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(Message started by: Vikki on Jan 2nd, 2004, 2:31am)
Title: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 2nd, 2004, 2:31am
Restarted due to length
first part (http://members.lycos.co.uk/thecbb/somethingsilly .html)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Susan on Jan 2nd, 2004, 2:45am
Phew!!  Read Xan's last post while you were doing it and thought we were losing it. Glad you restarted it.

Well done Xan like that part too.  Nice re-intoduction of Malvina.
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 2nd, 2004, 2:51am
*grin*
Sorry to panic you Sue!!
I take it you tried to post to the old thread and it wouldn't let you?
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Kathy_S on Jan 2nd, 2004, 6:46am
Thank you, Xanthe!  Feeling very cheered up.
A good thread to go home and sleep on.  (Good night.)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Lesley on Jan 2nd, 2004, 7:04am
Also pleased - is that what happens when you seal a thread prior to archiving then? If so it must also be the same for the Juliet thread.

More please Xanthe - really enjoying this!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Emma_N on Jan 2nd, 2004, 8:53am
More please Xanthe, more more more!!!  :)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Jennie on Jan 2nd, 2004, 12:52pm
Fame at last!

I always knew I could play a good heroine. Makes a nice change from Widow Twankey.

BTW, I'm expecting a consignment of sin from Abi any time now. Would someone please make sure that it doesn't go astray as it's a long time since I've had any.
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Esmeralda on Jan 2nd, 2004, 3:11pm
Thanks Xanthe - hope you're feeling better today.  Would love to see some more if you feel able.
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Rachel on Jan 2nd, 2004, 3:44pm
** Having been very patient ALL day so far, I am now jumping up and down shrieking that I want more story **
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 2nd, 2004, 6:38pm
*feels very concerned about Xan's welfare!*
Has anyone seen her today?  ???
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Rachel on Jan 2nd, 2004, 6:50pm
I haven't seen Xan OR Chloe!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Chloe on Jan 2nd, 2004, 7:04pm
That would be due to my brother checking his e-mails this mornings and only just fininshing doing so  ::), so i don't know if any more has been written but if not i'm going to quiz sibling as to why not  :)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Lesley on Jan 2nd, 2004, 7:24pm
Thank you Chloe - was starting to get worried about both of you!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Chloe on Jan 2nd, 2004, 7:36pm
Aww thanks for the concern xan should be on after we have our dinner  :)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 2nd, 2004, 8:43pm

on 01/02/04 at 19:04:44, Chloe wrote:
That would be due to my brother checking his e-mails this mornings and only just fininshing doing so  ::), so i don't know if any more has been written but if not i'm going to quiz sibling as to why not  :)


*wondering exactly how many e-mails big bro had for it to take so long to check them!!!*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Katarzyna on Jan 2nd, 2004, 8:50pm
*wondering whether or not Xan has now had dinner*

specially seeing as i appear to be somewhere in Armiford and quite possibly drunk!!!  :o
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 2nd, 2004, 9:17pm
*is very confused by Kate's post!!*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Alex on Jan 2nd, 2004, 9:41pm
Have just read the whole lot and have choked on leftover birthday cake. (Your brother sounds like mine, Xanthe.) I volunteer! Can I go into prefects and stop Len from marrying Reg while I'm there, maybe he could never be found. Maybe once I've safely married Giles and Peggy I could split those two up...

*wheezing like the asthmatic I used to be*
*sure it is from working in a GP - exposure to all patients' germs*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Pat on Jan 2nd, 2004, 10:27pm
Just caught yp on last night's bits.. Loved the phone, especially as mine is turned off 99% of the time - I only use it for emergenceis - and has a conventional ring!!  While we were at it, why didn't we give our house Internet access?!!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 2nd, 2004, 10:42pm

on 01/02/04 at 12:52:12, Jennie wrote:
BTW, I'm expecting a consignment of sin from Abi any time now. Would someone please make sure that it doesn't go astray as it's a long time since I've had any.


*trots in burdened by a large quantity of sin for Jennie and hopes xanthe comes soon*

ETA: I can't get this in the archive - help!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 2nd, 2004, 10:49pm
bonsoir, my little cabbages...
will be trying to write this evening, following shameless computer-hoggage by my siblings and parental unit, who evidently do not appreciate my undoubted geniosity... *sigh*  still feel suspiciously as if I am drowning in my own lungs, but today I have water-wings...
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Having taken some style tips from Lesley, the trio readied themselves to set out into the night, dressed in ninja suits.  Oh, and pastel-coloured legwarmers, and sweatbands that had been on special offer in “Girl Heaven”.  Kate, who hadn’t been too convinced that lilac was her colour, was now getting quite into the look, and was trying to persuade the other two to let her carry a sub-machine-gun.  “Please?  Pretty please?” she whined shamelessly “I’ll be good… I spent ages making a shoulder strap for it” she continued, waving a glittery lilac object about “I’d co-ordinate beautifully!”  Pat gave Kate her patented “angry-librarian-who-will-either-throw-you-out-or-just-alter-your-loans-record-so-you-have-a-ninety-year-fine” look, and she subsided, settling for taking a super-soaker, to which she was allowed to attach her customised shoulder-strap as a compromise.  Moving stealthily, like shadows, almost, although mercifully without Cliff-the-zombie-Richard, the three made their way towards Plas Howell.
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 2nd, 2004, 10:52pm
Abi, tis'nt archived yet, first part of thread is on page two of C&D, had probs with archives!!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 2nd, 2004, 10:54pm
aaahhhh! phew *wipes brow in relief* thanks Vikki!

