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(Message started by: Vikki on Dec 22nd, 2003, 2:03am)
Title: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 22nd, 2003, 2:03am
Archived for length and to dispose of clones!
Link is here (http://members.lycos.co.uk/thecbb/moreshocks.html)
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Lisa_T on Dec 22nd, 2003, 2:30am
More please Pat! Why on earth are you decorating at this time of the year? Unless you're using wrapping paper, of course!
*stops to contemplate an entire room covered with santa/ reindeers/ winnie the pooh in a sleigh*

Oh, whoever asked about James and Mary re a bowdlerised 'God Save the Queen' it may be Scottish history- I suppose Marie de Guise would have become 'Mary' over here..and I seem to remember James V did like the ladies..
It certainly isn't english history- unless its a ref to James II and his daughter Mary II (from William-and-Mary. Just think of Hilda's chairs)

What does a William and Mary chair look like, anyhow?!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 22nd, 2003, 3:45am
Hooray! Clone free!

And I believe this is what is commonly meant by William and Mary chairs:
http://www.sledgemins.freeserve.co.uk/chairs.htm#WillMary
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by NickiL on Dec 22nd, 2003, 11:19am
I know it was pages and a whole archived thread ago, but I don't get on here much at weekends, so thanks Pat for the 'stiff upper lip' bit!!

May we have MORE please?? This is great  ;D
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Jennie on Dec 22nd, 2003, 3:47pm
Pat, this is wonderful. I hope the wallpapering goes very quickly so we can have some more of this. Or perhaps you really need to get away from the wallpaper paste for a while. May I suggest adding to your drabble as a suitable alternative?
8oo 8oo 8oo
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Chloe on Dec 22nd, 2003, 4:43pm
Pat please may we have some more please :)
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 22nd, 2003, 5:04pm
*goes off to look for Pat, but only finds a strange bump under the new wallpaper!* ;)
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Ally on Dec 22nd, 2003, 5:19pm
Pat, I've only just found this and it's wonderful ~ *joins the begs for more*

James and Mary could be James II and his second wife Mary of Modena
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Lisa_T on Dec 22nd, 2003, 8:50pm
Duh *thumps head on wall* OF COURSE it could be. I forgot Mary of Modena- partly cos I first came across her in Jean Plaidy which always referred to her as Mary Beatrice of Modena....

But you'd really think I'd remember as I've been reading up on Sarah Churchill for fun lately and she was a lady in waiting to M of M when M was Duchess of York. Is everyone confused yet? I thought so.

*off to watch telly for a while and straighten my brain out*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 22nd, 2003, 10:02pm
Computer is in the room being papered!

Daughter (29!!) is now living at home again, currently in the smallest bedroom.  Back bedroom is bigger, and *had* to be redecorated before she could change.  We've been in the house since 1986, and never done it!!

Papering finished today.

Doing this between 2 parts of Test the Nation.

Just about finished pressie buying.

Hope to do some more story tomorrow.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Abi on Dec 22nd, 2003, 11:56pm
*eagerly looking forward to more story*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Lisa_T on Dec 23rd, 2003, 1:37am
*g* I assume you mean the room was being papered, and not the computer....

*giggling at mental image of someone papering a pc!*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 23rd, 2003, 4:45am
*worries what the PC might do to show its displeasure at being papered* :-/
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Katarzyna on Dec 23rd, 2003, 10:05am
Its tomorrow!  do we get more story yet?
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by NickiL on Dec 23rd, 2003, 10:10am
It is indeed! Pat are you there??
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Ally on Dec 23rd, 2003, 2:43pm
Just to be nosy how did you do in Test the Nation, I thought it was harder than last year  >:(
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Chloe on Dec 23rd, 2003, 4:53pm
*goes off in search of Pat as it's tommorrow*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 23rd, 2003, 4:54pm
I got 45 last night.  Steve got 51!!!  There were a lot og guesses!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 23rd, 2003, 5:59pm
I did that badly that I'm not even going to reveal my score. Now I know that I spend far too much time here!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 23rd, 2003, 8:03pm
Joey came to her senses to find her husband bending solicitously over her.
“Oh Jack!  Did they tell you the shock I’ve had?  There are two girls in school that look just like me at their age!  I think they might be my grandchildren, from the quads I told you about.  Jack. It’s all going to come out!”

