St Clare's Magnet Trick Query???

[Nair Snehalatha]

There was the 'Ping' trick-- little pellets were stuck to the ceil8ng and wetted with.salt water-- after some time a bubble would descend with a ping sound.Then.Mam'zelle Dupont played the trick of the false teeth in --In the fifth at Malory Towers' .Also in the second form at malory towers thete was the chalk trick -- pink chalk.-- it was Alicia and Bettys trick. -- Al these make such wonderful reading and thoughts to tbink of-- we forget all our problems

[Yak]

I once did a radio interview where the other interviewee was adamant that in Malory Towers a lesbian character reflected on how they hated their body - whilst in the shower.

Blyton characters rarely had a bath, and I don't remember anyone having a shower!

The trouble is now we shall never know what is false memory syndrome and what is written in continuation novels

Viv

A 'nightly bath' was described in Second Form at St Clare's

[Nair Snehalatha]

Blyton characters had hot baths -- also the Famous Five did a lot of swimming which is as good as a bath.In Rilloby fair mystery, Mrs Lynton asks Roger if Barney wiuld like a bath after the fair moved to Rilloby-- Findouters had hot baths before sleeping at night.-- On the other hand people like Ragamuffin Jo never had baths and smelt.unwashed. Later --she learnt to be clean in her foster mother's home, which actually was Joanna, the cook's home (if I remember right))

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[pete9012S]

A 'nightly bath' was described in Second Form at St Clare's

Lovely to hear from you Yak!

Regards

Pete

[Catbury]

Blyton characters had hot baths -- also the Famous Five did a lot of swimming which is as good as a bath.In Rilloby fair mystery, Mrs Lynton asks Roger if Barney wiuld like a bath after the fair moved to Rilloby-- Findouters had hot baths before sleeping at night.-- On the other hand people like Ragamuffin Jo never had baths and smelt.unwashed. Later --she learnt to be clean in her foster mother's home, which actually was Joanna, the cook's home (if I remember right))

Wasn't it Joanna's sister?

[Daisy]

Or cousin? I don't think Joanna had any nearer relation than that in the area.

[Barnard]

In Five Fall Into Adventure the cook is called Joan rather than Joanna. But it is to Joan’s cousin that Jo goes to live.

[Barnard]

We seem to have drifted away from Magnet Tricks.

[Nair Snehalatha]

Its sometimes nice to drift away-- isnt it? and reach where we started -- Joanna's cousin would lend her.frocks to Ragamuffin Jo to wear.-- If I remember right.and Jo was learning quite a lot of manners and stuff.

[pete9012S]

Getting back to the purpose of this thread:

Could there have been a magnet trick in any of The Naughtiest Girl Books does anyone who has read the entire series know?

[Daisy]

I don't recall there being much in the way of trick playing at all - except Julian with his animal imitations. Maybe there are more but I'm not sure if I'm remembering from the right books!

[Hannah]

I've done a quick search in the Kindle editions - no "magnet" in them.

[pete9012S]

Many thanks Hannah!

[Anita Bensoussane]

I don't recall there being much in the way of trick playing at all - except Julian with his animal imitations. Maybe there are more but I'm not sure if I'm remembering from the right books!

Julian plays a few tricks involving things like pellets and springs.

[Yak]

I do not remember a magnet trick in The Naughtiest Girl. There was one in Malory Towers. Sorry if I've said this already; it's been a while