And xanthe!  ;D
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Esmeralda on Jan 2nd, 2004, 10:54pm
Thanks Xanthe - hope you feel better soon.
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:01pm
Xan, I love it!!
*Pokes  the bunnies in a friendly fashion*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Lesley on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:07pm
*Impressed Xan has seen into my wardrobe!*


More please Xanthe - hope you are feeling better soon.

(Starts work in secret laboratory on growing new set of lungs for Xanthe)
Title: : Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:12pm
*giggles* *wonders if said new lungs will be glittery, seeing as Lesley is responsible for them!*
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It was too tempting.  “What harm can it do – they’re all asleep…” wheedled Jennie, who was desperate to get a closer look at the school.  Pat and Kate, strangely enough, didn’t need too much persuading, and they crept towards the house.  Kate, who, thanks no doubt to the legwarmers, was feeling strangely athletic (well, that, and like she REALLY needed to dance on the roof of a taxi…) decided to climb up a convenient tree and have a nosy.  “You wouldn’t believe this!” she hissed, as she peered into Matron’s room “The woman’s obsessed!  It’s frightening…”
“What??  What is it??!!??” demanded Jennie, who was now debating climbing the tree herself.  “Trolls!”  Kate said, in a slightly high-pitched squeak “her room is full of trolls!  I can’t BELIEVE EBD didn’t notice them!  Ooh, they’re looking at me funny, I’m sure they are.  And the hair – she’s plaited all of their hair.  They look like dumpy CS girls who’ve had a shampooing accident!  Euw, this is creepy, I’m moving.”  So saying, Kate moved further along the branch, causing it to tap on the window of Miss Wilson’s room.  That lady, remarkably (given the amount she’d had to drink) “woke up, and sat up in bed with a start.  [Kate, peering through the window, did her best to look like a leaf]  Some sixth sense warned her that all was not as it should be.  She pushed the curly white hair out of her eyes, got quietly out of bed [so as not to wake Hartwig], and slipped on her white, quilted dressing-gown.  Then she stole to the door and opened it softly and listened.”
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:17pm
8oo8oo8oo

*giggles wildly and gasps for more*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:22pm
*giggles*
I love it!!! (Is Hartwig Miss Wilson's teddy?)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Pat on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:26pm
Somehow I thought he might be an owl!!  I don't know why!!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:34pm
Hartwig is Miss Wilson's teddy, as kidnapped by Catherine, Ally and Lulie...
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Had Miss Wilson been in Robin’s room, she would have lost her job… oh, sorry, no, I mean, she would have head Pat calling “get out of that tree you silly dobbin!” to Kate.  This, in case any of you had ever wondered, was what awoke Robin.  “Quick, look, he’s over there!” Pat said, pointing excitedly at the figure emerging from the trees and sneaking towards the building, moving in a fashion that might suggest he had been spending his time off-page watching “Secret Squirrel”.  The three CBBers pelted round to the side of the house in time to see him snag his trousers on the window-frame, giving him a quite serious wedgie.  “Wonder how the school is for sopranos at the moment – maybe they could use him” Jennie snickered, as she listened to the sounds of his raiding the lockers.  As the doors to the form room banged open, the three CBBers made haste to take up position in the rose-garden.  The burglar splashed into the pond and “remained crouching in the pool against the base of the fountain, too much overcome to think straight.  His eyes were shut and his voice was raised in lamentations of his past, mingled with promises of future amendment.”  The CBBers, who were trying their utmost to look like water nymphs, giggled softly, something that went unnoticed as Robin was unsuccessfully tying to turn the fountain on.  Realising it was well and truly frozen, the CBBers obliged by drenching the man with their super soakers.  “It was too much.  With a last howl he leapt to his feet, scrambled out of the pool on the further side, and tore off through the shrubbery before the two girls could interfere.”  
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Katarzyna on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:36pm
*giggling hysterically*  :D
Thank you Xan

slightly surreal as I actually do look ok in lilac and I do have a super-soaker water pistol (normally for getting the dogs when they are barking hysterically - its easier to fire a warning shot over their heads than shout at them).  
Not sure about the dancing on taxi (would cost too much to repair the dented roof!) and my tree climbing skills are legendary - admittedly due to the fact i am very good at knocking myself out if i fall!!  :o

