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(Message started by: Robin on Dec 17th, 2003, 8:28pm)

Title: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 17th, 2003, 8:28pm
I'm re-posting the first two letters, then one more.

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


I have found a letter that Jo sent me very late on in her pregnancy, so I will add it to my diary.

Darling Rob

How I wish this was all over.  There is only a little while to go now, they say, no more than two weeks.  You get to the stage when you just want the whole business over and done with.  They tell me that it will be best if I never even see my babies.  That way I will get over losing them a lot quicker.  I have to take their word for it, as they have so much experience, but I do wish I could have seen them just once.  It seems so hard to go through all this for nothing.  Perhaps one day I may have more, though I can’t see it myself.  I don’t see how I can get married after this.  How can I marry a man and keep this a secret from him?  That’s the whole idea, of course, of sending me away like this.  No one need know. *I* will know though, and it would be dishonest to keep it from him.  You can’t have secrets like that when you love someone enough to spend the rest of your life with them, so I would have to tell.

Rob, I am so big now, you’d laugh to see me - I do!  I can hardly get up out of my chair without help, and trying to get out of bed is farcical.  I am the biggest girl here, would you believe!  They keep telling me that everything’s all right, and girls who are going to have twins are always big, but I think even they are surprised at my size.

I’m keeping very well, all things considered, though you may have noticed that I get a bit down at time!  Don't take any notice of that Rob - I'm fine really.  I’m really looking forward to seeing you again though, and having a good chat.  They say that if everything’s all right, I can go home two weeks after I have the babies, so long as I travel slowly.

My backs been aching a bit today, and I’ll be glad to lie down.  It takes a lot of strain supporting all the extra weight, and does ache from time to time, but this feels slightly different somehow.  I don’t know why.  I think I’ll say goodnight now though, and ask one of the nurses to take me to bed, and I expect the ache will have gone in the morning.

All my love

Jo

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 17th, 2003, 8:29pm

My darling Rob

Just to let you know that everything’s over now.  I’m fine, and I’m told the babies were healthy too.  None the worse for their somewhat early arrival!  I think that I shall be able to come back to Coorg next week, and I’m very much looking forward to it.  The last months have seemed so long.

I think I can only say this in a letter, and probably shouldn’t be burdening you with it at all, but I do wish I could have kept them.  I feel lost and empty.  I carried the babies for nine months, and now I have nothing.  I am promised that they will go to good homes, and be well cared for, but it isn’t the same as having them.  When I come back, I shall try and hide all this, so don’t be surprised if I seem the same old Jo, will you.  Inside, I’m crying.  I don’t think I will ever get over this, and how I can ever forgive Everard is more than I can say at the moment.  All I can hope for is for time to soften things.  I shall pray for the ability to forgive; please pray for me.

I have kept my big surprise till last, Rob.  Although all I saw of my babies was a quick glimpse, I do know how many there were.  They wouldn’t even confirm that, but I knew anyway!  They did say that they were boys, which was kind, I suppose.  Rob, the were four of them!!  Would you believe it, I had quads - that was why I was so huge!  They will probably all go to different families, so they will never know how unusual their birth was.

I hope the next week goes really fast, Rob.

Love

Jo

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by xanthe on Dec 17th, 2003, 8:34pm
Chloe:That's great news Rob Jo did her quads even if she didn't get to see them!  :)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 17th, 2003, 8:43pm
Is this why she always talked of wanting quads in the later books?

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Esmeralda on Dec 17th, 2003, 8:48pm
Yes - I knew it! ;D

Will there be more soon please Robin?



Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 17th, 2003, 8:58pm
I’m so excited!  Jo is due back today.  Dick went yesterday to fetch her.  I wonder how changed she will be - older I expect, and more serious.  Very sad too, and trying to hide it, like she said she would.  I hope she doesn’t try and hide it when it’s just us two together, though.  We don’t have much longer in India, and I want to show her all the places I found when she wasn’t here with me - or as many as we have time for.  We must buy presents for everyone at home in Austria too.

Bed time
She’s here, she’s here!  The same but different.  I can see the pain in her eyes, but she is acting very well.  Mollie and Dick know too, of course.  How can they not understand?  They warned me to be careful and gentle with her, and not to speak of the babies at all, but if Jo wants to talk about them, she can talk to me.  I may be the only person she can talk to, if Mollie and Dick won’t.  We’ve kept it from Madge and Jem, so no one knows except those of us here.  Jo came up with me when I came to bed, and she needs to talk about it.  She said so, and said that she felt so frustrated on the way back, because Dick wouldn't acknowledge that anything had happened, and just talked about the scenery, and the places she’d visited, and things like that.  Jo told me that it as making her want to scream, the way they were ignoring it as if it had never happened.  As she said, it has happened, and she has to live with it, but that doesn’t man never talking about it.  So I told her she could talk about it with me whenever she wanted, whatever Dick and Mollie say.  It makes me feel very strange, to be disobeying like that.  I always do as I’m told, like a good little girl, but I’m growing up a bit now.  I know when people need to talk, and when it is bad to hide things inside.  From now on I will decide for myself what is right.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 17th, 2003, 9:05pm

on 12/17/03 at 20:48:45, Esmeralda wrote:
Yes - I knew it! ;D

Will there be more soon please Robin?

