AIBU Books Game Part Eight

[ElephantsAndMiasmas]

Post an AIBU from the point of view of a fictional character (from novels/nursery rhymes/plays etc) and everyone tries to guess the book and/or the character.

Everyone welcome to play/time-waste as much or as little as they please :)

AIBU to be protective of my DD?

Moomin, yours isn't Cold Comfort Farm, is it?

No, Pol, but you're getting warmer or I should say colder because the title is not that dissimilar.

Hum, is it goijng to be a Cold Christmas, Moomin? And your little girl is a ghost?

And what was the cocktail party one? My peignoir will have to hang sadly unused (yes I looked it up) until I find out

AIBU to be worried about the children's health?

But CJ you are in your office being busy and important and Carol is getting your Ralph Lauren ballgown from your home so that you can attend the ambassador's party at late notice.

Is no-one going to have a go at mine? No matter how tempting I make it by disparaging my fellow travellers?

I'm trying with yours Unruly, I really am.

So you're a really snotty intrepid explorer, and they (your companions) are common as muck and going on what you imagine will be a piece-of-cake type expedition. Do you know why they want to go on it? (am very curious as to the "euw what is that?" part)

Keep thinking it's LOTR related, I suppose hobbits are pretty common, we've got some at the bottom of the garden...

Thank-you Elfpants. Have a hancrafted wooden bauble painted by one of Santa's elves for your trouble. :)

...Actually I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I think it might be blood well, like I say, I haven't had time to change.

They're going to visit a very special place. It'll be good for me too to be honest although I really think I've done my bit.

Is something happening which will affect their health Elfpants? Or are they showing signs of illness? Or have they fallen in the boating lake and need a swift round of 'My Favourite Things' and a dance with a Nazi to restore their spirits?

Blood? Special places? Are you in Narnia? Are you a big fluffy kittycat lion?

...Yes something I'm worried may affect their health. Their lungs can be very delicate in this cold weather...

Not Narnia no. I have been travelling in the Middle East.

Lungs? Are we at a sanitorium? Or in Switzerland? Or is it a London Particular?

On some kind of moral crusade, Unruly?

No, not at a sanitorium thank goodness, the children are tucked up asleep, but I still think people should be more considerate...

Moral? I have no idea what you mean. A crusade yes. And my habergeon is all bismotered (I think).

Is someone smoking? Pumping chemical effluent?

Just marking my place here as am clueless, as ever. I'm sure I actually used to be able to guess some of these...

Elephants, mine was Eliot's The Cocktail Party.

MCP!

AIBU to agree to this mission?

Unruly - you are not exactly bang up to date are you? I've got a 14th century vibe off you. No idea who you are though and resisting google so far...

Cor blimey Treacle, I have never heard of that. Is it one last mission you are thinking of?

...Yes, smoking I'm afraid. Still it would be churlish to ask him to stop...

Yes Elfpants you are very close! Resist google!

I'm going to go on the big medieval trip down to Kent though because frankly it will do my immortal soul some good. Maybe I'll pick up some interesting stories on the way hmmmmmmm? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Smoking near childen? MCP?

Aaaaah - Unruly, I think I know what you're from, although I'm trying desperately to remember exactly who you are...

Yes, Elfpants, it would be one last mission. But it's going to have some pretty big ramifications...

MCP everyone!

Treacle have you been dragged out of retirement? Do you have skills which are entirely natural or can you make time stop n stuff like that (notes own obsession with supernatural and ponders it for a second).

Right we're leaving this nice little pub in Southwark (that woman from Bath looks like she's had one too many to me, flighty piece i shouldn't wonder) and this fellow Harry has suggested a bit of a competition. Are you sitting comfortably?

Me too, Treacle (hard not to after all that "hmmmmmm"ing ) - Unruly are you the sort of person who sometimes sits at a round table? Or more of a religious persuasion?

Treacle - you're not going around disposing of jewellery are you?

...Yes, I don't approve of the smoking after all, but can hardly say anything after all he's done for the children over the years...

sorry by "don't approve after all" I mean "don't approve AT all" obviously.

Oooooooooh Unruly I've just realised I'm back at my parents' house with my copy of the Riverside Chaucer - so can I confirm that you are a bit posher than the rest of the pilgrims, give your weapon a clean though eh Sir? People are going to be saying "yuck" at that in 600 years time, believe it or not.

It not cheating if you use a dusty volume, right?

Is he a relative, ElfPants? Or an old friend of your husband who has been playing Santa Claus?

Don't really think using a dusty tome is cheating, either

...No, I'm not disposing of jewellery - more like disposing of people. And I haven't been brought out of retirement, although my companion has, in a way, I suppose...