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(Message started by: PatW on Nov 10th, 2003, 1:17pm)
Title: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 10th, 2003, 1:17pm
An air of quiet industry hung over the Chalet School.  Outside, the darkness had never truly lifted as the snow came swirling down, dancing like so many dervishes, and looking as though it meant to continue for days.  In the Geography room there was silence as the Fourth struggled with the map that Miss Wilson had set them to draw.  All that could be heard was the occasional shuffle as one girl or another changed position slightly, and the gentle ticking of the great clock hanging on the wall.  No one dared do anything but work that day, as Bill had demonstrated that she was in no mood to tolerate anything out of the ordinary.  More than one girl had already felt the sting of Bill’s famed sarcasm, and not one of them wanted to experience more.  Bill herself was sitting at the mistresses desk marking the work of another form, and frown marring her normally attractive countenance.  Her previous lesson had been with the Third form, and they had succeeded in trying her patience to the limit and beyond.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 10th, 2003, 1:27pm
Margia Stevens risked a small sigh as she lifted her head to glance at the clock.  There was still far too much of the lesson left for her liking, especially with Bill like this.  The worst of it was that she did not dare do anything to liven up the lesson.  The snow had been falling since the previous day, and would probably go on for another few days yet, judging from the previous winter, and Margia was old enough to be aware that the confinement was affecting the staff at least as much as the girls.

Bill looked up from her work.  “Have you finished, Margia?” she asked sharply.  “No? Then carry on, if you please.  You all have plenty to do, without needing to look around you.”
Poor Margia’s eyes dropped back onto her work, though not before she received a number of sympathetic glances from sundry other girls.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Jennie on Nov 10th, 2003, 1:31pm
It may be rather early to comment, Pat, but this looks like being another good one.
;D
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Post by Rachel on Nov 10th, 2003, 1:42pm
Looking good so far Pat. When's the next installment likely?   :D
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Post by PatW on Nov 10th, 2003, 1:52pm
Bill moved slightly and her chair scraped on the floor, making more than one girl jump a little, but the silence continued.  Hilda Annersley, passing along the corridor, glanced curiously through the glass in the door, intrigued at the hushed atmosphere inside.  Seeing the expression on Bill’s face she smiled quietly to herself, before continuing on her way.  She knew the effect that that particular expression could have on schoolgirls.  Bill herself was conscious of her bad mood, and the effect it was having on her class, but found it impossible to lighten the atmosphere, however much she knew that the fault did not lie with the class before her.  She knew the cause was not just the behaviour of the Third, either.  This time of month was always hard on her patience, and the falling snow had only served to worsen the situation.  As much as the girls did, she longed to be able to go outside for a good long walk.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Rachel on Nov 10th, 2003, 2:07pm
Bill's in a strop because she's got her period?

Who is the accident going to happen to? Come on Pat, don't be a tease!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 10th, 2003, 2:26pm
Who me?  Tease?   ::) :o


She lifted her head slightly, and took a look around the room.  Every girl’s head was bent over her work, and she smiled slightly to herself.  At least she was getting some peace and quiet.  As it happened, she was far too optimistic, and events were to unfold which would shake her out of both her bad mood and her complacency.

Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Rachel on Nov 10th, 2003, 2:42pm
And?  You do realise it is very unoriginal of you to be such a tease I hope?

You could go for originality by actually getting on with it!



** Rachel mutters under her breath about persons who write annoyingly short little drabbles when she wants to read volumes **
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 10th, 2003, 2:48pm
There more times I post, the quicker I get rid of the unoriginalitytag!!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Rachel on Nov 10th, 2003, 2:50pm
Because of course appealing to Joey is so much nicer . . . .??

Get on with the story ~ purleeeeeeeeeeeeeeze?
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 10th, 2003, 2:56pm
I didn't know that was coming next!!

Oh all right then.

Suddenly the silence was rent by the shriek of a chair skidding over the floor, and the heavy thump of a body landing on the ground.  Every head jerked up, looking round to see who had fallen, certain that it could only have been caused by someone tilting.

Looking round at their friends they could see no one on the floor, and their heads reluctantly swivelled to the front of the class.  An astounding vision met their gaze.  There was almost no sign of Bill, but her chair was on it’s side, lying half way across the room to the door.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Lesley on Nov 10th, 2003, 3:02pm
Oh Wonderful!!!! Bill was tilting!

How's she going to explain that to Matey!

*Lesley giggling so loud she woke cat in next room!*

More please Pat - I'm going to love everyone at the school's comments! ;D
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Jennie on Nov 10th, 2003, 3:08pm
Wonderful, Pat. I was expecting Margia or one of the class to have the accident.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 10th, 2003, 3:16pm
Bill herself was sitting on the floor, holding onto the edge of the mistresses table as if her life depended on it.  She was very red in the face, and feeling a complete idiot, though naturally nothing more of her feelings showed on her face.  Before she could do anything to rise to her feet, Margia was out of her desk, and by her side.
“Are you all right, Miss Wilson?” she asked.  “Did the chair break?”  She looked across at the chair, showing her shock when she found that it was still in one piece.  She had assumed that they chair must have given way, but seeing that it was intact, realised that the mistress had had to have been tilting!  Only the gleam in her eyes gave her thoughts away, however, and she was full of concern for the fallen mistress.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 10th, 2003, 3:48pm
Unfortunately for the poor mistress, the crash had been heard outside the classroom.  As Bill was getting shakily to her feet, the door opened and Mlle entered, closely followed by Hilda Annersley and Matey, who assessed the situation with their usual swift competence.
“Miss Wilson, are you all right?” asked Matey.
“To be honest, I feel a trifle bruised,” confessed Bill, longing to get out of the room.
“You’d better come with me, and we’ll see if there is any bruising.”
“I’ll stay with the girls,” volunteered Miss Annersley. “I’m sure they have plenty to get on with.”  She looked meaningfully around the room, and the girls hurriedly subsided into their seats, and buried themselves in their work.  They had been lectured so often on the iniquities of tilting, that they were stunned speechless to find a mistress coming to grief over the self-same thing.  More than one girl was finding it hard to keep a straight face, and Hilda Annersley could see signs of strain as they bit their cheeks to stop themselves laughing.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Rachel on Nov 10th, 2003, 3:56pm
lolol - oh I LOVE that image!

