AIBU - Books part 2

[theyoungvisiter]

as you were ladies.

We were deprived back then! The few episodes I got to watch would have been black and white, and possibly fuzzy.

I don't remember them being in black and white!

Am going to have to check we're talking about the same books now ...

Ok, as you were - first broadcast 1975! And not available on DVD, which is quite annoying. But maybe I should finally go back and read the books instead.

Thanks for reminding me.

Oh no, the thread died ...

Anyone still about? Moomin?

Hi CJ, come back! We can stagger on a bit longer. I just had to do a few (more than a few, actually) neglected tasks.

Fairytale, what you weren't taking into account is that we must have been the last people in the UK to get a colour TV. I think my parents waited until the black and white one exploded.

OK, AIBU to accept a proposal of marriage from a gentleman who has just been turned down by my best friend?

Oh Moomin, I am so pathetically glad to see you.

Your marriage proposal is ringing vague bells but I need a bit of a clue, sorry.

AIBU to develop a bit of an obsession with the Brontes?

Hi CJ, equally delighted to see you!

Your obsession sounds interesting. I'm going to hazard a wild guess you may have been meddling (and improving) the plot of one of them...but I think that might be too obvious, drat.

As for the marriage proposal. I am not in the least bit in love with the gentleman in question, but I think I can tolerate him. And I think it's either him or get left on the shelf...

It's not just my obsession, I'm sharing it with friends and family.

Grrr, no closer to getting yours. Are you a Georgette Heyer heroine? (Not that that would exactly narrow the field)

Ah, I did think the wild guess was too good to be true. I will have to sleep on this one and hope inspiration strikes tomorrow.

No, not Georgette Heyer, but I am wondering whether my husband's relentless toadying to a local aristocrat might prove an impediment to happy married life.

Night CJ!

Might this obsession with the Brontes be with their Gondal and Angria phase?

Yes! (God, you are encyclopaedic, I am so impressed)

And you are Charlotte Lucas, and I claim my £5!

AIBU to marry this handsome artist, even though his mother is a snob and a bitch and does everything she can to make me feel excluded?

Thank you CJ! It would have been even smarter to invest in a copy of Peter's Room before they hit the £50 mark .

And I am, of course, the long-suffering Charlotte Lucas, Mrs Collins-to-be. Scope for an entirely separate novel there, I think.

This artist, are you planning to marry him against the backdrop of a World War, possibly?

AIBU to worry about my mental health? I was dozing on a bench in the sunshine when I thought I caught a glimpse of a monstrous shaggy creature stealing out of the bushes.
When I woke up properly my copy of The Times had disappeared! And I hadn't finished the crossword.

I still have (somewhere - where? Where?) my original copy of Peter's Room. Must dig out and reread.

Yes, indeed, 'tis WW2 and my fiance is about to ditch the painting and go off with his ship ...

Need more clues now, I'm afraid.

PS I like to think that maybe Charlotte Lucas managed to 'lose' Mr Collins at some point and got a life ...)

Oh no,I've missed a few I recognise only to come back for Moomin's ,which rings no bells at all!
My grandfather left me something in his will,but my family say it doesn't exist -AIBU to disbelieve them?

Yes, Moomin. More clues please. Shaggy monster, very familiar...

And by the way...

AIBU to think my husband is a bit of a toad? I'm not sure what he expected when he married me, but I'm hardly a wilting English rose am I? And call it a premonition but I feel a bit nervous about going up to the top floor of buildings...

Oh CJ, you've got Peter's Room, you lucky thing! I'm hoping Girls Gone By will reprint it, or else to stumble on a cheapish secondhand copy - which doesn't seem very likely.

I think you might be better casting off the artist. There seems to be a lot of confusion in the relationship.

Hi Maria, Pogle, very intriguing AIBUs...and more clues, please!

Well, I think it's coming to something if you can't go for a walk on the Common without having a hallucination pinch your newspaper. And the remains of my packed lunch as well, I find!

Oh, I am on my knees at the feet of the Master! Yes, but I'd been marking time for so long, I had to do something.

I've still got to find Peter's Room, dammit.

Clues, clues, clues. Am obviously being very dumb today. Moomin, yours does sound really familiar but I just can't find the way in ...

Aw CJ! That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me in a decade or two...And undeserved as I'm not getting very far with Pogle's or Maria's.

Now, the sunshine and the beautiful Common have cheered me up a bit. It is so nice to see an open space without any litter. I wonder why? All the other parks in London seem to be strewn with litter but never the dear old Common...

Sudden thought... Maria, did you have a sister who died tragically and whose horrible fate accounts for your dislike of tall buildings?

Aha! I feel the urge to burst into song! children out so safe to do this...Remember you're a womble,remember you're a womble, da da de da da dedah.... ( I have Peter's Room too)

...what a womble, 'omble, 'omble you are! Yes Pogle!

Now, not only am I the only person not in possession of Peter's Room but you forgot my clue! Please!

Oooh I wasn't quick enough. I had to go off and do some work but have spent all afternoon going 'wombles, wombles, wombles!'

Moomin... no sister but quite frankly my whole family is a bit tragic, so one more wouldn't make any difference!

I think I know where my inheritance might be - my friend thinks I should go there and look...

Maria, might you be a flower of a darker hue?