“Joey darling, times have changed since then.  There is a different attitude to these things now.  I think you’ll find sympathy more than stigma if people do find out.”

Meanwhile, Rachel had been almost as shocked as Jo.  She had seen her at a distance, and immediately felt that she ought to know her.  As they came closer, she was astounded to see the strong resemblance to her father.  To her knowledge she had never met the lady in her life, and it seemed to her that the stranger was just as shocked as she was.  She entered the common room, and asked Margaret who it was.
“A woman with very dark hair, done up in plaits over her ears?  That’s Mrs Maynard, who lives nest door.  Her youngest daughter, Phil, is in the sixth.  Why?”
“She looks like my Dad!  Come to think of it, she looks like Joy and Susan - or rather, given their ages, they look like her.”
“Your right!  Why did I never see the resemblance myself?   It’s so obvious when it’s pointed out.”
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 23rd, 2003, 8:51pm
Oh, poor Joey! Thank goodness she told Jack!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by xanthe on Dec 23rd, 2003, 8:55pm
Great Ceasar's bathmat!   :o
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 23rd, 2003, 11:24pm
*hopes Pat will give us more story soon!*
*hopes it will work out and Joey gets her sons back!!*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Abi on Dec 23rd, 2003, 11:36pm
*optimistically looks forward to a happy reunion*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 24th, 2003, 12:33am
*optimistically waiting for more*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Esmeralda on Dec 24th, 2003, 1:00am
Feel sorry for Joey, but she obviously did the right thing telling Jack all those years ago - *wonders idly how he would have reacted if he hadn't known.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 24th, 2003, 1:20am
*giggles wildly at the thought*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 24th, 2003, 1:53am
I'm just grateful that Robin's diaries say she did tell him!! Now I don't have to think how he would have reacted!  :D
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 24th, 2003, 2:07am
Yes, Pat, it was fortunate for you, wasn't it...?
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 24th, 2003, 5:31am
And there I thought Pat might've posted some more stoy!!! :(
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 24th, 2003, 8:42am
Oh, poor Vikki! *huggles for your disappointment*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Chloe on Dec 24th, 2003, 11:37am
:( Pat no more has been posted, may we have some more soon please!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 24th, 2003, 11:44am
*hopes Pat will take the hint as soon as she is able*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by NickiL on Dec 24th, 2003, 12:04pm
Yes please Pat! More! Robin needs you to post too so that she can add her letters to her story....

And poor Joey! People's attitudes have changed and it's all very well telling friends and family these days, but imagine a whole school of (how many - two to three hundred?) teenage girls all finding out at once!  :o
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by xanthe on Dec 24th, 2003, 12:26pm
*promptly starts to chant, in the hopes that Pat will write some more*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Chloe on Dec 24th, 2003, 1:32pm
*joins chant at the top of her voice to make sure it reaches all accross the board*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 24th, 2003, 7:53pm
*has a horrible sinking feeling that Pat may have gone away to her daughter's for Christmas! So we might not get any more for a few days! :'(*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 24th, 2003, 9:01pm
*shakes head to remove the ringing caused by Chloe's yelling*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 24th, 2003, 9:39pm
I am at my daughter's now, back on Boxing Day evening.  Given the effects of the TEM, I'd rather post at home where I can save everything into an existing document.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 24th, 2003, 9:43pm
That's probably a good idea, Pat. So does it mean we can have so lovely long parts?
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by xanthe on Dec 24th, 2003, 9:43pm
*thinks this is very sensible of Pat*

hope you enjoy Christmas  :-*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 24th, 2003, 9:49pm
Thank you Xanthe.  I'll try and keep up with the threads though!!  Especially Ellie's.  Wish I knew who she was!  I knew who she used to be!!!!!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by xanthe on Dec 24th, 2003, 9:56pm
Mmm, yes, I'm somewhat intrigued by that one too, I must admit!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 25th, 2003, 12:48am
Well, surely Rachael must know who it is, since they'd have had to get the password from her!! ???
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Catherine_B on Dec 25th, 2003, 1:03am
What makes you so sure it isn't Rachael herself again?  