Mopre more more more more - just to help you  of course Pat, to get away from even contemplating going to Joey for help you know?
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Lesley on Nov 10th, 2003, 4:03pm
*Surprised Hilda's not having problem keeping a straight face too!*

This is wonderful Pat - what's Matey going to say?


MMMMMOOOOORRRREEEE Please! ;D
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 10th, 2003, 4:15pm
Luckily for the girls the bell rang at that moment, and they streamed out of the room to get their milk and biscuits.  Miss Annersley had contemplated ordering them to keep the story to themselves, but had been forestalled by the bell.  Truth to tell, she was almost as hard pressed as the girls, but it would not do for a mistress to be seen laughing over the incident.  Keeping a very straight face, she hurried along to the staff room, longing to see how Nell Wilson was.  A very sheepish-looking science mistress was seated in a chair, drinking a cup of coffee, and Hilda was amused to see that she was perched on a rubber ring, designed to keep her weight off her rear end.
“Before you ask, I bruised my coccyx,” said Nell Wilson quickly.  I suppose the girls are all laughing their heads off about it?”
“What do you expect?  You *were* tilting, I suppose?”
“Yes, but only a little, and on the front legs.  I slid off more than the chair shooting away.”
“It looked like it!  The chair was halfway to the door, I’ll have you know.”
Hilda Annersley finally gave way, and burst out laughing, tears running down her face.  “Oh Nell, your face!  That’ll larn you!  You won’t be able to say a thing to the girls now about tilting – they all knew that was what you had been doing!”
“I know that, my dear.  I’ll be tender for a good few days, to remind me.”
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Marianne on Nov 10th, 2003, 4:19pm
lol!!! I am liking this, more please!!! :D
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Post by Lesley on Nov 10th, 2003, 5:35pm
*giggling so much I can't say anything!* ;D
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Post by Vikki on Nov 10th, 2003, 6:16pm
Brilliant Pat!!! So glad someone's finally written this one!! More please!!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Rachel on Nov 10th, 2003, 6:21pm
I want to see what happens the first time somebody tilts in one of Bill's classes!

And I'm still chuckling at the idea of the sarky mistress landing on the floor! lolol
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 10th, 2003, 6:32pm
I hadn't got that far!!  I'd been reading the 'Challenges' and realised no one had started the 'Tilting' one, so got on with it!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Rachel on Nov 10th, 2003, 6:38pm
So what have you got planned for your next drabble Pat? Want me to give you some of my little plot bunnies to play with?    ;)
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 10th, 2003, 6:46pm
*very pleased that someone finally took up that suggestion I made to Annie ages'n'ages ago!*

Well done Pat. I half expected catastrophe and sudden death, and instead got a lovely giggle. Thanks! ;D
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 10th, 2003, 6:47pm

on 11/10/03 at 18:38:26, Rachel wrote:
So what have you got planned for your next drabble Pat? Want me to give you some of my little plot bunnies to play with?    ;)

You are so generous Rachel.  Far be it from me to take any of your wonderful ideas away from you!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Rachel on Nov 10th, 2003, 7:22pm

on 11/10/03 at 18:47:09, PatW wrote:
You are so generous Rachel.  Far be it from me to take any of your wonderful ideas away from you!


Not at all, I have so many of the little blighters darlings looking for an outlet, and I have told them all about you and they can't wait to come and see their new mamma.

;D
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 10th, 2003, 8:31pm
*giggling wildly*

Thank you Pat!  ;D

*valiantly suppressing her giggles because some people are trying to study*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 10th, 2003, 9:06pm
Wonderful, Pat. I loved all the little details - the silent room, so that Nell falling off the chair would have a greater impact than it otherwise would, the explanation for her bad mood, and the joy in the girls when they realised what she was doing! Great work!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 10th, 2003, 9:27pm

on 11/10/03 at 19:22:48, Rachel wrote:
Not at all, I have so many of the little blighters darlings looking for an outlet, and I have told them all about you and they can't wait to come and see their new mamma.

;D

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaggghhhh!  Help me someone!  :o  I don't think I can deal with one of Rachel's bunnies!  they're twisted!!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Rachel on Nov 10th, 2003, 10:09pm

on 11/10/03 at 21:27:09, PatW wrote:
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaggghhhh!  Help me someone!  :o  I don't think I can deal with one of Rachel's bunnies!  they're twisted!!


Look, just because their heads rotate through a full seven hundred and twenty degrees it does NOT mean they aren't lovable!