You were the only one to guess it!  At least, unless anyone did between last night and the Great Death!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Esmeralda on Dec 17th, 2003, 9:08pm

on 12/17/03 at 21:05:33, Robin wrote:
You were the only one to guess it!  At least, unless anyone did between last night and the Great Death!



*Admits that it was only a quarter serious suggestion. ;)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 17th, 2003, 9:11pm
The quads were there from the beginning, and that they were all boys!!  
This is *so* strange.  I've been so careful up till now to make no comments in this persona, and now I have no choice!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 17th, 2003, 9:17pm
Thank you Robin!! This is wonderful!! Poor, poor Jo!! :'(

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Em on Dec 17th, 2003, 9:40pm
Finding it curiously difficult to feel sorry for Jo, considering the way she has behaved in other drabbles. Must work harder at compassion, forgiveness, acknowledging that these are fictional characters, etc...
All the same, this is wonderful, thank you so much Robin.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 17th, 2003, 9:44pm
Wonder if she ever told Jack?

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by xanthe on Dec 17th, 2003, 10:20pm
Thank you Robin  :-*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Elinor on Dec 17th, 2003, 11:04pm
Marvellous, Robin - thank you!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 17th, 2003, 11:38pm
*sniffles and goes to tissue box for tissues*

*realises there is no tissue box  >:( *

This is wonderful Robin, I'm glad you - I mean she - well you know what I mean - is being such a help to Jo. No wonder they were always such good friends.

Thank you!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Susan on Dec 18th, 2003, 12:45am
Lovely story Robin.  Wonders if any of the boys trace their Mum when they grow up?

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 18th, 2003, 10:59am
Austria again
We are back home again.  Jo is showing less pain now, though that may be because she is better at hiding it.  Madge and Jem still know nothing, though they have seen the change in Jo.  Madge has commented that she seems to have grown up a lot while we were away.  She is certainly much more serious, though she is getting back her instincts for fun.

Life in Austria is changing too.  I think that Jem is worrying about the political climate – I heard part of a conversation he had with Madge as I went past the door today, and stuffed my fingers in my ears so that I didn’t hear anything more.  I’m getting frightened, but don’t want them to know,  in case they worry about me.  School starts again tomorrow, and then I won’t have time to worry.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by xanthe on Dec 18th, 2003, 11:27am
*snuffling*

Thank you Robin  :-*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 18th, 2003, 11:36am
Jem must be feeling really worried – he’s moved the school up to the Sonnalpe, and that means that I can be in the proper school again, instead of the Annexe.  We have formed the Chalet School Peace League, and everyone’s signed it!  However, some of the girls are German, and will have to leave after this term, so we are going to hide it in our secret place up the mountain.  We’re going to pretend it’s a picnic, and a whole group of us are going, with jack Maynard to keep an eye on us.  I’m pretty sure he’s in love with Jo, and that will present a problem for her.  She’s certain that she can never marry now, because she feels that she has to tell any man who asks her all about her quads.  How many men would understand that?  Not many, and he would have to be very much in love to accept what has happened.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Chloe on Dec 18th, 2003, 11:38am
Awww Thank you Robin!  :)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Pat on Dec 18th, 2003, 11:41am
I see that Chloe and Xanthe are brave enough to log in as themselves today!  Well done!  Let's hope it stays stable from now on!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Chloe on Dec 18th, 2003, 12:03pm
Yup and glad of it as it makes me less confused than i wa syesterday!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 18th, 2003, 12:35pm
Later
A very great deal has happened yesterday.  I was too tired last night to write anything – Madge insisted that I went straight to bed when I got in.  We went on our picnic, and were followed by that little pest Hermann Eisen.  So instead of just going to hide it, we played hide and seek to put him off.  After a while, Hilary Burn and I went off together, and I took her to the cave where we were going to hide the League document.  We were going down the passage to the cave when we heard that kid behind us!  We didn’t dare come out again, but Hilary found another passage from the cave, which brought us out higher up the mountain, and we walked home from there.  We still have the Peace League document, as it wasn’t safe to leave in the cave.

