet they think I’ve grown - it’s years since I saw them. We’ve had a lovely smooth voyage since Cairo, and the weather has been getting warmer. Jo seems to be in a really funny mood most of the time now. She swings between being really depressed and being the life and soul of the party. I’ve never seen her like this before, and I hope she gets over it soon. Next day I’m in my room in the hotel where we’re spending the night. Dick and Mollie haven’t changed a bit, and it was really lovely seeing them again. They’ve left the twins behind in Coorg, so we haven’t seen them yet. The streets here are very strange. There are people everywhere, and funny little carts pulled by bikes are all over the road. The noise is terrific, and the smells are like nothing I’ve smelt before. All spicy. I had my first curry tonight, and I’m not sure whether I like it or not. It’s very hot, and leaves your mouth burning. Water doesn’t help much either, I found. I’m sitting up in bed to write this. Jo has vanished somewhere with Mollie, and Dick has gone out for a smoke. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Chloe on Dec 10th, 2003, 9:06pm Yay! :) Thank you Robin! More soon i hope! :) | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Angel of the North on Dec 10th, 2003, 9:08pm thanks rob. Hmmm, this makes for some interesting spin off possibilities... | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Rachael P on Dec 10th, 2003, 10:00pm KB - I did not mean the Trips! :o Am assuming that if that happened then she was lucky ..... !! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Dec 10th, 2003, 10:35pm Please tell us more Robin!! :-* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 11th, 2003, 12:01am on 12/10/03 at 22:00:07, Rachael P wrote:
Gee, I was just checking... ;) | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 11th, 2003, 11:40am We’re staying here for a few days so that Mollie can take Jo to see a doctor. She doesn’t look very sick to me, though she’s a bit white most of the time these days. It means that Dick and I can go sightseeing again today. Later Dick and I had a lovely day out. Jo and Mollie came back from the doctors, and they both looked as if they had had a dreadful shock. Jo has gone to bed already, and we are leaving here tomorrow early to go up country to Coorg. I hope Jo is well enough to travel. She didn’t look like it earlier, but Mollie says that there’s nothing to stop us leaving. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 11th, 2003, 2:44pm Jo has insisted that I be told what is happening on the grounds that firstly I’m old enough (that’s nice!) and secondly that I’m likely to find out anyway! I am now continuing this diary in secret, and re-written the earlier part in a new book, leaving out all sorts of things that would only make people suspect. I promised to help keep the secret! What I don’t understand, and they won’t tell me, is exactly what happened. I thought it only happened after you got married, so how could it happen to Jo, when she isn’t? I suppose that’s something else I’ll find out ‘when I’m old enough’! It’s not fair – if I’m old enough to know what is happening, surely I’m old enough to know how! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Angel of the North on Dec 11th, 2003, 3:00pm *laughs until head falls off and can't type straight.* rob - you will let us read it? | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by PatW on Dec 11th, 2003, 3:07pm ROFL!! Angel, I'm trying to work out how you can see at all if your head's fallen off!! The mind boggles!! Do you look like Nearly Headless Nick?!! 8oo 8oo | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Angel of the North on Dec 11th, 2003, 3:10pm No, I'm a touch typist. NHN is about the right idea though. *straightens head, but finds it's still a bit twisted* Can anyone get it on straight? or else I'm going to be wandering around Narnia with my head on back to front | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Chloe on Dec 11th, 2003, 7:59pm Adds plea to be allowed to read secret diary! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Dec 11th, 2003, 8:36pm Oh! Please share your secret diary with us Robin!! We won't breathe a word to anyone! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Rachael P on Dec 11th, 2003, 8:38pm Ooh, this is so funny! No wonder the Two CS Girls in India transcript never materialised! It would have shocked the world ....... ;) Thank you, Robin! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Catherine_B on Dec 11th, 2003, 8:43pm Oh my goodness - I've just thought - Maurice and Maeve??? | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Dec 11th, 2003, 8:57pm That thought crossed my mind too, but they've already been mentioned haven't they? :-/ | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Rachael P on Dec 11th, 2003, 9:06pm Well, it hadn't crossed mine!! :o ('cause I'm so pure and innocent ............................ ;D) But it's a cunning theory - I like it! Robin! Come and put us out of our misery ................ please :D | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 11th, 2003, 10:03pm *collapses into hysterics at the thought of Rachael being pure and innocent* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Dec 11th, 2003, 10:08pm *joins KB in the hysterics corner!* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Rachael P on Dec 11th, 2003, 10:10pm 8oo - it took you the best part of an hour to find me out ... ;) More please, Robin! ... and exactly what evidence have you two got to scoff at my unsullied mind? .... | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Dec 11th, 2003, 10:13pm Many of your previous posts my lamb!!! ;) ::) | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Rachael P on Dec 11th, 2003, 10:18pm *looks huffy* I don't know what you're talking about ............................. ;) | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 11th, 2003, 10:32pm Not much, Rachael! ::) And I've been waiting for the board to speed up so that I could get through all these posts! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Dec 11th, 2003, 10:54pm It was a bit slow earlier, wasn't it? >:( | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 11th, 2003, 11:00pm *sighs and hopes I have time to archive heaps today* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Esmeralda on Dec 12th, 2003, 2:10am 8oo, No wonder they stayed in India so long! Now agog with all the various possibilities this throws up. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 12th, 2003, 6:40am Presuming she didn't have an abortion, surely there's a whole other storyline to be explored, with the child coming to the CS (as she would surely have to) and throwing the whole world there into turmoil... ;) | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by LulieCat on Dec 12th, 2003, 8:20am Please let us read the secret diary Robin. *waits agog for more* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 12th, 2003, 9:05am I suppose that I’ll have to write down just what is the matter with Jo at some time, so why not now? Like I said, I don’t know how it happened, but she’s going to have a baby! She’s back to muttering about the army officer she was friendly with at the beginning of the voyage, for some reason. Anyway, we will be going to Coorg with Dick and Mollie, but then Jo will have to go somewhere where no one knows her to have the baby. Then it will be adopted by someone else, and no one needs to know what happened. It would be a dreadful disgrace for Jo if anyone found out, which is why I have two diaries now. She might never be able to get married! I’ve never known Jo to be so angry as she is now – a bear with a sore head has nothing on her. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 12th, 2003, 10:52am Thanks, Robin! Your naivete is delightful, my dear. And I can't wait to see what the baby will be like... | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Catherine_B on Dec 12th, 2003, 11:30am Oh, help! Another thought - Jo Scott?? Damn, getting confused, of course it was a different adoptee who was Dacia Parson's daughter - Erica Standish. D'oh!! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 12th, 2003, 11:34am I can't imagine this baby being as sensible as Jo... | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Carolyn P on Dec 12th, 2003, 12:39pm I did think of the baby being adopted by the Bettany's, but couldn't think if any of them would be the right age. It can't be Erica Standish as she is too young, it needs to be someone about 3-4 (I think) years older than the trips. More soon please Robin, now I've caught up. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by PatW on Dec 12th, 2003, 12:49pm I'm thinking that Jo had a (later!) history of multiple births, didn't she? ;) ;) | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 12th, 2003, 1:44pm Coorg We arrived here in time for the evening meal. We took the train to Mysore and then Dick drove us the 75 miles to Coorg. There are a great many coffee plantations here, and orange groves. Dick says that the area is good for spices such as cardamom and peppers, and a lot of honey is produced too. The countryside is hilly and beautiful. In fact, Coorg is what is called a Hill Station. I think we shall love it here. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Catherine_B on Dec 12th, 2003, 1:52pm Carolyn, I realised that after I posted about Jo Scott. What I thought was that maybe the baby got foisted off onto someone she knew in Coorg, then reappeared as an "adopted" niece / god-daughter later - and Jo Scott fit the age and category - but unfortunately I forgot that her parents were on the wrong continent! Oops :-[ | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 12th, 2003, 3:23pm Dick is making enquiries about other Hill Stations, where Jo could go. Indukki sounds lovely, and is up in mountains. Dick thinks that it is far enough away to be safe for Jo to stay. However, that is not yet, and we are going to have fun looking around here first. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Chloe on Dec 12th, 2003, 7:00pm Thank you Robin, may we have some more soon please! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 12th, 2003, 7:53pm I wonder if Robin is going to go with Jo, or if she will stay behind and grow up a little on her own. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Rachael P on Dec 12th, 2003, 8:46pm She's doing a good job! Seems to be coping very well with Jo being busy! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Jennie on Dec 13th, 2003, 12:28pm Robin can't go with Jo. In those days, young girls were kept well away from childbirth, it wasn't considered to be fitting. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by xanthe on Dec 13th, 2003, 10:00pm *hopping from foot to foot while waiting to read the next installment* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 13th, 2003, 10:02pm Oh, drat! I was hoping there would be more this morning! Please, Robin! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 13th, 2003, 10:20pm Even Robin has to do some research on Coorg! Please be patient, it's a *very*long time since I've been there! