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Is Cold Comfort Farm the most quotable book ever?

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notnowImreading · 31/01/2015 20:42

There's rich soul here if you cah to dig for it.

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PostcardsFromAbovetheChemist · 31/01/2015 20:54

Might be! I often think of it when I'm clettering the dishes with my little mop.

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notnowImreading · 31/01/2015 21:02

Tes prettier nor apple blooth, that liddle mop.

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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 02/02/2015 17:36

Flora did not cah to dig.

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hackmum · 02/02/2015 18:38

There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort.

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cosmicglittergirl · 02/02/2015 18:43

There's something nasty in the woodshed.

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hackmum · 02/02/2015 18:45

"One o' they Ford vans..."

OK, I love Cold Comfort Farm, but I'm no good at remembering quotes from it. Smile

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Seriouslyffs · 02/02/2015 18:50

I've not read it, but I recognise the quotes.
The Importance of Being Earnest is teeming with quotes.

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TywysogesGymraeg · 02/02/2015 18:52

God! I've not read that book in years - loved it though

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EhricLovesTheBhrothers · 02/02/2015 18:55

Oh yes! Love this book. And the tv adaptation rufus Sewell fwooaarr

I saw something nasty in the woodshed! I shall go mad!

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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 02/02/2015 19:21

My favourite bit is,
'seth, my son, do you want to break my heart?'
'Yes,' said Seth with elemental simplicity.

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reynoldsnumber · 02/02/2015 19:23

I love that book. It's one of the few I read over and over again!

I can't think of a quote though.

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LifeHuh · 03/02/2015 21:16

Definitely! Anyone may do anything they please as long as I am left alone with my sorrow....

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Trumpton · 03/02/2015 21:23

Ha ! DGD 2.6 ran to me today " brother is tickle me ! I a feared ! "
I replied " oh darling , was there something narsty in the woodshed ?"
She looked blankly at me while DD and I cracked up.
Must improve her bedtime reading.

And the year 5s at school all love " A handbag ! " done in the poshest outraged voice .

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Footle · 08/02/2015 10:27

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Only1scoop · 08/02/2015 10:32

Op are you the 'Robert Post child'?

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Trills · 08/02/2015 10:39

I do love eating things with a spoon.

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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 08/02/2015 11:07

Flora would have loved giving advice on Mumsnet. You can just imagine her posts.

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Footle · 08/02/2015 12:01

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RhinestoneCowgirl · 08/02/2015 12:04

Have been known to clettle the dishes. I also sometimes call DD my liddle marsh-tigget.

Doesn't the mother at one point declaim that 'my body is a used gourd', quite like that one...

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cheapskatemum · 09/02/2015 22:24

"it's not enough to keep one in stockings and fans!" love, love, love that book, despite it being a set text, and use the above quote often when discussing paltry sums.

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CuttedUpPear · 10/02/2015 00:35

My favourite book ever.
I buy copies to give to people who have never heard of it.

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CameliousHumph · 10/02/2015 00:48

The sukebind is in bloom.

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Footle · 10/02/2015 07:50

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CameliousHumph · 10/02/2015 09:23

Big Business. Feckless, Useless and Hopeless.

Didn't one of their legs fall off?

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