Jo and the others were frightened when they couldn’t find us, and Dr Jack had to more or less force Jo to come home.  We were there when the others got back, and I was already in bed, asleep!  Jo was so relieved she nearly collapsed, but Dr Jack comforted her.  The great news is that they are going to be married!  Jo has told me that she has told Dr Jack everything – all about the trip to India, and the quads.  She told him that she wouldn’t keep something like that a secret from her husband, and that he had a right to know.  He was wonderful, she said.  He understood, and was so kind and sympathetic that I think she fell in love all over again!  I have never seen her so happy, and she is right back to the way she was before we went to India - a bright, laughing girl again – and the shadow has gone form her eyes.  Of course Madge and Jem put it all down to her engagement, but I know better!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Rachael on Dec 18th, 2003, 1:17pm
This is great, Robin - love the way you're weaving the quads into the real story ....

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Esmeralda on Dec 18th, 2003, 2:54pm
Wonderful.  Thanks again Robin.  And it was good of Jack to be so understanding.


Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 18th, 2003, 4:24pm
Jack, my hero.


Thank-you Robin.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Chloe on Dec 18th, 2003, 5:01pm
Thank you Robin, glad to hear Jack was told everything!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 18th, 2003, 8:47pm
Thank you Robin! And how lovely of Jack to be so understanding!!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by LulieCat on Dec 18th, 2003, 9:11pm
Thank you Robin. How good of Jack to understand. I think we sohuld clone him so we can all have our own lump of comfort - even the married/attached ladies amongst us (well, marriage doesn't seem to stop some people  ;) )

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 18th, 2003, 9:51pm
*wishes that were possible!* ;)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 18th, 2003, 11:31pm
Oh, thank you Robin, I'm enjoying this SO much. Isn't Jack wonderful? *swoons gracefully*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Kathy_S on Dec 19th, 2003, 1:33am
Yes!  So glad to see signs of recovery for Jo.  Also really liking this iteration of Robin.  Well done fitting it all in with the traditional scenes from Exile.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 19th, 2003, 2:54am
*impressed that Robin knows what happened at the end of the picnic when she was asleep* ;) :D

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 19th, 2003, 8:52am

on 12/19/03 at 02:54:51, KB wrote:
*impressed that Robin knows what happened at the end of the picnic when she was asleep* ;) :D

I wrote the diary next day, when of course I had spoken to Jo.  It seems to me that the modern generation do not have any common sense!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Rachael on Dec 19th, 2003, 9:11am
LOL!

You tell her, Robin!!

*chuckling*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 19th, 2003, 9:15am
Thank you for your support Rachael.  It is nice to see some one with the sense they were born with.  
I understand that KB is your Head Girl?  Times have certainly changed.  

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 19th, 2003, 10:46am
She told you everything? A little girl like you? Goodness, what was she thinking of? I might have guessed you wouldn't have the maturity to keep it to yourself!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 19th, 2003, 10:53am
I see that you lack the ability to read, as well.  I have written what she told me in my diary.
 

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 19th, 2003, 11:05am
And you're handing it around so that we can all read it - most careless of you, Miss Humphries!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 19th, 2003, 11:10am
I shall, of course, cease forthwith.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 19th, 2003, 11:11am
I was under the impression that it was already finished.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 19th, 2003, 11:15am
I have received requests for my reactions to the events in Pat's thread.  One must oblige! Possibly.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 19th, 2003, 11:19am
Your choice, of course. I don't see why we should beg when it will no doubt make no difference.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 19th, 2003, 5:27pm
*gags KB to prevent her from scaring Robin away!*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 19th, 2003, 7:54pm
Don't listen to her Robin! Pleeeeeease tell us anything you want to (and possibly a little more)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 19th, 2003, 9:06pm
*breaks free from Vikki's hold, tells everyone else not to be such worry-warts, as an attention-seeker like Robin couldn't possibly stop posting, and walking demurely away*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Angel on Dec 19th, 2003, 11:47pm
*watches head girl leave down the path, and fall into Joey's pit*

Now, Robin, you were suggesting you might post your adult letters from Joey about her discovery of the the Quads - I assumed you were doing this from altruistic motives as a nun, rather than merely to titillate individuals.

After all, it's only fair that the whole story should be known from the last person that knows about it.

*smiles sweetly at the Robin, and asks for more*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Pat on Dec 19th, 2003, 11:55pm
Looks like Robin has followed KB's suggestion, which has done us all out of more diary entries!!   ::)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 20th, 2003, 1:14am
Well, since KB fell into Jo's pit, maybe we could leave her down there for a little while, and then Robin would post!!! ;)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by crashbb on Dec 20th, 2003, 5:13am
Unless, of course, Robin is KB's alternate persona and they are BOTH in the pit.

Chelsea *realises that Robin lost her real log in during the TEM fiasco and KB didn't, so there are holes in this theory, but is sticking to nonetheless*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 20th, 2003, 7:35am
*is hauled out of the pit by Miss Wilson, doesn't call her any rude names, and goes after Angel, who set up the trip-wire over which I tripped*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Angel on Dec 20th, 2003, 8:19am
No I didn't. No trip wire, just a demure head girl who didn't entirely look where she was going.

