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.

My DiL foolishly allowed our beloved granddaughter to be kidnapped and murdered. She then died of sorrow, along with my DS. But vengeance is a dish best served cold, preferably while wearing a red silk kimono with a dragon on the back. Here I am, with band of trusted devotees, ready to avenge the death of my granddaughter, DS and DiL. The only fly in the ointment is that pesky fat foreigner, who will not stop staring at us.

Emma!

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A follow up to the WWII WWYD:
Blasted DS! I've just found out he and his scaly mates had been calling this poor, probably dead, kid 'Sicky Nicky'! I can't be doing with this, I haven't raised him to be Charlie Peace, the Burglar.
And speaking of Charlie Peace, the Burglar, the Law itself came chapping my door about a machine gun, no less. A machine gun. What with Jerry and the war, I really don't need this.

@SisterMortificado

Cotillion?

@questionzzz

Murder on the Orient Express?

Lorelai Yesssss it is indeed the masterpiece known as Cotillion!

Sister, your 0243 one is Medea. What an AIBU that would make!

questionzz, something to do with King Arthur and Guinevere?

Gasp0de yup! Can you imagine the bunfight?

The machine gunners?

Single mum with DD and two nephews update.

I feel so bad about what I posted earlier about my tearaway nephew. I made him do some DIY for me as a punishment and he has been out there working away all day uncomplainingly and now the whole fence is beautifully painted. He's a good boy really. (Not sure why half the neighbourhood kids are covered in paint though. Anyone got any ideas?) Anyway I've given him lots of praise. I really feel we may have turned a corner.

Emily Tom Sawyer

Emily yes

My brothers and cousin are doing my head in. Especially the eldest brother who is an insufferable knobby know it all. He insists every holiday we go camping or caravanning. Now I enjoy that as much as anything, only he seems to think all the cooking, tidying, bed making and washing up should be my responsibility! This is all by virtue of it being women’s work apparently. You’d think he’d been born in the fifties.* So it’s a great holiday for them sitting about with their feet up, but less so for me running about like a blue arsed fly!

My eldest brother even called me a ‘good little housewife’ once, the arse hole.

To make it worse our cousin is gender questioning so when my brother spouts this patriarchal bull crap she says she (sorry, they) doesn’t identify with stereotypical female roles as an excuse to get out of doing anything. Or something.

Plus I’m only ten.

AIBU if I called my brother out as a misogynist twat? Only I don’t think feminism has been invented yet.

*ok, so apparently they were.

Poor Anne. Things will improve considerably once the 60s arrive. I advise you to take full advantage of all the new freedoms.

Kieran am I right in thinking your other brother is a bit of a Dick? Don't worry, one day the five of you, (in including your dog) will be famous, Indeed, the Famous Five?

My DM is not a prostitute but she's not much better and we've always had to flit to a new flat when times get hard. Recently I had a relationship with a sailor but he had to back to sea, when he'd gone I realised I was pregnant. The sailor was black and I don't think DM will approve. My best friend is a boy (one of 'them') and he wants us to set up home together, he says he'll look after me. What should I do?

I'm a dog (yes, dogs use the Internet, get over it) and I'm always finding people in dangerous predicaments - stuck down holes, broken legs in the middle of nowhere, in danger of being caught by rising tides. I do what I can to help directly but inevitably find human intervention is required and have to trek back (sometimes miles) to the nearest human who speaks Dog.
Aibu to ask that a)humans exercise more care and stop getting into dangerous situations in the first place and b)that I am equipped with a mobile phone so that on encountering these misadventurous individuals I can immediately summon the emergency services?

I don't know what to do. My DH is very into self sufficiency. We grow our own vegetables and he even built our house. He's really good with his hands. It's not always easy, we live miles from anywhere, so I don't really have any friends and I have to home school our two DDs but we've made a good life and we're happy.

However he's now come up with this mad idea of leaving it all behind, moving to a completely new area (which doesn't sound nearly as nice) and starting over. He says he can just build another house and we'll live in a tent or something till it's done. He says he hasn't exactly got planning permission, the neighbours might be a bit tricky and there's no doctor but he's sure it'll all be fine. I know he's always had itchy feet but this seems crazy to me. AIBU?

Emily Little House on the Prairie?

Lettice, from my own very distinct perspective, I sympathise with you. Are you Lassie?

Yes Lettice. Is yours Lassie?

My mother has always told me I was special, but I never really believed her. I was smaller and weaker than the other boys and, although I was pretty athletic, I could never win at wrestling until some friends showed me holds that didn’t rely on weight.

Nevertheless, she hid me whenever our land was forced to send children overseas to another country. She said I was to be kept for finer things, not bloody bulls.

But this is the pits! She’s brought me to a grove and told me I have to lift this huge boulder before she’ll tell me who my father is!

AIBU in thinking she has no right to keep such information from me?

Tanith - I think that's Theseus. Is it the Mary Renault one about him? Umm ... The Bull from the Sea is it called?

Oh no, it's The King Must Die. The Bull from the Sea is the sequel. (Thanks, Wikipedia ...)