I mean, just take a look at the lovely little creatures! How about I send some on sale or return? Can't say fairer than that!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Esmeralda on Nov 10th, 2003, 11:46pm
Lovely drabble Pat, great fun to see Bill tiliting- and coming a cropper ;D
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Emma_N on Nov 11th, 2003, 12:41am
Thanks for making me laugh more than I have in ages Pat!! The image of Bill falling off the floor and of the girls and Hilda struggling to keep a straight face!! I can't wait for what happens when someone tilts in one of Bills lessons, perhaps the entire class could tilt in unison!!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Vikki on Nov 11th, 2003, 1:43am
It'd be so funny to see Bill's reaction if every class she taught the next day all tilted in unison!! She'd probably see the funny side with the first one, but get more and more annoyed as the day went on!!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 11th, 2003, 8:44am
I have to admit to writing from experience!!  My French teacher (Cedric Wainright, poor man!) was one of those old-fashioned teachers, even for the 60s, and you *worked* inhis lessons, or else!  We were translating our French novel, and just when we got to a bit that described the 'ground opening up, and the heroine disappearing into the hole, he fell off his chair!  All you could see was his hands clutching the desk!!  No one laughed - or not out loud anyway - until he stood u laughing, when we did too, politely!  Once he'd goen at the end of the lesson, we erupted of course!  He must have heard as he went up the corridor!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Emma_N on Nov 11th, 2003, 11:36am
Pat, I'm not sure how you all managed to not laugh in his lesson, you must have all had far better self control than I do. Saying that, if our Head Mistress had done the same thing I don't think there would have been a giggle from anyone, she was really really scary (I'm still scared of her now!!).
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Ally on Nov 11th, 2003, 1:36pm
Pat that was brilliant but we definitely need a sequel of some one tilting in one of Bill's lessons!!
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Post by Carolyn P on Nov 11th, 2003, 10:03pm
Thanks Pat, that was a real treat. I could just see it happening. Very well done.
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Post by Susan on Nov 12th, 2003, 1:02am
Thanks Pat that was really funny - just the right thing to send me off to bed in a happier frme of mind after phone calls and sad drabbles.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 12th, 2003, 6:37pm
In the Speisesaal, the Fourth were holding forth to their friends from other forms.
“She *had* to be tilting!” declared Margia,  “After all that they have said to us, too!”
“Are you sure?” queried Jo Bettany.  “Bill has always been so down on that.  Could she just have slipped off?”
“Jo, the chair skidded across the room, nearly to the door!  It would only have toppled over if she’d slipped off.”
“What are you kids talking about?” asked Grizel Cochrane, the Head Girl. “Are you seriously saying that Miss Wilson was tilting her chair and fell off it?  I think you’ve gone crazy!”
“Kid yourself, Grizel Cochrane!” retorted Margia.  “I’m sure she was tilting too!”
“OK, OK, keep your hair on!  I only said it was very unlikely.”
“It was the way you said it, Griselda,” said Joey.
“Oh sorry and all that.  I suppose you know what you’re talking about.  We’ll see what she’s like when she comes in for Mittagessen.”

Morning school continued as normal, and when the bell for Mittagessen finally rang, the school hurried to the Speisesaal, agog with anticipation.  They took their places at the tables, and waited for the staff to arrive.  They were rewarded with the sight of Bill, her head held high, carrying her ring cushion, which she proceeded to place on her chair before standing behind it for Grace.  She was slightly flushed, though many of the girls did not perceive that.  Most of the older ones noticed, though, and this confirmed for them that Margia’s story was accurate.  Bill would not have been so self conscious if there had been no truth to the tale.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Vikki on Nov 12th, 2003, 7:07pm
Poor Bill!! She must be mortified!! 8oo 8oo
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Post by KB on Nov 12th, 2003, 9:51pm
Oh, dear, couldn't the cushion have already been there, just to make things a little easier for Bill? Still, I got a giggle out of it and I hope there will be many more to come!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Vikki on Nov 12th, 2003, 10:13pm
*waiting eagerly for the first tilter in Bill's class*
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Post by Lesley on Nov 12th, 2003, 10:18pm
Regardless of the pain - I would not have carried that cushion in! ;D

More please Pat!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 12th, 2003, 10:26pm
But she'd been sitting on it before she came into the room?  How else could it have got there?  even if someone else carried it, the girls would have twigged!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 12th, 2003, 10:30pm
And Matey only has one? Does that mean the next girl who tilts will have to share with Bill?
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Post by Vikki on Nov 12th, 2003, 10:34pm
*now visualising squabbles over the air ring!!* ;D ;D
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 12th, 2003, 10:34pm
Most tilters tilt backwards!  You don't need a cushion for your head!  Or at least, you don't in the northern hemisphere!  I'll have to check with Lynne id she noticed anything like that when she was in Oz this year!  :P
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Lesley on Nov 12th, 2003, 11:40pm
Pat - I meant that I would have coped with the pain of sitting without a cushion rather than the humiliation of carrying it around with me! ;D
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Esmeralda on Nov 13th, 2003, 12:04am
It mat be humiliating for Bill, but, it serves her right! ;D
I can't imagine she would have that much sympathy for anyone else!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 13th, 2003, 12:08am
*giggling*

poor Bill...