*waiting impatiently for the next installment*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Catherine_B on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:38pm
Good evening, Xanthe!  And thank you for the marvellous instalments - I love the image of the CBBers as water nymphs, who then use their super soakers 8oo 8oo 8oo
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:39pm
8oo 8oo 8oo

Xan, you're inspired!!!!
'tis so funny!!!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:47pm
8oo 8oo 8oo

Oh Xanthe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*lies on the floor gasping feebly but assures everyone that Matron is NOT required*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:48pm
A leetle bit more  ;D
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The CBBers stayed where they were until the girls had vanished back into the house, and then went to check the TEM trap they had set in the shrubbery.  Success – caught in between a series of highly dangerous-looking lasers, was the TEM.  Of course, to the untrained eye it might have looked like a half-mask.  But the CBBers knew otherwise.  “You thought you could get the better of us did you!” Pat snarled, prodding it with her super-soaker.  “I knew I should have taken that job with Zorro” thought the TEM, “or even done ‘Phantom’ – oh, if mother could see me now, about to be unpicked by an irate ex-English teacher”.  As Jennie carefully unpicked the stitches, the TEM began to blur, and then vanished, in a small puff of dark smoke.  “Right, so, back to the board then is it?” Pat said presently.
“Erm yes, I suppose so” Kate said, “though there’s something I wouldn’t mind trying first”.  No-one ever believed the local cab-driver about what had happened to his car, though he swore until his dying day that the damage had been caused by three strangely dressed women, who had been singing about immortality...      
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:50pm
*emits a strange howl and mops up tears of laughter with a tablecloth*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:51pm
*weeping with laughter!*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Katarzyna on Jan 2nd, 2004, 11:57pm
*reduced to spluttering incoherently by the latest installments*

now how ever am i to get to sleep having the tune and words going round in my head!!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 3rd, 2004, 12:12am
Another little bit for you!
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Back on the board, Abi, Susan, and Cumbrian_Rachel were getting ready to bounce themselves into “Rivals of the Chalet School”.  Xanthe, who ever since her return from “Camp” had been keeping very quiet, came over to offer them some advice.  “Never ask anyone where the loo is,” she said “and if you can get hold of some more of these for me” she added, indicating the navy knickers she was holding “I’d be very grateful”.  So saying she trotted back to her swirling vortex [doesn’t everyone have one??] and lobbed them in with a little giggle.  “Did you see what it said on the note that was pinned to those?” C_Rachel said, looking a little perplexed.
“Something about not complying fully with uniform regulations” Susan replied, looking understandably puzzled.  They had no time to ponder this further, however, as it was time for them to bounce into the book.  As they climbed carefully onto the trampoline, Jennie, Pat and Kate reappeared in the “having a problem?” part of the board, singing so loudly that the page-turning-chimes were heard by none but those on the trampoline.
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Rachel on Jan 3rd, 2004, 12:35am
Xan, this is all brilliant, fantastic and wonderflubble!

Write LOTS more very SOON and POST it please!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 3rd, 2004, 12:54am
I am posting as I write, and am writing as fast as the bunnies will permit...  this'll have to be the last bit for now though: frazzled brain
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The three CBBers appeared at Buchau, near “the new chalet, which stood, bare and gaunt in its newness, not far from the Gasthaus or hotel, which, with the tiny chapel and one or two huts, made up the tiny hamlet of Buchau.”  They were there before Jo et al turned up and had their refined slanging match, but Miss Browne was already there.  She was “a tall woman, gaunt as the house itself [what sort of mad simile is that, may I ask??], and clad in grey tweeds.  [which, I presume, the house was not, thus enabling people to tell the difference between them]  She turned and looked at them as they drew near with a certain amount of interest in her keen grey eyes.  Then her glance fell on Joey Abi.  She left her stand, and came over to them.  ‘Forgive me for stopping you’ she began, in a somewhat hard metallic voice, “but I see that you have a school-girl with you, and I could not miss the opportunity of presenting you with one of my prospectuses, in case you should wish her to remain here for the sake of foreign languages.’  [“school-girl!” squawked Abi “I’m 20!”… C_Rachel very sensibly kicked her to shut her up, and the entire thing was missed by Miss Browne, who was waiting for Susan to give her some sort of answer].  ‘Prospectuses?’ gasped Captain Humphries Susan, to whom she had addressed herself, seeing that he she was obviously the eldest most intelligent of the party.  ‘Yes, I’m bringing my school here from England as an experiment,’ she said, ‘and I thought you might like your daughter to come here.  We shall make a special feature of foreign languages,’ she went on…‘and there is nothing that gives a girl such aplomb and savoir-faire as travel or sojourn abroad in a strange land’.”  Susan nodded, not unlike one of those nodding-dog thingys you can get to go in the car.  “Oh but how perfect, I was almost despairing of what to do with Abi this year, but you’ve just solved that problem most effectively, most!” Susan gushed, while Abi looked on, dumbstruck.  After a little more discussion, and the exchange of some money, Abi was entrusted into the care of Miss Brown, while her “mother” and “sister” wandered off to get rooms at the Gasthaus.  
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 3rd, 2004, 12:59am
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*absolutely speechless*


























More please! 8oo
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Rachel on Jan 3rd, 2004, 1:04am
** Giggling like a loony **

more when it's ready please Xanthe!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 3rd, 2004, 1:06am
I love it Xan!!! Well done!!!!
Looking forward to lots more tomorrow!!!! :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Susan on Jan 3rd, 2004, 2:25am
I think I'm as speechless as Abi.  This is pure brilliance Xan.