I'm totally confused!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 25th, 2003, 1:08am
Well, it could be Rachael again, but would she go again when we all know it's her? In her place, I'd've passed the identity on to someone else and then sat back and watched the fun!! (just guessing mind you!)
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Catherine_B on Dec 25th, 2003, 1:15am
Oh well!  *throwing hands in the air in bafflement!*

Night night Vikki - & Merry Christmas :)
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 25th, 2003, 3:42am
What astonishes me is the timing of the posts. Have you noticed - they're at times when it's the middle of the night in the UK and in Australia!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 25th, 2003, 3:17pm
Maybe it's a joint effort between a Brit and an Aussie!!!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 25th, 2003, 9:36pm
Gee, there's only how many possibilities there?!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 25th, 2003, 10:03pm
Oh, only about a gazillion!! :o
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 25th, 2003, 10:44pm
*thinks this may be being discussed on the wrong thread*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 25th, 2003, 11:01pm
Probably, but since Pat has left this one unattended..... ;)
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 25th, 2003, 11:03pm
*yibbles loudly in the hope that it will encourage Pat to return*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 26th, 2003, 7:58pm
Just because I go away for 2 days the yibbling hijacks my thread!!  Gee thaks!!  Not sure I should post this bit after all! :P
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 26th, 2003, 8:12pm
Awww! C'mon Pat! Don't be mean! :-* :-*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 26th, 2003, 8:15pm
Oh all right then!

Phil Maynard was walking towards the Prefects Room when she was accosted by Kirsty Blake, and young Middle.
“Phil, Miss Annersley would like to see you straight away.”

“Thanks, Kirsty.”  Phil turned and hurried towards the Annexe, hoping that she looked neat and tidy, and wondering what the Abbess could want with her.  The days of searching her conscience on such occasions had long gone, and she was merely curious.  She entered the study and made the regulation curtsy, reminiscent of the years the school spent in the Austrian Tyrol.   “You wanted to see me, Miss Annersley?”




“I have had a phone call from your home, my dear.  Your mother would like to have a few words with you out of the school environment.”
“Is everything all right?  No one’s hurt or anything, are they.”
“No one’s hurt, Phil.  As to why your parents wish to see you, you must wait until you reach home, of course.  I will excuse you all duties tonight, in case you need to spend longer at home than you anticipate.  Off you go, dear.”

Full of curiosity, Phil made her way to the Sixth form Splashery and changed into her outdoor shoes and coat, before making her way across the garden and through the gate in the hedge to her own home.

As she came nearer the doors into the Salon, she could see her parents sitting together near the great fireplace.  Her father’s arm was around her mother’s shoulders, and her mother looked as if she had been crying.  Becoming really concerned, Phil hurried into the room without bothering about changing her shoes, and crouched down in front of them.
“Mamma, what’s the matter?  Please tell me.  Papa?”
Joey raised her head, and looked at her daughter, as if memorising her every feature.  “Jack, let me tell her.  It’s my responsibility after all.  Phil, my darling, I’m going to tell you something that only four people know about.  Letters are in the post to the others. But you are still here, and I must tell you myself.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 26th, 2003, 8:19pm
Oooh! Thank you Pat!
*waits for Phil's reaction!*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by xanthe on Dec 26th, 2003, 8:21pm
*hops from foot to foot excitedly*

thank you Pat  ;D
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 26th, 2003, 8:22pm
Thanks Pat.

*wonders how Joey will find the words to explain this one.*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 26th, 2003, 8:43pm
As you know, Robin and I went to India for nearly a year shortly after I left school.  At that time I was totally innocent and naive about what are now known as ‘the facts of life’.  Young girls were kept very sheltered in those days, and living in Austria as I did, I was more sheltered than most.  As you know, I have been very careful that all you girls know what is what, and now you are going to find out why.  I was hoping that the past would stay in the past, but things have happened this term that mean that I must tell you so that you are prepared for the speculation and possible scandal.  Phil, my love, have you seen the new girls this term?”

“Not all of them Mamma.   I have heard that there are two who look familiar to a number of people, though no one can put a finger on it.  I haven’t seen them myself as yet.”

“Phil, if you had seen them, you wouldn’t need to ask.  They look like me when I was their age, and I think I know why.  Now let me tell the whole thing without interruption, or I shan’t be able to tell you.  I’m so afraid that you will hate me after this.”

“I could never hate you Mamma!  Never!  Please tell me.  Did something happen while you were in India?”

