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!

Oh CJ! And we've actually got a copy of The Workhouse Child, which should have reminded me. Thank you, that's definitely another gap I need to fill!

My dippy great-aunt was from The Growing Summer by Noel Streatfeild, one of her best I think, and with only one child prodigy, who is a fairly minor character. It's about a normal middle class family who have to spend the summer with said batty G-A in a ruined Irish mansion and learn to fend for themselves on cooking, washing clothes etc because the G-A has her mind on higher things.

Oh, and are you dreaming CJ?

...I'm talented at 'mooching' too, and detection but I don't want to be promoted because I like being a village bobby...

Puzzled, puzzled...

As for me, I'm no hair-sacrificer - they cut it off when I had a fever! I was miffed but the gamine look brings me attention. Meanwhile, my cat has had kittens! I'll keep the boy and name him after my father's field of scholarship.

llandb, you should have saved all of Fanchette's kittens, pauvres chatons!

Well, times are harsh and even neutering isn't mainstream, but I admit to a bit of cognitive dissonance there with regard to the treatment of the kittens Perhaps we'll attribute that line to the dreaded Willy

I was sure that this one contained a fevered hair-sacrificer too, but can find no confirmation of it in Wikipedia or Google :

AIBU to finally snap at that tiresome woman? She just chatters inanely!

llandb, are you picnicking on Box Hill?

Yep And I do hope Mr Knightley forgives me!

'Night, all - and time to turf neighbours' cat out (who has unaccountably decided to move in here for most waking hours, despite the fact that they are just as nice to her next door AND they feed her! - perhaps it is to avoid the other cat, who stays home )

Poor Miss Bates - what a work of genius she is.
llandb, the cat has moved in to keep the spiders away!
Night all!

Well yes Moomin, it's cold here in the Northlands (shiver).

Are you Hamish Macbeth????

'Chust' so, Snow! It was going to be what will I do with the hens and sheep if I have to move to the big city next.

AIBU to think our new cottage is haunted?

Eek at spiders! Although now I think of it, the cat has really only started spending all day here in order to go upstairs and sleep on the bed. (They're allowed on the bed next door as well, so, I dunno). At least there will be no spiders in the sheets!

Clues, clues, clues, please!

Meanwhile, WIBU to borrow Mummy's make-up?

...I don't think I am BU. I know I didn't write on the blackboard even though I got blamed for it...

More clues plea from me too.

Night all!

I still don't quite see what's going on with the spiders, but then I'm not keen on the beasties in the first place.

Have you recently moved house Moomin?

AIBU to expect that dog to stay out of my garden?

Evening all!

...Yes, we have moved house. Into an old cottage. I've got the attic bedroom and it's all crooked and sloping and brilliant, except for the haunting business...

llandb, I have no idea who you are but I'll bet your mother loved you!

Actually, I have no idea who anyone is so lots of clues, please!

Hello all!
Do you have 3 sisters and neglectful parents,Moomin?
No ideas,even,on the rest!

And while I'm here,AIBU to refuse to marry?

Hi Pogle, no, I've only got one sister but she's enough of a pain for three of them. She wanted a house with fitted carpets on the new estate. Yuck!

More help everyone, please!

More details please everyone (especially Pogle)!

Well, mummy never found out about it, as she was badgered into giving her case to that really mean lady (my friend's boss). The nasty lady delivered a lecture to a ladies' group on the evils of makeup (of course she didn't own any so she had to borrow Mummy's). Just to show everyone how silly it looked, she dipped her brush into the pots without looking or even using a mirror, put it all over her face, and then walked down the street like that as an example. That lady didn't know that I'd put my very prettiest paints in there for Mummy!

Evening all!

Moomin, I know you've heard this before but I know yours ...

No idea on anyone else's, though.

AIBU to think that boy's only on the team because he fancies me?

Well, I don't know anyone's!

CJ, what happened to the shadows in the garden? Is this the same AIBU or another one?

...Now I'm getting the blame for the ghost scribbling nonsense on my sister's prescription. It isn't fair...

Er, no idea here, either.

Everyone around here saw the nasty lady with my paint on her face - now they think she is a victim of the bottle. Our friend might get a new boss!

Oh, and that boy William ith usually tho mean to me but even he agweed that our fwiend looked pwetty.

Oops, I forgot about the shadows outside. In the street, though, not the garden ...

And no, that was a different one. I'm confusing myself now!

Still need more clues. The sister wanting the new house with nice carpets really rang a bell.

Or you could always thcweam and thcweam until you're sick, llandb!

...I've dug up a funny old pipe and pair of spectacles in the garden. I think I'll keep them as treasures...

Stumped on everyone else's.

Night all!