By the way when exactly did you see my nodding doh impression?
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 3rd, 2004, 2:34am
what I'm wondering is why you were so desperate to get rid of me??!!  ;) :o ::)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Susan on Jan 3rd, 2004, 2:42am
That's for me to know and you to find out!  ;)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Kathy_S on Jan 3rd, 2004, 2:45am
Don't worry, Abi.  She's probably just plotting to get your cunningly camouflaged sword in position to synchronize its vibrations with the metallic voice and burst the TEM asunder.

(Well, maybe not.)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 3rd, 2004, 2:49am
*turns a concerned gaze in Kathy's direction*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Kathy_S on Jan 3rd, 2004, 2:53am
You have a more straightforward explanation  :o ?
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 3rd, 2004, 2:53am
*is getting very worried and secretly ensures that my sword is still tucked safely inside my sock*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 3rd, 2004, 2:54am
*wonders how big Abi's feet must be??* ???
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 3rd, 2004, 2:58am
*wonders how to explain that one..................can't think of a way..................wonders whether to dye hair black*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 3rd, 2004, 3:01am
*is confused by the hair dying comment* ???
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Kathy_S on Jan 3rd, 2004, 3:01am
Just a slight mix-up with dirk properly in a sock in Highland Twins.

In that case the hair would be horse hair to help decorate her sporran.
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 3rd, 2004, 3:06am
I meant to dispell the blondness, which seems to be taking me over tonight. Of course it could be something to do with it being three in the morning.

*also slightly worried about Kathy*  ;)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 3rd, 2004, 3:10am
Okay, I understand now! ;)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Kathy_S on Jan 3rd, 2004, 3:15am
Tch, tch, tch.  Doesn't appreciate a perfectly logical and on-topic defense when it's handed to her.  

Am simply suggesting that the sock (and hair) comments meant you'd read the roster wrongly and hadn't realized that  Jennie, Pat and Kate had already dealt with the Highland Twins TEM

(Possibly I should call it a night.)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 3rd, 2004, 3:19am
*beginning to think I should do the same but am engaged in reading all of Tensions in the archive and have only got to about page 85!*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 3rd, 2004, 3:19am
*shakes head in despair!*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 3rd, 2004, 3:23am
Why? It's great!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 3rd, 2004, 3:36am
I never said it wasn't, I just said I despaired!!! ;)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 3rd, 2004, 3:39am
hm. *confused but too tired to care*  ;)

*goes back to tensions*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 3rd, 2004, 3:45am
Yay!!!! I confuzzled Abi!!! ;D
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 3rd, 2004, 4:09am
*looks droopy and pathetic* why are you so pleased about that Vikki?  ::)

Oh well, I've just finished Tensions - head all woozy.


*starts a chant for more of xanthe's story - i want to see what happens to me!*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Jennie on Jan 3rd, 2004, 8:44am
Just caught up with this Xanthe, yay for me, I've been in four  drabbles now,. Marvellous Xan, when do we get some more?

Abi, thank you for the consignment of sin. I had it for dinner last night with cranberry sauce, delicious!
8oo
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Lesley on Jan 3rd, 2004, 9:00am
*Professor Le Sley added some more mixture to the powder - the pink mass in front of her gave a convulsive shudder then sneezed. Picking her self up from the floor the professor marvelled anew. Yes, creating lungs was a good thing - but lungs with pom pom attachment and a sparkly motif? Nobel prize here she came! Now if she could just get Xanthe to sit still long enough for the transplant - she had her trusty penknife...*

Sorry to hijack your thread Xanthe - absolutely loving your story - more please! ;D
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Chloe on Jan 3rd, 2004, 11:49am
*goes to poke sibling*

I want more story  >:( get out of bed!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Jennie on Jan 3rd, 2004, 12:36pm
Chloe, poke, prod, push and if necessary, apply wet sponge to Xanthe.