“Yes, my darling.  Only Papa, Robin, Mollie and Dick know at the moment.  This is what happened.  On the boat, there was a Regiment going back to India after Furlough.  One of the officers was only a little older than I was, and we were on the same table at dinner the first night.  Naturally we talked together, and after Robin had gone to bed we sat on deck talking some more.  The second night of the voyage, he brought a bottle of wine on deck with us, and thinking back I probably drank most of it.  I wasn’t used to so much, Phil.  I know it’s no excuse, but I think you may be able to guess what happened.  I don’t remember clearly, but Rob says that I stumbled back to the cabin about 5.00 in the morning.”

“Oh Mamma!  Did you think I would hate you for something like that?”

“Hush my dear.  I haven’t finished.  You see, by the end of the voyage I realised that something had happened - or rather  something had not happened that should have!  As soon as I could I spoke to Mollie - she asked a few pertinent questions and guessed what it was.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Catherine_B on Dec 26th, 2003, 8:49pm
Good on Phil - isn't she nice and accepting!

*would like to see Len's reaction when she finds she isn't really the eldest!*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 26th, 2003, 9:00pm
Thank you Pat!!
*would also like to see Len's reaction!!*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 26th, 2003, 9:36pm
*quickly builds a makeshift but sturdy cliff*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 26th, 2003, 9:48pm
*huggles Esmeralda and assures her that we've all done it at least once!!*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 26th, 2003, 9:52pm
*reminds Esmeralda that posts can be removed if you desire*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Esmeralda on Dec 26th, 2003, 9:55pm
*Thanks KB for reminder.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 26th, 2003, 10:00pm
You're very welcome!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Rachel on Dec 26th, 2003, 10:21pm
** Stomps foot and shrieks MOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRREEEEEEEE!!! **





please?






Rachel ~ the eternally patient one
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 26th, 2003, 10:23pm
*giggles at the idea of Rachel being patient*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Rachel on Dec 26th, 2003, 10:30pm
I can do patient!


I just choose not to    ;D
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 26th, 2003, 10:30pm
*joins KB in the hysterical corner!*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Rachel on Dec 26th, 2003, 10:32pm
** Looks daggers at the pair in the corner **
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Angel on Dec 26th, 2003, 10:32pm
Offers stacks of cake, ice cream, chocolate and coffee/tea/gin/sake if you will please update.

In the bleak midwinter
T,E,M, made moan
Chaletians did the ironing
no stories of their own.
They had all been eaten
In the great thread purge
Now they all were begging
Till writers got the the urge....

They were starved of drabbles
fed on many clones
Couldn't post responses
tales were not their own
Yet all the other readers
Wish and chant for more
To satisfy the needy
with the tales they're thirsting for.

Words come tumbling downwards
Keyboards clogged with mice
Paper lying scribbled on
Eaten by a vice.
In the bleak midwinter
A CBB sufficed
Must we lie prostrated
Asking twice

What Can I give them
Poor as I am
If I were a bunny, I could feed the lamb
If I were a sheepdog, I would do my part
Yet what I can, I give them
Give my Art.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 26th, 2003, 10:37pm
*giggle* Fantastic work, Angel!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 26th, 2003, 10:37pm
Awww! Thanks Angel! That's lovely!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Angel on Dec 26th, 2003, 10:40pm
Do you think she'll update?
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:05pm
Considering that I only got back from Willersley Castle at 6.20 tonight, and Ive given you two posts since then..... :P
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:08pm
Yes, Pat, you've done very well!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:09pm
*huggles Pat and thanks her for her posts!*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:27pm
Willersly Castle, I'm going there on 2/1. What is it like?
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:28pm
I was expecting a baby.  I told you that once was enough, and I knew that from personal experience.  Dick and Mollie were bricks.  They found a nursing home that catered for people in my situation, and arranged for me to go there.  It was at another hill station where they didn’t know anyone.  Babies born there were taken from their mothers straight away, so that no bond was formed, and put up for adoption.  The problem was that I was expecting more than one child, so I had to go much sooner than most other girls.  If I hadn’t been able to write to Robin, I think I should have gone mad.  When the time came, Phil, I had four sons - the quads I’m always threatening.  I think that the three new girls are the daughters of three of them.  They would all have had to come back from India after the War, you see, when we gave the country its independence.”

Phil looked at the tears sliding down her mothers cheeks as she spoke, and the love and support on her fathers.

“You told Papa a long time ago, didn’t you Mamma?”

“Yes, of course.  When he asked me to marry him.  How could I hide a thing like that from my husband?  Can you forgive me?”

