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AIBU?

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Original poster

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

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Seasawride · 17/07/2018 23:41

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? Grin

Guess the book and keep going. Grin

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Seasawride · 18/07/2018 23:50

Quite right Tanith

They are quite samey though to be fair :)

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Seasawride · 18/07/2018 23:50

Claudine it was ;)

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ScrambledSmegs · 18/07/2018 23:51

Olennas - The Little House?

Tanith · 18/07/2018 23:52

Nearly identical. Not that she was formulaic or anything, oh no! Grin

OlennasWimple · 18/07/2018 23:55

Scrambled - yup. (Surely the ultimate MIL book?)

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Seasawride · 18/07/2018 23:57

Oh I think Claudine was St Claire’s! you are right Darrel had the temper from Mallory towers.

So St Claire’s had Darryl, Sally, Alicia and Betty?

Mallory Towers had Pat and Isobel and Angela Alison?

Didn’t A&A have a really posh 6th form bed room?

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ScrambledSmegs · 18/07/2018 23:58

I've been minding my own business, quietly working the night shift and keeping the peace all these years, and suddenly we've got a new over-keen recruit who's made my boss decide we're all going to actually do some work. Like, detecting stuff.

He's lost it, I think. He's not drinking anymore and he's gone on a date with a posh rich woman.

Don't even get me started on the bloody dragon.

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Seasawride · 19/07/2018 00:00

And totally Tanith what was I thinking Grin actually spent 30 mins thinking which school was what? GrinGrin

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DrowsyDragon · 19/07/2018 00:01

Guards guards. And you are Colon?

ScrambledSmegs · 19/07/2018 00:05
MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 19/07/2018 00:10

Yes Bev!

I took a job in a hot far away country and my wife couldn't adjust to the weather and died

My daughter lived here til she was 7 and I was advised to send her away "because of the climate" even though she'd survived infancy Confused

I sent her to a well regarded school that I obviously didn't fully research

The headmistress loathed my child and I made it worse by buying her over the top toys, clothes and privileges she really didn't need

I caught a fever and died. I was NC with my best friend at the time and when I died he became my child's guardian but had no idea where she was.

In the meantime evil headmistress had turned my child into an actual slave due to my own lack of forward planning. AIBU?

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Seasawride · 19/07/2018 00:10

DrowsyDragon

You are amazing. Smile

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Seasawride · 19/07/2018 00:12

Little princess?

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Seasawride · 19/07/2018 00:18

Dads a dentist. My bestest mates are lads. One is ginger but he’s hot. My prospective mil is nice but a full on mom to loads of older kids and my sil is annoyingly flowery smelling with long red hair.

Fuck her I am so clever

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MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 19/07/2018 00:26

Yes

My best friend has recently employed me to do a very important job.

The last person to do this job was a father figure of sorts to us both and mysteriously died.

Hints have been dropped to me that he may have been killed because he was on to something

I thought I should maybe quit

My teen DD threw a massive strop about me quitting because she is dating his son but said how much she hates my friend and what she said struck a chord

I've realised that my best friends children aren't his and may even be the product of incest

It's the honourable thing to give his wife and her children the chance to flee right?

There's no chance she will have me beheaded or anything?

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 19/07/2018 00:26

Hermione.

StitchesInTime · 19/07/2018 00:55

MrsStark Game of Thrones & Ned Stark?

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 19/07/2018 01:15

Yes!

My uncle was viewed with fear and suspicion in our community due to his lifestyle

I was his heir.

He disappeared from his birthday party one night and everything went to shit from there

Turns out that one of the objects I inherited was cursed and now I'm being chased by the ghosts of dead kings

MissLingoss · 19/07/2018 01:16

Frodo Baggins.

questionzzz · 19/07/2018 02:28

My son is besotted with the widow of his older cousin, who died in Italy in mysterious circumstances. Although much older than him, she is supposed to be charming and smart, and knows how to wear black lace like nobody's business. And she gardens like the devil. However I fear she may be poisoning my dear son with her "tisanes". I will gently hint to him to suggest to her to take her morning walk across the bridge that needs repair, who knows but it might collapse. It will be no more than she deserves, the foreign hussy.

questionzzz · 19/07/2018 02:35

My adored beautiful younger DS prefers to drink himself to death in monastery in north Africa rather than listen to me read Father Brown every night. I cannot understand it. I will pray for him incessantly. My older son is ugly and boring. I don't care what he does. Ah my darling Julia. I will ensure that she can never be happy. Can somebody talk to Cordelia. Oh my head. How have I sinned to deserve these children?

SisterMortificado · 19/07/2018 02:39

seasawride Other way round- Malory Towers has Darrell, Betty, Alicia and Sally and St Clare's has Pat and Isobel, Alison and Angela. Am reading them with 7yo DD atm.

I'm in a spot of bother...please don't judge, but my girlfriend whacked her DH over the head after he discovered that she'd had an abortion, and I'd helped. He's, well, he's dead. Somehow we managed to get him out into the lane and stage an accidental death without my mother (who lives with us all) waking, or disturbing the neighbours. WTF do we do now? Just wait for the morning, I suppose?

echt · 19/07/2018 02:41

questionzz

Brideshead Revisited.

questionzzz · 19/07/2018 02:42

Gallicos- Watership Down. Too funny!

questionzzz · 19/07/2018 02:46

My dearest DS was just killed by blunt force trauma to the head. The police are amazingly stupid and cannot see that his wife, that wicked murderous bitch, is obviously the murderer- they have completely fallen for her "oh woe is me, I am a poor pregnant widow" act. I know it must be her- I know DS was planning to tell her that he was leaving her the night he was killed. But the police cannot see it- they even just sat down to a dinner of roast leg of lamb with her! And my DS's body not cold!