AIBU Books - Part 3

[MoominMymbleandMy]

I can't get into the old thread so I think we filled it up! I hope everyone finds the new one.

So nice, shiny new thread, nice shiny new AIBU.

AIBU to be jealous of my DH's correspondence with a stranger?

Pogle, I feel I ought to know yours but I'm not getting anywhere.

Maria, this isn't ringing bells at all now. Doh!

Hmmm

I loved Mary Plain.And Mary Mary - does anyone else remember her?

AIBU to decide to build a house?

Are you of a pioneering spirit, Pogle?

Mary Mary...the name is familiar. Was it another bear series?

...They don't talk to anyone. Even when you stop to admire the baby they can't wait to get away. Come to think of it, the baby seems to have been a baby for a very long time...

No,not a pioneer...I think they are homesick you see,so if I build a house,perhaps that will help...

Mary Mary was a little girl,with a big family whose names all began with M,by Joan Gale Thingummy,who wrote the Teddy Robinson books.
Must go to bed - night all!

(Still don't recognise yours Moomin,but I'm not sure I want to - they sound really sinister!)

Don't recognise any of these - clearly have to catch up on some reading!

Sorry about the 'cheery' material, Moomin', but if aunts are going to be involved...

OK, here's one to make up for it:

AIBU to run away to save the kingdom from a rent-a-dragon?

Ooh Pogle, are they homesick for Japan?

I didn't know Joan G Robinson wrote Mary Mary but we are great Teddy Robinson fans here. How can you not love a cross-dressing teddy.

llandb, yay! Are you being a bit Freudian here, going from Aunties to Dragons?! I need to ponder this one...

...They seem shy rather than sinister. But now I think about it, all the children don't seem to age, not just the baby...

Night all!

I can't get any of these, but I'd just like to say that I loved Mary Plain, too. She went on svisits, and was friends with the Owl Man. I keep trying to get the DCs in interested, but they don't get the humour (yet).

Night, all. Brain in meltdown after shock of giving Moomin clues for the same book as she was giving me clues for. Only on this thread ...

For our suffragette moment, we chose names that we thought might go with our 'characters' - two spinster ladies.

Morning!(Note unearthly hour - just waved DS off on trip,DD still asleep..)
Excellent Moomin! Have a Gold Star!

hello,we had a lovly bucket and spade holiday thank you...feel very refreshed but still haven't got a clue about any of these.......again!

And they seem to think I'm not marriageable. But I don't fancy those stuffed shirt princes anyway!

Evening all!

CJ, I am feeling so stupid on your one because I do think I may have come across it once upon a time but I still can't place it. Another clue please, if it's possible.

llandb, you are sounding very feisty! Are you a Babette Cole heroine? If not, you ought to be.

...There's a son. I've never seen him before but he now goes jogging in the dark. I'm sure there's nothing wrong with my eyesight but when I saw him in the light of a street lamp his face was blue...

Ooh Polly a bucket and spade sounds fun! And at you two, CJ and Moomin'

No Babette Cole heroine, I'm afraid. Will have to investigate her though, by the look of it

I'm rather ordinary, which in my view is a fine thing. It's all thanks to that frazzled, cross fairy Godmother at my Christening...

Ooh Polly a bucket and spade sounds fun! And at you two, CJ and Moomin'

No Babette Cole heroine, I'm afraid. Will have to investigate her though, by the look of it

I'm rather ordinary, which in my view is a fine thing. It's all thanks to that frazzled, cross fairy Godmother at my Christening...

llandb, are you on a deserted island?

No - I ran away through the woods to the neighbouring kingdom and got a job as a serving wench. Good thing I'm so ordinary-looking; nobody guesses I'm a princess! And my new friend the page boy is sooo much nicer than all those stuffy princes they keep trying to get me to meet.

Oops - is that the time? 'Night, all - supposed to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for DD's 'first party' (happens to coincide with being aged 11 1/2 months ) at pub (hey, it saves trying to get the house fit for visiting toddlers )

Oh, I am not feeling one bit inspired tonight!

I feel I really ought to know llandb's and I have got nowhere with CJ's, despite all the excellent clues.

So, llandb, wild stab, are you a Parrot Pirate Princess? And, whether you are or not, have a great party.

...And I saw the father walking home in a most peculiar fashion the other day. It really did look as though one of his feet was hanging off. But he didn't seem to be in pain...

Night all!

Hello again! This is no good - getting nowhere here,and the only blue characters I can think of ,Moomin,are the smurfs - and they weren't really sinister...

Morning all!

Sorry! I think I've tormented you with peculiar neighbours for long enough. It's "The Mennyms" by Sylvia Waugh, the first in a series about a family of life-sized rag dolls who come alive after their creator dies and are faced with the problem of trying to fit into a world where most people don't have glass eyes and cloth faces.

It's a bit reminiscent of "The Borrowers", is funny - think of having a daughter who stayed a teenager for over 40 years - and rather sad because they know they can't ever be human, they can only pretend.

Anyway, AIBU to wonder what happened to the finger?

Some of the Mr Men are blue too, aren't they? Mr Bump certainly is but despite the bandages, I don't think that's who you mean, Moomin'...

Me, I like being Ordinary and not having to behave like a Princess. Who cares if the princes who come to ask for my hand all turn tail and run when they see my snub nose and mousey hair? So I couldn't have them hire a dragon just so some rescuing prince would be forced to do the honourable nuptial thing by me.

My friend the page boy says he gets to meet a lot of princesses in his job and they're all dreadfully stuffy and he doesn't like them one bit. So I don't think I can tell him who I am! Sigh... I wish I could marry someone like him, instead of a horrible prince...

Ooh, llandb, Is your full name Amethyst Alexandra Augusta Araminta Adelaide Aurelia Anne, but Amy for short? If so, page boys aren't always what they seem.

Only one of the Mennyms is blue. I think she must have run out of pink cotton!

What a relief! Then I, Amy, shall marry my page boy and secretly wear the acorn necklace he made for me!

Doesn't know sufficient to answer about finger...

Meanwhile, can I break genre and ask, AIBU to lay my eggs inside a paper bag?

Ah, llandb the mud-bespattered, is it to keep the lightening out?

...It was my granny's finger. Well, until the accident it was...

Poor Granny! This sounds most interesting; I shall have to read it. (Makes mental note to add many things from this thread to the tottering and dust-covered pile of never-finished stuff next to the bed)

Yes, to keep the lightening out. I think it sounds perfectly reasonable but I do wonder about those wandering bears who may come with buns ans steal the bags to hold the crumbs...

I nearly asked if you were the common cormorant or shag but it sounded a bit insulting!

...It was in the butcher's shop. She was showing him where to cut and changed her mind just as he was bringing the chopper down...