“Mamma, as you have said, you were a young and innocent girl.  That man took advantage of you.  There is nothing to forgive.”
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:32pm
Wow, hope there is more soon. Will all the children be as kind as Phil, and does all this explain Joey's off hand reaction to the boys?
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:32pm

on 12/26/03 at 23:27:21, Carolyn P wrote:
Willersly Castle, I'm going there on 2/1. What is it like?


It's a lovely stately home built for Richard Arwright in the late 1700s.  My son-in-law, Tim Rogers, is the manager there, and they have a house in the old stable block.  Take your swimming things, as the new pool is open.  You may also meet my daughter, Helen, as she sometimes works in the office cum coffee shop in the evening.  Hope you have a wonderful time.  Are you going for a conference?
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Esmeralda on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:35pm
Thank you Pat, isn't Phil lovely?  Hope the others are just as understanding, although bearing in mind Carolyn's comment, the boys might be a bit less forgiving maybe.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:37pm
I had heard about the pool, but not sure about letting people I know see what I look like in a swimming costume. Even if I can now claim to be a size smaller!

Yes, it is a conference, and I'm beginning to look forward to it, the only trouble is we have to have a twin room without en-suite as all the others were taken when we booked. I'm hoping the conference and the place itself will make up for that! Is the food any good?

*Wonders if she should look up Pat's relations*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:38pm
Loving the story Pat!! :-* :-*

I  had a little giggle at the thought of your daughter's reaction to being greeted by Carolyn with " Are you Pat's daughter? I know her from the CBB!!" ;D
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Abi on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:50pm
*also chuckles at that thought*

LOVE the story Pat and hoping for more soon - pleeeease!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Catherine_B on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:51pm
*giggles*
I'm still trying to pluck up courage to do that to Kat's sister, who works in my office  ;D
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:53pm
*grin!*
Just ask her if she has a mad sister who reads school stories! ;)
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Catherine_B on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:55pm
*thinks she might do just that, but omitting the "mad"!*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 26th, 2003, 11:56pm
Carolyn, you can't miss Tim - he's built on the large size!!  We didn't eat with the guests, but the food in generally good in Christian Guild Holiday hotels.  My parents met at Willersley in 1946, and Mum hadn't been back since.  She spent today there, so we took her round the house before we went up to Helen's place!  Steve and I met at the hotel they used to have just outside Dunoon, and Helen and Tim met at the one at Swanage!  BTW they used to be known as Methodist Guild Holidays.

The facilities shouldn't be too far away from your room - when I first went there, none of the rooms were en-suite!!

Considering it was Helen's laptop I was borrowing on Christmas Eve, and that the 2 CS hbs I got for Christmas were from them, I think they know about the CBB!!  perhaps i ought to warn Tim about Carolyn?!!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 27th, 2003, 12:02am
So, you have your daughter well trained then Pat? ;)
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 27th, 2003, 12:06am
But I'll be well behaved Pat, honestly.

Wonder if Pat's daughter can be bribed to let me use her computer cos we go to in laws on NY Day and then on to willersly, so I'll be suffering withdrawal...

No, I'm not sure I'll even dare introduce myself.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 27th, 2003, 12:10am
Shame Pat won't be at her daughter's over New Year's! You could have met up!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 27th, 2003, 12:12am
Now that would be interesting. But I intend to spend time with the friends I will be going with!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 27th, 2003, 2:54am
Pat, I'm glad Phil was so forgiving. I have to say, though, that when I read the first line, I thought it was you 'talking' and not Joey...
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 27th, 2003, 8:38am
*giggle*
It does read a bit that way!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Chloe on Dec 27th, 2003, 8:55am
Aww thats so well done, thanks PAt may we have some more though, pretty please!  :)
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by xanthe on Dec 27th, 2003, 10:49am
*does happy hoppy-skippy dance*

thank you Pat  ;D
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 27th, 2003, 10:52am

on 12/27/03 at 02:54:16, KB wrote:
I have to say, though, that when I read the first line, I thought it was you 'talking' and not Joey...

LOL!! That never occurred to me, since I'm a little too old for that!!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 27th, 2003, 4:38pm
Poor Joey burst into tears of relief, and Phil hugged her hard, horrified at her mothers reaction.  Jo had very rarely cried in front of her children, so that when she did they were hard pushed to deal with it.  Jack smiled at his youngest daughter over her mothers head.

