Hi all, am new here, but can't see that this has been discussed before ( Read more... )

I've been puzzled as to whether the sixth at Kingscote is one year or two. I think that in FL it says that Rowan is going to miss two years of school; but then Jan Scott in CT is, I think, referred to as having been in teams with Rowan and the sixth with Kay. And surely Lois was in the upper fifth with Rowan, but then stays on, but just for one ( Read more... )

Answer any three questions in Section B. Answer any three questions in Section C. Then answer as many questions as possible from all three sections, bearing in mind that questions in Section A carry fewer marks than questions in either of the other two sections.In the words of Janice Scott, no less, Lawrie's Prosser was a "useful gimmick". How ( Read more... )

1. Nick and Lawrie are still on the Junior netball team, even though so much of the switch in EofT was because Nick would never again have the chance to do this because they'd be too old ( Read more... )

I was vaguely pondering Karen today, and wondering what exams she would have sat before leaving Kingscote...if we were to do an AF and put the exams in the time of the writing of that novel. Didn't Karen finish school before 1951 when O-levels and A-levels came in ( Read more... )

Does anyone have, by any chance, a handy list of Kingscote staff and their subjects?  In particular, I'm trying to remember who's in the English department.  Miss Kempe, of course.  And the Hellibonk in Cricket Term.  Others?

Off the top of my head, I've got:

Miss Cromwell: Maths
Miss Cartwright: Maths?
Miss Redmond: Dom Sci
Miss Ferguson: History
Miss ( Read more... )

It being Valentine’s Day and all, I feel the time has come to muse on Val Longstreet, and AF names in general. I was taken aback to learn Val’s full name was Valentine, partly because it’s comically incongruous with her character, and partly because I’ve never met or even heard of a real person called Valentine. I’d assumed her name was Valerie ( ( Read more... )

I was just reading the beginning of Falconer's Lure where Nicola, hearing about Patrick's reasons for not being at prep school, thinks about how she and Lawrie had been at day-school up until they went to Kingscote, a year earlier. How has anyone imagined this - Hamsptead, something like AF's own school ( Read more... )

Quick access to the trennels hive-brain - does anyone know whether Miss Cromwell's first name was ever mentioned in the books, and if so, what it is?

Jan Scott - gorgeous, glacial Sabrina Fair; psychopathically uninvolved?

I was reading The Cricket Term lately, and noticed particularly Jan's response to Nicola's attempt to thank her for having been kind when N is shocked by her mother's letter telling her she's possibly in her final term at Kingscote. Nicola says (again, I haven't got my copy ( Read more... )