Done before but it’s fun. So guess the book and the mil

[Seasawride]

Help! I have one dd. My mil has lived with us since we have been married.

She is a very strong woman and overruled me on everything. She sends me to bed if I sneeze.

When dd was 2 dh pissed off capturing butterflies in Africa and I havnt heard off him for years. Bastard. So mil got friendly with a wierd lady next door. She has big hair coils round her ears, writes books and has lots of kids.

I am concerned she is also involved in modern slavery as she has a woman living with her called Anna who does everything.

Anyway mil and this wierd Jo woman have colluded to send dd to a boarding school.

Aibu to just want to move away with dd. Start again and have some fun?

Guess the book and keep going.

Scrambled - yes! I do like it - but some of the plots are a bit far fetched!

Oh I know - Falco - "The Silver Pigs"?

Isn't @iismum's Daddy Long Legs?

Ha red riding hood

I'm worried that my son's turned to a life of crime, we were below the poverty line and so desperate that I sold what little we had for food. Luckily I've managed to cultivate quite an amazing garden but lately he's come home with gold! I've no idea where he's getting it from, he said he never even leaves the garden. He's got to be lying.

Aibu? My niece is a little brat, when my sister died I took the child to live in the country. Nice wholesome fresh mountain air. Of course as expected the whole place stank of goats but I managed to keep my visit short. Dumped her on her grandfather.

My MIL is quite religious which is one thing but she pretty much worships her son, my partner. Makes comments that his actual dad is not just the bloke she actually married but someone a lot higher up, and how everyone came to see him when he was born including minor royalty (they were abroad at the time). To be honest the way she bangs on you'd think he was god. Should I say something?

Heidi

Donkey - Heidi

Mary and Jesus, LetticeFortescue (or is it Brian? )

The Bible? Specifically the New Testament

Yes Heidi - can you tell I am going down Memory Lane?

Jack in the Beanstalk, and the New Testament!

I am a widower with one DS. I am self employed and money is pretty tight. AIBU to leave DS home alone while I nip out at night for a spot of low-level criminal activity in a local wood? I'd love to say it's for financial gain, but in reality it's more for the craic.

Jack AND the Beanstalk.

Donkeys, yes, it's Falco.

(Never seen or participated in one of these threads before, so I hope this is ok!)

My MIL sadly died when DW was a child so I have never met her. I have heard that she had a very hard time of life and did everything she could to provide for DW, turning to prostitution in desperation. She also sold her hair and some of her teeth to pay for DWs accommodation and care. DWs genetic father was never on the scene, but she has an ‘adoptive’ DF who is currently ‘wanted’ for stealing a loaf of bread. AIBU to turn him in to the police?

I am so scared.

I've just had a baby girl, she's so beautiful! So perfect. It's just one tiny, little thing. Hardly noticeable. And it doesn't affect her at all.

But the inspector will never give her a certificate. They'll take her away, like they took all the others. It's so hard to produce a perfect baby here. There's always something, sometimes big like long arms and legs, sometimes tiny like an extra toe. But however small, if it offends against Scripture, they'll take it away. It's my third so they'll take me away, too.

There's just one hope, and I'm so desperate I'll try anything.

My sister has had a baby, too, and thank God it's a girl. I cried with relief when I heard. Surely my own sister will help me? I can borrow her baby just long enough to get a certificate from the inspector. I can't let my brother in law know - he's the preacher and he'll turn me in for sure. But not my sister? Surely not her?

The Chrysalids

Brilliant novel!

Les miserables, cheerio

RomanMum Danny Champion of the World

When I first came to London as a young woman, I was very unhappy. Then I was offered a wonderful job. Now I live with my daughters down by the River. They are all keen swimmers.

One of my daughters has taken up with a policeman. I wasn't too pleased when he arranged for her to go and stay with some distant relatives, but it seemed to be the only way to avoid a big family feud.

Not sure the thing between dd and the policeman will last. I think he had the hots for his co-worker, but after a traumatic experience she has fallen in with a bad crowd.

MissLingoss Rivers of London

Yes! (That was quick!)

I was the smallest of my brothers and sisters, and nearly met a very early end. I befriended a young girl before moving in with her uncle. I’m highly emotional and faint when faced with stressful situations. My best friend died shortly after saving my life; I’ve repaid this by caring for three of her children.

I'm desperate to achieve success as a writer, but in the meantime I'm skint and living in dreary digs with a horrible landlady who has a fondness for pot plants. I can't even afford to take my girlfriend out, and it's really humiliating. Added to that, my best friend is much richer than I am, and it's embarrassing for both of us as he's very left wing and doesn't like acknowledging the difference in our incomes.

Now yet another of my poems has been rejected by a snobby magazine - just because I didn't go to Oxford or Cambridge! It's almost enough to make me wish myself back in my previous job, in advertising, but I'm blowed if I'll give into the system just yet!