Or if there was, then it was Juliet or Grizel again. Sorry.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 21st, 2003, 3:01am
*is unsure whether to believe Angel's protests of innocence!*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 21st, 2003, 3:41am
*equally doubtful about Angel's protestations*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Chloe on Dec 21st, 2003, 1:21pm

on 12/19/03 at 23:55:13, Pat wrote:
Looks like Robin has followed KB's suggestion, which has done us all out of more diary entries!!   ::)


I hope thats not true Pat!  

Robin please come back and hear some more!  :)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 21st, 2003, 7:48pm
Hey, Pat.... er, I mean Robin - get back here and post more. People have debased themselves by begging enough.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Pat on Dec 22nd, 2003, 10:03pm

on 12/21/03 at 19:48:31, KB wrote:
Hey, Pat.... er, I mean Robin - get back here and post more. People have debased themselves by begging enough.


Pardon KB?  I don't quite follow that posting!  Not me Gov!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 22nd, 2003, 10:31pm
*goes off to hunt for Robin!!*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 23rd, 2003, 4:18am

on 12/22/03 at 22:03:56, Pat wrote:
Pardon KB?  I don't quite follow that posting!  Not me Gov!


Of course you're not, dear... :P

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 23rd, 2003, 9:11pm
Thirty-six years later

I have been reading through my old diary today.  How young and innocent I was then.  I’m surprised Jo told me as much as she did.  Of course, now I am aware of exactly what happened to her all those years ago.  Poor Jo, she was almost as innocent as I was, and that is why she was caught like that.  I have had a letter from her today that has brought that time back so vividly that I had to re-read the whole thing.  I have it by me now.

Darling Rob

How I wish you were here with me, as you were all those years ago in India.  I am very much afraid that the whole episode is going to come back to haunt me, all these years later.  Thank God I told Jack when he asked me to marry him, for it would be almost  impossible to do so now.

Rob, you must be wondering what I’m rambling on about past history for,  Well I don’t think it will be past history much longer.  I went over to school today, and used the front door rather than going round by the garden to Hilda’s study as I often do.  As I walked across the front hall, I saw a girl ahead of me.  Nothing strange in that, you might say.  But she looked so like Madge it was uncanny!  While I was till getting over it, Nancy Wilmot arrived and we went along to Hilda’s study.  Then Hilda really gave me a shock.  Rob, there are two girls that have just arrived who look exactly like me!!!  Not only that, but their fathers do too!  They have to be my sons, that I gave up for adoption.  The couldn’t be anyone else.  It’s all going to come out, and I feel so frightened and ashamed.  Jack says times have changed and so have people’s attitudes, and logically I know he’s right.  But that doesn’t help how I feel.  There’s part of me that wants to hide, run away, not admit to anything.  That part is like a spineless jellyfish. but Chalet Girls are trained not to give in to that.  The other part is so curious to see how they’ve turned out.  I’ve always wondered what they are like.  Did they stay together or were they separated?  I think they were probably separated - not everyone is prepared to bring up four together!

Do you think I’m suffering because I’ve been threatening quads for so long?  Logic says ‘No’ but I can’t help wondering.

I’ll write and tell you the developments as they happen, Rob.  I had to write as soon as I knew they existed.  I'’ over the first shock now, but Heaven knows what will happen next.  How am I going to tell the other children?  Len is used to thinking herself the eldest, as so she is in one sense.  What will she say when she finds out that there are four others older than her?  Oh well, one step at a time, as they say!

Your loving sister

Jo


Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by xanthe on Dec 23rd, 2003, 9:16pm
Thank you Robin - much appreciated  ;D

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Rachael on Dec 23rd, 2003, 10:35pm
Oh, that's wonderful! Good twist!

So Robin, does this mean we're not allowed to nag you for more because you're somewhat reliant on Pat's Quads drabble ... or does it work the other way?

*confused  :-/*

*realises Robin is unlikely to admit being influenced by another drabble as this is a diary*

Does anyone else here struggle with real v virtual?!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Pat on Dec 23rd, 2003, 10:37pm

on 12/23/03 at 22:35:45, Rachael wrote:
Does anyone else here struggle with real v virtual?!


Elinor perhaps?   ;D

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 23rd, 2003, 11:25pm
Robin - I like!! *hopes Pat posts more soon so Robin can*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Esmeralda on Dec 23rd, 2003, 11:50pm
Definitely like the way the two drabbles are interweaving - would like moe of both stories.  Please.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Cathy on Dec 24th, 2003, 1:24am

on 12/23/03 at 23:50:46, Esmeralda wrote:
Definitely like the way the two drabbles are interweaving - would like moe of both stories.  Please.