*valiantly attempting to suppress her laughter at the thought of Bill & another tilter trying to share an air ring...*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Vikki on Nov 13th, 2003, 12:11am
*still longing for another tilting scene*
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Post by KB on Nov 13th, 2003, 4:56am
*is sure that if we all ask nicely enough, another one will come*
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Post by Rachael P on Nov 13th, 2003, 10:18am
Pat!!

8oo I've just read this and it's hysterical! 8oo

I can just imagine it happening and Bill struggling to maintain any dignity - bless her!!

Absolutely wonderful - thank you!!

I can't wait to see what happens to the next girl who tilts!

This has to be included in the school legends

*takes mental note to be careful as also has a habit of tilting forwards*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 13th, 2003, 11:38am
Bill was due to take Science with the Fifth immediately after the rest period.  Having been free ever since the accident, she was not looking forward to the experience.  There were one or two inveterate tilters in every form, and she knew very well that the whole school would be wondering how she would react the first time she caught someone.  She herself was not sure, and had decided to treat any incident of that nature in the way she felt most appropriate at the time.  She had wished whole heartedly that she had not had to take the cushion into Mittagessen, but matey had been adamant that not only would it be too painful for her to sit without it, but it would also delay the healing of the rather severe bruising she had sustained.  She had taken a couple of aspirins so that she was in little actual pain at the moment, but anything that upset it would bring it back.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Rachael P on Nov 13th, 2003, 11:49am
Eminently sensible of Bill!!

She'll have to send herself up as AN AWFUL EXAMPLE!  ;D
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 13th, 2003, 12:59pm
At the start of the afternoon session she made her way to the Science Lab, showing no sign of the trepidation that she felt.  She was grateful that the first class was with the Fifth, who could be expected to show a little restraint, but that would not hold with the lower forms, where there were a number of little monkeys.  The Fifth formers followed her into the lab, and the lesson started.  No one made any reference to her accident, for which poor Bill was grateful in many ways.  However, the avoidance was obvious, at least to her heightened sensitivity, and she was almost glad when the lesson ended, even though she would now face the Third formers.

The Third made their way to their Geography class plotting mischief.  Cornelia Flower, Yvette Mercier, and Evadne Lannis were imps of the fist water, and had persuaded the rest of the form to follow their lead.  Thus when the mistress entered the Geography room, she found a very proper class awaiting her, though her keen eye spotted the early signs of trouble, and she braced herself for what was to come.  The naughty Third allowed the lesson to get under way with no trouble, but as soon as they thought they had lulled Bill into a false sense of security, they began.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 13th, 2003, 2:32pm
Bill, acutely aware that trouble was brewing, caught a slight movement out of the corner of her eye.  Very carefully, she turned her head so that she could just make out what was happening.  Cornelia Flower was tilting backwards, and rocking gently as she did so, an expression of beatific innocence on her face.  Almost immediately, Bill sensed movement form the other side of the class, and found Yvette Mercier rocking gently sideways.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Rachael P on Nov 13th, 2003, 3:55pm
Oh, Pat - I have a huge "ear-to-ear" grin on my face - aren't they wicked!?

I can so imagine Corney's "beatific innocence"!

Hope they get their uppance comed ... but not before they've had loads more fun!!  ;D 8oo  ;D
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 13th, 2003, 3:59pm
Come on!  We're talking about Bill here!  she's too on the sport to let it go on!  8oo


On cue, almost every other girl in the form started rocking too, and Bill’s eyes turned exceedingly grim. Not for nothing had she earned her reputation, and she was not about to let a group of naughty Middles change that one iota.

Suddenly, she banged the blackboard rubber down onto the staff table with a resounding crash, which was closely followed by a scattering of lesser bangs as chair legs all around the room dropped to the floor.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 13th, 2003, 4:08pm
*jumps, startled by the unexpected noise*  ;)

more PLEASE Pat!
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Post by PatW on Nov 13th, 2003, 4:11pm
I do have the rest of the lesson written, but I go home in 10 minutes!  Shall I leave it till tomorrow, since it's saved on my work computer?  Wondering.....    ;D
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Post by Rachael P on Nov 13th, 2003, 4:12pm
Marvellous stuff!

One plea - pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssse can we have a staff room scene after this - I would love to see them stifling their laughter while Bill holds forth on what the Thirds have been up to!

Thanks in advance  :)
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Post by PatW on Nov 13th, 2003, 4:20pm
Here we go then, just before I close down the computer!   ;D