Tell her that we are all yelling for more, so she has to get up and write.
;D
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 3rd, 2004, 12:51pm
I am up.  I am out of bed.  I am even dressed.  I muchly resent being prodded, and need somewhere to hide from Lesley and her penknife.  [Don't get me, wrong, I'm grateful...  I just have issues related to people-called-Lesley-and-their-interest-in-my-lungs  ;)]

I'm going to have some lunch, play with the plot bunnies, and then try to write some more, while keeping the essay bunnies distracted by letting THEM read lots and lots of "serious" books!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Chloe on Jan 3rd, 2004, 3:16pm
No fair xanthe's gonig out and my brother nabbed the computer again earlier so we have to wait for more story :(
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Jennie on Jan 3rd, 2004, 3:45pm
Chloe, tell your brother to get his own computer, he's seriously impeding our drabble reading.
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Chloe on Jan 3rd, 2004, 4:00pm
8oo i somehow don't think i'll be doing that, but don't worry xa'll have time on the computer next week as i'm back at school so that's one less person to want the computer  :)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 3rd, 2004, 5:33pm
Hey, Xan, watch out!!!
Lesley's heading your way, and she has her penknife out!!!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Lesley on Jan 3rd, 2004, 5:51pm
*Was planning to use the penknife's corkscrew attachment just to open the bottles of ether - nothing more!*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 3rd, 2004, 5:54pm
*for some reason is not tremendously reassured by that*
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“I can’t believe this.” Abi thought, as she was led off by “the Fawn” (a nickname acquired due to the fact that the good lady had quite excessively hairy legs, I can only assume).  “I’m a grown up.  I can’t go back to school.  This is absurd.  It’s a bad dream.  I will wake up.  I have to wake up.  I don’t want to do algebra!  How could Susan do this to me!?”  Over at the Gasthaus, C_Rachel was carefully asking for a room in her best German.  “Oh, and would it be possible for us to have some holy water to wash with” she concluded, fully in keeping with the established pattern of the books.  Susan snorted with mirth and hastened to explain to the bemused hotelier what was meant, even as he began to assure them that his hotel was absolutely vampire-free and he had the certificate to prove it.  Miss Browne was unable to offer similar assurances to Abi (the certificate was in the post) but she made do, instead, with showing her round and explaining the many many rules which she would be expected to obey.  “Of course, as you are here a little before term, perhaps we do not need to be as formal as we would be otherwise.  You may call me auntie Ermintrude.”  Abi, struck dumb at this incredible generosity (well, that was what Miss Browne assumed, anyway, which assumption was probably a good thing for Abi’s enduring health and happiness) did quite a good impression of a codfish in a blonde wig for a couple of minutes before saying weakly “thank you auntie Ermintrude” and going to unpack the trunk that had appeared for her.          
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Lesley on Jan 3rd, 2004, 6:11pm
*Now picturing Miss Browne as a pink cow AKA Magic Roundabout! ;D*

More please - that was only a little snippet! ;)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 3rd, 2004, 6:11pm
*huggles Xan for being so brilliant*
*stretches out on sofa to wait for Abi's reaction*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 3rd, 2004, 7:31pm
Well, the bunnies are only small, so they don't like writing too much all at once....
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In their room at the Gasthaus, Susan and C_Rachel were setting out the TEM tracking equipment.  It was the most up-to-date and state-of-the-art stuff that anyone had been able to imagine, which meant it was shiny and silver and had lots of cool buttons and lights and came with polyphonic bleeps.  “This is so cool” C_Rachel breathed, “do you think I could keep it when we’ve busted the TEM?  I bet I could modify it to keep track of my socks in the college laundry-room…”  Susan, who was trying to read the instruction manual, nodded absently.  “I think I’m picking up a reading!” Susan squeaked suddenly, as the TEM detector started to make bleeping noises.  “Nope, that would be the pizza-ordering function kicking in” C_Rachel said “it’s programmed to automatically provide us with things we want to eat.”  Sadly, Abi was too far away for the TEM-detector to take her order, so she was stuck with a school meal, of a decidedly non yummy-delicious variety.  “Eat up dear,” Miss Browne said in what was meant to be a cheerful and encouraging tone, but which sadly sounded like someone doing unspeakable things to a tin-opener “boiled cabbage is very good for you”.          
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 3rd, 2004, 7:39pm
*hopes Abi won't be too ill from the nasty dinner!*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Esmeralda on Jan 3rd, 2004, 8:42pm
Oh Xanthe, all this is great, and lots and lots to catch up on too.
Please may we have more snippets soon,
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Lesley on Jan 3rd, 2004, 8:55pm
Poor Abi!!! Know that if it were me I'd be having a serious bilious attack all over Auntie Ermintrude's dress!

