Lovely day for a walk in the snow #Bärenbadalm #ChaletSchool
October 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Lovely day for a walk in the snow #Bärenbadalm #ChaletSchool
Timeline cleanser. The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen. As Grizel did not see. #ChaletSchool.
August 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Timeline cleanser. The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen. As Grizel did not see. #ChaletSchool.
Timotee Chaletschool
October 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Timotee Chaletschool
There are staff members in the German Department here at Bristol that were, like @corinnepainter.bsky.social, equally inspired by the #ChaletSchool series! A small research project in the offing, perhaps?! #ShoutOutForGerman
These books were the reason I learned German! My aunt had a few copies that she read as a kid and left at my grandma's house. Perfect Sunday afternoon reading. Inspired a lifelong interest in twentieth century history and German! #ShoutOutForGerman
March 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
There are staff members in the German Department here at Bristol that were, like @corinnepainter.bsky.social, equally inspired by the #ChaletSchool series! A small research project in the offing, perhaps?! #ShoutOutForGerman
I am enjoying this thread of travel delight hugely, but, inevitably, the Bernese Oberland, Interlaken, and views of the Jungfrau will always bring an entirely different primary canon to mind for me. #ChaletSchool
There’s a fantastic view of the Jungfrau today, and this draws (and did in Holmes’ time) many tourists south towards the Lauterbrunnen valley and the Eiger range. Holmes’ sights, however, were firmly fixed on a destination a little further east. #FinalProblem2024
August 31, 2024 at 6:27 PM
I am enjoying this thread of travel delight hugely, but, inevitably, the Bernese Oberland, Interlaken, and views of the Jungfrau will always bring an entirely different primary canon to mind for me. #ChaletSchool
Christmas present from my sister - regifting me my own book 📚 in the lead up to the #ChaletSchool centenary
December 25, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Christmas present from my sister - regifting me my own book 📚 in the lead up to the #ChaletSchool centenary
Good morning! Due to some collection upgrading, I've got two spare copies of Shocks for sale - do send me a private message if you're interested. Open to offers and I'll provide more pics as well. Do note the HB has a photocopied dustwrapper. Thank youuu. #chaletschool #booksky
January 11, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Good morning! Due to some collection upgrading, I've got two spare copies of Shocks for sale - do send me a private message if you're interested. Open to offers and I'll provide more pics as well. Do note the HB has a photocopied dustwrapper. Thank youuu. #chaletschool #booksky
Partway through christmas #callthemidwife and can’t help but think that if EBD had written this series (which is totally her vibe), Phylis would have kung-fu-ed that gun out of the ganster’s hand. #chaletschool #ebd
December 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Partway through christmas #callthemidwife and can’t help but think that if EBD had written this series (which is totally her vibe), Phylis would have kung-fu-ed that gun out of the ganster’s hand. #chaletschool #ebd
On my way to a book club meeting. #chaletschool
September 14, 2024 at 10:26 AM
On my way to a book club meeting. #chaletschool
The Thunersee yesterday, for all the #ChaletSchool fans. Did not get to Lauterbrunnen or Wengen (for complicated Deutsch Bahn reasons) but this just means I will have to come back another time .
August 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
The Thunersee yesterday, for all the #ChaletSchool fans. Did not get to Lauterbrunnen or Wengen (for complicated Deutsch Bahn reasons) but this just means I will have to come back another time .
And also I guess that I love the #ChaletSchool, extremely problematic worts and all for the nuance they have (which far outstrips Blyton), sense of place, and an interesting insight in to attitudes of a woman and her readership between 1923 and 1970.
November 19, 2024 at 4:11 AM
And also I guess that I love the #ChaletSchool, extremely problematic worts and all for the nuance they have (which far outstrips Blyton), sense of place, and an interesting insight in to attitudes of a woman and her readership between 1923 and 1970.
Stuff the seasonal sale! Blaydon Grange is FREE (or pay what you want) all year round!
Want an #RPG where you can recreate classic girls' boarding school stories like #MaloryTowers, #Trebizon, #StClares & The #ChaletSchool? Of course you do! and you can!
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Want an #RPG where you can recreate classic girls' boarding school stories like #MaloryTowers, #Trebizon, #StClares & The #ChaletSchool? Of course you do! and you can!
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Blaydon Grange - boarding school ttrpg by finncullen
Cosy boarding school stories, powered by the apocalypse, inspired by Blyton
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November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Stuff the seasonal sale! Blaydon Grange is FREE (or pay what you want) all year round!
Want an #RPG where you can recreate classic girls' boarding school stories like #MaloryTowers, #Trebizon, #StClares & The #ChaletSchool? Of course you do! and you can!
finncullen.itch.io/blaydon-gran...
Want an #RPG where you can recreate classic girls' boarding school stories like #MaloryTowers, #Trebizon, #StClares & The #ChaletSchool? Of course you do! and you can!
finncullen.itch.io/blaydon-gran...
Reading "Joey goes to the Oberland". Wonder if ebd's portrayal of medicine/doctors ever grates with real life doctors/fans #chaletschool #cs
December 3, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Reading "Joey goes to the Oberland". Wonder if ebd's portrayal of medicine/doctors ever grates with real life doctors/fans #chaletschool #cs
TB (often shown in books due to a symbiotic relationship between the #ChaletSchool and a tb sanitarium - some children even lost parents to it in the series) & polio (not shown “on screen” but recovering people were)
November 19, 2024 at 2:06 AM
TB (often shown in books due to a symbiotic relationship between the #ChaletSchool and a tb sanitarium - some children even lost parents to it in the series) & polio (not shown “on screen” but recovering people were)
Again, these were written contemporaneously with the war, sometimes to the clear detriment of the story. Want to know how unforeseen the invasion of the Channel Islands was? Exile (1940) had the #ChaletSchool relocate from Austria to Guernsey bc of Anschluss.
November 18, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Again, these were written contemporaneously with the war, sometimes to the clear detriment of the story. Want to know how unforeseen the invasion of the Channel Islands was? Exile (1940) had the #ChaletSchool relocate from Austria to Guernsey bc of Anschluss.
It’s also enormously interesting from a social attitudes perspective in some cases, especially in the books between and including The Chalet School in Exile (published 1940) and Jo to the Rescue (1945). In some ways the #ChaletSchool series is one of the best placed for this.
November 18, 2024 at 10:17 PM
It’s also enormously interesting from a social attitudes perspective in some cases, especially in the books between and including The Chalet School in Exile (published 1940) and Jo to the Rescue (1945). In some ways the #ChaletSchool series is one of the best placed for this.
There are a lot of things that are interesting about reading unabridged #ChaletSchool books, the first of which is 98 years old this year. The last is 53 years old.
Some are High Critical Yikes: huge amounts of smoking, racist language of the period casually tossed around.
Some are High Critical Yikes: huge amounts of smoking, racist language of the period casually tossed around.
November 18, 2024 at 8:09 PM
There are a lot of things that are interesting about reading unabridged #ChaletSchool books, the first of which is 98 years old this year. The last is 53 years old.
Some are High Critical Yikes: huge amounts of smoking, racist language of the period casually tossed around.
Some are High Critical Yikes: huge amounts of smoking, racist language of the period casually tossed around.
Anyone got access to the #ChaletSchool transcripts? I want them on my e-reader and didn’t download them all many moons ago when regularly on the CBB. I have a fair number but I’d really like them all.
November 18, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Anyone got access to the #ChaletSchool transcripts? I want them on my e-reader and didn’t download them all many moons ago when regularly on the CBB. I have a fair number but I’d really like them all.