“Sit up straight, and cross your arms behind you,” she snapped.  With Bill looking as she did, no one dared do anything else, and they sat there gazing at her in apprehension.  Bill stood looking back at them, and then started to wander around the room, looking at each girl in an interested sort of way, as if she was examining an interesting botanical specimen.  The tension in the room rose as she continued to pace, saying nothing, fully aware of the effect she was having.  Seeing the scared faces around her, she nearly spoilt everything by laughing, but calling on every ounce of her experience, she kept her face straight, as she walked back to the front of the room and turned to face them.
“Every girl who has tilted her chair is to stand up,” she said. “Now!”  All but three girls reluctantly climbed to their feet.  “Very well.  The three who have not joined in this childish piece of rudeness may go to their Common Room.  There is no reason why they should be involved any further in this.”  The three thankfully escaped, shaking with relief that they had not joined their friends.  The rest of the class waited gloomily for their fate to befall them.  Suddenly the prank did not seem half so funny as it had done, and more than one girl was already near to tears, or ready to scream.  Bill knew exactly what effect she was having, and let the silence continue.  Finally, when her judgement told her that she had reached the edge, she spoke, making every girl in the room jump.
“Whose idea was this? Stand out beside your desk.  The rest may sit down, and clasp your hands on top of your heads.”
Cornelia, Yvette and Evadne crawled out and stood beside their desks, shaking.  “I hope you realise that not only were you extremely impertinent, but rude and dishonourable as well?  You have taken advantage of my own misfortune to disrupt my lesson, and have contrived to bring the rest with you.  Since you cannot be trusted to work properly whilst you are sitting down, you will all of you stand up for every lesson until I give you permission to do otherwise.  In addition, you will each of you write a letter of apology to me for your behaviour, and if I am not satisfied with them, you will re-write them until I am.  This will be done before you start any of your Preparation tonight, and I will speak to whoever is on duty to explain the situation.  The three girls standing will also write an apology to each of her classmates for leading them into this behaviour, and will stand for their meals until after Abendessen tomorrow night. If you behave like children, you will be treated as such.  You may sit down now, and put your hands on your heads.  The class will sit like this until the end of the lesson.”
One or two sobs were sounding around the room, but Bill ignored them.  She sat down, carefully, on her cushion, and opened a book and began to read, leaving the class sitting there in silence.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 13th, 2003, 4:29pm
Oooh  :o *feeling all squirmy inside* that was brilliantly convincingly and realistically written Pat - thank you!  ;D
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Post by Rachael P on Nov 13th, 2003, 4:48pm
Wow, Pat - swingeing punishment!

Glad I wasn't there - not me ma'am, I wouldnt get involved in that sort of malarkey, no sir'ree!!

Go, Bill, though!

*has huge amounts of respect and admiration for Bill - in fact, sneakily aspires to be like Bill!*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Lesley on Nov 13th, 2003, 6:30pm
Excellent Pat - wouldn't have wanted to be any of the 'tilters!'

Any more?
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Post by Emma_N on Nov 13th, 2003, 7:16pm
Thanks for the installments Pat!! I think the punishments were brilliant. I could really imagine Bill doing something like that. I'm another person who wouldn't have wanted to be among the 'tilters' for that punishment!!
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Post by catherine on Nov 13th, 2003, 9:52pm
Very funny but good for Bill!  Glad to see she's still on form but did Matey really have a look at her?  It must have been a rather uncomfortable examination for Bill if she's got her period at the same time!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 13th, 2003, 10:00pm
Woops!! I'd forgotten I'd given Bill her period!!   :-[
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Post by Catherine_B on Nov 13th, 2003, 10:08pm
Well technically I think you just made vague references to the time of the month.  So maybe she was just having pains from ovulation...
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Post by Vikki on Nov 13th, 2003, 10:59pm

on 11/13/03 at 21:52:55, catherine wrote:
Very funny but good for Bill!  Glad to see she's still on form but did Matey really have a look at her?  It must have been a rather uncomfortable examination for Bill if she's got her period at the same time!



I must admit, that had occurred to me too!!! Maybe she had PMS rather than actually having her period? That would explain the short temperedness!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 13th, 2003, 11:34pm
*giggle* Good on Bill! And I'm sure Matey has dealt with that problem before, so I'm guessing it was the least of her concerns!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Vikki on Nov 13th, 2003, 11:41pm
KB, Matey might not have been bothered, but what about Bill?
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Rachel on Nov 13th, 2003, 11:42pm
Sniggering away here at Bill's punishments, but have to admit, I would have followed Corney's lead and been in with the tilters myself!   :D
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Vikki on Nov 13th, 2003, 11:46pm
Somehow Rachel, that comes as no surprise whatsoever....... ::)
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 13th, 2003, 11:52pm

on 11/13/03 at 23:41:35, Vikki wrote:
KB, Matey might not have been bothered, but what about Bill?


But it was her own silly fault for tilting in the first place, so she can't get upset!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Esmeralda on Nov 13th, 2003, 11:59pm
Ouch.  That punishment sounds more painful than Bill's injury,
but I suppose it had to be done - if she had let them get away with it once.....

Oh, I would have joined in for sure, but I always tilt forwards!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 14th, 2003, 1:45am
*g* I'm a forward tilter too. Especially when I was doing A'level. I think I did slide off the chair once, but as it was just me and my British History teacher, it didn't really matter!

But I'd never tilt while teaching. Then again, I tend to stand. I feel more in control of the class that way.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 14th, 2003, 1:47am
I was a multi-directional tilter. I often tilted back on only one leg of the chair and swivelled around on it.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 14th, 2003, 1:50am
*splutters* Like Mary-Lou then. I wonder what Miss Annersley would have said if she'd been told that you'd been 'multi directonally tilting' as opposed to the more boring backkwards, forwards, or sidewards! ;)
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 14th, 2003, 1:52am
I'm sure she would have been impressed by my abilities. I never broke a chair, either, or fell.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 14th, 2003, 8:42am

on 11/13/03 at 23:59:18, Esmeralda wrote:
Ouch.  That punishment sounds more painful than Bill's injury,
but I suppose it had to be done - if she had let them get away with it once.....

Bear in mind that they were getting at Bill personally, so the punishment was for rather more than just tilting!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 14th, 2003, 1:50pm
The lesson time crawled by, at least for the Third Form.  Their arms were aching, but they did not dare lower them, or fidget too much.  Bill in this mood was a force to be reckoned with, and they sat there trying not to attract any more attention to themselves.  After a time, Bill looked up at them.
“You may lower your arms and, cross them behind your back.  Move them around a little first to stop any discomfort.”  She watched as they lowered their arms and stretched them out, wincing at the pain of returning circulation.  Finally the bell released them, and Bill left the room, heading for the Staff Room.