More please Xanthe! ;D
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Rachel on Jan 3rd, 2004, 9:13pm
Xanthe - lots more please! This is getting better and better with every post!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 3rd, 2004, 9:17pm
*wheezing so loudly that "14 shades of grey" is being drowned out...*  :-/
sorry, I was watching the documentary about the "real" monarch... but now I'm back and as everyone has abandoned me [sob] I can write some more
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Term went on, and Abi found her general knowledge increasing greatly, thanks to the careful attentions of the teaching staff at St Scholastika’s.  “Mwahahahahahahahaha just think of my chances on ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ now” she cackled happily.  “And as for ‘Trivial Pursuit’ – well, I’m gonna kick some righteous donkey!”  Luckily for her, there was no-one present to witness this outburst, as it was unlikely anyone would fancy breaking her out of a mental hospital (mass detention of the CBB being the most likely outcome, as far as I can see…) Susan and C_Rachel had been TEM hunting in a rather serious fashion.  The complex TEM-detector (which was so cool you could change the casing when you fancied, so at the time of writing it featured dancing bunnies) was proving invaluable to the CBBers, although it had not yet come up with anything definite.  By process of elimination, Susan and Cumbrian_Rachel had worked out that the TEM was not disguised as any sort of cake or chocolate, though the jury was still out on sweets and biscuits.  Abi was not faring as badly as you might have feared either, as she managed to get herself put on a “special diet” by Matron Rider (isn’t hypnotism a useful skill…).  “Yes, I have an iron deficiency, which is best counteracted by eating chocolate,” Abi explained to Gypsy Carson one evening “Matron’s an absolute tyrant about it” she sighed “and as for the amount of cream I have to have for the calcium deficiency, well, it’s a nightmare.  Of course, I was devastated to discover I’m allergic to cabbage.”        
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Lesley on Jan 3rd, 2004, 9:25pm
8oo Wish I'd thought of some of Abi's excuses when I was younger! 8oo

More please Xanthe! ;D
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by BethC on Jan 3rd, 2004, 9:26pm
I've just ben watching that documentary too - interesting that this seems to have been the first time that the illegitimacy claim has been investigated or backed up in any way. What did you think?
Anyway, back on topic (sort of), if you need any more volunteers to go into books, I'm ready & willing... early-mid Swiss for choice, but anything really!  Loving the story so far. ;D
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 3rd, 2004, 10:22pm
Another diddy bit...
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The book ticked by, it having been pretty nearly impossible to get a fix on the location of the TEM.  Once the lake froze over, it became even more difficult, as on some occasions a most erratic pattern of rapid movement was picked up in shortish bursts.  “I just don’t understand!” Susan said, utterly disconsolate as she watched the TEM apparently do a beautiful figure-of-eight move, followed by a loop-jump, an axel and then a very neat set of brackets.  Just at that moment, however, she glanced out of the window, which happened to overlook the lake.  A group of Chalet School girls were disporting themselves on the ice (is it just me, or does that sound a bit dodgy?); Jo Bettany amongst them.  “Eureka!” Susan shouted
“I had a bath this morning!” C_Rachel said somewhat affrontedly, even as Susan began to gesticulate wildly, like a mime who is in quite severe pain.  “The TEM – it’s an ice skate!” she finally gasped out, after C_Rachel’s guesses, which were hilariously wide of the mark, [“the TEM is John Travolta!?”] finally petered out.  Once this realisation had been made, they hastened to contact Abi.  Of course, they had to wait until it was dark to shine the signal into the sky, but as soon as Abi saw it, she leapt into action.
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 3rd, 2004, 10:29pm
*soars gracefully through the air*

8oo 8oo 8oo

I can't believe you made me eat boiled cabbage xanthe!!!!!!!!  This is wonderful, I'm turning out quite intellingent!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Rachel on Jan 3rd, 2004, 10:34pm
I'm assuming the signal in the sky is nothing as common as a bat?

What would be an appropriate sky signal for CBBers? A bottle of Baileys? A wodge of chocolate? A carving knife? (shiny-shiny!)

