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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

OP posts:
LetticeFortescue · 19/07/2018 20:18

Glamm yep

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 19/07/2018 20:25

Yes it was The Little Friend hated it!

MissLingoss · 19/07/2018 20:35

Time travel was soooo popular at one point. Is it still?

questionzzz time travel is what we do for a living where I work. Oops, sorry, I mean we investigate historical events in contemporary time. Don't tell Dr Bairstow I used the tt words! yours, Miss Lingoss

MipMipMip · 19/07/2018 20:53
Grin
drudgewithagrudge · 19/07/2018 20:54

My EXDH and I married young and very soon DD came along. EXDH's work meant that we had to travel a lot and I could tell that he was fed up and drinking too much.

It all came to a head at a festival when drunk DH said he didn't want to be with me anymore and we had a DIY Divorce of sorts. I married another man and we emigrated.

I am now a widow and my DD is grown up. We have come back to England to find that my first husband has done very well for himself in a nice town. He has not remarried and is teetotal. Won't he be pleased when he meets me again. I am not in very good health but what could possibly go wrong?

MipMipMip · 19/07/2018 20:56

Will you tell your immediate boss that someone described my dog thrower as a trebecet recently Miss Lingoss. For the next time he's feeling bored....

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 19/07/2018 20:57

Is that Casterbridge again? 😀

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 19/07/2018 21:03

In one of my lives I killed Hitler

In another I died alone in the Blitz

In another me and my brother died of Spanish Flu because the maid caught it off her boyfriend

So in my next life I pushed her down the stairs to save my brother

My mother always favoured my brother and my aunt wrote cringeworthy children's fiction about him

My other brother was a turd and everyone hated him in every life.

Who am I ?

MissLingoss · 19/07/2018 21:04

Will you tell your immediate boss that someone described my dog thrower as a trebecet recently Miss Lingoss. For the next time he's feeling bored....

After the incident with the pig in the car park, and the other incident with the rat, the cess pit and the petrol bombs, I'm trying to keep a low profile at the moment. As low a profile as one can keep, when one has bright blue hair, that is.

MipMipMip · 19/07/2018 21:08

Have you considered adding silver tips? I feel it could have a slight flair. You are looking rather subdued lately.

Scheheramard · 19/07/2018 21:14

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood Ursula Todd

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 19/07/2018 21:15

Yes!

EmilyDickinson · 19/07/2018 21:26

I'm a single mum with one very well behaved DD. My nephews have recently come to live with me and the younger one is a terrible sneak and the older one is a complete tearaway. I'm at my wits end trying to control him, no punishments seem to work and now he's started hanging round with the son of the town alcoholic and keeps playing truant from school. I do love the boy and truth be told I'm concerned about his little friend but I'm not sure I can take on responsibility for another child. I'm just not coping WWYD?

LetticeFortescue · 19/07/2018 21:26

Stark A God In Ruins or Life After Life - actually, the second

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 19/07/2018 21:34

I didn't enjoy God In Ruins, I thought his daughter was a twat and his grandkids quite ungrateful, not a patch on Life After Life

ohdear66 · 19/07/2018 21:39

I have 2 best friends one has red hair and the other is a birch tree.

Justanothernameonthepage · 19/07/2018 21:42

MrStarck - Jane Eyre?

EmilyDickinson · 19/07/2018 21:47

I'm very rich but have always lacked self confidence as I have a disfiguring medical condition. My wife died several years ago and ever since I've been worried sick that I've passed on my condition to my DS who's never seemed well.

As if that wasn't enough to cope with, my sister, who I haven't seen in years, has just died and my niece is on her way to live with me. I don't even like children, though I suppose I do have a big house and garden with lots of staff so hopefully I can delegate most of the actual childcare.

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 19/07/2018 21:48

No I've not done Jane Eyre

Someone has though

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 19/07/2018 21:48

Secret Garden?!

EmilyDickinson · 19/07/2018 21:50

Yes MrStark

SisterMortificado · 20/07/2018 02:33

Not too sure what DS is up to. There're rumours of a downed Jerry plane not too far away, although we've not found anything. One of his friends is believed killed in a bomb-strike, and then he disappeared in the middle of an air-raid. I'm worried it'll go from bad to worse. WWYD?

SisterMortificado · 20/07/2018 02:39

Somehow, I'm not sure how, I've become engaged to my adopted cousin. Only hoaxing, though- we shan't puff it off in the papers yet. Something about measles. Her guardian is a right cheese-paring fellow, and gave her only two hundred and fifty pounds for her bride-clothes! My cousin - sorry, fiancee, seems to think this a splendid sum. Devil a bit! AIBU to take charge of the rolls of soft myself, and instruct her to send her bills to m'mother, saying she'll stand huff, while asking m'mother to pass them on to me?
Can't have my fiancee looking the dowd. What I mean to say is, would make a cake of me!

SisterMortificado · 20/07/2018 02:44

He's left me! The bastard's left me! I helped him become everything he is- and I lost everything in the process! My brother is dead, I'm exiled from my homeland, and not even a bloody citizen of this gods-forsaken city.
And for what? A weak, cheating husband who leaves me for a princess of the city, in order to strengthen his political position! ME! He shook hands with me, made an oath.

I'm worried about DS1&2. They're vulnerable. I'll be exiled from here- they may be taken from me. They're likely to be killed by my bastard ex-husband's enemies. If they're going to die anyway, shouldn't someone who loves them be the one to wield the sword?

questionzzz · 20/07/2018 02:50

oh thank god the thread is back on the front page I was getting withdrawal symptoms.

Sorry SisterM, the WWII is vaguely familiar but no clue about the second except that it's probably Heyer?

My DS is the the king of England and could literally marry whoever he pleased. However,he has chosen to settle for a fairly average Queen whose only talent, as far as I can see, is flirting nonstop with her husband's knights. Recently there are rumours that the flirting has moved on to a full-blown love affair with the most famous one (they also say he is the most handsome, honestly not a patch on my son). WIBU to instigate the burning of the whore at the stake, thus precipitating civil war in England??