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 13th, 2003, 10:21pm Research?! My dear girl, are you telling us this ISN'T your diary from the time? Have you got us involved under false pretences? | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by PatW on Dec 13th, 2003, 10:26pm Are you doubting her KB? It must be a very old diary, and hidden away for so many years! Perhaps there's pages missing! ::) ;) | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 13th, 2003, 10:27pm *feels duped* And you seem awfully keen to defend her, Pat. Might there be a reason for that? | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by PatW on Dec 13th, 2003, 10:32pm Come on, KB! Anyone with a reason for defending her, wouldn't, would they? It would lay them open to speculation! 8oo | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 13th, 2003, 10:46pm *now believes Pat is Robin and shouts to everyone else* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Abi on Dec 13th, 2003, 11:00pm oooooooh! I've just read all of this, Robin, it's brilliant 8oo *was attracted by KB's shouting* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by PatW on Dec 13th, 2003, 11:03pm on 12/13/03 at 22:46:09, KB wrote:
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Kathy_S on Dec 13th, 2003, 11:55pm Mentioned what? ??? Is this another plot to confuse and confuzzle? (Edited because too many question marks turned into a suitable but unpunctuated smiley). | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Esmeralda on Dec 14th, 2003, 12:06am Joins Kathy in being confused and confuzzled. Have you removed a post Pat? | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Chloe on Dec 14th, 2003, 12:26pm More soon please Robin! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 14th, 2003, 3:14pm We went to visit the Abbi Falls yesterday. It was wonderful. We travelled down a narrow road that went up and down like a switchback, and twisted and turned through the coffee plantations. Then we had to walk down a narrow pathway to the Falls. Many streams jon together here, and fall like a white wall of water down the hill to join with the river Cauvery at the bottom. The Falls are surrounded by a misty cloud that soaks you very quickly if you go too close. Needless to say, I wasn’t allowed to get very wet at all.. They look after me so carefully that anyone would think I’d fall apart at the faintest touch of rain. I think that Jo will be leaving for Indukki very soon. She is looking a little plumper, and I don’t remember Madge being so plump. I heard Mollie talking to Dick as I passed their door last night, and she said something about ‘twins’. Can people tell if there are going to be twins? Mollie has had tow sets, so she ought to know. I’ll miss Jo when she goes, and so will Dacia Parsons. We have all three become pretty friendly, though Dacia knows nothing about what’s happened. We have already said that Jo will be spending time at other stations, so that it won’t look odd when she disappears. I’ll have to stay here, and I’m totally disgusted, but it’s ‘not the done thing’ for me to be involved. Once Jo has gone, I’ll probably stop writing in this diary, as there will be nothing to add till the baby comes. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Chloe on Dec 14th, 2003, 4:18pm Yay Thank you Robin, but please don't ley you're diary stop for us! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Dec 14th, 2003, 8:46pm Robin, please carry on posting!! We're all very concerned about Joey's wellbeing!! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Esmeralda on Dec 14th, 2003, 9:02pm Please don't stop writing Robin, I'm sure you'll have lots of interesting things to right about. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 14th, 2003, 11:26pm on 12/14/03 at 00:06:32, Esmeralda wrote:
She did, because I asked her to. Don't wory about being confused and confuzzled you will understand it all eventually... | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by PatW on Dec 14th, 2003, 11:30pm really loking forward to the 'eventually' too, KB. Hope it's sooner rather than later! ;D | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Abi on Dec 14th, 2003, 11:34pm *scowls threateningly at Robin* Don't you dare stop posting, young lady, or I shall personally be responsible for sending every plot bunny I can find to you with instructions to do their worst ;) | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 14th, 2003, 11:44pm on 12/14/03 at 23:30:45, PatW wrote:
It's going to be after Lesley finishes hers... | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by PatW on Dec 14th, 2003, 11:45pm that figures!! ;) I'll practice being patient! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Dec 14th, 2003, 11:47pm *confused by KB's and Pat's cryptic conversation!! ??? | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 14th, 2003, 11:52pm *chuckles at having effectively confused Vikki* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Dec 14th, 2003, 11:55pm *chucks another wet sponge at KB!!* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by KB on Dec 15th, 2003, 12:01am *appreciates it for the same reason mentioned elsewhere* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 15th, 2003, 9:42am Jo left for Indukki yesterday, and I’m really missing her. She says she’ll write, but it’s not the same. She couldn’t have stayed much longer though, as she already much plumper than she was. Mollie has promised to take me out a lot to make up, and Dacia and her friends have said the same, but there’s no one here who’s my age, and I’m afraid I’m going to be lonely. Letter from Jo today. She’s settling in, and says the people are really nice and sympathetic. There are five or six other girls there, all types and backgrounds, and she thinks she’ll get on with them all right. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 15th, 2003, 12:37pm I’ve been enjoying the excursions round the district, seeing the temples, and visiting the coffee plantations. I miss Jo dreadfully, but I’m helping Mollie with second twins, and that keeps us both busy. Jo says she is getting slower all the time. Mollie has admitted that they think she will have twins. I don’t see why adults think they shouldn’t talk to me about such things. After all, if I get married when I grow up, I’ll need to know everything then. Adults can be really funny at times – I just don’t understand the way they think. Whenever I ask things – like how Jo could be having a baby when she’s not married – they get flustered, and tell me I’m too young to understand. I’ll know all about it when I grow up, and silly things like that. I think it’s silly. After all I know where they live before they are born, and that they grow there – I’ve seen Madge’s tummy getting bigger after all! I just wish I knew how they got there in the first place! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Dec 15th, 2003, 3:35pm Thank you for sharing this with us Robin!! Looking forward to hearing more about your adventures! ;) | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Angel of the North on Dec 15th, 2003, 4:48pm I'd have thought this was when the resolution about being a nun might have been made. And maybe that's what 'visiting her parents graves' was a euphemism for. And Robin, dearest, could you tape Joey's letters into the diary, you know, to keep them safe? | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Chloe on Dec 15th, 2003, 6:01pm *claps* Thank you Robin more soon i hope! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 15th, 2003, 8:00pm Angel, I did not keep the letters in the same place as my diaries, so I may not be able to find them. I will look for you. As you know, as a nun I am not allowed to keep personal possessions, so Jo has benn looking after these things for me, though she does not know what is in them. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Angel of the North on Dec 15th, 2003, 8:04pm Thank you my dear. How are you finding the climate? | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Chloe on Dec 15th, 2003, 8:07pm Great idea Robin and AoN! Looking forward to more! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Esmeralda on Dec 15th, 2003, 8:07pm Let's hope she never feels tempted to take a peek. *Remembers being told that women couldn't have babies unless they were married, but at a rather younger age than Robin. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 15th, 2003, 8:16pm The climate in Canada is wonderful, thank you Angel. Crisp and cold in winter, with plenty of snow, and pleasantly hot in summer. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Angel of the North on Dec 15th, 2003, 8:24pm I found it too hot in summer, but the snow more than made up for it. Are you retired from the school part of La Sagesse? | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Abi on Dec 15th, 2003, 10:47pm Glad there is more of this - but don't stop! The more the merrier! *bumps this up to the top in the hope that Robin sees it and is reminded to post more very quickly* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Robin on Dec 15th, 2003, 11:01pm My darling Rob I’m enjoying seeing the countryside around here while I still can. It’s very different from Coorg, with steeper valleys, and snow on the hill tops. The other girls are a very mixed bunch, and I have to say that as a group we have only one thing in common - we are all expecting a baby out of wedlock. If I had known what was happening, I think I’d have put Everard overboard! No, perhaps not, but the thought is very tempting. The doctors here a pretty certain that I’m going to have twins, as I’m putting on weight faster than normal. The baby or babies moved for the first time today. It is the most incredible feeling, like butterflies fluttering around inside you. I have made one friend here who is nearly the same age as me. We are very similar and have a good laugh sometimes. Oh Rob, pray for me, darling. I get so very frightened when I think of the future, and knowing that I must give up my babies is heartbreaking. But I mustn’t make you unhappy. Most of the time I am coping very well, and we all support each other through the bad moments. Give my love to Dick and Mollie, and love to you too of course, Jo | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Abi on Dec 15th, 2003, 11:12pm Yay! Thank you Robin! I love to see Joey trying to cope with the problems of pregnancy alone, although I think it is rather hard on her that she should have to do that. This offers a new insight into her character - please show us more soon! | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Angel of the North on Dec 15th, 2003, 11:58pm This is lovely. I liked the touches in the letter. *Prays Joey doesn't Miscarry* | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by crashbb on Today at 12:22am Perhaps this is why Joey adopted every stray waif in her path. She needed to do for other people's children what someone had done for hers. Or she needed to replace her lost children. | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Vikki on Today at 3:56am Awww! Poor Joey!! :'( :'( Please keep us informed Robin!! ;) | ||
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Title: Re: My India Journal Post by Chloe on Today at 11:56am Aww poor Joey and you too Robin as you're not with her and not being told things. More soon i hope! | ||
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