“Thank goodness that’s over,” cried Cornelia.  “My arms are still aching, and how I’ll be able to write anything, I don’t know.”
“I wish we’d never tried it on,” Evadne muttered.  “We should have known Bill would come down like a ton of bricks.  Reckon she’s a splay-footed four-flusher to give us that punishment!  Oh well, it’s done now, and I suppose we’ll have to make the best of it.”
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 14th, 2003, 2:55pm
Bill marched into the Staff Room and dumped her books onto her desk with a thump.  Hilda Annersley looked up and smiled.
“Had a bad afternoon, Nell?” she asked.
“The Thirds!  They decided to try it on with a mass tilting session!”
Hilda’s eyes laughed, though she managed to keep a straight face.  “That was rather daring of them.  I imagine they’ve learnt the error of their ways?”
“Oh yes!  They are all writing me a personal letter of apology, and spent most of the lesson with their hands on their heads.”
“That would certainly do the trick.  No doubt you were expecting something of the sort, though.  Everyone had a pretty good idea of what happened this morning, after all.”
“I know it served me right,” growled the sorely tried mistress.  “It doesn’t help when I get teasing in here as well.”
“Never mind, Nell.  You’ll live it down in time.  At least you are unlikely to have any more trouble form the girls after squashing the Thirds so well.”
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 3:08pm
Thank you Pat  ;D

*suspects the Third's efforts will NOT be the last Bill hears of it*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 14th, 2003, 3:13pm
Is that wishful thinking, Xanthe?  Or a suggestion?!! 8oo
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Jennie on Nov 14th, 2003, 4:23pm
Both, Pat. And I second them. Please, let us have some more.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 4:30pm
*wonders how Jennie comes to have such intimate knowledge of that which I call my mind but most people just laugh at*

she was right though!  c'mon Pat, you know you want to...  ;D
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Jennie on Nov 14th, 2003, 4:38pm
Well, Xanthe, I could tell you that I have these wonderful secret powers, but I won't. It's just that I want both of those things too.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 4:42pm
*giggles*

*ponders prodding Pat/her bunny until they write some more*
*realises she may need to set up a prodding rota and goes off to do so*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 14th, 2003, 8:46pm
*tells Xanthe that she's as see-through as a sheet of cellophane*

And Pat, I'm glad the staff are getting a laugh at Bill's expense...
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 8:48pm
*looks down at her reassuringly opaque self and wonders what KB can possibly mean*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:24pm
*waves to Vikki, who she can clearly see through Xanthe*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:26pm
*worries about the HGs eyesight*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:34pm
*sighs and points out to Xanthe that, in certain lights and at certain angles, she is completely see-through*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:38pm
*gets up and dances about but remains [sadly] solid and opaque*

*checks with Rabia whether or not this is the case and she agrees, although she also looks a bit puzzled*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:45pm
Hooray! I've made those around Xanthe worry about her again! *lets off party popper*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:46pm
*jumps about a foot into the air*

*doesn't like loud noises*

*doesn't deal well with being startled*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:48pm
*suggests that Xanthe is a mite oversensitive*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 9:53pm
*agrees*

It's sad but true though... *had bruised legs through much of school career from bashing tables as she jumped when the bell went*

It is really embarrassing - my supervisor's phone rang today when I was in her office and I jumped about a foot into the air...  :-[
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Emma_N on Nov 14th, 2003, 10:08pm
Did anyone else ever try tilting on those high science lab stools? I wouldn't recommend it, it's quite a long way down to the floor when gravity overcomes the angle you are tilting at...
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Vikki on Nov 14th, 2003, 10:10pm
Oh Emma!!!!
*wonders how long the bruises lasted!!*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 10:14pm

on 11/14/03 at 22:08:07, Emma_N wrote:
Did anyone else ever try tilting on those high science lab stools?


Yup - but only when I was holding on to the workbench...  I did once slide off one because I was laughing so much though... and my Science teacher walked right past me without noticing...
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Emma_N on Nov 14th, 2003, 10:33pm
The bruises lasted for quite along time. I never tilted after that incident, I just started sucking my thumb in science lessons instead (I had to do something to annoy my teacher)
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Vikki on Nov 14th, 2003, 10:45pm
Did the thumb sucking prove sufficiently annoying?
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Emma_N on Nov 14th, 2003, 10:48pm
Yes it used to drive Mrs May mad!! Especially when I answered her questions with my thumb in my mouth. The only snag was when it came to exam time and I couldn't write and suck my thumb (it helps me concentrate!!). Another snag is the fact that I still haven't given up!!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 10:50pm
:-[ well I'm nineteen and I still suck my thumb  :-[
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Emma_N on Nov 14th, 2003, 11:05pm
One of my university lecturers still sucked his thumb...
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 14th, 2003, 11:42pm
*suggests buying dummies all round so that the thumb suckers have something to suckj and then they have no excuse for writing drabbles. Hear that, Emma and Xanthe?!*

I sympathise with you Xanthe about loud noises. After a friend did Something Stupid I reacted physically to the sound of a phone ringing for a good two years. I jumped and actually got dizzy and breathless! Thankfully it wore off eventually!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 14th, 2003, 11:56pm

on 11/14/03 at 23:42:29, Lisa_T wrote:
*suggests buying dummies all round so that the thumb suckers have something to suckj and then they have no excuse for writing drabbles. Hear that, Emma and Xanthe?!*

having a dummy gets one excluded from drabbling??  ;)
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 15th, 2003, 12:29am

on 11/14/03 at 23:42:29, Lisa_T wrote:
I sympathise with you Xanthe about loud noises. After a friend did Something Stupid I reacted physically to the sound of a phone ringing for a good two years. I jumped and actually got dizzy and breathless! Thankfully it wore off eventually!