I second that, what a good idea. More please -- pulls up sun lounge and packet of Tim Tams and begins chanting.

Anyone want one?

Edited to add: whoohoo, I've been promoted again. Three stars ... What I will do when I have to go back to work and lose all my free time, I don't know.



Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Esmeralda on Dec 24th, 2003, 1:26am
Tim Tams again?  *Baffled.   They sound enjoyable though!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 24th, 2003, 2:01am
For all info on Tim Tams, check here:

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/2436/timtams/

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 24th, 2003, 5:23am
*is very glad to see Robin back, and enjoys the interweaving too!*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Chloe on Dec 24th, 2003, 11:41am
Thank you Robin, i'm so glad you've written more for us!  :)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by NickiL on Dec 24th, 2003, 11:59am
Thank you Robin! Glad to see you and Jo are still as close as ever!!    :D

Hope Pat can write more of her drabble so you can carry on. Or is it the other way round...  :-/

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Pat on Dec 24th, 2003, 12:00pm
We are cooperating, rather like Carolyn and Rachel.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by NickiL on Dec 24th, 2003, 12:13pm
So does that mean you know who Robin's alter ego is Pat?

*raises eyebrow enquiringly for lack of an enquiring smiley*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Pat on Dec 24th, 2003, 12:26pm
You don't really expect me to reply to that, do you?!  ::) ::) ::)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by NickiL on Dec 24th, 2003, 12:32pm
But you just did!  ;) ;)

*adds a few extra words just in case*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Chloe on Dec 24th, 2003, 1:29pm
The Robin did say at least one other person know who she is   :)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 24th, 2003, 7:45pm
*hopes Robin will post more as  a Christmas present to us all!* ;)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 24th, 2003, 9:01pm

on 12/24/03 at 13:29:34, Chloe wrote:
The Robin did say at least one other person know who she is   :)


*knows who the other person is*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 25th, 2003, 12:30am
*knows of at least six people who know!!* ;D

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Catherine_B on Dec 25th, 2003, 12:37am
Vikki!  You tease!!   >:(   :P  ;D

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 25th, 2003, 12:56am
Well, I can tell you one of the six! Me! ;)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 25th, 2003, 3:39am
And that's probably fortunate, as otherwise you would have to have plucked the figure from nowhere (if you haven't actually done that).

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Chloe on Dec 25th, 2003, 10:58am
i know five of the people  :)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 25th, 2003, 7:11pm
*wonders which one Chloe doesn't know?* ;)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 25th, 2003, 9:42pm
*waits for Chloe's list*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 27th, 2003, 12:50am
*waits for more story*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 27th, 2003, 4:07pm
Dear Auntie Rob

I need your advice so badly.  You see, I’ve had this letter from Mamma, and it’s shocked me so much that I don’t know how to reply to her.  I know that not replying will hurt her, but I want some help, and you know all about it, and have done from the beginning.  It’s about the quads, if you haven’t guessed already.   It looks like it’s all going to come out, which is why Mamma wrote and told us all, I suppose.  She’s probably written to you about it, so I won’t go over the whole thing again.  The thing is that I’ve been the eldest for so long that I don’t know how to cope with this.  It seems so strange to have older brothers that I didn’t know existed.  I don’t know whether it’s different for the others - I haven’t spoken to them since I got Mamma’s letter.  I don’t even know how I feel to be honest.  Part of me understands that Mamma was taken advantage of, and I now know why she made such a thing about telling us all about the facts of life.  Another part feels let down by her.  Please help me get my head round this, Auntie.

Yours

Len



Len my dear.

Of course I can understand how you’re feeling - all churned up inside, with your emotions changing from day to day.  No one expects any of you to be able to accept such news easily, though I gather from Jo that Phil has been very supportive and understanding.  Perhaps it helps that she was still at school and Jo could tell her herself.  I don’t know.  All I can say, Len, is that when it happened she was in a worse turmoil than you are now.  Neither of us understood how such a thing could happen outside marriage - we didn’t know how babies started, you see.  In fact, I didn’t find out for a very long time afterwards, even knowing what I did about Jo’s situation.  Your mother grew up very quickly during those months, Len.  She had to, to be able to cope with it all, and how she found the strength to tell your Papa when he asked her to marry him, I will never understand, though I admire her greatly for it.