“Thank you for that, Phil.  She has been so scared of telling you.  I know how hard it was for her to tell me, all those years ago.  She had never forgotten her first boys, and I think it has made it harder for her to relate to our sons.  I’m going to make us all a cup of English tea, now, since I think we all deserve it.  Auntie Hilda has said you may stay the night if necessary, and I think it would be a good idea, for both you and your mother.”

Over the next few days, Jo received phone calls from most of her scattered tribe, but nothing form Len, much to her dismay.  Margot had not replied either, but as she was somewhere in the wilds of Africa, this was to be expected.  Jo fretted, for all of them had tried to understand, and had offered her support, but Len was her eldest daughter, and she badly needed to hear from her.  

A week went by, and she had still heard nothing.  She was looking very white, and had lost weight.  Hilda Annersley and Nell Wilson had by then been taken into her confidence, and had reacted well.  Speculation as to the reason why the new girls had not yet been to Freudesheim was running rife, but no one seemed to have made any unwanted connections so far.  Jo and Jack had decided to wait and see if any approach was made by the four men before doing anything themselves.

Jo was listlessly darning a pair of Jacks socks when the front door flew open with a bang.  Not even this roused Jo from her lethargy.  There was sounds of people moving around out in the hall, and then multiple footsteps ascending the stairs.  All of a sudden, the door to the Salon opened, and Jo flet a apir of loving arms encircling her.

“Did you think I had forsaken you, Mamma?”  Jo looked up into Len’s eyes and burst into tears.

“Oh dear, I seem to be doing too much of this lately,” she said.  “What are you doing here, Len?  Don’t you have a job, and what about your children?”

“The school has employed a supply teacher for me, and the kids are upstairs unpacking.  I thought you needed me here.  I’m sorry I haven’t written or phoned, but I needed to sort my own head out first, and then I decided that it would be far better to see you than try and talk over the phone.  I’m sorry if you’ve fretted, Mamma.”
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Angel on Dec 27th, 2003, 5:58pm
*sighs contentedly*

*wonders what tune she should set the next chant for more to...*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by xanthe on Dec 27th, 2003, 6:02pm
Thank you Pat

*finding herself liking Len rather than being annoyed by her*  :o
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Esmeralda on Dec 27th, 2003, 6:46pm
Thank you Pat, happy that Len is giving Joey all the support she needs.
More please.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 27th, 2003, 8:42pm
*grabs handfuls of tissues and thanks Pat betweeen sniffles for a beautiful post!* :-*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 27th, 2003, 9:01pm


Well done Pat. Tissue box was needed.  :'( :'(

Looking forward to more of this.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 28th, 2003, 12:13am
*rather suprised by Len's apparent forgiveness, as I thought she would have resented not being a part of the secret, and also been jealous at having to share her family*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Abi on Dec 28th, 2003, 12:27am

on 12/27/03 at 17:58:02, Angel wrote:
*sighs contentedly*

*wonders what tune she should set the next chant for more to...*


*suggests 'for she's a jolly good fellow'*

awww, Pat, this is lovely, the Maynards are being wonderful - thank you!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 28th, 2003, 12:29am
*thinks that is an excellent choice of tune*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Angel on Dec 28th, 2003, 11:44am
For pat's a jolly good writer
For pat's a jolly good writer
for pat's a jolly good writer
And so say all of us

We nearly miss the bus
And wasn't there such a fuss
For we were reading more shocks
we were reading more shocks
we were reading more shocks
and crying into mush
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 28th, 2003, 4:14pm
The following morning Len and Joey found themselves alone in the dining room, everyone else having gone out for a walk.  Jo turned to her daughter.  “Have you heard anything from Steve, Len?  He hasn’t written or phoned since he got the letter.  None of the boys have heard from him, and I wondered if he had said anything to you?”

“Nothing, Mamma.  He may be having problems coming to terms with this - I did.  I wrote to Auntie Rob for advice, you know, and she told me something of what you went through at the time.  It helped me to appreciate what happened from your viewpoint, you know.  Steve won’t feel as able to write to her, being a boy.  I take it you wrote to Auntie Madge and Uncle Jem when you wrote to us.  Haven’t they heard from him either?”

“He seems to have fallen off the face of the earth.  Yes, of course I wrote to Madge, but they haven’t heard from him.  I suppose I’m lucky that all the rest of the family have rallied round and been so supportive.”