*would soooo love details of the Something Stupid*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 21st, 2003, 1:46pm
Pretty May Carthew entered the staff room at that moment, and looked from one to the other.
“What’s up?” she queried.
“The Third have tried to take advantage of Nell’s little accident.  They did a mass tilt in her class.”
Miss Carthew did not manage to control her reaction, and burst out laughing. “Not really!” she gasped.  Did they live to tell the tale?  Should we ask Matey to go and pick up the pieces?”
Nell Wilson nearly leapt on her, such were her feelings, but then her better nature got the better of her, and she laughed.
“They may certainly need some of Matey’s embrocation,” she said.  “They have been sitting in one position for so long that they are probably a little stiff and sore.”

Meanwhile, the Third form were airing their woes in their Common Room, but getting very little sympathy.
“How on earth you thought you’d get away with that in Bill’s lesson, I don’t know.” Jo Bettany was forthright in her scorn.  “Bill’s all there, you know, and accident or no accident, she wouldn’t let a piece of cheek like that go.”
“It serves you right, and you deserve everything you have been given.” This from peaceable Frieda was strong condemnation, and all knew it.
“Do you think Bill’s getting teased by the other staff?” asked Margia suddenly.  “We’d never let someone live it down, but will they?”
“Grownups don’t tease, silly,” said Evadne.  “I can just see it, can’t you?  Who do you think will do it?  Miss Annersley?  Mlle?  Sure they would!”    
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 21st, 2003, 1:50pm
*snigger* That's all they know.
Why do kids always think teachers are some sort of alien?

KB, you don't want the details of 'something stupid'- besides you already know it! I posted a thread about it a while ago on the OT thread! ;)

MORE PAT!

*really needs to go but having trouble tearing myself away*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Rachael P on Nov 21st, 2003, 1:55pm
Ooh, I thought this was finished but it's not - excellent!

More, please!!

Like the idea of the girls discussing the staff's reactions!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 21st, 2003, 2:00pm
Both my PBs are getting a little lazy at the moment!  Do you think they've been corrupted by Vikki's?   ;D
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Lesley on Nov 21st, 2003, 3:25pm
Yehhh! More of this - excellent - now what other teasing can Miss Wilson get from the staff? Should be something subtle so she'll not blow her top - or perhaps done when with the girls so she can't react!

Know that if it happened in most workplaces or staffrooms the teasing would be unmerciful! ;D
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 21st, 2003, 3:39pm
At Abendessen that evening, the school at large was electrified to see the antics at the staff table.  Most had noticed that Bill had failed to bring in the ring pillow she had used at Mittagessen, and the Seniors had felt a deal of sympathy for her.  However, to their amazement, those nearest the staff table saw that Hilda Annersley was carrying it instead, and made sure that it was safely placed on Bill’s chair before that lady could seat herself.  A murmured conversation was also noted, but at the distance involved could not be heard, though the interested observers could see that Bill’s eyes were flashing, and her mouth looked a little grim.  As soon as they were all seated, rife speculation spread down the room.
“What did Miss Annersley say to Bill to make her look like that?” asked Margia Stevens.
“Don’t know, but I sure don’t want her to look at me like that,” muttered Cornelia.
“You don’t suppose that she was objecting to the cushion?” asked Jo.  “She was using it at Mittagessen.”

Poor Nell Wilson, sitting on the staff table in full view of the school was trying very hard to control her emotions.  Hilda Annersley, knowing full well that she had not intended using Matey’s cushion at mealtimes, had managed to place it on her chair, and added insult to injury by saying “I realised that it must have been an oversight on your part when you left this behind.  We don’t want you to make anything worse, do we?”
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 21st, 2003, 4:10pm
Poor Miss Wilson!

Thanks for the continuation Pat...
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Vikki on Nov 21st, 2003, 4:53pm
*giggles*
How mean of Hilda!!

Oh and Pat, I shall be revenged for your earlier comment about laziness!! >:( >:(
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Jennie on Nov 21st, 2003, 5:05pm
Pat, you're not leaving it there, are you? How could you?