And although I've said it already MORE please asap! Ask the bunnies politely what it will take to get them off their fat butts and working again!   ;)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 3rd, 2004, 10:51pm
Next little bit...
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It was the fateful evening that certain of the Saints had decided to go skating without permission, and Abi debated joining them, assuming that this was where the action was going to take place.  However, as she shinned down the drainpipe, taking great care not to snag her stockings as then she’d have to mend them, C_Rachel, concealed in the bushes, gave an owl call, designed to attract Abi’s attention.  It worked – Abi was so startled by the hooting that she joined the other two with rather more speed than intended, as she was so surprised she fell off the drainpipe and landed on Susan.   “We know what the TEM is!” C_Rachel exclaimed, while Susan recovered her breath and tried to discover whether or not her bones had in fact been shattered.  “So you’re trying to tell me,” Abi said slowly, once the other two had completed their explanation, complete with diagrams done in felt-tip, “that the TEM is one of Jo Bettany’s ice-skates.  Well, I certainly didn’t see THAT coming.  How are we going to get hold of it though?”
“Well, we reckon her stuff will end up in Matron’s room… so what you need to do is to get in there and TEM bust.” Said C_Rachel enthusiastically (enthusiastically, because she wasn’t going to have to tangle with Matron Rider).
“Right, okay then,” said Abi, trying to look brave and fearless, and managing instead to look like a startled gerbil.  Susan put a comforting hand on her shoulder, “I thought you might want this,” the older woman said, and handed Abi her favourite shiny sword, which she had been keeping safe for her while she was at school.
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Polly1 on Jan 3rd, 2004, 10:53pm
More please, Xan!! ;D
It has taken me all evening (interupted by dinner!!) to catch up, and I need more!!!! Please can I volunteer to go TEM-tracking (I won't mention crossbows.......oops!)
8oo
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 3rd, 2004, 11:14pm
And another ickle bit for you!
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A severe allergic reaction to cabbage not being as exciting as near-drowning and the associated dramatic illnesses, Abi’s trip to Matron’s room was entirely overlooked by EBD.  “Oh, the agony!” Abi cried, giving a truly Oscar-winning performance.  “The torture… oh, I’m dying!  Definitely dying!” Matron Rider took on the slightly trance-like facial expression which encounters with Abi-the-hypnotist induced in her.  As it happened, Abi was genuinely looking a bit poorly, because she had nobly “accidentally” eaten some cabbage to authenticate her illness.  “Let me get a doctor for you Abi,” Matron Rider said, “There are plenty of them around at the moment”.  Biting back the instinctive response of “Oh yes please!” Abi gave a brave little sigh and said
“No, I know they’re busy with the others.  I think *cough* if you get me some chocolate *cough* I might recover” she finished weakly, though anyone looking closely would have seen the glint in her eye.  “Good grief – the chocolate cupboard is empty!” Matron Rider exclaimed as she went to get some from the store she used to ‘dose’ Abi with.  [Outside, Susan and C_Rachel were happily “helping” Abi, by destroying the evidence of the chocolate-stealing.]  “Don’t worry, I’ll go and get some!  Stay there and breathe deeply Abigail.”
“Yes Matron,” Abi replied feebly, even as she felt for her sword under the mattress.  As soon as Matron was out of the door, Abi leapt up and went over to the pile of clothing belonging to the two girls.  “Ah-ha, evil ice skate of doom!” Abi cried “I have you now!” so saying she hacked one of the skates to pieces.  The TEM grinned.  “Missed!” he thought.  Abi stood back, panting, and admiring the diced ice-skate.  Just then, the TEM sneezed.  “Bless you.” Said Abi, automatically.  “Hang on – ice-skates don’t sneeze – I had the wrong one!”
“I didn’t sneeze,” said the TEM desperately “you’re hearing things… must be that cabbage allergy of yours”.  Abi was not convinced, and the TEM was swiftly reduced to dust.  
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 3rd, 2004, 11:17pm
8oo 8oo 8oo

How do you do it xanthe?

*utilises tablecloth for tear-wiping purposes*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Catherine_B on Jan 3rd, 2004, 11:18pm
*laughing out loud at Susan and C_Rachel's self-sacrificing eating of sweets, cakes and chocolates, and also Abi's automatic blessing of the ice-skate!*   Marvellous, Xanthe! 8oo
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 3rd, 2004, 11:31pm
Last bit for this evening - I need to go to bed soon, and the bunnies have already gone!
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While Jo and Maureen were busy keeping everyone in the story on tenterhooks as to whether or not they were about to snuff it, Abi was in bed “recovering” from what her ‘mother’ angrily described as “a near-fatal cabbage reaction”.  Miss Browne, at whom Susan was ranting, while C_Rachel did her best impression of Betina/Belinda Cratchit in the Muppet version of ‘A Christmas Carol’, looked somewhat taken aback, but as she couldn’t get a word in edgeways, look was all she did.  “So in conclusion, Miss Browne, I shall be withdrawing Abi immediately!” Susan finished in grand style, before sweeping off to bear Abi away.  When they arrived back on the board, Abi handed over all the navy-knickers they had accrued between them (68 pairs in all) to Xanthe, who gleefully flung them through the vortex, with the standard accompanying note.  “Not such a ‘good girl’ now, am I?” she thought, cackling to herself while, on the other side of the vortex, the deserving recipient of this last batch was starting to realise that odd socks were the least of her knicker-drawer related problems, as pair after pair of navy-knickers rained down on her, a situation made even worse by the fact that she was at work.
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Kathy_S on Jan 3rd, 2004, 11:36pm
Gasping for breath.
Can't wait for the next episode.

(See, Abi, your sword was involved.  And the TEM was something metallic, if not Miss Browne's lovely voice.)  
(*Feeble hand-waving while grasping at straws*)
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Abi on Jan 3rd, 2004, 11:39pm
*hastily supplies oxygen for Kathy*

ROFL xanthe!!!! what can i say?  ;D
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Lesley on Jan 3rd, 2004, 11:56pm
8ooXanthe - this is wonderful!!! I'm laughing so much I nearly choked! What does 'Miss Bossy Knickers' (AKA the other Lesley) do workwise?8oo


Please post more soon!!!8oo
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 4th, 2004, 12:00am
*gives Lesley a look of wide-eyed innocence*

What makes you think the knickers were for her?