I do not think that nay woman ever gets over losing a child, however that child is lost.  Perhaps if the child dies you can mourn, and know that they have gone.  When you have a child, or children in this case, and have to give them away, it may be worse.  I don’t know - how can I know from personal experience?  Jo knows that she has four boys whom she has never seen - only a glimpse as they were whisked away.  They have grown up never knowing who their mother really is, perhaps not even knowing that they are adopted.  Jo has no idea what they are like, how their characters have developed, whether they are like her, or that man.  (I was very scathing about him in the diary I wrote at the time - I didn’t like him at all!).  Now she is going to meet her grandchildren, who don’t know who she is, and who will be puzzled by their resemblance to her.  The whole story may very well become common knowledge, and she must be absolutely terrified and ashamed.  You are still her eldest daughter, to all intents and purposes the eldest in her family, since the boys did not grow up as part of it.  Len, pray to God for the strength to deal with this, and then talk to your mother.  Ring her up, even though it is so expensive.  She needs the support of her eldest girl more than she has ever done before.  Will you try, for her sake and yours?  If you don’t, you may regret it for the rest of your life.  I don’t say this lightly, Len.  Could you forgive yourself if you fail her?

I shall pray for you especially, Len.  I am praying for all of you, of course.  And for the four men, who may find they have a large family that they know nothing about.

God bless you, my dear.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Angel on Dec 27th, 2003, 6:13pm
*applauds.*

This is good...

More, please?

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Esmeralda on Dec 27th, 2003, 6:34pm
I love the way this story is continuing on both drabbles, andI'm glad to see Robin is still playing a part.
More from both drabbles please.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 27th, 2003, 8:37pm
*hoping Robin will post soon!*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 27th, 2003, 8:54pm
This is so good on both threads.

Lots more please, on both threads.


Edited to remove a silly guess. Sorry.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 28th, 2003, 12:11am
I'm glad to see that Len has those sorts of feelings about it all, although I thought jealousy would have been the strongest emotion. I'd imagine she might even been understanding the feelings we saw Margot having in "Theodora", at the idea of having to share her family with people who are, to all intents and purposes, strangers.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 28th, 2003, 12:35am
It would probably be very hard for them all to come to terms with!! :-/

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 28th, 2003, 12:38am
*hopes for more on both threads soon, maybe from Margot, who has shown herself to be very possessive in the past*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 28th, 2003, 12:40am
I'm interested in the boys' reactions, although I don't suppose that will come on this thread, Charles might consult Robin, but I don't think the others would.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 28th, 2003, 12:42am
*wonders if the boys might consult Jem*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 28th, 2003, 12:42am
Isn't Robin nice? I'm glad she helped Len see it all in perspective, it would have made it so much harder for Jo if she hadn't.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 28th, 2003, 12:43am

on 12/28/03 at 00:42:16, KB wrote:
*wonders if the boys might consult Jem*


Now that would be an interesting reaction. I wonder if Joey has written to Madge and Jem?

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Esmeralda on Dec 28th, 2003, 12:45am
*Would love to see the scene if one of the boys told Jem first.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 28th, 2003, 12:46am
*agrees that that was my idea*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 28th, 2003, 1:36am
*Looks hopefully for more!*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Chloe on Dec 28th, 2003, 11:15am
*joins Vikki in looking for more and applaudes last bit added*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by keren as a guest on Dec 28th, 2003, 2:17pm
the boys could even consult dick.
Who knows, maybe Dick's diary (from then and now) will even turn up here?
any volunteers??

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Ally on Dec 28th, 2003, 4:03pm
I'm really enjoying this and how it inter-relates to

I'm glad Robin and Pat get on so well!!

I'm not sure the boys would write to Jem, I've always thought they might be a little scared of him! (though the scene would be great!)  Dick might be better as he understood the events at the time.

*More please*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 28th, 2003, 8:34pm
*wonders where Robin has got to!!* ;)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 28th, 2003, 10:07pm
It's Sunday, and she is a nun in a convent...I suppose she is busy!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 28th, 2003, 10:14pm
*groan!*
Honestly Carolyn!!! ::)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Pat on Dec 28th, 2003, 10:18pm
Don't nuns have more services on a Sunday?  

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 28th, 2003, 10:34pm
I think it depends on the various cloisters' rules.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Angel on Dec 28th, 2003, 10:55pm
Anyway, isn't la sagesse a teaching order? in wihch case sundays tend to have a different emphasis - prayer and quiet contemplation.

More, please..

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 28th, 2003, 11:09pm
*joins in chanting*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 28th, 2003, 11:12pm
*also joins in chant*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 28th, 2003, 11:55pm
Just realised I forgot to join this one!! :o

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 28th, 2003, 11:58pm
*wonders whether Vikki is still suffering from last night*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 29th, 2003, 12:26am
Well, I might just be!! ::) :-[

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 29th, 2003, 12:30am
*suggests that, as it's so 'early', Vikki could go to bed now*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 29th, 2003, 1:01am
Naw! It's far too early! ;)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by xanthe on Dec 29th, 2003, 1:05am
*scuttles over to join the chant*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 29th, 2003, 3:55am
*wonders why Robin is being so lax*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 29th, 2003, 4:01pm
*hopes Robin isn't in trouble with Mother Superior for spending so much time on the internet!!*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 29th, 2003, 11:00pm
*thinks that is rather likely*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 29th, 2003, 11:03pm
After all, who knows what she might be doing there.....