More, please.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Lesley on Nov 21st, 2003, 5:39pm
Oh cruel!!! More please! ;D
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 21st, 2003, 9:32pm
Fantastic, Pat! I'm glad Hilda is getting a little jibe in there every now and then, and I love Cornelia's comment!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Nov 21st, 2003, 10:24pm

on 11/21/03 at 16:53:17, Vikki wrote:
Oh and Pat, I shall be revenged for your earlier comment about laziness!! >:( >:(


Oh good!  Does that mean you're writing Elinor, Vikki?   :P
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Emma_N on Nov 21st, 2003, 11:02pm
Hilda has just gone up even more in my estimation!!!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Lisa_T on Nov 21st, 2003, 11:55pm
*giggling* Oh poor Nell. Good for Hilda!
More, Pat!!!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Vikki on Nov 22nd, 2003, 12:42am

on 11/21/03 at 22:24:26, PatW wrote:
Oh good!  Does that mean you're writing Elinor, Vikki?   :P



It certainly does not!!
Come on, this is me!! Can you really see me managing posts that long? ::)
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 22nd, 2003, 2:05am
Well, it might explain why there's so little of NF...
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Vikki on Nov 22nd, 2003, 2:45am
Believe me, it's definitely not me!! I simply can't write like that!!!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Esmeralda on Nov 22nd, 2003, 10:09am
Glad to drr that the head isn't a;;owing Bill to get away aith anything \\\pat.  Whats goimh tp happrn next?
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 22nd, 2003, 10:10am
Esmeralda, are you all right?
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Esmeralda on Nov 22nd, 2003, 10:20am
I'm fine thanksKB, just givinh 9 1/2 tenhts of my attnetion to thr tv and the rest ti the compurte  sorry!

So far it was wekk worth swappomg shifts for even thiuhj it does mean woeking on a daturday night
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Kathryn on Nov 22nd, 2003, 10:22am
Although England is leading at this point just wait and watch...
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by catherine on Nov 22nd, 2003, 10:26am
Esmeralda, I hate to say this, but your posts make it sound as though you're anything but sober - as though you're slurring your words!!!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Esmeralda on Nov 22nd, 2003, 10:27am
I wis it had ebded at half time  -  getting v nervous!


I am (unfortunayly) v sober!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by catherine on Nov 22nd, 2003, 10:31am
It's only Rugby, girl!  Pull yourself together!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Esmeralda on Nov 22nd, 2003, 10:36am
But I can't hsve a ciggie to ca;m my nerves :'(
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 22nd, 2003, 10:39am
*worries that Esmeralda may feel the world will end if England actually get beaten*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Esmeralda on Nov 22nd, 2003, 10:56am
No  -  the world wont end but how long id it since england won significsnt - or anything at all come to taht - its so commonplave for Australia towin that you're used to it
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by KB on Nov 22nd, 2003, 11:04am
Frankly, I don't expect Australia to win this today. Rugby is such a second-rate sport in this country that I'm surprised we got this far. That said, though, we obviously do have a good team, and if England wins, good luck and well done to them!

*readies herself for incomprehesible celebration from Esmeralda now that England have won*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Esmeralda on Nov 22nd, 2003, 11:19am
Phheeewww!  Breathes huge sigh of relief,

That's very generous of you KB, thank you, and be assured that I will offer the same congratulations to Australia when the cricket comes around.
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Carolyn P on Nov 22nd, 2003, 12:38pm
D just rang to find out the score. He has been teaching all morning and didn't know. Imagine his horror at me having to wade through TV text pages to find out instead of being able to tell him immedialtly!

Yeah for England!!!
Good to know we can win something!!!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Emma_N on Nov 22nd, 2003, 2:09pm
I'm so relieved that England actually won the rugby, I am so pleased for Clive Woodward and the rest of the team. It was a tense old game, it must have been because I couldn't watch and use the computer at the same time!!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Abi on Nov 22nd, 2003, 2:14pm
Rugby? Rugby?

*wonders how people can be so fascinated by sport*

What I want to know is - where's the story? Come and write some more, Pat!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by xanthe on Nov 22nd, 2003, 4:51pm
Ooh, so we won then?  My medic-neighbour will be pleased!

*wonders how, exactly, Ruth's parents reacted to her telling them she wasn't coming home until AFTER the rugby this weekend*
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Vikki on Nov 22nd, 2003, 5:51pm
Esmeralda!! Your posts have just had me in stitches!! I can just picture you this morning!!  8oo


Glad I'm not at work this week, will probably be silly levels of jubilation there, what with Clive Woodward being a member and all! ::)
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Esmeralda on Nov 22nd, 2003, 6:53pm
If that's the case Vikki, I would have quite happily swapped jobs with you today (or perhaps not as I only ended up working 4 hours in the end).
*Resisting the temptation to gloat - but can't resist pointing out that Lesley predicted this weeks ago!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Lesley on Nov 22nd, 2003, 6:56pm
Yes I'm wondering if I should change career now !:D

Predicting the future or just sports events could be very lucrative!!!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Emma_N on Nov 22nd, 2003, 7:11pm
Lesley - Love the score line you have done as your signature!
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Abi on Today at 1:50pm
Hey! There's STILL no more story!

*yodelling melodically* Paaaaatttttt!!!!!!!! Whheeeerrrreee aarrreee yoooouuuuuuuu? Come and stop all this rugby talk!

Please?
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Today at 3:31pm
But Abi, I haven't written any more!!   ::)
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Abi on Today at 3:34pm
!!!!!!!!!!

*speaking very sweetly and nicely* Then please, please, please will you write some?  :D  I like this story...
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Lesley on Today at 4:08pm
PAT

That is no excuse!!!! Get writing! (Have been wanting to say that for a while! ;))
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Vikki on Today at 5:18pm
I agree!! Especially when I remember how much you've been nagging me lately, Pat!!  :o :o :o
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by PatW on Today at 6:01pm
I'm surprised it's taken you so long to notice Vikki!   :)
Title: Re: Accident!
Post by Vikki on Today at 7:09pm
I noticed it Pat, I was just ignoring it! ;)
And anyway, I posted a great big chunk of New Family the other night!!


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