At that moment the rest of the family returned, carrying the mail bag.  Inside was the longed for letter in Steve’s distinctive writing.  Jo tore the envelope open and started to read the letter.  To Len’s horror, she saw her mother’s face go white, and the letter fall from suddenly nerveless fingers.  She sprang forward and helped her into a chair, waving the rest of her family from the room.  
“Mamma, what is it?  What does he say?”
“Read it for yourself, Len.” Jo passed the letter across to her eldest daughter, and stared across the room, obviously too upset even for tears.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Angel on Dec 28th, 2003, 4:34pm
ARGHHH!!!!!!!!!

What do I have to do in order to edge the story away from the cliff?
Plead? FILK? beg? what?
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by xanthe on Dec 28th, 2003, 4:52pm
*swinging about wildly as her drabble-harness seems to be getting worn out*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Chloe on Dec 28th, 2003, 5:54pm
:o Paaaaaaaaaaaaaattttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!

Please don't leave it there for too long!

*sits on the cliff edge swinging legs*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Ally on Dec 28th, 2003, 5:57pm
Poor Stephen! He's been displaced as eldest brother.  Perhaps Charles would make him understand the best?
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 28th, 2003, 8:34pm
Len sat down and started to read.

Dear Mother

Thank you so much for the very interesting letter you sent me.  I suppose that all of us have received a similar one?  I also have to assume that you are not pulling our legs on this - after all you have been threatening to provide the family with quads for some years now.

I have to tell you that the news has hurt me very deeply.  I have always believed that you were far more fond of the girls in our family than you were of us boys, and this perhaps explains why.  Why did you never tell us?  Why did you let me grow up believing myself to be the eldest of the boys?  Now I find that not only do I have an elder brother, but I have four of them.

I find after due consideration that I cannot forgive the deceit that has been going on for the whole of my life.  Please do not try to contact me again, as I shall ignore any correspondence.  If in the future I find that I change my feelings, I shall no doubt write again.

Stephen
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Angel on Dec 28th, 2003, 8:38pm
ARRRRRRRRGGGH

Poor Joey.

*Wants to throttle stephen*

I can understand him wanting space, but not him completely cutting her out like that. Is he speaking to the rest of the family?
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 28th, 2003, 8:41pm
Oh no!!!!!! Poor Steve!! And poor Joey!!! Please let him come round!! :o :o
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 28th, 2003, 8:52pm
Len put the letter down onto the dining room table.  “Mamma, Steve is a fatuous ass.”

Jo looked up quickly, a reluctant smile flickering in her eyes.  “I’m glad Hilda didn’t hear that, Len.  What language!”

Len grinned across at her mother.  “It made you sit up and take notice, though, didn’t it?  It’s perfectly true, nevertheless.  The stupid man wants his head read.  How old does he think he is?  I had problems coming to terms with it myself, but not like him.  And Mamma, I prayed about it, just like Auntie Rob told me too - as I should have done anyway, if I hadn’t been so surprised.  Now get up and come into the Salon, and I’ll go to the kitchen and make a strong cup of tea.”

Jo rose wearily to her feet and moved across the hall to her pretty Salon like an old woman.  Len watched her with concern, and instead of heading straight for the kitchen, slipped into her father’s study and picked up the phone.  Her mother needed the support of her husband now.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Angel on Dec 28th, 2003, 9:00pm
*loves len*

I'm starting to feel sorry for Stephen tho, the more I think about it.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 28th, 2003, 9:11pm
*hopes Len might tackle Steve and make him see sense!!*

And thank you for the posts Pat!! :-* :-*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Esmeralda on Dec 28th, 2003, 9:41pm
I can understand why Steve finds it hard to come to terms with, after all his position with the boys was the same as Len's with the girls, but he is only going to make himself more unhappy if he persists in this attitude.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Dec 28th, 2003, 10:01pm
She was fortunate enough to find her father in his office at the San, and she swiftly brought him up to date.  He was able to get away immediately, and almost before the tea was ready, Jo found her husband’s loving arms around her.  Len slipped out of the room, and left her parents together, guessing that her presence was not needed.  The two elders hardly noticed her exit, as they were wrapped up in each other to the exclusion of virtually everything else.  Leaving her children to their own devises, she hurried up to her room and got out her writing case.  Taking a fresh sheet of paper, she sat for a while thinking, then putting pen to paper, she started to write.