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 29th, 2003, 11:07pm
Abi, come and get your mind out of the gutter!!! It's cavorting with Vikki's!!!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 29th, 2003, 11:22pm
*looking as innocent as Vikki*

But I never suggested anything, KB, it must have been you who thought of it

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 29th, 2003, 11:26pm
Hey, I just found it there. I have no idea what it was doing. *all innocence*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 29th, 2003, 11:31pm
As a matter of fact it had nothing to do with that post, the fingers did that. the mins was engaged in trying to pull Vikki's out of the gutter  ;D

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Robin on Dec 29th, 2003, 11:33pm
Research is encouraged in an educational institution.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 29th, 2003, 11:39pm

on 12/29/03 at 23:31:00, Abi wrote:
As a matter of fact it had nothing to do with that post, the fingers did that. the mins was engaged in trying to pull Vikki's out of the gutter  ;D


*whacks Abi's fingers with a convenient ruler*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 29th, 2003, 11:45pm
*squeals and sucks fingers*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 29th, 2003, 11:52pm
*offers ice* Well, they did have to learn!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 29th, 2003, 11:58pm
*uses ice gratefully and lectures fingers sternly*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Pat on Dec 30th, 2003, 12:03am

on 12/29/03 at 23:39:26, KB wrote:
*whacks Abi's fingers with a convenient ruler*

*Reports KB for child abuse*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 30th, 2003, 12:08am
:o :o :o

Not sure if this is possible - I am 20!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 12:09am
*thinks Abi will resent being called a child*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 12:24am
Hey! Stop libelling my mind!!! >:(

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 30th, 2003, 12:28am
Well, Pat seems to think mine is that of a child!

I'm sure your mind is very nice indeed Vikki *pats Vikki on head*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 12:45am
*bashes Abi with a pillow for being patronising!* ;)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 30th, 2003, 12:48am
*grabs another pillow and 'flumps' it at Vikki*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 12:53am
*shouts 'Pillow fight!' and bashes Abi again!*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 30th, 2003, 12:57am
*yells something incoherent and tries to bash Vikki with two pillows at once*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 1:00am
*dodges and watches as Abi overbalances and lands on her bum* ;D

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 30th, 2003, 1:02am
*grabs Vikki's ankles and overbalances her*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 1:04am
*has a nice soft landing on top of Abi!!*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 30th, 2003, 1:05am
*gives a muffled shriek and tries to push Vikki off*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 1:08am
*maintains position and waits for Abi to stop wriggling!*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 30th, 2003, 1:11am
*tickles Vikki*

(*adds words*)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 1:16am
*tickles Abi back* :P

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Dec 30th, 2003, 1:21am
*giggles, squeaks, begs for mercy, rolls helplessly on the floor with tears pouring down cheeks*

You have found my weak point, Vikki! Aren't you ticklish?

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 1:31am
Sometimes! It depends really! ;D

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 2:14am
*stands over the pillow-fighters, looking at the sternly and then turning gaze to the two broken windows, as well as Vikki's beloved vase, now in a pile of ceramic crumbs*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 2:21am
*wonders who broke the windows while we were tickling each other?*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 2:23am
*points at the various pillows that are lying on the grass outside and being soaked in the rain*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 2:34am
Well, it can't have been me! Look, my pillows are here!!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 2:38am
I don't really care whose pillows they were - you were the two people fighting with them! >:( What kind of an example does this set to the Juniors and Middles, Vikki?

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 2:47am
But it wasn't me!!! Those pillows belong to the juniors in the dormy above!!! :(

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 2:51am
Those windows were broken in the last half-hour, and the Juniors were asleep an hour ago when I did the rounds...

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 2:57am
At least, you thought they were asleep!!! ::)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 3:02am
The sleeping gas I pumped into the room after I left leaves me in little doubt...

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 3:06am
They're mutants, with inbuilt gas filters........................

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 3:07am
No, dear, that's the staff.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 3:17am
No, the juniors too, since they're the staff's love children............................

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 3:22am
But they're in a different dormy, on the other side of the building.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 3:29am
Nope! Matey moved them  yesterday!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 3:33am
She wanted to, but she couldn't. I announced that at the Prefects' meeting. Oh, I forgot, you weren't there. Sorry.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 3:39am
I wasn't there because I was helping to move the little freaks darlings!!!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 3:41am
*takes the pillow-case from Matey, who has just arrived, shows Vikki the label, which reads 'Abi' and reminds her that there isn't another Abi in the school, at least among the staff's love children, so it had to be from the pillow fight you and Abi had*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 3:45am
Well one of them must've pinched it!!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 3:48am
*assures Vikki they didn't* Will you stop trying to blame everyone else for your sins?! It's your fault! For once, be big enough to accept the fact! >:(

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 3:53am
But the windows were intact when Abi pulled me over! I really do think someone's trying to frame us!!! :-/

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 3:55am
Was that a pun? Windows and frames?