*sniggers evilly*

the 68 pairs just rained onto her hench-badger... who is an orthopaedic nurse (now working at the hospital where Bossy-Knickers is Assistant Director of Nursing)

*sincerely hoping a certain person's interest in the CS does not lead her to this site as if it does I am likely to be slowly tortured to death*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Susan on Jan 4th, 2004, 1:25am
Oh Xanthe that was just brilliant.   Thank you, thank you.

PS Have you put one of KB's cameras in my house?  I actually did have pizza for tea tonight (for the first time in moths)  and as I had to take down the Christmas Decorations I was feeling miserable so i have eaten loads of chocolate today.

PPS Can't wait for the next episode.
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Vikki on Jan 4th, 2004, 2:26am
8oo 8oo 8oo

Oh Xan!!!! This gets better and better!!! Love Abi's cabbage allergy!!! And the knicker cascade!!! You and the bunnies deserve lots and lots of huggles!!!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by KB on Jan 4th, 2004, 10:06am
*hopes the camera in Sue's house won't make any noise as I adjust it for a better view*
So what's the next book people are leaping into? *glad to be safely out of this adventure so far*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Chloe on Jan 4th, 2004, 10:17am
Hey i did not abandon you i went for dinner  ;D
anyway it ment you got to write more story, which i'm loving by the way
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by KB on Jan 4th, 2004, 10:19am
*loves that Chloe now communicates with Xanthe via the board* 8oo
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Chloe on Jan 4th, 2004, 10:23am
Well sometimes its easier and she's at church anyway right now and i can't sleep :(
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Kathryn on Jan 4th, 2004, 10:27am
Here's another volunteer for jumping into a book!
*collects everything from snowshoes to Baileys (plenty of) in preparation*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by KB on Jan 4th, 2004, 10:27am
*hopes Kathryn knows what she's letting herself in for*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Kathryn on Jan 4th, 2004, 10:47am
Not sure. But that is what the Baileys is for!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by KB on Jan 4th, 2004, 10:49am
*doesn't know how much use Kathryn will be if she's sloshed* :-/
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by BethC on Jan 4th, 2004, 11:26am
Probably more use, given events so far! Any chance of sharing the Baileys, Kathryn? I'll supply some butterscotch schnapps to go with it...
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 4th, 2004, 11:53am

on 01/04/04 at 10:06:47, KB wrote:
*glad to be safely out of this adventure so far*


*looks puzzled* but you bounced into "Reunion" with Rachel and Gigagal... or did you just mean safe as in the TEM didn't have you for lunch?

might try to do some more this afternoon sometime  ;D
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Rosalie on Jan 4th, 2004, 2:18pm
This is great! My sister is getting slightly suspicious as to why I keep giggling madly... She ought to be used to it by now! Please can I have a part? I'll be good, promise I will. You must have some use for a little ginger rock climber! Look, I even have my own pair of (very smelly) rock shoes and a chalk bag!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Chloe on Jan 4th, 2004, 4:07pm

on 01/04/04 at 10:47:11, Kathryn wrote:
Not sure. But that is what the Baileys is for!


Hehehehehe

i got free Baiey's last night with my meal  ;D

*goes of to sing "why are we waiting" at older sibling*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Lisa_T on Jan 4th, 2004, 4:59pm
*sniggering*
Xan, can I help too? I haven't appeared since the first page!
*walks off sniffling and feeling neglected*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Polly1 on Jan 4th, 2004, 5:08pm
Don't forget me! Don't forget me! Don't forget me!
Pleeeeeeeease, Xan!! :-*
*bounces up and down trying to get seen amongst all requests to join stories* 8oo 8oo
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by EBD_Herself on Jan 4th, 2004, 5:25pm
Knowing the books as well as I do, I will hapily go and spot the inconsistent detail which the TEM seems to give itself away by.



And you lot all thought they were "EBDisms"!
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by xanthe on Jan 4th, 2004, 5:35pm
*shrieks with complete, utter and total horror!*

what's SHE doing here??
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Chloe on Jan 4th, 2004, 6:30pm
8oo calm down i think its supposed to be an honor that she wants involvment in your drabble, anyway she's coming to the gathering in March i think  ???
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by Carolyn P on Jan 4th, 2004, 6:58pm
Just caught up here, you are doing a fantastic job with this Xan, more please, and if you need a volunteer for a second trip...!

*Off to catch up with the rest of the board*
Title: Re: Something a little silly  ~ part two
Post by KB on Today at 1:55am

on 01/04/04 at 11:53:56, xanthe wrote:
*looks puzzled* but you bounced into "Reunion" with Rachel and Gigagal... or did you just mean safe as in the TEM didn't have you for lunch?


I had actually forgotten that I was in any of the books. In fact, having just reread the original thread, I realised I failed to read it yesterday during my catch-up. My 'umblest apologies!


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