Well, they're good fun in ways that were never meant to be fun!
But certain things were guaranteed to happen on a regular basis. One is that there was a lot of falling from precipices in the Alps. One is that the author's favourite characters would always get to marry a doctor when they grew up. There was a strange obsession with hairstyles and particularly "putting it up" on reaching adulthood, never ever to be let down again... And she kept forgetting things like the ages and even names of her characters.
You should read them - they're fab!
I'm a big sap..........
The very first one in the series is in the library book sale, in paperback ....ecm wrote:I shall investigate BB.
A friend at work raves about them too. She still has a lot of the books so I may ask her to loan me one.
.... the shelves hidden away by the door. It was there last Saturday .........
Jay
'Jay - a noisy chattering European bird of brilliant plumage' OED
'Jay - a noisy chattering European bird of brilliant plumage' OED
Bellybabe wrote:After that they moved to the fictional "Armiford" (Howells Village), can't remember which town that really is, until the drains went bad
I didn't get as far as the drains, either .........ecm wrote:What made the drains go bad?
........ although I think I got to Wales. The one with the deadful stand-in Head, Miss Bubb - after the 4 senior teachers were in the bus accident - wasn't that Wales? I remember the sister of the chap who owned the house was called Gwensi Howells (?) and got into trouble from said Head for staring out of the windows.
Jay
'Jay - a noisy chattering European bird of brilliant plumage' OED
'Jay - a noisy chattering European bird of brilliant plumage' OED
Yes, Gwensi eventually settled down and became a prefect...and then a writer.
The book with Miss Bubb was Gay from China at the Chalet School, and said Gay ran away from the school because Miss Bubb wouldn't give her leave to go and see her brother who was about to go to China and see the parents who had been kidnapped by bandits, or something.
Look what you're all missing!!! Ooh, the thrills!
Yes, ecm, buy that book - it was written in 1925 or so.
The book with Miss Bubb was Gay from China at the Chalet School, and said Gay ran away from the school because Miss Bubb wouldn't give her leave to go and see her brother who was about to go to China and see the parents who had been kidnapped by bandits, or something.
Look what you're all missing!!! Ooh, the thrills!
Yes, ecm, buy that book - it was written in 1925 or so.
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!
-Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)
-Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)
Warning - it may get you hooked! 
Then, like me, you'll be seen desperately haunting all the charity shops of Portobello, looking for more ................
My lovely collection of original hardbacks from my schooldays, got lost in the Millennium floods.
(It's OK - I don't want the paperback one!)
Then, like me, you'll be seen desperately haunting all the charity shops of Portobello, looking for more ................
My lovely collection of original hardbacks from my schooldays, got lost in the Millennium floods.
(It's OK - I don't want the paperback one!)Jay
'Jay - a noisy chattering European bird of brilliant plumage' OED
'Jay - a noisy chattering European bird of brilliant plumage' OED
Allergies
4 endings..... er....erm.... Flair up my allergies
Wonderful life (classic),
the ending to the last episode of Black Adder goes Forth,
the end of the very last episode of Quantum leap.
and for some weird reason the ending to Space Cowboys (terrible dvd)
the allergies go away though after a quick walk to another room to put on the kettle.......weird!
Wonderful life (classic),
the ending to the last episode of Black Adder goes Forth,
the end of the very last episode of Quantum leap.
and for some weird reason the ending to Space Cowboys (terrible dvd)
the allergies go away though after a quick walk to another room to put on the kettle.......weird!