Anyway, I just think you were both being careless! Now you'll have to either sleep here and risk pneumonia or in the San!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 3:59am
It wasn't an intentional pun! And I'll risk the pneumonia ta!!! ;)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 4:01am
*wonders if Matey should check Vikki's back for the spine that appears to have disappeared*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 4:08am
Who said I had one to start with?

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 4:18am
Well, you stood up to Elinor so well, I was sure you must have one somewhere!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 4:25am
I borrowed one for the occassion!! ;)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 4:29am
Well, that definitely explains it!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 4:32am
I thought so!! ;)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 4:37am
*calls the San to book Vikki in for spine replacement surgery at the same time as they fix up her wrist*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 4:40am
But it can't be a replacement, if I never had one!!! ::)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 4:46am
All right, I'll make sure it's spine installation surgery. Is that better?

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 4:48am
*looks and feels very worried*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 4:58am
*watches Matey gives Vikki an injection of something to make her stop worrying and feel sleepy*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:00am
*finds self paralysed!*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:04am
Hey! *glares at Matey and then pitches her out of the window*
*makes sure ambulance won't be long*
*hopes Dr. Jack can help*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:16am
*hopes Dr Jack can help too!!* :o

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:18am
I'm sure he can! *tries to be positive for Vikki*
*realises that turfing Matey out the window paralysed her, too*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:22am
Who's paralysed? You? Or Matey?

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:25am
Thankfully, her! 8oo 8oo

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:29am
Glad to hear it!! The pregnant dog deserves it!!!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:33am
I think so, too! *giggles at the censor*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:38am
*thinks the censor is a rotten spoilsport!*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:39am
Oh, let it have its fun! It's not doing any harm, unlike its brother, the TEM.

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:45am
Maybe we could set the censor on the TEM?

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:47am
I think the TEM would win...

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:49am
Hmmmm! S'pose it probably would!! :-/

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:51am
I've seen them both. Trust me, the TEM is a lot bigger...

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:52am
*quivers with terror!*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:55am
*assures Vikki that we will protect her from the TEM as much as possible*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 5:59am
*is very grateful!* :-* :-*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 6:02am
You're very welcome!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Rosalie on Dec 30th, 2003, 10:25am
*seriously wonders if Vikki went to bed at all last night as nearly every thread has been advanced by a couple of pages of yibbling!*
(quite impressed by it actually...)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 10:33am
Thank you, Rosalie, I think. :-/
And Vikki finally thought about heading for bed at 5:30am UK time. I'm not sure whether she went or not, but I think she did...

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by xanthe on Dec 30th, 2003, 11:13am
*giggles*

this very nearly DOUBLED in size due to yibbling

*hopes Vikki a) has a spine all of her very own and b) is deparalysed*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 11:19am
*lol* I know. Aren't we awful?
And I'm sure Vikki will be better after a half-night of sleep. ;)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by xanthe on Dec 30th, 2003, 11:22am
*thinks this might be taking the CS line of "sleep is the best thing for her right now" a leetle bit too far*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 11:24am
*lol* Do you really think so?

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by keren on Dec 30th, 2003, 12:44pm
MORE yibbling!
shouldnt someone archive 11 pages?

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by @ustria@my on Dec 30th, 2003, 1:05pm
Yeah, I think that might be a good idea!


on 12/30/03 at 00:08:48, Abi wrote:
:o :o :o

Not sure if this is possible - I am 20!

Actually, according to the UN, a child is classed as being under 21 (quite alarming then, to think that my parents were children when they had me!)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by xanthe on Dec 30th, 2003, 2:53pm

on 12/30/03 at 13:05:11, @ustria@my wrote:
Actually, according to the UN, a child is classed as being under 21


woohoo!  I knew I wasn't a grown up!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Vikki on Dec 30th, 2003, 6:55pm

on 12/30/03 at 12:44:12, keren wrote:
MORE yibbling!
shouldnt someone archive 11 pages?


*blushes*
Will try and do so once I've caught up on the board!!

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Emily on Dec 30th, 2003, 7:54pm

on 12/30/03 at 14:53:24, xanthe wrote:
woohoo!  I knew I wasn't a grown up!


*points out that there is a big difference between being an adult and being a grown-up.  ;)

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by KB on Dec 30th, 2003, 8:29pm

on 12/30/03 at 19:54:59, Emily wrote:
*points out that there is a big difference between being an adult and being a grown-up.  ;)


*agrees wholeheartedly with this*

Title: Re: My India Diary (letters from Jo)
Post by Abi on Today at 1:09am
*is shocked at the results of our innocent pillow fight*



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