AIBU - Books part 2

[theyoungvisiter]

as you were ladies.

Did anyone get this one of mine from the previous thread?

My son claims to have been on an educational journey yesterday - something to do with a parcel that arrived unexpectedly for him. AIBU to check his internet history to see if he's bought something unusual on ebay, or should I simply take him to a psychiatrist to discuss this very compicated delusion?

Oooh you and your enihgmatic initials

staying, is it a children's classic?

Anybody get mine, yet?

MM

you like!

Ok. A new one.

AIBU to think there's someone creeping in my bedroom? I've tried to tell my DH, but I don't think he believes me.

I think it is, yes salome.

SSG, did anyone get your post at 14.22?

Is it A Wrinkle in Time?

No, Mrs Flittersnoop - you are the only one!! Congratulations and have a rhubarb and custard sweet! And thanks for getting it - I was getting myself very confused trying to think of clues for it!

Oooh brilliant! I recognised it right away but it took me AGES to remember the title. I loved that book when I was a kid!

AIBU? I just want to sit at the bottom of a big hole since my wife and cat went missing.

Maria? Is your wallpaper yellow by any chance?

AIBU to hope that, having taken the massively brave step to move my 4 DCs and I to a paradise island, let them run wild and indulge and encourage all their hobbies and interests, to the extent that my 3 DSs all became famous in their chosen fields of . . . that my youngest will not make most of his money by taking the piss out of me and making me look like a daft old bat?

I must venture to the shop 'cos I've run out of roll ups and chocolate digestives er, organic rice cakes. Don't do anything too clever while I'm gone!

It is Balloon, although there are some patches missing where I've torn it away to let the creeping woman out.

I'm trying (not terribly hard, I must admit) to drag myself away from this thread to go and do the ironing.

Ironing - mumsnet book game - ironing - mumsnet book game - ohhh the decisions!!

Sally - you didn't decide to weave some of your own experiences into a book about a watercolour painter by any chance?

I know how you feel SSS.

mumsnet book game - writing funding application so I don't lose my job in the summer - mumsnet book game - writing funding application so I don't lose my job in the summer.

And yet, MN wins!

Balloon - I don't know what yours is, but feel I sohould. More please...

No but my birth is mentioned in Viii.

Well Maria, I let my DS3 have all the animals he wanted, even call them awful vulgar names, and he repayed me by making us all look completely barmy.

I mean, I can't have been that bad a mother, can I, given that two of my DSs were world famous authors?

of course not mrs Durrell

As an aside, I must re-read those books now I am a mother. I only read them from the child's perspective before. Fecked if I would make the effort to give my DCs that sort of free upbringing, I'd be far too worried.

(Mind you, anyone else freak out about the ghost story with the mirrors? < shudder >)

Balloon, did you live in a Strawberry Pink Villa? And did one of your ds' mooch around in a literary huff while your youngest ds spent most of his time chasing creepy crawlies! God, the ingrates! But always have a soft spot for Spiros " thats how I learnt my good Englishes" A family classic in our home!

My family and other animals!