Dear baby brother

   You never fail to surprise me, but this time you have excelled yourself.  Mamma is suffering agonies over this, and you write her such a supportive letter!  

  I do have some understanding of how you feel.  After all, I grew up thinking myself the eldest.  I wrote to Auntie Rob, though, and spilled all my confusion out to her.  She helped so much Steve.  She told me how Mamma felt at the time, and what society would have done to her if she hadn’t kept it a secret.  She would have been totally ostracised, Steve.  Do you realise that?  That is why the boys were adopted.  Think of the strength she showed telling Papa, knowing that he would be justified in refusing to marry her.  Get down off your high horse, brother mine, and think of the rest of us.  We have to pull together through this.  Even in this day and age there will be some scandal, and I would like all Mamma’s children to stick together, even the unknown ones, if they want to.  I must confess that I’m curious about them, aren’t you?.   They are supposed to look very like Mamma.  I haven’t seen the girls yet, either.

  Come on Steve.  You know that this is only making you more miserable, and making us all miserable too.  We all love you, and we do understand how you feel - even Mamma and Papa, though they would never admit it.

     Love and kisses

           Len
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Chloe on Dec 28th, 2003, 10:06pm
Yay thnaks Pat, but may we have some more soon please!  :)
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 28th, 2003, 10:13pm
*chants in Pat's direction!!*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 28th, 2003, 10:33pm
I have to say that I feel more sorry for Steve than anyone else. Not only is he going to resent his situation, but he's also going to be entirely alone.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Carolyn P on Dec 28th, 2003, 10:36pm
Thanks Pat. A veritable treat to read all Today's postings at once. Looking forward to reading much more.

I think Steven's letter was an outburst of his emotions, not a considered reply, even though it did take some time to come. He is probably confused and lashing out at his mother as he sees her as the source of the confusion.

I could be wrong of course, he could just be a complete ****
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Abi on Dec 28th, 2003, 11:01pm
Pat pleeeeease don't leave it there! Please let Steven come round! Aaarrrrggghhhh! PLEASE write more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*begging on my knees*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Dec 28th, 2003, 11:53pm
*kneels down beside Abi!*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Dec 28th, 2003, 11:55pm
*astonished at all this prostration*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Today at 2:06am
Don't say you're jealous, KB!!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by xanthe on Today at 2:11am
Thank you Pat  ;D
*reminds the others they shouldn't kneel before a human*
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by KB on Today at 4:05am

on 12/29/03 at 02:06:39, Pat wrote:
Don't say you're jealous, KB!!


Goodness, no! I'd feel a right fool if anyone knelt down in front of me!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Jennie on Today at 9:03am
Hoping for lots more from Pat.

Debating whether to sit on the sofa and wait patietly or bounce around on the trampoline.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Carolyn P on Today at 11:18am

on 12/29/03 at 09:03:30, Jennie wrote:
Hoping for lots more from Pat.

Debating whether to sit on the sofa and wait patietly or bounce around on the trampoline.


That depends on wether you are tired, or have a lot of surplus energy to spend on the trampoline.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Pat on Today at 11:32am
I'm having a coffee break at the moment.  We've gone into Lynne's old bedroom and taken the polystyrene tiles down from the ceikling.  Whoever had put them uo had used glue instead of the proper cement!!  We now have round brown blobs that resist every effort at removal!  We have to get that room done this week so that we can move the computer into that room and make the back room fit for Lynne when she gets back from New Year with her friend!
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Katarzyna on Today at 2:04pm

on 12/26/03 at 23:55:52, Catherine_B wrote:
*thinks she might do just that, but omitting the "mad"!*


nah leave the mad in there - she'll know who I am from that description!!  She knows I use this board and has even read CS in Court although she is not a school story fan.

Pat - could we please have some more story as I find myself unexpectedly back at work (bah humbug to all bosses who decide to open between Christmas and New Year)
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Jennie on Today at 2:49pm
I feel sorry for Stephen, it's not only a shock for him, he says that he's always felt that his mother was more interested in the girls, so perhaps he feels rejected twice over.
Title: Re: More Shocks for the CS ~ Part Two
Post by Vikki on Today at 4:16pm
Good luck with the decorating Pat! :-*
(but please find time to write more of this!!)


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