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AIBU?

AIBU Books - Part 3

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MoominMymbleandMy · 07/05/2009 21:07

I can't get into the old thread so I think we filled it up! I hope everyone finds the new one.

So nice, shiny new thread, nice shiny new AIBU.

AIBU to be jealous of my DH's correspondence with a stranger?

Pogle, I feel I ought to know yours but I'm not getting anywhere.

Maria, this isn't ringing bells at all now. Doh!

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Pogleswood · 07/05/2009 21:14

Meanwhile my oldest cousin is learning to drive,and her brother is dealing with extremes of fear...

MariaCC · 07/05/2009 21:19

Lovely new thread!

And in answer to your question in the last thread CJ (great name by the way - I love love love the West Wing), I sometimes think the problem might be that no one around me seems to be able to figure out quite what 'hue' I am. Including my DH! Maybe he'd be better of with someone a bit plainer. Must go and speak to my old nanny about it. See if she can help...

Pogleswood · 07/05/2009 21:50

Maria,totally baffled here!Even more clues would be nice..

CJCregg · 07/05/2009 21:54

Oh, thank God, there's a new thread. I actually felt as though I'd lost a limb there for an hour or so ...

Moomin, you gorgeous creature (that's actually you, not your character), do you perchance live above a bookshop?

Maria, I was heading down a right old blind alley there, ignore anything I said.

Pogle, cluelet please?

MariaCC · 07/05/2009 21:59

Hmmmm clues.

My nanny reluctantly helped me but I think it might have made things worse. He won't even use my real name and I think he wants to take me to his home across the seas...

CJCregg · 07/05/2009 22:01

Aha! Would they be of the wide sargasso variety?

MariaCC · 07/05/2009 22:02

Take a bow Ms Cregg!

CJCregg · 07/05/2009 22:06

Yayyy! (oops, how undignified)

Now I'm still struggling with Pogle's ...

(PS Thanks, Maria - West Wing is brilliant, isn't it? I was so thrilled that no-one had already taken this name, as Claudia Jean is my all time hero)

MariaCC · 07/05/2009 22:14

She is marvellous and very tall! Personally I'm a Josh Lyman fan - bit of an unseemly crush going on.

But anyway, I'm also struggling with Pogle's and Moomin's. More clues please but please no one get them because I need to go to bed. I'll ponder over night (because that's how obsessed I am).

Stayingsunnygirl · 07/05/2009 22:52

Hmmm - you ladies have me totally stumped - in fact I have been stumped for days now.

MoominMymbleandMy · 07/05/2009 23:00

Oh good, you all found it!

Wide Sargasso Sea! I adore that book and never even thought of it

CJ, you equally gorgeous person! We don't live above a bookshop but the DH spends so much time working in one I feel he might as well move there.

Pogle, sorry, another clue please! I seem to be right out of brain cells.

Night all!

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CJCregg · 07/05/2009 23:08

Moomin, look what I found

It's in Australia, but it's only a fiver!

I thought they lived above the bookshop? I'm right in thinking you're Mrs Marks, though?

MoominMymbleandMy · 07/05/2009 23:55

And wow! CJ, you angel! I shall be stalking up to the last moment!

And Pogle, are you looking for an angel?!

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Quattrocento · 07/05/2009 23:57

Oh I adore Wide sargasso sea as well ... Yummy

MoominMymbleandMy · 08/05/2009 00:05

Oops, sorry, well done CJ! I forgot to say I'm Mrs Doel, not Mrs Marks, but my DH does indeed work for Marks and Co at 84 Charing Cross Road (which isn't there any more - all bulldozed for a big modern bookshop)

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CJCregg · 08/05/2009 00:15

Sorry, sorry - am being slapdash. Mrs Doel indeed. (Did you know the author Leo Marks was the son of the shop's owner?)

Really need to go to bed now. Brain imploding. But so happy there's a new thread. So I'll leave you with one to ponder overnight: AIBU to support this rather dashing family in their bid to free Mary Queen of Scots?

Stayingsunnygirl · 08/05/2009 09:13

Durrr - I should have got 84 Charing Cross Road - it's one of my all-time favourites.

Are you perhaps travelling through time, CJ?

CJCregg · 08/05/2009 09:20

'Kiss me, Francis!'

Pogleswood · 08/05/2009 10:48

Morning all!
Moomin,Yey! I am indeed looking for an angel!(I was about to drop 'Don't call me darling - I'm a driving instructor!' into the clues!)
AIBU to think one can never attach too much importance to names?

Stayingsunnygirl · 08/05/2009 10:59

YANBU - as long as you are not too earnest about it.

CJCregg · 08/05/2009 11:05

Pogle, what was your angel one? Totally lost on that one.

(Mind you, a bit distracted by trying to work out where my copy of Peter's Room is, and indeed all the others. Slightly obsessive trawling of Girls Gone By into the small hours, and a discovery that I never read Run Away Home, and it's a minimum of £100 to buy, bollocks bollocks bollocks).

As you were ...

Pogleswood · 08/05/2009 12:24

That was quick,Stayingsunny!CJ,my angel was Saffy's Angel,by Hilary McKay - V.good,childrens book,enjoyed by entire Pogle family. (this feels slightly illogical but if you like AF you should read Hilary McKay!)

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MoominMymbleandMy · 08/05/2009 15:30

CJ, Run Away Home is £100 . Oh my! I think it will take some time to build up an Antonia Forest collection, which is a pity as the DD adored Autumn Term. I hope yours turn up and no helpful relative has sent them to a charity shop as outgrown juvenalia.

And I can't find "A Traveller in Time" now! Fingers crossed that it's in the loft.

I can't quite remember where I came across this, a collection of WW2 memoirs I think, but Leo Marks was in SOE and he composed Violette Szabo's code poem at 84 Charing Cross Road. Apparently he often went there when he wanted to think in peace.

And after all that, AIBU to hesitate over hiring this private investigator? She comes highly recommended but, honestly, she looks like something out of a Victorian photograph album!

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llandb · 08/05/2009 17:44

'Ello!
Yay, new thread (thanks Moomin, and lol at Wombles at end of prev.)

llandb · 08/05/2009 17:50

Meanwhile - please please clue, Moomin'?

And, AIBU to have attained this cushy number by lying about my skills? I mean, I can do pretty much everything that they expect, or better; just not in the way that they think.

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