Lines unlikely to be seen in a Chalet School novel, VI

honey lamb · **Joined:** 10 Sep 2010, 22:31 **Posts:** 32

The Swiss, French and German girls were furious at being asked to make the Team GB Olympic kit and planned to sabotage them by weakening the seams so that they would split when any pressure was put on them

Alison H · **Posted:** 15 Apr 2012, 19:41

Joan Baker's Aintree outfit won fulsome praise in the social columns of the newspapers. Len Maynard's lime-green twinset drew a somewhat different response.

moiser30 · **Posted:** 18 Apr 2012, 15:01

Jem looked at Madge and Joey and smiled. "Now who do I take to bed first."

JS · **Posted:** 22 Apr 2012, 13:12

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Jem looked at Madge and Joey and smiled. "Now who do I take to bed first."

Madge glared at him. 'I think you mean "whom",' she responded icily.

lizco · **Joined:** 29 Dec 2009, 15:11 **Posts:** 262

The new girl watched intently as her "sheepdog" stowed her belongings away in her cubicle in the only way that Matey approved. "Well", she said, "that covers just about everything except where to keep my Tampax".

ChubbyMonkey · **Posted:** 23 Apr 2012, 18:45

"Oh," said Len suddenly. "You aren't supposed to bring them. Mamma dishes them out once a month, along with some good advice, when you visit Freudesheim."

Joanne · **Posted:** 24 Apr 2012, 00:09

"She also keeps a supply of the morning-after pill," she added. "Just tell Matey that there's something you need to talk to Mamma about urgently."

Nightwing · **Posted:** 24 Apr 2012, 10:45

Joey would never say anything about it, of course, but her youngest children's entire schoolings would be paid for by her tampon and sanitary pad monopoly, which brought her a steady income from the school next door.

Alison H · **Posted:** 24 Apr 2012, 18:20

It wasn't as if she often needed to use them herself, as she spent so much time being busy.

ammonite · **Joined:** 25 Nov 2009, 22:13 **Posts:** 324

But as Jack kept bringing them back from the San, she thought they had better be used somewhere.

Minim · **Posted:** 24 Apr 2012, 20:46

And the proceeds had to be saved for university for the lengthy period that the Maynard's would be attending, but some more for another project. Joey also gave advice about fashion and boys, hoping she could get enough proceeds for a boys school, or to bribe Hilda and Madge to make the school co-educational.

Jools · **Posted:** 24 Apr 2012, 21:03

But then Hilda broke the sad news to her that none off the girls were clever enough to go to university, or indeed to polytechnic, and also gave her the invoice from the Inland Revenue for the VAT which was payable immediately for all the STs she had been selling to the pupils and staff at the Chalet School.

lizco · **Joined:** 29 Dec 2009, 15:11 **Posts:** 262

Joey had banked on the boys' school starting up and had already signed a contract for sole supply of condoms.

Minim · **Posted:** 25 Apr 2012, 16:57

Len had been disqualified from all of her exams, because she had a mobile phone with her and had not handed it in to the invigilator.

Jenefer · **Posted:** 26 Apr 2012, 17:58

"I don't want to change my name" Theodora said "Ted is horrible AND it's a boy's name"

Alison H · **Posted:** 27 Apr 2012, 21:24

"The half-term expedition will be to the Montreux Jazz Festival," announced Hilda.

Nightwing · **Posted:** 28 Apr 2012, 07:03

Matron leaned back in her chair, put her feet up on her desk, and took a long, luxurious drag from a freshly rolled joint.

fizzan · **Posted:** 29 Apr 2012, 17:12

lizco wrote:

Joey had banked on the boys' school starting up and had already signed a contract for sole supply of condoms.

lizco · **Joined:** 29 Dec 2009, 15:11 **Posts:** 262

Jenefer wrote:

"I don't want to change my name" Theodora said "Ted is horrible AND it's a boy's name"

And getting more and more upset, she added, "In fact it's not even a boy's name - when did you last meet anyone aged under 60 called Ted?"

ammonite · **Joined:** 25 Nov 2009, 22:13 **Posts:** 324

'The first item on the agenda for this Prefect Meeting, will be finding a new source of condoms and pills after the arrest of Mrs Maynard for tax evasion.'

lizco wrote:

And getting more and more upset, she added, "In fact it's not even a boy's name - when did you last meet anyone aged under 60 called Ted?"

Actually I knew a Ted at school in the nineties - short for William.

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